Tuesday, March 24, 2026
I'm reaching out to me hero's, well one in particular, I dried direct message, but I don't think he uses it, I know how to contact him if I really want to, but I haven't felt like going directly to that, I'm trying to invent and enjoy the creation of a meeting. I am such a fan already, I'm satisfied. But this time, I've tried contact him through his fiance, on her comments page. Just my right mix of hopelessness and ambition based in recognized yet repressed actual community
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The Smiths - This Night Has Opened My Eyes
In a river the color of lead
Immerse the baby's head
Wrap her up in the News Of The World
Dump her on a doorstep, girl
This night has opened my eyes
And I will never sleep again
You kicked and cried like a bullied child
A grown man of twenty-five
Oh, he said he'd cure your ills
But he didn't and he never will
Oh, save your life
Because you've only got one
The dream has gone
But the baby is real
Oh, you did a good thing
She could have been a poet
Or, she could have been a fool
Oh, you did a bad thing
And I'm not happy
And I'm not sad
A shoeless child on a swing
Reminds you of your own again
She took away your troubles
Oh, but then again
She left pain
Oh, please save your life
Because you've only got one
The dream has gone
But the baby is real
Oh, you did a good thing
She could have been a poet
Or, she could have been a fool
Oh, you did a bad thing
And I'm not happy
And I'm not sad
Oh oh
Oh
Oh la la
And I'm not happy
And I'm not sad
Oh oh
Oh
Oh la la
And I'm not happy
And I'm not sad
Tracey Tawhiao "(Jacinda Ardern) The “do gooder” she identifies with is clear in her book but the shadow side of that identity remains completely ignored. Unfortunately for her it was revealed to many others in her reign."
Reflections on Jesse Mulligan’s Interview with Jacinda Ardern on her autobiography.
World leaders say something has shifted in people over the last five years. There is talk of rising anger, radical activism, and distrust.
What is missing from that conversation is the obvious question: what happened in those five years that might explain the shift?
Covid dominated Jacinda Ardern’s time as Prime Minister. New Zealand adopted one of the most tightly controlled responses in the world — lockdowns, border closures, and vaccine mandates that affected people’s ability to work, travel, and participate in public life.
Supporters saw these measures as decisive leadership during a crisis. Critics saw something else: the state exerting unprecedented power over everyday life.
That divide has never really been acknowledged in full — let alone understood.
In the interview Jacinda says the anger directed toward her is not part of her everyday experience. That may be true from where she now sits — in international institutions and universities. But distance changes perspective. Many people who lived through that period remember it painfully, and differently. And now her move to Australia leaves some feeling that New Zealand is no longer her place.
Some ministers have suggested that misogyny explains the level of opposition she faced. Misogyny certainly exists in politics, but reducing public criticism to that single explanation risks ignoring legitimate grievances — and the many women who were also in opposition.
In a democracy, leaders become the focal point of both praise and anger. They govern the economy, public health decisions, and the use of taxpayer money. When people feel those decisions have harmed them, they respond. That is the real world.
Jacinda frames her leadership as empathy-based — a new kind of political power grounded in kindness and service.
When the conversation turns to Donald Trump, she says it goes without saying that she is not a supporter, with little more to add except that Trump represents a type of leadership that has become endemic in politics — one that draws power from force and prominence.
Jacinda speaks instead about empathy-based leadership and the importance of mentoring and uplifting others.
Yet critics point to a contradiction: where was that empathy for those who said they were harmed by vaccine mandates? Or for those who chose not to vaccinate and lost their jobs and their homes? Those that lost loved ones and couldn’t see them.
These are essential questions.
Critics also point to moments that contradicted that image: the refusal to meet protesters at Parliament, and the perception that people who reported vaccine injuries were dismissed or stigmatised rather than heard and treated. Much of this rested on the idea that vaccination would stop the spread — an assumption that later proved far more complicated.
Over time it became clear that the strongest protection was needed for the elderly and medically vulnerable, while the risk profile for children and healthy adults was very different, both for Covid and for the vaccine.
Hindsight is great, but foresight is better.
Which raises the question still sitting underneath all of this:
Where is the line between “collective protection” and individual autonomy?
The interview does not ask that question. Instead Jacinda touches on her upbringing in the Mormon church and how it shaped her sense of service. She now describes herself as agnostic, leaning more on family and friends than formal faith in God during Covid.
Yet some habits of that upbringing remain — even small ones, like the Mormon tradition of keeping months of food stored in the home. And perhaps bigger ones we come to see later, like fear distortion.
Like all institutions, faith communities contain both ideals and contradictions. Stories of paedophilia and institutional protection within the church remind us that moral authority is always more complicated than public narratives suggest.
Maia’s experience is one example — speaking up as a teenager about paedophilia within the church and finding herself ostracised from both the church and her family for telling the truth. Lies were protected.
In those moments she said:
“God was not in the room with those men. They believed they were God.”
It shows how easily the language of service and doing good for others can slide into destructive authority over them — something societies wrestle with and are uncovering everywhere.
Jacinda also recounts a childhood memory of seeing a homeless child in Murupara — a moment she says shaped her commitment to children’s wellbeing. Critics sometimes view these kinds of stories as political narrative-building, but she insists the memory is genuine and central to her story.
What becomes clear through the interview is how leadership stories are constructed. Certain experiences are highlighted; others fade into the background. What is included forms the narrative.
What is left on the edit floor will tell a different story.
The interview eventually drifts into lighter territory — the cry-laugh emoji, fan moments over Lorde, admiration for Michelle Obama, and anecdotes about Grant Robertson and hangover sausage rolls. The handing over the reins to Winston while she stepped away to have her daughter.
It all feels friendly and humanising, the kind of details that round out a public figure. But interviews often move this way. Personality softens politics. Charm fills the space where harder questions might otherwise sit.
Because the anger that emerged during the Covid years did not come from nowhere. It is deeply felt. It came directly from lived experience — economic strain, social division, and censorship.
Understanding that anger requires more than identifying it. It requires examining the conditions that produced it — and doing so with full awareness.
Jacinda believes she represents a new model of leadership: empathy over force, service over authority.
Yet declaring the government the “single source of truth,” and later mandating vaccines to fulfil their goal of total elimination — “zero Covid” — sent another message entirely:
force over empathy and authority over service.
Whether in religion, politics, or social movements, many thinkers argue the healthiest systems maintain three safeguards:
Transparency.
Accountability.
Freedom to question.
Without those, any system — sacred or secular — can and does drift toward control rather than guidance.
This must be examined if we are to build a stronger future.
You will not find that examination in her book. Instead, the book — like the interview — leaves me with more questions, not fewer. The “do gooder” she identifies with is clear in her book but the shadow side of that identity remains completely ignored. Unfortunately for her it was revealed to many others in her reign.
Full interview: Former NZ PM Dame Jacinda Ardern on her life in and out of politics | RNZ
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" ... if I cut off oil and these countries no longer have access to US dollars, they're forced to spend whatever resources they have on protecting themselves. And then guess what happens? The stock market collapses. The stock collapses. The stock market is the real growth engine of the US economy. The entire US economy collapses with it." - America Started a War They Can't Win | Prof Jiang Explains
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United States of Israel a nazi nation that wants to keep taking over to blow itself into heaven, just attacked Iran
"... during the State of the Union last night, which is the entire Congress, Democrats and Republicans on both sides, standing up and saying,
"God bless Israel."
That's effectively what they said. And we're going to support war with Iran.
That's effectively what they said. And we're going to support war with Iran.
Why are Americans not in the streets? Why are they not objecting? Well,
it's a long way away. And most Americans are assuming that, well, Iran's like any other state in the Middle East. They're not that strong. They're weak. We can bomb them into submission. You have some Americans that that swallowed all of the propaganda about 'evil' Iran and the medieval society and all this kind of business.
There are not that many of them paying that much attention, but most are just dismissing it out of hand. So if things go badly, they'll be very surprised, extremely surprised. And here's one other factor to keep in mind, and this is something that you were implying, and you're right, Clint. We will be embarrassed on the world stage."
- Macgregor
I can't help think that that "Embarrassment" is the point. A lot of 'national nazi's' are gonna get triggered and enable full our nuke suicide, with China and Russia coming in to support Iran. With the Israel elite safely tucked away in Washington, ready to re populate the ruins.
HISTORY WAS MADE HERE. The creation of the New Zealand Social Welfare System
Allan's Post
HISTORY WAS MADE HERE.
It's a modest enough little house in the North Otago town of Kurow, but it played a monumental part in NZ history. It is where three wise men met to create what became the New Zealand Social Welfare System of the first Labour government.
Who were those Three Wise Men?
Doctor Gervan McMillan (this was his house), the Presbyterian Minister Arnold Nordmeyer and the School headmaster J. Andrew Davidson. Worried abut the living and working conditions of the men working on the Waitaki dam the three joined the Labour Party and created the welfare system that was embraced by the Mickie Savage government and which, modified a bit, still exists today.
J. Andrew Davidson was better known as "Jock" and he was my headmaster at Macandrew Intermediate and for many, many years was a prolific letter writer to the ODT always signing as J.A. Davidson.
Brian Muntz
Do you remember the the assembly when in the middle of the daily Lords Prayer Jockey stopped at give us this day our daily bread to admonish us for the amount of lunch litter in the playground then carried straight on!
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Pamela Hurrell
Brian Muntz this is QUITE amazing !!!
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Bernard Barrett
Brian Muntz " Give us this day our daily bread to admonish those who litter among us "🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Yvonne Jones
Dr McMillan married my husband's second cousin Ethel Emma Black from Gisborne. Ethel was very active in local affairs in Otago, was the first woman to be elected to Dunedin City Council and a Labour Politician for 22 years.
May be an image of one or more people
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Alec Birch
Nordys bio is worth reading. Huge battle with the BMA to establish free Healthcare. The profiteers never gave up, just went quiet. Can't help but conclude that they are playing a huge role in the systems struggles today.
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Peter Jamieson
Alec Birch they made sure GPs were independent profit making like now although they are being swallowed by large groups.
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Marian Poole
A proud history inspired by the harsh punitive attitudes towards to the poor in mother countries. we need to resurrect our kind and better natures.
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Lauris Thompson
My grandad was killed building the waitaki dam
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Claire Becker
Thats the little house where my Mum and her siblings were born
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Steve McKenzie
Ministers, doctors and teachers have been replaced by lawyers, economists, and professional politicians. And we wonder why NZ is off the rails.
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Michael Player
Had the pleasure of staying in Nordmeyer's house also in Kurow late last year. A solid family home redolent of the history that happened with the combined brain power and humanity of the three wise men.
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Anne Thirkettle
This welfare system was God sent to my mothers family. My grandmother was a widow with large hospital bills from her late husband and also her sick daughter and had she had no way to pay them.Also the widow benefit was very low and not possible to live on it .Her husband thought he had left well off when he died with investments in the banks but we're lost during the great depression .The raise in her widow benefit and wiping of her hospital bills changed my mother's family life's for the better.
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Maire Morrison
My aunt and uncle Alistair and Jo McKenzie had the milk run in Kurow for years.
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Derek Rouse
My Grandfather William Watt was the GP in Kurow before McMillian,who was his locum when my Grandfather took his family to England in1929. During his absence in England McMillian, with the aid of others took over the practice. My Grandfather had started a workers health scheme before leaving. The three wise men stuff isn't as straight forward as it seems. The true story of what happened to my Grandfather's practice is hard to uncover. I did find in the Hocken Library a number of years ago that McMillian had transfered to the South Canterbury Medical association from the Otago Medical association soon after this. Possibly due to the ongoing controversy regarding his taking over my Grandfather's practice.
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Chris Bayly
How interesting - will make a point if looking for the house in our next visit from UK
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Alexander James Griffin
Jock was my head master atMacandrew as well.
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Glenda Winder
This was the doctor's surgery when I lived in Otiake, just out of Kurow
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Rose Hathaway
Thanks for this great history
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David Young
Rose Hathaway The knowledge credit is owed to the 1984 short history of the dam project and its social welfare protagonists, by Gil Natush, an engineer on the project “Waitaki Dammed”.
Be good if this post credited such sources because this is the best short read your library Might still hold.
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Rose Hathaway
David Young thankyou i will look at getting the book to read
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Allan Dick
David Young Sorry l know nothing pf the book you speak of. It’s local knowledge.
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David Young
Allan Dick That’s great. I guess Natusch’s mission was to make that knowledge national. It’s not a large work, but with photos, soft cover, published by Otago Heritage Books. Well worth a reprint,
one of those “from small seeds”, accounts, that changed the course of history.
I note that Dunedin’s George Griffiths was its driver, publishing 32 books between 1980 and 2006, many of them by Pacific historian, Rhys Richards.
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Kate White
David Young have you read any of Linley Eades books about the history of the Waitaki Valley the dams and the people, if not then you should. I believe Linley owns the above property and is careful to be a honest caretaker.
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David Young
Kate White thanks for the tip, Kate, I did work in 1985 in the valley for the 12-river “ Faces of the River”. Long time ago.
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Tom Ferry
Arnold Nordmeyer will always be remembered for his “black budget”.
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Irene Benfell-Herron
Thankyou for this wonderful piece of history
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Bob McKerrow
God bless them all. The Labour party governed with wisdom and compassion.
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Leeann Morton
Such interesting history, thank you.
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Rhona Mudgway
My maiden name was Dick from Invercargill. Not sure we are related or not!
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Kay Harris
Did any subsequent Kurow Headmasters, live in this house?
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Glenda Sargeant
Pop into the Kurow Museum there’s a great history of the 3 men
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Deirdre Lousley Sisson
I so remember that house!
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Peter Kerr
Nordmeyer the black budget man
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Liz Bennetts
Thank you for this interesting writing on our history x
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Michael Teare
Thanks for posting this Mr Dick, a very important part of our history.
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Allan Taylor
We certainly owe these men much. What a cracking history lesson. Thanks
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Denis Corkery
Is it “listed”?
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Sue Jane Burrowes
Thank you for sharing this bit of our History
😀
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Joseph McMillan
Dr McMillan and my dad were cousins
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Michael Doran
I think this was worth sharing. Very well written..
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Heather Flavell
Grew up in North Otago but never knew that.
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Noosa Bonneys
Great people with great fore sight
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Elaine Mcgill
Wot year did that meeting take place
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Jackie Chatfield
Interesting to read that history. Thank you.
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Paul Oconnor
Love the Mountain blue Roof.
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Frank Wylie
Thanks for the post, very informative
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Heather Cameron
Very interesting Allan
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Mark Warren
Angela
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Ken Bradley
Great info
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Debbie George
Merv Jury Di might be interested in this
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Dave Mason
Wow ! Cool story cheers
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Peter Jamieson
Now Seyless wants Airnz flogged off ignoring its history.
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Jim Bennett
See the video of the Three Wise Men of Kurow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtLTyzyWKXI only 5.15 minutes long.
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Janet Smith
Many thanks for enlightening me/us. More to come please.
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Christine Townsend
Very interesting😊😊
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Nick Phillips
Kurow's ministers punching well above their weight with Geering and Nordmeyer!
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Nicolas Christopher Pegg
Alliance Party of Aotearoa New Zealand
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Sharron Herbert
Defyd Williams Vanessa McCluskie Tanya Appleby Trevor Appleby
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Vicki Thorpe
Delia Baskerville
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Penni L. O'Pe
Chris Priestley - do I smell a potential song subject for you here?
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Margaret Gillum
Shame we haven't got even one in parliament now
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Elizabeth Watson
I was just commenting this morning in a debate on power prices. Men worked in pretty bad conditions to build our hydro dams on the Waitaki river. Built by the government then sold 49% off. They still make massive profits from power and we pay through the nose.
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John Beatty
You kiwi's need to get that horse faced bitch back to NZ. the cunt is planning buying a house in Sydney. Fuck it off outa here
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John Smallridge
The gateway for bludgers and piss takers. Mond you people had higher morals back then than they do now.
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Friday, February 27, 2026
Why Look For The Key
And they made the secret pact
His knowledge would be tapped
The link was based on a respect
On their lives they would reflect
A perfect state of non-attachment
Was striven for and claimed as fact
The younger grew and learnt his lesson well
All his ideals were intact
Why look for the key in another
The answer lay in his own heart
Won't find yourself in some other
It always was there right at the start
But power it corrupted
That's where attachment starts
The power had erupted
The spell will crack
As each mental bond was broken
Strength grew in the young man's heart
What began as love not passion
Had left a seed in his heart
Why look for the key in another ...
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Joe Rogan Experience #2454 - Robert Malone, MD
00:00 Intro
00:25 The previous podcast & vindication
01:29 Malone’s vaccine injury
03:52 mRNA issues: inflammation & delivery
06:59 Lipid nanoparticles & PEG
13:56 Long COVID experience
15:46 Drug repurposing & famotidine
20:10 Ivermectin & FDA resistance
22:12 Mass Formation Psychosis explained
29:35 5th Generation Warfare & "Nudge" Units
35:46 Coca-Cola, GARM, & censorship
51:49 Epstein files & elite networks
59:35 HHS, Ivermectin & Cancer research blowback
1:09:32 The massive wealth transfer during COVID
1:16:17 AAP lawsuit against the ACIP
1:31:04 Malone’s role at ACIP & State Dept
1:34:33 Bird Flu, mass culling vs. resistant chickens
1:46:29 African Swine Fever lab leak in Spain
1:57:46 Gene drive technology risks
2:03:03 Artificial wombs & transhumanism
2:16:01 Polio, DDT, & asymptomatic rates
2:16:53 Identifying genetic risk factors for vaccine injury
2:24:36 UAPs & high-energy physics
2:29:58 Correction on the artificial womb video
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