Fwd: Green Window Guidance is dangerous

The attached is almost certainly an indication of what is to come in the not too distant future, largely due to the lunatic and deliberately destructive policies of the Biden crooks in the White House. It's a lesson for what happens when a government in cahoots with its Central Bank tries for no doubt political reasons to skew naturally occurring commercial processes. This time they are using the excuse of "climate" to destroy and socialise otherwise reasonably sound economies. Right now, it appears that it is a time to ride out the economic storm that is coming.

Cheers from us in Medellin.............

Jim and Jean

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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2021 at 05:57
Subject: Green Window Guidance is dangerous
To: James Donald <tiare.taporo3@gmail.com>

Japan knows what happens when central bankers direct the economy

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Green Window Guidance will create a Green Bubble Nick Hubble | 15 Jul 2021 Dear James, Whenever governments try to direct credit into a part of the economy, it usually ends in disaster. While the obvious example is the US housing bubble, its Japan's infamous "Window Guidance" that offers the best insight. This matters because I believe we're about to repeat all the same mistakes with the Green Bubble. Window Guidance is the name given to the semi-official Bank of Japan (BoJ) policy whereby the central bank directed banks to make loans to certain parts of the economy. Creditworthiness, the ability to repay or the usual capitalist constraints, didn't matter – the BoJ's quotas did. During wartime, it's obvious why governments and central banks want to direct economic activity. No free-market economy would prioritise blowing up your trading partners over producing toothpaste for them. You may be interested in Rishi Sunak's "Trojan Horse"   In April, Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced the UK Government was planning their own digital currency, "Britcoin"... 44 other countries are also working on their own digital currency. The problem is, these digital currencies are NOT like crypto. And could act like a trojan horse into the wallets of British citizens.   Enabling government surveillance into what you spend, where you shop and who you send money to. Thankfully, there's a "loophole" that could help you keep some of your wealth away from their prying eyes. Click here to learn more about this "loophole". Capital at risk. The crypto market is unregulated. Investing in cryptocurrency is high risk. But Japan managed to continue the Window Guidance style of economic management long after the war. Unlike in the West, where central banks manage overall economic activity, the BoJ got involved in which parts of the economy got how much lending – and thereby which parts boomed and which didn't. Window Guidance was of course voluntary – in the same way that many things are voluntary in Japan, but you still have to do them. Originally, the Window Guidance was used to command and control the economy, and to keep it on a level base. Unlike its counterparts in Europe or North America, the BoJ was an instrument of the government's industrial policy. But as the Japanese bubble economy got going in the 1980s, the BoJ began to use Window Guidance to pressure banks to lend to keep the bubble fully inflated. One banker recalls that the BoJ would occasionally request more loans than the banks wanted to make – an extraordinary concept in a capitalist economy. Another recalls that, when Window Guidance ended, bankers simply didn't know how to lend anymore. They didn't know how to analyse risk and return, because the BoJ had simply decided for them where the loans should go under Window Guidance policies. I see this as an attempt to generate an economic boom in Japan. But, according to the economist Richard Werner, an expert in the area, it was a deliberate attempt to trigger a crisis in Japan. The idea was that Japan needed economic reform to become more like the United States. However, this could only happen in the context of a crisis. And so the bubble was inflated by the BoJ, using Window Guidance, to create that crisis. The film and book Princes of the Yen, in my opinion, is the best source on Japan and its Window Guidance directed bubble and bust. If Richard Werner, the author of the book, is correct, it's ironic that the BoJ's crisis creation policy is also a favoured tool of climate change-motivated economic management today. Over in the United States, the central bankers and politicians forgot that a crisis follows a bubble when they began to channel irrationally large quantities of money to housing in the years prior to 2008. The US form of Window Guidance was a little more political than in Japan, too. But the idea was similar. Politicians made laws and established semi-government entities like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to try and support home ownership by making debt available to low-income households. The central bankers at the Federal Reserve obliged by keeping interest rates low to keep that debt affordable. And so money flooded the sector, creating a bubble. The bust, as they say, is now history. But it's another example of how directing credit into politically important sections of the economy causes a bubble and a bust. Today we're making all the same mistakes by trying to engineer a Green Bubble with Green Window Guidance. Central bankers are making climate change a key part of their raison d'être. The European Central Bank explicitly does this thanks to the recent review of its mandate. This is very close to the idea of Window Guidance. The Financial Times reports that the financial industry has summarised it thus: Investment industry at 'tipping point' as $43tn in funds commit to net zero Almost half of global assets under management now linked to emissions pledge The idea that central bankers should worry about climate change instead of inflation and the banking system is absurd. But that won't stop them. And it won't stop the financial industry from profiting – at least for a while. What's so wrong with Green Window Guidance? It leads to bubbles in parts of the economy that get more credit than they otherwise would. In the United States, it was housing. In Japan it was banking and export industries. This time, it's Green Tech. But the specific direction doesn't really matter. The principles are the same. The underlying concept is that a free-market economy evolves and allocates capital in the most efficient way possible. That is to say: not perfectly, but better than any other possible mechanism. And any mistakes are not systemic, because there is no system wide influence like the government or central bank making credit allocation decisions. If governments or central banks get involved in the allocation of credit, this can shift the economy away from that efficient allocation. And the very likely result of the shift is the bubble. When a bubble bursts, the economy isn't in crisis: it's healing. It's reallocating the capital back to where it should've been in the first place without government planning and misallocation. Of course, this is never allowed to actually happen. Central banks and governments prevent the healing with even more policies and even more misallocations. That's why economies struggle to recover, with growth in Japan, Europe and the US slow compared to historical recoveries after the bursting of bubbles. The wealth that can be created during a Window Guidance-influenced bubble is of course vast. The stories about Japan are even more extreme than the riches created during the sub-prime bubble. Land values soared completely out of control in Japan and huge Japanese investment in foreign assets led to Australian school children learning the language as part of the core curriculum… But the damage of the inevitable bust shouldn't be overlooked during the boom. Japan is still deeply scarred from the end of the bubble, despite it bursting about 30 years ago. And countless Australian school children wasted a good chunk of their lives learning a language they never got to use because Japanese tourism and investment dried up. These days, Australian children are learning all about climate change. I wonder if history will repeat and, by the time they grow up, the Window Guidance mistake will be exposed. Nick Hubble Editor, Fortune & Freedom

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Fwd: “We will continue to be your single source of truth.” – Jacinda Ardern

Please read and pass on. Subscribing could be a good idea as well to support truthful and honest reporting and to make people aware generally of the destruction that is being wrought on New Zealand.

Cheers,

Jim and Jean in Medellin

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Date: July 15, 2021 at 11:21:44 AM GMT+12
To: Lorraine Bunning <lorraine_bun@hotmail.com>
Subject: "We will continue to be your single source of truth." – Jacinda Ardern
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Exactly where is Dear Leader leading us to?

Hi Lorraine, "We will continue to be your single source of truth." – Jacinda Ardern Jacinda Ardern has said many hair brained things about her government's Covid policies, but this one ranks up there with the rankest. And having uttered this little totalitarian meme to her assembled stenographers – er, reporters – who were doubtless salivating at the prospect of sharing in the $55 million her government had recently doled out to New Zealand's "trusted media", she left to have another coiffure on her rapidly tarnishing image. Not once in New Zealand's history has arrogance this egregious been superseded, at least to my knowledge. Even Robert Muldoon in his best rendition of Benito Mussolini never topped it, and at least he had a sense of humour, something sadly lacking in our current lame "be kind" political leader. (She's not looking, or acting, very "kind" today with the announcement that a new "order" will mean that people who work in border-related jobs – evn those who are NOT government employees – will have to submit to being injected with the still-experimental Pfizer/BioNTech mRNA Covid jab or lose their jobs. Medsafe now is asking doctors to report cases of heart inflammation after this jab but that does not seem to matter to Jacinda or her government.) The question many of Kiwis are now asking themselves, ardently I may add (pun intended), is exactly where is Dear Leader leading us to? And, more telling still, is who is pulling Dear Leader's strings? She has been religiously aligning with a worldwide movement answerable to the largest pharmaceutical companies and others working to disembowel the constitutional guarantees of what were recently known as western democracies. Her government, unbeknownst to the majority of the people of this country, has been backing some of the most odious legislation in our history, in addition to pushing one of the most dangerous, dare I say murderous, vaccines ever rolled out to any population. She is on record as pushing 5G technology, "late term" abortions (read: pre-natal "infanticide") and de facto land confiscation via the "Significant Natural Areas" – SNAs – designation which strips from owners the ability to make productive use of their own land (even though owners must pay the rates). She is pushing legislation to end Council jurisdiction over water, which she then intends to poison with fluoride-based chemicals derived from industrial waste, and the wishes of the people be damned. So much for "following science" – now nothing more than a slogan for people who don't (or won't) understand that science is a method, not a religious belief. And the "science" behind masks, social distancing and vaccines? There is none. It's all money, power and control. The emperess has no clothes (a horrible thought in itself), and that's the reason she is desperate to claim to be the "single source of truth". She has no truth on her side, a fact to which millions of Kiwis are at last waking up to. The Real News (www.therealnews.nz) is a magazine devoted to ... the real news. Uncensored, unfiltered and beholden to no government or private interest group. Our first two issues were devoted to revealing the truth about the Covid "pandemic" and the rollout of the dodgy, dangerous and in many cases lethal vaccines. With our third issue, coming soon, we reveal the real reasons for the suppression of actual cures and preventions for Covid-19 – why the NZ government has bought into and pushed the lie that there was nothing that could stop the disease other than vaccines. We reveal what those cures and preventions are and hold up the evidence for all New Zealands to see and judge for themselves, just how badly this government has sold us out to Bill Gates and the rest of the parasitic elite. We urge you to go to www.therealnews.nz to download the magazine for yourself. (PDFs of Issue 1 and Issue 2 may be downloaded for FREE - please share them.) And we implore you to subscribe. (If you would like to pre-order multiple copies of Issue 3 so that you have these available to share with friends, family and neighbours, there is an option to do this on our website shop, too.) You won't find this information in mainstream. But it's all true, nonetheless. And you will see that Jacinda is not your single source of truth. Not at all. Subscribe to The Real News Donate to Support The Real News Issues 1 and 2 of The Real News are now available as FREE PDF downloads at https://therealnews.nz/ Thanks for reading. See you soon! The Real News Editor Unsubscribe | Manage your subscription Authorised by M Kelly, L2, 71 Symonds St, Auckland.

Chinese Virus (a.k.a. The Kung Flu) statistics for week number 46 (322 days) as at July 2nd. 2021 (plus political comment and our personal news) since 21/08/20. Greetings from Medellin, Colombia.

Hola a todos nuestros amigos y familiares,

Esperamos como siempre que todo el mundo este en rosa - 

CHINESE VIRUS STATISTICS and related comment - note that comparative figures in parenthesis relate to June 18th. (14 days ago).

The world is in panic mode once again with the Indian - ooops Delta - variant rampaging about the place. As an example, Australia has all of 400 odd active cases. This is 0.0016% of the whole population. And the country is now completely locked down, although some relaxations coming. Notwithstanding that the Delta variant is by all accounts much milder in its effect than the original Chinese Virus. And now there is another variant entering the scene. God knows what "attributes" this one will have and whether it will respond to current "vaccines", or whether there will need to be another completely new "vaccine".

For a reasonably sane view of the "crisis", listen to Skynews Australia (Alan Jones) dated 30/06. It is headed "the way we're going on earth, we might be better off in space"!! He describes what is happening right now as "full-scale totalitarian dictatorship" and that the current incompetent situation is characterised by "chaos, confusion and fear alarmism".   

But governments around the world who all appear to be in panic mode, seem only to continue pushing the various "vaccines" which are proved to have very serious side effects and some deaths. Far better to contract the Virus, take Hydroxychloroquine and/or Ivermectin, and achieve immunity that way than risk any of these "vaccine" side effects. Of course the other anti Virus measure being dredged up out of the past is the wholly discredited "lockdown". This has been proved time and again to be ineffective. It is much better to have people out and about in the sunlight and fresh air which is known to kill the Virus in any case. And of course the other burning question is how many of these "active cases" are a direct result of the "vaccines"? Lockdowns and the like have become a totalitarian tool of governments the world over to control their populations. They put the fear of God into people and then they queue, begging for the vaccination. This "Fear of God" has been used as a tool for as long as recorded history has existed in order to control populations - because fearful people will turn to their only known salvation - government or religion by people who "know best". Witness the adulation of the NZ Prime Minister, Jacinta Ardern - "Oh, Jacinta, save us from this dreaded Virus!!"

Where has Grandma's old recipe of - stay at home, go to bed and take aspirin, plenty of fluids and clear chicken soup - gone? Avoid hospitals and their ventilators like the plague. Add to that the recently discovered anti-inflammatory efficacy of old drugs like Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin.  

Governments are lying to us like flatfish, and are desperate to keep the "vaccine" hoax alive so that, among other things, the share markets around the world don't collapse under the weight of Big Pharma share writedowns as the realisation dawns upon the world that the "vaccine" which has been so hyped, is in fact a vicious  fraud. If this scenario of Big Pharma share collapses occurs, there will be a widespread crash with God knows what financial and political effects.  

And consider the known "vaccine" side-effect of blood clots. 4 British Airways pilots have died after taking the "vaccine" and there is apparently concern that "vaccinated" pilots could be at risk of thrombosis as they fly plane loads of passengers at normal operating altitude - to say nothing of the "vaccinated" passengers themselves. The "fact-checkers" are in full flight with denying that there was any connection between the deaths and the "vaccine". Time will tell of course as always, but is it another "coincidence" that a number of Air India pilots have also died? They claim that they had not yet been "vaccinated", and simply died of the Kung Flu! Claims and spurious self-interested counter-claims.

Finally, the only country which appears to be showing any sort of sense in this whole ghastly and propagandised business is Singapore. After having very strict controls, including on the border, they have realised that the Kung Flu is not going away and CANNOT be dealt with on an elimination basis. Therefore they are lifting all controls and restrictions and just getting on with life. It's such a pity that NZ and Australia don't exhibit the same degree of commonsense - because in the end, that's exactly all that it is - COMMONSENSE. But in this woke age of pushing computer buttons and just expecting something to happen, COMMONSENSE is a commodity in very short supply. 

MUNDO - World

Population - 7,875,015,059 - (7,871,899,675) - up 3,115,384 or 0.040%

Active cases - 11,542,025 - (11,637,068) - down 95,043 or 0.8%

Active cases per 1 million of total population - 1,466 - (1,478) - down 12 or 0.8% 

Considering the "vaccine" roll-out, this reduction is miniscule. It is equivalent to 0.4% per week over the last 2 weeks. This compares to a reduction of 5.7% for week no. 44. Not very encouraging and, although it is probably too early to draw absolute conclusions, it does not seem to bode very well.

ARGENTINA

Population - 45,609,321 - (45,593,473) - up 15,848 or 0.035%

Active cases - 304,726 - (316,265) - down 11,539 or 3.7%

Active cases per 1 million of total population - 6,681 - (6,937) - down 256 or 3.7%

The rate of weekly decrease has declined from 7.8% in week 44 to 1.9% now. Still declining, but the rate needs to pick up.

AUSTRALIA

Population - 25,794,730 - (25,783,417) - up 11,313 or 0.04%

Active cases - 416 - (130) - up 286 or 220.0%

Active cases per 1 million of total population - 16 - (5) - up 11 or 323%

Substantially up, but by world standards the figures are still very low

BOLIVIA

Population - 11,831,617 - (11,825,525) - up 6,092 or 0.05%

Active cases - 61,033 - (68,609) - down 7,576 or 11.0%

Active cases per 1 million of total population - 5,159 - (5,801) - down 642 or 11.1%

This equates to a reduction of 5.55% per week - a satisfactory increase over 1.2% in week no. 44

BRAZIL

Population - 214,066,830 - (214,000,122) - up 66,708 or 0.03%

Active cases - 1,170,843 - (1,130,386) - up 40,457 or 3.6%

Active cases per 1 million of total population - 5,470 - (5,282) - up 188 or 3.6%

Rate of increase much reduced from 2 weeks ago but still going in the wrong direction.

CHILE

Population - 19,279,850 - (19,273,580) - up 6,270 or 0.033%

Active cases - 23,558 - (40,816) - down 17,258 or 42.3%

Active cases per 1 million of total population - 1,222 - (2,118) - down 896 or 42.3%

A much faster rate of decrease than in previous weeks. Long may it continue. 

COLOMBIA

Population - 51,423,492 - (51,402,759) - up 20,733 or 0.04%

Active cases -198,086 - (171,773) - up 26,313 or 15.3%

Active cases per 1 million of total population - 3,852 - (3,342) - up 510 or 15.3%

Rate of increase well up on that of 2 weeks ago. However, there are now signs that it may be slowly decreasing so let's hope that continues at an increasing rate. 

COSTA RICA

Population - 5,140,503 - (5,138,726) - up 1,777 or 0.035%

Active cases - 69,994 - (76,798) - down 6,804 or 8.9%

Active cases per 1 million of total population - 13,616 - (14,945) - down 1,329 or 8.9%

At long last a reasonable decrease over 2 weeks. Still a long way to go.

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

Population - 10,956,361 - (10,952,203) - up 4,158 or 0.038%

Active cases - 54,957 - (53,759) - up 1,198 or 2.2%

Active cases per 1 million of total population - 5,016 - (4,909) - up 107 or 2.2%

Active cases still continuing up but at a slightly reduced rate than that of 2 weeks ago. This has to be turned around.

ECUADOR

Population - 17,909,788 - (17,899,534) - up 10,254 or 0.057%

Active cases - 14,245 - (13,654) - up 591 or 4.3%

Active cases per 1 million of total population - 795 - (763) - up 32 or 4.2%

Disappointing to see an increase after so many good reductions. However, the figures are comparatively low so hopefully it will turn around again.

GERMANY

Population - 84,051,450 - (84,041,229) - up 10,221 or 0.012%

Active cases - 18,610 - (38,704) - down 20,094 or 51.9%

Active cases per 1 million of total population - 221 - (461) - down 240 or 52.1%

Not as big a reduction as 2 weeks ago, but still very satisfactory

JAPAN

Population - 126,089,354 - (126,104,099) - down 14,745 or 0.012%

Active cases - 16,869 - (23,730) - down 6,861 or 28.9%

Active cases per 1 million of total population - 134 - (188) - down 54 or 28.7%

Not as big a reduction as 2 weeks ago but still very definitely heading in the right direction.

MALAYSIA

Population - 32,779,126 - (32,763,264) - up 15,862 or 0.048%

Active cases - 66,084 - (65,602) - up 482 or 0.7%

Active cases per 1 million of total population - 2,016 - (2,002) - up 14 or 0.7%

Up very slightly but disappointing after previous solid reductions.

MEXICO

Population - 130,283,076 - (130,231,293) - up 51,783 or 0.04%

Active cases - 288,625 - (272,551) - up 16,074 or 5.9%

Active cases per 1 million of total population - 2,215 - (2,093) - up 122 or 5.8%

A much bigger weekly increase. Not good.

NEW ZEALAND

Population - 5,002,100 - (5,002,100) - no change!!!!!

Active cases - 27 - (23) - up 4 or 17.4%

Active cases per 1 million of total population  - 5 - (5) - no change

All in managed isolation so no worries!!

PANAMA

Population - 4,382,382 - (4,379,782) - up 2,600 or 0.06%

Active cases - 12,760 - (10,029) - up 2,731 or 27.2%

Active cases per 1 million of total population - 2,912 - (2,290) - up 622 or 27.2%

A slight decrease of that 2 weeks ago, but NOT GOOD.

PARAGUAY

Population - 7,219,834 - (7,216,483) - up 3,351 or 0.05%

Active cases - 38,728 - (54,092) - down 15,364 or 28.4%

Active cases per 1 million of total population - 5,364 - (7,496) - down 2,132 or 28.4%

A much greater rate of decrease than 2 weeks ago. Very good to see.

 

PERU

Population - 33,429,296 - (33,411,923) - up 17,373 or 0.05%

Active cases and active cases per 1 million of total population N/A

PHILIPPINES

Population - 111,033,906 - (110,978,111)  - up 55,795 or 0.05%

Active cases - 55,482 - (61,776) - down 6,294 or 10.2%

Active cases per 1 million of total population - 500 - (557) - down 57 or 10.2%

Excellent to see a substantial reduction after previous increases.

TAIWAN

Population - 23,859,832 - (23,858,188) - up 1,644 or 0.0.007%

Active cases - 2,586 - (5,211) - down 2,625 or 50.4%

Active cases per 1 million of total population - 108 - (218) - down 110 or 50.5%

Not as big a reduction as that of 2 weeks ago, but still very solid.

THAILAND

Population - 69,974,894 - (69,968,217) - up 6,677 or 0.01%

Active cases - 54,440 - (32,795) - up 21,645 or 66.0%

Active cases per 1 million of total population - 778 - (469) - up 309 or 65.9%

A worrying development after previous solid reductions

UNITED KINGDOM

Population - 68,241,931 - (68,228,318) - up 13,613 or 0.02%

Active cases - 372,745 - (176,432) - up 196,313 or 111.3%

Active cases per 1 million of total population - 5,462 - (2,586) - up 2,876 or 111.2%

Don't know what to make of this. The rate of weekly increase is well up, but it is likely that it is the Vindaflu which is much less virulent than the original Chinese Virus. Anyway, why aren't the "vaccinations" keeping it at bay???

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Population - 332,939,657 - (332,865,530) - up 74,127 or 0.02%

Active cases - 4,888,671 - (5,119,749) - down 231,078 or 4.5%

Active cases per 1 million of total population - 14,683 - (15,381) - down 698 or 4.5%

The weekly rate of decrease has halved. What is happening, given the high rate of "vaccinations". Cases per million are still well up compared to all other countries. Maybe it's the "vaccinated" people getting sick as has been widely predicted??

URUGUAY

Population - 3,485,750 - (3,485,291) - up 459 or 0.01%

Active cases - 14,690 - (30,122) - down 15,432 or 51.2%

Active cases per 1 million of total population - 4,214 - (8,643) - down 4,429 or 51.2%

Increased rate of reduction. VERY impressive after previous infection figures. 

SELECTED FINANCIAL AND COMMODITY INFORMATION as at July 2nd. 2021 with comparisons in parenthesis to January 4th. 2021.

S & P 500 - US - 4352 - (3701) - up 651 or 17.6%

FTSE - UK - 7123 - (6752) - up 371 or 5.5%

NZX50 - NZ - 12712 - (13238) - down 526 or 4.0%

COLCAP - Colombia Bolsa de Valores - 1289 - (1418) - down 129 or 9.1%

NZD/USD - .7033 - (.7174) - down .0141 or 2.0% 

NZD/COP (Colombian Peso) - 2654 - (2475) - up 179 or 7.2%

NZD/EURO - .5926 - (.5855) - up .0071 or 1.2%

NZD/CHF (Swiss Franc) - .6476 - (.6320) - up .0156 or 2.5%

NZD/JPY - 78.07 - (73.97) - up 4.1 or 5.5%

NZD/CNY (Chinese Yuan) - 4.55 - (4.64) - down .09 or 1.9%

NZD/AUD - .9343 - (.9355) - down .0012 or 0.1%

USD/NZD - 1.42 - (1.39) - up .03 or 2.2%

USD/COP (Colombian Peso) - 3773 - (3450) - up 323 or 9.4%

USD/EURO - .8426 - (.8156) - up .027 or 3.3%

USD/CHF (Swiss Franc) - .9209 - (.8813) - up .0396 or 4.5%

USD/JPY - 111.01 - (103.11) - up 7.9 or 7.7%

USD/CNY (Chinese Yuan) - 6.47 - (6.46) - up .01 or 0.2%

USD/AUD - 1.33 - (1.30) - up .03 or 2.3%

GOLD - (USD per Troy Ounce) - 1787 - (1,939) - down 152 or 7.8%

SILVER - (USD per Troy Ounce) - 26.59 - (27.14) - down .55 or 2.0%

OIL WTI - (USD per Barrel) - 75.19 - (47.80) - up 27.39 or 57.3% 

COPPER - (USD per metric ton) - 9297 - (7972) - up 1325 or 16.6%

 

COMMENT AND NEWS - 

AUSTRALIA

In the country town of Bowral in SW New South Wales, the owners of a natural health shop were refusing to allow entry to anyone wearing a mask! This is entirely reasonable, since masks are known to harbour all kinds of bacteria and are ineffective in any case in protecting against the Chinese Virus or indeed in passing it on. Some busy-body local called the police who after a period of discussion, then proceeded to arrest the 60 year old owner and his female partner. Both of them were manhandled in a disgraceful way and literally thrown into the back of a police van. This illustrates so well the pettiness and straight out abuse being perpetrated by the Australian police on their citizens. The circumstances of this case are mind-blowing. Unfortunately it is not confined to Australia - witness the Nottingham Police against the broadcaster, Alex Belfield in the UK. 

COLOMBIA

Following are this week's headlines from the English language www.colombiareports.com. You may need to go to the desktop version to read most of these:

June 28th. Colombia steps up COVID-19 vaccination as pandemic rages

June 28th. Colombia investigating attack on presidential helicopter

June 29th. Did Facebook CEO try to murder Colombia's president?

June 29th. How Colombia turned US support for protests into support for violent repression

July 1st. US Congress adds condition to aid to Colombia's police

July 2nd. Colombia's government apparently abandons basic economics

July 2nd. ICE embroiled in major fraud scandal in Colombia

July 3rd. Colombia jails alleged superspider in mafia web

It is difficult to believe the official Kung Flu statistics in Colombia. Apparently the figures are way higher than at the height of the Virus in 2020, but you wouldn't know here. All restrictions have been removed - travel, shopping etc - and the only restriction now is the wearing of masks. However, when you are out you see many instances of flouting the rules!! Including us. Restaurants no longer have paper menus, although they will produce them if pressed. Instead you have to photograph an icon on the table, but yours truly hasn't been able to make it work yet!!  There is so much ignorant, hypocritical nonsense about the place these days - and it's not confined to Colombia by any means.

One piece of good news is that we are in the final stages of renewal of our 3 year visas. Went to Migracion Colombia last week thinking that that would be the final act in this bureaucratic drama, but no - we now find we have to return after 10 working days to collect our new Cedulas d'Extranjerias. The visas are approved and issued but we need the plastic ID (c/e) cards - about the size of a credit card and which you carry in your wallet.It is surprising just how often the requirement to produce it comes up.

NEW ZEALAND

We read that the NZ Police have now over 4 years seized over 500 million Kiwi dollars worth of property, vehicles, cash, and illicit drugs from gangs. A notable milestone, but at the same time the draconian new Chinese Virus laws allow Police unfettered access to private property of ANYONE without a search warrant - you and I who are for the most part law - abiding citizens. These laws need to be repealed  - but they won't be. 

And of course the on-going saga of the devolution of political power to "indigenous" racial groups. This has largely been carried out in secret by our Socialist toothy grin PM and her government and the apathetic NZ population seems to us to be in complete denial and ignorance of this theft of democracy being perpetrated right under their noses in their own country.

And finally Hate Speech - the scope of this legislation which will form part of the Crimes Act, already includes matters of religion, gender, sexuality, age, disability, and employment status. The penalties for being convicted of an offence under the Hate Speech legislation can be 3 years in jail plus a $50,000 fine!! And now it seems likely that political opinion will be included as well.

The only saving grace is that the PM realises there is considerable public backlash building and she is trying to walk back some of the above. But none of this disguises the fact that the Socialists want all of this to become law. Ardern is facing revolt from her more extreme left-wing colleagues and of course opposition from the majority of conservative ordinary voters who may at long last be waking up to these proposals to quite simply stop free speech altogether. With any luck these divisions may eventually destroy the leftists - as seems to be the case in the US right now with all the partisan manoeuvering over the so-called Infrastructure Bill where the Democrats want to spend 6 Trillion dollars on anything but "Infrastructure" when US Government debt is already approaching 30 Trillion - 1 Trillion is 1,000 Billion and 1 Billion is 1,000 Million. 

UNITED KINGDOM 

The Chinese Virus numbers keep going up - when are people going to start openly asking the obvious questions, or have the dictatorships we all seem to live under these days completely snuffed out the human spirit? Alex Belfield seems to be the only person with sufficient guts to question all the lies being promulgated with increasingly desperate frequency. The most obvious question is of course - why are infection rates rising when a sizeable proportion of the population has been "vaccinated"?? The next thing will be that everyone will need "booster" shots every 3 months, and/or a completely new "vaccine" to counter these new variants which always seem to show up just when the fear factor is diminishing! 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Maricopa County election audit is still progressing as it has turned into a far bigger job than was initially expected. The Dims are continuing to try to discredit the process by whatever crooked means they can dredge up but even they seem to have run out of ideas. The idea of electoral fraud is still only to be mentioned in hushed tones and you won't even hear it mentioned on the increasingly woke Fox News. The consequences of finding extensive fraud are going to be huge and will at the very least result in a constitutional crisis. 

Now here is an excellent commentary on the George Floyd saga which has been so deliberately distorted by the so-called media and which has been used to whip up racial hatred and frenzy - 

"Subject - the Low-life hero

After 6 burglaries, 3 car thefts, multiple illegal trepasses, ongoing Cocaine and alcohol addiction, committing 2 violent home invasions, 3 armed robberies, dealing Fentanyl and Meth, passing counterfeit money, beating 4 victims senseless and being arrested 23 times since 1998, George Floyd hasn't committed a crime in over 1 year!

BUT HE DID NET HIS FAMILY $27 MILLION FROM THE STATE AND $20 MILLION FROM A GO FUND ME ACCOUNT.

And he's been recognised by the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States of America, as one of the bravest people who gave his life for the cause of Racial Injustice in our country.

WE ARE ONE SICK COUNTRY!!

Do you think that the family would return all that money if they could have their beloved George back????" 

And finally an email we received from Retired Patriot News.com which we feel sums up all the issues affecting the USA right now - and by extension everyone in the so-called Free World. In our view it completely sums up the present State of the Union on this July the 4th. 2021, 245 years after the Declaration of Independence - 

"If I were leading president Joe Biden's central committee and my goal were to destroy America as founded and ensure that it lose its distinction as the world's freest and most powerful nation, I doubt I could concoct a superior strategy than adopting the Biden administration's message and policy agenda.

The administration is creating total societal chaos, fomenting disorder and undermining the rule of law at every turn. As the first duty of government is to protect and defend its citizens, we might be alarmed to consider that the administration is engaged in a multi-pronged strategy to do the opposite. It is shrinking our military, which defends against foreign threats, it is at war with law enforcement, which ensures domestic tranquility, and it is destrying our southern border. It is systematically destroying our liberty and prosperity.

Could there be a better formula for societal and and national destruction? Most of these matters are not debatable.

Yes, we are emasculating our military at warp speed and converting it into a playground for social experiments and racial disharmony, just when China is hellbent on world domination and aggressively expanding its military and technological budgets and flexing its muscles around the globe. Never mind the militant designs of Russia and Iran, to name a few, and disregard that other freedom-friendly nations are hardly in a position to pick up the slack.

While our Democrat-controlled cities are descending into craven crime centres, much of the Democrat Party is doubling down on the police-bashing and defunding policies that created this anarchy. Their inflammatory racial rhetoric is obliterating race relations in the cities and harming most the people that they pretend to protect. Almost laughably, their leaders are now pretending they aren't the ones who clamoured for defunding, exposing themselves as liars and revealing they now realise how utterly ludicrous their policies have been.

In deliberately erasing our southern border, we are making a mockery of our sovereignty and national security and gutting what once might have been considered the unique American culture - a culture, by the way, that respected God and promoted individual liberty, personal responsibility and human dignity, irrespective of race.

While our border is now a Biden - charged magnet for the infusion of millions of illegal aliens, Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris brazenly attempt to blame it on former President Donald Trump and daftly suggest we explore "root causes" for the mass migration, as if we don't know the exact, direct and proximate cause of this disaster and as if we can solve this by throwing money at liberty-deprived and corrupt nations. Does anyone really believe the reckless nonsense our pseudo leaders are mouthing? Have they no shame, self-awareness or capacity for embarrassment?

We are spending federal money as if there were no tomorrow, and incidentally, thereby ensuring that there might not be. Indeed, while our national debt is hyper-stratospheric, these White House lunatics are determined to make it higher permanently, all under the fraudulent auspices of racial justice and equity.

This Democrat Party doesn't even aspire to reduce spending. Having ingested the sweet narcotic of endless government spending, they continue behaving as if they really believe we'll never have to experience the consequences of their profligacy. We are already seeing alarming inflation across the board as a direct result of this madness. But our self-important clowns cavalierly dismiss these concerns, proudly believing they can fool reality by artificially tinkering with interest rates from their ivory towers.

While gas prices are soaring because of Biden's war on domestic energy and quixotic pursuit of environmental utopia, he and his handlers are doubling down here, too - with the unconcealed aim of destroying our only realistic, reliable and affordable sources of energy.

Our ruling class is behaving as a group of adolescent children whose parents are on permanent vacation and left them their chequebook along with the keys to the car and liquor cabinet. Where are the adults?

On top of all this, while patriotic Olympians gratefully honour the flag, a leftist activist one spits on it - as the cowardly (or unpatriotic) Biden administration stays silent about this disgrace, just like it stays silent as Israel-and-America-hating Rep. Ilhan Omar retracts her retraction of her latest anti-semitic slur.

Honestly, I can barely stand to watch the unfolding horror show, which gets more chilling with every real-life scene. But I can't change the channel, nor can you. As a once self-ruling people, we are effectively impotent, at least in the short term, to alter our collision course with Dante's Ninth Circle of Hell.

I know I'm not the only one who feels this way and who is seeing this nightmare with eyes wide open. In fact, I'd bet that most Americans sense something is drastically wrong and that this nation is rapidly slipping away right before our eyes as we squander the legacy of liberty bequeathed to us by preceding generations of patriots who toiled and bled to secure and preserve for themselves and us the things that we once knew matter the most.

I realise the race-baiters and gaslighters believe they have us finally muzzled, but they will soon find we haven't given up. They haven't deflated us; they haven't weakened our resolve. They have emboldened us to take our country back, and I believe we will, I truly believe we will." 

  

We have just listened to an emotional Toby Keith singing for the 4th. of July, 2021 -  "Happy Birthday America - all the broken down cities by the left's design - I get to wake up in your freedom; sometimes I wonder why. Happy Birthday America - whatever's left of you". Made us feel emotional too.

That's it for this week - hope everyone has had a good week..........................

Cheers and lotsaluv from us in the City of Eternal Spring,

Jim and Jean

Medellin

Colombia

Chinese Virus and other things

Hi to all,

This week for a variety of reasons - including that yours truly had a routine Endoscopy plus Colonoscopy last Monday and we have an otherwise busy week with Visa (now approved) matters, other meetings, and a friend staying here - mean that it is just too difficult to fit the normal blog all in. HOORAY, we can hear you say, but never fear; next week the stats will be back with a vengeance, plus news of the medical procedures and all sorts of other fascinating stuff.

For now, we'll confine ourselves to various bits of news that have come to our attention - 

** We have been horrified to learn that a new "double-pronged" Chinese "vaccine" is scheduled to be tried as a human trial on mainly young New Zealanders because New Zealand and its inhabitants are apparently viewed as "compliant". This is without any consideration for the fact that heart inflammation (Myocarditis) is a known side-effect of the "vaccine" mainly in younger people under 30, but not necessarily confined to that demogrphic!! 

Now we have just learnt that the USFDA has finally moved to add warnings to all "vaccines" being used in the US that Myocarditis (heart inflammation) is a known side-effect  - particularly for younger people.

** Keep all that in mind with the fact that in the US alone, let alone other "vaccinated" countries, over 5,000 people have died (and over 13,000 in the EU) as a known and proved direct result of having received the jab. The real figures will certainly be much higher with disastrous health effects being shown a week or more after the jabs.

If you can still  access it, you really should watch an interview with Tucker Carlson of Fox News on 23/04 when he is interviewing Dr. Robert Malone who is actually a co-inventer of the mRNA "vaccine". Dr. Malone is an extremely worried man and said that he had expected normal human and animal trials with the vaccine before it was released to the public. This of course did not happen and now in some cases there are almost immediate side-effects - one of which is death (fairly terminal!! - not to mention unknown longer-term effects which could affect many millions of people down the track.

** Also go to www.nzdsos.com where you can co-sign the petition and read just what a number of concerned NZ medical practitioners are saying about the "vaccine". You MUST be as informed as possible before considering accepting the "vaccine".  

** Even President Trump has now said that he doesn't think that "young" people should get the jab - no doubt because of the fact that under 20 yr olds usually do not get sick and do not transmit the disease. He would also have had in his mind that under 30 yr olds (and possibly older) can suffer from Myocarditis with God alone knows what longer term other side-effects that may occur.

We also believe that Trump did a good thing by ensuring that the vaccine was rolled out in such a short time, but he was absolutely lied to in regard to efficacy and untested mid to long-term side-effects. Also the likelihood of the necessity for regular booster shots indefinitely into the future. Hence his latest comments amid the fact that the "vaccines" were produced in record time. 

Many professional people who are prepared to think and make their concerns public have been censured, threatened and had their platforms disestablished. Censorship at its absolute worst with real lives at stake.

We read in the NZ "toilet paper" Herald that many doctors who have dared to even voice mild concern over the "vaccine" have been not only threatened with loss of employment, but that their practising certificates could be withdrawn. This is the worst kind of forcibly imposed state control of a kind that we have read about in Socialist and Communist countries in the past, but which is now occurring in NZ, the US and other supposedly "free" countries where free speech is sancrosanct - or used to be. It's even worse when you consider the potential human costs. We don't doubt that Dr. Damian Wojcik of Whangarei is probably one of those principled doctors who are being outrageously targeted.

What the hell is happening to us in this world? 

** One piece of good news is that the Fillibuster in the US Senate has been preserved in spite of determined Dim efforts, which will mean that it will be all but impossible for the Dims to push through their worst radically excessive measures and at least the situation can be held until the 2022 mid-terms when both Houses will once again be Republican.

** The Maricopa County (Phoenix, Arizona) electoral forensic audit is nearing its end. Officials from other swing states - elected and otherwise - have toured the forensic audit facility and have shown much interest in duplicating this enormous effort in their own states. Note that the Dims have pulled out all legal stops, and also not even short of defamation, to try and stop the audit and even now the Justice Dept. is suing the State of Georgia to try and overturn the recently passed electoral reform law there which insists on things like voter ID and proof of citizenship and residence - among other reasonable things. Of course the Dims are once again trying desperately to preserve the situation where outrageous voter fraud was rife in order to maintain their disgusting hold on power. 

They cannot fight fair in a normal electoral campaign; they can only rely on their crooked methods to gain or hold power. But slowly and surely they are being exposed. 

** There have been appalling scenes at School Board Meetings in the State of Virginia where concerned parents have vociferously challenged these woke boards in their imposition of Critical Race Theory on their children. Not to mention revisionist history teaching. Many parents stood up to speak until the Board members, unable to advance any countering arguments, declared the meeting over and walked out with thunderous looks on their faces!! What a bunch of pathetic cowards. Whereupon the parents continued talking to themselves and discussing future protests until the local police moved in and arrested several for trespassing. This is all over Fox News on film on Tucker Carlson, Hannity and Laura Ingraham. What a disgusting travesty and trashing of 1st. Amendment rights of free speech. This is cementing the Dims downfall in 2022 and no doubt that of these appalling school board members who are prepared to prejudice the childrens' education to advance their own traitorous agenda. Watch the same thing happening in NZ.

** Then there is another thing - Along with all this LBGT nonesense, biological males who now "identify as females" are being allowed to compete in womens' sports events. The latest travesty is that of a NZ weightlifter who has been allowed to become a member of the womems' weightlifting team for the Olympic Games in Tokyo. Understandably the women members of the team are outraged and driven to despair to see their hard-won places in the team undermined. This has been all over Fox News in the US and no doubt will cause similar outrage at the Games themselves. Can you imagine the NZ weightlifter winning gold and the other two women on the podium putting up with that?? Possibly murder might be done. And NZ is not the only country; trans-genderism is rife in the US at all levels of womens' sports.  

** We have read a very unsettling article by a former White House doctor on the subject of the current president's mental health which is obviously failing rapidly - even to lay people such as us watching him stumble through the most simple sentences or questions. That he was ever elected was due to the most egregious and massive fraud in the world's history and the VP (Harris) polled at the bottom of the Democrat Primary.  Now it's looking more and more likely that she will become president. She was the most left-wing Senator that the Senate has ever seen and will soon head the Free World. Fervent prayer, as recommended in the article, is perhaps the only course open right now - apart from outright Secession!

** Just thought we'd mention Biden's appallingly incompetent and traitorous conduct and total lack of negotiating skills when he met the Russian President, Vladimir Putin. You will be aware that so far there have been 2 hacking incidents from Russian hackers (widely believed to be supported by the Kremlin) on US domestic operations. One was the Colonial Pipeline which supplies a sizeable amount of fuel to all of the US East Coast and the other was a major meat processing plant. In both cases the operations were forced to shut down. When Biden met Putin he actually gave Putin a list of 16 targets which he said were "off-limits". And wagged a stern finger under Putin's nose!! In other words, "you can't attack these, but everything else is ok". This is impeachable conduct through sheer incompetence and deliberate sabotage of his country. Including giving Putin with the "list of 16" some more potential targets. Wonder if they include some or all of the US Military?

** And Vice President Harris's (finally) trip to the border, but only because President Trump is going there on 30/06 and conducting a Townhall there along with Governor Abbot of Texas. Harris's "trip" was nothing less than an absolute insult as all she did was touch down at El Paso International Airport some miles from the actual border, and then continue her trip on to California. This illustrates more than anything the sheer malevolence and deliberate destruction of the US and everything President Trump achieved during his time in office. But don't worry - he will be back - and possibly sooner than anyone imagines.

** We are also separately sending an article sent to us by a friend in NZ on the subject of "the Trashing of NZ's Democracy".  You will see that there is a petition attached which we ask all our NZ friends and family to sign and send to the address shown - if you have not already done so. In addition to this please read Dr. Muriel Newman's weekly newsletter, and also a very worthwhile way to spend just a little over an hour is to listen to Leighton Smith's weekly podcasts on Newstalk ZB. They are both examples of "a breath of fresh air" in these Socialist and extreme woke times. At the end of Leighton's podcast he reads emails that have been received from concerned citizens and it is encouraging to realise that there are still a few of us patriotic and reasonably democratic souls left and still breathing.

Well, that's it for this week - hope everyone is still in good health...................

Cordial saludos y mucho amor de nuestra parte en la Ciudad de la Eterna Primavera.............

Jim y Jean