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Safe and Effective Roadshow, New Zealand

21/11/2024

By Randall Richards The “ Safe and Effective Roadshow” event in Queenstown New Zealand on the 11th of November ’24 was one of a number of events held in various towns and cities throughout the country and had been enthusiastically received. The initiative has been to address concerns about C-19 vaccine safety,  transparency in the medical field and health effects and spread the word to bypass the media blackout and censorship. Below is my report of the Queenstown conference held at the Rydges hotel, which had a full audience.

Dr. Matt Shelton presented on the “State of the NZ Medical Nation”.


Matt is always a riveting speaker and he delivered, yet again, in Queenstown. He started by saying “There were a number of red flags when the vaccine was first rolled out” which got his attention.  “The banning of HCQ, Ivermectin, Artemisia, and that there was no need to ascertain cause of death, throwing out accepted pandemic management principles, and the abandonment of medical standards, and fiduciary obligations such as:
– Do no harm
– Informed consent, freely given,
– Right to decline
– Protect the unborn and the mother,
– Considering fertility, cancer and birth defects”

A slide in his presentation entitled “Along Came Covid” lists the following:
Whatever it is: Lock up the healthy; Do NOT treat, (despite positive trials for HCQ and IVM); Pfizer contracts for Albania, Brazil, and South Africa all forbid competitor treatments to vaccination and disclosure of harms; And lastly, “Diagnose by a dodgy PCR test”
Most importantly, Dr. Shelton said the government’s actions, “throw away years of Common Law by violation of human rights.” He added that “the nation and the community needed to know what was going on but were kept in the dark.”
He added, “It couldn’t have been more obvious that this was a disease of the elderly and immune compromised.”
“Probably the most damning claim [as the truth comes out] will be the damaging consequences to pregnant woman – Safe and effective? Not so. Barack Obama said “We are in the biggest drug trial in world history.”  
“There’s a huge amount of data that has had been withheld from the public.
In this day and age you can’t lose an airplane [in the middle of a flight] and, you can’t pretend you can’t analyse your own data.
Furthermore, it’s not a vaccine, it’s a genetic transfer device.
I love Dr. Shelton’s blunt but accurate assessments of our current times. He flatly stated, “It’s very clear this is a military operation.” “ Don’t ask any questions, there is a war on and just do you your bit, do what you’re told.”
Dr. Shelton presented a slide entitled, “One Study to Rule Them All:  On the Elsevier website, “this is the most important look at trial with serious side effects” – The title of the article was “Serious adverse events of special interest following mRNA Covid 19 vaccination in randomized trials in adults. Dr. Shelton also brought up the now famous Thai study


He stated, “There’s absolute silence from our elected representatives, from the establishment and the medical community. We don’t want to think this could be happening to us in this day and age. But it is. There is a war going on.”, said Shelton, adding, We have more technology than ever before [to help us]. So how can any of this be true, surely they would look out for us.”
“But We have incredible resources and together. We can get through this. There will be a rough ride ahead, but I couldn’t be prouder to be with colleagues and community that has formed [as a result of Covid], There will be a point in time when we have government agencies that are [no longer] captured. We’re actually taking on the state. It’s a frightening place to be – I can’t wait to see how we do it – There will be a critical mass, and things will change quickly.”
Shelton questioned, “Compared to 2020, do you think we are in a better position now? The challenge [now] is the people that have woken up – they need to become active themselves in some peaceful way. They all have skin in the game, so, [we have to] encourage them into action.  

Dr. Guy David Hatchard, presented to the audience via a Zoom call, He is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine, was formerly a senior manager at Genetic ID, a global food safety testing and certification laboratory and is the author of “Your DNA Diet”


The title of his presentation was Medical Statistics and Excess Deaths. Hatchard is a well-versed speaker with an affable nature. I’ve also heard him speak at one of our regular NZ Rising Zoom meetings, which was also well received. Hatchard writes a blog which comes out a couple of times a week.
Hatchard stated, “This wasn’t a normal vaccine,  it was genetically engineered and there were warnings about it, but those warning were ignored. Through an Official Information Act request, we’ve discovered that  mortality is increasing in the whole population. Most importantly there is Increase in teen mortality by 188% – in 2019 there were, two thousand cases of Chest pain reports under 40 years old, but in  2023 that number jumped to 20,000 In 2024 will be up 40K.”
He continued, “We all have a sense that something has gone wrong, and we need to ask the question ‘What is Life?’.  Well it’s being, thinking, and action” with a conscious mind and body.”  He went on to say that “Biotechnology cannot be contained. It came from a bio lab and this has been admitted by the US government.
If you knew of the risk of genetic technology that invades our cells you would take notice – Both COVID and the vaccine undermine our immune system – it leaves the individual being more vulnerable to disease than before. This scenario was completely predicable.  Being an engineered virus, it was going to be unstable.” Furthermore, the high rate of vaccination in the population has created variants because the virus was evading the vaccines, driven by commercial thrust in the biotechnology and people made a lot of money from this biotech. People started becoming millionaires on the backs of people being experimented on.”
“But knowledge has an organizing power.  Will it [a virus, a vaccine rollout] happen again?
Recently fourty-three monkeys escaped from a US lab https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy4gd8xx93yo  doing research on deadly pathogens. It’s as if the human race has entered into a suicide pack driven by greed and ignorance. When you have 80% of the population asleep at the wheel, the government is reflection of the collective consciousness. We need to develop who were are, not just our thinking and intelligence, but we have to evolve actively. Revolutions are a disaster and disrupt society. Evolution is the way forward. We have to popularise diet and mediation, etc.”
This is huge collective endeavour and as we try and find a way forward, [we find] it’s  an awakening. And I am fundamentally hopeful about the future, In the end truth alone triumphs.

Dr. Fre, founder of the Asklepion Academy and author “Free Your Smile and Love Your Teeth” spoke briefly and showed a self-produced video on taking charge of your own dental health plan. He’s a retired dentist with a mission no less than transforming dental practices in New Zealand.
He offers an online e-learning course on his website. He also mentioned the book: entitled The Most Dangerous Superstition
Fre stated that dental anesthetics  such as  Citanest, Oralbloc have been shown to contain RNA. He also mentioned Dr. Jim Lundstrom‘s website and Bio mimetic dentistry

Former NZ career newscaster and radio personality Peter Williams gave an impromptu talk at the conference about his leaving the mainstream news industry abruptly a few years ago, because he wasn’t following the prescribed talking points that his producers demanded of him. 
On air, Williams would give a history of the vaccine rollout for his listeners. Then he discovered and read reports from Israel that showed disturbing truths about the vaccine. But the reaction from by bosses were “Don’t ask questions, just read the reports” – Then he was interviewing Lawyer Sue Gray about the NZ Medicines Act which stated vaccines/treatments could not be given out to more than a small group of citizens. She actually won the case for the citizens of New Zealand, then,  the next day,  Andrew Little, Minister of Health, changed the law to suit the vaccine rollout agenda, negating the win by Gray
Said Williams, “The reaction from my bosses was quite extraordinary – You’ve been a news presenter and we do want to hear your opinions. But, the pushback on high got stronger and stronger – and it came to a head, when they said, ‘You can’t interview Sue Gray’,  adding, ‘It’s not relevant’ said the bosses.
Further, they said, ‘It’s come to our attention that your radio slot has become ‘anti-vax central’, adding, ‘If you carry on like this it will have financial consequences to our company.”  Williams responded to them by saying, “I’m  happy to work till the end of the year, but the next day, the bosses said, ‘”It’s been decided you don’t need to come back on Monday.’  And that was that,  Friday was my last day.”
“That’s how I ingloriously left a long career in the media of New Zealand. But then, the media world changed. Sean Plunkett came onto the scene on The Platform, and we had great hopes.
Rodney Hyde was with Voices for Freedom but Plunkett thought they were all ‘Cookers’. Then came Voices for Freedom, and Reality Check Radio in march 2023

What was once Mainstream Media is coming apart before our eyes now.  How can TVNZ can continue going?  Its losing money and the content it produces is hardly worth the breath that is expended to create it.
The new model of media well displayed in the US presidential election cycle with the likes of Joe Rogan, Tucker Carlson and, Megyn Kelly
“The days of corporate media are well and truly gone – The independent thought in mainstream media is also well and truly gone. And the future belongs to the small independent media organizations and individual {content providers].
KIM KNIGHT
“All truth passes through 3 phases: first it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, third it is accepted as self-evident.” Arthur Schopenhauer

Knight, The Kiwi Health Detective, gave a presentation entitled The Hidden History  of Medicine and the Future of Health covered the deep history and backstory of how we got to where we are now. She mentioned who the actual founders of America’s secret establishment were, and how they put in motion policies and one big agenda that created mayhem for the population. In an Orwellian nightmare, the Department of Health is not about health, the Department of Education is not about education and the CDC is not about disease control. It’s a an upside down world, and Knight showed us  one slide with many recent n documentaries revealing the truth such as Plandamic, Vaxxed, First Do No Pharm, and Bad Medicine to name a few.

She also presented the  an Illustration called Ring Pass Not, or also known as RPN Boundary which is a model about a “new expanded reality”, or, a paradigm shift. She mentioned, “What is known and understood as reality I one’s world, expands and we’re able to assimilate more info, more reality, But, she continued,  the new information needs to “integrate”
Why is the knowing the history of medicine is important?

-Why is it that we know what is good for us, but people don’t seem interested,
-Why do we have chemicals in our food and Fluoride in our water.
-What is up is down and what is down it up.
-It was about big Media, Medicine and Money
-And a thing called the Bio Medical Model – where in 1885 there was a forced Vaccine and on the scene was one Dr. Bill William Avery Rockefeller

The infamous Flexner Report: “Only drug based medical stays in hospital were to be taken seriously. Knight referred to a fascinating Documentary: James Corbett History of Big Oil and the selling of NuJol, in 1901″ as a “snake oil”
80% of homeopaths and other natural medical practitioners were closed down.
Another tidbit she shared with the audience was that mustard gas used in wars, was turned into chemotherapy

Knight also mentioned the history of eugenics and The American Breeders Assoc. 1903 which was not about breeding pets, but people
Eugenics Records Office in the US enacted forced sterilization where came from 3 conferences in 1912. Her last quote was from Rudolf Steiner, who said, “We will eliminate the soul with medicine:

Mary Hobbs, a former NZRN, published the award-winning magazine, New Zealand Outside for 10 years and has had nine books published since the sale of her magazine. Over the last four years she has devoted her time to writing many articles to bring truth and create a safer space for others to speak out, too. Her articles have been published at NZDSOS and the Daily Telegraph, NZ and extensively shared. She was asked to speak on “An Orchestrated Litany of Lies and What to Do About It” based on a recent article  she had written.  

Hobbs presented an uplifting perspective on alternative views and solutions. Here are a few points she covered:

 Subterfuge and corruption has repeatedly occurred in past centuries, too.  World War II and Hitler’s attempted takeover appeared to have a similar playbook to much of what we see today. Goebbels — one of Hitler’s most notorious henchmen and the Nazi Minister for Propaganda — once said “Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it. . . . A good example of this in today’s world is the repeated phrase “safe and effective” applied to an experimental jab, since 2020 — the polar opposite of what it actually is. The lie was so big that people had difficulty believing the magnitude of one so evil as “Surely they wouldn’t say it if it weren’t true.” Yes they would, yes they did, and yes they still do. Medical staff were told there was no place for “anti-vaccine messages”, therefore denying everyone fully informed consent. The experimental “vaccine” forced the majority of people to take it or lose their jobs and the ability to feed their families. It was medical rape. It was also torture, as the many who suffered from side-effects were ignored, ridiculed, and told it was “all in their head”. “

“The most courageous medical staff who considered the Hippocratic Oath, the Nuremberg Code, and their own personal sense of ethics senior to such despicable orders spoke out anyway. Most of these heroes formed NZDSOS and became formidable opponents to the tyranny. Their integrity and honour remain intact. Thank God for each and every one of these amazing souls. Imagine if all medical staff had stood with NZDSOS, and refused. Game over for the despots. Unfortunately, most kow-towed.”

“There were attacks on all who spoke out. Straight from Goebbels’s playbook. And yet there were exemptions within government as it was later discovered there was a  list of over 11,000 health workers who received exemptions as well as MPs and ACC. If it was really safe wouldn’t they have been at the front of the queue?” 

Hobbs’ talk touched on who was doing this and why. She discussed the WEF, WHO, the UN, the shadowy figures behind those organisations, who funds them and how they act as front groups to further a one-world government and trans-humanism, through artificial intelligence, reminding the audience that the former PM signed NZ up to the pilot A.I. project — without our consent.

“Their stock in trade is fear, divide and conquer, distraction and chaos, along with lying propaganda through mainstream media.
They create a “problem” and provide a “solution”. This is threaded through all of their chaos. For example, They create a “deadly disease”, use their media to drum up terror, herd most to take an experimental jab, ban all other options and censor and ridicule all who speak out.”

Hobbs also touched on signs to watch out for as they step up the pace to their dystopian one-world government intentions, but then went on to discuss her favourite part of the talk with suggestions of what we can do about it.

“Never underestimate that [we each] have hundreds of spheres of influence — more than we realise. We must keep speaking out, while creating space for others to do the same, as those orchestrating the fear are desperate for ONLY their perception to be known, which is a key tool of dictatorship. She explained there are unlimited opportunities to communicate and detailed several examples of how to go about it. She quoted RFK to illustrate the importance of this:
 “Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. . . and those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. — RFK

Hobbs also touched on tools in our tool kit that utilise the unlimited power of the human spirit that are far beyond the reach of those who seek to destroy us, the first of which is that, “We must remember who we really are: Spiritual Beings, Infinite, Divine Sparks — immortal.” She touched on this immortal nature and pointed out that when we know this fear has no place in our hearts. If we focus on the positive qualities of spirit in life and who we really are, then it is impossible for them to reach us, as they operate on far lower wavelength vibrations and areas of control.

She mentioned the work of Dr. Anna Maria Mihalcea, MD PhD who has a substack publication called Humanity United Now with tens of thousands of followers, and has done detailed deep-field microscopy research on the blood of people since the rollout, and what she says about positive thought and higher wavelengths: “Regardless of whatever is in your blood it is virtually impotent in the presence of positivity and love. And they don’t have it.” Mihalcea concurs that they cannot create. Yet we can.
Hobbs gave the example of Camp Freedom in Wellington as one of positive, high vibrational events that can really change the world. Working together, peacefully protesting, saying no, and meeting challenges together were all wonderful components of that. “That experience of unity, peace and love stays alive in each of us.”
She also touched on some quotes from David Icke, who she said must have information of great value as he is currently banned from speaking in more than 30 countries. He is quoted as saying, “The mind may feel the fear, but the heart will do it anyway.” He urges people to listen to their hearts because “with every heart that opens every mind that awakens, the evil is weakened.” He said, “The heart would not stay silent as a dystopian tyranny descended on the human family – the heart is beyond fear of consequences and what others may think or say . . . “Love and wisdom of the heart never wavers on what they know to be right…No authority, no level of abuse or ridicule or threats can intimidate the heart or make it submit or deviate …Don’t mess with the heart. Love and wisdom speak their own truth, not someone else’s…Keep the heart open. It links to the real you.”
 
She urged everyone to ensure they got out in nature, did what they love to do, whether it is art, outdoors, music, or sport and to keep positively creating to help keep the spirit of life  out of the reach of those who seek full control.“Let’s also pour the coals on creativity for our country and the world!  She gave an example of what would be great to see in the field of real health, including healing centres where real healing can be obtained by all who want to rejuvenate their health through an integrative and natural healing approach that achieves true restoration of mind, body and spirit – where organic food and pure water without harmful chemicals is also provided.” I can see wonderful healing centres in this country, out of the cities, surrounded by nature and where full health is restored. NZ could easily be the organic food capital of the world — pure water without toxic additives as well.”

She concluded by urging everyone to keep as positive as possible, to keep love in our hearts and create the world we want, too. Magic happens with those components. Her full speech will be up soon at:  www.dailytelegraph.co.nz

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fail — think of it, ALWAYS.  — Gandhi

Mark King
At the time, I wasn’t in the mood for a health life coach, but after listening to Mark King for a few moments, I was hooked. (in fact I was so interested, I forgot to get an image of him.)
King gave an inspiring talk about
“Creating your future through Positive Intention and Proper Diet”. He referenced a documentary by the French Canal+ called  The Art of Making Stories.
He also mentioned how important is to have antioxidants such as frozen blueberries, and being grounding on the earth, going barefoot, and getting enough sun. He mentioned “Productivity Stress” as well as having resistance training of 10-15 min per day in one’s routine, adding that “Muscle mass determines bone mass and metabolism.” That scared me to get out there and do some resistance training!

He also shared several Ideas to insure a healthy future in one’s life:
– Start the day the same time every day
– Do 20 min of exercise, 20 min of mediation, gratitude, 20 min of learning
– Be organized, but be present, Remember, Silence solitude and stillness are important.
– Do one thing at a time – do it well
– Clear your head between tasks – breath aware breaths
– Spend 30 min a day learning something that excites you.
– You’re either growing or dying.
– Eat and drink for health first.
– Be active, Move how you want to feel.
– Motion = Emotion
– If you’re not feeling very happy, change your body position.
– Have an attitude of Gratitude.
He closed with the proverb, “Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly.” From, Insight of the Day

Functional Nutrition Consultant, Gary Moller, presented “Building a Healthier You, Our Best Defense Against Future Pandemics,”  He’s from Precision Health
Moller helped set up New Zealand’s  ACC Accident Compensation Corporation in the mid ‘70’s 
Moller presented an interesting slide called the “The pyramid of Harm and Death”

which states  “It’s likely that most of the NZ population has suffered harm.”. The slide shows the various harms to NZ citizens.
Moller is known for using hair analysis to help determine health issues. He stated, “Where America goes, NZ follows, eventually, and, in some ways, we’re where we back in the 1950’s [healthwise].” Adding, “The children of today won’t live as long as their grandparents!! We should be living to 110 yrs old!”
citing the well-known Okinawa study. Moller had a number of great slides including “Nutrients Good for Health”, The Steady Decline of Nutrient Dense Food”, and “Injury Prevention and Staying Fit”

Barry Duffield accomplished movie actor and bodybuilder, started his inspiring talk saying, “I do not want to be up here [speaking to you], I’d rather be in the audience listening to someone else speak. But that’s not my path because of what’s happened to me.”


Duffield was vaccine injured and has been diagnosed with early Parkinson’s, but he’s fairly sure the injection has something to do with it.

He continued, “The government employees are blocking the truth. We cannot let this slide or this will happen again. The potential risk of taking the injection is not worth it. My journey has been painful and personal. He asked, “What do I want from this?
I don’t care about compensation, and I to want accountability, adding, “If I can keep one person from putting that poison in their body, I’ll feel like I’ve been successful.

William Bissett
Fraudulent Medical Studies
Mr. Bissett runs the Brilin Foundation and Brilin Functional Medicine Centre in Christchurch.
Bissett opened by saying, “Our rights and freedoms have been violated, and not just with the COVID vaccine. We’ve been lied to and misled. If we didn’t have leaders like Dr. Guy Hatchard, providing incredible data, If we didn’t reporter and content provider Mary Hobbs, how much worse would it be? How much worse would it be if we didn’t have doctors in NZDSOS. They’re reading the fine print. How much worse if people weren’t speaking up.

Our ex-prime minister couldn’t answer the question, ‘What is a woman?’.
We have to keep things real, and also be careful. For one example, once we get to 5 minute cities, down the road, it will be impossible to get our freedoms back.
So what can you do? You can help support our content providers by contributing 2$ per week. How else can we help in sharing content providers work?
Try to learn about something the subject that interest you, go to a cafe, strike up a conversation. Every little thing helps.
You can also donate funds to the Roadshow website, to support the incurred the expenses and losses.”

“So, What are the functional things you can do to heal yourself –
It’s not the doctor’s fault, they get this really nice study and it seems so convincing. It’s so easy to fool doctors. Insurance resistance is a theory – no proof of it.

Peter-Ray Moroney spoke on Better Health Following Vaccine Injury
Moroney was a professional firefighter and worked in property development, massage therapist and tourism guide and completed a diploma in counselling.

He shared, focused on the importance of correct diagnosis, researching detox protocols, how he learned how to manage and reverse his symptoms, and on becoming empowered to self-manage one’s health and wellbeing.

  • the difficult decision he had to make over taking the vaccine in order to continue working in the tourism industry
  • what happened in his body after the first and second shots
  • the lack of understanding, support and acknowledgement from the medical system
  • his experience of 3 emergency visits and ECG examinations for heart arrhythmia
  • the very tangible neurological symptoms he experienced
  • the phenomenon of turbo cancer, and more


Moroney said, I bought into the media hype about doing your bit, I lined up
Matthias Desmet said “A well thought-out media drives out, overrules common sense.”
He started with the statement, “Let me introduce you to the shadowlands…
A separate world right here in NZ, invisible to the majority of kiwis
The shadow world – the very existence of [the vaccine injured and thinking Kiwis] is an embarrassment to those in power. The NZ’rs “the end of life as we know it”
We are one of the most highly vaxxed people in the world.
How many have been consigned to the shadowlands of vax injured. NZ Medsafe admits that no more than 5% are injured due to vaccines. Do you know why the say it’s so low? One reason is it takes at least a half hr to report it and New Zealand did not mandate the reporting of vaccine injuries.
Medsafe reported 65k adverse events, and 6,000 lodged for younger persons.
193 families reported deaths shortly after vax.
48K stopped after the 1st dose –
Nobody wants to know about these people, the media, our MP’s, are intent in not blocking their career boat. ACC has paid out $11.4 million through September ‘24.
ACC has been nightmare, a financial battle as well. And patients say: “My questions have never been property answered. The government has not helped me at all.
So, effectively you are on your own in this country.”


Dr. Alison Goodwin had her practicing certificate removed and has been required to attend a 12-month “re-education” programme after she advocated for informed consent in 2021 as the Covid-19 vaccines were being rolled out in New Zealand.

She has been a tireless advocate for getting the truth out, and is a member of NZDSOS. Her presentation was so detailed about her investigations I’ll simply leave it with a slide of her presentation contents and a few comments below! Please check out the link above for more on what Goodwin is up to.


Pharmacovigilance
“Since I was mandated out,” stated Goodwin, “I tried to understand the New Zealand health and medical system.” She continued, “I have made quite a few efforts to speak with someone at Medsafe but I  haven’t been able to speak to a real person. Usually send me to a webpage that I’ve already visited.
Goodwin also recommended the book Bad Pharma, by Ben Goldacre

“[In the U.S.] Operation Warp Speed [was initiated] to bring a vaccine to the population in a very short time. Usual time frame for vaccine rollout is 5-10 yrs. However, this was not normal vaccine, not normal mRNA

A few of the many Accumulating Concerns mentioned in Goodwin’s presentation:
– Did Pfizer fulfil all provisions of their contract with New Zealand?
– Pathologists and coroners were not mentioning vax status or fact of recent vax injuries.

Dr Melissa McCann is currently launching a nation-wide Class Action lawsuit to fight a failing Australian government compensation plan, and unsafe vaccine. She spoke from Australia through a video call to the audience.

Image: Letters from Australia Video Capture

Dr McCann has practiced as a GP in Australia’s Whitsundays region. She currently chooses to not administer C-19 vaccinations after seeing serious adverse events from the vaccines; McCann has witnessed an unusually large amount of patients presenting with adverse effects such as chest pain, blood clots, miscarriages and strokes shortly after receiving a COVID vaccination.

She decided to speak up and take the matter to the government, in form of a class action suit, 

Image: Mackay and Whitsunday Life


“The TGA Therapeutics Goods Agency is the department charged with the public’s health in Australia”. So, I highlighted what I was seeing in my patients, and what was statically impossible in such a small community- and from TGA?, No action no comment, in regards to these events,” She continued,
“So, I asked for action.
The letter I got back head of TGA [was an insufficient explanation.]
Every year, there were occurring a certain amount of deaths and it just didn’t add up – I gathered info on my own available statistics at the time and I got a better understanding of what was known by TGA at the time, It seemed that TGA was defending the process.
In 2022 I ended speaking with 100’s of people and heard more and more people with injury issues, [as well as looking into] and studies.  There were people in wheelchairs, those [who suddenly developed] light sensitivity and several people would just cry because of all the grief and changes in their lives.
The case against the TGA, is in part regarding the various testing and evaluation of safety. There are nine-hundred people in this ‘statement of claim”. The claim being they failed in the approval process. There was a proliferation of statements that were reassuring the public of the safety and efficacy of the vaccine. Our claim is around those actions and negligence.
The claim was filed in April 2023, and December 3rd is the first big hearing to dismissal of the case – (meaning, there is no case of negligence because there was no duty of care. This is (TGA’s) their defense) If [the case] survives, the next step is to move to the discovery phase. And that will have importance, not just for Australia but the world, then the case moves to the trial proper.”

Is there is anything other countries and organizations can do? Yes: Just search  “Statement of Claim”    Anyone around the world can make use of it, depends on the specific regulator in your country. We want to make the work that we’ve done to be available for everyone to use. What we’re doing is a civil claim of  “proof of guilt”

Ken Nicolson – Nicolson Legal:

I’ve included this good interview by William Bissett for your reference on Nicolson’s work.

Nicolson presented on the cases he’s been working on for the public good.
“We’re currently doing a class action with 50 people here in NZ, and it’s criminal case – there’s a crime going on here and someone has to be made accountable”
He continued with a bit of background on the Safe and Effective Roadshow, “I expected the ‘powers that be’, would bury this story any way they could, so I came up with this idea of a roadshow, As a result of the mandates, I did employment law for people that were mandated out, then also took on people who couldn’t visit their family in rest homes. Then I took on the extreme issue of a family put under house arrest on their island called Tokelau. There were  a bunch of us.  There were three families who had a lot of pressure put on them to take the injections. Three families that wouldn’t take it there were banned to their properties – not allowed to go fishing, had to have people to drop food off at their homes, Then, I dealt with Baby Will where the government took over guardianship of the baby because the parents were requesting unvaccinated blood donations from the blood bank, for a needed heart operation,  but the government wouldn’t allow it. These all are a group of people desperate to be recognized by their own government.  They need to be heard. And by the way, ACC is useless. This issue is political.
A bit on my background: I asked,  ‘Why did my family get the vaccine, and why I didn’t want to? My only family said [to me],  that I couldn’t come around unless I got a vaccine passport.

On social programming, Nicolson said, “Psychologically, if you repeat a message over and over again – ‘Safe and Effective’ , your mind absorbs the message and your critical thinking shuts off. Your brain just goes past it and you’re not even thinking.
The message is repeated in various forms, ‘The virus will find you whoever you are – Jacinda Ardern was a great mouthpiece . Everyone was lockstep with the narrative. Making sure you got the relentless messaging – We’re all in this are together.
There was a terrible Youtube video “Get the Jab – Get the treats”.

The comeback? We have to be there to support each other.
There are not two societies (as Ardern said), we are one society.
It’s all about freedom – We have to be careful about the future and what rights may be taken away.

The Safe and Effective Roadshow, has now wrapped up their tour. This is a shout out to the organizers of the events who would appreciate and donations* to recoup the expenses incurred. Also a huge thank you to all the speakers and presenters who, traveled at their own expense to the various towns in which the roadshow was scheduled. Lastly thanks to the audiences that showed up and contributed their energy, ticket costs and support to the project. Although it seemed like there was “preaching to the choir” in some respects, there’s no doubt that the word will spread and the truth will be heard. Those attending have learned a lot from first hand accounts, and every little drip in the pond is a ripple felt around the world. *Link to follow

Ode to the Republic

05/11/2024

By Randall Richards
Happy Voting Day, Enjoy it While You Can**

The following is a good natured exchange on Farcebook between an old friend from my hometown (New Hampshire, USA) and me. It’s self explanatory but in keeping with an “Ode” theme, I’m also including some lyrics from a song I wrote some 30 years ago, which seems applicable. Happy reading.
My friend posted this meme of Farcebook recently, and here’s my response:

Hi James, others
I implore you to do one thing and that’s to look outside your newsfeed because you’re being lied to in real time. I didn’t want to believe it, who does? The power structure is scared to death of being called out on their decades of corruption and are hoping, and banking on, you won’t pull back the curtain and see the truth. What I say sounds crazy, but our future depends on you and others taking off the blinders and waking up to outright lies and defamation that you’re being fed. I warn you though it will take courage. Some of us have the advantage of long-term assimilation to the facts. You don’t have that advantage and the ride may be rough, but I and others are here for you. Again I implore you to at least consider taking the red pill, because all I’m promising you is the truth and nothing more. Oh and by the way, it has less to do with left and right than you can imagine

Addendum:
A good place to start would be to investigate who funds the media. You can find that on Yahoo Finance.
Do you still trust the banks? Remember the Enron and too big to fail events? Do you think they have changed their behavior since then, especially regarding military industrial machine? Lastly, consider reading or listening Whitney Webb.
Best to you on your journey.
Randall

This was my friend’s response:
Randall, I believe that you are sincerely reaching out to share what you believe to be important truths. It concerns me, however, that your comment was offered as a reaction to a post that decries bigotry in very general terms, and offers a pithy resolution to the “paradox of tolerance….” I would be surprised if your intent were to defend bigotry, but it’s hard to understand what else prompted you to post this comment here and now.
I hope that your reference to “the red pill” is intended to encourage general skepticism toward dominant social narratives, rather than an embrace of the fantasies of QAnon, MAGA, incel culture, and the “Alt Right.” Unfortunately, back here in the ‘States, the “red pill” metaphor is often deployed in the service of those collective delusions.

And today’s response on voting day in the U.S:
Hey James, Others,
Happy voting day there Stateside. Good luck.**
Good to hear back from you and thanks for your reply in the comments. I actually had a draft running, but FB deleted it. So I’ll give it another go. Yeah, I’m trying to reach out, which is an exception, because my knowledge usually falls on deaf ears. So generally, it’s not worth my time anymore. There are some you just can’t reach. But a fellow journalist is quoted as saying, there are many pathways to the truth, and some find their way through one issue or another, and then it hits them – “They’ve been lied to.” Then it’s a matter of prying off the bandage to see how bad it is.

I love your writing style. Top notch my friend. I could take some lessons from you. Here’s my response. I trust you’ll take it in good faith. Hopefully the days of respectful discourse are not of days gone by.

Your wrote, that my comment was “offered as a reaction to a post that decries bigotry in very general terms” is not how I see it. The post suggests that those on the “Right”, one side, hates blacks, brown, Asian, etc. and the other side, “Left” hates bigots.  Firstly, I put the left and right in quotes, because the terms are almost meaningless. I didn’t leave the Democratic Party, it left me. Having said that there is an extremist element that has co-opted the Democratic Party. You’d be mortified to know the truth. That’s why I said it would be a rough journey if you and others start doing the hard research.  The meme was not based on fact. No, I don’t defend bigotry in any form, nor even, “hate” which your post evidently advocates. Love your enemy, remember.  My response, in all due respect, was not meant to be pithy in any manner.  That you find it hard to understand what prompted me to post my comment is just the point that we’re on different planes of understanding.

 A good friend yesterday made the analogy that learning the facts of the backstory is a bit like mathematics. It starts with bath arithmetic, etc., then algebra, and if you can handle that, calculus and then delving into quantum physics. At some point, especially me, I’ll get lost at about the calculus level, (if I’m lucky!) and drop out at that point.  Learning the true history, and facts behind the current situation is similar to my analogy. People can handle the truth up to certain point, then cognitive dissonance sets in. Yeah, “the Military Industrial Complex may not have my interests in mind” or “Yeah, there were some mistakes with the vaccine rollout”, and “Yes, the media might be owned by three corporations but, it can’t be that controlled.” “Partial truth” is good enough for a lot of people. It’s not good enough.
Yes, my comment about the red pill, was not in reference to the republican party. Sorry, I wasn’t clear on that. It’s about challenging the illusion, per the Matrix movie. Author of the “Great Unraveling” Julius Ruechel has brilliantly addressed the issue of mass-formation, which I encourage you read/watch. In summary, it’s as if we’re trying in some way to get y’all, people on both sides, to snap out of it.
Your listing of  Q’Anon,  MAGA, “incel”, and Alt Right is curious and, respectfully, shows you’re a bit uninformed. “Q” is a listing of clues supposedly from someone on the inside of government. Never had time for that, and frankly I think it’s a danger to the republic, (notice I didn’t say democracy). “Anon” is a movement of onliners devoted to deciphering the clues or “drops” from “Q”. Again, a time waster in my opinion. “Alt-right” is a term like “Conspiracy Theory” that’s a powerful label created (the latter, created by the CIA, look it up) to marginalize with the sweep of a hand. And it’s effective.  Yes, you’re spot on, regarding “collective delusions” but what I find interesting is it’s playing out on both sides, more acutely on “The Left”.  Seeing a sea of “Red hatters” is a cautionary vision for me too. Of course Thiel’s backing of JD Vance is not a good sign. Have you heard of the Bilderberg Group, or CFR? He’s on their board of directors, and no, it’s not conspiracy. It’s fact. Please read up. As a side note, I’m not “anti-vax” but RJK Jr’s book shows that Big Pharma, and the agencies they’ve co-opted, don’t have your health in mind, and that’s putting it very mildly. They have a long history of money-making at all costs.

Replying to some of his commenters:
Tom wrote:
As a Trump supporter I was never a bigot. With regards to Obama…we got the first sort of mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.,
I voted for him, but I was fooled. He’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing. I agree though, he is indeed articulate and bright though.
David, wrote:
Please read some actually reporting and scholarship, instead of conspiratorial drivel.
I wouldn’t call RFK Jr’s “The Real Anthony Fauci” or “The Pfizer Papers” by Wolf, conspiratorial drivel, nor, while I’m at it, “The “Creature from Jekyll Island”. If the first book were untrue then RFK Jr. would have been sued for libel by now.   
Christian wrote: try breaking the pill in half.
Unclear, please expound.
Ted, wrote:
Ok, so I read this page on Whitney Webb. Are you going to support Trump, the good friend of Jeffrey Epstein?
Ted, Respectfully, your comment is irrelevant and incorrect.  And you say, you ‘read a page’ on Whitney Webb. The problem is, one group has done deep research and the other is fed a narrative and believes it based on a corporate media feed.
Of course Trump is not ideal, and whether he’s been convicted of rape or not, I admittedly don’t know for fact one way or the other, but have read it was a complete set-up. (As a side note, you do know, I assume, that to get a conviction, it used to require a unanimous decision on each count by a jury of your peers. The NY judge allowed each juror to come up with his own decision on individual counts, and that called those convictions. That wasn’t justice.  It makes for great pablum, unless you look into it.  Of course he should not be calling anyone stupid or other insults. I wouldn’t want to spend a weekend with Trump. But…Watch the “Art of the Surge”, The whole documentary series of a behind the scenes reporting during this campaign with an embedded team. It’s a rare opportunity to see history in real time. As difficult as it might be, make the stretch and see the real person vs. the “straw man” the media has painted of him, (and Alex Jones, by the way, which should trigger a few!)
Ted wrote:
It seems like you think: Peter Thiel, Tucker Carson, RFK Jr., DJT, etc. are truth-tellers instead of just self-serving lie-peddlers. I don’t think you’re correct.
Your comments about truth tellers/lie peddlers is not based on fact, and, you “don’t think” I’m correct? It’s matter of knowledge from source materials. Respectfully, do some research, (happy to provide a book list for you), then get back to me.
Martha writes:
I am basing my decision to vote for Harris on information I’ve received directly from people who have dedicated their lives to defending democracy on the world stage (Gen. Kelly) or original documents (Project 2025).
Admittedly, I’ve not delved into Project 2025 yet, although have had a cursory look and understanding of it. I need to look at it. I trust you remember when Obama cleaned house of all the top brass generals and installed new ones. Why do you think he did that?

In conclusion, from my side perspective and experience, I’ve seen the huge amounts of censorship that has kept “the left” from seeing the facts. So I understand the slumber, and the reluctance to look outside the info bubble. I was once accused by that “crazy guy” Ed Brown*, (anyone remember him?) from Sullivan County, NH, USA. They locked him up and threw away the key. Yeah, he was inflammatory, and wasn’t good with people*.
*(All that exists online about Brown is a Wikipedia entry. While I don’t argue with their record of convictions, I’m completely dubious of Wikipedia, and take what they say with a grain of salt.)
But Brown once said to me, “It’s all good that your hobby is researching the deep state and all that, but what are you actually doing to spread the truth and push back against the bullies?” At the time, I was offended at his frankness. Now, I’m a busy guy.

Randall Richards is a facilitator of the NZ Media Collective, Jam For Freedom New Zealand, a movement to connect freedom and health loving muso’s both in NZ and beyond to spreading the truth through music and creating vital community, He’s a co-founding member of New Zealand Rising, and currently content editor of its newsletter. NZ Rising is directory of Freedom and Health groups in New Zealand, which was based on the successful model of Canada’s Freedom Rising. He’s currently helping others to re-start the United Free Press, an initiative to create an ethics-based international journalism cooperative.

** Since I wrote this piece yesterday, since Trump’s win, I thought I’d better clarify the meaning of “Enjoy it while you can” in the header. Since Harris’s loss, it could be construed that I was gloating, which is not what I meant.
In fact, there’s a fair chance that the globalists and deep state, and 3-letter agencies, CIA, etc., who have it out for Trump, will stage another assassination attempt, and/or a false flag event. Prefacing that no-one is coming to save us, Trump is better than Harris, and talks a good game at least. It’s fairly clear the powers that be are scattering like rats on a ship. They don’t want to held accountable for their crimes. So they’ll do whatever it takes to avoid being brought to justice.
Make no mistake, these are delicate times, and let’s pray, meditate, do Hawaiian affirmations – whatever it takes to hold the peace, be welcoming and open hearted and above all compassionate. There are some wonderful posts by people on both sides saying to stay calm and enjoy the ride. I suggest readers here do the same. Trump is not the monster the mainstream media has made him out to be, nor is he a savior. But after generations of entrenched power structures, he’s one of our best bets (not the only one though) of making this right.
So, in short, what I meant was, buckle up. It could be an interesting ride.

Oh, yes, an Ode to The Republic,

Turning Point
Copyright 2024 Randall Richards written in 1995

HERE WE ARE…AT A TURNING POINT
HERE WE GO…..AT A TURNING POINT

THINGS AREN’T AS THEY SEEM
COME TAKE A MINDWALK WITH ME
WHERE SCIENCE, ART AND THOUGHT ARE ONE

IN A PLAY OF WORDS,
A BOOK CAPRA WROTE
WELL TO HEED HIS WORDS OF LIFE AND LOVE
WITH OPEN ARMS AND OPEN MINDS
THAT’S THE TURNING POINT
WE FIND OURSELVES IN NOW

ROME WAS GONE
IN A TWINKLING OF AN EYE
SO SHALL WE
UNLESS WE SEE THE FOLLY OF OUR TIMES
THATS THE TURNING POINT
WE FIND OURSELVES IN NOW

ANXIETIES RISE
PRESSURE’S BUILDING DAY BY DAY

THE ANSWERS WE SEEK
DEMAND NEW QUESTIONS
NOT FROM RIGHT OR LEFT
BUT FROM THE CENTER OF OUR HEARTS

GONE ARE THE DAYS
OF BLISSFULL FEAR AND HOPELESS NIGHTS
UP OR DOWN
RIGHT OR LEFT
THE CHOICE IS OURS YOU SEE
WE’RE AT A TURNING POINT

A Reminder from the Universe

30/06/2021
From the Pacific Crest Outward Bound* Book of Readings
(*Now called Northwest Outward Bound)

I love it when spirit nudges us. Our family does an evening reading at our dinner table every night before eating. Without looking at the bookshelf behind me last night, I pulled a random book off the shelf. Then I opened to a random page, then I looked at a random quote.

It’s one of my favorite quotes:
“Believe me my young friend, there is nothing, absolutely nothing, that is half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.”
Kenneth Grahame.

This quote arrives just when we’ve put our Lake Wanaka Yacht Charters business “on pause” due to New Zealand border closures. The lack of tourists is “forcing us to live our dreams” and as we consider and possibly prepare to use the yachts in more of an educational role, for experiential adventures on Lake Wanaka. This is my first love anyway. As every passenger that’s gone out on the lake with me attests, they got more than they bargained for, regarding an experiential sailing experience. Once they get out there, my job, and mission, is to light up their eyes and soul by helping them connect to the wind, the water, the place and themselves, and of course have fun.

Here at Mountain Spirit NZ, we’ve been hooked on the “AirBnB drug” prior to our Covid lockdown, and now we’re advertising for domestic visitors to stay with us with a purpose in mind, whether to just have a digital detox, record some music in our piano studio, or take some yin yoga classes with Amanda in the yurt. We’re stepping out into our own possibilities.

Although I’ve run Mountain Spirit Institute in the U.S. where we’ve done tons of different programs ranging from experiential immersion on the Rosebud Reservation to a powerful New England tour of Peruvian folk music, creating our own space here in New Zealand, and inviting people to come stay with us is uncharted territory. But we’re enjoying the ride, with all its ups and downs.

The trick to being fulfilled and successful, (however you personally define success), is stepping out of the way, allowing the Universe/Spirit/God to help out, and importantly, look for those reminder signs when they pop up and recognise them as such, then of course, take action.

I just attended a powerful presentation yesterday here in Wanaka, New Zealand, by Lake Wanaka Tourism They’re our local tourism association. As you can imagine, like many of us in tourism here in New Zealand, they’ve been in on a path or re-inventing themselves. They’ve been working on a new branding program. I’ll write more on that in later in a separate post, as it deserves more time. But I have to mention here, about the power of timing, being at the right place at the right time, taking action when a crisis/opportunity presents itself and listening to spirit. Lake Wanaka Tourism is taking the bold steps to create a wonderful vision of post-covid “tourism” for operators, the land, community and visitors alike.

Here’s just a snapshot of some of the Lake Wanaka tenets going forward:
The Vision:
“Our aspiration is for the visitor industry to enrich this place, as well as the lives of the local community both now and into the future. To create mutual value for Whanau/whanui (which includes our families , our community, our visitors), and our whenua (our place and natural resources) and our economy.

“Values:
Guardianship for our people, our place and our plant; Inclusive and respectful; Living with a sense of balance; bold and free thinking.”

There are plans being put into place with a whole re-adjustment of what it means to be in tourism here in Wanaka, and fortunately, the leadership and staff at Lake Wanaka Tourism are taking on the challenge with heart and purpose. The future looks bright because there’s a proactive approach. I look forward to sharing more about LWT’s and the community’s plans going forward in future posts. I would say LWT is following their spirit course.

Back to the reading about messing about on boats. I can’t wait for the next sign to come down the road, and hit me with a spiritual 2×4. But for now, I thought I’d share this little nudge from Spirit.

Don’t do it! Don’t Go Back to Normal

24/05/2020

This wonderful statement by Sony Renee Taylor has been circulating around lately, and it’s surely a wake up call –

“We will not go back to normal. Normal never was. Our pre-corona existence was not normal other than we normalized greed, inequity, exhaustion, depletion, extraction, disconnection, confusion, rage, hoarding, hate and lack. We should not long to return, my friends. We are being given the opportunity to stitch a new garment. One that fits all of humanity and nature.”
You can find out more at the Facebook page Over Grow the System

And from Brenna Quinlan on her Facebook page….

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The first step towards creating something is imagining it. We imagine the smell of fresh bread as we tend our sourdough starter. We imagine the taste of ripe tomatoes as we plant out our seedlings. When we lay down the first stone, we imagine laughter and stories from future meals shared in our new home. The ability to create, in our minds, a possible future, is what gives that possibility a chance of being realised.

If all we imagine is business as usual, then that is the world we will create. But if we draw on our curiosity and creativity, we can hold in our minds something much greater than the world we are in. And once that happens, we can begin to act. Find out more about Brennan here.

Neuroscience Study Shows Gratitude Pays Off, Rewires Your Brain

12/07/2019

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Mountain Spirit New Zealand

Half-way through my Outward Bound career, I starting introducing the concept of gratefulness by asking my students to name five things for which they were grateful. The five things didn’t have to be from their wilderness trip, it could be anything.  It was an eye opener to see how some of them had a difficulty finding things in which to be grateful. They were just out of practice. So was I. These days, it’s been a daily question in our family, sometimes at the dinner table or while driving. It puts things in perspective, and not only for our 8yr-old.

Echkart Tolle states in his book Power of Now, “When you honor, acknowledge, and fully accept your present reality — where you are, who you are, what you are doing right now — when you fully accept what you have got, you are grateful for what you have got, grateful for what is, grateful for Being. Gratitude for the present moment and the fullness of life now is true prosperity. It cannot come in the future. Then, in time, that prosperity manifests for you in various ways.” (There’s more of this excerpt here.)

If quotes from Tolle aren’t convincing enough, a recent UCLA study should give you something to think about…

Neuroscience Reveals: This Is How Gratitude Literally Rewires Your Brain to Be Happier
From: Real Life Pharmacy
By Justin Brown

We often hear about the power of gratitude for creating a more positive and happy mental state. But did you know that gratitude literally transforms your brain?

According to UCLA’s Mindfulness Awareness Research Center, regularly expressing gratitude literally changes the molecular structure of the brain, keeps the gray matter functioning, and makes us healthier and happier.

When you feel happiness, the central nervous system is affected. Read more….

www.realfarmacy.com

 

Living Well

15/09/2011

Summit Silouete - Mt Baker, USA

“We don’t beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It’s too late to do all the things that you’re gonna kinda get around to.”
Randy Pausch

Citizenship, and the Tenacity of Pursuit

08/09/2011

Teddy Roosevelt on "Staying in the Arena"

What does it mean to be a good citizen these days?
Teddy Roosevelt had some definite ideas on the subject. Below is an excerpt from his speech Citizenship in a Republic.
And from where does the term Tenacity of Pursuit come?
Kurt Hahn
, the founder of Outward Bound considered “the tenacity of pursuit” to be one of his key outcomes of a good education.

Kurt Hahn

Says Hahn,  “I regard it as the foremost task of education to insure the survival of these qualities: an enterprising curiosity, an undefeatable spirit, tenacity in pursuit, readiness for sensible self denial, and above all, compassion.”

TR’s life shows us that hard work, tenacity, and a desire to do the right thing can get you far in life. In the most memorable section of his “Citizenship in a Republic” speech, Roosevelt captured his life philosophy in just a few sentences. “The Man in the Arena” tells us that the man we should praise is the man who’s out there fighting the big battles, even if those battles end in defeat. In our day, when cynicism and aloof detachment are considered hip and cool, TR reminds us that glory and honor come to those “who spend themselves in a worthy cause.”

The Man in the Arena
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

The Invitation

27/06/2010

I have read this to many a program participant around camp in the mountains, and thought I’d share it here.

Hitchhiking in Labrador

The Invitation, By Oriah

It doesn’t interest me
what you do for a living.
I want to know
what you ache for
and if you dare to dream
of meeting your heart’s longing.

It doesn’t interest me
how old you are.
I want to know
if you will risk
looking like a fool
for love
for your dream
for the adventure of being alive. (more…)

Americans Who Tell the Truth

23/06/2010

It's About Time

Dutton has published Americans Who Tell The Truth, the book of the first fifty portraits in this series printed in beautiful color with short biographies and an essay by Robert Shetterly about the intent of the project. The book is suitable for all ages, but its target audience is middle and high school. We have published a free curriculum here on this website for teachers to be able to teach American history through the lives of these people.

This book has won the 2006 award of the International Reading Association for intermediate non-fiction.  The Children’s Book Council has named Americans Who Tell the Truth a 2006 Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People. Read more here

David Korten hit a chord with Agenda for a New Economy and its call for abolishing Wall Street. In his new revised and greatly expanded edition, David fleshes out his vision for a replacement—a decentralized economy based on resilient communities, local businesses, and ecological systems.

Greed is Out - Localism, In

Global greed is out. Local sharing is in. The Wall Street system failed us; this book is a great guide as we build the alternatives.

“… our economic crisis is, at its core, a moral crisis. Our economic institutions and rules, even the indicators by which we measure economic performance, consistently place financial values ahead of life values. They are brilliantly effective at making money for rich people. Our children, families, and communities, and natural systems of Earth have paid an intolerable price.”
Read more on Korten at Yes Magazine

Sir Edmund Hillary Museum, New Zealand

18/11/2009

Sir Edmund Hillary Alpine Centre at Aoraki Mt. Cook Inspires, Gives Glimpse into Hillary’s Character

Hillary Museum in NZ

By Randall Richards
We passed through the Aoraki Mt. Cook area, on New Zealand’s South Island, and made our way through the fancy Hermitage Hotel to find the Sir Edmund Hillary Alpine Centre. I knew of Hillary the climber, but the display, video presentations, memorabilia and photos portrayed a humble man with astounding climbing ability, a self depreciating style and sense of humor.

He was the first to reach Everest’s summit for a reason. His solid climbing skills, drive and competitiveness all put him in the position with Tenzing Norgay to be the first summiteers on Chomulungma.

Multimedia Displays, with Norgay/Hillary

The reason this story made its way onto this blog, is he seemed to have also been truly a nice guy.  He was loved by his fellow Kiwis. He took care to leave the world a better place than he found it by creating a foundation that built schools and educated those in the Everest region.  One leaves with a good feeling about Sir Ed, after strolling among old photos, his book collection and accounts of his relationships with family, friends and of course his sherpa Tenzing Norgay.
I have a greater respect for Mr. Hillary after having learned more about him at this Alpine Centre Museum dedicated to his life and acheivements.

From the Centre’s Website:

“It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves”

Hillary, His Early Days

“A tribute to Sir Edmund Hillary, humanitarian, ambassador and one of the world’s greatest explorers, the Sir Edmund Hillary Alpine Centre showcases the Aoraki Mount Cook region, its people and its place in the universe.

Designed to educate and entertain, the centre features a spectacular state-of-the-art 3D movie, New Zealand’s first full dome digital Planetarium and Museum which documents the pioneering heart of the region and features the impressive Hillary Gallery.

The Hillary Gallery depicts Sir Edmund’s longstanding connection with the region and touches upon his achievements, expeditions and life’s work.  It was here he climbed his first major mountain, achieved a number of impressive first ascents including the difficult south face of Mount Cook, and trained for his Everest and Antarctic expeditions.

Located adjacent to The Hermitage Hotel in the majestic Aoraki Mount Cook National Park, the Sir Edmund Hillary Alpine Centre is an opportunity to explore and connect to the national identity and celebrate the cultural characteristics New Zealanders hold dear.”

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