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The Risks of Biotechnology Deregulation are Unquantifiable

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The Gene Technology Bill currently being introduced into the New Zealand parliament and fast tracked will allow for the appointment of a regulator to categorise gene edited products by risk.

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The bill has already deemed a wide range of gene editing techniques as ‘low risk’ which will be proceeded, released into the environment, put into food or used in medicine without labelling, warnings or safety monitoring. In effect this will turn New Zealand into a laboratory for largely unfettered gene experimentation leaving the public at the sharp end of risk. So what are the risks and how do you assess them when it comes to gene editing?

In practice there are no standards for safety in biotechnology that actually work. The lesson of the pandemic is clear. Highly pathogenic gene edited products can escape the laboratory, they can spread without limit and can’t be recalled or mitigated. It is hard to escape the reality that no laboratories are completely secure. To err is human, mistakes are inevitable.

In contrast, the proposed New Zealand legislation reads like a gentleman’s club agreement:— We are all jolly fine knowledgeable fellows who have high aims and unimpeachable standing so we should be allowed to do whatever we want. The recent history of biotechnology experimentation points to the growth of this ‘anything goes’ ethic, extending to exotic clandestine projects and in some cases military involvement. Our government is naive if it thinks it can control local projects and foreign exploitation with its ‘regulation lite’. An article in the Guardian entitled ‘It’s game over for facts’: how vibes came to rule everything from pop to politics puts the post pandemic mood into context. If I feel its OK it must be. The Gene Technology Bill fits this criteria exactly.

At the moment, the global commercial gene editing industry is supposed to be self-policed by the researchers and corporates involved. The extent to which this doesn’t work is illustrated by an article in the UK Guardian on 12 December entitled ‘Unprecedented risk’ to life on Earth: Scientists call for halt on ‘mirror life’ microbe research. A 38 strong international group of Nobel laureates and other distinguished bioscientists have warned that “mirror bacteria, constructed from mirror images of molecules found in nature, could become established in the environment and slip past the immune defences of natural organisms, putting humans, animals and plants at risk of lethal infections that could spread without check”.

The DNA of all living organisms is made from “right-handed” nucleotides, while proteins, the building blocks of cells, are made from “left-handed” amino acids. Why nature works this way is unclear. Yet without beginning to understand what might be at stake, bioscientists have started programmes to construct mirror microbes with left-handed nucleotides and right-handed proteins. The concerns over the technology are revealed in a 299-page report and a commentary in the journal Science.

The report concludes “We therefore recommend that research with the goal of creating mirror bacteria not be permitted, and that funders make clear that they will not support such work.”

The most interesting feature of this concern is its origin. Dr Kate Adamala, a synthetic biologist at the University of Minnesota and co-author of the report, was working towards a mirror cell but changed tack last year only after studying the risks in detail out of curiosity. In other words, researchers have been busy starting projects without considering the risks. The scary side of this is the fact that tens of thousands of biotechnology projects are in progress around the world without any adequate assessment of risk.

The Gene Technology Bill calls for assessments of proportionate risk. I’m stumped, proportionate to what—the end of the world? Proportion is a mathematical concept, but even some of the world’s most recognisable bioscientists have been caught out and are now trying to play catch-up following a huge mistake themselves. They’ve had to resort to public appeals after the fact in journals and newspapers calling for bans, calls that will no doubt be completely ignored in some quarters. If they can’t get it right, what hope is there for our government appointed local regulator? A little person cast adrift in a wild sea. We need to go back to fundamentals and start to understand the risks in a broader context.

The biological sciences have misconstrued the nature of physical reality

The biotechnology paradigm has adopted a mechanical approach to understanding life. The model requires understanding life in terms of billiard ball chains of cause and effect—interaction and outcomes—by specific molecular structures. Ultimately the DNA is conceived as a blueprint, a repository of all that is needed to maintain the life of an organism. Simply put, DNA can receive requests and supply answers in the form of molecules which can be distributed through identifiable channels in the physiology.

An analogy will help make this clear. A vending machine contains a lot of different drinks. You can place money in the machine and identify the required drink by pushing a specific button. DNA in the cell nucleus is conceived as playing a similar role, it contains tens of thousands of genes which encode for thousands of protein types. DNA is interrogated by RNA in the cytoplasm (cell body) by a process known as transcription whereby the required protein is produced from specific genes, which then eventually fulfils a need in the wider physiology.

In practice, the processes involved are nowhere near that simple. There are forty million proteins in the cytoplasm. Information is transferred across and into and out of the cell not just by the chemical composition of protein molecules but by other processes including molecular shape resulting from types of protein folding, molecule vibrational modes, water soluble properties, energy levels, electromagnetic field properties, electrical conductivity, surface lock and key properties, etc. The total picture is not understood, far from it, This lack or imprecision of our knowledge about intra-cellular and inter-cellular processes is a great source of risk itself when it comes to gene editing.

Moreover a single gene does not encode for a single protein, Genes are multi-tasking. Multiple genes work together to form proteins in multiple different ways. In other words, editing one gene will have effects across multiple biological pathways. There are always off target and unintended effects of gene editing, no matter how precise the editing. The Gene Technology Bill completely ignores this by exempting some gene editing techniques from regulation.

More importantly, the biological sciences paradigm suffers significantly from the compartmentalisation of science and knowledge in general. Although we humans view life and nature from the different perspectives of physics, chemistry, etc…, life is one continuous whole governed by laws of nature working at different time and distance scales. Biological laws cannot be separated from the findings of other disciplines.

Laws of nature are hierarchical. At smaller time and distance scales there is more organising power and more connection over greater distances—in a sense space shrinks. Fundamental physical laws such as gravity apply equally at every point in creation. Curiously, at smaller time and distance scales there is also more uncertainty. Things that we tend to take for granted such as specific positions in space and moments in time, velocities and energies become subject to uncertainties. Moreover their behaviour is linked to the presence of an observer.

Biological systems are continuously tied into fundamental physical laws and in a very real sense emerge from them. Their properties manifest in biological systems. The 37 trillion cells in the average human being are not standalone, they are interconnected. Together they support a single observer. How this is achieved is not understood or even consistently investigated by the biological sciences. This implies that any risk to human life as a whole including our sentient and self-reflective characteristics cannot even begin to be assessed, as the warning reported by the Guardian article begins to hint.

We can push our analogy a little further if we like, imagine trillions of vending machines each offering millions of drinks all linked and networked together without the help of any drinks re-supplier, that are capable of acting in a way that supports and protects the network in every location simultaneously. You can see we are no longer describing a mechanical system, but an intelligent self-referral system—life.

Will our immune responses protect us?

Proponents of ‘low-risk’ categories of biotechnology experimentation support their arguments with reference to Darwinian notions of evolution. They say that life evolves through accidental or random gene mutations which turn out to be advantageous for an organism. It is true that damage to genes occurs readily. Studies showgenetic information is constantly being attacked by intrinsic and extrinsic damaging agents, such as reactive oxygen species, atmospheric radiation, environmental chemicals, and chemotherapeutics. This can cause cancer, neurological disease and premature aging. In fact every cell repairs DNA tens of thousands of times every day. The implication is obvious: gene editing is not inherently evolutionary, it is inherently destructive.

So can we rely on our natural gene repair and immune response mechanisms to protect us and clean up genetic damage or mistakes as proponents of low-risk biotechnology classifications suggest? The answer is no for very good reasons. An analogy will make this clear. Many countries have air defence systems to protect them from missile attack. These function tolerably well in the event of small scale attacks, but they break down if hundreds of missiles arrive simultaneously. A highly pathogenic viral organism can multiply without limit once it has escaped as happened during the pandemic. Injections of gene therapy components can affect billions of cells simultaneously. Mass substitution of feed or food ingredients can lead to illness as happened in the case of mad cow disease. To be commercially viable, biotech product research specifically aims for mass release and as quickly and universally as possible. This inevitably raises the risk profile. Life is naturally reproductive and biotechnology is aiming to alter what is reproduced. Remember cancer starts with a single-cell genetic mutation which then reproduces and grows.

All this means there should be no go areas for biotechnology research. Genetic interventions that cross the cell membrane have the potential to disrupt the whole organism in unpredictable ways. At risk is our fundamental connection with the underlying laws of nature, the underlying intelligence of nature. We are not independent agents, we are part of a whole system. As John Donne wrote in 1624 and which today rings just as true

No man is an island,

Entire of itself;

Every man is a piece of the continent,

A part of the main.

If a clod be washed away by the sea,

Europe is the less,

As well as if a promontory were:

As well as if a manor of thy friend’s

Or of thine own were.

Any man’s death diminishes me,

Because I am involved in mankind.

And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;

It tolls for thee.

Biotechnology deregulation legislation coming to New Zealand is indeed world leading. As its government proponents including Prime Minister Chris Luxon, Minister of Business Innovation and Employment Judith Collins, Leader of the ACT Party David Seymour, and Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters envision, but it is leading in entirely the wrong direction towards greater risk not away from it.

The fact that risky biotechnology experimentation is growing around the world is not something to encourage or normalise. Independently written recent articles in both the UK Telegraph and US Washington Post have reported scientists describing the risks of biotechnology experimentation as greater than the risks of nuclear war. Yet you can order deadly pathogens by mail in the US. Do we want or need that here?;

New Zealand has had a world leading precautionary legislative HSNO framework which has had some protective effects. In the light of recent developments in gene technology this legislation needs to be strengthened not abandoned. New Zealand has the advantage of geographic isolation and an efficient farming system that is the envy of the world. This is not something to be casually placed in the hands of a naive government appointed regulator by legislation that doesn’t understand, discuss or specify the risks, merely promising everything will all be OK if it is left to chance. What sort of encouragement of negligence is that? 

The 2001 Royal Commission on Genetic Modification published a 450 page report on the complex issues involved. The submissions are still relevant today. It endorsed the precautionary principle—the requirement for proof of safety before use or release which is now being abandoned by the Gene Technology Bill. In the meantime, the known risks of genetic modification of organisms have clearly increased in dimension severity and scope, not decreased.

No one needs to have a naive approach to these risks, farmers being sold on opportunities for enhanced productivity and profit should think again. They are the victim of public relations hype, the real aim is commercial exploitation controlled via plant and product patents and government mandated use, without consideration of risk or safeguards. Doctors and medical professionals need to learn the lessons of the pandemic. These lessons were bought with millions of human lives, they should not be ignored in the face of ministerial stupidity and cupidity.

Write to your MP and say no to the Gene Technology Bill. For more information see our report Response to Expert Opinions Issued by the Science Media Centre in Support of the Gene Technology Bill or go to the GE Free NZ website.

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Response to Expert Opinions Issued by the Science Media Centre in Support of the Gene Technology Bill

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Formal Response to the Expert Opinions Issued by the Science Media Centre in Support of the Gene Technology Bill introduced to Parliament.

For the Attention of: Media, Biotech Researchers, Members of Parliament and Cabinet.

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A Public Resource

Author: Guy Hatchard PhD was formerly Director of Natural Products at Genetic ID (now FoodChain ID) a global food safety testing and certification company. He presented to the original Royal Commission on Genetic Modification in New Zealand during 2000 which helped to clarify the safety ground rules and labelling requirements for Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) which currently form a part of the New Zealand Hazardous Substances and New Organisms legislation. Dr. Hatchard is retired and has no financial interest in the outcomes of the current legislative initiative to deregulate biotechnology experimentation.

The Gene Technology Bill currently before Parliament introduces reforms to gene technology rules, reducing restrictions for scientists to work with biotechnology. It opens new avenues to commercialise the results of biotechnology research. It establishes a ‘low-risk’ classification for biotechnology research, applications and releases. Thereby it seeks to bypass the current requirement for labelling of GMOs. It devolves decisions about biotechnology safety to a government appointed regulator, rather than specific provisions of legislation.

The New Zealand Science Media Centre (SMC) is funded by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, the same government department that is introducing the Gene Technology Bill. It has published two ‘Expert Opinion’ Media releases in support of the Bill see here (15 February 2024) and here (December 10 2024).

Since 2000 the safety considerations pertinent to biotechnology research, applications and releases have changed considerably. There has been much new research published. There have been advances in our understanding of genetic structures and functions, both in the human body and nature at large. There has been a proliferation of biosynthetic compounds in the food chain and in medicine. The global commercial biotechnology sector has grown exponentially. It has been estimated to be valued at NZ$2 trillion in 2023 employing considerably more than 1 million people. For all these reasons it is certainly time for a review of the biotechnology safety legislation. Therefore this is one of the most important reports we are publishing in 2024. It is intended to inform and update public opinion on many of the key issues.

Containment

We have arrived at an extraordinary crossroads in the field of public health. For the last five years, the COVID-19 pandemic has dominated the sector. There is a growing consensus that the COVID-19 virus was generated by a biotechnology ‘gain-of function’ research programme based in Wuhan China whose products subsequently escaped. The very obvious evidence of the pandemic has been that biotechnology cannot be 100% contained, inevitable mistakes can spread without limit and cannot be recalled. This is a very salutary lesson that must not be ignored. Biotechnology deregulation runs counter to the lessons of the pandemic.

Whether one supports the lab leak theory, as does the US government and a number of prominent biotechnologists, or whether one adheres to the idea of a zoonotic origin is largely irrelevant. The very fact that there is uncertainty and that no actual animal source has been discovered, reveals a great deal about the lack of certainty in our current understanding of the mobility and stability of novel genetic structures and pathogens.

Public Health

The rapid spread of COVID-19 was followed by the global roll out of a number of experimental biotech vaccines after an emergency suspension of regulatory safeguards. These vaccines did not meet the promised standards of efficacy or safety. Their use and the circumstances under which they were mandated is currently the subject of intense global scientific debate and public interest. The true extent of their impact cannot be assessed without the release of key public health data including mortality and hospital admission statistics tabulated by disease category, vaccination status, date, timing and age. The fact that Health New Zealand has ceased publication of many key health statistics during the pandemic including cancer incidence is both concerning and damning.

Epigenetics

There is now a fuller understanding compared to 2000 of the functioning of genetic systems. DNA does not act alone. The cell forms a whole system—Nucleus (containing DNA), Cytoplasm (containing RNA) and Membrane (two-way gate and protective shield). DNA cannot function or even exist without RNA and RNA relies on DNA. Moreover the extracellular environment also has a mutual reciprocal symbiosis with the cell and its genetic functions. Introduced genetic structures even outside the cell can ultimately influence the internal structure and function of the cell and the pathways for genetic expression. Fragments of genetic information can under certain circumstances reverse transcribe into the nuclear DNA itself. The complexity is staggering and still only very partially understood. The potential for mistakes and accidents is huge.

Precautionary Principle, Substantial Equivalence and Labelling

Many of the expert opinions published by the SMC suggest that the precautionary principle embodied in the current HSNO legislation is outdated and is in effect holding up research and scientific progress in New Zealand. The precautionary principle in essence states that new technology cannot be assumed to be safe before there is evidence of safety. In other words absence of evidence is not evidence of absence (or safety). The quoted experts argue that for many biotechnologies there has been sufficient use and improvements in method and precision to justify removal of regulation. In other words, some new applications and products can be presumed safe without testing or labelling to inform the public.

However, widespread use is not evidence of safety without testing and without traceability and labelling. Traceability is a foundational principle of the safety of foods and medicines. Any suggestion labelling can be removed without error is laughable and a regressive step.

The suggestion that some products of biotechnology are indistinguishable from their natural counterparts and hence ‘substantially equivalent’ is not tenable. There are always detectable differences. The fact that these could be minor does not prove safety. Minor differences in atomic structures can cause differences in protein folding and receptor binding, both known to be disease vectors.

Manufacturing

The exact conditions of production of certain biotech products in a lab is not reproduced in upscaled commercial production processes. Commercial biotech processes entail higher levels of contamination and fewer safeguards. Product purities are variable. This was the case with mRNA vaccines which for example are now known to have high levels of SV-40 DNA plasmid contamination—a recognised carcinogen.

Right of Choice

The existing regulatory structures have been inadequate, but not because the rules are too restrictive, rather too lax. During the last 25 years, there have been more than three thousand synthetic additives, flavours, colours, preservatives and processing aids approved by Medsafe for use in the food chain here in New Zealand. These include copies of natural foods produced via biotechnology such as rennets, yeasts, vanillas, etc. There is no requirement for labelling their origin. Many have been described as ‘natural’ on labels. Meanwhile there has been a rapid growth in the incidence of allergies, cancers, inflammatory conditions, etc. Without clear labelling, there is no way to trace the possible origins of such conditions in the food chain. Importantly, without labelling there is no way for consumers to reliably exercise their right of choice. They may be under the impression they are eating traditional foods, but may be consuming novel compounds. As a result some of our foods may now have a lower nutritional profile or hidden pathogenic potential. Without labelling, these effects will be untraceable.

Effectiveness

From its inception the potential benefits of biotechnology have been exaggerated. They have been consistently subject to manipulation in the hands of PR writers who are working under commercial imperatives. The actual achievements of the sector to date have been much smaller than the hype suggests. Biotech publicity almost universally suggests cures for cancers, inherited diseases, and a wide range of illnesses are just around the corner—a fanciful gross exaggeration.

The idea has also been erroneously implanted in the public psyche that almost all illness is caused by genetic faults which can be quickly corrected with properly funded research and applications which edit genes. Moreover it is suggested that human traits like height, strength, beauty, longevity or intelligence will soon be improved through biotechnology. These ideas are so far from the reality of our current knowledge as to be misleading in the extreme. Apparently the aim of such misleading claims is to secure investment capital, government grants, freedom from regulation and public acceptance of risky experimentation.

Economics

There have been unsubstantiated suggestions that our economy has suffered because our gene regulations are too restrictive. It is suggested that our successful and profitable participation in the global economy requires biotechnology deregulation. The experts cite the case of Lanza Tech, a New Zealand biotech company that relocated to the US to avoid the New Zealand regulations. However, during the last year, Lanza has not been a success story. Its share price has tanked. Moreover this is not an isolated example, many hopeful start ups have failed. Not the least because consumer acceptance of biotech foods and additives is not forthcoming. People like their traditional foods.

Nor have medical applications lived up to the hype. Insulin is an important part of the treatment of diabetes. Synthetic insulin, invented forty-five years ago, has been heralded as a biotechnology success story. It certainly made its inventors into billionaires, but during the ensuing 45 years the number of people with diabetes world wide has increased from 100 million to 600 million. Synthetic insulin is not curing diabetes. It is better prevented and actually treated by improvements in diet, exercise and lifestyle.

Another highly publicised success story—gene therapy treatment for inherited genetic illness sickle cell anaemia—has so far only been available to 100 people worldwide out of the 8 million suffering from the condition. The treatment is risky and doesn’t always work. Its long term efficacy is unknown. It costs about NZ$6 million per person. Whilst potentially life altering for a very tiny number of individuals, this is hardly a prescription for a global health revolution.

In fact there are very few commercial biotech success stories, unless products are supported by government mandates as happened during the pandemic. Worryingly, mandated biotech interventions in animal diets such as Bovaer for ruminants are now proposed. Don’t forget the disastrous run on effects of antibiotic feed additives which have helped to create untreatable infections from superbugs.

New Zealand’s agricultural economy benefits from our clean green image. Biotechnology deregulation may ultimately tarnish this image and have a negative effect on agricultural exports.

Higher Functions

Perhaps the most concerning feature of biotechnology deregulation is our lack of knowledge about the relationship between genes and the mind. Human life begins with a single cell. The promise of all that we cherish in life, our emotions, our aspirations, our intelligence, our joy is somehow contained in that cell, but no one understands how exactly that unfolds. Genetic pathway interventions inside and outside the cell alter cellular functions and could affect our capacity for those higher abilities which characterise the greatest achievements of human life. Those involved in biotechnology research are operating on the belief that our abilities can ultimately be enhanced. Given the current state of our knowledge, that suggestion is infantile. There has been a general principle in gene therapy—there will be off target mutative effects. How much genetic experimentation will affect human consciousness and its self-reflective capacity for mental health, sound and fair judgement is a total unknown, but a very real risk that biotech regulatory measures have so far completely ignored.

Conclusion

Those offering expert comment to the SMC are biotech industry insiders with admitted conflicts of interests. During the last 25 years, the biotech research sector around the world has sought to fend off regulation. The current New Zealand proposal for biotechnology deregulation is another example of this. In fact, the level of deregulation proposed by our government in the Bill is extreme. In practice, regulatory personnel inevitably become facilitators.

The experience of the COVID-19 pandemic should be hitting home some hard truths about risk/benefit balance. The tabling of the Gene Technology Bill at this time speaks volumes about an industry determined to ignore risks and override precautionary voices. In 2000, many of the potentially serious risks of gene editing cited at the Royal Commission hearings were ignored in favour of a ‘go ahead with caution’ recommendation. This approach is no longer tenable. Inevitable mistakes CAN spread without limit and CANNOT be recalled. The current Royal Commission Phase 2 will not report until 2026. Passing the Gene Technology Bill now jumps the gun and prejudges the issue. It imperils public health.

For more than three years our websites HatchardReport.com and https://GLOBE.GLOBAL have been publishing scientifically referenced articles covering the above issues in depth. We encourage everyone to closely review these resources. In 2000 some of the risks of biotechnology were theoretical, we now know them to be inescapable and world shattering. This is not the time for biotechnology deregulation, it is a time to take stock and strengthen public health protection.

The following experts wrote for SMC in support of biotechnology deregulation. You can access their comments here and here. The Science Media Centre release is encouraging people to send them comments and questions:

Associate Professor Josephine Johnston, Bioethics Centre, University of Otago:
Contact: +64 21 229 6695; josephine.johnston@otago.ac.nz

Alec Foster, Portfolio Leader – Bioproducts and Packaging, Scion:
Contact: +64 27 223 7000alec.foster@scionresearch.com

Dr Revel Drummond, Senior scientist, Plant & Food Research Ltd:
Contact: +64 9 925 8658 revel.drummond@plantandfood.co.nz

Dr Kimberley Snowden, Principal Scientist, Team Leader for Plant Development, Plant & Food Research, 
Contact: kimberley.snowden@plantandfood.co.nz. Or via Communications Manager Emma Timewell: +64 21 242 9365 Emma.Timewell@plantandfood.co.nz

Professor Kjesten Wiig, Deputy Director, Malaghan Institute of Medical Research:
Contact: kwiig@malaghan.org.nz, or via Head of Communications Gail Marshall: +64 21 360 432 gmarshall@malaghan.org.nz

Dr Andrew Allan, Principal Scientist at Plant & Food Research; and Professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Auckland:
Contact: +64 21 226 8224 Andrew.Allan@plantandfood.co.nz

Dr Sylvia Nissen, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Policy, Lincoln University:
Contact: +64 21 161 5550 sylvia.nissen@lincoln.ac.nz

Dr Richard Scott, science team leader – climate change and forage innovations, AgResearch:
Contact: +64 21 255 7062 richard.scott@agresearch.co.nz

Dr Hilary Sheppard, Senior Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland:
Contact: +64 21 175 8078 h.sheppard@auckland.ac.nz

John Caradus. Chief Executive Officer Graslanz Technology Ltd:
Contact: +64 6 351 8255 john.caradus@grasslanz.com

You may also like to write to your MP
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The Truth Will Out

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For millennia humankind has been plagued by a succession of people and groups who thought they knew the secret of life. Their views have been forced on populations often with the threat or actuality of violence. This is still going on today but with a new twist. The biotechnology paradigm has attained cult status as the secret of immortality, but it is actually killing people.

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A paper published in Science, Public Health Policy and the Law entitled “BioNTech RNA-Based COVID-19 Injections Contain Large Amounts Of Residual DNA Including An SV40 Promoter/Enhancer Sequence” concludes: 

“Our results raise grave concerns regarding the safety of the BNT162b2 vaccine and call for an immediate halt of all RNA biologicals unless these concerns can be dispelled.”

Meanwhile, ABC News Radio Australia reported on Sunday morning: 

“The new Moderna production facility in Australia, would be able to produce a maximum of 100,000 doses of mRNA ‘vaccine’ per annum. These would not just be for covid, but seasonal influenza and h.p.v.. Also, it would produce mRNA ‘vaccines’ for certain cancers.”Further, it erroneously and misleadingly stated, that“during the ‘pandemic’, Australian lives were lost due to the delay in importing the covid ‘vaccines’.”

In Britain, the Labour government has just committed to giving ALL cows in England controversial Bovaer feed by 2030 – amid an ongoing dairy boycott over the ;unlabelled toxic biosynthetic additive.

Richard H. Ebright, Ph.D., is Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Rutgers University. He served for sixteen years as editor of the Journal of Molecular Biology. He has served on the National Institutes of Health Molecular Biology Study Section. He is a member of the Institutional Biosafety Committee, and he has been a member of the Antimicrobial Resistance Committee of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the Working Group on Pathogen Security, and the Controlling Dangerous Pathogens Project of the Center for International Security Studies. He has testified at US House and US Senate hearings on biosafety, biosecurity, and biorisk management. So his words should carry weight (you can find his full 2022 testimony to the US Senate here: https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/imo/media/doc/Ebright Testimony Updated.pdf):

“Researchers in Wuhan, as of 2018, had engineered SARS viruses to have a 10,000x increase in viral growth in lung, a 1,000,000x increase in viral growth in brain, and a 3x increase in lethality in mice that were engineered to possess human receptors for SARS viruses”

Although the research process at Wuhan has been shrouded in secrecy and obfuscation by governments and scientists alike, according to some commentators, to achieve this degree of pathogenicity, biotechnologists spliced genetic sequences onto the COVID-19 spike protein that are recognisably related to other feared virulent pathogens, plagues and toxins. So perhaps now it should be more obvious why the effects of COVID-19 linger for so long including lung weakness and brain fog. Moreover mRNA vaccines teach our cells to produce COVID-19 spike proteins, an extraordinary step which has only proliferated and worsened the toxic effects.

Moreover, among microbes and pathogens, genetic variation and sharing of sequences is the norm, raising the possibility, if not certainty, that the enhanced virulence of COVID-19 will be acquired by other microbes and disease vectors, something that might already be having an effect on our public health disaster. The effects of gene editing cannot be contained, they spread without limit and cannot be recalled.

Professor Ebright asks why the Wuhan gain-of-function research, which was funded by the US NIH, was not stopped when its initial results were known in 2018. No doubt you will join me in asking similar questions of our government. Why are you planning to deregulate biotechnology? Is it not madness and folly in the extreme, running counter to the known facts?

So as we lurch towards an uncertain future controlled by misinformed government directives, the whims of modern day Frankensteins and biotech corporate interests, we can only ask: Where did it all go wrong?

Politicians today cannot even answer the question “What is a woman?” let alone “What is life?”. Yet they are willing participants in the mad schemes of bioscientists divorced from everyday truths.

The biotech paradigm assumes that life consists of a lot of impossibly tiny bits and processes thrown together over billions of years by supposedly random evolutionary forces. These are described in mechanistic terms to the exclusion of any understanding of consciousness. A genetic and epigenetic system that according to this view can be redesigned to work better over a matter of weeks by clumsy human hands working with incredibly complex biological systems with trillions of trillions of elements invisible to the human eye or even microscopes. Well it didn’t work. It all went terribly wrong over the last five years and appears all set to get worse over the next five.

Life is our most intimate experience, it is our WHOLE SELF and we are awake.

Living systems defy the second law of thermodynamics, the law of universal decay. Living systems grow and share information. Every part of an organism is capable of learning from experience and from other organisms. Living systems have a ‘part and whole’ structure. The whole is more than the sum of the parts. LIVING WHOLENESS is awake, conscious, its expression supported by the harmonious operation of trillions upon trillions of parts, all fulfilling individual roles crucial to the projection of the WHOLE. Mind and body participate in a symbiotic relationship where consciousness is the senior partner.

Living systems are characterised by five fundamentals of progress—Stability, Adaptability, Integration, Purification and Growth.

For example:

  • Stability is evident in homeostasis
  • Adaptability to environments including climatic and dietary conditions
  • Integration is the primary focus of digestion
  • Purification is a focus of immune responses
  • Growth is evident in the life cycle of all living systems 

Yet bio engineering, such as that employed by mRNA vaccines:

  • Upsets the Stability of cells by repurposing their functions
  • Upsets the Adaptability of cells by fixing their functions to produce an alien protein sequence 
  • Upsets Integration by destroying the uniform genetic expression of cells
  • Upsets Purification by teaching cells to self-produce toxins
  • Upsets Growth through proliferation of rogue cells

By now it should be evident why we are seeing the daily reports in our newspapers of rapid onset cancers, heart disease, and other serious and tragic illnesses among young and old alike with an unprecedented frequency. A New Zealand Herald article “Senior emergency department physician warns hospital bed block is worst it’s ever been” puts the crisis in perspective. Bed block is an expression which simply means there are too many sick people and not enough hospital beds. Whilst admitting that overcrowding and wait times are worse than they have ever been, the article manages to dance around the topic at length without asking the obvious question: Why are so many people falling sick and what with?

No wonder, because our government and Health New Zealand, presumably fearful of discovery, have stopped publishing such statistics. Where are people brave enough to face the truth? Truth is the essence of WHOLENESS. Truth is simple, natural, real and life supporting. Truth brings certainty and the capacity to face the future whatever it offers. Without truth, we are adrift in an endless sea of nothing. The health crisis has a cause, but without the data, our government can waffle about targets, administrative efficiency, overcrowding, funding and bed block to their heart’s content. All the while confusing the public and concealing the truth.

The gene editing paradigm and the public relations promotional dream of disease-free life has turned out to be just that: a dream or rather a nightmare. It needs to go: lock, stock and smoking barrel. Right now we need scientists brave enough to change course, politicians brave enough to admit to error and correct mistakes, journalists with the capacity to ask probing questions and doctors who refuse to do any harm. People who can acknowledge the simple and obvious truth: that the capacity of consciousness is the essence of life.

Where are you? Please stand up and be counted. You could be walking on the right side of history.

Coming to the Breakfast Table Unannounced

Governments don’t mind exposing people to health risks as long as it appears they are doing something about climate change (even if they aren’t)

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The New Zealand Government is deregulating biotechnology. As we have previously reported, the PR logic (if you can call it that) underpinning their bold (idiotic?) move says: 

  • Biotechnology is generally safe, so testing may be minimal or not required
  • There is no need to label gene altered foods (presumably because the US doesn’t)
  • Biotech tech measures aimed (rather inaccurately) at reducing climate change will be welcomed by the public here and overseas
  • Kiwi biotech will produce an economic miracle

None of the above are remotely true or plausible. Here’s some more evidence:

The UK Daily Mail published an article today entitled “Expert’s verdict on Arla Foods’ ‘Bovaer’ following alarming claims that milk from Tesco, Morrisons and Aldi is packed with ‘cancer-causing’ additive“. It reports:

“Shoppers threatened to boycott dairy products like milk and butter (Lurpak) made by Danish food firm Arla and sold in TescoMorrisons and Lidl, after the company announced a trial that would involve giving a feed additive to its cows called ‘Bovaer’ made by Dutch-Swiss multinational DSM-Firmenich. The chemical, which will be introduced to cattle’s food, is designed to reduce the amount of methane they produce during digestion, a gas that [the Mail understands] contributes to [recent] climate change“.

All this despite the fact that ruminants have roamed the earth in their billions for thousands of years. Reportedly a quarter teaspoon of Bovaer a day reduces methane emissions by 30% (there’s an advertising jingle hiding somewhere in there).

Bovaer is a synthesised powdered chemical feed supplement that blocks an enzyme involved in methane formation reducing the amount of methane emitted by each animal. It contains silicon dioxide, propylene glycol and the main active ingredient 3-nitrooxypropanol, or “3-NOP”. Test results submitted to the UK Food Standards Authority by the manufacturer have shown that 3-NOP can be harmful to humans if inhaled. It is also a skin and eye irritant. Tests showed that 6-8% female rats fed higher doses developed Mesenchymal cell hyperplasia (a known precursor to cancer) as well as developing benign(???) tumours.

EU FSA tests using standard OECD safety protocols found accumulations of 3-NOPin the liver, kidneys, and adrenal glands of male rats along with traces in the brain. Leading to the conclusion that the genotoxicity of 3-NOP is not fully understood. Genotoxicity is the capacity of a chemical to damage the DNA and cause cancers. The long term effects of Bovaer are therefore unassessed. A US FDA advisory says the product is not for human use and warns it can damage male fertility and reproductive organs. Thank goodness they won’t be putting it in cornflakes, just in the milk. 

Cows apparently haven’t raised any objections, despite the fact that the tests showed that Bovaer reduced their heart and ovary size—an effect the UK FSA decided could not be classified as adverse (???). In one study at higher doses, 3-NOP was detected in the milk in 3 out of the 4 cows involved. Two of the cows had to be euthanized early.

UK consumers, who take milk with their cereal and tea, and spread butter on their bread, are understandably concerned. A boycott movement has taken shape influencing farmers and dairy markets. No worries though, because an expert interviewed by the Mail, Professor Gunter Kuhnle, a nutritionist at the University of Reading says:

“Additives used in farming must undergo rigorous testing by food safety authorities both in the UK and in Europe in order to be permitted for use. If something is in use by a major brand you can generally trust that it is perfectly safe for consumption.”

Manufacturer DSM-Firmenich assured the public that “provided it is used as recommended, Bovaer never enters into milk and therefore does not reach consumers.” There is a false premise being applied here—trace or low concentrations of toxic chemicals can be safely ignored. Note that the word ‘never’ in the DSM statement is carefully and legally conditioned by the word ‘provided.’ It has to be because 3-NOP has been detected in milk if administered to cows at higher doses than those recommended.

Phew! Of course, no one would ever do anything that silly, would they? In any case, you can always follow the FDA advice and wear protective clothing when eating your breakfast and handling toast and jam which would most likely also reduce your chance of catching COVID-19.

In October, we reported on methane reducing pills for cows being researched by a New Zealand firm whose ingredients are being kept secret (you can see why can’t you?), under the title “Do White Coats Make You More Intelligent?. It appears that a Swiss-Dutch firm has beaten us to it. Bovaer is now approved for farm use in 55 countries. New Zealand’s Environment Protection Authority (EPA) gave the green light to register Bovaer in our country back in August 2023. Although any current New Zealand use is not documented, if biotech deregulation goes ahead, it is unclear if the public will ever be allowed to know about it.

So, given the alarming red flags in the test results, why are food safety regulators approving Bovaer? They are doing so because of the political priority to appear to be addressing climate change. It appears as if it doesn’t matter that public health is put at risk as long as woke political correctness is satisfied.

Summing up: Bovaer is a synthesised product whose long term outcomes are unknown, which is being introduced into the global food chain without labelling. There are preliminary indications that it may cause cancer. Consumers in the UK are incensed. People like their traditional foods unadulterated. The claim of the New Zealand government that consumers will flock to such so-called climate-reducing biotech products which will drive our farm exports into the stratosphere appears to be unfounded. The opposite may even be the case, overseas consumers may reject our products. Finally, as we reported two years ago in our article “It’s the cows, stupid“, cows are not the problem, but blaming them for climate change might just deflect criticism away from the great and good travelling in fuel-thirsty private jets many of whom are heavily invested in our biotech future. 

So, what are the financial incentives helping to drive biotech experimentation on our food chain? It is quite simple. There are about 35 million ruminants (cows, sheep, deer and goats) being farmed in New Zealand, seven ruminants for every one of us. A product that is required to be administered every day or at regular intervals will make the inventor and patent holder billions. Money talks, if the long term effect of this product on public health is unknown and already under suspicion, so what? In the balance of things we all want to be billionaires. It is a gold rush, but not one that will result in any net public good, quite the reverse. It is one more dire risk that our government is happy for us to shoulder on their behalf. The biotech sector has a growing appetite for wealth, power and deregulation. Hundreds of other projects affecting us directly are already in the regulatory pipeline. Under biotech deregulation, no one will be required to ask us if novel food is wanted or acceptable. It will just show up unannounced at breakfast. Please write to your MP.

FYI the UK Soil Association says that organic standards prohibit the use of Bovaer, so it can be avoided by shopping for certified organic products.

Fed Up With Hearing About COVID-19? Think Again, There is More to Come

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New information reveals the truth is a lot darker, but there are also paths to healing.

Have you noticed a proliferation of websites promoting ‘cures’ for long COVID-19 and vax injury? These talk in terms of compromised immune responses that need readjusting often through dietary formulas or supplements or even medicines that are sold via the sites. No doubt you have the same questions as us, do they work and if not what might?

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To answer this question we need to review the historical fundamentals of what has gone wrong with public health and then understand what has happened recently. Only then can we start to identify the directions pointing to possible solutions to the unique medical challenges created by mRNA COVID-19 vaccines.

During the twentieth century improvements in nutrition, housing, hygiene, sanitation, work conditions, medicine, surgery and neonatal care boosted our health and longevity. In 1900 the global average life expectancy at birth was 32 years rising to 64 years in 2000, a relentlessly positive rise.

Yet it was also a century characterised by chemical proliferation. As the decades wore on, more and more largely unregulated chemicals entered our daily life via food additives, synthetic foods, chemical agriculture, the environment, the air we breath, housing, industrial processes, the oceans, the water we drink and medicines. A paper published in November 2021 entitled “Chemical pollution: A growing peril and potential catastrophic risk to humanity” reported: 

“Recent analysis of global inventories of chemicals estimates humans have synthesised over 350,000. New synthetic chemicals are constantly being developed: recently, the USA alone produced an average of 1500 new substances a year. Many of these substances are known to be toxic in small doses, sometimes in combination with other pollutants, or as breakdown products after release into the biosphere and geosphere.”

Many are forever chemicals which accumulate in the environment or in human and animal tissues posing a long term threat to health and life. As a result, even as longevity was increasing, our immunity and health were declining. We were becoming more vulnerable to disease. As the century drew to a conclusion, the growth in mental illness, cancers, heart disease, life threatening allergies, respiratory illness, disabilities and autoimmune conditions was eroding longevity. Fortunately this was almost balanced by further improvements in healthcare protocols and quality of life measures, that is until the current century dawned, when something truly novel and frightening began to take its toll—a longevity killer. But this was not just the result of unfortunate mistakes, nor was it due to lack of precautionary testing or foresight, there was planning involved.

An article in the UK Daily Telegraph entitled “Lab leak most likely source of Covid, says Prof Tim Spector” begins to spill the beans. Prof. Spector is not someone speaking from the sidelines nor is he in any way under qualified. He is a professor of genetic epidemiology at King’s College, London, a world leading centre for gene therapy research. He was awarded the OBE for his work advising Downing Street during the pandemic and for his role in creating the Zoe virus tracker. Prof. Spector told a Zoe podcast that it was:

“Obvious” there had been a cover-up about the origins of the pandemic…I don’t think there’s any doubt that this virus emanated in China, in a place near Wuhan……and that the most likely source of this was a lab leak from Wuhan.”

Prof. Spector said there were scientists experimenting with hazardous viruses at the Wuhan Virology Lab that got out of control rather than it being a plot, but he points to a trail of shredded documents and email exchanges between the US and China at the time, saying:

“There was a very obvious cover-up very early on by various governments saying we have to get a report out there saying this is all down to bats so people aren’t going to blame labs and scientists” He continued: the aim was to keep the credibility of biotechnology research going in the public’s mind.

Back in 2021 I was in touch with a leading researcher at King’s College. He held much the same precautionary opinion as Spector and told me this was generally held by his colleagues. He also indicated caution concerning COVID-19 vaccine safety, pointing out that the biotechnologies involved were risky and had unpredictable effects. However in 2021, my contact was too frightened to go on the public record with his conclusions. Prof. Spector’s broadcast indicates that the tide of concern at King’s College has risen enough to speak out.

Prof. Spector concluded by warning that the gain of function research to increase the potency of viral pathogens undertaken at Wuhan was dangerous. Ongoing research of a similar nature was still occurring at labs around the world.“It should be treated with the same seriousness as the threat of nuclear war. It could all happen again starting in another lab if we’re not careful,” he said.

The research at Wuhan was funded in part by the Chinese military. From the outset, serious money backing biotechnology research has been tied to the development of bioweapons. These programmes are highly secretive and kept out of public view, but there is no doubt that a cat and mouse game of pathogen and vaccine research is being played out privately in government funded labs around the globe. An article published in Health Security during 2022 entitled “Next-Generation Biowarfare: Small in Scale, Sensational in Nature?“, makes no bones about it, calling for:

“Closer collaboration between frontline civilian scientists and national security establishments to build rapidly scalable networks of expertise…which will enable tactical versatility and more precise [bioweapon] attacks.”

All this adds up to a very powerful reason for governments to hide the origins of COVID-19. In fact the dangers and risks of biotechnology research have been kept well hidden from the public for years. Gene editing is inherently mutative, but all of the public messaging emphasises imagined benefits from procedures which don’t yet fully work, nor are likely to in the future. As I am writing this report, evidence of the reluctance of the New Zealand government to admit any error surfaced remarkably enough in the New Zealand Herald (at last) under the headline “Covid-19 inquiry: Vaccine mandates ‘undeniably’ eroded trust, harmed some New Zealanders“. Our government was apparently reluctant to release the findings of a Royal Commission which is critical of the actions of the New Zealand parliament and the Health Service during the pandemic. 

On the morning of 28th November Commission Chairman Prof. Tony Blakely hinted at the contents of their report saying Vaccine mandates caused huge pain to a “substantial minority” during the pandemic and Government should consider whether their benefits outweighed their harms”. Blakely urged the government to reverse its decision not to release the report until 2026 saying “there is no reason why the report could not be released today and its key recommendations acted on immediately.”

By the afternoon, the government gave in to the pressure and released the report. It is no wonder that our government wanted the report kept under wraps, they are currently introducing legislation to deregulate biotechnology which will expose our whole population to the hazardous outcomes of novel genetic experiments affecting our foods and medicines. As part of this process, the government has saturated the media with fanciful reports about the economic and health benefits of biotechnology that are unsubstantiated by science. They have also latched on to the PR fiction of ‘safe’ gene editing.

These glossy PR pieces of unscientific fluff do not disclose that key sectors of government-sponsored biotech research in many countries around the world are actually designing ways to kill people, as apparently happened by mistake (???) at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

The pandemic has made one thing absolutely crystal clear—inevitable biotechnology mistakes cannot be contained, they will spread without limit.

Millions of people have died during the pandemic. A paper published in Nature puts the number of excess deaths up till the end of 2022 around the world at 15 million. Two years later the figure is now close to 30 million. The colossal tally of excess deaths includes some among our friends and relatives, as well as public figures like sports stars, politicians and entertainers. So how has it been possible to hide from the public the deadly contribution of biotechnology experimentation?

No doubt governments and medical authorities have been able to censor the content of science journals, mainstream media and even social media platforms sticking closely to a PR narrative, but there are other factors. The rigid paradigm and methods of medical orthodoxy dictate the terms of discussion when it comes to illness and death. There is a limited list of possible causes of death and this list does not include biotechnology or gene editing. Diagnoses of cancer or heart disease etc. are labels that dictate paths of treatment and if fatal are intended to bring a sense of closure to the victim and the family.

The news that someone died suddenly following a cardiac arrest is nothing unusual and it closes the door to further scrutiny. But what if 30 million people die unexpectedly including young people before their time from a wide array of supposed causes, as has happened? You would think it is time to call in Sherlock Holmes, but unfortunately Sherlock has been confined under house arrest and gagged from speaking by the powers that be.

The twenty-first century is becoming the century of biotechnology experimentation in which we are unwitting guinea pigs, closely segregated from the reality of our dire situation.

Many of the proposed ‘cures’ for COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccine injury are tied to orthodox medical diagnoses. They describe the injuries as caused by cardiac toxins or autoimmune illness for example, but is this the whole picture? Unfortunately not. The root cause of COVID-19 vaccine injury is mRNA vaccine interference with genetic, cellular structures and functions, including genomic effects caused by plasmid DNA contamination. This is capable of causing system-wide malfunction in the human physiology which research confirms has shown up during the pandemic in various guises in all eleven human organ systems. 

It is not at all the case that medical interventions designed to alleviate specific symptoms and conditions caused by vaccine injury can address the root cause—genetic disruption inside the cell membrane.

Examination of a consciousness-based approach to health

At the beginning of today’s article we promised to explore avenues of remediation. As the structure of DNA was being discovered, Queen Elizabeth was crowned and Everest conquered in 1953, something far more ancient was stirring and coming to the attention of the West that today should offer some hope—consciousness-based medicine. To understand its relevance and importance we will draw an analogy. Suppose you owned a Patek Philippe watch and for some reason it was damaged. Perhaps you dropped it in the bath or ran over it. The protective case is breached and the mechanism damaged. There are more than 200 tiny moving parts in such a watch and given its immense value, your only option is to send it back to the maker in Switzerland for repair.

Inside the cell membranes of each of our 37 trillion human cells there are over 100 trillion atomic components that are invisible to the human eye and working together at a dizzying speed to keep us healthy. In each cell our DNA suffers between 10,000 and 100,000 damage events each day which are repaired by elaborate self-interacting mechanisms intrinsic to the entire internal cellular structure and function. Without these repairs, the genetic transcription processes and routes which maintain our health in its widest possible sense would become abortive and leave behind DNA breaks that can drive genome rearrangements, instability, or cell death. In other words, our health depends on the exact coordinated arrangement of trillions of cellular components in trillions of cells.

Modern experimental gene technology such as that employed by mRNA vaccines invades the cell membrane and repurposes the hugely complex internal mechanism of the cell on which our health depends. The enterprise is foolhardy in the extreme and the accumulating evidence of excess death and illness during the pandemic confirms this. The complexity involved is staggering and little understood by modern biology. Any suggestion that further primitive invasive medical interventions breaching the cell might fix the problem are ludicrous. Once mRNA vaccine injured, the human body is like a very expensive watch that needs to be sent back to its maker for repair. But what if we don’t know who made it or the address of the place of design and manufacture?

As we have discussed frequently in our reports, our physiology is intimately paired with our consciousness. Physiology supports awareness, but what if consciousness creates physiology? If we are going to repair the damage caused by the biotechnology experimentation that characterised the COVID-19 pandemic, we are going to have to begin to understand consciousness, the missing piece of the equation of life. This is going to take us on a journey that may be very foreign to some or more familiar to others, but wherever we are starting from, we are going to have to go deeper. Investigation of consciousness has been the peculiar preserve of the ascetics and saints in cultures around the world, it now has to become the common coin of public health.

As an example we take a remarkable discovery made by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in conjunction with Western scientists which pertains to the ancient Vedic literature and its deep relationship with human physiology. The discovery is published in a 640 page book which details an extraordinary correspondence between the structure and functions of the human physiology and the forty branches of the Vedic literature entitled “Human Physiology – Expression of Veda and the Vedic Literature. Modern Science and Ancient Vedic Science Discover the Fabrics of Immortality in the Human Physiology“. 

So what are the Veda and Vedic literature and where do they originate? Veda is a Sanskrit word that means ‘knowledge’ or more specifically ‘total or holistic knowledge’. It is closely identified with consciousness or Atma as it is termed in Sanskrit. Maharishi is adamant that Vedic literature has been widely mistranslated by westerners who often wrongly dismiss its expressions as the poetic or religious fancies of a primitive civilisation. He teaches that translation can never capture the significance of the Vedic literature, only mislead the reader. In fact it is not the supposed meaning, but the vibrational quality of the sequence of Vedic sounds and pauses between sounds that are important.

Western scholars have variously dated the extensive Vedic literature to between 1000 to 3500 years ago. Indian tradition and historians paint a very different picture. In this view, the Vedas originated as an oral tradition of recitation begun in great antiquity by highly adept ascetics. According to the Vedic literature itself, the Vedas are not man made, they are sequences of vibrations or sounds which correspond with fundamental laws of nature. They arise from a process known as Vedic cognition during which they zoom forth or appear in the awareness of enlightened sages or rishis. Thus the Vedic literature presents itself as timeless knowledge or science that was acquired through the subjective means of gaining knowledge—self exploration. They contain sequences of sounds true for all times, places and for all people carefully preserved by pandit families until the present day. If you wish you canlisten to short segments of the sounds from all forty branches of the Vedic literature along with a graphic indication of corresponding bodily systems affected. Sit in a quiet place and listen.

A very recent discovery has confirmed the antiquity of the Veda. The Harappan civilisation in the Indus Valley began around 9000 years ago. Archeological excavations 100 years ago uncovered a large and orderly city with sanitary water supply and drainage indicative of urban planning, all set out on a grid of roads facing the cardinal directions. Among the many finds were a small number of seals written in an unknown script that seemed to predate any other known writing, whose meaning has eluded understanding until now. A cryptographer working in the US has now deciphered the script and thereby rewritten history. He discovered that the Harappans invented a script to write down Vedic expressions that had hitherto been solely preserved through countless ages in an oral tradition.

The book Human Physiology Expression of Veda and Vedic Literature demonstrates that the extensive Vedic Literature presents the step by step sequential unfoldment of the structure and function of the entire physiology. Maharishi and scientists discovered that as it unfolds, sound by sound, word by word, chapter by chapter, book by book it comments on itself, explaining itself, it is self referral—an essential characteristic of consciousness and biological systems.

Within its many books, the Vedic literature contains its own key—instructions how to experience or know consciousness in its pure state. If this is properly understood, as was explained by Maharishi, it sets out a comprehensive system to reset the physiology in full health by handling the physiology from the side of the holistic nature of consciousness—the originator of physiology. Vedic sounds are prescribed to initiate this process.

In an legacy archive interview Maharishi explains this is not based on intellectual scholarship or translations, it is based purely on the experience of the holistic sequence of Vedic sounds. The Vedic techniques are designed to be easily acquired, disarmingly simple to practice for anyone once taught person to person by a traditionally trained teacher. We cover the proven results of some of the techniques in our book Your DNA Diet. They are intended to set up a cosmic harmony or resonance with the laws of nature governing the physiology thereby resetting it to the ground state or source of natural law which is experienced in an expanded state of consciousness.

If you are thinking this is too esoteric for me, think again. Hundreds of published studies document the benefits of yoga, meditation, herbal remedies, and Ayurveda which are included in the approaches of the Vedic literature. There are many similar approaches discovered by saintly souls and deep thinkers which are preserved by cultural traditions around the world still available today. You may already be following one of these. These may be foreign to the largely pharmaceutical perspective we have been taught to respect and accept without question, but they are not foreign to the Self (Atma) of all. Our consciousness is NOT a foreign concept, it is our most intimate SELF, It is who we are, the familiar partner of our entire bodily lifespan crying out to be explored and understood.

The pandemic outcomes have presented a stark choice to mankind. Do we continue to blindly trust a cabal of so-called experts who are pursuing reckless biotech experimentation and count bioweapon killers among their number or do we start to learn how to fully understand and use the capabilities of our self-referral consciousness to heal? Once started and with persistence, paths to enlightened consciousness can rapidly become a royal road to health.

One Can’t Escape the Truth

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A message for Dr Shane Reti, Minister of Health, PM Chris Luxon and Judith Collins, Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation.

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Hopefully we are starting to move on from repeated articles reporting sudden tragic illnesses and even deaths without explanation or reflection like “Community rallies after teen dies while warming up for touch rugby game” or unprecedented health statistics like “Why old, sick and workless Britain is getting closer to breaking point“, to those like this one “Ellie was the ‘happiest she’d ever been’ until she lined up for her Covid vaccines. Now she’s living a nightmare – and doctors agree the jabs are to blame“. 

The media gauge and reflect what is going on in the collective consciousness of the nation. Up until recently there was a prevalent consensus among the vast majority of government representatives, health professionals, the media and the population at large that COVID-19 vaccines must be beneficial. As the lasting effects of early injuries from COVID-19 vaccines, the serious longer term illnesses, the large numbers involved and the published research on vaccine outcomes are becoming more obvious, some among the overseas media are beginning to sound the alarm.

A single death of a young person is a tragedy, whatever the cause, but repeated and unprecedented numbers of deaths are more than an unfortunate statistic. They are a red flag. Some papers are beginning to realise the need to look deeper under the surface. Until now the Washington Post has been a bastion of pro-biotech liberal reporting. An opinion piece on November 11th headlines “The U.S. could soon face a threat ‘more powerful’ than nuclear weapons”. It reports: 

“Researchers around the globe are tinkering with viruses far deadlier than COVID-19”. 

The article acknowledges the likely source of COVID-199 in the Wuhan lab and points to the proliferation of biotechnology research around the world, some of which is closely linked to the search for bioweapons that can be targeted at specific ethnicities. Describing this as “a new frontier of global catastrophe”, the article acknowledges 27 million deaths as a result of the Wuhan leak, but inexplicably clings to the all but discredited hope that novel vaccines and intelligent regulation might avert looming man-made disaster.

Our conclusion: the Post appears to be on the verge of waking up. This opinion might be confirmed by another WP opinion piece printed the next day “RFK Jr.’s views on fluoride aren’t as crazy as you might think”. The article covers the published research on the dangers of water fluoridation including its effects on children’s IQ. The endorsement doesn’t stretch to Kennedy’s views on vaccine safety, but the writing is on the wall. Newspapers have to start taking recently published data into account. Historical faith in medicine and medics on its own without the support of current data and scientific analysis can be very misleading.

The danger associated with biotechnology research programmes is just not one more problem to add to a mountain of problems competing for our attention. As the Post article began to admit, biotechnology has risen to the top of the list.

There is no credible evidence that adverse effects of gene editing can be contained.

How this works in practice is amply illustrated by the recent approval by the FDA of FluMist, a live-attenuated nasal influenza vaccine which can be administered at home. A Substack article concludes its live viral formulation and the ease of transmission through respiratory droplets could place millions of people at risk: 

“FluMist recipients are advised to avoid close contact with immunocompromised individuals for at least 21 days due to viral shedding. Although this precaution targets individuals with immunocompromised household members, the risk extends far beyond the home. Millions of Americans, including those with cancer, HIV/AIDS, autoimmune disorders, and other chronic conditions, are immunocompromised and thus highly susceptible to even attenuated viral strains.”

In one foul swoop this kind of technology takes away any right of medical choice from whole populations. This is because FluMist relies on technology which is not a million miles away from bioweapon airborne delivery research. This demonstrates the cross over interactions with deliberately uncontainable bioweapon technologies being developed in the virtually unregulated biotech research environment.

An article in the UK Daily Mail on 8th November reports “South Carolina town residents lock down homes after 43 monkeys escape from a bioresearch lab”. The lab was doing research on deadly infectious diseases and vaccines. Apparently, test monkeys have escaped on multiple occasions over the last ten years. As we have reported previously, this is not unusual. Review articles report biotech lab accidents are the norm around the world affecting as many as 45% of researchers and technicians, not the exception. It is as if the human race has entered into a deadly pact of assured mutual destruction. 

In fact, there is a growing volume of published scientific research analysing the extent and prevalence of the adverse effects of COVID-19 vaccines that should be reported by the media. Here in NZ, we are probably the least informed among nations. It is long past time to wake up. 

A study in Circulation entitled “Clinical and Histopathological Characteristics of Patients With Myocarditis After mRNA COVID-19 Vaccination” investigated the mechanisms of myocardial injury and concluded: “Our histological examination of patients with myocarditis after mRNA Covid vaccination revealed varying degrees of cardiomyocyte [the muscle associated with the heart’s contraction] injury, ranging from pronounced to absent, along with various types of myocarditis.” 

So how common is post-vaccine myocarditis?

A paper published in the journal Radiology entitled “Assessment of Myocardial 18F-FDG Uptake at PET/CT in Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2–vaccinated and Nonvaccinated Patients” reports that myocardial injury following COVID-19 vaccination is far more common than previously thought. PET scans of 700 subjects showed vaccine recipients with no immediate adverse symptoms still have a measurable degree of myocardial dysfunction. It concluded “When compared with non-vaccinated patients, asymptomatic patients who received their second vaccination 1–180 days prior to imaging showed increased myocardial 18F-FDG uptake on PET/CT scans”

What does this mean in practical terms? Myocarditis affects the ability of the heart to pump blood. It is associated with fatigue at the lower end and chest pain, shortness of breath and irregular heartbeat at the higher end. Heart failure is the most severe outcome. The official New Zealand figures for ED admissions with chest pain (20,000 in 2023 among under 40s) that we reported in our article “Staggering New Data From Health New Zealand and Others”, demonstrate this is not something that can be ignored any longer. The longer term effects of vaccine induced myocardial injury are now becoming apparent in the general population.

So why are we still being kept in the dark here in New Zealand by the government, media and medical authorities, despite the published research and official Health New Zealand figures being released under OIA? It is a big question. Lawyer Sue Grey requested clarification under OIA from Dr. Shane Reti, New Zealand Minister of Health asking: 

“What questions have you asked your officials and what advice have you been given about the ongoing effectiveness and ineffectiveness of covid vaccines and the ongoing costs of vaccine injuries?”

The reply from Reti’s office contained three very confusing sentences that need unpacking. It said:

“The Minister of Health is subject to the Official Information Act for information he holds in his capacity as Minister. Any information held in any other capacity is not official information. On this basis we are refusing your request.”

In other words Dr Reti, the man responsible to protect public health, has not engaged in any official correspondence nor sought expert advice about COVID-19 vaccine safety since taking office one year ago. He is not officially up to date about the recent COVID-19 vaccine safety research findings just cited above (and the many others published during the last year). However the reply leaves open the possibility, if not certainty, that the Minister knows about such things unofficially.

It is but a short step to conclude that the Minister and his office wish to retain a degree of plausible deniability should it ever come to the attention of the New Zealand public in general that COVID-19 vaccines are in fact ineffective and very dangerous, especially so for young people, yet are still being recommended for use. He is, in the tradition of Pontius Pilate, trying to wash his hands of responsibility. 

He can’t however, along with PM Chris Luxon and Judith Collins, Minister of Science, Innovation and Technology, wash his hands of the plan to add insult to injury by deregulating biotechnology experimentation and approving the release and sale of unlabelled genetically modified organisms. To reiterate the Washington Post’s warning, this will help open a new frontier of global catastrophe.

No one, including Dr. Reti and all of his silent advisors, has any idea how to recall or mitigate the genetic fallout associated with the escape of COVID-19 or the global roll out of COVID-19 vaccines, or any other genetically modified organism for that matter. Yet they are rubber stamping an open season of biotechnology experimentation and pretending to innocence.

The Hatchard Report has some time honoured advice for Dr. Reti and his silent advisors. It comes down through ages from from William Shakespeare.

“This above all, to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man”

Those holding positions of responsibility in the field of public health have a duty of care to face the truth, speak the truth and act to uphold the truth. No amount of legal obfuscation or protestations of innocence can excuse this responsibility.

A Door is Starting to Open to Discuss Our Devastating Public Health Data

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We receive snippets of information from time to time and it now appears there are cracks developing in the solid wall of New Zealand COVID-19 vaccine defences. Some frontline medical staff are confronting the obvious.

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We have had first hand reports that some cardiac surgeons are quietly advising cardiac bypass patients to refuse boosters if they want to stay healthy. At a recent hospital meeting of Auckland cardiologists, a participant told the meeting that the time has come to admit the source of the current epidemic of heart disease. The spike protein generated by the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines is a cardio toxin. As a result, cardiology waiting rooms and hospital cardiac wards are full, especially with young patients, and the problem is not going away. It is getting worse. 

The scale of the problem is off the charts, and it is crying out for a public discussion. So what is stopping this? The executive arm of our medical system is avoiding the obvious implications of key health data. The New Zealand Medical Council is still prosecuting doctors who cautioned patients about possible adverse effects of the COVID-19 vaccine in the early days of the pandemic. This has created an ongoing atmosphere of fear among practising doctors, they are reluctant to come forward with their doubts, for fear of losing their jobs and professional registration.

A follow up set of questions probing the OIA which revealed a ten fold increase of chest pain presentations to A&E among the under forties has so far met with a blank wall. One request was submitted on 2nd October, and under Official Information Act request (OIA) legislation, a reply should have been forthcoming by now. Instead Health New Zealand has written to say “Health New Zealand needs more time to make a decision on your request”. 

Unfortunately, the delay in the publication of health data is not limited to cardiac illness. Figures for cancer incidence have not been published since 2020—an unheard-of situation. Normally, cancer data is published annually. This is an important tool which helps in the early detection of any safety signals. An OIA request for information on cancer incidence covering the years 2020 to 2024 has been refused by Health New Zealand on the grounds that the information would compromise patient confidentiality. In fact, anonymised data collated by year cannot be traced back to any individual, pre-pandemic the publication of such data was routine.

Other countries, however, are releasing cancer figures, and they are damning. A recent conference presentation by James Royle a UK consultant oncology surgeon paints a very concerning picture. He reports and graphs a sudden change in the rate and patterns of cancer presentation dating back to 2021, which has continued to accelerate during the last two years. This involves the sudden onset of aggressive, often incurable stage 4 cancers exhibiting a novel biology, so called turbo cancers. The trend is particularly evident in bowel cancer stats. These are also affecting young people not previously considered at risk.

You can see clips of Royle’s presentation at an Irish medical conference interspersed in this summary by Dr. John Campbell. Royle asserts there is a causal association between the COVID-19 vaccine rollout and cancer incidence that is supported by both temporal association and his reference list of 13 biomolecular cancer mechanisms known to be triggered by mRNA vaccines. Royle systematically discounts the effect of other causal factors being promoted by poorly informed media such as poor diet, lockdowns, and genetics. They don’t fit the novel cancer data pattern and presentation types being seen by oncologists.

Unusually, a single cause (mRNA vaccination) has been identified for two normally unrelated conditions—heart disease and cancer. Why is this? The answer lies in the novel vaccine technology being employed. Uniquely, mRNA vaccines cross the cell membrane and interfere with genetic mechanisms designed to protect our health. Up until now, we have in many ways taken our health for granted. Unaware that trillions of immune actions are automatically initiated by our cellular-based genetics every single minute of the day and night to keep our body in balance and preserve our health. mRNA vaccines lock billions of cells out of this process and repurpose their genetic and immune functions to produce foreign toxic spike proteins. This is enough to trigger multiple immune failures, some of which can have fatal consequences.

At the outset of the pandemic, our health professionals were, for the most part, unaware of the published evidence documenting the dangers of mRNA vaccines. They were bombarded with ‘safe and effective’ PR messages. They were mandated to participate both personally and in their practice. They were threatened with serious consequences if they asked questions and warned against doing their own research. They received generous financial compensation if they towed the government line.

It appears that the executive level of Health New Zealand management is still rigorously enforcing these procedures, even as frontline medical professionals are becoming aware of the obvious—mRNA vaccines don’t work and they are seriously degrading public health. Until some brave doctors decide to speak up, we will remain stuck in an information blackout.

After five long COVID-19 years, it is at last time to take a win

The result of the US election has momentous implications for the COVID-19 safety debate here in New Zealand and around the world. President Trump has appointed Robert F Kennedy Jnr. (RFK) leader of a program to Make America Healthy Again (MAHA). In his victory speech last night, Trump promised to give RFK “wide latitude” to fix America’s health problems. In an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal in September RFK outlined the beginnings of a program to tackle the chronic disease epidemic affecting the US, especially the youth, by among other things: 

  • Unshackling the health system from the unethical and overtly commercially predatory straight jacket of the pharmaceutical industry.
  • Closing the revolving doors and conflicts of interest which enable drug manufacturers to unfairly influence the regulatory process.
  • Reforming the regulations on medical drug advertising which has prejudiced the media in the United States and New Zealand against open debate of drug safety.
  • Reforming regulations governing pesticide and chemical use.
  • Educating people about the dangers of a highly processed diet and removing the crop subsidies which make highly processed foods so cheap.
  • Funding research on preventive, alternative and holistic approaches to health and requiring doctor training to include such information.

RFK also plans to cease fluoridation of water. The key to understanding Kennedy’s approach is his grasp of independent evidence-based medicine. The relief and hope that this brings to COVID-19 campaigners is exemplified in this election night post from Robert Malone. How far will Kennedy go in righting the wrongs of the COVID-19 era and the vaccine mandates? We are not sure. Some, like Steve Kirsch, are already laying out their stall for comprehensive Covid vaccine reform. We join Steve in wishing for a very broad brush.

The main challenge we face in our distant corner of the world is a public health information gap

New Zealand has been following the lead of the US government on COVID-19 policy, even pushing ahead of it in some cases. Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines come from America and were approved by the US CDC. Pfizer’s contractual immunity from prosecution stems directly from US vaccine immunity laws. For the record, the Harris campaign and the Democrat Party required that all their staffers and volunteers be up to date with COVID-19 shots and boosters. The Biden administration also made it a mandatory condition of public funding of hospitals that employees, including doctors, were fully COVID-19 vaccinated. Therefore, we appear to have dodged a bullet. 

We have to decouple from reliance on prior US vaccine policy and misinformation, ask some serious questions and have public discussions. Mistakes were made and these have to be corrected. Continuing efforts to stop any public discussion of the official health data here in New Zealand is adding up to criminal folly.

So, will the outcome of the US election affect our health discussions here in New Zealand? Yes, we believe so. The blocks to public discussion in America and on the world stage will be lessened if not removed. New Zealand is not so isolated that this will not trickle through our borders into the public narrative.

Massive Korean Study Confirms Elevated Risk of Heart Disease Among Young People

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A study of 3.4 million health records in the Korean national health database entitled “The impact of COVID-19 status and vaccine type following the first dose on acute heart disease: A nationwide retrospective cohort study in South Korea” reveals that individuals receiving mRNA vaccines are at higher risk of heart disease. Notably, younger people have an even higher risk profile than older adults.

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The study analysed the health records of individuals for just 21 days following either their first COVID-19 vaccine dose and/or any COVID-19 infection. In both cases, there was an elevated risk of heart disease, including acute cardiac injury, acute myocarditis, acute pericarditis, cardiac arrest, and cardiac arrhythmia. This supports the findings of our recent reports: 

Firstly, “Staggering New Data From Health New Zealand and Others” reported official Health New Zealand data obtained via an Official Information Act request (OIA), documenting a massive increase in admissions to Accident and Emergency among individuals under 40, rising from 2,000 per year to over 20,000 per year.

Secondly, “Breaking: 188% Rise in Mortality Risk Among New Zealand Teens Following Covid-19 Vaccination” reported official Health New Zealand data released under OIA showing that teens and people in their twenties had a disproportionately elevated risk of death in the 90 days following a COVID-19 vaccination.

Taken together, these findings show an ongoing risk of serious illness following mRNA vaccination that especially affects younger age groups. Significantly, this risk continues for months and years subsequent to COVID-19 vaccination.

Please note these are official New Zealand government figures. In other words, the conclusions are indisputable. Scepticism and accusations of misinformation are untenable. The figures show that Health New Zealand has been vigorously pursuing a universal mRNA vaccination policy that is known to damage the health of young people over the short and longer term. These official figures show that the consequences of this policy are very serious indeed. 

An article from the Scottish Daily Mail covering an unrelated situation presents some salutary lessons. The article examines the case of Portland Oregon, where authorities decriminalised the use of hard drugs in November 2020. By 2022, the streets of downtown Portland were littered with discarded needles and comatose addicts. Serious crime rose. Portland reversed its policy when faced with the evidence. 

Glasgow, however, has decided to copy Portland’s mistake and decriminalise hard drugs. They are making policy not based on evidence but on a social theory known as the harm reduction movement. This theory says that drug addicts will gradually emerge from their addiction when they no longer face prosecution but are rather assisted and counselled, including the provision of clean needles and pure drugs. In the modern context, the theory isn’t working, but the liberal Scottish government believes it should and will. They are rejecting the evidence of their own eyes, in favour of their social beliefs..

They are planning to give drugs to people that they know will cause harm.

When you believe that you are pursuing a social good, sometimes it can result in harm. As the evidence of harms from mRNA vaccines has accumulated, the theory that mRNA vaccines are safe and effective is no longer tenable, but the authorities are stuck in a do or die mode. Having gone so far down one road, they appear unable to turn back or even contemplate that a mistake has been made. They are psychologically dependent on a theory that has been disproved.

It is never too late to learn. We now know that a mistake has been made, and the mRNA vaccine policies are misguided. Even at this late hour, everyone will only feel relief if the facts are squarely faced and the appropriate corrections made to policy that reflect the official data.

Open Letter to Journalists—A Time for Review

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Dear Media Representatives

It has been 5 long years since the earliest COVID-19 cases were noticed in November 2019. Last Saturday, I gave a talk in Whangarei where I was able to look back, discuss the way ahead and answer questions.  I reached the conclusion that we need a review. We need to take a long hard look at the events and outcomes of the last five years and then have some serious conversations. 

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The role of journalists is not just to entertain, but to tell us what is going on in society. They look for truths under the surface and behind the scenes and then share their insights. They are unafraid to ask questions, even if the answers are sometimes unpalatable.

Newspapers and media reports are full these days of personal tragedies, more people dying too early, including young people with cancer or diseases that used to be rarely seen. However, few deep questions are being asked. It is the unprecedented sudden increase in the rate of these events during the pandemic that needs investigation and analysis.

Journalists worth their salt would be asking why the cancer statistics have not been published since 2019? Why are our hospitals overcrowded as never before? Why exactly are we falling ill, what with, and what are the numbers? Why are we frequently off work sick? Why have disability rates soared? Why are young people being affected as never before (see here and here)? Why is there a mental health crisis? Why are mortality stats elevated?

As we have been reporting at the Hatchard Report and GLOBE for nearly four years now, the weight of published scientific evidence points to a unique health crisis that is man-made. With a better understanding of the risks of gene editing, early warnings and more caution this might have been prevented. There are simple lessons to be learned, lessons that need to be reported in the media and widely discussed in society.

COVID-19 itself is a virus which most now believe with good reason was designed in a lab and then escaped. It uses the spike proteins on its surface to attach itself to a human cell. It then fuses with the cell and manufactures copies of itself. As we remarked early in the pandemic, being the result of genetic engineering rather than of zoonotic origin, it was likely to be unstable and suffer a high rate of mutation. This has proved to be the case. Multiple variants of COVID-19 have proved highly adept at evading vaccines and hiding from the immune system for long periods of time in various parts of our physiology, causing the symptoms of Long Covid.

mRNA COVID-19 vaccines are designed to breach the human cell membrane and repurpose the cell to produce spike proteins in the hope that our immune system will then learn to recognise and control the COVID-19 virus which has spikes on its surface. In the event, these COVID-19 vaccines have not proved effective, it is now even apparent that multiple vaccine doses encourage rather than prevent Covid infection. Moreover the spike protein is now recognised as a cardio toxin and the mRNA vaccine a deterrent to our immune functions

Thus both the COVID-19 virus and the COVID-19 vaccines utilise mechanisms which are destructive of cell integrity. Cellular integrity is at the basis of health. Our life begins with a single cell which multiplies to become the 37 trillion cells of the fully grown person. Each of these cells contains the same genetic identity. Each person has a genetic identity which differs from all other people in some respects. The ultimate purpose of the immune system is to protect and preserve the unique genetic identity of an individual’s cells.

The whole cell, nucleus, cytoplasm and membrane, is the wheelhouse of the boat of life. That first cell and all subsequent cells contain our capacity for experience, intelligence, drive and emotions. It contains our individual history and the history of our family and race. It supports our consciousness, our capacity to be awake. Everything that we treasure in life relies upon the integrity of our cells. Biotechnology knows very, very little if anything about how these precious human attributes are supported by our genetics. Both the COVID-19 virus and the COVID-19 vaccines are designed to disrupt and repurpose cellular genetic functions and they do so on a vast scale, affecting billions of cells. As we have written previously, this threatens not just our health but who we are. It can leave life adrift without an anchor.

A crime without a name

None of these risks are strangers to science, they were well known to researchers in the field before the pandemic. What is strange is the determination of the biotechnology industry to plough ahead with risky genetic experiments whose results could not be contained, not just might but actually did escape and spread without limit and could not be recalled. The commercial arm of biotechnology ignored these dangers and exposed the whole of humanity to the extreme risks during the COVID-19 pandemic. And still risky experimentation continues.

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The risks were obvious to everyone working in the biotech field from the outset. So why did they go ahead? In 2014, Jennifer Doudna, the inventor of CRISPR gene editing had a dream. In it, a fellow researcher took her to meet Adolf Hitler who was sitting ready with pen and paper and asking “I want to understand the uses and implications of this amazing technology you have developed”. Doudna recalled, in an interview with her biographer Walter Isaacson (Amazon link) “I was jolted awake from the nightmare. As I lay in the dark, my heart racing, I couldn’t escape the awful premonition with which the dream had left me”. She began to have trouble sleeping at night, fearing she had created a toolbox for future Frankensteins who would pervert her work.

In January 2015 at a conference of biotechnology researchers in the Napa Valley and during subsequent meetings, her thinking changed. The excitement generated by hundreds of biotech researchers gathered together reinforcing each other swayed her opinion. She decided that gene editing could do some good. She and her colleagues rejected the idea that gene editing was unnatural. In her mind Doudna began to minimise the prospect of risks. In the end, the conference participants and the biotech industry as a whole resolved to fight any attempt to regulate or limit their work. This opened Pandora’s box, setting the stage for the COVID-19 pandemic which was just a few years away.

As many as ten million people have died during the last five years as a result of the pandemic, insurance data suggests four times this number have suffered some form of lasting health disability. At the Hatchard Report we have documented that the balance of evidence favours Covid vaccination (Amazon link) as the main culprit, but whether these injuries were from COVID-19 or COVID-19 vaccines is to a large extent immaterial. All of the deaths resulted from biotechnology experimentation. 

I am reminded of Winston Churchill’s response when he received confirmation of the Nazi holocaust: “We are in the presence of a crime without a name”.

The crime is even more strange because it is not at all clear exactly who is to blame. It is not just one person leading the charge. There has been a collective failure of intelligence. Millions of people worldwide have been trained in colleges and universities, and even in schools, to edit genes using CRISPR technology. They have been told that this will lead to a bright future free of disease and encouraged to make a profession out of it. Entrepreneurs have invested heavily and governments generously funded the commercial endeavours that spring out of each new discovery in the hope of a health breakthrough, but little of use has emerged except literally heart break.

Many people who have become involved in the commercial biotech juggernaut, including those in the media and PR industry writing about it, are unaware of the risks. It is as if they were given inaccurate directions, took a wrong turn and suddenly found themselves in the wrong part of town at the wrong time. Vast sums of money have been spent on public relations and AI designed to promote a biotechnology future. Much of this is written by hidden persuaders who have little scientific knowledge themselves. In most cases they are simply doing their best to earn a living using the inaccurate and misleading information that has been fed to them.

Western countries have been persuaded that genetic editing is a scientific miracle that is going to make life better. 80% of people have been COVID-19 vaccinated and ‘educated’ to accept a ‘safe and effective’ narrative. As a result it is hard to change public opinion and the course of events that has been set in motion. However the weight of mainstream published scientific evidence has increasingly moved against the safety of COVID-19 vaccination. News outlets around the world are beginning to acknowledge COVID-19 vaccine adverse effects. Even the BBC, a bastion of pro-vaccine PR, has recently publicized vaccine harms, albeit a few years late as called out by GB News.

Here in New Zealand, we are probably the least informed among western nations about the origins of COVID-19 and the risks of COVID-19 vaccination. Unfortunately, the rejection of an informed and cautious approach is beginning to appear deliberate on the part of those who edit media content. Take this for example: on 21st October the Boston Globe published an article “People in their 30s and 40s are facing an unprecedented wave of memory problems“. The Globe is behind a paywall so it is unlikely that many Kiwis read it. Luckily, RNZ and the New Zealand Herald picked it up, but were we actually lucky? NO, we were not.

The Globe article reported that memory lapses are expected as we age, but examined evidence that many surprisingly young people are suddenly losing their grip. It found that for the 15 years prior to the pandemic the numbers affected had remained steady, but then increased rapidly by 33% (affecting one million more young people in America) following the start of the pandemic. This is a red flag: a sudden increase coinciding with the pandemic. The implication was not lost on the Globe which left its readers able to connect the dots. The NZ rehash of the Globe report didn’t mention the actual figures or the timing and merely fobbed off its readers with the suggestion we have too much information these days, advising us to watch a little less TV. We were being dumbed down, just when we should be shaken awake.

That is our message today: shake off the lethargy, stand up for journalism as it should be. Ask the hard questions. Demand the facts and figures, they are being hidden and need to be exposed to fresh air. One thing is sure, a lot of long held conventional opinions need to be revisited and investigated. Times have moved on irrevocably and we need to rediscover where we stand in the changed landscape. Journalists have a vital role to play in this process. We have to evolve out of the pandemic. We need to educate ourselves about the hidden and truly serious dangers of gene editing. Forewarned is forearmed.

There is Safe and Effective Roadshow visiting Queenstown, Dunedin, Nelson and Wellington organised near the beginning of November. I hope you take the opportunity to attend and report the debate. We have never needed this more keenly. The time is now.

Sincerely

Guy Hatchard PhD

Breaking: 188% Rise in Mortality Risk Among New Zealand Teens Following Covid-19 Vaccination

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How has Health New Zealand missed a massive death signal among young age groups in New Zealand following mRNA COVID-19 vaccination?

New OIA data shows a 188% rise in the 3 month mortality risk among the 12-19 age group following mRNA vaccination and an 83% rise in the 20-30 age group.

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An OIA HNZ00064867 released 22 October 2024 under freedom of information by Health New Zealand lists the number of people in 2021 and 2022 who died within 93 days (3 months) of receiving a Pfizer mRNA COVID-19 vaccine, broken down by age.

During this 2021/22 period some 12 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines were administered to the New Zealand population of 5 million. Official figures have already revealed that all cause mortality rose in 2021 in tandem with the COVID-19 vaccination program despite the absence of COVID-19 infection and flu which was mostly due to New Zealand border closures. In 2022 New Zealand all cause deaths were 38,574 (7.4 deaths/1000 population) and in 2019 they were 34,260 (6.9 deaths/1000 population). This is an increase of 7.8%. This figure is concerning and we have previously discussed the implications at length.

The newly released OIA data allows us to find out if the excess mortality rate of any age bracket has been disproportionately affected in the 3 months following COVID-19 vaccination during 2021 and 2022.

There are 552,000 teenagers in the 12-19 age bracket. 58% of this group were vaccinated during 2021/22

There are 687,000 people aged 20-30 in New Zealand. 78% of this group were vaccinated during 2021/22.

Very few of either age group received booster shots during the time period.

The OIA reported there were 67 deaths recorded within 93 days of COVID-19 vaccination in the 12-19 age bracket for 2021/22

There were 166 deaths recorded within 93 days of COVID-19 vaccination in the 20-30 age bracket for 2021/22.

1st and 2nd shots were recommended to be given at a 21 day interval.

Allowing for the vaccination coverage rate, over the two year period the 12-19 age group as a whole were within 93 days of a COVID-19 vaccination for just 9% of the time. Yet their 3 month deaths (67) accounted for 26% of the total number of deaths (254) in their age bracket over the two year period. An increased mortality risk of 188%

The 20-30 age group as a whole were within 93 days of a COVID-19 vaccination for 12% of the time over the 2 years. Yet their 3 month deaths (166) accounted for 22% of the total number of deaths (762) in their age bracket over the two year period. That is an increased mortality risk of 83%.

The other age brackets covered by the OIA (30s, 40s, 50s, 60s and 71+) had a 3 month mortality risk relatively close to the elevated all cause mortality risk for the period. None of these age groups had a disproportionately elevated mortality risk, merely the already mentioned excess death rate.

What the data means explained in the simplest possible terms:

The 12-19 and 20-30 age brackets had a disproportionate mortality risk in the 3 months following vaccination. This may have contributed to the deaths of as many as 40 teenagers and 70 people in their twenties. It greatly increases the likelihood that a number of unexplained or unexpected deaths noted among the younger age brackets occurring in 2021 and 2022 were caused by mRNA COVID-19 vaccination. By implication the health, including long term health, of thousands more may have been adversely affected. These figures are very alarming. How were they missed?

The last published Medsafe Safety Report up to November 2022 records that a total of 184 deaths had been reported to CARM as adverse events following COVID-19 vaccination. Medsafe itself admits that this figure is very likely to be grossly under-reported. At the time, Medsafe determined that 163 of the reported deaths were unlikely to be related to vaccination, 15 could not be assessed, while 6 cases were possibly linked to the vaccines. In other words, they publicly dismissed almost any association between COVID-19 vaccines and mortality.

Medsafe dismissed any association by claiming that only a very limited list of disease types could ever be the result of a vaccination. Thus people dying from heart attacks, strokes, sudden onset cancers, types of neurological illness, unexplained sudden death, accidents due to brain fog, acute kidney illness and suicide were all excluded as unrelated. We now know that all of these categories of illness could be related to adverse effects of COVID-19 vaccination. Yesterday in our article “Mental Health, Genetics, and Covid Vaccine Adverse Effects” we reported published findings and scientific reasoning showing that the adverse effects of COVID-19 vaccines have a very broad spectrum which encompasses the above illness categories. Moreover there is also evidence showing an increased health and mortality risk from the COVID-19 vaccines continues long past three months. How have Health New Zealand missed the implications? Perhaps they haven’t.

In our article “Staggering New Data From Health New Zealand and Others” we reported an OIA documenting a massive rise in Accident and Emergency presentations for chest pain among the under forties. Currently standing at around 30,000 per year, up from 4,400 in 2020. Health New Zealand has not issued a public comment. Nor have the New Zealand media published the figures. 

Our concerns run deeper than negligence.

We have been aware for some time of persistent but unsubstantiated and undocumented rumours reaching us from a number of independent sources reportedly close to families who had young family members who died subsequent to COVID-19 vaccination and who are reported to have received 6 figure compensation sums from the government on the condition set by an NDA that they not talk about the matter publicly.

We are raising this matter publicly now because of the mortality and health data disclosed by the recent OIA data and published studies which add credence to the claim that the health of a significant number of younger age groups are likely to have been substantially affected subsequent to vaccination. Although we do not have a copy of any such NDA, if they do exist our legal advice suggests that the secrecy requirements contained in an NDA, depending on its terms, may be challenged in the courts and could be deemed illegal. We can put anyone who feels they may have been affected in touch with legal representation up to date with the issue. Certainly any attempt to silence people adversely affected by a public health initiative appears to run contrary to New Zealand law.

If these rumours are true, they indicate that sections of the government knew or suspected that there was a mortality risk. If they are not true, this in no way detracts from the seriousness of the elevated mortality risk for young age groups following COVID-19 vaccination documented above.

If such payments did take place, we suppose the intent of the government would have been to prevent widespread public vaccine hesitancy. Essentially that would have been a part of their openly avowed strategy to dismiss some expert warnings and any notion that the completely novel and largely untried genetic mRNA vaccine method might pose unique risks or that the risks outweighed any protective effect.

In any case, the figures we report today suggest that there should have been an entirely different response. If the mortality data had been critically examined at the time, as it should have been, it would have revealed a significant death signal for younger age groups. If Health New Zealand had set aside its prejudicial faith in the word ‘vaccine’ and assessed the data as it came to hand, there could have been a different outcome. Considering it was known very early on that younger people had an almost zero mortality risk from COVID-19 infection itself, this should have led to an early cessation of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine rollout. There should have been no pressure exerted on schools, school children, university students and parents to get young people vaccinated, quite the reverse.

Two years ago we published an article “How Can People In Power Lie So Comfortably” in which we commented on some unexpected deaths of children. The death of any child or young person reverberates through extended families and whanau. It drags the whole society down in shock, grief, confusion and regret. It blights the future. Now we know all this might have been avoided.

Instead, the mortality risk, if known or suspected in the inner circles of Health New Zealand, was never made public knowledge. The opposite in fact. To this day Health New Zealand publicity misleadingly claims that COVID-19 vaccination is generally safe and necessary.

We have published these figures in the public interest well aware that, as we have repeatedly asked, a comprehensive analysis of population wide comparative health outcomes of the New Zealand public subsequent to the COVID-19 vaccination rollout should be made or the full data set released for public scrutiny. This needs to include vaccination status by date and age along with health outcomes and mortality data by date and type.

The data used in our analysis comes exclusively from OIAs and Official Health New Zealand and Stats New Zealand websites. Health New Zealand vaccination data is usually published with the following disclaimer:

“Data are sourced from the Aotearoa Immunisation Register (AIR) and may be subject to any data quality issues still to be resolved in AIR, which includes, but is not limited to: Incorrect vaccination event dates, miscoding of vaccination given, miscoded indication code and miscoding of person to vaccination event. Note that these data quality issues are largely attributed to the fact that many fields within AIR are free text and are therefore prone to data entry errors.”

As a result, the exact margin of error of the New Zealand COVID-19 statistics is unknown, but the calculated mortality signals contained in the latest OIA are so large that they should be a matter of great public concern. Failing to raise the matter in any public forum constitutes a breach of public trust and the New Zealand Bill of Rights. This information should be distributed as widely as possible. The carefully crafted PR myth of COVID-19 vaccine safety and efficacy needs to be exploded. It doesn’t fit real life New Zealand Health data. Disregarding a risk to children is unconscionable.