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Magnitude 5.9 earthquake rattles New Zealand

Posted by te2ataria on June 25, 2020

Oh Auckland, thy timeth shall cometh!

Thousands feel quake off Milford Sound

A 5.9 magnitude earthquake rocked Milford Sound on Thursday morning, sending shock waves as far north as Auckland.

Two of the aftershocks were registered by geonet on their website as of posting, with 3,737 felt reports including “extreme” and “severe” shocks as far north as Tauranga, Bay of Plenty [of Deaths,] and Hamilton, respectively.

Earthquake Details (geonet)

Time: Thu Jun 25 2020 10:20 AM
Place: 35 km west of Milford Sound  (-44.62, 167.48)
Magnitude: 5.9
Depth: 5 km

Readers’ comments:

Michael Campbell Wants Out!

Jan said – 

Just read the above, and I can tell you I back Michael Campbell’s decision 100 per cent. Clearly he loves his kids and doesn’t want them to become statistics.
New Zealand teens have the lowest rate of life expectancy in the OECD: Suicide, violent deaths, police pursuits, substance abuse…

[NZ also has the highest rates of teenage cancers in OECD. Moderator]

Aussie bigotry and hypocrisy exposed again!

On Trump being Antichrist:

  • Kelly said

    Don’t knock him!
    The Antichrist is the best thing that could’ve happened to a violent, out of control and truly evil country.

  • Jo said

    Trump presidency has revealed the depth and extent of moral decay and social corruption within the Five Eyes (US, UK, Australia, Canada and NZ), including the political and economic institutions, police and judiciary, academia and religion, folklore and media, government and military…

  • Collen said

    Trust in God! He instructed Satan to descend to earth and slaughter the evildoers and destroy their dwellings.
    Donald Trump is the reflection of Satan in the US, the most evil country in the world.

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Zombie Nation Zonked Out

Posted by te2ataria on June 24, 2020

Sent by a reader

Update: The True Cost of Playing Sailors

The Naval Ship Life Cycle Cost (LCC), which includes operation, repair and maintenance, modernization and upgrades, main machinery overhauls, manning, manning training, fuel, engineering and technical services, casualty repairs, decommissioning/disposal, spread over 45 years, would be about 10-15 percent of the reported construction cost each year.
Over its estimated life cycle the ship would cost the taxpayer a total of $2.8 to $3.8 billion.

“Or, how fucked in the brain are we really?”

Boy with disability living in garage, as $500 million Navy boat sails toward Auckland base

Boy with disability living in cold garage
23 June 2020

The life of a disabled boy is being put at risk because his family is forced to live in a cold garage due to a lack of appropriate housing, a South Auckland social worker says.”

LR said:

NZ’s bathtub navy spent $500 million of taxpayers money on its largest rust bucket
Jun 24 2020

HMNZS Aotearoa: Navy’s largest ever boat finally on its way to New Zealand
[Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries built the state of the fart supply-n-spy boat.]
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300040365/hmnzs-aotearoa-navys-largest-ever-ship-finally-on-its-way-to-new-zealand

NZ’s Butt-line News

The border bubble bursts

Border Botch-Up, Covid Shambles, Catalogue of Cock-Ups.

Headlines this week that revealed Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and her team of five million had been let down by shocking incompetence.

sent by a reader

Serbian Jock of the Month

It couldn’t have happened to a more deserving, overpaid *y*6p^%$ and his bitch!

This is what happens when you drop out of school to chase tennis balls…

The Serbian ball jockey’s criminal ignorance in the spotlight after positive coronavirus test

The Serbian tennis jockey, his wife Jelena and three other tennis players have tested positive to coronavirus after competing in the Serbian’s Adria Tour, an exhibition event which proceeded with zero social distancing and no protocols in place to prevent the spread of the disease.

Players hugged, danced topless in nightclubs and mingled with ball kids as they displayed an unwillingness to accept the seriousness of the global pandemic.

Sports Illustrated’s Jon Wertheim told The Tennis Channel the decision to hold the Adria Tour represented a “fundamental failure to understand the science” behind COVID-19 and it’s not the first time Djokovic’s views — some of which he shares openly on social media — have caused controversy.

 

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Terraforming the World – Bulletin 621

Posted by te2ataria on June 22, 2020

Visiting Scholars Group

Synchronized Minute Vigils

Starting at midnight (UTC) on June 21, 2020 the Visiting Scholars and their associates will be holding synchronized vigils every hour, on the hour until further notice. Each vigil would last for one minute, or longer.

We invite everyone to join us!

StarShip Earth – Meditative Vigils

WE unanimously condemn the anthropogenic assault on Earth, the acts of ecocide that are perpetrated by the majority of humans including the accumulation of wealth, tourism, militarism, mass movement of people, air travel, cruise ship holidays, fossil fuel consumption, GHG emissions, air, water and soil pollution, manufacture of weapons and ephemeral junk, unbridled consumption, hoarding disorder… all of which are leading to the extinction of life on Earth–omnicide.

Delivering Karmic Justice

YOU don’t need a military force or WMD to help deliver Karmic Justice, or change the course of events. It’s done through projection of intense  emotions, a burning desire to help save the planet and the lifeforms worth saving, delivered with laser sharp focus!

A permanent channel exists between your strongest emotions and the majestic and awesome cosmic forces that ensure the existence of everything…

Plug into the cosmic forces and let your innermost feelings be known!

WE have triggered into existence major events, thereby intervening in ongoing situations through thought projection, many times in the past, especially since 2010, with a success rate of 100 percent.

Starship Earth Global Vigils

Throughout 2019, we held monthly vigils to express our agony and heartbreak and seek cosmic justice against the omniciders through thought projection (see links below) knowing that nothing short of major change-making, albeit cataclysmic, events would stop the omniciders.

Then…

Nature’s Defenses Designed the “Perfect Virus“ to Allow a Pause for Refection…

StarShip Earth Permanent Meditative Vigil

2020 and beyond: The Visiting Scholars Group will be holding a meditative vigil throughout 2020 and beyond, in an effort to neutralize the omniciders and reclaim the world.

Witness with your mind’s eye the wanton destruction of Starship Earth as being perpetrated by the omniciders, and let the overwhelming feeling of agony, sorrow and pain arising from the enormous loss touch your inner world…

Project onto the terrorists—the super-wealthy class, their puppet governments, all other enablers and family members, collectively the Axis of Evil—the pain and suffering caused by the ongoing ecological holocaust and wanton ecocide, militarism and war economy, poverty and inequality, racism and social exclusion…

Let your focused thought invoke tsunamis of emotions within you. Project the waves onto the omniciders…

The Vigil is being held anytime, any place for as long as possible, throughout 2020.

We invite everyone to join us!

World’s 24 richest people own as much as the bottom 50 percent, or about 3.9 billion people!

Let’s project them and their enablers vanished into the ether, or relocated to the dead planet at warp speed!

Stake your claim to life! Neutralize the omniciders before they commit you to extinction!

Terraforming the World for a New Lease of Life

StarShip Earth Meditative Vigil:  Terraforming the World for a New Lease of Life

We’re accessing the channels to majestic and awesome forces that ensure existence of everything to express our strongest wishes to reclaim the planet.

We’re projecting our most intense emotions into means of neutralizing the omniciders, freeing the planet of the burdens that are causing the death of everything, and terraforming the world for a new lease of life…

  • The wealth accumulation machine must be permanently dismantled.
  • The ruling classes, the super wealthy and the privileged minorities and their mercenaries must be neutralized.
  • The anthropogenic assault on Earth must be stopped.

Those of humans who function as the mercenaries of destruction must be removed, and the systems that promote:

  • False narratives
  • Human addiction and abuse
  • Air, water and soil pollution
  • Permanent wars, militarism and prostitution
  • Tourism, travel and mass transportation
  • Fossil fuel consumption and GHG emissions

must be crushed, allowing unhindered resumption of the evolutionary process.

Earlier…

Project Mars: Neutralize the omniciders before they commit you to extinction!

Delivering Cosmic Justice

YOU don’t need a military force or WMD to change the course of events. It’s done through projection of intense emotions–a burning desire to help save the planet and the lifeforms worth saving–delivered with laser sharp focus!

2019 Vigils

StarShip Earth Meditative Vigils – Globally Synchronized [January – December 2019]

The Vigil organizers together with their colleagues and friends throughout the world held monthly synchronized meditative vigils in 2019.

  • Plug into the awesome cosmic forces that ensure your existence, and let your innermost feelings be known!

Witness with your mind’s eye the wanton destruction of Starship Earth as being perpetrated by the omniciders, and let the overwhelming feeling of agony, sorrow and pain arising from the enormous loss touch your inner world…

Project onto the terrorists—the super-wealthy class, their puppet governments, all other enablers and family members, collectively the Axis of Evil—the pain and suffering caused by the ongoing ecological holocaust and wanton ecocide, militarism and war economy, poverty and inequality, racism and social exclusion…

The Vigils lasted for 15 minutes,  held on the 20th of each month. Concerned individuals throughout the world joined in.

World’s 24 richest people own as much as the bottom 50 percent, or about 3.9 billion people!

Participants delivered karmic justice, projecting the omniciders to vanishing into the ether at warp speed!

Stake your claim to life! Neutralize the omniciders before they commit you to extinction!

Our success rate is 100 percent.

COVID-19 behaving quite intelligently, so far! – February 28, 2020
https://newzeelend.wordpress.com/2020/02/28/covid-19-behaving-quite-intelligently-so-far/

Too bad, if you, (i) played chicken with nature and lost, or (ii) became a collateral victim!

COVID-19 has got the omniciders exactly where it wants them!
The pandemic is a protective act by nature’s defenses!

You’re all in binary territory now: Participate in the omnicide, OR prevent it from happening by any means possible.

There are no grey areas. Burying your head in the sand makes you a legitimate and deserving target for nature, as she fights back in the anthropogenic war waged against her. She takes no prisoners.

“Global wealth to reach USD459 trillion in 2024” [before falling to ZERO!] – February 22, 2020

Sent by a Visiting Scholar [edited by blog moderators]
The system of wealth creation and its criminal billionaire fat cats

Global wealth was estimated at USD 361 trillion in 2019 to reach USD 459 trillion [subject to the limits imposed by geophysics and sanity] by 2024, according to Credit Suisse’s “Global Wealth Report.”

We estimate that it could fall to zero soon after, if not well before!

The well-overdue “Apocalyptic” outcome for the anthropogenic assault on the planet is now palpable more than ever before, thanks to the cabal, their system of wealth creation, billionaire fat cats, their politicians and the gatekeepers.

| Purge | | Dark Ages | | Unevolved | | 17th Century | | Earth’s Defense Mechanism | | Life | | Anthropogenic Assault | | Ecocide | | … | | Extinction | | Omnicide |

https://newzeelend.wordpress.com/2020/02/22/global-wealth-to-reach-usd459-trillion-in-2024-before-falling-to-zero/

Se also:

“Vengeance is Mine, and I’m Repaying with Extreme Prejudice!”
https://newzeelend.wordpress.com/2020/04/17/vengeance-is-mine-and-im-repaying-with-extreme-prejudice/

Genocidal Ruling Class in Japan Might Have Sentenced Tens of Thousands of People to Death (Again!) – March 30, 2020
https://newzeelend.wordpress.com/2020/03/30/genocidal-ruling-class-in-japan-might-have-sentenced-tens-of-thousands-of-people-to-death-again/

Project the Omniciders onto the Dead Planet! – March 27, 2020
https://newzeelend.wordpress.com/2020/03/27/project-the-omniciders-onto-the-dead-planet/

A Message from Nature’s Defense Forces (NDeF) on Olympic Games – March 25, 2020
https://newzeelend.wordpress.com/2020/03/25/a-message-from-natures-defense-forces-ndef-on-olympic-games/

COVID-19 : A Pause Before the Storm – March 20, 2020
Nature’s Defenses Designed the “Perfect Virus“ to Allow a Pause for Refection…
https://newzeelend.wordpress.com/2020/03/20/covid-19-a-pause-before-the-storm/

NZ govt omitting the inconvenient truth on COVID-19 propagation!? [Part 2] – March 8, 2020
https://newzeelend.wordpress.com/2020/03/08/nz-govt-omitting-the-inconvenient-truth-on-covid-19-propagation-part-2/

Is this how NZ govt omitting the inconvenient truth on COVID-19 propagation? – March 6, 2020
https://newzeelend.wordpress.com/2020/03/06/is-this-how-nz-govt-omitting-the-inconvenient-truth-on-covid-19-propagation/

COVID-19 behaving quite intelligently, so far! – February 28, 2020
https://newzeelend.wordpress.com/2020/02/28/covid-19-behaving-quite-intelligently-so-far/

COVID-19 Unique Features:

COVID-19 is deadlier than SARS, MERS outbreaks combined.
Phantom strike ability – it can hide on surfaces for up to 9 days.
Infected subjects can host the virus without showing any symptom.
It’d probably play a significant role in the potentially impending violent transfer of power in the US.

“Global wealth to reach USD459 trillion in 2024” [before falling to ZERO!] – February 22, 2020
Sent by a Visiting Scholar [edited by blog moderators]
The system of wealth creation and its criminal billionaire fat cats
https://newzeelend.wordpress.com/2020/02/22/global-wealth-to-reach-usd459-trillion-in-2024-before-falling-to-zero/

A Message from Visiting Scholars – February 20, 2020
To those of you who’ve shown their care: Keep up the good Work!

To those of you who’ve just awoken, here’s what you need to know:

Ignorance of the karmic justice excuses no one!

Human kind’s Moral Failures:

  • Greed (or Avarice)
  • Monetizing the Planet
  • Militarism
  • Serial Wars
  • Testing, Manufacturing and Stockpiling Chemical, Biological and Nuclear Weapons and other WMD
  • Global Tourism

Consequences:

  • Climate Change
  • Air, Water and Soil Pollution
  • Drought, Famine and Disease
  • Terrorism (State and Individual)
  • Gun Violence, Murder, Rape and Suicides
  • Addiction to Drugs and Opioids
  • Cancer and Toxic Poisoning
  • Exotic Infections
  • Somatic Gene Mutations

Karma boomerangs sometimes in mysterious ways!

The novel coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak a protective act by nature’s defenses!

  • Chinese Lunar Holidays, Japan Olympics, Global Tourism… are Acts of Omnicide.

You’re all in binary zoned now: Condone omnicide, or prevent it from happening by any means possible.

Burying your head in the sand makes you a legitimate and deserving casualty of the anthropogenic war against nature. She takes no prisoners.
https://newzeelend.wordpress.com/2020/02/20/a-message-from-visiting-scholars/

The novel coronavirus outbreak a protective act by nature’s defenses! [February 13, 2020]
https://newzeelend.wordpress.com/2020/02/13/coronavirus-good-or-bad-in-the-grand-scheme-of-things/

Karmic Payback for Destroying Oceans Ecosystem!? [ February 7, 2020]
https://newzeelend.wordpress.com/2020/02/07/karmic-payback-for-destroying-oceans-ecosystem/

Terraforming Earth for a New Lease of Life – [January 29, 2020]
Sent by blog contributors

This is not for the faint of heart!
Fire, Brimstone… and Rocky Mountain Horror Shows
Submission withheld. May be released subject to blog moderators’ vote.
https://newzeelend.wordpress.com/2020/01/29/terraforming-earth-for-a-new-lease-of-life/

Forces of Evil Eclipse Powers of Good by a ratio of 50,000 to 1 [January 28, 2020]

Only major events can shift the odds in favor of the good!

The blog’s science contributors estimate that the forces of evil now eclipse the powers of good by a factor of about 50,000 to 1.

Only major events can now destroy the forces of evil, resonate with the powers of good and save this planet from anthropogenic apocalypse.

So here’s a “direct” prayer…

Oh “Magnificent Forces and Powers of the Universe”, we humbly request your help and attention:

Please cleanse our world! Keep our mind and bodies free of disease and void of evil.

Please save those of my family members who are worthy of saving, and protect us from our enemies.

Please direct my family to the righteous path, help us maintain the course, and expand our territories.

Please watch over us and keep us out of harm’s way.

Please protect us from evil and evil people, and destroy anyone who wants to harm us.

Please annihilate all those who are fighting against the good, polluting life, and destroying our home.

Give us courage, knowledge and understanding, and help us to overcome evil.

Thank you!

https://newzeelend.wordpress.com/2020/01/28/forces-of-evil-eclipse-powers-of-good-by-50000-to-1/

Sent by VSG

Major Events to Cost Apartheid NZ $440B Soon! –Independent Experts

SEVERE Karmic Booms Striking Racist, Morally Repugnant NZ!

For additional information see earlier entries!

For every vile action there are 2,000,000 vengeful reactions!

Posted by te2ataria on April 12, 2020

Sent by a contributor

The Real Easter Message: “Vengeance is Mine, and I’m Repaying!”

Know terms of the payback before departure:

For every unit of discrimination, denial, or distress caused, there will have been two million units in economic damages, for now…

Of the crimes committed by evil corporations, governments and their murderous mercenaries, corrupt high court judges and lawyers, greedy bankers, manufacturers and retailers…. we have selected a handful.

From the US to the UK, Canada to Australia, New Zealand to China… from Amazon to Alphabet, Microsoft to Apple, Samsung to Facebook, JPMorgan to Any Oil and Gas to…

Working out the outstanding subtotal is easy: 2m x 110m = 220trillion in the initial phase!

[And that’s just the writer’s personal account.  Moderator]

“ECONOMIC IMPACT OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON AGGRESSOR NATIONS”

reader asked:

“ECONOMIC IMPACT OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON AGGRESSOR NATIONS”

Clearly, the Five-Eyes ( US, UK, NZ, Australia, Canada), by any standard of morality are the worst of “Aggressor Nations”. But what’s the criterion used for assessing other nations whose activities are also abhorrent?

Visiting Scholars – 517 replied

Several criteria are applied including
– Sites of nuclear weapons, or WMD
– Places where weapons of war are manufactured
– Areas where large corporations are headquartered (Fortune 2000 and beyond: Amazon, Alphabet, Apple, AA, Bank of Montreal, Barclays, BAT, Dell Technologies, DHL, FaceBook, Fedex, IBM, Intel, JPMorgan Chase, Microsoft, PayPal, Starbucks, Nike, Walt Disney… Japan Tobacco, JPH, Hitachi, Sony, Tokio Marine Holdings… and in NZ, ANZ, Westpac Banking Group…)

– Countries, states or cities where the locals have harmed our representatives (Multiple areas within the Five Eyes are included)
– And more generally, where evil has rooted itself including Wall Street, Los Vegas, Cleveland, Providence, Miami, Tampa, City of London, Manchester, Brighton, Birmingham, Cambridge, Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Chiba, Montreal, Ottawa, Benelux, Jamaica, Naypyidaw, Beijing, Shenzhen, HK, Kuwait, Riyadh, Tel Aviv, UAE, Seoul, Bangkok, Auckland, Christchurch, Wellington…

We believe each and every person is individually and severally responsible for the activities that occur in their city, state and country.

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7.4 magnitude earthquake felt across New Zealand

Posted by te2ataria on June 19, 2020

Quake strikes 710km north-east of Gisborne

A 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Gisborne early Friday morning, and was felt across New Zealand.

It occurred at a depth of 33km, about 700km north-east of Gisborne at 12.49am, with GeoNet receiving about 9000 reports of people who felt it.

Details:

Magnitude: 7.4 Mw
Depth: 33 km
Lat Long: -33.46(± 4.6 km), -177.58(± 9.6 km)
Nearest city: 700 km north-east of Gisborne
Time: Fri Jun 19 2020 at 12:49 AM

Felt reports:  8,907

Related links:

Thought for the day: Nature won’t stop until the morally repugnant system is economically bankrupt, too!

Sent by a contributor

Several earthquake rattle large portions of New Zealand – serious shocks could follow

The largest quake registered 4.9 ML (Richter magnitude scale) and struck at a depth of 36 km, about 30 km north-west of Levin (-40.44, 175.00), Geonet said.

The quake was felt as far north as Auckland, and as far south as Banks Peninsula, Canterbury.

Some 11,172 felt reports were sent to Geonet, as of this report, according to their website.

♠ ♠

SEVERE Karmic Booms Striking Racist, Morally Repugnant NZ!

Karma boomerangs in mysterious ways!

People living in Wellington, Christchurch, Auckland, Tasman Bay and Hawke’s Bay regions are either very brave, or extremely stupid. Then again, karma returns in mysterious ways!

‘Mega disasters hitting NZ to cause hundreds of billions in damages’ —Independent Experts

[Estimates have been raised to about 4 times the 2019 GDP and counting!]

Related links:

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White supremacist police facilitated ANZ terrorist arming himself, as suspected

Posted by te2ataria on June 16, 2020

Sent by a reader in NZ Terrorist City One [“Christchurch”]

Fact: NZ is a white supremacist country with ZERO tolerance for colour!

Fact: NZ military have killed or wounded thousands of “black”, “brown”, “yellow…”  people across the world!

Fact: IF the white supremacist NZ police hadn’t helped the ANZ terrorist arming himself, then the white supremacist SIS would have supplied the weapons!

“Mosque terrorist was wrongly granted firearms licence due to police mistakes, sources say”
Jun 16, 2020
“The [ANZ] terrorist was wrongly granted a firearms licence due to a string of police failures, sources have told Stuff.

“The terrorist, who pleaded guilty to New Zealand’s worst mass shooting in March, was not properly inspected by police vetting staff when he applied for a firearms licence in 2017.

“Stuff has been told that, among other errors, police failed to interview a family member as required, instead relying on two men who met the terrorist through an internet chatroom.

“The error was overlooked when police granted him the firearms licence, allowing the Australian citizen to stockpile the semi-automatic guns later used to murder [52] people [and wound many more.]”  Read more…

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/christchurch-shooting/120285768/mosque-terrorist-was-wrongly-granted-firearms-licence-due-to-police-mistakes-sources-say

Related links:

Let Me Define Your Rights!  There’s Only One Law In New Zealand: It Says YOU Are Colored!  Posted on June 10, 2008

Notes:

Not for Your Protection: GCSB, NZSIS, NAB, PM & Beehive, NZDF, DDIS, Police, TAU, PTIIG, SIG…

March 20, 2019

A powerful coalition of white supremacists, dispensationalists and other fundamental Christian groups [and their wealthy paymasters,] whose divine mission (sic) is to “purify” what is already a showcase for deadly racism, are aided in their atrocities by the zombie government, racist judiciary and the mercenary, paramilitary police in apartheid New Zealand. What chance do the “colored” minorities stand?

NO DIFFERENCE: HOW MUCH WORSE WOULD IT HAVE BEEN FOR THE VICTIMS OF NZ MOSQUES MASSACRES AND THEIR FAMILIES IF NONE OF THE ABOVE AGENCIES EXISTED?

Sent by a reader in Disaster City Zero [aka, “Auckland”]

Clearly, none of the agencies and organizations listed above meant to protect ordinary people!

Once again the above-listed organizations, comprising the so-called “New Zealand Intelligence Community,” PM and politicians, military and “Military Intelligence,” police and law enforcement… have clearly demonstrated that they were not set up for the purpose of protecting ordinary people.

[Far from it! In fact, some, most or all of the above may have been involved, one way or another, in making the terrorist attacks happen. DH]

[Strong language removed. Moderator DH]

Call it what you like, farce, conspiracy…

But the fact remains that none of the above agencies are there to protect the ordinary people, even though we pay their wages.

[Strong language removed. Moderator DH]

The average terrorist can pack half a dozen lethal weapons, walk into the average community, murder, maim or injure 100 people.

[Strong language removed. Moderator DH]

So what’s the point of paying hundreds of millions of dollars to maintain the GCSB, NZSIS, NAB, PM & Beehive, NZDF, DDIS, Police and Law Enforcement, TAU, PTIIG, SIG and all other alphabet soup of agencies and organizations whose primary, secondary, or even tertiary purpose is most certainly not to protect the ordinary people?

[Strong language removed. Moderator DH]

Bitching and Two-Minute Silence

[Strong language removed. Moderator DH]

And all the Prime Minister from Hell, Jacinda Ardern, could do was bitching with the terrorist and declaring a two-minute silence!

[Strong language removed. Moderator DH]

Our WARNINGS Never Reached the Intended Audience 

Since 2008, we have tried to warn foreign tourists, students, migrants and refugees that this apartheid toilet, NZ, is a dangerous place, particularly deadly for “non-whites”.

The axis of evil, however, have censored, blocked and filtered the messages, preventing the would-be victims from receiving the warnings.

And then, the ANZ terrorist struck, as we had warned.

The Axis of Evil

– The establishment, their Five Eyes network (US, UK, NZ, CAN, AU) and puppet governments of Thailand, Korea, Japan, India, EU, China, African and Arab countries…

– Various multinational corporations including banks, energy, defense, airlines, tourism, food, pharma, media……

– The Internet Mafia: Google [Alphabet Inc.,] Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo, Duckduckgo, WordPress… 

NZ Military’s Overseas Operations

War Glory: War is Murder in Uniform!

Military personnel from NZ are deployed on multiple  operations  in at least 14 countries/regions around the world, including:

Afghanistan, Antarctica, Arabian Sea, Bahrain, Egypt, Fiji, Iraq, Israel/Lebanon/Syria (Golan Heights), Mali, Middle East, Republic of Korea, South Sudan, Jordan, New Zealand… Previous Operations: Timor Leste, Gulf of Aden, Arabian Gulf, Kosovo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Tonga… Vietnam…
“It is in New Zealand’s interests to play a leadership role in the South Pacific…”  NZDF MIL

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NZ government pleads “moral prostitution”

Posted by te2ataria on June 13, 2020

Sent by a reader

Did Avatar crew bribe their way into NZ?

Avatar crew allowed into NZ despite immigration rules

“The government allowed the Avatar film crew to come to New Zealand when no criteria for it existed in immigration rules.”

“New rules were published on Tuesday and were backdated to 2 June, but the crew and other workers were allowed exemptions to the border closure last month.

“Immigration lawyer James McLeod said the original criteria from March did not allow for exceptions on the grounds of significant economic value.”

He said:

I don’t see how the decision to allow the Avatar crew into New Zealand could have been made pursuant to the immigration instructions in force at the time, because the definition of essential worker was much narrower then.

It involved delivering a response to the Covid-19 crisis, and/or maintaining critical infrastructure, neither of which I would consider a Hollywood film would fall within.

The immigration Minister also granted permission to two America’s Cup crews and their families to enter NZ despite the rules.

Read more…

Related: The Amazing Case of The “Instant Kiwi”

Affairs of the Conman Billionaire (Donald Trump’s favorite queer!)

Official Corruption: “The Instant Kiwi”

Did you know Peter Thiel screwed the NZ taxpayers out of tens of millions of dollars, while sodomizing corrupt NZ government ministers, and got a preferential citizenship, too?

“The Instant Kiwi” even forced the corrupt NZ government to have details of his immigration application redacted.

The Department of Internal Affairs allowed billionaire Peter Thiel to redact key information from his citizenship file, a decision later criticised by the Ombudsman who said the saga attracted ‘public disquiet.’”

Screw us once, shame on you; screw us twice, shame on our corrupt, criminal successive governments!

Sent by readers in Sodom and Gomorrah [aka, “Auckland”, and “Christchurch”]

How to “Anal-yze” New Zealanders with Absolute Impunity: Stealing from taxpayers

Having been anally violated (sodomized) repeatedly by the queer predator Peter Thiel and the likes, you would’ve thought the government and its senior employees learned to avoid having showers (or at least not to drop the soap) with the Silicon Valley Queers’ Mafiosi.

Millions more poured into transport project after US partner dropped

“A high-tech transport project that ran into problems with its Silicon Valley partner has already cost the government more than $5 million, but another $19m will be put into it.”

Taxpayers hit from govt partnership with US videogame maker Machine Zone

“A government partnership with an American video game maker has burnt the New Zealand taxpayer.

“The [utterly corrupt and criminally liable] Transport Agency has [again] sunk public money into a partnership with Silicon Valley company Machine Zone…”

Silicon Valley company tested cameras on Auckland highway

“Links between Machine Zone and the public sector stretching back three years are gradually coming to light via Official Information Act requests to the Transport Agency.

“These show its multimillion-dollar contracts went beyond data processing for the agency’s experiments with transportation apps in Queenstown and Auckland – since dropped – and into CCTV cameras and GPS trackers, raising questions about privacy, data security and cost.”

Bridges defends transport initiative after failed tech partnership

“The [utterly corrupt and criminally liable] National Party leader has defended the running of a mobility project he claimed would revolutionise transport.”

Gay billionaire and Trump supporter allowed NZ citizenship even though he never intended to live here!

It has been revealed that Peter Thiel was granted NZ citizenship even though he had never lived in New Zealand and made plain in his application that he did not intend to in the future—two statutory requirements to become a citizen.

“He attended a private citizenship ceremony at the New Zealand Consulate in Santa Monica in August of 2011.”

Prime Minister Bill English has reportedly defended the Government’s decision to grant him citizenship, saying Thiel had “demonstrated his commitment to New Zealand” over the last 11 years after becoming a resident in 2006.

Other News and Readers’ Comments:

Police & Media Watch said

[Another attempted murder by police?]
Saturday, 13 June 2020 – 11:32am | Central
UPDATE: Serious crash, Hawera
A 20-year-old man is now in a serious but stable condition after running into the path of a Police vehicle in Taranaki overnight.
The incident occurred on Glover Road in Hawera about 12.20am.
https://www.police.govt.nz/news/release/update-serious-crash-hawera-1
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Auckland shooting: Homicide victim died after frantic dash towards hospital
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/300033631/auckland-shooting-homicide-victim-died-after-frantic-dash-towards-hospital
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Friday, 12 June 2020 – 4:48pm | Northland
Murder of Bridget Simmonds: body found on rural property
Police investigating the disappearance of missing Northland woman Bridget Simmonds have located a body.
A team of investigators have been working relentlessly to find the 43-year-old mother of two since she was reported missing on March 6 last year.
Yesterday, Police concentrated their efforts on searching an area on one of the properties and have since discovered the remains of a body buried on that property.
While the formal identification process is not yet complete, Police have reason to believe it is that of Bridget.
https://www.police.govt.nz/news/release/bridget-simmonds-case-body-found-rural-property
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Friday, 12 June 2020 – 4:42pm | Bay of Plenty
Man charged with murder, Te Teko homicide
A 24-year-old man has been charged with murder in relation to the death of a woman in Te Teko this morning.
https://www.police.govt.nz/news/release/man-charged-murder-te-teko-homicide
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‘Best friend’ remembers her murdered mate, Coral Burrows
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/300033631/auckland-shooting-homicide-victim-died-after-frantic-dash-towards-hospital

“ECONOMIC IMPACT OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON AGGRESSOR NATIONS”

Dave said

“ECONOMIC IMPACT OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON AGGRESSOR NATIONS”

Clearly, the Five-Eyes ( US, UK, NZ, Australia, Canada), by any standard of morality are the worst of “Aggressor Nations”. But what’s the criterion used for assessing other nations whose activities are also abhorrent?

Visiting Scholars Group – 517 replied

Several criteria are applied including
– Sites of nuclear weapons, or WMD
– Places where weapons of war are manufactured
– Areas where large corporations are headquartered (Fortune 2000 and beyond: Amazon, Alphabet, Apple, AA, Bank of Montreal, Barclays, BAT, Dell Technologies, DHL, FaceBook, Fedex, IBM, Intel, JPMorgan Chase, Microsoft, PayPal, Starbucks, Nike, Walt Disney… Japan Tobacco, JPH, Hitachi, Sony, Tokio Marine Holdings… and in NZ, ANZ, Westpac Banking Group…)

– Countries, states or cities where the locals have harmed our representatives (Multiple areas within the Five Eyes are included)
– And more generally, where evil has rooted itself including Wall Street, Los Vegas, Cleveland, Providence, Miami, Tampa, City of London, Manchester, Brighton, Birmingham, Cambridge, Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Chiba, Montreal, Ottawa, Benelux, Jamaica, Naypyidaw, Beijing, Shenzhen, HK, Kuwait, Riyadh, Tel Aviv, UAE, Seoul, Bangkok, Auckland, Christchurch, Wellington…

We believe each and every person is individually and severally responsible for the activities that occur in their city, state and country.

The First Wave of Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic – Update

JS MD replied

Our “top” forecasters are all over the place with their COVID-19 models:

“University of Washington researchers estimated on Monday that 145,728 people [down to the single digit, no less! The overwhelming accuracy is dazzling!] could die of COVID-19 in the United States by August, raising their grim forecast by more than 5,000 fatalities in a matter of days.

“On Friday, the widely cited Institute for Health Metrics and evaluation at the university projected 140,496 deaths by August from COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the coronavirus. Researchers did not give a reason for the abrupt revision. [Other than that of being influenced by the forecast posted on the blog?] ”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/university-of-washington-forecasts-145000-us-covid-19-deaths-by-august/ar-BB15dnAI

An influential COVID-19 model designed by the University of Washington and cited by the White House has again revised its projections, issuing the dire prediction, saying the US death toll could reach 169,890 by October 1… [It’s unclear if their latest model is also down to single-digit accuracy, or rounded to the nearest 10.]
https://ktla.com/news/nationworld/covid-19-deaths-expected-to-decrease-in-u-s-before-sharp-rise-in-september-influential-model-shows/

New Zealand synonymous with corruption, incompetence, deception…

PD said

The vague and confusing reasons we’ll never know exactly where the wage subsidy is going
Katie Kenny 09:17, Jun 11 2020
ANALYSIS: The Government has talked up the transparency of its $11b Covid-19 wage subsidy scheme. But if you want to see a list of every recipient, you’re out of luck. Even half of them? Nope.

The illusion of transparency has been created by an online search tool that allows members of the public – and stickybeak journalists – to look up a company’s name and see whether it’s received the subsidy.

But the search engine returns only five results at a time. Stuff – and other media – sought the full list. It seemed a straightforward request. We only wanted what the Government had already made public, just in a different form.

Days went by and it became clear the Ministry of Social Development (MSD) could not, or would not, provide the list. Why?

“We designed the tool with close involvement from the Privacy Commissioner to ensure compliance with the Privacy Act,” said Nadine Kilmister, a deputy chief executive at the ministry, in a statement.
[…]
For valid privacy reasons, total transparency will never be possible. But to refuse to provide even a redacted list of recipients falls well short of the insight taxpayers deserve.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/121780571/the-vague-and-confusing-reasons-well-never-know-exactly-where-the-wage-subsidy-is-going

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The Final Destination: Yet Another Indian Male Violently Killed in NZ

Posted by te2ataria on June 11, 2020

Details sent by PoliceWatch2

“I waited all my life, working hard to emigrate to NZ to be violently killed…”

[What the victim might have thought  moments before he died.]

Wednesday, 10 June 2020 – 2:35pm | Counties Manukau
Witnesses sought for fatal crash in Papatoetoe
Counties Manukau Police are appealing for witnesses to a fatal crash involving a vehicle and pedestrian in Papatoetoe on Monday.
The incident occurred at around 3.40pm on Monday 8 June on Great South Road near Hunters Corner Plaza.
Police can now name the man as Gurmej Singh Lally.
Mr Lally suffered critical injuries in the incident and sadly passed away in Middlemore Hospital later on Monday night.
https://www.police.govt.nz/news/release/witnesses-sought-fatal-crash-papatoetoe

Selected reader comments/submissions:

Corruption, dishonesty, misrepresentation, deception by omission…

The vague and confusing reasons we’ll never know exactly where the wage subsidy is going
Katie Kenny 09:17, Jun 11 2020
ANALYSIS: The Government has talked up the transparency of its $11b Covid-19 wage subsidy scheme. But if you want to see a list of every recipient, you’re out of luck. Even half of them? Nope.

The illusion of transparency has been created by an online search tool that allows members of the public – and stickybeak journalists – to look up a company’s name and see whether it’s received the subsidy.

But the search engine returns only five results at a time. Stuff – and other media – sought the full list. It seemed a straightforward request. We only wanted what the Government had already made public, just in a different form.

Days went by and it became clear the Ministry of Social Development (MSD) could not, or would not, provide the list. Why?

“We designed the tool with close involvement from the Privacy Commissioner to ensure compliance with the Privacy Act,” said Nadine Kilmister, a deputy chief executive at the ministry, in a statement.
[…]
For valid privacy reasons, total transparency will never be possible. But to refuse to provide even a redacted list of recipients falls well short of the insight taxpayers deserve.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/121780571/the-vague-and-confusing-reasons-well-never-know-exactly-where-the-wage-subsidy-is-going

ECONOMIC IMPACT OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON “AGGRESSOR” NATIONS

About 1.542 million Americans filed jobless claims for the week ended June 6, the Labor Department said.
A total of more than 47 million applications for unemployment benefits have been submitted since the COVID-19 pandemic began in March, government records show, a number that dwarfs even unemployment figures in the Great Depression.

More than 50% of American families have been financially affected, experts say.

Coronavirus: UK economy could be among worst hit of leading nations, says OECD
The UK is likely to be the hardest hit by Covid-19 among major economies, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has warned.
Britain’s economy is likely to slump by 11.5% in 2020, slightly outstripping falls in countries such as Germany, France, Spain and Italy, it said.
If there were a second peak in the pandemic, the UK economy could contract by as much as 14%.

“The crisis will cast a long shadow over the world,” the OECD added.
It said that in what it called a “single-hit scenario”, with no second peak, there could be contractions of 11.4% in France, 11.1% in Spain, 11.3% in Italy and 6.6% in Germany.
In its latest assessment, the OECD found that the UK’s largely service-based economy meant that it had been particularly badly hit by the government’s lockdown restrictions.
The services sector, including financial services, hospitality and tourism, makes up about three-quarters of the UK’s GDP.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-52991913

New Zealand’s economy among the worst hit by Covid-19 in OECD, new report warns
The organisation, made up of 37 leading economies, said Covid-19 had triggered “the most severe economic recession in nearly a century”.
The report paints two scenarios; one where the current wave of infections is the worst of the crisis and another where another wave of infections hits before the end of the year.
In either scenario New Zealand is likely to see a sharper economic contraction than most other members of the OECD, and a much larger hit than Australia.
Even if a second wave of global infections is avoided, the OECD predicts the New Zealand economy would shrink by 8.9 per cent in 2020, with only eight of the OECD’s 37 members contracting more.
If the global economy does see a second wave, New Zealand’s economy would shrink by 10 per cent, with 11 OECD economies taking a bigger hit.
In both scenarios, all of the economies expected to see a larger contraction than New Zealand are in Europe.
Australia meanwhile is expected to see a 5 per cent contraction this year or a 6.3 per cent hit if there is a second wave, with only South Korea facing a smaller hit.
https://www.reddit.com/r/newzealand/comments/h0u7iy/new_zealands_economy_among_the_worst_hit_by/

Covid-19: Air New Zealand reputation nosedives
Air New Zealand’s reputation has nosedived over the way it has handled refunds to customers, according to a new survey.
Consumer research company Opinion Compare asked 478 people at the start of the month on how their opinions of major companies had changed.
Air New Zealand’s reputation suffered the worst.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/418800/covid-19-reputations-air-new-zealand-nosedives-supermarkets-rise-survey

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NZ Police Brutality and Murder with Impunity…

Posted by te2ataria on June 9, 2020

Police armed response teams scrapped, says new Police Commissioner –report

The Blog’s highlighting of the NZ police brutality and acts of murder with impunity made a difference?

Now:

  • DISMANTLE NZ POLICE ASSASSINATION SQUADS

  • STOP THE MURDERS COMMITTED BY POLICE

  • STOP DEADLY VEHICLE PURSUITS

  • DISMANTLE POLICE’S MURDER WITH IMPUNITY RUBBER STAMPERS [“The Independent Police Conduct Authority”]

Dozens killed or seriously injured in NZ each year as a result of police armed response, deadly pursuits

The main trigger for scrapping the police assassination squads, the so-called “armed response teams”, would be the murder of George Floyd by the murderous US cops in Minneapolis. 

The new Police Commissioner Andrew Coster, who replaced the murderous thug Mike Bush in April, said on Tuesday Armed Response Teams (ARTs) would not be part of the New Zealand policing model in the future.

Tuesday, 9 June 2020 – 1:43pm | National News
Armed Response Teams will not continue
    “Police Commissioner Andrew Coster has today announced that Armed Response Teams (ARTs) will not be part of the New Zealand policing model in the future.
“The decision not to roll-out ARTs following the six-month trial (which finished in April) has been made based on preliminary findings from the trial evaluation, feedback received from the public, and consultation with community forum groups.”
https://www.police.govt.nz/news/release/armed-response-teams-will-not-continue

Deadly Police Pursuits

Leave no witness behind! 
Pursuits initiated by NZ police are designed to kill the occupants of “fleeing” vehicles as a matter of policy!

Many people including innocent bystanders are killed during police pursuits. Senior police officers like Canterbury District Commander Superintendent John Price lie through their rotten teeth when they say:

“No one could have foreseen the result. The officers’ absolute desire and aim was to prevent harm on our roads and I absolutely support them.”

Three more teens murdered by police

Teenage brothers Glen and Craig Mcallister, aged 16 and 13, and their 13-year-old friend, Brooklyn Taylor, where violently killed after the stolen car they were in hit police spikes at speed, crashed and exploded in a “huge ball of fire” on Christchurch’s Blenheim Rd on Sunday night (January 12) a report said.

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Terraforming the World: Drought is a powerful tool in nature’s defense arsenal

Posted by te2ataria on June 6, 2020

Visiting Scholars Group

Drought: A perfect tool in nature’s defense arsenal

One advantage of drought as a nature’s defensive tool is that most indigenous peoples have the ability to cope with its impact over extended periods. The occupiers don’t.

Over the coming periods, we’d be able to study the impact of extreme drought for extended periods in several regions.

StarShip Earth Meditative Vigil

WE unanimously condemn the anthropogenic assault on Earth, the acts of ecocide that are perpetrated by the majority of human species including the accumulation of wealth, tourism, militarism, mass movement of people, air travel, cruise ship holidays, fossil fuel consumption, GHG emissions, air, water and soil pollution, manufacture of weapons and ephemeral junk, unbridled consumption, hoarding disorder… all of which are leading to the extinction of life on Earth–omnicide.

Delivering Karmic Justice

YOU don’t need a military force or WMD to help deliver Karmic Justice, or change the course of events. It’s done through projection of intense  emotions, a burning desire to help save the planet and the lifeforms worth saving, delivered with laser sharp focus!

A permanent channel exists between your strongest emotions and the majestic and awesome cosmic forces that ensure the existence of everything…

Plug into the cosmic forces and let the innermost feelings be known!

WE have triggered into existence major events, thereby intervening in ongoing situations through thought projection, many times in the past, especially since 2010, with a success rate of 100 percent.

Starship Earth Global Vigils

Throughout 2019, we held monthly vigils to express our agony and heartbreak and seek cosmic justice against the omniciders through thought projection (see links below) knowing that nothing short of major change-making, albeit cataclysmic, events would stop the omniciders.

Then…

Nature’s Defenses Designed the “Perfect Virus“ to Allow a Pause for Refection…

StarShip Earth Permanent Meditative Vigil

2020 and beyond: The Visiting Scholars Group will be holding a meditative vigil throughout 2020 and beyond, in an effort to neutralize the omniciders and reclaim the world.

Witness with your mind’s eye the wanton destruction of Starship Earth as being perpetrated by the omniciders, and let the overwhelming feeling of agony, sorrow and pain arising from the enormous loss touch your inner world…

Project onto the terrorists—the super-wealthy class, their puppet governments, all other enablers and family members, collectively the Axis of Evil—the pain and suffering caused by the ongoing ecological holocaust and wanton ecocide, militarism and war economy, poverty and inequality, racism and social exclusion…

Let your focused thought invoke tsunamis of emotions within you. Project the waves onto the omniciders…

The Vigil is being held anytime, any place for as long as possible, throughout 2020.

We invite everyone to join us!

World’s 24 richest people own as much as the bottom 50 percent, or about 3.9 billion people!

There are about 47 million millionaires worldwide, who collectively own approximately $160 trillion., or 45% of the global wealth.

Let’s project them and their enablers vanished into the ether, or relocated to the dead planet at warp speed!

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The Final Destination: Indian Woman, Geriatric Pilot Killed in Taupō Glider Crash

Posted by te2ataria on June 4, 2020

 

ONLY Death is Democratic in NZ!

More than 40,000 foreigners—overseas visitors, international students, foreign workers and new emigrants—from more than 70 countries have been violently killed, permanently maimed, or otherwise seriously injured by NZ tourism machination between Jan 2000 and December 2019. At least 98 percent of the casualties would’ve been avoidable, if the ultra-racist, white supremacist gatekeepers of the slaughterhouse gave a f*ck. [Updated December 2019.]

UPDATED

Female victim and her husband emigrated from India five years ago

The Indian woman, 41, from Wellington, and a Taupō-based geriatric pilot  [nationality undisclosed] were killed when the glider crashed into Mt Tauhara around 2.45pm on Sunday.

The two people who were killed have been identified as Anthony Frederick Hector Budd, 78, and Kusum Pasha (nee Chandrappa), 41.

WTF: Blog Moderators are distressed to discover that a nearly octogenarian glider pilot was permitted to fly with a passenger onboard, resulting in a most likely avoidable fatal tragedy.

The Indian couple, members of the Muslim community in Wellington, were reportedly holidaying in Taupō for the weekend.

“The husband of a woman who died in a glider crash near Taupō had already taken a trip in the glider and was waiting for his wife to return when the crash happened,” said a report.

The Indian woman was described as “a very generous person who always supported community projects.”

The bodies have since been recovered and sent to Wellington for post mortem examinations before being returned to the families, the report said.

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Aussie bigotry and hypocrisy exposed again!

Posted by te2ataria on June 2, 2020

Sent by a reader in Sydney

‘Australia had its own George Floyd moment, only it passed without international outrage’

By ABC Indigenous affairs correspondent Isabella Higgins

“The deep anguish felt after the death of George Floyd is something Indigenous communities understand all too well, except here [in Australia,] they are still waiting for their moment of international reckoning.”

The deep anguish felt after the death of George Floyd is something Indigenous communities understand all too well, except here, they are still waiting for their moment of international reckoning.

The response in the United States to the death has been enormous, thousands taking to the streets to protest against the death of black men in the custody of white police officers.

But it was even bigger than that, the social media outcry has been impossible to ignore, George Floyd’s death was noted by millions around the world.

For many it feels like a moment of awakening, of a struggle realised, but it’s a bittersweet scenario for Indigenous families where similar issues are at play but with none of the global attention.

It’s been more than 30 years since Australia started interrogating its own problem with Indigenous deaths in custody, but it’s an issue that often fails to command social or political attention.

Many of the recommendations from the 1987 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody were never implemented, and it’s estimated hundreds more have died in custody since.

As Australians took to social media to denounce the events occurring in America, many Indigenous communities were left wondering where is the outcry for my family?

So does Australia have less empathy for its own deaths in custody? Or is the American influence so great that as a country we understand their race struggles better than our own?

The power of numbers

I’ve reported on many protests against Indigenous deaths in custody in Australia. The smallest was just a few dozen people, the biggest probably at best, a few hundred.

Never have I seen anything like what’s happening in the United States right now.
Thousands of people are shown with their fists in the air as they face the opposite direction to the camera.

Australia’s relatively small population is part of the reason — America’s African American population is equivalent to about 43 million people, Australia’s Indigenous population just 800,000 — but it’s a deeper problem than that.

In some ways Australia’s criminalisation of its black citizens is even more pronounced than the United States, but we don’t have music, movies and TV shows explaining it to us as regularly.

In the US, African Americans make up about 14 per cent of the population, and roughly 30 per cent of the country’s inmates.

Indigenous Australians make up 3 per cent of the population and about 30 per cent of the prison population.

We lock up Indigenous Australians at four times the rate of black Americans. It’s an even more jarring figure in the youth detention system, where about 50 per cent of all detainees are Indigenous.

It’s a crude and imperfect comparison, but it still paints a picture of our justice system.

“I can’t breathe”

One Australian case in particular that bears similarities to that of George Floyd is the 2015 death of Dunghutti man David Dungay in a Sydney prison.  [Dunngay, 26, who died in 2015 at Long Bay Jail.]

Both men died while being physically restrained by officers, and after repeatedly exclaiming “I can’t breathe.”

I remember a protest held by David Dungay’s family in Sydney. There were about 50 people there, and it received next to no media attention that day.

Not long after tens of thousands showed up to rally against Australia Day and climate change just a few blocks away.

No one has ever been charged for Dungay’s death.

The largest protest I’ve seen in Australia around deaths in custody was last year in Alice Springs, where the community was mourning the loss of a young man.
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Protest march in Alice Springs

Kumanjayi Walker, a 19-year-old Walpiri man, had been allegedly shot and killed by a white police officer in his home in the remote community of Yuendumu, home to just 1000 people.

Hundreds travelled hours away from their home in the heart of Australia to sit in the Alice Springs town square and call for justice.

There is the added complexity that in Indigenous communities like this one, English isn’t a first language and there’s added cultural protocols about who can speak out on behalf of their people.

I remember a young mother at the protest rocking a baby on her hip, she told me her biggest fear was that her baby son could one day end up as a man with bullet wounds in a coffin.

The police officer was charged with murder. It’s yet to go to trial but it’ll be one of the few cases where charges were pressed in relation to deaths in custody in Australia.

After the arrest, there were just a few small vigils mourning a young man.
3000 people attended the Invasion Day march in Brisbane on Australia Day 2018, waving Indigenous flags and signs.

America is the land of celebrity, a pop-culture powerhouse of the world, and while perhaps not equitably, African Americans do have some access to that international megaphone.

Barack Obama, Beyonce, Michael Jordan, Kanye West, Oprah Winfrey. Those kinds of aspirational household names taught the world African Americans should be respected.

For decades now, rap and hip-hop music have explained to us just some of the challenges of being black in America, with complex ideas about white privilege, power imbalances, inequity, a stacked justice system, all distilled in a catchy chorus.

From Tupac — “Can barely walk the city streets … without a cop harassing me, searching me”— to Kendrick Lamar — “We hate the po-po, wanna kill us dead in the street fo sho”.

Australia has a crop of Indigenous celebrities, sports stars, musicians, actors, writers, a handful of politicians but nothing compared to America’s influencers.

In a connected world, where activism and conversations start on social media, whether right or wrong, the words of the famous can be as good as gospel.

They speak in a language people understand, they have influence and they told us the death of George Floyd is not OK and you must speak up. And Australians did.

Out of sight

In Australia these incidents often occur in remote corners of the country, foreign to most of us, while most African-Americans police shootings occur in big cities.

Would the nation’s understanding about what happened during the 2004 Palm Island riots be any clearer if it happened in a major city?

An Aboriginal man died in custody, it sparked fierce riots, the officer in charge was acquitted of manslaughter, then 12 years later in a civil case, the Federal Court determined the police actions were racist.

Where there are lots of people, there is a media presence, then there is public scrutiny, that leads to accountability. When terrible things happen in remote areas, they too easily slip under the radar.

As a regional reporter, some years ago I recall a riot breaking out in Woorabinda, a small central Queensland community.

A pregnant Indigenous woman had accused police of throwing her to the ground and mishandling her during a routine seatbelt check.

The town of about 900 people was furious at the police, they rioted for days, there were a few local reports after the fact, but for the most part the incident barely made it to public consciousness.

The incident was investigated by the Queensland Crime and Corruption Commission, but there was no follow up on the outcome.

If issues happen out of the sight of most Australians, out of sight of our social media feeds, it is easy to ignore them.

But America can tell you it’ll take more than social media activism, memes about racism and protests to dismantle institutional racism.

America might have worldwide attention, all the power and influence of celebrity, and even a black president for eight years, but just like Australia, its justice problems are not going away.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-02/us-riots-indigenous-deaths-in-custody/12309010

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