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[Fancyfred @FancyFred]

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[Fancyfred @FancyFred]

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[Fancyfred @FancyFred]

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[“Sudden And Unexpected” @toobaffled]

NRL star Sione Katoa reveals why he refuses to get the flu shot - and says he won't let any of his three young kids be vaccinated.

“I’ve had a few people contact me and ask why I declined the flu shot and wanted to share my reasons behind it, particularly now with one of our closest mates and teammate Brian being stood down.

Lately I’ve seen journalists, reporters and mainstream media creating a divide between the community, the fans and the NRL by constantly shaming and bullying NRL players and their families who stand for freedom of choice.

We acknowledge that the flu shot has the ability to result in serious adverse reactions and has also claimed lives. In 2018, the step father of a friend sadly passed away within 48 hours of his flu shot. He was an adult man, with no underlying health conditions. What if this were to happen to our family, or yours? Why are people so quick to advocate for “herd immunity” and not acknowledge vaccine injury/death? There are plenty of families within the NRL alone that suffer from vaccine injury.

We used to be very pro-vaxx and judged those who chose not to vaccinate. Those judgements quickly passed as soon as vaccines caused health issues for our eldest son, Chase. He was constantly sick after his shots, resulting in many trips to the hospital and doctors office. Our son was helpless and never getting any better, so we reached out for a second opinion which lead us down the path of holistic health. After seeking advice from medical professionals and seeing the positive impact that it had on our sons health, we made the informed decision to no longer vaccinate ourselves or our children.

Our friends and family who vaccinate themselves and their children respect and understand our decision with vaccination. And we respect theirs. No, they aren’t scared to be around us, our kids play with theirs and we can also have open conversations about vaccines without judgement and that’s how it should be.

We stand for FREEDOM OF CHOICE and what we choose should not be made a public matter and cause outrage in the media and community. Everyone should be entitled to choose what they do, or do not inject into their body because WHEN THERE IS RISK THERE MUST BE CHOICE.”

[Barry Young @BarryYoungNZ]

I emailed the crown asking for an explanation and giving them a chance to walk that statement back.
They have not replied.
The official crown position is vaccine excess deaths are irrelevant.

[Barry Young @BarryYoungNZ]

🚨🚨IMPORTANT NZ TRIAL ANNOUNCEMENT!🚨🚨

VAX DEATHS - IRRELEVANT - LEGAL BOMBSHELL!!!

The 'Crown' no longer wish to Cross examine me on the vaccine mortality evidence I have provided.
Because it is devastating to them.
They will NEVER look at the data.
They have gone down a twisted narrow path.
The Crown (Government) are now stating that even if vaccines are proven to cause excess deaths it is 'irrelevant'.
I am not making this up.
These words have appeared on official crown court documents.
I'll just leave it at that. Decide what you will.
This is an election year...ask your local MP if vaccine excess deaths are 'irrelevant'.

[Henk Bakboord @HenkBakboord]

@RealDonKeith

[Winston Peters @winstonpeters]

It has been reported that police have recently visited Renee-Rose Schwenke about a so-called 'offensive' social media post she posted. Not threatening, not inciting violence, just that it allegedly offended someone.

If this report is true, this is '1984 thought-police' level overreach. It should seriously frighten every New Zealander who believes in freedom of speech.

This is not about whether this particular post was offensive or not. There will always be personal responsibility and consequences for people voicing their opinions that are viewed by some as tasteless or gormless or offensive - but those consequences should not be by way of a police visit.

No one has the right to not be offended, nor do they have the right to be protected from having hurt feelings. In fact it is precisely the right to be able to offend which is the foundation of freedom of speech in our country.

This has happened overseas with more regularity where social media posts, opinions, views, expressions, and even jokes are now deemed offensive by some authoritarian power and have been met with threats from police, arrests, or even convictions in court.

We never thought we would see this happen here and it has a chilling effect on where we are going as a country.

As Oliver Wendall Homles Jr said, freedom of speech also comes with responsibility of speech - you cannot falsely yell 'fire' in a crowded theatre without there rightly being a consequence. We already have laws around 'responsibility of speech' ranging from defamation to incitement of violence, and that is important - but people's freedom to have their own free opinion is something which should be aggressively defended.

We don't all have to agree with each other's opinions, but we should all fight for each other's right to have them. This is the essential foundation of our free democracy.

If we start to accept this kind of overreach by police to curtail individual freedom of speech, our democracy will fall into the type of totalitarian oblivion that will destroy our country.

[Matthew Horncastle @matt_horncastle]

Jacinda Ardern will be remembered differently by different people.

I will remember her by the numbers.

When she took office in 2017, net Crown debt was around $60 billion. When she resigned in 2023, it was heading toward $175 billion. She oversaw the fastest deterioration of New Zealand's public finances in modern history. Not because of a war. Not because of a natural disaster that lasted six years. Because of choices.

House prices under her government reached 8.3 times the median household income. The highest in our recorded history. She did not just preside over unaffordability. She created a generation of New Zealanders who will never own the home they grew up in. Then prices crashed nearly 20 percent from their peak, leaving the people who had finally stretched to buy underwater on their mortgages. She gave New Zealand the worst of both worlds. Unaffordable on the way up. Losses on the way down.

Productivity. New Zealand workers already put in more hours than almost any developed nation. Under Ardern, we produced less per hour than the OECD average. Our GDP per capita went backwards. That is the number that matters most. It measures whether the country is genuinely getting wealthier or just busier. We were just busier.

She raised the top income tax rate to 39 percent while the country got poorer. She increased the cost of productive people while decreasing what they produced. That is not economics. That is ideology.

Then there was the statement heard around the world.

"We will continue to be your single source of truth."

No Prime Minister in my lifetime has said anything more authoritarian than that. Not framed as emergency powers. Not buried in legislation. Said plainly. On camera. With a smile. That sentence alone should disqualify a person from public office permanently.

When the COVID inquiry came, she refused to front a public hearing and chose a private interview instead. A leader who controls information on the way in and avoids accountability on the way out is not a leader. That is a pattern.

She resigned before the consequences fully arrived. She left the country, accepted international appointments, and collected global praise while New Zealanders dealt with the debt, the mortgage stress, and the productivity gap she left behind.

Leadership is not measured by the applause of people who do not live with the results.

It is measured by what you leave behind for the people who do.

New Zealand deserved better. And we must never again confuse charisma for competence, or kindness as a brand for results as a record.

[Live Action @LiveAction]

In 1993, a baby made an appearance on The Phil Donahue Show.

She was missing an arm.

Because she was an abortion survivor.

But this is where things get weird...

[Enoch Burke @EnochBurke]

BREAKING: Shocking scenes as Enoch Burke denied justice and forced out of Appeal Hearing by prison officers

Enoch Burke’s mother Martina Burke and brother Dr Isaac Burke were also removed by police.

At the start of the Disciplinary Appeal Panel hearing, which is by law an “informal” hearing, Enoch Burke objected to the presence of a top Employment Barrister as well as a Solicitor from a major Dublin law firm.

Despite Enoch Burke’s repeated objections, the Chair of the Disciplinary Appeals Panel, Claire Callanan said to Mr Burke: “We may be wrong and you may be right but we are going ahead nonetheless.”

Barrister Barra Faughnan BL and Solicitor Fiona Sheil of Mason Hayes & Curran Solicitors were acting for Wilson’s Hospital School at the hearing in Athlone today.

The presence of lawyers at such an appeal is contrary to settled law and Department of Education procedures for dealing with appeals.

Enoch Burke has now spent over 650 days behind bars after refusing to use they/them pronouns for a student.

These are the third Disciplinary Appeal Panel proceedings in relation to Enoch Burke that have ended in shambles.

[Cam Slater @kaiviti_cam]

Former All Black captain Taine Randell is running for NZ First in Tukituki.

Winston's got himself a rugby legend now. That's not campaign strategy — that's political genius. Nothing cuts through voter cynicism quite like someone who's actually led from the front when it mattered.

Meanwhile, National's still wondering why their polling keeps tanking.

#NZPol

[Aly Cook @KiwiAly]

The "2 Shots for Summer" campaign was first officially mentioned and launched by the New Zealand Government on September 7, 2021: The slogan began appearing in public media. It was only 21 Days before that, that "Someone" at the Covid Tag Meeting called for safety information to be removed from communications and then they redacted that decision from public view, it really does smell of criminality to hide safety information in order to protect a public message which was aimed at younger New Zealanders, specifically those in the 12 to 34 age bracket. Those most at risk of Myocarditis and Pericarditis. This information has been sent to parliamentarians including the current minister of health @SimeonBrownMP and @winstonpeters with no response, they know full well who hid it and why they hid it ! #nzpol #nzpolitics

[Winston Peters @winstonpeters]

New Zealand First Member’s Bill that would ensure the biological definition of a woman and man are defined in law, has been drawn and will be debated in the House.

This bill is not about being anti-anyone or anti-anything. This is about ensuring we as a country focus on the facts of biology and protect the term 'woman' in law.

New Zealand First is the only party that campaigned on keeping men out of women’s sports, keeping men out of women's and girl's changing rooms, and we have received two petitions this term calling for protecting the term ‘woman’ in legislation.

We were told at the time that we were going down a ‘rabbit hole’ and ‘on another planet’. But if you look at recent events, both internationally and in New Zealand, the pendulum is swinging back towards common sense and is proving us right.

The Legislation (Definitions of Woman and Man) Amendment Bill will provide clarity and consistency in New Zealand law by defining “woman” as “an adult human biological female” and “man” as “an adult human biological male” in the Legislation Act 2019.

This Bill would ensure our country moves away from the woke ideology that has crept in over the last few years, undermining the protection, progression, and safety of women.

The Bill will add new sections 13A and 13B to the Legislation Act 2019 to safeguard sex-based protections and the importance of sex-based rights.

Our laws should reflect biological reality and provide legal certainty.

These definitions in law fight back against the cancerous social engineering we’ve seen being pushed in society by a woke minority.

The need for legislation like this shows how far the deluded left has taken us as a society. But we are fighting back.

This bill is a win for common sense.

[Winston Peters @winstonpeters]

The decision of the Broadcasting Standards Authority that it has jurisdiction over The Platform is breathtaking in its audacity.

It has singlehandedly decided it knows better than the regulatory framework it operates under and that it should regulate the entire internet in New Zealand.

The BSA even acknowledges in its decision that there is a regulatory gap between the Act and the modern world of communications - but has decided it can make the staggering leap to bridge that gap by ‘interpreting’ the law.

This is not interpretation – this is obviously a case of targeting an outlet, in this case The Platform, not because it believes the regulatory framework applies to it, but because it disagrees with the content of what it is communicating.

That is an egregious case of overreach and total fascist behaviour.
The BSA has crossed a line.

As far as New Zealand First is concerned, this decision commences a process that has to see the end of the BSA. It is no longer fit for purpose, and decisions like this are frankly dangerous to democratic discourse.

[WildandFree17 @Wildnfree1984]

These are the New Zealand politicians who voted to murder babies

#nzpol
#newzealand

[Harley Cruzer @SaddleBagster]

@WarClandestine 👇👇

[Pete Z @PeteZogoulas]

Denied: a girl with no forearm couldn’t get funding for a device to legally drive.

Meanwhile… NDIS money is being linked to multi-million dollar homes.

We filmed a “cleaner” show up with ZERO equipment… stay 25 minutes… and bill $236.

This is the system.

The people who actually need help miss out… while others cash in.

TIME TO EXPOSE IT ALL!

[Fancyfred @FancyFred]

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[Brian Tamaki @BrianTamakiNZ]

THE PAIN AT THE PUMP IS DUE TO PATHETIC POLITICANS. ⛽💸

Let’s stop pretending this is just about wars overseas.
The pain Kiwis feel every time they pull up to the pump… is the result of pathetic political decisions made right here in New Zealand.

Pain at the Pump.
Pain in the Pantry.
Because of Pathetic Politicians.

High Petrol drives up the cost of everything...particularly food.

LOOK AT THE PUMP PRICE

HALF of what you pay at the pump goes straight to the Government.

If petrol is $3.00 per litre, approximate breakdown of taxes:
- Fuel excise tax = 70c
- GST (15%) = 40c
- Carbon costs from the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme = 15–25c
- Auckland regional fuel tax = 10c

That’s roughly $1.20 – $1.40 per litre in government-driven costs.

So when you flinch at the pump…
you need to picture the politicians’ faces staring back at you.

THEY BLAME THE IRAN WAR

Politicians blame:
“Global tensions.”
“Middle East conflict.”
“Iran.”

But here’s the truth.

They could give Kiwis relief at the pump tomorrow.

All they’d have to do is take less tax from every litre of petrol.

But they won’t.

Because the government won’t sacrifice a dollar of revenue…even when families are struggling.

DECADES OF POLITICAL FAILURE

Successive governments…both Labour and National…have failed to secure New Zealand’s energy independence.

We once had our own refining capability at Marsden Point.

Before it closed in 2022, it produced roughly:
- 85% of jet fuel
- 67% of diesel
- 58% of petrol

Now?

We import nearly all of our refined fuel.

We turned ourselves into a dependent island economy at the mercy of global shipping lanes.

THEN THEY SHUT DOWN EXPLORATION

In 2018, Parliament voted to stop issuing new offshore oil exploration permits.

That law passed with the support of:
- Jacinda & New Zealand Labour Party
- Winston & New Zealand First
- Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand

That’s right.

NZ First voted FOR the ban.

Meanwhile, our country sits on enormous untapped natural resources.

THINK ABOUT THE MADNESS

We have:
- Oil potential offshore
- Natural gas reserves
- Some of the highest-quality coal in the world

Yet politicians have:
- restricted new offshore exploration
- created uncertainty for gas development
- failed to secure NZ’s long-term energy supply

They’ve done nothing to secure our future.

INSTEAD THEY WASTE BILLIONS

Billions of taxpayer dollars poured into:
- vanity projects
- bureaucracy
- ideological climate schemes.

Imagine if even a fraction of that money had gone into:
- energy infrastructure
- refining capacity
- domestic fuel security.

THE REAL PROBLEM

The Iran war isn’t the real problem.

It’s simply exposing how vulnerable New Zealand has become.

A nation that once had the capability to produce and refine its own fuel has been reduced to importing it all.

That’s not strategy.
That’s not leadership.

That’s political stupidity.

THE BOTTOM LINE

If politicians had even two brain cells to rub together:
- We’d be drilling for oil.
- We’d be developing gas.
- We’d be reopening Marsden Point
- We’d be securing our energy independence.

Instead we’ve got looney tunes running the show.

And the result?

Pain at the Pump.
Pain in the Pantry.

And a country paying the price for decades of pathetic political leadership.

#TruePatriots

[The Redbaiter @TheRedbaiter]

Quite incredible that this vital information on vaccination for under 18s was apparently not passed to relevant Ministers or Jacinda Ardern.

This memo was sent directly to Dr Ashley Bloomfield on 9th December 2021.

It was CC'd to relevant managers. From Dr Ian Town, the govt's Chief Science Adviser.

So how come the information therein never made it to the Podium of Truth?

Heads need to roll. If any children suffered side effects, someone should pay the price.

Note- this is a facsimile of the actual two page memo as posted to X by the erstwhile Thomas Cranmer. ( @CranmerWrites )

The three paragraphs included/ highlighted have not been shortened or changed in any way.