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What has happened to Kim Dotcom should be a national shame.

By Martyn Bradbury

24 April 2026

Fourteen years on, the case against Kim Dotcom remains one of the most controversial legal and political sagas in modern New Zealand history—raising questions about sovereignty, illegal spying, and how far governments will go to appease powerful allies.

Kim Dotcom extradition: Lawyer attacks ‘grossly disproportionate’ treatment over Megaupload

The lawyer for Kim Dotcom says the internet mogul’s treatment, compared with that of his co-accused, was grossly disproportionate and would “shock the consciousness of properly informed New Zealanders."

It has been 14 years since Crown Law began working on the Megaupload extradition case, ahead of the FBI’s global operation to shut down the file-sharing site in raids in seven countries in January 2012.

Since then, there’s been plenty of legal twists and turns, which Dotcom’s lawyer, Ron Mansfield, KC, acknowledged in his opening comments to the Court of Appeal this morning.

“The Dotcom extradition proceedings can be seen to keep on giving to New Zealand jurisprudence.

Fourteen years of legal limbo.

The deplorable manner in which the key government set Dotcom up by giving him residency only to serve him up to the Americans as a blood bounty using evidence obtained through illegal spying will forever be a blot on our nation's reputation.

It was a shameful quisling cowardice to America and amounted to entrapment.

When New Zealand bent the knee to America.

After corporate Hollywood threatened to pull donations from the Democrats if they didn’t embark upon some symbolic gesture on internet piracy, Obama announced Megaupload as public enemy number 1, and the case against Dotcom was manufactured.

NZ became a willing participant in this treachery and granted Kim permanent residency to set him up for the Americans using illegal means.

The whole shabby, dirty mess is a legal disgrace and one that has come at terrible cost to Dotcom.

For one shining moment there we threatened the elites.

But the elites won.

https://thedailyblog.co.nz/what-has-happened-to-kim-dotcom-should-be-a-national-shame/
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I don't know whether this is true or not, but I wouldn't put it past them. The ticks might also be the kind where after one bite you can no longer eat meat.

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Post-technocracy will either be technocratic slavery or freedom, and it's up to each one of us which one we're going to have. If you do nothing, you will be enslaved, and all you will have is slavery. You will own nothing and you WILL NOT be happy.

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Tips to use against pests instead of health damaging chemicals:

Before industrial disinfectants, Italian peasants and their French counterparts burned bundles of dried rosemary in the stable and chicken coop once a month.

It wasn't a ritual. It was a technique.

Burned rosemary releases camphor, cineole, alpha-pinene, and rosmarinic acid in gaseous form.

In an enclosed space, these compounds reach lethal concentrations for arthropods: flies, mosquitoes, mites, fleas, and lice, without affecting mammals and birds, which tolerate much higher concentrations.

It is this selectivity that made the technique viable in a full chicken coop.

— The red mite (Dermanyssus gallinae) is the most feared parasite in poultry farming.

It hides in the wood cracks of the perches during the day and sucks the blood of the chickens at night.

A heavy infestation causes anemia, a drop in egg-laying, and mortality in chicks.

The peasants fumigated the empty chicken coop (chickens out), letting the smoke penetrate every crack for an hour. The effect lasted 2 to 3 weeks.

Stable flies; Stomoxys calcitrans and Musca domestica, fell within minutes.

Monthly fumigation progressively interrupted the reproductive cycle.

The tradition was not limited to rosemary:

• Dried sage: same active principles, used where rosemary was lacking.

• Dried juniper: resinous smoke effective against flies and mosquitoes, classic in Alpine stables.

• Dried lavender: fumigation of rooms against bedbugs; the burned linalool made the wood cracks uninhabitable.

Fumigation with herbs also played a deodorizing role.

The aromatic smoke masked the ammonia from the manure; a real respiratory irritant for cattle, pigs, and birds. Reducing that concentration concretely improved the animals' well-being. Today, for those managing a small organic chicken coop where chemical treatments are undesirable, burning a bundle of dried rosemary in the empty chicken coop once a month remains a complementary treatment against the red mite: residue-free, no egg contamination, and at the cost of a sprig.

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We need more heroic companies like this.

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More secret signs put out telling other members that Turnip is also a Mason. It keeps piling up. I've posted other evidence here in the past. I also did test what he was saying, and yes, names like Clinton and Citibank and words like "orange" are 33's.

https://bastyon.com/index?v=ff96fba2ab33d2b9c2e30d4fb201bb26b8393500a8554c1289e6644c513f9681&video=1&ref=PUeEeTDxALRoAYPio7XuukS1ubsevz45Nz

For those interested, you can download the numerology calculator he uses to reveal these assholes here: https://www.2near.com/edge/numerology/