Rashbrooke’s Indifference to Rule of Law and Justice

Geoff Rashbrooke, one of the actuaries advising the Fiji National Provident Fund in 2011, has strangely resurfaced in Fiji (Fiji Times article August 10, 2024) alleging that “any degree of reinstatement of former pensions by the FNPF… could only be at the expense of ordinary members”.

Rashbrooke glosses over all the illegality with which the Bainimarama Government broke the lawful contracts of the 2012 Pensioners turning their retirement into a time of uncertainty, emotional pain and financial loss for their families and dependents.

He totally ignores the illegal Decree throwing out the Burness case already being heard in court, thereby denying the 2012 Pensioners their basic international human right to go to court with their just grievance.

Let us be clear that the 2012 Pensioners are simply asserting the legality of the contracts offered by FNPF itself on Forms 9-OP, and hence the legal (and moral) obligation on the FNPF to abide by the terms, then in 2012 and today.

If Rashbrooke was either in 2011 or 2024 giving his actuarial advice to FNPF on what the pension rates should be for those who were retiring in future, no one would give a hoot.  But that is not the case here: he is giving advice on 2012 pensions already agreed to by FNPF and being paid.

It is appalling that Rashbrooke selectively ignores the 2011 final advice given to FNPF by senior actuaries Tomkins and Mason (of the company Promontory) that their recommendations for reduced pension rates were for future retirees, and not those already on pensions (I refer to them as the 2012 Pensioners) which they stated would be “difficult” to reduce under contract law. 

If Rashbrooke’s ill-considered advice supporting the consequences of the Bainimarama regime’s illegal breach of contracts of the 2012 Pensioners’ contracts is accepted by FNPF, it would also undermine the Coalition Government’s current efforts to restore Fiji’s broader Rule of Law undermined by the cancers left by the Bainimarama Regime and Government. 

Sadly, Rashbrooke in 2024 is displaying the same contempt for Fiji’s rule of law that he had in 2011, a contempt that would never be tolerated in his current country of residence, New Zealand or original home United Kingdom.

This article rebuts Rashbrooke’s allegations, devious and warped reasoning.

It also highlights some FNPF facts on the collapsed “Pension Take Up Rates” (Graph 1 below) and reality of declining numbers of pensioners (Graph 2 below), that Rashbrooke selectively and conveniently chooses to ignore in 2024, because they do not fit his agenda and “advice” to FNPF.

The legal contract Rashbrooke does not understand

I remind that Rashbrooke’s advice to FNPF in his 2024 Fiji Times article: 

1. refers to that very small group of 2012 Pensioners who had already accepted contracts on the 9-OP forms they signed and were already receiving pensions which had been freely offered by FNPF itself;

2.  The 9-OP forms specified the dollar amounts based on percentages determined by the lawfully elected Government of Fiji, led then by Sitiveni Rabuka (who is also Prime Minister today). These percentages were approved also by the Opposition Parties and their representatives in both Lower and Upper Houses of the Fiji Parliament, and therefore made law;

3. The 9-OP forms guaranteed that these 2012 Pensioners would receive these pensions (dollar amounts stated) until they passed away;

4.  The 9-OP forms stated clearly that once the pensioners had signed up on the 9-OP forms, they could not change the terms. i.e in fairness, neither should FNPF be able to do so, but it did.

Why does Geoff Rashbrooke not understand or respect the legal and moral basis of the 4 statements above, together representing the 2012 Pensioners basic human right to property, promised in a lawful contract, by the largest publicly owned financial institution in Fiji, bigger than all the banks put together?

Why does Rashbrooke choose to ignore the fact that Fiji’s Minister of Finance (Professor Biman Prasad) and the Coalition Government have fully recognized the illegality of the reduction of the 2012 pensions and made partial reparation using Fiji taxpayers’ funds?

Rashbrooke’s 2012 Article: trashing Fiji law

To grasp the extent of Rashbrooke’s biased and warped thinking, the public should read his 2012 presentation to an International Actuaries Association event in Hong Kong, available here:

http://www.actuaries.org/HongKong2012/Papers/MBR12_Rashbrooke.pdf

Rashbrooke acknowledged in his 2012 paper that a 2012 Pensioner (he did not name David Burness) had a legal case in court for breach of contract, but he honestly admitted “This is a legal argument and one on which the author is not qualified to give a definitive opinion.”  Why did Rashbrooke leave out these key words from his 2024 Fiji Times article?

Instead Rashbrooke went on to falsely allege in his 2012 Paper that because “the pensions have been returned without penalty and the pensioners have enjoyed much better than average investment returns, then a legal challenge was not considered likely to succeed.”  

This legal opinion was from an actuary who has just admitted that he was not qualified to give a definitive opinion on the legality of the case. 

Furthermore, Rashbrooke’s phrase “the pensions have been returned without penalty” would be laughable were the consequences not so painful for those 2012 Pensioners given a lump sum instead of their pensions for life, as I have demonstrated in my earlier Fiji Times article (July 6, 2024).

Rashbrooke then alleges in his 2024 Fiji Times article that “In relation to the assertion that pensioner were protected by contract, entitlements look to have arisen through statute, not business transactions. A legal case would seem unlikely to succeed.” Rashbrooke does not ask himself the logical question: why would the Bainimarama Regime impose a Decree to stop the 2012 Pensioners’ legal case being heard in court, if it was “unlikely to succeed”? 

Rashbrooke’s questionable and euphemistic thinking can be seen in the way he describes the draconian Decree stopping the legal case. He airily stated  “The new law provides protections against future legal challenge, but that was a matter of expedition [sic] rather than any concern about the legal foundation.”.

Rashbrooke’s warped thinking is evident when he suggests “Conceptually, it would have had the same effect had the FNPF established a new entity for members and transferred to it the member balances and the required solvency margin. This would have left the current pensioners to make their own arrangements for dealing with the insolvency.” 

How incredible that Rashbrooke was theorising that FNPF could just as well have created a new entity to which would be transferred all of the “member balances and the required solvency margin” while leaving the 2012 Pensioners to deal with the remaining “insolvency“? i.e. high and dry.

How dare Rashbrooke allege that pensioners’ legal case against FNPF’s breach of the 9-OP contracts were mere “assertions” and based on mere “statutes” not “business transactions”? Is Rashbrooke suggesting to the Fiji public that “business transactions” should be superior to Fiji’s “statutes” (laws)? 

How dare Rashbrooke ignore that the original “statutes” (or laws set by legislature) setting the pension rates were decided by the highest authority in Fiji- the democratically elected Sitiveni Rabuka Government in 1998, and made law by the unanimous vote of the Fiji Parliament (Lower and Upper Houses, Government and Opposition)?

Instead of acknowledging the sacred authority of the Fiji Parliament and its laws (statutes), Rashbrooke 12 years later again gives his opinions why an illegal Bainimarama Regime and the FNPF Board were correct in illegally breaking the contracts of the 2012 Pensioners and reducing their pensions or forcing them to take away “a lump sum”, both resulting  in a large financial loss for them. 

Rashbrooke is once more callously arguing that FNPF should not today be recompensing these 2012 Pensioners.

We need not debate the following

We are not debating whether some of the 2012 Pensioners were doing well (as some were) but some were also dying early just as many pensioners are doing today.  But that was the “luck of the draw” that FNPF had itself created and offered, not any of the pensioners’ making.

We are not debating whether the FNPF could sustain the 2012 Pensions. They could.  Even Rashbrooke acknowledges that ILO advice in 2011 had said they could. 

Pensioner Jackson Mar’s numerous detailed submissions over the last twelve years have clearly established that FNPF had more than adequate funds for the liability, to which the FNPF management have never bothered to answer (shame on them).

Pensioner Ross McDonald had even pointed out in a letter (14 June 2011) to CEO Aisake Taito that Section 10 of the FNPF Act Cap 219 clearly stated  that “If the Fund is, at any time, unable to pay any sum which is required to be paid under the provisions of this Act, the sum required shall be advanced to the Fund by the Government and the Fund shall, as soon as practicable, repay to the Government the sums so advanced.”   

CEO Aisake Taito had declined to reply to this legitimate observation. So much for FNPF’s annual boasts of being accountable and transparent to Members.

Rashbrooke in his 2012 paper also acknowledged that this ultimate Government guarantee of FNPF was in the legislation but observed “this section has never been called on or otherwise tested.”  

But then Rashbrooke outrageously asserted that “In the event that it became apparent that a claim might be made in circumstances where the advance could not be repaid, it is not unreasonable to assume the government would not accept this outcome”. 

Why on earth should Rashbrooke imply likely dishonesty on the part of the Fiji Government, especially given that it has totally controlled the FNPF Board since inception.

We note also that the Fiji Government has also derived massive benefits from FNPF such as generous low interest loans on tap (that comprise a large chunk of Fiji’s Public Debt) or crucial loans to key enterprises like FSC, FDB and Fiji Airways when they were struggling. The Fiji Government has never reneged on its financial guarantees, as Rashbrooke alleges without evidence that it might.

The Criminal Illegality that Rashbrooke ignores

While Rashbrooke is making many allegations that the 2012 reduction of FNPF pensions (rates and dollars) were justified, he very conveniently ignores the unpleasant draconian facts and “elephants in the room” staring into his face:

(a) He totally ignores that the 2012 reduction of pensions and “breach of contract” was instigated by the illegal Bainimarama Regime which had overthrown the democratically elected lawful government of the late Laisenia Qarase (possibly to stop prosecution of some powerful individuals for the deaths of fie CRW soldiers in military custody); 

(b) Rashbrooke totally ignores that the legal Burness case which was being heard by the judiciary was then thrown out by the illegal Decrees of this same illegal Bainimarama Regime, thereby

(c) Rashbrooke totally ignores that these 2012 Pensioners were denied their basic international human right to go to court for a perceived grievance (and that many of them have died between 2012 and today, including the late David Burness and his wife Talei).

If Rashbrooke were to ignore (a), (b) and (c) above in New Zealand or UK I suspect that this professional reputation would be in tatters. 

Rashbrooke merely noted in his 2012 Hong Kong article that “one pensioner” (David Burness is not named) had “made application to the High Court in a test case pleading that his human rights would be violated should the government attempt to change the rules. The Court did not immediately dismiss the case but granted the plaintiffs time to better develop pleadings.” 

Rashbrooke then conveniently ignores that the Bainimarama Regime had thrown out the Burness legal case by merely stating in his 2012 article “The new law provides protections against future legal challenge, but that was a matter of expedition [sic) rather than any concern about the legal foundation.” One presumes that Rashbrooke meant “expediency” in his 2012 article. 

Rashbrooke clearly thinks that he can get away with his kind of nonsense in Fiji, which is currently agonizing on how to resolve the constitutional mess in the rule of law left to the elected Coalition Government by the previous Bainimarama Government.

Rashbrooke ignores the collapse of the Pension Take Up Rate

Rashbrooke’s selective use of statistics is further demonstrated by his refusal in 2024 to continue a an extremely important graph that he had in his 2012 paper for the Actuaries event in Hong Kong, for the “Pension Take Up Rate”.

This graph showed clearly that the  “Pension Take Up Rate” had dramatically declined from a high of 37% of those retiring in 2004 to just above 15% in 2011.

All actuaries’ reports have stated that any decline in the Pension Take Up Rate made it easier to fund the pensions even at the rates prevailing in 2011.

But my Graph 1 here shows that since 2011, the Pension Take Up Rate has been falling even further down to below 5% for the last five years.

Why then did Rashbrooke not comment in his 2024 Fiji Times article that the Pension Take Up Rate has collapsed from 15% in 2011 to 3.7% in 2023?

How appalling that neither has FNPF ever expressed concern that while FNPF is supposed to be a “Pension” Fund, more than 96% of the retirees are not taking the pension option but the lump sum.

How appalling that the FNPF Annual Reports no longer give the graph that I give here, which they used to give in earlier Annual Reports?  Who made that decision to leave out this graph from the Annual Report? Did any of the Board Members object?

Rashbrooke also refuses to acknowledge that the numbers of pensioners has not been increasing dangerously as the fearmongers had alleged in 2011. In fact the number of pensioners had dropped dramatically in 2012. It has dropped even further in 2023 and there is little prospect of it increasing dramatically into the future.

But pointing out these two salient negative trends would not suit Rashbrooke’s fearmongering narrative that the FNPF should not pay the reparations to the 2012 Pensioners.

It is dismaying that the new FNPF Board also declines to ensure that such important statistics and graphs are clearly presented in the Annual Reports, while any amount of useless information and colourful photos occupy much of the space.

Any FNPF views on Rashbrooke?

To any outside observer, it would seem that actuarial expert Rashbrooke is trying to curry favour with FNPF management and Board by arguing against any restitution to the 2012 Pensioners.

I call on the Chairman of the FNPF Board (Mr Daksesh Patel and new members Adish Naidu, Attar Singh, Joweli Taoi and Ms Susie Waqabaravi) and the FNPF Management to inform the Fiji public whether 

(a) they were aware of Rashbrooke’s intended article for Fiji Times

(b) whether they quietly agreed (wink and a nod) to let him go ahead, despite the sensitivity of the issues currently under consideration by the FNPF Board and the Minister of Finance.

I remind the FNPF Board of the many decent and responsible Fiji citizens among the 2012 Pensioners who have publicly requested justice. They include Jackson Mar, Ross McDonald, Isake Komailevuka, Professor Vijay Naidu, Dr Esther Williams, Dewan Chand, Amraiya Naidu, Rishi Ram, Daniel Fatiaki. and many others.  Sadly, many have passed away already without justice being done to them and their families ((like the brave late David Burness and his late wife Talei). 

Hope for Rule of Law in Fiji

Thankfully, there is some hope that the rule of law will be fully restored in Fiji with full justice delivered to the 2012 Pensioners.

It is serendipity that the current Prime Minister (Sitiveni Rabuka) is the same person under whose Government the original FNPF statutes were passed (whatever may be Rashbrooke’s apparent indifference to “statutes”). Rabuka could come full circle and re-establish those pensioners rights which his Government had determined twenty five years ago.

It is not serendipity that the FNPF is in a strong financial position today, because illegally reducing the 2012 Pensions over the last thirteen years has put hundreds of millions of dollars stolen from the 2012 Pensioners into its kitty all accumulating at compound interest to more than $800 millions today, as Jackson Mar has amply pointed out.

Sadly, the public have never held to account that unethical 2012 FNPF Board and especially its Chairman then whose business links would probably not bear looking into for possible conflicts of interest with the Bainimarama Regime and donations to the Fiji First Party.

But I am sure that the FNPF Board today will have the full support of the Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister (Professor Biman Prasad), if they were to try to correct this terrible historical blot on FNPF’s  reputation left by a previous unprincipled FNPF Board and management. 

The Minister of Finance has already proven his good will and compassion by using taxpayers’ funds to restore the pensions from 1 August 2024 of those who had been forced to accept lower amounts in 2012. There is more to be done for those who had been forced to take lump sums also implying even larger losses for them. Of course, there is also the need to restore the “back pay” for both groups of 2012 pensioners.

May I also suggest that current FNPF Members demand at the next talkfest organized by FNPF Management around the country, that at least 3 members of the FNPF Board be elected by them. The Board Members should also be totally accountable only for the Members’ interests as had been recommended in 2011 by the Promontory Report to FNPF, but conveniently ignored by all FNPF Boards and Governments since then.

Disclosure: Professor Wadan Narsey is one of the 2012 Pensioners and he also helped Dr Shaista Shameem in 2012 to prepare the David Burness case, which was thrown out by an illegal Bainimarama Regime Decree.

The devastating betrayal of Fiji’s aged pensioners by the FNPF Board members and Coupe Administrators

There are a number of what are commonly called Cock Ups in the attached publication, this old man will list a few, feel free to add your observations in the comments section. Naturally, I do not expect all to agree:

The Minister for Finance needs a proofreader because having said the payments will not be backdated, it then states that they will be paid from August 2014.

It is a fact and common knowledge that the management ( Including Aisake Taito) and Board of FNPF including our old friend “Tom” who should have known better, committed an illegal act by reducing payment of pensions to existing pensioners, they illegally coerced pensioners either to accept a lower pension structure or to take part or all of their retained funds.

It is also a fact that the illegal act was legalised by a government that was elected after a questionable constitution was imposed on the nation in 2013 by the leader of the 2006 Coupe who claimed he would uphold the 1997 constitution.

The current actions by the Minister for Finance and government in selective compensation of surviving pensioners smack of bias and lack of testicular strength in the office making the decisions.

Firstly the nation’s taxpayers should not burdened with the repayment of any part of the monies misappropriated by FNPF. The Fund has prospered using those monies and it should be the Fund that compensates the pensioners they cheated.

Secondly, the Minister for Finance and the government may be putting at risk the pensioners they are making payments to effective August 2024. Since it could be argued by FNPF in any future litigation, that those pensioners had accepted a settlement from the government, and that FNPF no longer had any liability to settle.

Finally, be a man SLR, instruct FNPF to do the right thing, and give the overburdened taxpayers a break.

There are a number of what are commonly called Cock Ups in the recent combined publication by the Government and FNPF, this old man will list a few, feel free to add your observations in the comments section. Naturally, I do not expect all to agree:

1. The Minister for Finance needs a proofreader because having said the payments will not be backdated, it then states that they will be paid from August 2014.
2. It is a fact and common knowledge that the management ( Including Aisake Taito) and Board of FNPF including our old friend “Tom” who should have known better, committed an illegal act by reducing payment of pensions to existing pensioners, they illegally coerced pensioners either to accept a lower pension structure or to take part or all of their retained funds. 
3. It is also a fact that the illegal act was legalised by a government that was elected after a questionable constitution was imposed on the nation in 2013 by the leader of the 2006 Coupe who claimed he would uphold the 1997 constitution.
4. The current actions by the Minister for Finance and government in selective compensation of surviving pensioners smack of bias and lack of testicular strength in the office making the decisions. 
5. Firstly the nation’s taxpayers should not burdened with the repayment of any part of the monies misappropriated by FNPF. The Fund has prospered using those monies and it should be the Fund that compensates the pensioners they cheated.
6. Secondly, the Minister for Finance and the government may be putting at risk the pensioners they are making payments to effective August 2024. Since it could be argued by FNPF in any future litigation, that those pensioners had accepted a settlement from the government, and that FNPF no longer had any liability to settle.
7. Finally, be a man SLR, and instruct FNPF to do the right thing, and give the overburdened taxpayers a break.

The Saga of Christopher Pryde continues, this grub who together with ex-Solicitor General Sharvada Sharma not only worked enthusiastically to deprive Fiji Pensioners of their legitimate pensions they also demanded the pensioners pay costs at the initial hearing before Justice Predeep Hettiarcchi.

Christopher Pryde has now enlisted his friend and fellow boot licker, Graham Davis who also danced enthusiastically for 6 years to any questionable tune Sayed-Khaiyum played.

Graham Davis King Grub of Grubsheet Feejee, is now vigorously waving a banner of merit for his good friend Pryde in the hope they can extract millions of dollars in compensation from the confused government of Sitiveni Rabuka.

History will reflect that Christopher Pryde supported political interference in the nation’s legal system

A totally independent and fair judicial system is the lifeblood of any nation, currently Fiji may benefit from a blood transfusion.

HISTORY:

Australian judges not surprised at Fiji allegations

Updated August 18, 2011 16:15:50

Two Australian judges who have served in Fiji say they are not surprised by allegations of political interference in the legal system by the interim government.

Frances Douglas and Randall Powell were serving as Appeal Court judges in Fiji two years ago when they ruled, together with another Australian Judge, Ian Lloyd, that the coup installed military government was illegal.

This led to the sacking of the entire Fiji judiciary, the scrapping of the constitution and the President appointing himself head of state.

Mr Douglas and Mr Powell now say claims by Sri Lankan lawyer Madhawa Tenakoon about government influence in bringing prosecutions against people for political reasons are what they feared would happen all along.

Randall Powell says this sort of thing is likely under what he says is an unlawful legal system.

Presenter: Bruce Hill
Speakers: Frances Douglas, former Fiji Court of Appeal Judge; Randall Powell, former Fiji Court of Appeal Judge

POWELL: I’m not surprised by the allegations that under the current system after the constitution was reportedly abrogated it seems by its very nature the new system is not independent. Any judicial officer or any other office holder in Fiji will be well aware that any decision they make that displeases the military regime may likely result in their removal from office. Now they have to know that because of what happened in 2009 when the military government, of which Mr Sayed-Khaiyum was the Attorney General, purported to abrogate the constitution, in fact the whole of the judiciary because it didn’t like the decision that the Court of Appeal had found it was unlawful regime. So the Fiji military regime’s idea of an independent judiciary is one that does the government’s bidding. So it follows that any judicial officer would have to assume that a regime that was prepared to rip up the constitution, which you would know is a supreme law of any country, would be prepared to break any law, and to dismiss any judge or officer who displeased it.

HILL: Well Mr Sayed-Khaiyum says that he’s never issued any directive to any judge or prosecutor to find this person guilty or prosecute this person. He says he’s never done anything like that at all?

POWELL: Well he would say that wouldn’t he? But having said that, I mean he probably doesn’t need to. I mean the people he appoints are effectively appointed by him and they would know that if they start pursuing an independent line there can be consequences.

HILL: Frances Douglas says the Fiji justice system is extremely vulnerable given that Judges know what might happen to them if they hand down decisions the government doesn’t like.

DOUGLAS: Once you begin to sack judges because they’ve made a decision which is inimical to the interests of the government of the time, the whole system of justice is likely to begin to collapse, and I’m not surprised at the sort of allegations which are being made.

HILL: Did you fear that this kind of thing would happen in Fiji?

DOUGLAS: Well I think once you compromise the independence of the judiciary then all parts of the justice system are capable of being destroyed.

HILL: If an Australian or a New Zealand judge or prosecutor was offered a job in Fiji and approached you for advice, what advice would you give them?

DOUGLAS: I think it’d be very unwise for them to take a position. When I took a position there I looked at the matter very carefully and I was only asked to swear an oath to the constitution, but unfortunately since then the constitution has been trashed.

HILL: Randall Powell says any lawyer offered a government post in Fiji under the current circumstances might be guilty of treason.

POWELL: I suppose anyone taking up an appointment pursuant to one of these decrees would be taking up an unlawful appointment. Now if democracy is restored and the constitution is, well not revived, the constitution is there all the time, but it would seem to me that anyone accepting an appointment could well be guilty of treason.

HILL: I asked Frances Douglas if he believes Fiji still operates under the rule of law.

DOUGLAS: I don’t think I’m in a position to make a general statement about that, but if the allegations in relation to these matters which you’ve been broadcasting are true, it would seem that the rule of law is being substantially eroded. It’s very unfortunate because the Fijian people are very nice people, and it’s a very nice country. We’ve got long ties with them, long cultural ties, economic ties, and I’m sure it’s a situation which is capable of managed. One would like to see any sort of bilateral or possibly multilateral level, some approach to Fiji to try and curb the tension, see if we can get some of these safeguards reintroduced so that we all proceed merrily along as part of the British Commonwealth, which they once were, and it’s a good system of government for all countries, including Fiji.

The bar was reportedly drunk dry by the end of the night.

It’s surprising it took that long.

http://Cheers, Shane: MacGowan left £8.5k behind bar for his wake(opens in a new tab)thetimes.co.uk/article/shane-macgowan-bar-tab-wake-2bph60lh9

I know this will upset many friends, who may well say goodbye, so be it.

Currently, we have COP28 with thousands bleating about the possible loss of future life from the effects of continued use of fossil fuels.

At the same time, many of those bleating at COP28 about climate change are planning the reduction and control of the world’s population, because they believe the world is currently overpopulated by the poor and the new middle class.

Sadly, over the past few centuries, things have really changed for the worse, originally the sailors and explorers carried diseases unintentionally, resulting in hundreds of thousands deaths in newly discovered countries.

Today we have governments, administrations and odious wealthy morons who plan to reduce the worlds population deliberately, using gain of function with a killer virus and slow-killing vaccines that’s only proven success has been the death of animals in lab tests.

Now we currently have millions of the walking dead, babies born dead or with unknown cancers, and record levels of unexpected? deaths. There is no difference in race, colour or creed, everyone vaccinated and especially boosted could be infected by the untested? hybrid vaccines they were lured into accepting into their bodies, bodies that had a natural immune level that had been developed over thousands of years.

I shed tears for my bold friends who bragged about their acceptance of vaccines and boosters, but my tears will never bring them back, Fuck Fauci, Pfizer, the money-making wealthily who doubled their wealth during Covid, the biased fact-checkers and most of all the weak and corrupt political leaders who succumbed to media pressure.

Please, please wake up, the number of deaths is not sufficient to appease the orchestrators, they are planning another orchestrated plandemic.

This Song, “There’s a Hole in The World Tonight” by The Eagles describes how this Old Man feels about the “Pandemic” that was promoted for financial gain by a few, and the destruction of a number of nations and lives of millions of families.

The promotion of “fear” by corporations, organisations for financial benefit, and government administrators who either knew no better and just went with the flow, or were corrupted by financial gain to be part of the biggest and most destructive scam in history.

It is possible that the mortality problems have increased in many nations that endorsed mandatory measures, only time will tell.

What is important, is that we should never allow this to occur again..

We are only here on this mortal plane for a very short time in the total scheme of things, we should be happy, we should not be oppressed, we should not be abused, we should know and show love and kindness to others.

Treat others as you wish to be treated yourselves, we should all use that as a standard..

Think about it please, work towards a better way to live.

Don’t let there be a “Hole in The World Tomorrow” for your children….or the children of the world….

On June 9th I received an email from an Irish Nurse who wanted to tell her story.

Her name is Eleanor McGee.

I responded saying I would be only too happy to help.

What you are about to read is a warts and all account of the coercion and pressure Irish nurses were put under for the last 2 years. Nothing has been edited out from the email that Eleanor sent to me. These are Eleanor’s words in their entirety, this is her story…

START

When Covid commenced particularly around March 2020, I was incredibly concerned in general like the rest of the population. I was one of the first to think about closing our borders and stop international travel. We allowed, Cheltenham etc to go ahead. 

Slowly but surely, the news was consuming so many peoples lives. The first lockdown came and went. I didn’t see any benefit to it. It was causing so much social isolation. Our elderly and our children were especially affected. Schools were closing, children working via pc at home, missing their friends, grandparents missing their families etc.

The announcement of a vaccine being worked on sent shivers down my spine. How on earth could they develop a vaccine so quickly? Vaccines take years to develop, yet alone time for clinical trials. I am not anti vax, I have taken nearly every vaccine throughout my life except the Swine flu one as in my opinion that one was rushed too. Something just told me that something was very off. I was very clear in my thinking at that point, that if they managed to develop such a vaccine, it would be a no personally for myself. 

December 2020, I came across Dr Pierre Korys senate hearing. Pierre was on fire in the senate talking of using a repurposed drug called Ivermectin. I watched that man literally begging to be allowed to use Ivermectin. Pierre’s passion to help save lives was inspirational. 

I returned to work in January 2021. Many of my colleagues had just commenced their 1st vaccine. There was tremendous pressure on staff to participate. 

I was asked during the morning, if I would like to attend for mine. I said, it’s not for me at the moment in time. On several occasions over the following days, several colleagues asked if I had attended. I couldn’t believe that so many people could invade your personal space regarding a medical decision.

In the weeks following, I started to get text message invitations for making an appointment for a vaccine, eventually the invites turned into appointments being forwarded, followed by notifications of non attendance, followed by more appointments.

Simultaneously invites from my own GP and my local vaccination centre. Appointments at one stage were arriving from 3 different sources. How dare anyone register my details without my consent. I had to block numbers from my phone. This caused incredibly anxiety.

On one occasion, I had a senior colleague berate me on a public corridor trying to talk me round. I couldn’t believe what I was witnessing, what the hell has happened to people, how dare they think they have the right to infringe on my private medical business. Over time I discovered that I certainly wasn’t alone in my thinking. Eventually I met some like minded people and joined a healthcare support group, were we had some solace and support. 

The first of my colleagues got Covid for the 1st time and of December 2020 and early 2021. Over the coming months, I watched more and more people actually test positive. During this time,we were quieter than I ever remembered, my fear arose thinking of all the patients that are cancelled, awaiting diagnostic procedures and diagnoses. I was extremely concerned around the amount of missed and delayed diagnosis and the consequences for years to come. 

Not only did we engage with work related pressure, pressure was immense within family and friend circles, especially when the vaccine passport commenced in July 2021. This was the height of utter discrimination. These passports caused great stress within the general public and families.

Many people whom I knew that didn’t want to participate with the vaccine were coerced into taking such, to go to the pub, go on holiday. Humanity seemed lost. I never did so much research as I did before on the alternatives. I was watching more and more doctors all talking about re purposed medication which was working incredibly well. I noticed that these brilliant doctors where getting censored, and many media reports were literally slandering them, horse dewormer is one word that I’ll never forget. 

Having to listen to Newstalk on a daily basis at work was deeply depressing till one day when I heard Pat Kenny interview Pierre Kory

https://www.newstalk.com/podcasts/highlights-from-the-pat-kenny-show/an-icu-specialist-says-ivermectin-is-the-drug-that-can-end-the-pandemic

See also, Dr Joseph Varon, Math+ Protocol using ivermectin, 29 July 2020. 

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-53576427

https://covid19criticalcare.com/about/the-flccc-physicians/

https://covid19criticalcare.com/testimonials/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35070575/ Largest study of Iver-mectin Prophylaxis (Treatment Given or Action Taken to Prevent Disease) for COVID.

Finally I said to myself, it’s finally getting an MSM hearing. My illusion was shattered within days when Luke O Neill , claimed we haven’t enough data

https://www.newstalk.com/news/luke-oneill-on-ivermectin-still-not-enough-evidence-to-back-drug-as-covid-treatment-1239480

How on earth could this man make such a claim. We have absolutely no data on these emergency use authorisation products. 

Rotunda Hospital master Professor Fergal Malone said vaccination levels among expectant mothers and their partners are ‘disappointing’. Covid restrictions on maternity wards could be scrapped if there is a higher vaccination uptake among expectant mothers and their partners, the master of Dublin’s Rotunda Hospital has said. Heavy pressure instilled upon pregnant women and their partners. 

https://www.independent.ie/breaking-news/irish-news/higher-vaccination-uptake-could-see-maternity-ward-restrictions-scrapped-40740002.html

Kidney transplants to be delayed for unvaccinated patients until Covid crisis passes. Beaumont Hospital August 2021.

These headlines were ringing many alarm bells within. 

Then Beaumont Hospital withdrew a recommendation from top doctors to suspend patients unvaccinated for coronavirus from the waiting list for a kidney transplant. The move came more than a fortnight after a letter was issued to consultants, saying it would not be possible to offer transplants to unvaccinated people because of Covid transmission risks.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/hospital-reverses-advice-to-delay-transplants-for-unvaccinated-patients-1.4652303

In my opinion this is unprecedented coercion. Coercion happens when someone wants you to consent when you’ve already said no or otherwise expressed disinterest. They might use threats, persuasion, and other tactics to get the outcome they want. Ethically our little island was lost. 

November 2021 boosters commenced for healthcare staff as immunity was waning.

Tremendous pressure built yet again, except this time, more refused. Open chat showed many people had enough. Around this time the pressure stepped up for us to come forward for a risk assessment, which also included this time anyone who hadn’t had a booster.

As the next few weeks passed, We had so much staff sickness, the majority with covid. Some had covid for the 2nd or 3rd time. I had never witnessed sickness levels on this scale throughout the whole pandemic, we were one of the highest vaccinated countries in the world, with cases now exploding. 

https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-irelands-co-waterford-has-one-of-the-highest-vaccination-rates-in-the-world-so-why-are-cases-surging-12461642

My observations showed that us with natural immunity or robust healthy immune system were keeping the system going.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35380632/](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35380632/)

Natural immunity was completely ignored throughout this whole pandemic as well as cheap and effective medications. Surely during a pandemic, we should utilise every tool in our box.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4136000/

At the end of November 2021, Ireland considered mandatory Covid-19 vaccination of healthcare workers. Many healthcare workers had already had the virus. This opened up another round of discrimination within the workplace. Some colleagues were hoping that this would come to fruition. One of which thought it would be appropriate to refuse to work alongside unvaccinated staff which was quenched quickly due to lack of union support.

Risk assessments attempts commenced yet again, this time to include those who refused a booster. All of this didn’t sit well with me. It was very upsetting knowing that colleagues were wishing unwellness on their colleagues who choose autonomy over coercion. I signed an open letter in December 2021 calling for an end to what we say is discrimination against those unvaccinated for the Covid-19 virus. 

50 legal and medical professionals sign statement condemning “vaccine discrimination”.

I am no longer fearful of Covid. I have worked through it all. I am now more afraid of where we are going. The WHO wants to create a Global Pandemic Treaty. The proposed treaty is set to be a legally binding tool which will coordinate countries’ response to future pandemics across the globe. This week Health Minister Stephen Donnelly said Ireland would be signing up to the agreement, as reported by Gript.

WHO wants to sanction countries that breach Pandemic Treaty

The group has sought sanctions against signatory countries which break its rules. The WHO is primarily funded by private companies and heavily by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Bill Gates has invested interests within the pharmaceutical companies. Bill Gates has major shares in both Pfizer & BioNTech & an FOI has revealed he is the primary funder of the MHRA. This is a huge matter of great concern. One has to also question the conflicts of interest within our own advisory team within Ireland and their intertwining connections with funding and sponsorship from pharmaceutical companies. 

Also Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Tánaiste Leo Varadkar were among the attendees at the World Economic Forum, with Martin participating in a high-profile discussion on Wednesday about “European Unity in a Disordered World?”. We need transparency on our government plans , involving us the citizens of Ireland. 

https://www.gov.ie/en/press-release/5d93b-taoiseach-micheal-martin-travels-to-the-world-economic-forum-in-davos-switzerland/

Our Government’s use of behavioural-science to instil fear, shaming and peer pressure to increase people’s compliance has evoked major concerns in relation to both the ethics and the collateral damage. This was aided with the help of our media. Throughout the covid-19 crisis, the morality of strategically inflicting emotional pain upon citizens to influence their behaviour has been questioned

https://thecritic.co.uk/a-year-of-fear/

along with the disregard for informed consent

The demise of informed consent

a longstanding fundamental precondition to any medical or psychological intervention.

Today I am watching the FDA discussion regarding approval for 6months – 5 years. Children’s immune systems do not operate the same way as an adult. The long-term risks are clearly of greater concern and the cavalier attitude to this possibility is deeply concerning. 80% of Children have natural immunity. We have to factor in risk versus reward. 

As with adults what is the magic number? How many are you willing to take ? Will their immune system wane every 3 – 4 months. Listening to the FDA open hearing shows both sides to the arguments we are having. If this was publicly known and televised, we would have transparency alongside an open debate / discussion. What happened to our right to discuss such openly and honestly? 

A testimony from Dr Kat Lindley at today’s FDA open hearing. Permission granted to use.

*Good afternoon I’m Dr Kat Lindley member of the Steering Committee of World Council for Health*

*I have no conflicts of interest*

*CDC data from February show that about 74.2% of children have had Covid already. Over 150s studies show that natural immunity is superior. *

*The infection fatality rate under 5 years old is 0.1/100K or one in a million. *

*The risk of the shot in the already immune is higher than one in a million. Both Pfizer and Moderna expressly eliminated those that were naturally immune from their studies. They did this to avoid the hyper immune response and possible death. *

*Vaccinating the already immune, puts them at serious risk for a hyper immune response. That means you will be voting for some children to have a severe adverse reaction and possibly death if you vaccinate the already immune. This is bad medicine. There is zero reward, only risk. *

*These vaccines are not medically necessary or clinically indicated.*

*VAERS show children ages birth to 18 who have been vaccinated with Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna’s vaccines have had severe life-threatening adverse reactions, such as myocarditis, Guillain-Barré Syndrome, seizures and more severe adverse reactions death.*

*Article by House and all published May 22, 2022 in American academy of Pediatrics (safety of c19 vaccinations in US children ages 5-11)*

*Myocarditis 2.2 per million cases*

*Seizures 7.6 per million cases*

*Case #1 seen by my colleagues*

*14 yo male double vaccinated with Pfizer vaccine had recent hx of chest pain on exertion, initial echocardiogram and ECG normal, troponin 22,000 increasing to 48,000 in 6 hours. Cardiac MRI with gadolinium showed transmural enhancement consistent with myocarditis*

*Case #2*

*13 yo female first Pfizer dose last August had 1st seizure within 30 days, got a second vaccine in December had another seizure, had 3rd booster and now has 4-6 seizures a day. She was an active soccer player and a good student, now unable to play sports or attend class in person.*

*We have no long term safety data in any of these studies. The risks clearly outweigh the benefits. The VAERS reports 28, 312 deaths so far in all age groups. When is it enough?*

*What is the magic number that will make us stop? 50 k, 100 k, million.*

*When do we say ENOUGH. Children have a “99.998% recovery rate with no sequelae if they get COVID. *

*These vaccines are not medically necessary or clinically indicated!!*

*Thank you for your time*

Getting back to a vaccine during pregnancy, completely safe and effective, the Hse update their website February 2022 and again in May 2022 

https://www2.hse.ie/screening-and-vaccinations/covid-19-vaccine/get-the-vaccine/pregnancy/

But COVID-19 vaccines are new. We are still learning about them. There is limited data on the safety of COVID-19 vaccines in pregnancy. They were not tested on pregnant women during clinical trials. Trials are now taking place. Were any of these ladies informed of such during the Informed consent process ? 

Informed consent , one of my reasons for refusing the Covid Vaccine was simply as I could not give Informed Consent. I am simply going to ask all healthcare professionals who participated within the vaccine rollout, do you think you gave Informed Consent? 

Consider your evidence based practice and keeping up to date with results. 

FDA Begins Releasing Pfizer COVID Vax Documents March 2022 , all healthcare professionals should be aware of this and research. 

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and-business/why-a-judge-ordered-fda-to-release-covid-19-vaccine-data-pronto

Ireland needs a healthcare alliance, our questions have to be allowed, transparency is essential. 

We have a right to free speech and to raise public awareness . The anxiety I have suffered throughout the past two years has only made me stronger. Believe me, it’s incredibly hard to find your voice. I will not be bullied or silenced anymore. 

The majority of us have children, who are absolutely paramount to us . I want to continue my research for my children and their future. I was hoping that someone else would gain some courage. I have waited and waited for someone else. Guess what that other person never arrives.

I am certainly not an author, however I stand before you with honesty. Some may mock, however all I want is for people to engage, feel free to express their opinions. It doesn’t matter if we agree, it’s opening up a discussion that is important. 

My fears over cancer diagnosis over the past two years is now evident. The healthcare system should have never grinded to a halt. All patients matter, many patients are suffering needlessly today.

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/health/rise-in-numbers-having-stoma-surgery-after-treatment-hit-during-pandemic-41753812.html

One of the biggest mistakes made was ignoring the therapeutics available to us . “The FDA has made public statements on Ivermectin that have been misleading.”. A federal lawsuit was filed on behalf of 3 doctors against FDA for interfering with the use of Ivermectin a treatment for Covid 19. As I have previously stated during a pandemic every tool available should be utilised. Money and profits seem to matter more than our health.

We mislaid real science and ethics. We need to acknowledge the Vaccine side effects and harm. We all know someone affected. We need to be able to talk about them, openly and help those who are suffering. 

https://www.theepochtimes.com/doctors-suing-food-and-drug-administration-over-ivermectin_4515103.html

We have to look back at all the mistakes made, reflect and never make such errors again . I will leave this for now. There is so much more I wish to say. Interesting article from today. This isn’t going away

https://brownstone-org.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/brownstone.org/articles/eu-goes-all-in-on-mrna-vaccines-reserves-capacity-for-next-pandemic/amp/

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