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Polio Cruellest Virus Recalls Brian Bourke Paralysed NZ Survivor

Family Cluster Lockdowns were Bleaker and Longer In 1956 schoolboy Brian Bourke found himself in an Ashburton hospital ward, a victim of New Zealand’s annual and brutal polio wave. He was one of 897 victims in New Zealand that year of the polio virus. It cost him his left leg, writes National Press Club president Peter Isaac. Nationwide that same year 50 other victims were not so lucky. They lost their lives. Mr Bourke a chartered accountant recalls now that his nurses were completely shrouded in sterile material and he was not to identify any one of his carers until…

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Australasians Cannot Keep Their Hands Off Each Other in Antipodean Viral Distance Dilemma

Instinct is up close, personal and infectious Antipodeans instinctively keep their distance from each other. Right or wrong? Wrong. The inhabitants of the thinly populated South Pacific outpost of British reserve and stand-offish-ness cannot in fact keep their hands off each other Touching and feeling is the raw material of social codes of behaviour new and old. These range from modern introduced sporting activities through the run of hugs, kisses, and handshakes to greetings ancient characterised by the Polynesian hongi or rubbing of noses. The myth is that of the man-alone. The reality is that of the direct opposite. Males…

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UN Ready for Climate Levy from Enraptured NZ

Lethally Dangerous Policeman-turned-Preacher Prepares to take tithe United Nations at one and the same time has enthralled and betrayed New Zealand and now it fully intends to collect from the beleaguered nation a sum considered to be in the region of 1.5 billion dollars as a climate contribution. This is after its wholly controlled subsidiary World Health Organisation utterly failed to warn New Zealand about the imminence of the Covid 19 virus and continues to actively block from WHO membership Taiwan the one nation capable of giving early warning of this and other such pathogens. Unapologetic about its shocking failures…

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Fleet Street Word Bending Muddled Crises says National Press Club President

"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things?” Constant repetition by climate campaigners of words signifying conceptual disasters of great magnitude debased these words and diluted their meaning and their impact to the point at which when taken up by Fleet Street they failed to deliver the required message in the event of a true calamity, the Coronavirus one. Peter Isaac the president of the National Press Club conjectures that initial warnings about the damaging effects of Coronavirus were blunted and lost impact just because so many of the words used were associated with moral cause propaganda…

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Taiwan in World Health Organisation To Compensate for UN’s Failure to Detect True Global Plague Peril

The progressive political class’ unquestioning adherence to the United Nations fixation on man-made global warming as the existential threat of the era can be viewed now as being at the expense of considering an actual global scourge such as the present Coronavirus one. Why was it that the United Nations agency World Health Organisation started talking about the insurgent virus at the same time as everyone else? Why is it that western governments even now are so frightened to support Taiwan’s membership of the World Health Organisation? Taiwan, otherwise known as the Republic of China, has long warned of the…

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Derek Cowie Dangerous at Wellington’s Page Galleries

Arts in New Zealand scream conformity, acquiescence, patronage-induced passivity Anglo-New Zealand artist Derek Cowie has categorised the nation’s art scene as one in which practitioners without even realising it bend their output to the demands of a top-down patronage system. The reliance on patronage led to a passivity in which the artistic purpose of igniting discussion and debate was now submerged in an obedient quest to conform. Art, he insisted, should invite controversy, and not by-pass it. Mr Cowie’s art is renowned for its depiction of the tribulations encountered by everyday individuals and especially the damage inflicted on tem by…

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Britain is Re-Emerging Market for NZ Export Meat Processing Machinery declares Tekam’s Ken Evans

Napier-based industrial authority reminds sector that machinery is UK’s biggest import category Ken Evans of Tekam NZ Ltd urges trade officials to “open their eyes,” to the enhanced export prospects in Great Britain for industrial food processing machinery. Tekam of Napier is the predominant engineering specialist in meat and fish processing heavy duty machinery. New Zealand as an internationally ranked food process machinery design and development nation is in a position to reclaim this market he said, noting that machinery already ranked as New Zealand’s eighth most significant export. Supplying the UK with heavy food processing technology was now much…

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David Bellamy First Heretic of Carbon Cult Inquisition Refused to Recant is Modern Galileo

Botanist was used as example of fate that awaits Deniers Dr David Bellamy who has died at the age of 86 was an early practitioner of conservation civil disobedience and who as a populist broadcaster introduced a new technique to natural history presentation and who as pitchman for the carpet industry was able at last to describe why wool was superior as a textile. The botanist, a simplifier, used buffoonery as a teaching technique and this earned him an immense following throughout the Commonwealth and especially in Australia in New Zealand in which he was to star in numerous television…

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Natural Gas Nixing trumps Coal Free Fonterra while censored Govt adviser Prof Michael Kelly says Climate Alarm Cranked Up anyway

UK-based New Plymouth–born scientist Dr Kelly blacked out as New Zealand government consolidates UN climate line The government’s ban on oil and gas exploration is the major obstacle to its own prime objective of weaning off coal the dairy exporter Fonterra. The government has been so successful in generating uncertainty about natural gas supplies that the dairy cooperative is prevented from investing in the alternative power generation. This particularly applies to the South Island where explorers OMV and New Zealand Oil & Gas hold licences to develop offshore gas. In the middle of this contrived emergency New Zealand’s most eminent…

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Titanic and Erebus Flight Disasters share Icily Eerie Similarities

Forty years after the Antarctic sightseeing airline crash multiple errors and omissions can be seen as the cause …… Parallels are inescapable between the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 and the crash onto Mt Erebus in 1979 of an Air New Zealand DC10 sightseeing flight. Both collided with Polar ice. The Titanic with an Arctic iceberg. The DC10 with Mt Erebus in the Antarctic. Both the Titanic and the DC10 were considered the most advanced technologies of their era. Sabotage did not figure in either disaster. Head office interference was cited in both disasters. For the Titanic to go…

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Prince Andrew’s Technocrat and Diplomatic Skills Displayed at Government House in New Zealand

HRH’s deft handling of awkward trade meeting revealed depth of character, patience, remembers National Press Club president Prince Andrew lamented the transition of the televised weather broadcast into entertainment. “I miss the isobars,” he confessed referring to the whorls and lines on the now disappeared diagrams that represented the connecting points having the same atmospheric pressure at a given time or on average over a given period. HRH was dismayed that so much applied science in the media was taking a back seat to the imperative to entertain. We met at government house in Wellington, New Zealand, and Prince Andrew…

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NZ Zero Carbon Bill Cost of Trillions Hidden in Climate of Fear, Opposition is Cowed

Mainstream media silenced by complicity pact The actual cost of the Zero Carbon legislation that has just passed through New Zealand’s parliament is more than a trillion dollars in lost GDP. The estimate is from AgFirst the leading non-governmental source of information in this domain. AgFirst’s trillion dollar plus actual cost estimate was published in New Zealand Farmers Weekly This forecast conflicts with an officially aired report that the zero carbon by 2050 legislative objective for the Bill will in contrast add $30 billion to the economy. The independent and much higher negative estimate instantly became blacked-out through absence of…

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