Pasta News Network - New Zealand

There has been no buzz from the Beehive since January 9, whenAssociate Health Minister Ayesha Verrall announced that a vaccine for people at risk of mpox (or monkeypox) will be available to people who meet eligibility criteria from January 16.

The ACT Party today exploited the public’s increasing disquiet about crime by launching the next phase of its ‘We hear ya’ campaign’ (a slogan which should disqualify ACT politicians from taking over the Education portfolio in any future government in which they are a coalition partner).

Labour has shown little interest in law and order, which shows with crime going up. Campaigning on cost of living and crime is always a safe bet.

The Christchurch City Council-owned economic development organisation is spending half a million dollars on a global agency to come up with the city’s “narrative” and “destination management plans.”

Despite ChristchurchNZ employing 92 staff members, none had the necessary skills to do the work.

A spokesperson said “ChristchurchNZ is not a creative agency. This type of work, which is primarily creating engaging videos, requires specialised skills and equipment that we don’t have.”

Teenager on TikTok with a modern smart phone streaming in 1080p: "OH MY GOD This city is amazing! Go on holiday here! #ChCh".

Well funded business entity: "Video is really hard and we do not have a copy of Adobe Premiere."

I am pretty sure there are local agencies that could have fulfilled this role rather then outsourcing overseas.

But as TV One reported, the vaccine has not yet been approved for use here, which limits any big promotion or marketing.

It is illegal to promote or advertise unapproved medicines, the TV One report explained.

The government therefore won’t specify the name of the vaccine, even though it’s about to become available.

Meanwhile at the Beehive, it can be mentioned in a press release:

In addition Te Whatu Ora (Health New Zealand) is also working with Pharmac to secure a supply of a smallpox vaccine known as Imvanex or Jynneos, which is effective against monkeypox.

Not that it is hard to guess, only 2 vaccines available for Monkeypox on this Earth.

At the end of the day, maybe discourage high-risk sexual activities with individuals you have no relation with to prevent spread in the first place.

Usually we have our eyes on how the Government is wasting taxpayers' money, however in this case taxpayers are being rear-ended by their fellow countrymen and women. Kiwi taxpayers are paying more per annum and per capita for people putting objects up their bottoms than their equivalents in Great Britain.

The Union has uncovered through the OIA that in the past five years the cost for active ACC claims related to foreign objects being inserted into anuses is about $302,660.00 excluding GST. The 2018/19 financial year was the most expensive costing $110,505.00; this is more than 2020/21, 2021/22, and the 2022/23 year to date combined. Despite the costs being higher in 2018/19, the number of individual incidents of objects in anuses was highest in 2019/20 followed by 2020/21 and 2021/22.

OIA title: "Claims and costs for objects in anus between 2017/18 financial year and present"

Auckland is responsible for approximately half the "situations" per annum.

Sides > Orbit

With Beijing pivoting on key policies, a cyclical recovery appears to be underway. But structural issues – such as the heavy debt load of local governments — haven’t gone away. On Dec. 30, Zunyi Road & Bridge Construction Group from Guizhou province, one of the poorest regions, extended its bank loans for two decades. It pledged to honor payments on its bonds.

The restructuring caused a splash among market participants. Local government financing vehicles, or LGFVs, are mostly tasked with building infrastructure projects. They allow local authorities to raise money without having the debt appear on the government’s balance sheet. This “hidden” debts and contingent liabilities have risen to 47 trillion yuan ($7 trillion and 39% of GDP) in September, up from 20 trillion yuan at the end of 2016, according to Adam Wolfe, an economist at Absolute Strategy Research.

No one outside of China knows the true nature of the ledger, but I do know they have enough gold to back the system up.

"We expect the European ban on seaborne Russian crude and refined products (to come into force on February 5) to result in a drop of Russian production of at least 1 million barrels per day in 2023, with Russia having difficulties in finding alternative markets," UBS’ Giovanni Staunovo, told Insider.

While Russia has been rerouting crude volumes to Asia, traders are finding it increasingly challenging to secure the necessary insured vessels to carry sanctioned Russian crude. As of the first week of December, Moscow was sending nearly 90% of its crude to Asia.

Starting Marsden Point back up is going to start to look very attractive soon. But that will take at-least 2 - 3 years.

Globally, oil production is down everywhere so buckle up. Unless sensible decisions are made, we are going to see $3-5+ sooner then you would think.

The leader of the US Navy has admitted that the question of dwindling US arms stockpiles in the rush to arm Ukraine, which now stands at over $100 billion in defense aid and counting, is dire enough that some tough unprecedented decisions are coming, which shocked a group of reporters this week.

Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro acknowledged before a naval warfare conference in Arlington, Virginia on Wednesday that the US within the next six months could face a decision of whether to arm itself or Ukraine, due to rapidly depleting stockpiles due to supplying Ukraine

This is fine.

Besides, 5th Gen warfare only needs keyboards and printing presses.

Pfizer was required by the U.S. and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to conduct multiple studies on its vaccine after the FDA approved the shot in August 2021 because regulators determined that without the studies, there would not be sufficient data to assess the “known serious risks of myocarditis and pericarditis,” or heart inflammation and a related condition.

Regulators were also concerned about the potential risk of subclinical myocarditis, or heart inflammation without typical symptoms.

The FDA told Pfizer to carry out six studies, with various deadlines for completion and reporting final results to the agency. The first final deadline arrived on Dec. 31, 2022.

If the FDA did their work, they would already know the answer.

Meanwhile, everything is still fine according to the TGA and Medsafe.

In May 2021 The Lancet (supposedly the most prestigious medical journal in the world) published an article describing the largest observational study (covering most of the population of Israel) into the effectiveness of the Pfizer covid vaccine.

Its claim of 95% effectiveness – which happened to be exactly the same figure claimed by Pfizer in its original Phase 3 randomised controlled trial – was widely used as the ultimate confirmation of how incredibly effective the vaccine was (the study did not consider safety at all, but more on that below). But the study was flawed in many ways and on 17 May 2021 we submitted a rapid response (just 250 words) to The Lancet explaining why the claim was exaggerated.

The Lancet and the NEJM have interesting interpretations of what "Conflicts of Interest" entails when it comes to Covid related papers.

Trust the Authorities, trust the Experts, and trust the Science, we were told. Public health messaging during the COVID-19 pandemic was only credible if it originated from Government health authorities, the World Health Organisation and pharmaceutical companies, as well as scientists who parroted their lines with little critical thinking.

In the name of ‘protecting’ the public, the authorities have gone to great lengths to create an illusion of consensus about the appropriate response to COVID-19 – as described in the recently released Twitter files that document collusion between the FBI and social media platforms. They suppressed ‘the truth’, even when emanating from highly credible scientists, undermining scientific debate and preventing the correction of scientific errors.

Excellent article, plenty of juicy inner-links that make it worth sharing with normies.

One of the fascinating aspects of the war in Ukraine has been the extreme reluctance of the mainstream press and Pentagon-CIA supporters to acknowledge, much less condemn, the Pentagon for its role in bringing about this war. After all, the two concepts — the Pentagon’s bringing about the crisis and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — are not mutually exclusive. You can have both things happening — the Pentagon gins up the crisis with the aim of “degrading” Russia and then Russia falls into the trap by getting mired down in a deadly and destructive war against Ukraine.

But when one raises the first part of this equation — that is, the Pentagon’s role in ginning up the crisis — the mainstream press and Pentagon-CIA supporters go ballistic. For them, it’s heresy to point out what the Pentagon did to gin up the crisis. For them, the Pentagon and the CIA are innocent, virtuous babes in the woods that would never do such a thing. For them, the Pentagon and the CIA are nothing but a “force for good” in the world.

America is a very degenerate place.

My post about the WEF’s plans was entirely fact-based and used the WEF’s agenda article as its main source. It was not a far-fetched conspiracy theory based on a concoction of disjoint facts pulled from various sources. I am not in the business of creating such theories! I only report on current news - even if the news is crazy - and try to explain the news in plain and accurate terms.

And yet, even though the WEF said it, the idea of an AI engine proactively searching websites for undesirable ideas seemed extremely fanciful and almost impossible to imagine being implemented.

Until 2023, that is.

Note the three main pilot categories to combat misinformation in:

• Covid 19, Medical Profits
• Climate Change, Carbon Tax Profits
• Migration, Cheap Labour

Also, I am reasonably certain the public will never be told about the dataset that trains the various models to be used. A model trained on Tumblr posts will see micro-aggressions and minority grievances in every ascii character.

Can two programmers who are accustomed to making games for modern computers with gigabytes of RAM and high-color HD displays port one of their games to MS-DOS? Neither of us had any experience developing on such old hardware, but since working within artificially limited systems is something of a Zachtronics game design specialty, we felt compelled to try!

The only reasonable choice of programming language for a machine of this age was C. We weren’t going to write the entire game in x86 assembly language! After considering various choices of tools, we settled on Borland C++ 3.1, published in 1992. Running on DOSBox, Borland C++ provided a convenient and accurate emulation of the target machine.

Good Times, doing a-lot with so little.