AN “AFFRONT TO DEMOCRACY”, was the State Services Commissioner’s characterisation of the state bureaucracy’s decision to spy on political activists. Few would disagree. That multiple state agencies felt entitled to contract-out the gathering of political intelligence to the privately owned and operated Thompson & Clark Investigations Ltd reveals a widespread antidemocratic disdain for citizens’ rights within the New Zealand public service. The alarming revelations of the State Services’ inquiry raise two very important questions: How did this disdain for democratic norms become so entrenched? And what, if anything, can Jacinda Ardern’s government do to eradicate it?
The dangerous truth, in relation to the first question, is also painfully relevant to the second. The effective abrogation of democratic norms in New Zealand dates back to 1984 and the events which the former CTU economist and ministerial adviser, Peter Harris, characterised as a “bureaucratic coup d’état”. In was in July 1984 that elements within the NZ Treasury and the Reserve Bank, taking full advantage of the relationships they had been cultivating for at least a year with the parliamentary leadership of the NZ Labour Party, initiated the detailed and extremely radical economic policy programme which came to be known as “Rogernomics”.
This programme, set forth in “Economic Management” – the book-length briefing paper for the incoming Minister of Finance, Roger Douglas – had received no mandate from the electorate. Indeed, the ordinary voter had no inkling whatsoever that the Labour Party of Mickey Savage and Norman Kirk was about to unleash a programme considerably to the right of Margaret Thatcher’s and Ronald Reagan’s. The authors of “Economic Management” were not, however, interested in obtaining a democratic mandate for their proposed reforms. In fact, they strongly suspected that submitting their ideas to the voters was just about the surest way of securing their emphatic rejection.
Since the mid-1970s the conviction had been growing among big-business leaders and high-ranking civil servants living in the wealthiest capitalist nations, that democracy had gotten out of hand; and that unless the scope for democratic intervention in the economy was radically reduced, then the future of capitalism could not be guaranteed. Free Market Economics, as it was called then, or Neoliberalism, as we know it today, was, from the outset, incompatible with the social-democratic principles that had underpinned western policy-making in the post-war world. It could only be imposed, and kept in place, by a political class sealed-off from all manner of pressures from below. If that meant gutting the major parties of the centre-left and right; purging the civil service, academia and the news media of dissenters; and crushing the trade unions – then so be it.
Once it became clear that the free-market “revolution” was not about to be halted in its tracks, all those with an ambition to rise within the new order made haste to learn its rules and spared no effort in enforcing them. This phenomenon: of absorbing and implementing an antidemocratic regime’s imperatives was described by British historian of the Third Reich, Ian Kershaw, as “Working Towards The Fuhrer”. Kershaw lifted the phrase from a speech delivered in 1934 by the Prussian civil servant, Werner Willikens:
“Everyone who has the opportunity to observe it knows that the Fuhrer can hardly dictate from above everything which he intends to realize sooner or later. On the contrary, up till now, everyone with a post in the new Germany has worked best when he has, so to speak, worked towards the Fuhrer. Very often and in many spheres, it has been the case—in previous years as well—that individuals have simply waited for orders and instructions. Unfortunately, the same will be true in the future; but in fact, it is the duty of everybody to try to work towards the Fuhrer along the lines he would wish. Anyone who makes mistakes will notice it soon enough. But anyone who really works towards the Fuhrer along his lines and towards his goal will certainly both now and in the future, one day have the finest reward in the form of the sudden legal confirmation of his work.”
The behaviour of New Zealand civil servants and their private sector contractors conforms very neatly to Kershaw’s thesis. In terms of the inviolability of the new neoliberal establishment, it mattered very little whether Labour or National was in power. And, since cabinet ministers from both sides of the aisle clearly regarded ideological boat-rocking as being every bit as career-terminating as state sector CEOs, there was scant incentive to entertain any alternative definitions to what constituted “good governance”. In the years since 1984, therefore, it has made much more sense, personally and politically, to “work towards the [neoliberal] führer”.
Certainly, Kershaw’s “Working Towards the Führer” thesis would explain the behaviour that has so disturbed readers of the State Services Commission’s report like Victoria University’s School of Government academic, Chris Eichbaum. Namely, why so few of the people involved in this “affront to democracy” displayed any awareness that they were behaving unethically. If Neoliberalism, like the Third Reich, is not a force which can be legitimately contradicted or criticised, then obviously any person or group engaging in activities inimical to the implementation of state policy is bound to be considered an enemy of the system.
Not that the neoliberal order will ever acknowledge its political imperatives so honestly. A large measure of bad faith continues to operate within the system. It has to – otherwise the still useful façade of human rights and democratic consent will rapidly fall apart.
Ministries and other state entities reach for the private investigator rather than the police officer because the latter is still (at least in theory) accountable. By contrast, the paper and/or electronic trails left by the likes of Thompson & Clark are considerably more difficult to track than those carefully logged in an official Police investigation. What’s more, the unofficial and private aggregation of “evidence” against the State’s “enemies” opens up the possibility of their unofficial and private punishment.
That job the activist lost, or failed to get. The bank loan that was refused. Simple bad luck? Or something else?
The most sinister aspect of the “Working Towards The Fuhrer” phenomenon is that any obstacles or objections encountered along the way will be taken as evidence of forces working against the führer. Popular resistance to neoliberal objectives is never taken as a sign that those objectives might be ill-advised, counterproductive, or just plain wrong. Rather, it is taken as proof that those responsible for organising such resistance are dangerous and irrational opponents of beneficent policies to which there are no viable alternatives.
It appears never to have occurred to Gerry Brownlee, for example, that the rising levels of desperation and anger among the Christchurch clients of the state-owned Southern Response insurance company – feelings that were manifesting themselves in threats to life and property – might be evidence of massive failures on the company’s part. John Key, similarly, refused to accept that oil and gas exploration might constitute a genuine threat to New Zealand’s (and, ultimately, the entire planet’s) natural environment.
Was Simon Bridges, when he introduced legislation outlawing waterborne protests within 2 kilometres of the oil and gas industry’s drilling platforms, doing no more than working along the lines and towards the goals of his leader?
As above, so below: the law of hierarchy is immutable. Thomson & Clark may have been the tool in the hands of ruthless public servants “working towards the führer”, but the masters of those servants were the neoliberal politicians from both major parties who, ever since 1984, have been tireless in their defence of the neoliberal order against its most fearsome foe – the New Zealand people.
The question, therefore, arises: If the Coalition Government demonstrates the slightest willingness to move against the servants of that neoliberal order (as Greater Christchurch Regeneration Minister, Megan Woods, by forcing the resignation of the Chair of Southern Response, has arguably done already) will the same forces that subverted Labour in 1984 set in motion the measures necessary to bring down Jacinda Ardern’s “issue motivated group” in 2020?
A well written and thought out article Chris.
Pull ya head out and walk around your utopian mt Roskill and witness what you preach. It ain’t pretty. Of course it’s all responsible due to neoliberal ghosts etc etc
What a convenient time for such a report to be released? Sadly Chris i do not share your confidence in the average New Zealander. With there love of authority and tendency to believe that ANY actions by police, other govt. departments etc. is all for the public good, and to protect us from the evil terrorists, criminals and various malcontents. Just listening to the nice man from the gcsb on nat radio telling us that the evil Chinese govt. is responsible for a cyber attack to steal our intellectual property? Not to worry, our 5 eyes partner (and bringer of democracy to all oil bearing countries of the world) has our back, i think? Could this be even more reason to give security services police (private security firms) etc. more powers?? Sadly although i believe some members of the coalition government have a genuine desire to improve things, when push comes to shove i think that they to will fall into line with the neolib agenda
You have got it on this one. Also, the government is damned silent on the murder of a critical Saudi journalist, over a month ago, in one if their embassies. NZ Inc is a CORRUPT country, deep into this, and Jacinda sold her soul long ago, to be in power, and is now serving the powers that be, no further questions asked.
Except, there is no Fuhrer to be found. Only a bonny ship of pirates taking advantage of our unconstituted status, having usurped the legacy of the Crown. They run around with the official seals set. Call themselves the NZ this-and-that. They sabotage our independence and compound mass inequality. They catch and kill all forums. They equivocate on all matters of principle. They will always betray you, they are only here because they are opportunists exploiting the youth of our nation, very much like pedophiles. Because there is nothing and no one to keep them honest. No grounds to proceed, see? Into the moral vacuum they simply place their own ideas of self interest. That’s the class of betrayers we suffer under as long as we betray ourselves by wanting to believe in them. Nay, worship them even. Worship the smirking, cruel pirates who masquerade as angels.
People are as corrupt as their ‘leaders’, that is the problem. Most fill the malls now, greedily seeking ‘gifts’ for themselves and others, supposedly for a ‘Christian public holiday’.
They do in high numbers have NO interest in all this kind of stuff, as they only think about their own selfish needs and wants.
Dumbing down has also worked well, as the MSM only presents ‘news’ that the dumbed down people are supposed to be allowed to get. Any other news is not reported on, as that may challenge and risk the status quo.
Brilliant Post @ Chris Trotter.
Now? Where are the Trolls? C’mon out Boys?/Girls?/Gender fluid? Let’s see what you got.
16 years ago I wrote to annette king asking if she thought neo liberalism was creating an elite minority and at the expense of an impoverished underclass majority. Or words to that effect.
She sent the cops to visit me in my business after her office tinkered with my email.
Ever since then, I knew we all would be battling up hill into heavily armed fortifications.
Yet guyon espiner thinks we’re one of the most well governed countries in the world.
guyon espiner? Works for RNZ. A state funded public broadcaster.
https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/on-the-inside/378610/guyon-espiner-politics-wasn-t-all-scandal-and-leaks-this-year
I’ll keep banging on until that wondrous day when I can say ” I told you’s so”.
NZ/AO is in deep shit and we were dragged there by narcissistic traitors who are entirely useless but for a talent for swindling off, then hoarding other people’s money.
That’s why we absolutely must cosy up to our primary industry people, who, in NZ/AO’s case happen to be our agrarian farmer types ( Not Dairy. That’s a different smell.)
But how? I hear you ask. Easy, I hear myself type.
Security. Offer our agrarian primary industry security against the Godless banking industry and their sundry scum minions, like Wrightson PGG here.
RNZ
https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/business/378772/oio-reprimands-pgg-wrightson-shareholder
Between the little lambs popped out into a Southland sou wester and the sausages they get ground into that we all chow down on at the charity caravan there’s a world of swindling.
Let me put it another way?
Drugs. We all like drugs, right? Pain in the arse? Take a arse-pain killer. Brain’s frying and the nights are long and torturous? Take a drug.
The problems with drugs, specifically illegal ones is that they are, in fact illegal. Therefore, no one knows what they’re taking, or how much is safe to take lest you get to see your granny again who died 20 years ago and what’s the wings and harp Gran? How to fix that? Decriminalise all drugs. That’d cause an instant fix to recreational drug related problems. Portugal did it… and it did.
NZ/AO? Hand wringing about neo liberalism, or, as I prefer to write these days; neo criminalism would shrivel and die off without the endless income stream coming grifted from our primary industry.
Metaphor!
Between when the lamb is trucked past the farm gate and when it’s digested flesh is wiped off your arses? That’s where the real money’s made. Why else do you think the National Party sends out it’s whore-troops tri-annually to offer up their rumps like baboons in heat to any farmer? Money baby. That’s what.
You want to kill off the Fuhrer? Go get the farmer off the Natzo fascist scum. And I’m a farmer and I just said that. How about that? We’re not all russet cheeked and stumping of gumboot while harrumphing?
Hands up? All those other farmers reading this blog? Don’t be shy? No one will know? C’mon?
Adern? BTW? I wouldn’t trust her as far as I could throw paula bennett’s arse. Peters? Ba hahaha aha aha aa ! The Greens. Oh yeah, right on. Not.
NZ/AO’s in deep shit. When it’s revealed that the Chinese were a majority share holder in Wrightson PGG and in cahoots with Ngai Tahu? Who’d sell their grave sites to property developers? ( No disrespect to Maori by the way and if I seem disrespectful? I’m sorry. )
Yep. NZ/AO’s in deep, deep shit.
P.S. I see, occasionally, a jibe by Martyn Bradbury here about the Deep South White Farmer type. I don’t understand why the divisive language @ MB? Bigotry, is like all the isms. It’s born of ignorance. And ignorance, by and of itself, isn’t a ‘bad’ thing. It’s just a thing. Once one’s become, even a little enlightened, there’s no going back. The realisation of having caused pain and suffering, for example, can never be repeated without causing shame and guilt. Therefore? Don’t do it no more and advise others accordingly lest they too become weighted down with shame and guilt. A heavy load to carry through one’s life.
There is, however, a way out. Carry your load with pride as an example of your new found enlightenment.
Our NZ/AO farmers know they’re loathed by, often hypocritical urbane types. So lets give our farmers an out so they can keep their pride intact then convince them to not give the fucking neo liberal swine anymore of their hard earned money.
( Oh my God! Look at the time ! Fuck ! Where’s my car keys!? )
Adern? BTW? I wouldn’t trust her as far as I could throw paula bennett’s arse
Adern ‘the tinkerer’
that is all she will ever be – Labour to nervous, afraid of their own shadow and those kids in poverty well they can just dam well wait frankly I doubt their turn will ever come.
Annette King is a sell out, we know, one of the most well paid liars that are part of this system in NZ Inc..
She has been nominated to be the next High Commissioner to Australia, our supposed ‘closest ally’ in the Five Eyes organisation.
https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/375892/former-mp-annette-king-becomes-high-commissioner-to-australia
The old boys and old girls network is in place, no matter whether we have Labour liars or National liars in government, they are all corrupt liars and BS artists.
I had correspondence with Annette also, same as Jacinda Dear, and it could be read between the lines in their responses that they are as hollow and BS as can be.
Yes indeed, Chris. Once a coup has taken place and the right kind of propaganda churned out for long enough, the masses can be persuaded to go along with almost anything, even embrace that which will do them long term harm, it seems.
Right now the globalised [neoliberal] financial system is under extreme pressure and has given numerous indications of not being able to survive much longer. In-depth analysis indicates failure on all fronts, with bond and equity market showing obvious sings of stress that will ultimately lead to a 2008-style collapse, with no real prospect of recovery.
‘On Wall Street, markets are in no mood for risk with the S&P500 down a further -1.5% in early afternoon trading today and benchmark bond yields are falling. This follows -1.5% to -2% losses in most European markets overnight. Yesterday Shanghai was down -0.5% and Hong Kong closed a full -1% lower. Tokyo was down an eye-popping -2.8% while the ASX fell -1.3%. The NZX’s small rise was certainly an outlier.’
https://www.interest.co.nz/news/97504/equity-markets-dive-many-central-bank-reviews-most-downgrading-growth-china-credit-stress
Problem is about this ‘little’ thing the state services commissioner was part of what went on!
‘public servants’ doubt whether any of them actually know what this means.
I talked to someone one day who told me many of the people who came into WINZ didn’t need or deserve the ‘handouts’ of course this person is comfortably well off and always has been, she worked for WINZ.
She then told me that she was shocked by Meteria’s ‘theft’ I laughed, she seems to have forgotten that her ex did lots of cash jobs… is theft.
Goodness Trotter!
You are getting positively revolutionary in your old age!
An excellent and perceptive summation of NZ. I’m sure the same ideas can be rolled out globally and would go a long way to explaining the very deep merde the world is currently in.
Of course now you have nailed your colours to the mast ninja assassins will have you in their sights.
But I would be greatly honoured to place a red poppy on your gravestone…
The DEEP STATE is now entrenched, Jacinda has little say in this, I fear, and the agencies are working smartly and in overtime and overdrive to distract from what goes on at home:
‘ Chinese commercial espionage reaches into NZ, GCSB boss says’
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12180767
https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/378773/chinese-hacking-impacts-worldwide-gcsb
It is nothing new that the Chinese hack and spy on NZ government agencies and businesses, but it had to be headline news today, I note.
great piece Chris
the “enemy within” are not activists, hard done by Christchurch home owners, or Greenpeace, they are indeed the manicured, highly paid, top echelons of the public service, and of course their insidious culture which has prevailed since the State Sector Act’s inception
breaking the Neo Liberal consensus that National and Labour govts have defended since “Rogernomics” and “Ruthanasia”, is the political task of our era
Brownlee regurgitated his “death threat” script repeatedly, because the challenge to T&C contract snooping is indeed a challenge to the Neo Liberal orthodoxy–“Working Towards The Fuhrer” as you put it–a political philosophy illustrated by the likes of ACC/WINZ/MSD staff being rewarded for NOT providing the assistance people seek!
The State Sector Act needs to be amended, to stop the perversions that are going on.
Brilliant.
There was no voiced opposition in the labour party ranks except from Jim Anderton. I joined the nzlp and got my local candidate to send a letter to the exec. to raise the question of how that policy could be being put in place by a labour government. There was total silence. The party closed up around the executive branch and allowed no decent. So did virtually the whole country, not just the bureaucrats. It was like an un planned pregnancy and a shotgun marriage. Hold tight and hope it works out ok. Pretend we all agree.Pretend we all understand the wisdom of this “new” approach to the economy which never was new but as old as Methuselah. But the good news is it has had it’s day. Even if most of our politicians are clinging to the doctrine , everyone who is taking an interest can see it is falling to pieces everywhere you look.
It collapsed 10 years ago and has been propped up ever since by printing money and stuffing it into the ever widening chasm. Some calculations say world debt is $240 Trillion, and the bigger it gets the faster it grows . QE should have reduced it but it’s like feeding Kipling’s “Small Porgies” in “the butterfly that stamped”. Or “the sorcerer’s apprentice”
But I think it was pretending that money creation could be treated as if it was like any other commodity that killed it. Good riddance, but someone needs to be ready with a better idea for money than anyone has come up with yet if a permanent stable system that shares fairly and protects the globe is ever to be established.
D J S
Part of the intimidation of New Zealanders has been police letting someone know they are under surveillance, that was not sourced via a warrant – and police are being informed (via said agents whomever they might be) about anything of interest to them. This surveillance is not for the purposes of any investigation for court prosecution but for psychological warfare purposes.
It’s a blacklist thing, the target never knowing why – its connected vigilante and the not knowing why is designed to promote both guilt and paranoia. Not sure if its more FBI style infiltrate and divide and conquer, or Holy Inquisition done English worlde style.
“Not that the neoliberal order will ever acknowledge its political imperatives so honestly. A large measure of bad faith continues to operate within the system. It has to – otherwise the still useful façade of human rights and democratic consent will rapidly fall apart.”
We even have BS ‘watchdogs’, who are anything else but truly committed watchdogs:
https://nzsocialjusticeblog2013.wordpress.com/2017/11/21/how-the-new-zealand-ombudsman-effectively-provides-cover-for-the-hdc-an-information-request-complaint-case/
https://nzsocialjusticeblog2013.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/how-the-n-z-ombudsman-effectively-provides-cover-for-the-hdc-report-post-28-11-17.pdf
‘THE NEW ZEALAND OMBUDSMAN: “FAIRNESS FOR ALL” – AN EMPTY SLOGAN FOR SOME’
https://nzsocialjusticeblog2013.wordpress.com/2016/07/24/the-new-zealand-ombudsman-fairness-for-all-an-empty-slogan-for-some/
https://nzsocialjusticeblog2013.wordpress.com/2016/09/05/the-new-zealand-ombudsman-underfunded-and-compromised-the-auditor-general-sees-no-need-for-action/
PDF files of interest:
https://nzsocialjusticeblog2013.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/speaker-of-parliament-complaint-abt-ombudsman-hdc-complt-handling-anon-xx-05-15.pdf
https://nzsocialjusticeblog2013.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/speaker-house-of-repr-complaint-abt-ombudsman-office-reply-anon-25-08-15.pdf
https://nzsocialjusticeblog2013.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/speaker-house-of-repr-complaint-abt-ombudsman-office-reply-anon-hilit-25-08-15.pdf
https://nzsocialjusticeblog2013.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/speaker-of-parliament-complaint-abt-ombudsman-rqst-f-inquiry-reply-to-dec-anon-05-09-15.pdf
https://nzsocialjusticeblog2013.wordpress.com/2016/03/28/how-the-hdc-throws-out-valid-complaints-and-protects-code-breaching-health-professionals-a-true-story/
https://nzsocialjusticeblog2013.wordpress.com/2015/10/04/how-the-n-z-health-and-disability-commissioner-let-off-a-biased-designated-doctor/
New Zealand’s ‘watchdogs’ are part of the system, also protecting the status quo and the system as it has been designed, burying many complaints that would expose what rot there is. The law they operate under gives them endless discretion to take no action, and using the gaps left in the law, they get away with sweeping much under the carpet.
New Zealand is a sophisticated white wash system at state level, at even lower level, and certainly business gets away with much also, as the law is like a Swiss Cheese with many holes you can drive a truck through.
The average Kiwi does not give a rat’s arse, they are only interested in their own personal benefits and what they can get, and what they can get away with, seeking opportunity and advantages, wherever they can find it, at whatever level. The traditional Kiwi Way is long dead, certainly here in crappy Auckland, where many have left for their ‘holidays’.
It is Friday before the long holiday season, so all revelations, disclosures and so forth, even Chris’ excellent post here, will not bear any relevance to the wider public, which is too pre occupied with preparing for, or living out, their holidays, after another year of ‘hard work’ that Kiwis are supposedly doing.
It matters not much, to hear and read these things, that is the truth, as the inconvenient truth is not wanted, faked truth is what the people prefer, to suit their personal interests, mental makeup and their selfish interests.
That is what Hitler got away with, as Germans who had ‘nothing to hide’ were happy to have a Fuehrer deliver what benefited them, rather than take a leader to account on principle.
Principle matters not much these days, as then, as that is making life ‘too hard’ for many, who want easy solutions and fulfillment of their selfish dreams.
Excellent article Chris.
Thanks for reminding us of when this Neoliberal Agenda started.
1984 and Labour.
“The question, therefore, arises: If the Coalition Government demonstrates the slightest willingness to move against the servants of that neoliberal order will the same forces that subverted Labour in 1984 set in motion the measures necessary to bring down Jacinda Ardern’s “issue motivated group” in 2020?”
The answer is of course YES.
Many people do not fully understand what / who these forces / entities are that Chris talks about.
A relative small group of people / families that control both sides of the Left / Right spectrum,at least across the West, that can be called the Shadow Government.
The Deep State is the CEO level of New Zealand civil servants and their private sector contractors.
They BOTH use the MSM as their ‘tool’ which is owned / controlled by the Shadow Government.
This leaves us with the ‘tribal wars’ of Left v Right to give us the Illusion of Democracy.
Some holiday reading: Understand fully and it becomes clear.
The founder of the Labour Movement;
https://fabiansociety.wordpress.com/
http://www.wakeupkiwi.com/The-Conspiracy-to-Rule-the-World-2.shtml
Which is why I refer to Jacinda Adern as the “Wolf in Sheeps Clothing”
This was the original Fabian Motto.
No cheers.
Which is why I refer to Jacinda Adern as the “Wolf in Sheeps Clothing”
Ardern is more a ‘Sheep in Wolf’s clothing’.
Arguably something far more dangerous.
A good person that acts tough in the face of neo-liberalism, but in the end backs down in the face of their deeply entrenched influence and power inside the civil service and parliamentary politics.
Politics is all about pressure.
From 1984 on, the political pressure has always been from one side, the other side to us.
Which is why we must continue to strike, and protest, and organise, and lobby, and demand, that Jacinda Ardern follow through on her best instincts.
By keeping up this counter pressure, we can create the political room for Jacinda Ardern to be able to match her actions to her rhetoric.
Jenny/Others;
“By keeping up this counter pressure, we can create the political room for Jacinda Ardern to be able to match her actions to her rhetoric.”
Yes, but on the scale of the “Yellow Vests” in France, Belgium and now the Netherlands. And they are not finished yet.!
Somehow I don’t see it. She has been ‘groomed’ from Uni, like Helen Clarke and I don’t think New Zealanders are up to the task.
Our MSM keeps us ‘compartmentalised’
To be more specific on ‘The Forces’:
“Central banks are NOT owned by their local corporate governments, they are privately owned and are completely separate from the Treasury departments of their respective governments.
What Do Central Banks Actually Do?
Central banks all make convoluted cover statements in order to justify their existence. That is not to say that all of the staff are in on it, but those who are at the top of each reserve bank know exactly what they are doing. They are either part of the cabal, or minions of it under bribery and or threat.
What Central Banks Say They Do:
“Ensure that, throughout the economy, money works as well as possible as a mechanism for making transactions, storing value, and keeping account. The Bank also promotes a sound and efficient financial system. To fulfil these functions, the Bank carries out a wide range of tasks, from operating monetary policy to monitoring and supervising the health of the financial system, maintaining foreign reserves, operating in the financial markets if necessary, and issuing currency as required.”
– Quote excerpt from The Reserve Bank of New Zealand
The last thing that any of them want you to know is that they are not part of the government (governments are all actually corporations anyway and as such cannot govern legally but that is another paper) as central banks are in fact privately owned. The Reserve Bank of New Zealand is ‘officially listed’ as an asset of the crown, which is effectively the banksters which run the City of London – not the Queen of England.
The first and most important question that arises with regards to central banks is:
“Why is a privately owned and run banking institution issuing and controlling the currency of my country?”
It is interesting to note that within the very large Reserve Bank of New Zealand coat of arms, located on the wall to the rear of the reception area of said central bank, you will see a red shield. As we know, in old German, red shield translates to Roth-schild (red-shield).
If you look closely you can see the red shield (Roths – Child in old German)
What Central Banks Actually Do:
Central banks do more harm than good. From obscuring the true cost of credit to causing confusion about good investments, central bankers end up papering over economic problems. And when they send the wrong messages to savers and consumers trying to coordinate their plans, boom and bust cycles lengthen and worsen.
In effect, the central banks have almost complete control of a country’s economy, and can create and control boom and bust cycles.
“There are a number of ways the Reserve Bank helps to maintain financial stability, including through the regulation and supervision of banks, non-bank deposit takers and insurers, promoting the smooth operation of financial markets, and building sound financial market infrastructure.
It is also important to understand developments that could make the financial system vulnerable to instability, and respond appropriately. The Reserve Bank conducts regular surveillance of financial risks and reports on its assessments in the six-monthly Financial Stability Report.”
– Quote excerpt from The Reserve Bank of New Zealand
This is an important point, because it ties us back into our shareholder investigation:
All of the financial institutions of virtually every country are registered with, regulated by and supervised by their local central bank.
Central banks and central bankers are the reason why the world is in economic and martial turmoil and why many millions of people languish in the pits of poverty and financial ruin.
Central banks are privately owned or controlled cartels which COVERTLY RUN THE WORLD. They operate for the exclusive profit of a small group of powerful families whose death grip on global finance can be traced back generations. THEY CONTROL GOVERNMENTS, MONARCHIES, and multinational organisations like the UN, the WHO, the WTO, and a host of other influential bodies.
Using massive wealth accumulated fraudulently over generations they’ve managed to co-opt or illicitly influence political parties, trade unions, the law courts, medical associations, religious hierarchies, universities & academies, mass media, and the like, to promote their policies and to eradicate all opposition. They wield their inordinate global control by indoctrinating chosen “leaders” into powerful secret societies and insider groups like the Freemasons, Bilderberg, Council on Foreign Relations, just to name a few.
Three essential pillars of their domination of the world economy and global finance are the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the Bank for International Settlements. The first two were set up at Bretton Woods in 1944 to plunder and loot and enrich a handful of bankster dynasties.
The latter is known as the central bank to the world’s central banks. It was set up by British and American banksters in conjunction with the Nazis in 1930 and was guilty of appalling war crimes for which it was never ever punished.
We were fortuitously alerted to the plot of Rothschild-controlled central banks ruling the world by Professor Caroll Quigley in his 1966 book, Tragedy And Hope, a scholarly tome of almost 1,400 pages. Quigley was an insider in the exclusive world of the corporatists and the international bankers and had access to private research material. For some unknown reason, the original publisher Macmillan only printed 9,000 copies.
Professor Quigley wrote:
“The powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences.” Tragedy And Hope, (see Chapter 20).
22.2 The Federal Reserve System”
REPEAT:
“Central banks are NOT owned by their local corporate governments, they are privately owned and are completely separate from the Treasury departments of their respective governments.”
“ The last thing that any of them want you to know is that they are not
part of the government.”
“The Reserve Bank of New Zealand is ‘officially listed’ as an asset of the crown, which is effectively the banksters which run the City of London – not the Queen of England.”
“Central banks are privately owned or controlled cartels which COVERTLY RUN THE WORLD. They operate for the exclusive profit of a small group of powerful families whose death grip on global finance can be traced
back generations. THEY CONTROL GOVERNMENTS, MONARCHIES,
and multinational organisations like the UN, the WHO, the WTO, and a host of other influential bodies.”
In fact it is a MUST READ the entire section 22. The Federal Reserve System which has images that will not show up here and has a photo of John Key with commentary at the bottom of 22.2
found here:
http://www.wakeupkiwi.com/The-Conspiracy-to-Rule-the-World-2.shtml
Cheers.
Search “City of London” otherwise known as “The City”
Also you can read Professor Caroll Quigley in his 1966 book, Tragedy And Hope, on line.
Exposes Full Spectrum Dominance.
The Crown in New Zealand is not the Crown anywhere else, nor is the Crown anywhere else the Crown in New Zealand.
That’s interesting Iain. The Fed and the BOE are certainly private organisations, but there isn’t any secret about that is there? Not surprising if others which have mostly copied the BOE model are the same.
But though I’m sure that the directors of these organisations are there to accumulate as much wealth for themselves as they can , just like any cooperation in a capitalist society; I’m not so sure that they have it all as under control as they might wish.
Just as a dairy farm is best run by ensuring optimum health and well-being of all the animals and staff, if they had that much control they would not allow the boom and bust cycles such as we are in the middle of now to occur. There will be winners and losers by the time the 2008 GFC and accompanying debt explosion finally rationalises. And I don’t think anyone knows with confidence how to come out on top. The money system is out of anyone’s control . The Fed is ostensibly finished QE and is starting QT; removing the fiat money fed in under QE which did not trickle down to the real economy, and did not reduce or even halt the expansion of debt. I’m sure they are , under the title ” Open market operations” entering the share market with un-talked about QE when it is deemed necessary, and at the same time gradually raising interest rates to a level that can be regarded as normal. But look what happens. What we see is a group of “experts” ( X the unknown quantity,” spurt ” a drip under pressure) trying to look like they know what they’r doing and failing. No one is in control of this mess.
Happy Christmas
D J S
I’m reasonably certain that my Facebook feed has potential employers deciding not to go further. I can’t prove that of course but I make no bones about being anti-capitalist.
And when those making the neo-liberal decisions against the will of the people it will be described as a strong person making the hard decisions.
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