For a decade the New Zealand SAS have been subjected to attacks on their conduct during Operation Burnham in Afghanistan. NZ media have continued these attacks (see the link below). However, buried in this article is the following snippet; the SAS did nothing wrong, they acted professionally.
The SAS soldiers have not been found to be directly responsible for any wrongful civilian deaths, and the report said they acted professionally during the raid.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/122306197/operation-burnham-inquiry-child-was-likely-killed-sas-soldiers-misled-prisoner-was-tortured
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July 31, 2020
July 29, 2020
New Blogger Interface
Google have introduced a new interface for blogs such as mine, users are having a lot of trouble with it. I'm using the old interface for now, but that will disappear in about a month. I intentionally chose an appearance for my blog that was very simple just in case that would happen and it has. Colours may no longer display the same, fonts may no longer match previous posts, who knows, everything is up in the air.
For bloggers, creating a new post and generally navigating around the new layout is proving very difficult for some, with some features no longer available or just not working, and that's if they can even find them. That's the feedback I'm hearing from those who use the new interface.
If this blog becomes inactive, you'll know why. If the new interface is unworkable, I'll probably move to WordPress or something not as good as the old Blogger. My blog is read widely, all over the world, but Google don't care about us, it looks like they just want to get rid of us. So, this could be goodbye. Bye for now.
For bloggers, creating a new post and generally navigating around the new layout is proving very difficult for some, with some features no longer available or just not working, and that's if they can even find them. That's the feedback I'm hearing from those who use the new interface.
If this blog becomes inactive, you'll know why. If the new interface is unworkable, I'll probably move to WordPress or something not as good as the old Blogger. My blog is read widely, all over the world, but Google don't care about us, it looks like they just want to get rid of us. So, this could be goodbye. Bye for now.
July 28, 2020
Coronavirus, Elections and Lack of Patriotism
Right now, New Zealand is in the middle of an election campaign. The result will decide the government for the next three years. The NZ Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern is the front runner, but hot on her heels is the National Party leader, Judith Collins.
Ardern is playing a shrewd game and I think quite dishonestly so. That's because she's using the current Coronavirus panic as a mechanism to bolster support for her regime. It is quite easy to do, here's Hermann Goering on the subject:
"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."
-- Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials
Ardern is using the Coronavirus, COVID19 as a means to convince the population they're being attacked, not by foreign armies but by the virus itself. Any opposition is considered unpatriotic and thus exposing the country to even more danger. This is duplicitous to say the least but this is the standard of discourse these days.
Will people wake up? Eventually they will, but it may be too late by then. The country will have slipped into bankruptcy and possibly no longer exist in any real sense, it will have to fold and become a State of Australia, a status it technically holds but has never activated.
Ardern is playing a shrewd game and I think quite dishonestly so. That's because she's using the current Coronavirus panic as a mechanism to bolster support for her regime. It is quite easy to do, here's Hermann Goering on the subject:
"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."
-- Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials
Ardern is using the Coronavirus, COVID19 as a means to convince the population they're being attacked, not by foreign armies but by the virus itself. Any opposition is considered unpatriotic and thus exposing the country to even more danger. This is duplicitous to say the least but this is the standard of discourse these days.
Will people wake up? Eventually they will, but it may be too late by then. The country will have slipped into bankruptcy and possibly no longer exist in any real sense, it will have to fold and become a State of Australia, a status it technically holds but has never activated.
July 26, 2020
Kanye West
Apparently rapper and billionaire, Kanye West has bought a ranch in Wyoming, near the town of Cody, the rodeo capital of the world. Good for him, he's caught on. I visited Cody, Wyoming back in late 2016. It's a nice place full of nice people. The landscape is beautiful. The town is the last settlement before the eastern entrance to Yellowstone National Park, so it's a handy place.
I saw a picture of Kanye and a friend of his eating something bought at the Cody Walmart. The food there is actually very good, fresh.
I hope things go well for him. Wyoming is certainly a good start.
I saw a picture of Kanye and a friend of his eating something bought at the Cody Walmart. The food there is actually very good, fresh.
I hope things go well for him. Wyoming is certainly a good start.
July 23, 2020
Donald Trump Wishes Ghislaine Maxwell Well
Maybe just a little scary, Donald Trump has wished Ghislaine Maxwell well as she sits in a jail cell awaiting trial. Various theories exist about what he really meant.
Was he saying; watch out, don't rat out those with the power to knock you off. Then John Cleese tweeted that perhaps Maxwell has something on Trump. Surely that must be on the list of possibilities. Personally, I think this was a message, not so much a threat, indicating that she was involved in espionage. The whole thing may have been a sting operation. If I'm right, then she'll be spirited out of jail and live out the rest of her life in Israel. That's where her father is buried and of course he was a spy.
Certainly, we live in interesting times.
Was he saying; watch out, don't rat out those with the power to knock you off. Then John Cleese tweeted that perhaps Maxwell has something on Trump. Surely that must be on the list of possibilities. Personally, I think this was a message, not so much a threat, indicating that she was involved in espionage. The whole thing may have been a sting operation. If I'm right, then she'll be spirited out of jail and live out the rest of her life in Israel. That's where her father is buried and of course he was a spy.
Certainly, we live in interesting times.
July 22, 2020
Tesla Model 3: Rubbish
Have you been on YouTube and checked out the reviews of the Tesla Model 3? I have and these owners seem to be a kind of masochist. The flaws they report on the car are many and varied, real problems which they explain away. Is this the coolness factor overpowering the realities with this piece of overpriced junk? It has got to be. I'm sticking with Subaru, a real car.
July 17, 2020
The Dark Age Looms
I am embedding a YouTube documentary which looks at the end of the Bronze Age. What followed was a dark age that lasted hundreds of years. The written word largely disappeared, civilisation destroyed; not much is known about this dark age as so little written evidence survives. What happened? It is likely a number of things brought on the sudden end of the Bronze Age. Climate change, pressure on resources, war, population growth and the attendant migration, they're all part of it.
We are now witnessing the end of our world. The end of Western Civilisation. War has contributed to this decline, as has climate change. But overarching this is the loss of identity. The West no longer believes in itself, it pulls itself down at every opportunity and is defeated before if even gets out of bed in the morning. What will follow this crash, the crash to end all crashes, will be a dark age that will last hundreds of years. When will this crash occur? The precise timing is unclear, we cannot be certain. But it will happen within the next 200 years. When it does happen, the crash will be sudden as a tipping point will have been reached. Cities will burn and people will die.
In 3,000 years time they'll be talking about this time and what happened exactly. There will be different theories about the collapse of our age, that it was inevitable, they (that's us) failed to heed the message. They'll marvel at how advanced our technology seemed, that we set foot on the moon. They'll wonder why they had to reinvent everything, finally doing much better but it was so hard, and these earlier people (yes, that's us again) often had the answer but thought little of the future.
Of course our language and much of our written history will have gone. They'll know of our existence by digging up remains and sifting through our landfills.
Please view the video, then try to tell me I'm wrong.
We are now witnessing the end of our world. The end of Western Civilisation. War has contributed to this decline, as has climate change. But overarching this is the loss of identity. The West no longer believes in itself, it pulls itself down at every opportunity and is defeated before if even gets out of bed in the morning. What will follow this crash, the crash to end all crashes, will be a dark age that will last hundreds of years. When will this crash occur? The precise timing is unclear, we cannot be certain. But it will happen within the next 200 years. When it does happen, the crash will be sudden as a tipping point will have been reached. Cities will burn and people will die.
In 3,000 years time they'll be talking about this time and what happened exactly. There will be different theories about the collapse of our age, that it was inevitable, they (that's us) failed to heed the message. They'll marvel at how advanced our technology seemed, that we set foot on the moon. They'll wonder why they had to reinvent everything, finally doing much better but it was so hard, and these earlier people (yes, that's us again) often had the answer but thought little of the future.
Of course our language and much of our written history will have gone. They'll know of our existence by digging up remains and sifting through our landfills.
Please view the video, then try to tell me I'm wrong.
July 15, 2020
F1 Drivers Refuse To Take a Knee
I had to laugh at this YouTube channel's reaction to Lewis Hamilton and his backing the Marxists that are BLM. And total legends those drivers refusing to buckle to the bullying tactics of Hamilton and his ilk.
July 13, 2020
The Year 2020
What a weird year this has been and we're only half way through. We had the coronavirus which China appears to have made a worldwide problem, helped along the way by the WHO. The reaction to the virus was completely over the top and has plunged the planet into the deepest Depression seen in hundreds of years.
Then we have Jeffrey Epstein's Island and the arrest of Ghislaine Maxwell. At about the same time someone published the manifest for plane trips to the island on the Lolita Express, Epstein's private jet. Reading the names on that manifest is like reading through the names of the great and the powerful. How many of these names have been arrested thus far? Is that none of them? It's outrageous but there you are.
Then we have Jeffrey Epstein's Island and the arrest of Ghislaine Maxwell. At about the same time someone published the manifest for plane trips to the island on the Lolita Express, Epstein's private jet. Reading the names on that manifest is like reading through the names of the great and the powerful. How many of these names have been arrested thus far? Is that none of them? It's outrageous but there you are.
July 09, 2020
July 08, 2020
NZ Army: New Protected Mobility Vehicle
New Zealand are buying the Australian built Bushmaster for its army.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/122067489/new-armoured-vehicle-purchase-replaces-ageing-fleet
This is fine, but readers will be aware this is a drop in the bucket of what NZ needs to be spending. It continues to underinvest on defence and this won't be reversed soon. Too little too late?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/122067489/new-armoured-vehicle-purchase-replaces-ageing-fleet
This is fine, but readers will be aware this is a drop in the bucket of what NZ needs to be spending. It continues to underinvest on defence and this won't be reversed soon. Too little too late?
July 04, 2020
Adrenochrome: Real or Not?
The story goes that a chemical called Adrenochrome is consumed by rich elites from institutions such as Hollywood, Wall Street, Washington DC, and Royalty. To obtain this chemical they torture young children and then drink their blood. Jeffrey Epstein's island is now believed by many to be one such place where these activities took place.
I can't say whether this is real or not. I simply don't know, but we do know that a long list of celebrities and powerful people visited Epstein's island and that some pretty sick stuff went on there. It was only a matter of time before Epstein and Adrenochrome became firmly linked.
I found this article which reveals the truth about Adrenochrome: https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/07-04-2020/explainer-adrenochrome-the-drug-that-doesnt-exist/
Wikipedia on the chemical here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrenochrome
Maybe people are going down the wrong road with this.
I have a different idea and I talk about this in my latest novel, Dana Point. Aliens from Hercules have seeded earth with their species, they visit from time to time to check up on progress. Their society is an hierarchical one based on blood. It is possible to rise up the ranks, but if busted for various crimes they revert to their original blood type at birth. In this ranking order, actors are the lowest (thus no-one from a higher rank would ever become an actor). Bankers and business people are not much better. They too may rise in society but risk falling back down.
If I may be so bold; Hollywood may be trying to consume better blood so they can achieve a faster rise to that of military generals and the like. It is not long to go now before Hercules arrives to assimilate Earth (this assimilation fleet, the hospital ship and the battle to determine the fate of Earth will be the subject of my second novel). Hollywood may know the fleet is about to arrive and be desperate to avoid being placed at the bottom of society.
You can read my novel which describes how Hercules operates by taking the Dana Point link above, or by taking this link: Dana Point
I can't say whether this is real or not. I simply don't know, but we do know that a long list of celebrities and powerful people visited Epstein's island and that some pretty sick stuff went on there. It was only a matter of time before Epstein and Adrenochrome became firmly linked.
I found this article which reveals the truth about Adrenochrome: https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/07-04-2020/explainer-adrenochrome-the-drug-that-doesnt-exist/
Wikipedia on the chemical here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrenochrome
Maybe people are going down the wrong road with this.
I have a different idea and I talk about this in my latest novel, Dana Point. Aliens from Hercules have seeded earth with their species, they visit from time to time to check up on progress. Their society is an hierarchical one based on blood. It is possible to rise up the ranks, but if busted for various crimes they revert to their original blood type at birth. In this ranking order, actors are the lowest (thus no-one from a higher rank would ever become an actor). Bankers and business people are not much better. They too may rise in society but risk falling back down.
If I may be so bold; Hollywood may be trying to consume better blood so they can achieve a faster rise to that of military generals and the like. It is not long to go now before Hercules arrives to assimilate Earth (this assimilation fleet, the hospital ship and the battle to determine the fate of Earth will be the subject of my second novel). Hollywood may know the fleet is about to arrive and be desperate to avoid being placed at the bottom of society.
You can read my novel which describes how Hercules operates by taking the Dana Point link above, or by taking this link: Dana Point
July 03, 2020
Ghislaine Maxwell Arrested
Jeffrey Epstein's girlfriend has been tracked down and arrested. So the reports she was hiding out in Paris appear to be wrong; she was in fact in the US. This is going to get interesting from here, if she knows anything, will she name Epstein's associates? The FBI are saying she had a central role in Epstein's affairs, and if that's the case she could cut a deal, but that would be on the understanding she tells them everything she knows. I'd say there must be some pretty nervous people out there right now, that is, if Ghislaine Maxwell does know anything or have anything to say (all of this is alleged mind you, innocent until proven guilty and all that).
CBS link of the story: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ghislaine-maxwell-jeffrey-epstein-confidante-arrested-fbi/
CBS link of the story: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ghislaine-maxwell-jeffrey-epstein-confidante-arrested-fbi/
July 02, 2020
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