from the NZ First website

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1. New Zealand First will not form a government with the Labour Party, whether in Coalition or as a Confidence and Supply partner.
   
2. There will be no change to the age of eligibility for Superannuation under New Zealand First.
   
3. Under New Zealand First vaccine mandates will end.
   
4. Under New Zealand First, we will change all of the woke virtue signaling names of every government department back to English — back to what they were before the academics from university sociology departments started this madness a few years ago.
   
5. Under New Zealand First, we will meet St John funding demands, we will ensure Plunket is funded to do their job properly, we will fund Mike King’s Gumboot Friday charity.  We will ensure Rescue Helicopters and Surf Lifesaving NZ are properly funded.
   
6. We will ensure Pharmac has more funds to get the medication to the people that need it most – but the first thing we are going to do is sort Pharmac out – they will concentrate on performance not puffery.
   
7. Under New Zealand First, if you commit a crime and are part of a gang it will be law that it is an automatic aggravating factor in your sentencing.
   
8. In addition, if you assault a First Responder — police officer, paramedic, firefighter or corrections officer in the course of their duty, there will be an automatic six-month minimum mandatory prison sentence.
   
9. New Zealand First will repeal the Therapeutic Products Act
   
10. New Zealand First will designate gangs ‘Terrorist Entities’ under the Terrorism Suppression Act 2022.
    
11. New Zealand First will invest $100m into transmission upgrades as a means to enable economic growth.
    
12. New Zealand First will collaborate with local council to develop the Dargaville Aerodrome.
    
13. We support a Waste to Energy plant to be located in Northland in place of the Dome Valley rubbish dump.
    
14. We support moving the Ports of Auckland operations to Northport and establishing a Naval base in the area.
    
15. We will take GST off basic foods including fresh food, vegetables, meat, dairy, and fish.
    
16. We will establish a dedicated gang prison to minimise prison recruitment of non gang members.
    
17. We will ensure tax income brackets are adjusted to inflation.
    
18. We will provide tax incentives to promote added value. 
    
19. Get people, who have spent years on the dole, back to work.
    
20. New Zealand First is going to restore education and stop indoctrination by removing gender ideology from the curriculum, especially from primary school. 
    
21. New Zealand First will fund residential care for the aged. 
    
22. We will establish a drydock in Northport to supplement plans to expand Northport and establishing a Naval base.
    
23. New Zealand First will connect the railway to Marsden Point and Northport from the Northern Main Trunk line
    
24. Ensure a full scale, wide ranging, independent, one year inquiry conducted publicly with local and international experts, into how the Covid pandemic was handled in New Zealand, including covering:
    • Use of multiple lockdowns,
    • Vaccine procurement and efficacy,
    • The social and economic impacts on both regional and national levels, and
    • Whether the decisions made, and steps taken, were justified.
      
      This inquiry must not be run by Parliament, nor be restricted and narrow in its scope.  This must be a public and wide-ranging inquiry – so that New Zealanders will know the truth and be properly informed.
      
25. New Zealand First will provide a four lane highway alternate for the Brynderwyns
    
26. New Zealand First is announcing a policy to prepare a bid to hold the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Christchurch.
    • Last week Victoria pulled out of the commonwealth games in 2026, as did Alberta for the 2030 games. The Commonwealth comprises 56 countries – far more than half of a majority in the UN. 
    • Using the fiscal planning of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games, which ran at a profit, we could rightly ask the Commonwealth for financial help, and have the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Christchurch – as we once did in 1974. 
    • It is an opportunity to showcase Christchurch and the South Island to the Commonwealth and the rest of the world. Organised properly, along the lines of the Los Angeles Olympic Games, it won’t be a cost, but a benefit, with a levelling up of Infrastructure and Employment for the Canterbury Region.
27. New Zealand First is calling for a referendum in this year’s election, for an immediate start of a four-year parliamentary term beginning in 2023.
    • One of New Zealand’s problems is that unlike most democracies, our parliamentary term is too short. And New Zealand First believes it should be four years, not three.
    • However, that should not be the decision of political parties, but you the New Zealand voter.
    • Governments are hardly election when too much of the time is campaign and not fixing up the country’s problems and creating a better future.
    • A simple Bill can be submitted to parliament next week and pass all readings before the rise of parliament this term.
28. Repeal newly implemented ‘National Policy Statement” (NPS)indigenous biodiversity,
    • The NPS took legal effect on August 7th with vague and open to interpretation references. It institutes co-governance and Tangata Whenua consensus decision making into environmental law. This major shift in our law threatens our primary sector.
    • The NPS is a major setback for all land-based industries including mining, and fails to give equal weighting to economic, ecological, social, and cultural factors.
    • It will undermine investment and hobble the ability for farmers to operate unless they get permission from local government. Regional towns and households will suffer, as environmental activists and ongoing litigation stall farming, mining, and overall efficiency.
    • New Zealand First will repeal the NPS and to give farmers back their flexibility, to adjust their activities, to maximise economic value. No one especially farmers, or for that matter Māori on the land, voted for Tangata Whenua co-governance in our Resource management act.
29. Commitment to Tiwai Point Aluminium Smelter: New Zealand First will oppose any idea of closure and keep Tiwai Point Aluminium Smelter open.
    • New Zealand First will commit to a 20-year agreement with Tiwai Point, with a 10-year review, for a fair electricity cost for the smelter based on the cost of  supply and a respectable margin.
    • Ensure that New Zealand procurement priority applies to our aluminium and not give preference to junk aluminium coming from offshore.
30. Stewart Island Salmon Farm – exempt aquaculture from the ‘Coastal Policy Statement 2010’:
    • New Zealand First will, with protections, to exempt aquaculture from the 2010 Coastal Policy Statement – which has been stopping progress and development of a much-needed aquaculture industry.
    • The salmon farm off Stewart Island will proceed and create jobs and wealth for the region and New Zealand.
31. New Zealand First will ensure no men are in women’s spaces or sports
    1. Public Bathrooms and Changing Rooms: We will pass legislation to ensure that all new public organisations that provide publicly used facilities, including in areas of sport, education or commercially, must provide separate, clearly demarcated, unisex and single sex bathrooms. In addition, all current provision of publicly used facilities will not allow anyone access to facilities which are designed for the opposite sex use.
    2. Public Funding for Sports: We will pass legislation to ensure any publicly funded sporting body that does not have an exclusive biological female category, where ordinarily appropriate, shall be immediately ineligible for any public funding.
32. United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People
    • The National/Act/Māori Party signed up to UNDRIP in 2010 – that obligated a response from government in 2019 – the starting point and origin of the He Puapua report – which was deceitfully hidden from New Zealand First by Labour, and released publicly a month after the 2020 election.
    • If New Zealand First had seen that final report then we would have rejected UNDRIP, as we did in 2007.
    • UNDRIP and He Puapua are race-based preference, imposed on us not by the UN, but by New Zealand politicians from every other party continuing to agree to it. It threatens our constitution and democracy.
    • New Zealand First will formally withdraw New Zealand from UNDRIP, and its imposed race-based obligations, and restore our country’s constitutional sovereignty and democracy.
    • Pulling out of UNDRIP will consign He Puapua to the rubbish bin of racism.
33. English as an Official Language
    • New Zealand First will introduce in parliament’s first sitting week, legislation to make English an official language of New Zealand.
    • Amazingly, few people know that English is not even an official language of New Zealand. There are currently only two official languages.  Māori, and Sign Language.
    • Being that we are an English-speaking country, it is bizarre, but this is how far this extremism has taken our country.

“Motorists on Transmission Gully should be able to travel at the speed the road was engineered for,” says ACT’s Transport spokesperson Simon Court.

“Written Parliamentary Questions answered by the Minister of Transport confirm that Transmission Gully was engineered with a speed limit of 110 km/h in mind, but in order for this to be approved it needs to undergo a ‘speed management review’ from Waka Kotahi, who currently have no plans to undertake one.“

Labour has put seven times the length of New Zealand under speed management review in the past few years, but all they seem to want to do is lower limits.

“This is the rare example of a piece of modern roading infrastructure that can speed up Kiwis’ journeys. Waka Kotahi should be actively trying to have it used to its full potential.

“It doesn’t need to be this way. The Waikato Expressway is a great example of a road that supports a thriving economy and healthy communities — safe, efficient and with a 110 km/h speed environment.

“ACT will keep standing up for Kiwis who have places to be and stuff to do. We need the country to grow, not go slow.”

Note: Transmission Gully written Parliamentary Questions and Answers found here.

Hawaii has long been among the [safest] of states for Democrats. No doubt most Hawaiian citizens voted for Biden. That may be changing.

Hawaiians, particularly those on the island of Maui, are not happy with Joe. First he insulted them by coldly stating ‘no comment’ after the devastating fire in Lahaina. At the time, Joe was enjoying still yet another vacation on a beach in Delaware. Joe’s ‘no comment’ period stretched a full week, and then another week passed before outrage forced him to travel to our 50th state.

Biden actually made lame jokes including one about the ground underneath his feet being ‘hot, man!’ He proposed giving burned-out residents $700 and tied it to even more billions of taxpayer dollars being sent to Ukraine. Then, perhaps in some effort to ‘connect’ with the residents, Biden spewed his lie about almost losing his wife to a kitchen fire. Thank goodness she was saved by a fireman—along with his cat and rare Corvette! This was an ugly insult to those who lost everything—including children.

Biden’s motorcade was met with well-deserved curse words and stiff middle digits erupting from citizens on the island. Aloha, Joe.

— Ben Garrison

by Simon O’Connor, National MP

By now, you will all hopefully know about the government forcing through its changed to Three Waters and to the RMA.  Last week, Labour moved the parliament into Urgency to ram through is very contentious Three Waters legislation.  While they have made a few changes, these do not take away form the core problems of the law which is creating a highly bureaucratic system and one divided by race.  The good news is that National will repeal within the first 100 days of winning the election.

The same is true around the Resource Management Act (RMA) changes.  Labour has passed two laws to replace the RMA.  All this will do is make an already grindingly slow system, stall.  So many new, quasi-spiritual concepts, are introduced that is going to take courts, developers, home owners, and you and me years and lots of money to work through.  Again, National will repeal within the first 100 days, returning to the old RMA and then working on a few fit for purpose set of laws.

Alongside this, Labour have also announced two other crazy policies and ideas.  One is around reducing the voting age (in council elections) to 16 and other around a 12 cents a litre fuel tax.  The proposed legislation around 16 year olds voting in council elections was dropped late on Thursday last week, with no press release or anything.  It won’t surprise you that I don’t support the idea for many reasons, but the key take away is a government that is clearly now paranoid and desperate.  If Labour was confident of its ideas, then why try and slip the law into Parliament without comment?  Put another way, why is this “most open and transparent government ever” so secretive?

As for the new twelve cents a litre tax on fuel, this is based on Labour’s new transport policies. As you will anticipate, the new tax is to pay for their proposals.  But as we know, Labour hasn’t and cannot deliver anything.  If we take just transport, they have talked big about the light rail to the airport or a cycleway over the Harbour Bridge and yet done absolutely nothing — other than spend millions on consultants.

In contrast, and as I write, National has just announced it will fund thirteen new pharmaceuticals for cancer treatment.  New Zealand is already way behind when it comes to other countries in this space, so this is a really positive step forward.  You can read more at www.national.org.nz/cancer

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In the past 24 hours I have discovered what life is like if you are a high profile health professional that dares to speak against #bigpharma and #CovidVaccines

The (paid) trolls largely leave ME alone because I'm "small fry" in terms of prestige and status…

and I'm not a… pic.twitter.com/Z9sR3GVYuJ

— NZ and the MRNA (@HopeRising19) August 22, 2023

Meteorologist and founder of the Weather Channel, John Coleman, utterly demolishes the human-induced "climate emergency" narrative, in under three minutes.

"There is no significant man-made global warming now, there hasn’t been any in the past and there’s no reason to expect any… pic.twitter.com/yEDovRXoXX

— Wide Awake Media (@wideawake_media) August 23, 2023

by Caitlin Johnstone

One of the worst mistakes you can make when formulating your understanding of the world is to begin with the assumption that the truest and most accurate position must lie somewhere near the center of the two major political perspectives you see laid out all around you. 

It’s a mistake not only because assuming that the center position must be the best one is a type of fallacious reasoning known as the middle ground fallacy (the correct position between “Drink a gallon of bleach daily for good health” and “Drink zero bleach daily for good health” is not “Drink half a gallon of bleach daily for good health”); it’s also a mistake because the entire framing arises from a situation that has been artificially engineered by the powerful.

It’s a well-documented fact that the rich and powerful pour vast fortunes into manipulating the political and media landscape in ways that serve their interests. Their control over the news media and Silicon Valley tech platforms is used to set the agenda and influence public perception by determining what issues will receive attention and which won’t in ways that preserve the political status quo they’ve built their empire upon, thereby shrinking the Overton window of acceptable debate down to a very narrow spectrum whose outcomes can’t threaten their interests in any way.

"Normal human beings
– whose brains haven’t been turned to clam chowder by propaganda from either mainstream faction – would much prefer to avoid giant world-threatening confrontations between any nuclear-armed nations." https://t.co/mUIQO8eLzc

— Brunapper (@brunapper) August 22, 2023

We just discussed this dynamic with regard to US aggressions against Russia and China; the Overton window is being narrowed to a debate between which US enemy should be the target of the most imperial aggressions, with voices who advocate detente with both countries finding no platform in mainstream politics or media. This is what Noam Chomsky was talking about when he said “the smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.”

Full piece

This is a good time for planting. See Wally Richards’ articles.

from nzdsos.com

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New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science (NZDSOS) has recently filed for a High Court Judicial Review of the use of the “Guidance Statement” by the Medical Council of New Zealand (MCNZ) to threaten doctors into obedience to the government dictates. The MCNZ has investigated and prosecuted those who disagreed or voiced concerns about the Covid response, as well as those doctors who prescribed ivermectin. Some have been forced out of medicine.

Our lawyers are confident that the MCNZ acted unlawfully.Fundamental to the protection of the people of New Zealand is the question of whether the MCNZ has lost any moral authority it had, and whether it is now just another arm of the government – one that has lost the trust of it’s people and is pushing draconian laws through in a desperate flurry of authoritarianism before being unceremoniously thrown out as the worst government this country has seen.

Has the MCNZ lost all Moral Authority?

When an individual goes to see a doctor, trust is needed. Individuals cannot question or research every action and recommendation made in a consultation. Furthermore, not only is trust in the doctor necessary, but also in the supervision of doctors, which ultimately falls to the Medical Council of New Zealand (MCNZ). It would be untenable for both doctors and patients if it was the patient’s responsibility to check the doctor’s degrees and continuing professional development. An authority that oversees the fitness of doctors to practice is thus required. However, what happens if the authority, the MCNZ, is no longer trustworthy?

The role of the MCNZ in New Zealanders’ health

The MCNZ states that it’s role is to “protect and promote public health and safety in New Zealand” and that its funding comes from the registration fees that doctors pay. The Council is governed by the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 (HPCAA), which requires it to authorise the registration of doctors, review their ongoing competency and set standards of clinical and cultural competence, and  specifically charges it with upholding medical ethics. The MCNZ is required to issue Annual Practicing Certificates for every practicing doctor. Furthermore it may only exercise its rights and power for the purpose of performing its functions.It is interesting that the HPCAA states that its principle purpose “is to protect the health and safety of members of the public” (our italics). However, the MCNZ states that its role is to protect and promote public health and safety. Is the MCNZ less concerned about individuals, justifying its actions as being for the good of all (the public)? Is this in line with the intent of the HPCAA?

Is the MCNZ independent from the Government?

The MCNZ has 11 members on its council, plus chair Dr Curtis Walker, registrar and the CEO. It is a requirement that three members of the council are lay people. Concerningly, the HPCAA states that the minister may appoint up to 14 members by notice in the Gazette (read, by decree) while only one health practitioner needs to be elected by its members! Council members are elected for three years.

We note that up until some time in 2022, the lay people consisted of a lawyer, a consultant and a businessman who had also been a member of the osteopathic council. The lay people on the council are now made up of three lawyers and a consultant who has worked mainly for government and NGOs. There is now no “ordinary” New Zealander representing patients on the Medical Council. We wonder if the Medical Council or the Minister of Health and/or overseas interests are deliberately moving the focus of the council away from the medicine provided by doctors to individual patients to that of medicine that can be coerced onto individuals and whole populations, in the name of public health.

NZDSOS has considerable confirmed evidence of cooperation between the Ministry of Health (MoH) and the MCNZ.

In the middle of the pandemic, as some doctors were trying to offer promising treatments, Dr John Crawshaw, Medical Officer of Health in the Ministry of Health, wrote directly to Dr Curtis Walker, chair of the MCNZ informing him of doctors trying to import ivermectin, a perfectly legal action. Dr Crawshaw went on to state that ivermectin is not authorised for the treatment of Covid (we note it didn’t need to be) and the importation of this could be an offence under the Medicines Act. It is worth noting that no doctors have been charged under this act, but that the MCNZ are undertaking their own investigations following this commuication.

Furthermore, an OIA [Official Information Act request] has uncovered correspondence between Dr Ashley Bloomfield, the then Director General of Health, and Joan Simeon, the MCNZ CEO, regarding an NZDSOS member making videos about Covid.  Ms Simeon states that there is a potential risk of harm to public health (note again she does not mention individuals but the all-encompassing public), a statement that comes very close to a medical assessment by a lay person. She goes on to state that the MCNZ would like to work with the MoH in their approach to this doctor.

On a side note the OIA correspondence linked above also states that the “vaccine” would be independently tested and that vaccination would not be mandatory. Both of these statements would be shown to be false, and likely knowingly so at the time. Dr Bloomfield goes on to reassure recipients of his e-mail that Medsafe’s approval is the culmination of “rigorous assessment” and informed “by the most up-to-date medical and scientific data”. We now know that Medsafe declined to approve the vaccine and referred its approval to New Zealand Medicine Assessment Advisory Committee, another shadowy body “advising” the government.

On their website the MCNZ states that is is independent from government – to protect our rights. Oh the irony!

Not only did Dr Curtis Walker fail to defend the right of doctors to prescribe and import medication for off-label use, but he failed to protect New Zealanders. It is hard not to see an overly close relationship between this government and the MCNZ.

Did the MCNZ Act Outside the Letter and Intent of the HPCAA?

As noted above, the MCNZ may only exercise its rights and power for the purpose of  protecting the health and safety of members of the public. The MCNZ does not have the power to tell doctors what they are allowed to say or prescribe, outside of existing statutes like the Bill Of Rights Act and the Medicines Act and prescribing regulations.In issuing the now notorious “Guidance Statement” on Covid-19 vaccination, it firmly placed itself between patients and doctors, and their right to free speech. Furthermore, if doctors were to follow the guidance statement, they would be in breach of the MCNZ Statement on Informed Consent which was changed in 2021, interestingly, and now differs from the chapter on Informed Consent in the Cole’s Medical Practice in New Zealand.Moreover, the MCNZ used its “Guidance Statement” on Covid-19 vaccination in action against doctors who questioned the country’s Covid response. This statement is in no way legally binding but they have proceeded as if it is, presumably to threaten other doctors into obedience. The courts have told them they should stop. We have seen no evidence of this as they continue to investigate doctors, send them to the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal and to “re-education”.

What Other Organisations Influence the MCNZ?

We have written previously about the likely influence of a shadowy body, the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) and it’s international arm, the International Association of Medical Regulatory Authorities (IAMRA). These are private organisations whose secretive donors are very likely promoting pharmaceutical interests in the bodies that govern not only US doctors, but doctors across the world.

The MCNZ CEO, Joan Simeon, is chair-elect of IAMRA and Dr Curtis Walker, the chair of the MCNZ, is a member of the FSMB Workgroup on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Medical Regulation and Patient Care. How is it possible that being part of private organisations that seek to influence medical regulation across the world is not a conflict of interest, or indeed thinly veiled corruption?

The MCNZ Has Lost in Court – Every Time

In choosing to toe the government line regarding the Covid response, instead of protecting New Zealanders, the MCNZ has been found to be overreaching its authority in suspending three NZDSOS doctors. Doctors Alison Goodwin, Peter Canaday and Matt Shelton all had their suspensions reversed. This is even more significant given the apparent judicial leniency towards authorities in the “emergency of the pandemic”.

They will now be required to justify their actions using the “Guidance Statement” to investigate and prosecute doctors.

Medicine and Trust

It is a sad state of affairs that many Kiwis no longer trust medicine and by extension, the MCNZ. Individuals no longer trust their own doctors or the New Zealand medical system. Even sadder is that they may not even get through the door if they needed to, given the sorry state the Covid response has caused in health care.

Indeed, we have reports of many complaints to the MCNZ regarding registered doctors who provided information supporting the Covid response that could be deemed false or medically harmful during the pandemic. We know that these complaints, if they were in line with this government’s actions, were binned well before they reached the council members.

How is it possible that doctors asking questions regarding the Covid response were investigated on flimsy complaints, but doctors who encouraged the narrative were not? How is it that politicians, media personalities, influencers, sports personalities etc who were all practicing medicine without a licence, faced no sanctions or consequences, while qualified, experienced doctors were silenced and not able to provide their professional medical opinions? How are New Zealanders to trust the MCNZ?

It appears that the MCNZ has lost both legal and moral authority to protect the health of New Zealanders and administer doctors.

In exploring a just and fair medical system, NZDSOS has examined ethical and moral factors that go beyond providing evidence-based medicine (important of course), while providing competent health care. NZDSOS calls on the current Medical Council members to immediately step down and offers its services to guide the process of setting up better and fairer practitioner oversight and protection of members of the public.

If you share our concerns, please talk to the candidates in this year’s election. Ask them how they are going to reform the MCNZ so that it becomes a truly independent authority that Kiwis can trust to guard medical ethics.