APARTHEID FLOURISHES IN THE 21st CENTURY

In 1994 Westerners celebrated the “end of apartheid” in South Africa when that country was so hurriedly granted the alleged magic of “majority rule”.

“No more apartheid” was the cry of the moment. Not so. Apartheid is flourishing in the 21st century but the liberal elites that have been the curse of the West for so long refuse to acknowledge it because it does not suit their agenda of “coloured people always right, white man always wrong”. In this piece we shall look at how apartheid, defined as special rights based on race, is present and growing in four countries: New Zealand, Canada, Malaysia and Israel.

Currently there is probably no nation that embraces apartheid more broadly and deeply than New Zealand where it has infected society and the economy like a cancer – helped every step of the way by gutless and worthless politicians and judges who lack the spine and the principle to stand up for the traditional rights of New Zealanders against the ever increasing racist demands of the greedy, pale-faced tribal elite of part-Maoris. I use the word “part-Maoris” in the interests of linguistic precision as Maoris (genuine Maoris) are extinct; the last full blood died in the 1950s and to-day there are not even any half-bloods. The reason why they are extinct is that they preferred to breed with Europeans rather than with each other.

What motivates the tribal elite in its never-ending grab for superior rights and public resources seems to be a real hatred of the white man – the one who brought peace, law and order, prosperity, personal freedom, intellectual enlightenment, personal safety and material comforts to a primitive Stone Age people, the word “Stone Age” being applied to any society that used stone for their tools and weapons because they had not invented metal. In fact, the fish hooks and nails that Captain Cook’s sailors traded with them was the first metal that they had ever seen. The hatred that the tribes had for each other pre-1840, as exemplified by the endless tribal wars, seems to have been transferred to a hatred of their European saviours and this is key to understanding the preposterous demands that the tribal elite are constantly making. Please note: this hatred seems to apply only to the tribal elite and their intimidating foot soldiers in the gangs and NOT to the majority of part-Maoris.

New Zealand’s health system is riddled with apartheid, with Auckland’s District Health Board prioritising Maori and Pacific Island patients for some surgeries, pushing European New Zealanders who have paid taxes all their lives down the waiting list purely for racist reasons. This medically indefensible move was introduced by that “kind” Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern – the one who, along with her shadow, little Chris Hipkins, pushed a harmful and largely ineffective vaccine on to gullible New Zealanders from which quite a few have died. Priority for an operation should be based on how sick the patient is, how urgently treatment is needed, and how long one has been on the waiting list. Nothing else – least of all racist considerations just to buy Maori votes for the Labour Party. Health is too important to be subjected to the politics of race.   

Then again in 2023 – again during the Ardern nightmare – Pharmac introduced “ethnicity criteria” (preference for Maoris and Pacific Islanders) for drugs for Type-2 diabetes, heart problems, lung cancer and breast cancer.

People claiming to be “Maori” can get their rates remitted on freehold land that they own in a council area while the tribes can trade and do other business without paying as much tax as others, thus giving them an advantage over competitors in an industry. 

They also have an undue representation in Parliament by way of the race-based Maori seats, for which a smaller population base is required than for a general seat, thus giving them an advantage in parliamentary representation. And now they are trying to bring similar race based power into local government by means of “Maori wards” – a truly toxic development but in line with New Zealand’s ever growing move to a fully apartheid state where there will never be national unity. Where are the protestors who raged against “separate race rights” in South Africa? Sadly those who protested against the Springbok tour, etc. are racists without knowing it as they are “offended” only if it is coloured people being discriminated against and not Europeans.

Like New Zealand, Canada has been a victim of the wretched and racist U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. This has taken some very ugly forms that are likely to be followed in New Zealand once the tribal elite get wind of them. One of Canada’s greediest tribes is the Pacheedaht people of British Columbia, most of whom are thoroughly Westernised but seem to harbour a deep, racist hatred of their fellow non-Indigenous British Columbians and want to inconvenience and harm them as much as possible. From 25th April to 16th May, 2025, this tribe, with the collaboration of the spineless and equally racist British Columbian provincial government, banned all non-Indigenous people from the Juan de Fuca Park (a PUBLIC park) so that some of the tribespeople could “reconnect with their native territory”.

Not satisfied with this, the Pacheedaht elite got the British Columbian government to ban non-Indigenous people from Botanical Beach on Vancouver Island from 4 p.m. on 24th May until 4 p.m. the next day. This was so as “to provide time, space and privacy for members of the Pacheedaht ‘First Nation’ (!) to harvest marine resources and reconnect with an important part of their territory”. Botanical is a very big beach and they could have done this without closing the beach to all others. But, of course, that would not have satisfied their hatred towards “non-Indigenous” people, which seems to have been the whole point of the exercise. Botanical is an extremely popular beach and no doubt that was why these “Indigenous” racists chose it.

Another British Columbian public country park is Joffre Lakes Provincial Park, which is one of the busiest recreational spots in British Columbia. Therefore – and obviously for this reason – it was closed off to British Columbia’s 4.6 million “non-Indigenous” people in 2023 for 39 days, in 2024 for 60 days, and in 2025 for more than 100 days. This was so that another two tribes, Lilwat and N’Quatqua, could “reconnect with the land”. This increasing scale of closures in successive years would suggest that the one day closing of Botanical Beach is a template of things to come. No doubt next year it will be closed not for a day but for a week and then for a month the following year. Gradualism is the most effective way of taking away people’s rights.

On 15th April, 2025, the British Columbia Ministry of the Environment and Parks announced the indefinite closure of a section of the Gulf Islands National Park Reserve while on Cabbage Island the once popular wilderness camp sites have been closed to non-Indigenous people who can now be prosecuted under Canada’s National Parks Act for entering this once public reserve.

In the words of British Columbia’s Ministry of the Environment and Parks “more temporary closures are anticipated”. They tried to justify all this petty apartheid by saying “these temporary closures represent a critical step forward on the path of reconciliation”!!!! It would be hard to make this stuff up. What could be a more effective way of worsening race relations than to inconvenience 4.6 million British Columbians and violate their long held rights so as to oblige a pushy, hate-filled, Westernised tribal elite in their racist games? 

A similar problem exists in New Zealand where in 1998 seventy-two camping areas in the South Island (called “nohoanga”) were taken out of public ownership and handed to the Ngai Tahu tribe by the National government of Jim Bolger. These are one hectare sites on what was once public land adjacent to rivers and lakes and during the stated periods (210 days a year), are for the exclusive use of those New Zealanders who can claim a drop of Ngai Tahu blood. This is so that these racially privileged people can fish in the rivers and eat plants and weeds just like their Stone Age ancestors even though the diet now for many of them consists of Big Macs, KFC and not much else.

Then there are the “mataitai” regulations which in the 1990s privatised the control of non-commercial fishing to various tribal groups. These are now race based fishing reserves which replaced our fishing areas that were open to all New Zealanders. Non-Maori may still fish in these areas – but only if the tribe lets them. Thus do we become second class citizens in the land that our pioneer forebears built with their sweat and toil.

The first mataitai was in Lyttelton harbour and it covers 25 hectares of sea and 2.5 km of coastline. In 2004 an 8,000 hectare mataitai was declared over Paterson Inlet on Stewart Island and then other large mataitais followed including Moremore, off Napier (9,000 hectares and c. 20 km of coast), Raukokere, East Cape (2,600 hectares and c. 13 km of coast), and Aotea harbour (4,000 hectares and c. 45 km of coast). These mataitais deprive recreational fishermen of their ancient and precious common law rights. Any permission given by the tribe for others to fish there can be revoked at any time. By 2012 the Government had 26 mataitais covering a lot of fishing areas. As Dr. Hugh Barr wrote in the book, Twisting the Treaty, “No democratic government should be allowed to tolerate them….These unnecessary, historically dubious and ever expanding Maori private fishing rights are incompatible with a fair, decent and non-racist society”.

In Malaysia racial division is embedded in the Constitution and therefore even to question any of the many instances of racial discrimination in favour of Malays and against Indians and Chinese is illegal!!!!

The Malayan peninsula came into the modern world via the British Empire which governed the various Malay states from the early nineteenth century until Independence in 1957. By then the Malays – mainly peasants called “bumiputra” – constituted slightly over 50% of the population, the remainder being made up of Chinese and Indians who lived mainly in the towns. So, being in the numerical majority, the Government elected by the votes of the bumiputra quickly went about rewarding them by a torrent of apartheid rules favouring these peasants while discriminating against the hard-working Indians and Chinese who provide most of the tax revenue.

Regardless of merit the Malays are given preferential entry to government universities, with 90% of places going to them. This forces Chinese and Indian students to attend the expensive private universities where, of course, they receive a better education since places there are based on merit.

Malays alone get discounts for new government houses as well as preferential treatment in receiving public housing. They also receive cheaper burial plots while 30% of the shares of every listed company must be held by Malays. And, of course, all the key positions in government are held by Malays on the basis of race rather than competence.

However, Malaysia is not the only country to discriminate against students of various races in respect of entry to university. New Zealand does the same. Although discrimination is widespread across all New Zealand universities we shall confine the comments here to the medical schools of Otago and Auckland. In these, non-Maori students are actively and institutionally discriminated against as they can attain higher marks but are rejected from medical school so as to enable those with lower marks to be admitted solely because they have a bit of Maori or Pacific Islands blood in them. Also privileged – but to a lesser degree – are those from rural areas, those from “low socio-economic backgrounds”, and those who are refugees or the offspring of refugees. Anybody but white people!

After 2010 these two medical schools got on the apartheid train and went full steam ahead so that by 2016 Maori and Pacific Island students entering Otago Medical School increased by 179% – not on merit but on race.

In 2020 Otago University had 202 places in its Medical School but 120 of them were reserved for the privileged “special categories” (Maoris, Pacific Islanders, etc.), leaving only 82 (40%) places for others. How on earth is New Zealand ever going to get a competent medical profession with policies like these?

In 2020 Auckland University’s Medical School had 185 places with Maoris and Pacific Islanders taking up 52 of them – again not on merit. These Maori and Pacific candidates are not selected by the entry exams but are assessed “by reference to specific material provided by applicants about their engagement  with their communities”!!!!!

This brand of apartheid stinks as it breeds justified resentment on the part of white and Asian students who are rejected in favour of those with lower marks but who can tick a certain racial box, reduces the prestige of the two Medical Schools, and lowers the standard of competence within the medical profession. It also stigmatises those medical students of Maori or Pacific ancestry regardless of whether they got in by means of a racial leg-up or on their own merits. It is here that one of the worst injustices occurs. If, for example, a Maori or Pacific Island student sits the general entrance exam with the other students (European and Asian) and passes with flying colours without any race-based help and then becomes a doctor, he/she is likely to be looked at with a certain amount of suspicion by the general public who would say – wrongly but understandably – “I am not going to a Maori doctor because they only got there by racial preference rather than competence”. This is merely another injustice that apartheid produces. 

Some of the cruellest instances of apartheid to-day are found in Israel where the ruling race of recently arrived Jews treat the traditional inhabitants, the Arabs, as despised, second-class creatures whom they look down upon as “goyim”. These injustices began even before the state of Israel was created in 1948 by Jewish terrorists and by the use of terrorism. In the 1930s when Jews started to migrate to Palestine in great numbers they took land via the Jewish National Fund from the Arabs. A condition of the purchase of such land by a Jew was that “at any time in the future, under any conditions whatever”, it must not “be alienated to anyone who is not a Jew”.

Similarly in 2017 Israel’s parliament passed a law allowing the state to seize land privately held by Palestinians (Arabs) in the West Bank and grant the property to new Jewish settlements “for their exclusive use”. This was but one of at least 50 articles of legalised discrimination that the Palestinians suffer at the hands of the Jews. Over the preceding years thousands of Palestinians living in Jerusalem, descendants of families who had lived there for generations, had been deprived of their right to continue living there.

In 2013 the Israeli authorities copied apartheid South Africa exactly when they forced Jews and Arabs to stand in separate lines at bus stops in the West Bank – another instance of Israel’s “dual rights” system.

Israel’s apartheid extends into family relationships. In 2012 its Supreme Court upheld a legal prohibition forbidding Palestinians living in the West Bank who marry Israeli Arabs from living in Israel. In the Occupied Territories Palestinians are placed under military law while Jews are governed by civilian law. “There is an apartheid state here. In a territory where two people are judged under two legal systems, that is an apartheid state,” declared Tamir Pardo, a former head of Israel’s spy agency, Mossad, in 2023.

The worst form of racial discrimination is in the supply of underground bunkers for the people of Israel when they are attacked by some other nation such as Iran with whom Israel’s government has provoked yet another war. These underground shelters are largely effective and there are enough of them for c. 75% of the population. However, they are built almost exclusively in Jewish areas while Arab towns and communities are left without them.

In the words of another Jew, Peter Munz, late Professor of History at Victoria University of Wellington, “Israel, a nation caught by and persevering in a Stone Age mentality which allows citizenship only to the descendants of Abraham, is a non-secular, racist state which not only denies full rights to the Arabs living inside Israel, but also has invaded the West Bank in order to settle Israelis on foreign soil so that the Arabs cannot govern themselves, not even in those lands that are left to them”.

The irony of all this is that the apartheid practised in Israel, New Zealand, Canada and Malaysia to-day is motivated by hatred – in the case of New Zealand and Canada, the hatred of the tribal elite for the white man who actually lifted them out of their barbaric and violent ways into the comfort and safety of the modern world, in the case of Israel it is the Jewish contempt for non-Jews (“goyim”) while in Malaysia it is the envy of the lazy and backward bumiputra for the more hard-working, enterprising and successful Chinese and Indians.

It was only in South Africa where apartheid was conceived not out of hatred but out of a genuine regard for the welfare of the people – both black and white – whose conditions, freedoms, safety and prosperity could only decline under what would inevitably be a corrupt, greedy and less competent rule of the more primitive black man. This fear has been realised since the premature imposition of “majority rule” in 1994 which has brought increased insecurity, misery and poverty to people of all races (outside the black governing elite) with power cuts every day, pot-holed roads, broken traffic lights, rotting rubbish, overflowing sewers, lawlessness and a youth unemployment rate of 60% in 2024, the second highest in the world. And yet it was South Africa that was singled out for fanatical condemnation of apartheid and not these other four nations whose motives for imposing apartheid are far less honourable than those of the Boers.

Book Review: The Pioneers – Makers of New Zealand

By Mike Butler on Breaking Views

Don’t forget the old pioneers

The Pioneers – Makers of New Zealand, a new book by writer-publisher John McLean, reminds us of those who built New Zealand, tells how, and explains why their contribution should not be forgotten.

McLean descends from an unusual pioneering family of Scots who did a double migration, first to Nova Scotia in 1793, and then on to Waipu, in Bream Bay, Northland, in 1854.

The people behind contractors John McLean and Sons also descended from this group. This company built bridges, railways, most of Wellington’s wharves, the entire Auckland electric tramway system, as well as the early stages of the Otira Tunnel under the southern Alps, starting in 1907.

This is the third book in a trilogy that McLean has written about the New Zealand pioneers, the others being Voyages of the Pioneers to New Zealand 1839-85, and Sweat and Toil, the Building of New Zealand.

Direct quotes from pioneers bring to life his latest story of those early days, when men, sometimes couples, travelled all the way from England, Scotland, or Ireland, to get in on the ground floor of a new colony.

Attracted by the lure of wealth, cheap land that they could own, the safety of British law, and the familiarity of British culture, they, often unexpectedly, found themselves faced with the daunting task of having to clear dense native bush before they could build shelter, let along plant anything.

Sometimes the forest was so dense there was not even enough room to swing an axe.

Without government welfare, and without money to make the long trip home, mostly to nothing, most pioneers had no option but to do keep going until the hut was built and the farm planted.

In a nutshell, “no other option but carry on” is the pioneering spirit.

That early energy and determination began to fade in the children of the pioneers, at the turn of the century, prompting Lord Ranfurly to say, in 1904, that “the people of the colony were growing too fond of going to the government for everything and were raising children that were unfitted for a pioneering life”.

“The king hit to the pioneering qualities of enterprise, hard work and self-reliance came with the introduction of the welfare state by the first Labour government which took office in 1935,“ Mclean wrote.

His close look at reactions to arrival in a new land, their houses, food, cooking, drink, clothes, transport, religion, social and sporting activities, their effect on the environment, and the origin of the towns, among numerous other chapter headings, sheds light on the culture that the descendants of British early settlers have that seems invisible but which is omnipresent.

For instance, the habit of a Sunday roast that came with the pioneers had become a feature of life in Britain as the main meal of the week that was slow cooked while the family went to church, ready to be eaten when they returned home.

The forebears of the sparrows on your lawn were introduced to counter voracious caterpillars that invaded from the virgin bush to eat every blade of new sown grass.

Whiskey, beer and cigarettes, racing, cricket, rugby all came with the pioneers.

McLean shows that relations between pioneers and Maoris were mainly of mutual benefit, except for when some tribes rebelled in some areas in the 1840s and 1860s.

The military response to those rebellions led to the creation of military towns including Hamilton, Cambridge, Pirongia, and Kihikihi, numerous redoubts (settler forts) signposted as historical reminders, as well as extensive land confiscations in parts of the North Island as a consequence of insurrection.

McLean’s easy-to read third book on the New Zealand pioneers will rekindle in those of us with forebears who came here early a renewed understanding and respect that may have been sidelined as unacceptable, or which may have just drifted away with the passage of time.

The Pioneers – Makers of New Zealand, John McLean, Winter Productions, 256 pages, illustrated, is available from independent bookshops or www.trosspublishing.com

IS PAUL GOLDSMITH THE BIGGEST LIAR IN PARLIAMENT?

By Toby Whittaker

Although unlikely to be passed into law the ACT Party’s Treaty Principles Bill has certainly exposed some ugly facets of New Zealand politics – from the uncivilised and barbarous disruption of Parliament by Maori Party M.P.s (cheered on by Labour and the Greens) to the cowardice of the Prime Minister, Christopher Luxon, in promising to “support” the Bill through its First Reading and Select Committee hearings but then, after being “got at” by tribal thugs at Waitangi on 6th February, he ran backwards like a frightened rat.

In the words of Dr. John Robinson in his latest book, Who Really Broke the Treaty?, “To any reasonable person this (“support”) implies positive support throughout that stage, with further action guided by the report of the Select Committee….All submissions would be listened to by the Select Committee and Parliament, so we were led to believe. No way. Luxon announced in no uncertain terms that National would not support the Bill, no matter what the public opinion is. David Seymour then commented sensibly that only after the public has spoken will a final decision be made.” Why would people bother to make a submission when they have been told by Luxon that whatever they say will not be listened to?

Worse, National has embarked on a campaign of lies to discredit this worthy Bill, with Minister for Treaty Negotiations, Paul Goldsmith, apparently being given the role of Liar-in-Chief. In an e-mail to the well-known writer and commentator, Amy Brooke, Goldsmith wrote, “Successive National Governments have worked well with Maori while ensuring equal citizenship and equal opportunity for all New Zealanders”.

Goldsmith entered Parliament as a National List M.P. In 2011, having previously worked for that notoriously biased institution, the Waitangi Tribunal. Below is a list of statutes that the National Government (including Goldsmith) voted for which grant considerable race-based rights to those of part-Maori descent over and above all other New Zealanders.

Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf (Environmental Effects) Act 2102 – decisions to be informed by a Maori perspective; hearings must recognise tikanga Maori where appropriate and receive oral or written evidence in Maori.

National Animal Identification and Tracing Act 2012 – values to be protected include the relationship of Maori and their culture and traditions with their ancestral lands, waters, sites, wahi tapu and taonga.

Nga Wai o Maniapoto (Waipa River Act) 2012 – an anti-democratic co-governance entity set up to manage the Waipa, many of the appointments being race based – part-Maoris only!

Ngati Manuhiri Claims Settlement Act 2012 – another co-governance racket giving certain race-based appointments to part-Maoris only.

Game Animals Council Act 2013 – Council members must have knowledge of, and experience relating to, Maori “hunting interests”.

Housing Accords and Special Housing Areas Act 2013 – majority of members of an appointed territorial authority panel must have knowledge of and expertise in relation to planning, design, and engineering and appropriate knowledge and experience relating to the Treaty of Waitangi and tikanga Maori.

Mokomoko (Restoration of Character, Mana, and Reputation) Act 2013 – a parliamentary pardon for the brutal murderers of Rev. Carl Volkner in Opotiki in 1866! The master-mind of this atrocity was Kereopa te Rau of the Ngati Rangiwewehi clan of the Arawa tribe who hailed from the north-west shore of Rotorua. In the words of James Cowan, the leading historian of the Maori wars, “He was a thoroughgoing old savage, and he quickly plunged into the worst excesses, even cannibalism”. Volkner, who had ministered to the local Maoris for several years, was beheaded and, in the words of Captain Levy of the Eclipse who was present, “The natives then formed themselves into a line and prepared to taste the blood as it ran out of the head and body”. 

They then gathered inside Volkner’s church and Kereopa, dressed in Volkner’s long black robe, placed the dripping head on the reading desk and filled the communion cup with Volkner’s blood; this was then passed around and drunk. From the pulpit Kereopa ate Volkner’s eyes in front of about a hundred natives. Four of the murderers, Mokomoko, Heremita, Kahupaea and Kereopa, were put on trial, convicted and hanged. But on 21 June, 2014, the National government of which Goldsmith was a part, pardoned the murderers for their horrific crime – a murder that was witnessed by over a hundred Maoris plus some settlers. Then to drive home the insult to Volkner’s memory even further this same shameless National government of 2014 gave $6 million of taxpayers’ money plus a forest and several valuable hot springs around Rotorua to Kereopa’s greedy tribe. 

Ngati Whatua o Kaipara Claims Settlemwent Act 2013 – claims “The relationship between Ngati Whatua and the Crown was founded on the partnership created in 1840 through the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi”. This is a lie as there was no partnership of any kind.

Patents Act 2013 – established a Maori Advisory Committee whose members must have knowledge of matauranga and tikanga, to advise on patent applications.

Arts Council of N.Z. Toi Aotearoa Act 2014 – at least four members must have knowledge of te ao Maori and tikanga. The Council must recognise in the arts “the role of Maori as tangata whenua”.

NZ Mission Trust Board (Otamataha) Empowering Act 2014 – declared that the 1852 Crown grant that awarded the land to the Church Mission Society was in breach of the “Teaty principle of active protection” even though there is no such principle in the Treaty and, in fact, such “principles” were only invented in 1986!

Tapuika Claims Settlement Act 2014 – set up co-governance of the Kaituna River; the Authority must acknowledge the interests of iwi. 

Heritage NZ Pouhere Taonga Act 2014 – scientific investigation of any site of interest to Maori requires the consent of iwi and hapu.

Environmental Reporting Act 2014 – require that synthesis and domain reports “are informed by a Maori perspective” and that regulations can not be made without consultation with iwi authorities.

Hawkes Bay Regional Planning Committee Act 2015 – an anti-democratic statute that requires co-governance between “mana whenua and elected representatives” overseeing development and review of Resource Management Act documents. The Committee standing orders “must not contravene tikanga Maori” (whatever that means). 

Ngai Takoto Claims Settlement Act 2015, Te Aupouri Claims Settlement Act 2015, and Te Rarawa Claims Settlement Act 2015 – all these Acts give tribal rights over conservative land – land that should belong to all New Zealanders. 

Environmental Canterbury (Transitional Governance Arrangements) Act 2016 – two members of the powerful transitional governing body must be nominees of the greedy Ngai Tahu tribe and must have knowledge of and expertise in relation to tikanga.

Hurunui/Kaikoura Earthquakes Recovery Act 2016 – members of the Recovery Review Panel to have knowledge of matauranga and tikanga. 

Te Ture mo Te Reo Maori Language Act 2016 – states (falsely) that the Maori language is protected by Article Two of the Treaty.

Land Transfer Act 2017 – an application for adverse possession cannot be made against Maori land – only against non-Maori land.

Resource Legislation Amendment Act 2017 – agreements to provide a mechanism for tangata whenua through iwi authorities to participate in resource and decision-making processes.

Te Awa Tupuna (Whanganui River Claims Settlement) Act 2017 – gives part-Maoris considerable powers over the Wanganui River.

So, having voted for these and other measures doling out race-based privileges and resources to part-Maoris at the expense of the rest of us, Goldsmith has the effrontery to declare that National Governments have “ensured equal citizenship and equal opportunity for all New Zealanders”!!!!!!!!!!!! Was he asleep when he voted for all these pieces of racist legislation? 

It is bad enough for the National Party to try to sabotage this Bill that is designed to restore equality of citizenship to a country that has lost it over the years – thanks to National, Labour and our rotten judges. But please Mr. Goldsmith spare us the lie that National has given equality of citizenship and opportunity over the years when in fact it has done the exact opposite.

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