New Zealand’s Government has awarded ‘damehood’ – the second-highest honour in the country – to its former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.
The award was given for “leading the country through the Covid pandemic”.
Who gave Jacinda this high honour? Her new Prime Minister, Chris Hipkins. Mr. Hipkins was Jacinda’s Minister for the COVID-19 Response, so by giving her the highest honour for handling the pandemic, he also implicitly ‘honoured’ himself.
Jacinda did some very unusual things during the pandemic. Her Government forbade New Zealand citizens from returning to their own country. She also supported a “two-tier society”, basically robbing unvaccinated New Zealanders of their constitutional rights and laughing about it:
How is heavily vaccinated New Zealand doing? Take a look at the Human Mortality database. In 2023, New Zealanders are dying at a rate around 25% above average.
A successful pandemic policy would not result in roughly 25% excess mortality in the fourth year of the pandemic. The officials insist that Covid is not responsible for most of these deaths, leaving the actual cause an unspoken mystery.
Most New Zealanders are unaware that their chances of dying have increased by a quarter because their country’s press is silent on excess deaths. The silence and lack of public awareness are not accidental: the Government is intensifying its crackdown on social networks and the media.
This June, the NZ Government revealed its initiative for “Safer Online Services and Media Platforms”.
The Government is proposing to create “a new industry regulator” armed with powers to punish “media platforms”:
The new regulator would make sure social media platforms follow codes to keep people safe. Media services like TV and radio broadcasters would also need to follow new codes tailored to their industry. The regulator would have the power to check information from platforms to make sure they follow the codes and could issue penalties for serious failures of compliance. This would ensure everyone is playing by the same rules and that consumer safety is prioritised.
While the proposal gives lip service to “protecting children”, it quickly advances to “hate speech”, the right of the Government to remove and block content, and more:
Continuing to remove and block access to the most harmful content – Government interventions to censor content and criminalise associated behaviour would remain at the extreme high end of harm. The new framework would continue criminal sanctions for dealing with ‘objectionable’ (illegal) material, including powers to issue takedown notices for this type of content.
There would still be a place for a censorship role, with powers to determine whether the most harmful content should be classified as illegal to create, possess or share.
Failure to comply with the requirements could lead to authors, creators and publishers being suspended, removed or prevented from accessing the platforms’ services. They may also be blacklisted if they show repeated harmful behaviour.
Regulated Platforms would need to implement approved codes of practice that meet legislated core safety objectives and minimum expectations. (emphasis added)
NZ plans to use Artificial Intelligence to carry out censorship. Processes to “prevent, remove or reduce exposure to unsafe content” will include:
- safeguards and barriers to deter the upload and creation of risky content – for example, time-lags or verification requirements for specific types of content
- methods to identify harmful content and prevent how it is shared and amplified. This would include ways to remove this content, such as:
- through human and Artificial Intelligence (AI) moderation practices
- downgrading content visibility
- removing recidivist individuals and entities – such as identifying bots and troll accounts that routinely post unsafe content
- using authenticity markers.
Anyway, I am not a citizen of New Zealand, so I cannot tell that country how to govern itself.
What I can say, however, is that I am very sorry for the fine citizens of that remote land, who lost their constitutional protections, are dying at excessive rates, are largely unaware of the danger they are in, and have a Government more interested in hiding the truth from the population and awarding highest honours to its own former members.
Does Jacinda deserve her damehood? Or does she deserve something else?
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”This time 2 years ago, millions of your fellow citizens were frothing at the mouth to ostracise, discriminate against, segregate, fire, deny rights to, and hurt neighbours, friends, and even family members, for not taking an experimental Big Pharma injection.
Never forget.”
But..but..INCLUSIVITY, right? Zuby for PM!
https://twitter.com/ZubyMusic/status/1666163671892996108
With BOB as VP…..
Nothin’ Like A Dame.
https://twitter.com/bobscartoons/status/1666067564600999937?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
Brilliant.
Great great cartoon what a man !
“Yer but, Orrr thenks for me gong Charlie !”
i’am nothing like a dame
.. a mule maybe!”
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Laughing Horsehead needs to be imprisoned for crimes. A criminal who made millions from the $camdemic. A fascist who killed, injured and destroyed. Of course applauded and rewarded by fascist criminals. Evil.
Love to know which part(s) of this statement the four (so far) downtickers take issue with.
77th still active, or maybe Soros paid trolls. Hard to believe that even a NZ citizen is not demanding Laughing Horse Teeths’ ugly stupid head on a pike.
If NZ is a success….. I’d hate to see what failure looks like!
I mentioned yesterday Toothys Dameness awarded by Charlie boy & William making her his own climate guru ! Their blatant disregard in plain sight for the obvious fact that Ardern is an agent of their cabal means they are confident in their mission creep !! This is getting similar to where the Zsar Nicholas got to with his arrogance ! Charles bolstered by the good old patriotic British public flocking to see him crowned is way off track The old fool is proving to be one of our enemy’s !
“The old fool is proving to be one of our enemy’s !”
Freddy, you are decidedly late in coming to that conclusion. One of the reasons Chuckles has given Horseface the award is so that he can broadcast to ‘his’ plebs just what he thinks of us.
It’s ok Hux , don’t worry I am at warp speed on everything that’s wrong & it’s Twisting My Melon ( man )
Cheers Freddy.
Talk about rewarding failure.
In other news Mussolini is to receive a Damehood for his services to public transport.
And the Emperor Nero gets a damehood for services to music …
William the Conqueror demands an IT-Hood for ‘clearing’ out Yorkshire of the non-existent Anglo-Saxons……
Rose West and Myra Hindley a joint award for outstanding maternal care.
A Damehood for a Fascist Dictator… Say no more
Ps, New Zealanders detest her
Just another obvious sign that the elites don’t care, in any way, about the ordinary people of any country. I am not alone is constantly saying we are at war with these people..but..we are at war with these people…!!
How can they make it any more clear, that if you serve the cabal, you get rewarded…?
That they have a plan for the world, and we are not in it..and that they don’t care that we know it?
Pascal Soriot, the Chief Exec’ Officer for Astras Zeneca, received a British Knighthood..’Dame’ Sarah Gilbert….’Dame’ Louise Richardson ..’Sir’ Jeremy Farrar…
having stepped down as the boss of the Welcome Trust is now the WHO Chief Scientific Officer….and on and on it goes…..look at any of these people over the last few years, and point out one where the majority of us would agree and show any admiration?
These ‘awards’ are utterly meaningless to 99% of the world, and benefit no one except the 1% who think we won’t fight back…the lines have been drawn, unequivocally……
Terrific post ebg.
..thanks HP….I know that you are one of the people who gets that this is an all out war…I find it impossible to think I’m saying it in a way..but it’s true…every single thing they are doing is to hurt us in some way…..every. single. thing.
Oh we are at war alright. This is the war that will define humanity’s future. If we do not defeat the Deviants the future will be an adaptation of concentration camps with a Soylent Green ending. That really is how desperately dangerous is our predicament.
Have a read of the David Skirpac Off-G piece I posted in the NR. It is extremely comprehensive.
Read that this morning , Can they do it ? Yes they think they can !! The Gloves are right off now , the B- stards think they are in the home straight , just like when Fauci wore his 3 masks they think we are there for the taking !!
The article certainly opens the mind but for many I believe it is beyond comprehension.
Spot on ! My Hackles are rising more than ever ! It feels like either a tipping point is coming or we are about to be crushed under Orwell’s Boot
I can’t take this seriously. It’s as if there is a shadow world that exists alongside the one I exist in where everything is upside down and inside out and all around. It really is Clown world. They know that we know but they carry on regardless. To most of us, such acts are laughable and no doubt the msm will be crowing about it but it is insignificant and unworthy of the time it has taken me to write just a few desultory words…
mmmmm. So Government kill people now than give themselves an award? No wonder governments are untrusted more than ever before. No one believes a word they say. Or as Mark Twain pointed out. “Politicians and diapers need changed often and for the same reason”
Ardern is a warning about the power of the internet: a WEF-trained nobody running a tiny-population country at the ‘edge of the world’ became a poster child for the brutal suppression of First World population and was treated as a celebrity. The more I see scum like Ardern celebrated by their countries, the more I want a new diaspora!
Is that what she wore on her head as she shuffled her apologies on behalf of us when NZ had that shoo-ting !
She’s terminally dim, but no doubt has difficulty closing her wallet.
Corruption in high places, got to make sure that the gravy train keeps rolling.
At least Shergars teeth were put to good use.
Canada is also getting internet censorship.