[Yesterday] morning Liz told us she was waiting for an X-ray on her wrist that was badly damaged last night during her arrest at the Auckland Airport. Our thoughts are with her and Jonathan.
This is the statement Liz sent us:
My hand, arm, elbow, shoulder, neck are all inflamed. The police officer really wanted to hurt me.
We have to build a new NZ, where police thuggery is totally outlawed.
This cop must be held to account – not just for me and the abuse he perpetrated on me, unprovoked, total abuse – but for all of our nation who I call now to be brave and caring Kiwis.
If not, this will be the future these corrupt globalists want – thugs in charge, gratuitous violent and intimidatory.
If we don’t want NZ to become like communist China, now each loyal Kiwi needs to stand up for the democracy that is being stolen from under our noses with each new violation of peaceful and caring people, sanctioned by a corrupted group in Parliament .
We all know something is gravely wrong here in NZ in 2023.
We must stop looking away. Lean in. Stand in unity for a just and honourable and truly caring society.
A year ago it was the gentle good Kiwis of Freedom Village.
Today it’s my pain.
Tomorrow it could be any other normal Kiwi being suddenly and violently brutalised and violated.
We can stop this only through standing up together.
Right now . Stand up !For the country and freedoms you have loved . Unless you do , both are gone.
Be brave.
Do what is morally right. We each know what that is. Listen to what your heart is telling you.
Help save our country and please pray to your God to defend our (once) Free Land.
That natural immunity was better than vaccinations – for all diseases – used to be conventional wisdom, but not nowadays: it’s all about profits for Big Pharma.
From Zachary Stieber at The Epoch Times via zerohedge.com:
Post-infection immunity is superior to protection from covid-19 ‘vaccines’, according to a new study from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) researchers.
Natural immunity, or postinfection immunity, provided 76 percent protection against covid-19-associated hospitalizations while Omicron was the dominant virus strain in the country, the researchers found. A primary series of the Moderna or Pfizer vaccine, in people without a prior infection, provided just 39 percent protection.
Natural immunity also lasted longer at higher levels than both primary series of vaccination and vaccination with a messenger RNA booster on top of a primary series, according to the study. During Omicron predominance, natural immunity against hospitalization was 74 percent 150 or more days after infection. A primary series without prior infection remained just 39 percent protective beyond 149 days, while three doses started at 81 percent protection but waned to just 31 percent after 150 or more days following the third dose.
“Protection from covid-19 mRNA vaccination and/or prior SARS-CoV-2 infection against COVID-19-associated hospitalizations … regardless of variant [was high],” Catherine Bozio of the CDC and the other researchers said. SARS-CoV-2 causes COVID-19.
The agency, which recommends a primary series and a bivalent booster for virtually all Americans 6 months of age and older, regardless of prior infection, did not respond to an email asking if the study’s findings would lead to a recommendation change.
Robert Moffit, a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Health and Welfare Policy, told The Epoch Times that the study’s acknowledgment of natural immunity “is a very significant development.”
“Natural immunity has very direct relevance for federal policy, and really, the vaccine policy, particularly the enforcement of mandates on individuals, not only in the government but also the private sector,” he said.
Amy Benjamin, former AUT Law Lecturer has just shared her thoughts on Liz’s arrest.
True to their disgusting nature, the Stuffers have published a hit piece version of the story, referring to Liz Gunn, naturally, as a ‘Conspiracy Theorist’. No, Ms Boucher et al, she is an investigative journalist committed to exposing the truth about the corruption, lies, obfuscation and disinformation by this government that you are a propaganda arm of.
When Bartali was stopped and searched, he specifically asked that his bike not be touched since the different parts were carefully calibrated to achieve maximum speed. –Citation in a posthumous award to the legendary Italian cyclist
One of Italy’s finest sportsmen
Gino Bartali was one of greatest Italian cyclists of the twentieth century. He had many successes in bike races in Europe in the late 1930s and 1940s, including two victories in the Tour de France and three in the Giro d’Italia.
His victories in the Tour straddled World War Two, and it was in fact during the war that the man and his bike created a legend. The staunchly Catholic Bartali used his machine and training rides to save Jewish people in danger.
A rapid rise to the top
Bartali was born in Florence and took up bike riding at the age of 13. He proved to be a natural and in 1935 aged 21 he turned professional. He quickly became one of Europe’s top cyclists with a number of big race victories:
1935: Italian National Road Championship
1936: Giro d’Italia
1937: Italian National Road Championship and the Giro d’Italia
1938: Tour de France
He has ridden the Tour in 1937 and was the yellow jersey holder when he fell off a bridge in a valley near Briancon. Despite severe cuts and difficulties with his breathing he continued on for a few stages, but was eventually forced to retire.
However he was back the next year and thousands of Italians flocked to France to see him win the most prestigious race in the sport. French commentator Georges Briquet observed ...these people have found a superman.
His success in the 1938 Tour was based on his superb mountain climbing skills. He never danced on the pedals, but used well timed gear changes and the power of his muscular legs to ride over the mountain passes in the seat. His record of winning three Tour mountain stages in a row has never been equaled.
The cyclist at war: dedicated to saving Jews
When war broke out in 1939, Bartali was conscripted and not surprisingly became a bike messenger. Jewish people had lost their civil rights in 1938, but it was not until the German Army moved into northern Italy in 1943 that they were rounded up and sent to concentration camps.
The Cardinal of Florence was a key figure in coordinating operations to help Jewish people escape from Italy. He asked Bartali to assist and the cycling legend quickly agreed. He was a familiar figure biking on the roads of Central Italy and this provided an excellent cover for his secret activities to aid the Delegation for the Assistance of Jewish Emigrants (DELASEM)
Bartali used the handle bars and frames of his bike to conceal his secret cargo. He
collected money from Swiss banks in Genoa
distributed the cash to Jews hiding in Florence
collected photographs and counterfeit identity papers from Jews hiding in convents
delivered the documents to DELASEM who made up passports
observed the movements of troops and police and warned the Jews in safe houses of planned raids.
He constantly risked his life and when stopped by authorities insisted that he was out training and that his bike must not be interfered with. As a national cycling superstar riding in a jersey with his name on, he was able to carry out more than 40 major rides between cities.
In addition to this secret courier work, he also helped individual Jewish people, including his friend Giacomo Goldenberg and his family, hiding them in his apartment and a nearby basement. In the north he led refugees into the Swiss Alps and even transported some in a wagon behind his bike! He told patrols that it was part of his special training!
After the war
Once the war ended, Bartali, now in his 30s, wondered if he could still be competitive at the highest level. The proof came when he entered the Tour de France in 1948. Ten years after his pre-war victory, Gino Bartali won the event again by more than 26 minutes, one of the largest margin in the history of the Tour. The following year he was second.
Right through until his death in 2000, he insisted that his work assisting Jews during the war remain a secret. So it was only in the twenty first century that the courage of this remarkable sportsman became known.
In 2014 Oren Jacob film Don’t Talk About It: Italy’s Secret Heroes was released.
But why did Bartali want his wartime exploits to remain secret? He told his son: If you’re good at a sport, they attach the medals to your shirt and then they shine in some museum. That which is earned by doing good deeds is attached to the soul and shines elsewhere.
The Pentagon is the single largest government consumer of energy, and it’s dependent on fossil fuels. To improve military readiness and help us achieve a #GreenNewDeal, the Pentagon should achieve net zero carbon emissions for all its non-combat bases and infrastructure by 2030.
Says Caitlin Johnstone: “that’s what being a ‘progressive’ Democrat means in 2023: backing the imperial war machine to the hilt … while calling for sustainably powered aircraft carriers and more small businesses in the military-industrial complex. A Ukrainian flag on an electric car. This is the Democratic Party’s true face. This is the Democrats telling you who they really are. Their whole function is to divert all meaningful political movement away from inconvenient areas like demilitarization and economic justice and toward convenient areas like whether there should be solar panels on Abrams tanks.”
