This week on The War on News, Martyn Bradbury slices into government priorities so warped they’ll feed foie gras to the rich while dishing brain tacos to hungry kids — all while the planet melts.
🍽️ Michelin Stars Over Food Banks: The Government just paid $6.3 million for the French Michelin-Star programme to rate NZ’s high-end restaurants — while cutting $20 million from food bank funding. That’s 600,000 Kiwis relying on food banks every month, but sure, let’s make sure Queenstown’s wagyu steak gets a gold sticker from Paris.
🥩 David Seymour’s School Lunch Fiasco: Seymour handed school-lunch contracts to transnational giant Compass — and they repaid him by serving organ meat to Kiwi kids and destroying 2,000 local jobs. Now he’s crawling back to regional providers like it never happened. Poverty never tasted so delicious. Let them eat brain tacos.
🎓 Western Values Charter School Incoming: “Ultimate Academy” is ACT’s answer to public education — a charter school built on “Western values.” Guest lectures by David Seymour, Don Brash, and Damien Grant? Dress code: all-brown shirts. Why build a Western Values academy when we already have ZB, The Herald, and the *Members’ Lounge*?
🌍 COP30: Climate Sell-Out of the Century: With 2,000 fossil fuel lobbyists outnumbering climate advocates 5:1, COP30 looks less like a climate summit and more like a corporate strategy meeting. Arsonists at a fire safety conference. Flat-Earthers at a geography seminar. And oil executives at the helm of our planetary collapse.
The rich dine, the poor suffer, and the planet burns. It’s not news. It’s the War on News.
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Ardern looked pretty.
Seems Seymour’s admiration does her well.
This whole sick, greedy country and our world just keep deteriorating in front of our eyes. They have gone power/money hungry and MAD, yes MAD! Luxon is a weak, egotistical lunatic with not a scrap of empathy or common-sense, while the other loonies, e.g. our slimy, manipulative Seymour, horribly smug Hosking, the twisted hate-fueled Brash, criminal Trump, and murderer Netanyahu, wreck havoc on a daily basis. This endless bunch of sub-humans is running around destroying everything that is decent simply “because they can”. But be assured you do eventually reap what you sow and your day will come just as McSkimming’s has. There are a lot more reprisals on their way and they will be harsh and unforgiving. If that doesn’t get you, climate is a good leveller. Tick, tick, tick.
“harsh and unforgiving”
Depends upon how much Tikanga a Gaian takes with that?
I must admit the Michelin star restaurants I’ve visited in Europe and Japan are exceptional.