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Cultural Marxism, labeled as a conspiracy theory, is believed to have originated from the ideas of Karl Marx. It gained traction during the Russian Revolution and was advocated by Lenin and Trotsky. In the US, policies and actions are influenced by culture more than politics. For example, mask-wearing and COVID restrictions varied depending on local culture and social expectations. The pandemic also highlighted the limitations of government control and the power of culture in shaping individual decision-making. The article emphasizes the importance of culture in politics and the need to uphold individualism and resist concentrated power. A treason document revealing the involvement of the state as a company is being prepared for court cases. Voting for independent candidates is suggested as a way to regain control and challenge political parties. I've been sending you lots of bits of information, haven't I? Yeah, you know, it's going to be very interesting. Well, I hope it will be. I find it extremely interesting. We've all lived it and we all know it. Cultural Marxism in this country just never knew it had a label. It's actually regarded as a conspiracy theory by the people who were keen on it. You can find it as a conspiracy theory and I think that was the first link I sent you was the Wikipedia link. Oh yeah, let me see. Oh yep, yep. Do you want me to open that up? Yeah, you can maybe open that up and just sort of set the groundwork for where it's all supposed to have started off in the beginning. Well, you all know, I think, who Karl Marx was. Thanks Emma. Let me get back to that screen again. You all know who Karl Marx was. According to Cultural Marxism as a conspiracy theory, it's a far-right, anti-Semitic conspiracy theory. Maybe because Karl Marx was Jewish, they decided that it's anti-Semitic to have anything to say about Marxism. He never really identified as Jewish. He was Jewish. I think he lived most of his life, well not most of his life, but his earlier life in Berlin. His father was an industrialist. They had, I'm not sure what sort of company it was, it was a factory of some kind. Never worked in it, of course, but had a theory about the struggle between what he called the proletariat and the bourgeoisie, terms he used. We're more likely to think of it as between the workers and the bosses. It was always a theory. It was picked up at the time of the Russian Revolution. The Russian economy was largely undeveloped. Well, not undeveloped, rural and farming. They had very large cities as well, but that's where it took off, in the cities. It was put forward by Lenin. One of the early leaders of the revolution was Trotsky. And I believe that he was actually hunted down and stabbed with an ice pick in South America eventually. Very colourful sort of stories around there. Where were we going with the picture? Sorry, I did a little bit of googling today. I looked up. Oh, okay. Because I sent some stuff over to you. I'd really like to get your take on it, please, Emma. One of the funny things I did, when I was making the artwork for today, I was going to do Colt with a Gap. And then I thought, I wonder what Ural is? And it's actually a river in Russia. Oh, okay. I thought, wow, okay, because I've just been reading about the Bolsheviks. Yes, yes, of course. You've noticed those things, don't you? Yeah. Funny coincidence, maybe. I mean, there's nothing wrong with culture, having culture. Culture is natural to human beings, but it can become a cult of culture, in actual fact. Yeah, so Vladimir Lenin took over after Trotsky, and he had a political pamphlet called What Is To Be Done, written in 1901, where he helped to precipitate the Bolsheviks split from the Mensheviks. So Menshe, it was probably someone called Mensha, or something like that. So they put the fix on the end, and then you've got the sort of, like, beatniks. That was a word in the 60s. So these whole revolutionary ideas or political ideas come out of culture. The second one, I believe, I sent over to you was, because I sort of tried to send them in a bit of an order, and we'll talk about, you know, how it all applies in New Zealand, once we've kind of got an idea of what it is. We've got quotes. We've got crossroads.to quotes communism. Let's have a look at the Crossroads one, because I think that's an interesting one. This is an article written in 2021, I believe, talking about, and it's obviously written by somebody. It's written by a Mr. Oh no, that's Ruth Radicals. That's a different one. Oh yeah, so that's the Crossroads.to quotes. So not that one? Not that one. There's another one written by the differences that people, depending on where you live, the uptake in masks was very, very different than masking. I think, which state was it? Somewhere in New England, something like that. Oh yeah, so policy is also downstream of culture? Yes, that's it. That's the one. Yeah, so there's a quote which says, politics is downstream from culture. Now that comes from, that quote comes from, what's his name? He died recently, quite young. Andrew Breitbart, who said, and the idea of politics is downstream from culture means that culture comes first and then politics. So out of culture comes the politics because people, culture is what we're all doing every day and culture isn't grass skirts or purple hair or anything like that. But it sometimes can become politicized. So what you look like or what sort of ideas you support as part of your supposed culture then leads into what the political thing to look at, look like. So this person who's writing about Andrew Breitbart, journalist and gadfly, you can tell what his view is. I think he's called, I think he's a Rothschild, this person who's writing this article. Can you just have a look? I seem to notice that. Yeah, Daniel Rothschild. Okay, and it was written in 2021. Now that's the picture of London in 2021 when they were trying to, you know, they were trying to keep the lockdown in place. You know, all of the reports of disease, disease, and of course everybody's out there shopping for Christmas. I think that's Bond Street or Oxford Street, Christmas 2021. So this is a really quite interesting article. He's an American writing about what's going on in the UK. So his culture does not merely inform politics, it could also trump policy action, acting as a check on political excess. This is what we've seen recently with the rollback of various COVID restrictions and preparations for what will be likely a fairly normal summer. Remember we got to the summer of 2021 and thought, oh, everything's going to be okay, right? Except, well, everything in this country was supposed to be okay if you got two jabs for summer. Remember that, okay? So what he says, culture, in other words, isn't just upstream from politics, it's stronger than politics. When the Centers for Disease Control, CDC, dramatically revised its guidance on mask wearing last month, it set off a furious cascade of governors rescinding and amending orders with local governments and schools in hot pursuit. Some stores and private firms adjusted their policies as well, briefly creating a hodgepodge of policies. So this is the difference between the public and the private. So you had mandates in the public and then you had policies in the private. For some people, this was a watershed moment, among those for whom rigorous adherence to CDC guidelines has become a lifestyle marker. The revelation from the agency's Atlanta headquarters was celebrated. Still others ignored the new guidance, and like Japanese soldiers on remote Pacific islands years after VJ Day, continued to wage the war. For those who have found opposition, so you can see, I mean, if you know about what happened with Japanese soldiers, there were some people hiding underground, who they discovered 30 years later, was one man hiding underground 30 years later, still thought the war was on. They hadn't got round to telling when it was finished. They didn't know, you know, who was dead and who was alive. He was taken back to Japan. It was a very sad story, really, because he'd lived 30 years of his life, hadn't even seen anybody else for 30 years, just hid and, you know, made his, you know, a hole in the ground, which is what a lot of people are digging themselves into. You know, they've got it into their heads so deeply, and it's turned into a cult culture that this is what they're doing. For those who found opposition to masking and active, considered civil disobedience, this was the denouement of a year-long struggle about the own, against the only low-cost, non-invasive intervention available to minimise illness and death, while maximising a normal life. Quite a victory, I guess. So, this guy obviously thinks that the people who didn't mask up, you know, they hadn't come, they hadn't joined the struggle using a low-cost, non-invasive intervention to minimise illness and death. Right, so you can see his view. And with many things, the vast majority of Americans fell somewhere between these two extreme poles. They took the change to the mandates in stride and went on about their lives. Since March 2020, staying abreast of state and local mandates about masks, where to wear them, what kind, social distancing, six feet, three feet, maximum group sizes, restaurant capacities, ages of enforcement and exemptions to various rules, for instance, while eating or worshipping, could well have been a full-time job. Not only did the rules change with great regularity, they did so in unpredictable and at times inexplicable ways, and paced their progenitors seldom in response, and paced their progenitors seldom in response to new scientific knowledge. So, even somebody who's sort of like into it is sort of saying, well, you know, it was a load of rules back and forth, didn't know where you were. This is lockstep, right? This is exactly what we found in New Zealand. Given our incomplete understanding of the pandemic, particularly in its early months, some of this haphazard policymaking was understandable. We must differentiate time inconsistency in gubernatorial proclamations caused by increasing scientific knowledge from inconsistency brought about by political calculus. At the same time, the constant drip of stories of elected officials being caught violating their own rules sent the message that the rules were not meant to be taken literally, and perhaps not even taken at all all that seriously. So, we remember that the first health minister we had at the time went off mountain biking or something, and that he got the sack for it. And then we got those two lawyers who had to kowtow to the mob because they'd taken off and gone to Queenstown skiing or something. Far more important than the rules on the books was the cultural milieu of communities. Response throughout my own state, Virginia, right, it was Virginia, has been heterogeneous, to put it politely. In highly educated, densely populated, deep blue northern Virginia, I almost never saw someone in a shop or restaurant without a mask when they were mandated. Even today, the majority of people continue to wear masks indoors, even as local COVID case rates plummet and vaccination rates skyrocket. Yet, as little as 50 miles to the south or west, masks are as rare as hen's teeth. This is true today as it was in the winter when cases and deaths were far higher. The rules from Richmond didn't dictate people's behaviour nearly as much as their local culture and the social expectation of their friends and neighbours. Policies that run counter to culture and community norms are, in most cases, dead on arrival. Right, so it depends on your, you know, where you live. And, well, in the United States, it was very, 50 k's away and they had a very, very different response. We were a lot more heterogeneous, I guess, in New Zealand because you had a whole lot of people wearing masks, right, whether you were in the country or the city. But seldom learned domestically. Remember that this grew when people were earnestly debating how best to implement a nationwide system of vaccine passports. Other than in New York, the idea seems to have pretty much fallen flat. Adam Smith's men of system, Adam Smith is political economist back in, what century, quite a long time ago, but a very interesting wise in their own conceit, couldn't wait to implement such passports. Oblivious to the fact that there were few phrases, there are few phrases more anti-ethical to American culture than your papers, please. For many of the more technocratically minded, the only relevant question was how to implement the vaccine passports. Whether to do it wasn't even worth asking. This is the story of the last 15 months in brief. No matter what guidance came down from Atlanta or Washington, and no matter what legal mandates governors or state houses issued, culture trumped policy in individual decision-making. Public institutions like state universities and public schools were more or less bound to follow mandates, although some, like George Mason University, performed far better than others. Well, performed far better probably means they did more of the mandating, but their private sector counterparts, by contrast, mostly carved their own path and were much more likely to reopen in-person instruction. If anything, after months of honoring these restrictions, more in the breach than in the observance, people seem relieved to stop pretending to follow essentially arbitrary rules they weren't really following to begin with. This isn't simply the case of a few misleading statements in a fog of war confusion in the early weeks of the pandemic. Federal statements on school reopening, for instance, remain confusing and ham-fisted. Throughout the process, government mandates have been lagging indicators of private action to stop COVID. Think back to March 2020. Businesses and individuals led the retreat indoors. People started avoiding restaurants before governors shut them down, and individual choices had much more significant economic impact than did state policies. At the McAntus Centre, early March was our first working day from home. The state didn't issue any restrictions for another 13 days. West Coast tech companies like Stripe and Microsoft also shut their offices weeks ahead of their state's mandated closures. The Society for Human Resource Management reports on a poll conducted from March 12 to March 16, 2020, which found that at the time about a third of all firms were actively encouraging employees to work remotely, and two-thirds were allowing employees to work from home. At that point, not a single state had issued a stay-at-home order. While policy certainly did have at least some effect on social indicators during the pandemic, it's hard to draw indisputable connections between policy and mortality and morbidity. Indeed, the amount of attention given to state mask mandates by the media was completely out of sync with the actual effects of these policies, which appear to be quite small, not to mention largely endogenous to culture. A lesson of the pandemic should be that not only is politics largely downstream of culture, culture can, to a degree, veto policy entirely. Eventually, policymakers had to give in to the reality that their levers of control are far weaker than they imagine. Policymakers have to bow to culture, sometimes in amusing ways. In the United Kingdom, the virus apparently took time off for the Christmas holidays, but it wasn't until May that sex, at least amongst singles, was again on the table. Even Boris Johnson had to acknowledge the cultural reality of his country. The British might give up sex, but never Christmas. America retains a strong individualistic cultural streak, with a scepticism of sexual power that's held us in good stead over the past year, and that has long served as a bulwark against concentrated power of all kinds. As long as we retain this robust culture, those who try to arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces on a chessboard, as Adam Smith wrote, whether through political or cultural mechanisms, will be stymied by the cultural reality that Americans refuse to be chess pieces of others. So, I think it's, you know, very interesting when we look at the American experience, and that's not by one of us, I'll say that for the guy, he's obviously, he's kind of middle of the road, I'd say. And, you know, I mean, if he thinks about what he's written, he'll realise that, you know, especially what he writes about masks, they didn't seem to make any difference to morbidity or anything else. And, you know, there was all sorts of rules and regulations and people, depending on where they were living, or, you know, just their idea, they just ignored them. Whereas New Zealand, that's supposed to be the rugged individualists, was very, very different. And this is why it's, we seem to have had a very, very big dose of cultural marxism in this country. The Americans are the rugged individualists, not New Zealanders, right? And this has been what I've been talking about, over the, especially in regards to sexual wars, if you like, you know, the idea, this kind of, what would you call it, normalisation of stuff that 50 years ago, or 20 years ago, or 30 years ago, yeah, even 10 years ago, would have made people's toes hair curl or toes curl, whatever you say. Okay, the idea that what we're going to try and teach our kids in school, and our grandkids in school, is pretty horrific. And we've heard about that. The idea that we all have to suddenly learn a different language, that, you know, that English is not good enough, that the things that actually bring us together are now being torn into little pieces. And this is the idea of cultural marxism. And it's the point of it, the whole point of it, is to actually make people fight each other. Because in the conflict, out of the conflict, and the arguments, and the stress, comes division. And from the division, you get divide and conquer. Now, this is a real Roman idea, right? The British Empire learned a lot of lessons from the Romans in terms of keeping their administrations in place. Got some really interesting ideas, not ideas, interesting things coming up in terms of the administration. You'll remember, I've talked about this before, when I talked about what I call a treason document. I want to make clear, the treason, even though Māori were involved in it, my belief is they were opportunist. The treason is clearly on the part of the state. In actual fact, the state, as a lot of people have been discovering, in the form of a company, in the form of the Queen and Rider of New Zealand company. So I won't talk much about that tonight, because I've got something on the go at the moment, that we're going to see the result of it pretty soon. And we're just dipping our toe into it at the moment, but it's going to be quite dramatic. In the sentence, the document is going to be part of court cases from now on, which means everybody will know what has happened and what the treason has been, and what the government or the Queen and Rider of New Zealand company has done, and how it has tried to sell us all down the line. Because anybody who wants to go back and look at that Friday night Zoom will find out that a whole lot of good things were demanded and never happened. And then the people who demanded them never said a thing about them. But they've reaped a lot of rewards. They've reaped gaining the control of the administration. And it seems to me that that's what they were really after in the first place. The rest was window dressing. But the funny thing is, I've already had a suggestion made to me that we might be able to use the document to get some of those things done. Yeah, there's somebody on here tonight. We won't talk about it until because we don't want to blow the surprise. But, you know, the evil can be turned to good. That's what I'm saying to you. It's not going to be anything to do with voting for anybody. What I've been saying over the weekend about voting is also, you know, I've said right from the start, nobody's ever going to, from the executive of this union, we're not going to support political parties. And what we would, what I do say is, if you're going to exercise your vote, do not tick the party vote box. Find and encourage somebody to stand as an individual in an electorate. Nicolai, voting, if it's done properly, and it's not going to be, we're not going to get everything we want this time around, but we could take considerable control back of what is there by voting individual electorate people standing as individuals. So independent, sorry. So no political parties whatsoever. Need to starve that party beast, guys. Need to starve it. Okay. So let's have a little bit of, a little look at those, some well-known people who've pushed the cultural Marxism barrow. We could have a look at the one about, there's two. There's one about, there's one about cultural Marxism and there's one about rules for radicals. Oh, yeah. Two more. Let's have a look at. Oh, that's, yeah, there was another one. Anyway, let's have a look at rules for radicals. You might have heard of this book. This is Saul Alinsky. And it's based on the, there was another one about the ten planks. Oh, yeah, yeah. Let's have a quick look at those because, yeah. Yeah, there we go. The ten planks of the Communist Manifesto. Karl Marx was paid by the league of the just. And this is what you always find, right? Someone's always paying people to do stuff. They don't do it out of the goodness of their heart to try and improve the lot of their fellow man. Anything evil like this has got a backer in terms of money. He wrote it in 1847. He wrote the Communist Manifesto was paid again to rewrite it in 1848. The Manifesto was intended to incite violent revolution. It was a recipe for tyranny itself and was later used as propaganda, a glorious goal to believe in, to blind followers to the realities of the brutal dictatorships that oppressed all workers and slaughtered millions under Communist rule. Hitler's Mein Kampf and Mao's Little Red Book served similar evil and deadly purposes. So, of course, you've got the right, which is fascism, Mein Kampf, and you've got the left, Mao's Little Red Book, and, you know, the same, two wings, same bird. Many dictators throughout history today attempt to disguise their tyranny with fancy labels and phony philosophies to make slavery seem somehow just and essential. Another example was the earlier doctrine of divine right of kings. We talked about the divine right of kings, and this is what is going on now. This is exactly what's going on now, and people think that the earlier doctrine is dead and buried. No, it's not. Why on earth is Charles, through the Governor-General, supposed to be signing off our laws by royal decree? By royal decree. They're getting the royal assent. I know that examination of section six of the Imperial Laws Deaplication Act is quite hard going, but basically it's saying that we've still got the Governor-General supposedly signing off orders and regulations, okay, which must be the divine right of kings is still there, and it's oppressing us. These ten steps are just part of the manifesto, the full text, which can be found on the web. Western nations, including the United States, have gradually implemented all of Marx's key ten steps towards a dictatorship. New Zealand's further down the line. What are some examples you can find? Americans, so we might talk about the ten planks. There's a bit of a discussion, guys, if you'd like. The abolition of property and land, and application of all rents of land to public purpose. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax. Abolition of all rights of inheritance. We haven't got that one yet. Confiscation of property of all immigrants and rebels. It's on its way. Centralisation of credit in the hands of the state by means of the National Bank with state capital and exclusive monopoly. Okay, so we've got a central bank. Centralisation of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the state. We're well down that one. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the state, and bringing into cultivation of wastelands and improvement of soil generally in accordance with a common plan. Well, that's a little bit different than that one. Equal liability of all to labour. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries. Gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country by a more equitable distribution of population over the country. That is one that is not happening. Pre-education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labour in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production. We've got pre-education of all children in public schools, but that's for propaganda purposes. So, yeah, so, you know, in New Zealand, what is particularly hard is that our, and we have had state sponsored broadcasting right from the very beginning. So, it was, you couldn't even get access to any airways as a private broadcaster back in the late 60s, early 70s. Do you remember Hauraki, radio Hauraki? Yeah. That was what was called a pirate radio station. They had to go outside the three mile limit to actually broadcast. Yeah. Right. So, when you've got a country that is pressing towards fulfilling most of the 10 planks of communism, and you've got a culture that is set against each other, you know, or one culture is glorified above others. And others have told, you know, which is very, very much on the fascist side. It's, you know, in terms of tyranny, it's more right wing than it is, well, supposedly right wing. They call it right wing. I shouldn't even use the words left and right, but it's closer to the fascistic tyranny than it is to Marxist, you know, or Maoist. It's closer, it's probably closest to the Maoists. Apparently, a lot of the people who, I've seen an article saying that a lot of the people in the administration and the Queen and right of New Zealand company are Maoists, right? That's Mao's Little Red Book. It was around the time that they were, you know, completing their their university studies, etc, which was very, yeah, it's interesting, eh, Aunty? Yeah, it seems to be very prevalent, those ideas. And I've often said, you know, the North Korea of the South Pacific is what they'd like to make us. So anyway, anybody got some questions about that? We'll have a look at rules for radicals in a few minutes, but anybody want to talk about, you know, what we've experienced the last three years and the speed of it and, you know, compare it with what we talked about with the American experience? Anybody got any questions? We can leave those posted up in the chat, aren't they, so people can look at those later. Okay, we'll have a look at Alinsky's rules for radicals. So people have got, you know, have got an idea. It may be because we've got no guns. Yeah, but I mean, the thing is, they were, they, the idea of Marx, of the Communist Manifesto, and that was to encourage violent revolution. They managed to, they've managed to inculcate people with non-violent revolution that has got much worse effects than violent revolution in a way, because it's, it's hurt the minds and souls of people far more than, you know, getting, getting, you know, slugging it out with fists or, you know, shooting each other. In fact, shooting will sometimes bring people to their senses far quicker. Yeah. Oh, stop. Oh, stop, you know. Yeah. With this, it's so, it's so undermining. So this is about rules for radicals. Saul Alinsky, 1971. Hillary Clinton's 1969 political science thesis, There is Only the Fight, refers to an earlier version of Alinsky's training manual in 1946. She wrote Alinsky's first book, Reveille for Radicals, was published. Obama learned his lesson well. I'm proud to see my father's model for organizing has been applied. This is Saul Alinsky, Jr., I guess, wrote this in 1971. So Saul Alinsky was back in 1946. Organizers being applied successfully beyond local community organizing to affect the democratic campaign in 2008. Remember, he became, he became president in 2008. It is a fine tribute to Saul Alinsky as we approach his 100th birthday. Letter from David L. Alinsky, son of the Marxist. Saul Alinsky, Obama helped fund Alinsky Academy, the Woods Fund, a nonprofit on which Obama served as paid director from 1999 to December 2002, provided startup funding and later capital for the Midwest Academy. Obama sat on the Woods Fund board alongside William Ayers, founder of the Weather Underground Domestic Terrorist Organization, the Weather Underground would go, were blowing up buildings in New York quite a lot. Bombers, basically. Midwest described itself as one of the nation's oldest and best known schools for community organizations, citizen organizations, and individuals committed to progressive social change. Midwest teaches Alinsky tactics of community organizing. Hillary Obama and the cult of Alinsky. True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism, Alinsky taught. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within. Alinsky viewed revolution as a slow, patient process. The trick was to penetrate existing institutions such as churches, unions, and political parties. It's absolutely pat down to what's happened to New Zealand. Many leftists view Hillary as a sellout because she claims to hold moderate views on some issues. However, Hillary is simply following Alinsky's counsel to do and say whatever it takes to gain power. Obama is also an Alinskyite. Obama spent years teaching workshops on the Alinsky method. In 1985, he began a four-year stint as a community organizer in Chicago, working for Alinsky, an Alinskyite group called the Developing Communities Project. Camouflage is key to Alinsky organizing. While trying to build coalitions of black churches in Chicago, Obama caught flat for not attending church himself. He became an instant churchgoer. The dedication to Alinsky's book was, Lest We Forget, an over-the-shoulder acknowledgement to the very first radical, from all our legends, mythology and history, the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom, Lucifer. Please, people, this is an article. There's quite a lot more to read. That was just an introduction. I think this one at least is worth looking at. We can then look at political movements. We can look at what looks on the face of it to be community, all good stuff. Look at people standing for parliament, etc., especially parties. We know what happened to unions. They all got the mantra, this is for the good of everybody, this is for the community. Think of your community. It wasn't so much think of your mum and your dad or your little sister or your little brother. It was your community. It was a team of five million. Very, very, very successful in this country. But don't be fooled, please, people, and don't think this is the end of the fight. It's just the beginning because we didn't even know this stuff existed. We certainly didn't realise it would rear its ugly head in New Zealand and that we'd be in for such a struggle. But yeah, we've got some real, real good stuff coming up, really, really good stuff. So that's all I've got to say about cultural Marxism tonight. I hope people get, they learn it, they find out what it is and they can discuss it and they can use that knowledge to call out what's going on because now that the elections are coming up, and this is what I'm saying, if people have to stand as individuals and electorates, they have to be very clear about what their policies are. I've looked at a couple of political, well, I've looked at three now that have come up with new parties, no policies and all about idol worship, you know, of themselves, obviously. So yeah, think very hard about it, guys, because I think you can use your vote, but you've got to encourage, because people have got so, you know, so muzzy headed about political parties now that they're actually, you know, just have fallen into a state of despair, really. Turning out. But it's the party system that's the worm in the apple, guys. What was that? I'm going to have a look at a few of the chats. On this side, I think it's part of the problem, Steph, is in New Zealand that people can't believe there is corruption here. Yeah, and this is why you've got to educate yourselves, right, because once you, you know, start to read about what it looks like, you can actually, you can actually recognise it. Now, Steph says, Liz, can I advertise our union in the workplace? Of course. This is what I received when I asked our team leader. In today's meeting, you mentioned about how you would go about putting up some posters at the hub for unit 8 advertising. I discussed this with the advisor PX strategy and performance team. What a team, right? They explained that only the union that our organisation is assigned to or our collective agreements can advertise here at the hub. I hope this answers your question brought up in today's meeting. Who's wrong, Steph? The law says that you can put up anything about you're a, if you're a member, we could even come into your company and organise physically. Okay, of course you can put up stuff about it. And if he wants to get, if the team leader, the name even makes me shudder, if the team leader wants to get in touch, I'll explain the parts of the law that he's breaking. Because under the health, sorry, under the Employment Relations Act, starting about section 20, all of the rights of unions and all of the rights to organise, even if you've only got one member in a workplace, even if you've got no members in a workplace, but you pretty much really need to have one, because then you can come and, you know, the organisers can come and talk to you, or you can organise yourself, right? They can't stop you. And it's pretty, there's pretty harsh penalties for them if they try. There's a file, oh yeah, okay, so we must just put out that there's a flyer available for printing out. It's on our N8FB, the Number 8 Facebook page and website. The website is called number8.org.nz. Okay, so yes Steve, please do. Let's go further up and see what people have been talking about. Hey Liz, I just had a quick question about the demands in the treason document. How do you know that the people on the elite Maori nation, how do you know that they've taken control of the administration? Because we can see it in He Pua Pua and stuff like that, and what the courts are now saying. For example, because that was addressed to the courts as well, that was addressed to the Te Kanga Community, and they're now saying, you know, that the first law of New Zealand is Te Kanga. Have you heard what I've got to say about that? Yes. Right. Cool, thank you. Oh yeah, I'd say the evidence is right out there. What's Michael Wood done? Oh no, that was the news. You know, and I think the main thing about it is, we're a month of LGBTQ brainwashing, almost. Yeah, yeah. But I'll tell you what, the parents are getting themselves organised. They're getting in and having a go at the boards now. It started off, of course, with the resistance to the jab. Now parents are starting to, you know, get their feet and really understand that they have to get in there and fight for their children. And once we get more information out there and we keep it in the public, you know, keep it in the minds of people that they have to watch out for all of this, that their kids are being brainwashed and they don't even know it, we'll see much, much more action. There's a chat group. I'd encourage you all to go to a chat group called Section 83 in Schools and, you know, get organised with people in your neighbourhood. No, I'm not talking about you have to live in each other's pockets or you have to think the same. But, you know, in terms of just give certainly give you a bit of strength, you know, confidence, right? Because doing something, you know, going down to the school board the first time, especially if you went on your own, my mum always used to be down at the school, as they say, giving the nuns a hard time if she didn't like something that was happening. Because there were five of us in there, kept her busy. But it was kind of like, I don't know if other mothers did it. Probably did, probably did. People didn't sit down, but they didn't, I guess they didn't really have to so much. There was a lot more, yeah, the culture was pretty, well, it was quite different in those days. Yeah, you know, many people have said, I'm glad my parents aren't alive now. System's rotten, voting's a waste of time. Okay, and we've got those and looks like we're all thinking about it. Thank you for that question, Steve. Anybody else? Let's talk about Michael Wood. Let's talk about Michael Wood. What a good idea, Lynette. Okay, do you want to tell us your impression about what's happened with Michael Wood, Lynette? Yeah, Jessie's asking what happened. And Lynette says, just another long piece of shite, but he needs to be fired. Michael Wood, okay, Alicia, do you tell us about it? Michael Wood held an airport, okay. Did anybody see the interview with him? Yes, Liz, I just posted in the chat an article for it as well, if people want to read, have a read. Yeah, now the interesting thing about Michael Wood for us is that he's the Minister of MBIE, right, and he was also the Minister who, remember I talked about exemptions and under Section 191 of the Health and Safety at Work Act, there was no way that they could ever have given out any exemptions because they had no authority to do anything, including insist that workers not attend work, or including, you know, that they weren't allowed to be on their workplace if they weren't vaxxed, including demanding to see vaccine passes, etc., including gathering people's information and putting it on registers. Okay, so he's the Minister in charge of all of that. He was also Minister of Transport. Now, I remember going back to what we just talked about, how they could, one of the planks of the manifesto is for the state to control all communications and transport. That's what they're trying to do, okay, so that all of the little operators are knocked out. So you haven't got any alternative, right, but to hear the propaganda, the state propaganda, or travel on the state transport, which if you don't, you know, you don't toe the line, they'll withdraw your privileges, as they call them. We're going to see a very different view of them in the next couple of weeks, what's the next two messages. Just another on here. So he had these shares, right, had these shares in the airport, Auckland airport, I believe, but there was another, and he's still in Parliament, and he's got a very, very important position in Parliament. Do you, I haven't located the part that deals with the question I asked. I think it's around about, Steve, I think if you go to about section 20, it's around about there, which is the access to workplaces for the unions. Can you have a quick look, if I try when I'm doing a Zoom, it is so, it's like a wet week. Sorry, what did you, what do you want me to look at? We're looking for the access, the rights that the unions have under the Employment Relations Act. Oh, so look up the Employment Relations Act. My 84-year-old dad just went to the Labour conference. What, oh, what? I didn't mention it. I didn't say a word. They can't believe, they can't believe what Labour has become. They just can't believe it. Too far gone, I didn't even go. A straight white man. Well, he's probably, if he's 84, they probably think he's one of the people. He's not into toxic masculinity anymore. He's probably missed all of that, to be honest. I don't think he would even. Well, I was talking to another of the members, and she was saying she's got a darling father too. He's 90 though, but he's quite onto it. But, you know, over the years he's always, you know, I don't know if he's strictly Labour or anything, but, you know, certainly not into political, what would you call it, analysis, and knowing anything about what the hell is going on. So, you know, I hope everybody really studies this stuff, because then they can tell other people. You know, and it is interesting. It's really interesting, because you really will be able to pick it out and critique it. Okay. So, the Employment Relations Act, I've got that, was there a particular section? I think it's about section 20, if you can take it, give us the contents, and then we can access, yeah, there we go, access to workplaces. Thank you. See, we've got our Australian friend there, Steve, who's picked it up straight away. If we can have a look at that. Yeah, I'll go and get that. I did an analysis of this, a legal opinion for the free speech union. Right, I will get Emma to load it up. Get Emma to load it up. Oops, where have we gone? Oh, what's happened? Oh, no, I'm still here. Yeah, yeah, we haven't lost you. Yeah, there we go. So, if you go up to section 20, access to workplaces, a representative for a union is entitled, in accordance with section 28 and 21, to enter a workplace for one or more of the following purposes. Related to the employment of the union's members, so, or a union member. Okay. Purposes related to the union's business. So, the union's business can be organising, it can be putting out leaflets. Purposes related to the health and safety of any employee on the premises who is not a member of the union, if the employee requests assistance of a representative of the union on those matters. So, any employee. So, even if they're not a member of the union, if there's something going on in your workplace and you want to get the union up front and personal, right, well, this is what happened. We had a union member call us last week about being told, this is Christchurch Airport, that she was not to say anything about the woman who feels like, the man who feels like a woman and is cleaning the women's toilets without the men cleaning women's toilets going up. Okay. So, we got into, we got stuck into them. So, this is a health and safety matter. Right. So, we're sorting them out. So, but what is happening there is we've only got one member there, but everybody else is interested now. And we couldn't garner a whole lot of new members. Okay. Because we're going to win on it, that's for sure. They're never going to raise their, you know, they're never going to be pulling any of our members into and trying to tell them what they can and cannot say, especially in the lunchroom. So, it's a free speech matter. It's a health and safety at work matter. And yeah, we've got very, we've got very good laws about this. So, what are the purposes? Participate in bargaining for a collective agreement. Deal with matters concerning the health and safety of union members. Monitor compliance with the operation of a collective agreement. Monitor compliance with this Act. With the authority of an employee, and this is what we tend to do mostly, deal with matters related to an individual employment agreement or a proposed individual employment agreement. So, when you, you know, getting offered an individual, and you want to send it over to, if you've got any worries with it, send it over to Adrienne and, you know, just point out what you're worried about, rather than us having to go through the whole thing. Discuss union business with union members. Seek to recruit employees. So, there we are. So, Steve, section 20, subsection 3b. Okay. As a union member, you can do that, because you're going to be our union rep. Okay. So, all good. Yep. Thank you, Steve, for the question. Are we good now? Are we finished for tonight? Yep. I've been brainwashed for seven decades. It didn't work, though. We're the un-brainwashable, aren't we? We are. It doesn't seem to be working. No. No. Very non-compliant. Yeah. Oh, there we are. See. It's actually, if I'd gone down a bit further, that's exactly what it is. Yep. Excellent. Thank you, Steve. We've always got a weapon in that hand if we need it. Okay. Anybody else? Otherwise, we'll say goodnight. See you well. If, oh, just one thing. If people want to watch more about the Bolsheviks and the, there's a doco on, I think it's on Rumble as well, called Europa, The Last Battle. And the beginning of that talks about the Bolsheviks and the Russian Revolution and all that. It's hard yakka, though, I tell you. Yeah. They killed 65 million Russians in that whole time. Yeah. Just starved a lot of them to death, basically. Is this in Stalin's time? Yeah. And those other guys you're talking about? Yeah. Yep. Well, you know that plank of the Communist Manifesto where it talks about, you know, making the city and the country the same? You had to. They didn't want anybody, basically, who'd had any power keeping it, even if it was for the reason that, you know, well, you know, if you're the boss of the farm or something and you plan when the harvest is going to be taken in and how it's going to be taken in. No. You had to go to the city and somebody from the city had to go and work in, you know, industrial armies. You don't know anything about what the people in the city did. You get sent into a factory, you'll probably chop your hand off with it and you'll make a, you know, a piece of an iron pot, right? Whereas those people then had to go out to the country and didn't know how the hell to plant or anything. That's why people starved. And Mao did the same thing. Actually, the Cultural Revolution in China started in 1966. So, I mean, they well knew what the results of this is. This was, because we're talking about, Stalin, we're talking about 46. We're talking about, yeah, well earlier, 36, 46, when all of that's going on. And then you get to 66 and Mao does it all over again. And they think, and they act like they're gods. You know, they're always boasting about, you know, they're doing everything. And what's his name in North Korea? 300 pounds of evil and people starving to death in Korea. Right? They're supposed to be, they've taken the Bible and replaced, taken the New Testament, replaced Jesus Christ's name with the Kim family. Oh, marvellous. When was China not under communist rule? They didn't come under communist rule until 1947. After the war, they had their long march, I think it was. Yeah, it's, we sort of think, we sort of think to ourselves that all of this is in the long distance past. It's not. No. If you want a bit of a giggle, Greg Murphy, the motor racing guy, with Sean Plunkett talking about the Maori signage. I saw it last week and I didn't watch it because I thought he was probably some woke person that's, but he isn't. Sean's interviewing who? Greg Murphy, the motor racing guy. About the Maori road signs. Yeah, it's good. It's good. I thought Greg might be, yeah, some woke. Yeah. I mean, of course, of course. I mean, Rimiwera, every street in Rimiwera has got Maori road signs. There's very, I can't think of a Highland, Seaview Road, Highland Road, there's a few, but the great majority are Maori. But people know that because they've lived their years and everybody is used to that. It's not all the usual stuff. You use something called Hamilton and then you suddenly call it what? Something else. Yeah. Something like that. Yeah. Yeah, he said not to make life easier, it's to make it. No, exactly. He said it's actually a safety issue. Could be distracting, he reckoned. Well, I suppose they can, you know, the carbon footprints. Well, see, because, you know, people get to Auckland and they don't know where else to go. They'll be driving around trying to find where they're going. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. We do need often a bit of lightness after all this. Yeah. Yeah. No, makes a very good point. Yeah. But just guys, remember, we're winning. We won. Just a matter of. Oh, OK. Thanks, Shelley. Is that the one? Of course, it's a safety issue. They want to kill us off anyway. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Let's be real. But laughing is always a good medicine too. Yeah. The GPS is bugging. I was looking for some place over and I've got a lock up and I was looking for, when I came over, I usually was driven there, but I had to drive there myself. So I put the Google map on and got to a stream. It was on the other side of the stream. No bridge. It's just out in Henderson. But at least it was speaking a language to me that I knew. I'm just going to go and grab a clip from Jimmy Dore on Facebook. That's very funny as well that someone sent me. OK, great. I'll just mute myself because it'll make a noise as soon as I open it up. But yeah, it's a giggle. Definitely. OK, that's cool. Yeah. Yeah. They needed a different GPS called a God positioning system. They certainly do. We all do need that one. We all need that one, Alicia. Yeah, I have sat in my car sometimes and said, I can't work this out. God, can you just tell me? Here we go. Ian's got something she's going to show us. Oh, do you want me to play it? Yeah, let's have a look. Is it just a short one? Yeah, I think it is pretty short. Yeah. OK, hang on. Before Covid, do your own research. Oops, that's really funny. Yeah, I'll just screen share once I wrangle my computer. Hopefully, you guys can hear it. Not like that though. We'll try to get informed about that. Other people shame them. They would say, please tell me you're not going to do your own research. You've heard people say that. Please don't do your own research. You know, before Covid, doing your own research used to be called reading. Now you're shaming me for reading? At the behest of Big Pharma? It's like I woke up in the middle of a Bill Hicks bit. Well, looks like we got ourselves a reader. Tell me, boy, what you reading for? Don't you know everything that needs to be read has already been read by a smart person? That's how much people internalize the propaganda for Big Pharma, was that they would be anti-intellectual enough to shame people for reading while they're wagging their finger at them for doing it. You would never shame people for trying to get informed, no matter what other subject it was, no matter how unimportant. Like if I say, I'm going to go buy a car. Don't look into it. Well, how will I know which car to get? Ask the salesman. He's the expert. What are you, Henry Ford? It reminds me, I told you about the time I was down at the Waiheke Wharf and we couldn't get on the boat because it was too full. I think it was because they kept losing staff all the time because they'd got jabbed. We were all waking one morning and the doctor was raving on because he was supposed to be getting over to town and I said, well, if they hadn't jabbed everybody, we'd have more staff. Then he turned on me and, you know, are you a doctor then? He didn't even know anybody had died from having the vaccine. This was after roaring in. Anybody that read anything would have known. Actually, I think in one of those articles that you posted, there's also the idea of dumbing down, so it becomes very cool not to learn anything. So the university students were told that, you know, it's a capitalist trick, you know, to learn anything. So don't study. Don't take exams. Because the thing is that university is still a good place if you just get the reading lists and ignore the propaganda. Because you can always, I mean, since the internet, I think that's really what tripped them up. And the narcissism. Yes, yes, yeah. Well, you know, the idea that you would say to people, you don't know anything because you haven't got a degree in it. It's just, you know, so narcissistic. Or you can't study that because it doesn't fit our agenda. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. They're not a reader. They're getting paid out of the public purse. Which is, of course, coming out of taxes, which is, of course, coming out of labour. Even though us retired people still get taxed on our pensions. Terrible. We're supposed to be all saved. Anyway, you can stop that, Liz, at least for yourself. What's that, Jess? Surely you can stop that, at least for yourself. Well, they, yeah, I have had a go, but they decided no, no, they were still going to tax me. And they pay it direct. It's not as if I get it off somebody and then I can not pay the tax on it. This is the thing with, under the, what do you call it, you know, the Wages Protection Act. There's a section in there that says if you work for a government department, they can pay you otherwise than in cash. And, of course, they can take taxes out of it. Whereas if, you know, there is a rule in the section of the Act that says you must be paid in cash if you ask for it. But you're not working for the government. You are a beneficiary. Yeah, but you're not, actually, because what we're going to find out from the analysis of, and this is how the treason documents come in very, very handy. You're going to find out that you're working, you're on a ship, and they're captains and they're the officers, and it's like a galley slave, right. So you don't actually, they give you your rations, but they're going to take some back just so you remember that they can do it, right. And they can take the whole lot if they want, right, because they're in charge. That's what the model is. That's what maritime law is all intended to do, to keep the galley slaves rowing. You can also think of this as cargo manifest. Yeah, so, you know, I mean, practically, you've always got to think practical. You can have a whole lot of theories about, well, they shouldn't be doing stuff, but practically, how are we going to stop them? Sometimes, and this is what we're doing, we're going to court and stopping them, because they have to obey the law, and they've got to obey the law, and they've got to obey the law. And this is what we're doing. We're going to court and stopping them, because they have to obey the law. Yeah, right. Okay. Yeah, because they're just going to do what they want even more with social credit and CBD. Oh, hell yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. So we'll get to them before they get to us. Don't worry, Jess. Thanks. Okay, and Elon Musk is a shill, apparently, according to Kim Kim. Anyway, guys, I think we've had our fill tonight. So we'll see you on Friday. Might have some more news for you guys then. Awesome. Thanks, Liz. That'll be exciting. You might find out some more about Christchurch airport, buddy. What happened with Christchurch? Oh, is that with... Oh, this is where they're trying to brainwash people into the normality of trans, you know, trans rules the world, and everybody loves them. Very good. Awesome. Okay, everybody. Thank you, Liz. That's fantastic. Thank you very much, Emma. And we will see you all Friday. Yep. See you then. Tell your friends all about us and come Yep. See you then. Tell your friends all about us and come and join us. Yeah, yeah, that's for sure. And join the union. Go in the union. Definitely. As a supporter, even if you're not working or retired. Yeah, because, you know, there's all sorts of ways we're working to make life better for the community. That was one of the things that I looked at when I was putting the union together. It was one of the original parts that was in the collective that I adapted. And I didn't really like it too much because I thought it was like, it sounds like social engineering to me. And in the wrong hands it is, actually. So, you know, it came out. It's not in our union principles anymore. But it's a fact. You want to make your life good and inside and outside work. But our first duty is to the workplace. Yep. Yeah. Okay. Lovely. Good night. Thanks, everyone. See you Friday.
