Pasta News Network - New Zealand

One of the country's largest craft breweries has run out of carbon dioxide and has more than 60,000 litres of unfinished beer waiting for carbonation.

The country's last of two food grade CO2 plants, the Todd Energy Kāpuni plant, shutdown three weeks ago amid safety problems, leaving the industry at a head with shortages and sky rocketing importing costs.

Wellington based Garage Project announced today its brewery had officially run out of CO2 at one of its sites.

Waiting for a boilerplate press release from the Beehive assuring as "This is fine." (Optionally blaming cost of living, Ukraine and Covid for lack of supply.)

But Kerr believed inflation was close to its peak, if it had not already peaked, and that the Reserve Bank would be cutting interest rates before the year was out.

About half of the inflation New Zealanders had experienced had come from overseas and he held out hope inflation could fall to 4% by the end of the year.

“I think that'll be the big story for the second half of this year; central bank's not only finishing hiking, but actually starting to provide some support.”

Not this year. Beehive spent too much money it does not have and America will (again) raise the debt ceiling and print more. Stagflation is around the corner.

It requires a considerable imaginative effort to understand the behaviour of the Christchurch Mongrel Mob. Commandeering Christchurch hospital carparks. (Having first “commandeered” a number of road cones.) Intimidating hospital staff and patients. Revving their guttural motorcycles at all hours of the day and night. Why would anybody do that?

Hospitals are generally considered to be places of refuge and sanctuary: institutions where all kinds of aggressive, anti-social behaviours likely to impede the treatment and recovery of patients is strictly forbidden. Even in the midst of a full-scale armed conflict like that currently devastating Ukraine, an attack on a hospital is treated as a particular heinous war crime. To interfere with the treatment of those suffering from injury or illness: acutely stressed and vulnerable human-beings; indicates a truly disturbing level of depravity. Who could do such a thing? More to the point, who could allow such a thing to be done?

The money shot:

All well and good, but the public expects – and has every right to expect – that clear breaches of the law, not to mention “the peace”, are confronted as and when they happen.

Great piece by Chris Trotter, stay for the comments.

A new lake formed by a landslide in the Waiorongomai Valley is being closely watched ahead of expected heavy rain, which is seeing Tairāwhiti's state of emergency extended.

The lake was created by a large landslide on privately-owned land, and is thought to be about 1km long in length.

Rain brought by cyclone Hale ravaged the region last week, causing floods, slips and power cuts. A state of emergency in Tairāwhiti was expected to be lifted at 10pm this evening, but will now remain in place.

Nature is as nature does.

What was the mistake, exactly? Well, they waited too long to start raising rates, and as I wrote in that piece last February, the longer you wait the more rates have to rise, and more quickly.

Now they’re in danger of getting left behind again – on the way down – because they have resumed the grotesque idea that human misery is the only way to control prices – that is, using unemployment and putting families into mortgage stress.

All the mainstream experts kept saying not to worry about inflation and that low rates were perfectly fine.

The independent analysts said "That is a recipe for disaster, the rates need to go up." and "You cannot borrow money for Covid support and not expect an impact on the economy down the line."

"May you live in interesting times"

Pringle filed her FOI request with the Central Adelaide Local Health Network on June 20, 2022, requesting “the following people provide emails sent and received by them referring to Nikolai Petrovsky, and/or Vaxine Pty Ltd, Louise Flood, Michael Cusack, Nicola Spurrier, Chris McGowan”.

Petrovsky has been publicly critical of COVID-19 vaccines approved by the federal government’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) and an advocate of Vaxine Pty Ltd’s own coronavirus jab, Covax-19.

Petrovsky’s vaccine has not been approved by the TGA.

Pringle, Petrovksy’s wife, told InDaily she was seeking access to information related to Vaxine Pty Ltd’s clinical trials and vaccine mandate exemptions for participants.

Australian company makes a protein based vaccine on-shore, ends up effectively ignored and many entities being uncooperative when reaching out in good faith.

Last week saw the collapse of Sun Cable, a pie-in-the-sky $35 billion plan by alternative energy enthusiasts, Andrew Forrest and Mike Cannon-Brookes, to generate solar energy and transport it by cable 4,200 kilometres to Singapore. The taxpayer provided $14 million for the project’s solar system, Australian-developed 5B. But major spending, which amounted to $210 million before Andrew Forrest pulled the plug, came from the two entrepreneurs.

Last week also saw Energy Minister Chris Bowen release his consultation for the disarmingly named Powering the Regions Fund. A centrepiece of this was weaponising the ‘Safeguard Mechanism’ from the emission reporting requirement that the Coalition introduced, into a requirement that the top 215 facilities reduce their emissions by 30 per cent by 2030 or buy carbon credits at a cost of up to $75 per tonne.

Eco-facism is expensive.

Headline is a bit misleading though, only the first paragraph relates to it. The rest of the article is all about those fine people in Canberra.

I just got off the phone with Megan Mansell who is an expert on industrial hygiene including face masks and respirators. She told me she challenged former US Surgeon General Jerome Adams on his advice about face masks on Twitter.

Adams indignantly asked her for her qualifications.

She then rattled through her long list of qualifications. Suffice it to say, there are only a few people in America who are more qualified to speak on this subject than she is. And none of them will challenge what she says.

Adams, realizing he was talking to someone capable of calling him out, then did what any legitimate scientist would do when challenged: he blocked her on Twitter!

Sad! Many such cases.

(And more to come no doubt.)

The AMA’s Code of Ethics states that doctors must, “consider first the well-being of the patient,” (Article 2.1.1) and that they must provide full informed consent before undertaking any tests, treatments or procedures (Article 2.1.4). Dr Price says that AHPRA’s position statement and hawkish regulatory behaviour put the public health agenda before the patient and made it “impossible” for doctors to provide valid informed consent to patients.

AHPRA’s unilateral decision that all doctors must fall in line with the vaccination rollout was also in conflict with the AMA Code’s provision that doctors may conscientiously object to providing certain treatments or procedures (Article 2.1.13), and that they may publicly state opinions contrary to the status quo (Article 4.3.3). Further, the Code requires that doctors “practise effective stewardship, the avoidance or elimination of wasteful expenditure in health care...” (Article 4.4.1), and that they use their “knowledge and skills to assist those responsible for allocating health care resources, advocating for their transparent and equitable allocation.” (Article 4.4.3) These articles imply a responsibility for doctors to speak out and take action when they believe that public health policy could be improved upon.

And this is how you loose good doctors and nurses.

Konstantin Kisin speaking at the Oxford Union for the motion "This House Believes Wokeness Has Gone Too Far".

"I don't have to make the point, that has been made by far better people in the past, that the only way to deal with the problem of racism is to treat people on the content of their character and nothing else. The fact that woke culture seeks to overturn that, is a new form of racism that we must all oppose."

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