DONKEY
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NEVER PUT A DONKEY IN CHARGE OF A COUNTRY
New Zealand’s “prime” minister for the past six years was John Key. From this point on I’ll refer to the low-life scumbag as “donkey” because referring to him by his official name or giving that name capitals is far more respect than the lying piece of scum deserves.
In fact even using his nickname “donkey” is an insult to real donkeys who are generally honest and hard working animals.
This particular donkey is more like NZ’s answer to killary klinton – a devious lying conman who would lie steal or betray in any way possible, as long as it made him some money.
Straight after Donald Trump was elected president of America, donkey rapidly and unexpectedly stood down as NZ “prime” minister. Several other corrupt leaders in other countries did the same thing that week.
There are no shortage of theories as to why he would have done that. Certainly he had ties to killary klinton, and one of his scams was to sell NZ out on the TPPA “agreement”. Trump has repealed that agreement which means he has probably done more for NZ than any NZ leader has done since David Lange made NZ nuclear free in 1987.
Although donkey was clearly involved with many other con jobs besides the TPPA, it seems likely that there was an even more compelling reason to make the evil pile of crap run off and hide the moment Trump was elected.
One of the many people donkey has shafted was Kim Dotcom, a person many times smarter than donkey, file sharing guru and a candidate in the 2014 NZ elections. Donkey screwed him over on so many levels it was quite spectacular.
Because donkey had almost total control over the NZ media, most people just heard and believed donkey’s official propaganda on this story, like all the others.
Rumour has it Dotcom is in possession of 2TB of NZ government emails that make Pizzagate look like a children’s story (on several levels). It appears likely that Dotcom will release them some time in 2017 before the NZ elections in November, and it’s unlikely that donkey will remain in NZ if these emails come to light.
Another of donkey’s money making schemes is housing speculation. NZ’s housing market has gone berserk under donkey’s rule, and is now the most over valued of any country in the world. The NZ puppet media still likes to pretend that the reasons for the bubble are random and inexplicable. But they are not. Here are three ways to create a housing bubble. Place heavy restrictions on how many new houses can be built, allow open immigration, and allow unrestricted foreign investment. Put all three together and you have Auckland NZ.
Donkey officially owns only around 6 NZ houses, but with all his secret trust funds he is financially involved with many others. The average Auckland house price was rising NZ$1600 per week in 2016, which means donkey was making serious profit all year. And this has been happening for the past decade.
I think it’s likely the NZ housing market will crash spectacularly within the next two years. And by the time it does, donkey will certainly have sold all his NZ housing investments and moved to America where he owns several mansions.
Like many countries NZ appears to be full of gullible people who believe what the media tell them and are happy to be reamed out by a “strong leader”
While we may finally be rid of donkey now, his legacy may drag this beautiful country down to his pond scum depths for decades to come. It was always clear that he was a con man, and all of us who were well aware of that were forced to watch this slow motion disaster unfold.
I’m a bit disgruntled about it, so in the hope that it helps wake a few more people up, here is a bit more information about donkey.
PANAMA PAPERS NZ – LONG JOHN KEY SILVER AND HIS TREASURE ISLANDS
I warned that New Zealand would be used as a tax haven on October 26th, 2011, if the National government was reelected.
Never did I expect we would be proven right in such a spectacular fashion as via the Panama Papers leak.
A leak that has shone light on an agenda to use New Zealand as a port of safe harbour for vast swathes of foreign cash. An agenda that does not stem solely from the ruling Party. It comes from on high.
From the description of the above video, posted in April 2014:
“Last month, the kiwi government tabled a bill that would remove the current 28% tax rate on income incurred by non-residents investing in funds held in New Zealand.
The move by the government is the latest to entice investors to domicile assets on its shores. A year ago, prime minister John Key, a former Merrill Lynch banker, created a focus group to examine how the nation could become more welcoming to foreign assets and enlisted consultant Oliver Wyman to examine the country’s options.
The consultancy’s recommendation was to market New Zealand as a funds domicile in the Asia-Pacific region.”
The Puppet-Masters
As depicted in ‘House of Cards‘, even at Presidential level, the real government is who the leaders of countries talk to when they get home at night.
And who they are talking to is people with great wealth, who know damn well what a foreign trust is, and how to utilise tax havens to their benefit.
Tax havens like New Zealand, run for the last eight years by arguably the most pro-Wall Street, pro-America Prime Minister in generations: ex-Member of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, John Key.
New Zealand and the Panama Papers
New Zealand is once again in an uproar and debate is evolving at a swift pace. It has just discovered that it is a laundering haven for drug money and other illicit international funds, and that the personal lawyer of the leader of the country was involved in lobbying to ensure that the legislative status quo with regards to offshore trusts remained intact.
Our already-scandal-plagued Prime Minister is doing his best to cling to power, attempting to sidestep these latest revelations as deftly as he has countless prior instances of mass public indignation – rare moments in which the mostly-cowed and constantly-culled national press corp begin to do their job.
After all, the Panama Papers’ whistle-blower’s recent statement singled out John Key and New Zealand.
The Standard wants to know, why?
Because we are a country run by a man who has helped unleash this same agenda upon other countries before, with disastrous effect.
Back in 2011, Ireland was Greece. Being strong-armed by the IMF, bound to Greek-style austerity measures to stave off impending bankruptcy.
Bankruptcy that loomed because of “a mirage driven by clever use of tax-haven rules and a huge credit boom that permitted real estate prices and construction to grow quickly before declining ever more rapidly.”
Guess who was making full use of Ireland to reduce the tax liability of offshore funds on behalf of his wealthy clientele?
John Key.
How do we know this?
Because he said so.
New Zealand Prime Minister Telling Porkies
In an enthusiastic 2005 interview with Fran O’Sullivan of the NZ Herald, then future Prime Minister of New Zealand John Key bragged about how his moving businesses and funds offshore to Ireland had saved his Merrill Lynch clientele megabucks.
From the July 19, 2005 article:
Key words… ‘Head of global foreign exchange’; Ireland; “..huge chunk of private clients’ business”.
Fran O’Sullivan writes of Key, “But as a former money-man, he is also interested in how Jersey built its economy on the back of offshore trusts.”
However, this doesn’t seem to faze the NZ Herald, which on April 6th, 2016, effectively whitewashed the O’Sullivan article.
While the above ‘offshore trusts’ quote is addressed in a forgiving tone (bizarrely, by being reiterated), there is no mention whatsoever of the “huge chunk of private clients’ business” that Key moved to Ireland for tax purposes as Head of global foreign exchange for Merrill Lynch.
Yet by contrast, in this video of his May 9th press conference, Key has the following exchange:
Reporter: “The Papers show that a lot of the overseas people are using it for business interests, not connected to inheritance or things that you’ve talked about in terms of opposition parties in countries that are unstable and that sort of thing. What reason would someone, in Mexico for example, using a business deal, have to set up a trust in New Zealand?”
John Key: “So the first thing you appreciate is that I haven’t seen the papers. So it’s very difficult to comment when I can’t see the individual cases. Nor am I a tax expert so I can’t comment on individual cases. But, for example, apparently there was one case that I just heard someone talking about where the person was Mexican, and had set up a Trust because they were uncertain about Mexican inheritance law, tax law, and that’s legitimate.
In short: He doesn’t know what’s in the Papers, even though he was Minister in charge of the New Zealand equivalent of the CIA. He “isn’t a tax expert” and says he can’t comment on individual cases… but then does.
The exchange continues:
Reporter: “There are plenty of examples that just refer to straight business deals. So why would someone with no connection to New Zealand be setting up Trusts here?”
John Key: “I can’t answer why that is. Well, New Zealand is a jurisdiction which is a good jurisdiction to do that and for all the reasons that we know. That we do have exchange of information, that we do have transparency, that we do meet the highest possible codes, so there’s all sorts of reasons that people might, but you have to go and ask those who establish those why they do that, I’m just not an expert in that area.”
So John Key, who moved an “aircraft leasing business, the complex interest rates derivatives business, the entire back office for global foreign exchange and a huge chunk of private clients’ business” to Ireland on behalf of one of the biggest investment banking firms in the world, in order “to take advantage of a 10 per cent tax rate for foreign investors” – an “investment” described as a “runaway success” – is “not a tax expert”.
He claims that the reason all these overseas businesses are setting up accounts in New Zealand is purely because of good compliance and transparency.
Over 10,000 in total – flocking to New Zealand because they want increased compliance and visibility?
In the infamous words of Dr. Jane Kelsey – “I think I just saw a flock of flying pigs go by!”
Some professional tax and trust lawyers have been so good as to publish a copy of their submission in support of John Key’s “financial hub” scheme, on their commercial website.
One such example is Christchurch’s Parry Field.
The opening position in their submission is nothing short of astounding. They posit:
‘One may ask, “Why introduce tax rules that would benefit wealthy foreigners?” We think this is the wrong starting point, and the question should rather be: “Why not?”’
Under the sub-heading “Why would any fund manager choose New Zealand?” Parry Field suggest eight answers, and allude to “many more“.
None of which are transparency or high compliance standards, as John Key asserted at his press conference. In fact, they cite a lack of regulations as being part of the attraction:
“Regulations imposed by the European Union and other supra-national bodies are making life increasingly difficult for the traditional financial centres.”
The cherry on the cake:
The Inland Revenue Department themselves have a different take on why tax fund managers choose New Zealand:
Back to the press conference, once it is a veteran government apologist asking a question, John Key starts sounding very much like a tax expert.
Barry Soper: “Prime Minister it is said that overseas businesses use trusts in New Zealand to avoid tax. Well we’re not undermining our tax base. But is it acceptable that they’re using…”
John Key: “…It is possible, for people to potentially, through the mismatches of the different tax systems, if they want to be creative and work hard, to significantly reduce their tax liability but in a lawful way. That is at least possible for what some multinationals are doing, and we don’t like that, and we’d like to close that down… but we can’t just magically say, New Zealand is going to stop that, we need other countries to work with us.”
So the rest of the world is to blame?
That Key fronted at all for the press conference is reassuring. The previous day he had reportedly missed his regular radio spot for the first time ever.
In New Zealand they call him ‘Teflon John’ and say nothing will stick to him – and this is why: 443 demonstrable lies and counting, and he is still in office.
Analysing The Spin
The predominant narratives coming out in John Key’s defense have all been heard before.
They are being regurgitated because they have worked in the past. He has thusfar retained his throne.
The ‘left-wing conspiracy theorist’ slur Key slung about in response to Dirty Politics and Moment of Truth, is back.
So is ‘I haven’t read it‘, and ‘I’m not an expert in that.’
Pet commentators – and paid commentators – are hard at work, plugging away at defending the indefensible.
The most notable and obvious of whom are Chris Trotter (yes – this Chris Trotter) and long-time military-slash-financial-industrial-complex propagandist Matthew Hooton.
Famously implicated in Nicky Hager’s book‘Dirty Politics’, and representing clients of a particular ilk that tend to be inconvenienced by Hager’s internationally-acclaimed investigative journalism, Hooton has many axes to grind.
He decries the documents as ‘secret’, and complains about only the journalists being able to see them.
Having apparently forgotten that he complained about only journalists being able to see them, he then complains about them being publically released too. Hooton conflates the investigation to include all trustees and plays the privacy card despite being ideologically and professionally opposed to everything that actual privacy activists stand for.
And yes – this is from the very man who was revealed to have – and admitted to – supplied Nicky Hager’s home address to political operatives with a vendetta against him.
The smearing of journalists and interference in their careers is a common theme revealed in the book Dirty Politics, and even after its release, the practice overtly continued.
So the Prime Minister has told porkies by the hundreds and the chief defenders of his socio-economic group leave much to be desired.
Doctorates vs. Spin Doctors
Whether John Key sticks it out or is finally toppled remains to be seen. At his press conference, the strain was palpable. For, despite his protestations to the contrary, Key is the public face of what is now beyond doubt an international tax haven.
According to a Working Paper by Professor Michael Littlewood published by the Auckland University Law School:
The New Zealand tax system is so structured as to allow the country to be used as a tax haven. Specifically, it allows non-residents to use trusts established in New Zealand to avoid the tax they would otherwise have to pay in their home country. This article explains how this works, and asks whether New Zealand law should be changed so as to prevent tax avoidance of this kind or, at least, to make it easier for other governments to prevent it.
As reported by Scoop.co.nz, a Massey University Accounting Professor concurs, stating:
Despite the academic consensus that New Zealand is a tax haven, John Key denies it.
From – www.spinbin.co.nz
