by Roger Dewhurst

Considering the success of Ivermectin in Uttar Pradesh and the possibility of these Indian lawyers winning their case, Ardern and her lickspittles may be out on a limb.  Day by day more evidence appears supporting Ivermectin as well as increasing evidence that the Pfizer ‘vaccine’ is a dangerous fraud.

Te Whenua o nga Hipiteangaro

The Land of the Lost White Sheep

Not to be outdone by Ms Boucher’s Stuff…. From the BFD:-

The NZ Herald claims that they are independent media. They even had to tell us that. Of course, everyone reading The BFD knows that explaining is losing. Nonetheless the NZ Herald is now officially a state propaganda publication after announcing they are running a campaign to encourage everyone to meet a 90% vax target.

New Zealand needs to get vaccinated now to beat Delta – and that’s why the NZ Herald and NZME are launching The 90% Project today.

A very high vaccination rate is vital for us to make our population safe from serious disease, keep our hospitals running and gradually allow our economy and border to open up to the world again.

So NZME titles have joined forces to work for at least 90 per cent full vaccination against Covid-19 in our eligible population by Christmas.

NZ Herald

You know it is propaganda because it is almost completely free of facts and makes fanciful claims.

We are in the middle of a delta outbreak and yet our hospitals are coping admirably. Only a single person, in their 90s, has died from this so-called “Deadly Delta”…despite the appallingly low vaccination rates. Especially when you compare us with other countries that have been vaccinating for longer.

Ninety per cent is regarded as ambitious, given current rates across the globe.

The world’s most vaccinated countries this week included Portugal (80 per cent), the United Arab Emirates (78 per cent), Qatar, Singapore and Spain (75 per cent) Denmark (73 per cent) Uruguay and Chile (72 per cent), Belgium (71 per cent) and Ireland (70 per cent).

They were followed by Canada (68 per cent) and the UK (64 per cent), while the US was sitting around 53 per cent.

I note that they left out Israel, perhaps the most vaccinated country. I wonder why? Could it be the Herald is showing us their own ingrained anti-Semitism?

But Israel is important, as is Iceland, another they’ve left off the list. Because both of those countries now have rampant Delta outbreaks and overwhelmed hospitals despite their high vaccination rates. Inconvenient facts.

We wondered about the ethics of the NZ Herald; now we need wonder no more. They are literally running propaganda campaigns for the government now.

What an abuse of power and trust. This is what $55 million gets you.

The NZ Herald has sold out.

Original article

“When we consider a world currently rotting from the outside in, we shouldn’t underestimate the mould growing beneath the asymmetrical bobs, or glistening pates of our global Karens.” — quote from a Joel Maxwell piece

By Roger Childs

Joel Maxwell used to write mainly for the Kapiti Observer, but has recently been a senior reporter for Ms Boucher’s Stuff. A couple of years ago, he set out to rediscover his Maori roots and in weekly columns published in the Dominion Post, he recounted his “Te Reo” journey. 

Many of the articles were unashamedly anti-non-‘Maori’, anti-‘colonist’, racist rants. Like all those who call themselves Maori, Joel Maxwell is only part-Maori and has the blood of colonists and their descendants coursing through his veins.

Problems with style and history 

The Maxwell style is hard to follow with mixed metaphors, strange similes, non sequiturs, illogical conclusions and unsubstantiated generalizations. Quoting from a recent article, what for example does  …he threw the bus under the bus mean? Or, in referring to the English, what does … Their failure is permanent now, affixed in history; shimmering like an indifferent North Star, a Polaris, over a thousand deaths –- via Facetime from lonely hospital beds mean?

In one article in 2019 he admitted that he didn’t know much about our history; and then proceeded to give his own pro-Maori version.  His article earlier this week shows that he is still floundering with the story of our country.  He claimed that …the only thing England successfully exported was classism… However, as Writer Tony Orman observes: The new egalitarian structure for the new colony was for the people, regardless of wealth, class, race or creed in total – not just the privileged upper class. Most colonists migrated to places like New Zealand to in fact escape the class structure.

It was traditional Maori society that was class-ridden with male chiefs as the upper class, warriors below them, women, who did most of the work, even lower (apart from the high born), and slaves at the bottom. 

Maxwell jumps on an anti-Seymour bandwagon

Maxwell couldn’t resist recently sailing into David Seymour over leaking the priority vaccination codes for Maori. His “The activist formerly known as an MP” article (Dominion Post, Monday September 13, 2021) was another piece full of errors and exaggeration. He claimed that by his actions, Seymour …hampered the [vaccine] rollout, disrupting an entire nation’s health for the sake of ideology …

As recent polls have shown, the ACT leader is widely and increasingly respected, now second in the preferred prime minister stakes, and his party is catching up to National – who Maxwell commends for doing the work of Opposition in his article. A growing number of voters now acknowledge David Seymour as being one of the few honest and effective politicians we have, a leader who is not afraid to speak the truth and hold the government to account.

We’re told that the KCDC organised an Iwi blessing of the site on the beachfront at 6 am yesterday, but among those boycotting the event was the council’s own Kaumatua, Koro Don, who recognises the Puketapu Hapu whanau as Mana Whenua at the beach. Opposition to this expensive vanity project continues.

by Geoffrey Churchman

Anyone exploring blues music and its history will come upon Riley B. King, known as B.B. King, born 16 September 1925, or 17 September NZ time. The B.B. stood for Blues Boy and sometimes Beale is added for Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee. In 1991 a BB King Blues Club was established on the street.

B.B. King became one of the most influential electric guitar players of the post-war era whose technique was admired by all who were into blues and blues-rock music. He was born on a cotton plantation in Itta Bena, Mississippi, and later worked at a cotton gin in Indianola, Mississippi. He was attracted to music and the guitar in church, and began his career in juke joints and local radio. He later lived in Memphis, Tennessee and Chicago, and as his fame grew, toured the world extensively.

Like others he learned his craft by watching other players, and their aim was simple: make the guitar sound as sad and forlorn as the blues they were singing. They didn’t need a lot of notes, fancy techniques or expensive gear to do that. They just needed to play with passion and soul.

His soloing — he did not play chords, he either sang with a rhythm backing or soloed — involved fluid string bending, shimmering vibrato and staccato picking. The guitar he mostly played was a Gibson ES-335 then a deluxe version called the ES-355 which employed a stereo option. He named them all Lucille. The story is that at one show in Twist, Arkansas, a brawl broke out between two men and caused a fire. He evacuated along with the rest of the crowd but went back to retrieve his guitar. He said he later found out that the two men were fighting over a woman named Lucille and so named the guitar Lucille, as a reminder not to fight over women or run into any more burning buildings.

His recording and touring career was long and illustrious; the first album of his I bought, “Indianola Mississippi Seeds” from 1970, was his 18th. His most successful single was his version of “The Thrill is Gone” from 1969 which got to number 15 in the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

In later years he collaborated with many artists including Irish group U2, Gary Moore, Eric Clapton, Dr. John, Koko Taylor and Bo Diddley. I remember seeing him play live at the Michael Fowler Centre in Wellington, and even though it was all allocated seating, quite a few people couldn’t help after a while getting up to move to the music in the aisles.

He passed away in 2015 and today he is remembered as one of the giants of 20th century blues music.

(National Party media release)

Grant Robertson’s $7 billion top-up of the misused Covid Response and Recovery Fund gives him carte-blanche to splash more borrowed money between Budgets, says National’s Finance spokesperson Michael Woodhouse.

“The Finance Minister has referenced the positive economic performance figures for the June quarter, before the Delta outbreak, to justify another year of massive between-Budget spending.

“We know that the so-called Covid Response and Recovery Fund is being used for much more than the Covid response and is a slush fund for spending on things that have nothing to do with Covid.

“The additional $7 billion the Minister is putting into the fund rivals what would normally be two Budgets’ worth of new operating spending. That’s the order of spending that we are talking about. This is not small fry.

“By spending more and more under the authority of Imprest Supply and leaving it to be picked up in the Supplementary Estimates next year, Robertson is bypassing the normal Budget Estimates of Appropriations process that governs government spending.

“The wage subsidy and resurgence support schemes are vital, but $12 billion of the Covid fund has been frittered away on projects with little or no connection to our recovery from Covid, such as the $710 million spent on the Three Waters policy, which itself is looking increasingly dead in the water.

“The Minister cites the greater fiscal headroom available to the Government due to lower deficits and lower debt than forecast, as well as positive GDP growth.

“But, rather than doing what a responsible government would do and bank those gains as a buffer against further shocks, the Government would rather leave more debt for younger generations to repay than is necessary.

“The Government views the recovery fund as a refillable pot of money to keep on spending, oblivious to the fact this is borrowed money that generations of taxpayers will have to repay.

“The Covid fund is needed for the Covid response, and we could have a long way to go yet; freely spending from it shouldn’t be dictated by short-term, backward-looking economic indicators.”