All young people should be encouraged to read real books [not text on little screens], and even better, try creative writing. In fact, not only young people.

from KC News–

A moving novel by local teenager Arlo Kelly is due to be published this month.

Set on a wild East Coast beach, Echo is a story about Eric, a partially-sighted boy who forms an unexpected and secret friendship with a minke whale. It is a gripping tale of friendship, loss and new beginnings during one life-changing summer.

Arlo, who attends Kāpiti College, has been a passionate writer for many years, but this will be his first published novel. His mother, Vida Kelly, is an award-winning book designer and has been delighted to be able to use her skills to help Arlo achieve his dream.

The book will be available for the first time at the Artisan Craft Market in Waikanae Memorial Hall on Saturday 21 May 10-4pm. From the end of May it will be available at Paper Plus and Moby Dickens in Paraparamu, Books & Co in Ōtaki and Good Books, The Children’s Book Shop and Unity in Wellington.

For more see Arlo’s website: https://www.arlokelly.com/

Original article which includes a few reviews

by Guy Hatchard

A look at the New Zealand data released under the Official Information Act

Hundreds of deaths associated with vaccination

Lessons can be learned. National reconciliation is possible.

This release presents the association between weekly vaccination totals and all cause mortality for the 60+ age cohort.

This has only been possible because of our unique situation in NZ. Protected at our borders, we have a very low incidence of Covid and therefore the short-term impact of vaccination on health can be reviewed in isolation from the confounding factors of Covid infections and deaths.

This has been a painful release to write because it involves personal tragedies affecting families and loved ones.

Some of whom are not actually aware of the causes of their loss or in other cases have been misled through preventable mistakes of government and civil servants.

For some time it has been clear that the rate of adverse effects proximate to mRNA Covid vaccination is unprecedented throughout NZ vaccination history.

Adverse effects reported to CARM are running at 30 times that of flu vaccines. It is also apparent that many of the adverse effects are very serious indeed.

Medsafe has continued to maintain that they are unable to determine which effects and deaths are related to vaccination.

I have previously written about indications pointing to a causal relationship between a wide range of adverse effects and vaccination.

Effects range from those already admitted such as myocarditis to others recognised in a leaked Pfizer document dated April 30th 2021 including

• respiratory illness
• internal bleeding
• kidney and liver disease
• neurological disease
• thrombotic events including stroke
• immune suppression
• and many more.

This is not an exhaustive list.

What Does Dr. Ashley Bloomfield Have to Say?

On the 28th October I wrote to Dr. Ashley Bloomfield pointing to the unusually high level of adverse effects and requesting that reporting of adverse effects should be mandatory rather than voluntary.

Yesterday, December 17th, I received a tardy reply from Astrid Koorneef, Director of the National Immunisation programme writing on behalf of Dr Ashley Bloomfield.

In this, Astrid specifically rejects my request saying: “An accurate measurement of all adverse events is not required” and further suggested I confine myself to trusting MoH websites, rather than public domain sources. Her letter offered this view of the determination of causal relationships:

“We are aware of reports circulating in social media where an adverse event has a temporal association with the vaccination.

This is not indicative of a causal relationship to the vaccine. Causal relationships between AEFIs and the vaccine are established through robust pharmacovigilance examinations that take into consideration global reporting of the adverse event, the background rate for the condition, and safety signal analysis.”

In other words, Ashley Bloomfield wants us to believe that an adverse effect rate 30 times that of the flu vaccine is coincidence.

Yet Hill’s standard criteria of medical causality includes repeated temporal association as a criteria of greatest importance. He discusses this first, in his seminal text still in use today.

It cannot be reasonably held, as Astrid asserts on behalf of MoH, that such associations are not indicative.

Speaking as a scientist, the first evidential alert to causality is always temporal association.

Of necessity association should prompt further investigations.

Scientists then ask questions such as:

• Is the association plausible?
• Does it occur in different settings?
• and Are rates of occurrence significant?

To answer these questions mandatory reporting is essential.

Astrid refers to the need for robust pharmacovigilance, this is the name given to safety and assessment protocols used in drug trials.

In drug trials, mandatory reporting is always required. Astrid also states:

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by Conan Tait

An Outlandish Failure

KCDC has just put up its new transport hub plans in the video above. It is a hub where there is no shelter for those transiting from train to bus. In heavy rain passengers will get soaked. The elderly will risk getting pneumonia. The buses are nearly 30 metres from the station as shown in the below KCDC graphic impression.

The desirability of shelter is not only for health and safety, but also making the transit area functional. The recent interchange at Manukau City has the needed shelter. Below are examples of what has been done overseas and are what should be done.

As a frequent user of both bus and train, I know there is nothing worse that getting soaked in moving from one mode of transport to another, then sitting for up to an hour in a train or bus in damp clothing. The designers of this grandiose $9 million Plaza clearly have no knowledge of quality public transport requirements. A designer brusquely told me that 30 metres in the rain was not enough to get wet — it is a short dash. She gave no thought to old folks who aren’t so quick.  

Furthermore, the potential of slipping on wet surfaces and the risk of breaking a bone should be something public space architects pay close heed to. 

What we are going to get

The KCDC website states a great “public plaza will be created.” — a $9 million town centre plaza; one infers it will be another vital tourist attraction in itself, rivalling anything in Spain or Italy.

KCDC should be doing all it can to ensure that public transport is as pleasant as possible. Building a hub that makes travel nasty in bad weather is not pleasant; it ensures bus/train travellers have increased exposure to influenza and broken bones. It is more than just a colossal waste of ratepayer money.

Biden and NATO could have concluded a peace agreement in their proxy war with Russia very early in the conflict if they had wanted to, but they didn’t. They want the war to continue. Meanwhile in Jacindaland, James Shaw & company are waging their own pointless war on farmers.

from Summit News

The Grand Tour presenter, who owns a famous farm shop in the Cotswolds, made the comments in his latest Sunday Times piece.

Clarkson said the situation caused by the war in Ukraine was leading him to suffer sleepless nights and “a few chin-scratching moments of despair.”

The former Top Gear presenter, who also owns a farm which was the basis of his hit Amazon Prime series Clarkson’s Farm, says more and more farmers in the UK are allowing their fields to lie fallow due to soaring fertiliser costs.

“The problem is that next year many farmers will decide that, because of the costs involved, they’ll use less fertiliser,” he wrote. “Some will doubtless try to use none at all. Others will try to use cardboard or lawn clippings or faeces instead. Either way they will produce less food. Some farmers — I know of three in my area alone — have already decided to fallow their fields next year and grow nothing at all.”

“And this is not just happening in the UK. It’s a global phenomenon and it could well result in there being maybe 20 per cent less food in the shops than is necessary. That’s bad. And then it gets worse because, between them, Russia and Ukraine grow more than a quarter of global wheat exports.”

Clarkson worries the world is “hurtling down a well-watered slide into the pit of hunger, misery and death.”

He also slammed the government for failing to adequately respond to the cost of living crisis and cautioned that people can “live without heat or clothing or even sex,” but that “they cannot live without food.”

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from The Saker

1. Summary from the Russian Mod telegram channel

Ideologues of US military-biological activities in Ukraine are the leaders of the Democratic Party.

• Thus, through the U.S. executive branch, a legislative framework for funding military biomedical research directly from the federal budget was formed. Funds were raised under state guarantees from NGOs controlled by the Democratic Party leadership, including the investment funds of the Clintons, Rockefellers, Soros and Biden.

• The scheme involves major pharmaceutical companies, including Pfizer, Moderna, Merck and the US military-affiliated company Gilead. U.S. experts are working to test new medicines that circumvent international safety standards. As a result, Western companies are seriously reducing the cost of research programmes and gaining a significant competitive advantage.

• The involvement of controlled nongovernmental and biotechnological organisations, and the increase in their revenues, allows the leaders of the Democratic Party to generate additional campaign finance and hide its distribution.

• In addition to US pharmaceutical companies and Pentagon contractors, Ukrainian state agencies are involved in military bioweapons activities, whose main tasks are to conceal illegal activities, conduct field and clinical trials and provide the necessary biomaterial.

• Thus, the US Department of Defence, using a virtually internationally uncontrolled test site and the high-tech facilities of multinational companies, has greatly expanded its research capabilities, not only in the field of biological weapons, but also in gaining knowledge about antibiotic resistance and the antibodies to specific diseases in populations in specific regions.

Not only the US, but also a number of its NATO allies are implementing their military-biological projects in Ukraine.

• The German government has decided to launch a national biosafety programme independent of Washington, D.C., starting in 2013. Twelve countries, including Ukraine, are involved in the Programme.

• On the German side, the programme involves the Institute for Armed Forces Microbiology (Munich), the Robert Koch Institute (Berlin), the Loeffler Institute (Greifswald) and the Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (Hamburg).

• New documents reveal that between 2016 and 2019 alone, three and a half thousand blood serum samples of citizens living in 25 regions of Ukraine were taken by military epidemiologists from the Bundeswehr Microbiology Institute.

• The involvement of institutions subordinate to the Bundeswehr confirms the military orientation of biological research carried out in Ukrainian laboratories and raises questions about the goals pursued by the German armed forces in collecting biomaterials of Ukrainian citizens.

• The documents obtained also show the involvement of Poland in Ukrainian biolaboratories. The participation of the Polish Institute of Veterinary Medicine in research aimed at assessing the epidemiological threats and spread of the rabies virus in Ukraine has been confirmed. Characteristically, the research in question was carried out jointly with the US-based Battelle Institute, a key contractor for the Pentagon.

• In addition, Polish funding for the Lvov Medical University, which includes a member of US military biology projects, the Institute of Epidemiology and Hygiene, has been documented. The organisation has been running a retraining programme for specialists with experience of working with dual-use materials and technologies since 2002.

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by Roger Dewhurst

This planet is some 4,500 million years old.  Macroscopic life has been around for about one ninth of that time.  For 4,000 million years there was nothing but volcanic activity, mineral differentiation, solidification  and the emission of carbon dioxide. 

Pontificating on climate on the basis of 60 or 70 years of observation, as the shroud wavers do, is as cretinous and assinine as pontificating on the geography of the entire North Island on the basis of the ground observed between a forefinger and thumb when a hand is placed flat on the ground.  Who is more dangerous to the NZ citizen and ratepayer?  The shroud wavers and shysters who promote this assinine nonsense or the gullible politicians who believe it? 

Remember that our politicians grasped the power to compel us to take the toxic, improperly tested and evaluated Pfizer jab.  Should they have that power?  I do not think so.

from TheLibertyBeacon.com

Large-scale NATO military drills started in Estonia on Monday. The exercise dubbed ‘Hedgehog 2022’ is one of the largest in the Baltic nation’s history, according to the military bloc. The drills will involve some 15,000 troops from 14 nations, including both military bloc members and their partners.

Soldiers from Finland, Sweden, Georgia and Ukraine are among those that will take part in the exercise, Finnish public broadcaster Yle reported. The drills will include all branches of the armed forces and will involve air, sea and land exercises, as well as cyber warfare training, according to the broadcaster.

According to a NATO statement, the drills will also see the US Navy Wasp-class landing ship ‘Kearsarge’ take part in the exercises. Both the military bloc and Estonian Defense Forces deputy commander, Major General Veiko-Vello Palm, have denied that the drills, just over 60km from the Russian border, have anything to do with Moscow’s ongoing military action in Ukraine.

The drills started just a day after Finland and Sweden officially announced their plans to join NATO, and were planned long before the conflict in Ukraine broke out, Western officials have said.

The exercises in Estonia are, however, just one part of NATO’s large-scale military activities near the Russian border. Another Baltic state, Lithuania, is hosting the ‘Iron Wolf’ exercise, which involves 3,000 NATO troops and 1,000 pieces of military equipment, including Germany’s Leopard 2 tanks.

Two of NATO’s biggest exercises – ‘Defender Europe’ and ‘Swift Response’ – are taking place in Poland and eight other countries, involving 18,000 troops from 20 nations, according to NATO’s statement on Friday.

“Exercises like these show that NATO stands strong and ready to protect our nations and defend against any threat,” the military bloc’s spokesperson, Oana Lungescu, said, adding that the drills “help to remove any room for miscalculation or misunderstanding about our resolve to protect and defend every inch of allied territory.”

The NATO Response Force is currently taking part in the 7,500-strong ‘Wettiner Heide’ drills in Germany. The Mediterranean Sea is about to witness ‘Neptune series’ naval drills involving the USS ‘Harry S. Truman’ carrier strike group that will be placed under NATO command. This will only be the second time since the end of the Cold War that a U.S. carrier group has been transferred under the military bloc’s command, NATO has said.

In June, the Baltic States and Poland will host what NATO describes as “Europe’s largest integrated air and missile defense exercise,” which would involve 23 nations.

In late April, Finland hosted NATO naval drills. Now, it is also hosting a joint land exercise, in which troops from the US, the UK, Estonia and Latvia are participating.

The massive military wargames are taking place amid heightened tensions between Russia, NATO and some of the military bloc’s partners. Finland, which shares a long border with Russia, and Sweden decided to reconsider their long-standing policy of non-alignment following a major change in public opinion after the launch of Russia’s attack on Ukraine.

The development sparked a wave of criticism from Moscow, which warned that it would have to respond if Finland and Sweden join NATO. Moscow also maintains that it considers NATO’s expansion as a direct threat to its own security.