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De Santis and Florida strike again..

M.A. Rothman

𝐅𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐃𝐀’𝐒 𝐀𝐆 𝐈𝐒 𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐀 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐖𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐓𝐎𝐍 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐀𝐆𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐓 𝐅𝐀𝐔𝐂𝐈 𝐁𝐄𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐀𝐍𝐘 𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐃𝐎𝐍 𝐂𝐀𝐍 𝐒𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐇𝐈𝐌
Dr. Anthony Fauci’s Fifth Amendment plea at a Senate hearing on COVID’s origins just triggered a state-level hunt for the truth. Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier says his office is 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐖𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐨𝐧 to collect every file federal investigators are willing to hand over, with subpoenas going out as soon as next week.
The moment that set it off: senators pressed Fauci on why he chose to fund dangerous gain-of-function research in China. “On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment,” Fauci repeated, refusing even to confirm what was in a document sitting on the table in front of him.
Sen. Rand Paul, who has spent years chasing Fauci’s COVID-origins paper trail, is personally pledging Uthmeier’s office a 𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞. The strategy is built to survive any future federal pardon: a state-level case doesn’t answer to a presidential clemency pen, so even if Washington lets Fauci walk, Florida doesn’t have to.
Uthmeier says investigators will pull records from Congress, cross-reference Fauci’s public statements and pandemic guidance against his financial interests, and build the case piece by piece before a single subpoena lands.
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐢𝐟𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐚 𝐅𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐦.

Ron Mark returns to NZ First, Winston Peters unveils $45,000 grant for parents with three kids
Of course he did,.!

Former New Zealand First minister Ron Mark is returning to the party and will contest this year’s election as a candidate.
Mark’s candidacy has been announced at NZ First leader Winston Peters’ public meeting today in Masterton.

It comes as Peters unveils new election policy proposing to create a “Kiwi Kids Grant” for parents, one of whom must be a New Zealand citizen, for their first three children.
The grant would be worth $5000 per child for each of their first three years, meaning families could receive up to $45,000 in total.

Earlier this week, Mark wouldn’t confirm whether he would run as a candidate but made several comments indicating the party had moved on from him.
Speaking to the Herald on Tuesday evening, Mark said he was “still thinking” and confessed, “every day is a new thought of no”.

“To be perfectly honest with you, I’ve had a very good offer in Europe and I have a job offer doing the type of work internationally that I think I was very good at while I was the Minister of Defence; defence diplomacy I found to be my forte.
“When one is offered a very good job and I will tell you, Luxembourg, doing the sort of work supporting Ukraine that I’ve been doing … coming up five years now, it’s very appealing.”

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/ron-mark-returns-to-nz-first-winston-peters-unveils-45000-grant-for-parents-with-three-kids/LKMIN4BPSVE7NPS6FG4CP6HCFU/

Might be a good thing he has decided to stay home. Supporting that vile bastard Zelensky and his mates should never be on a Kiwi’s list of good things to do. .

Meanwhile, Peters has tinker.

Named the Kiwi Kids Grant, the policy would introduce a universal, tax-free annual grant of $5000 for the first three years for each of the first three children.

It would be administered as a monthly payment through Inland Revenue, although the first year grant for the first child could be taken as an upfront sum. The party costed the policy at $400 million per year once fully implemented.

One of the parents must be a New Zealand citizen to be eligible.

In a statement ahead of Peters’ address, he cited the country’s current birth rate of 1.53 births per person, which fell below 2.1, a threshold the party said was needed to maintain the population.
Peters also pointed to the “dramatically decreasing” number of births from New Zealand citizens versus that of non-citizens.
“Put in simple percentage terms; in 2006, 87% of all births were by citizens and 13% non-citizens,” Peters said.
“Last year that percentage was just 72% New Zealand citizens giving birth, and 28% non-citizens.
“This equation is severely unbalanced and will only equal a diminishing Kiwi population.
“This is an essential investment in our country’s future demography, culture and sustainable economic future.”

With that, I agree.

The risk behind the party’s rapid rise in the polls – Bruce Cotterill
Opinion by
Bruce Cotterill
NZ Herald·
2 Aug, 2026 11:00 AM10 mins to read
Bruce Cotterill is a professional director and adviser to business leaders. He is the author of the book, The Best Leaders Don’t Shout, and host of the podcast, Leaders Getting Coffee.

The Opportunity Party leader, Qiulae Wong, announcing the party list during a press conference in Wellington. Photo / Mark Mitchell
There once was a young woman. She had long dark hair and a nice smile. She was a politician. She came out of nowhere. She was bright and charismatic, communicated well, and the media adored her. The people adored her too, despite not knowing that much about her or the team around her.
She became our Prime Minister, with promises of kindness, more houses and less poverty.
Six years later, she left our politics. The dream was over and so too were the promises.
Her party’s policies during the Covid pandemic saw businesses close down and people lose their livelihoods, and in some cases their minds. There were few new houses, but more poverty. Her expanded government had borrowed tens of billions of dollars but achieved little.
She left the job and the country behind. But she bounced on to the world stage and seemed set for life.

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Back home, the country she had led struggled. The health system was in tatters and education was such that many young people simply stopped going to school. Aimless kids led a crime wave against retailers, and the police seemed unable to stop it. Patched gangs closed roads and sometimes even small towns were shuttered for short periods.
At the same time, in another town, an entire street became a wasteland of families living in motels. They called it emergency accommodation. The emergency was short-lived and overstated. But the damage appeared permanent.
A little over three-and-a-half years later, the country is slowly clawing its way out of its demise. It’s been hard yakka, and it’s not over yet. But it’s getting better, bit by bit.

Education is returning to the basics and achievement is better. A massive investment in health has seen elective procedures increased, additional new cancer medicines introduced and better access to bowel and breast screening. The gang patches are gone and the resilience of our police force is returning. Most of the motels are motels again.
Confidence is returning too. International events have made it harder and the inflation that entered our households a few years back is proving difficult to overcome. The people are finding it tough going. But it feels like things are improving.
In three months’ time, that country faces another parliamentary election. Despite the lingering memories of three short years ago, advance polling suggests that the people are divided.
Today, there is a young woman. She has long dark hair and a nice smile. She came out of nowhere. She wants to be a politician. She is bright and charismatic, communicates well, and the media adore her. But we don’t know much about her, or the team around her.
Her name is Qiulae Wong. She applied for a job, as leader of a political party, just a few short months ago.
That party is called The Opportunity Party. Behind the scenes, the party’s general manager is Iain Lees-Galloway. If the name sounds familiar, he was a senior minister in the Labour Government from 2017 to 2020 and was sacked by the Prime Minister prior to the 2020 election.
Opportunity is running a clever social media campaign and it’s working. The trouble with social media is that parliamentary hopefuls can tell their story directly to the voter without the cross-examination that used to come from sceptical journalists.
The traditional news media, far less sceptical these days, can’t get enough of Opportunity’s new leader. Sound familiar? As a result, the party is featuring in news bulletins with the regularity and profile usually reserved for the established parties occupying our Parliament.

The party expects nearly $4 billion in savings.
I imagine that, if polled, most New Zealanders would be unable to name the party’s leader. I would be surprised if any of us could name anyone else on their party list.
And yet, as we sit here today, that party is running at 5% in the polls, and apparently on the verge of getting six or more members elected into our Parliament. .

Despite Opportunity’s anticipated rise to the seats of power, I don’t imagine that 5% of us, or even 1% for that matter could name more than one or two of the party’s policies.
If asked, there is probably one policy that some of us would refer to. It’s their headline act and it’s called a universal basic income or UBI. Opportunity has called it a Citizen’s Income and would like to ensure that almost every adult member of our society is paid $19,400 per year. That’s about the same as the current Jobseeker benefit. Just for getting up in the morning. In fact, you probably won’t even have to do that.

I did the numbers on Opportunity’s proposal. I’ve assumed that an adult is someone aged 18 or over. And the government statistics tell us that, of our population of 5.34 million people, 4.19 million of those people are over-18.
So, if every one of those people is paid $19,400 per annum, the cost will run to $81.3 billion per year. To be fair, there will be rebates bringing down this total because Opportunity is planning some offsets against existing benefits, and saying that Jobseeker, Sole Parent, Student Allowance and Supported Living Allowances will be rebated. So let’s be generous and suggest that the entire current Core Crown Social Security and Welfare expense of $25.5b is offset.
Opportunity’s website is silent on government superannuation. In the event that Super is also offset that’s another $24.7b. That leaves a new bill of $31.1b for our debt-laden country to pick up.

Let’s put that into perspective. Our current Core Crown expenditure runs at $150.3b per annum. This policy alone would increase our cost base by 20%.
The UBI has been trialled in other countries, albeit at greatly reduced levels to what Opportunity is promoting. In most cases, it was promptly terminated and deemed unsustainable. In other words, unaffordable.

“Ah”, I hear you say, “but they’ve worked out how they’re going to pay for it”. Have they?
Opportunity’s tax plans make interesting reading too. They’re proposing to introduce massive tax increases by changing our tax brackets.
Those changes will mean that a person earning, say $100,000 per annum will pay approximately $8000 more each year in tax on their earnings. Someone earning $70,000 per annum will pay approximately $7000 more each year in tax.
The commentary suggests that these increases will be offset by the Citizens Income. And for many, it will. Unless you’re a home owner.

Rateable residential property in Wellington is valued at $99 billion and there are 84,990 residential dwellings.
The big one is their proposed Land Value Tax. Their website openly states that they want to bring house prices down. In case you haven’t noticed, house prices are already considerably lower than their peaks in 2021 and 2022.
You might recall the then Labour Party Finance Minister encouraging young New Zealanders to get out and buy their first homes, despite the record prices at the time. Recent price drops mean that those young New Zealanders are already out of the money.
Some two-thirds of New Zealanders own their own homes. Plenty own investment property or baches too. And here we have a political party that openly states that they want to “bring down” the values of those homes, baches and farms by 10 to 15%.
Their mechanism to do so is the introduction of a land tax on the property owned by most of us. Residential land, that is, the land our homes sit on, will attract an annual tax of 1.75% of its assessed value. Rural land will attract 0.5% tax.

Let’s look at Wellington’s struggling real estate market.
Rateable residential property in Wellington is valued at $99b and there are 84,990 residential dwellings. That means that the average value is $1.165 million per dwelling. The land value is 51.8% of the $99b, meaning that the average home in Wellington has a land value of around $600,000. That’s a Land Tax bill of $10,500 per year. Every year.
So let’s do the maths. A person earning $100,000 per year, living in their own average value home in Wellington, will pay $8000 more tax on those earnings, but they will receive the Citizen’s Income of $19,400 per year to offset that. They will then pay $10,500 per year in Land Tax. A $900 surplus is theirs.

The same exercise for Auckland’s suburb of Ponsonby, shows a median land value of $1.65m. The land tax on that will be $28,875. Every year. The same maths applies except this time they’re going to have a shortfall of $17,500. In other words, assuming that most of the Ponsonby set earn $100,000 or more per year, they’re going to be paying $17,500 more tax every year. Where will that money come from?
If you think Ponsonby’s an extreme example, the average Auckland Council residential capital value is $1.29m of which 57.5% is the land value. Opportunity’s land tax will take $12,980 off the owner of that home every year. If that owner is earning $60,000 or more, they’ll still have a shortfall, even after receiving the Citizen’s Income.

Such a move will drop property prices all right. And based on current debt levels, such an outcome would likely see dreams relinquished, mortgages defaulted, and keys handed back to banks in record numbers. For a first home buyer who has just purchased a home with a standard 20% deposit, Opportunity’s policy would wipe out their equity immediately.
Opportunity’s website shows caricatures of a range of supposedly middle New Zealanders, highlighting how much better off each will be under their “handout first, tax later” policy. There wasn’t one calculation that I could make work in the party’s favour.
Opportunity’s candidate list reads like that of the Greens.
People with unusually vague job descriptions like “music eco-system consultancy”, “tell stories about rural innovation” and even “animal behaviour consultancy specialising in parrot behaviour” feature alongside the party’s candidates for the upcoming election.
Remember, this is a group that wants to portray itself as the “next generation of politicians”.
Elsewhere, they make claims that their “tax reset will lift 50,000 Kiwi families out of poverty”. Sound familiar?
And so, despite all the excitement brought about by a few polls, our electorate is faced with another fringe party, comprising average qualifications, seeking to be dragged into parliament on the coat-tails of a major party, in order to tax us more, introduce income structures that even communist countries won’t implement, and redesign the way we live. Let us not underestimate the financial ruin that these political hopefuls would inflict.

Earlier this week, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon ruled out working with Opportunity post-election. He said they were a high tax party. He was right. They are. And he’s right to rule them out.
If only Labour’s Chris Hipkins had the nerve to do the same.

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Cotterill makes no mention of the retirement villages. Now they make their money when they resell a unit to the naaksa of this country. That’s the price is based on what the market will stand. Currently, they are struggling in this market. Imagine what will happen if they have to lower their prices even more. There would be at least 6-8 companies bankrupt in no time.
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fucking idiot kid pollies.

Kari Bundy – Health Activist

In a searing public statement, former Vatican Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has leveled one of the most explosive charges yet against the Holy See’s conduct during the COVID era.
Viganò alleges that the Vatican did not merely stay silent, but that it actively collaborated with the architects of what he calls “one of the greatest operations of social control and health fraud in contemporary history.”

At the center of his indictment is a high-profile Vatican conference held on May 6, 2021, titled “Exploring the Mind, Body & Soul.” 
While much of the world remained under severe restrictions, the Pontifical Council for Culture gave the opening platform not to a theologian or defender of natural law, but to Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Seated alongside him: Chelsea Clinton, Deepak Chopra, and top executives from Pfizer and Moderna.
Viganò calls the event a deliberate public demonstration of complicity. 
“The Holy See did not limit itself to silence,” he wrote. “It offered its moral authority and its image to those who, in the name of ‘health,’ imposed limitations on fundamental freedoms, discrimination, blackmail, and above all experimental serums that have caused the deaths of millions.”
He argues Church leaders cannot claim ignorance. 
Viganò says he publicly denounced the pandemic response as early as May 2020 and twice formally warned the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith against uncritical acceptance of the official narrative. 
Those warnings, he states, were ignored. 
He was ostracized.
“They cannot say they did not know. They cannot say they were not warned.”
The accusation goes further: by elevating Fauci and the pharmaceutical interests driving the global response, the Vatican helped cloak coercive policies and experimental interventions in the prestige of moral legitimacy, turning institutional silence into active collaboration.
Viganò’s final warning is stark: those who remain silent in the face of such actions, or worse, legitimize them, become co-responsible. 
“May this not be forgotten. May it remain written.”
In that climate, institutions worldwide appeared fully aligned with Fauci’s agenda, as though the levers of global influence rested in his hands—and the Vatican elected to stand with those who reinforced that dominance rather than challenge it

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