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Steep Rise in Autism Cases

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The UK Telegraph reports “Special education spending surges 70pc amid autism wave”. UK Department of Education figures show that the cost of supporting schoolchildren with special needs has jumped by more than two-thirds since lockdown from £6.9bn in 2018/19 to £12bn today. One in 100 UK primary schoolchildren are now entitled to formal council support as a result of autism, double the one in 200 before the pandemic.

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Crucially, experts say that the autism figures are likely to understate the true scale of the issue as waiting times for a diagnosis have continued to grow. Which means the figures are not likely to be an artefact of changed reporting procedures or public awareness of the problem as is suspected to be the case for adult ADHD for example. It appears due to a steep rise in symptomatic autistic behaviour.

The UK is not alone in facing these problems. A report released by our Education Review Office (ERO) in March found that New Zealand school students are among the worst-behaved kids in the OECD. Notably behaviour has worsened during 2022 and 2023. As a result, Kiwi teachers are struggling to manage disruptive behaviour.

Our article “The Long Read: Is This the End of the Materialist Paradigm?” published in July referenced an analysis from the New York Times entitled “The Youngest Pandemic Children Are Now in School, and Struggling”.

The post 2019 mental health impairment is not just limited to children. In September 2023 we published “The Long Read: Mental Health Issues are Multiplying. Why?”. This reported multiple statistics documenting recent deterioration in mental health profiles.

The scale and scope of the post pandemic individual mental health problems and classroom disruption are unprecedented. There has been a tendency to ascribe these to the effects of lockdowns on home and work environments. We believe this is a speculative stretch and possibly the result of a blinkered or biased outlook which lacks the backing of sufficiently convincing scientific data and analysis.

The rapid rise in autism rates since 2019 is indicative of deeper causal factors. Scientists have found rare gene changes, or mutations, as well as small common genetic variations in people with autism, implying a genetic component. A growing area of research focuses on interaction of genetic and environmental factors. For example, a mother’s exposure to harmful contaminants during pregnancy may trigger a genetic mutation leading to autism in her child.

The suggestion that vaccines may cause autism became a scientific battleground for two decades from the early 90’s. To date any association has been dismissed by mainstream science as flawed and a myth. Significant questions remain, but despite these, the door is closed. Pursuing further research in this field has become a career ending option.

Now it seems the controversy needs to be revisited. mRNA vaccines are not traditional vaccines in any sense of the term. They are actually intended to edit intracellular genetic functions. A study published in 2022 found “Intracellular Reverse Transcription of Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine BNT162b2 In Vitro in Human Liver Cell Line”. In other words, mRNA vaccines are both long acting and have the potential to cause genetic mutation—a strongly suspected causal factor for autism.

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a complex developmental condition involving persistent challenges with social communication, restricted interests and repetitive behaviour. While autism is considered a lifelong disorder, the degree of impairment in functioning because of these challenges varies between individuals with autism. In essence, autism involves an unbalanced outlook, a lack of ability to engage appropriately with the social and behavioural environment.

In our article “The New Genetics — Huge Deficiencies in Our Understanding Need Correcting” we asserted “The greatest absurdity in the science of genetics is the exclusion of consciousness from its study, along with the false assumption that you can edit DNA and its expressions without altering consciousness or identity.” We reported that human life starts with a single cell which multiplies eventually into around 37 trillion cells, but only one single unique identity. The integrity of our identity relies on the preservation of genetic uniformity among cells.

In May we published our thought provoking article “Can Biotechnology Control Human Behaviour?“. Research on transplant recipients demonstrates how memory and behaviour can be distorted by the presence of foreign DNA in the body. We concluded:

“It is just a short step now to realise that gene editing, including any sort of editing of the chain of genetic functions within cells, could more or less automatically change our behaviour and psychological profile. More importantly, since our knowledge of cellular genetics now appears to be very incomplete, cellular genetic editing, if carried out on a scale commensurate with organ size, can scramble our behaviour, thinking, and understanding.”

At GLOBE we have been gradually building up a framework for the life sciences that includes consciousness. We recognise that mRNA vaccination in some cases may have impaired the holistic outlook and empathy usual to human thought, precisely because it disrupts the holistic genetic functioning that is uniformly shared by our trillions of cells. In our article “The Long Read: What is a Human Biofield?”, we have expanded on this understanding and suggest that genetic effects are networked and can be shared among groups of people. We suggest that higher human functions rely on very specific genetic and cellular characteristics that could be disrupted by mRNA vaccination.

The autism surge evident in newly released UK government data is a canary in the coal mine moment. Although changes in genetic structure and function following mRNA vaccination are not germline effects shared by all cells, they can affect billions of cells and do so to a lesser or greater extent in different individual recipients. Therefore there is a potential partial fit between the effects of mRNA vaccines on genetic and immune functions and the known association between genetic mutation events and autism incidence.

Among others, autistic traits include:

  • Finding it easier to talk ‘at’ people, rather than engaging in a conversation.
  • Persisting with behaviour that is unreasonable in the wider social context.
  • Becoming fixated on ideas or behaviours including repetitive rituals.
  • Being blunt in your assessment of people and things.
  • Becoming upset if something unusual happens or if people express ideas or require behaviours that clash with your own preferences.

This is not an exhaustive list. In fact a great many other traits are associated with autism. Moreover the intensity of symptoms varies across a spectrum. Very often autistic people are misunderstood and their abilities underestimated. They can excel in their chosen specialised career. Far from being emotionally deficient, a significant body of research shows that autistic people often have intact emotional (affective) empathy alongside reduced cognitive empathy.

However all of the above list of characteristics have become more evident in individual and social interactions during the pandemic, including a polarisation of views that sometimes cuts across prior social, cultural, political and familial boundaries. This is sometimes associated with a refusal to accept that others may have their own good reasons to adopt views distinctly different from one’s own.

We suggest there is a case to propose and investigate a novel post mRNA Covid vaccination autistic syndrome which shares many characteristics with classical autism symptoms, but which also might have distinct differences.

To what extent any symptoms might or might not be a result of Covid vaccination can only be decided through research. Research comparing the short and long term health outcomes of the vaccinated with the unvaccinated across a wide spectrum of physical and mental conditions is required. Unfortunately most governments have closed access to the sort of health data that will allow such assessments to take place. We can only ask why? This sort of persistent and unreasonable denial could in fact be characterised as an autism trait. Can a government become autistic? You tell me.

The New Zealand Government is Failing to Come to Terms With Reality

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The New Zealand Herald story, 12 September, entitled “Health Minister Shane Reti to reveal more about health targets as officials warn of manipulation”. Dr Shane Reti says he’s not concerned (???) but can’t guarantee his five targets for the health system won’t be gamed by under-pressure health staff as his Government strives for better healthcare services. Apparently, specific targets for timely healthcare responses put hospital staff under such pressure that they can be tempted to manipulate data to make things look as though they are improving.

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In March, Reti set out the five targets he hoped to achieve within six years:

  • 90% of patients to receive cancer management within 31 days of the decision to treat.
  • 95% of patients to be admitted, discharged or transferred from an emergency department within six hours.
  • 95% of patients to wait less than four months for a first specialist appointment.
  • 95% of patients to wait less than four months for elective treatment.
  • 95% of children to be fully immunised at 24 months of age.

The article reports that health service officials advised Reti that the following tactics have been used to circumvent targets:

  • For cancer, there is the risk of patients being queued before treatment decisions are made.
  • “stopping the clock” or removing patients from the ED information system while they were still in the department or re-designating patients as “under observation”, without them being moved to an observation unit.
  • The first specialist appointment target was threatened by the potential for variable interpretations of patient referral dates.
  • Achieving shorter wait times for elective treatment could be manipulated through “inappropriate suspension” from a waiting list.
  • Unlike the others, there was “little evidence” the immunisation target could be gamed, (no surprises there, vaccine mandates proved really effective to achieve targets)

Health Service managers suggested that the health targets could be met by instituting a more rapid hospital discharge process. Hopefully, this doesn’t mean sending sick people home early. Other circumstances unintentionally ‘improving’ ED statistics include the nightly ramping seen at hospitals across the country, whereby patients have to wait outside in ambulances until there is room to admit them.

The most concerning take home from the article was the realisation that the Health Service and the Minister are on course for a clash of interests. Despite this, no one appears to be deliberately at fault here. Dedicated and over worked hospital staff are doing their level best to cope with the volume of cases. Administrators are under extreme pressure to improve outcomes, otherwise they might be pilloried by the press. The Health Minister sincerely wants to improve treatment options and outcomes.

The hard reality is that it may be difficult to reach the targets because of the increased volume of sickness in the wider NZ community.

We are not alone. Other highly vaccinated nations around the world are facing similar crises. See, for example, this article from the UK Telegraph entitled “An NHS on its knees means A&E waits are deadlier than going to war” It reports only 60% of A&E patients are seen by a physician before four hours, down from 94% in 2010. Over 10% of patients wait more than 12 hours. Reti and the Health Service are beginning to get the picture, but they are not willing to spill the beans to the public. Both are defending their turf rather than face the hard facts.

Despite the official silence about increased sickness and mortality rates, other sectors of the sprawling health industry are beginning to wake up with a headache. This week the Public Health Communication Centre Aotearoa (PHCC), aka epidemiologist and erstwhile government advisor Professor Michael Baker’s A Team, issued a briefing entitled “Long Covid: High economic burden justifies further preventive efforts“. PHCC is based at Otago University and funded by the GAMA Foundation of NZ rich listers Grant and Marilyn Nelson who, according to Business Desk, use the Foundation to fund anything that interests them.

The briefing comes right out and admits “The persisting Covid-19 pandemic is causing both acute illness and longer-term debilitating symptoms”. In other words, we are falling sick in greater numbers than ever before. The article speculates that the cost of increased healthcare use and national productivity losses might be $2 billion per year. It also says that there is not enough data being released to decide what is going on. We agree.

Before you start the applause, Michael Baker and his team, which includes old chestnuts like Professors Nick Wilson and Amanda Kvalsvig, ascribe our entire health crisis to Long Covid and don’t mention mRNA Covid vaccination, except to say we need a lot more of it and masks etc. In fact the biggest information deficit is the withholding of data comparing health outcomes of the vaccinated with the unvaccinated, as we have repeatedly pointed out (see “No One Need Allow Themselves to Be Fooled for a Second Time” for example)

We are not suggesting here that Long Covid is not a serious condition, it can be. However, studies indicating that the symptoms of Long Covid are more serious than those following influenza have not adequately differentiated between the outcomes of those Covid vaccinated and those unvaccinated. A study published in the Lancet entitled “Long-term outcomes following hospital admission for COVID-19 versus seasonal influenza: a cohort study” for example referenced the personal health records of the US Army Dept. of Veterans Affairs all of whom are likely Covid vaccinated.

Despite this, on this occasion we don’t want to enter into an argument with Michael Baker and his team. We agree with them that we are in the middle of a serious health crisis. In fact we should all be reaching the same conclusion: biotechnology experimentation has landed us in a nightmare. Whether this is due to Long Covid or Covid vaccine adverse effects doesn’t matter so much as the certain knowledge that both of them came out of a biotech lab. Why then is the government planning to deregulate biotechnology and open the flood gates to more of the same?

The Government is funding future foods

The schizophrenia of the government is in full view when you look from one department to another. On the one hand Health Minister Dr Shane Reti is struggling to improve health outcomes as well as keeping the lid on an unprecedented tsunami of illness, while the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) has announced a $12 million investment in future foods in partnership with Singapore.

Under this initiative:

  • AgResearch will be “Cooking and processing seaweed to improve consumer acceptance, protein digestion and nutrient bioavailability”.
  • The labs at the Cawthron Institute will be “Realising the value of algae as a source of alternative protein” which will attempt to make it look and taste something vaguely approaching meat and dairy.
  • The University of Auckland will be “investigating the interactions between plant proteins (soy bean and pea) and cultured livestock cells in fermentation vats (including cell Iines from cattle, sheep, deer and pigs). Their first research objective will be to combine these two protein sources to produce hybrid food matrices.” [???]
  • Massey University will be “Identifying barriers to adopting sustainable and healthy plant-based diets [as above] and provide guidance to producers on how to encourage consumers to embrace alternative protein.” In other words, psychologists at Massey will be designing psyops to turn us away from our traditional foods towards synthetic substitutes.

I trust you can identify the curious madness of this initiative when placed alongside the health crisis. Research shows that a healthy natural diet including fresh fruit and vegetables reduces the incidence of illnesses like cancer, diabetes, heart disease, etc which are overwhelming our health service. Whereas ultra processed foods similar to those being planned and funded by MBIE contribute to these illnesses.

NZ is a paradise of wide open spaces and fertile agricultural land blessed with a mild climate. You plant a seed and with some effort on the part of dedicated hard working farmers and home growers an abundance of fruits and vegetables results. Instead, our government is funding an effort to persuade us to eat synthetic foods cloned in a laboratory, all at great cost. They think that this will have greater appeal to our export markets than clean green fresh farming. How mad is that?

The government lacks any cohesive vision. It is pursuing contradictory policies. On the one hand they say they want to improve public health outcomes, on the other they are actively pursuing policies that are now known to negatively affect health. Biotechnology deregulation in medicine and the food sector in the wake of the appalling pandemic health outcomes is the height of madness.

Meanwhile, the first seeds of awakening seem to be sprouting. After years of telling us that there is nothing to worry about, Michael Baker et al are warning of a growing health crisis. Unfortunately, they are still so stuck in the past that they are recommending more mRNA Covid vaccines, which don’t work and ultimately injure the immune system. Oh dear.

The most disturbing aspect of this farrago is the continuing determination to hide all these facts by influencing and manipulating the public. In the end such behaviour collapses because of its internal contradictions. In the meantime our health service is falling apart. We must take any chance to speak up and point out the obvious to a government that has lost its way, whether it is deliberate or due to confusion, dissension or derangement.

No One Need Allow Themselves to Be Fooled for a Second Time

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Many subscribers have requested an article specifically suitable for circulation to people in New Zealand who are beginning to question the official Covid narrative, but are still being bombarded by potentially misleading information. The following article has been written especially for this purpose, setting out the issues clearly and in historical order. It is sourced from official data and contains links with supplementary information. Please circulate widely to those feeling in need of answers.

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Newsroom is an independent news outlet which says it believes New Zealanders deserve exclusive, trustworthy, high quality independent local journalism. With this brief, we were astonished to read their article on Friday 6th September, entitled: The truth about New Zealand’s death rate that the Covid Commission will hear. It claimed that:

“Wild claims of excess deaths in the wake of the Covid vaccination campaign are at stark odds with the mathematical facts: New Zealand’s mortality rate is actually lower than expected.”

In other words, the article claims to have evidence that since the pandemic began no one has died from Covid infection or Covid vaccines who wouldn’t otherwise have died from other natural causes. The article was written by David Hood who is credited as an adviser for IT training and development at the University of Otago. Apparently, he is training us to believe that nothing extraordinary happened during the pandemic. Are they about to gaslight us again?

The article makes the outrageous claim that it is “demonstrably false” to say that New Zealand has had excess deaths in recent years. According to the article, people who claim that excess deaths have increased are not taking into account our rising total population and the fact that the population is ageing. The Newsroom piece is not a scientific article, it would not qualify for publication in a journal. It appears to be intended to influence public opinion. As the article dives into the statistics we quickly see that it appears to be employing a statistical sleight of hand that it is accusing others of using.

Age standardised adjustment of mortality data

The article tells us “New Zealand has seen big changes in ages, with 23 percent more living people aged 65-plus now than there were in 2017, as the children of the ‘£10 Pom’ migration era reach old age.” To the uninitiated, a 23% rise sounds huge, but in fact the figure is exaggerated and distorted by the author’s failure to take account of our rising population. In 2017 15% of the population were over 65, in 2023 16.6% of our population were over 65. That is a 10.5% rise over 6 years, not 23%.

The author correctly states that old people are more likely to die than young people, but the more than faint implication of the article was that somehow deaths of people over 65 don’t matter as much. In fact, statistics show the average kiwi should expect to live around 82 years. Below this age, your chances of dying decrease markedly. A 70 year old man in the USA for example has only a 2% chance of dying within 12 months.

The article suggests that if you take into account an ageing population, excess deaths disappear. Is this true? No, our article will explain why. So-called age standardisation of data is a complicated process. Current New Zealand population data ultimately references the census held in 2018. Every year there are hundreds of thousands people arriving or leaving New Zealand permanently with a range of ages. People die and are born, although continuously updated, gradually the data becomes less reliable.

In fact, broad adjustments based on large age ranges, such as the 60+ used in the graphics in the Newsroom article, actually mask the effect of the wide distribution of ages within any broad range. In New Zealand for example, the relative size of the most vulnerable 85+ years cohort with the highest death rate has remained unchanged since 2017. It has not increased. They made up 1.8% of the population then, and the exact same proportion in 2023. So is the author suggesting that the excess deaths are concentrated in the lower end of the 65+ age range? If he is, it is very concerning.

Due to the incidence of seasonal influenza, death rates vary slightly from year to year depending on the severity of the flu variant, but even so during the ten pre-pandemic years 2010 to 2019, New Zealand’s average rate of death was fairly consistent at 6.8 deaths per thousand population. During this time the 65+ cohort of the population rose by a significant 18%, but the death rate remained stable. It was 6.9 deaths per thousand in 2011 and 6.9 in 2019 for example. This is because survival rates for our biggest killers, cancer and heart disease, have been gradually improving which is exactly balancing out the effect of ageing on mortality. Therefore artificially subtracting deaths from mortality data based on minor and very gradual changes in age distribution, as the article suggests, is very problematic from a statistical point of view.

Excess deaths in New Zealand

So let’s look in detail at how the Hatchard Report has consistently and rigorously demonstrated that excess deaths in New Zealand during the pandemic are concerning. In 2020, New Zealand virtually closed its borders and quarantined the small number of arrivals. This continued until late 2021. Social distancing was encouraged and the health department tracked and traced the very small number of Covid cases. To all intents and purposes, New Zealand was Covid free. As a result, for the most part, we avoided the more deadly Alpha and Delta Covid variants. Something else happened, the closure of the borders meant that in 2020 and 2021 there were minimal cases of influenza type respiratory illness. In 2020 the mortality rate fell to just 6.4 deaths per thousand population, certainly the lowest for ten years, and probably the lowest ever. This was a very good outcome. There were 2000 fewer deaths in 2020 than would have been expected from the trend over the previous ten years. Well done New Zealand. We avoided the peak Covid deaths seen overseas.

In 2021 we continued to be Covid free up until the year was drawing to a close. We were also largely influenza free. In March the mRNA Covid vaccination rollout began and something strange happened. The Hatchard Report reprinted the relevant weekly statistics in a single chart as above.

The shaded blue area represents all-cause deaths. The black line flu incidence. The shaded grey area Covid deaths. And the red line Covid vaccines administered. You can see very clearly that all cause mortality rose and peaked in line with Covid vaccinations despite the fact that there was virtually no Covid and very little influenza incidence. It is hard to escape the notion that Covid vaccines may have been causing an increase in mortality.

So what were people dying of? In February 2022 we reviewed the St John’s Ambulance call out data for 2021 which shed light on what was going on.

There were over 13 thousand additional callouts for chest pain, breathing problems, stroke and cardiac issues when compared to 2020 and the rise was not due to Covid or influenza. This also corresponded with tens of thousands of reports of similar vaccine injuries made to Medsafe by the end of 2021. Figures which Medsafe itself admits were vastly under reported.

St John Ambulance Callouts 2020/2021

New Zealand’s data was unique because unlike overseas, where Covid incidence and mortality was conflating any possible measurement of the effect of the Covid vaccines, we had an increase in death rates prior to Covid infection and in the absence of influenza, but after the introduction of Covid vaccines.

In early 2021 the Pfizer mRNA Covid vaccine rollout began. It was administered to approximately 90% of the adult New Zealand population. This was a novel type of biotech vaccine. Its mechanism was completely different from previous vaccines. To assess the effect of such an intervention the correct statistical methods to use are:

  • Assess the timeline of mortality rate and disease incidence before and after the intervention.
  • Assess any difference between the longer term trend before and after the intervention.
  • Assess any difference in mortality rates and disease incidence between those who were administered the intervention and those who were not.

With these definitive assessments you can judge if there is any evidence for a causal relationship between the jabs and mortality or disease rates.

If we take the Covid vaccine intervention to cover 2021, 2022, 2023 and the part 2024 for which we have mortality data, the average mortality rate is 7.1 per thousand population. That is 4.4% above the long term pre-pandemic 2010/2019 average of 6.8. In all, by the end 2024, the trends indicate there will be 6300 excess deaths adjusted for population rises. If you subtract the 2000 excess deaths deficit in 2020, that will leave 4,300 population adjusted excess deaths for the period 2020 to 2024. This is a far cry from the astounding suggestion in the Newsroom article that we have had zero excess deaths during this period.

So what were these 4,300 deaths caused by? So far there have been 2763 deaths where Covid-19 has been officially recorded as the cause of death. That leaves at least 1,500 excess deaths where Covid was not the official cause. We have taken the most conservative approach above that we can. However we note that excess deaths are still continuing in 2024 above the long term pre-pandemic trend. This is very concerning. It points to possible long term health effects of Covid mRNA vaccination. We also note that adverse effects of Covid vaccination are a possible cause of death among the 2763 official Covid death toll. Is there any evidence for that? Yes.

Covid deaths by vax status

We published this figure in 2022 compiled from official data being released weekly by Health New Zealand. It shows that any protective effect of the mRNA Covid vaccine wears off rapidly leaving the recipient with an immune deficit. A fact widely recognised in the published scientific data, and referenced in our recent “Open Letter to Medical Professionals and Life Scientists“. By July 2022, 52% of the population had received an mRNA Covid booster vaccination but they accounted for 62% of Covid deaths. These figures and many others published in learned journals overseas support the notion that repeated Covid vaccination may eventually increase the risk of Covid infection, Covid vaccine adverse effects, and in some cases death.

Is Covid vaccination also making people sick?

We have discussed mortality figures, is there more to know?. In April 2023 we published leaked data from the Wellington Region showing that the number of heart attacks resulting in hospitalisation has increased by a massive 83%. Hospitalisation for myocarditis up by one third (33% increase). miscarrriage, stillbirths, and strokes all up by a quarter (25% increase). Acute kidney injury (AKI) up by 40%. Cancers were also beginning to increase.

These leaked figures square with frequent media reports of hospital ED rooms overwhelmed with unprecedented numbers of sick. They also square with the June 2024 Quarter Labour Market Statistics. Alarmingly, the working age population who are disabled rose by a massive 8.2% from June 23 to June 24. This underlines our excess deaths figures. People are also falling sick and unable to work in unprecedented numbers. During this period the New Zealand working age population rose by just 2.3%, so the year to June 2024 rise is not an artefact of population growth.

Are these massive rises in sickness due to Covid vaccination? Here we come to the crux of the information gap facing the public. It is a very simple matter to answer this question. Compare the health and mortality outcomes of the unvaccinated with the vaccinated which Health New Zealand tracks. Break the figures down by age, cause of death or disease type, and number of shots. Now we come to the dark part of our story. If Health New Zealand has already undertaken this analysis, they certainly haven’t released the figures. Moreover, a whistleblower who leaked some of the concerning data is being prosecuted. In fact, it has now been made specifically illegal to publish such data.

Worse, most of the data used to make our above charts is no longer being published by Health New Zealand and Stats New Zealand. We are being returned to an opaque form of government, more reminiscent of oppressive regimes than a democracy. I am sure your suspicions, like ours, have been alerted. As there are simple ways to settle the important questions of excess deaths, the extent and cause of the problem, why are the statistics being withheld? Especially when the issue is excess deaths—thousands of people dying early, before their time. Thousands of family tragedies.

We have all been misled

People discussing these issues openly have been gaslit. The Newsroom article for example attempts to label those asking questions as outsiders with weird ideas. Nothing could be further from the truth. We are the ones talking common sense:

  • We all know what a vaccine is supposed to do, it should prevent disease. It is obvious to everyone now—even repeated Covid mRNA vaccines do not prevent Covid infection.
  • We also know that open government is a cornerstone of democracy, ours is anything but. It is hiding the concerning statistics.
  • The government signed a secret agreement granting Pzifer immunity from prosecution if there were adverse effects of mRNA Covid vaccines. Why did it do this for a novel untried medical intervention?
  • We know that looking for independent verification of results is an essential part of uncovering scientific truth. We were told not to go there. In order to save its own skin, our politicians and media have been describing this ordinary process of scientific investigation as a dangerous ‘rabbit hole’.
  • Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, has admitted that the Biden administration pressured him into censoring Covid content. Similar censorship happened here in New Zealand. In 2021 we published a snapshot of Covid statistics on YouTube (owned by Google). This simply referenced New Zealand government sources. It was taken down by YouTube after 20,000 views within a matter of hours along with an advisory to us that Health New Zealand had required them to do so.
  • Health New Zealand failed to acknowledge the extent of the myocarditis risk among children and younger adults, ignoring for example definitive prospective studies such this preprint prospective study from Thailand which found that 29% of adolescents suffered cardiac irregularities after their second jab.
  • Health New Zealand failed to acknowledge that the three month long trials of Covid mRNA vaccines were poorly designed and gave no indication of the long term effects. Moreover, the trials assumed that adverse effects would be confined to a limited range of previously recognised effects of traditional vaccines, rather than the broad range, including cancers, heart disease, neurological and immune diseases predicted by a number of eminent researchers as likely additional outcomes of mRNA vaccination.
  • Our General Medical Council censored and even deregistered doctors warning their patients about potential side effects of Covid vaccines.
  • We now know that Health New Zealand secretly granted as many as 11,000 Covid vaccine exemptions to medical staff who knew enough about the risks to wish to avoid the jabs, but mostly refused exemptions for members of the public, even if they had medical conditions or a history that put them at risk of adverse effects of vaccination.
  • The Labour Government funded the media, in a successful attempt to influence their Covid content to align with government directives.
  • The Prime Minister’s Office funded a Disinformation Project with a specific remit to discredit anyone claiming a laboratory origin of Covid, mentioning herd immunity, or discussing the idea that some people might be dying ‘with Covid’, not ‘because’ of it.

Just remember, it is now clear and admitted by reputable mainstream media and government sources overseas that Covid escaped from a laboratory conducting gain of function research. So both Covid and Covid vaccines were the product of unregulated biotechnology. The vaccinated and unvaccinated have been pitted against one another by the media and the government in a cynical attempt to confuse the fundamental truth that our health has been damaged by biotechnology experimentation. This has prevented us all from taking common cause to call for open debate on biotechnology safety. New Zealand is almost alone among nations in continuing to maintain Covid vaccines are safe and effective. The article in Newsroom claims that the Covid Commission will hear the truth about excess deaths. I hope that they will.

Finally and crucially, why is our present National coalition government now proposing to deregulate biotechnology experimentation in the wake of the devastating pandemic death and sickness rates linked to biotechnology? This is incomprehensible and fraught with peril. It affects us all. We need to protect ourselves from this second wave of misinformation. The Hatchard Report has debunked the government biotech deregulation PR claims under the title “Fact Checking the Incredible Claims of Prime Minister Chris Luxon, Judith Collins and the New Zealand Biotech Lobby“. The implications for our food supply are explained in this article “Urgent: Government Plans To Remove Gene Food Labelling. We can also understand the hidden motivations and obvious drawbacks of biotech medicine by reading this article “The Government of the Bio-Technocrats“.

If we arm ourselves with the facts we won’t be fooled a second time.

Urgent: Government Plans To Remove Gene Food Labelling

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As you may have heard or read from numerous sources circulating widely, FSANZ (Food Standards Australia and New Zealand) is proposing to end any requirement for labelling certain foods which have been genetically modified. In brief, foods that they judge through various technical criteria are ‘substantially equivalent’ to natural foods will no longer be labelled as such or even referred to as ‘genetically modified’.

This article is also available as an audio version here.

You can read a detailed discussion of the issues in a Substack post by Jodie Bruning entitled “FSANZ’s paradigm shift in gene-edited food regulation to exclude a wide range of gene edited foods from being categorised as GMOs.“. If you would like to register your concern you can make a submission to FSANZ here but be quick, the deadline is 10th September which has left very little time for the public to respond.

According to FSANZ the new regulations will:

  • make it clear which foods are genetically modified (GM) foods for Code (???) purposes
  • accommodate (???) new technologies
  • regulate (???) foods according to the risk they pose.

In reality the new Code exempts the following processes from labelling:

  • Cell-cultured food: Food derived from animal cell lines grown in biotech cell culture vats and then processed to resemble traditional meat or seafood.
  • Foods that have processed through genetically modification where the modification is supposed to be deleted or no longer detectable
  • Food from grafted GM plants: where the food portion does not contain novel DNA or novel protein.
  • Food additives, processing aids and nutritive substances.

In essence, the regulations will be accommodating the commercial biotechnology food sector ensuring that they will no longer be required to label many gene modified foods. In other words, the public will be left in the dark about the GM origin of a wide range of foods and thereby denied their right of choice.

This is a key part of the government’s programme for biotechnology deregulation. They are well aware that if GM foods are labelled, the public will not buy them in any quantity. So their simple solution, take away labelling thus forcing the public to buy into the biotech paradigm. Food is of course a sensitive subject, traditional foods are a part of our daily life. The government apparently doesn’t care about this. They want to ride roughshod over tradition. This is not small government, it is the antithesis of small government.

It is interesting to see how they are going about enacting these huge changes to the food chain. Firstly, it is being achieved through regulation rather than parliamentary legislation. This has a lower profile and occurs over a short time period. It avoids any meaningful opportunity for the public to lobby their MP. In any case, a regulator will now decide the menu for us.

Secondly, a PR barrage has been launched suggesting that without these changes NZ will be left behind the times and economically disadvantaged. In other words, we will be outmoded rather than contemporary and fashionable. In fact, many of the PR arguments have been turned on their head and can be easily debunked. See our article “Fact Checking the Incredible Claims of Prime Minister Chris Luxon, Judith Collins and the New Zealand Biotech Lobby.”

Clear, comprehensive full-disclosure food labelling was one of the great advances of the twentieth century. The new FSANZ exemptions will be turning the clock back to the dark days of the nineteenth century when you very often didn’t know what you were eating.

The reasons for food labelling are very compelling from the health perspective, without labelling there is little prospect of identifying a cause if adverse health impacts occur over the short or long term. As our post “A Brief Peek into Tomorrow” revealed, the incidence of illness has been rising especially in the USA where gene altered foods have been proliferating.

The notion of “substantial equivalence” is a discredited ploy long used by the food processing industry to allow the substitution of ingredients with cheaper synthetic or chemical alternatives which appear to look or taste similar to the natural products they are replacing. In reality, these substituted ingredients are identifiably different in chemical composition. And hence will react differently through the digestive process.

The problem becomes far more serious and concerning when genetically modified ingredients are substituted. In my experience working in the gene safety testing and certification industry, genetic modification and production is plagued by contamination and by significant differences from natural products. This is always detectable. In this light, substantial equivalence is a bogus concept.

In my book Your DNA Diet I advance the many reasons why the unadulterated genetic content of natural foods is an essential part of our nutritional paradigm. Research shows we are literally eating the genetic intelligence of nature. It maintains our health. We have co-evolved over millions of years in a mutually beneficial symbiotic relationship with our natural food sources. Changing the genetic profile of foods means entering uncharted territory.

But you may ask, will small molecular changes to our food really make that much difference? FSANZ is applying a rough rule of thumb, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it must be a duck. A fact that has cost many a duck dearly when they encountered a duck decoy. Only reflect for a moment, the genetic world is far more powerful than the world of chemicals. Single codon mutations out of billions are capable of causing catastrophic illnesses like Huntington’s or sickle cell anaemia. The gene world is very exacting with no safe room for approximations.

Unfortunately we have a government intent on implementing wide scale changes over the wishes of the public. Already many of the changes proposed in the FSANZ document have been implemented using their existing regulatory powers. Unlabelled synthetic ingredients, additives, flavours, nutritional components, preservatives and processing aids manufactured using genetic modification tools are already finding their way onto our supermarket shelves. The present proposals are there to regularise this under-the-radar bastardisation of our food supply which is contributing to the ill health of adults and children alike.

Home food preparation, organic ingredients, seed saving, local food networks and avoidance of processed foods are of increasing importance if we wish to continue to exercise food choice. The government is ignoring the well-documented adverse health effects of ultra processed foods. It is planning to support the further modification of our diet with untested unlabelled gene altered foods.

The removal of GM labelling is a bridge too far and a direct assault on our rights. It reflects on an arrogant government casually dictating our food choices to facilitate the untested, risk-heavy plans of biotechnology scientists, investors and giant corporations. You can register your concerns before the 10th September at these links:

https://www.foodstandards.gov.au/food-standards-code/consultations/submissions

And

https://consultations.foodstandards.gov.au/fsanz/p1055

A Brief Peek Into Tomorrow

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Yuval Noah Harari, writing in his 2015 book “Homo Deus—A Brief History of Tomorrow*”, believed that mankind had already conquered famine, plague and war through technology and common sense. Therefore he wrote that we stand on the doorstep of a future of abundance, peace and even physical immortality. According to Hariri, we now understand that hunger, illness and conflict all have technological solutions, thereby we are able to manage them. We have consigned want, fear, violence and death to the history books, and no longer need to appeal to God when disaster strikes.

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But what if Harari was wrong about technology (and certainly about God)? Harari was relying on the increasing longevity in every country in the world (it almost doubled from about 40 to 80 years during the twentieth century), he was unaware that the USA was about to post its first ever decline, with most other developed countries following suit since 2020.

He was writing before the Covid pandemic, the conflicts in the Ukraine and the Middle East, the growing tensions in the far east and the massive polarisation and unrest within western democracies.

Harari was writing before the first wide scale use of nanotechnology in medicine. It was used to package Covid vaccines in order to evade the safeguards of the immune system and penetrate into the inner sanctum of the cell. The extreme dangers nanotechnology poses are only just beginning to surface as this Japanese paper entitled “Real-Time Self-Assembly of Stereomicroscopically Visible Artificial Constructions in Incubated Specimens of mRNA Products Mainly from Pfizer and Moderna: A Comprehensive Longitudinal Study” shows.

Harari was writing before 5G cell phone networks were first rolled out in 2018 using electromagnetic frequencies in common use by our physiology.

Hariri was writing as unlabelled biosynthetic engineered compounds were just beginning to enter the food chain in vast numbers coming on top of the ever growing use of tens of thousands of untested chemical ingredients, additives, flavours and preservatives.

Harari was writing long after the containment of the SARS and Ebola outbreaks and the successful elimination of Smallpox, supposing that all such pathogens would be ultimately banished. He wasn’t to know that, even as he wrote, biotechnologists were busy weaponizing deadly pathogens in porous laboratories around the world through gain of function research.

Harari believed that nuclear war had become unthinkable. He was writing just before every nuclear nation in the world decided to ramp up production of atomic weapons.

Harari’s theme is familiar to anyone taking a sober look at technological futurists:—the golden age is always just around the corner, we have almost arrived, so hang in there and keep funding the technocrats.

Hariri’s faith in the future was built on his adoration for technology, especially medical technology, but insight into medical statistics was lacking in his research. A close look into the world of health statistics reveals that the world might be getting more unhealthy, not better.

Last week the NZ Herald led with an article “Healthcare crisis: Desperate patients queue from 6am at Ōtara clinic for doctor visits“. When these people finally get to see a doctor, they will eventually be sent home or admitted to hospital with a specific diagnosis and a recommended drug. Unfortunately, many will be joining an estimated 60% of the adult population now suffering from chronic illness.

The number of people with hypertension aged 30–79 years doubled between 1990 to 2019, from 648 million in 1990 to 1278 million in 2019, despite stable global age-standardised prevalence.

Annual new cancer cases in the USA increased by 36.3 % in between 2000 and 2021.

The number of people with diabetes in the world rose from 108 million in 1980 to 422 million in 2014. A massive rise of 290%

In 2000, around 14 million people died from cardiovascular diseases globally, while in 2019, that figure was almost 18 million, up by 29%.

Kidney disease is the fastest-growing noncommunicable disease in the U.S. It currently affects more than 1 in 7 (or 14%) of American adults. There were about 135,000 Americans newly diagnosed with kidney failure in 2021.

It is not just the incidence of these diseases that is increasing, mortality is also on the rise. A paper published last week entitled Increasing Mortality Rates in the US, but Not From COVID-19 reports:

“Mortality from neurologic diseases (notably Alzheimer disease) has been increasing for decades, as has mortality from diabetes, likely a result of the obesity epidemic. Among young and middle-aged adults, mortality from hypertensive diseases and kidney failure has been increasing for 2 decades and mortality from other forms of heart disease (eg, heart failure) has been increasing since 2012.”

The study correctly points out that many diseases are associated with the rapidly growing global epidemic of obesity. In 2022, 1 in 8 people in the world were living with obesity. Worldwide adult obesity has more than doubled since 1990, and adolescent obesity has quadrupled. In 2022, 2.5 billion adults (18 years and older) a whopping 40% of the population cohort were overweight. Of these, 890 million were living with obesity.

Therefore it was no surprise to read an article in the UK Daily Telegraph this week entitled “Ozempic hailed as ‘fountain of youth’“. If you read my blog regularly, you will be aware that weight loss drug sensation Ozempic is plagued with unacceptably high levels of serious adverse effects, but this hasn’t stopped the PR hype.

The Telegraph article reports “Ozempic could offer “the fountain of youth” and turn back the clock on a host of diseases, scientists have found. In an unprecedented development, 11 studies published in one day found that the new class of semaglutide medications have “far-reaching benefits” beyond what was ever imagined. The findings will put pressure on the NHS to roll the drugs out much more widely, like statins. The studies suggest millions of people, including those who are not overweight, could potentially benefit from the drugs to improve quality of life, possibly saving the health service much-needed funds.”

Wow, that is quite a lot to digest (if you will forgive the pun). Ozempic suppresses appetite and is currently used in the treatment of diabetes and obesity. The article reported that research on Semaglutide, the active ingredient in Ozempic, found other improvements in conditions including high blood pressure and cardiac and kidney disease, all of which are conditions exacerbated by obesity.

At this point, the article went into hyperdrive fantasising that semaglutide injections will reverse the ageing process by slowing cognitive decline and brain shrinkage, thereby preventing Alzheimer’s disease and benefiting Parkinsons. Dr Jeremy Samuel Faust, from Harvard Medical School, said the injections were so powerful they were “akin to a vaccine” which would only get stronger over time (sound familiar?).

In contrast to many articles sounding the alarm on Ozempic adverse effects, the Telegraph piece was entirely positive, it glowed with hope—the golden age is almost upon us, if only the government will agree to fund Ozempic injections for us all at $1550 per month.

You could tell the author was overwhelmed by the enthusiasm of the well funded scientists presenting the findings of the 11 papers at the European Society of Cardiology congress in London. No doubt Novo Nordisk, the patent holders of Ozempic, the most profitable drug in history, were rubbing their hands in glee.

The article was mainly based upon a three year trial of 8803 people aged 45 and over who were given weekly jabs which resulted in a 23% lower death rate from cardiovascular disease when compared to controls taking a placebo. The details of the trial results, published in the New England Journal of Medicine in November 2023 under the title “Semaglutide and Cardiovascular Outcomes in Obesity without Diabetes“, do not paint such a rosy sounding picture: “Adverse events leading to permanent discontinuation of the semaglutide injections occurred in 1461 patients (16.6%)”

So is the hype justified? It is important to realise that most of the claims in the Telegraph article are based on extrapolated hope, and crucially all of the claims must be weighed against the serious adverse effects of semaglutide drugs, especially the difficulties associated with long term use. There are also statistical reasons to question the hype.

Just consider, if you have diseases whose incidence is growing very rapidly, you can complete drug studies which show an improvement in outcomes which are still dwarfed by the rapid rise in incidence. Let’s explain how this works with an analogy. Suppose you have debt which has to be repaid at $1000 per month. You are getting into difficulty, so you go to a loan shark who offers to lend you $200 per month to help out. You don’t read the small print which reveals that the repayments to the loan shark will soon top $300 per month. In other words you are worse off.

In this analogy, the debt repayments are like the increasing incidence of a disease, the $200 a month loan is like a palliative pharmaceutical drug and the $300 a month required by the loan shark is like the adverse effects of the drug. A study might report a small benefit of a drug, but fail to take into account the increasing rate of incidence of the disease and the long term adverse effects on the drug. Despite this, the drug is hailed as a ‘breakthrough’, whereas it will eventually make the problem worse.

Obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, kidney disease, and heart disease are all conditions that are exacerbated by modern lifestyles. Changing these lifestyles is well known to be the truly effective way to control their incidence without any downside. But in the world of pharmaceutical hegemony, doctors have given up on changing lifestyles, gaslighting the victims as weak-willed, putting any attempt to change habits into the too hard basket.

Behind this is something else going on, the pernicious design, production and marketing of foods that are known to damage health by giant corporations. These include foods loaded with sugars, unhealthy fats, synthetic flavours, additives, processing agents and preservatives. Very often they are labelled as ‘natural’ by the food manufacturers in a cynical attempt to create a false aura of healthy choices for consumers. The close relationships between regulators and producers ensure that this deadly paradigm is never seriously challenged.

It appears from the frightening health statistics we reported above that immune systems are collapsing under the weight of unhealthy food, lifestyles and pollution. The matter has reached a tipping point with the introduction since 2015 of biotechnologies—the last straw that is breaking the camel’s back. The addition of one more biotech medicine is not going to solve the problem, it is simply driving the growing problem over the edge.

Modern medicine is offering diagnoses of specific diseases but overlooking the whole system collapse of health that is behind the epidemic of sickness sweeping the world. When the immune system starts to fail us, the most significant vulnerability in our personal health profile fails first. Identifying that is a useful step, but failing to address the systemic immune failure behind the runaway proliferation of specific disease types is a death sentence.

To tackle the challenge to our immune system, a holistic approach is required. This will involve education, regulation, research and fully supportive mentoring involving diet, safe food standards, ingredients, food preparation, exercise, and removal of environmental pollution. As we have reported at length in many articles, there are already traditional sophisticated preventive health systems like Ayurveda and Chinese medicine whose principles can be easily incorporated into medical education programmes. They promote balance and restore intelligence to physiology. Research shows that most effective among their multi-pronged strategies are systems of meditation which promote the holistic experience of healing consciousness.

Rather than promoting proven natural approaches to improve health outcomes, our government is clinging to the futurist’s fantasies. They are about to deregulate biotechnology. This will further pollute our food and our environment, not just with chemical toxins, but with biotoxins—mutated genetic structures which can spread without limit and never be recalled. Our right to choose our diet and way of life is under threat. The International Genetic Charter has simple terms spelt out in a few sentences containing the safeguards necessary to protect human life from genetic degradation. Please take a couple of minutes to sign up to The International Genetic Charter here. Our aim is to use the charter to campaign for amendments strengthening and updating the Bill of Rights.

Fact Checking the Incredible Claims of Prime Minister Chris Luxon, Judith Collins and the New Zealand Biotech Lobby

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Unfortunately none of the above are ever likely to publicly debate their policy to deregulate biotechnology, instead they are saturating a compliant media with disingenuous tales about how wonderful it all is. So a big thank you this week to Reality Check Radio who set up a virtual debate.

This article is available as a PDF to download, print, and share.

As a result, this week I appeared on Mornings with Paul Brennan right after an interview with biotech advocate Dr. Alec Foster and was able to fact check his claims and those of an earlier interview with Science and Technology Minister Judith Collins. My main take home was shock at the brazen deceit being employed to get this policy over the line with a suspicious public. You can listen to the replays, but here are some of the main points fact checked:

Claim: Replacing oil based plastics with plastics made from biowaste will be a big step forward for New Zeaand to combat climate change and secure export markets.

Reply: Replacing one type of plastic with another more costly manufacturing process is still associated with the same problems of plastic pollution, plastic waste and microplastics which are affecting our environment and our health. Moreover biowaste fermentation is an energy intensive process, that energy has to come from somewhere.

Claim: Our trading partners will demand that our products must be climate friendly. At the moment, multi-billion dollar New Zealand biotech research companies developing non-oil products are becoming successful by relocating from New Zealand to the US to avoid our restrictive regulations.

Reply: Pressed to give an example, Dr. Foster named Lanza Tech a New Zealand company now based overseas. Lanza Tech was worth US$1.6 billion in September 2023, but a year later it is now valued at only $250 million—six times less. This is indicative of the market rejection of such expensive biotechnologies, no one can afford them

Dr Foster was introduced as personally holding more than 40 biotech patents which might give you a better clue as to what is driving the change. In addition to biotech deregulation, are we also likely to see more regulations forcing us to buy the patented so-called ‘climate friendly’ products?

Claim: There is nothing (yes, nothing at all) to be worried about in biotech.

Reply: I can’t imagine a more absurd and deceitful claim. Dr. Foster, Judith Collins and Chris Luxon seem to be wilfully blind to the glaringly obvious, we are still suffering the global fall out from an engineered virus and a failed vaccine, both developed in an unregulated biotechnology experimental research environment. This has involved a massive global surge in disease rates and excess deaths which is still continuing. The pandemic involved millions of deaths, played havoc with the global economy, and disrupted education for hundreds of million young people. Our leaders are telling us there is nothing to worry about when it comes to biotechnology, are they just plain dumb or is their motivation more sinister? You tell me.

In fact, biotech laboratory accidents and escapes are very common indeed around the world as this investigation from highly respected Chatham House entitled “Laboratory accidents and biocontainment breaches” found:

“Laboratory accidents can have serious and potentially catastrophic consequences. Laboratory-acquired infections and other biocontainment breaches, both of which can result in the escape of dangerous pathogens into the community, have the potential to trigger outbreaks with wide-ranging implications. Incidents like these are of concern to a broad range of stakeholders beyond the scientific research community – including policymakers, law enforcement agencies and the general public.”

Claim: People suffering from diseases caused or complicated by gene defects are being cured by gene therapy. We urgently need to get on board. It is a no brainer.

Reply: When wishing to elicit public sympathy and support, there is no better argument than to point to the chance of curing of serious and rare diseases tragically affecting families, but is it happening? The example used by Dr Foster was leukaemia. Leukaemia incidence has doubled between 2000 and the present day, and is currently spiking. There are a number of types of leukaemia with a variety of causes including:

  • Prior cancer treatments.
  • Genetic disorders such as Down syndrome.
  • Exposure to certain chemicals such as benzene.
  • Smoking.

Despite the hype about miracle gene therapy cures, there have been just two cases anywhere in the world during the last ten years of gene therapy interventions which have alleviated symptoms of leukaemia. One on an infant in 2014, the other on a 13 year old in 2022, both at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London. The costs were enormous, in excess of $3 million per patient and the risks are serious. You can find out more about the financial absurdity involved, by reading our article “The Government of the Bio-Technocrats“.

Dr. Tony Lockett, a rare diseases expert and lecturer at King’s College London (a leading centre for gene therapy research), was quoted in the UK Daily Mail a few days ago. He asserted there are a number of serious risks to CRISPR gene editing used in the treatments. He reports that inserting genetically modified cells into the body could raise the risk of (not cure) cancer. There is also the danger that the virus used to deliver the CRISPR gene therapy may damage the patient. Off-target effects of gene editing are known to include chromosomal damage.

Claim: We already have bioengineered products on our supermarket shelves, in medicine, and in retail which benefit us without adverse effects.

Reply: The first part of this claim is true. There are thousands of synthetic biotech products which have been introduced into our food chain. This is a big problem because synthetic biotech ingredients, flavours and additives are being falsely passed off as natural, introduced without labelling and hence traceability. If we were developing health deficits as a result, no one would be any the wiser as to the cause.

Dr Foster gave the example of genetically engineered rennet which is now in virtually all our cheeses, having replaced natural rennets used to make cheeses safely for thousands of years. The biotech rennet is a powerful biochemical designed to precipitate solids in solution. The suspicion is that it might be affecting our blood and complicating conditions like heart disease, strokes, menstrual cycles, haemorrhoids, varicose veins, etc. No one knows for sure because in our already deregulated market no one is required to perform safety tests. But we do know that all these conditions are increasing in incidence in the general population and especially among younger age groups.

Contrary to the breezy, smooth-talking style of Collins and Foster, I am sure that every parent would welcome fewer unlabelled synthetic additives in foods, rather than more.

The final example given was the discovery of synthetic insulin which was first produced in 1978 by a recombinant genetic process which clones human insulin. This is often cited as proof that GE medicine is vital for our future. It remains a rare success story, but it is worth noting that it doesn’t cure diabetes, it alleviates symptoms. Diabetes incidence has multiplied more than five fold since synthetic insulin was discovered. A proper diet and exercise regime works, where synthetic biology and drugs have a limited palliative impact.

Claim: Judith Collins claimed that there has only ever been one example of cross pollination from GE crops anywhere in the world.

Reply: This is complete nonsense. It is a huge problem and testing has become a big cost for the organic industry in the US. I know, I worked in the biotech testing industry. Moreover biotech companies have sought to sue farmers whose crops have been contaminated with GE genes through cross pollination, claiming that the farmer is violating patent law. It is impossible to contain or mitigate the effect of genes once released into the environment.

Claim: Judith Collins claims that GE crops will reduce pesticide use.

Reply: This is a controversial topic, subject to current scientific debate. This report examines the arguments and concludes that, based on the evidence, GE crops will not reduce pesticide use, some are even designed to increase their use.

Claim: Judith Collins claims a New Zealand GE biotech company is producing apple trees that will produce fruit in a matter months after planting, thereby immediately benefiting orchardists in Hawkes Bay affected by a cyclone who, without biotech deregulation, will have to wait six years for new trees to fruit.

Reply: This claim is entirely false. New Zealand scientists at Crown Plant and Food Research are trialling lab-grown plant cell fruit production aiming to break new ground by producing fruit without a tree, vine, or bush, and instead using lab-grown plant cells. Collins failed to distinguish between glossy PR containing a vague hope that something might be developed in the future and actual fact. This was Collins at her most deceitful.

Claim: Judith Collins implied that Covid vaccine injury was imaginary. Citing the fact that she had had the vaccine herself without harmful effects.

Reply: Her argument is ridiculous, it is equivalent to saying lung cancer isn’t real because I smoked at one time and I didn’t fall sick. Collins might look at this article in the UK Daily Telegraph from 17th August entitled “Thousands seek compensation after Covid vaccines ‘left them disabled’” which reports “Payments have been awarded for conditions including stroke, heart attack, blood clots, inflammation of the spinal cord and facial paralysis”. The fact that the New Zealand government is still dismissing Covid vaccine injury and gaslighting the victims is a measure of how little you can trust their word on biotechnology deregulation.

Claim: Biotech deregulation has been a financial bonanza overseas. Our farming sector needs to catch up in order to cash up.

Reply: Biotechnology deregulation will turn New Zealand into a target destination for foreign agricultural profiteers wanting suck money out of our profitable farm-based economy. Contrary to the rosy picture painted by Collins, Foster and Luxon, deregulation overseas has ruined the financial stability and sustainability of traditional farming communities. See for example this report on the long term effect of unregulated GMO crops on African farming.

Claim: Prime Minister Chris Luxon claims biotechnology deregulation will be the best thing that has ever happened to New Zealand.

Reply: I leave to you work your way through the fact checking process on this one. You shouldn’t have too much difficulty. Listening to the arguments of our senior politicians, I was struck by their inability to give any credit to the intelligence and insight of our population, who can easily find the evidence of deception and misdirection for themselves with just a few clicks on their keyboard over a very short time period.

In summary, it seems that the government is oblivious to the financial and monopolistic advantage sought by an influential lobby of biotech professionals, corporates, profiteers and investors inside and outside our country calling for the deregulation of biotechnology. They are also in complete denial about the risks. If there is one thing we all care about it is our food. When I worked in Iowa for Genetic ID, a biotech testing and safety company, biotech/chemical giant Monsanto had its HQ nearby. In their staff canteen they served organic food which tells you all you need to know about the safety of biotechnology deregulation and the impact it will have on our food.

Open Letter to Medical Professionals and Life Scientists

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An increasing number of concerning papers about Covid-19 mRNA vaccine safety are being published this year giving us some perspective on the long term sequelae.

Two papers published in the International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice, and Research entitled COVID-19 Modified mRNA “Vaccines”: Lessons Learned from Clinical Trials, Mass Vaccination, and the Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex, Part 1 and Part 2 examine the evidence of long term harm, deficiencies in the original trial data, and the unethical practices used to promote their use. Part 1 of the paper reports:

“Rigorous re-analyses of trial data and post-marketing surveillance studies indicate a more substantial degree of modmRNA-related harms than was initially reported. Confidential Pfizer documents had revealed 1.6 million adverse events by August 2022. A third were serious injuries to cardiovascular, neurological, thrombotic, immunological, and reproductive systems, along with an alarming increase in cancers. Moreover, well-designed studies have shown that repeated modmRNA injections cause immune dysfunction, thereby potentially contributing to heightened susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 infections and increased risks of COVID-19.”

Part 2 of the paper examines the main structural and functional aspects of modified mRNA injectables, which it explains are not classical antigen-based vaccines but instead prodrugs informed by gene therapy technology. It reports:

“The COVID-19 modmRNA injectable products introduce a unique set of biological challenges to the human body with the potential to induce an extensive range of adverse, crippling, and life-threatening effects…This is in part due to differences in spike protein production output, which depends on variability in cell metabolism and transfection efficiency….Valid concerns are raised regarding injection of infants and younger age groups for whom COVID-19 poses only minimal risks….We then categorize the principal adverse events associated with the modmRNA products with a brief systems-based synopsis of each of the six domains of potential harms: (1) cardiovascular, (2) neurological, (3) hematologic; (4) immunological, (5) oncological, and (6) reproductive.”

The paper also addresses the process-related genetic impurities inherent in mass production of these products, and the potential risks posed by these contaminants. It concludes by reiterating the urgency of imposing a global moratorium on the modmRNA-LNP-based platform.

Particular findings that contradict the accepted COVID narrative include the discovery that the increased incidence of myocarditis events is associated with COVID-19 vaccination but not with COVID-19 infection. Further to this, a paper published in the Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal on July 30 entitled “Delayed Induction of Noninflammatory SARS-CoV-2 Spike-Specific IgG4 Antibodies Detected 1 Year After BNT162b2 Vaccination in Children” found similar effects to those already noted among adults. It reports:

“S1-specific and receptor-binding domain–specific IgG4 levels increase significantly 1 year after the second BNT162b2 vaccination in children 5-11 years of age. Understanding mRNA vaccine–specific IgG4 responses in all age groups is crucial as more mRNA vaccines will reach licensure in the coming years.”

To translate the significance of this: the exact long term effects of increased IgG4 switching are unknown but suspected by many authorities to be associated with vaccine induced immune deficiency. The increased concentrations may pose risks of long term organ damage. In other words, there are long term unquantified risks of mRNA vaccination for children who face only very minor risks from Covid infection. If you are a parent, you will be fully aware that no parent would want to expose their child to such unnecessary long term health risks.

The papers we cite above are representative, we have reported on many others over the last few months. They are raising increased concerns about the long term effects of mRNA vaccine programs. There are a large number of mRNA vaccine types under development around the world, more than 100 at last count. Should we be concerned and if so what action should be taken?

The concerns centre around the introduction of novel medical biotechnologies in the absence of long term safety testing. These had been presumed safe on the basis of largely theoretical considerations of immune functioning and very limited flawed and rushed testing lasting no more than a few months. In the light of new research and safety concerns, we need to review what we know about immune functions.

The immune system encompasses a sprawling range of chemistry distributed throughout the body—antibodies, lymphocytes, cytokines, chemokines, histamine, neutrophils, B-cells, T-cells, NK cells, macrophages, phagocytes, granulocytes, basophils, interferons, stem cells and many more. It is understood that we have more than 300 different types of immune cells at work within us. The complication is so baffling that an overview of the whole immune system is well nigh impossible. Some researchers spend a lifetime specialising in just one single aspect of our immune response.

There is however one very important overarching principle. The immune system is looking to eliminate material and/or functions that shouldn’t be present in the human body and it does so automatically. We do not directly control our immune system, it controls us. Moreover everyone’s immune system has features that are unique to that individual.

The immune system not only has to respond to germs like viruses, it also has to deal with toxins, drugs, cancers, bacteria, foreign objects, foreign DNA, inflammation, strains, wounds, genetic damage from cosmic rays for example and other mutative sources, and even mental imbalance. To maintain health, the immune system coordinates trillions upon trillions of actions every day distributed throughout every part of the body, but it does so with one intent—to preserve the specific cellular genetic integrity and identity of the individual.

Thus there are two sides to the immune system. On the one hand, a single holistic intent which guides the whole process to protect physiological design and functionality and on the other a myriad of specific actions to eliminate pathogens and correct imbalance. Whole and parts.

It should be clear that there is a paramount need to protect the holistic intent of the immune system. This is centred in the cell. We have more or less 37 trillion cells in the body which contain identical DNA, with the sole exception of red blood cells which have no DNA component. Cells form the managing and manufacturing hub of the immune system producing all the components used in the countless specific immune responses whilst also participating in a coordinated approach to their application. It is apparent that cells are connected together into a single command and control system.

From this we can see that the immune system operates at the interface between us—a sentient being with choices—and the automatic functioning of the laws of physiology. The immune system ensures that we retain our own individual design and it does so by connecting us with the automatic operation of the laws of nature and physiology which are largely beyond our control. We comprise a whole uni-verse. We have a single identity and associated control system, itself automatically protected by the functional diversity of the immune system.

This brings us to mRNA vaccines. Each injection crosses the cell membrane of billions of cells and repurposes their activity to produce pathogenic spike proteins, thereby disrupting the intent and continuity of the automated system of immune responses. In simple terms, you can imagine the immune confusion this causes. It goes to the heart of the cellular control of immune responses. Does the immune system start to regard the product of the injected cells as foreign foe or helpful friend?

The switch to IgG4 antibodies which occurs over a period of months subsequent to Covid mRNA vaccination suggests that in many cases with repeated injections the immune system decides to tolerate the spike protein as friend, initiating the observed potentially disastrous increased rates of short and long term consequences—neurological damage, cancers, heart disease, etc reported in the studies cited above.

It would be a mistake to assume that the culprit here is solely the COVID spike protein; in actuality, it is also a matter of approach. There are good grounds to suspect that mRNA technology will inherently subvert immune processes, whatever disease it seeks to mitigate.

You will no doubt be aware that these concerns are not isolated. They have been publicly voiced by a small but significant number of eminent scientists and medical professionals. You will also be aware that many of these people have suffered setbacks in their professional standing and position as a result of speaking out their concerns.

Thousands of medical professionals in New Zealand were granted Covid vaccine exemptions by the government, presumably because they believed the vaccines posed unquantified risks or because they thought the risks of Covid infection were exaggerated. However, very very few of these spoke up publicly. Was this ethical? Did their silence embolden the government to introduce universal Covid vaccine mandates which exposed the public to serious health risks?

Clearly from the beginning there were medical imperatives to vaccinate. Media reports of high Covid death rates and reassurances of vaccine safety and efficacy bombarded the eyes and ears of everyone. We now know many of these were exaggerated or incorrect. There was a lack of specialist knowledge about the known risks of biotechnology within the medical profession. But today the position has changed. There is more than enough evidence to support a questioning perspective and a precautionary approach. Speaking out no longer entails professional suicide. In contrast, keeping silent has become an untenable unethical position.

Very early in 2021, I corresponded with a number of top molecular biologists including some advising G7 governments. At the time, although aware of risks, they framed Covid vaccination as a matter of personal choice despite not wishing to participate themselves. Whatever the reasons for taking this ambiguous position early on in the pandemic, recently published research indicates that such a position is no longer in any way morally defensible. It is time to speak out freely and correct public misperceptions about mRNA vaccine safety and efficacy.

As a medical professional or life sciences researcher you will be fully aware that the concerns we have raised above are very serious indeed, they involve human health and life. In 2021 Covid vaccine mandates virtually excluded any right of choice about vaccine safety and overrode the legal protections afforded by the NZ Bill of Rights concerning medical experimentation. The growth of biotechnology experimentation and the risks it poses suggest our Bill of Rights is in need of both updating and stronger clauses to ensure it is enforceable. These concerns speak to a compelling need for the International Genetic Charter. Its simple terms spell out in a few sentences the safeguards necessary to protect human life from genetic degradation driven by government ignorance, corporate greed and academic hubris. Please take a couple of minutes to sign up to The International Genetic Charter here.

A Week in Politics That Stole Our Rights and Changed Our Nation Forever

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This week, Judith Collins, Minister for Science and Technology, and Chris Luxon, Prime Minister, decided to introduce a policy change with a Laurel and Hardy double act on Twitter full of bonhomie and laughter designed to mask a sinister intent. Deregulation of biotechnology will contain provisions that take away our basic human rights of choice. They will change the face of our small island nation forever (yes, forever).

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According to their vaudeville performance, biotech deregulation will enable amazing scientists to mitigate climate change, improve our health, boost our horticulture, and grow our economy. Collins effused “it is so great to be part of this government”. Luxon agreed, calling it “an amazing day”. As he sees it, some laws formulated in 1996 to protect consumers make no sense in 2024 because they prevent incredibly smart biotech scientists from releasing their products into the environment without having to go through public scrutiny.

Luxon added “We’re going to make sure we do it safely, don’t worry about that.” (at this point Luxon appeared to be channelling Jacinda Ardern). It would be easy to poke fun, but the consequences are too far reaching and serious for levity. The 1996 laws do not prevent biotech food products from reaching the market as Luxon implied. Instead, they require that gene altered ingredients be labelled as such. In other words, Luxon is taking away our right of consumer choice, our right to know what we are eating. In the near future “incredibly smart scientists” will be deciding for us.

Aside from our right to know, there is one other very important reason for the 1996 law. It involves one word “traceability”. If novel gene-altered food substitutes are not labelled, there will be no way for anyone to find out if they are causing illness. Compulsory food labelling has been a fundamental part of our global food safety system since it was first introduced in 1913. Bypassing this principle is a key strategy of biotech marketing for the simple reason that consumers don’t want biotech foods and manufacturers don’t want to face lawsuits. Thus in one stroke Luxon’s government has taken us back into the 19th century world of food adulteration, in his words: “amazing”.

Watching the video of Luxon and Collins I was forcibly struck by how far out of touch they are with reality. They appeared to me as a pair of simpletons smirking and chuckling with glee as they thought they could pass off iron pyrites as gold. We are still in the shadow of a pandemic era where incredibly intelligent scientists (???) were given free rein and funding to develop a deadly virus and then a botched vaccine that killed rather than cured.

Luxon and Collins were part of a parliament that forced it on us as a nation with promises of safety and efficacy. Currently, we have a rate of excess deaths more than 10% above the long term trend. Yet here they are again with the same meaningless mantra: “don’t worry, we will do it safely”. Anyone who swallows that needs to have their head examined. But this time the ante has been upped, if Luxon’s government has its way, we will be swallowing it without knowing we are.

The current National led government aspires to a Thatcherite ideology whose narrative no longer fits the facts on the ground, not even close.

Our birth rate, along with those of other western nations, has fallen so low that our population is no longer renewing itself, not even close. Before long, there won’t be enough youthful workers to keep the economy going, yet David Seymour is obsessed with the idea that poor people need to stop having children.

Our health service is in crisis because too many people are falling sick with heart disease, cancers, and other illnesses in numbers that dwarf previous trends, but the government believes this is due to administrative inefficiency.

The number of people suffering long term disability is ballooning, but the government believes this is due to malingering.

These are all recognisable Thatcherite tropes, and they no longer fit the reality of social statistics. We are in the midst of a health crisis engineered by biotechnology. Our government wants to go further down that road by removing the very few safeguards that we have left. As we know very well by now, biotechnology edits can spread without limit and they can never be recalled. Luxon wants to deny us our right to know and he is laughing about it to our face on Twitter. We need to raise our voices and push back.

How Did MPs Respond to My Open Letter and What to Do About It

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Last week, we published an open letter to parliamentarians, which was personally sent to every MP and marked URGENT. So what happened? We got some responses.

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You will recall that the letter raised questions about the plan of the government to deregulate biotechnology. In particular we raised questions about safety and risk, and suggested that parliament pause this move until phase 2 of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Covid Pandemic reports its findings.

We pointed to our high rate of excess deaths which is continuing and the failure of the government to investigate its causes. We noted that both the Covid virus and the vaccine were linked to biotechnology experimentation. We pointed to the current unprecedented highly elevated rate of hospitalisation for heart disease, cancers, and other conditions which come at a massive personal and financial cost. We also noted, contrary to government PR, that biotech derived foods are not attracting consumers overseas, many companies are failing.

Alarming disability figures

The scale of the problem was brought home to us this week when we analysed the June 2024 Quarter Labour Market Statistics. Alarmingly, the working age population who are disabled rose by a massive 8.2% from June 23 to June 24. This underlines our excess deaths figures. People are also falling sick and unable to work in unprecedented numbers. During this period the New Zealand working age population rose by just 2.3%, so the year to June quarter rise is not an artefact of population growth.

For comparison, in terms of numbers, from Jun 17 to Jun 21 the annual average increase in the working age population who are disabled was 2300 mirroring population rise. From Jun 21 to Jun 24 (post Covid vaccination) the annual average increase is 5300. In the last 12 months the increase was 10400. Things are getting worse, not better.

This underlines the urgency of our letter to MPs which suggested their plan to deregulate biotechnology had implications for public health and the economy.

So what did MPs reply?

The Hon. Nicola Willis, Minister of Finance, replied: “As the issues you raise fall within the portfolio responsibilities of Hon Judith Collins, Minister of Science, Innovation, and Technology, I have referred your email to her office for consideration.”

Fair enough:-), so Judith Collins, Minister of Science and Technology, who is pushing biotechnology deregulation on behalf of her party is being asked to reply to my detailed letter. Great.

The Hon. Judith Collins, skilled politician that she is, passed the parcel again replying: “Upon further consideration by our office, we feel your correspondence is more appropriately directed to Hon Dr Shane Reti (Minister of Health)”. How is that????

Well good to hear my letter deserved ‘further consideration’:-)

The Hon. Shane Reti’s Office replied “As the matter you have raised falls within the portfolio responsibility of the Minister of Health, Hon Shane Reti, your email has been forwarded to this office for consideration. On behalf of the Minister, thank you for taking the time to write.I have made note of your email below and passed it to the health team for their consideration.”

Curiously then, no members of the ruling National Party felt that the safety of biotechnology deregulation was worthy of immediate comment.

The ACT Party is a member of the coalition government and a big supporter of biotechnology deregulation (which as I pointed out in my letter is de facto already happening). Dr. Parmjeet Parmar MP writing on behalf of the ACT Office replied: “I appreciate you taking the time to contact me with your detailed information. New legislation to regulate [actually deregulate] biotechnology will be introduced to Parliament in the future and once this new legislation is tabled, the public will have an opportunity to submit on this matter. You may wish to consider this option when it becomes available.”

In other words the ACT Party admitted that our letter contained ‘detailed information’, but they didn’t feel any need to reply to the content:-)

UPDATED: Stuart Smith, the National Party MP for Kaikoura, replied: “Thank you for the informative email, which is helpful and timely.” Thank you, Stuart.

I did not receive a reply from the third member of the ruling coalition, the NZ First Party, but I understand through third-party communications that NZ First is prepared to find out more about the issues. I hope they do so.

Which brings me to the nub of the problem. MPs know next to nothing about biotechnology risks and safety, but they are planning to deregulate it. Why would the government act so decisively on something they don’t understand?

No one from the Labour Party, Greens or Te Pati Maori replied.

In the 1970s, I was able to walk into the office of Prime Minister Robert Muldoon, have a conversation with his private secretary, ask some questions and receive a detailed written reply from Muldoon himself. I also met the Director General of Health, Dr Hiddlestone, in person. He assembled his whole team to listen to me make a presentation about the potential savings from natural approaches to healthcare.

Today I seriously doubt whether any more than a small handful of politicians got to even see my letter, let alone read it. They probably get their information from newspapers like Stuff which yesterday printed an article blaming the unvaccinated for a resurgence in Covid at the Olympics. It quoted Maria Van Kerkhove, a WHO epidemiologist who said “I am concerned with such low [vaccine] coverage”. The article managed somehow to transfer this concern to New Zealand which has a vaccination rate of 90% (along with most other western nations experiencing renewed Covid waves:-). Kerkhove inexplicably forgot to mention IgG4 mediated vaccine induced immune deficiency among highly Covid vaccinated populations which is subject to much discussion in current scientific literature. I wonder why?

Our government has declined to measure the comparative health outcomes of vaccinated and unvaccinated populations. Yet they have become fixated in their adherence to the ‘safety and efficacy’ myth of biotechnology. MPs, especially ministers, are insulated from the public by minders, advisors, bureaucrats, experts, private consultants, technologists, media hacks and favoured lobbyists. They are spoon fed opinions which are judged to be ‘ideologically correct’, ‘electorally acceptable’, ‘party line’ and ‘consonant with those of our allies’. Facts be damned.

We are a small nation of people who have a long history of talking to one another in a straightforward and honest manner. We are a long way from the rest of the world so have had to be self reliant. We have needed to find and investigate the solutions that work for us. We have often charted an independent course, but not it seems now.

Whatever has happened to us and what can we do about it? In the modern era, letters to MPs and submissions to consultation processes disappear into a black hole, so forget about that, dig a little deeper. You might be very surprised at what I am going to say, but it reflects an older knowledge and a deeper understanding of science than the superficialities dominating political life today.

Who is really governing New Zealand, or any country for that matter?

It is the laws of nature. The sun rises everyday and warms us, the earth gives up abundance, rains quench our thirst, natural biodiversity gives us clothing, food, housing. There are natural laws governing light, heat, cold, gravity, cohesion, movement and growth. Rivers are the lifeblood of the land, trees clear the air, the ocean currents mitigate climate extremes. The display of nature’s intelligence is endless. Our connection with nature is something we rely upon completely in so many ways. Yet the government is planning to allow biological intelligence to be altered and degraded.

In our posts at GLOBE, starting from theoretical physics, we have regularly discussed the intimate connection between matter and consciousness. We have pointed out the key deficiency of the biotech paradigm, it doesn’t even begin to understand how biology supports our everyday consciousness, let alone its higher functions. Yet the biotech industry has ploughed on altering fundamental genetic processes in agriculture and in global populations without regard to the risks or consequences for our physical health or mental identity.

We have pointed out that the connection between consciousness and matter has multiple dimensions—chemistry, electricity, electromagnetic fields, vibrational modes, molecular shape, transcription regulation and uniform genetic identity. All of these play key roles in physiological immunity, homeostasis, expression, and development; and they all play key roles in supporting our consciousness.

We haven’t previously discussed the function of shape. Nature grows by enclosing space in material structures. Atoms, molecules, organisms including humans, cells, and organs are all analogous to houses, distinct spaces housing forms of intelligence. Structure has two aspects: shape and space. Shape is one of the most important properties of matter including biology. It helps to determine action. Enclosed space is not dead, it has characteristics and influence. Even empty space has a non-zero energy density.

What is true of the microcosm is also true of the macrocosm. We might consider the built environment. We are connected to nature through our dwelling house. The whole house is more than the sum of its parts. We live in a space defined by a structure. In many cultures, there has been a knowledge of the effect of built spaces on the individual occupiers. This involves proportions, placement, orientation, construction materials and building uses. The Greeks had classes of columns and knew about golden proportions between the dimensions of height and width. Georgian homes are much sought after because of their pleasing proportions which copied classical ideas.

Other older cultures clearly utilised a sophisticated construction knowledge like the Khmers who built Angkor or the Harappans in the Indus valley. Ancient India had one of the most developed systems of building in harmony with natural law known as Vastu which prescribes precise mathematical relationships between dimensions, placement of buildings relative to natural features, natural construction materials and alignment with the cardinal directions. The Chinese also have a Feng Shui.

One of the foundational principles of Vastu is a preference for rectilinear buildings with east facing entrances, Along with all the other prescriptions of the system, this is said to enhance health and longevity by connecting the occupant with the energy and movement of the sun. In contrast, circular buildings like the Colosseum for example are said to bring misfortune

So this morning I remembered that in 1981 something momentous happened to New Zealand politics. The Beehive opened. The ruling government moved from the old east facing rectangular parliament building to a modernistic circular icon.

Ever since then, we seem to have been going round in circles.

The beehive is no doubt also saddled with sick building syndrome—high levels of EMF radiation, subject to off gassing and particulates from modern materials, artificial light, and deficient in fresh air. Judging by the number of MPs who have suffered mental breakdowns over recent months and years or been accused of bullying their staff, the beehive must be a very stressful place to work (if that is the right term).

There are always deeper, more unified principles at work at smaller time and distance scales. We need to learn a lot more about the deeper principles of nature. At some point a wider knowledge and appreciation of natural law is going to re-emerge from the chaos we are now experiencing. In the meantime politicians are acting superficially without understanding; treating biotechnology as if it were solely an economic fantasyland without rules or risks. Action without understanding is ultimately self-destructive. Our political tsars might want to break away from their minders to start thinking about that and possibly read a little more from their post bag:-)

Whilst I have reported the replies from MPs with an ironic tone, the concerns we raised were very serious indeed, they involve human health and life. These concerns speak to a compelling need for the International Genetic Charter. Its simple terms spell out in a few sentences the safeguards necessary to protect human life from genetic degradation driven by government ignorance, corporate greed and academic hubris. Please take a couple of minutes to sign up to The International Genetic Charter here.

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Effective Responses to Pandemics and Peace Are Not Far Removed From Each Other

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My experience as an educator has taught me that change begins within. It is our inner experience that enables us to gain perspective, to re-evaluate and change gear. This is the need of our time.

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This point was forcibly driven home for me this week when I read the “New Zealand Pandemic Plan: A Framework For Action.” This document has just been published by Health New Zealand laying out New Zealand policy in the event that WHO declares another pandemic. It is a prime example of an aspiring cabal of policy wonks stuck in the past, unable to change gear and move forward. For 211 pages the document rambles on rubber stamping all the mistakes of the Covid pandemic response. It dictates that in the near future, we will do it all again—lockdowns, masks, vaccines, antivirals, mandates, social distancing, isolation, school and business closures, and censorship of media content.

How is it possible that Health New Zealand managed to validate all their previous pandemic actions when phase one of the Royal Commission of Inquiry doesn’t report its findings until November? The answer to this conundrum may not be too far from the chief commissioner, who was himself involved in discussions which formulated Covid policy. A sort of self-saucing chocolate pudding arrangement, whereby you can have your cake and eat it too.

In an extraordinary display of dictatorial hubris and misplaced self-assurance, the document hails the Covid vaccine program as effective and safe, and an ideal model for future responses. Pandemics are flagged as zoonotic (from animals) in origin, no mention at all of the now widely accepted laboratory escape of biotech gain of function products.

Detecting and monitoring longer term morbidity and sequelae are described as established policy, along with informed consent, whilst failing to recognise this didn’t happen during the Covid pandemic. Our alarming and continuing rate of excess deaths doesn’t get a mention, instead Covid pandemic policy is described as saving thousands of lives. Nor does mRNA vaccine induced immune suppression, now widely discussed in the scientific literature, get a mention.

Most chilling of all, the policy recognises the power of a medical officer of health, in conjunction with the police, to detain persons in isolation by force and to continue to do so until necessary prescribed preventive treatment has been administered. You know what that means.

A close reading of this provision reveals that Health New Zealand expects the right to wield very broad powers during future pandemics, even broader than those it was granted during the Covid pandemic. Despite the frightening written word, Health New Zealand is clearly out of touch with reality. They are not managing the current health of New Zealand, how could they possibly imagine their failed policies will succeed in future? They may well find that the public rejects their myopic vision.

The New Zealand Pandemic Plan: A Framework For Action makes no mention of exercise, nutrition, lifestyle, diet or meditation, all of which, as we have previously reported, strengthen the immune system and promote health. Education in these topics would genuinely prepare New Zealand for any future health threats. As previously reported those who exercised, followed a lighter diet, used herbal remedies, or got enough sleep had very significantly lower rates of hospitalisation from Covid. Together they constitute a truly preventive approach and a recipe for longevity which published studies show are tens of times more effective than the current trends of biotech allopathy (which Health New Zealand unthinkingly expects to enforce on an unwilling population).

The exercise of raw power without regard to fact or justice is not limited to New Zealand; It is threatening to overtake the world.

To get some temporary relief from doom and gloom, you might admire the display on the eastern horizon in the early morning before dawn where you will see two bright points of light—fiery red Mars and Jupiter, known as the planet of knowledge, coming closer together day by day. They draw level around the middle of the month. Despite the beauty, some are calling this combination the ‘fire of knowledge’—an augury of conflict. Whether you believe this or not, given the state of the world no one will be much surprised if they are right.

Polarisation, disinformation and anger are growing everyday around the world. If you are a history buff, you will be aware that these conditions precede global conflict. Although it hasn’t been much reported here in New Zealand, if you follow international news sources you will be aware of regional conflicts which are reaching boiling point. The protagonists are tied to larger super powers who supply much of the armament which helps fuel the conflict. There is a point that is reached when the stress in society becomes unsustainable and war erupts.

Conflicts almost always have ancient roots, indicating unresolved stress in collective consciousness, coming down through countless generations. It is as though whole nations are stuck in the past, unable to find common ground or rationalise and resolve their emotions to move forward.

The ‘fire of knowledge’ has another meaning altogether—it refers to the deep silence of inner consciousness which alone stands unaffected by the world of outer sensory experience. This is the purifying fire of inner experience which burns up the dross of confused misapprehension, past mistakes and stress leaving a pure clarity of knowledge and an ocean of real peace.

Just after the Hiroshima nuclear devastation, Clement Atlee, British Prime Minister wrote “Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed.”

How we individuals protect, nourish and develop our consciousness is critical to our personal peace, and that of the society and the world as a whole. In the materialist climate of the current age, many have forgotten about the essential spirit of life and its great power to unlock peace and well being. If there is one thing we can do now for the world, even in remote New Zealand, it is to revive or restart a journey to inner peace and well being.

For a forest to be green the individual trees must be green, for the world to be at peace, individuals must be at peace. If you can place peace within the reach of individuals, peace can be within reach for the world. Fortunately peace is not far away from us. Since time immemorial, peace has been found in the inner self. Jesus taught “The Kingdom of Heaven is within you”. Buddha taught “Peace comes from within, Do not seek it without.” Gandhi added “”The greatest power in the world is that of the Soul. Peace is its highest expression.”

Madness is threatening to overwhelm the world, but never forget that fate is in our hands. Consciousness, our own inner self, operates at the fulcrum point of the cosmos. Peace and well being are tied together, we would do well to start learning about their essence, before it is too late. Our inner compass can see us safe through anything that is thrown in our path.