For any Global Warming believers who read us—

People awoke to brutal sub-zero temps that felt close to -20 C downtown Monday morning, which warmed up to only -6 C by late afternoon, which feels more like a frigid -16 C with the wind chill at the time of publication.

The thermometer today actually broke a long-standing weather record for the coldest March 28 in T.O.

At -10.1 C (without the wind chill factored in) at 8 a.m., today almost beat out the coldest temps ever measured here on this day: -15 C in 1923.

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While you await your turn to use the loo?

Two tables with seats, each able to accommodate 4 people. This juxtaposition seems a little strange, you can’t help wondering if the parks people had more than an incidental association in mind; people might need to use the loo after having their lunch?

Some have commented on the small number of cubicles in the ‘Jupiter’ — only 3, which is fewer than was in the old Mahara Gallery block. If all are in use, you can sit at one of the nearby tables while you wait.

Team Members:

back row: Robert Ropata, Manny Parata, Tony Dalzell (Captain), Graeme Grigg, Ken Kershaw, Colin Smith, Harold Fairley, Peter Fairley, Jim Ellison;

Front Row: Ernie Gates (vice Captain) Jimmy Ropata, George Jenkins, Leicester Walton, Peter Edwin, Dennis Gamble-Holmes. (pic via Kete Horowhenua)

Ukrainian Soldiers film themselves calling up mothers of Russian soldiers killed in action and mocking them.

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— Angelo Giuliano 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻 安德龙 (@angeloinchina) March 25, 2022

Over the weekend, horrific footage emerged of Ukrainian fighters committing literal war crimes by shooting captured Russian soldiers in the knees and watching them die in agony.

However, that doesn’t seem to have deterred the ‘Ukrainian flag in my Twitter bio’ crowd, who seem more hopped up on signaling their virtue than ever before.

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People stayed home at night watching television looking for some direction … Newspapers were censored and some were closed down, for security reasons they said. The roadblocks appeared and Identipasses …   –Margaret Atwood The Handmaid’s Tale, 1986

Exploiting the ‘pandemic’ for power and fearmongering

by Roger Childs

The arrival of the coronavirus in New Zealand in March 2020 gave the prime minister the ideal opportunity to increase her power and popularity. The Labour/NZ First/Greens Coalition was struggling in the polls and Jacinda Ardern gratefully seized the opportunity to give her government emergency powers and effectively close the country down.

With her excellent communication skills and winning smile, backed by the confident Director General of Health, Ashley Bloomfield, Ardern had the nation watching daily press conferences to learn about the latest developments. Phrases like the team of five million and be kind to each other struck a chord with most. Most businesses had to close down, but the Finance Minister subsidized these with wage subsidies and through them provided payments for people who had lost their jobs.

The four to six week lockdown was obediently accepted by the vast majority as the price that needed to be paid for keeping covid 19 at bay. 

Ardern the saviour

When Lockdown ended in May with only a small number of cases and few deaths – most elderly people with serious underlying conditions – the prime minister’s popularity soared and she boasted of how New Zealand had one of the best records in the world for dealing with what was called a “pandemic”.

Fortunately for the government, the economy performed far better than most experts predicted, largely on the basis of continuing foreign trade and the outstanding efforts of the farming community. The latter, however, did not get the support and gratitude it deserved.

The election was looming and with National, led by the divisive Judith Collins, in disarray, Labour swept into power with an absolute if small majority. Hundreds of thousands who had never voted for her party in their lives saw Ardern as the nation’s saviour and abandoned the Tories. This 2020 ballot will always be known as “the covid election”. 

Majority rule divides the country

We will be the party that governs for all New Zealanders. –Jacinda Ardern on election night 2020. 

Wrong. Since getting absolute control of the House of Representatives the Labour Party has pushed through legislation or made decisions with little consultation or respect for the principles of democracy on which New Zealand has been built. Some examples:

• Oil and gas exploration was abandoned.
• The Marsden point Refinery was closed down.
• Labour’s Maori caucus — a powerful party within a party — has pushed ahead with implementing He Puapua, a programme which ultimately aims to have co-governance by 2040 between the Crown and part-Maori who represent about 15% of the population.  (He Puapua was developed in 2019, but Ardern didn’t breathe a word about it prior to the election and New Zealand First’s intelligence failed to pick it up.
• Communities lost the right to demand a referendum on the allocation of separate seats on their councils for part-Maori.

Scores of Acts of Parliament and amendments have been passed – often under urgency – reinforcing the government covid response strategy. Thirteen items of legislation alone were rushed through in March 2022.  

The divisive issues of vaccinations

… those who opt out won’t face any penalties at all. –Jacinda Ardern, 22 September 2021

After the “success” of the 2020 Lockdown the arrival of delta and omicron strains of the virus in 2021 has seen government policy split the country. Auckland was locked down for 107 days from mid-August last year, thousands of businesses went to the wall and tens of thousands lost their jobs.

A key area of dispute was vaccinations and the prime minister did a U-turn on the issue of penalties for those who wouldn’t get the jabs. Labour nailed its colours to the Pfizer mast but Ardern refused to reveal the terms of the deal with this Big Pharma company which has a checkered past. 

Those who made the choice not to trust the experimental ‘vaccines’ / gene therapy which had short circuited the usual lengthy trials, have been discriminated against in being– 

• unable to use many public facilities 
• excluded from most cafes and restaurants, and numerous businesses 
• sacked from their jobs in the health, education and many other sectors
• excluded from many groups, clubs and meetings.

Throughout the “covid period” Ardern’s regime has been dutifully supported by the compliant Mainstream Media which has slanted the news in return for handsome Taxpayer-provided payments from the government. 

And to back up the official covid strategy, so called expert virologists and scientists such as Michael Baker, Siouxsie Wiles and Shaun Hendy have parroted a pro-government message emphasizing the dangers of not following policies such as getting vaccinated, and exaggerating likely covid 19 casualties.

Protests increased culminating in the unprecedented occupation of the grounds of parliament in February this year. This development was world-wide news especially the eventual violent clearance of the area by the heavily armed police.

The covid cloak is slipping 

The adverse publicity of this protest plus the declining popularity of the Labour government has eventually led to the announcement that vaccine mandates would end in early April. But will the prime minister let go? Opposition leaders, notably ACT’s David Seymour, have emphasized the need for her to pull back.

Covid policy making has been the big power play since March 2020, and has given Ardern enormous authority and influence, but will she finally end the covid policies of wearing masks, social distancing and requiring vaccinations? Many countries overseas have now dropped these conditions and are learning to live with covid just as they have survived with influenza and other diseases in the past.

Ultimately the end of these restrictions in New Zealand will throw into sharp focus the myriad social and economic problems facing the country, such as

• continuing family poverty
• rising housing shortages
• affordable housing out of reach for many
• escalating mental health problems and suicide rates
• increasing racial separatism
• the divisiveness of the undemocratic He Puapua programme
• the need to rethink climate change polices given the lack of evidence that its happening 
• the economic costs of the unnecessary reduction of carbon dioxide and methane emissions 
• the need to resume oil and gas exploration
• the lack of acknowledgement and support for the vital role of the farming sector.

Maybe Jacinda Ardern’s biggest fear is that once she loses the crutch and the covid cloak drops from her shoulders the public will see the reality — the empress has no clothes.

Excess deaths dramatically accelerated among 25 to 44-year-olds as vaccinations and boosters kicked in. Probably just a coincidence. From The Expose at dailyexpose.uk: An analysis of figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) database has revealed that 61,000 people, supposedly in the prime of their life, aged 25-44, died of vaccine-related causes […]

Covid Vaccines killed at least 61,000 Americans aged 25 – 44 throughout 2021 according to CDC, by The Expose — STRAIGHT LINE LOGIC

Adjusting that for the population difference, that 61,000 would be about 950 in Jacindaland. —Eds

Film director Jane Campion made history yesterday by winning Best Director at the 94th Academy Awards; she’s the first woman to be nominated twice for Best Director.

Campion’s New Zealand-made film The Power of the Dog was a frontrunner for the coveted Best Picture and Best Director awards at the 2022 Oscars, with a total of 12 nominations.

The film can be viewed on Netflix.

As sensible as the Jacinda regime banning government employees without ‘vax’ passes and face nappies.

from Newshub–

Afghanistan’s Taliban has instructed all government employees to wear a beard and adhere to a dress code or risk being fired, three sources told Reuters, the latest of several new restrictions imposed by the hardline Islamist administration.

The sources said representatives from the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice were patrolling the entrances to government offices on Monday to check that employees were in compliance with the new rules.

Employees were being instructed not to shave their beards and to wear local clothing consisting of a long, loose top and trousers, and a hat or turban. They were also told to ensure they prayed at the correct times, two of the sources said.

Workers were told they would from now on be unable to enter offices and would eventually be fired if they did not meet the dress codes, the sources said.

A spokesman for the public morality ministry did not respond to a request for comment.

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