The police turn brutal in Wellington, New Zealand

I apologise for the wonky formatting; this small item has taken about 4 times as long as normal to put together from the first moment.

Not being content with following events from 20 km away and watching

livestreams we decided to go on down and see for ourselves.

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The media are praising the police for their "patience" and "calm response" to "aggressive" anti-COVID vaccine mandate protestors.  

  This could, of course be straight out of George Orwell and worthy of Soviet propaganda. While we are talking of the protestors this picture tells the tale.

 

This was the scene last night.

The first impression we got was of a rainbow selection of people from all sorts of backgrounds. There were young and old, there were Pakeha, Maori, Thais, Chinese. Above all, the children...

Despite everything that people had been through during the day there was a party-like atmosphere and even some exuberance.

All of this came under the sombre observing eyes of the cops.

The media says ad nauseum that there is no central message uniting the protestors - that they are "rent-a-mob", a collection of the "unwashed" and "unemployed" as one policeman said.

However, there was a central message that goes through everything; that is Jacinda Adern's vaccine mandate have to go and indeed this government has to go.

Everyone we spoke to had their own grief, their own tale to tell, whether it was losing a job they loved or losing friends or relatives to the jab.

This is what media and some parts of social media selected by them had to say:

We spoke to one woman who related the following:

Police closed ranks and moved in on the crowd. They had a tactic of identifying a target, going in and dragging them out on their backs and then turned over on the concrete.

There were a number of injuries reported - broken ribs and sternum.

Some of the people ended up in hospital.

One tent was broken into and the woman arrested leaving the children on their own.

One person we spoke to observed the pleasure some police (including policewomen) in what they were doing - "gleeful" was the word she used.

I do not have the numbers at my fingertips, but it seems over 120 arrests were made.

This appeared on Telegram:

WHEN ONE FEMALE POLICE OFFICER CAN DO THIS, WHAT WILL A RIOT SQUAD DO...

"For those of you watching my live, it was just as well I put my phone away when I did. Police pushed forward and I am now In hospital .. a woman PC deliberately pushed her elbow onto my windpipe and then my sternum.I told her she was hurting me and she increased the pressure. Suspected broken sternum I felt it crack, the pressure was incredible. Onscale of 1 to 10 it was a 10 never had pain like it. I SCREAMED AND SCREAMED...they pulled me out by my arms and injuring me further and them kept we waiting on all fours for more than an hour for ambulance...as ambulances turned I heard them.sa they were going to Pepper spray the people.....I am finejust in a LOT of pain...

 

Kia kaha"

This treatment of a 14 year-old boy is straight out of the textbook of the Israeli police and when used by American police it provoked months of rioting by BLM  and Antifa.

 

Today, New Zealand Police deliberately and brutally attacked citizens engaging in peaceful protest in front of Wellington's Parliament House. Police, using pepper spray and scrum tactics, targeted and herded the crowd of civilians after locking the gates mid-morning to prevent them leaving the area.

The protesters, who were singing the New Zealand National Anthem and linking arms, remained remarkably calm under extreme pressure from the massive number of recruits from the NZ Police Training College and other Police resources.

Adults and children were targeted during the violent assault on citizens, with one 14-year old suffering a neck injury from the use of Police headlock tactics. Elderly men and women were dragged out from their peaceful protest groups, and dragged across grass and concrete before being arrested and taken for processing.

The charges against the protesters involved trespass, which was alleged by Speaker of the House Trevor Mallard and reiterated by Grant Robertson, Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand.

Live video shows the aggressors to be New Zealand Police with the crowd overall being extremely good-willed.under intense pressure.

One media commentator noted that "I have never disliked Police in my life - until now!", and it seems that the actions of Police being livestreamed around the nation have encouraged many hundreds more New Zealanders to join the movement.

Here is another description:

The police are doing shifts, the people are not.

The protesters were standing peaceful and then the police barged.

I watched the whole thing for 4 hours straight with a side on view.

They pulled a woman by her hair and her dress came off in the process and they arrested her naked. I watched them pull a young girl right in front of the camera when she was just talking to her parent and then supposed to go back into the outer area. They barged right at the point out of the blue when there was NO violence at all and grabbed her and cut her neck. There is a woman who was just putting her ph away in her bag and they unexpectedly barged again and they grabbed her and dragged her by her feet and then pushed their elbow into her sternum and cracked it and now she is in hospital. The other people they arrested got let go and are back on parliament grounds.

STOP LISTENING TO MAINSTREAM MEDIA!!! THEY ARE DECEIVING YOU. 

We know as soon as they are about to barge cause you can see across at the mainstream media filming from the balcony. They run back to their camera like they know something is about to happen then about 5 mins later they start to barge.

There were police in tears at some of their colleges behaviour and said this is not right! There were 3 police that I know of that resigned on the spot. People can have a go at me over and over and I couldn't care less! Video footage does not lie like photographs do! I know what I saw! NO ONE can tell me otherwise.

Police are just doing what they have been told to do.

But it's their choice with what they do next.. I'm sad for some of the police and I'm really sad for our people!

It was a huge shock seeing people standing there linking arms singing the national Anthem and then watching out of the blue the barging and dragging people out by hair, feet or arms.

I prayed so hard for all involved and I cried my tears too. Wishing I could be there in support.

https://truthwatchnz.is/cv-injection-nz/nz-police-brutality-today-a-14-yo-boy-is-injured-restrained-by-full-body-force-on-his-head?fbclid=IwAR3fjphQOsHoKL8BYY5IGBOLxW_TnhUfN1gWLMJeoVpq6OM6hfwsvQMP_MI

VIDEO at the link:

On this, this a departure from normal media coverage this appeared in the NZ Herald

Police officers filmed dragging naked protester by her hair on Parliament grounds

 

Here is a screenshot from someone else being dragged away. She collapses a few seconds later.

 

WATCH THIS VIDEO TO SEE THE POLICE TACTICS EXPOSED:

 

  https://www.facebook.com/ChantelleBakerNZ/videos/292417952876527/

There is a lot more I could say about this but I want to get this information out "as is"

 

    

Starvation behind mass death in Wellington

 New Zealand in hot water: the plight of the little blue penguins

Starvation behind mass death 

of little blue penguin chicks

Warmer waters and sediment has caused 35 percent of little blue penguin chicks to die in Wellington.

Little Blue Penguin in it's nesting box in Wellington. Photo: Supplied

Radio NZ,

28 January, 2021

After a what was a successful nesting season, 66 baby penguins from Matiu / Somes Island died of starvation during a horror couple of weeks in November.

The season ended with a total loss of 82 chicks, 35 percent of the babies hatched this year.

Matiu / Somes is a predator-free Island in the heart of Wellington Harbour, and home to a usually thriving colony of Little Blue Penguins, or kororā.

But this season, it was a different story.

Penguin expert, and advocate - Mike Rumble surveys the island every two weeks with a team of volunteers to check the 600-to-800 penguins it's home to.

During a routine visit in November, he and the team came across a horrifying sight.

"The number involved was very high ... and it was all dead chicks in nest boxes and clearly something had gone wrong."

Over three weeks they lost 66 chicks, 54 of them found on one day alone.

"It wasn't always both chicks in the nest.

"Sometimes it was only one of two, and of course the problem we then had to do was try and work out what was going on."

From there Rumble looked to the water, curious to find out what had caused the mass casualty.

"I had this perfect view of both sides of Matiu / Somes Island and one of the things I saw was what we call silting lines.

"The lines of whatever it was coming out of Hutt River was coming down both sides of the island so we knew immediately there was a serious problem."

Mike Rumble believed a heavy downpour of rain and some stormwater overflow contributed to the silt.

sixty-six penguin chicks died. Photo: Supplied / Anna Gadsby

His suspicions were confirmed when the pathology results for one of the dead penguins came back - starvation was part of the problem.

These Little Blue Penguins were the canary in the coal mine when things weren't right and they were warning us about climate change, Rumble said.

"The little penguins rely on small fish which stay down at the sea floor in the cold currents and if the harbour temperature rises, as it clearly must have, those cold currents don't come up, they stay down which means the birds have got to work harder and things get very difficult for them when there is silting at the same time because they can't see the food that they're hunting for."

The parent penguins, go out to fish before returning home to feed the chicks, but if they can't get enough they won't - or they have to make the call to only feed one of their babies, he said.

In total they lost 82 out of 260 penguin chicks for the nesting season.

It was normal for about 11 percent of the chicks to die in a seasons but Rumble said this year's loss was sitting at 35 percent.

"The end result 2021 is 65 percent fledge rate, a massive drop. It could be a long-term effect hopefully eased a bit by the fact that whatever was causing the problem disappeared.

"It will still impact on what happens in the next two or three seasons."

Little Blue Penguin chicks hunker down in their box. Photo: Supplied

He said fewer birds would return for breeding, which will continue to harm the numbers of the colony.

Rumble had asked the Department of Conservation to do a full-scale audit into penguin losses this season to see if the problem was more widespread.

But he was thankful for the penguin parents, because there were more eggs at the start of the season, meaning there were higher chick numbers overall, which would combat some of the impact of the huge loss.

“Sea otters are an amazing indicator of what’s happening in the coastal environment, not just to other marine animals, but to us, too, especially on the issue of domoic acid,” said Christine K. Johnson, director of the EpiCenter for Disease Dynamics in the One Health Institute at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine and senior author of the study.

 The world’s ocean temperatures in 2020 were the third highest on record, and each of the past five years have been the ocean’s hottest years on record.

The study found that exposure to domoic acid increased a sea otter’s risk of dying with heart disease 1.7-fold. The risk is up to 2.5 times greater for otters consuming a high proportion of crab and clam, which accumulate domoic acid in their tissues, helping it persist in the food web. Additionally, the researchers discovered that domoic acid exposure is especially detrimental for prime-age adult sea otters, whose survival is vital for population growth.

“That’s worrisome for the long-term population recovery of southern sea otters, which are a threatened species,” said lead author Megan Moriarty, a wildlife veterinarian who conducted this research for her Ph.D. in epidemiology at UC Davis. “This study emphasises that domoic acid is a threat that isn’t going away. It’s a food web toxin and is pretty pervasive.”

https://www.oceanographicmagazine.com/news/algal-blooms-sea-otters/

New Zealanders protest against lockdowns and tyranny

Apparently I was part of a ragtag group of "far-rightists". I did not know that I was on the Right; I thought I was on the side of Truth.

You learn something new every day! Lol.

Protest at NZ Paliament featuring Billy te Kahika, Rashid Buttar (by cellphone) and others

MAINSTREAM NZ IS NOW REASSURING US THERE IS NO IMMINENT LOCKDOWN (IN SPITE OF HINTS OTHERWISE FOR AT LEAST A WEEK NOW)

Envirowatch Rangatikei,

13 January, 2021

Here we have mainstream dispelling the social media rumours that the NZ Govt is planning a lockdown on 15 January. For those of us with a finger on the pulse it’s not really rocket science going with the narrative to note that there will inevitably be another. We simply have a matter of dates here. Either way, being prepared is not rocket science either. We also have, not rumours but ‘stated fact’ from mainstream that food is going to be scarce, and intimations that although not mandatory you won’t be able to travel, work, socialize etc without the CV vaccine (that medical intervention by the way that has killed people or made them very ill – see also Covid Vaccine Deaths & Covid Vaccine reaction in ‘categories’, top left of page). Proving the point over a rumour for the 15th of January is irrelevant in my humble opinion. Let’s look at the larger picture. The ‘fact checkers’ as they call themselves are all over it. These same censorship moguls who are running our lives right now recently deemed an article from a Harvard Immunologist as fake news. So the person with the health degree doesn’t know what she is talking about, while Bill Gates’ whose ‘expertise’ extends somehow way beyond IT and right into health matters and mandatory vaccines without a relevant degree, does. The hypocrisy is breathtaking, and if you hadn’t noticed this by now as I see many still haven’t, I’m very concerned about your gullibility. EWR

A rumour New Zealand will enter lockdown on January 15 has been slammed as false by the All-of-Government COVID-19 Response Group after the untrue claims circulated on social media.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/01/coronavirus-new-zealand-not-entering-planned-lockdown-on-january-15-officials.html?fbclid=IwAR3wA1vad6sGdwwHMRkUCAu3-Nv70SN3TJO9xvxIqanrxOIPWMNS_d3trR0

The lame stream media reaction

Police and security were on stand-by this afternoon, as close to 100 protesters gathered outside Parliament for a "freedom rally," led by controversial political figure Billy Te Kahika.

Te Kahika was flanked by his own private security, which he had brought along to the protest.

In among the many signs – most critical of the Government, lockdowns and the UN – were a number of Donald Trump flags.

One protester told the Herald this morning that they "loved Trump" – that appeared to be the sentiment shared among a number of people gathered.

Another person at the protest was carrying a pink "Women for Trump" flag.

Before the protest had started, Māori council chair Matthew Tukaki labelled it an "alt-right, it's pro-Trump" event with nothing to do with freedom.

Despite this, neither Te Kahika nor any of the speakers mentioned Trump, the impeachment or anything to do with US politics.

Their comments were mostly aimed at the Government – objecting to the lockdowns and questioning the effectiveness of any Covid-19 vaccine.

Clinical trials for the vaccine are underway – medical officials around the world have urged people to get the Covid-19 vaccination to protect against the spread of the virus.

Te Kahika co-led the Advance NZ party, which won 1 per cent of the total vote in the 2020 Election.

Given the storming of the US Capitol last week and the arrest of a person who smashed windows at New Zealand's Parliament with an axe yesterday, there was heightened security at the protest.

Protesters begin gathering outside Parliament for this afternoon's 'freedom rally'. Photo / Jason Walls

Parliament's security was out in force and there were police officers dotted around Parliament's grounds.

A police spokesperson said they had been made aware of the rally planned at the Beehive, and were in contact with the protest organiser.

"Police's role is to ensure safety and uphold the law, while recognising the lawful right to protest."

They added that the police would recognise the lawful right to protest, but were "ready to respond to any issues should they arise".

But Te Kahika brought his own security who followed him around as he spoke to his supporters, and stood close by as he spoke.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/police-keeping-a-close-eye-on-controversial-billy-tk-freedom-rally-outside-beehive/4C2E3SYXDZPQZZA4CK2EC5T2MU/

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/434533/billy-te-kahika-spreads-covid-19-misinformation-at-parliament-rally

NZ far-right Twitter accounts suspended

Days after removing outgoing United States President Donald Trump from its platform, Twitter's crackdown on far-right and QAnon-related accounts has reached New Zealand's shores.

In the past week, the social media giant has removed more than 70,000 accounts, most of them for posting banned content related to the QAnon conspiracy theory, which falsely posits that Donald Trump is in a secret holy war against a Deep State cabal of prominent Democrats who are actually Satanic pedophile cannibals.

The accounts of a number of New Zealand-based far-right and QAnon activists were removed on Wednesday morning. Some were low profile accounts, like the @QNarrative one belonging to amateur cartoonist Ted Charlton or QAnon YouTuber Sarah Smith's 'Sarah Speaks' account. Others served some of New Zealand's most popular far-right YouTubers, like Damien de Ment and Vinny Eastwood.

De Ment spoke at a conspiracy theory rally in Auckland in early September and has previously spoken about his opposition to “mass migration” and the non-binding United Nations Global Compact for Migration – a common dog whistle for the far-right and a bugbear for the March 15 terrorist. He also frequently discusses conspiracy theories about central banks that verge on anti-Semitism.

“The New World Order is sort of the brand name of the illuminati, the brand name of the deep, dark, secretive societies that literally control 99.9 per cent of all the wealth on this planet and use it, effectively, in corruption,” he falsely claims in a June 2019 video.

“The entire planet as we know it is run by evil central banks who basically buy off everyone – the media, politicians, academia. You name it, the banks rule everything.”

Eastwood, meanwhile, is New Zealand's highest-profile conspiracy theorist. He is an Alex Jones-style conspiracy theorist with a daily YouTube show who believes Oranga Tamariki is running an “industrial-scale child trafficking ring”, that the March 15 terror attack was a hoax and who publishes videos with titles like “Elite CLONES, Freemasons, Demons and the communist new world order”.

Mothers Who Stand For Freedom, a far-right and QAnon-linked group targeted by anti-conspiracy campaigners in December, was also removed from the platform, as were longtime Twitter trolls the Redbaiter and Democracy Mum.

Former ACT Party candidate Stephen Berry also had his account suspended on Wednesday.

“We’ve been clear that we will take strong enforcement action on behaviour that has the potential to lead to offline harm. Given the violent events in Washington, DC, and increased risk of harm, we began permanently suspending thousands of accounts that were primarily dedicated to sharing QAnon content on Friday afternoon,” Twitter said in a statement on Tuesday.

“Many of the individuals impacted by this updated enforcement action held multiple accounts, driving up the total number of accounts impacted. Since Friday, more than 70,000 accounts have been suspended as a result of our efforts, with many instances of a single individual operating numerous accounts. These accounts were engaged in sharing harmful QAnon-associated content at scale and were primarily dedicated to the propagation of this conspiracy theory across the service.”

De Ment, for example, has a long history of being removed from Twitter before returning under a different username.

The YouTube and Facebook accounts of many of these far-right activists remain online.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300204101/nz-farright-twitter-accounts-suspended?fbclid=IwAR3eYUSXdpTgqGbrmYoWZshNXKd52bIO_5mr_dTsXkLl09bqV-GKqNA65sU

I was "caught" in a media photo

Signs of geoengineering

Chemtrails in Wellington

This winter, up to now, has been cooler than the last three, partially because we do not have a hot blob in the Tasman Sea. 

I also have not seen the sort of skies I have the last couple of years whereby the skies have seemed to be washed out and when you look through tinted glass you can see why – a layer of thin, cirrus cloud that obstructs the sun.

The skies have had a clear quality since the covid-20 lockdown and it has been a joy to behold.

Until yesterday….

Travelling out to the farm where we keep our horses we saw these trails that extended right across the sky from horizon to horizon. They were difficult to photograph because,although we could not escape there presence when it came to photographing them they were either eclipsed by houses or hills and the only view we could get was close to the sun.

After taking these photos we spied another,  fourth trail that had not started to disperse and also covered the entire sky.

I am posting these photos because we are some distance from the military airports and I have been unable to see this phenomenon in the past.

5G is being introduced quietly while we are all under house arrest

This demonstrates the agendas being carried out under the cover of a lockdown.

Vodafone increases 5G capacity in Wellington for police pandemic unit

Scoop,

April 17, 2020

News from Vodafone NZ

We continue to work closely with essential services to deliver world-class connectivity via our newest network technology (5G) – including increasing 5G capacity via temporary 3.5GHz spectrum in Wellington CBD, primarily to give more capacity to the pandemic response unit.

New Zealand Police are leading the all-of-government COVID-19 task force in central Wellington, and have been provided with a number of 5G routers to enable connectivity. As the range of activities on site increases, more capacity is required and we’re pleased to be able to help with the response effort in this way.

We remain committed to delivering next generation 5G technology services to support the connectivity needs of New Zealand now, and in many years to come.

And likewise, will continue to focus on keeping New Zealand connected as we determine what the exit strategy out of level 4 might be.

There has been a lot of news about arson attacks on cell sites this past week, due to blatantly false conspiracy theories about 5G, prompting the TCF to condemn wilful damage on behalf of the industry. While we won’t give specifics as we don’t want to encourage copycat activity, Vodafone NZ has also been subject to threats and activity, which is infuriating.

Every cell mast is essential for maintaining mobile services, particularly during a pandemic for critical health services, and we’re deploying cell sites on wheels (COWs) or other network technology to boost mobile coverage for hospitals that need it.

Damage to our network infrastructure could impede health authorities’ ability to save lives – and impacted cell sites could potentially be out of service for months, meaning a local community might not have mobile or home internet access depending on where the cell site is.

Internationally, Vodafone UK CEO, Nick Jeffries, wrote in a LinkedIn post this week that “deluded conspiracy theorists” are threatening people’s ability to talk to loved ones in hospital, following 20 Vodafone UK cell sites being attacked by arsonists.

We hope New Zealand can avoid this calamity, and ask anyone to report suspicious activity near cell towers to the police.

As we head towards the end of week four under COVID-19 alert level 4, demand on our internet and phone networks remains incredibly high. Just like most other businesses in New Zealand, financial pressures are coming into focus – with reduced revenue and increased network demands in our case – creating stark changes to our operating cadence just over a month ago.

We continue to see phone and internet traffic sit at 20-60% higher than pre-lockdown levels, with video conferencing spike and remote education causing interesting patterns of behaviour. Key trends we’re seeing on average:

– Voice calls +60%

– Mobile & fixed data +20%

– Rural broadband (RBI) +25% (on-peak) and +40% (off-peak)

– Vodafone NZ video conferences +688% (number of conferences) and +672% (minutes)

– International roaming -99%

Video conferencing on the rise, complements voice increases

As most New Zealanders can attest, phone calls and video conferences are the new meetings, classrooms and parties. While voice is most definitely back in vogue (+60%), video provides a modern twist, with businesses taking to online conferencing in droves.

While we can’t provide other business’ stats due to privacy reasons, we can paint a picture based on the increased adoption of video conferencing at Vodafone NZ.

Remote working and video conferencing has long been in our toolkit, however face-to-face meetings still dominated. Now more than 1,000 staff are using video conferencing on a regular basis for internal, supplier, partner and customer meetings.

We’ve seen +688% increase in video conferences take place in the 14 working days since lockdown (Thursday 26 March to Thursday 16 April). We’ve also seen +672% more minutes spent on video conferences – with an average length of 32.5 minutes per conference, and the video call with the most people clocking 336 attendees. One busy exec has even completed 123 video calls in this period – almost nine (8.7) every day!

While the vast majority of calls are with others in New Zealand, showing the easy ability to work cross-borders, the top 10 most popular countries for callers we’re speaking to are:

1) New Zealand

2) USA

3) Australia

4) India

5) United Kingdom

6) Singapore

7) Japan

8) Ireland

9) France

10) Philippines

Remote education begins and daytime streaming drops off

Last week we reported that Netflix and YouTube daytime viewing has been increasing. Now it seems online schooling is working as when remote education started this week, daytime viewing dropped off.

While our busiest hour is still 9pm, when comparing this Wednesday (15th April) vs last Wednesday (8th April) during the day (9am-5pm) we saw:

– Daytime Netflix traffic decrease -20%,

– Daytime YouTube traffic decrease -5.5%

With Home Learning, Papa Kāinga TV, starting this week we rushed through an update to VodafoneTV to include TVNZ+1, which was previously not needed as people could instead watch catch-up TV.

Now Channel 502 on VodafoneTV is the home for educational TV, in addition to the TVNZ on Demand app and Maori Television (Channel 19) which is broadcasting te reo educational programmes from 9am to 3pm on schooldays – with VodafoneTV viewing stable at +20% higher than pre-lockdown.

Best in class enterprise deployments

In the weeks leading up to and during lockdown, our United Comms & Contact Centre (UC&C) practice has been incredibly busy working with business customers to ensure their teams can continue to work remotely at home, with many late nights and incredibly quick turnarounds – with Microsoft Teams particularly in high demand.

One customer, Auckland Council, this week highlighted the “‘extraordinary’ act of selflessness” from our Vodafone NZ team with a working-from-home deployment that would have taken around three months in usual operating cadence completed in just 24 hours – a massive feat.

Further highlighting our best-in-class capability, Vodafone has reached Gold Competency level in enterprise deployments for Cloud Productivity of Office 365, in addition to Silver status for Cloud Platform, Collaboration and Content, Communications, Messaging, and Windows and Devices.

A partner with Gold Competency has a specialised skill set in implementing a particular solution or providing clients with service in a specific area. Gold membership reflects our ability to build and deliver best-in-class solutions for customers, and adds to our ability as one of just three partners globally who are authorised to sell Microsoft Managed Desktop (MMD) through the Cloud Solution Provider (CSP).

We’re pleased to help our business customers stay connected during this massive time of disruption for all.

scoop.co.nz

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/414766/covid-19-scientists-need-to-do-better-to-find-ways-to-trace-contacts

Meanwhile this is what we are being fed. How long before it will become ILLEGAL to even venture an opinion?

https://securitybrief.co.nz/story/from-fake-cures-to-5g-conspiracies-fake-news-explodes-during-covid-19-pandemic