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Posts by Ivor Jones The Māori Green Lantern

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"Words Are Not Enough: A Challenge to Tania Waikato, Kerrin Leoni, and Hāley Maxwell" - 20 April 2026 You said the right things. You wore the right korowai. You invoked the right tūpuna. Now prove it. Because the history of Māori politics is a graveyard of people who said exactly what you just said — ...

"Words Are Not Enough: A Challenge to Tania Waikato, Kerrin Leoni, and Hāley Maxwell" - 20 April 2026

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"THE INHERITANCE OF CRUELTY: How a Hollow CEO, a Licensed Race-Baiter, and a Coalition of Asset-Strippers Bankrupted Aotearoa — And Left Whānau to Pay the Bill" - 20 April 2026 A Prime Minister Who Won't Leave. A Government That Shouldn't Stay. And a Generation of Tamariki Paying the Price of Their Cowardice.

"THE INHERITANCE OF CRUELTY: How a Hollow CEO, a Licensed Race-Baiter, and a Coalition of Asset-Strippers Bankrupted Aotearoa — And Left Whānau to Pay the Bill" - 20 April 2026

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"$20,000 TO OWN A RAILROAD: HOW WINSTON PETERS AUCTIONED NEW ZEALAND'S RAIL NETWORK TO A DONOR AND CALLED IT GOVERNANCE" - 20 April 2026 When the Crown's Rail Infrastructure Becomes a Party Fundraising Perk — and the Board Chair Has to Draw the Corruption by Hand

"$20,000 TO OWN A RAILROAD: HOW WINSTON PETERS AUCTIONED NEW ZEALAND'S RAIL NETWORK TO A DONOR AND CALLED IT GOVERNANCE" - 20 April 2026

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"THE GRAVE ROBBERS IN SUITS: How Paul Goldsmith Buried the Treaty Principles Bill — Then Dug Its Grave Under a Different Name" - 19 April 2026 They didn't burn the wharenui. They quietly removed the poutokomanawa — the heart post — and told you the building was still standing. The Treaty Principles Bill was the funeral pyre everyone watched....

"THE GRAVE ROBBERS IN SUITS: How Paul Goldsmith Buried the Treaty Principles Bill — Then Dug Its Grave Under a Different Name" - 19 April 2026

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"🔆 SOLAR THEATRE IN A DYING EMPIRE: AOTEAROA'S LAST POLITICAL HOPE VERSUS THE LORDS OF THE LONG DARK" - 19 April 2026 Every other party has either sold the future, stolen it, or cosplayed sovereignty while the hui was cancelled and the constitution was being rewritten. The Greens are flawed. They are also the only on...

"🔆 SOLAR THEATRE IN A DYING EMPIRE: AOTEAROA'S LAST POLITICAL HOPE VERSUS THE LORDS OF THE LONG DARK" - 19 April 2026

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"THE PLAYSTATION POGROM: How a Suit-Wearing Sociopath Built Aotearoa's Most Sophisticated Poverty Machine — While Pocketing Every Subsidy He Could Find" - 19 April 2026 He tells the poorest people in Aotearoa to get off the couch. He claims the couch on expenses.

"THE PLAYSTATION POGROM: How a Suit-Wearing Sociopath Built Aotearoa's Most Sophisticated Poverty Machine — While Pocketing Every Subsidy He Could Find" - 19 April 2026

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"THE POISONED KETE: HOW WINSTON PETERS SELLS ROTTEN KAI AND CALLS IT A FEAST" - 19 April 2026 He spent three years handing the duopoly a pitchfork — now he's selling you the handle and calling it revolution.

"THE POISONED KETE: HOW WINSTON PETERS SELLS ROTTEN KAI AND CALLS IT A FEAST" - 19 April 2026

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"DRILL BABY, DRILL — INTO YOUR OWN FRAUD" - 19 April 2026 How a Convicted Liquidator, an Australian Gold Miner and a White-Supremacist Neoliberal Government Are Strip-Mining Te Tiriti, Tikanga and the Truth

"DRILL BABY, DRILL — INTO YOUR OWN FRAUD" - 19 April 2026

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"🔥 THE COCKROACH IN THE CONSTITUTION: How Sean Plunket, The Platform, and a White Supremacist Neoliberal Government Turned a Racism Complaint Into a Power Grab — And Why They Must Not Win" - 19 April ... He called our culture mumbo jumbo. When held to account, he called a private citizen a plonker, sicced his audience on him, wrote a song mocking him, and then demanded the government fire the referee....

"🔥 THE COCKROACH IN THE CONSTITUTION: How Sean Plunket, The Platform, and a White Supremacist Neoliberal Government Turned a Racism Complaint Into a Power Grab — And Why They Must Not Win" - 19 April 2026

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"HE HINAKI MĀORI: THE TRAP WOVEN IN SILK FEATHERS" - 18 April 2026 They Don't Want to Free You. They Want to Cage You in a Whare That Looks Like Home — And Your Own Party Is Building the Cage From the Inside.

"HE HINAKI MĀORI: THE TRAP WOVEN IN SILK FEATHERS" - 18 April 2026

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"THE TRAPDOOR PRIME MINISTER: How a Hollow CEO Sold Aotearoa a Snake, Called It a Kiwi, and Watched the Floor Give Way Beneath Him" - 18 April 2026 He promised to fix the economy. He broke the people. Now the people are breaking him.

"THE TRAPDOOR PRIME MINISTER: How a Hollow CEO Sold Aotearoa a Snake, Called It a Kiwi, and Watched the Floor Give Way Beneath Him" - 18 April 2026

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"KO TE WHARE HAUORA KUA HEREA: The Man Who Sold the Healing House From the Inside and Called It Rural Medicine" - 17 April 2026 He took the Crown's money. He took the community's trust. He took a seat at every table that set the rules. And Māori in the Eastern Bay of Plenty kept dying early. That is not coincidence. That is ar...

"KO TE WHARE HAUORA KUA HEREA: The Man Who Sold the Healing House From the Inside and Called It Rural Medicine" - 17 April 2026

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"THE EMPTY WAKA IN THE STORM: How Nicola Willis Flew to the Empire to Beg While Māori Whānau Drowned in the Fuel Flood" - 17 April 2026 A Finance Minister who cannot run a fuel queue cosplays as a diplomat while the pātaka burns

"THE EMPTY WAKA IN THE STORM: How Nicola Willis Flew to the Empire to Beg While Māori Whānau Drowned in the Fuel Flood" - 17 April 2026

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"HE MAUNGA KEI RARO I TE MOANA: THE MAN WHO MAPPED THE BONES OF PAPATUANUKU AND THE LANTERN THAT REFUSES TO DIE: - 14 April 2026 A letter from the floor of the Pacific to the spine of a dying regime — for Jim Gill of California, whose maunga stands in Aotearoa waters while his son-in-law drives the taiaha

"HE MAUNGA KEI RARO I TE MOANA: THE MAN WHO MAPPED THE BONES OF PAPATUANUKU AND THE LANTERN THAT REFUSES TO DIE: - 14 April 2026

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"THE LANTERN THAT WILL NOT BE EXTINGUISHED: Nine Hundred Essays, 45,000 Sources, One Taiaha Driven Into the Spine of a Dying Regime" - 14 April 2026 They built a dam to stop the tuna. The tuna is still moving. And it is carrying 900 receipts.

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"THE SCARECROW IN THE FLOOD PLAIN: How Wairoa Mayor Craig Little Sold His People a Stick Figure and Called It a Shield" - 14 April 2026 When the river remembers everything — and the mayor remembers nothing.

"THE SCARECROW IN THE FLOOD PLAIN: How Wairoa Mayor Craig Little Sold His People a Stick Figure and Called It a Shield" - 14 April 26

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"THE GIFT OF THE GALLOWS: Simeon Brown's Cancer Infusion Con and the Architecture of Māori Death" - 13 April 2026 They gave you 14 chairs and sold you the medicine. They built the stage, hired the cameras, and called it compassion. We call it colonialism with a drip bag.

"THE GIFT OF THE GALLOWS: Simeon Brown's Cancer Infusion Con and the Architecture of Māori Death" - 13 April 2026

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"THE WHAKAPAPA OF EVERYTHING: Your Tūpuna Knew the Universe — And the Universe Has Always Known Them Back" - 12 April 2026 The most advanced science in human history just proved what your ancestors taught at the marae. Come home to your knowing.

"THE WHAKAPAPA OF EVERYTHING: Your Tūpuna Knew the Universe — And the Universe Has Always Known Them Back" - 12 April 2026

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"ONE THREAD, TEN THOUSAND EYES: The Whakapapa They Cannot Kill, the Wairua They Cannot Legislate Away, and the Voice of 900 Essays Backed by Every Ancestor Who Refused to Kneel" - 9 April 2026 While a white supremacist neoliberal government burns the pātaka, buries the reo, and sells the whenua — the whakapapa keeps writing. You cannot silence a bloodline.

"ONE THREAD, TEN THOUSAND EYES: The Whakapapa They Cannot Kill, the Wairua They Cannot Legislate Away, and the Voice of 900 Essays Backed by Every Ancestor Who Refused to Kneel" - 9 April 2026

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"The Silencer: How Sean Plunket Weaponises the Microphone Against Māori Climate Truth" - 8 April 2026 While your whānau drown in Cyclone Gabrielle's aftermath, a neoliberal attack dog calls the science a grift. Name him. Expose him. Destroy the lie.

"The Silencer: How Sean Plunket Weaponises the Microphone Against Māori Climate Truth" - 8 April 2026

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"The Green Ring Burns: How Dana Kirkpatrick's Log Ship Celebration Buries the Truth About Tairāwhiti" - 8 April 2026 Two log ships. A National Party MP clapping. A community trust calling it a "milestone." And not one word about who actually pays for those logs leaving — and who gets left behind.

"The Green Ring Burns: How Dana Kirkpatrick's Log Ship Celebration Buries the Truth About Tairāwhiti" - 8 April 2026

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"THE EMPTY KETE: How Dana Kirkpatrick Weaves Lies from the Flax of Dead Whānau Dreams" - 7 April 2026 A National MP celebrated a smaller hunger queue — after her Government banned most people from joining it. Ko te kete kāhua — the empty basket dressed in feathers.

"THE EMPTY KETE: How Dana Kirkpatrick Weaves Lies from the Flax of Dead Whānau Dreams" - 7 April 2026

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"PROPAGANDA IN PLAIN SIGHT: HOW NEWSTALKZB AND RNZ LAUNDERED A DEREGISTERED LOBBY GROUP'S POLLING AS NEWS" - 7 April 2026 Kia ora ano this evening Aotearoa, On April 7, 2026, both NewstalkZB and Radio New Zealand — one a commercial broadcaster, the other your publicly funded national institution — published articles amp...

"PROPAGANDA IN PLAIN SIGHT: HOW NEWSTALKZB AND RNZ LAUNDERED A DEREGISTERED LOBBY GROUP'S POLLING AS NEWS" - 7 April 2026

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"THE FUEL TAX SHUFFLE: How Luxon and Willis Played Both Sides of the Pump While Māori Whānau Paid the Price" - 7 April 2026 Mōrena Aotearoa, The Setup: A Flip‑Flop Built on Hypocrisy The public line is soothing: the government says the scheduled 12‑cent fuel excise duty increase from January next year is now “unlikely” ...

"THE FUEL TAX SHUFFLE: How Luxon and Willis Played Both Sides of the Pump While Māori Whānau Paid the Price" - 7 April 2026

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"Te Ara Utu: The Toll Road to Nowhere — How Chris Bishop's Neoliberal PPP Machine Is Building a Poverty Trap Through the Heart of Te Tai Tokerau" - 6 April 2026 "Ko au te awa, ko te awa ko au." - I am the river, the river is me.

"Te Ara Utu: The Toll Road to Nowhere — How Chris Bishop's Neoliberal PPP Machine Is Building a Poverty Trap Through the Heart of Te Tai Tokerau" - 6 April 2026

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"The Genealogy of Simeon Brown: How a Man Born on Māori Land, Backed by a Baptist Network, and Rewarded by a Threatened Prime Minister Became the Most Dangerous Operative in Aotearoa" - 5 April 2026 TE WHAKAPAPA O TE KAIPUPURI TOTO

"The Genealogy of Simeon Brown: How a Man Born on Māori Land, Backed by a Baptist Network, and Rewarded by a Threatened Prime Minister Became the Most Dangerous Operative in Aotearoa" - 5 April 2026

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"While whānau go hungry, Amanda Luxon went on the radio to tell us the dog wearing the silk suit is actually a rangatira. We have the receipts. We are burning the suit." - 4 April 2026 KO TE KĀKAHU O TE KURĪ: The Dog's Suit, the Worm's Voice, and the Podcast That Sold New Zealand a Lie

"While whānau go hungry, Amanda Luxon went on the radio to tell us the dog wearing the silk suit is actually a rangatira. We have the receipts. We are burning the suit." - 4 April 2026

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"When a racist broadcaster dials my phone to silence me, that is not a warning to stand down — it is proof I have driven my taiaha straight into the spine of white supremacy" - 4 April 2026 When the Pākehā Canary Screams: Why Sean Plunket’s SLAPP Threat Proves I Must Burn Hotter

"When a racist broadcaster dials my phone to silence me, that is not a warning to stand down — it is proof I have driven my taiaha straight into the spine of white supremacy" - 4 April 2026

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"THE IRON THRONE OF FOOLS: How Luxon's April 1st Purge Exposed a Rotting Crown, Two New Pawns, and a Nation That's Already Moved On" - 3 April 2026 He mea tārai e te ringa raupā — carved by the hands of the oppressed. While the coloniser reshuffles his deck of thieves, Aotearoa sharpens its taiaha.

"THE IRON THRONE OF FOOLS: How Luxon's April 1st Purge Exposed a Rotting Crown, Two New Pawns, and a Nation That's Already Moved On" - 3 April 2026

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"When Plunket Picks Up the Phone And Calls The Māori Green Lantern: The SLAPP Playbook of the White Supremacist Right" - 3 April 2026 Kia ora ano Aotearoa! Good Friday. 1:37 pm. A phone rings. On the other end: Sean Plunket of The Platform New Zealand — a man who has built a media enterprise on anti-Māori narratives, Treaty denial...

"When Plunket Picks Up the Phone And Calls The Māori Green Lantern: The SLAPP Playbook of the White Supremacist Right" - 3 April 2026

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