💭 Is New Zealand A Beta Test For Western Governments Micromanaging The Populace?
👉 by Planet Today – Wednesday, January 18, 2023
In the wake of the covid pandemic lockdowns and mandates, many western nations and states in the US witnessed a new eye opening level of government intrusion into the daily lives of citizens. Some, however, dealt with worse scenarios than others.
New Zealand in particular has popped up time and time again over the past couple of years with some of the most draconian restrictions on the public, and sadly the trend has not stopped just because the pandemic lockdowns stopped. The island nation seems to be intent on setting the standard for authoritarian policies and government micromanagement, and a series of recent laws are driving home the reality that they do not intend to relent.
Flashback: In 2018, New Zealand banned all offshore oil drilling exploration in the name of instituting a “carbon neutral future”, meaning tight energy restrictions are forthcoming in NZ as the decade progresses.
In 2019, NZ banned all semi-automatic weapons after the Christchurch mosque shootings, punishing millions of law abiding citizens for the crimes of one man. Video evidence of the Christchurch shootings is suspiciously illegal in NZ, and anyone caught viewing or downloading the event can be prosecuted. The gun bans were enforced just in time for the pandemic lockdowns.
In 2020, the government introduced internet censorship legislation which would give them the power to selectively filter “dangerous content.” Most of the provisions were ultimately scrapped after a public backlash, but future censorship remains a priority for the government.
In 2021, New Zealand Prime Minister and associate of the World Economic Forum, Jacinda Ardern, openly admitted to constructing a two tier society in which the vaccinated enjoy normal access to the economy, travel and social interaction while the unvaccinated would be deliberately choked with restrictions until they “chose” to comply and accept the mRNA jab.
It should be noted that the Ardern and the New Zealand government were made aware on multiple occasions in 2021 by medical professionals of the risks of Myocarditis for people 30 years old and under associated with the vaccines. They ignored the warnings and pushed forward with mass vaccination campaigns anyway, including attempts to introduce vaccine passports.
This was not necessarily unique, though, as many western countries made similar dismissals of vaccine concerns and tried to promote passports. That said, New Zealand was one of the few in the west that built actual covid camps designed to incarcerate people with the virus in forced quarantine. The camps, referred to as “compulsory quarantine facilities”, were administrated by the NZ military, leaving no doubt that these were prisons rather than resorts.
The Primer Minister was finally forced to scrap a large number of covid mandates last year as evidence mounted that lockdowns and masks were mostly useless in preventing the spread of the virus, and that the vaccines do not necessarily stop covid contraction and transmission. The fact that the vaccinated now make up the majority of covid deaths is proof enough that the vaccines do not function as officials originally promised. The process of centralizing power has not stopped, though – The tactics have simply changed.
NZ has introduced a multitude of oppressive laws post-covid that add up to a freedom suffocating atmosphere for the public.
In November, the government implemented a law which forces large financial institutions to disclose climate related risks associated with their investments. The implications are far reaching, and ostensibly this puts pressure on banks and lenders to avoid financing businesses that are a “carbon emissions risk.” Meaning, if you want a loan from a bank and the government determines you are a “carbon polluter,” then you likely will not get the loan. This could include anything from large manufacturers to dairy farms.
Speaking of farms, NZ has banned the use of caged chicken farming across the country, creating a massive egg shortage which has led to high prices (This is taking place coincidentally right after the US government culled over 50 million chickens in 2022 due to “avian flu”, also causing high prices in America).
Feeling stressed about this mess and want to smoke a cigarette? Those are getting banned in NZ, too. In an unprecedented move, the government has passed a law which blocks any person under the age of 18 as of 2023 from buying cigarettes for their entire lives. Meaning, cigarettes will be slowly phased out as the younger generation grows older. Are cigarettes a health risk? Yes. But, governments claim that costs to socialized medicine give them a rationale to control people’s personal habits. Today it’s cigarettes; tomorrow it could be anything bureaucrats deem unhealthy regardless of actual science.
And that brings us to NZ’s latest authoritarian measure, the Therapeutic Products Bill, which if passed will give the government far reaching authority to manage and restrict the manufacture or sale of natural health supplements. Want to avoid big pharma and their untested products by taking care of your own body? You’re not allowed. Alternatives will be erased leaving only drugs and jabs.
This is not only the end result of the western fall into socialism, New Zealand seems to represent a test case for increasing violations of individual liberties and individual choice. New Zealand could yield a vision of the future for many other nations should western populations respond passively.
💭 iNCOVACC, the world’s first COVID-19 intranasal vaccine, will be launched on January 26. The intranasal coronavirus vaccine has been developed by India’s Bharat Biotech. Speaking at an event at the Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MANIT), Krishna Ella, the company’s chairman and managing director, said, “Our nasal vaccine will be officially launched on January 26, on Republic Day.”
The company, in December 2022, got the approval for the primary 2-dose schedule, and as a heterologous booster dose. Before that, the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) had approved the restricted use of the intranasal vaccine in emergency situations in the age group of 18 and above.
But they found it only led to an immune response in a minority of participants.
This was also weaker than that from the standard injected Covid vaccines
AstraZeneca’s leading Covid nasal spray vaccine does not protect well against the virus, a study has shown — dashing hopes it could replace traditional jabs.
The University of Oxford — which is developing and running trials of the vaccine — said only a minority of patients mounted an immune response.
Even those who did react to the jab had lower antibody levels than someone given a shot-in-the-arm vaccination.
It is another blow for AstraZeneca which has so far failed to break the US vaccine market — after concerns about its original jab’s link to blood clots.
Researchers across the world have placed high hopes on nasal spray vaccines because they may have the potential to stop Covid infections entirely.
It was thought that prompting an immune response directly in the airways would be able to shut the virus down before it spreads to the rest of the body.
But Dr Sandy Douglas, who ran the UK-based AstraZeneca trial, said the spray did not perform ‘as well as we had hoped’.
China and India have already approved nasal spray Covid jabs, although there is no public data on how well they work.
South Koreans were inviting satan’s attack by celebrating satanic Halloween rituals – Indians were doing the same by celebrating satanic Diwali – and, of course, Babylon Saudi Arabia is ultimately excelling in this pagan fusing pride project.
So, Iran (biblical Elam) must destroy Arabia. In Isaiah 21:9, Isaiah levels a prophetic oracle against Babylon using the same announcement in Revelation 18:1-2 and Revelation 14:8: “Babylon is fallen, is fallen”:
“The burden against Dumah” (Isaiah 21:11) “The burden against Arabia” (Isaiah 21:13) “All the glory of Kedar will fail” (Isaiah 21:16).
These are all in Arabia, which is destroyed by Iran “Elam” (Isaiah 21:2).
💭 Saudi Arabia, U.S. on High Alert After Warning of Imminent Iranian Attack
Saudis said Tehran wants to distract from local protests, and the National Security Council said the U.S. is prepared to respond.
Saudi Arabia has shared intelligence with the U.S. warning of an imminent attack from Iran on targets in the kingdom, putting the American military and others in the Middle East on an elevated alert level, Saudi and U.S. officials said.
” A western disturbance and cyclonic circulation over Rajasthan brought unseasonal rains” ¡Madre mía!
☆ India applauds Britain’s 1st Indian-origin leader Rishi Sunak, 75 years after colonial rule
☆ The Mayor of London is Sadiq Khan, a Muslim of Indian-Pakistani heritage
💭 After unseasonal rain, Mumbai under a thick haze layer.
The Weather Dept said that the dust winds phenomenon would last for Sunday only, but again from Monday onwards, there is a possibility of a dip in temperature in Maharashtra for the next few days
A day after a western disturbance and cyclonic circulation over Rajasthan brought unseasonal rains it, Mumbai on Sunday had a thick layer of haze settled over it.
According to weather experts, the haze was attributed to “dust-raising winds”, brought as a result of the same Western Disturbance which caused Saturday’s rains and a drop in Sunday’s temperature.
It was further said that since everybody was wearing mask due to Covid-19, no other precautions were required.
“This haze consists of mainly sand because it originates from the Middle East where the conditions are sandier. It cannot be defined as smog, which comprises a more complex mixture of pollutants,” said Gufran Beig, Project Director, SAFAR.
The Weather Department said that the dust winds phenomenon is going to last for Sunday only, but again from Monday onwards, there is a possibility of a dip in temperature in Maharashtra for the next few days.
The maximum temperature of Mumbai’s Santacruz stood at 23.8 degrees Celsius, which is lowest in the last 10 years.
The dip in temperature was a result of the cloudy sky over north Konkan. It brought day time temperatures to as low as 23-24 degrees Celsius, which is the lowest maximum temperature in the last 10 years or maybe more, for the month of January.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Saturday said that after affecting normal life in Karachi, a massive dust storm headed towards Gujarat and south Rajasthan on Saturday evening and it may continue to have an effect till next 12 hours.
Karachi was caught off guard on Saturday morning when a dust storm that travelled from Pakistan’s west disturbed the normal life there with visibility reduced to less than or about 500 metres.
“Saurashtra coast has been getting dust rising winds from afternoon. Dwarka station reported 400 m visibility, at Porbandar, wind speed was more than 10 km per hour with visibility of less than 1 km,” the IMD said.
Winds carrying dust blew from south Pakistan areas and adjoining the Arabian Sea towards Kutch and Saurashtra towards evening.
The ‘Sand and Dust Storms Risk Assessment in Asia and the Pacific’ report for 2021, published by the Asian and Pacific Centre for the Development of Disaster Information Management (APDIM), which is a regional institution of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), had said more than 500 million people in India and more than 80 per cent of the populations of Turkmenistan, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Iran are exposed to medium and high levels of poor air quality due to sand and dust storms.
Lahore, Karachi, and Delhi are the three most affected cities, the report had said.
Dust storms, if severe, and over a longer time, also adversely affect agriculture, especially cotton.
💭 Harrowing video has captured the moment a footbridge in India collapsed, killing at least 141 people celebrating Diwali. WARNING: Distressing
😠😠😠 ዋይ! ዋይ! ዋይ! 😢😢😢
Very Sad, indeed!
👉 Death toll rises to 141, many still missing
At least 141 people died when a pedestrian suspension bridge collapsed in India’s western state of Gujarat.
A local official said most of those who had died were women, children or elderly. The bridge in Morbi had been reopened just a week ago after repairs.
There was overcrowding on the bridge at the time as people celebrated the Diwali festival, officials said.
The 230m (754ft) bridge on the Machchu river was built during British rule in the 19th Century.
The death toll is expected to rise further.
Police, military and disaster response teams were deployed and the rescue effort is continuing.
More than 177 people have been rescued so far, officials said.
“Many children were enjoying holidays for Diwali and they came here as tourists,” an eyewitness called Sukram told Reuters news agency.
“All of them fell one on top of another. The bridge collapsed due to overloading.”
Videos on social media showed dozens clinging onto the wreckage as emergency teams attempted to rescue them. Some survivors clambered up the bridge’s broken netting, and others managed to swim to the river banks.
Reports said several hundred people were on the bridge when it collapsed at around 18:40 India time (13:10 GMT) on Sunday.
A video shot before the collapse showed it packed with people and swaying and many gripping the netting on its sides.
Gujarat is the home state of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has announced compensation for the families of victims. He said he was “deeply saddened by the tragedy”.
The authorities have promised a full investigation. Questions are being asked about whether safety checks were done before the bridge was reopened. It is a popular tourist attraction known locally as Julto Pul (swinging bridge).
Home Minister Harsh Sanghavi said a number of criminal cases had been registered over the incident.
Prateek Vasava was on the bridge at the time of the incident. He told 24 Hours Gujarati-language news channel how he had swum to the river bank.
Several children fell into the river, he said, adding: “I wanted to pull some of them along with me but they had drowned or got swept away.”
Videos showed scenes of chaos as onlookers on the river banks tried to rescue those trapped in the water as darkness fell.
My Note: ☆ Halloween = Oromo Ireecha = Thanksgiving
☆ ሃለዊን = ኢሬቻ = ምስጋና (ለደም ግብር)
👹 Halloween + Diwali = Hallowali
☆ Days ago it was South Korea & Halloween – and today it’s India & Diwali.
South Koreans were inviting satan’s attack by celebrating satanic Halloween rituals – Indians were doing the same by celebrating satanic Diwali
Let’s rembeber, Halloween is just the Western equivalent of Diwali.
It’s spooky season and everyone is way too excited for the house parties that they have scheduled. Halloween is the best day of the year, for the Western part of the world – after Christmas, of course.
But what’s the hype about in India?
Well, dressing up. Indians love to shop and dress up – the two things that unite us all together. It’s also part of the reason Diwali is such a huge festival in India. Diwali or the Festival of Lights is one of the most popular festivals of Hinduism, it symbolizes the spiritual “victory of light over darkness, good over evil and knowledge over ignorance.”
Sounds familiar, doesn’t it? Maybe a little similar to Halloween?
A lot of people believe that Halloween is the western equivalent of Diwali – the tradition originated with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, when people would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off ghosts. In the eighth century, Pope Gregory III designated November 1 as a time to honor all saints. Soon, All Saints Day incorporated some of the traditions of Samhain. The evening before was known as All Hallows Eve, and later Halloween. Over time, Halloween evolved into a day of activities like trick-or-treating, carving jack-o-lanterns, festive gatherings, donning costumes and eating treats.
But the traditions and formalities of the two holidays are so similar it’s hard to ignore. Before Diwali night, people clean, renovate, and decorate their houses and offices. And on Diwali night, people dress up in new clothes or their best outfits, light up diyas inside and outside their house, pray, typically to Lakshmi — the goddess of fertility and prosperity.
After the pooja, there’s fireworks, and then a family feast with a whole lot of mithais, and an exchange of gifts between family members and close friends.
Halloween, follows in somewhat the same fashion – people clean the house before the holiday arrives, decorate the house, exchange sweets and take part in other activities like trick or treating. Just like the firecrackers, on Halloween people put up huge bonfires and sing and talk around it, put up lights and celebrate the lives of the dead.
This could just be simple speculation, but the similarities in the dates is also eerie – they fall so close to each other and are celebrated in such a similar way that maybe that’s the reason India has now adopted Halloween as a part of its subculture.
Either way, it’s interesting to see that some cultures integrate without actually colliding with one another. And celebrating both the holidays is never going to be a let down because both of them are such fun, interesting holidays.
The BBC has emailed Maiden Pharmaceuticals for comment.
Indian government sources told the BBC on condition of anonymity that India’s drug regulator had launched an investigation after it was informed of the issue on 29 September.
The regulator has also asked the WHO to share its report establishing the “causal relation to death with the medical products in question”, they said.
The WHO findings, announced by Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Wednesday, came after samples of each of the four cough syrups were tested. It identified the medicines as Promethazine Oral Solution, Kofexmalin Baby Cough Syrup, Makoff Baby Cough Syrup and Magrip N Cold Syrup.The health body said that laboratory analysis had confirmed that the syrups contain “unacceptable amounts” of diethylene glycol and ethylene glycol, which are toxic to humans and can prove fatal when consumed.
The WHO said that so far, the products have been identified in The Gambia, but that they may have been distributed to other countries through informal markets.
“All batches of these products should be considered unsafe until they can be analysed by the relevant National Regulatory Authorities,” it added.
However, the sources cited above said that the company has exported these cough syrups “only to The Gambia so far”.
India produces a third of the world’s medicines, mostly in the form of generic drugs.
Home to some of the fastest growing pharmaceutical companies, the country is known as the “world’s pharmacy” and meets much of the medical needs of African nations.
Maiden Pharmaceuticals, which is based in the northern state of Haryana, exports its products to countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America, according to Reuters.
Medical officers in The Gambia first raised the alarm in July after dozens of children were diagnosed with serious kidney problems.
The Gambia’s director of health services, Mustapha Bittaye, told Reuters that the number of deaths had gone down in recent weeks and that the country had banned the sale of the products.
“However, until recently, some of the syrups were still being sold in private clinics and in hospitals,” he was quoted as saying.
💭 TIGRAY: PEACE MUST PREVAIL AND THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR WAR ATROCITIES SHOULD BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE
In an urgency resolution on the recent humanitarian developments in Tigray, Ethiopia, most notably that of children, requested by our political group and today approved by the plenary, we strongly condemn the use of starvation as a method of warfare and we call on the EU and its Member States to adopt sanctions against perpetrators of human rights violations through the European Magnitsky Act. Children are at the centre of the suffering in northern Ethiopia. There are numerous reports of sexual abuse of children by both sides of the conflict and the use and recruitment of child soldiers by rebel forces. The warring parties must put an end to this.
🔥 Five months back Ethiopian troops entered Tigray. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed wanted to bring the rest of northern province to heal. He promised a swift and decisive victory, a quick return to normalcy and prosperity. Instead his troops have bathed the province in blood, raved entire villages and massacred Tigrayan youth.
🔥 It’s a Humanitarian Crisis of Biblical Proportions
🔥 we’re now going to play out a video for you it is raw and quite frankly bone chilling what you’re about to see is a massacre caught on camera a mass execution by bullets carried out by the Ethiopian army. The images are disturbing. We advise viewer discretionary if you watch our show you would know we do not broadcast such images usually but sometimes these pictures are central to the story to wake the world up to the horror playing out.
🔥 This video is humanity at its worst! But you know what’s even more horrifying yes there’s more thousands of civilians have been killed in this war many of them in massacres like this one some opposition parties claim as many as 50 000 people have died.
🔥 The United Nations says more than thousand rape cases have been reported, and these are only the reported ones they covered in just five clinics. The actual numbers are likely to be far higher.
🔥 This is nothing short of a campaign of extermination.
🔥 The speechwriters in Washington and London prepared excellent drafts for the leaders strong words of condemnation but nothing more.
🔥 As for the prime minister himself it’s a fall from grace and he’s yet to hit the bottom – a Nobel Peace Prize winner who is now leading a war on his own people.
🔥 Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed will forever be remembered as a man who shredded the social fabric of Ethiopia a merchant of peace who traded in massacres.
Tigray Massacre Caught on Camera
Five months back Ethiopian troops entered Tigray. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed wanted to bring the rest of northern province to heal. He promised a swift and decisive victory, a quick return to normalcy and prosperity. Instead his troops have bathed the province in blood, raved entire villages and massacred Tigrayan youth.
It’s a humanitarian crisis of biblical proportions. There is a long list of allegations against Ethiopia but they have been difficult to prove because the government has cut off the internet, foreign media have been barred from entering Tigray.
Inside this dome of radio static Ethiopian troops have committed untold horrors. We do get reports of their ruthless tactics but until now there was no visual evidence well now we have it, we’re now going to play out a video for you it is raw and quite frankly bone chilling what you’re about to see is a massacre caught on camera a mass execution by bullets carried out by the Ethiopian army. The images are disturbing. We advise viewer discretionary if you watch our show you would know we do not broadcast such images usually but sometimes these pictures are central to the story to wake the world up to the horror playing out.
More than a dozen young Tigrayans were shot dead here the manner of their execution speaks volumes of the army’s conduct there is no dignity even in death the victims bodies are flung off the cliff side the soldiers are mouthing abusers at the dead bodies one of them can be heard saying don’t waste bullets use minimum shots to kill the captives.
This video is humanity at its worst! But you know what’s even more horrifying yes there’s more thousands of civilians have been killed in this war many of them in massacres like this one some opposition parties claim as many as 50 000 people have died. But as we said at the start with no internet these reports cannot be confirmed. Informants have compiled a list of casualties for a university in Belgium it talks about massacres each of them with at least five victims the United Nations says more than thousand rape cases have been reported, and these are only the reported ones they covered in just five clinics. The actual numbers are likely to be far higher.
The details of these cases are even more gruesome. In some instances men were forced to rape their own family members at gunpoint.
The army has abandoned its commitment to protect the people and the government has forsaken justice.
This is nothing short of a campaign of extermination, and Ethiopia is not alone in doing this for months now troops from neighboring Eritrea have also been involved. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed kept denying this until last month. He promised that foreign soldiers would withdraw under a new agreement but what about his own army’s abuses? What does Prime Minister Abiy have to say about that? He says the government will hold the troops accountable. To do that he will have to win the war and he’s no closer to doing that than he was five months back.
The atrocities have galvanized the Tigrayan people. The rebel army is swelling. It’s a collective feeling. The ethnic cleansing is the collective failure of the world community not just these governments. The united nations failed to mediate, the African union failed to dissuade Abiy Ahmed.
The speechwriters in Washington and London prepared excellent drafts for the leaders strong words of condemnation but nothing more.
As for the prime minister himself it’s a fall from grace and he’s yet to hit the bottom – a Nobel Peace Prize winner who is now leading a war on his own people.
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed will forever be remembered as a man who shredded the social fabric of Ethiopia a merchant of peace who traded in massacres.
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