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G20 and the next pandemic (Dr. John Campbell)

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Note: the NZ Govt is the only source of truth in NZ hence the little notice on the video screen directing you where to go to obtain that truth EWR

Dr. John Campbell

Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan, India, Indonesia, Italy, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, and European Union. https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/pr…

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-r…

Part 22 We recognize that the extensive COVID-19 immunization is a global public good Section 23 We recognize the need for strengthening local and regional health product manufacturing capacities We support the WHO mRNA Vaccine Technology Transfer hub We acknowledge the importance of shared technical standards and verification methods, to facilitate seamless international travel, interoperability, and recognizing digital solutions and non-digital solutions, including proof of vaccinations. Establishment of trusted global digital health networks, that should capitalize and build on the success of the existing standards and digital COVID-19 certificates.

Part 24 The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the transformation of the digital ecosystem and digital economy. We recognize the importance of digital transformation in reaching the SDGs. We also reaffirm the role of data for development, economic growth and social well-being. G20 update

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“Endeavour to move towards interoperability of systems including mechanisms that validate proof of vaccination, whilst respecting the sovereignty of national health policies, and relevant national regulations such as personal data protection and data-sharing.” Indonesia’s Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin

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G20 countries should adopt digital health certificate using WHO standards Let’s have a digital health certificate acknowledged by WHO — if you have been vaccinated or tested properly — then you can move around (next World Health Assembly in Geneva) WHO seem to be on it already

https://www.who.int/publications/i/it…

Digital documentation of COVID-19 certificates: vaccination status: technical specifications and implementation guidance, 27 August 2021 Use of scan codes Klaus Schwab, World Economic Forum (WEF) Chair Attended From a doctor in Austria It is currently a very emotional situation in my hospital (and in general in hospitals in Austria) because many of us in the health care sector are more or less forced to get a fourth vaccine dose. Even in my case as a physician who has received three doses and one infection just 6 months ago. The rule is that if the last vaccination is more than one year and/or the last infection is more than 6 months ago you either have to test all 72 hours or to get an additional vaccine dose; if not you are at risk of having to pay 500 to 3600 Euros and may even get fired.

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Uncovered Mexican Study Confirms GM Soy Causes Harm to Pancreas

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Note: it’s difficult to know whether or not you are eating GM products in NZ because there’s no requirement to label them. Soy is largely GM. Personally I avoid soy unless it’s organic, similarly corn I avoid. GM corn crops were slipped into NZ under Helen Clarke’s watch back in 2000 or thereabouts. Read Seeds of Distrust by Nicky Hager. Also Hard to Swallow by Jeffrey Smith. I made a few inquiries a few years back to the producers of poultry and pork and neither could guarantee non-GM as their feed was unlabeled. EWR

From Sustainable Pulse

In a new revelation reported by GMWatch it has been found that a rat feeding study published in 2008 found that GM soy harms the pancreas, confirming earlier findings in mice.

Source: GMWatch By Claire Robinson

In 2002 and 2003 the Italian scientist Manuela Malatesta published two groundbreaking studies showing damage to the pancreas of mice fed GM soybeans for long-term periods of up to eight months. The GM-fed mice also suffered damaged liver and testes function.

Malatesta paid dearly for her efforts, as she was forced out of her job at the university where she’d worked for ten years and was unable to obtain funding to follow up her experiments.

Malatesta’s studies are well known to those who have followed the troubled history of animal feeding studies with GM foods. But what is less well known is that the pancreatic studies were followed up a few years later in the 2008 study by Mexican researchers – who confirmed her findings.

GM soy is one of the most widely grown GM crops in the world and accounts for over 90% of US-grown soy. It is engineered to survive being sprayed with toxic glyphosate weedkiller. It is not known whether the adverse effects associated with the GM soy diet in either study was caused by the GM crop or the weedkiller, or both.

Pancreas damage

The Mexican study was of a shorter duration – up to 30 days instead to Malatesta’s eight months – and was in rats. The study was led by Ana M. Calderón de la Barca of the Mexican government’s food research agency CIAD.

Calderón de la Barca’s team found that GM soy protein isolate harmed the pancreas, as evidenced by the damaged structure and function of pancreatic cells called acinar cells – specialised structures that synthesise, store, and secrete digestive enzymes. The control group of rats eating non-GM soy protein isolate showed no such effects.

Some of the changes in the GM soy protein-fed rats reflected the symptoms of pancreatitis – inflammation of the pancreas, a disease that, in humans, affects digestion and can cause nausea, vomiting and severe pain.

Analysis at a molecular level supported the histological findings of pancreatitis caused by the GM soy. A known marker for pancreatitis is pancreatitis-associated protein (PAP). An increase in PAP messenger RNA (mRNA) and consequent increase in PAP protein indicates acute pancreatitis, a form of the disease in which the pancreas becomes inflamed over a short period of time.

“Recovery” not reassuring

The GM-fed rats started showing harmful changes to the pancreatic acinar cells as soon as five days after starting the GM soy diet. However, they recovered after 30 days, while still on the GM soy diet, as the changes in pancreatic cells returned to normal. The researchers interpreted this phenomenon as “a mild pancreatic injury with an adaptive response”.

GMWatch does not find this recovery reassuring, as we don’t believe it makes sense to injure the body’s organs, even temporarily, just by eating food. The researchers agree – they pointed out in their conclusion that there’s no way of knowing what would happen if the rats – or the humans that they are supposed to represent in such studies – continued eating GM soy over the long term. They might similarly recover, or they might not.

Importance of microscopic examination of organs

Animal growth and protein efficiency (amount of weight the animal puts on for each unit of protein eaten) for both non-GM and GM soybean diets did not show differences. This is a similar finding to those of previous studies, including Monsanto’s own study, conducted to support commercialisation of GM soy.

The Monsanto “safety assurance” study concluded that the nutritional value of GM soy was equal to that of non-GM soy, though interestingly it also found damage to pancreatic cells in the rats fed unprocessed GM soy (inflammation and death of acinar cells), which, however, the authors dismissed as unrelated to the GM diet.

The Mexican study, as well as Malatesta’s and others, show the importance of looking at GM-fed animals’ organs on the microscopic (histopathological) level, as this is where otherwise invisible harm can show up.

Safeguards may be removed from new experimental GM foods

It’s useful to remind ourselves of these studies as governments and GMO industry lobbyists move to remove safeguards from a new experimental generation of GM foods and crops amid claims that they are safe. Assurances that new GM gene-edited foods, crops and animals, unlike the first generation GM crops tested by the Mexican team, don’t contain foreign genes or DNA are lies. Gene-edited GMOs can unintendedly incorporate fragments of foreign DNA in their genome, which can persist in the final product, or they can be contaminated by foreign DNA present in materials used in tissue culture. In addition, gene editing can be used to deliberately insert foreign DNA.

However, the risks of new GM gene-edited foods and crops are not confined to the insertion of foreign DNA, but can result from the most apparently small and simple gene “edit”, the gene disruption type known as SDN-1, as a scientific review shows.

As far as we know, no one has carried out an animal feeding study with new gene-edited foods, crops, and animal products such as meat and dairy. So their safety profile remains unknown.

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ahttps://sustainablepulse.com/2022/11/17/uncovered-mexican-study-confirms-gm-soy-causes-harm-to-pancreas/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=glyphosate_gmos_and_pesticides_weekly_global_news_bulletin&utm_term=2022-11-29

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News, Vaccines

HOW SCIENTISTS TRICKED MOSQUITOES INTO DELIVERING VACCINES TO HUMANS

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Remember this 2017 post? .. consent? This is outrageous… EWR
AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND TO BE TEST SITES FOR GM INSECT TRIALS COURTESY OF DARPA!

From responsibletechnology.org
Originally posted by MSN on October 2nd, 2022

Scientists have managed to turn one of the deadliest insects into a vaccine delivery system. According to new reports from NPR, a clinical trial for a system meant to use mosquitoes to deliver vaccines has been underway in the United Kingdom. The findings of the trial have been published in Science Translational Medicine.

According to the paper, scientists were able to genetically modify parasites to deliver malaria vaccines through mosquito bites. It’s an intriguing proposition to use mosquitos to deliver vaccines. It sounds horrific on paper and even more horrific when you see the photos featured in a report on the trial from NPR.

Those photos can be seen in the original report and show the results of trial participants being bitten hundreds of times. To get the desired effect of the mosquitos delivering the vaccine, scientists loaded them with genetically modified parasites known as Plasmodium falciparum. In the past, scientists have tried to do something similar. However, this is the first time CRISPR has been used to accomplish it.

The result is basically 1,000 small flying syringes, a researcher told NPR. And based on the photos featured in that same report, it does look like that, as one image shows a participant’s arm wholly covered in welts from the mosquito bites they suffered. The biggest problem with using mosquitos to deliver vaccines for malaria, though, is the effectiveness.

According to the study’s results, 14 of 26 participants who were exposed to malaria contracted the illness. That means the mosquito vaccine delivery system is only around 50 percent effective. But, that doesn’t mean this was a failure — it just means that some improvements need to be made. It’s also important to realize that the scientists don’t intend to release swarms of genetically modified mosquitos, either.

Instead, they want to use the mosquitos to deliver vaccines in a more controlled fashion. The researchers told NPR that releasing a massive number of these mosquitos is an intriguing proposition. But, doing so would raise very deep questions about medical consent and bioethics as they couldn’t control who was inoculated and exposed.

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https://responsibletechnology.org/scientists-tricked-mosquitoes-into-delivering-vaccines-to-humans/

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cancer, Glyphosate, News

Glyphosate and Roundup: All Roads Lead to Cancer – New Study

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From GM Watch via Sustainable Pulse

(Note: article is from Feb 2022)

New findings add to other observations linking glyphosate and Roundup to cancer. Report: Claire Robinson

Glyphosate and Roundup lead to changes in gene regulatory microRNAs (miRNAs or miRs) linked with cancer, newly published data show. The analysis, of a type known as small RNA profiling, was conducted in liver tissue from rats exposed to glyphosate and Roundup MON 52276, an EU-approved formulation, over 90 days.

In the new results, Roundup MON 52276 was found to reduce the levels of miR-22 and miR-17, whereas glyphosate decreased the level of miR-30 and increased the amount of miR-10. These changes in miRNAs are important because they are known to alter the expression of crucial cell growth regulator genes, which can lead to the development of cancer.

A gene function that is central to multiple cellular processes, p53, is a particular target of these miRNAs. The miRNA changes can lead to alterations in p53 gene expression, as has been found in multiple types of cancer in humans.

The link between the changes in miRNAs and p53 gene expression is consistent with the findings within the same study showing gene expression changes in Roundup- and glyphosate-exposed rats. The gene expression changes strongly imply a p53 pathway DNA damage response. DNA damage is a major risk factor for cancer development.

Furthermore, increases in miR-10 have been found in other studies to be associated with leukemia, a blood cancer. The increase in mir-10 caused by glyphosate exposure in the experimental animals may provide one mechanism by which users of Roundup have succumbed to another blood cancer, known as non-Hodgkin lymphoma. These results could strengthen the legal cases of the cancer sufferers in the US who are suing Bayer/Monsanto because they believe that exposure to Roundup caused their disease. Three such cases have already been decided in favour of the plaintiffs.

Study lead Dr Michael Antoniou of King’s College London said, “The new data showing changes in miRNA patterns add yet more evidence to the cancer-causing potential of glyphosate and Roundup. What is more, our results show that it is not just Roundup, which is a mixture of glyphosate with various additives, that has carcinogenic potential, but also glyphosate alone.”

Previously reported findings

The new data confirm and build on previously reported findings that were published as a pre-print in April 2021, which GMWatch reported on. The study with the additional findings has now passed peer review and is published in the prestigious journal, Toxicological Sciences.

The pre-print version of the study had reported that glyphosate and glyphosate-based herbicides such as Roundup activate mechanisms involved in cancer development, including DNA damage – and these effects occur at doses assumed by regulators to have no adverse effects. The data suggest that the DNA damage was caused by oxidative stress, a destructive imbalance in the body that can cause a long list of diseases. Oxidative stress is the likely cause of the damage seen to the liver, leading to an inflammatory (immune type) response, which in turn can cause DNA damage.

Crucially, the study found that the isolated active ingredient of Roundup – glyphosate – damaged DNA. This finding, according to the EU’s pesticide law, should result in a ban on glyphosate and all its formulations.

All these findings are carried over into the peer-reviewed version of the study.

How the study was done

The study builds on the findings of a previous one by the same authors. In the previous study, the researchers had compared the effects in rats of MON 52276 with those of its “active ingredient”, glyphosate, tested alone. The findings showed that glyphosate and Roundup herbicide, given at doses that regulators say are safe, resulted in the animals suffering gut microbiome disturbances and oxidative stress, with indications that the liver was affected and possibly damaged.

In the current followup study, the researchers analysed the liver tissue from the same rats to see if damage had indeed occurred.  

The researchers carried out some of the standard tests that regulators require the pesticide industry to conduct to gain market authorisation for their products – namely blood biochemistry and kidney and liver histopathology (microscopic examination of tissue).

They also carried out in-depth tests (molecular profiling) that are not demanded by regulators or typically carried out by the industry. One type of test looked for adverse effects at a profound molecular level of biological functioning through analysis of gene expression (transcriptomics) and epigenetics (DNA methylation) in the liver and kidneys. Another type of test, using specialised genetically engineered cell lines, was intended to highlight changes in function linked with cancer formation.

In addition, the researchers carried out tests that can detect direct damage to DNA.

Roundup causes fatty liver disease – confirmed

The standard tests, histopathology and blood biochemistry analysis, found adverse effects from the Roundup treatment, namely a dose-dependent and statistically significant increase in fatty liver disease and liver cell death.

The finding of fatty liver disease from exposure to the MON 52276 formulation of Roundup confirmed the same researchers’ previous observation that an ultra-low dose of another Roundup formulation, Roundup Grand Travaux Plus, administered to the same strain of Sprague-Dawley rats over a 2-year period, caused non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

An increase in liver and kidney lesions was also detected in animals treated with glyphosate, although this did not reach statistical significance. However, the authors commented that an experiment of longer duration using more animals may have resulted in statistical significance.

Non-standard tests most revealing

Worryingly for public health, it was the non-standard molecular profiling tests that are not required by pesticide regulators that were most revealing.

First, Roundup was found to alter the expression of 96 genes in the liver specifically linked to DNA damage and oxidative stress, as well as disruption of circadian rhythms or “body clocks”. The most affected genes in liver also had their expression similarly altered in kidneys. Crucially, a core set of genes whose expression was altered by Roundup was similarly changed in the glyphosate-treated animals. This strongly suggests that the key changes in gene function reflective of oxidative stress and DNA damage was due to glyphosate and not the additional substances (adjuvants) present in the Roundup formulation.

Second, direct DNA damage to the liver was found to increase with glyphosate exposure.

These findings potentially constitute a bombshell that could end the authorisation of glyphosate in the EU. That’s because the EU pesticide regulation (1107/2009) has what’s known as hazard-based cut-off criteria. This means that if a pesticide active ingredient is shown to cause a certain type of harm to health at whatever dose, it must be banned. One of the named types of harm is damage to DNA. The discovery that glyphosate alone damages DNA in a living animal should, if regulators follow the law, result in a ban on the chemical.

Third, both glyphosate and Roundup were found to cause epigenetic changes known as DNA methylation. Epigenetics describes layers of molecular structures associated with DNA that control the underlying function of genes. The defining feature of epigenetic changes is that they can alter how genes work but do not involve changes to the actual DNA sequence. These types of changes were found at over 5,000 genomic sites for glyphosate and over 4,000 for Roundup. This is a concern because such alterations are typically found at high frequency in cancer tissues.

All findings lead to same conclusion

The researchers performed further laboratory tests in mouse cell lines, which are designed to highlight effects that can lead to cancer formation. Glyphosate and three Roundup formulations were assessed in these tester cell lines. It was found that two formulations of Roundup herbicide, but not glyphosate, activated oxidative stress and misfolded protein responses, both clear markers of carcinogenicity.

Commenting on the totality of the data, Dr Antoniou said, “No matter what molecular measurements we undertook, they all led to the same conclusion: that is, both glyphosate and Roundup are potential carcinogens.”

Other studies, including the industry ones submitted to support regulatory approval of glyphosate, have also found that glyphosate causes cancer in experimental animals. Based on studies in animals and humans, as well as mechanistic data, in 2015 the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified glyphosate as a probable human carcinogen.

Other implications of the new study

1. Ending animal testing is not yet feasible

Interestingly, in the new study, glyphosate was shown to damage DNA in living animals but not in the cell culture system. This shows that in vitro lab tests using isolated cells  cannot fully substitute for evaluations in a living animal because certain effects will be missed. This is because animals (including humans) are whole organisms whose complexity cannot be replicated in a flask, petri dish, or test tube. While many people (GMWatch included) would like to see an end to animal testing, as long as pesticides and other chemicals are allowed to be released into the environment, such a move would put public health at risk.

2. Roundup is more toxic than glyphosate

In summary, in general Roundup was found to be more toxic than glyphosate, confirming and building on previous observations. However, taken together, the results from the various assays conducted show that both glyphosate and Roundup herbicides activate mechanisms involved in cancer development, causing gene expression changes reflecting oxidative stress and DNA damage. Also, glyphosate alone was clearly able to induce DNA damage.

These findings directly challenge the global regulatory practice of only assessing the isolated declared active ingredient (glyphosate) and not the complete commercial formulations (Roundup) as sold and used.

The study further highlights the power of in-depth molecular profiling “omics” methods to detect changes that are missed by relying solely on conventional biochemical and histopathological measurements conducted in standardised industry tests on pesticide active ingredients. The study paves the way for future investigations by identifying gene expression changes and altered DNA methylation sites, which can serve as biomarkers and potential predictors of negative health outcomes resulting from exposure to glyphosate-based herbicides.

3. Results could allow survey of human population for glyphosate herbicide exposure

Commenting on the implications of the results for human exposure monitoring, study lead Dr Michael Antoniou said, “The biomarkers we identified (such as the miRNA and gene expression changes) can be tested for in people, but we don’t know if this particular pattern of biomarkers is unique to glyphosate-based herbicide exposure. Thus the biomarkers would need to be correlated with a history of exposure to glyphosate-based herbicides and measurements of glyphosate in urine.

“If high levels of glyphosate were found in the urine, and this correlated with the biomarkers identified in the new study and the person’s history of glyphosate herbicide exposure, this would indicate that exposure to glyphosate-based herbicides might be responsible for any health effects that are both indicated by our findings and found in the person. These findings should be tested first by investigations of herbicide applicators, as their exposure can be high and details of the particular herbicides used are often recorded, which would enable clearer results to be obtained.”

4. “Safe” and “no effect” doses were shown to be harmful

In the 90-day rat feeding study, different groups of animals were fed three different doses of glyphosate and the glyphosate-equivalent dose of Roundup MON 52276. The lowest dose was the concentration that regulators assume to be safe to ingest on a daily basis over a lifetime (the EU acceptable daily intake or ADI: 0.5 mg per kg of bodyweight per day). The middle dose was the dose that EU regulators concluded had no observable adverse effect (the “no observable adverse effect” level or NOAEL) in industry-sponsored rat feeding studies (50 mg per kg of bodyweight per day). The highest dose was 175 mg, the dose that US regulators concluded had no observable adverse effect.

Adverse effects were found from Roundup exposure at all dose levels in a dose-dependent fashion. These findings show that the glyphosate ADI for the EU – and that of the USA, which is even higher – is not safe to ingest. Likewise, it shows that the EU and US regulators were only able to conclude that glyphosate had “no observable adverse effect” at the levels mentioned above because the tests that they require industry to carry out are insufficiently sensitive.

Study supports plaintiffs in Roundup-cancer litigation

Summarising the implications of the study for the Roundup-cancer litigation in the US, Dr Antoniou said, “Our results are the first to simultaneously show glyphosate and Roundup toxicity in a whole mammalian animal model system and provide a mechanism – oxidative stress – by which DNA damage has been observed in other systems, such as mammalian tissue culture cells.

“These findings show that glyphosate and Roundup score positive in various tests of carcinogenicity – transcriptome/epigenome/miRNA changes, oxidative stress, protein misfolding, and DNA damage – in a living animal (rat) that is accepted as a surrogate for human health effects. In my view, this strengthens the argument that exposure to Roundup herbicides can lead to the type of cancer suffered by the plaintiffs in many of the court cases – non-Hodgkin lymphoma.”

SOURCE

https://www.gmwatch.org/en/106-news/latest-news/19980-glyphosate-and-roundup-all-roads-lead-to-cancer

FOR FURTHER ARTICLES ON THE LINK BETWEEN GLYPHOSATE & CANCER:

https://sustainablepulse.com/?s=cancer

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Fluoride, News

Fluoridation of water is promoted as a health measure when the science indicates multiple toxicities

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From Dr Sam Bailey

Warning! Fluoride In Your Water

Fluoridation of water is promoted as a health measure when the science indicates multiple toxicities. I spoke with one of the unsung New Zealand heroes, Kane Titchener who has volunteered his time to combat the authorities’ attempts to poison our water supplies.

Here is what he said about: 

  • The relationship of fluoridation to vaccination
  • The effects of fluoride on the brain and IQ
  • Why your typical doctor or dentist doesn’t know much about fluoride
  • How to protect yourself against fluoride toxicity
  • What kind of toothpaste is best for your family

and much more!

Learn even more here  Fluoride Free NZ

Worldwide  Fluoride Action Network

For kiwis: Buy one of the fantastic Fluoride Free NZ booklets for $20 + postage – please email auckland@fluoridefree.org.nz

VIDEO AT THE LINK

    References:

    1. Cochrane Review: Water fluoridation for the prevention of dental caries
    2. Harvard review paper: Developmental Fluoride Neurotoxicity: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
    3. NTP Draft Report September 2019, SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF FLUORIDE EXPOSURE AND NEURODEVELOPMENTAL AND COGNITIVE HEALTH EFFECTS
    4. Dr Sam Bailey Video: Can Soft Drinks Be Healthy?
    5. Dr Sam Bailey Video: The Hidden Secrets of Water
    6. Jon Rappoport Interview: Make The Criminals Squirm
    7. Jon Rappoport Interview: The Virus Cover Story
    8. Bashash Study (2017): Prenatal Fluoride Exposure and Cognitive Outcomes in Children at 4 and 6-12 Years of Age in Mexico
    9. Green et al  (2019): Association Between Maternal Fluoride Exposure During Pregnancy and IQ Scores in Offspring in Canada
    10. Till et al (2020): Fluoride exposure from infant formula and child IQ in a Canadian birth cohort
    11. Goodman et al (2022): Iodine Status Modifies the Association between Fluoride Exposure in Pregnancy and Preschool Boys’ Intelligence
    12. NZ herald 2014: ‘Fluoride is safe and effective’
    13. Fluoride Free NZ Water Tips
    14. Childsmile program Scotland
    15. Fluoride levels in tea
    16. To buy one of the fantastic Fluoride Free NZ booklets for $20 + postage – please email auckland@fluoridefree.org.nz
    17.  JAMA Pediatrics Editors’ Summary 12min Podcast 

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    Warning! Fluoride In Your Water
    Gardening, News

    ENCOURAGING CHILDREN TO GARDEN

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    We need to encourage our children and grandchildren to appreciate Nature by including them in some gardening activities.

    I believe that young children have a natural infinity with plants and insects when they are allowed to explore our gardens.

    Children learn many things by mimicking their parents and are often keen at a young age to assist in various gardening activities.

    I remember as a toddler spending many hours in the garden collecting caterpillars off the cabbages and feeding them to our chooks.

    I also can still remember how good it felt to be part of Nature back then and the same feeling pertains today when I work or wander around gardens.

    Plants that ‘move’ have a fascination for children and a great one for this is Mimosa pudica, the Sensitive Plant, which folds up its leaves when touched.

    They are easy to germinate from seed, grown as a pot plant for a windowsill. (Available Kings Seeds)

    Nice pink flowers also. As the plant matures it has thorns on the branches which incidentally are another attraction for children.

    Cacti with their prickles often appeal to young boys and I had a small collection when I was young and still keep a few.

    Two awesome plants for children to grow are Giant sunflowers and Giant pumpkins.

    Giant Sunflowers; these extra tall sunflowers will grow up to 5 metres tall.(17 odd feet) Grown in full sun in soil that has excellent drainage and lots of manure.

    The giant pumpkins can be monsters which in some cases will weigh over 1000 pounds at maturity. (Half a ton)

    If I was going to grow giant pumpkin, here is what I would do:

    Obtain the Giant pumpkin seeds from a seed supplier. (Atlantic Giant is the type of seed you need again Kings Seeds)

    Pick an all-day-sunny area, then dig a hole about a spade depth and width, chop up the bottom of the hole, so the soil is loose, then fill the hole with chook manure to about two thirds full.

    (Other manure could be used if chook manure is not obtainable, but chook is best)

    Fill the rest of the hole with a good compost and soil mix, 50/50 making a small mound about 12cm tall above the filled in hole.

    Place three seeds in the mound and wet them down with Magic Botanic Liquid (MBL), (20 ml of MBL to 1 litre of water.)

    Water the mount to keep moist with plain water and then every 2 weeks with the MBL.

    Overseas the biggest record vegetables have been achieved with products very similar or the same as MBL. Spraying the foliage of your Giants every 2 weeks with MBL (10 ml to a litre) will also assist in a bigger healthier plant.

    When the seeds germinate select the two smaller ones and carefully remove letting the best one grow on.

    After your pumpkin is established and growing well, give them a drink using Wallys Cucumber Booster, once a week.

    This is a high nitrogen product that is a combination of sulphate of ammonia and potassium nitrate, which you dissolve in water.

    Cucumber Booster is excellent for any plants that enjoys a boost of nitrogen after establishment. It is used for growing cucumbers, pumpkins, zucchini and gourds.

    The MBL and Cucumber Booster can be combined for watering into the soil near the base of the plant.

    Because of the weather patterns we are experiencing, after you plant your seed, cut off the base of a 2 to3 litre plastic fruit juice bottle and place this over the mound, with the cap removed.

    This will give your seed and seedling its own little glasshouse. This is removed once the seedlings germinate prior to culling out the two.

    With the Giant Sunflower a tall strong stake should be put in the ground at seed planting time on the edge of a mound as described previously..

    This will be needed later to give extra support to the plant.

    Another interesting thing to do is once the sunflower gets up about a metre tall, plant 3 or 4 climbing bean seeds at the base of the plant.

    These will grow up the sunflower and also provide extra nitrogen for the sunflower.

    It is a lot of fun plus a great way to get the children away from the TV and video games, showing them there is more to life than a screen.

    Some garden centres run competitions for the tallest sunflower and the biggest pumpkin with various prizes for the winners.

    Aphids are likely to be found on your roses at this time and they can easily be controlled with a safe spray of Wallys Super Pyrethrum. Spray very late in the day just before dusk to obtain the best results.

    Stone fruit trees that had the curly leaf disease will now be producing new leaves free of the problem. The damaged leaves will fall off over time.

    You can if you like, spray the newer leaves a couple of times with potassium permanganate and Raingard just to be sure, but if the disease has finished for the season the sprays will not make much difference.

    A spray of Vaporgard without the potassium permanganate would be more effective in allowing the tree’s remaining leaves to gain more energy from the sun, which is needed to produce a good crop.

    Codlin Moths will start to be on the wing about now so obtain a pheromone trap from your garden centre so you can monitor the best time to spray.

    A number of gardeners have found that a spray of Super Neem Tree Oil and Raingard over the young apples, applied about 5-7 days after an influx of moths into the traps, has resulted in only a very small scar on the mature apple, where the grub took its first and only bite.

    (Note Wallys Super Neem Tree Oil has been cleared by EPA to sell again, just waiting on the new approved labels to arrive later this month)

    Repeat spray 7 days later and then wait for another influx of moths before repeating.

    Add Raingard or MBL to the spray to assist and extend the control period.

    Tomatoes should be doing well if in a sunny, sheltered spot. Only remove laterals on a sunny day when it is not humid or moist.

    Spray the wound immediately with Liquid Copper to prevent disease entering the wound resulting in the possible loss of the plant.

    Ensure that the tomato plants are well supported on stakes during windy times. If you are concerned about blights spray the plants with Perkfection as a preventative, once a month. The same applies for your potatoes.

    For general health of any plants, especially roses and food crops, a two weekly spray of MBL and Mycorrcin works wonders. Spray both the soil and the foliage.

    Avoiding the use of chemical sprays and fertilisers is a must for healthy gardens and plants.

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    New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990. Part II of the Act covers a broad range of Civil and Political Rights. As part of the right to life and the security of the person, the Act guarantees everyone:

    1The right not to be deprived of life except in accordance with fundamental justice (Section 8)

    2The right not to be subjected to torture or to cruel, degrading, or disproportionately severe treatment or punishment (Section 9)

    3The right not to be subjected to medical or scientific experimentation without consent (Section 10)

    4The right to refuse to undergo any medical treatment (Section 11)

     Furthermore, the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 guarantees everyone: Freedom of Thought, Conscience, and Religion.
    This includes the right to freedom of thought, conscience, religion, and belief,
    INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO ADOPT AND HOLD OPINIONS WITHOUT INTERFERENCE (Section 1)

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    Herbicides, News

    New Large Scale Biomonitoring Results Show Increasing Herbicide Exposure in Pregnant Women

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    From Sustainable Pulse

    The average level of dicamba herbicide in the urine of pregnant women has increased more than 3-fold since 2017, the year widespread planting of dicamba-tolerant GMO crops began, Heartland Health Research Alliance (HHRA) reported on Tuesday.

    Dicamba levels in urine have risen dramatically compared to levels of 2,4-D.  In 2010-2014, the average level of 2,4-D in urine (0.4 ug/L) was twice the average level of dicamba (0.2 ug/L). But by 2020-2022, the average level of dicamba (0.68 ug/L) exceeded the 2,4-D average (0.575 ug/L) by 18%, despite a 45% increase in the average level of 2,4-D in urine in 2020-2022 since 2010-2014.

    Both herbicides are classified as “possible” carcinogens and are known to increase the risk of reproductive problems and adverse birth outcomes.

    The percent of urine samples with detectable levels of dicamba rose 50% from 2010-2014 to 2020-2022 as a result of the widespread planting of dicamba-tolerant crops.

    Of the 16 pesticide analytes that HHRA testing is able to detect, 5 were in found in 99%-100% of the samples, including 2,4-D. Since 2010, most people in the Midwest have been exposed to 7 or more of these 16 pesticide analytes on a near-daily basis.

    The above new evidence of rising herbicide exposures was presented on Tuesday at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association in Boston. The “Assessing Herbicide Impacts on Reproduction, Birth Outcomes & Children’s Development” session highlighted evidence pointing to rising risk of herbicide-driven adverse birth outcomes.

    HHRA now has glyphosate and glufosinate results from the analytical lab they are working with, the Centre de Toxicologie du Québec (CTQ) in Canada for around 700 hundred samples spanning 2010 through mid-2022. HHRA also has data from CTQ for another 13 pesticide analytes from about 150 samples collected from 2010 through spring 2022. These results include the levels of 2,4-D and dicamba in the urine of pregnant women.

    HHRA’s new biomonitoring data point to four preliminary findings.

    1. The average level of dicamba in the urine of pregnant women has increased 3.4-fold just since widespread planting of dicamba-tolerant seeds began in 2017.
    2. Recent increases in farmer reliance on glufosinate (Liberty-brand herbicide) is now leading to possibly significant exposures to glufosinate and its primary metabolite 3-MPPA (3-MethylPhosphonicoPropionic Acid).
    3. Some good news — the levels of 8 out of 10 synthetic pyrethroid and organophosphate insecticide analytes have fallen over the last decade or so, including about a 50% decline in the primary metabolite of the organophosphate insecticide chlorpyrifos.
    4. Based on HHRA’s data spanning 17 pesticide analytes, the average person in the Midwest over the last two decades has been exposed on most days to at least 7 pesticide analytes.

    HHRA is highlighting the new data on dicamba and glufosinate because, these are the first, significant datasets collected worldwide on levels of these herbicides in human urine. Such data are essential for regulators, farmers, and the pesticide industry to accurately quantify pesticide risks and when determining whether steps are warranted to reduce exposures.

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    New Large Scale Biomonitoring Results Show Increasing Herbicide Exposure in Pregnant Women

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    Energy, News, Oil

    What Kiwis need to know about the shutting down of the Marsden Point Oil Refinery

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    From Liz Gunn @ Youtube:

    EWR comment: note you can read the info & download the report at website link below. The interview however is more in depth.

    We speak with David Trotter (lead researcher and author) & Levi Wulf (sub researcher and editor), who along with Karl Barkley (nautical tracking and sub research), have put together this excellent document which highlights the problems associated with shutting down the Marsden Point Oil Refinery in Whangarei. Operation Good Oil seeks to educate and inform Kiwis, through this document, of the true nature of this crisis, and seeks to find a practical solution for the good of all Kiwis. To contact Operation Good Oil and learn more about this crucial project: Document download – https://docdro.id/r1HIWjF

    Phone – 0800 NZ 4 OIL

    Website – http://www.operationgoodoil.co.nz

    Telegram – https://t.me/Convoy2022OperationGaslight

    FB – https://www.facebook.com/groups/50665…

    From the Website: http://www.operationgoodoil.co.nz

    “Our refinery was numbered in the top 10% of the world for its innovation and efficiency, with new technologies coming on line in the sector of oil refinement we are about to lose our ability to lab and beta test new techniques of recycling such as blue crude and plastic to oil recovery.

    NEW ZEALAND HAS THE LONGEST SUPPLY LINES IN THE WORLD AND TO SCUTTLE SUCH A VITAL STRATEGIC ASSET AS OUR ONLY OIL REFINERY IS A MOVE THAT COULD BE CONSTRUED AS AN ACT OF AGGRESSION OR EVEN TREASONOUS AGAINST THE PEOPLE OF NEW ZEALAND.

    We hope you join us in educating ourselves on what is truly happening in the energy sector in this nation and that you will read the updates and the resources that we will be releasing through our social media and website, we hope to help to spread the word about who and what are truly responsible for the shortages.”

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    How Marsden Point Closure Affects Your Life. Dig In! 

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    Chemical Sprays, Corporations, News

    Secret “Paraquat Papers” Reveal Corporate Tactics to Protect Weed Killer Linked to Parkinson’s Disease

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    The poisoners are still at it … corporations rule … EWR

    From The New Lede
    Posted at Sustainable Pulse

    For decades, Swiss chemical giant Syngenta has manufactured and marketed a widely used weed killing chemical called paraquat, and for much of that time the company has been dealing with external concerns that long-term exposure to the chemical may cause the dreaded, incurable brain ailment known as Parkinson’s disease.

    Syngenta has repeatedly told customers and regulators that scientific research does not prove a connection between its weed killer and the disease, insisting that the chemical does not readily cross the blood-brain barrier, and does not affect brain cells in ways that cause Parkinson’s.

    But a cache of internal corporate documents dating back to the 1950s obtained by The New Lede in a reporting collaboration with the Guardian suggests that the public narrative put forward by Syngenta and the corporate entities that preceded it has at times contradicted the company’s own research and knowledge.

    And though the documents reviewed do not show that Syngenta’s scientists and executives believed that paraquat can cause Parkinson’s, they do show a corporate focus on strategies to protect product sales, refute external scientific research and influence regulators.

    In one defensive tactic, the documents lay out how the company worked behind the scenes to try to keep a highly regarded scientist from sitting on an advisory panel for the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The agency is the chief US regulator for paraquat and other pesticides. Company officials wanted to make sure the efforts could not be traced back to Syngenta, the documents show.

    And the documents show that insiders feared they could face legal liability for long-term, chronic effects of paraquat as long ago as 1975. One company scientist called the situation “a quite terrible problem,” for which “some plan could be made….”

    That prediction of legal consequences has come to pass. Thousands of people who allege they developed Parkinson’s because of long-term chronic effects of paraquat exposure are now suing Syngenta. Along with Syngenta, they are also suing Chevron USA, the successor to a company that distributed paraquat in the US  from 1966 to 1986. Both companies deny any liability and continue to maintain that scientific evidence does not support a causal link between paraquat and Parkinson’s disease.

    “Recent thorough reviews performed by the most advanced and science-based regulatory authorities, including the United States and Australia, continue to support the view that paraquat is safe,” Syngenta said in a statement.

    Chevron issued a statement saying that the company and predecessors had no role in causing the plaintiffs’ illnesses, and it “will vigorously defend against the allegations in the lawsuits.”

    As part of a court-ordered disclosure in the litigation, the companies provided plaintiffs’ lawyers with decades of internal records, including hand-written and typed memos, internal presentations, and emails to and from scientists, lawyers and company officials around the world. And though the files have not yet been made public through the court system, The New Lede and the Guardian reviewed hundreds of pages of these documents.

    Among the revelations from the documents: Scientists with Syngenta predecessor Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. (ICI) and Chevron Chemical were aware in the 1960s and 70s of mounting evidence showing paraquat could accumulate in the human brain.

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    1080 poisoning, News

    DOC admits to their recent killing of Kea in 1080 drop (note, killing NZ’s native birds with 1080 is not new)

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    This looks like an uncommon occurrence while still insisting the pay off is worth it to continue its use.

    Here is a link to Newshub’s recent news announcement on topic at Youtube:

    “The Department of Conservation has confirmed a number of kea were killed in a recent 1080 drop around Arthur’s Pass. The department says it’s awful, not good enough, and they want to do better.”

    ‘Too big a sacrifice’: DoC confirms kea killed in recent 1080 drop around Arthur’s Pass | Newshub

    However, consider the list below of historic carnage concerning 1080 and the unfortunate Kea:

    https://envirowatchrangitikei.wordpress.com/?s=kea

    And for those new to the topic consider this article I wrote in 2018:

    Why are people so concerned about 1080?

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    agenda 21/30, Farming, News

    WHY They Want To Destroy Independent Farmers (Explained)

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    Neil McCoy-Ward

    Health, News

    Heart attacks, Heart disease SOARING…Medical Establishment has an “answer”

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    Dr. Suneel Dhand

    Read info at Youtube

    censorship, News

    How to nail those Kiwi ‘dissidents’

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    The NZ Govt’s solution for those who won’t follow the narrative:

    READ AT THE LINK

    News

    Hear Australia’s Sen Malcolm Roberts speak on covid

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    Time for a reblog of this one … 18 months on. Sen Malcolm Roberts frequently calls out corruption. EWR

    Pam Vernon's avatarEnvironmental Health Watch NZ

    Senator Malcolm Roberts speaks. Remember him speaking out about the climate change gravy train. (Video at the link, brilliant speech).

    Hear him here also:

    https://rumble.com/v1ljext-senator-malcolm-roberts-we-love-you-for-this-the-truth-from-a-politician.html

    Hear plenty more speeches from Sen Roberts at this link, he majors on exposing corruption:

    https://rumble.com/search/video?q=senator%20malcolm%20roberts

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    Climate Change, News

    James Corbett separates climate fact from fiction

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    via The Activation Podcast: On this episode of The Activation podcast Derrick Broze interviews returning guest James Corbett regarding his work on climate change. James has been researching the claims about climate change since 2007 and has produced dozens of reports and podcast dissecting the various claims about anthropogenic climate change. Derrick and James discuss what the climate change propagandists have right and what they have dangerously wrong. They also discuss the agenda behind the climate change movement. You are not going to want to miss this informative and empowering episode!

    LISTEN AT THE LINK

    EWR Comment: our info on this topic can be found here. It includes a petition signed by thousands of scientists and a speech by Australia’s Sen Malcolm Roberts who nails it completely. He has also spoken out similarly about the new ‘safe & effective’ medical treatment.

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    Corona virus, Covid-19 experimental injection, News

    US OBGYN challenges NZ Doctor’s recommending of the CV VX during pregnancy

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    Two important interviews with Dr James Thorpe … EWR

    READ / LISTEN AT THE LINK

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    Medical Industry, News

    US Physician Societies are completely CORRUPTED: Why I refuse to join any of them

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    Dr. Suneel Dhand 280K subscribers 44,354 views Oct 18, 2022I will not be joining any of these again or attending their conferences. Join my Red-Pilled Community and Follow me on Locals, the uncensored platform, for more open and real discussions: https://drsuneeldhand.locals.com Subscribe to my Newsletter here: https://suneeldhand.com/newsletter/

    Food, Gardening, News

    Some useful gardening tips (Wally Richards)

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    For most of the country it has been a poor spring and slow start of the growing season.

    We have the daylight hours, in fact we are now only about 7 weeks away to the longest day of the year.

    It is the temperatures that are the problem, we are not getting the constant warm temperatures during the day and night.

    That does not matter to hardy plants and vegetables that can be grown outdoors all year around such as cabbages. (On line shopping today New World whole cabbage $9.99 at Countdown $7.69)

    Lettuce between $3.00 to $4.00 each?

    Wow, I currently have so many lettuces that I give then to my chickens.

    Not only that as a result of letting one lettuce (Drunken Woman my favorite) go to seed, it self seed giving hundreds of seedlings.

    Some of which I have transplanted and currently have lettuce from small seedlings to mature plants going to seed.

    I don’t bother growing much cabbage, broccoli or cauliflower as they take longer to mature and we seldom use them anyway in preference to Bok Choy which is much quicker to mature and takes less room.

    Silverbeet is an excellent vegetable to grow as it has high nutritional value and you harvest only the outer leaves for use as it will keep producing till it goes to seed.

    Whether you grow in open ground, raised gardens or in containers you can produce hardy vegetables that will not only be inexpensive compared to current cost of purchased vegetables but will also have great flavour be free of chemical poisons.

    The stuff you buy from Supermarket is not only bloody expensive but are chemically grown and sprayed with chemicals thus having little goodness and a bland flavour.

    If it tastes good without having to use condiments then it is good for your health.

    Basically no matter how you grow you apply natural products to the soil/growing medium such as any animal or chicken manures, blood & bone, sheep manure pellets at the base.

    Garden Lime such as Wallys Calcium & Health, minerals from Ocean Solids and Wallys Unlocking your soil.

    Then over this a layer of Daltons Compost. (Most others I do not trust because they can contain recycled green waste which maybe full of herbicides).

    Then into this you plant seeds or seedlings and spray them every week with Magic Botanic Liquid (MBL) they will grow twice as fast and twice as big and be very advantageous for your health and budget.

    I expect that vegetables in the supermarket are only going to get dearer because of high cost of imported fertilisers, cost of chemical sprays to keep the plants looking perfect on the shelves and the cost of diesel.

    Because of the milder temperatures heat loving plants are not fairing very well.

    My tomato plants grown in a plastic house in the Auto-pot system are doing ok but plants that like much more heat such as cucumbers, capsicum and chili are sitting and sulking even with the high quality nutrient they have to grow with.

    I hate to think how poorly these plants wound do in open gardens along with pumpkin and other cubits.

    They would really sulk until the temperatures became better which is most unusual for weather after Labour Weekend in NZ.

    If, as some predict, we are heading into a solar minimum which reduces the global temperatures to the extent of a mini-ice age or worse then that would be far worse for food growing than a global warming.

    Most of you will have planted or are planting tomato plants currently, if in a glasshouse you will have better results than out doors. Outdoors you need a very sunny, sheltered spot for best results.

    Treat the soil with the products mention but don’t use Calcium & Health instead buy some Dolomite.

    Tomatoes and Potatoes like a slightly acidic soil pH.

    Now this is important to get the best results out of a tomato plant; you make a deep hole and plant it deep, up to the bottom leaves or even deeper.

    The reason is that a tomato plant will produce roots all the way up the trunk and often on a more mature plant you will see knobs near the base of the trunk which are beginnings of roots.

    If that is seen then mould up growing medium so the root system is increased.

    The bigger the roots to feed, the better the plant.

    You can place a little of Wallys Neem Tree Powder in the planting hole and sprinkle some of Wallys Secret Tomato Food with Neem Granules on the soil.

    That will assist in deterring whitefly especially in a glasshouse as well as feed the plants.

    The Secret tomato food contains a good amount of potash which I have noticed lacking in other brands, likely because potash is expensive.

    If your tomato, capsicum, chili do not have ample potash then your fruit will lack flavour.

    Wallys Secret Tomato Food with Neem Granules was created on the request of a specialist tomato grower who wanted the very best tomatoes.

    He told me many years ago that he had tried all the brands but none of them produced really great flavored fruit.

    So along with fertiliser experts we created the product, Wallys Secret Tomato Food which over the last 15 plus years has been well sort after by people that love to grow the best tomatoes possible.

    There are two types of tomato plants; Indeterminate and Determinate the first is tall growing and is actually a climber the later is a bush type which is short with a wide spread such as dwarf types.

    In the Indeterminate type there are very large fruiting ones such as Boy o Boy which can produce fruit weighing 500 grams. Some you need only one slice to cover sliced bread!

    To do that you need to not only remove the laterals but also reduce down the amount fruit per truss to get a monster tomato.

    Laterals form between the trunk and the leaf branch and in Indeterminate tomato plants it is best to remove them otherwise you get a plant that requires lots of staking and support.

    On a determinate plant the laterals are often left on to make the plant bushier and produce a lot more trusses and thus a lot of smaller fruit.

    If you allow a lateral to grow about 8cm long you can strike it as a cutting and get free extra tomato plants.

    If last season your tomatoes were affected by the tomato psyllid that we wrote about recently then you need to use Wallys Cell Strengthening Kit to protect your plants and be able to harvest tomatoes like you did in the past.

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    New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990. Part II of the Act covers a broad range of Civil and Political Rights. As part of the right to life and the security of the person, the Act guarantees everyone:

    1The right not to be deprived of life except in accordance with fundamental justice (Section 8)

    2The right not to be subjected to torture or to cruel, degrading, or disproportionately severe treatment or punishment (Section 9)

    3The right not to be subjected to medical or scientific experimentation without consent (Section 10)

    4The right to refuse to undergo any medical treatment (Section 11)

    Furthermore, the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 guarantees everyone: Freedom of Thought, Conscience, and Religion.
    This includes the right to freedom of thought, conscience, religion, and belief,
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    Corona virus, News

    The real Anthony Fauci (Pt 2)

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    View Part 2 at this link (Part 1 included)

    Covid-19 experimental injection, News

    CV truths for busy people

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    From garymoller.com
    Updated: Oct 19

    We all have friends and family who still believe their Government is benevolent, who think their response to the pandemic has been marvellous, and the mRNA jab is safe and effective. But, of course, the opposite is the reality: Our Government has declared war on its people. They are working for insane foreigner technocrats, who intend to turn us into a totalitarian state, the vaccine is neither safe nor effective, and they are doing everything they can to hide the extent and gravity of their crimes.

    Despite the obvious, in-your-face lying about these crimes, for most people, including myself, comprehending the reality and gravity of the situation is far from easy. But unfortunately, continuing to believe monumental lies is the easier path to follow for many people. They may argue that they are too busy, that they already have too much on their plates to deal with. We are told by the Government and their advisers, like the Pink Lady, who is our expert about everything, that they know better than you or anyone else about what is going on, and to such as extent that they’ll fire and publicly ridicule anyone who questions their truths.

    https://www.garymoller.com/post/why-are-doctors-and-other-health-professionals-so-silent

    One response is to ask them to do just one thing for you and set aside a little time to plug in their headphones and listen to two podcast-style presentations. After that, you can then have a civil discussion about the issues and agree or disagree but continue to be good friends no matter the outcome.

    There are many possible presentations to recommend for the busy person, but here are two which should do the job:

    (Unlike other broadcasters like Michael Laws and Sean Plunket, Leighton Smith is renowned for meticulously researching his podcast topics and not talking over his guests.)

    Leighton Smith Podcast: Statistician and author Guy Hatchard discusses the distortion of public information, and the age of social engineeringLeighton Smith Podcast: Statistician and author Guy Hatchard discuss the distortion of public information and the age of social engineering

    https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/podcasts/the-leighton-smith-podcast/leighton-smith-podcast-episode-176-october-12th-2022/

    I’ll add here that Guy Hatchard and I go back a long time: We were part of a small group of health professionals who have, on two occasions, prevented the passing of the Natural Health Products Bill, which essentially hijacks natural health products, including ones like also vera, vitamin C and zinc to further the aims of Big Pharma and Medical-Industrial Complex. It just happens that the Minister of Health is about to railroad this legislation through the House this year without adequate consultation. If this legislation passes, practitioners like men may become a thing of the past.

    ”Dr Nikki Turner, you are murdering people! … Now debate me.” – Dr James Thorp MD: This interview, hosted by a couple of Kiwi broadcasters, Kelvyn Alp and Hannah Spierer, now streaming from a USA-based platform, is a beauty. In this interview, an international medical heavyweight calls out New Zealand’s lightweight medical expert for a head-to-head debate.

    WATCH AT THIS LINK

    As an aside, Alp and Spierers’ broadcasting platform was shut down in New Zealand a few months ago, hence the USA presence now. They are currently on bail defending themselves from prosecution by the NZ Government for holding or sharing objectionable information and face what could be years behind bars. if they lose!

    SOURCE:

    https://www.garymoller.com/post/covid-truths-for-busy-people

    News

    The DAYS are getting DARKER RAPIDLY!!!

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    Death, News

    More sudden deaths – is anybody investigating?

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    Sincere sympathy to the loved ones of these two men.

    Sadly it seems, these sudden deaths are becoming the accepted new norm. How can these numbers be ignored like this? As they are being in other similar incidences… treated as being somewhat routine. ‘Cause unknown’ but no follow up as to why. They are of course being called ‘tragic’ and tragic they are … but it behooves the authorities put in charge of public health, by the public, to figure out just why they are happening. Is there a common denominator? In better times that denominator would be hunted down with great zeal.

    Not now.

    It has become the very large elephant in the room …. EWR

    LINKS BELOW

    UK radio presenter dies while presenting live on air

    Rugby player collapses, dies during East Coast centennial celebration match

    Is the public waking up?

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    Gardening, News

    Psyllids in your garden and how to deal with them (Wally Richards)

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    Psyllidae, called the jumping plant lice or psyllids. (Note much of the following is from Internet research)

    They are a family of small plant-feeding insects that tend to be very host-specific, each plant-louse species only feeds on one plant species or feeds on a few closely related plants.

    Of current concern to tomato, potato, tamarillo, capsicum and chili gardeners is the new psyllid commonly known as the tomato/potato psyllid.

    This psyllid comes from Central and North America where it breeds primarily on potatoes, tomatoes and other plants in the potato family, Solanaceace.

    It also breeds on kumara, which is in the bindweed family, Convolvulaceae.

    It was first found in New Zealand in 2006 and has spread throughout New Zealand.

    This psyllid may transmit a bacterium, Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum that causes a disease in its host plants.

    The tomato potato psyllid occurs on its host plants in gardens, and crops in greenhouses and on farms.

    The tomato potato psyllid breeds all year, though the time from egg to adult (generation time) is longer in the winter when it is cold, than in the summer or in a heated greenhouse.

    Adult tomato potato psyllids are small insects similar in size to aphids. They have wings and look like small cicadas with a distinctive white band on the abdomen. The two pairs of transparent wings are held over their abdomen.

    Tomato potato psyllid eggs are yellow and attached to leaves by a thin short stalk. The eggs may be laid on all parts of the leaf and plant stem, but are often found on the leaf edge where they are most easily seen.

    Nymphs hatch from the eggs. They are flat and scale like, and have three pairs of legs and sucking mouthparts.

    They settle on young leaves, mainly on the underside. Although they can walk, they spend much of their time motionless with their stylets inserted into the plant feeding on the plant sap.

    There are five nymphal stages, each is called an instar. buds. Adults emerge from fifth instar nymphs.

    The length of time needed for nymphal development depends on the temperature and is shorter when it is hotter.

    The tomato potato psyllid inserts its maxillary stylets into the phloem, (the plant vessels for transmitting sap from the leaves to other parts of the plant.)

    The sap has a high volume of water and sugars, more than the insect needs.

    It excretes the excess water and sugar, which is called honeydew. The tomato potato psyllid coats the droplet of honeydew with white wax before ejecting it.

    Leaves can become covered with these white wax coated droplets that are called psyllid sugars.

    Like some other Hemiptera (sucking bugs), the tomato potato psyllid can transmit plant pathogens to plants.

    Tomato potato psyllid is the primary vector (transmitter) of a bacterium, Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum, which causes a disease that may weaken plants and reduce yields and quality of crops.

    Plants infested with the psyllid may exhibit symptoms of a disease, psyllid yellows.

    The disease symptoms initially appear in response to psyllid feeding and is presumably a physiological reaction to feeding and saliva secretions by the tomato potato psyllid.

    On tomatoes, the disease symptoms are the yellowing and stunting of the growing tip and a cupping or curling of the leaves.

    Many flowers may fall off the trusses of infected plants and fruit that develop may be small and misshapen.

    On potatoes, the foliar symptoms are a stunting and yellowing of the growing tip and the edges of the curled leaves often have a pink blush or purple colour.

    After a while infected potatoes develop a scorched appearance and plants may collapse prematurely.

    Potato plants that are infected at an early stage, develop numerous small tubers. Tuber quality is also affected when the plants are infected at a later stage.

    The disease is referred to as zebra chip because when the affected potatoes are fried they exhibit dark stripes where the areas high in sugar burn.

    In New Zealand, the bacterial disease is usually less of a problem on outdoor capsicums, chilli and egg-plant.

    Tomato potato psyllid breeds all year, especially in the warmer parts of the country and in greenhouses. In these situations, all life stages may be found all year round. In other areas, non-breeding adults may be found on plants.

    Adults feed on leaves and can mate more than once. A female can lay up to 500 eggs over a 21-day period, but in the field it is more likely to be around 200 eggs.

    The number of eggs laid also depends upon the host plant. The rate of development of nymphs is dependent on temperature.

    The psyllid develops between 15°C and 32°C with optimum development at 27°C.

    In a greenhouse with an average temperature of 18°C psyllids takes 33 days to complete their life cycle.

    In New Zealand there are to 7-8 generations per year in the Auckland region.

    In New Zealand’s winter, the numbers of psyllids are low and development is very slow.

    Adults and nymphs can survive short periods of sub-zero temperatures. In New Zealand’s spring numbers on infested plants will begin to build up and reach a peak in late summer/early autumn.

    Adult psyllids have wings and in North America can spread long distance by air. In New Zealand, dispersal tends to be more limited, 100 m or more in three days. They will invade new areas and plants, especially in summer.

    From my experience its a temperature to numbers game, when given the ideal temperatures.

    One adult laying 500 eggs can mean in about a month you have a population of 250,000 adults

    Initially sprays will help control but as numbers rapidly increase you would need to spray every day and still lose the battle.

    That was the point I reached about 3 years ago and watched my tomato plants and tamarillos die in front of my eyes.

    The following season I treated my tomatoes and other host plants with silicon drench and sprays and in one season completely wiped out the psyllids from my glasshouse and gardens.

    The silicon treatment which I call the ‘Cell Strengthening Kit’ makes the plant’s cells too tough for the psyllid nymphs to piece and feed and they soon starve to death after hatching.

    This breaks the life cycle and there are no new adults to replace the old ones when they die.

    Information on the kit is available on our mail order web site at www.0800466464.co.nz

    More info on the pest at http://www.gardenews.co.nz/product.html#The%20Potato%20and%20Tomato%20Psyllid%20control%20with%20Cell%20Strengthen%20sprays%20and%20drench

    With our Silcon products you can once again grow tomatoes, potatoes and other affected plants.

    or phone me for more information.

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    2The right not to be subjected to torture or to cruel, degrading, or disproportionately severe treatment or punishment (Section 9)

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    4The right to refuse to undergo any medical treatment (Section 11)

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    This includes the right to freedom of thought, conscience, religion, and belief,
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    Corona virus, Covid-19 experimental injection, News

    In just the last three months, 53 performers have dropped dead, or keeled over, on stage

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    From Mark Crispin Miller

    And how many performers can you remember ever doing anything like that before? … Me neither.

    https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/in-just-the-last-three-months-53?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

    VIDEO AT THE LINK

    https://www.bitchute.com/embed/XgPtJyqwWwpW/

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    114 medical professionals who “died suddenly”—in Russia

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    Farming, News

    Take a stand against that ridiculous fart tax! (petition)

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    It does have a fancier name but why give them the ‘honour’ of using it? It’s just another step towards reducing the food supply (watch this video on that topic if you think that’s ‘conspiracy’). It’s part of Agenda 21 /30’s so called ‘great reset’ where we’ll own nothing and be happy. Well so they wish anyway. Klaus, Bill and their little band of so called ‘elites’ (not).

    It is worth a try anyway to sign the petition… bearing in mind that the NZ corporation parading as a government tends to ignore the wishes of thousands of its tax payers because we are not a democracy after all. EWR

    (Note my sentiments here expressed are not necessarily those of the Groundswell movement. However, destroying farming will definitely affect us all).

    SIGN THE PETITION HERE

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    https://www.groundswellnz.co.nz/stop-the-farming-tax

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    Here is the End Game Hiding Behind the Fart Tax

    Geoengineering, News, Weather & Climate

    Those Claiming that we Need to Fix Global Warming are the Very Ones Causing it

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    URGENT: New Documentary Proves Climate Engineering by Controlling the Weather (NOT “Global Warming”) is Destroying Life and the Planet: Immediate Danger FAR Greater than COVID-19

    by Brian Shilhavy
    Editor, Health Impact News

    As the world has been dominated for the past year by the fake threat that the Globalists want us to believe COVID-19 presents, a much greater risk to human health and the very life that exists on this planet has been covered up, until now.

    In a very well documented and brilliantly produced explosive new film just released, The Dimming, by Dane Wigington of GeoengineeringWatch.org, conclusive evidence is presented to show that the planet earth is not being destroyed by global warming as defined by the Globalists, but it is being destroyed by the Globalists themselves through their weather modification efforts to dim the sun by spraying nanoparticles into the atmosphere and then using microwave transmissions such as 5G to weaponize the weather.

    The horrendous forest fires on the west coast late last year, the nuclearized winter storm that recently hit Texas, and one that is currently hitting Denver as this is being written, are all related to the Globalists militarized weather modification programs.

    These climate engineering programs that are spraying dangerous nanoparticles into our atmosphere every day, and then activated by EMF radiation like 5G, are causing far more sickness and disease than any virus can, including producing “flu-like” symptoms.

    Dane Wigington has interviewed some the world’s top scientists and authorities on climate engineering and its effects on life and health in this film …

    READ AT THE LINK

    https://healthimpactnews.com/2021/urgent-new-documentary-proves-climate-engineering-by-controlling-the-weather-not-global-warming-is-destroying-life-and-the-planet-immediate-danger-far-greater-than-covid-19/

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    Corporations, News, Pharmaceutical Industry

    The global and local economy has slipped into a predatory frame of mind

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    hatchardreport.com

    A Fatal Fascination With Pharmaceutical Interventions

    Earlier this week Leighton Smith asked me if I thought the structure of society was breaking down. Before the week is through, the UK Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng is out after just 38 days in office (exit right). He suggested that the uber wealthy needed more money to manage and the common man a lot less in difficult times. The UK papers, both left, and right, have had a field day suggesting PM Liz Truss has lost her balance of mind.

    Do I think the condition of society is terminal? No. It is wildly out of balance, completely polarised, and financially strapped, but these are still things that hopefully can be fixed. So why have they happened?

    Consumers Can Switch to Bidets if They Are Unhappy

    Yesterday I wandered glumly around my local supermarket, morosely looking at price tags. Toilet paper which pre-pandemic sold for $8.50 for 18 rolls, was now selling for $18.50 for 24 rolls. Despite the bigger package, you can’t disguise the fact that this is a wicked price increase of 63%. Callously a supermarket spokesperson joked New Zealand consumers can switch to bidets if they are unhappy.

    This price increase, and many others like it (too many), is more a reflection of how corporations have come to regard customers than it is related to any underlying economic conditions. The global and local economy has slipped into a predatory frame of mind.

    Economic decisions are taken by individuals. The current economic downturn implies that individual decision-makers have become more isolated from the needs of their fellows. Society is not a reality TV show where the winner takes all, the individual and social interest need to remain balanced. So how have we lost this perspective?

    Mind-body Balance is Fundamental to Health

    Balance of mind is supported by balance of body—balance of physiological processes. Loss of a balanced perspective involves a loss of physiological balance. Traditional systems of healthcare like Indian ayurveda, Chinese medicine, and many others regard balance as a fundamental of health. Ayurveda seeks to maintain physiological balance through herbal and other interventions. It identifies three fundamental components of physiological (and incidentally mental) balance: Transport, Transformation, and Structure.

    RNA, in one form or another, touches nearly everything in a cell. RNA carries out a broad range of functions, from translating genetic information into the molecular machines and structures of the cell to regulating the activity of genes during development, cellular differentiation, and changing environments.

    Note these RNA responsibilities: Translating, Regulating Activity, and Maintaining Structure. Which run exactly parallel to the ayurvedic components of balance.

    You can see where this is going. Change the way the RNA works in our trillions of cells, and how much have you interfered with balance? Not just physiological balance, but crucially balance of mind. Body and mind are intimately connected; they are not separate but are two sides of one coin.

    It is widely accepted that drugs affect mental processes, so why is it not routine to test the possible mental effects of novel medical interventions?

    Consumption of Psychotropic Drugs Has Been Normalised Despite Questions About Safety

    When a close friend was studying at Auckland University, they were asked to write an essay on the morality of drug use with reference to the philosophy of John Stuart Mill. Mill combined philosophy with economics. He believed that the individual is free to choose what makes them happy unless it interferes with social well-being. According to Mill’s philosophy, the question was asked whether individual drug taking was right or wrong.

    My friend argued that individual drug taking should be considered a social ill because of the conditions under which drugs are supplied lead to a lot of undesirable effects on families and healthcare systems. The paper was awarded a low mark. Faculty expected that students would decide that drug taking was an acceptable individual choice.

    This story had a happy ending, my friend appealed their mark which was raised on independent review. The bad taste in the mouth remained for me—we live in a society where the consumption of psychotropic drugs, both legal and illegal, has been normalised despite questions about safety.

    In other words, mental and physiological balance has been put aside in favour of the superman philosophy. Any sign of trouble, dodge into a phone booth, pop a pill, and emerge ready to save the world. Naturally, our response to the pandemic had to be a pill or an injection. The fundamentals of health—diet, lifestyle, rest, exercise, and happiness had already been relegated to a distant second place by our fascination with all things pharmaceutical and even labelled conspiracy theories.

    The Rush to Vaccinate Turned Out to Be a Fatal Mistake

    According to medical orthodoxy, vaccination should have been an individual and social good, one of which Mill would have approved. However, mRNA injections involve a novel technology which resets fundamental physiological processes. Novel mRNA vaccines upset balance throughout the body, including our circulatory, reproductive, and respiratory systems. The blood-brain barrier and the placenta are breached, and the heart and mind are affected.

    The solely pharmaceutical paradigm of health could be out of place in the adverse effect post-pandemic landscape. Those damaged by mRNA adverse reactions are facing an uphill struggle to source effective treatments and meaningful compensation. Reportedly some adverse effect sufferers are being offered additional risky experimental ‘remedies’.

    In the USA, the drug Humira, an immune system suppressant sometimes used in the treatment of Crohn’s disease, has been offered to some. Humira’s label highlights the risk of serious infections leading to hospitalization or death, including TB, bacterial sepsis, invasive fungal infections and infections due to opportunistic pathogens. It also features cancers, notably lymphoma and hepatosplenic T-cell lymphoma. Other warnings listed on Humira’s label include severe allergic reactions, hepatitis b reactivation, neurological reactions, blood reactions, worsening congestive heart failure and lupus-like syndrome—out of the frying pan into the fire.

    Some of these adverse reactions sound depressingly similar to those which can follow mRNA vaccination. There is a reason for this. Humira belongs to a class of medicines called biologic drugs. It is made from a synthetic (bioengineered) antibody. It belongs to a group of medicines called ‘anti-TNF’ drugs or therapies. This is because it works by suppressing a protein in the body called TNF-alpha (tumour necrosis factor-alpha). Your body naturally produces TNF-alpha as part of its immune response, in order to help fight infections by temporarily causing inflammation in affected areas.

    In other words, Humira takes over control of our natural immune response by blocking a key pathway in the chain of events which originates with the DNA to RNA transfer of information. Sound familiar? We need to exit from a biotechnology paradigm which seeks to re-engineer the relationship between our DNA and the immune system it orchestrates—a relationship we depend on every second of the day.

    The ultimate sources of mental balance, of philanthropy, kindness, security, understanding, and happiness are no doubt tied to our bodily processes. If these are irreversibly altered, recovering from social polarisation might be difficult, but history records remarkable regeneration following great ups and downs. It is perhaps right to assume that such will eventually be the case.

    However, if we are to secure our individual and collective future, we will need to wake up from our fatal fascination with an exclusively pharmaceutical dream of health—it is becoming a nightmare. We need Global Legislation Outlawing Biotechnology Experimentation—GLOBE. We have no desire to be lab rats or drug addicts.

    SOURCE

    https://hatchardreport.com/a-fatal-fascination-with-pharmaceutical-interventions/

    agenda 21/30, News

    Climate ‘expert’ with clear UN, Gates, WEF links advises Kiwis to consider lab-grown meat and milk

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    From 1News … one of NZ’s leading government mouthpieces…

    That climate ruse again.

    “Global sustainability consultant Aimee Christensen told Q+A that industrial countries – like Aotearoa – are struggling to let go of their industries and acknowledge their contributions to historic emissions…”

    Some of us know why the climate’s changed but they won’t be owning up to that any time soon. One of our former MPs Amy Adams did admit back in 2014 that geoengineering was a practice being considered to ‘combat climate change’. So we can safely assume it’s not conspiracy then as Nick Smith claims? Australia’s Sen Malcolm Roberts has put paid to the climate lies however, have a listen to his speech on topic in 2019.

    So Aimee wants us to consider lab grown food? Show us the safety studies please Aimee. I’m remembering the failed Golden Rice fiasco. That pitched a second try on the public in 2018.

    This latest attack on NZ farmers is all on cue. PM Ardern recently announced she wants to introduce a fart tax on farmers for their methane emissions! It will reduce our carbon footprint she says. Meanwhile these globalists (Ardern included) think nothing of swanning off to their elite annual meetings in Davos in private jets. They are not even smart enough to dupe us with the appearance of a smaller ‘carbon footprint’. And as to the climate ‘expert’ she has Clinton, Rockefeller and WEF links in her (not) impressive resume. You will even see Coca Cola, World Bank and Google in there.

    This proposal for a fart tax was put out there a year or two back. It is how globalists typically work. Introduce the idea. Make like it’s dismissed when everybody gets up in arms. Then at a more opportune time, bring in an ‘expert’ like Ms Christenson to float the idea again.

    In order to press farmers into their way of thinking ‘the Government needs to wield some heft’ she says.

    “I’ve always had to have hope, and I’ve seen it – I’ve seen fearless leadership by government leaders…”

    Fearless leadership? Heft? From our one source of truth?

    Ardern is pretty good at that, as we’ve observed here in NZ for the past two years.

    Here is a link to the lamestream article.

    News, Royals

    What the Media Won’t Tell You About KING CHARLES III (Pt 3)

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    SOURCE LIST:

    The lord of darkness? Disturbing details on Charles’ favorite uncle https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/19731909.lord-darkness-disturbing-life-charless-favourite-uncle/
    Prince Charles and Lord Mountbatten’s Treasured Relationship https://www.biography.com/news/prince-charles-lord-mountbatten-relationship
    Prince Philip’s turbulent childhood with Lord Mountbatten https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-56690270
    Who Was Lord Louis Mountbatten, Prince Charles’ Mentor? https://www.marieclaire.com/culture/a29771564/lord-louis-mountbatten-the-crown/
    The FBI doc on Mountbatten https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/capital/teaching_and_learning/projects/robeson/fbi/robes14.pdf
    Lord Louis Mountbatten’s assassination by the IRA https://britishheritage.com/history/lord-mountbatten-death
    Charles doesn’t have to pay inheritance tax https://www.businessinsider.com/charles-doesnt-have-to-pay-inheritance-tax-750-million-estate-2022-9
    Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein and the prince: ‘How on earth was this allowed to happen?’ https://archive.ph/vlm0M#selection-641.0-641.93
    Kevin Spacey kill them with kindness vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxAVjU5DtkE
    Kevin Spacey accuser commits suicide after his vid https://movieweb.com/kevin-spacey-accuser-suicide-christmas-video/ Kevin Spacey list of accusers https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2017/11/07/kevin-spacey-scandal-complete-list-13-accusers/835739001/ Mountbatten’s paedophile abuse: letter from definitive biographer Andrew Lownie not published by Sunday Independent. https://villagemagazine.ie/mountbatten-child-abuse-scandal-no-right-of-reply-afforded-by-the-sunday-independent/
    Jimmy Savile caused concern on visits with prince charles https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/oct/29/jimmy-savile-behaviour-prince-charles
    Jimmy Savile wrote PR handbook for royal family https://www.thenational.scot/news/20048564.jimmy-savile-wrote-pr-handbook-prince-charles-netflix-show-reveals/
    Jimmy savile introduced to royal family by Lord Mountbatten 1966 https://www.express.co.uk/expressyourself/43798/How-Jim-really-did-fix-it

    Gardening, News

    Spring in the garden: things we might miss or forget (Wally Richards)

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    It is an very interesting spring and start to the new season.

    Most of us are saying where is spring? It is already into October and not much springy in the air.

    Mind you before the Polar Blast that had us adding another layer of clothes and lighting the fire we did have some not too bad days.

    Hopefully those mild days were sufficient to bring some of the pests out of their winter hiding places to be stuck dead by the cold blast.

    If in spring we have an early start with sunny days and warm temperatures, then it turns to custard with a few days of bitter cold then all the pests that came out will shiver to death and our pest problem will be significantly reduced.

    It then will be into the new year before their numbers multiply and cause problems.

    It is now not long before Labour Weekend arrives and that is the New Zealand Traditional time for planting out the tender plants such a tomatoes and Impatiens.

    More tender plants such as cucumbers should not be planted till the weather really settles otherwise they just sit there and sulk.

    If you do early plantings of non-hardy plants then only do a couple or so and then two to three weeks later another little planting.

    Follow that pattern and you cant go wrong.

    It is a timely reminder to check grafted fruit trees, ornamentals and roses.

    Grafted means they are growing on a similar family plant’s root stock.

    This is done for several reasons such as preventing suckering, giving what is supposed to be a better plant such as High Health in Roses and also to determine the end result size of the tree.

    The root stock can and often does start producing foliage and if that is allowed to grow then the energy from the roots is grabbed by the root stock’s development and likely at some time the tree that is grafted onto the root stock will fail and die.

    Normally it is fairly easy to see the union where the tree is

    connected to the root stock.

    So any foliage that appears there on the root stock should be rubbed off or cut off to prevent it growing bigger.

    Sometime the foliage may appear from under the soil near the trunk. Once again remove.

    I have come to understand that grafted stone fruit trees are very likely to have curly leaf disease as the graft is a weakening aspect of the tree’s health and vigor.

    I learnt this week an interesting thing; apparently if a person receives a transplant organ then over time that person may start to develop characteristics and even memories of the donor.

    Which make s me wonder if a grafted tree starts to show aspects of the tree it is grafted too?

    Dwarf stone fruit are the worst to have curly leaf problems.

    If you grow a peach, nectarine or plum from a stone then apparently because it is on its own root system it will be far less likely to have curly leaf disease and maybe also less or none of other problems.

    With roses we some times see what is often called a water shoot which is a strong upward shoot from near the base.

    I think the recommendation is to cut them off but on one occasion I let it grow and with some cosmetic pruning over a couple of seasons turn a bush rose into a standard.

    A reader today asked about her compost bins which are made out of tanalised timber.

    She asked ‘Would the tanalised timber be harmful to the compost and would it be ok to use the compost on the vegetable garden’?

    Tantalized timber has some nasty chemicals in them (Ask any older builder that has worked with tantalized timber for years about how they are faring)

    I also learnt from a building inspector that tantalized fence palings that I screwed to my steel warehouse

    (To attach steel cages onto for gas bottles and instant gas hot water unit) would overtime eat into the steel and cause corrosion.

    So if the chemical can do that to colour steel what are they going to do to your food crops that will take up the chemicals that leach into the soil/compost?

    Not a healthy outlook for sure.

    The answer is to give the tantalized wood that has been cut to the right size a couple of coats of acrylic paint before assembling to seal the chemicals in.

    This is also applied to raised gardens when using tantalized timber.

    Container plants indoors and outdoors over winter required much less water but now as the day light hours increase and temperatures rise they will require more moisture.

    A problem arises though in that the growing medium, when it became dry causes tension that does not allow the water to penetrate.

    So when you water not all the mix/root system gets any moisture and you have a dry spot.

    Water rather than staying in the mix a lot of it will run out into the saucer.

    There are two ways to solve this problem.

    Container that are not too large should be taken and plunged into a tub of water submerging the whole pot. It will start to bubble away which is the air being forced out of the medium as the water replaces the dry air pockets.

    When the pot stops bubbling lift up and let the surplus water drain out before returning to its saucer.

    That means next time you water the plant will get all the benefit.

    If you have a large container that you cannot plunge into a tank of water then what you do is this.

    Fill your watering can with warm water and then give a good squirt of dish washing liquid into it.

    Lather up with your hand to make the water nice and soapy.

    Water the soapy water into the container mix and this will break the tension and allow water to wet the whole mix till the same happens again.

    Hanging baskets are prone to having tension and not getting a proper drink. This is especially so with hanging baskets outdoors.

    Plunge into a tub of water and watch them bubble. During the summer outdoor baskets should be plunged once a month.

    Another big problem with container plants is root mealy bugs and the easy way to fix is to sprinkle a little of Wallys Neem Tree powder over the mix then cover with a little more potting mix.

    The powder with become mouldy as it breaks down and look unsightly.

    Under a layer of fresh mix you will not see it.

    Something extra which  I received this week that you may find interesting/shocking?

    https://www.debtclock.nz/?utm_campaign=20221007_newsletter_jordan&utm_medium=email&utm_source=taxpayers

    Someone has to pay for this and its not the ones that have caused this debt.

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    New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990. Part II of the Act covers a broad range of Civil and Political Rights. As part of the right to life and the security of the person, the Act guarantees everyone:

    1The right not to be deprived of life except in accordance with fundamental justice (Section 8)

    2The right not to be subjected to torture or to cruel, degrading, or disproportionately severe treatment or punishment (Section 9)

    3The right not to be subjected to medical or scientific experimentation without consent (Section 10)

    4The right to refuse to undergo any medical treatment (Section 11)

     Furthermore, the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 guarantees everyone: Freedom of Thought, Conscience, and Religion.
    This includes the right to freedom of thought, conscience, religion, and belief,
    INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO ADOPT AND HOLD OPINIONS WITHOUT INTERFERENCE (Section 1)

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