Category: Forward thinking
Principles over Compliance -Novak Djokovic
A guide towards self reliance and resilience
It became apparent during the covid years that governments aren’t nessessily your friend and they have influence in a lot of places.
- Kids were pushed out of sports, because the funding from the Sports Foundation became ‘conditional’.
- Churches started turning away the unvaccinated, because they figured they would attract more people, if ‘they’ weren’t there.
- People were mandated out of their jobs
- Schools were closed at the drop of a hat with little or no notice.
- Nationwide chain stores followed government ‘guidelines’ without question. (Small private stores had various reactions)
This was all done in the name of ‘stopping’ the virus, on the lie that the vaccine stops transmission. (it doesn’t and never did) and that it’s for your health and your own good.
To this day, there is no acknowledgement of any wrongdoing on their part.
This has led me to working towards reducing any reliance on organisations that are prone to government whims of the day, to lesson the risk of future ‘interference’.
It also means I have no real interest in this years general election, because it’s now very apparent that politics are not the answer to NZ’s problems.
If you an older person, it’s easier to transition to a more resilient lifestyle, simply because you only need to think in terms of how things were done in the 1980’s before EFTPOS, computers, Facebook, and all that other modern stuff which can be manipulated by a malign organisation.
Use Cash
- Cash is King
- Any electronic transactions are traceable and prone to ‘cancellations’ as they do in China.
Social media
- Facebook, Google, etc may enhance your life, but they can be used against you. Facebook in particular will block or ‘censor’ posts that they don’t agree with.
- I no longer have any private info on facebook, and only use it for intelligence gathering.
- If you are a social person, you could just talk to people directly like they did in the old days…
Cell phones..
- I survived the 1980’s without one. These are prone to getting ’emergency’ alerts for non-existent emergencies.
- They are also easily trackable.
- You can use a faraday cage and a VPN, but the easiest way is not have a phone at all.
- You could use a non smart phone, or an outdated model that isn’t supported anymore.
- or leave the phone at home and treat it like a landline.
https://uncoffined.wordpress.com/2022/05/20/going-phoneless/
Crime
This is quietly getting worse, but gets downplayed because it’s election year.. (thats what happens when the media get bribed by the government)
Don’t be a victim, and don’t think like one. A victim attitude just invites trouble.
We installed security camera’s etc, just prior to the first lockdown for peace of mind.
Food
Inflations going to make this expensive, but foods something you cant go without. Grow a garden. it’s hard work at first and it took ages before I got it working well. There’s something satisfying about eating stuff out of your own garden. Also stock up on preservable food
Coping with no electricity
We installed a fireplace which takes care of cooking and heating.
We also have a 12 Volt system in the house which takes care of lights and USB chargers. We even have a car stereo for entertainment.
Temporary power for the fridge is from a petrol generator. The idea here is to run it for several hours a day until the fridge is empty, then live on our other food reserves if we need to.
Coping with no water
This is a potential issue because of the ongoing political battle’s over the ‘ownership’ of water.
To get around this, we are collecting rain water off our roof, and storing it in several tanks.
We have also noted where the nearest creek is, in case we run short.
Transport
We are about as cheap as we can get now with 2 old small cars, and a few small motorcycles
Debt
Get rid of it if you can. As inflation goes up, so will interest rates, which will eat into your budget.
https://uncoffined.wordpress.com/2022/10/16/so-where-to-now/
I’ll finish with a meme..
Who’s getting your vote for Freedom in the 2023 NZ elections?
All of the MPs in Parliament refused to even talk to the Wellington anti mandate protesters, even thou 30% of the population supported them..
I mention that in order to illustrate that politic’s are not a solution to the problems in New Zealand. (There has to be a change in the culture).
The most freedom thinking of those parties in parliament is the ACT party (I supported them at the 2020 elections)
ACT apparently stood for low flat tax, private schools, Freedom of speech, and personal responsibility, at least that’s what their advertising said in 2020.
In 2021, about a year later, I was with a ‘Freedom and Rights Coalition’ event, protesting for freedom…
The following is my experiences with the ACT party, but it could easily apply to any main stream political party.
The leader of the ACT party, David Seymour is first and foremost a salesman, he’s going to tell you what he thinks you want to hear.
He might actually privately believe in freedom and I’ve heard some very good stuff from ACT party members in the past, but pragmatism and staying in Parliament overrides any idealism.
In 2020, He ran a very successful election campaign and went from just one MP to 10 MP’s.
ACT theory on politics is Canadian based -David Seymour lived there at one point and it seems their candidates go thru a ‘school of politics’ training program within the ACT party.
Politics according to ACT is largely a game. It’s likened to three people deciding how to spend $2. Any of the two can form a majority and screw over the third. You can’t predict which two will do this.
The key to winning for them, is to get a bigger % of voters for a better chance of been in government, therefore ACT targets disaffected groups to get those %’s up.
The gun lobby crowd was one of these disaffected groups after the Christchurch massacre. (ACT did nothing for them, once they got their vote, and probably never intended to.)
When campaigning for the election, they concentrate their efforts on persuadable people only. There is no point talking to a hard-line opposing party member -you will just make them angry and then they work against you.
ACT are mostly after the Party vote.
Only David Seymour goes for the candidate vote. David has always won the Epsom seat because ACT’s core philosophies are a natural fit for the people in the area. Other parties have thrown huge resources into removing David to no avail in the past.
Any other ACT candidate who goes for the candidate vote risks splitting the vote and letting the Labour candidate win. It also pisses off the National party, who is their only natural coalition partner.
In theory, people vote for policies, but actually they don’t. They vote for who gives them a good vibe.
Feelings not policies, drive voters.
Which basically means they don’t nessessarilly have an opinion based of facts on where the countries going or anything…
To summarise the situation…
Please bear in mind that politics will not solve the problems NZ has now, we need to change it’s culture.
Also, don’t expect a magical charismatic person to turn up and fix everything -that only happens in the movies.
Freedom Options are
New Conservative Party
also on Facebook (27,000 followers)
-Basic Christian values, they are a christian community that happens to have a political arm.
– Their policies are basically a ‘feel good’ word salad, so it’s hard to work out their policies
-Leighton Baker was a former leader who was arrested at the Wellington protest (I see this as a complement)
Vision Party
-Also on Facebook (7500 followers)
-Hannah Tamaki’s party
-Christian values
Democracy NZ
also on Facebook (6,000 followers)
Their leader is Matt King who left the National party over the mandates.
He needs to win his seat or get 5% of the party vote.
Their Climate Policy is compromised in order to get the cities on-board (Matt admitted this at a recent meeting)
It’s not likely he will join any Umbrella party.
New Nation party
– on Facebook (22,000 followers)
-I haven’t heard much about them until I researched them on Facebook.
-They have straightup no nonsense policies that don’t beat around the bush.
-They recently left the ‘Umbrella’ party (explained below) for some reason.
NZ Outdoors and Freedom party https://outdoorsparty.co.nz/
-Very active on Facebook (28,000 followers)
-Sue Grey , the well known lawyer was a co-leader.
Yes-Aotearoa party
-On Facebook (91 followers)
Appears to be some sort of ‘feel good’ party going by their policies, likely to believe in Co-Governance.
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The candidate vote will be a waste of time in most electorates, because any well known incumbent is likely to win.
The party vote will be very important, as we need at least 5% to get any representation.
Umbrella parties
Several of the smaller parties are going to ‘pool’ their party vote into one group which gives them a much greater chance of getting the all important 5% of the PARTY vote.
FreedomsNZ umbrella party
https://www.freedomsnz.org.nz/
The following parties are part of the freedoms NZ Umbrella party.
- Vision Party
- NZ Outdoors and Freedom party
- Yes Aotearoa Party
Post script
I should point out not all the candidates in the last election were soulless people
There were broadly two types of candidates
Those who want to win….
Labour candidate -team of 5 million ra,ra ra
National’s candidate -vote for me and I’ll spend lots of money on roads or something..
Green candidate -can’t honestly remember what they said, but it had a feel good vibe to it…
Those who have something to say….
Outdoors Party, NZ conservative, Advance NZ, etc
These candidates typically speak with conviction, passion and sincerity, and tell us us why they were standing. They tended to be ‘salt of the earth’ types.
Some reminders as to why it’s important to vote…
Uncoffined 
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