by Kevin on the BFD

In what must be one of the most stunning events relating to state handling of the Covid pandemic (unreported by the mainstream media of course), none other than the European Parliament has savagely denounced Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s handling of vaccine mandate protests. The Blaze reports:

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was forced to sit and watch as members of the European Parliament out-and-out denounced the leader to his face on Wednesday over his dictatorial handling of the Freedom Convoy protests.

The progressive prime minister — who last month invoked the Emergencies Act to quell vaccine mandate protests in Canada’s capital city — was in Brussels, Belgium, this week to urge European leaders to step up their opposition to Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.

[…] German MEP Christine Anderson offered Trudeau what she called an appropriate “welcome” to the European Parliament by calling the leader a “disgrace” and condemning him for human rights violations.

[…] “A prime minister who openly admires the Chinese basic dictatorship, who tramples on fundamental rights by persecuting and criminalizing his own citizens as terrorists just because they dared to stand up to his perverted concept of democracy should not be allowed to speak in this house at all,” the lawmaker continued.

Another MEP, Mislav Kolakusic of Croatia, joined in on the harsh denunciation of the Canadian prime minister.

During his floor speech, Kolakusic made specific reference to Freedom Convoy protesters’ controversial encounter with police horses near Parliament Hill when he called out Trudeau’s “tramp[ling] of fundamental values.”

[…] “We watched how you trample women with horses, how you block bank accounts of single parents so they can’t even pay their children’s education and medicine, that they can’t pay utilities, mortgages for their homes,” he charged, adding, “To you, these may be liberal methods, for many citizens of the world, it is a dictatorship of the worst kind.”

[…] another MEP, Cristian Terhes of Romania, protested Trudeau’s speech by refusing to attend the plenary session.

The MEP said in a Facebook post that Trudeau can’t come and “teach democracy lessons to Putin from the European Parliament when you trample with horse hooves your own citizens who are demanding their fundamental rights be respected.”

[…] German MEP Bernhard Zimniok, too, blasted Trudeau, saying the prime minister should not have been invited to speak. By welcoming the prime minister, he argued the body had sent “an invitation to someone who has been trampling on democratic rights.”

This is of course brutal, especially when coming from a body such as the European Parliament. The implications are vast. For instance, it gives huge credibility to worldwide anti-mandate protests.

Trudeau’s justification for his actions, including the invocation of the Emergencies Act, is that it was required to stop the spread of Covid. But as Covid winds down, the Covid mask of fear is slipping. Citizens are seeing their leaders more and more as opportunistic dictators who see themselves as the chosen ones called by fate to save their people from Covid.

With regard to Ardern, not once in my opinion did she even consider the long term effects of her actions in respect of Covid. Not once did she consider the psychological harm of requiring children to wear dehumanising masks and the harm lockdowns would cause; such as, for example, the harm to youth and the harm of social isolation leading to increased suicides, drug abuse and overdoses.

The response of the European Parliament is a sure sign that the worm has turned. Now if only they can get Mallard and Ardern to rock up and get them to try and justify their draconian handling of Covid and the Freedom protesters.

Original article

Did the savage treatment of protestors by Comrade Jacinda and her Police Chiefs get as much coverage as that of Dan Andrews (premier of Victoria, Australia) and Trudeau? No, it seems it was a case of bad timing; overseas media were preoccupied by Ukraine. However, there have been personal messages from overseas friends who were shocked by it. —Eds

“Putting more bureaucracy on businesses won’t close the gender pay gap, the real pay gap we should be worried about is the gap with Australia,” says ACT Leader David Seymour.

“The median hourly wage for New Zealand women is $26.37, while across the ditch you get almost $11 more an hour, $37.02 (NZD).

“The overall gap between New Zealand and Australia: $27.76 compared with $38.52.

“Meanwhile, inflation is lower in Australia, there are even reports Kiwis having their groceries shipped to New Zealand from across the Tasman because it’s cheaper.

“It’s in our DNA to not let Australia win, these figures show they are wiping the floor with us. This is the gap we should be fighting hard to close.

“We should be focussed on boosting productivity, becoming more competitive and creating a healthy economy. Instead, the Government is piling bureaucracy onto businesses who are already tied up in red tape.

“It’s impossible to prove that someone with the same experience and qualifications is worth the same. Some people just work harder and businesses know who these people. 

“If the Government wants to boost wages it stop being so inwardly focused and stop adding red tape, We should be focused on being more competitive. It’s time to take the Aussies on.”

Early last week, a damning report revealed that by the age of 15 two out of five kiwi kids are either only just meeting or failing entirely to meet literacy standards. The report’s author says Friday’s announcement leaves her wanting more because we still don’t know how our curriculum is changing.

Just days later the government’s revealed its strategy to tackle the issue. The strategy aims to provide more signposts for teachers when it comes to what they’re teaching and how to assess tamariki [children], but some have been left wondering where the detail is. 

Tamariki at Natone Park School in Porirua were busy learning on a Friday morning. And just what and how they learn is in for an upgrade with the government releasing a set of strategies for teachers to address the country’s declining literacy and numeracy rates.

“We understand the frustration that they’ve had for quite some time,” Assoc Education Minister Jan Tinetti says. Teachers now can see where we are heading to and that’ll give them some confidence that we have a strategic focus. They’ll play into our wider curriculum refresh which should be rolled out by the end of 2025.”

“Giving teachers a model of common practice and new assessment tools for measuring how kids are tracking. This signals to me that we’re on the right track for the possibility for addressing the declining literacy and numeracy levels in the country,” Natone Primary School principal Daryl Aim says.

There are also specific strategies for teaching numeracy and literacy within Te reo Māori. “The supports are right there, in front of you, so that you can gauge what children need to be learning at their year level,” Natone Primary School deputy principal Ria Millan says.

“We’re never going to see improvement in literacy until we know exactly what it is they’re wanting to happen, so without that detail, it’s very hard to come to a judgement about whether this is going to make a difference for all students,” Education Hub founder Dr Nina Hood says.

“People who are looking for an instant, overnight, what’s the magical solution are ultimately going to be disappointed,” Education Minister Chris Hipkins says, “because turning around our dire reading, writing and math rates is a challenge that will take years.”

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In the early hours of 1 March 2022, Camp Freedom was attacked by a group of armed thugs. Those thugs destroyed and stole private property; a shower block for the health and wellbeing of the people of the Camp, and this was generously built and supplied by Colin Wightman of Eco Cottages. He spoke to Liz Gunn and Liz Lambert later that morning.

Another Hunter Biden depredation revealed. When is this guy going to be put in jail? From Natalie Winters and Raheem J. Kassam at thenationalpulse.com: An investment firm directed by President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden was a leading financial backer of a pandemic tracking and response firm that collaborated on identifying and isolating deadly pathogens […]

EXCLUSIVE: Hunter Biden Bio Firm Partnered With Ukrainian Researchers ‘Isolating Deadly Pathogens’ Using Funds From Obama’s Defense Department. By Natalie Winters and Raheem J. Kassam — STRAIGHT LINE LOGIC

“[This is a report from Sonja Vandenende, a Dutch journalist who was embedded with Russian troops in southeastern Ukraine. Previously, Sonja reported on the ground in Syria for CAM. Her reporting substantiates that of Patrick Lancaster, a Russian-speaking U.S. Navy veteran whose reporting on the war in Donbass for eight years is respected by investigative journalists. […]

“U.S. Media Decries Brutal Russia Invasion of Ukraine—Yet an Intrepid Reporter Finds that the Russians Were Welcomed as Liberators in the Southern Ukrainian City of Henichesk along the Sea of Azov” – Sonja Van den Ende — T.D.D. News

This pic was probably taken the day after Ash Wednesday of her congratulating the Coster Mob in Parliament grounds on their brutality the day before. Is she so paranoid about her enemies that this is now her standard public garb?

In the early hours of the morning of 2 March 2022 — in a police action that will go down in infamy in our history, and which has severely undermined public trust in New Zealand’s police — they descended upon the peaceful people while they were sleeping. There were hundreds of them and the majority had their badge numbers concealed with masking tape.

by Jane Morgan via the BFD

I have always had the utmost respect for the New Zealand police. The men and women of the force who have sworn to serve and protect us, uphold the Law, assist in matters of justice, and keep us safe so we may sleep soundly at night. The men and women who put their safety, well-being and sometimes lives on the line for us.

After witnessing, first-hand, the brutal attacks on innocent and mostly peaceful protesters at Parliament on 2 March 2022, my respect for, and trust in the New Zealand police have been severely eroded.

The level of violence perpetrated on Kiwis by the police was something I never, ever thought I would witness from police on their own people.

In hindsight, perhaps we should have been prepared for their brutality. They had already shown us all what they were capable of, on the third day of the protest – that fateful 10 February 2022 – which saw the rough arrests of 122 peaceful souls, and brutal injuries to many more.

These were the people, and they were merely trying to stand their ground and bravely defend their right to peacefully protest. They were randomly dragged from the crowd, thrown to the ground and beaten – at times, savagely.

Strangely, in the following days, police backed off, possibly because footage of their cruelty had gone viral and had been seen around the world, to much opprobrium. 

Once they realised they needed to be human and humane, police were seen tapping their toes to bands’ music. One officer danced with a young teenage girl. Some were nodding in agreement with speakers who were asking for the mandates to be dropped to ease the People’s suffering, while also calling for someone, anyone, from Parliament to come out and speak with the People.

Despite police on the ground remaining peaceful, however, those in the offices above were rolling out a smear campaign against the protest.

Police and the mainstream media (MSM) lied – daily – about the nature of the protest and the happenings there. They claimed children were playing amongst faeces, or that faeces had been thrown at police, or that elderly people, city workers and children on their way to a nearby school or people wearing masks were being abused.

Oddly there was never any media coverage or evidence of any of that happening.

There was footage of the schoolgirls walking through the Freedom Village laughing together and enjoying themselves in the safety and welcome of it all. There was never one arrest for any of the supposed negative behaviours claimed in repeated reports from MSM. 

I, for one, did not witness anything but love, care, joy and support from any of the protesters in the encampment.

Yes in the first couple of days there were a small few, justifiably angry people there who, through the mandates, had lost their income, their jobs, even their homes, and who talked of being denied access to family, friends and many services. But if any of them began to cause trouble they were quietly calmed down by the wonderful protest security. If they showed determination to escalate matters and damage the prevailing peace, they were escorted off the grounds.

In fact, a police officer interviewed by a member of independent media on 15 February stated that he had been out patrolling the grounds and had not seen any trouble and had no concerns.

Speaking on TVNZ’s Q&A programme on 20 February, Police Commissioner Andrew Coster said police planned to work with protest organisers to try and achieve de-escalation. 

“Police will continue to work with them (protest leaders) in good faith to resolve issues.” “I think the police could clear the protest but the harm caused wouldn’t be acceptable”, Coster added.

He suggested that one tactic would be to use force to drive the crowds away, similar to the force used in the 1980s, during the Springbok Tour, “but that was a low point in New Zealand’s history….violence used during the Springbok Tour meant there had been a loss of trust in police” and he underlined that he wanted to explore all other options.

These promises – and others – from Coster were all to be broken.

Police broke their promise to allow access to the protest for those delivering food and donations and to allow the portaloo truck access to evacuate the loos. Then they took them. Gouging the eyes of a man – later to become known as Portaloo Phil – who was in a chain of people surrounding the loos in an attempt to prevent their removal.

The smear campaign and daily sewer of lies continued.

Police and MSM claimed that waste from the toilets – which ingenious kiwis at the protest had constructed after losing the portaloos – was being pumped into the Wellington harbour. And that sexual assaults had occurred within the camp. Yet Wellington City Council had previously inspected the cleverly-built toilets and already confirmed that they had been plumbed into the sewerage system.

As for the hysteria around MSM reports of sexual assault, no charges have ever been laid, no evidence proferred, and no further mention has been made since by our increasingly shady MSM. 

On 28 February the leader of the Maori Government was contacted by the Police negotiating team asking for an audience to resolve the situation at Parliament.

Arikinui Ripekatangi, on behalf of Pau Arahi Tumuaki, Maori Government Aotearoa Nu Tireni wrote:

On March 1 2022 the Maori Government engaged in good faith discussion with representatives of the protest in Wellington and members of the NZ Police negotiation team. An agreement was made to hold a hui over the weekend of 4/5/6 March 2022 whereby the 2 sides could discuss reasonable, practicable steps to achieve a peaceable resolution.

Part of the agreement was that no hostile action would be undertaken and the email confirming this was sent on behalf of the Maori Government to the NZP on 1 March 2022 at 22.50pm.

That night police removed and trashed the toilets and the generously donated and beautifully built shower block, shipped in earlier to counter despicable government lies about the filth of the protesters.

In the early hours of the morning of 2 March 2022 – in a police action that will go down in infamy in our history, and which has severely undermined public trust in New Zealand’s police – they descended upon the peaceful people while they were sleeping. There were hundreds of them and the majority had their badge numbers concealed with masking tape.

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See also this post. Because of the lack of interest by the police in doing what they are supposed to be there for, instead of being NZ’s Stasi under Comrade Jacinda’s Coster, a Kapiti Theft Victims Facebook self-help group has been set up here —Eds