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the Transmission Gully motorway finally opens!

31 Thursday Mar 2022

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by Geoffrey Churchman

The stretch into out/of Kapiti. At the top of it is the highest point on the new road at 253 metres above sea level. And when and where will KCDC erect a ‘Welcome to Kapiti’ sign? Pic credit: Mark Mitchell

The ceremonial ribbon cutting by Jacinda (naturally wearing one of her beloved face nappies) took place yesterday and today plenty of cars and trucks were driving over it.

As a Kapiti roving reporter I was one of those who decided to make a sightseeing drive today to experience what this long discussed and 8 years-in-the-building 27 km stretch of highway is like as a motorist.

Driving southbound from Kapiti the immediate thing you notice is that the gradient is steep (see the pic above); as steep as the Ngauranga Gorge and longer; and it isn’t the only serious gradient. You can’t help wonder whether time savings are going to be made up by higher fuel consumption. A year ago when petrol in NZ cost $2 per litre at the pump, that was significant enough; now with the fuel cost increases caused by the Globalists — including the Biden administration and NATO — that is sure to be a cause of reflection by ordinary people.

According to the NZTA fact sheet, below, the maximum gradient is 8% and arrester beds for out of control vehicles are provided.

There are some big exposed cliff cuts covered in concrete and overall it’s not quite as pleasant a drive as the Kapiti ‘Ewy’ is, but there are still areas of some scenic interest. In one spot I noticed on someone’s property a decorative metal bridge that is painted with rainbow colours, the Rainbow Bridge.

As a motorway it is “no stopping, no pedestrians, cyclists or horses”, but there are some bays where pulling in for emergency needs is provided for. Presumably, however, the main users of these will be government revenue raisers.

As it goes through Ngati Toa’s rohe [territory] they have named the motorway Te Ara Nui o Te Rangihaeata (the big path of Te Rangihaeata — see here) and have also gifted the name Te Ara Kāpehu (the compass path) to the road connecting Whitby to the Transmission Gully motorway.

We expect most people will simply call it the TG route, however.

Apihaka Mack of Ngātiawa ki Kapiti tells us: “I don’t have an issue with Rangihaeata. My Grandmother, Grandfather, Father and Uncles are buried in the same urupa [burial ground/cemetery] at Hongoeka, the old one by the gate. Ngātiawa — Ani Retimana — was given land beside the Rangihaeata family at Hongoeka Bay; the hill above the old quarry and foreshore. I own it with 20 other Mullen siblings and cousins. Rangihaeata w’anau in 2020 declared 100% support for research I have done for the Ngātiawa ki Kapiti Wai 1018 claim. I was not to give my research to anyone, meaning all historical Native Land Court records from Hongoeka to Whangaehu.”

The most important aspect of all about the new motorway is that it provides an alternative, streamlined extra road to the hitherto SH1 through Paramata and Plimmerton.

But the question most will have is — how many lane closures for remedial work will be required in the coming months and years? The Telecommunications Forum says some digging up will have to happen to eliminate cell tower black spots — NZ Herald article

Two intermediate interchanges are marked in blue — some care is required at them, particularly the Pauatahanui one.
Facts about the Transmission Gully project.

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more wasteful spending by the Jacinda government on bizarre projects

31 Thursday Mar 2022

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(Taxpayers Union media release)

The Government must pull the plug on the Ministry for Culture and Heritage’s $60 million covid “Innovation Fund” as it continues to grant taxpayer funding to bizarre projects, says the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union.

So far, 105 projects have received $15.9 million from the fund. Since the Taxpayers’ Union’s last update on the fund, new questionable grants include:

•  $700,000 on a “digital storytelling experience” about the Manawatū River

•  $321,740 to tell the story of the Grey River using virtual reality

•  $20,000 on a business plan for Tongan mat-weaving

•  $250,000 on an online children’s game about an albatross

•  $900,000 on an arts strategy for Christchurch

•  $20,000 on a children’s book that requires the reader to install an app

•  $248,460 on traditional Māori painting

Common themes in the funded initiatives include virtual reality, storytelling, digital installations beside rivers, and bespoke IT projects.

Union spokesman Louis Houlbrooke says, “Needless to say, none of these projects have any relevance to covid, despite the money coming from Grant Robertson’s rapidly-dwindling pandemic fund. The spending decisions are almost funny until you remember that every dollar spent on ‘digital storytelling’ is a dollar that could have been spent bolstering our health system, or returned to a struggling taxpayer.”

“The fund’s basic ‘seed funding’ grants are all set at $20,000, with no apparent regard for whether the project justifies the full sum. Regardless, the sheer quantity and variety of projects funded means there is little realistic possibility for follow-up analysis to ensure each project delivers value for taxpayers.”

“Incredibly, there is still another $44 million to be spent from the fund, and it already seems the Ministry has run out of worthwhile projects to bankroll. It’s only a matter of time before taxpayers are literally funding underwater basket weaving.”

Below is a longer list of project descriptions from successful grant applicants.

Steamcore
To scope and test a new interactive social gaming experience meant to democratize content creation and e-sports, increasing commercial opportunities, sector sustainability and improving access and participation
Awarded: $20,000

Toi Ōtautahi
Co-funding for the initial stages of Toi Ōtautahi, the Christchurch arts strategy. Work includes mentoring, commissioning, professional development, and creative practice platforms for artists. The project will support artists and improve access to the arts for people of Waitaha Canterbury.
Awarded: $900,000

Atawhai Interactive
To develop an accessible online game, Toroa, that gives tamariki and rangatahi an experience to fly as Toroa on its journey from the Pacific Ocean back to its home on Taiaroa head. It will explore the themes of whakapapa as the Toroa soars over the ocean, deified as Takaroa, on the winds of Tāwhirimatea.
Awarded: $250,000

Good Company Arts
To create a series of immersive virtual reality journeys that celebrate the sound and form of Taonga Pūoro [traditional instruments], thereby connecting a wider audience to the artform and to the whenua.
Awarded: $20,000

Te Rūnaka o Ōtākou
Scoping the use of a web platform to leverage pūrākau [myths and legends], and traditional and contemporary technologies to connect with the Ōtākou diaspora.
Awarded: $20,000

AKH (‘Api-ko-haukinima)
To research a business plan to understand what is needed to produce authentic Tongan mats and make them more accessible for Tongan people, and to teach this craft and pass on the knowledge to those who wish to learn it.
Awarded: $20,000

Dr Rory Clifford
To develop a business plan for virtual reality recreations of current Māori wāhi tapu [sacred places] with an initial focus on Kāi Tahu marae and their historic sites of interest.
Awarded: $20,000

Greymouth Heritage Trust
To tell the story of the Grey River using virtual reality, simulative, and immersive technologies. The project will bring to life both Māori and European settlement and use of the river.
Awarded: $321,740

Makaira Waugh – Rōreka
To contribute to the creation of a te reo Māori children’s book which uses an app to embellish the story with music and claymation videos, and allows the reader to recreate waiata using instrumental loops.
Awarded: $20,000

Toi o Taranaki Ki Te Tonga
An inter-generational and multi career stage approach to encourage, empower and enable Māori artists who whakapapa to Taranaki or live in the rohe, to wānanga, create, collaborate, exhibit and sell their work and to provide improved community access to mahi toi Māori.
Awarded: $283,500

Maata Wharehoka
To further develop a project focused on transmitting, revitalising and providing accessible ways of learning tikanga Māori practices surrounding deathing, death and after death.
Awarded: $20,000

Dinnie Moeahu
To undertake research and engagement to support the development of Te Āhua o Te Tangata, a cultural competency framework for local government.
Awarded: $20,000

Ngamanawa Incorporation
To create a digital repository and digital rights management framework through development of open-source software to ensure that cultural knowledge and artefacts can be hapū governed, retained and protected for future generations.
Awarded: $371,108

Rehua Innovations
To build local capability by repurposing two under-utilised waka ama [outrigger canoes] into waka tere [racing canoes] and increasing traditional sailing capabilities through wānanga
Awarded: $250,000

Kauae Raro Research Collective
To commission and promote new works by Māori creatives using customary Māori paint making knowledge.
Awarded: $248,460

Wawata Creative Limited
To develop the sitemap and prototype ‘look and feel’ of an app that captures and stores key stories, kōrero, imagery, waiata, whakapapa, and knowledge from marae
$20,000

Pounga Wai
To produce Pounga Wai | A Digital River – an interactive, real-time, large-scale digital art installation of the Whanganui River, embedded in Māori kaupapa.
Awarded: $124,631

Whanganui Connection
To upgrade and enhance the immersive experience of the Durie Hill Elevator and Tunnel, providing access to stories about public transport, the way we build our cities and housing, engineering and built heritage. 
Awarded: $199,300

Māoriland Charitable Trust
To deliver Purita, a capability system to enable identification and development of Māori potential through the creation of content, but also a platform for this content to be distributed and seen around the world. Purita will also platform an extensive library of global indigenous content.
Awarded: $1,015,300

Central Development Agency (CEDA)
To deliver a digital storytelling experience of the Manawatū Awa [river], with interactive cultural and historical maps and a virtual guide.
Awarded: $700,000

Maungarongo Marae
To hold wānanga [classes] to brainstorm the design and content for a system for embedding mātauranga [Māori knowledge] in ngā toi [the arts] to safeguard it and provide access to it in a managed and safe way that aligns with the kaupapa of Maungarongo Marae.
Awarded: $20,000

Atuatanga
To develop ‘Atuatanga’, an interactive virtual reality gaming experience that will use te Reo Māori and mātauranga Māori to engage players through challenges as they navigate through an ancient world restoring the taiao for future generations.
Awarded: $585,000

Narrative Muse
To support the development of Narrative Muse, a digital platform to help Aotearoa audiences access books, movies and television content that reflects intersectionality and gender diversity.
Awarded: $500,000

Zealanesia
To scope the development and prototyping of a digital storytelling platform using the vaka as medium for navigating and exploring Tokelauan heritage. This will enable and improve Tokelauan and Pasifika access and participation in art, culture and heritage.
Awarded: $20,000

TPW – Māori Pokemon
To develop creative assets for an augmented reality app called Pūrākau. The app embeds Te Ao Māori content into the environment around us using mixed reality technology. The project is delivered via smart phone devices to enable accessibility to a wide audience.
Awarded: $328,405

Taki Rua Productions
The development and delivery of two immersive live productions of large-scale contemporary Māori performing arts pieces. By presenting mātauranga Māori within contemporary performances the project will increase access and participation to both mātauranga and contemporary performance art.
Awarded: $1,323,000

QWB Lab
To design a suite of tools that helps arts and culture organisations to measure, understand, increase and articulate their wellbeing impact in order to unlock the value of culture and their assets. The development of these tools is aimed at increasing the capacity to generate wellbeing for communities, helping improve access and participation.
Awarded: $150,000

Public Art Heritage Aotearoa NZ
To develop a website of Aotearoa’s remaining twentieth century public art heritage, which will enable New Zealanders to access and build awareness of our public art heritage. Funding will also support the development of a national public art forum to develop best-practice guidance and resources for those involved in public art.
Awarded: $300,000

NZ Festival
To develop a new values-driven ticketing platform, empowering audiences to choose their own ticket price, thereby increasing access and participation in the cultural sector.
Awarded: $200,000

Metia Interactive
To develop Guardian Maia, an online game for rangatahi that imagines a Māori future and uses culturally inclusive creative technology to explore mātauranga Māori traditions and new cultural concepts.
Awarded $290,000

Aotearoa Live Music Recovery Project
To support small to medium sized live music venues with artist and audience development that increases diversity. The project will increase access and participation in live music.
Awarded: $2,110,000

DOTDOT
To develop a platform to enable artists, arts venues, arts organisations and cultural institutions to create their own hybrid and virtual events, allowing them to reach new audiences and drive new revenue streams for their work.
Awarded: $206,965

Joel Baxendale and Karin McCracken – In World
To develop a flexible and dynamic creative tool that will enable multiple sectors to apply app-technology in an interactive context, thereby creating new opportunities for the arts sector and enabling access and participation.
Awarded: $227,605

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Growing edible flowers in your garden

31 Thursday Mar 2022

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From almanac.com So many flowers are not only beautiful but also completely edible, adding color and flavor to salads, soups, pastas, drinks, and desserts. In fact, in ancient times, flowers were grown more for scent and flavor than looks alone. Here are 15 edible flowers that are also easy to grow. For centuries, humans have foraged or […]

Growing Edible Flowers in Your Garden — Rangitikei Environmental Health Watch

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Waikanae River mouth sunset

31 Thursday Mar 2022

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Eroding the Rakaia River’s lawful protection 

31 Thursday Mar 2022

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While water is increasingly the “new gold” vital for not only humanity but also the environment, are elected bodies idly standing by while corporates exploit for maximum profits? The NZ Federation of Freshwater Anglers is asking hard questions about Trustpower’s activities at Canterbury’s Lake Coleridge and Environment Canterbury’s (ECan) lack of surveillance.

Protection status being undermined

By Dr Peter Trolove, President of the NZ Federation of Freshwater Anglers

The protection status by way of the long-standing Water Conservation Order (WCO) for the Rakaia River is being eroded by efforts by Trustpower and Environment Canterbury says the New Zealand Federation of Freshwater Anglers (NZFFA).

Federation president Dr Peter Trolove said WCOs were akin to a National Park status preserving public property for the public interest. But that protection status is being undermined.

“The situation is now an unresolved shambles with Trustpower “giving the bird” to the water harvesting formula proscribed in the Rakaia NWCO,” he said. “Meanwhile ECan is desperately searching for a way out of its statutory duty to give effect to the Rakaia WCO.”

Shambles based on amending the Rakaia River’s conservation order

The shambles began at a 2012 ECan managed hearing which determined that the Rakaia River WCO 1988 should be amended to enable the Lake Coleridge Project (LCP), which involved storing water in Lake Coleridge in times of high flow, to be later sold to contracted irrigation schemes by Trustpower.   This would be based on evidence provided by Trustpower, accepted by three “Independent Commissioners”, that the effects of the LCP would be minor or less than minor.

The detail of the water harvesting protocol was made very clear at the Hearing and was subsequently passed into law – The Rakaia River WCO 1988 Amended 2013.

ECan accepted the water harvesting formula as did the Minister for the Environment at that time.

Lake Coleridge lacked the storage capacity for water harvesting

Dr Trolove made a submission against the LCP. He carried out his own approximate calculations based on historical ECan Rakaia River flow data and found in some years there would not be sufficient natural flows to store adequate volumes of water to supply the 100,000 ha of new irrigation if the proposed water storage formula was complied with.

It appeared Trustpower very soon learned that the 32 km2 Lake Coleridge could not store sufficient water even if there was enough excess flow to be harvested.  

This was due to Lake Coleridge only having a maximum of 3 metres depth that was accessible for abstraction i.e. water could not be accessed below 3 metres and above this level water simply flowed back out the head of the lake.

Trustpower responded by creating “virtual storage” by claiming the total volume of Lake Coleridge would be used for storage.  Dr Trolove described the corporate’s response has seriously flawed.

“This of course is utter nonsense which ECan now appear to be attempting to validate,” he said. “A competent ECan hydrologist (Wilco Terink) was asked to make his two and a half year investigation “fit” the flawed model. Unfortunately for ECan he showed admirable personal integrity and resigned instead,” said Dr Trolove.

He said ECan heads are now generating further nonsense in a failing attempt to hide their reluctance and inability to perform their role under the 1991 Resource Management Act.

Groups like the NZFFA, NZ Salmon Anglers and others find the Transpower strategies irresponsible and unacceptable.

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KCDC is dropping ‘vax’ passes at Council facilities from next Monday

31 Thursday Mar 2022

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Following the Jacinda government’s announcement last week, the Council is ceasing these extremely annoying pass requirements. It is also going to review staff policy on ‘vaccination’ requirements for staff in “June or before.” Meetings are to remain online for the time being, but there is an indication they may shift soon.

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Russian MoD: bodies of tortured civilians with carved out Swastikas found in Mariupol basements

31 Thursday Mar 2022

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No doubt warmongering Leftists / Globalists will claim it’s Russian propaganda; but Ukrainian soldiers have videoed themselves doing such things to captured Russian soldiers and shared them online.

Forces of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), with support from Russian troops, are currently fighting remnants of the Azov nationalist battalion in Mariupol. The DPR has already seized control of the city’s suburbs and reportedly found a black site prison belonging to the nationalists at the airport.

The bodies of victims of Ukrainian nationalists have been found in the basements of buildings in Mariupol, some of them severely mutilated, the Russian Defence Ministry has reported. The ministry clarified that the basements were previously occupied by Ukrainian nationalist forces.

“Corpses of civilians were found with signs of inhuman torture. Neo-Nazi symbols and swastikas were carved on their bodies”, the ministry said.

The head of the Russian National Defence Control Centre, Mikhail Mizintsev, further said that some of the civilians rescued from Mariupol have shared stories about neo-Nazi fighters throwing grenades into basements filled with women and children.

Mizintsev also reported that members of the Azov nationalist battalion had shelled civilians trying to withdraw cash from ATMs or trying to get humanitarian aid, using mortars installed on various vehicles. He said that these attacks claimed lives of three and left 10 more injured.

The Defence Ministry’s report comes as forces of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), together with Russian troops, are clearing Mariupol of the remaining forces of Ukraine’s Azov nationalist battalion. Russian forces were deployed to Ukraine after President Vladimir Putin responded to a request from the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR) for protection, giving the order for the special military operation on 24 February.

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amusement: the letter ‘Z’ gets cancel culture treatment!

31 Thursday Mar 2022

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Because the Russian military have been using it as a symbol for their action in Ukraine. It’s not clear why as it doesn’t appear in the Russian Cyrillic alphabet (it doesn’t appear in the Ukrainian alphabet either).

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time for a Zero Population Growth policy in NZ

31 Thursday Mar 2022

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by Geoffrey Churchman

Those who follow happenings at KCDC will have heard the discussions over the Jacinda government’s plans for “housing density intensification” which in essence means allowing developers to build up with taller buildings rather than out by buying up open land and turning it into subdivisions. A council Media Release from last week is reproduced below.

More needs to and will be said about this, but the important thing is that it will override the existing Kapiti District plan which has height limits in place that generally prevent more than two stories. The height limit in residential zones at present is 8 metres [26 feet] above the natural ground level in all parts of the footprint, so you can get away with 3 levels if your lot (section) is a sloping one. However, the vast majority of housing in Waikanae is on flat or reasonably flat terrain.

But the broader question is, why do we need to have such a change? The quick answer is provided with the sentence below: “Kāpiti is expecting to grow by more than 30,000 residents within the next 30 years and we estimate we’ll need another 16,200 houses by 2051.” (By houses is meant dwellings including apartments in multi-story blocks.)

With the number of homeless in Jacindaland (defined as people without a permanent dwelling) now in 6 figures (see here) there is a need for more available housing just for them. The waiting list for a state house has grown 4 times since the Jacinda government has been in power and now stands at around 25,000.

We need more houses for the many who don’t have one now, but continued population growth will only add to the problem. Population growth from natural increase — more births than deaths — is around 24,000 a year but that gets added to by net migration which has been running at between 70,000 to 90,000 per year under both National- and Labour-led governments since 2000.

Zero Population Growth became a strong theme in the 1970s. At the time in my view it was a way off being needed in NZ as the then population of a bit over 3 million was on the light side — we needed somewhere between 4 and 5 million. That stage has now been reached.

The more people there are, the more physical resources get consumed, the more infrastructure is needed, and the more housing is needed. Local Waikanae historian John Robsinson has made his findings about the problem clear in his book A Plague of People — see here.

We don’t want the government to start telling people how many babies they should have as China has done, but the government needs to slam the brakes on immigration with very tight criteria about who can migrate to New Zealand / Nu Tirani.

This shows the rate of population growth has increased in the last 2 to 3 decades.

Kāpiti Coast District Council is to consult on a draft District Plan change which is needed to meet new Government requirements to allow property owners to build up to three homes of up to three stories on most residential sites.

The plan change would also enable further intensification in urban areas that are in or near the Paraparaumu metropolitan centre, local and town centres throughout the district, and around our train stations south of the Ōtaki River. It also includes rezoning some small parcels of land within or near existing urban areas for general residential use.

District Planning Manager Jason Holland said enabling more medium density housing and higher development in local and town centres would go a long way to addressing the district’s housing shortage. Concerns about Government-mandated intensification could be partially managed with careful planning, appropriate policies, and good design, he said.

“Kāpiti is expecting to grow by more than 30,000 residents within the next 30 years and we estimate we’ll need another 16,200 houses by 2051. We need to accommodate those people, so change is inevitable.”

The Council’s new growth strategy for the next 30 years, Te Tupu Pai, guides the proposals in the draft intensification plan change. The growth strategy emphasises compact urban form and good design that ‘considers, protects, and enhances Kāpiti’s natural and built environments’, Mr Holland said.

The plan change must allow medium density housing across the general residential zone, including ‘special character’ areas like the Waikanae Garden Precinct and the beach precincts.

“We have to enable further intensification of these areas because ‘special character’ is not a qualifying matter. But we will keep existing protections for historic heritage, notable trees, and indigenous vegetation.

“For developments in these areas that need a resource consent, we have added new policies that require them to recognise those areas’ valued characteristics.”

The draft plan change also proposes new design guides to promote high-quality urban design in developments that require resource consent.

The draft plan change enables housing and community developments (papakāinga) for iwi on their ancestral land. Council is working closely with mana whenua on the District Plan provisions for these.

The draft plan change also proposes a mechanism to maintain existing development rules in some coastal areas while the Takutai Kāpiti project looks at adaptation options for these areas.

“In the draft plan change we recommend applying a ‘coastal’ qualifying matter to defined areas along the coast. This would mean no changes to the existing rules while the Takutai Kāpiti Coastal Advisory Panel discusses how we plan for future changes to our coastline with our community.”

Council will consult on the draft plan change from Monday 4 April – 4 May 2022, consider written feedback, then publicly notify the next version (called the “proposed” plan change) in July 2022 which will then also be consulted on and go through a formal hearing process. Council must publicly notify the proposed intensification plan change by a statutory deadline of 20 August 2022.

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Ministry of Health launches inquiry into heart conditions caused by ‘Jacinda’s Jabs’

30 Wednesday Mar 2022

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See here. By Cam Slater on the BFD—

We warned you all. We told you that there were alarming side effects from mRNA vaccines, and we were scoffed at, mocked and ridiculed as conspiracy theorists falling down a rabbit hole.

We were told the ‘vaccines’ were “safe and effective” and that side effects were very rare.

But it turns out we were right to raise these issues because, now, the rare side-effects are too large a problem to ignore.

TV One News:-

Whether people who suffered heart conditions following their Covid-19 vaccinations develop long-term health problems is being looked into by the Ministry of Health. But not all of them want to take part in the study, with one saying the invitation to take part was “offensive”.

Myocarditis is inflammation of the heart muscle, while pericarditis is inflammation of the tissue forming a sac around the heart. Both are rare known side effects of the Pfizer vaccine Comirnaty that’s made up the bulk of New Zealand’s vaccination programme.

“International data suggests that for most people who develop myocarditis and/or pericarditis, their symptoms stop with appropriate management,” National Immunisation Programme group manager post event (pharmacovigilance, vaccine effectiveness and population protection) Dr Tim Hanlon told 1News.

“However, there is limited data on the long-term health outcomes of individuals who experience these side effects.”

So far about 250 people have been identified as eligible to participate in the new study and have been sent letters inviting them to take part.

To be eligible to participate in the study, people need to be 12 years of age or older and have been diagnosed with myocarditis or pericarditis by a doctor on or before 31 December 2021, after their first or second dose of the Pfizer Covid-19 ‘vaccine’.

“The number of eligible individuals is expected to increase as more information becomes available for existing reports or as new reports are received,” Hanlon said.

Of course, they can’t study those who have died.

Note how 1News goes out of their way to say this is a “rare side-effect”. Yet it is not so rare if they now need to spend millions of dollars looking into the issue.

But, we already know, it’s not as rare as the liars in the regime and media would would have you believe, because we all know someone who has suffered these dramatic and life-threatening side-effects, or died as a result of them. Most of us know several people, so the side effects are not as rare as they say they are.

Yesterday was also the day that people who were fully ‘vaccinated’ and died from/with Covid passed the number of those who have died who are either unvaccinated or partially vaccinated. The Ministry of Health blurs these statistics by lumping them together; moreover they include the 25 deaths of those who died before vaccinations started.

In just a few short days the boosted deaths will also surpass the unvaxxed number.

We shouldn’t be surprised because, after all, this has happened around the world. But we stupidly followed along with the failed policies of other countries and so we will reap the sad result of that shortly.

You only have to look at the UK to predict our future:

We are tracking to have the same outcome as the UK. More people have now died with Omicron than from the allegedly more lethal Delta variant, yet the regime is relaxing rules around scanning and vaccines. Now don’t get me wrong, I don’t and never have agreed with the regulations that tore away our rights and freedom, but I am pointing out that the changes are coming despite the evidence building that vaccines have failed. It was never about health, it was always about control, and now the narrative is bared for all to see.

After falling close to zero during spring 2021, during the happy ‘vaccine’ valley, Covid deaths rose through the summer and have remained stubbornly high ever since.

Week after week, about 1,000 people in Britain are dying from Covid, based on the most conservative definition of Covid deaths – those that occur within four weeks of diagnosis. During the Omicron wave the number rose even higher.

In reality Britain does not seem to have “waves” of Covid anymore.

Even when new variants roll out, deaths no longer fall close to zero, as they did in 2020, before the mRNA shots were introduced – and as they still do in countries that did not use those jabs.

Nearly all these deaths – over 90 percent, closer to 95 percent under a more expansive definition of Covid deaths – now occur in people who have taken Covid shots.

Even in people under 50, most Covid deaths now occur in the jabbed.

–Alex Berenson

All our regime did, while beggaring the nation, is kick the can down the road into the future. The end result is going to be very similar to other highly ‘vaccinated’ countries.

You can’t say you weren’t warned, because we were screaming it loudly… but now we get to pick up the pieces.

People need to be held to account. I predict more and more studies, more and more inquiries, and eventually the truth will come out.

The first indicator that the truth is coming out will be when you renew your health and life insurance policies and they get you to fill out an updated questionnaire that asks if you were ‘vaccinated’ against Covid-19. It’ll be a trap, say yes and your premiums will be jacked up, say no and they’ll ask for your medical records. Either way, it will be the insurance industry that will be the canary in the coal mine over how bad ‘vaccine’ injuries are.

Sadly, though, you can’t remove a ‘vaccine’ once it is in your arm, so those of us who resisted the tyranny can have a moment of smug satisfaction that we’ve avoided what is coming. For every one else we really need some very hard-hitting inquiries to find those responsible.

And when we do find out who is responsible we must hold them to account for the misery they’ve caused.

National’s Chris Penk at parliament Tuesday receiving a petition from Anna Hodgkinson whose daughter is in a wheelchair after receiving her first Covid jab. They’re seeking recognition that the ‘vaccine’ can have dire side effects. Photo credit: Barry Soper Twitter.

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