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Ivor Jones The Māori Green Lantern

Ivor Jones The Māori Green Lantern
"The Armoured Bank Truck Was Always Empty: How Jake Paul, Netflix, and a Room Full of Willing Accomplices Robbed MMA Blind" - 18 May 2026

"The Armoured Bank Truck Was Always Empty: How Jake Paul, Netflix, and a Room Full of Willing Accomplices Robbed MMA Blind" - 18 May 2026

And How the Most Honest Commentator on the Night Still Missed the Point

By Ivor Jones The Māori Green Lantern 18 May 2026
"While They Poisoned the Pātaka, I Picked Up the Taiaha: How a White Supremacist Neoliberal Government Declared War on Māori Truth — and Lost" - 17 May 2026

"While They Poisoned the Pātaka, I Picked Up the Taiaha: How a White Supremacist Neoliberal Government Declared War on Māori Truth — and Lost" - 17 May 2026

They demolished the watchdog, bought the newsroom, starved the tamariki, and came for my platform — and I kept publishing. Over 1,000 essays later, the taiaha has not been laid down.

By Ivor Jones The Māori Green Lantern 17 May 2026
"Civilisation Was the Weapon: Don Brash Called Us Primitive at Oxford — Here Is the Reckoning" - 17 May 2026

"Civilisation Was the Weapon: Don Brash Called Us Primitive at Oxford — Here Is the Reckoning" - 17 May 2026

An 84-year-old colonial revivalist told Oxford that my people are primitive — while my people were in the room, watching, and waiting. This is the answer he was never prepared to receive.

By Ivor Jones The Māori Green Lantern 17 May 2026
"THE GILDED WAKA: HOW THE MĀORI RULING CLASS SAILED TO BUCKINGHAM PALACE WHILE YOUR TAMARIKI WENT HUNGRY" - 16 May 2026

"THE GILDED WAKA: HOW THE MĀORI RULING CLASS SAILED TO BUCKINGHAM PALACE WHILE YOUR TAMARIKI WENT HUNGRY" - 16 May 2026

While Te Arikinui sipped tea with King Charles and the Māori Epstein Class toasted their portfolios in London, 70,000 tamariki Māori went to bed hungry. The Kīngitanga didn't fail te iwi. It forgot them — and called that leadership.

By Ivor Jones The Māori Green Lantern 16 May 2026
"THE CROWBAR IN THE CLASSROOM: How Goldsmith, Stanford and Luxon Are Burning Down Māori Education While Calling It Reform" - 16 May 2026

"THE CROWBAR IN THE CLASSROOM: How Goldsmith, Stanford and Luxon Are Burning Down Māori Education While Calling It Reform" - 16 May 2026

They strip Treaty protection from Māori tamariki, delay the backlash with a curriculum concession, then stand in front of cameras and call the wreckage progress.

By Ivor Jones The Māori Green Lantern 16 May 2026
"The Knife in the Honours Box: How Ruth Richardson Bled Aotearoa Dry — and the Crown Gave Her a Medal for It" - 16 May 2026

"The Knife in the Honours Box: How Ruth Richardson Bled Aotearoa Dry — and the Crown Gave Her a Medal for It" - 16 May 2026

The architect of manufactured poverty just received the Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit. Tadhg Stopford drew the constitutional map. Now we name the bodies — and the mechanism.

By Ivor Jones The Māori Green Lantern 16 May 2026
"THE WRECKING BALL AND THE WARRIOR: WHY HONE IS THE PROBLEM AND MARIAMENO IS THE ANSWER" - 14 May 2026

"THE WRECKING BALL AND THE WARRIOR: WHY HONE IS THE PROBLEM AND MARIAMENO IS THE ANSWER" - 14 May 2026

One has spent fifteen years breaking Māori political structures. The other has spent fifteen years building communities from the inside. Te Tai Tokerau does not need nostalgia. It needs rangatiratanga.

By Ivor Jones The Māori Green Lantern 14 May 2026
"THE SILENCING SEASON: How Te Pāti Māori's Leadership Expelled a Wāhine MP, Lost in Court, and Then Sent Debbie Ngarewa-Packer to Call It a "Process" Issue" - 13 May 2026

"THE SILENCING SEASON: How Te Pāti Māori's Leadership Expelled a Wāhine MP, Lost in Court, and Then Sent Debbie Ngarewa-Packer to Call It a "Process" Issue" - 13 May 2026

A man threatened to destroy a woman's career. A court ruled him unlawful. His co-leader went on television and said "tough seasons happen." This is what complicity sounds like when it wears tikanga clothing.

By Ivor Jones The Māori Green Lantern 13 May 2026
"THE BLACK DRAIN: How the Crown Sold a River to a Corporation, Watched It Die, and Is Now Selling the Undertakers" - 13 May 2026

The Green Chain Series

"THE BLACK DRAIN: How the Crown Sold a River to a Corporation, Watched It Die, and Is Now Selling the Undertakers" - 13 May 2026

When a government writes a company permission to kill a river — replaces that permission with a living law it keeps weakening — and then bans the courts from making corporations pay for the damage — that is not negligence. That is a system. And it is working exactly as designed.

By Ivor Jones The Māori Green Lantern 13 May 2026
"THE WAKA THIEVES: HOW SIMEON BROWN AND NICOLA WILLIS ARE SELLING YOUR BANK TO THE SAME MARKET THAT HAS ALWAYS OWNED YOU" - 13 May 2026

"THE WAKA THIEVES: HOW SIMEON BROWN AND NICOLA WILLIS ARE SELLING YOUR BANK TO THE SAME MARKET THAT HAS ALWAYS OWNED YOU" - 13 May 2026

They promised no asset sales. They lied. And now they want to hand the people's bank to the investors who already own everything else — while Māori whānau pay the price in silence.

By Ivor Jones The Māori Green Lantern 13 May 2026
"THE SAME WAR, TWO HEMISPHERES: How the Global Far-Right Dismantled Media Accountability — and Why The Māori Green Lantern Exists" - 13 May 2026

"THE SAME WAR, TWO HEMISPHERES: How the Global Far-Right Dismantled Media Accountability — and Why The Māori Green Lantern Exists" - 13 May 2026

They burned the referees, silenced the Māori journalist, and called it freedom. This is what a global disinformation network looks like when it arrives at your door.

By Ivor Jones The Māori Green Lantern 13 May 2026
"THEY CHANGED THE LAW AGAIN: Paul Goldsmith's Climate Shield Is the Green Chain, Resurrected" - 13 May 2026

The Green Chain Series

"THEY CHANGED THE LAW AGAIN: Paul Goldsmith's Climate Shield Is the Green Chain, Resurrected" - 13 May 2026

They licensed the dioxin. They buried the files. They denied the cancer. Now they've outlawed the lawsuit. The only thing that changes is the chemical — the Crown's loyalty to corporate profit over Māori lives has never wavered for a single generation.

By Ivor Jones The Māori Green Lantern 13 May 2026
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