Great to have all these extra references and info from Sue - many thanks! The more we shine a light on this set-up and look at how New Zealanders are being influenced by them, the better.
#AtlasNetwork influencing politics and elections around the World with their Dark Money to the detriment of people and the environment -& pushing us closer to extinction
I’ve collected quite a few articles etc relating to the Atlas Network and the more I read the more worrying it becomes. I’ll share a few here in case people haven’t seen them:
1News Doco : “Trick or Treaty”- Atlas Network in NZ & Australia #nzpol #auspol
The primary feature of (Liz Truss’) budget was a massive tax cut for the rich funded by borrowing. The theory was that the rich would then invest all of their newly found money into the UK economy and generate huge growth rates and we would all be rich. It was in essence yet another version of trickle down.
The plan failed. The markets were spooked, the pound slumped, interest rates spiked and it all ended in tears. Truss sacked her old friend and Chancellor of the Exchequor Kwasi Kwarteng by tweet. Shortly after this she was also gone. The longest surviving entity was the lettuce.
In Aotearoa New Zealand we are going through a not dissimiliar experience. The Government is laying waste to the public service, non Government Organisations, Housing Corporation, the enviroment, families with members who have disabilities, in fact just about everyone you can think of…
The Treaty is stopping privatisation of water, & protecting our environment -stopping corporate rape of NZ assets. #ACT #NZTaxpayersUnion #AtlasNetwork =working against NZ interests. #TreatyOfWaitangi
David Seymour has denied any connection to the Atlas Network in an interview - which is weird, because there are just so many connections! The ACT Party leader, & minister for regulation, was a “Frontier Centre” (#AtlasNetwork) policy director in Saskatchewan from 2007-2011
“In the UK and around the world, environmental defenders are being attacked with ever more extreme laws. Who designs these laws? Corporate lobbyists. Who demands they are imposed? The billionaire media.THIS IS NOT JUSTICE. “ Monbiot.
The undermining of Jacinda, 3 waters & co- governance:
From the IPA to the NZ Initiative to the TaxpayersUnion: New Zealand should be wise to the provenance of these think tanks, and at least aware of their international #libertarian connections. That our own think tanks are being trained up by Koch and dark money-funded libertarian networks should give us cause for concern. https://newsroom.co.nz/2020/10/21/who-the-hell-is-gideon-rozner-anyway/?
Thanks heaps for all these additional references, Sue! It's really useful, and it's also heartening to see Atlas being talked about iun the mainstream media. I reckon the more we dshaine a light on them, the better.
I'll spread some of these round Facebook.|
I think the next step for anyone wanting to take it further is to dig deeper into who in this government and business lobbies have connections to the Atlas Network. Someonbe on facebook posted a membership list of NZ Initiaitve - a revealing list of mainstream NZ businesses and some rich individuals. Ill see if I can find it again and post it here.
Dr Jeremy Walker from the University of Technology Sydney joins us to talk about the Atlas Network, why they stick their oar into politics the world over and what they are doing in NZ
https://youtu.be/Z13Je0PyeQc?si=wTOogo84YtQ8w6aL is a useful adjunct to our emerging comprehension of the threat. It now requires a concerted effort to expose the corruption that is integral to the methodology of these people. Data needs to be collated and analysed professionally so that we can understand what commensurate financial resources are required to address the threat at all levels of political interference.
I think that Luxon is the Atlas Network's "secret agent". He is playing the part that Brash played way back then (found out by Nicky Hagar) when he was bankrolled by the ultra right into the leadership of the National party. They knew at that time that Act would never be a governing party but the plan was that Brash would appear to follow a more centrist stand as National PM (like Luxon) and consolidate National's centrist position in his first term to ensure a second term. Their "funding agreement" specified that on gaining that second term there would be a very sharp right turn to meet the big money boys' demands. Those of us who were around then will remember his frequent response to probing journalists, "We have no plans to do that in our first term".
Seymour is the fall guy. His job is to take all the heat. They know that there is unlikely to be an Act PM anytime soon, so his job is to draw the fire and protect Luxon who can then appear to keep faith with the numerous more moderate National voters. If they consolidate their support his reward will be more Act MPs and the Deputy PM position in a government that will turn sharp right into the waiting arms of the Atlas Network after the next election.
Luckily for us it didn't work in 2005. Helen Clark and her team beat them. We must beat them again in 2026!
Great to have all these extra references and info from Sue - many thanks! The more we shine a light on this set-up and look at how New Zealanders are being influenced by them, the better.
Thank you.
Monbiot wrote this:
#AtlasNetwork influencing politics and elections around the World with their Dark Money to the detriment of people and the environment -& pushing us closer to extinction
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/06/rishi-sunak-javier-milei-donald-trump-atlas-network
The parallels are frightening!
I’ve collected quite a few articles etc relating to the Atlas Network and the more I read the more worrying it becomes. I’ll share a few here in case people haven’t seen them:
1News Doco : “Trick or Treaty”- Atlas Network in NZ & Australia #nzpol #auspol
https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/12/22/trick-or-treaty-indigenous-rights-referendums-and-the-treaty-of-waitangi/
Though most are well covered in your article, people may like to read or watch them in their entirety, where you haven’t added links.
It’s such a relief to know a growing number of NZers, and others, are onto this.
Let me know how I can help
The Atlas Network: Big Oil, Climate disinformation & constitutional Democracy:
https://youtu.be/tlQOw6qpblY?si=e9GhjPX6oqd8XQ4x
The primary feature of (Liz Truss’) budget was a massive tax cut for the rich funded by borrowing. The theory was that the rich would then invest all of their newly found money into the UK economy and generate huge growth rates and we would all be rich. It was in essence yet another version of trickle down.
The plan failed. The markets were spooked, the pound slumped, interest rates spiked and it all ended in tears. Truss sacked her old friend and Chancellor of the Exchequor Kwasi Kwarteng by tweet. Shortly after this she was also gone. The longest surviving entity was the lettuce.
In Aotearoa New Zealand we are going through a not dissimiliar experience. The Government is laying waste to the public service, non Government Organisations, Housing Corporation, the enviroment, families with members who have disabilities, in fact just about everyone you can think of…
https://thestandard.org.nz/the-liz-truss-of-the-south-seas/
The Treaty is stopping privatisation of water, & protecting our environment -stopping corporate rape of NZ assets. #ACT #NZTaxpayersUnion #AtlasNetwork =working against NZ interests. #TreatyOfWaitangi
#DarkMoney #nzpol
https://southerncross.news/national/why-the-atlas-network-will-win-the-anti-treaty-referendum/
David Seymour has denied any connection to the Atlas Network in an interview - which is weird, because there are just so many connections! The ACT Party leader, & minister for regulation, was a “Frontier Centre” (#AtlasNetwork) policy director in Saskatchewan from 2007-2011
https://www.badnewsletter.com/david-seymour-lies-about-the-atlas-network/
“In the UK and around the world, environmental defenders are being attacked with ever more extreme laws. Who designs these laws? Corporate lobbyists. Who demands they are imposed? The billionaire media.THIS IS NOT JUSTICE. “ Monbiot.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/02/plutocrats-powerful-laws-uk-rich-corporations
Mickey Savage on NZ parallels.
https://thestandard.org.nz/atlas-smirked/
https://thestandard.org.nz/the-apparatus-behind-the-curtain/
https://thestandard.org.nz/the-apparatus-behind-the-curtain-part-2-the-mainline/
The undermining of Jacinda, 3 waters & co- governance:
From the IPA to the NZ Initiative to the TaxpayersUnion: New Zealand should be wise to the provenance of these think tanks, and at least aware of their international #libertarian connections. That our own think tanks are being trained up by Koch and dark money-funded libertarian networks should give us cause for concern. https://newsroom.co.nz/2020/10/21/who-the-hell-is-gideon-rozner-anyway/?
Meet the Shadowy Network Vilifying Climate Protestors. Rupert Murdoch gets a mention here:
https://www.desmog.com/2023/09/12/atlas-network-vilifying-climate-protestors/
Thanks heaps for all these additional references, Sue! It's really useful, and it's also heartening to see Atlas being talked about iun the mainstream media. I reckon the more we dshaine a light on them, the better.
I'll spread some of these round Facebook.|
I think the next step for anyone wanting to take it further is to dig deeper into who in this government and business lobbies have connections to the Atlas Network. Someonbe on facebook posted a membership list of NZ Initiaitve - a revealing list of mainstream NZ businesses and some rich individuals. Ill see if I can find it again and post it here.
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What is the Atlas Network? With Dr Jeremy Walker:
Dr Jeremy Walker from the University of Technology Sydney joins us to talk about the Atlas Network, why they stick their oar into politics the world over and what they are doing in NZ
https://www.youtube.com/live/11cpcjc7RMQ?si=KS6QYnAGifZ0mMr-
Tautoko! This is excellent. Thank you so much.
https://youtu.be/Z13Je0PyeQc?si=wTOogo84YtQ8w6aL is a useful adjunct to our emerging comprehension of the threat. It now requires a concerted effort to expose the corruption that is integral to the methodology of these people. Data needs to be collated and analysed professionally so that we can understand what commensurate financial resources are required to address the threat at all levels of political interference.
Excellent article! Thanks Torfrida and Tapatahi!
I think that Luxon is the Atlas Network's "secret agent". He is playing the part that Brash played way back then (found out by Nicky Hagar) when he was bankrolled by the ultra right into the leadership of the National party. They knew at that time that Act would never be a governing party but the plan was that Brash would appear to follow a more centrist stand as National PM (like Luxon) and consolidate National's centrist position in his first term to ensure a second term. Their "funding agreement" specified that on gaining that second term there would be a very sharp right turn to meet the big money boys' demands. Those of us who were around then will remember his frequent response to probing journalists, "We have no plans to do that in our first term".
Seymour is the fall guy. His job is to take all the heat. They know that there is unlikely to be an Act PM anytime soon, so his job is to draw the fire and protect Luxon who can then appear to keep faith with the numerous more moderate National voters. If they consolidate their support his reward will be more Act MPs and the Deputy PM position in a government that will turn sharp right into the waiting arms of the Atlas Network after the next election.
Luckily for us it didn't work in 2005. Helen Clark and her team beat them. We must beat them again in 2026!