Environmental Fascism: why our NZ propaganda machine was so well-rehearsed for Covid
Summary/extract of a draft 10,000+ word essay on this subject - comments welcome whilst it's a work-in-progress.
I’ve been reflecting on the reasons why I’m ‘immune’ to this covid era propaganda. I’ve published elsewhere that it’s partly because of similarities to the aerial 1080 poisoning operations propaganda that I’ve been fighting since I moved here, more than ten years ago. This is what has been described as New Zealand’s Dirty Little Secret.
What I didn’t realise until recently, was the global nature of the censorship-industrial-complex that I experienced when trying to expose the NZ poison industry. In an attempt to bring together these diverse but connected areas of my research, I’ve summarised here eight main points where I see the strategies of propaganda theory, including the Corporate Playbook overlap. NB This is part of a much larger piece of writing that I hope to publish at some point, so any comments very welcome.
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First, a few words about the context of aerial 1080-poisoned food-bait in New Zealand:
What is 1080?
Sodium mono-fluoroacetate otherwise known as ‘Compound 1080’ is a highly toxic, inhumane, synthetic metabolic poison.[1] It has no antidote. None. The mechanism of action from 1080 results in ‘acute disruption of oxygen metabolism for all air-breathing organisms’.[2] (Unsurprisingly, those who witness a death by 1080 describe it as horrific).
International legislation, treaties and agreements, including Human Rights restrict its use and storage, including its administration by authorised personnel only.[3] It is unlicensed in many countries because of known (and unknown) risks to public health, non-target species, food and water contamination. The medium to long-term sublethal effects of this poison on humans are unknown, other than some inferences from animal models, accidental poisonings and suicide attempts.
Compound 1080 is also a known endocrine disruptor which impacts upon the body’s major organs. For many decades, the raw poison has been manufactured in the USA by Tull Chemicals and transported to New Zealand’s two Government-owned poison bait factories.[4] More recently, due to costs and transport/safety concerns, the source is likely to be China, however details have been withheld from public scrutiny for reasons of ‘commercial sensitivity’.
In its raw state, 1080 is diluted and stored in a watery solution before being mixed with cereal, sugar and or other substances perceived to be attractive to ‘pest’ species (e.g. rats and possums). The manufacturer’s Material Safety Data Sheet [MSDS] points out that 1080 poison is highly toxic to all life and poisoned carcasses remain toxic and must therefore be immediately incinerated or buried in an appropriate hazardous waste facility. As submissions to the People’s Inquiry confirm, these mandatory precautions are rarely, if ever, undertaken by contractors for the aerial 1080 poison operations. If a contractor does walk the tracks where poison baits have been distributed and subsequently animals are lying dead (or dying) the bodies are collected or kicked out of the way, out of sight - out of mind. Despite the extreme hazards of aerial distribution (spray-drift, toxic dust etc), approximately 4,000 tonnes of 1080-poisoned food-baits are dropped on New Zealand every year via helicopters, estimated to be enough to kill over 60 million people.[5] One of the many risks of aerial distribution of a poison like this, is that NZ homes commonly collect their drinking water from their roof, explained in this diagram:
These poisonings are not one-off operations - they are regularly (sometimes even annually) repeated over millions of hectares of land and waterways throughout New Zealand and have been since 1954.[6] It is virtually impossible now to find an area of countryside that has NOT been subjected, at some point, to aerial poisoning. But still no long-term epidemiological studies have been undertaken, so that tenuous link between the date of poison operation and impact on health outcomes can rarely be proven. Like the injections, plausible deniability exists when there’s ambiguity between correlation and causation. But numerous breaches of safety regulations (such as poison being distributed over a drinking water catchment, waterway or other no-fly zone) occur with virtually every operation (see for example the NZ Environmental Protection Authority’s Annual Reports) with no penalty or accountability action taken by any Government or other agency. And no follow-ups. Indeed, the same contractors deploy the same subcontractors for the repeated aerial poisoning operations over the same forests and waterways, with little regard for laws or agreements in place, including the Treaty of Waitangi (as detailed on numerous submissions to the People’s Inquiry).
Like a wartime scenario with Agent Orange, the severe trauma and psychological impact on residents watching powerlessly as their land and water is poisoned from the sky, despite protestations and without scientific rationale, should not be underestimated.
When it all began, in 1954, the Government’s rationale for this widespread aerial 1080 poisoning was similar to that famous lie ‘two weeks to flatten the curve’. Little did Kiwis realise then, that the grandchildren of those peaceful activists trying to stop the poisoning, would still be trying to be heard, seventy years later:
I have discussed elsewhere with colleagues (1 hour conversation) and also here (follow-up hour-long conversation) some reasons as to why the New Zealand public seem particularly vulnerable to what
defines as the mass formation that surrounds the covid era propaganda. Elsewhere, I am writing about those factors and the similarities to the mass formation within the narrative of aerial 1080 poison. More about that another day.Meanwhile, let me explain eight ways I believe the propaganda of the covid era in NZ mirrors that which is used in the pro-poisoning campaigns over decades of indoctrination. (In another article, I will explain how we can challenge this propaganda and expose the tragedies of this environmental ecocide.) These eight ways are: the Language of Words and Images; the Silencing of Dissent; Falsely Creating ‘Dangerous’ Threats, the ‘Best Tool in the Toolbox’; Censorship of Reports of any Negative Consequences; Use of Social Influencers; Fake Science and Test, test, test! First, the abuse of our language:
1. Language of Words and Images
As writers of propaganda theory have evidenced throughout history, the ab/use of language forms the basis of all propaganda campaigns. The active use of behavioural science strategies during the covid era included a $multi-billion intense propaganda campaign using tried and tested techniques of Othering and encouraging a sense of nationalistic pride through adopting a ‘Social Responsibility’. In New Zealand this was symbolised by then-Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern famously encouraging the ‘Team of Five Million’ to ‘Do the right thing’ (by getting the injections) and confirming those who did not comply were to be regarded as ‘second-class citizens’.
Well-funded, intense and national propaganda campaigns use similar techniques that promote the binary of ‘pest’ vs ‘native’ with an ideology of a ‘return to utopia’ – i.e. a view that New Zealand can return to some fantasy pre-colonial time before mammals were introduced. There is an Orwellian ‘Doublethink’ to this ideology; humans are mammals and can only exist alongside other mammals for companionship and food/resources. The propaganda is present in schools and universities, indoctrinating teachers and students at all stages of their education and training.
As Dr Emily Major evidenced in her recent PhD research, the political message is also reinforced through images used to promote the divisive ideology. For example, photoshopped images promote the idea that possums are vicious, disease-carrying vermin. Schools have been criticised for normalising inhumane treatment of possums and glorifying death. Dr Marc Bekoff has been one of many international experts supporting compassionate conservation and calling-out the exaggerated fear-mongering like this:
And simplified animations, even cartoon characters infantilise the public with dumbed-down ideas and blatant lies about ‘safe’ poisons and ‘healthy’ forests.
2. Silencing Dissent
During the covid era and ongoing, censorship is rife across all mainstream and social media /professional platforms/networks. Anyone with any legitimate concerns or questions about the safety and efficacy of the ‘vaccine’ are banned from MSM and social media, silenced from any publications and alienated from any professional groups. This provides a false perception of a consensus of opinion about the ‘safe and effective’ solution.
Likewise in the context of NZ aerial poisoning, for decades, despite regular protests, petitions and other peaceful activism, anyone with any legitimate concerns or questions about the safety and efficacy of the aerial poisoning campaign are labelled ‘conspiracy theorists’ and ‘tin-foil-hat nutters’ and banned from MSM and social media. Academics are silenced from any publications and alienated from any professional groups – especially as so-called ‘experts’ in environmental disciplines and their academic institutions are mainly funded by Government and BigChem.
In her aptly-titled book ‘The Quiet Forest’ (2017) (describing that eerie silence witnessed post-poisoning), retired Kiwi clinician Prof Fiona McQueen describes the ‘Psychology of Environmental Fascism’ and analyses the reasons why New Zealanders are vulnerable to this propaganda, including the urban/rural divide. She also explains the Othering experienced by academics like us who dare to step ‘out of line’:
3. Falsely Creating ‘Dangerous’ threats
Fake claims of risks or even lies of explicit ‘threats’ from those dissenting individuals/groups reinforce the Groupthink. Eg promoters of ‘vaccines’ virtue-signal taking the injections as ‘doing their duty’ to society as they become martyrs overcoming violent threats and/or abuse from those labelled ‘anti-vaxxers’ etc by MSM.
In the same vein, for decades, promoters of aerial 1080 poisoning operations are presented as self-sacrificing ‘environmentalists’ who passionately care about native birdlife and must overcome the ‘burden’ of ‘selfish’ anti-1080 protestors who are dangerous and abusive. MSM publish invented stories about peaceful protestors ‘sabotaging’ helicopters or vehicles of poison contractors or Dept of Conservation staff. I’ll write more about this another time.
4. Best ‘Tool in the Toolbox’
This comparative point has two main factors,
a) The exclusion of Mother Nature including the complexity of (eco)systems, and the ‘solution’ in a synthetic intervention(s) the ‘value’ of which is prioritised over nature.
b) A ‘one size fits all’ approach, rather than respecting individual differences.
In the context of Environmental Fascism as McQueen calls it, the ‘solution’ to the ‘plagues of pests’ is promoted as only found in aerial 1080 poisoning operations – definitely not in addressing existing risk factors like reduced wildlife habitat, human interventions and exploitation and pollution of nature. NZ forests (containing native and exotic trees) are geographically diverse areas of nature which are complex and change over time, there is no ‘one-size fits all’ environmental approach towards species labelled ‘pests’ like possums that are valid for nationwide generalisations.
A global population-wide ‘vaccine’ roll-out to all socio-economic groups makes control group outcomes impossible to monitor, even if this data was not censored. Widespread national aerial poisoning operations throughout every forest in NZ, repeated every few years, means no valid control group for comparison purposes: some species routinely transported between forests, compounding the outcomes (see below also, regarding obfuscation of data).
MSM promote the ideology that the ‘solution’ to a ‘deadly’ virus is only the ‘vaccination’ and not addressing existing risk factors like obesity or poor nutrition. We know that respiratory illnesses like coronaviruses have a 99.9% full recovery rate for most people, but the political narrative repeatedly used fearmongering to claim the ‘deadly’ virus was a risk to everyone. Natural immunity was systematically dismissed despite generations of evidence of its efficacy, in favour of profitable BigPharma ‘solutions’. Similarly, poison-free, sustainable methods of wildlife management like trapping and hunting without poisons are unfairly dismissed, despite generations of evidence of safety and efficacy. BigChem’s fast and profitable ‘solution’ is always favoured, no matter what evidence for alternatives is presented.
Censorship of reports of any negative consequences
In the covid context, statements of concern, warnings from experts and reports of harm from the vaccine-injured – whether individual anecdotes, Open Letters or larger collections of data - have been systematically censored from all social and mainstream media. [7] The Twitter Files and other exposés have confirmed various Governmental interference and agreements in this strategy of coercion. Safety monitoring databases such as VAERS and CARM have no formal threshold when numbers of incidents should trigger a moratorium on use.
Likewise, reports of harm (human, stock and wildlife) as a result of aerial 1080 poisoning operations go unrecorded and when publicised, are also censored from NZ media and other platforms. Social media groups sharing incidents like the horror of a pet dog dying from eating a poisoned rabbit are tagged as ‘fringe’ or ‘extremist views’ and shadow-banned or entirely censored. Monitoring of harms is hidden from District Health Boards and victims can be coerced to sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) by the Government-paid commercial contractors which undertake the poisoning. Analysis of these NDAs show how facts can be changed, so the record never shows the extent of the harm caused. Hence these hidden realities and conflicts of interest ensure the continued use of the poison.
Social influencers
Celebrity promotion, coercive incentives and unethical advertising was rife during the height of the covid era. For instance pseudo-educational resources in schools. Meta introduced a ‘banner’ for those virtue-signalling about their ‘vaccination status’. Famous sports stars and musicians posted ‘selfies’ of being injected. Facts and peer-reviewed science about the lack of safety or efficacy in the vaccines are censored in favour of case-studies and opinions of ‘experts’ that promote the ideology of the political narrative.
Likewise facts and peer-reviewed science about the poor efficacy and lethal toxicity of the poisoning are dismissed in favour of case-studies and opinions of pseudo-experts who promote the ideology of the political narrative. Sports stars like the All Blacks are used to encourage volunteering for the Dept of Conservation, in ways that indoctrinate the young people into normalising poisons. And funnily enough, Dr Siouxsie Wiles with the pink hair, previously pro-poison, was also wheeled out to be PR ‘expert’ for the injections in an appallingly cringeworthy ‘rap’:
Fake Science
As statistical experts like
and many others have pointed out, much of the Government covid data collection and presentation has been ‘scrambled’ to obfuscate the outcomes. For instance definitions of ‘fully vaccinated’ vs ‘partially vaccinated’ are altered between countries and over time, leading to confusing, unreliable, and invalid results and interpretations.In the conservation context in NZ, there is a long history of data also being ‘scrambled’ when monitoring of forests for wildlife is conducted at different times and weather conditions, using unreliable, out-dated manual methods, often by untrained volunteers. I’ve written recently about a claim from NZ Government about the ‘effectiveness’ of aerial poison operations where the ‘control’ area was not a control at all, but actually turned out to be an area also aerially poisoned a few months prior. You can read that full post here:
The true extent of the failures of ‘peer-reviewed’ science has been talked about extensively recently, by Dr Malhotra and others. And I detailed the ways that universities control the narrative in this article in Propaganda in Focus. My own experience of NZ ‘peer-reviewed’ publications had already highlighted the inherent conflict of interest in the funding of the Editorial Boards and institutions housing the journals, and the worldviews of the academics involved in these processes. These factors filter-out any research outcomes that go against the pro-poison political narrative. Yes, even for the so-called (woke) New Zealand ‘Green’ Party.
Test, test, test!
I don’t need to revisit here the extent of the testing methodologies used to support claims of a pandemic in the covid era. In short, the laboratory tests are flawed because the PCR testing was never developed to be a clinical diagnostic tool and repeated population-level tests using high cycles thresholds lead to extremely high false-positive results. This in turn drives the political narrative of ‘cases’ and a ‘need’ for further ‘vaccinations’.
The testing for potential 1080 poison contamination is also flawed to provide the desired results. One example is how laboratory tests for contamination are rarely carried out and conducted only in labs endorsed by, and part-funded by NZ Gov. The decades-old tests have flawed methodologies which seek to find the raw 1080 poison, not its metabolites, leading to invalid outcomes claiming drinking water is ‘safe’ when it could be toxic.
The criteria for the poison operations is also subjected to flawed methodology which claims to monitor the ‘levels’ of ‘infestation’ from the ‘pest’ species. The monitoring is done at strategic times (e.g. seasons) to provide desired results, and/or the surveillance sites are not at the correct locations. At times, even if the monitoring does not reach the required outcomes, the goalposts are moved, so that the poisoning can go ahead regardless.
Conclusions
I’ve proposed above eight ways that the propaganda in NZ during covid overlaps with similar strategies designed to change public opinion and therefore behaviour regarding controversial, inhumane conservation policies. There is plenty more to write, and hundreds of images to share. But I have made a start.
One reason for reflecting and writing about these issues, is to help ‘immunise’ the public against the propaganda machinery that continues to churn out the lies in MSM, with our tax-payer dollars.
The truth is to be found in the small print, it really doesn’t take long. And once you see that naked emperor, you can’t unsee him.
References
[1] Ronald Eisler, “Sodium Monofluoroacetate (1080) Hazards to Fish, Wildlife and Invertebrates: A Synoptic Review,” Contaminant Hazard Reviews, Patuxent Environmental Science Center U.S. National Biological Service (Laurel, MD 20708 USA: USA EPA, 1995).
[2] W Negherbon, “Sodium Fluoroacetate.,” in Handbook of Toxicology, vol. Insecticides. A Compendium. report 55-16, VIII (WADC, 1959), 694–95.
[3] New Zealand, “Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act (HaSNO),” 30 § (1996).
[4] see submissions to “The People’s Inquiry into the Impacts and Effects of Toxic Chemicals and Poisons on Our People, Wildlife and Environment. Te Uiuinga e Pā Ana Ki Nga Pātanga Me Nga Tukinotanga a Nga Matū Tāoke Me Nga Paitini Ki Ngā Tāngata, Nga Kararehe Kōwao Me Te Taiao” (New Zealand, 2021), https://peoplesinquiry2020.nz/. Also on YouTube.
[5] William Benfield, At War With Nature (Tross Publishing, 2015), trosspublishing.co.nz.
[6] NZ Government, “Timeline of 1080 Poison Use in NZ,” Science Learn, 2021, https://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/interactive_timeline/12-1080-and-pest-control-a-timeline.
[7] Safe and Effective: A Second Opinion (London, UK., 2022), https://rumble.com/v1mc9z0-safe-and-effective-a-second-opinion-2022-oracle-films-covid-19-documentary.html.
So much is happening WITHOUT OUR INFORMED CONSENT!
We need to identify the specific people behind policy decisions impacting on the population, eg depositing poison and mandating vaccinations.
Who are these people, bring them to account.
New Zealand (and yes I have been there) has long had a biosecurity mindset against any living organisms considered to be 'foreign', never mind that three-quarters of the population are descended from European, mainly British, colonists. This biosecurity mindset, on the basis of 'protecting the ecology' has infected the green movement which is worried about and wants to hype up the risk of 'zoonotic pandemics' (something that it has in common with the animal rights' movement, as I shall cover on my own blog in due course).