Adam Pearse gets it dead wrong. NZ First supporters aren't scared of the world. They're sick of politicians ignoring valid concerns about unfettered migration changing the country. No one asked for mass immigration, no one voted for it. Not scared. Angry.
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"With sport, you go through some ups and downs. And you have some incredible highs, incredible lows, and I think, as much as anything, resilience and experience. Because when things are going well, everyone's your friend, but when things are tough, that's when you need to be able to basically get back on the horse and stick to your strategy—stick to your guns." - Taine Randell, NZ First candidate for Tukituki and former All Blacks captain speaking to RCR at the NZ First Convention in Auckland. @nzfirst
The more I learn about NZ's India Free Trade Agreement, the worse it becomes! It feels as if you have signed away our sovereignty for an FTA @chrisluxonmp, @toddmcclaymp, @chrishipkins & @dbseymour!
I was already concerned about the unlimited students visas, the intellectual property transfer for horticulture (with no IP protection), the $20B investment commitment, the insertion of UNDRIP & the Paris Agreement, but these 👇uncapped pathways means even less jobs for Kiwis in our own country!
If you are still living in ignorant bliss on this deal, I recommend you read @VoteSovereign's post below.
Emergency Rumour Alert: Ashley Bloomfield Wants to Cage Kiwis Again (Unconfirmed)🚨🚨🚨
Rumour has it that Dr. Ashley "Lockdown" Bloomfield — the radical left-wing control freak and loyal foot soldier to the Socialist Commander — has apparently been running his mouth to insiders about slamming New Zealand back into full lockdowns the second bird flu cases show up.
This is the same parasite who helped turn the country into a prison during COVID now wants round two ‼️🙄These people just don’t learn. They just miss the power.
This isn’t politics anymore folks.
This is the beginning of the end if we don’t wake the hell up. New Zealand is on the brink… and the clock is ticking louder than ever.
The government should not take over parental decisions about what kind of phones or technology our kids have just to try and solve social media issues.
Banning smartphones for under 16s won’t solve anything apart from making our country sound like it’s turning into some sort of totalitarian state.
Why are some parties thinking it’s now an acceptable option for the government to take away parent’s rights to make decisions for their children?
Where has the expectation of parental responsibility gone?
Laws that the government are currently forcing on NZ
Unchecked police surveillance powers
Full government access to all digital messaging services
Social media user identification
Full tracking of every vehicle in NZ
At a minimum these should be decided with referendums
🚩This is damning for Luxon, National, Act & Labour. The FTA is as bad as they are denying it is.
Footage most people haven’t seen from the India FTA select committee,reveals that FTA has duplicitous clauses that determines the NZ $ 33 Billion of direct investment into India IS an obligation. Hats off to National MP & Chair of the committee Tim van de Molen for identifying the sub clause and its implications, and for pushing back on the bureaucrats & a Labour MP.
First time i’ve ever commended a Greens MP, however Lawerence Xu Nan correctly states that the FTA will only add 0.1% ($500m) of GDP by 2046, which is 1/40th of the NZ $33 billion of investment from NZ we are expected to ‘promote’ into India.
Vangelous Vitalis (dep. Sec Trade & economic) replies that treasury traditionally understates the GDP growth in the modelling, but they expect it to be much larger than 0.1% “just like it was with china”
The problem with Vitalis reply, is that 15 years after signing the China FTA, exports to China while larger than forecast, they were just 2.5 times larger than the original forecast.
So for NZ to break even on the NZ $33 billion committed to India, Treasury’s forecasted exports would need to be 66 times bigger. We need to beat the forecast by SIXTY SIX TIMES. Mind blowing.
This brings us to the $33 billion dollar question - highlighted by Tim Van de Molen. In article 9.10. It allows India to take remedial measures (reapply tarrifs) until NZ meets its obligations to promote $33 BN into India.
Vitalis points to clause 9.2, which frames this as only an “aim” — a point Van de Molen accepts. However, he remains very concerned by 9.10(3), which states that if India believes insufficient progress has been made on one-way investment, all concessions can be withdrawn until NZ (specifically) delivers $20 billion US ($33 Billion) in investment.
Three times van de Molen (a farmer) circles back t sub clause 3, Vitalis brings in his legal representative, and then Labours Vanushi Walters (a NGO Lawyer) infers Tim is reading it wrong, before concerning he is right and then says “oh it’s just poor drafting” - the whole issue is left unresolved, after Nationals Tim Costley (edited out) interrupts like a dumbo to bring up student numbers and Winston Peters - side tracking the discussion before van de Molen once again circled back to the issue before Walters again changes topic to some frivolous issue.
Tim van de Molen has his head on his shoulders and is in the wrong party.
Luxon has been conned by India - and it’s us who will pay the price.
Luxon is trying to play down/outright lie about NZ's investment commitment to India. And Hipkins is very concerned about it, while he totally backs it. Neither of these men must be in charge of this country!
From The Bulletin:
"The unresolved tension at the heart of the visit – as it has been since the FTA was signed – is whether New Zealand has committed to US$20bn ($35 bn NZ) in investment in India over 15 years, or merely to “promoting and encouraging” such investment. According to reports by The Spinoff and RNZ, Modi referenced the figure as a “firm commitment” at least three times on Saturday, including at a business event at the Viaduct Events Centre where Amul managing director Jayen Mehta, who led the Indian business delegation, said New Zealand had “promised” the investment.
Luxon continued to push back, telling reporters it was “very clearly understood on both sides” that the clause was a commitment to promote investment, not a guaranteed transfer of funds. Labour leader Chris Hipkins, who met Modi on Saturday evening and welcomed the strategic partnership, told RNZ the investment clause represented a “long-standing discrepancy” that needed to be resolved."
Luxon responds to media about the $20 Billion US commitment he made to Modhi after he pulled his pants down in his desperate bid to attract indian voters.
The stammering piglet jibbers “I’ve spoken to a NZ company today that is moving manufacturing to India!, and that’s good news!”
He also lies that India has an agreement to invest and equal amount into NZ - that is total bullshit.
No where in that FTA does it state that they are required to invest one red cent. The clause commits us to invest NZD$33 BILLION or India can enact a claw back claws - and that means NZ not only lose the meagre tarrif concessions but has to pay back whatever concessions we have received.
The NZ govt has a website up dedicated to assisting NZ business to offshore to India. It’s the most despicable thing I have ever seen.
Watch this pathetic gimp twit … god hes awful.
Privacy isn't suspicious, it's essential.
As governments overseas revisit proposals to restrict VPNs and encrypted services, we'll be keeping a close eye on any attempt to import those ideas here.
New Zealand should remain a country that values privacy.
Many of the world's least free countries restrict or ban VPNs.
With the UK considering limits on VPNs as a part of their ‘Australia-plus’ style social media ban, vigilance matters when ideas like that appear in New Zealand too.
The Free Speech Union will continue pushing back against policies that erode New Zealanders' freedoms before they become law.
Should parents or government protect kids from social media?
National and Labour parties support the U16 Bill and want you to believe that the only solution to children's online safety is government control. However, Google Family Link has been available to New Zealand parents for free since 2017. It allows parents to do the following:
1. SCREEN TIME MANAGEMENT
- Set daily limits for device usage.
- Schedule bedtime lockouts (Downtime).
- Block distracting apps during school hours.
2. APP CONTROLS
- Approve or block all app store downloads.
- Set individual time limits for specific apps.
3. LOCATION TRACKING
- View the child's device location on a live map.
- Set notifications for when they arrive or leave a place.
4. CONTENT & PRIVACY FILTERS
- Restrict mature websites on Google Chrome.
- Set safety filters for YouTube and Google Search.
- Manage device permissions like camera and microphone access.
5. DEVICE TOOLS
- Remotely lock or ring the child's device.
- Check the device's remaining battery life.
This is far more effective than proving age or banning use of VPNs. The U16 Bill is National and Labour's covert way to implement legislation that will allow them to legally track all New Zealanders online.
https://t.co/odP9Rwje7c
Chris Hipkins knew the Covid vaccine causes deadly myocarditis and covered up that fact and continues to lie about it
New Zealanders deserve answers.
Chris Hipkins, What did you know about the risks of rare adverse events, including myocarditis?
When did you know it?
What advice did you receive?
What information was provided to the public, and what wasn't?
These are legitimate questions that deserve clear answers.
This isn't about left or right.
It's about accountability.
Me rongo
Billy Brown
NZ First understands and agrees with the intent of the law change, but we will not be supporting the progression of legislation to ban social media for under-16s.
We communicated our concerns to National over the past few months and again last week. Our stance has not changed.
We have been concerned at the ambiguity and lack of certainty in the proposed legislation around banning VPNs and the potential movement towards the use of digital ID to enforce the law. New Zealand First does not support either of these measures.
We have also questioned the progression of this legislation given the failure of Australia to address under-16s using social media with the use of a similar law.
National is pushing through the India FTA with many more FTAs in the pipeline. They know how unpopular it is. They don't care. They are intentionally destroying the party's chances at the election, along with NZ's future, while Luxon keeps robotically repeating "Fixing the basics, building the future".
He was clearly installed by globlists to destroy this country, and he will move on to other things after November, wth his own future secured and paid for.
They think they can do this to us. They are wrong. Why? Because we have had many years to watch the destruction of beautiful Ireland, the UK, Europe and Australia. We are last on the list. Do you realise this?
We have the advantage of being last, because that means we have time to change what is coming.
Seriously people, forget every past opinion on any political party. Forget your hates and your criticism. If we are going to survive as a free nation, it must be as a nation composed of European and Maori people, along with others who WE have approved. Not others who have been foisted on us from the third world who will not assimilate. They will infiltrate and take over.
This is so very urgent. I can't stress it enough. It is not just another election. It is the decider of our future.
PLEASE realise that NZ First are the only ones to vote for in November, because they are our only hope of survival. Join now:
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🇬🇧 THEY TOLD YOU A STORY. 🇬🇧
Colonisers. Slavers. Oppressors. And you were supposed to feel ashamed.
Not for what you done... But for WHO YOU ARE. 🇬🇧
So we tested it. Britain wrote everything down, so we opened the books. 📖
Turns out fewer than 1 man in 10 could vote in the year Britain banned the slave trade. No woman could. Your ancestors could hang for stealing a sheep, get shipped across the world for petty theft, or go down a mine at 8 years old. In Manchester, the average age of death in a labouring family was 17.
They weren't running the slave trade. They were underneath it too.
Which is what makes what happened next worth knowing.
In 1772 an enslaved man named James Somerset walked free from an English court, because English law couldn't hold a slave.
In 1791, 300,000 families just stopped buying slave sugar. No march, no riot, just a decision made at 300,000 kitchen tables.
In 1792, 519 petitions carrying 390,000 names hit Parliament, most signed by people who couldn't vote themselves.
In 1807, Britain banned the trade.
Then the slave owners sent Britain a bill for the 800,000 people they still held. 💷 £20 million. About 40% of the entire government budget at the time.
The Treasury says it wasn't paid off until 2015. So if your family paid British tax before then, they helped buy 800,000 people their freedom.
From 1808 the Royal Navy spent 60 years hunting slave ships at sea: 1,600 stopped, 150,000 people freed, and 1,600 British sailors dead, mostly of disease, buried thousands of miles from home. ⚓
In 1816 they ended two centuries of Barbary corsairs enslaving Europeans.
In 1896 a war that lasted 38 minutes ended slavery in Zanzibar. 🇹🇿
Almost every country on Earth outlaws slavery today.
That fight was paid for largely at British expense, by British hands.🇬🇧
So why haven't you heard any of this?
Because within living memory, someone rewrote the story. You got taught the crime. Not the cure.
The powerful exploited the world. They exploited their own people first. It was those people who ended slavery. 🇬🇧
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History got rewritten once, in living memory, by no one who was ever named or held to account.
We are ordinary people doing what ordinary people have always done. Opening the books. Refusing to look away.
This is how we fight back. Fact by fact. Story by story. Name by name.
We are the home of British heroes. There is a place for you in it.
If you can afford to support what we do: https://t.co/rih7iKwnvf
Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧
It’s just insane.
NZ is one of only 5 countries in the world who allow non citizens to vote, AND we have the least amount of restrictions.
This immigration gerrymandering has to stop. Only citizens of a country should be able to determine its destiny.
Why are we seeing National, Labour and Act grovel for votes from immigrants?
it’s because migrants on a visa are a potential vote. That in turn leads to these parties wooing immigrants with pro immigrant policies.
David Seymour campaigned for Indians to be able to carry Kirpans in public, National allowed prime farms to be sold to Chinese, and now National, Labour and Act have given Indians the ultimate box of treats - the India FTA.
It’s a viscious cycle, and why the UK’s politicians pander to Islam… a total disregard for the concept of a Nation state - which leads to the destruction of a country.
Potentially hundreds of thousands of non citizens could decide OUR future.
Vote NZ First if you agree.
"Everything you do is observed, recorded, scrutinised and punished in real time." - Steven Sykes
If AI cameras can track your movements from one street to the next, where should the line be drawn between public safety and personal freedom?
🎥 Watch here: https://t.co/WopUXex0lk