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Putin’s Deadly Frogs?

Photo Credit: The Telegraph

A British lab says that Alexei Navalny, the former Russian politician and felon who died two years ago, was poisoned by…frog poison?

The Telegraph concludes that it was President Putin’s frog poison. As if President Putin has a stash of deadly frogs that he keeps for just such an occasion!?

Well, let’s consider the source here. The report is from a lab in the U.K., the same place that claimed that Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia Skripal, were poisoned by Novichok nerve agent in 2018. That case was never proven.

First, the Soviets abandoned making Novichok in 1987 but Ukraine, the U.K., and the U.S. DO make it. Second, a leaked report from the OPCW (Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons) showed that the Skripals did NOT have Novichok and their deaths were possibly consistent with shellfish poisoning.

Further, Western governments have yet to retract the official story that Navalny was poisoned with Novichok despite MANY holes in that story, which I went over in detail shortly after his death.

And yet, we are being asked to believe that Navalny, who posed no threat to the Russian government, while imprisoned, was slipped deadly frog venom on the orders of President Putin? This is even more suspicious when you consider the assertion by American foreign policy expert Gilbert Doctorow that the British may have had a hand in the death of Navalny.

So…deadly Russian frogs? The “mad scientist with secret killer frogs” imagery feels far more cinematic than biological reality.

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This is just about the classic view.

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A tanker transporting 170,000 tons of American LNG to Germany, has got stuck in ice.

The Germans sent an ice breaker to free it, but that too got stuck and broke down.

The only icebreakers powerful enough to free them both, are Russia’s nuclear powered icebreakers, but they are under German sanctions.

Still, spring is only a couple of months away; they’ll just have to be patient and utilize the time learning how to play chess; who knows, they possibly could beat the Russians at that.

And if you complain about it, this is what the EU dictatorship does to you:

By Tony Orman

… every hectare of pines sequester carbon dioxide on paper, allowing wealthy corporations, many from overseas, to buy credits.

What are the motives?

New Zealand was once a land of productive farms and independent food producers, but it is quietly – insidiously – being taken over by pine monocultures, fast growing water-sapping pine monocultures.

What lies behind the green curtain of ever-expanding pine forests energised by New Zealand’s illogical, irrational carbon trading scheme where once highly productive sheep and beef farms are planted in unmanaged, neglected forests.

Isn’t its real goal more about money for speculators, often corporate in nature, than about environmental sustainability?

Is the real agenda control consolidation and carbon manipulation?

People need to question what is the real agenda hidden beneath the growing monoculture of pine trees.

Emissions Trading 

Where did it start? 

The Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) was established by the fifth Labour Government and legislation was enacted in 2008 under Prime Minister Helen Clark, who had strong ties to United Nations. It was designed to meet obligations under the Kyoto Protocol.

The Climate Change Response (Emissions Trading) Amendment Act 2008 passed in September 2008, establishing the framework.

A couple of months later on November 8, an election was held and National became government led by former money trader John Key. Further tinkering by the Key government set up carbon trading. In 2017 Key abruptly resigned on the eve of the 2017 election, received a knighthood and a Labour-led government assumed power led by Jacinda Ardern. 

Under the Ardern government (2017–2023), New Zealand’s Emissions Trading Scheme (NZ ETS) underwent significant reform, but its “open door” welcoming foreign speculator investment for carbon forestry created controversy. 

The Labour government faced criticism for allowing “special forestry tests” under the Overseas Investment Act, which made it easier for foreign investors to come to New Zealand and purchase farmland to set up pine plantations to generate carbon credits.

Foreign and corporate entities, often overseas interests have since been buying up farms, especially sheep and beef cattle farms and converting them into radiata pine plantations.

In 2023, the Labour government was dumped and a coalition government headed by National with support from the NZ First and ACT parties was formed.

Coalition Government adjustments

Oddly, in the three years of the coalition government, little or no effort has been made to curb the loss of food producing farms to unattended carbon trading forests, despite rising public concern and strong advocacy from NZ Federated Farmers.

Delving into the detail, it’s not hard to find the reason.

To the contrary, the National/Act/NZ First coalition government has quietly tied the hands of New Zealand to continue carbon trading involving converting farms to pine monocultures by signing up to “The Coalition to Grow Carbon Markets”.

This is a government-led initiative launched in November 2025 at the United Nations COP30 conference by countries including Kenya, Singapore, UK, Canada and New Zealand, and supported by several other countries, to boost “high integrity” carbon credit use.

“It focuses on establishing shared principles for corporate decarbonisation and strengthening standardising carbon markets to mobilise finance.”

Public Concern

Reacting to mounting public concern and opposition, the current New Zealand government in October 2025 did tinker with rules and passed legislation in October 2025 which banned new exotic forest plantations on highly productive land use classes and capped registrations of exotic forest on class 6 land (medium productivity) to 15,000 hectares per year.  

This was triggered by the political reality of rapidly growing public concern at the loss of prime cattle and sheep farms to wholesale planting of pine forests that will be destined to become virtually derelict.

Radiata pine trees are fast growing and harvestable in 25 to 30 years. Under the rush by speculators to plant carbon forests, rural communities have been swallowed up and food producing land invaded by hectares of pines. The excuse of so-called “climate change” and carbon offsetting is the agenda behind the pine expansion. 

Air lines are major polluters. For example, Air NZ has invested by buying farms so far totalling 10,000 hectares, and repurposing them into pine trees. These trees are grown under the Emissions Trading Scheme and every hectare of pines sequester carbon dioxide on paper, allowing wealthy corporations, many from overseas, to buy credits.

Instead of reducing their emissions they continue to pollute overseas and offset in carbon farming in New Zealand.

Carbon Sponge

The translation of the gobbledegook is New Zealand becomes a carbon sponge for global elites, resulting in depopulation of Kiwi rural communities. Pine tree plantations require almost no human labour unlike farming which keeps communities alive. 

Carbon Faming forests employ virtually – if not quite – zero people.

Forestry empties land which some say aligns with globalist strategies to concentrate people in smart cities and vacate rural zones for future resource control, destruction of food sovereignty, replacing farmland with pine forest which means less domestic food production. This forces nations to rely more on global food imports, increasing dependency on centralised supply chains the same ones tied to digital ID, Central Bank Digital Currencies and climate compliance.

Soil and water damage 

Radiata pine trees are thirsty and drain water tables, streams and consequently rivers. Pine trees are high-water consumers with some species said to absorb over 500 litres daily, leading to much reduced stream flows and heavy environmental impact. 

Pine forests make soils high in acids and leave behind sterile land, described as impoverished.  Converting it back to farm land with countless stump removals and then restoring natural fertility, is high expensive.

But post-harvest needles are highly acidic and suppress native regrowth and after logging, land is often too degraded to be farmed again.

While rural communities decline alarmingly and may even vanish, it also impacts on outdoor active New Zealanders as foreign firms deny access and erect locked gates where once family farms readily granted access for tramping, hunting and fishing and other outdoor recreation.

Environmental damage

It’s been well chronicled that monocultures of pines result in a loss of biodiversity, depletion of natural stream flows, acidification, soil decline etc., In addition there are two other detrimental consequences, one real the other potential.

Wilding pines have magnified into a major problem. Pine forests particularly those of an unattended, haphazard nature as with carbon farming, are seed banks for wilding pine spread.

Wilding pine spread in New Zealand poses a significant economic and ecological threat, with potential costs, it is said, of up to $4.6 billion to $5.3 billionover the next 50 years if left unchecked. 

The invasive trees currently affect nearly 2 million hectares, with 90,000 hectares added annually, impacting native biodiversity, water catchments, and pastoral land. 

The potential for fire hazard is considerable particularly in unmanaged carbon farming forests in dry, drought-prone summers.

Greed of Corporates

Behind the loss of pasture to pine monocultures are multinational timber corporate companies, speculative investors and carbon trading firms, said to be often connected to the World Bank, Black Rock and even Sovereign Wealth funds.

“Greed is paramount – follow the money trail” commented one Wairarapa conservationist.

“They are not planting trees to heal the earth, they’re turning land into assets, forestry into currency for trading and Nature into data streams”, said another critic.

The final truth is, this isn’t reforestation or any benevolent outlook on the environment. It’s about money with forests feeding the money merry-go-round and forests feeding the ideological machine.

Watch the land because those who control it, control the future.

Footnote: The latest issue of ”Foreign Control Watchdog” (December 2025)  of the Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa (CAFCA) lists Overseas Investment Office decisions on applications for foreigners to invest in New Zealand. Several were for forestry. For example ANZLAFF NZ Ltd were given the go-ahead to acquire 3,182 hectares of land in Otago and Southland. The vendors were multiple NZ forestry entities. 

ANZLAFF NZ Ltd., comprises Germany 64%, Australia 21%, Sweden 10% and various 5%, owned by 14 overseas institutional investors.

CAFCA commented “decision-making may increasingly reflect the priorities of foreign investors rather than local environmental, economic or community interests—-highlighting ongoing debates around balancing foreign investment, sustainable forestry practices and national interest in New Zealand.”

Tony Orman (MNZIS) is a former town and country planner