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A Global Agenda for Change in Sync With Nature and Its Rhythms

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A Global Agenda for Change in Sync With Nature and Its Rhythms

The chaotic responses to the pandemic in many countries have alerted us to the limitations of our governmentsโ€™ ability to solve problems.

Today our Ministry of Health announced a new vaccine pass system requiring boosters and extended its potential use to encompass other vaccines. Yet simultaneously, as each day goes by, official data is exposing just how ineffective and dangerous the mRNA vaccines are.

Yesterday we wrote about constitutional reform in New Zealand under the title Exiting a Web of Deception. Many of you replied enthusiastically, but without much hope of actual change. You rightly pointed out that the diversity of NZ political opinions, and the fear initiated by pandemic misinformation, will undermine the level of national unity required to succeed in the constitutional arena.

When faced with an obstacle, our philosophy is to draw a bigger line. A few days ago I wrote about the Sovereign World of Plants as a global endeavour. Today we are beginning to elaborate this theme.

Our endeavours can become a global force in the true sense of the word. We recognise that the power of nature is the basis of our lifeโ€”in reality nature rules the world and we are players on natureโ€™s stage. Therefore we have a duty of care to protect nature, just as all indigenous cultures respect the natural world.

How Does Nature Rule?

The present crises of climate, health, conflict, pollution, and food security demand a rapid and comprehensive transformation in the world. Such comprehensive transformations from disorder to order are not rare in Nature. We hinted at these in a previous article Is Our Knowledge of Genetics Too Primitive to Edit Human DNA With Safety?.

The Second Law of Thermodynamics dictates that in any closed system disorder (or entropy) increases, but the thermodynamics of living systems work differently. New insight can be gained by discussing political transformations with reference to non-equilibrium thermodynamics which governs living systems as explained by Nobel Laureate Ilya Prigogine:

โ€œWe now know that far from equilibrium, new types of structures may originate spontaneously. In far-from-equilibrium conditions we may have transformation from disorder, from thermal chaos into order.โ€

These structures, known as โ€˜dissipative structuresโ€™, result from the flow of energy within the structure of the laws of nature. Through the self-interactions of natural law, living structures that reflect cosmic order, such as the DNA molecule, naturally emerge.

In a parallel way, it is possible that more successful orderly structures of governance can arise. This can happen when the field of human administration becomes more closely connected to its source in the balanced state of nature, just as the plant world is integrated with nature.

Administration Should Seek to Imitate Nature

Our proposed administrative model aims to imitate nature by discovering the principles which govern evolution in nature and utilising them in the field of human governance. From the physics of supersymmetry we know that the laws of nature are based on the unified level of nature at the smallest time and distance scales, which is a field of silent dynamism.

The laws of nature silently and efficiently organise the evolving universe based on the physical principle of least action. Silence rules.All the laws of nature can be expressed in a mathematical form where an action quantity is constantly minimised.Nature always takes the most efficient path which minimises the action expended. Nature does less and accomplishes more.

Manipulation of Nature Leads to Unintended Consequences

Political powers have assumed that human decision-making can mandate manipulation of nature without consequences. This involves a kind of arrogance that borders on madness. It fails to acknowledge both the delicate balance in nature and the lessons of historical missteps.

Genetic engineering is an extreme and misguided example of this wild attitude. Both genetically manipulated crops and gene therapy experiments have been singular failures with unexpected adverse effects. Gone are the promises of golden rice. GM crops have led to greater pesticide use, not less as promised. Thirty years of gene therapy has not banished inherited disease, but rather caused unintended consequences.

Our endeavours recognise that invasive genetic biotechnology is a threat to the stability of the natural world that needs to be immediately paused. Genetic mistakes can never be recalled. The pandemic has illustrated just how much genetic experimentation threatens all of us.

We Seek Recognition for the Sovereign Character of Nature

Our global initiative calls for less manipulation of the natural world. It wishes to protect the automatic mechanisms of evolution by refraining from invasive interference. It seeks to mirror the silent automatic governing role of the DNA in human physiology.

Unlike political institutions, the capacity of the plant kingdom to solve our problems cannot be corrupted by power. Yet in our modern life, we have lost the sense of respect, utility, and thanks that plants deserve. We have forgotten the healing properties of plants and many of their other uses. We have begun to view them as something to exploit.

This exploitation disrupts the thermodynamics of living systemsโ€”the source of our stability and evolution. The poisoning of land, insects, and microorganisms, the editing of genetic structures, and the pollution of the environment all fall under the third law of thermodynamics which leads to increased disorderโ€”the opposite of evolution.

Starting in 2014, the longevity of the US population began to decline. The USA is that country which makes most use of genetic modification, which has the highest consumption per capita of pharmaceuticals, and whose agricultural system is most reliant upon chemicals. Chemicals that kill pests also damage our DNA. The writing is on the wall.

Respect for the Natural World Transcends National Boundaries

Concern for the natural world is a common goal of all nations. Everyoneโ€™s health and food security is inextricably tied up with that of the plant kingdom. We need to eat every day. People of all nations should make it a priority to protect the integrity of the plant world. The Sovereign World of Plants promotes the well being of all nations, in return we must recognise the need for common action to safeguard the natural world, our source of life.

  • Outlawing experimentation on the genetics of plants and animals
  • Rediscovering and valuing non-polluting skills that utilise plants and trees
  • Reviving the traditional herbal healing methods known by multiple cultures
  • Organic agriculture, free of chemicals which exhaust the soil and kill bees
  • Teaching sustainable practices for gardening, horticulture, and agriculture
  • Managing climate change through planting and preservation
  • Improving food supply by increasing the use of plants in diets
  • International sharing and celebration of the wonders of plants
  • Outlawing patents on any plant genetic sequences

In these ways we should seek to maintain a stable relationship with plants, not just in a metaphorical sense but in actuality use our knowledge and influence to sustain their sovereignty and protect their evolutionary genetic structures which underpin our own health. Such an agenda can unite people everywhere in harmony rather than suspicion and fear.

National Governments Must Acknowledge the Sovereignty of Nature

Throughout recent history, arrogant and uncaring treatment of nature has had serious outcomes. Biodiversity is rapidly decreasing, foreshadowing extinction events.

David Attenborough and many others have drawn upon their huge experience to warn of impending collapse. They have been largely ignored.

The priority assigned by each country to limited national interests has led to a form of global anarchy. Multinational mega corporations driven solely by profit are competing for control of the unregulated global space without regard to safety or survival. Most nations have ignored the dangers of these global exploitative enterprises, in favour of their narrow domestic obsessions.

Now is the moment when governments must recognise that each day marks a step closer to the precipice. Summoning the courage to change course is the measure of our integrity and humility, and the key to success. Very often this will just mean renouncing harmful actions, rather than interfering more.

The time has come. Measures can no longer be postponed. This will require a global educational effort.

Who Can Help Protect the Natural World?

This endeavour is open to people of all nations, religions, cultural values, and political opinions. It does not seek to usurp national sovereignty, but rather to nourish the basis of national sovereignty. If the integrity of the natural world collapses, so also will our political, economic, and social institutions collapse. If through folly or lack of knowledge the integrity of the natural world is threatened, it is the duty of everyone to correct that.

Whether one believes in God or reveres nature, whether one treasures cultural heritage or hopes for a bright future, it is our responsibility to ensure that nature is respected. Lovers of life everywhere can recognise the need of the time and raise their voices based on the science of the natural world.

Some people will contribute from the deep silence of the heart, others will continue to be a shepherd of the land, but now is the time when we have to formally recognise that nature is sovereign and must be allowed to continue unimpeded.

The flow of natural law is the source and mainstay of the thermodynamics of living systems, our mainstay, and the mainstay of all that we hold dear.

There is no other way, this is the lesson of the moment and the lesson of the long history of evolution. The sovereignty of nature can unite us all, the alternatives are unthinkable.

I will be talking more about these ideas during my Voices For Freedom video chat next weekend.

Exiting a Web of Deception

Guy Hatchard
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Exiting a Web of Deception

When I was at university I read a book by Vance Packard calledย The Hidden Persuaders*. It remains as relevant and true today as then.

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Packard delved into the advertising world of branding and psychological manipulation of consumers. He realised that this involved a transformation of our traditional experience-based values into the acceptance of implanted ideas.

Prior to the advent of television, much of everyday knowledge came from personal experiences, book learning, peer interactions, and handed down traditions.

The Hidden Persuaders revealed the psychological techniques used to guarantee the acceptance of mass produced consumer items. Powerful admen were tapping the irrational propensities of the consumer mind, they used the applied psychology and sociology created by the propaganda arm of the government during World War II.

Very often we are susceptible to what we want to hear and believe, good comforting news favourable to our deepest desires is often far more acceptable to us than hard realities or uncomfortable truths.

Packard was writing 65 years ago, today we are a consumer society and a media-viewing public so attuned to carefully manufactured images that we have difficulty distinguishing reality from wishful thinking.

Subterfuge is Now a Mainstay of Business and Politics

The actual techniques of persuasive and deceptive advertising are not now taught as cautionary tales as they were in my day, but as prescriptions for success in the cut-throat world of politics and business.

We, the general public, are highly conditioned to accept the nuances of branding. 500 handbags may all serve virtually the same purpose, but their differences in price, quality, desirability, and utility are magnified by branding.

Similarly, 500 almost identical politicians are differentiated by branding rather than by their past actions and actual capabilities. They are schooled in hollow rhetoric and all the skills of the demagogue. They offer almost impossible possibilities to an electorate who have become conditioned to uncritically accept the exaggerated claims of advertising.

The regular acceptance of patently false or misleading ideas conditions the uncritical mind. We accept advertising telling us that we live In a clean green New Zealand, even when we know this is a manufactured dream and a gross exaggeration. Such uncritical acceptance weakens our psychologyโ€”we are no longer in charge of our truth.

Physical Harm has Become a Permitted Outcome of Government Policy

The real problem arises when politicians realise that they can effortlessly segue from wishing thinking to deliberate and criminal deception, without anyone being the wiser.

When deception involves turning a blind eye to physical injury, a line has been crossed. Such has become the case during the pandemic. We have heard that:

  • People do not suffer adverse effects from mRNA vaccines.
  • The vaccine will protect you from infection, hospitalisation, and death
  • Everyone hospitalized with Covid is unvaccinated.
  • The virus without doubt came from a wet market, (rather than a bioweapon laboratory).

The list is a long oneโ€ฆ.we are at a crossroads.

How do you Protect Distorted Reality From Discovery?

When you are advertising a faulty consumer product, eventually poor reviews, and competing products that work well, will kill it off. But:

  • What if there are no reviews allowed?
  • What if there are no competing products?
  • What if politicians are your only source of truth?
  • What if you are told that things would have been so much worse if you hadnโ€™t got vaccinated?
  • What if you are swathed in a mask and discouraged from meeting your peers, or worse encouraged to fear them?

If you read history, you will recognise these as the tools of tyranny. If you watch television uncritically, you will be none the wiser. If you discourage communication between peers you are acting as a dictator.

Control of Information has Become a Matter of Faith

The PR machine that is informing us is highly skilled in deception. It recognises our human need for faith and shamelessly substitutes idolatry. The idols of the pandemic are mRNA vaccines. The false prophets are epidemiologists and modellers. The media is paid to agree.

Last week a Stuff newspaper editorial proudly trumpeted its new programme The Whole Truth aimed at medical misinformation. It is being funded by our government.

A government who also pays a New York PR firm to sample our social media posts. A government who pays a group of scientistsโ€”Te Punaha Matatiniโ€”to support their policies and label alternatives as conspiracy. A government who announces themselves as our one source of truth.

The sleight of hand is hard to identify if you are lost amongst the rampant fear mongering of the pandemic. In actuality 99% of our health arises from the food we eat, our daily routines and exercise, the rest of the night, and the joys of the day.

The PR dream that pharmaceuticals alone can offer quality of life or freedom from disease is a manufactured fantasy. Over the years, the protection offered by traditional medical ethics has been eroded as more and more adverse events from largely ineffective medicines are labelled acceptable, and even inevitable. Compulsory compliance comes next.

Constitutional Reform is a Way Ahead

Parliamentarians of all parties have engineered a coup in all but name. The overreach of power is unprecedented. The lack of constitutional protections is handicapping any efforts to resolve the manipulation of information.

  • Parliament is supreme. 62 newcomers can pass any law without reference to any long standing body of wisdom.
  • The NZ Bill of Rights is advisory onlyโ€”we have no rights other than those granted to us by whomever happens to be in the majority this week.
  • We donโ€™t have a formal written constitutionโ€”leaving the door open for the abuse of power.
  • Because of parliamentary privilege politicians are not obliged to speak the truth and there are no mechanisms such as impeachment to hold them to account for lying.
  • The judiciary serves the dictates of Parliamentโ€”there is little reference to universal and internationally-recognised standards of fairness.
  • Control of much of our economy and the media is in the hands of foreign entities and powers who wield a subtle influence on our government.
  • Levels of party allegiance and conformity restrict independent discussion.

Immediate Fixes That Avoid Social Disruption are Possible:

  • The NZ Bill of Rights could be โ€˜entrenchedโ€™ as a constitutional provision that is beyond the reach of parliament alone to alter. This will strengthen the individual rights that the judiciary can protect.
  • The control exercised by party whips can be reduced to allow MPs to vote more often according to conscience. For example by reducing the MMP threshold to one percent.
  • Parliamentarians should not be allowed to tell lies with impunity but should be subject to the same laws as anyone else.
  • Provisions of direct democracy such as those in Switzerland can be introduced and implemented through the use of modern technology.
  • Options for choices in health and education need to be strengthened.

Firstly a NZ constitutional conference should be called to discuss these and other issues which would strengthen the accountability of our democratic institutions.

The second step towards a resolution requires the formation and election of a single issue party with broad support dedicated to specific constitutional reforms.

Upon completion of reform, a second election would allow the appointment of a new government functioning under a constitutional umbrella that guarantees freedom of information and protection of individual rights.

Knowledge is Independent of Parliament

Importantly, our new constitution needs to recognise that knowledge is independent of the exercise of parliamentary authority. Knowledge has its own canons of veracity. Knowledge is matter of:

  • Personal experience and experiment
  • Scientific rigour and logical analysis
  • Extended use and evaluation of safety

Government in its essence involves the capacity to balance individual and social interests. The recognition of knowledge sufficient to guide such a balanced policy requires debate, experiment, proof, and consensus among all the stakeholders of society, not just one group or special interest.

Such reform will require courage and perseverance. New Zealand has a long history of social innovation and fairness. We can rise to the task, and leave the mistakes of yesterday behind.

The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard is on Amazon as a book or on Kindle.

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The Pandemic was Yesterday Today We Have a Serious Problem

Guy Hatchard
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The Pandemic was Yesterday Today We Have a Serious Problem

Anthony Fauci has declared that the pandemic is over and Denmark has decided to cease their vaccination programme. New Zealand has decided to vaccinate and mask its population into the foreseeable future. Those dissenting are being shunned, reviled, excluded, and their voices stifled.

Leadership is not about telling people what to do, it involves helping people to fulfil their aspirations and being able to utilize non-conformity. Actually, non-conformity is misunderstood, non-conformists are often the creatives that drive progress.

non-conformists are often the creatives that drive progress.

This morning in the Independent newspaper there was an articleย โ€œHeat Battery invention could make millions of homes gas-freeโ€.ย A new sort of battery that uses just salt and water has been invented that promises to revolutionise our dependence on fossil fuels.

It does this by smoothing and extending the ups and downs of energy availability and production from alternative sources such as wind and solar. The creatives have it.

New Zealand is thousands of kilometres from our nearest neighbour, of necessity we have a long history of independent thought and a creative can do attitude. Not so anymore, we have a highly prescriptive education system that can stifle creative thought. This has also ensured that we are forgetting key milestones from our past, a sure recipe to limit individual potential.

A few years ago I spent a fruitful and exciting year teaching in a school designed to help young, mostly rebellious children who had previously dropped out of school. The standard entry tests of aptitude revealed dismal levels of achievement in English and Maths.

The school directors advised me to teach English using Wreckit Ralph cartoons and spoon-fed answers. I decided to teach Romeo and Juliet and creative writing (for which I was censored). I soon found out that my pupils had an educational history of suppression and rejection. We went through a process together of discovering their capacity to tell their story. The teaching style involved encouragement, praise, and validation.

The results were remarkable. I discovered I was teaching a group of creative nonconformists who had something very special to contribute to society. Their end of year grades were excellent.

The education department became concerned and audited their work. The auditor wrote back that he would die to have students like these and raised their marks further. The irony is that the auditor worked within the same system that had rejected them earlier.

I was feeling used!
All they see is the entrance and exit sign
Plastered on my body like Iโ€™m nothing
They donโ€™t care about me
They walk all over my feelings
Foreign words they engrave into my skin
They look right through me
I touch hands with many people
But still no one sees me for what I am
I feel a connection
But all I am to them is an easy way to their destination
Iโ€™m just a door youโ€™re passing through

โ€”Cinta

Our government is a one size fits all organisation. Forcing people to conform has become an obsession. They are promoting a generation whose capacity to understand science as simultaneously an open, rational, empirical, and creative process is becoming truncated.

Our education system has taken on the character of a Dickensian schoolroom where brains are viewed as a row of empty pots to be filled by a limited set of prescriptive facts. History is full of creative aha moments, but they do not arise in a restricted environment.

Curricula aim to encourage critical and creative thinking, but do they work in practice? A child at play may feel as though they make real choices, but has the parent only set out a very limited set of toys? If there are few open questions, there will be few open minds.

The pandemic appears to have accelerated intolerance of open debate and created a myopic view of contrary data. If it was just a question of adjusting our educational outlook, it might be tackled through the process of national debate, but pandemic conformity has a frightening international dimension.

Our government has ended up in the position of a petty bureaucrat, obsequious to those it considers among its betters and dismissive and oppressive to those who fall under it. Have we become uncritically subservient to the financial interests of foreign billionaires, global powers, and pharmaceutical companies?

At a point when our global network of communication was becoming a means of trade, education, equality, and political participation, its scope and access has been diminished and censored. New Zealand has replaced this with a โ€˜government should be your one source of truthโ€™ ideology, something that is worthy of tyranny but not democracy. Stalin, Hitler, and Mao all controlled information ruthlessly.

The controlling outlook is not a stable basis for a system of government. Inherently we are a diversified and creative people. We aspire to freedom. We aim for the stars. A wise leader knows that, as Robert Frost said, โ€œsome things have to be left to Godโ€. Government has to facilitate debate, not repress it.

Modelling Studies Can Plumb the Depths of Both Idiocy and Deception

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Modelling Studies Can Plumb the Depths of Both Idiocy and Deception

We are fools for listening uncritically and can only blame ourselves

Business magazine Forbes has published a story with the arresting headline:

โ€œUnvaccinated People Increase Risk Of Covid Infection Among Vaccinated, Study Findsโ€.

The work they are referring to is not in the normal sense a study but is actually a modelling exercise published by the journal of the Canadian Medical Association.

Did the Forbes staff writer read the paper very well? I am quite sure they didnโ€™t. At the end of paragraph one of the Method section of the original paper, it describes their model saying:

โ€œA vaccine that is 80% efficacious would result in 80% of vaccinated people becoming immune, with the remaining 20% being susceptible to infection. We did not model waning immunity.โ€

Now I am sure you know that the mRNA vaccines do not stop infection and also wane in effectiveness. In other words, mRNA vaccination does not confer immunity and its effectiveness does not remain constant as the paper assumes. So what use is this paper and to what do its conclusions apply? Apparently not to the mRNA Covid vaccines.

Conflicts of Interest are at Work

Lo and behold, one of the paper’s authors, David Fisman, declares competing interests:

โ€œHe has served on advisory boards related to SARS-CoV-2 vaccines for Seqirus, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, and Sanofi-Pasteur Vaccines.โ€ฆโ€

Another author, Ashleigh Tuite, was employed by the Public Health Agency of Canada when the research was conducted (aka the domain of Justin Trudeau).

So why would Forbes publicise this story which prima facie has little relevance to the real world data of the current pandemic?

Forbes magazine is 51% owned by a Hong Kong based company Integrated Whale Investments about which little is known. The Washington Post has suggested that Forbes editorial policy has been influenced as a result, but by whom no one really knows.

At this point in the pandemic, it has become clear that boosted individuals are becoming more vulnerable to Omicron than the unvaccinated. So I can only suggest that it might be advantageous for some scientists and politicians to blame the unvaccinated for everything in order to cover up their own mistaken ideas. Or perhaps there are commercial interests anxious to sell more arguably useless vaccines for billions of dollars. You decide.

The Unwitting Public are the Victims Here

If the government and their compliant media friends are our one source of truth, as has happened in New Zealand (by decree), then you have no option except to blame the unvaccinated whatever happens.

For our government, it is quite useful to be able to quote a study (???) that affirms just that, even if it is irrelevant and unrelated to the real world we are living in.

The actual New Zealand situation is quite different, the unvaccinated were less likely to be hospitalised than the boosted. Thank you to Grant Dixon for compiling and graphing New Zealand Ministry of Health data, below.

Carefully Masked From Reality

This morning my mask exempt friend entered a haberdashery shop, whereupon two other potential customers turned and fled. Yesterday she was turned away from a fabric store. I am sure many of you have had similar experiences.

The fact of the matter is that almost the whole of the New Zealand population has become subject to fear-based government-sponsored group-think.

Are we all being conditioned to vote for Jacinda Ardern in next yearโ€™s election based on the carefully constructed myth that she is keeping us all safe?

We should be keeping our feet on the ground. We should recognise that public relations experts and propaganda promoters are at work full time, but they are working out of touch with reality.

Is it the Economy?

Meanwhile our whole economy is becoming more and more dysfunctional. As people are too afraid to associate with one another in public, the whole basis of commercial activity is being undermined.

The two large supermarket chains are laughing all the way to the bank. As small businesses are forced to close and their monopoly grows, supermarket prices and profits are entering the stratosphere.

Smart individuals are now ordering their vegetables and groceries direct from Australia (as far away from us as Moscow is from London) because they are so much cheaper.

This week in the UK the government was forced to intervene to control prices as the cost of tomatoes (mostly imported) rose from NZ$1.10 to $1.80 per kilo. The public were outraged and made their disapproval known in no uncertain terms, forcing the government to act.

Here in New Zealand (where tomatoes are easily grown), Countdown is charging at this minute, as I write, on its website from $6 to $16 per kilo for tomatoes.

The government is clueless to control this rampant price gouging, as it is clueless about most things including the pandemic. The public is equally hoodwinked, we are queueing up fully masked and fully vaccinated to pay through the nose for everyday items without so much as a squeak of dissent.

The ten year old son of a friend asked his mother the other day โ€œWhich do you think our society is more likeโ€”Brave New World or 1984?โ€ I doubt either Aldous Huxley or George Orwell could ever have imagined anything so incomprehensibly doublethink as 2022 New Zealand.

This is the state we have reached through our governmentโ€™s careful rationing of information and saturation conditioning.

Time we reopened the flood gates of free speech and social mediaโ€”hold your horses, we might endanger our one source of truth.

Link to the Forbes article mentioned at the beginning of this post: Unvaccinated People Increase Risk Of Covid Infection Among Vaccinated, Study Finds

New Regulations Seek to Control the Sovereign World of Plants

Guy Hatchard
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New Regulations Seek to Control the Sovereign World of Plants

Given the plethora of wannabe world rulers among the mega corporations, industrial and military powers, political ideologies, media and social media giants, big pharma, intergovernmental and judicial organisations currently competing for global influence, it is worth asking who actually rules the world? Who has the most power?

Undoubtedly the plant kingdom excels. Every individual in the world, in every nation, eats to live each day. Plants have enjoyed a coevolutionary symbiotic relationship with multicellular animal species for at least 500 million years. We have land and aquatic plants to thank for the oxygen we breathe.

Plants derive their timeless world sovereignty directly and continuously from the sun, the earth, and water. Ancient cultures have always revered and employed the life supporting properties of plants.

The ancient Rig Veda refers to them as โ€˜mothers of mankindโ€™. Maori tradition as children of Tฤne, the god of the forest, who separated earth and sky.

Our health and food security is inextricably tied up with that of the plant kingdom. We should make it a priority to protect the integrity of the plant world. We should seek to maintain an alliance with plants, not just in a metaphorical sense but in actuality use our knowledge and influence to sustain their sovereignty and protect their evolutionary genetic structures which underpin our own health.

Is the Sovereignty of Plants a Credible Global Political Agenda?

Respect for the sovereignty of plants dictates actions that can protect our world. Plants transcend national boundaries, their cultivation and use can unify the interests of diverse peoples. Within this concept lies the solution to many of the worldโ€™s problems:

Climate โ€” Pollution โ€” Hunger โ€” Peace โ€” Disease

The plants form an army that can defeat all these scourges of modern life.

The Materia Medica of Ayurveda, the ancient health system of India, records 5000 medicinal plants including the methods of their collection, use, and combination. Abbess Hildegard of Bingen enumerated multiple uses of herbs in the 12th century. These are just the tip of the iceberg, there are nearly 400,000 known species of plants.

Aside from food and medicine, throughout history they have been used to make furniture, cutlery and crockery, dwellings, transport, clothing, energy, and much more. All of this can be accomplished without causing pollution.

The Political Agenda of the Sovereign World of Plants:

  • Outlawing experimentation on the genetics of plants and animals
  • Rediscovering and valuing non-polluting skills that utilise plants and trees
  • Reviving the traditional herbal healing methods known by multiple cultures
  • Organic agriculture free of chemicals which exhaust the soil and kill bees
  • Teaching sustainable practices for gardening, horticulture, and agriculture
  • Managing climate change through planting and preservation
  • Improving food supply by increasing the use of plants in diets
  • International sharing and celebration of the wonders of plants
  • Outlawing patents on any genetic sequences derived from plants

Unlike political institutions, the capacity of plants to solve problems cannot be corrupted by power. Yet in our modern life, we have lost the sense of respect, utility, and thanks that plants deserve. We have forgotten the healing properties of plants and many of their other uses. Along with the families of animals, fish, and birds we have began to view them as something to exploit.

Control of the Worldโ€™s Food Supply is the Ultimate Financial Prize

For the hungry mega corporations, wresting control of our food supply from nature is a mouth watering prospect. It appears to offer an assured source of income and profit stretching into the future. Concern for the consequences of commercial plant production and exploitation is notable by its absence.

Since the patenting of plants is outlawed by international patent law, particularly pharmaceutical and biotech companies have sought to usurp the sovereignty of plants by registering patents over key components of their genetic structures or by slightly altering and thus maiming their structure using genetic manipulation, and then patenting the resulting GM types.

Simultaneously commercial interests are seeking to restrict the use of medicinal herbs by promoting draconian regulation. Andrew Little, the New Zealand Minister of Health, has announced he will be introducing legislation later this year to control the availability of natural products. This will be the third attempt by the Labour Party to do so, two previous attempts were abandoned due to public opposition.

The International Coalition of Medicines Regulatory Authorities (ICMRA), of which Medsafe is a member, has a register of hundreds of traditional herbs and plants whose use it wishes to restrict whilst simultaneously approving over 3,000 synthetic or chemical copies. NZ plans to adopt their register.

9 ways ICMRA Members are Affecting Regulations Around the World

1. Herbs, Natural Health Products, and Traditional Medicines are being assessed as pharmaceuticals with a plan to establish regulations mandating standardised dosages of extracted or synthesised โ€˜activeโ€™ ingredients.

2. Database information is being shared between regulators from different countries which restricts herbs using the โ€˜Rule of Doubtโ€™โ€”absence of modern scientific information is sufficient to implement a ban despite a long term history of traditional safe use.

3. Herbs, vitamins, and remedies are then classified as medicines only available to be used by registered doctors. This grants medical authorities back door โ€œpatentsโ€ on indigenous plants that will have a global reach within all member countries without having to invoke patent law. Already hundreds of Ayurvedic, Chinese, and other traditional herbs have been stolen in this way, despite the fact that international law forbids the patenting of plants.

4. A bogus argument has been advanced that plants grown in soil are not standardised like pharmaceutical drugs and may vary slightly in composition. The supposed remedy is the production of synthetic copies of herbs and active ingredients in laboratories. They are approved for food and drink using the discredited principle of โ€˜Substantial Equivalenceโ€™ which allows manufacturers to adulterate traditional remedies and produce cheap ineffective copies without labellingโ€”a process that is accelerating rapidly.

5. Many thousands of additives, preservatives, colourings, fragrances, and processing agents are being approved. In many cases, these substances have been implicated as causal factors in cancer, ADHD, and many other chronic illnesses.

6. Enforcement of Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT) testing and industrial manufacturing standards, sufficiently costly to bankrupt small and medium sized companies, which will gift competitive advantage to global companies.

7. Compulsory proprietary information collection on Natural Health Products and traditional herbs which will inevitably be shared with pharmaceutical companies through revolving doors and cosy relationships allowing the commercial appropriation of traditional knowledge.

8. The new standards being proposed are setting the maximum daily dose of nutritional supplements equal to the minimum proven therapeutic dose. For example studies show that the minimum effective dose of vitamin B12 is 50mcg which is being set as the maximum dose allowed in supplements. This means that retail B12 supplements will be ineffective in treating B12 deficiencies. Only a medical doctor will be permitted to prescribe the larger effective doses. Retail supplements produced by natural health companies with restricted doses will fall into disuse, in favour of synthetics sold by pharmaceutical and nutraceutical giants as prescribed medicines.

9. Regulatory-style laws hand control of natural medicine regulation to ICMRA rather than national governments. This subverts national sovereignty, undermines indigenous knowledge, and takes the right to choose natural medical treatment away from people everywhere.

New Global Regulation Threatens Alternative Approaches to Health Just When Science is Verifying Their Effectiveness

Modern research has shown that development and treatment of disease is affected by a great number of individual factors including: digestion, diet, genetics, lifestyle, environment, climate, psychology, relationships, fatigue, stress, comorbidities, age, and gender.

Traditional medicine offers a range of individualised approaches to healthcare that take account of these wide range of factors. Traditional and functional medicine involve the care of a skilled and knowledgeable physician to prevent ill health and restore good health by strengthening physiological processes, digestion, and re-establishing balance.

In Contrast Modern Medicine is in Crisis

  • Antibiotic and anti-fungal resistance threatens to render routine operations life-threatening by 2050.
  • Healthcare costs and chronic disease incidence are increasing so rapidly, that healthcare is being rationed in many countries.
  • More than 50% of the population now suffer from chronic diseases.
  • Adverse reactions to prescription drugs are now the third leading cause of death.
  • New diseases are emerging and old diseases re-emerging.

The List of Planned Restrictions is Surprisingly Wide

The shopping list of those planning to cut off our access to traditional remedies is very long and largely incomprehensible until you realise that there are commercial companies seeking to control their supply and secure the profits that can be made via monopoly control based on over regulation.

Even common kitchen herbs and spices have not escaped the notice of regulators taking inexplicable decisions to suit commercial interests.

More than 50% of the public have been using their own money to buy natural health products. This supports individual health and reduces the financial burden of public healthcare.

This advantage will be lost if the new restrictions are introduced, leaving the public without medical choice and governments in the hands of international pharmaceutical monopolies.

New scientific findings are coming to light that plant genetics plays a role in supporting health which cannot be provided by synthetic production. Genetic information in plants is the missing element in our understanding of nutrition. Therefore the proposals to regulate, restrict, and exploit plants in every country pose a threat to the sources of our human genetic stability.

We have shared our long journey of evolution with plants. The present time of global crisis is not the time to forget or destroy our long-time supporters who are silently offering us a life line in troubled times, as they have throughout past ages.

Please share this information widely with your friends. Contact your MP now to register your opposition to the proposed new regulations.

For more information my book: Discovering and Defending Your DNA Diet is available as a PDF from Smashwords and a Kindle book from Amazon.

How to Navigate the New Subnormalโ€”substituting Misdirection for Information

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How to Navigate the New Subnormalโ€”substituting Misdirection for Information

There is a lot of self-help advice on offer in the pandemic, much of it useful and uplifting:

  • Improving our diet and exercise routines.
  • Searching for new directions and opportunities.
  • Connecting with like-minded people

And then there is the other side of the coinโ€”should we be meekly accepting new restrictions or seeking new freedoms?

Masking the Truth

Articles like the one in the autumn 2022 AA Directions magazine, advisingย masks are going to be part of our day-to-day lives for the foreseeable future, and teaching us how to recognise whether someone is smiling behind their mask, miss the point. Rather ask: Why are we wearing masks?

Today in Stuff, science columnist Dr Siouxsie Wiles finally gets around to admitting that โ€œyou canโ€™t rely on mRNA vaccinesโ€. Her answer: become more strict about mask wearing. Is that possible? As I walked around Wellington shops yesterday, I didnโ€™t see a single unmasked person.

Dr. Wiles, a British microbiologist who received the 2021 New Zealander of the Year Award for pandemic science communication, cites aย new studyย which she says supports continuing use of masks at gatherings. Click on the link (most people donโ€™t) and you arrive at a study that involves theoretical modelling rather than verified effects.

Link to article: Multi-scale modelling reveals that early super-spreader events are a likely contributor to novel variant predominance

Mask studies (of which there are many) have not demonstrated large reductions in Covid transmission. They tend to be very technical in nature and focus on the comparative viral loads found in nasal and mask swabs. These measurements can only be connected to Covid transmission via theoretical modelling whose predictions are speculative and unproven.

Back in the real world, note the near universal combination of vaccination and mask wearing to date in New Zealand, which has not stopped Omicron transmission.

Aย studyย published in ClinMed entitledย โ€˜Adverse Effects of Prolonged Mask Use among Healthcare Professionals during COVID-19โ€™ย surveyed 343 healthcare professionals in New York City hospitals obliged to wear masks throughout most of their working day.

They reported: Headaches (71%), skin breakdown (50%), and impaired cognition (24%). Yes, you did read that right, one quarter of medical professionals wearing masks suffer decreased intellectual capacity.

one quarter of medical professionals wearing masks suffer decreased intellectual capacity

The ClinMed study cited is just one of many. The adverse effects of mask wearing result from a combination of a number of possible factors:

  • Increased harmful bacteria concentrations in the respiratory tract and around the face
  • Increased CO2 content in our lungs, which leads to lower oxygenation of our blood and brain, and can lead to hyperventilation.
  • Decreased social learning, communication, and development of children
  • Polypropylene shedding of micro particles, which have only recently been discovered lodged deep in human lung tissue
  • Allergic reactions to the formaldehyde content of masks (formaldehyde is a known carcinogen).

Even costly N95 masks do not stop the passage of air around the mask fitting, essentially negating their purpose. Prompting the observationย it is like trying to stop mosquitos with chicken wire. Surgical masks or their equivalent are mainly required in hospitals and dirty environments like saw mills or building sites to protect the wearer from inhaling human tissue or large particulates.

So will Dr. Wiles advise us next week to wear a full deep sea diving suit? In the crazy world of the new subnormal apparently nothing absurd can be ruled out.

Hiding the Truth From the Public Has Become a Medical Imperative

There is a certain hysteria surrounding the realisation that mRNA vaccines donโ€™t actually work and may be harmful. When my kids were growing up we used to read an amusing book to them, Lies My Mother Told Me. How many lies have we been told? Too many.

The Pfizer mRNA vaccine is:

  • 95% effective
  • Completely safe
  • Mostly stays in the upper arm muscle, as most traditional vaccines do

This last is interesting because Pfizer did know before they released the mRNA vaccine, that it didnโ€™t stay in the upper arm.

They had completed a pre-clinical bio-distribution animal study which suggested that most of the mRNA vaccine spread throughout the body instead of staying at the injection site. The lipid nanoparticles (LNP), which encase the mRNA and help to breach cell walls, are actually highly mobile and ensure that the mRNA spreads rapidly to all the organ systems in the body.

If you want the full story see the followingย articleย by clinical immunologist Dr. Byram Bridle.

Link to article: A Moratorium on mRNA ‘Vaccines’ is Needed

If we had known this, we would have realised early on that adverse reactions like:

  • liver and kidney damage
  • strokes
  • cardiac events
  • neurological conditions
  • and sudden onset cancers

were not unrelated to vaccination as many victims were assured at the time by the Ministry of Health, GPs, and hospital staff.

Medical professionals assessing the causal connections between mRNA vaccination and subsequent adverse events were simply relying upon their prior knowledge about traditional vaccines.

They thought theyย knewย that vaccine ingredients mostly stayed at the injection site and eventually appeared in lymph nodes as they were cleaned up by the immune system.

Pfizer neglected to tell them this was not the case. In fact, Pfizer didnโ€™t seem to inform anybody, the damning data was hidden in an obscure study buried in the requirements of the various national regulatory processes supposedly scrutinising safety.

Was our Medsafe informed? If they were, they didnโ€™t notice.

Anyone sounding the alarm seemed to be cancelled by the media and relegated to the ranks of conspiracy theorists.

Now we have some hard New Zealand data showing that the protective effect of mRNA vaccination is actually a myth, there appears to be a rush on the part of seasoned and highly decorated Covid science communicators like Dr. Siouxsie Wiles, member of the NZ Order of Merit, to rush and throw us a life line.

We may not actually choose to be saved. We might instead get on with our own lives and make the best of what opportunities we can discover for ourselves. At least we will be rowing our own boat, not sinking in the good ship misinformation.

Only Individuals Desperate for Income or Close to Death Agreed to Participate in Drug Trials

We used to think that only individuals desperate for income or close to death agreed to participate in drug trials. Unbelievably we have come to associate virtue with unthinking participation in medical experiments. A few people have acquired a taste for wielding authority, but you donโ€™t have to surrender your freedom of medical choice.

Worldโ€™s Most Influential Medical Journal Calls Out Pandemic Policies

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Worldโ€™s Most Influential Medical Journal Calls Out Pandemic Policies

An article that all media, experts, GPs and MPs need to read

In an April 13 2022 editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) โ€œCovid-19 Boosters โ€” Where from Here?โ€ Dr. Paul Offit MD starts with the obligatory praise for mRNA Covid-19 vaccines, but then abruptly switches to a very serious note of alarm about the continued use of boosters.

NEJM has been at the nexus of positive Covid-19 publishing. Its editorial board has the advantage of reviewing a broad sweep of Covid studies. The fact that they decided to publish a blunt warning is highly significant. The message for governments, medical professionals, and medical media commentators and explainers cannot be ignored or underestimated.

The editorial raises a number of questions:

โ€œUnfortunately, studies did not stratify patients according to whether they had coexisting conditions. Therefore, it was unclear who among the younger age groups most benefited from an additional dose.โ€

In summary, boosters are not very useful for younger people who are healthy. This doesnโ€™t sound very serious, but the NEJM went on to discuss the implications.

The continued universal use of boosters, in a misguided attempt to eliminate Covid, โ€˜will limit the ability of booster dosing to lessen transmission.โ€™

The consequence, NEJM warned, are problems whose full extent and eventual outcomes are unknown:

โ€œBoosters are not risk-free, we need to clarify which groups most benefit. For example, boys and men between 16 and 29 years of age are at increased risk for myocarditis caused by mRNA vaccines.โ€

โ€œAnd all age groups are at risk for the theoretical problem of an โ€œoriginal antigenic sinโ€ โ€” a decreased ability to respond to a new immunogen because the immune system has locked onto the original immunogenโ€ฆ.This potential problem could limit our ability to respond to a new variant.โ€

Original antigenic sinย refers to the known possibility of ADEโ€”antibody dependent enhancement of an illness. In essence, the immune system antibodies produced as a result of vaccination can in combination with new variants enhance the capacity of Covid to cause serious illness.

This possibility arises because of the innate capacity of the Covid virus to adapt when faced with a highly vaccinated populationโ€”a known viral evolutionary pathway.

The editorial concluded with a message for governments:

โ€œโ€ฆeducate the public about the limits of mucosal [mRNA Covid] vaccines. Otherwise, a zero-tolerance strategy for mild or asymptomatic infection, which can be implemented only with frequent booster doses, will continue to mislead the public about what Covid-19 vaccines can and cannot do.โ€

Facing Reality Is Proving Hard for Our Government

Is an editorial in a foreign medical journal cause for alarm? Yes, when it is the NEJM, the most conservative of medical journals, known for its unflinching support of modern medical orthodoxy.

Our worst enemy is complaisance and inaction. This was exemplified for me by a reply from an MP this week who says:

โ€œI do get some comfort from the fact that smallpox and polio vaccines, do appear long term to benefit humans, and from my general reading there is hope and belief that the COVID vaccine will do the sameโ€ฆ.the vast majority of scientists involved provide me reassurance that the vaccine is safe and that the alternative of not vaccinating is simply not an option.โ€

In other words, he says there is no alternative except to carry on boosting, precisely the problem that the NEJM was warning against, which is leading down a road to a very uncertain and possibly very dangerous future.

As I travelled south towards Wellington yesterday, I passed kilometres of stationary cars going north stalled by a couple of traffic lights in Otaki. The $3.5 billion spent on the transmission gully motorway has delivered no improved travel time because the planners were perhaps not thinking far enough ahead and carried on regardless (and btw for the motorway enthusiasts after Otaki comes Levin, so should bypasses be the first priority?).

Do we carry on vaccinating against polio and smallpox every few months?โ€”NO we do not. This one fact should have been sufficient to alert our MP that something is different about mRNA technology.

Who are the medical experts advising our MPs, watering down the published Covid medical research results to the point of banality? Is our $64 billion spent on Covid so far well spent?

Calling a Medical Emergency in New Zealand

We know that both mRNA vaccination and Covid infection carry as yet unquantified long term risks of heart disease. Are we ramping up our capacity to treat heart disease? Apparently not.

A correspondent in Palmerston North writes that she has been referred to a heart specialist by her GP, but the specialist replies he is too overwhelmed with cases to see her and refers her back to her GP. When is this Covid buck passing going to stop?

Heart disease is the number one killer in New Zealand. The apologia being trotted out by the media thatย myopericarditis following vaccination will turn out to be mild in the longer termย without actual supporting research does not amount to a credible medical policy.

We keep hearing anecdotal reports of our hospitals overwhelmed with cardiac cases. Are the reports real? The government is not publishing data, so we are left in the dark. Is the government failing to look or are they deliberately concealing information?

The situation is similar in the UK, information about alarming rises in cardiac cases is too hot to handle, so is it being covered up? Some data is coming out from individual hospitals. The NHS trust in the small UK seaside resort of Blackpool responded to a freedom of information request last week. Their cases of heart failure are up 400% on historical averages. Yes, 400%.

Who Can Turn the Ship Around?

We all have relatives or friends still insisting thatย our hospitals are full of the unvaccinated,ย thatย no one who is vaccinated has ever died,ย thatย the unvaccinated are endangering everyone,ย thatย international studies prove the vaccine works perfectly,ย and so onโ€ฆ

All of which are remote from reality, yet without honest government and media messaging, polite rebuttals with references to actual data are met with outright denial and condemnation.

Only the government and mainstream media are in a position to convey the sober NEJM assessment of boosters to the public. Otherwise, the public will remain stuck with boosters or bust misinformation. Continuing to publish misleading information about hospital statistics or myths that only mRNA vaccination of 100% of the population will stop the pandemic (as Stuff did this week) will only make it harder to institute reliable policies.

Mark Steyn of GB news called out the UK government Thursday this week with official UK statistics showing that boosted individuals are twice as likely to suffer infection, hospitalisation, and death compared to the unvaccinated, partially vaccinated and doubly vaccinated lumped together. This raises the possibility that Antibody Dependent Enhancement is already taking hold.

We are heading in that direction too, possibly just a few weeks behind, New Zealand statistics highlight increasing vulnerability of the boosted as each week goes by. This point is reinforced by increasing reports of multiple reinfections among vaccinated populations.

Time to Call a Medical Emergency

This is a call for an energetic, robust and focused response to an evolving medical situation. A preparedness to consider and entertain views that were dismissed as unthinkable a few weeks ago.

Donโ€™t trust my word, trust the New England Journal of Medicine which has sounded the alarm because our situation may be about to get much worse if the government continues to do and say as it has been so far.

Please forward this message to those in need of this officially sanctioned warning.

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The Show Must Go On

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The Show Must Go On

If you are a science writer in search of material, your best bet is to review a few of yesterdayโ€™s mainstream media pronouncements reporting government vaccine experts. You could find enough public misdirection to keep you writing for a week.

Among yesterdayโ€™s four Covid advice articles in Stuff โ€œKiwis suffering health issues after Covid-19 vaccination want to be heard, but it’s complicatedโ€ raised the art of mixed messaging and gaslighting to new heights.

It started off well, raising the case of someone in Wellington debilitated with pericarditis, unable to even go for a walk, hang up washing, or vacuum, but it rapidly went off the rails. The lady is described as anxious to get her booster for the good of the general public.

We were reassured by Stuff that the Accident Compensation Commission (ACC) insurance scheme had only accepted 987 claims for vaccine related injuries, a supposedly unconcerning rate of 0.009% of doses (possibly 50 times higher than any prior vaccine).

77 of these accepted ACC vaccine injury claims are for myopericarditis. The others were for other serious conditions. Then we were told there have actually been 783 people who have reported incidents of myopericarditis following vaccination to Medsafe.

In my book this implies that only 10% of myopericarditis claims have been approved by ACC. You didnโ€™t have to read far before Dr. Nikki Turner Director of the Auckland University Immunisation Advisory Centre weighed in with the advice that some adverse reactions to vaccination such as heart palpitations could be due to anxiety about needles.

These people should be treated with compassion, she said, (but presumably refused an insurance claim).

It gets worse, Dr. Sanjana Hattotuwa with his recently minted Ph.D., formerly a pro-democracy spokesperson from Sri Lanka, and now described by Stuff as an โ€˜independentโ€™ (?)ย researcher employed by the NZ Government-funded Disinformation Project, was quoted as describing people seeking compensation for vaccine injuries as having beenย instrumentalised by anti-vax groups.

He is quoted as telling Stuff that New Zealand is a high trust society involved in a broader struggle as it tries to get to grips with the erosion of social cohesion and trust. Something that our institutions have failed to keep up withโ€ฆThe culprits are anti-vax groups.

(Note the language: โ€˜broader struggleโ€™, โ€˜erosion of social cohesionโ€™, โ€˜culpritsโ€™, โ€ฆ., is Hattotuwa or Stuff actually talking about New Zealand here?)

โ€œ..I donโ€™t think the health agencies, institutions, and ministries fully appreciated the instrumentalisation of the content they were putting outโ€ Hattotuwa says.

In other words, Dr. Hattotuwa appears to be advising the government to put out less information about the pandemic in case it is misrepresentedโ€”a form of government censorship of scientific information.

Such statements no doubt could beย misconstruedย as encouraging our government to become a more secretive and authoritarian state. Is this our Kiwi futureโ€”I hope not.

Thank God that Dr. Nikki Turner disagreed:

โ€œIโ€™m very much in favour of us as a country learning how to do critical appraisal and understand science, not just assume that people canโ€™t figure it out.โ€

So why isnโ€™t Dr. Nikki Turner publicly debating vaccine safety? Instead in the article, she labelsย anti-vax misinformation as an industry that should be called out. So no public debate then, just a cancelling fest from the safety of an ivory tower.

Distinguished immunologist Dr. Graham Le Gros executive director of the Malaghan Institute and head of Vaccine Alliance Aotearoa told Stuff that:

โ€œNZ has a good system for reporting events possibly related to vaccinations and a high level of engagement from the public and healthcare professionalsโ€

Since my involvement with writing about the science of the pandemic, I have been writing to Government scientists calling for mandatory reporting of adverse events subsequent to vaccination as is normal in vaccine trials. Medsafe says that only 5% of events are reported in NZ. Dr. Ashley Bloomfield has specifically refused to countenance this step.

Dr. Le Gros makes my point for me, saying:

โ€œit will take ten years to assess all the risks of the vaccineโ€”as is the case with all new vaccinesโ€.

So have I missed something? We are rolling out to the public a vaccine using completely novel biotechnology the true extent of whose risks, we are assured by one of our most senior scientists, will not be known for ten years. Yet we will not be requiring mandatory reporting of adverse effects???

The article in Stuff fails NZ because it cherry picked examples of people suffering severe effects from myopericarditis and even one family of a teenager who tragically died, all of whom say the show must go onโ€”no one should be discouraged from vaccination.

The majority of the 706 (at least) people with myopericarditis who have not been given a voice or compensation might disagree.

Tomorrow I could look at the implications of the opinion piece in todayโ€™s Stuff which calls on Jacinda Ardern to virtually guarantee these admittedly risky and hugely ineffective vaccinations are taken by all New Zealanders right down to the very young.

How one wondersโ€”back to the coercive mandates whose supporting legislation Jacinda Ardern says she plans to keep in her back pocket?

Where Did the โ€˜Scienceโ€™ of the Pandemic Go Wrong and How to Put It Right?

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Where Did the โ€˜Scienceโ€™ of the Pandemic Go Wrong and How to Put It Right?

A paper published on April 5th in the New England Journal of Medicine entitled โ€œProtection by a Fourth Dose of BNT162b2 against Omicron in Israelโ€ is raising eyebrows in the scientific world because of its deficiencies.

Dr. Vinay Prasad is an American hematologist–oncologist and health researcher. He is an associate professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco. His work has coined the term medical reversal whereby more careful trials of a drug show that its earlier approval was flawed.

Dr. Prasad, who is not an anti vaxxer by any stretch of the imagination, has aired his concerns about the latest Israeli paper on Omicron and boosters in a YouTube video titled: Israeli Data for the 4th Dose | How Good Is It? | Make Bourla Earn His Pay.

In essence, Dr. Prasad is concerned that there is a potential for inherent bias as the group of subjects in the Israeli study who took the fourth booster was self-selected rather than randomly assigned.

In other words, he was asserting that any assessment of vaccine efficacy published in a leading journal like the NEJM should use the gold standard of scientific proof, rather than inferior methods known to allow confounding effects to creep in.

Dr. Prasad pointed to the current $100 billion of annual Pfizer revenue and asked: Why isnโ€™t Pfizer conducting randomised controlled trials to assess the efficacy and safety of boosters rather than applying political pressure to bypass scientific concerns? He said this was debasing scientific standards.

Dr. Prasad also pointed out that the actual data underpinning the results of the Israeli study were inconsistent with the known trajectory of immunity development and therefore with the studyโ€™s conclusions that the booster was helping.

So precisely how could self-selection in the Israeli study invalidate results? Dr. Prasad suggested one possible mechanism: those volunteering for fourth boosters might be more healthy individuals.

We ask: How could this happen? There are a number of ways.

For example, let us take seriously the commonly voiced proposal that the Covid-19 spike protein is essentially a toxin. A toxin capable of causing the heart and organ inflammation, neurological effects, and the potentially damaging immune system storm associated with both Covid infection and vaccination.

As with any toxin, some individuals will have greater and others lesser reactions to the toxin depending on a whole range of individual physiological circumstances.

As the series of inoculations proceeds from first to fourth jab, those individuals having a greater adverse reaction to the shots will be weeded out by self-selection. Those experiencing more unpleasant reactions to the spike protein toxin will naturally decide to forgo further injections as the vaccination series unfolds.

Since both the Covid virus and the vaccine expose the physiology to the spike protein which accounts for a significant part of the Covid aetiology and symptomatology, those more tolerant of the toxic effects of the spike protein will have lesser symptoms following Covid infection.

The net effect of this on the results of the Israeli study is clear, those volunteering to receive the fourth booster will appear to be gaining benefit from the booster because they have self-selected for greater tolerance.

As a result there will be a tendency to see a slightly lower rate of hospitalisation and death subsequent to receiving the booster, precisely the result of the Israeli study. As the efficacy of the booster on the viral component of Covid wanes this effect will dissipate.

Dr. Prasadโ€™s point is clear, the only way to sort out what is actually happening is to conduct a randomised controlled study where subjects are assigned to vaccination and the matched control group receives a placebo.

Pfizer has the money to do this. So why arenโ€™t they? Possibly because a randomised controlled trial may uncover some potentially serious issues for Pfizer.

Without a carefully designed randomised controlled study, results are subject to the vagaries and inconsistencies of national data collection policies:

  • Is Covid data collection mandatory, (in most countries including NZ it is not)?
  • How carefully are records kept?
  • How are Covid hospitalisations defined (for example are pregnant mothers in hospital to give birth who coincidentally test positive for Covid recorded as a Covid patient)?
  • How are Covid deaths recorded, how long after a positive test and whether they had other health conditions?

Letโ€™s look at the New Zealand current deaths data which illustrates these points:

Proportion of covid deaths by vax status (dark colours) with Proportion of total population in each vax status (light shades)

Shows all deaths ASSOCIATED with covid: ie from any cause within 28 days of a + test. (Unfortunately, the MoH does not release the vax status of CONFIRMED covid deaths)

If you read this graph at face value you must conclude as follows:

During the last month boosted individuals have become more vulnerable to death from Covid that they were at the start. Both the vaccinated (excluding the boosted) and unvaccinated groups have become less vulnerable to death through Covid. The increasing vulnerability of the boosted group over time is consistent with the Israeli study. One possible interpretation of the figures is as follows:

The level of natural immunity (due to prior infection) is rising among the unvaccinated as a greater percentage of this group catch and recover from Covid, whereas the more mRNA injections you have had appear to inhibit the acquisition of natural immunity.

However few safe scientific conclusions can be drawn from this table. The New Zealand Ministry of Health does not release sufficient data and the numbers are small. We do not know how many of these deaths were with Covid and how many because of Covid in the various vaccination categories.

We can however segway to figures from the UKHSA. Up until the end of March the UKHSA conveniently provided the case-rates per 100,000 individuals by vaccination status in their vaccine surveillance reports, and the following table has been stitched together by online UK publication The Expose from the case-rate tables found in the Week 3, Week 7 and Week 13 Vaccine Surveillance Reports.

As you can see from the above, the case-rates per 100k have been highest among the triple vaccinated population over these 3 months, except for the 18-29-year-olds in the week 3 report only, and the under 18โ€™s in all 3 months.

However, as in New Zealand, the trend is clear: triple vaccinated individuals are becoming more vulnerable and not exhibiting the acquisition of natural immunity in every age category.

A sufficiently well planned and executed randomised controlled trial with a long duration would reveal what is going on, but neither Pfizer or government health agencies are moving in this direction.

In fact health agencies like the UKHSA are publishing less and less data, possibly because the data is suggesting alarming longer term health consequences of mRNA vaccination.

The lack of complete data at this point actually confounds the issue because it becomes increasingly difficult to sort out what adverse health effects of Covid are due to infection and which to vaccination. If the supposition that the spike protein is a toxin is right, both will have similar effects to varying degrees.

The action point is clear: mRNA vaccination is not working and could be dangerous. In the absence of reliable clinical assessment, and in the presence of concerning data, the use of mRNA vaccines should be paused.

This article is available to download: Where Did the โ€˜scienceโ€™ of the Pandemic Go Wrong and How to Put It Right? (PDF)

Message to NZ Mainstream Media and Scientistsโ€”Change is Coming

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Message to NZ Mainstream Media and Scientistsโ€”Change is Coming

World media and government science advisors acknowledge the limitations of the regulatory process for mRNA vaccination.

We shouldnโ€™t understate the naivete of the New Zealand government, media, and scientists during the pandemic.

The tabloid-style stories of severe Covid outcomes, the authoritative voice of Dr. Anthony Fauci (who has financial conflicts of interest), the allure of the word vaccine, and the exaggerated death toll in foreign lands, all combined into a convincing call for immediate and coercive action.

Yet behind the stories, the highly profitable pharmaceutical PR system was running at full steam playing on the fear factor. New Zealand fell head over heels in love. Love knows no reason and that was certainly the case here.

New Zealand is a long way away from the rest of the world. We have a tradition of proud independence and self-sufficiency, but we rolled over and played follow the leader. 

No one in a position of influence struck a note of caution, especially not our Prime Minister.

We instituted the largest public borrowing program in New Zealand history and spent it on a US mega corporation with a poor safety record and a history of punitive malpractice judgements.

The government instituted saturation advertising of vaccine safety and efficacy, and then followed up with mandates, sackings and social exclusion. Our media shouted down those few asking questions.

Times Have Changed

The prestigious and conservative Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has aired concerns about poor regulatory decisions at the US Food and Drug Agency (FDA) about booster shots. They join a growing international chorus of highly qualified and influential voices.

On April 3rd in an opinion piece entitled โ€œFDA Shuts Out Its Own Experts in Authorizing Another Vaccine Boosterโ€ Dr. Marty Makary, a surgeon and public policy researcher at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine writes:

โ€œThe FDA last week authorized Americans over 50 to get a fourth Covid vaccine dose. Some of the FDAโ€™s own experts disagreed, but the agency simply ignored them.โ€

Eric Rubin, editor in chief of the New England Journal of Medicine (arguably the worldโ€™s most influential medical journal) and a member of the FDA advisory committee on vaccines told CNN last month:

โ€œI havenโ€™t seen enough data to determine whether anyone needs a fourth doseโ€.

Dr. Cody Meissner, also a member of the FDA vaccine advisory committee and chief of pediatric infectious diseases at Tufts Childrenโ€™s Hospital agreed saying:

โ€œthe fourth dose is an unanswered question for people with a normal immune systemโ€

A third member of the committee, Dr. Paul Offit of the Childrenโ€™s Hospital of Philadelphia went further. He told the Atlantic magazine that he advised his 20-something son to forgo the first booster.

The WSJ article described the effect of boosters as fleeting, mild, and short-lived.

Two top FDA officials, Marion Gruber, Director of the FDA Office of Vaccine Research and Review and her deputy Paul Krause, quit the FDA in September last year complaining of undue pressure to authorize boosters and a lack of data to support their use.

Unbelievably, the US Centre for Disease Control (CDC) rubber stamped the FDA decision to approve a second booster without even convening its panel of external independent vaccine experts.

Safety Testing of mRNA Vaccines is Inadequate, Incomplete, and Biased

The Wall Street Journal article sounded a note of alarm saying that neither the CDC nor the US National Institute of Health (NIH) had made a priority of studying vaccine complications.

Moreover, their VAERS data collection and analysis process is incomplete and inadequate. In other words, the safety investigation to date of adverse effects of mRNA vaccination is incomplete and potentially misleading.

The central question raised by the Wall Street Journal opinion piece is why wouldnโ€™t the US regulators wish to undertake accurate and complete investigation of adverse effects of mRNA vaccination?

Have pharmaceutical interests been able to influence decision-making at the FDA to their own commercial advantage at the expense of safety considerations?

A leading authority the British Medical Journal agrees, on March 16 it published an article entitled The illusion of evidence based medicine in which it said:

โ€œEvidence based medicine has been corrupted by corporate interests, failed regulation, and commercialisation of academia.โ€

The Lessons For NZ Are Obvious

We have stifled debate and slavishly followed FDA advice. Now there is a need for reevaluation and debate. We have travelled a long way down a one way street, but it appears to be a dead end.

The triumphant articles published about a survey of vaccine resistant people born in Dunedin was a low point in uncritical NZ mainstream media publishing. We have to regain an objective voice.

Aย paperย published on April 5th in the New England Journal of Medicine found that any measurable protective effect of the fourth inoculation (which in any case, it found, is very small in absolute terms) disappeared after just 8 weeks.

Moreover, aย paperย in the Lancet on April 8th admits that boosters carry a risk of additional side effects.

Both these papers skirted the obvious safety questions in favour of weak praise for vaccine orthodoxy. In contrast, the Wall Street Journal article asked the important question:

Who is actually getting serious about measuring the extent of adverse events, rather than continuing to urge uncritical acceptance of a largely ineffective vaccine?

So far New Zealand media have steered clear of questions. Dr. Ashley Bloomfield has refused to institute mandatory reporting of adverse events following mRNA Covid vaccination and he has excelled at denying vaccine exemptions to those injured by the first shot.

Silence is no longer tenable, in actuality it never was. Questions have to be asked. No ifs or buts. Overseas media outlets of the thinking kind are waking up.

If we canโ€™t face debating rationally with our critics, we are a nation drifting onto the rocks of ignorance and prejudice.

Time for us to wake up.

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