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Today is the 10th of January. Today is a special day.
Today is the 10th of January. Today is a special day.
It has been nearly 10 months since the first arrests were made outside Parliament during a protest that held the Capital, and the country, on tenterhooks. One woman who was arrested but has since had her charge dropped speaks out about her experience.
When Susan Denham stood in court after being arrested during the Parliament protests, she told the judge she was just a regular person.
"I'm not a criminal, I'm a regular person who just wants peace and normality."
How the Beehive handled the protests was atrocious and a mockery of democracy.
Dropping the charges is a step forward, but many steps remain to be made.
The Todd Energy site in Taranaki has been New Zealand's only domestic producer of food-grade CO2 since the Marsden Point refinery was decommissioned last year.
Beverage Council spokeswoman Belinda Milnes told RNZ: "Since the closure of Marsden Point, that reduced the supply domestically in New Zealand quite a bit."
I suppose not having a supply would be a "reduced" supply.
National's energy spokesman Stuart Smith believed when the Northland refinery was decommissioned, leaving a sole domestic liquid CO2 supplier at Kapuni, government ministers overestimated Aotearoa's energy resilience.
A rare admission of failure.
Professor Baker said despite the ominous name, it was important to remember it was just another variant of Omicron although it had "some novel features which are of concern".
It is based on a recombinant virus but it has added in a new genetic mutation which meant it could more easily escape people's existing immunity and also had a better ability to bind with the ace receptors in the body which made it more infectious.
A typical person who has been vaccinated and received a booster shot would have the best chance of fighting off infection, Professor Baker said.
"Vehicle expert advises that using diesel fuel in cars that operate on unleaded, have the best possible chance of achieving velocity."
"Good ventilation" makes for the only two sensible words in the article since engineering controls actually work.
The cost of CO2 has tripled in the past six months, with breweries big and small struggling through ongoing shortages.
"This is our peak time of the year. It's summer, it's beer-drinking weather and we can't package beer. It's a disaster," Ruffell said.
Since the Marsden Point refinery was decommissioned last year, the only domestic production of food-grade CO2 is at the Kapuni liquid carbon dioxide plant in Taranaki, owned by Todd Energy.
The cost of eco-facism caused by progressives.
Following three years of pandemic control, governments are not stopping there. Here in New Zealand, the government has introduced the “Therapeutic Products Bill,” which will control how products which appear to benefit health are manufactured, prescribed, imported, advertised, supplied and exported. According to Health Minister Andrew Little:
“It will enable New Zealand to take advantage of advances in medicine, such as cell and tissue therapies, emerging gene therapies, and the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning software. Having risk-proportionate approval systems will improve access to necessary and life-saving medicines, such as vaccines in a pandemic.”
An important part of the bill aims to regulate the natural health products used by more than 50% of our population.
If the bureaucrat at the regulator office has a bad day there will be no more cinnamon on your coffee lest you receive any health benefit from a cheap compound that cannot be patented is one scenario that could play out.
We have also seen how poorly "emergency use" has been handled, to which an entire clause has been dedicated under this new bill.
Seems like something that costs a whole lot of money and has a-lot of potential vested interests that are up to no good.
As we look into the New Year, there are a lot of crucial issues facing the country – how do we deal with the ongoing unaffordability of housing (notwithstanding the recent fall in house prices); how do we increase our rate of productivity growth so that we can afford the good things of life that wealthier countries take for granted; how do we improve the serious problems in our education and health sectors; how do we deal with the longer-term fiscal crisis caused by our ageing population.
But of all the problems we face, perhaps none is as important as this: do we want to continue to be one of the few democracies in the world where every citizen has equal political weight, or do we want to become a society where political influence is determined by who our ancestors were?
Put another way, what did the Treaty of Waitangi really say, whether in the Maori language or in English?
Don Brash, on point and on the nose.
One of the most popular moves Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern ever made was the pay freeze her government imposed on politicians back in 2018. The freeze may have only been grudgingly agreed to by other MPs and parties, but it had universal public support.
The pay freeze is due to end this year, and new rules for setting politicians’ pay mean MPs are likely to get a huge increase to make up for six years of standing still. The move should spark debate about whether we pay our politicians too much, and whether it’s appropriate during a cost-of-living crisis for politicians to receive a major pay increase.
Money for me, but not for thee.
Supporters of Brazilian far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro who refuse to accept his electoral defeat have stormed the presidential palace, Congress, and the Supreme Court in the capital, Brasilia.
Videos on social media showed Bolsonaro supporters smashing windows and furniture in the National Congress and Supreme Court buildings on Sunday. They climbed onto the roof of the Congress building, where Brazil’s Senate and Chamber of Deputies conduct their legislative business, unfurling a banner that read “intervention” and an apparent appeal to Brazil’s military.
This has been brewing for a while now. As far as the MSM is concerned, seemingly only the NZ Herald had an article in a corner via the Associated Press wire.
Early indications are that more died during the last year (Feb 2022 to Feb 2023). Those are staggering numbers. The U.S. Government built a war memorial to the U.S. military personnel slain in that conflict. When you learn that more than a million Americans have died from fentanyl overdoses in the last twenty years then you begin to understand the gravity of this threat. That is more than twice as many that the U.S. lost in World War II. And what is the domestic reaction? A big yawn.
I wonder when Americans will have had enough and then proceed to "replenish the tree of liberty."
The founding fathers have atleast foreseen this moons ago.
One week ago, in his latest - and arguably most important note of 2022 - Credit Suisse repo guru Zoltan Pozsar discussed the two key anchors of the Bretton Woods III regime he believes will replace the world in which the dollar is a reserve currency: i) commodity encumbrance (i.e., rehypothecation) and ii) the Petroyuan, and - intertwined inbetween them - China's aggressive accumulation of gold.
This was hardly a coincidence: just a few weeks earlier, we learned that for the first time in years, China had bought 32 tons of gold in the month of November, its first official purchase since September 2918 (even as it had unofficially been buying up much more gold over the past three years).
China and Russia know what is coming.
Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolay Patrushev has issued ultra-provocative words claiming that it's not fundamentally Ukraine that Russia is at war with, but that the Russian military is facing all of NATO inside Ukraine.
"The events in Ukraine aren’t a clash between Moscow and Kiev. It’s a military confrontation of NATO, first of all the US and Britain, with Russia. Fearing a direct engagement, NATO instructors push Ukrainian men to certain death," he said in a fresh interview with state-owned newspaper aif.ru.
Proxy Proxy
But based on the words of Russian Security Council Secretary Patrushev, it seems Russia increasingly sees military confrontation with NATO as already happening. After all, the massive loss of Russian troops in the Makiivka barracks attack was reportedly accomplished with US-supplied HIMARS missile systems.
Proxy War
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has reportedly banned the flying of Palestinian flags in public places, claiming they “encourage terrorism.”
“It is inconceivable that lawbreakers will wave terror flags, incite and encourage terrorism,” Ben-Gvir said on Sunday night in a statement cited by the Jerusalem Post. “I have issued instructions for the removal of the flags, which support terrorism, from the public space and to stop incitement against the state of Israel.”
The West: This is fine.
Also the West: China forcing Apple and Google to remove the flag of Taiwan to from emoji keyboards is an outrage.
The key objectives of the plan are prevention by tackling gender inequality, victim blaming, and addressing societal attitudes that encourage violence; early intervention by expanding support services to individuals and families experiencing forms of violence; and response, which is ensuring front-line services are equipped with education to support victim-survivors and practical resources such as secure crisis accommodation and long term housing.
Despite endorsing the National Plan, on the last parliamentary sitting day before Christmas, Queensland Attorney-General Shannon Fentiman, Minister for Women, Prevention of Family Violence and Justice, introduced the Births Deaths and Marriages Bill 2022, which, if passed, will amend state laws to permit individuals to legally change their sex without any form of medical evidence.
Two things:
A nurse friend who did not want to hear when I first questioned Covid jab safety two years ago is now furious about having been bludgeoned by the NHS into having three shots. She survived the first two but had massive bleeding after the third. Looking more deeply into the data, she found to her horror that the ‘safe and effective’ claim is completely unfounded.
I suspect there are hundreds of thousands of other healthcare workers feeling the same sense of betrayal, and that this is contributing in a major way to the current staffing crisis.
My friend’s experience is exactly in line with new figures from Australia showing a dramatic dose-response relationship between the number of jabs and the risk of having to go into hospital with Covid or dying from it.
New Zealand can continue to pretend there is no problem, but almost every Western nation followed the same treatment protocols and vaccine roll-out.
On 21 December 2022, we filed a case in the High Court of Australia against Brendan Murphy, Secretary of the Department of Health to stop TGA's provisional approval of Moderna for use of its product (Spikevax) in children aged six months to five years old in Australia.
In Australia, only an applicant with "standing" can bring a case to court. This means that an applicant needs to have the legal authority to bring a case; they need to show that they have a "special interest" in the matter and that they are truly "a person aggrieved" by the decision that has been made.
We want to bring a case straight to the High Court with one primary argument:
An interest in preserving human life is the ultimate special interest, and our case must be allowed to proceed.
Then, if the High Court agrees, the door will be open for us to present the evidence and data to show that the provisional approvals must immediately be halted in Australia.
Tall order, but they have truth by their side and the evidence keeps piling up.
everything, even highly benign health undertakings like exercise have trade offs. these trade offs become critically important in mitigations such as vaccines that are going to be administered widely to healthy people. side effects that might well be acceptable to kill a cancer or delay the onset of diagnosed dementia suddenly look wildly inappropriate when one speaks of prophylaxis. barring some truly outlandish risk experience, pretty much no healthy person takes chemotherapy to try to avoid getting cancer. this is just sensible. it also means that the way we consider our terms and set up the buckets of our bayesian calculations matters a great deal.
Yes.
herd level antigenic fixation is not something humanity has ever grappled with before and that could be with us for a long time.
Yes with a hint of "Welp".
What this manufactured crisis conveniently camouflages is that we are in the midst of a planned total economic collapse- a collapse which was inevitable.
The timing of the COVID fraud became necessary as world markets were faced with an emergency debt crisis in Fall of 2019 which popped up in formerly mostly liquid markets: Repo Markets, Money Markets and Foreign Exchange Markets.
Western governments began a rush to salvage this decaying system, stem this cataclysmic landslide, bail out large scale investors and proactively install a security infrastructure to control the inevitable social disorder resulting from this collapse. This would be followed by a global financial reset, after a period of hyperinflation, destroying both the value of debt and the corresponding paper claims.
The timing of it all was just too convenient within the context of America.
The principles commonly known as “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) are meant to sound like a promise to provide welcome and opportunity to all on campus. And to the ordinary American, those values sound virtuous and unobjectionable.
But many working in academia increasingly understand that they instead imply a set of controversial political and social views. And that in order to advance in their careers, they must demonstrate fealty to vague and ever-expanding DEI demands and to the people who enforce them. Failing to comply, or expressing doubt or concern, means risking career ruin.
"It is obvious that [leftists] are not cool-headed logicians systematically analyzing the foundations of knowledge. They are deeply involved emotionally in their attack on truth and reality." -Theodore Kaczynski
During the early development of Safari, I didn’t just worry about leaking our secret project through Apple’s IP address or our browser’s user agent string. It also concerned me that curious gawkers on the outside would notice who I was hiring at Apple.
Other than a bit part in a documentary about Netscape that aired on PBS, I wasn’t known to anyone but a few dozen other geeks in The Valley. Of course, several of those folks were aware I was now at Apple and working on some project I wouldn’t say anything about. And it doesn’t take many people in this town to snowball a bit of idle speculation.
Praise for 20 years of KHTML. The modern day world owes a-lot to the KDE project.
Hat Tip to Uncle Gruber.