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jeremywalker.bsky.social
Kiwi’s protesting 1989 Mont Pelerin Society (+’Atlas Network thinktanks leaders ) conference in Christchurch 1989. I feel you o ancestor!
November 3, 2026 at 11:20 AM
nzpom.com
And here he is at the Atlas Liberty Forum in 2016 with some other infamous political characters we all know here
Atlas Network @AtlasNetwork David Seymour, Alan Gibbs, Ruth Richardson, Sir Roger Douglas, & @tomgpalmer - #NewZealand policy reform case study #libertyforum2016 AtlasNetwork.org 7:59 AM • Sep 25, 2016 from Florida, USA Liberty Forum 2016 by Atlas Network Liberty Forum 2016 photos. 689 photos • 390 views
November 1, 2026 at 2:17 AM
Watching an academic discussion about how the Atlas Network has chosen to use Aotearoa NZ into a petri dish for developing pseudo-independent right-wing, neoliberal institutional influence by gaming human nature. Wow. This is cold hard rational evil.
November 2, 2026 at 11:44 PM
krkelly.bsky.social
New paper details 50 years of Atlas Network in Aotearoa: "What makes Aotearoa... worth fifty pages is that the archive here is unusually complete... Atlas described this country to its own donors as a place where a small amount of money could move a whole national conversation." #nzpol
Screenshot of introduction to paper detailing lots of intriguing juicy stuff. "The country this paper documents is one case. The Atlas Network now counts somewhere between five hundred and six hundred institutes in around a hundred countries, coordinated from an office in Arlington, Virginia, and the aims, the methods and the sequence set out in Bonython's letter have been carried into all of them. What makes Aotearoa New Zealand worth fifty pages is that the archive here is unusually complete, so the method can be watched from the first prospecting letter to a sitting Deputy Prime Minister rather than inferred from its results. Atlas described this country to its own donors as a place where a small amount of money could move a whole national conversation. The paper is addressed to New Zealanders, and equally to readers in the other countries where the same operation has run without their knowledge or their agreement. This paper traces fifty years of the Atlas Network and the Mont Pelerin Society in Aotearoa New Zealand through the correspondence, workshop agendas, grant reports, attendance registers and donor lists held in the Atlas Economic Research Foundation papers, supplemented by the public record of the organisations that the archive brought into being. It follows a single thread from Fisher's first letters prospecting for a New Zealand funder in 1981, through the Sydney workshop of 1985 where the method was formally taught, through the founding of the New Zealand Centre for Independent Studies and the New Zealand Business Roundtable in 1986, through the Mont Pelerin Society's Christchurch meeting in 1989, through the merger that produced the New Zealand Initiative in 2012, through the Taxpayers' Union and its Free Speech Union spin-off, and into the parliamentary caucus of the ACT Party, whose leader now sits as Deputy Prime Minister of this country."
November 3, 2026 at 7:02 AM
lucyham.bsky.social
People with a Melbourne Cup holiday are in with luck. The Zoom about to take place with some of the world’s best Atlas Network scholars and researchers is about to take place. If not, I’ll give the institute’s YouTube link to find it later.
#NZpol #Auspol
lucyham29.substack.com/p/brief-laun...
Brief: launch of an important new White Paper today on how the Atlas Network imposed neoliberalism on New Zealand/Aotearoa from Rogernomics through to Seymour
Links to the zoom conference taking place this morning with some of the most expert people in the field, and the paper itself here.
lucyham29.substack.com
November 2, 2026 at 10:44 PM
danentropy.bsky.social
Luxon ‘it wasn’t me, the Atlas Network made me do it’

#NZpol
October 30, 2026 at 12:00 AM
jeremywalker.bsky.social
💥💥INVITE TO RESEARCH PAPER LAUNCH💥💥

"A Technique for Getting Academics to Say It: The Fisher Method, the #Atlas#Network, the MPS & the Making of the Free Market in Aotearoa NZ 1976-2026."

You're invited: Tues 3, Nov 12pm NZST

Live on Zoom: massey.zoom.us/j/86006952895


#ToituTiTiriti #NZpol 🖤♥️🤍
November 2, 2026 at 12:55 AM
mikewilsoninoz.bsky.social
Ignoring indigenous rights is baked into the goal of Atlas Network operatives in NZ, like David Seymour, who has been vocal about how Te Tiriti is incompatible with a 'liberal order'.
Straight out of the Atlas playbook.
November 3, 2026 at 6:37 AM
peggysanders.bsky.social
The Liberals in Melbourne are creatures of the IPA, part of the Atlas Network.
November 1, 2026 at 2:51 AM
huiasue.bsky.social
From Undermining Democracy to Destabilising the Climate: A brief history of the Neo-liberal Atlas Network: #AtlasNetwork #BigOil #nzpol www.alliancemagazine.org/analysis/und...
From undermining democracy to destabilising the climate: a brief history of the neo-liberal Atlas Network - Alliance magazine
The mythical Atlas carries the world on his shoulders. This one tries to put it under its thumb. The most impressive aspect of the Atlas Network is probably its combination of effectiveness and obscur...
www.alliancemagazine.org
November 1, 2026 at 8:10 PM
digitalwarrior.bsky.social
17/ That’s why I keep studying Atlas Network, NatCon, Heritage, ARC, international party alliances and the billionaire-funded political ecosystem. The organizations aren’t interchangeable, but their overlapping personnel, events and financial relationships deserve public attention.
November 2, 2026 at 8:32 PM
lucyham.bsky.social
Also [me blushing] it’s the first time you’ll see quotes from a notorious document that was the 1983 “how to set up an Atlas Network think tank” manual.

The article originally talked *about* the mysterious document…and then I found it! So now you can read quotes from these machiavels at work. 😈
🎉🎉
November 2, 2026 at 6:43 AM
nzpom.com
ACT are indistinguishable from the Atlas Network, can't think why
Atlas Network @AtlasNetwork David Seymour, Alan Gibbs, Ruth Richardson, Sir Roger Douglas, & @tomgpalmer - #NewZealand policy reform case study #libertyforum2016 AtlasNetwork.org 7:59 AM • Sep 25, 2016 from Florida, USA Liberty Forum 2016 by Atlas Network Jordan Williams flapping his gums on stage at some Atlas Network "Investor's Summit"
October 29, 2026 at 11:12 PM
danentropy.bsky.social
Luxon ‘it’s no my fault, The Atlas Network made me do it’

#NZPol
October 29, 2026 at 11:52 PM
peggysanders.bsky.social
Brace yourself if VIC LNP take power in the State election. The IPA Atlas network political agenda will be put into place, and fast.

They will do so quickly before the people wake up to what they really voted for.
November 1, 2026 at 10:10 PM
lucyham.bsky.social
Here is the paper itself.

carecca.nz/wp-content/u...
A TECHNIQUE FOR GETTING ACADEMICS TO SAY IT: THE FISHER METHOD, THE ATLAS NETWORK, THE MONT PELERIN SOCIETY, AND THE MAKING OF THE FREE MARKET IN AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND, 1976 TO 2026 PROF MOHAN J DUTTA Dean's Chair Professor Director, CARE, Massey University RALPH WILSON Director, Corporate Genome Project California, United States DR JEREMY WALKER C-SERC (Climate, Society and Environment Research Centre) Faculty of Design and Society University of Technology Sydney
November 2, 2026 at 6:43 AM
digitalwarrior.bsky.social
25/ The Adam Smith Center isn’t the Atlas Network, but its connections to Atlas-affiliated circles matter. Influence doesn’t always look like a campaign contribution. It can look like a fellowship, a speaking invitation, a funded institution, or access to advisers who build political credibility.
October 29, 2026 at 3:58 PM
And they've fully dropped David Seymour in it for baldly lying to Mihirangi Forbes in an interview when she asked him if he or the ACT party were connected to the Atlas Network in any way. He said no. Very shamefully, NZ's civil society closed ranks around Seymour & has expelled Forbes. She need […]
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November 2, 2026 at 11:53 PM
lucyham.bsky.social
This is all the broad neoliberal arch conservative movement around the Atlas Network space.

NZ/Ao has been totally shafted by that coalition. Condition of life deteriorated. Irreversible problems in the short to medium term.
October 31, 2026 at 3:16 AM
lucyham.bsky.social
Business Councils (like Advertising Councils) are the last century’s functional Sith Lords.
Their members were part of setting up Atlas Network think tanks for propaganda at a remove. The fewer rights, protections, you have the better. The worse your pay, the better.
#Auspol #SpringSt
October 27, 2026 at 8:04 PM
We've got 'the whole architecture' of the Atlas Network, now exposed, rigorously by Prof Mohan Dutta and his co-authors, and we have the information required to blow this wide open for the benefit of the globe. And we have the moral obligation to do so.

Note: Project 2025, created by a founding […]
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November 3, 2026 at 12:02 AM
lucyham.bsky.social
#NZpol 🚨🚨 but also 🚨🚨 for #Auspol
Zoom @ 10am Tuesday 3/11. Brand new paper being launched tomorrow with *the* experts talking about how the Mont Pelerin Society (neoliberalism inc) & Atlas Network played their game to make us so unequal.
Nancy MacLean, Jeremy Walker, Mohan Dutta, Ralph Wilson
A PANEL DISCUSSION WITH NANCY MACLEAN, JEREMY WALKER, RALPH WILSON & MOHAN DUTTA A TECHNIQUE FOR GETTING ACADEMICS TO SAY IT: The Fisher Method, the Mont Pelerin Society and the Making of the Free Market in Aotearoa THE PANEL Nancy MacLean is the William H. Chafe Professor of History and Public Policy Emerita at Duke University, and the author of the New York Times bestseller, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America, a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award in Current Affairs and the Lillian Smith Book Award for outstanding writing about the U.S. South. Booklist called it "perhaps the best explanation to date of the roots of the political divide that threatens to irrevocably alter American government." The Guardian said: "It's the missing chapter: a key to understanding the politics of the past half century. Jeremy Walker is Senior Lecturer in Communications at the University of Technology Sydney. A historian of economics, ecology and climate/energy policy, his More Heat than Life (2020) is the first history of neoliberal economics documenting the role of petroleum interests in supporting the Mont Pelerin Society and Atlas Network of 'free-market' thinktanks from the early 20thC to the present era of counter-science disinformation and climate policy obstruction. His recent research and submissions to Australian Senate inquiries on the defeat of the 2023 Voice referendum and climate policy via Atlas think-tank campaigns has attracted Ralph Wilson is Director of the Corporate Genome Project. He draws on a background in mathematics and physics to study transnational networks linking free-market and far-right movements. Ralph was founding Research Director of UnKoch My Campus, and is co-author of Free Speech and Koch Money (2021) with Isaac Kamola. Professor Mohan Dutta is the Director of CARE and Dean's Chair, Professor of Communication at the College of Humanities and Social…
November 2, 2026 at 6:43 AM
nzpom.com
I doubt Elon could find New Zealand on a map

Unfortunately, we have our own evil billionaires here (along with many Atlas Network funded astroturf groups)
October 30, 2026 at 2:29 AM
anneleise.bsky.social
The Atlas Network Jordan Williams gang billboard dark money propaganda campaign is just another recycled hit job because these fucking looting parasites don't want to pay tax. #NZPol
Screenshot from a 2019 Atlas Network newsletter praising the taxpayers union for torpedoing a Capital gains tax (through a malicious fear and propaganda hit campaign.)
October 26, 2026 at 8:35 PM
christianstoecker.de
2024war das “Adam Smith Institute” für den “European Liberty Award” des Atlas-Netzwerks nominiert. Das Netzwerk gilt aus gutem Grund als eine zentrale Struktur fossiler Propaganda. Koch, Exxon, alle dabei.

www.desmog.com/atlas...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov...

www.atlasnetwork.org...
on Atlas Network funding by year (.xlsx).10 Atlas Network as Recipient Donor Total John Templeton Foundation $9,669,538 Earhart Foundation $3,429,240 DonorsTrust $3,003,040 Sarah Scaife Foundation $2,365,000 Exxon Mobil $1,082,500 George Edward Durell Foundation $715,000 The Carthage Foundation $710,000 Claws Foundation $700,000 Chiaroscuro Foundation $600,000 Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation $595,369 Chase Foundation of Virginia $588,820 Donors Capital Fund $459,000 Schwab Charitable Fund $419,250 William H. Donner Foundation $415,000 The Roe Foundation $362,500 Dunn’s Foundation for the Advancement of Right Thinking $340,000 Lovett and Ruth Peters Foundation $338,000 Pierre F. and Enid Goodrich Foundation $325,000 Lowndes Foundation $322,000 The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation $293,890 The Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation $293,000 John William Pope Foundation $255,000 Searle Freedom Trust $235,000 Ravenel and Elizabeth Curry Foundation $200,000 National Philanthropic Trust $1
October 25, 2026 at 12:14 PM