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Here in New Zealand, we became a hermit kingdon early in 2020, and have mostly kep covid out of the community thus far. The downside to that is most of us have had no exposure thus far, but the government has coerced over 90% of over 12's fully vaxed, boostering away, and our 5 to 12s about to get sucked in too. We are at the coal face of another issue here, as our government went into a partnership with the WEF to roll out the worlds first AI system integration throughout our governmental institutions, which was started in 2019, and now fully operating here. Since we have so many that have believed the propaganda, we have had many mandates, and universal vaccine passport adoption and use, so the data will be flowing thick and fast through the vast new data centres that have been built by google recently in Auckland and elsewhere. We are on summer break here until the end of january, being in the southern hemisphere, and our Prime minister (the posterchild of the WEF Young leaders) is getting married. However, I anticipate there will be a renewed campaign in february to push in for mandated 100% vax coming very soon. Omicron knocking at the border in quarrantine, hopefully it leaks out into the community very soon !!

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I’m so sorry to say (NZ is lovely), that your country is no longer a partner to the 5 eyes (Intelligence partnership between Australia, UK, Canada &US) because of Jacinda Ardern’s insistence on keeping excellent contacts with the CCP. From that point on, NZ was on a slippery slope.

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Yes, there's another bull in a china shop for us, over the years, we have created a dangerous stategic dependence on China, particularly as our agricultural export is such a high proportion of our GDP, and large scale foreign investment in our primary land assets sold to overseas interests (not just chinese). Greedy eyes have long been cast over our nation here, and that has only been heightened since Zealandia was classified as a vast submerged continent, of which NZ and New Caledonia / Vanuatu are the only parts with land. It does however vastly expand NZ's exclusive economic zone. Yes, the 5 eyes, though there was some backlash against that when NZ wouldn't join our partners in statements condemning China's human rights. I think that we are all on a slippery slope now, but it seems here we are at the forefront of it all !

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Here is the WEF white paper, Reimagining regulation for the age of AI, New Zealand pilot project https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Reimagining_Regulation_Age_AI_2020.pdf

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