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With Parliaments passing legislation giving Governments emergency powers to fight COVID-19, it's being compared to 1951 lockout when emergency powers were passed to tackle a very different kind of issue when New Zealand became a police state for 5 months, exactly 70 years ago

The 1951 New Zealand waterfront dispute was the largest and most widespread industrial dispute in New Zealand history. During the time, up to twenty thousand workers went on strike in support of waterfront workers protesting against financial hardships and poor working conditions. Thousands more refused to handle "scab" goods. The dispute was sometimes referred to as the waterfront lockout or waterfront strike. It lasted 151 days, from 13 February to 15 July 1951. During the strike, the Watersiders' Union was deregistered and its funds and records were seized, and 26 local watersiders' unions were set up in its place.

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The distance of New Zealand and Australia from their traditional markets, meant that ports played a pivotal role in the economies of the countries. The waterfront inevitably became a point of conflict between workers and their unions on one side, and the employers and the state on the other.

During the Second World War due to labour shortages, watersiders and other workers worked long hours, often as much as 15-hour days. Following the war, on the wharves working hours continued to be high. In April 1950 the Waterside Workers' Union lead a walk out of the Federation of Labour (FOL) and set up their own Trade Union Congress, unwittingly isolating themselves from the general union movement. Shortly afterwards severe stoppages on the wharves occurred, infuriating most of the general population. The government threatened to declare a state of emergency before Labour Party leader Peter Fraser intervened and opened the way to a settlement. In January 1951 the Arbitration Court awarded a 15% wage increase to all workers covered by the industrial arbitration system. This did not apply to waterside workers, whose employment was controlled by the Waterfront Industry Commission. The shipping companies that employed the watersiders instead offered 9%. The watersiders then refused to work overtime in protest, and the employers placed the men on a two-day penalty. The men said it was a lock-out, the employers said it was a strike. When the Waterside Workers' Union refused to accept arbitration the government could make a stand on the principle of defending industrial law and order.

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In 1951, New Zealand temporarily became a police state. Civil liberties were curtailed, freedom of speech denied, and people could be imprisoned for providing food to those involved.
The waterfront dispute of 1951 was the biggest industrial confrontation in New Zealand’s history. It lasted 151 days, from February to July 1951. At its peak, 22,000 waterside workers (wharfies) and other unionists were off the job (out of the country's population of just under two million). The confrontation was the culmination of decades of unrest on the wharves; it polarised politics and split the union movement, families and friendships.
The Waterside Workers' Union protested by refusing to work overtime from 13 February. The shipping companies in turn refused to hire them unless they agreed to work extra hours. When no agreement could be reached, union members were locked out.
New Zealand Waterside Workers Union (NZWWU):
Under influence of the reformists and split by rvolutionary forces among the unionists.

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The lockout was a major political issue of the time. The National government, led by Sidney Holland and the Minister of Labour Bill Sullivan, introduced heavy handed emergency regulations, and brought in the navy and army to work the wharves and also deregistered the Waterside Workers' Union under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act. Under the emergency regulations Holland's government censored the press, made striking illegal and even made it illegal to give money or food to either strikers or their families. The proclamations have been described as "the most illiberal legislation ever enacted in New Zealand".

In a surprise move, the FOL, which was supported by the majority of unions, backed the government. FOL President Fintan Patrick Walsh was of the opinion that the manner of the strike threatened the existing arbitration system necessitating their defeat. The watersiders held out for 22 weeks, supported by many other unions and sympathy strikers, but ultimately conceded defeat. The miners and seamen who held sympathy strikes were likewise beaten.

As a result, the Waterside Workers' Union was split up into twenty-six separate "port unions" to deliberately diminish its influence. Many watersiders and other unionists involved were blacklisted (e.g. Jock Barnes and Toby Hill) and prevented from working on the wharves for years afterwards.

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Holland condemned the action as "industrial anarchy", and explicitly sought a mandate to deal with the lockout by calling a snap election. The opposition Labour Party, now led by Walter Nash, attempted to take a moderate position in the dispute, with Nash saying that "we are not for the waterside workers, and we are not against them". Labour's neutral position merely ended up displeasing both sides, however, and Nash was widely accused of indecision and lack of courage. The government was re-elected with an increased majority in the ensuing 1951 election. Holland was seen as opportunistically using the strike to distract voters from the other issue of rapidly rising inflation which could have made the scheduled election in 1952 harder for him to win.

Militant unionism in New Zealand was crushed and the union movement remained fractured for years between the FOL and the defeated militants. The Labour Party was likewise split between the ardent anti-Communists, led by Bob Semple and Angus McLagan, and the moderates, such as Walter Nash and Arnold Nordmeyer. There was a concurrent tension between the FOL and the Labour Party for many years following the strike.

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Why COVID Vaccine Testing Is a Farce.

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Elizabeth wrote: July 22nd, 2020, 2:47 am A powerful 7.8 earthquake has struck the Alaska Peninsula and a tsunami warning has been issued.
According to the US Geological Survey, the 7.8 magnitude quake struck at about 11.12 pm local time.
It had a depth of 9.6 kilometres and was centered 96 kilometres south-southeast of Perryville, Alaska.
The tsunami warning was issued for South Alaska, the Alaska Peninsula and the Aleutian Islands.
Ha, :P

Weird deal today is I’m working with Al that spent many years working in the Aleutian Islands.

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A 39-year-old healthy single mother from Utah died four days after taking a second dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.
her family said that Kassidi Kurill, who was a surgical technician for plastic surgeons, “had more energy” than most people around her and was a happy person with no known health problems. Her father, Alfred Hawley, a former fighter pilot in the Air Force, said:
“She was seemingly healthy as a horse. She had no known underlying conditions.”
Hawley said that Kurill started to have symptoms after receiving the shot, experiencing soreness at the shot location, then beginning to feel ill and complaining that she couldn’t urinate despite drinking plenty of fluids. She improved slightly the next day, but then her condition worsened; she said she had headaches, felt nauseated, and still couldn’t urinate. She said her heart was racing and she felt like she needed to get to the emergency room. He took her to the emergency room, where she got blood tests. She became less coherent and began to throw up. In the evening, they transported her to a trauma center. They did a blood test and immediately came back and said she was very, very sick, and her liver wasn’t functioning.
The doctors attempted to stabilise her for a transplant, but her condition worsened to the point where she could no longer talk by the morning of the next day.
They were trying to get her to a point where she was stable enough for a liver transplant. And they just could not get her stable. She got worse and worse throughout the day. And at nine o’clock, she passed.”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) told The Epoch Times in an email that as of March 8, more than 92 million doses of mRNA vaccines for COVID-19 had been administered, with 1,637 deaths occurring following the injections.

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Here is the hateful racism. "The Utah Jazz Thursday announced that applications for full-ride college scholarships are now open — 30 of them, to be exact after 30 wins so far this season.

This year, every Jazz win equates to a scholarship for an underrepresented student of color. The program, announced earlier this year, is a new initiative and even includes wins from the preseason.": Undoing American Greatness and Equality: Utah Jazz and Gates Foundation Offer Non-White Scholarships Only

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Champion boxer Marvin Hagler died today in the ICU days after taking a COVID-19 vaccine.

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Elizabeth wrote: March 13th, 2021, 4:36 pm Here is the hateful racism. "The Utah Jazz Thursday announced that applications for full-ride college scholarships are now open — 30 of them, to be exact after 30 wins so far this season.

This year, every Jazz win equates to a scholarship for an underrepresented student of color. The program, announced earlier this year, is a new initiative and even includes wins from the preseason.": Undoing American Greatness and Equality: Utah Jazz and Gates Foundation Offer Non-White Scholarships Only
Here in New Hampshire, blacks are 4-5% of the population.

When my granddaughter graduated high school about 10 years ago, every student but one who received a scholarship was either black, Muslim, Hispanic or an immigrant. People who never paid a penny of tax get scholarships? That's reverse racism and I hate it.

In the church I just left, they were helping a black family that had two daughters that came from Africa. They paid their rent and utilities, paid for for the 'ol man's Drivers Ed, - twice - because he failed the first time, bought them a car, and they were on every kind of assistance available. The two daughters got full 4 year scholarships - one at Yale and one at Harvard. Then we never saw the family again.

That's a bunch of baloney and I hate it.

By the way Elizabeth - I agree with every one of your post. Thanks.

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'We are in World War III. We did not have a pandemic, we had a biological attack'

Retired Lt. General: 'It was intentional, done by the CCP'

https://www.wnd.com/2021/03/world-war-i ... al-attack/

(NOQ REPORT) – When Lt. General Tom McInerney was the #3 guy at the Pentagon, his perspectives helped shape the direction of the nation. Now that he is retired, he continues to try to share important information. But instead of giving it to the government where it may or may not be used properly, he is delivering important information to the people who need to understand what’s happening with the elections, Covid-19, China, cyberwarfare, vaccines, and the current biological attack against the nation.

“We are in World War III,” the General said in an interview this morning. “We did not have a pandemic a year ago. We had a biological attack on the whole world. It was intentional, done by the CCP.”

This war has been long planned, but the first big step the Chinese Communist Party took, according to General McInerney, was the release of the Covid-19 coronavirus.

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I'm not going to link to these stories, and I urge caution in searching the internet for stories relevant to them for those who are sensitive to triggers relevant to some of the images that might show up, but here are the stories.

A viral campaign for $1,000 custom ‘Satan’ sneakers. March 29. Cost: $1,018. 666 Americans can these buy Satan shoes. They're modified from Nike’s 1997 Air Max shoes. They are filling the air bubble with red ink and a drop of human blood. Lil Nas partnered with MSCHF (don't know who that is) to do the shoe, not with Nike, apparently.

Here's the other one, and it also has to do with Lil Nas.
He did a music video where he's having what I'll call intimate relations with Satan, in the theme of Eden and the fall. I saw some pictures in the article, and I refuse to explore it further.

This is the same guy who did at least one surprise performance at an elementary school...and the kids knew his music and went fanatic in joining him to sing it (https://www.today.com/popculture/lil-na ... ad-t155165)...do your kids know his music? People, I've seen stuff like this pop up in the past, but it's getting more and more and worse and worse. Go ye forth from Babylon seems like an understatement at this point.

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Facebook Data From More Than 500 Million Users Found Online.

April 4, 2021

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A Ukrainian security researcher reported finding a database with the names, phone numbers, and unique user IDs of more than 267 million Facebook users—nearly all U.S.-based—on the open internet.


Details from more than 500 million Facebook users have been found available on a website for hackers.While the information appears to be several years old, it’s another example of the vast amount of information collected by Facebook and other social media sites, and the limits to how secure that information is. The availability of the data set was first reported by Business Insider. According to that publication, it has information from 106 countries, including phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, locations, birthdates, and email addresses.


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Facebook has been grappling with data security issues for years. In 2018, the social media giant disabled a feature that allowed users to search for one another via phone number following revelations that the political firm Cambridge Analytica had accessed information on up to 87 million Facebook users without their knowledge or consent. In December 2019, a Ukrainian security researcher reported finding a database with the names, phone numbers, and unique user IDs of more than 267 million Facebook users—nearly all U.S.-based—on the open internet. It’s unclear if the current data dump is related to this database. “This is old data that was previously reported on in 2019,” the Menlo Park, California-based company said in a statement. “We found and fixed this issue in August 2019.”

Facebook Data From More Than 500 Million Users Found Online

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Idiotic propaganda sent to me by National Geographic, your one-stop NWO brainwashing center. Something other than COVID, for variety's sake.
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It's official. Trump now Lindell.



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Mike Lindell: Free, Clean Speech Social Media Site Set to Launch Monday
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Mike Lindell: Free, Clean Speech Social Media Site Set to Launch Monday

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