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Sep 9, 2023Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

What a terrible predicament to have been inflicted on you, Monica. NZ, Australia and Canada have certainly been the testing grounds for what can be imposed, and it's sad and scary that the answer is 'whatever they want.'

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Sep 9, 2023·edited Sep 9, 2023Author

Hey! Like that dude being carted away in the plague scene in the Monty Python movie, I’m not dead yet! It could be worse. I could be vax injured or dead. So while I can’t contain my snark, every day I really am grateful to be alive and healthy. Really.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdf5EXo6I68

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Sep 9, 2023Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

Haha! Glad you're still dishing out the snark.

My daughter and her husband are going to NZ for their honeymoon (and 1 yr anniversary) in late Oct. My ex- had said it was the most beautiful place he'd ever been. I will put my prediction out there--I think by 2030, we'll be well into the community rebuilding phase, committed that this will never happen again and making the world we want. That NZ would welcome you back. Just to put that out in the universe ;-)

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Ladies.I think we’re headed into a deep, dark pit. For awhile, unfortunately.

<insert sad trombone sound and SNL Debbie downer video>

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Come on, Tereza, 2025...maybe 2026. (Our reset is faster than THEIRS.)

Let's put that out in the universe too.😃

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Yes, I thought about that Kathleen and had amended my prediction to 'well-into the community rebuilding phase.' I started writing my book back in 2012 as A 2020 Vision: the Economics of Community. And I reserved the domain name, which I still have, of a2020vision.org.

But then I realized that I needed the story of the undoing first so wrote How to Dismantle an Empire as the first in that series. 2020 was the beginning of the unravelling, as you so succinctly put it in Weaving.

The acceleration of destruction seems like they're throwing caution to the wind and desperate to get in as much as they can before people catch on. Things are coming to a breaking point of the illusion. And I do think 2025 will be the pivot point.

But if I were planning the community side of it, I'd recommend five years where people stay put--universities serve students who live at home, tourists make the place they live somewhere people want to visit, the homeless go to where they were born or where they have family, recent migrants return to countries from which foreign-owned corporations have been expelled.

We're changing the trajectory of the last 4000 yrs at least. I think we should give ourselves 5 years to come out of the daze and get to know the people around us and make our plans as a community. Just my thoughts.

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That makes sense to me! And I agree, even with 5 years and the incredible changes coming, that's still quite fast. I'm not good at predicting time things take. Despite the time-speeding up feeling many of us have - in other ways, paradoxically, it feels incredibly slow. By now I imagined normies mostly aligned and accountability on the table. My sweet-summer child bit, as Sage calls it. Thanks, Tereza.

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Sep 9, 2023Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

"I don't want to go on the cart!"

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"I feeeeeeel....... HAPPY!!!!!"

haha :D

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Sep 9, 2023Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

"You're not fooling anyone, you know."

http://montypython.50webs.com/Holy_Grail/sounds/notfool.wav

http://montypython.50webs.com/Holy_Grail/sounds/feelhappy.wav

I just found this wonderful resource. It has nothing to do with c-19 and only a little to do with government tyranny. http://montypython.50webs.com/index.html

"I wasn't expecting a sort of WEFer inquisition!"

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Sep 9, 2023Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

Totally agree Monica. As a Kiwi who lost my job in the medical field, and seeing my wife’s carer support payment for looking after my beautiful daughter who has a disability, terminated, I first hand experienced the consequence of declining a jab or two.

I grieve for not only paradise lost in Aotearoa, but lament also for the irrevocable loss of trust, genuine science and ‘health care’ that really does care, in our once fine land.

I wrote a wee piece, after Chris Hipkins struggled recently to define a woman. Hope you enjoy 🙂

Chippy the huntsman?

Our prime minister, Chris Hipkins, during his prior role as Minister for Covid-19 response, threatened to ‘track down’ the unvaccinated.

At least the unjabbed women of New Zealand, would have remained blessedly free from his unsolicited advances.

The first rule of hunting? - CLEARLY identify your target.

Fortunately for the women of Aotearoa, Chippy doesn’t appear to have a clue…. 

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Well stated.

Be he ain't no huntsman

He isn't fit for the wild

Only air-conditioned offices

And selling used cars

A professional liar and conman

Not even fit for prison

Where he would be eaten alive

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😂

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I'm listening to folks in my neighborhood gaslight themselves. It's remarkable and frightening - the speed at which one can rewrite recent history.

"I didn't have a problem with people who didn't get vaxxed" says the neighbor who demanded to know everyone's vaccine status and told other neighbors to exclude anyone "selfish enough' to not have gotten it."

Another one, when I reminded him recently of his temporary insanity and the nearly two years he didn't include me in the usual gatherings, laughed and said, "Oh I don't think so. I had no problem you, I was probably just making other people feel comfortable."

Maybe aside from a few exceptions, we won't be getting any honest reflection, let alone apology. I think it's just the next phase in the longstanding mind-control. (This is when you foam at the mouth, this is where you take pics of yourself getting vaxxed, this is where you exclude anti-vaxxers, this is where you deny you did any such thing.) It's a zombie playbook. We'll know humans by their ability to own what happened.

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And yes. Let’s add this one to the list. Getting a tattoo that says:

“Thank you Pfizer!”

😂

Are you pfucking kidding me? 💩

It was a massive PsyOp and it was also a mass psychosis.

The two are not mutually exclusive.

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That’s it.

Can they own their cruelty?

I was cruel for awhile. Mixed up! I had a phase where you was conflicted on all the “public health” measures and bemoaned the “unscientific” morons around us. At the same time, I gave a recorded YT talk about the evils of the establishment banning ivermectin etc.

So... I wasn’t completely clear yet.

I apologized later on FB for not seeing what was going on.

Few people will do that.

Sean Plunket is halfway there. He has now admitted to being brainwashed due to his choice of media consumption at the time.

That’s laudable and it’s a lot more than we’ll get from the vast majority of people.

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Good on ya, Monica. When people do apologize for getting it wrong, or being mean - not that I would know anything about that! 😇 - most of us require nothing more. We're human and we get it. (When I was a NYT's reading know-it-all liberal - I'm embarrassed to think back on what a a$$hole I was - I too, apologized for it. People were gracious.

It feels liberating and simply right.

An increasingly smaller window going forward in terms of the choices we make. Anyone continuing to support the ones trying to own the planet and control its inhabitants, are choosing poorly and will likely live those consequences. Many already are.

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Sep 10, 2023Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

I've seen that self-gaslighting also and it's infuriating. Our family vaxx-pusher, who fell into a deep obsession, now says all the scientists and public health officials were correct, but the workers down on the factory floor were sloppy in making it and that's what caused all the problems.

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He or she sounds like an a$$hole. Any excuse to avoid "I was wrong".

A natural nazi - protecting the leadership and happy to throw anyone under the bus in the process.

Even if it doesn't seem to penetrate, call them out. With light humor, a slight mocking tone so the absurdity of their position is clear. Somewhere inside they know and when they recognize that someone else sees that too - it disrupts the program. Just my observation.

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Sep 9, 2023Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

I imagine similar denials occurred after WW2... “we weren’t mean to Jews, we didn’t know it was happening, we didn’t turn anyone away...”

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Sep 9, 2023Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

I remember reading your stack about your move and how heart-wrenching it was. That was the darkest period. I had made plans in my head to escape to a more reasonable state if things got harder, for the sake of my kids. It never went further, but it would be almost a year before the tide turned.

Next time, just a little extra push could be all it takes. They know. They know exactly what they’re doing.

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Yup. I thought later that it was actually part of the plan to get some portion of us to flee, thereby further impoverishing ourselves... which is also part of the goal.

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Sep 9, 2023Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

There is something called the "Curley Effect" wherein elected officials craft policies that are supported by just enough people to keep getting them elected while punishing their political opponents to the point they leave, furthering their future margins of victory while generally wrecking their city/county/state/country. James Curley was a Boston mayor in the early-mid 20th century.

Also of note is how the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada have successfully disarmed their populations. It is almost like they planned for this. /s

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Astute observation.

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Sep 9, 2023Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

I’m sure that’s true. To get people to quit their jobs, particularly first responders of all types, which hurts us all. I remember thinking the mandates were so strange- out of a horror movie that it didn’t even remotely seem to have evolved from a genuine state of concern. It was just one of many platforms upon which to divide community and have them flee to less desirable locations.

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Sep 9, 2023Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

Very interesting piece. I am not from this area of the world but had always hoped to visit New Zealand. My rosy impression of the country has changed quite a bit. That has been true of so much, politically and personally, in the last few years. I feel very sad about it. Thankfully, there are many heroes as well.

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Sep 9, 2023Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

Here are three non-Covid examples of the incompetence of government in the natural world. Our fisheries department managed the Snapper fishery and said it was the world standard of management. A few years ago the population collapsed due to over fishing and there is now a 6 year ban on Snapper fishing. Yesterday the same department sent a helicopter out to shoot feral animals (which are a problem) and ended up shooting at hunters on the ground because they forgot to ring the owner of the property. Varroa mite (a nasty bee parasite) was absent in Australia. It came into NSW a year ago and thousands of hives were destroyed in certain areas. You can prove a hive has the mites by sampling - but you cannot prove it has no mites. The reproductive cycle of these mites means you only need a single mite to start an infestation. The almond industry needed bees to be moved to the orchards for pollination so the powers that be(e) said OK with strict testing - knowing that testing cannot prove there are no mites. It now looks like mites will become endemic here. Incompetence and/or corruption is part and parcel of government. Covid is just another example. (and our state was shutdown for 6 days because our supreme leaders were convinced you could catch covid from a pizza box). It is demoralizing knowing what intellectual minnows wield power over us - but I suppose it has always been like that.

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Sep 9, 2023·edited Sep 9, 2023Author

It has always been like that.

This is a big frustration of mine with the “if we just get the right people in office” crowd.

There is no political solution because the systems are not broken. The systems are working 24/7 to provide this result.

There are only cycles of collapse and renewal, over and over again, where people lose and regain their sanity as a collective, after massive bloodshed and loss. Or some new technology comes in the re-boot the cycle with a slightly better iteration of government (for a time).

We are the stupidest species on earth. Maybe the elites are right to try to kill us off. I just wish they’d take themselves with the rest of us.

Well, by the looks of it they’re on their way.. .Bill Gates certainly doesn’t have some secret recipe or advanced healthcare system he’s utilizing. With his massive moobs and pillowy wheat belly, he could look like RFK Jr if he wanted to. But apparently he’s unable to avail himself of something as simple as testo injections or steak dinners. Probably terrified they would give him cancer.

🤣

Elon Musk? He lets others raise his litters of kids. At least one is transgender. The world's billions apparently can't buy ideal parenting.

Pictures of Klaus Schwab, that impossibly old Rothschild dude, Biden, the King of England, Pelosi, Feinstein, or Mitch McConnell don’t have me thinking, “THERE is health and vitality!!”

We are ruled by the corrupt and they do conspire. Yes. But they’re also not very wise at all. We're ruled by fools, truly. And these beliefs are not mutually exclusive.

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Sep 9, 2023Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

I always take offense when my wife calls me human - I hope I am not that stupid. It does seem like the political cycle is one of hope and despair. I conclude that any success of a nation is in spite of the government, not because of it. When a business owner makes bad decisions, they can loose their business - there is accountability for them. Politicians and bureaucrats though, are never held to account. There is the illusion that politicians are held to account at the ballot box, but there is always a diplomatic post or board to join for the party faithful, and bureaucrats are usually out of plain sight. The billionaire's are in a different place - our own Twiggy Forrest went on some weird rant last week that no one seems to fully understand. At least at the moment I can still enjoy my work, and I keep a few bees and fish and garden. I am told we will get a kitten soon after our 20 1/2 year old cat died in March. The fight back against ULEZ is promising and maybe the advice of that other famous cat is the path.

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It what’s remarkable, Monica, is that all of those sagging hags & bags are in what should be a very vulnerable group by age & likely age-related or lifestyle-related co-morbidities for both WuFlu AND multi jabs which they all pretend to have taken. Saline, anyone?

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Saline or not.... you point out how sick they are.

Why won’t these evil turds just fricken die already? 😅😂😫😠

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Indeed!

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Monica - River of Freedom is not available online yet, but this doco is: https://rumble.com/v1y97jl-we-came-here-for-freedom-part-1.html (there are two parts). It’s a lovely reminder that many of us here in NZ are aligned with you. X

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(Oh and this one was great too: https://rumble.com/v2gvrfa-april-7-2023.html)

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Sep 9, 2023·edited Sep 9, 2023Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

I was quite thrilled to see Sean's message on this film after his stubborn inability to critically think over the last three years.

I hope in time as he computes this, mulls it over, his tune changes even more.

I think we forget we have had time to think and reflect, challenge our own assumptions.

Many others are still living in a very different and delusional world no thanks to the ministry of truth

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He has had two hospitalisations for A-fib in the last year or so. He has spent a great deal of time explaining to everyone that it is not a vax reaction. I imagine (hope) that deep down he has a niggling and growing doubt, and that River of Freedom has given that doubt a little room to grow.

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I remember your little girl’s plight.

Have you been able to repair any of those social connections?

I can’t imagine what NZ is like on the ground at the moment.

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(Besides insane inflation.)

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Hi Monica - it’s certainly been a trip. I have seen so many of the people who distanced themselves from us suffer from all sorts of health issues. My dad (bullied into the jab by his GP) developed rapid onset dementia. Excess deaths here are huge. For two days in a row the NZ Herald has run stories of girls dying in their sleep. And our country’s debt has gone from c$5billion to c$80billion since the madness began. Censorship is rife. I’m in mourning for my country. It still feels mad here, but every day I feel grateful that my girl and I didn’t get that bloody shot. I hope so much that you have found some joy and peace after your awful exit from NZ.

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Was there a mandate for vets? Were you able to stay employed at least?

There wouldn't have been a mandate in my remaining business (after they shut my Coley's toxins business down in Oct. 2020), but it would have been destroyed in the lockdowns of August 2021 and beyond.

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Sep 9, 2023Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

I lost my job as a vet due to my employer having decided that mandates were a great idea. Fortunately, I was blessed with multiple offers from other clinics in the region where I live, which did not want to participate in ‘Jacindivision’ 🙂

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Sep 9, 2023Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

We have several friends who were jabbed who have experienced likely adverse events but refuse to consider the possibility. We have another who developed turbo cancer and considers it likely a jab reaction but won't report it as she only got it because her nurse daughters leveraged access to her grandchildren to force the issue and acknowledgement would be too familialy painful. Thankfully , she is evidently fully recovered, but will need to be vigilant against recurrence. I understand why the VAERS underreport rate is so high. As in recovery, the first step is admitting there is a problem.

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Wow. 😔

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Sep 9, 2023Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

Monica, you made the right decision, I am glad you are here with us.

But don't hope they will regret...they will never. They might murmur a few

pacifying words, but in their heart of hearts, they think they were right and will

always think that way.

They are all Good Germans, dontch know?

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Sep 10, 2023Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

CJ Hopkins, “The essence of totalitarianism — regardless of which costumes and ideology it wears — is a desire to completely control society, every aspect of society, every individual behaviour and thought. Every totalitarian system, whether an entire nation, a tiny cult, or any other form of social body, evolves toward this unachievable goal … the total ideological transformation and control of every single element of society … This fanatical pursuit of total control, absolute ideological uniformity, and the elimination of all dissent, is what makes totalitarianism totalitarianism.”

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Sep 9, 2023Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

I’m still waiting for recognition of the utter destruction of my once great home ...”gods own “ NZ , what a battle it is , I’m ready to forgive , I truly am , just like the beautiful people of Cambodia did ....but all I get from the unelected ruling class of this nation is salt in the wounds , lies , it’s very hard , the masses seem to silently accept the lies to our faces , wow what days these are !

Take care out there people

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Sep 9, 2023Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

Amazing that Sean Plunket is actually recommending River of Freedom - such a turn around for him. It’s in cinemas now but only a few cinemas ( only about 4 in the South Island so far, as most won’t touch it) . I travelled 90 mins to see it the other day. Very powerful and moving film. Really should be seen by all NZers, but I suspect most won’t. We have the same denial of the problems and not wanting to discuss the last 3 1/2 years that most places seem to have. But at least those of us who disagreed with the narrative know we’re not alone now ... we’ve found each other, made connections, spoken out... and if the same thing we’re to happen again I suspect the resistance would be much greater.

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I was floored to hear him say this. But NZ has always had very high voluntary uptake of vaccines without mandates. The people are overly trusting.

But honestly. There’s only so much woke garbage you can take and I think we see that here. He’s getting fed up, as evidenced by his opening statements on other movies being “rubbish” by comparison.

Has he said where he stands politically?

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Sep 10, 2023Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

I don’t know. I don’t listen to him any more because he is usually so rude to his interviewees; constantly interrupting and talking over them.

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That’s right.

17% refused the shot entirely. That’s a lot actually. I thought it would be less than 10%.

“I am the 17%!” Everyone should be saying it.

I would have been forced to grow in a big way had I stayed. I’m very introverted. I would have had to connect with likeminded others on the ground to survive.

Sometimes I wonder who I’d have met if I’d stayed there. And I wish it would have been possible for me.

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I've developed my own form of snsrk to cope with the darkness of living with Labour pains.... enjoy!

https://odysee.com/@Shit_happeNZ:a/When-the-Chips-are-down:6?r=Ce93JTKWaeyfn8auiPJV7C41tQrqD3bM

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Thanks for dropping this wonderful Red pill. I can feel the righteous sarcastic anger from here. Great writing.

Onwards

https://odysee.com/@FreeNZ:d/Stephen-Gee-police-brutality:7?r=Ce93JTKWaeyfn8auiPJV7C41tQrqD3bM

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Oh wow. I have such problems getting Odysee to load and buffer but I see what this is about now. The brutality was absolutely shocking.I'm so sorry about what happened to you. I believe I remember your case at the time. <3 Thank you for sharing this.

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Sep 9, 2023Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

Thanks for the doco pointer. Any idea when / where we can see it in the US?

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Sep 9, 2023Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

You get to spend time in Nebraska, seriously what could be better than that?

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Nebraska is actually very beautiful. 💜 It’s much more than what you see on that huge east/west interstate.

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Sep 9, 2023Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

We lived there for many years, the people are wonderful. Now all I get are the sandhill cranes that live in the lake next to me

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