Dr Amit Goswami - Quantum Activist into 2014 and beyond!

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Nested Communities \n    
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Blending nature and architecture into one’s daily living, opens a new vista of possibility for both creativity and synergistic group dynamics. To welcome\n    birdsong outside our window every morning, to look upon lush fragrant flower gardens, shrubs and trees. Whilst the hum of singing and children’s hushed\n    yet focussed activities - garnishes collaboration and goodwill - as we are again re-envision what it is like to be human and learn as to how people\n    can live together in co-creative harmony.
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As we realise the speed and noise of city life is impacting our world, with megacities overwhelming us with their raw and yawning, sprawling footprint\n    - the Global Ecovillage Network is springing up like quintessential life-force nodal points - all around the curvature of our home planet - taking\n    us into the next evolutionary spiral of an awakening earth, nested in a regenerating biosphere. 
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 Knowing full well that our planet as a living system, that lends us our body, free air, free rain water and until recently a free food chain.     
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A Renewal of Human Endeavour \n    
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This is an inspired idea, to embrace a renewal of our being and unfold our spiritual quest to realise our potential as an individual tightly coupled within\n    the human family - shaping a new tomorrow for our children’s, children’s, children. Recognising that within the new emerging paradigm - limitation\n    has no boundaries.
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In this interview, Kosha tells us:\n
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That the Global Ecovillage Network was set up in 1995 and it came about by ‘reading the feedback’ of human beings and sensing that people globally were\n    wanting to come together to live in communities, some of them intentional and for all manner of reasons - and that the underlying principle was that\n    all participators realised that our present day civilisation was undoing the very fabric of both nature and the way we were living.
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Also, that we need to reconnect again with each other in a duty of care and by being mindful, take over as guardians (kaiatiaki) of life, by connecting\n    to the power of conscious community. That by embracing mindfulness it acts as a crucible for inner wisdom, to not only help us sustain all flora and\n    fauna, but more so - to regenerate all biota - within the majesty of the web of life and the magnificence of our life supporting biosphere.
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So the Global EcoVillage Network is at heart an ever expanding cooperative endeavour - to support and assist the many more communities that are coming together by all manner of means as of this very moment.    
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Kosha says they continue to reach out to areas that we know very little about - for example, North African countries and linking and networking with people\n    of great integrity. From this they are able to share their experience, knowledge and solutions to assist new communities to grow and prosper.
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Group dynamics is often driven by some one who is an experienced ‘link’ person, able to act as the focaliser and may have strengths in Permaculture or\n    Co housing - or Transition Towns - so have a deep knowingness as to how communities can cohesively ‘come into being.’ 
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She talks about inner change that happens when we work for the betterment and the greater good. This may be by one’s connection to nature or even indigenous\n    cultures - that are often the seed of such a project.
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Yet, know we can not do these projects alone, because they are all people oriented and so with the focus on being part of the solution - in a group situation\n    - this is when novelty and creative energies converge - synergistically - and profound creative works evolve.
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Based on all 4 areas of Regeneration - around Ecology, Economy, Social and Culture.\n
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GEN is also involved in supporting - co-op gardens - Green cafes, green schools - but importantly - business wanting to become more holistically green\n    - and conscious.
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Stepping up - from - eco communities. Up to 20 adults and more adults are called an ecovillage from there to - eco neighbourhoods - eco cities - eco regions\n    and eco nations and eco civilisations. Being all encompassing - Ecos - comes from the Greek word Oikos to do with taking care of the home    - the eco-sphere - and coming home to Our planet.
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https://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/martin-large-community-land-trusts-cooperative-ways-of-buying-land-and-ecological-homes\n    
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 Global Family\n
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It's a whole movement that is transforming human presence on our planet - from the individual up to grand societal change. \n    
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\"In essence - an awakening planet.\"\n    
 
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Kosha mentions the what is unrealised and un-utilised is \"Good Intentions” - and their wish is to have this play out in as being a part of the solution.-\n    and to show a pathway there.   In her words - 'they' love to go there.\n    
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And she is dealing with politicians from the UN to the EU and Corporates etc - they all have grandchildren - and this is the common denominator.\n
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Indigenous Knowledge and Being.\n    
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Indigenous communities are mentioned as being very important. As with the increasingly rapid changes brought about by technical and industrial man, it\n    has thrown so many traditions out of balance. Especially, as to what is happening with globalised land management, like industrial agriculture, cropping,\n    harvesting, transport and marketing, that so many countries are experiencing major challenges in adapting to this fast moving world. Particularly as\n    to housing and educating the rural population to be participators in the future of their regions and countries.
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So alternative housing is a huge focus made out of locally sourced elements. This is where innovation is really making its mark.\n    
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Kosha also says that we are meant to sing ourselves back into life - that at heart we need to find ourselves in a secure and peaceful situation that we\n    are able to just sing ourselves into happiness.\n    
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There are community gardens in Auckland where people come to garden yet, sing as well. 
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https://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/richard-main-can-other-nz-cities-and-towns-copy-aucklands-100-community-gardens    
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De colonization - how do we heal this? Especially land issues that have not been acknowledged with indigenous peoples all around\n    the globe, who have been unfairly discriminated against. They feel very good about GEN and what it offers. \n    
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To be able to learn the skills to reconcile many of the injustices that have happened over time.
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Aotearoan Maori  \n    
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Especially the possibilities regarding the marae becoming the centre of eco village learning.  Listen .... 
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Subjects covered:  organic food growing, permaculture - renewable energy, building from locally sourced resources and the fact that in\n    1973 the then Labour Government offered up opportunities to return to the land under the name of Ohu’s - where grants could be obtained for small communities\n    to make the rural sector more productive. Worth visiting this visionary idea with today’s Labour Government. https://teara.govt.nz/en/communes-and-communities/page-2\n
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Currently GEN reaches out to over 6,000 communities worldwide, having a presence in 114 countries around our planet. So they are very well placed to be\n    able to offer substantial advice and information for any prospective groups of people wanting to commit to building a community. that and ways about\n    getting funding for infrastructure etc. \n    
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GEN is focussing on social entrepreneurship so as to make communities resilient and viable and there are many innovative ways to cooperate and collaborate.\n    Time banks, Green dollars, Savings pools and all manner of ways to take diversity into the localised marketplace. They have so many resources to share\n    as to how to sustainably build up a successful, localised, economic model. In NZ we have https://livingeconomies.nz\n    
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UBUNTU     \n    
There were many other questions that did not get asked, especially the term Ubuntu, which comes from South Africa where Kosha was born.
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“Ubuntu” is an African expression of ancient wisdom, which is echoed by all ancient civilizations. It simply means “unity within community” where everyone\n    contributes their natural talents or skills for the greater benefit of all.\n    
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In order to create such harmonious communities, we, the people, must lead to a new ‘consciousness’ - without the need for any violence, opposition or conflict\n    – by simply creating a new alternative – a new system – a new way of doing things – because the old way simply does not work for us anymore.
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To be able to create a new system in which competition turns into collaboration. To birth a new society in which we all benefit from our collective efforts\n    and individual talents.
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This interview with Kosha gives an excellent ‘entry level’ understanding and overview of how to approach the challenges of forming an intentional (or any\n    other) community - that allows for more creativity and freedom to chart one’s own course in a localised ecological setting. One where you can tap into\n    the resources of a huge planet round network of like minded yet diverse conscious people. Especially in taking us into a 'conscious' future - for our\n    children's children children.\n    
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This being a forerunner to a new planetary paradigm. 
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https://ecovillage.org\n    
 
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He came to New Zealand this year to speak about how ‘the leader he was looking for was inside himself’.
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GAY RIGHTS
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Hordur Torfason was waiting for a leader to stand up against discrimination of gays in Iceland in his twenties. Suddenly one day he realised that no\n        one was coming to do it. He says, “If you can’t find a leader then be one yourself – don’t wait for someone else” “The leader I was looking for\n        was inside myself”!
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He was the first man in his country to step out and say, “I am gay and there is nothing wrong with that”. Overnight, he was out of work. He lost everything.\n        Constantly threatened, he had to flee to Denmark.
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He decided to return to Iceland and fight. He worked to turn the bad into something good. Slowly, he built a gay rights organisation and a gay theatre\n        company.
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Now accepted, “Hörður Torfason is a noted Icelandic songwriter and activist. He has written plays and poetry, played numerous roles on stage and in\n        several films, directed about 50 stage productions and designed and built stage sets for most of them.” Wikipedia.
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THE ICELAND REVOLUTION
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In 2008, when Hordur was age 63 the global financial crisis hit. By October 2008, Iceland's debt had rocketed to more than seven times its GDP. All\n        three of Iceland's major commercial banks defaulted on their debts. The value of the national currency fell sharply. A severe economic depression\n        set in. Unemployment tripled. Many people lost all their savings. The nation was in crisis. All around him, Torfason saw desperation, confusion\n        and anger. \"It was obvious no-one was going to help them,\" he says.
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The bank crash occurred on Monday October 6th (2008) and the following Saturday Hordur started to ask questions of friends, and on Facebook. He told\n        his friends that he would be at parliament every day at midday and he asked his friends to join him. Gradually the crowd grew until thousands came.
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He had two questions for parliament:
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“Do you know what happened and how can you explain it?”
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and “Have you any idea what to do about it?”
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People were very angry, some having lost their houses and their cars, but he said to the crowd, “We don’t use violence – do you agree?” and the crowd\n        agreed. He led the idea but cleverly got buy-in from the crowd.
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In the interview Hordur explains how two Iceland banks had been ‘bought’ by private interests for no money, showing the corrupt relationship between\n        the politicians and business.
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THE WRITING OF ICELAND’S CONSTITUTION
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After the government of Iceland was made to resign and the new government, a coalition of Greens and Social Democrats was in power, the people requested\n        that there be a new constitution. A committee of 25 people were voted to write it. However once finished, it was ignored. Hordur speaks of the\n        importance of having a constitution and how it should be reviewed or renewed every 20 years as things are always changing.
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As the new constitution has not been ratified, a group called the Constitution Society has been formed and there is pressure for the government to\n        bow to the people’s demands. However Hordur says this is difficult because the country is not really run by politicians, but by a group of “ten\n        white middle aged white men behind parliament running everything.”
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THE YELLOW VEST MOVEMENT:
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Yellow Vest Movements have contacted Hordur from both France and Canada. However there did not seem to be one leader for him to talk to and so thus\n        far he has avoided responding. He feels that when organisations have violence and not brains in action, he is not willing to support them. “You\n        can’t have a lot of leaders,” he says, but you must connect with the people and ask what is their pain. If there is no pain then ask why they are\n        protesting. He also advises to ignore rudeness, It is just the inability to express themselves.
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Hordur explains the reason French protestors chose yellow vests is because everyone had them in their cars, in case of breakdowns – so it was easy\n        to use them and make themselves distinctive. In Iceland they took pots and pans to their protests to bang and make a noise, with the intent of\n        disturbing the politicians in parliament. It is good to have an identifying theme when protesting.
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WHAT NOW:
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Recently Hordur had a book published about his life and protests. It is called, “Bylting”, which means both Breakthrough and Revolution in Icelandic.\n        Here’s hoping it is translated into English soon.
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He has another book in the pipeline and while not as young as he used to be, retirement does not look like a likely option for quite some time.
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He lives in Reykjavik with his partner Massimo Santanicchia who is an urbanist, planner, and assistant professor at the Iceland Academy of the Arts\n        in Reykjavik.
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“Agent of Change” – a write up of Hordur’s 2019 visit to New Zealand.
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https://www.odt.co.nz/lifestyle/magazine/agent-change-0\n    
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Here is Lisa’s 2013 Greenplanetfm interview with Hordur
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https://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/hordur-torfason-icelandic-political-activist\n    
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Here is Lisa’s 2016 Greenplanetfm interview with Hordur
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https://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/hordur-torfason-the-icelandic-revolution-activist\n    
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What Stephen answered with is that the so called ‘dominant culture’ and materialism is now in an extremely problematic phase. That growth in its many ways\n    has become the secular religion of our time. This desire for consumerism is also consuming our future, yet ‘growth' - and even the ‘personal growth’\n    industry is exponentialising itself - as an idea that ‘inner growth and awareness can be sold as a commodity to people.\n    
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This preoccupation of ‘increase’ - which can be easily seen in the consumer culture, is becoming predominant.
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Stephen who has worked in palliative care in what he called the 'death industry' he talks about - oncology, the study and treatment of tumours. He said\n    they have a word that is a synonym for tumour and it is called - ‘a growth’ which is as a word widely used outside the industry too and it is called\n    just ‘growth.’ He goes on to talk about what is this growth thing? Well, in cancer it grows itself to death. This can be seen in how industrial man\n    keeps on growing his business and the repercussions are being seen in all areas of the biosphere.
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Tumors grow themselves to terminate the host
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A growth or a tumour has no concerns about anything other than its continued unrestricted growth until finally - it terminates its host. Its mania is its\n    demise. And the collateral damage is the person in question.
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Respect for the Elder Generation
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‘Respect your elders’ … in his days this is what Stephen said was a description of the way things were.
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That elders were to be held in generic high regard. Not elevating them over the top, not inflating them to some kind of heroic status but just a sense\n    that they have endured as long as they have - has conferred upon them some sort of - what he calls reliability - and that is the way it was - however\n    it is not the way it is now. And the change from then (only 75 to 100 years ago) - is now extreme. To the extent to respect your elders now is much\n    more of a plea - that is his present day description of the way it is.
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Stephen says that something very fundamental has happened to people’s willingness to hold older people in inalienable high esteem.
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The other half of this equations is that he says: Respect your elders and they - behave and comport themselves - respectably.
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Where is the respect of Elders today?
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The young today are having difficulty in finding common ground with elders and are fundamentally challenging the term ‘respect your elders’ - if not dismissing\n    this notion out of hand.
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One reason is that youth are in a position where they are inheriting a world that is in considerable disrepair - and when they look to their elders they\n    say but this has been done on their elders ‘watch!' Listen to the interview.
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So the youth ask, how come we let this happen when we knew that there are going to be repercussions in the future and still the elders did nothing! 
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This being the case - we can understand why the younger generation have difficulty in respecting ‘the elders.’\n
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Respect what? Becomes their question. See Stephen’s book ‘Come of Age.’ What happens when you do not hold older people in high regard? Plus how does this\n    demean the culture fundamentally?
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Stephen says that we today have inherited deeply troubling challenges and we can not 'wish them away' - we have to quietly and in a focused way deal with\n    them … Listen ...
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Wisdom
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Wisdom - how does it come about? Can you inherit wisdom? Stephen says it is not the case - Listen ...
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Prejudices …and bigotry
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He also ask the question what can you inherit? He then states - Prejudices …and bigotry - how do we pick these up? There is no labour in picking\n    these up. There is no wisdom involved. How come these be so easily picked up?
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There are many subjects that are covered in this interview. Stephen’s intellect and its acuity, shows that he is very adept at the spoken word.
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Awake?
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Awake what is it?  An elevated mindfulness or … a kind of achieved state?
He breaks down words like A-Wake and explains what they convey\n
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Hope?\n
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What is hope?  This was a big one and he deconstructs this word as well.\n
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Tim here, I had a huge list of questions that I did not get around to asking many of these:
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Questions that I had lined up - in any order ...
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The Great Mystery … Life, death and beyond. What does he perceive as ‘the great mystery?’
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The tyranny of hope … Pandora’s Box was the only gift that did not escape - We are in grim times. He did elaborate on hope.
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Zen poet Thich Nhat Hanh was asked, “what do we most need to do to save our world?” His answer was this: “What we most need to do is to hear within us\n    the sounds of the Earth crying.”
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Did Stephen wish to add anything to this? We just did not have time ...\n
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Psychology has become monotheism without God. This is what Stephen had mentioned in a video. Could he explain?
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Anima Mundi, the Latin word for World Soul. His thoughts on this?
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We are Spiritual Beings having an earth existence? Stephen did answer this, but not in a way that it was being asked. That as there are 7.7 billion\n    humans on earth, were they not in someway on a spiritual journey? Or as many would say be inhabited by soul, or have a soul connection? He did no concur\n    or he may have misunderstood my question. Listen
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Many people today are generally perceived as so disconnected from any sense of the deeper self, or soul - having instead being so busy with the outside\n    world with all its distractions and diversions - that they have omitted to cultivate any inner values, or ‘knowing thyself’ and deepening their inquiry\n    into why they are here in human form. This translates to being in many ways, devoid of any spiritual context. Thus not peacefully knowing how to die\n    - But dying by medication - sliding into a worsening stage of coma and drugged out - lacking any focus or coherency - 'dying badly.'Stephen has written\n    on ‘dying badly.’
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We are death phobic and grief illiterate - these are from his previous statements and we just never had the time to follow this up.
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Re-wilding our Planet and E.O Wilson’s idea of ½ of or planet being 'locked away' to regenerate without or with very little human interference. With no\n    extraction of anything from these areas. 
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Lack of vernacular to express one’s feelings … that men in particular are generally unable to open themselves up to being more vulnerable in showing\n    their feelings. This was a big one being, that men in general just seem to not have the ability to articulate and say how they feel.
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Ecological connection - to a planet that is under siege. We did cover this, however not in the sense of that of an indigenous person, living immersed in\n    nature. i.e have mystical experiences - as a result of fasting or a vision quest.
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The denial and ability to hide from the responsibility to wake up to what is happening on earth. The Anthropocene stage that of humans now have overtaken\n    the earth’s natural systems to self balance or heal itself from the ecological damage that we are doing it to it/‘her.' We did cover this to a small degree.
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That so many contemporary adults are reading non fiction, i.e Mills and Boon books - (plural) and are engaged in living vicariously through literature\n    that is increasingly becoming more risqué and going into fantasy. That we are not acting responsibly, but in fact - deluding ourselves.
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A Planetary Cry In - that if we all did it - it could 'shift the field.’ This was a blue sky - 'what if question' -the fact that humans, especially men\n    do not cry, (very few) thus are emotionally blocked - that in a grief filled moment that when we realised what we have done to the world and our collective\n    future and continue to do so - if we realised this, have you Stephen, any opinion on such a concept?
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That today especially in education that women lead the men in their fields - schools girls academic qualifications are higher - since 1893 when women emancipated\n    themselves for the first time on our planet, do you see woman as being pivotal in bring our civilisation to its senses?
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www.OrphanWisdom.com\n
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Stephen is in NZ from April 30th 2019 
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Come of Age: Author Reading and Reportage ~ Christchurch, NZ\n    
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April 30, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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Venue: Halswell Community Hall\n    , 450 Halswell Road \n
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Halswell, Christchurch 8025 New Zealand + Google Map\n
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\"Getting older is inevitable, becoming an elder is a skill. \" Stephen Jenkinson Tuesday, April 30th, 2019 (7-9pm) - Ticket link: here Host: Sarndra Fowler,\n    Email: info@sarndrafowler.co.nz, Phone: 021-826672 Venue: Halswell Community Hall, 450 Halswell Road, Halswell, Christchurch, 8025, New Zealand Facebook\n    Come of Age: The Case for Elderhood in a Time of Trouble by Stephen Jenkinson | book video trailer The sages seem to be departing. Elections enthrone\n    Change, that’s all. The tribal lines deepen. And there's the weather, and the waters. The appearance of it…
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MAY 2019
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Come of Age: Author Reading and Reportage ~ Auckland, NZ\n
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May 1, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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Grey Lynn Library Hall, 474 Great North Road 
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Grey Lynn, Auckland, 1021 New Zealand + Google Map\n
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\"Getting older is inevitable, becoming an elder is a skill. \" Stephen Jenkinson Wednesday, May 1st, 2019 (7-9pm) Host: Matthew Monahan, matthew@monahan.com\n    Ticket purchase: registration link here Venue: Grey Lynn Library Hall, 474 Great North Road, Grey Lynn, Auckland 1021, New Zealand Come of Age: The\n    Case for Elderhood in a Time of Trouble by Stephen Jenkinson | book video trailer The sages seem to be departing. Elections enthrone Change, that’s\n    all. The tribal lines deepen. And there's the weather, and the waters. The appearance of it all…
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Come of Age: Author Reading and Reportage ~ Wellington, NZ\n
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Te Aro, Wellington 6011 New Zealand + Google Map\n
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\"Getting older is inevitable, becoming an elder is a skill. \" Stephen Jenkinson Friday, May 3rd, 2019 (7-9pm) - Consider attending Stephen's day long talk\n    on Saturday, May 4th. Host: Hannah McOwan, johannahmcowan@gmail.com Ticket purchase link Venue: Thistle Hall, 293 Cuba Street, Te Aro Wellington, New\n    Zealand, 6011 Facebook link Come of Age: The Case for Elderhood in a Time of Trouble by Stephen Jenkinson | book video trailer The sages seem to be\n    departing. Elections enthrone Change, that’s all. The tribal lines deepen. And…
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Come of Age: day long talk ~ Wellington, NZ\n
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\"Getting older is inevitable, becoming an elder is a skill. \" Stephen Jenkinson Saturday, May 4th, 2019 (10-4pm) - Consider attending Stephen's evening\n    talk on Friday, May 3rd. Host: Hannah McOwan, johannahmcowan@gmail.com Ticket purchase link Venue: Thistle Hall, 293 Cuba Street, Te Aro Wellington,\n    New Zealand, 6011 Facebook link Come of Age: The Case for Elderhood in a Time of Trouble by Stephen Jenkinson | book video trailer The sages seem to\n    be departing. Elections enthrone Change, that’s all. The tribal lines deepen. And there's the…
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So how does a human live on a planet or should I say a human being - live on a planet - because we are not really ‘being’ are we?

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John Aldworth, the author of his book ‘Forbidden History’ states that virtually his whole life has been devoted to journalism. In particular with British\n    newspapers including the Daily Mail to the Dominion and Evening Post in Wellington, NZ. He has always been interested in story and then sharing them.\n    
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He states that in the 19th century European historians and some Maori historians talked about things in their past that is now, virtually ‘politically\n    incorrect’ today. That in fact there apparently were different peoples living here prior to the Maori or the Polynesians that came to this country.
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Not taught in the NZ Education System
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That today this is not taught in our schools or our universities and John says that if true, that there were other people here, then they are a real and\n    genuine part of our history.
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His book Forbidden History seeks to show that for Maori that their descendants are here among us - they are living today and the story of at least two\n    of them are written about in his book.
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A descendent of another DNA strand?
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He introduces one person who maintains she is a descendant of the Patupaiarehe - fair skinned and fair haired - some with reddish hair that they have been\n    here for around 2000 years right up until today. He says that there is a small tribe, (hapu) living near Taumaranui in the middle of the North Island.\n    Her name is Monica Matamua an 85 year old woman and participated in a National Geographic Genome project and took a DNA test on her blood.
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The main results showed 40% Mediterranean origin 12% European and only about 14% Oceanic or Polynesian. Note That this only totals 66% of the DNA. That\n    the other DNA is of Peruvian or South American origin.
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He furthers this by saying she is descended from people who had intermarried with Maori people - and he adds to this that certain Maori are in part descendents\n    from these people themselves. He says certainly some of them are.
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John then states that sales of his book has been bought well be Maori people. Who many are delighted to know that they have a longer whakapapa - or lineage\n    - bloodline.
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The test show that Middle Eastern especially Persian DNA is in her lineage. That as there was turmoil in Persia, the narrative says that they left there\n    with the desire to find a place to live in peace … finally after many countries (so the story is conveyed) they ended up in Aotearoa just before\n    the time of Christ.
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Listen to the interview
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Waitaha - who are they?
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John then says that the Polynesian Waitaha nation arrived after that - according to recently deceased Paramount Chief George Connolly AKA Hori Manuka Manuka\n    Kapenga. The Upoko Ariki or Head Chief of the Waitaha people. Who’s lineage supposedly came from the Middle East as well, according to George, who\n    said that his people landed in NZ around 580 AD.
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Then John says that there are actually other people but deferred to speak about it saying that it get confusing (I agree says Tim).
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He said upon their arrival they had the desire to live in peace and with the Patupaiarehe and the Waitaha - they between them lived in peace for 1300 years\n    and John says if this is true - then we owe it to ourselves if this is the history fo this country - to find out as to how did the achieve this peace.\n    Because it is exceptionally unique.
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See the YouTube Video 'Skeletons in the Cupboard' by Peter Marsh and Gabie Plumm … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z6PlYiQSTs\n
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Poenamo is the actual name of the South Island actually means the Waters of Peace. This is where a good percentage of the Waitaha supposedly come from.\n    Today the South Island is known as Te Wai Pounamu, the waters of greenstone.
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The Arrival of the Warrior People
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Then there was the arrival of warrior people … who took over the first inhabitants that were here and then engaged in inter-tribal warfare fighting\n    among themselves.
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John talks about a Moriori chief in Waikato that once were inhabiting an area from Raglan in the West to Tauranga in the East - his name being Philipp\n    Ranga - Waikato University Professor Tom Roa when asked agreed and said that there were people in that area before the Maori arrived.
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In the original history of the Tainui tribe they have in their official record a story that having landed in the Waikato that they drove out inhabitants\n    and indigenous people that they found.
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Listen about the Chief of the Moriori of the Chatham islands and what transpired right up until the time to the invasion of Maori who took a British sailing\n    ship filled with warriors and went and took the lives of the population.
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http://www.jps.auckland.ac.nz/document//Volume_1_1892/Volume_1%2C_No._3%2C_1892/The_occupation_of_the_Chatham_Islands_by_the_Maoris_in_1835%3A_Part_II_-_The_migration_of_Ngatiawa_to_Chatham_Island%2C_by_A._Shand%2C_p154-163/p1\n
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John says that his book has gone into bat for them, because these previous people were never a party to the Treaty of Waitangi. A treaty between the British\n    Crown and certain Maori Tribes from around NZ. But not all.
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J H Mitchell - in his book Takitimu which is about the canoe or waka of the Ngāti Kahungunu    when they first came to the Hawkes Bay and Wairoa area they were received by people who were already here … but it is said that Ngāti Kahungunu eventually turned on these people
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The stone structures that have been locked away and made out of bounds in Waipoua forest - a city that may have supported some thousands … Listen\n    … and do a web search.
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Hear about the late Noel Hilliam, the curator of the Dargaville Museum and what he found as shipwrecks along the West Coast and his profound statement\n    about what may have been a large stone city in the Waipoua forest. That is now a ‘no go’ area by the Department of Conservation. That carbon dating\n    takes it back to 2000 BC.
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https://breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2016/01/mike-butler-disinterest-in-pre-maori.html\n
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There are 105 embargoes in place across NZ preventing any forensic research on ancient archaeological sites that go back in time - no one is allowed in\n    to these places - by Law.
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Learn about the ancient Auckland, Queen St stump and adze that were found during an infrastructure excavation that were so deep in the earth, that it had\n    to have been there far longer than the arrival of present Maori.
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http://www.kilts.co.nz/stump.htm\n
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http://www.ngatihotu.nz/2018/11/01/forbidden-history-by-john-dudley-aldworth/\n
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Val who has been a natural healer for over 50 years, has had her intuitively written song reach the last 10 finalists in the Global Peace Song Awards.\n    
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Yet, she says it’s a collaborative work with her Canadian travelling friend Lorna Eastman and especially Cameron Barclay, of the Ten Tenors who agreed\n    to sing ‘Peace to the World’. Also friend Paula Feather who wrote the music, which was arranged and produced by Mike McCarthy of Manuka Studios in\n    Orewa.
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This was a light-hearted laughing - interview - that was both entertaining and softly enlightening. Val in her natural healing practice has devoted her\n    life to health, happiness and wellness.
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Early Life
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Val took up a nursing career but was unable to complete her training as she left to nurse her mother for the last few years of her life, who became critically\n    ill as a result of a contaminated vaccine. 
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She took her mother to Dr. Murdock Ross, a colour therapist who diagnosed her condition (with no background knowledge) as the result of the vaccine and\n    by using colour therapy he assisted her mother where orthodox medicine was not able to help her. 
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Going back 60 years, colour therapy was a method of dispensing what is essentially sunlight and the colours of the spectrum to assist in healing. This\n    experience sparked Val’s interest in natural therapies. She became Murdock’s practice nurse and trained under his guidance. Also, she studied reflexology\n    and used this modality to alleviate her own migraine headaches.
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Later on, with her husband she bought the hot mineral water thermal springs in Parakai near Helensville. For many years as an adjunct to her healing practice,\n    used warm to hot water to sooth bodies and allow them to take in minerals to relax and heal the self.
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All this time she was open to assistance from higher energies and when she wants assistance she asks and invariably - the answer and solution comes.
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EAV 'electro acupuncture according to Voll’
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Professor Reinhard Voll from Germany devised this method to be able to\n    measure human frequencies back in 1958 and Val experienced 30 years of practice with these machines - especially when she moved into Orewa House where\n    she practiced for 22 years.\n    
 
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The EAV bio energy machine was computerized in 2008 - and things became far more extensive, not only does this technology scan every cell, it checks for\n    chemicals and even emotions that affect your health then corrects the underlying imbalances.
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People who ended up seeing Val invariably came by word of mouth (with no advertising) and so her relationship with her patients was far more personal.
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As Val evolved her understanding of healing she became more known as a practitioner of frequency medicine ... because we humans though made up of cells,\n    tissue plus blood and bone, we - at a deeper level of being - consist of a subatomic field of energy that vibrates.
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Thus, Val is passionate about raising one’s frequency so as to oscillate to a higher and lighter level of being.
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Writing a song for humanity
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Over the years she has realized that humanity is still challenged by the difficulty of living in peace and understanding. So in looking at the world today\n    she intuitively thought that we needed a song to sing, that lifted our vibes and one that centered on the human heart and brought humanity together.
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We now know that every word we speak, or sing and every thought we think has a frequency, and Val, knew she could make a difference in the wider world\n    by sharing the frequency of Love and Peace in a song.
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And from this intent she started to ‘download’ words that came to her in the middle of the night so she wrote them down and made them into a song, and\n    with the help of her friends brought about a collaborative effort that is simply called 'Peace to the World.'
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This song was entered into the global peace song awards and is now in the finals - out of ten finalists.
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Cameron Barclay one of the 'Ten Tenors' agreed to sing the song with his beautiful voice.
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If the song is successful Val wants to support the NZ’s Peace Foundation, which introduced the concept of Conflict Resolution to classrooms under the name\n    of Cool Schools and guided by Yvonne Duncan’s work. 
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There is a huge need for champions of this important skill - right across NZ and the greater world. Once learnt, the children will have unique and important\n    life tools to then take home and teach their parents. The ripple effect will be a huge boost for 'World Peace’.
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In this interview, Peace to the World is played twice and if you enjoy it and it lifts your spirit, we ask you to please vote for it.
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Voting is being done on FB and you are encouraged to follow the link below and vote for this song.
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https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=298312051035660&id=298310317702500    
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The song is now in the finals for the Global Peace Song Awards so the next stage is the public vote, which is judged on the number of 'Likes' on Facebook\n    and its outreach. The good thing being you don't need a FB account to vote.
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Click on the link which takes you to the category “Classical, Opera & A Cappella”, scroll down to find the song. The finalists are in alphabetical\n    order so towards the bottom, you will see Peace to the World.
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Please help spread these Words of Peace and Love as far and wide as possible by sending a ‘LIKE’ on the link. The purpose is to raise awareness that World\n    Peace is possible if we all play our part and be kind to one another. The saying 'Be the change that you would like to see in the World' is very apt\n    here and you can help by sending this link to all your family, friends and contacts.
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\"For those of you who don't know me, my name is Valemma Wright, I have been a Natural Health Practitioner for 50 years, specializing in frequency medicine\n    for the last 30 yrs. We now know that every word we speak, or sing and every thought we think has a frequency. I knew I could make a difference in\n    the wider world by sharing the frequency of Love and Peace in a song. That is why I wrote ‘Peace to the World’, (which was inspired of course). Then,\n    in amazing serendipity, (and given there are no accidents) - I met Cameron Barclay of the Ten Tenors. Cameron agreed to sing Peace to the World and\n    put his heart and soul, along with his beautiful voice into raising the harmonic frequency of Peace and Love.\"
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Click on the link below and please \"LIKE\"
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‘Together we can make a difference.’
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Thank you!!! Love and Light Valemma.
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https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=298312051035660&id=298310317702500    
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When are the winners determined?
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Voting completes on the 22nd of April, a master number and Earth Day. The finalists will be announced in Los Angeles, on a date to be advised.
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Congratulations, Valemma, I am going to vote right away.
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Now you listeners out there, all over the world, yes, do vote. 
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Vote for Peace to the World. 
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Vote for the message of peace, carried on the beautiful voice of Cameron Barclay of the Ten Tenors. 
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Lisa, was the ASB (Auckland Savings Bank) Business Women of the Year 2001 and ‘Her Business Magazine’ - business woman of the year for the North Island\n    2001-02.
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Liz, is a former TVNZ Presenter and Radio NZ host and prior to working in the Media, she used her law degree to practise commercial litigation and to teach\n    the Law Professionals course at Auckland University.
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Both Lisa and Liz have been immersed in current affairs, and in this passionate interview share some of their perspectives of what is happening in NZ today.
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I enjoyed interviewing these two very capable women who are prepared to offer a broad critique of where we are going as a country.
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Lisa leads with the insect disappearance both local and global and what this could foretell. She mentions that our planet will survive, but we as a species\n    may not and then goes on to say that we have to take action, by educating New Zealanders of the issues. 
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Liz talks about the lobbyists in NZ that convince the country to continue to use pesticides - that nature is taking the onslaught of a chemical assault\n    and that we are witnessing the decline in so many health indicators - from human to the vegetable and animals that as she and Lisa as mothers - wanting\n    healthy children have to become far more aware and then take action.
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Liz cited a test report in Oakland California that located 14 chemical pesticides in all the people in the region - yet in one week when these tested people\n    moved to an organic diet there was a marked decrease in the amount of chemicals found in their bodies. Stating that if we take remedial action and\n    ingest quality organic food we can start to clean up our body. 
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She noted that chemicals increase the risk of autism, cancer, Parkinson’s disease and infertility. 
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So our body is very responsive when commit to turn things around with an organic diet. Note detox’s are vital if one wants to speed up the cleansing of\n    our body.
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Liz, we have done well for centuries and millennia without sprays - so why have we been 'taken in' by chemical sprays? Lisa said that the liver from NZ\n    farm animals has to be destroyed as it cannot be sold for public or even animal consumption, due to the fact that it is contaminated with agricultural\n    farm fertilisers and chemicals. Note: GreenplanetFM’s radio interview of Debbie Swanwick originally of Soil and Health mentions that huge areas of\n    hectares in the Waikato are closed off due to toxic soils as a result of cadmium from super phosphates.
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Lisa ups the conversation saying that she has just started a FaceBook Group called 'Survival Movement New Zealand'\n    - factoring the possibility of biodiversity collapse andpreparing our country for all contingencies, at the same time keeping us free from pollution\n    - including car exhaust fumes and cow farts.\n    
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Climate Effects
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Realising there could be larger storms etc including drought, floods and in particular factor food shortages in there as well. Especially later into the\n    next decade.
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Fuel - petrol and distribution of food across the country. (which we need to diversify as we can now grow most food here in NZ, except equatorial food.
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Lisa mentions that NZ needs to find another agricultural or horticultural product to grow and Liz mentions that hemp could really be a major crop for NZ\n    as the climate is ideal for this very versatile cash crop. She mentions www.plantculture.nz    - and Cameron Sims a dear friend of hers who is out there showing the way with hemp, health and environment. Be it 'hemp heart' or oil with 3,6 and\n    9 Omega fats.
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Liz also laments the fact that the baby boomers of NZ had so many freedoms, free university, (no conscription) and with Tim concurring - there appears\n    so much apparent selfishness today by many of the baby boomers. When we need to be getting alongside the 'millennials' and assist them to rescue, innovative\n    and regenerate cool green ideas and ideals.
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Need for Conscious Action from the Current NZ Government
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Liz states that Jacinda Adhern, our new female PM could have come through with a clean broom with really fresh policies and she says that the longer\n    we go, we seem to be watching a replay of Obama in America (hear! hear!) - when she thought Obama would bring through a JFK moment (John Fitzgerald\n    Kennedy) - (we all did) - but as we can see - nothing really came of Obama's presidency and he just more or less carried on like a Republican. Note,\n    no one from Wall Street and Goldman Sachs - was prosecuted or jailed. etc etc.
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Foreign Relations
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Venezuela comes up and Lisa says that the sanctions imposed by the USA has caused huge social problems and that is possibly one of the major reasons Venezuela\n    is struggling with upheaval! Liz then says have we not seen this all before a oil rich country that the US is going to rescue and turn it into a “democracy!”\n    Caveat Emptor - let the buyer beware!
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/29/venezuela-crisis-new-zealand-guaido-interim-president    
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Neo Liberalism comes up for some conscious criticism and it does fall short when we look at the state of the casino economy that is being run from New\n    York bankers, and London.
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Business Matters
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Lisa as a business woman always paid her employees above theminimum wage and that was near on 20 years ago when. For example, she paid the dishwashers\n    $2.00 above the minimum wage.
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Covering more suitable business models, remuneration that is fair, share ownership by workers etc. Cooperatives and looking at Trust banks, Mutual Insurance\n    Societies,, Building societies, Trust Hotels, and farmers cooperatives - the big one today being Fonterra - while the NZ farmers now keep a very wary\n    eye on it, so as it will not be hijacked, by moneyed interests.
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Also money creation by private banks creating money out of thin air - by doing a simple computer input of the money that is required to loan a citizen.\n    Lisa has done a number of GreenplanetFM.com radio interviews on this subject. (do a search)
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This interview covers:
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The Christchurch rebuild after the Earthquake. Many people are unhappy with what has happened.
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Women run businesses. In most cases women have a duty of care that benefits society.
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Employing unemployed who are emotional damaged is very challenging.
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We have a situation were we have an underfunded NZ educational system. This is an urgent challenge as the youth of today will be our leaders of tomorrow.
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Teaching self responsibility rather than victimhood. This was an important subject.
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The teaching of 'garden to table' in South Auckland schools with children learning about food growing and preparation, is vital for healthy body and\n        especially healthy minds.
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Ihamatao in Mangere
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A present day Maori land battle to keep their\n    land that is raging as you read this. As the land is being taken over by Fletcher building.
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Pania Newton, Maori activist, is doing her best to save this sacred Maori land that goes back to the earliest arrivals from Hawaii, with its rich and fertile\n    soils and its deep Wairua, or soulful heritage for all Maori. 
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The huge vision is to save this land from Fletchers’ developers and then to turn this whenua into a food forest, which can be enjoyed by New Zealanders\n    of all ethnicity, and through which a sense of deep community can be built ...
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Please sign up and register your support for keeping the land in Maori hands.
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Health camps were situated all around NZ over 75 years ago that took in underprivileged children and fed and housed them well - and the kids could play\n    and explore nature. We then to our surprise find that it was started by Liz’s great Aunt, Dr Elisabeth Gunn after World War 1.
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Underfunding health issues - especially with children was another concern that needs to be addressed in depth, across the whole of NZ.
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Capital Gains Tax, NZ is one of the few developed countries that does not have a capital gains tax, especially with the buying and selling of houses.
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Higher taxes were mentioned and agreed that there is room to tax the rich, where 60 years ago very well off people were paying 70 cents in the dollar tax\n    and even more.
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Neo liberalism and selfishness and Socialism - sharing and cooperation?
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Pulling together for the Earth, Papatunauku. (Maori for Mother Earth) Becoming aware that it's our Earth that is the provider of life. As our planet lends\n    us a body, free air, free rainwater and until recently a free food chain. The realisation that we have become disconnected from the source from which\n    we spring.
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Transcending victimhood. This is a biggy. That there has to be far more loving relationships in parenting and modelling good values to our children.
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Mike King - about youth suicide, that NZ has a massive problem with youth staking their lives, when in fact we have one of the best countries on earth\n    in which to live and bring up children. But, due to NZ becoming a Neo Liberal experiment, surreptitiously implemented by Roger Douglas Minister of\n    Finance for the 4th Labour Government in 1984. Then there was a resurgence of Neo Liberalism continued under the Key government for 3 terms, ending\n    in 2017.
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Naturally, with the time constraints of one hour for this interview there was a great number of subjects that were never mentioned let alone covered. However,\n    if we love our children it is essential that all adults of NZ need to be looking to address the serious challenges that are present in out 21st century\n    society.
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That these issues be addressed and that the changes needed, have to come up from the grass roots - from the neighbourhood and localised community. It is\n    only when we come together as family, friends, neighbourhood and community can we realise the dynamics of connection, innovation, cooperation and collaboration.
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Consciousness and Spirituality
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Lisa, mentions that we have to become far more aware of our actions and consciously more cognizant of our choices for the future. Liz then asks about the\n    deeper question of why are we here and what is our purpose in this lifetime? She then states her belief that we live beyond the death of our physical\n    body, and Lisa concurs and I, as the interviewer jump in and agree with them both. 
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This is a subject that I dearly want to do a program or three on in the near future. That the imperative is that all our decisions have to be conscious\n    ones, and that for the future of our civilisation, service to self needs to fall away as we collaborate as a global family into service towards the\n    whole.
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At heart most kiwis, want a far better world to live in, especially for all children. However we have to realise that deep change can only happen when\n    the people, lead - for when we do - that is when the politicians follow.
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Note that when ordinary people across Aotearoa NZ came together in groups and small organisations and cooperatively worked together at a local level where\n    suburbs, councils, towns, cities and regions finally enacted Nuclear Free Zones, that when they numbered over 67% of the population, then, and only\n    then, did it give the ‘mandate’ to Prime Minister David Lange (of the Labour Party) the power to make it Law across the whole nation that NZ became\n    a \"Nuclear Free Country.\"
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This ideal is slowly coming into being to NZ to become a GE and GMO Free country with all of Northland now classified as GE Free as well as the Hastings\n    District in the Hawkes Bay. Though new technologies like CRISPR – are being deployed to get around laws and GE Free areas. 
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https://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/jonathan-latham-phd-the-dangers-of-gene-editing-and-gene-drives    
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Though this was not mentioned in this interview, Both Lisa, Liz (and Tim) know of, or are in some way supporting a move towards a \"5G Wireless Free Country\" as the information coming from courageous scientists, and academics state that this technology is detrimental\n    to not only human health but all biological health across all of nature - globally.
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When you listen to this interview of Lisa and Liz, you realise how fortunate that we have two passionate and compassionate women not only supporting this\n    program, but also that as they live here in NZ they are dedicated to doing their constant best to ensure that we have a free, regenerating environment,\n    community that will be here for all children and biota …\n    
 
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The subject matter, of experimenting on animals that have no voice, gives cause to wonder what we are doing as a so-called civilisation.
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Where does mindfulness and a duty of care come into it? But more so - compassion?
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Especially here in NZ where most New Zealanders have a cat or dog or a pet of some kind. But, it's a harsh reality when animals are treated with a certain\n    disdain when money power and profits are concerned. Just look into the eye of that forlorn guinea pig in this graphic. 
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Tara is the CEO of the New Zealand Anti-Vivisection Society (NZAVS) and having a degree in Zoology wants to do what she can to educate the public so as\n    the animal kingdom is not exploited by both pain and money. 
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On average over 300,000 animals are used in vivisection in New Zealand each year. These experiments are performed in universities, schools, polytechnics,\n    commercial laboratories, government departments and ministries. 
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The species used include hamsters, mice, rats, guinea-pigs, sheep, cattle, goats, birds, fish, alpaca, buffalo, cats, deer, dogs, donkeys, horses, pigs,\n    and more.
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Farm animals are experimented on to make them grow faster, have more babies, use their food more efficiently, or to change the quality of their milk. Plus,\n    there are cruel genetic modification and cloning experiments going on that we the public have really no idea what’s happening.
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From her studies of animals she says it is impossible to use one complex system to predict the outcomes of another complex system. Every animal species is different,    
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That her strong passion for valid science and her obvious strong commitment for animal rights - combined together has pushed her into her current role,\n    where she has in a little over 4 years embedded her ideals into NZAVS.org.nz
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Tara feels she wants to continue what Bet Everell did and work towards ending animal experiments in NZ. Betty Overell - was the person to really bring\n    this issue to the public consciousness across New Zealand. When in 1989 she led a march to Parliament with a further Petition, signed by 100,640 New\n    Zealanders demanding the abolition of all experiments on animals after obtaining affidavits from doctors all over the world who claim vivisection is\n    medically and scientifically invalid.
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Bette Overell is recognised internationally for her work in the new abolitionist movement.
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http://www.whale.to/a/overell_b.html\n
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So how is NZ progressing with regard to animal welfare?
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A Brief History of Animal Welfare that influenced NZ
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Henry Stephens Salt 20 Sept 1851 – 19 April 1939 (born in India, to British parents) who when in England, formed the Humanitarian League in 1891. Its aims\n    were to enforce the principle that it is iniquitous to inflict avoidable suffering on any sentient being. Its objectives included the banning of vivisection\n    as well as hunting as a sport. It was Salt who first introduced Mohandas Gandhi to the influential works of Henry David Thoreau, and influenced Gandhi's\n    study of vegetarianism.
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His views were reported widely, including in New Zealand.
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There was a compassionate, philosophical article in the NZ Herald on the 11th June 1890 by Jon Abbott of St Georges Bay Road, Parnell Auckland calling\n    for a halt to the cruelty of Vivisection - yet his was truly a voice in the wilderness in those days.
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New Zealand Organisations
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Once it became clear that animal experiments were occurring in New Zealand at medical schools and agricultural research stations, anti-vivisectionists\n    began to organise. The first anti-vivisection society had been set up in Auckland by 1930, and branches of the BUAV British Union for the Abolition\n    of Vivisection were established in other centres by the 1940s. In 1944 the Council of Combined Animal Welfare Organisations (CAWO) was formed. This\n    was a coalition of Theosophists, anti-vivisection leagues and the newly established Vegetarian Society, led by Theosophist Geoffrey Hodson. In its\n    advocacy of animal welfare measures CAWO had much in common with the SPCA, but it had a no-compromise stance on vivisection.
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In New Zealand there was some interest in the cause, and vivisection was occasionally debated. A few groups including feminist organisations and many Theosophical\n    Society members condemned it, but the SPCA members had a range of views from total opposition to reluctant acceptance.
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Gains and Losses
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CAWO was successful in campaigning for regulations governing humane slaughter, and the outlawing of the sports of hare coursing and captive pigeon shooting.\n    However, its anti-vivisection aspirations were thwarted by the Animals Protection Act 1960 which, although it introduced many reforms, made animal\n    experiments legal.\n    
 
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This Interview Covers
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Where we are today in 2018? 
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Vivisection Is Still Happening! 
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Today there are now many different models for learning about dissections without going out and getting a lab rat to dissect and cut up. That there are\n    sophisticated as well as simple anatomical models here today and Tara says that dissections could have been halted yesterday.
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Massey University Veterinary Department is seen as very progressive and up there as leaders - but Tara cautions by saying Massey in other\n    areas still uses some highly invasive purposes, never-the-less.
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But the Veterinary Clinical Training Room for vets has high quality mannequins of all different species to use. Even giant horse mannequins that can mimic\n    certain disorders so that students can pick up and learn from.
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They have fake dogs (robots) that mimic certain heart conditions that students can listen for also.
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But there is not yet enough of this across NZ. 
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Testing Drugs On Animals
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In this interview we learn that using animal studies, like testing drugs on them does not give in any way a true measure that these said drugs will have\n    a positive effect on a human. This is a proven fact. Animals and humans are vastly different and cannot be used for predicting human outcomes. There\n    are study after studies proving that experimenting on animals have no relationship to how these drugs will react on humans.
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In 2006, the TGN1412 drug that was used, created the opposite effect in humans as it did in animals - and people were left with organ damage.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theralizumab 
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Thalidomide drugs were tested on animals with no side effects but caused tragic results in humans.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide#Birth_defects_crisis    
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Other incidents of humans illness resulting from drugs that have been ‘successfully’ tested on animals have been discretely silenced. There have been many adverse side effects to people, but these results are gagged by confidentiality clauses where big Pharma    - closes the whole subject down. This in itself is criminal where vast amounts of money is used to quash any negative results silencing the whole concern\n    - to not even cause a ripple throughout society.
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Otago University comes in for some bad vibes as not being conscious of animal rights or mindfulness - and are thus seen as dragging the chain in this regard.\n    This is a result of blacking out all the windows of the animal lab on the 5th floor of the Hercus building in Dunedin, where on the top floor the animals\n    are kept. Why blackout windows? - Animals need as much natural light as possible too.
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Often, activists have to use the Official Information Act to find out what is actually happening 
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Tara says that it’s very difficult to get information especially as to what private companies are doing behind closed doors.
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Other Topics Covered:
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Support for stopping vivisection continues from within NZ with concerned public helping over long time periods, going back to the 1970’s and 80s. 
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As this is seen as an ongoing important issue that many people contribute to - for their whole life.
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Cosmetics testing on animals - Is now banned in NZ 
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But not the ban on importation of cosmetics that have been tested on animals
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Plus NZ has banned psychoactive substances being used on animals - There was a huge rally all over NZ along with HUHA support: https://huha.org.nz/
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There has been a Ban on the - Draize test - https://www.neavs.org/research/what-is-the-draize-test - a cruel test done normally in rabbits where chemicals\n    are poured into their open eyes and on the skin of rabbits - listen 
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There has been a special children’s book written - called “The 6 Foot Rats\" - presently in process to being sent to every school in NZ.
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https://www.nzavs.org.nz/the-six-foot-rats 
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It’s an important and powerful educational tool disguised as a fun and colourful children's book, by local artist Rebecca Gibbs.
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Also mentioned in the interview - Anita Roddick - founder of the Body Shop. The Body Shop was the first global beauty brand to fight against animal testing\n    in cosmetics and was the first company to be certified with the Leaping Bunny logo in 1997.
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China comes up as not focussing on animal experiments and cosmetics been sold into China. So China needs to be nudged into eliminating all types of experiments\n    on animals.
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NZ.Lush.com - comes in for a warm ‘shout out’ as it does not sell its products into China. Tara states that they are very good people\n    who donate to animal groups that work towards freeing up animals from experimentation.
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That today 100 million animals in the USA alone are being used in experiments 
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Note that corporations who say they do not experiment on animals UNLESS required by law - means that they sell into China - that they are not walking their\n    talk.
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Dr Ray Greek is a global champion for the cause. http://animalvoices.org/2017/07/drraygreek/    
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Why Animal Testing is Ineffective for Preventing and Curing Human Diseases.
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The New Biomed 21 group are a more humane health organisation who bring scientists and institutions from around the world to work towards more benevolent\n    ways of researching and testing products for human health.
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http://biomed21.org/about-us/non-animal-models-research-human-respiratory-tract-disease/    
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Ricky Gervais - Comedian and well known world personality, is one of the more stronger advocates on the world stage who speaks out on behalf of animals.
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New Zealand Politics
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Mojo Mathers - Green - initiated the ban on animal testing for cosmetics in NZ.
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Gareth Hughes - Green - is prepared to speak up on this issue too.
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Jo Luxton - Labour - in the past rescued an ex lab rat.
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The DARK SIDE
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Unwanted Chickens are killed by a conveyor belt - especially if males and don’t lay eggs.
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 https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/hack/chickens/7645698    
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Chooks still in cages today - a horror story laying eggs for unconscious buyers - the chickens are bred and designed to be trapped in\n    their own bodies and then in tiny, tiny cages to live and lay eggs as part of one large computerised, factory, industrial system. With no sunlight,\n    rain or wind, or soil beneath their feet
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Cows in NZ are expedient too. Whereas 60 years ago a cow would live to be 13 to 14 years of age - today they are basically exhausted at 4 and a half years\n    old and so are sent to the freezing works. However, they are being experimented on too. - listen 
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Vegan and Vegetarian choices - Tara is a vegan (and I myself, have not been a red meat eater or eaten poultry for 41 years.)
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Also mentioned is Geoffrey Hodson who spent his last years living in NZ, giving lectures and sharing his knowledge.
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Geoffrey Hodson. Was a clairvoyant who could see the dark 'thought forms’ above all freezing works or abattoirs across NZ - he realised clearly that animals\n    had a soul or group consciousness. As a Theosophist in those days - he understood that animals were sentient beings and needed to be treated with respect.\n    He was one of the few people on earth at the time who could see through the veils of the world into different, higher realms.
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 http://www.geoffreyhodson.com/Assessment-&-Conclusion-2.html 
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A very thought provoking interview from a strong and articulate advocate that needs to be shared across greater NZ and beyond.
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https://www.nzavs.org.nz 
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Hence the need for people who do not want to die and cease forever, is that they continue their life by endeavoring to shift their consciousness into a\n    machine or robot.\n    
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This interview neatly intersects with last weeks interview with Roy Harlow on Artificial Intelligence - AI - so if you enjoy this interview - you will\n    really get a hit from Roys powerful interview.
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This is one version of how Transhumanism is perceived:
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The Transhumanist agenda is more than just Artificial Intelligence (AI), or robots taking over human jobs, or transgender restrooms at public facilities\n    to accommodate an ever growing push for uniformity among the masses.
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Transhumanism is Posthumanism. It is humanism with the optimism taken out, a movement that advocates for the transformation and the “advancement of humanity\n    through technology” that runs the gamut from nanotechnology to AI. This paradigm is not limited to gadgets and medicine but also molds social, economic,\n    cultural, institutional design, language, and the psyche. 
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To be clear, Transhumanism is a manufactured endpoint to human evolution…
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Rosanne Lindsay, ND
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This is the Technocratic viewpoint:
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Transhumanism is a way of thinking about the future that is based on the premise that the human species in its current form does not represent the end\n    of our development but rather a comparatively early phase.
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Transhumanism is a loosely defined movement that has developed gradually over the past two decades.
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Transhumanism is a class of philosophies of life that seek the continuation and acceleration of the evolution of intelligent life beyond its currently\n    human form and human limitations by means of science and technology, guided by life-promoting principles and values.
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Max More (1990)
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The conjoining of man and machine?
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Today’s technologies are becoming so much part of our daily life, many futurists and technologists see a time when humans will merge with machines, or\n    is it that machines will merge with humans? We already have heart pacemakers, artificial knees, ear pieces, teeth implants etc, whilst the list becomes\n    longer each year. 
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So the gulf between “human” and “machine” is closing. Machine learning has enabled virtual reality to feel more “real” than ever before, and AI’s replication\n    of processes that were once confined to the human brain is ever-improving. Both are bringing technology into ever-closer proximity with the human body.\n    
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Bringing in Balance?
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Regarding the human condition, there is a lot of focus placed on basic computational skills of our left frontal lobes - but it needs to be balanced by\n    emotional intelligence which is part of our intelligence and in more common parlance our heads and hearts have to be working together - and that is\n    true intelligence 
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What is Soul and what is Consciousness?
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So, what is soul and what is consciousness? We need to extend this debate - hugely - what is the primacy of consciousness to the extent - is consciousness\n    all there is? That beneath the subatomic realm into the quantum field - does this connect at the deepest level into - consciousness? Sir Arthur Eddington\n    said, ‘the stuff of the universe is mind stuff’ whilst Sir James Jeans said; ‘the universes was one great thought.” 
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Robin mentions that we also need to consider that our intelligence also involves compassion, care and love and it is so important as we embark in this\n    new era of the computerised realm and that we must not lose our humanity - which is hugely important for our survival as a species and our planet’s\n    survival as a habitat for biota, but we also have a responsibility of guardianship - as well as for our flora and fauna - and that is only sensible\n    because they look after us.`
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‘Out of the body” and “near death” experiences confirm that humans have a detachable consciousness. (Soul Travel?)
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‘Out of the body’ and ‘near death' experiences are now experienced by more and more people (as the world population expands) 
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We have to cover the important information of ‘near death’ and ‘out of the body experiences.’ as the information that the experiencer relays, after the\n    event is incontrovertible There is now ample data on people from all cultures and all walks of life experiencing looking down at their bodies, be it\n    a sports field, a car crash, a heart attack or stroke or being operated on in a hospital. The question then who is that ‘I’?
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That from a standpoint of soul or a spiritual body signifies that even the non material or non corporeal body can ‘not only see, but remember as well.’
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See Dr’s Raymond Moody, Kenneth Ring and Elizabeth Kubler-Ross. Who have spent their life times researching this astounding subject. Then from the doubters\n    viewpoint - that all people who say such things is that they were hallucinating and that the mind is playing tricks on them. 
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Even though the people who were looking down on their bodies remember very clearly all the very concerned conversations that were happening as the doctors\n    frantically worked at keeping their body alive. Telling them afterwards what exclamations were said and what particular actions and even mistakes were\n    made. That upon ‘coming back’ - come out of it and they know it was ‘ Not time for them' - and they also never fear death as being the end.
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After experiencing these paranormal events, they become infused with compassion as well as a knowingness that will never allow them to doubt - and that\n    life after death is a certainty.
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The ‘Precautionary Principle’
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If we are going to be ‘smart’ about all this - we need to be cautious as to how machines ‘blend’ with humans - if that’s the right word says Robin. What\n    about purpose, compassion and intent - what does it feel to be full and feel joy and fulfilment? 
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Do we through our unknowingness allow certain things to filter into our consciousness - our ordinary day awareness - and conversely what are we finding\n    out and also letting in. Are we conduits or walking antennae? Many mystics would agree.
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Like when we are asleep or meditating. What are the processes? Like at one end of the colour spectrum we have infrared and the other end - ultraviolet\n    - animals and insects perceive certain colours and hear certain sounds that are of a different frequency - yet we humans cannot.
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So as we embark into augmenting what it is to be human into machines - we humans may be so unknowing especially of what is life and the ‘feelings’ of what\n    it is to live, to have children and to die That this all may be sublimated by the workings of an austere stark, machine intelligence. 
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The Transhuman Perspective
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Covering Ray Kersweil of Google as one of the more out there proponents of Trans humanism - and his statement is about the great coming ‘singularity’ where\n    computer intelligence will completely leapfrog/bypass human intellect and capabilities. 
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Breakthroughs in biological engineering are coming so fast we can’t predict how they will develop going forward. Crispr, a new type of gene editing technology is transforming our ability to design and edit the genome, was completely unanticipated;\n    experts thought it was impossible ... until it wasn’t. 
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Next-generation gene sequencing is decreasing in price, far faster than Moore’s Law for processors. In many ways, bioengineering is moving faster than\n    computing. 
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Today most promising of nine broad approaches to mortality and aging are genome stability, telomere extension, epigenetics, proteostasis, caloric restriction,\n    mitochondrial research, cell senescence, stem cell exhaustion, and intercellular communication. 
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So with Silicon Valley awash with ideas and scenarios - especially how to integrate nanotechnology into the human body, you can see the artificial excitement\n    of Transhumanism as tantalising for those who either don’t believe in soul, or those that just want to tinker and make fast, big money.
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The philosophical ramifications are huge with this current momentum of the fusion of science, technology with biological processes. 
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However, will it be one we sincerely trust that will address societal inequities, the retention of the richness and diversity of our natural systems and\n    indigenous cultures, rather than the somewhat simple and sterile dysfunctional futures depicted by many science fiction writers and futurists. 
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We have to recognise that our navel, our belly button connects us to the magic of the past of spiralling DNA, the family tree and the lineage of species\n    and not only celebrate our diversity within nature - but to honour it and reconnect with the sacred in all of this. All the way back to the accreting\n    gases and cosmic dust to the molten metals of an early forming Mother earth and before that - to stardust and the big bang, the so called ‘source of\n    it all.’
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5 G the Fifth Generational Wireless and Computer Network Technologies
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5 G Wifi comes up again as a major component and enabler to AI and robots by numbers - allied to the internet of all things - working on wavelengths in\n    millimetres - needing antenna and relay stations every 50 metres or so - outside everyone’s house - connecting everything to everything - driverless\n    cars totally under control - all ambulances given right of way and it is all under control. 
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But, if you are a suspect - the driverless car could, upon a command, lock all the doors and windows and drive you to the local police station.
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However with 5 G as most people have smartphones, we are all tracked and could be ‘corrected’ remotely - and sadly even our brain waves monitored. Yet,\n    a spin will be put on all this to tell us how very helpful this technology is going to be. First the hand holdphone, then the glasses and the watch\n    - then the body suit and finally the tiny implant under our skin. The ubiquitous use and interface with these technologies is going to be everywhere.
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Meanwhile quantum theory entanglement - that every thing in theory is connected within the universal - or background field, is omnipresent yet little understood,\n    is also present. 
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Back to 5 G - we will have faster download speeds - so that information is streaming in at us from all directions so that we find we are more than triangulated\n    into a frequency storm of microwave data and information. So the health question is what effect is it having on our bodies?
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But let’s have the discussion - let’s open this whole story of trans humanism and 5 G as they are essentially all connected - and bring all the information\n    to the world public. 
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Transhumanists, virtually all being atheistic - see the total zenith - the hopeful evolutionary capacity - as being held in our heads and our brains. (note\n    that the heart brain and the gut brain are definitely not included in this equation.)
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The Heart's Intuitive Intelligence: A path to personal, social and global coherence
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Eastern Philosophies and Acupuncture 
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Robin talks about the process of emotions etc plus the Eastern philosophies and understanding of the human body - being energetic first and material second\n    - like in acupuncture, that is connected by hidden meridians that Western Science still has huge difficulties with. 
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That through meditation - and getting our brain out of the way - allows our creativity to come through.
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That we need to be in a state of peace and compassion 
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Whereas transhumanists who do not appear to enter deep states of meditation and enter other deeper realms of consciousness - instead think that by marrying\n    up to computer chips etc that by this technology - they will instead not miss out in other ‘aspects’ of life. There is a wanting of more - before it\n    is too late and they die - to then basically wipe their hard drive and end the program.
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Another aspect is that in wanting to get people interested in this tech program is to have people dissatisfied with their life - to want more by way of\n    a computer chip upgrade. And that sets the scene for addictive activities. See last weeks interview with Roy Harlow.\n
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Hence the global encouragement for hand held machines and smart phones so that the youth become wedded to these technologies - so that they will not put\n    them down - that they may pick them up hundreds of times a day - pearing in for a magic formula so as to find happiness and fulfilment.
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Then you are convinced that you don’t need to hold it in your hand -and have it as glasses - i.e google glass, to Apple Watch on your skin and finally\n    what about a little tiny implant - the size of a rice grain - that can hold huge amounts of information with heaps of up-loadable space - and if you\n    do - you can receive benefits from certain other hi tech corporations - with big discounts to nightclubs and drinks or be able to jump the queue and\n    get into a rock concert before most others. 
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That may morph very quickly to rebates on home rates, no or lower charges for credit cards - all sort of methods to lure the unsuspecting into being chipped\n    and unknowingly becoming like Manchurian candidates for the future.
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Robin mentions that addictions are born daily out of loneliness and emptiness - we are never satisfied. And it is the younger folk - who have missed out\n    on any understanding of the great religions and spiritual teachings that will be targeted by AI and any compelling story about Transhumanism - the\n    selling point - ‘get it while it’s hot.” 
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All these scenarios.
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The interview also covers Rupert Sheldrake and ‘phantom limbs’ and ‘feelings of being stared at from behind.’ 
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5 G comes up again - many doctors are not satisfied that it is safe - whilst many professionals are relegating it to the field of not being important.\n    
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We are not taking a precautionary - ‘first do no harm” - stand - primum non nocere - is the Latin word that Doctors use. 
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It is the babies that will be the easily affected by 5 G plus Cats and dogs and bees to the bacteria on our skin.
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5th Generation networks are a world wide deployment - being done nearly all at once 
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Cognitive dissidence on a massive scale is happening and an almost cult like behaviour ‘enmasse’ is upon us. That we can impose this technology on our\n    body and TOTALLY improve our lives as a result, is what we are being programmed with. 
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Robots are now in health systems in the UK talking to patients - devaluing the face to face communications between carer and patient. 
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Robin talks about ‘human inter-relations - as a doctor to a patient - and sharing a commitment to care - empathy. However 5 G does penetrate the skin.
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The proponents of 5 G say that it does not penetrate the skin very far - however they have a very poor understanding of the ecosystem off the human body\n    - That our skin with billions of invisible bacteria covering us - and we are being irradiated from telephone towers 24/7 plus it is affecting our fertility.\n    
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Mothers Love comes up as well. 
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1984 and Brave New world - a fusion of these two stories is now taking place. 
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Have a listen.
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This article is not anti atheist per se - My parents were a cross between agnostics and atheists and they were very good, honest, warm, caring people.     I have numerous atheistic associates and we by and large see eye to eye on many political, environmental and cultural issues. I interviewed James Lovelock     of bringing to us the Gaia Hypothesis many years ago and he said that he was quite happy for his body to return to Mother Earth at the end of his life     time, with no expectations of anything else. Tim\n
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Whilst we, somewhat complacent, especially in the so called developed Western world, indulge ourselves in multiple distractions, Roy lays it out. That\n        AI is virtually ubiquitous and is silently in the background data mining and collating our every move. 
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The concerning thing is that above the seemingly isolated corporations, charging you for your power, telephone and internet, your downloads, mortgage,\n        rent and rates, plus groceries, and the credit card & EFTpos, banking chatter - of travel, hotels, bottle store, petrol and ‘incidentals’ -\n        what is the ‘super computer’ above all this, beyond Google and the NSA - that’s tapping into it all - into a vast planetary omnipresent - database?
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Roy nails it - as we have not been in the loop as to what the corporations have been doing with their technology - especially the Alphabets, plus the\n        British, Chinese, Indians and the Russians. Computers working in networks for the benefit of the business’s has been doing us well - however, when\n        we give computers autonomy and they are programmed to take care of their own agenda - where will this lead to?
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With the advent of algorithms and high speed super computing, the Americans have now jumped back into the lead over the Chinese - with computations\n        of ‘mega billions’ a second - when independent machines can learn to self repair and more.
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Registering globalvolume of calls, clicks and connections - networking on a global scale of all applications linking to a supergrid - the over intelligence\n        - over the top of human knowing - is on its way.
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We here at GreenplanetFM.com have made a huge effort to get you this information, however we do not have the manpower or the finance to transcribe\n        this all for you. We urge you to just listen for 10 minutes - after that you will realise that you need to listen to it all and catch up on what\n        you are missing.
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Do the goals of the computers have the same goals as humans? This is where the challenge appears.
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Note, that we do not know who to trust anymore because the economic machine is now too big to stop.
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Look at where they are at in America. 
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Has the nation become stronger as a result of handing over individual power to an ‘outside authority?’
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We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press\n        destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy the economy. ~ 
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Chris Hedges The New York Times best-seller; Wages of Rebellion: The\n        Moral Imperative of Revolt(2015); and his most recent America: The Farewell Tour(2018).
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The imperative dear reader is to take the red pill and listen to this show. One of the best!\n    
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http://www.natureofhealing.org/transhumanist-agenda-future-humanity/\n    
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/06/no-death-and-an-enhanced-life-is-the-future-transhuman\n    
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There are many myths about solo parents on the ’benefit’. These myths are perceptions that arise from stereotypes generated in public and private conversations.\n    
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“Myths often appear highly plausible, and they may even hold a grain of truth. But they far from represent reality and can cause lasting harm.    
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\"They allow the government and its welfare policies to be shielded from proper scrutiny and help explain why there is little public outcry as the safety net supporting many families and their children is progressively eroded.”\n    
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Myths such as ‘the benefit’ is a lifestyle choice, or sole parents are teenagers who can’t be bothered working, are very damaging.
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In fact the majority of sole parents are between the ages of 25 and 64, and have had jobs, but need to be at home with their children for varying reasons.\n    Just over 12% of sole parents are men.
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In 2013 there were 234,000 children growing up in families on benefits and it is estimated that in New Zealand that one in two mothers will have spent\n    some time on the ‘benefit’ by the time they are 50. 
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In 2017 the Labour Government announced a Families Package which has helped beneficiaries a great deal but unless we change the attitude of people generally,\n    there will always be resistance against an empathetic government.
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Chantelle Campbell grew up in West Auckland, where she still resides with her two sons. Chantelle has been raising her sons as a sole parent and has gained\n    a Bachelor of Social Practice while her boys were younger, and now practices in the community as a social worker and community developer. 
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Chantelle is passionate about human rights, social justice and easing the challenges that sole parent families face. 
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This has led Chantelle to founding, “Inspire Up Trust”, a charitable trust to support sole parents families to reach their full potential. 
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Financial support is required to get a web site up and running for the trust. Please e-mail if you can contribute.
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The two Facebook pages mentioned in the interview are “NZ Single Parents” and “Separation and Sole Parent Support”. 
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Yet he humbly focus’s his life on a message of care and due diligence and then broadcasts it across the silent airwaves to anyone who wishes to ‘tune in.’
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The radio wave ecological footprint is zero, but the message is huge, global in fact, and Roy has no limits.
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Mixing music, facts, anecdotes, humour and irony - RushFM finds a way to infiltrate your focus and enable you, if you want to take an in-breath, to recognise\n    truth from fiction, fact from fake the whys and whats - of … how does a human being live on a planet and in harmony with all life?\n    
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As politicians change their mind. Like before elections they say this is there goal - then afterwards they change the goal posts under the pretext that\n    ‘we have had to reassess the situation’ we have new information … stances are at first Yes – then 6 months later it is NO! Roy wants continuity\n    of stated purpose.
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Truthfulness – fairness – compassion – a positive contribution – these a writ components to life – politics is not.
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Roy’s observation of people today on 2018 is that there is an underlying level of anxiety that is more predominant now than ever before … listen\n    
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Covering some of the major challenges of the 5 G Telephone Networks – Fluoride and the mass medication of the community1080 Poison – and the discussion\n    comes around to poisoning of your adversaries – That’s what we are doing to the human race.
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This ever so subtle poisoning is all being done by minute parts per million – but we are still being poisoned – by poisoning rodents especially possums\n    – but the resulting leachate is ending up in our waterways. Listen
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Roundup and glyphosate sprayed on grass that is turned into silage and the cows are fed it – and then cows are milked that then goes to the factory …\n    for mass consumption at supermarkets - and we ask why more people especially children are unhealthy? Go organic immediately is the only current thing we can do.\n
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Roy’s question – How can you be your best as a human? – Especially if you ingest something (food or drink) that reduces your capacity as a human.Even though\n    we know what we are doing is basically insane – how can we just brush it off and pretend that is is not happening?\n    
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DOC - the Department of Conservation are dropping 1080 poison into the forests around Lake Taupo and the residue is finding its way via the catchment area\n    into the lake and river system - the Waikato – that flows in the direction of Auckland to then be pumped into the Auckland drinking water supply –\n    and the water is not been tested for any particulates or residue – and we wonder why at another level so many children have allergies? Roy mentions\n    that this 1080 has been filmed entering Lake Taupo. That some 14 communities source their drinking water downstream from its source – being Taupo,\n    the largest city being Hamilton.
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Not only this – but antidepressants plus birth control, heart medicine and a whole plethora of different medications are in this waterway – and just before\n    the Waikato flows out to the sea – Auckland Council’s Water Care – pumps and pipes water up to Auckland dams to then pipes it to householders in the\n    suburbs. That there are no steps taken to purify (filter) most of these medicinal residues out!\n    
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There is also a marked increase of estrogen in the water and Roy gives a tip for men – to take some fresh lemon drops in a glass of water every day – so\n    that it removes the estrogen and makes a man - a man again. Because the men are slowly feminising … 
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Telephone towers have 300,000 watts Our mobile phone only uses only 3 or 4 watts
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Listen it is well worth your while ... 
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Note that Doctors will never speak out against the profligate use of drugs, because the Pharmaceutical Corporations who control the whole industry - will\n    have you struck off!\n    
 
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Dentists will not speak out against fluoride, because the corporate Industry is lock stepped with big Pharma - so Dentist remain silent.\n    
 
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Water Scientists also remain speechless in relationship to 1080 poison - for fear of losing their job, due to pressure from higher up the system.\n    
 
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There is a lockdown on free speech in NZ – the word ‘gag’ is commonly used to close down free speech and this is becoming predominant.\n    
 
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Roy ends with a statement that humanity need to reconnect with God again.
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We have laws to protect free speech. Section 14 of the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act says, \"everyone has the right to freedom of expression, including\n    the freedom to seek, receive and impart information and opinions of any kind and in any form\".\n    
 
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Section 61 of the Human Rights Act makes it an offence to express \"threatening, abusive, or insulting\" opinions likely to \"excite hostility\" or \"bring\n    into contempt\" any group of persons on the grounds of \"colour, race, or ethnic or national origins\".
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The real issue is that the PC culture wars have been superseded by something much more dangerous. That is groupthink — as exhibited by the Prime\n    Minister, who made the blanket claim about the visiting alt-righters Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux, that New Zealand was \"hostile to their views\"\n    — and moral cowardice.
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https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12104928\n
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Neo liberal economics, turned loose on New Zealand by Roger Douglas and Labour in 1985 (and still adhered to by both Labour and National today) has failed.\n    The results speak for themselves - hundreds sleeping on the streets, in cars, in sheds and garages, hundreds more living in taxpayer funded motel units\n    because they have no homes, full time workers unable to afford their rent, a health system in crisis, inequality at its highest level ever, roads,\n    sewage systems, water supply and other infrastructure in disrepair, our \"clean green\" country under threat.\n    
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We need an economic system that works for people and the country, not for a favoured few. Such a system exists. It's called Social Credit. It has been\n    tried before in New Zealand and other places and worked brilliantly. It is being increasingly talked about internationally. It could work for us again.
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Funny Money
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\"Funny Money\", once used in a derogatory way to describe Social Credit, is a term that would best describe the stupidity of our government borrowing the\n    money it needs from private financial institutions when it could borrow from the country's central bank (the Reserve Bank), which it owns.
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This means that $4,500,000,000 of taxpayer money every year goes to pay interest when it could go towards things that benefit Kiwis.
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Social Credit is committed to fixing that, and putting in place a financial system that works for New Zealanders.
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Imagine if the government could create all the money that is needed.
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“Our own history offers us one of the most important instances of this being done. In the 1930s in the middle of the Great Depression, the great Labour\n    Prime Minister Michael Joseph Savage authorised the creation of new money so that thousands of new state houses could be built, thereby providing jobs\n    for the unemployed and homes for the homeless and – incidentally – an income-producing asset for the government.\"
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Quote from Brian Gould, “Creating Money for the Good of the Country”.
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Chris Leitch is Leader of the Social Credit Party and its finance spokesperson.
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Has been a campaigner for monetary reform since 1972.
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He stood as candidate in Whangarei in 1984 and 1987.
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He became the Party’s National President in 1989.
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After his party joined the Alliance, he became the first ever Alliance Candidate to stand for parliament – in the Tamaki by-election in 1992 after Rob\n    Muldoon stood down, coming in second. He and the team reduced an 8,500 majority down to just 1,200.
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Elected to the Auckland Regional Services Trust in 1992, Chris fought efforts by the government to force the Trust to privatise and was successful in keeping\n    revenue-earning assets in public ownership.
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Elected to the Waitemata Electricity Trust, Chris helped resist attempts by a foreign company to get full ownership and asset strip the company.
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He has served as Board Chairman of the Whangarei Youth Centre, and the Onerahi Primary School.
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He has been deputy leader of the party for two periods, once commencing in 1993, and again in 2014.
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He was elected leader last month.
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There is a growing awareness of what Genuine Progress Indicators do - as GDP includes all costs to the nation, whilst GPI, wants to address the losses to society. 
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Crime and family breakdown is seen as Gross Domestic Product 
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Household and volunteer work is seen as Gross Domestic Product
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Pollution and its consequences are seen as Gross Domestic Product
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Long term environmental damage is seen as Gross Domestic Product
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Even War goes through the books as... Gross Domestic Product!
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So all of the above, don’t really benefit society at all - as they are all major losses yet, Governments globally have always classified these as a measure\n    of economic growth!
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In this interview which becomes quite riveting in the end - Dr Coleman talks of the challenges of putting GPI in place within the government economic apparatus.\n    That prior to the 3 term National Party Key administration, that Labour Minister of Finance Michael Cullen was very interested in this concept - but\n    Labour was voted out of office - and he was not able to follow through in taking this forward.
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But in the meantime these losses are costing society and the country dearly! 
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Genuine Progress indicators is a ‘holistic’ way of seeing a more integrated bigger economic picture, that factors in the environment, as well as the community\n    as a whole.
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Holism 
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A holistic way is to view all the various facets to life in a more homeostatic way. As in a integrated whole of interconnection and interrelationships.\n    In this interview he mentions that when he engaged the leaders of the NZ Maori Party they instantly and intuitively grokked his reasoning as applying\n    to our planet - Papatuanku as alive - or the earth acting as one great superorganism.
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This was then extended to the Whanganui river being classified recently by the NZ Government as a living entity that has a vast catchment area of some\n    7,000 square kilometres. - The next question is, do we have the will to see the far larger picture as we further our knowledge of the interconnection\n    of life. (James Cameron in the blockbuster movie Avatar, introduced the moon Pandora as a living being and that all the tree roots interconnected in\n    one vast - neural network). See the Gaia Hypothesis - James Lovelock
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One of the larger challenges is that both in business and in Government there is compartmentalisation. Where there is very little to no ‘cross fertilisation’\n    or sharing - people are often in positions of ‘need to no only’ so they only understand a very limited perspective of how the whole organism/organisation\n    works. That the company or the Department is not acting as a ‘dynamic whole’ and thus efficiencies as well as enthusiastic participation - is throttled\n    back. When in a very connected electronic world - the imperative is energetic team spirit, that on a grander scale then spontaneously engenders novelty\n    and innovation. 
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Bhutan 
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This subject came out of the blue in that I was wanting to see what country was further along the ‘conscious journey’ of seeing the world in a more futuristic\n    and caring perspective. So knowing that Bhutan was a country that had a ‘happiness’ indicator I threw in a the comment - what about Bhutan?
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Well Ron came back to me and said he had lived there for 5 years - and so could tell us far more than virtually anyone in the West has heard. 
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 He said that they had a fairly enlightened King who wanted to gauge the feelings of the mainly Buddhist inhabitants of that small kingdom. With initiating\n    a Gross National Happiness (GNH) goal.
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What comes out of this discussion is that the Bhutan government wanted to float this idea through the UN so that other countries could participate. When\n    this happened - and though a lot of countries thought this was a good idea, there was pushback especially as this would have had to deal straight at\n    face value - with other countries poverty and all the other contingencies like clean air, water, land and food production, housing, education and health.\n    You name it.
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Synchronicity with what’s happening in New Zealand 
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Fortunately, this goal is still alive and well today and the present NZ government is putting a lot of attention into it..
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The Government's plan to announce the world's first \"wellbeing\" Budget next year resonates with business people if a big Waikato Inc turnout to hear Finance Minister Grant Robertson is any gauge. NZ Herald 10th July 2018    
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https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12086507    
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Then Ron takes his attention to what’s happening in the biosphere and the overlapping challenges and tipping points as to what we as a humanity are doing\n    to our planetary ‘life support system’. 
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Bangkok under water by 2033, which I question him about - because Al Gore said that the Arctic would be ice free in summer by 2013, and it has not happened.\n    Yet, the warming continues - see the temperatures in Europe over the last month. 
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Shift in planetary consciousness - 
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 The interview moves on to talk about planetary leadership and there is a vast vacuum in all governments globally. The fact that people are rebelling against\n    neoliberalism and the status quo and that of the whole Brexit domino situation etc etc. Listen
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Empowering Youth and Women 
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There is an acute need for empowering of the worlds youth and especially woman (and their reproductive rights) - to nurture their/our common future. Plus,\n    for them (that in this somewhat tumultuous world) to be in a healthy position to make this change possible. This is an area that we all intuitively know that as a human society, we need to engage in - and urgently.     
\n
Though we still have to trust that the top down model of leadership ‘may’ engage the population with an enlightened approach - the thrust of this whole\n    interview is about grassroots movements. An energised bottom-up regeneration and metamorphosis movement. This interview carried on to include many\n    small towns, villages and regions in NZ consciously coming together as small focussed communities. See main page GreenplanetFM.com   
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These are about farmers markets acting as a catalyst to bring the community closer together so as to have access to cheaper, healthier organic    foodas well as to network together plus organising aof time banks. Especially that volunteerism can be rewarded by time bank credits. 
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Other Initiatives  
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In Auckland the Manukau District Health Board now has worked alongside the championing of 70 community gardens in the area. The benefits are many, and\n    this can only encourage the community to healthily become more engaged and connected. 
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This was a very lively and empowering interview. We both came away ‘happy and empowered.’ 
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This subject of the horrors of child abuse has not been covered by GreenplanetFM, as this program is basically premised on environment, health and consciousness.\n    
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However a ‘chance’ meeting of Ludovic C. M. Romany the author of the book ‘Innocence’ shifted my perspective so as to tell the NZ public that there is\n    a major problem ‘lurking’ under the radar across this most fortunate yet unknowing nation.
With challenges coming to us daily via the worlds media\n- Child abuse - is an overwhelming subject and when we are bombarded with all the other horrors that the world media-corporations seem to hurl at us, I\nfelt to go more public on this important issue.\n
When a baby is born into the world, we at heart, want that baby to be loved and cherished, to be wanted, by both its mother and father - however if this\n    baby is unwanted and is instantly perceived as a burden - this can become hell on earth for this newborn. This in essence - is the story of Wi.
\n
However there is a happy ending to this interview of Wi, coming through this harrowing journey in his 47th year - he is healing a broken\n    heart and a shattered upbringing. This allows us the public to realise that we can always in the end, save the day. That against the odds, we can all\n    come out - ‘sunny side up’ 
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A profound account of how a little boy can come through this saga and still carry love in his heart gives us hope for all children who may have been born\n    into a world of abandonment and suffering. 
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REVIEW 
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JIm & Helen Moriarty 
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In one solid committed sit down, I was able to ingest the weight, the daunting but inspiring tasks of opening myself to the Mauri of Innocence.
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Innocence without question is a testament to the mana, the resilience, the survival of Wi Peepe in post-colonial New Zealand, against a backdrop of an\n    upbringing, that defies belief. A New Zealand where the horror of Wi’s childhood, the guilt and blame is attributed to none other than the monster,\n    the demonic force that is his father. So graphically detailed and truthfully portrayed.
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This is a harrowing, yet ironically beautiful account of Wi’s deep connection to his wairua, and emancipation from a life that leaves many dead in its\n    wake. That the occasional right kind word and action, amidst his nightmare existence coupled with a deep knowing of the healing, found in the constant\n    of the river and nature, were enough to feed the soul of a child. A child who fought the complexities and distortions of those around him, themselves\n    products of post-colonial alienation and cultural disenfranchisement….It is a window into Wi’s determination to fix the things himself and be\n    accountable, into societies shifting lens around the intolerable, and at times over zealous reporting and response to family violence and harm. ‘Thank\n    God for that.’
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In the end, it is about Wi’s purotu, the magic within, that never deserts him. That equips him along the way, that is part of his whakapapa, that is recognised\n    and supported by others, who could see beyond the battered exterior into Wi’s loving sacred self.
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Thankyou Wi and to your whanau for letting us in.
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Nga mihi aroha ki a koutou katoa.
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Jim and Helen Moriarty 
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https://www.romany.co.nz/\n
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New Zealand hasn’t been a social-democratic paradise since Rogernomics’ deregulation, selling off public assets, and slashing state investment.
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“Over the past 30 years, more than $350 billion has flowed out of New Zealand's economy to overseas banks and foreign owners of our assets.    
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At the same time, the share of the economy going to working people has fallen from over 50 per cent to just over 40 per cent, cutting NZ $20 billion a year from pay packets.    
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That's not a coincidence. Reducing employment rights and, more specifically, reducing the rights of New Zealanders to build economic power has led to a massive transfer of wealth away from the majority of Kiwis - our families, our communities and small businesses.”    
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We need to remove the temptation to throw more cheap labour or longer work-hours at a problem, and make investment in skills, productive capital and innovation\n    the better option.
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The situation that New Zealand currently is in can be directly related back to the National government’s Employment Contracts act of 1991. The Employment\n    Contracts Act (ECA), once it passed, had a devastating effect on workers’ rights and living standards in New Zealand. It dealt a body blow to the trade\n    union movement, one from which we’ve never recovered. Union membership almost halved between 1991 and 1995, with union density going from 41.5% to\n    21.7%,
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The ECA gave employers the right to refuse to negotiate with unions, and made it much easier to use lockouts and ‘scab’ labour or migrants to break workers’\n    resistance.
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It eliminated hard-fought reforms like compulsory union membership, compulsory employer-employee bargaining, and unions’ special place in this process.
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Listen to Robert’s interview including a shocking revelation about how New Zealand employers have been caught treating migrant workers, that feels like\n    the final nail in the coffin of assuming New Zealand is the world’s best place to live and work in.
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Robert Reid is President of the 28,000 strong FIRST Union after retiring as General Secretary in November of last year. 
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He talks about his life, his work in trade unions, the community and the role of trade unions today.
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Robert has recently been appointed to the NZ Government’s Welfare Experts Advisory Group. 
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From school age Robert was an organiser, forming a Students Union while still at High School, starting the Organisation to Halt Military Service to get\n    rid of conscription during the War on Vietnam and becoming the International Vice President of the NZ University Students Association in his first\n    year of university. 
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Dropping out of university and starting a family at a young age, Robert worked at General Motors in Petone for 10 years where he learnt his trade unionism\n    until, like tens of thousands in the manufacturing industries was made redundant as Rogernomics named after Roger Douglas the radical monetarist Minister\n    of Finance in the 4th Labour Govt. With its neo-liberal trade policies kicked in. Robert spent the next period of time working with unemployed and\n    community employment groups until returning to union work with the Council of Trade Unions as a regional organiser out of Palmerston North. 
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With the Employment Contracts Act of 1991 decimating the trade union movement, Robert worked in Asia for 6 years helping in the establishment and growth\n    of independent and genuine trade unions across the region. Robert came back to the NZ trade union movement helping to rebuild it again by being part\n    of the formation of Unite and with roles in the Trade Union Federation, the Footwear Union, the Clothing Union and then as President, then General\n    Secretary of the National Distribution Union which together with the Finance Union FINSEC, became FIRST Union. 
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During this period Robert also completed a Graduate Diploma in Economic Development and worked in the Green Party Parliamentary office for 2 years on the\n    Buy Kiwi Made campaign. Robert has also served on “industry good” boards such as Textiles NZ and the Forest Industry Safety Council.
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Robert lives with his partner, Maxine Gay in Mangere Bridge and is a doting grandfather to 6 grandchildren.
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All the sounds of nature coalesce and vibrate, in one vast symphony as in, for example, the dawn chorus of birds. The human contribution to this living,\n    nourishing element we call sound very often shows a lack of awareness, similarly to other aspects of the environment. A mindful use of sound can be\n    of great help in these turbulent times.
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In understanding sound ecology and the ‘phonosphere’ - that above the lithosphere (the rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper\n    mantle) and ‘within' the teaming biosphere - resides the all of nature’s creatures emanating their calls and instinctive sounds. But more so, the whistle\n    of the wind, the rustle of leaves, the murmur of a brook and the crashing of waves on a beach - everywhere natures dance emanates a soundscape that\n    delights and touches our senses.\n    
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Then we have industrial man - and we all know these sounds.
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But first ...
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In the beginning.
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In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and as the greatest story of Judaism, Christianity and Islam says - the word was with God and the\n    word was God. 
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And in this profound creation story a vibration made itself known … science is belated catching up stating that there was a big bang, when the greatest\n    vibration ever - burst into being …\n    
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And when we speak a word our first utterance has our vocal chord’s vibrating the air that comes out our mouth as a word - in the beginning was the word.
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So vibration is very much a part of the way our universe came into being, and also how this message has been carried onward - to you dear reader - even\n    today.
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Early investigations     
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Many years ago spiritual scientists were able to show that sound can affect matter and that by placing a hand full of flour on a plate of glass that was\n    about half a meter square and then running up the edge of it a violin bow - they noticed certain nodal patterns emerge - Evidently Galileo was aware\n    of this from his time in the 1600’s and this has been continued by the Theosophists in the 19 century and and Rudolf Steiner’s Anthroposophists in\n    the early 20th century. 
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Many experiments even showed that liquid can burst out of a pool of liquid when influenced by sound - which exhibited that form could come into being and\n    that standing patterns have been now shown to mimic geometric patterns in flowers and plants and even the shapes of jellyfish.\n    
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Present day unveiling.     
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We can now record trees and plants ‘singing to each other’ with musical sounds that are in many ways are both beautiful and mysterious. Also scientists\n    talk about the ‘echo’ of the big bang, the first movement of creation. 
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So the importance is to realise that we are totally surrounded by not only beauty and magnificence but so much more that is unseen, below our daily vision.\n    
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Which is a very good reminder for us all that we need to get away from our devices and computers and get back into the garden, where we can relax and just\n    be. Also by standing barefooted in the garden or in the soil - this ‘earthing’ allows us to once again restore our balance so that in many ways we\n    become a conduit between heaven and earth - or a tuning fork - or as Dr Robin Kelly says - a ‘human antennae.’\n    
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So when we look deeply into the atomic and subatomic realms - we see that not only is everything on our planet vibrating - we can feel that we too are\n    an energy bundle of sub atomic atoms within a vast planearty and universal energy field.\n    
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And yet there is more - when we still ourselves we may come to the realisation of the essence of who we are - this ‘something’ can touch our soul - heralding\n    a profound panorama of being - an opportunity to divine who we really are.\n    
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This is a vast subject that one can immerse themselves into - for a whole life time.\n    
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Moody Blues - Lyrics
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This garden universe vibrates complete\n    
Some may get a sound so sweet\n    
Vibrations reach on up to become light\n    
And then through gamma, out of sight\n    
Between the eyes and ears there lie\n    
The sounds of color and the light of a sigh\n    
And to hear the sun, what a thing to believe\n    
But it's all around if we could but perceive\n    
To know ultra violet, infra-red and X-rays\n    
Beauty to find in so many ways\n    
Two notes of the chord, that's our full scope\n    
But to reach the chord is our life's hope\n    
And to name the chord is important to some\n    
So they give a word and the word is Om
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In Search of the lost chord. in 1968
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www.thesoundhealer.org
www.soundofgoldenlight.com
www.soundofgoldenlight.bandcamp.com\n
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This interview with Roger Fowler was recorded on Monday May 8th 2018. 
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Many more have now died in protests not only in Gaza but in Jerusalem and the West Bank.
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At the time of the interview 54 Palestinians had been killed and well over 1,000 injured by Israeli forces since the ‘Great March of Return’ protests began\n    on March 30 2018. 
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The rallies are part of a six-week protest to mark what Palestinians refer to as the Nakba\" or \"catastrophe\" - a reference to Israel's establishment in\n    1948 and when 750,000 Arabs were forcibly removed from Palestine.
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On May 15, which is Nakba Day, and the Israeli Declaration of Independence, there were also protests going on about the US opening its embassy in Jerusalem.\n    A further 60 people dies and the numbers of injured reached 2,700.
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Roger will be covering a number of topics that include:
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Israel’s continuing lethal attacks of unarmed citizens gathering in Gaza
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House demolitions on the West Bank
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Author Dr Ramzy Baroud’s speaking tour of NZ talking about his new book “The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story”
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The upcoming 2018 international Freedom Flotilla to Gaza which will again include a prominent human rights advocate from NZ
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Roger Fowler is a veteran activist & community organizer, and played a prominent role in building the local protest movement against the war on Vietnam\n    and South African Apartheid in the late 1960s & 70s.
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He was manager of Auckland’s Resistance Bookshop and coordinator of the inner-city People’s Union community organization throughout the 1970s, an active\n    supporter of the protest occupation at Bastion Point, and union delegate in the car assembly industry. 
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Roger is director of the Mangere East Community Centre, and organizer of Kia Ora Gaza which has sponsored NZ involvement in several international solidarity\n    convoys to break Israel’s inhumane siege of Gaza. 
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He has led two Kiwi humanitarian convoys to Gaza which was featured in an interview on GreenplanetFM in 2016.
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https://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/roger-fowler-nz-humanitarian-convoys-to-gaza-peace-justice-palestinians\n
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Roger wrote the lyrics and the music featured at the end of the interview:
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Kia Ora Gaza: www.kiaoragaza.net\n
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In our society most of the models given are by media or peer groups or sports stars and they are very one dimensional - and young men are doing this in\n    an unhealthy ways - drinking a lot, doing drugs, a lot of sex with a lot of women and a lot of men, driving their cars fast and basically acting out\n    of integrity and being foolish.\n    
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He has localised his action and focus, to ‘pulling the strings of individuals into both unity consciousness and community’ - by bringing us cohesively\n    closer together. 
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In doing so, expanding outward, yet recognising our inner world - the core of our being.
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When I first met Will here in New Zealand, his relaxed manner made him easy to talk and engage with. I felt him considerate and able to listen to who I\n    was. I also got that he was focused - that he really meant that his ‘Now or Never’ call for humanity is both urgent and valid. That if children of today\n    and tomorrow want a future of freedom, peace and prosperity - we have to start now.
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Not only that - he is calling us all to participate. All of us who realise the precarious state that we have on our planet, be it environmental, economical\n    and societal. Why? Because at heart - we intuitively know that what is happening to humanity goes against the grain of how a human being lives on a\n    planet. Especially in a family context where love and connection need to be the foundations of a healthy existence.
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So how are we going to ‘take back our planet and biosphere? This interview touches on many subjects - that of being how to focus and also how to flow and\n    be one with nature. It also calls on us to be not only mindful and compassionate - but also to be courageous and show strength of purpose.
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www.willtwilkinson.com\n
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Tim: Time for a cool change? When you wake up in the morning do you bound out of bed thrilled to be alive. That's right springing into action ready for\n    a totally new day being full of zeal possibility and opportunity for our dearly life to think that you still have this youthful childlike puppy dog\n    zest for existence to burst into wakefulness as living in the moment definitely feeds and nourishes our soul yet here we are today. And we as a collective\n    humanity are finding that we are immersed and awashed in challenging times. 
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Intuitively we know that humanity's drive to fulfill all our physical and material needs is a continuous task of survival. A lot of it coupled to stress\n    and we in most cases have to do it on our own and often in an isolated family situation yet we instinctively know that there has to be a better way\n    and that we have to change we need to change. But how do we find this better way and what is a trigger that helps us and assists us to change, this\n    is the question. The old saying is getting faster and faster better and better and worse and worse still carries with it. 
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The urgency that we seven point six billion breath sharing human beings have to realize our connectivity to that of a greater whole. That somewhere our\n    umbilical cords all connect to a distant past that spirals back through time to a common source. And that today now we can either come together as\n    a conscious loving global family and commit to start mindfully co-creating, cooperating and collaborating to shape our common future. Or allow circumstances\n    to drag us down to that of a stark reality that doesn't bear well for us and all children. Thus we are now entering and now or never moment. A time\n    to say life has to be far better and joyful than this. 
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We could not have in most cases unelected entities and players pulling the strings behind the economic and political facade that is so out of touch with\n    a localized community people as a whole and all life within the biosphere. Something, somehow now has to happen and it has to start with us and it\n    needs to start with us. It needs to start with you and it has to start with me. Making excuses will only put off the inevitable. So for me as a radio\n    host it's now or never. Will that be for you? Remember the greatest journey is from our head to our heart.
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In the PlanetFM Studio\n
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In the studio this morning I have Will Wilkinson. He is from Ashland in Oregon USA. And he has put a stake in the ground for today and tomorrow's children\n    and the human race and all biota within the biosphere by writing a book called Now or Never. And as we all know, we need to now take care for our total\n    future. And Will has come out with a statement saying something wonderful is happening. And this wonderful thing that is happening is that people globally\n    are waking up they are wanting to commit to their children and grandchildren and to a positive optimistic peaceful tomorrow. 
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So Kia Ora Will, thank you for coming. I did a previous interview of you about four weeks ago I'm wanting now to follow up because you've inspired me and\n    many others. So Kia Ora thank you. 
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Will: Kia Ora Tim, it's tremendous to be here in New Zealand to be with you in person we did our show before when I was back in Ashland. And I've since\n    had about three weeks here in your beautiful country and it's great to be in the studio with you this morning. 
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Tim: I'm very happy that you are here too. Well because you've got a wealth of knowledge experience but you also have a certain intuitive knowing that\n    the strings of community locally and globally have to come together. And so what is your present thinking now or how you see things in relationship\n    to your book Now or Never. 
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Will: We're building a new world and we're building it with love. As I travel around I see that there are so many people who are awakening not just to\n    some kind of personal experience like personal improvement but to their contribution in the world. And devastating as so many of the signs in the world\n    are, they're feeling hopeful. 
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For me in New Zealand I'm captivated by the potential of this tiny country with three million plus people wondering what percentage of people would it\n    take in New Zealand to really shift consciousness. I think the opportunity here is much better than it is in most other countries.
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Tim: I do agree it's easier to change the minds of a small room of people than say a whole stadium full of people. Because you have less people to have\n    to convince. 
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Will: Well it's true and then there's this phenomena of herd mentality when you reach a tipping point some people have become familiar with the hundredth\n    monkey effect where consciousness shifts at a certain point when a certain percentage of people have made a shift then it seems to transmit to a far\n    broader range of people. 
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Tim: It's very true and we'll aim for this today and the interview is to be able to let people feel what you are saying so that they can tonight when they\n    go to bed dwell on this.
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Will: Well Tim I just want to return to your introduction which I thought was quite profound because you put your finger on the distinction of what's going\n    on in the 21st century versus what's gone on historically. Historically people start movement and they're rallied around something that people agree\n    is important. This is a very different kind of movement now or never is much more personal it relates to what is my task in the world, not jumping\n    on someone else's bandwagon but what is mine to do. What was I born to do in the world. And as I say in the book I feel it's now or never to personally\n    commit to whatever that is. Then the movement is a movement that includes people who are all giving their unique gifts rather than rallying around\n    one cause.
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Tim: Very true now the New Zealand has built a lot of its global awareness around team spirit. We had the All Blacks then the All Blacks have been consistently\n    as a rugby team. A very very successful group playing together. And then Team New Zealand's of the yachting team that won the Americas club number\n    times they said Team New Zealand. So there is a undercurrent of wanting to work together for the betterment of the whole.
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Will: It's a very important principle relative to what we're talking about I know in athletics they say that the measure of a really great player relates\n    to what they're doing when they don't have the ball when they're not the focus of attention. Because the team's success depends on everyone being aware\n    of each other and not just trying to do it on their own. So that's why I'm hopeful for New Zealand you've got that team spirit. It's actually right\n    in the culture the Kiwi way is to be generous together. 
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Tim: We trust in this process most definitely. Now well you've just had a quick tour of the northern half of the North Island. And you would have been\n    able to get a bit of feel for New Zealand and you see that you know we're so fortunate. You're driving along good roads, you're looking at farmland\n    the endless green admittedly we have just had a lot of rain recently and you've gone through you've driven through little towns. And the towns appear\n    to be doing quite well. The issue of is there are other people who are in their homes on the outskirts of town or areas of town where you don't see\n    but essentially at the moment we are a relatively prosperous country. And what do you see that can help us take this prosperity to internalize us to\n    get our riches from within to come out and spill out and work together as a more dynamic or synergistic community.
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Will: Well we did tour north of Auckland and a little south and I've been here three other times and people haven't changed. People here are very friendly\n    very warm and it is a beautiful country, my wife would move here tomorrow if she could. I think what I also notice is the apathy that shows up when\n    people are so occupied just making a living. And my experience with people is almost everybody has a good heart. They're concerned about the world\n    they want their children to be well. 
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But so many of us are distracted by what we need to do to make a living and that all the social media that's assaulting us, all the problems that are landing\n    on us, it's it's difficult for the average person to stop all that. To disrupt the machine that's rolling run like a train rumbling down the track\n    to interrupt the kind of kinesthetic direction of their life and go wait a minute what's really important. Because it's kind of like holding a penny\n    up to the sun, we've got a thousand pennies blocking the sun. 
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All these little distractions that really blind us to what's most important which is that we're in an emergency situation. The situation on planet Earth\n    is urgent and taking a stand means acknowledging that and asking what am I called to do about it. So as I tour the country on one hand I'm thrilled\n    with the people, love the country, the weather who wouldn't love New Zealand? 
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I'm also concerned about the apathy and this is not to judge anyone, it's built into the system. We're apathetic because it's also overwhelming right and\n    great and our leaders are not speaking up and telling us what they really should be telling us.
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Tim: I agree I mean my word as many ways as complacency. Yes is because we are a safe country and this has been particularly over the last 20, 30,40, 50\n    years, a safety net for New Zealanders. So it's been in many ways quite easy, it's getting tougher now. And so again a lot of people have to focus\n    on a job. So if you’re focusing on getting to work and taking care of kids and all families are wanting to have their children do sport, do music,\n    do ballet, everything outside schooling hours. And so that takes up a lot of your time as well that we haven't got time to also put our head above\n    the parapet to see what's going on. But also it's to go to workshops I mean this is one of the good things that happens in New Zealand. 
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There are workshops happening up and down the country particularly in the major cities where people come from particularly from overseas who have got an\n    understanding of how to from yoga to Tai-chi to being able to activate something within them just like you're doing now. And so I'd like you to speak\n    to that.
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Will: Well you use the keyword which is ‘activate’ and you know firsthand because you were in the workshop we did a couple of weeks ago, that my intention\n    is to help activate the genius that everybody shows up with. This is opposite to the attitude in school for instance, where students are considered\n    empty and need to be filled up with the knowledge that the teacher has that they don't have. Well this is endemic, it's a problem to all our systems,\n    a dishonouring of the genius that lies in each one of us as potential.
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I'm very concerned about young people because young people are the leaders of tomorrow. And real education is helping anyone but particularly young people\n    connect with the organizing intelligence of the universe. I use the word love, others may use the word God, it doesn't care what we call it but the\n    real education we need and the urgency of our times is to become deeply connected with nature with the power of spirit. 
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So that it guides us as a compass not a moral compass which is based in beliefs but a compass that's connected to the wisdom of life itself so that we're\n    flowing with the same power that's beating my heart, steering the stars, taking care of everything. Now as a parent that's a number one thing a parent\n    really wants their child to have is that compass so they know how to behave because they're not going to be hovering over them all the time. And they\n    want to feel when my child leaves the nest they're well prepared to live a good life on their own. 
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Tim: It's interesting I was at the Holiday Park where I work this weekend and there was about four families and they were an antenatal group and they decided\n    to have their holidays outside school holiday hours at this camp. And so all the kids in the families or all of the mums and dads and the children\n    come there, they put up a tent, they all live together eat together, the kids are running around barefoot climbing trees, they're down on the beaches\n    swimming, the kayaking, doing everything to give her a nice talking to these mothers and fathers. And they said all look the schools don't appear to\n    be too concerned about we taking our children away because our children are really experiencing things that you just can't experience in the city.\n    But not only that they're interesting one of them was reading a book. And he was only about nine years of age. Fantastic and then his father was just\n    behind him says yes he's always reading a book. 
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And then we talked over about the Star Wars and asked the children about the force. And I'm getting one in say five children say yes there is a force.\n    And I wanted to take this a little bit further. I said we're not speaking much about life after death anymore from a standpoint spirituality was part\n    of my life when I was a kid. We used to ask who was a Presbyterian, who was a Methodist, who was a Catholic, who was an Anglican. And we had this continuing\n    story about Christianity. 
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Well that's fallen away hugely but then the process so has been eliminated from the vernacular. You know I think we all must realize that soul is related\n    to spirituality and we are spiritual beings having a nice experience.
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Will: Well you absolutely tell me you've brought up quite a few points there and what you just said and introducing the concept of the force. And star\n    wars popular as those films were and I think they contributed something valuable in terms of the hero's journey. I've often pondered what would it\n    have been like if the franchise have been called star peace instead of star wars and the force. I think you are familiar with the book Power versus\n    Force by David Hodges. 
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Very interesting because I think force is the external evidence of power which is an internal reality and if we're only using force it's all about might\n    and control and power over others. The real power for instance in nature is different than that. It's a cooperative collaborate you could say it's\n    the ultimate team spirit because you've got billions of species all operating on the same power source.
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Tim: Completely 
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Will: And they're synergistic they're all helping each other so that's what we want our young people to connect with which is the power behind the force.\n    So that their force is guided by the power, the same power that's guiding everyone and everything else. 
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Tim: Agree particularly when you have a look at how bacteria work and also the fungi and the mycelium networks that when we look beneath as you say at\n    the lower level and see under the ground how all these networks interconnect and they actually break down food for the plant roots and for want of\n    a better quick way of saying it. But there is a coordinated effect of everything working together. It's like ant colonies, bee colonies, there is purpose.\n    And we human beings have seemed to jump the rails and not recognize that they are all these different kingdoms within nature that are working always\n    constantly for the betterment of the whole. 
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Will: Absolutely and I think a route to reconnect with that is to interrupt the busyness of our lives. Whether it means getting out of the office and going\n    for a walk sitting and meditating having a deep conversation with someone or oneself. I often think there's two aspects to our daily life there's flow\n    and there's focus. 
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A good example of how both are needed is you're having a dinner party and people are talking and it's very social and then someone dings a bell and you\n    know you have a 30 second grace someone says something everybody gets quiet and there's a feeling of reverence and a penetration there's depth and\n    then you carry on talking. And flow if all you ever did was just flow if all the kids ever did was just play in the park nothing would ever come to\n    focus. They would enjoy themselves and there'd be kind of an osmosis but think of it when a teacher a real teacher says look at these plants feel your\n    connection to them hold this grasshopper in your hand or whatever it is, cicada, sense your kinship with that very different species. How does that\n    feel. Now just that interrupts the kind of a unconscious experience that we're all in distracted by really and brings a focus and allows something\n    to shift.
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Tim: Very good. I was in Australia and I had a Japanese group that came down and some students came down. And so I went and got some cow manure and some\n    soil and I put that in the box I made up a box and I distributed some radish seeds to each one of those. And I only was going to have these students\n    for a very short time and so I got them to plant these radish seeds in the soil and we had a little ceremony. And then we watched over the days these\n    radishes grow and then on about 21st or 26th day and we had a little ceremony and we picked the radishes out and gave them to each one and we had a\n    relish eating moment. 
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Will: That’s great!
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Tim: But they saw something start from nothing and they couldn't believe it that cow manure would offer them something. And I mean we gotta hit the humor\n    of us as well. 
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Will: So, what a great education for them, to see life working. 
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Tim: Yes yes and you can do all sorts of little things I used to get carrot tops, I used to bring carrot tops in and put them in a little saucer full of\n    water. And after a couple of days the carrot top would show a little bit of green a little bit of green and a little bit of green and we watched this\n    and it came right up to full moon and then I carried on putting the carrot tops after full moon and they didn't grow. 
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And they had to wait another two weeks right of course the energy was descending and it really made me realize how powerful the learners in the whole game\n    plan. 
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Will: Yeah exactly but you're reminding me of an experience my wife and I had just a few days ago, we are the the Tahara Retreat Center in Taupo and right\n    behind our cottage was the garden and my wife is a big plant lady so she was out talking to the gardener and this was a woman whose gardened for 20\n    years. And she said you know I've learned over the years with gardening not everything works out. Some plants grow, some plants don't. And you can't\n    really tell what's gonna happen sometimes the tomatoes go off, sometimes it's zucchinis, cucumbers, beans whatever. So she's very philosophical about\n    it but she doesn't stop gardening. 
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And I was thinking that's what our lives are like. Some things work out other things don't do so well. We tend to blame ourselves or try and fix things.\n    Well the main thing is to keep on gardening. And what do we do when we are gardening we make sure there's enough light there's enough water there's\n    enough nutrients and I think that's the attitude to have about everything in our life to feed it and nurture it and to be not attached to the results.Because\n    it's not up to us what grows and what doesn’t grow. 
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Tim: Yes I go barefoot and so I'm barefooted in the garden and I know that I'm Earthing myself. And if the sun is shining and this busy bird lives well\n    it's just time out. And it's a magnificent time though just bay and I think this is where we again fall back into ourselves and realize.
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Will: Well Tim you and I were talking earlier about the show and I mentioned a quote from my book and I want to read it it's very short because it relates\n    to everything we're talking about. This is from Henry David Thoreau. “I am made to love the pond and meadow, as the wind is made to ripple the water”.\n    Now that's a very simple one-sentence quote I'll read it again. “I am made to love the pond and meadow as the wind is made to ripple the water”. Now\n    I'm a writer and I believe words are magic. There's a spell in these words, I am made to love the pond and meadow. In other words as a human I am designed\n    to give something of value into nature. 
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Now that itself is a radical idea because usually we're in awe of nature we go into a forest and we're receiving. What am I giving? “I am made to love\n    the pond and meadow” - to me that suggests a higher function in humans that we are here to bring a divine presence a current of love as he describes\n    it into the world. 
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Now how many of us have accepted that responsibility consciously? That's what now or never is about really. I'm sitting here in this studio with you. I'm\n    here consciously to contribute whatever I can that might bless your listeners, that might enrich their lives, might help you. That's my attitude and\n    I feel that's the natural attitude that we're born with, that we get educated out of. Creators natural creators are turned into consumers. What can\n    we get instead of what are we here to naturally give. 
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Tim: It brings it back to co-creating we are here as co-creators and working together. And I've been on enough working situations with people that we might\n    have a small project to do and if we completed in one day and we all stand back and move we've made a little shared or something like that and at the\n    end of the day we all stand back and think wow look what we've done. Everyone is everyone feels good. That’s just you know standing up. 
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Now if we can get our people there's so many people unemployed at the moment and this is I know that just a day working with the unemployed and you achieve\n    something they’re ten feet tall when they walk out of there. Because for the first time maybe in years they've validated and experienced some success.
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Will: Well you're talking about something extremely important and in my experience the change that we're looking for is turning duty into enjoyment. If\n    we're doing something out of a sense of duty I should do it the motivation doesn't really last that long. When someone, when the boss isn't looking\n    we'll stop working, tools down. Right but if what we're doing is a joy to do if we really enjoy it we don't need anybody to motivate us. We don't care\n    if there's a boss cracking the whip we'll keep on doing it. So it's natural to enjoy being alive. Why can't we educate ourselves and our young people\n    to include what they need to do to make a living as something enjoyable that they want to do. 
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Rather than what you should do this you should learn this trade to make a living. No what do you want to do, what do you feel passionate about. Do that,\n    let me help you do that, contribute to society, love being alive. 
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Tim: We again when we're putting out and we're doing good for doing good seems to also allow us to meet situations that benefit us. I have a lot of synchronicity\n    in my life. I trip over it. I mean just last night just last night 
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Will: It's a great image block, the tripping over synchronicity I'm gonna use that and I'll give you credit.
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Tim: And just yesterday, last night, evening, I ran into a journalist and I've met him previously and he came over and he wanted to talk to me. And he\n    just wanted to talk about what can we do to make the world better. And he stayed close on half an hour and we shared and I didn't expect that because\n    I was vacuuming my car to make it all tidy for you when I picture of this morning. And he told me he said he's working with people and they are amazed\n    at what he's done in his life. And I said yes because the story is the young ones aren't finding the mentors to assist them to flower and to get creative\n    to be involved and to do just something that will fulfill them.
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Will: Well this is such an important part of our potential success is that those of us who are of our age were both longer in the tooth. Stop being so\n    preoccupied with ourselves and become available as mentors for others which means we take an active interest in them and create a field of nurturing\n    where their genius can flower. Now that's a wonderful thing and sadly in our culture we don't really honor elders that way. We may revere them but\n    how do we help older people become elders who are mentoring youngers who really need them. That's a big question.
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Tim: It is because as parting farewell was that he said look I might take it to the editor that you do an article around mentoring. And said, I should\n    all keep that door open because there are so many people just looking for something. 
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And this is a local publications called Mahurangi Matters and its it's a real community magazine. And they're popping up all over the New Zealand at the\n    moment whereas the the larger newspapers for suburban newspapers they're falling off because the only based around selling advertising. And so the\n    communities is wanting more connection well more connection.
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Will: More evidence of what happens when people care for each other. I had something happen the other day, it was very humbling. I was in my office in\n    Ashland and I was alone just doing some writing and the door open and some woman came in really in a state of consternation. And I didn't know who\n    she was and I went out to ask her how it could help her she presented herself as a crazy person and I drew back. I was quite nervous suddenly who was\n    this and she felt it immediately. And she said oh you don't want me in here you want me to leave. And of course I I heard that and that kind of brought\n    me to my senses and I took a step towards her and began to engage with her. 
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Within about thirty seconds, she told me that her son had just committed suicide and she was trying to deal with it and no one was helping her. And she\n    was crazy with grief and so I reached out and I held her and we cried together. And that was so humbling she stayed a few more minutes and then she\n    left thanking me but initially I rejected her. I didn't have room for her because she brought a disturbed energy into my life and I'm not proud of\n    that. But I tell the story because it's a learning moment for me. We need people who are available to handle what others bring to them. And I learned\n    a big lesson there and I know that that improves my ability to help people. 
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And I'd like to tell the story because it reminds me of how I can be dismissive of others who I just judge. I was judging her and I think we need more\n    compassionate listeners people of whatever age who are available for the grief the heartache the pain the suffering the confusion that others are carrying\n    that they don't have anybody to talk to about. Why is our suicide rate so high. I mean for a person to take their life and thousands are doing it the\n    rate for young people is just heartbreaking. It's because they have no one that they really feel is listening to them, that really cares about them.\n    
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I want to be I want to grow into a person who can who has that capacity and I really feel humble in this. I have a way to go but I'm conscious of it and\n    so I'm developing my ability to do that. 
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Tim: Yeah I had a situation a wee bit like this two up at the Holiday Park. There was a lady she might have been about odd no fifty-five, she didn't look\n    healthy, she was not pretty, and she seemed to have some scars on her arms. And she was staying in her little campervan and she'd come back with some\n    force to a kitchen and prepare her food. And so I felt to ask her how are you going are, you enjoying yourself here. And so she came back she said\n    all of this place is lovely. 
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Anyway we’d developed a conversation around it and I just checked my to make sure she’s okay. And then I met her a couple more times over next few days.\n    And in the last day she was leaving and she came up to me and she said “Can I hug you?”, I said sure. 
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Will: That's great
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Tim: And I didn't look to see if anybody was watching or anything like that I hugged her and I held her. And then when she went away and just around the\n    corner I heard her say “Yipeee”. 
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Will: What a great story. See that's exactly what we're talking about here, it's called compassion. You reached out to her and you really heard her. Imagine\n    now the ripple effect from that going out in her life touching other people that are to know her.
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Tim: Yes, yes, yeah, well the fact we share breaths. You see why the whole radio program is premised in many ways as an environment, health and consciousness,\n    they’re all interlinked. And the fact too - and I've made it clear many times is that at a localized level our planet lends us a body. It lends us\n    free fresh air, free rainwater, and a free food chain until recently. What are we doing in reciprocity? 
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And it's the fact is we are connected to this magnificent superorganism Mother Earth that we need to be able to be thankful and grateful for the fact that\n    we're having this breath because if we didn't have this breath in one-and-a-half minutes you and I'd be flat on the ground. 
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Will: Well exactly I mean I'm reminded of the phrase to whom much is given much is expected. And we've been given a lot every moment we’re given a lot.\n    What do we do in return? There are people who are wondering how to save the world. Well you know it's a nice sentiment but who is standing right in\n    front of you are you seeing the woman who needs a hug right in front of you. 
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I was thinking the other day about that story in the Bible where a Centurion approached Jesus and said my servant is sick and I'd like you to heal him\n    I know I know you could. And Jesus said something like I haven't seen faith like this in all of Israel. And the Centurion loved his servant and he\n    believed that Jesus could heal the servant. So Jesus apparently said okay let's go let's go to heal your servant. And the Centurion said no we don't\n    even need to go there to speak the word and I know my servant will be healed and he was. 
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And the message of the story to me is totally pertinent to what we're talking about, number one the Centurion loved his servant, he wasn't just a servant\n    he was his friend. That provided a medium of transmission from an elder who had power because he was connected to source to flow it through and create\n    a healing independent of space and time. So right now you've got people listening to the show if we're sharing this quantum moment, if we have true\n    faith which is not in beliefs, it's not in a religion, but it's faith in love, faith in life. And we just open and we allow that life to flow everything\n    and everyone we love is touched by that transmission. And that happens in the quantum moment we don't need a stadium filled with 10,000 people we don't\n    need to be on television with a million, each individual can be touched in the quantum moment by the gift of love. If there's someone to transmit it\n    and if there’s someone who has the faith to receive it and let him move out into their world it all happens in our consciousness.
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Tim: I remember that scene well was Ernest Bergman they played the Centurion and it was Robert Powell who played Christ and in that moment. So I mean we've\n    a connected to the field yeah this is a field it's an intent. 
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Will: Yeah it's a wonderful word the field I have my field you have yours we share a field we grow a field together a family has a field. Imagine if we\n    were all consciously nurturing our field and like any culture a field grows something. You know a petri dish a culture and a petri dish will grow bacteria\n    or whatever what is the culture in my field growing. I would like it to grow more love well how do I do that by expressing love. I often say to people\n    if they're feeling unloved if there's a lack of love in their life be more loving because the first one who experiences what I express is me.
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Tim: I come from a farm in Matamata lovely farm had a crystal clear stream running through it in those days it's still fairly clear but I wouldn't drink\n    the water now. We once upon time I could swim and drink and dad offered me the farm and not only that he knew every cow by name, every cow had a name.\n    And I wanted to go to the bright lights big city but that's where I actually grew in the end and work up. And I said to dad why do you really want\n    to give up the farm and he said because I refuse to take one more calf away from its mother. Yes and if anybody has been present when a farmer takes\n    the calf away from it’s mother they're traumatized. They’re both traumatized. The cow is moving and trying to get through the fence to get to his calf\n    and the calf is bleating and it is a horrible scene because the love of the cow for its baby. 
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And this is part of the bigger picture that of mother Earth she has all the animal kingdom all the babies come from mothers. And if you have a look at\n    polar bears if you have a look at horses you have a look at dogs or cats you will find that the mother has a very very powerful connection with its\n    babies. And we need to be able to instill the way parents to have this connection with their children so much so that they'll say it's now or never.
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Will: Well you're reminding me of what chief Seattle said when he finally signed the treaty with the white man he said that the white man should take care\n    of the animals and we've done a terrible job of that. In fact early experiments on animals were done on the basis of believing that animals were incapable\n    of feeling pain. 
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Tim: That's right oh yes 
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Will: Which is crazy I mean they'd make a cut in the animal would cry yeah what was that. So that in a sense is hopeful a hopeful sign we've evolved. We\n    are becoming more aware the exceptionalism that separated humans from animals and plants and all the other species for some of us is beginning to fall\n    away. We're realizing that we're one of a billion species on the planet and we need to cooperatively live together on this sphere the pale blue dot\n    as as we were talking about earlier.
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Tim: Carl Sagan said it very clearly that within the biosphere we are one and there is this thing called unity consciousness and I adhere to it very closely.\n    And to bring this ideal through it is the challenge of the day.
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Will: Well and let's give some hope to our listeners and remind ourselves that less is more. We live in a culture where more is more more money more love\n    more sex more food more everything. But the science around for instance Andrew Curran Disruptors in the health field has proven that as you diminish\n    the dose of a toxin you get to a point where a toxin is able to slip into the body under the defenses of the immune system. So in the past toxic reactions\n    were measured from a certain starting point upwards so the more toxin the more poisonous effect. Then someone had the brilliant idea to ask well what\n    happens if we measure lower in other words under that starting point. If it would say five milligrams four milligrams three milligrams two milligrams\n    etc much to their surprise they found that the impact on a body from a toxic exposure increases as the dose goes down at a certain point because the\n    immune system doesn't recognize the threat. 
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So we're all flying under the radar. I'm one person I'm small I'm not an army of ten million. What does that mean, it means that I can stay under the radar.\n    I can get into the system I am in the system we're all in the system. And if anyone has ever dropped a drop of ink into a glass of water they've seen\n    how that ink spreads out and covers the whole glass and before you know it the whole glass all the water has changed color. 
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So we should feel encouraged with our size not discouraged. We don't need a billion people all agreeing with us. Each individual is under the radar expressing\n    the qualities that are moving into the system. And I use the term love, that love is the quality we want to be expressing that infiltrates under the\n    defense system of the deep state as the words some people use, how do we affect the deep state. We stay under the radar and go underneath and get right\n    into the system expressing the qualities that will change it. 
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Tim: Yes very true we need to be wise in the way we go about instead of reacting we do have to react in certain situations but we have to make sure that\n    we have got a solution that is people friendly and planet friendly. And there's just heaps of work to do.
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Will: Well and to be smart about it as you're saying be wise we we lost some money years ago investing it with a company where we discovered that the head\n    of the company was railing against the government all the time. And he was painting a target on his chest and finally the government showed up in his\n    compound in Costa Rica confiscated all his funds and we lost our money. Well he didn't need to be so vocal about his criticism of the government. See\n    what I'm saying, he wasn't flying under the radar. So we can be aware of what's wrong in the world. 
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Me and my wife and I live in America and there's plenty to complain about there. But what actually makes a difference is to introduce what's missing. So\n    if we see the evidence of hate and judgment and ignorance we can acknowledge it but then what do we put our passion into is it hating on someone else\n    it reminds me of that phrase and I may have mentioned it too before Tim because it's one of my favorite evidences of hypocrisy Tom Lehrer the folk\n    singer back from the 60s and 70s he introduced a song National Brotherhood Week this way. 
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There are some people who do not love their fellow man and I hate people like that. I think that really says it because we get very hypocritical you know\n    in our country people are just rabid about how terrible Trump is. Well you can see that the man has some severe limitations but am I going to express\n    the same way that he does in reaction to him if so we're all doomed. It's like saying he's putting holes in the boat and we're sinking and I go we'll\n    all put holes in too and then we'll sink faster.
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Tim: And I'll scream it out
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Tim: And I think this is when going into polarity all the time and I think as we get more adept at conflict resolution and resolving different varying\n    points of views we'll be able to get people at the same table. Gorbachev Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan were able to sit down and finally sort\n    things out well between the Soviet Union and America. And they both committed to it which again you have to honor what they realized was going to be\n    a horrible future if we didn't.
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Will: Well and I think the key there was they started from the endpoint and worked backwards. And you know that my work is like that we begin with the\n    vision of what we want we agree on that. And the definitive book on this is called getting to yes by Bill Yuri and Roger Fisher and they used that\n    in the salt negotiations in the former Soviet Union successfully. You start with the end in mind and then you negotiate you work your way towards it.\n    But if you don't have that initial starting point you just fight. So that's what's missing say in politics and economics everywhere where we have these\n    massive problems don't start with the problem start with the end goal that we can all agree on. 
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We want our children to feel safe, we want our women to be equal to men in every regard, we want a healthy environment, we want respect for nature on and\n    on and goes, we can agree on all these things. It's not rocket science. Where we differ is in our approaches to how to achieve them ok let's agree\n    on where we're going and then discuss how we're gonna get there.
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Tim: Interesting got an email just yesterday last night from two men from the States who came down and they spent some time with me and I said Tim with\n    your radio program what sort of positive affirmation can we offer up. And we came to the conclusion we all want fresh vital water we all want pure\n    clear air we want a food chain that is organic and nutrient-dense and healthy for us. It's a “we could all agree on that” and so this is how we build\n    it out. And again is assumed this is best synchronicity I didn't realize that this is another one tripping over me because these two men have just\n    landed in Auckland and I haven't seen them for ten years.
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Will: Well and this harkens back to where you began quite a while ago in our conversation teamwork and how New Zealand is known for team spirit. When we\n    start with the goal in mind that we can agree on we're on the same team. So often people fight because they think they're on different teams and they're\n    trying to win. We're on the same team it's the human team it's one team. So if we can start with the goal that we share then we can honestly discuss\n    our often very different viewpoints on how to get there. All it is is differences in navigation. We could go left down here we could go right over\n    here now we know where we're going. 
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Tim: Good now can you build out from this particularly in relationship to your workshop and the Now or Never book.
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Will: Well Tim I think the number one thing is to actually do something different. You know Einstein said the definition of insanity was to keep doing\n    the same thing and expecting a different result. So listeners if they agree with what we're saying to get a different result in their life they'll\n    need to do something different. Now I don't know what it should be, I can only take care of myself offer suggestions it might be helpful for other\n    people. 
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My book Now or Never it's available on Amazon. It's filled with suggestions, ideas, visions. One of them I'd like to share right now if I can which is\n    the easiest available for listeners is I set my smartphone for noon every day and when my little alarm goes off I stop what I'm doing no matter where\n    I am and I have a little mantra that I recite. and I suggest to everybody do this why because it interrupts the flow we were speaking about earlier\n    to introduce some focus to bring life to focus for just a few seconds. What I say is this is the moment and I'm building the future with love and then\n    I pause the moment I just enjoy nature whoever I’m with and then I go back to what I'm doing. 
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Now that takes me 30 seconds if that it changes my day so I suggested listeners who may find that appealing set your alarm and then say whatever you want\n    to say I just you know gave the example of what I like to say but that introduces a new discipline into life. A reminder is like a mini meditation\n    that I am responsible for the future for what I'm doing what I'm expressing to help create the future. That's one tangible thing anybody can do.
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Tim: Yes so I'd call it a memory dynamic - it is to hold you in your tracks for a moment and taking the breath
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Will: Yep yes 
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Tim: And and this breath can be really big 
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Will: Yeah and then something else which you also mentioned earlier the early the first words in my book are something wonderful is happening. And I think\n    we are so locked into an old paradigm of starting with problems that need solutions and then we get bogged down and discouraged. Instead I recommend\n    starting with the vision that something wonderful is happening. My heart is still beating I'd be grateful for that I'd like to stick around for a while.\n    The sun's coming out, the clouds come over, the rain falls, the children laugh, someone's being born. 
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There's a lot of wonderful things that are happening so when I remind myself of that at the very beginning, it creates a framework that allows me to handle\n    the worst things imaginable because I'm I'm framing them in a positive way. 
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Tim: When you rang me last night I think that was my response to you yeah well telephone call when you call somebody you can say hi Joe or Betty or Norma\n    how are you I want to tell you something wonderful is happening and that is your home and I can speak to you on the phone. 
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Will: Well I'm just gonna share this with you it is so relevant yeah I was sitting in a booth like this 35 years ago being interviewed on a radio program\n    up in Canada by a woman I had never met and at one point during the interview I showed her a card that I had made up it's my business card and on the\n    flip side of its be thankful. Now I learned that when she saw that, inside she grimaced and she thought boy is that ever corny. And she really reacted\n    to it. But this woman ended up coming to see me as a client and I learned that she had some severe personal problems which I was able to help her with.\n    
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Long story short she later became my wife. We shared a wonderful 3, 4 years together and then went different directions because we were meant to but she\n    was touched by exactly what we're talking about. Connect with life with gratitude her initial response was to push away because she wasn't ready for\n    that but she told me she couldn't forget it. It kept working in her like a little seed and finally grew she made three appointments with me before\n    she actually came. She'd make them and cancel them and finally she came and she broke down completely because her life was in real trouble. So I was\n    able to help her just by presenting that one thing be thankful. 
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Tim: Oh this is story time, at the Holiday Park again where I do work I have many many wonderful experiences because as a community leader in many ways\n    and I like that to be able to see people interrelating. And this are a number of older folks here and they all walk through the park from time to time\n    and I'll go up to them and see them and I know them quite well now. And the other day everyone had gone home it was just absolute a storm and there's\n    nobody there except a few of these people and I looked around them I saw that there's nobody's here so I said to them, guess what there's nobody around\n    you can hold hands now. 
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Will: That’s great.
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Tim: And it's good because the majority of the cases believe it or not the woman just flower of a smile and the man pull away, the man pull away. And yet\n    the other day I found a couple and the man just sort of embraced his wife so much more and they both smiled because there’s a tendency to forget and\n    then we need to be grateful for the companion that we're with because and 20, 30, 40, 50 years ago they told each other that they loved each other\n    dearly. And I just interviewed Bruce Lipton last week and he's got the book The Honeymoon Effect. 
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Will: Yes I love that 
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Tim: Yes I mean if you were in love before the honeymoon why can not you touch this elusive the profound magical feeling of love 20, 30, 40, 50 years years\n    on. 
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Will: Well my wife and I have had some real fun booking into a hotel and mentioning that we're on our honeymoon and sometimes a person registering us will\n    say oh well great well we'll give you a bottle of champagne or something. We say we don't really drink champagne and she'll say well when did you get\n    married will say well 20 years ago. We’re still on our honeymoon. 
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Tim: Yes. I'll tell you what you brightened up their day too.
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Will: Yeah absolutely 
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Tim: And I think this is the magic of it is be able to share this this resonance we could have radiated if you can. 
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Will: You're right when we're in this stream like you and I are talking with each other which is thoroughly delightful and hopefully the listeners are\n    enjoying this, we get our sense of humor back and that can be infectious. I was going into a theatre with my wife the other day and feeling really\n    high we were having fun together and I said to the clerk one senior and one child, my wife is 59. And the woman laughed and said, okay and that’s what\n    she charged us for. So I think people are just ready they're poised to have more fun to experience more meaning to feel good about their lives to experience\n    some healing all it takes is someone showing up with a field that will nurture them and help them do that. 
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Tim: The checkout operators and shops and go to supermarkets that's when you can also bring some levity to the situation, they love it. 
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Will: And I don't think we ever can know the impact we have on others. Just from our casual social interactions how do we know that the guy who we pay\n    our gas to isn't involved in a deep crisis and all he needs is just a moment from a stranger of showing that he cares about him to heal something and\n    maybe change the course of his life. We never know. I think we have a bigger effect that way than getting on stage and talking to people or something.\n    It's those little interactions day by day that can really affect people's lives. 
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Tim: Well again everybody's my brother hello brother hi bro can I do anything for you and I'm now even interesting as a male, woman I'll call em sister\n    say hi sister yeah good to see you and it brings in another level of connection because there's less separation.
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Will: Well and also you know we mentioned a few stories earlier about Jesus he said what you do to the least of them you do to me. Right?
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Tim: I didn't know that 
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Will: What you do to the least of them, you do to me. So when I look at someone I think here's the Christ, what's my attitude. Is it just some kind of\n    belief and spirituality or do I really see the divine in everybody that I meet and treat them that way. It's an honor to be in your presence because\n    you represent the divine.
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Tim: Wow that's a very high high high night of being is to realize that I am you and you are me and we are one and we are all together. 
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Will: Koo koo kachoo 
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Tim: Thank you, that was John Lennon wasn't it. And I think Magical Mystery Tour?\n    
 
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Will: Absolutely, I am The Walrus. 
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Tim: Yes yeah yes because when he was really informed Roger Waters of Pink Floyd, \"Oh strangers meeting in the street, by chance to separate causes meet,\n    and I am you and what I see is me\". Wow that's profound stuff that comes out.
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Will: Really and breathe, breathe in the air, remember?
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Tim: And don't be afraid and afraid to care yeah. 
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Will: Tim it's so delightful talking with you, thanks for welcoming me into your studio here in Auckland I hope we get a chance to talk again.
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Tim: Well we must definitely, we'll make that. Because one of the good things with your backup and follow through to your book Now or Never that you will\n    Skype with the people who went to your workshop so that connection remains no matter if we are here in New Zealand and Tomorrowland and you're following\n    about 16 to 17 hours later in the United States because we on a planet that has different time zones we can still be straight through. 
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Will: Exactly we need to garden together 
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Tim: Very true yes because the garden that we've got is the most profoundly majestic and beautiful planet that we have been given. Thank you so much.
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Will: Thank you Tim
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Tim: That was Will Wilkinson of www.willtwilkinson.com\n    
 
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We at heart know that we cannot stand aside and allow our children and grandchildren to be overtaken by continued degradation of our magnificent home planet,\n    anymore - This along with the moral and ethical malaise that daily via unfaithful (MSM) media erodes our efforts of goodwill, truth, joy and connection.
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Taking a Stand
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We know that we have to take a stand. Why? 
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Because there is no leader - particularly in the political domain calling for and standing up for the future of children and the biosphere. 
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We are realising that we must be the ones to take this stand. At the deepest level of soul - this is the incarnation that we have committed to - to make\n    the shift of the ages and take back our planet as a bio harmonic living Gaian system as well as integrating and dissolving into a loving, holistic\n    global family.
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Another Way of Seeing Who We Are
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Will is here to explore and share how we as ‘cells of the planetary body’ can connect with other localised cells and clusters of cells - and self organise\n    our way to creating the trim tab factor* and finally break free of the old thought patterns of dysfunction and fragmentation. By dynamically awakening\n    possibilities within our own being - and across our nation - especially in small clusters of cells ‘we finally come together’ and become an inspiration\n    for the rest of the world - hungry for positive community based change, peace and perpetual optimism.
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The imperative being we must break free of dystopian movies and propaganda and instead plant and germinate seeds of heart oriented change and connection\n    - that we intuitively hold so dearly - and we need to do it now.
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This very short 55 minute interview with Will, will allow you to feel his sensitivity and his inherent knowingness that this is a time for service to the\n    greater good and the larger whole. 
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Now or Never -  the Book.
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His Now or Never book puts a stake in hallowed ground - to gracefully initiate change at multiple levels. With Sacred Activist - Andrew Harvey’s gripping\n    Forward and acknowledgements by numerous holistic and transformational leaders of North America - Will’s lead-in - captivating first chapter - sets\n    the template for enabling this long awaited global transfiguration to finally show up and take place. 
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Will is taking a workshop on the 10th and 11th of February 2018 here in Auckland including a free evening info talk prior to this event.
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Wednesday 7 February OR Thursday 8 February 7.00pm to 9.00pm at 137 Hinemoa Street Birkenhead Auckland.
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To Register for any of these events people can PHONE 09 418 2971 or EMAIL nowornever2018nz[at]gmail.com 
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In reading his book -and talking with Will, I can easily feel that Will is a fellow traveller - a Renaissance initiator, journeyman, crew member, Gaian,\n    inner voyager and lover of the natural world and all biota.
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He is happily married and his wife will be accompanying him on his trip around the curve of the great mother - to be with us.
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To me it will be well worth being in Will's orbit whilst he is here in Aotearoa - he having journeyed here twice before. 
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For those anywhere in NZ beyond Auckland - please click on Planetaudio.org.nz - and play ‘listen now’ at 8am Thursday\n    the 25th NZ time and it will stream direct to you.
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The Trim Tab Factor
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* The Trim tab - is a very little rudder that is embedded in a larger rudder on say a yacht - whilst the main rudder is used to ‘point the yacht into the\n    wind, it then sets the course, but by having this tiny little ‘trim tab’ rudder - set at a deeper angle/degree - what this does its subtly point the\n    yacht ‘higher’ into the wind that it will not be noticed over say 10 to 20 kilometres but over a hundred to two hundred kilometres the yacht is seen\n    to be half a degree more into the wind’ Hence getting ‘a jump’ on the other yachts that do not have a trim tab rudder - it then is at a greater advantage\n    in taking the lead. - This is where NZ can position itself when we have ‘conscious’ governance.
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We Are All Nerve Endings of Mother Earth - Gaia
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James Lovelock who reminded us of Gaia - intimates that we 7.6 billion human beings are the nerve endings of Mother Earth. (i.e cells) That when someone\n    stands up in the Amazon basin with a sign that says ’No more deforestation’ they are a nerve ending of the planetary body stating that this part of\n    Mother Earth is suffering hugely. Same for a person standing with a sign in Palestine - stating ‘ Peace Not War” - they are telling all other nerve\n    endings globally who see this, that this part of Mother Earth is in horrific trauma and needs healing.
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Will is here as a ‘conscious nerve ending’ - to share with us ways to bring a greater consciousness to the other 7 billion plus nerve endings - and who\n    all share breath.
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Question?
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Do you wake up in the morning happy with the world and thrilled to be alive?
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Well that may have been the case a long time ago - yet we are witnessing daily a world in turmoil with no respite whatsoever in sight.
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Answers?
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Have you any answers to this situation we have all found ourselves in?
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With 7.6 billion humans living on a spectacular planet that lends us bodies, free air, free rainwater and until recently a free food chain, how is it that\n    as inhabitants on this tiny blue planet - orbiting a moderate size sun, midway on the outer arm of a medium size galaxy we call the Milky Way - we\n    have found ourselves captive to a deceptive psychological mind game that instead of realising that we all share breath as a global family - we have\n    been programmed and polarised into fortified areas of us versus them.
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Every major country is building up arms at increasingly costly levels - as military industrial machines compete with each other in an escalation that defies\n    description.
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Over one $trillion a year is being thrown into death and suffering and yet humanity have no say as unconscious governments pretending to be democratic\n    - are not interested in resolving conflicts across borders - and instead obstinately dig in and ramp up fear.
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Well as in the introduction - it’s time for a stand - and to hold the line. 
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‘We’ Are a Grass Roots Evolution
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Yes, this is a grassroots evolution - it's the only way we can displace and grow around the top down pyramid model that has set the template of control\n    for millennia. Localised grass roots networks are the key to claiming back ‘the commons’ and it is with your help and commitment it can be achieved.\n    Hence Will’s fortuitous arrival here in NZ. 
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By being an activated conscious cell (nerve ending) - communicating and connecting with other cells and allowing synergistic energies to synchronistically\n    come into being - this is when intuition and group dynamics inspire us with innovative and novel ways of growing into a greater dynamic whole. 
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Connection is everything
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Connection is everything, just like shared breath - and as we know many trees have deep rooted systems that connect like gigantic mycorrhizal fungal networks\n    of underground hypha - that link with other tree roots which commonly knit as the ‘world wood network’ - They can communicate and collectively manage\n    resources, thanks to “some kind of electrochemical communication between the tree roots” 
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We now have to become this knowing and resourceful, if we want our children and grandchildren to have a free prosperous and peaceful future as we are at\n    multiple tipping points within the biosphere’s increasingly delicate ecology. Nature does not have anywhere near enough time to evolve systems of balance,\n    change and compensation - due to the increasing global population that has been programmed to own more and more planned obsolescent material products\n    and things.
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What Will is here in NZ for is to take willing self motivated us, through three powerful stages of learning.
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He has the skills and the know-how to teach us and empower us make this jump in changing old habits and patterns.
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With the people that he trains - they can go out and train another group of people - replicating his methods and inspiring us. This is how we can be change\n    agents of conscious evolution - and take us into a new paradigm of mindfulness, goodwill and global family.
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To do nothing is not an option.
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It’s ‘Now or Never’.
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Greg has written the detailed notes below on the subject.
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WHAT IS OFFICIAL INFORMATION?
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Ask yourself what it would mean if the forensic truth of the 9/11 event became Official Information?
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Were that to happen, then the arm of justice would be enabled to investigate, charge, and prosecute the perpetrators, and pronounce sentence.
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Why would that matter? Well it may serve as a valuable deterrent to those who would undertake similar criminality, from further acts. The whole basis of\n    the criminal justice system is to deter crime.
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https://russiarobinson.wordpress.com/2014/06/03/classical-school-of-criminology-a-foundation-of-todays-criminal-justice-system/    
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TWO PROPOSITIONS:
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A. Would criminal discovery and prosecution with suitable penalties, appropriate to the crime of mass murder, deter further terrorism efforts by state\n    and state associated actors?
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B. One way to consider the question is to argue the opposite point by inferring that no criminal discovery or prosecution will deter further terrorism\n    by state and state associated actors.
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Which of the above has a strong coherence with reality A or B?
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AN APPROACH TO FIND TRUTH IN A SEA OF SPIN:
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Greg asserts that there was a general rapprochement and trend toward de-escalation of aggression between the major powers at the turn of the century and\n    millennium. 
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Kyoto and UN Millennium Goals are indicative of this trend.
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FALSE FLAGS – WHY CREATE A CRISIS WHERE ONE DIDN’T EXIST?
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Previously Governments and powerful actors have used false flag events as a means to disrupt the peace and move history in a particular direction.
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To make the case about False Flags take a few minutes to appreciate that these are common and often perpetrated by government actors: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2016/02/58-admitted-false-flag-attacks.html 
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9/11 WHAT OCCURRED?
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In penetrating to the truth one needs to review the evidence and conflicting theories that are proffered to explain the evidence. Make sure one looks at\n    all of the evidence, and that one can discriminate between factual and counterfactual.
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What happened on 9/11 see timeline below: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_for_the_day_of_the_September_11_attacks    and,
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9/11 OFFICIAL TIMELINE
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7:59a.m. American Airlines Flight 11, a Boeing 767 carrying 81 passengers and 11 crew members, departs 14 minutes late from Logan International Airport in Boston, bound for Los Angeles International Airport. Five hijackers are aboard.
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8:14 United Airlines Flight 175, a Boeing 767, carrying 56 passengers\n    and nine crew members, departs 14 minutes late from Logan International Airport in Boston, bound for Los Angeles International Airport. Five hijackers\n    are aboard.
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8:14 Flight 11 is hijacked over central Massachusetts, turning southwest.
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8:20 American Airlines Flight 77, a Boeing 757 with 58 passengers and six crew members, departs 10 minutes late from Washington Dulles International Airport, for Los Angeles International Airport. Five hijackers are aboard.
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8:42 United Airlines Flight 93, a Boeing 757 with 37 passengers and seven crew members, departs 42 minutes late from Newark International Airport, bound for San Francisco International Airport.\n    Four hijackers are aboard.
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8:42–8:46 (approx.) Flight 175 is hijacked above Albany, New York,\n    about 140 miles north of New York City, turning south.
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8:46:40 Flight 11 crashes into the north face of the North Tower (1 WTC) of the World Trade Center,\n    between floors 93 and 99. The aircraft enters the tower intact.
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8:50–8:54 (approx.) Flight 77 is hijacked above southern Ohio, turning to the southeast.
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9:03:00 Flight 175 crashes into the south face of the South Tower (2 WTC) of the World Trade Center, between floors 77 and 85. Parts of the plane, including\n    the starboard engine, leave the building from its east and north sides, falling to the ground six blocks away.
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9:28m Flight 93 is hijacked above northern Ohio, turning to the southeast.
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9:37:46 Flight 77 crashes into the western side of The Pentagon and starts a violent fire.
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9:45 United States airspace is shut down.
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9:59:00 The South Tower of the World Trade Center collapses, 56 minutes after the impact of Flight 175.
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10:03:11 Flight 93 is crashed by its hijackers and passengers, due to fighting in the cockpit 80 miles (129 km) southeast of Pittsburgh    in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. Later reports indicate that passengers\n    had learned about the World Trade Center and Pentagon crashes and were resisting the hijackers. The 9/11 Commission believed that Flight 93's target\n    was either the United States Capitol building or the White House    in Washington, D.C.
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10:28:22 The North Tower of the World Trade Center collapses, 1 hour, 42 minutes after the impact of Flight 11. The Marriott Hotel,\n    located at the base of the two towers, is also destroyed.
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10:50:19 Five stories of part of the Pentagon collapse due to the fire.
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5:20:33 p.m. 7 World Trade Center, a 47-story building, collapses (from Wikipedia;
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_for_the_day_of_the_September_11_attacks    )
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MOTIVE:
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Motive is the same as it always is... create a crisis and profit from it... the fact that this one has been in the making for decades or longer doesn't\n    lessen the truth of the motive nor the reality of it... control and profit.
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This time the crisis is large enough to ensure the solution is global.
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The same interests stopped or disrupted the Kyoto settlement.
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The world was heading toward a rapprochement at the end of the 20th Century. For \"the Enterprise\" to profit requires heightened insecurity.
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There's more to the motive that I cannot yet say with any certainty, however I keep digging with open eyes and allowing the truth to come in.
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One issue is the money gone/lost/misappropriated/redirected from the Pentagon budget announced by Rumsfeld the day before 9/11, US$2.3 trillion. The number\n    is over 6 trillion now and unlikely to be sorted before 2020 or some such. Where is that going, or getting siphoned too?
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-audit-army/u-s-army-fudged-its-accounts-by-trillions-of-dollars-auditor-finds-idUSKCN10U1IG    
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http://www.globalresearch.ca/pentagon-cannot-account-for-6-5-trillion-dollars/5541244    
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And the cost of the wars? Who gets that?
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https://sputniknews.com/us/201709291057824332-us-defense-department-more-lies/    
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http://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/files/cow/imce/papers/2016/Costs%20of%20War%20through%202016%20FINAL%20final%20v2.pdf    
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http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/lbilmes/files/the_financial_legacy_of_afghanistan.pdf    
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http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2017/05/29/How-Will-We-Pay-6-Trillion-Bill-Wars-Iraq-and-Afghanistan    
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THE MOTIVE IS HOW TO GET THE US INTO WAR:
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War on Terror is the war to divide and conquer the world for those who are creative enough to imagine it and bold enough to do the deed.
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My paper in April 2016 to the Foreign Affairs Defence and Trade (FADT) NZ Parliamentary select committee's TPP treaty examination, is essential to appreciate\n    the extent to which the US economy has been gutted and turned to reliance on munitions and security manufacturing and service provision. It addresses\n    the post WW2 history and considers the plan laid out in the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) report; “Rebuilding America's Defenses” against\n    that which is observed in the post 9/11 wars and the catalysing event or “new Pearl Harbour” crisis event that the report prophesised:
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https://www.dropbox.com/s/8ix8z0zguuf7h66/US%20%E2%80%93%20%20Aotearoa%20NZ%20Values%20-%20Do%20These%20Correlate.pdf?dl=0    
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Not only that - the whole war on terror became an opportunity to outsource or privatise the war making effort to companies such as the multinational corporation\n    Halliburton, and the mercenaries across Afghanistan and Iraq etc..
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The Rebuilding America's Defenses report advocated for a huge increase in military spending, preparedness and capacity to both transform the military and\n    fight on multiple fronts/theatres... it was prophetic on so many levels that it must be considered a model, blueprint, or designer wish list.
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Wesley Clark's evidence of the War planning at the Pentagon, is also telling: 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RC1Mepk_Sw 
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War economy on steroids = What is war about???
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Ask Gen. Smedley Butler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nStSg75BNY 
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I came across his career in 2006/7. I wrote this in Nov 2007 on the eve of Armistice Day and then didn't write anything else for a few years, saying to\n    myself what else is there to say... see essay \"Lest We Forget\"
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https://www.dropbox.com/s/7miq7ia5nfzwbl5/Lest%20We%20Forget.pdf?dl=0    
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My first bit of research into 911 was November 2006. (not all the links work anymore):
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https://www.dropbox.com/s/tpr03n4ni602h05/911%20The%20Greatest%20Lie.pdf?dl=0    
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LESSONS:
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Unless the 9/11 truth is properly considered, in all its ruthless genocidal ugliness, through Official Investigation and Justice systems, the litany of\n    false flag events, already scorched into the history of power relations in the world, will continue. Our digression into criminal justice informs that\n    opinion.
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What to do about it? 
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What needs to happen to circumvent odious control of the Earth and its people?
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KEY POINTS:
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Whom ever controls the world, and \"hijacked our peace with 9/11\", then controls our NZ deep state.
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It co-opted the US state and made it go to war for a lie! 
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Who said go 9/11? Answer this question and help the world toward peace!
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9/11 and our alliance with the UK/US Empire got the NZ Defence force Community into the so-called Terrorist War on Afghanistan inOctober 2001, and Iraq\n    in 2003, despite the NZ Government knowing that the Iraq war was criminal.
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HOW GREG SEES IT:
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The following is an essay I wrote December 2016 hi-lighting the material I've placed before the NZ Government, and the Official Information requests I've\n    made, regarding what the government knew about 9/11,which are blocked from release by virtue of the Catch 22 nature of the Official Information Act\n    provisions 6 a and b.
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http://values-compasspointsinaposttruthworld.blogspot.co.nz/2016/12/working-on-open-egalitarian-and.html    
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LIFTING THE LID BIT BY BIT:
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The lid appears to be lifted a little by elements of the semi-independent agencies and elements, however none in any serious media are looking at 9/11\n    truth. Wikileaks provides this... 9/11 pager transcripts from the day:
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https://911.wikileaks.org/files/index.html which requires a lot of time to get\n    across.
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And others talk about Wikieaks in these terms on 9/11:
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http://911blogger.com/news/2010-07-22/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-annoyed-911-truth    
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GATEKEEPERS KEEPING 9/11 TRUTH SUPPRESSED – why do they do this?
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George Monbiot and Noam Chomsky both go out of their way to belittle 9/11 conspiracy theorists, however people have done work to refute or rebut their\n    rubbish:
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Chomsky: https://off-guardian.org/2016/10/11/analysis-of-the-sophistry-of-noam-chomsky-on-911/    
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Monbiot explains why he believes the official version in 2007: 
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http://www.medialens.org/index.php/alerts/alert-archive/2017/846-george-monbiot-responds-on-syria.html    
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FAKE NEWS AND CONSPIRACY THEORISING:
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Noticed the campaign commence in the immediate aftermath of Trump's election, with this article by Andrew Smith at the Guardian:
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/25/pedlars-fake-news-corroding-democracy-social-networks....to\n    which I wrote the following critique and attempted to engage the Guardian comments moderators, who deleted my comment from the article.
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http://values-compasspointsinaposttruthworld.blogspot.co.nz/2016/11/pot-calls-kettle-black-hypocrisy-of.html    
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HOW PEOPLE CAN ASSIST WITH THE DISPERSAL OF 9/11 TRUTH:
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Inform oneself about the forensic truth of the event.
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The perpetrators used nuclear devices amongst other agents to achieve the observed destruction. 
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That one piece of information might be difficult to digest, however, what else accounts for the thousands of cancer deaths and diseases suffered by WTC\n    First Responders, Ground Zero Workers, residents and workers from the WTC complex vicinity, particularly those in the path of the toxic dust cloud\n    created with the steel and concrete of the WTC building structures:
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http://911history.de/aaannxyz_ch01_en.html 
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Christopher Bollyn's Solving 9/11\" gets us to the Zionist connections to the event including fingerprints of the various IT, Intelligence and Security\n    interests with so-called Israeli connections to the event: 
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https://wikispooks.com/wiki/File:Solving_9-11.pdf 
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In terms of evidence - \"911 Research\" is a repository of 9/11 discourse, evidence, photo, video, reports and assessments most of which were generated by\n    2006:
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http://911research.wtc7.net/ 
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Note 911 Research does not promote the no-jetliner thesis, however the evidence store is extensive, including the reports on the movement of WTC steel\n    etc to the \"Killing Fields\" temporary storage site. Note Killing Fields and associated areas display high radioactivity.
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There is the evidence of insider trading suggesting foreknowledge of the event. However the crime is larger than that. 
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A writer with the pseudonym EP Heidner wrote an extensive paper entitled \"Collateral Damage\" which highlights \"the Enterprise and it's NSA/CIA connectivity\n    and the relation to the so-called Japanese and German war treasures, known as the \"Black Eagle Trust\". Heidner makes the point that the Office of Naval\n    Intelligence was investigating various securities when most of those from the office were killed on 9/11 - they were housed in the area of the Pentagon\n    that the missile went into.... perhaps Heidner was a survivor or close to the investigation - that's one mystery, available at links:
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https://www.scribd.com/doc/9442970/Collateral-Damage-U-S-Covert-Operations-and-the-Terrorist-Attacks-on-September-11-2001-28062008    
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https://wikispooks.com/wiki/File:Collateral_Damage_-_part_1.pdf    
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None of the above offer a whole truth, however each adds something to the jigsaw..
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IT IS CLEAR THE OFFICIAL NARRATIVE IS FALSE:
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This fact in itself requires that truth be discovered and uncovered given the consequences as the US and its coalition of willing genocidal maniacs laid\n    waste to the near East nations, Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Libya and Syria, now Yemen with the tension being ramped up on Iran and particularly North\n    Korea.
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We need brave people bearing truth to take over the Official Information channels creating the ground for a full investigation of the 9/11 event.
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HOW DO WE EMPLOY OUR INTEREST IN 9/11 TO ‘MOBILISE FOR JAIL’ FOR THE PERPETRATORS:
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1. Forensic Investigation
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2. A commission of inquiry with power to summon anyone to provide anything in order to find the truth.
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3. Global jurisdiction to arrest, detain and deliver to justice any so ordered by the commission.
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4. An international panel of jurists to hear the charges and determine sentencing and any liabilities in relation to losses whether human, community, public\n    or private assets, any damage to environments or any other losses that can be reasonably argued such as damage to future generations of the above,\n    through toxic or radioactive or other damage incurred through the 9/11 fall out.
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5. The commission of inquiry is further charged with discovering hidden social, political, cultic, Masonic, religious, or other associations, and or networks\n    public, private, government, mafia, or criminal that enabled the 9/11 event, it's transmission, commission, silence, andcomplicity both before and\n    after, and anything circumstantial that the commission so determines, in order to establish clear conclusions about the conspiracy.
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6. The commission is requested to make recommendations to all about how to ensure there are no further repeats.
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STATEMENT OF INTENT:
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The clear requirement is that the people of the planet can no longer be held to ransom or terrorism by any entity.
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BIO: 
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Greg Rzesniowiecki, aka Gregfullmoon, has evolved to fill the role of public advocate specifically on behalf of the public interest concerning the TPP.\n    As is evident in the interview Greg has a wide set of interests which contribute to his perspective and worldview.
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Born in Australia, and having worked in engineering and as a union organiser, Greg moved to Motueka where he was a member of the Renewables a local climate\n    action group. He quickly came to realise that unpacking the 9/11 event would have profound implications for public perception of their governments\n    and the governance of the planet.
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Greg has spent considerable effort informing himself about the 9/11 evidence and what that means in respect to how the event was conceived, developed,\n    and implemented and the consequences that flow from the conspiracy to punk the US government and people into believing the Muslim terrorists hijacking\n    4 planes and crashing them into US assets.
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Appreciating the 9/11 truth allows one to appreciate that your government is not your friend!
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It lies to cover up the 9/11 truth.
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It lies to covering up illegal war making and criminal aggression.
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This interview was sponsored by The Awareness Party. 
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ADDENDUM:
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PSYCHOLOGY DEPARTMENTS BECOMING ACTIVE IN ATTEMPTING TO DEMONISE CONSPIRACY THEORISING AND INVESTIGATION- two instances amongst many:
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1. Paper by three psychology professors, \"Connecting the dots: Illusory pattern perception predicts belief in conspiracies and the supernatural\"
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ejsp.2331/epdf\n    
The paper's premise is that the Official 9/11 narrative is the whole truth! When was that tested in academia? The paper is peer reviewed...to which\n        I responded with;
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https://www.dropbox.com/s/q7s5p7ikb6k58g8/Gmail%20-%20Your%20paper_%20_Connecting%20the%20dots_%20Illusory%20pattern%20perception%20predicts%20belief%20in%20conspiracies%20and%20the%20supernatural_.pdf?dl=0    
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2. https://theconversation.com/why-people-believe-in-conspiracy-theories-and-how-to-change-their-minds-82514    The author Professor Mark Lorch of Hull University also refused to engage.
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Also a complete think tank on the subject of conspiracy theorising in Europe is curtailing free speech:
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https://twitter.com/COST_conspiracy/status/911152729262829568    
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http://www.cost.eu/COST_Actions/ca/CA15101 
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http://www.cost.eu/COST_Actions/ca/CA15101?management 
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Note: two (2) of the authors of the paper ,\"Connecting the dots: Illusory pattern perception predicts belief in conspiracies and the supernatural\" are\n    on the COST Comparative Analysis of Conspiracy Theories (COMPACT) action committee... who's job is to...
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...”this Action will adopt a comparative approach, investigating the causes, manifestations and effects of conspiracy theories in different regions and\n    times, and drawing on insights from history, politics, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies and psychology. The Action will pursue the inquiry\n    in three broad areas: the manifestations and modes of transmission of conspiracy theory in different historical and cultural contexts; the variety\n    of actors and audiences involved in the production and consumption of conspiracy theories; and the psychological and cultural causes and political\n    consequences of belief in conspiracy. Working closely with stakeholders, this Action will build a better understanding of conspiracy theories in order\n    to develop an effective response to them.”
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At no point do they investigate the veracity of the Official Information that the conspiracy theory might question, or refute... i.e. the investigation\n    of what happened to cause the 9/11 destruction experienced. Thus the psychology paper is bogus and unsubstantiated – it ought to not have been published.
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Greg.
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In this interview, Dr Hadas Ore speaks about contemporary Maori Jews, which is the subject for her post-doctoral project. There's been a Jewish History\n    in New Zealand since the very beginning of the 19th Century - so it should come as no surprise that some of our population identify as Māori Jews.\n    This is a segment population however, that most of us know very little about.
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JEWISH HISTORY IN NZ:
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This interview discusses the agency and power that are negotiated by older Māori Jewish women as their mana wāhine, renamed Polyfeminism. Polyfeminism\n        is forms of feminine agency employing practical remembrance and resilience that combines the best of the Māori, Jewish and Pākeha (European) worldviews.\n        
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Hadas’ analysis is based on a case study of in-depth interviews with six indigenous women aged over 50 years old and their everyday memories of their\n        mixed ethnic tupuna as they resist injustices, and become role models for the next generation.
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CONTEMPORARY MAORI JEWS:
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The interviews were conducted during 2016-2017 as part of the first research project on the well-being and success stories of contemporary Māori Jews\n        in New Zealand. It looks closely into their narratives and memories of growing up at home. Hadas show that despite of the strong hold of racism\n        in and outside their whānau, they are typified by ‘no-fuss’ attitude toward their mixed ethnic identity. 
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As older Māori Jewish women, they derive power and constitute their identity through postgraduate education in subjects related to health and education,\n        and in most cases, learning Te Reo Māori (the Māori language). 
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The telling metaphor in the title is by one of the women: “filling up the other kete”, encompasses their growing political awareness and long term\n        labour in attaining the cultural knowledge and education that lead to a balanced and healthier way of living. This metaphor also evokes comfort\n        through the resilience and practical indigenous knowledge that feed forward their well-being and the well-being of their whānau and beyond.
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ISRAEL / PALESTINE:
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The second half of the interview is about the Israel Palestine question, which has been ramped up by Trump since the interview was recorded. Hadas does see a two state solution as being the answer, but she added\n        – “But then there is Jerusalem.”
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Hadas describes how she has found it difficult to speak out about the issues Palestinians face when in Israel. While she is happy with Israel as founded\n        by the Balfour Agreement, she finds the new Jewish settlements unacceptable. She feels that there was opportunity for both races to have worked\n        things out together if there had been respect and understanding between them from the start. 
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As it is now, however, if is not safe for Jews in Israel to speak out against the status quo. It causes rifts in families, and people are ostracised\n        if they have a more liberal view. The media in Israel is controlled, and so many people hear only the official line. Hadas believes that, like\n        Maori, the Palestinians should have had some compensation for land loss.
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BIOGRAPHY
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Hadas is a Jewish-Israeli migrant mother-of-three who made her home in New Zealand in the past 16 years. She is also a social anthropologist interested\n        in food and emotions, nostalgia, home and memory, and issues of gender, migration and indigeneity.
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Hadas gained her BA and MA from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel and her PhD from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. As a social\n        researcher she worked for the Israeli parliament in the education committee, and the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem. In 2016 Hadas won the Dame\n        Joan Metge post-doctoral award by the Kate Edgar Charitable Education Trust to conduct the first study on Māori-Jews. Currently Hadas is teaching\n        Hebrew at Kadimah School in Auckland, the only Jewish day school in New Zealand.
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This interview was sponsored by The Awareness Party\n        
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Penny says the root cause of most corruption is privatisation. She asks why the Public Records Act is not being fully implemented and enforced in New Zealand.
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If New Zealand is truly 'the least corrupt country in the world' - shouldn't we arguably be the most transparent?
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She says public transport is not public, and asks what the implications are of a fuel tax.
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Penny has been involved in opposing the Tamaki 'Regeneration' project and speaks about dubious government and private dealings there.
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She talks on the murdered Maltese investigative journalist who exposed the Panama Papers and has found some disturbing New Zealand connections.
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Penny also speaks on State Capture, where private interests significantly influence the government’s decision-making processes to their own advantage.”
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INTERNATIONAL RULE OF LAW FORUM
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Penny Bright, was invited as a NZ 'Rule of Law' expert, together with nearly 300 attendees from 75 countries to the 2017 World Justice Project International\n    Rule of Law Forum at The Hague. There she informed the delegates that New Zealand is a “Corrupt, polluted tax haven.
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She says, \"My political 'bombshell' was about NZ's corruption REALITY, and
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in my opinion, New Zealand is a 'corrupt, polluted tax haven - a banana republic without the bananas'. I also stated that the Transparency International\n    'Corruption Perception Index' (which NZ topped 10 times, sometimes 1st equal) should be screwed up and thrown into the rubbish bin of history.”
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PRESS RELEASE THURSDAY JAN 26 2017
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Penny Bright Independent candidate Mt Albert by-election says The 2016 Corruption Perception Index isn't worth the paper it's written on.\"
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She says, \"This 'Corruption Perception Index' is not based upon measurable, objective yardsticks - but essentially the subjective opinions of anonymous\n    business people.\"
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http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1701/S00171/the-2016-corruption-perception-index-isnt-worth-the-paper.htm    
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“Here were objective, significant milestones or yardsticks for quantifying corruption REALITY, rather than relying largely upon the subjective opinions\n    of anonymous businesspeople for PERCEPTION of corruption which in her view are a meaningless measure.
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I pointed out how in 2010 how I had attended the Transparency International Anti-Corruption Conference in Bangkok.
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Where we were told that the global procurement market was $14 TRILLION and the amount estimated to be lost in bribery and corruption was $2.5 TRILLION!
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\n    I had a HUGE lightbulb moment! Wouldn't $2.5 trillion ($2,500,000,000,000, or $2.5 thousand billion) help to feed, clothe, water and shelter a few poor\n    people?
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Then another 'lightbulb' moment - was that Transparency International were not looking at the underpinning private procurement MODEL, and only the private\n    procurement PROCESS.”
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PRIVATE PROCUREMENT MODEL FOR PUBLIC SERVICES: 
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As soon as you get into the private procurement (contracting out) of public services, formerly provided in house by staff directly employed under the public\n    service model, you got into CONTRACT MANAGEMENT.
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Government or Council staff were regarded as not competent to do contract management - so a 'bureaucrats would then hire CONSULTANTS to 'project manage'\n    the WORKS CONTRACTORS, who would then usually SUB-CONTRACT. So by the time you got down to those in the boots and overalls getting their hands dirty\n    and actually doing something productive - you might have up to 4 layers of pinstripe suits clipping the ticket, while effectively doing nothing.
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How is that a more 'cost-effective' use of public money?
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Penny says, “In 2010, at the Transparency International Anti-Corruption Conference, I asked a (high-faluting) panel - where was the EVIDENCE that the private\n    procurement of public services, that used to be provided at central and local government level, was more 'cost-effective' than former 'in-house' service\n    provision?
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(It was like I had slapped the face of the person who was chairing the panel.
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He literally did a 'double-take' and mumbled that there was evidence - but none was ever provided.)
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My point to this 2017 World Justice Forum group - was that in my opinion, it was time to look at the whole underpinning private procurement MODEL for public\n    services.
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( IMO - it is the privatisation -private procurement - of public services which is the major source of GRAND corruption.”
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THE ROOT CAUSE OF CORRUPTION IS PRIVATISATION:
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Penny is one of the few people in the world actually saying that the root cause of most GRAND corruption- is PRIVATISATION.
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How is it decided who GETS the contracts?
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Remember - back in 2010 - the global amount estimated to be paid in bribery and corruption was $2.5 TRILLION!
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This is a BIG deal.
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The whole Neo-liberal myth and mantra - 'public is bad - private is good' upon which this massive privatisation of public services, locally, nationally\n    and internationally was based - was NOT 'evidence based'.
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The BIG business globalists - just MADE IT UP!
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If there is no 'cost-benefit analysis' which proves the privatisation (contracting out of public services is more cost-effective' for the public majority\n    of taxpayers and ratepayers - then it's 'CORPORATE welfare'.
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Penny asks the most pertinent questions.
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Shouldn't the public majority (the 99%) benefit from public monies - not a small minority of private corporates (the 1%)?
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While there is a punitive 'Social WARfare' /'War on the Poor' regime waged against the most vulnerable and disadvantaged, there is, a completely different\n    attitude towards the rich' on 'corporate welfare'.
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Where exactly are billion$ of public monies being spent on private sector consultants and contractors?
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How can you check for 'cost-effectiveness' in the spending of public monies being spent on private sector consultant$ and contractors, if you don't know\n    exactly where these costs fall?
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WHY IS THE PUBLIC RECORDS ACT NOT BEING FULLY IMPLEMENTED AND ENFORCED?
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NZ LAW is very clear on this requirement for transparency in public spending.
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The NZ Public Records Act 2005:.
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http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2005/0040/latest/DLM345729.html    
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17. Requirement to create and maintain records
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(1)Every public office and local authority must create and maintain full and accurate records of its affairs, in accordance with normal, prudent business\n    practice, including the records of any matter that is contracted out to an independent contractor.
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How can you have transparency or accountability without full and accurate records available for public scrutiny?
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The NZ Public Records Act 2005 has been the LAW for the last TWELVE years.
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Why is the Public Records Act not being fully implemented and enforced?
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Penny clearly states that the full implementation and enforcement of the NZ Public Records Act 2005, would transform transparency and accountability, and\n    this should be an urgent priority for this new Labour-led Coalition Government.
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Penny’s call for transparency includes
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“OPEN THE BOOK$!
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CUT OUT THE CONTRACTOR$!
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BRING NZ LOCAL AND CENTRAL GOVERNMENT PUBLIC SERVICES BACK 'IN-HOUSE' UNDER THE GENUINE PUBLIC SERVICES MODEL!
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PURGE THE FORMER PRIVATE SECTOR BUSINESSPEOPLE FROM THE LOCAL AND CENTRAL GOVERNMENT 'BUREAUCRACY' AND BRING BACK GENUINE 'PUBLIC SERVANTS'.
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and
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STOP THE 'THREE 'C's!
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The CONTRACTOCRACY, CORRUPTION and CORPORATE welfare.”
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FUEL TAX:
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In Auckland, what is being proposed is an Auckland Regional Fuel Tax, to help fund developments with 'public transport'.
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However - there is no such thing, as 'PUBLIC' transport in Auckland.
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The trains, buses and ferry services are PUBLICLY-subsidised, but privately owned, operated and managed, passenger transport operators.
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Auckland Transport won't reveal how many public millions are being paid to subsidise private passenger transport, on top of their private profits. Their\n    'books' are NOT open - regarding the millions of public monies paid to subsidise these private passenger transport operators.
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Penny calls to make Auckland Transport 'PUBLIC' again!
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Get rid of Auckland Transport as a CCO, and bring it back under direct Auckland Council control. And no Auckland Regional Fuel Tax!
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THE TAMAKI REGENERATION PROJECT:
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The Tamaki 'Regeneration' project - has proven to be a “HUGE GENTRIFICATION SCAM” pushing state tenants off prime real estate. Under the National Government\n    the ownership of 2,867 properties from housing New Zealand were transferred into this Tamaki Regeneration Limited – a 100% crown owned crown entity\n    company. This company then is on selling the land. 
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Former Tamaki State tenants have been forced off prime real estate to make way for private mansions for the wealthy, and private profits for property developer.
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Penny speaks passionately about this, having spent months researching this issue and spending time on site with some of the tenants. 
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Here is a video about this.
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Penny believes there should be an urgent parliamentary enquiry into the Tamaki “scam”.
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STATE CAPTURE
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A form of corrupt practice, which, in Penny’s opinion, is endemic in NZ, is 'State Capture'.
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'State Capture' is where (corporate) vested interests get their way, at the POLICY level of government, in order to get laws passed that serve their interests.
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With whom are the 'policy analysts' consulting, before legislation goes through the Parliamentary 'sausage machine'? Penny says, “Check the Regulatory\n    Impact Statements to find out.”
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PANAMA  PAPERS
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New Zealand in Penny’s opinion, is a corrupt, polluted tax haven.
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It was murdered Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia who
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'blew the whistle' and twice exposed links between Maltese 'Politically Exposed Persons' (PEPs) and NZ foreign trusts being used for money-laundering,\n    information that had been revealed in the Panama Papers.
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On 1 August 2017, the (former) Chair of Transparency International, Jose Ugaz, at a meeting of over 200 people at Rutherford House, Victoria University,\n    Wellington, New Zealand, stated that John Key should be investigated over the Panama Papers.
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2 days after Daphne was blown to pieces in a car bomb attack (16 October 2017), it was announced that former NZ John Key Prime Minister would become Chair\n    of the Board of ANZ. The ANZ bank is the Australian bank which had been mentioned more in the Panama Papers than any other Australian bank.
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Why no NZ mainstream media coverage of this story?
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Penny calls for an investigation of John Key over the Panama Papers!
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MALTA SCANDAL EXPOSES NZ TRUSTS AGAIN:
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It was murdered Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia who exposed, via the Panama Papers, how NZ foreign trusts were used as money-laundering\n    vehicles by Maltese Politically Exposed Persons.
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The saga began in February 2016 when Caruana-Galizia revealed that Schembri and Mizzi had set up two Panama companies, Tillgate Inc and Hearnville Inc,\n    owned by the Haast Trust and Rotorua Trust in New Zealand.
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In April 2016, the Financial Review published new details of Schembri and Mizzi's New Zealand trusts and their attempts to open a bank account in Dubai.
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A Malta magistrate is investigating the explosive claims of money laundering and corruption that have put New Zealand in the middle of a global cash trail\n    from the family of Azerbaijan president Ilham Aliyev.
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President Aliyev's daughter, Leyla Aliyeva, is alleged to have channelled more than NZ$1.6 million to senior figures of the Malta government, including\n    Prime Minister Joseph Muscat's wife.
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These include alleged payments to Panama companies owned by New Zealand trusts set up by the Malta Energy Minister Karl Mizzi and Muscat's chief of staff,\n    Keith Schembri.
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On April 20, Maltese blogger Daphne Caruana-Galizia reported that she held copies of documents originally stored in a kitchen at Pilatus Bank, which showed\n    that Egrant Inc, a mystery Panama Papers company identified by the Financial Review last year, was secretly owned by the Maltese Prime Minister's wife,\n    Michelle Muscat.
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In March 2016, a Dubai company controlled by Leyla Aliyeva had transferred US$1.017 million (NZ$1.47 million) marked as a loan into Egrant's account at\n    Pilatus Bank, Caruana-Galizia reported.
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Joseph Muscat denied the claims, calling it the \"biggest political lie in Malta's history\".
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Caruana-Galizia reported that other payments were made from Leyla Aliyeva's company to Pilatus accounts held by Egrant as well as Tillgate Inc and Hearnville\n    Inc, two Panama companies that are owned by Schembri and Mizzi, through New Zealand trusts.
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The latest revelations, if substantiated, are an embarrassment for the New Zealand government, which announced an inquiry into its offshore trust laws\n    on April 11 last year, the day after the Financial Review revealed details of how Panama law firm Mossack Fonseca's Malta agent, BT Nexia, began setting\n    up Tillson, Hearnville and Egrant five days after Muscat's election victory in 2013.
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Mossack Fonseca's files were obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung.
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New Zealand subsequently amended its offshore trusts regime, requiring foreign trusts to file annual accounts with the New Zealand tax office, but with\n    no further restrictions.
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At that time, it appeared the Malta trusts had never been used, after Mizzi and Schembri's Panama companies were turned down by eight banks who refused\n    to open accounts for them because they were Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs).
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The Panama Papers, however, show repeated cases of overseas investors filing false or implausible sets of accounts with New Zealand lawyers, who have limited\n    means to verify the figures.
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NEW ZEALAND’S SIGNIFICANT ROLE:
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The latest wave of allegations in Malta underline how easily the New Zealand disclosure laws can be avoided, which the new laws do not change.
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If the reports are substantiated, they raise a far more serious picture of money-laundering, from one of the most corrupt countries in the world, in which\n    New Zealand's foreign trusts played a significant role.
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We need far more mainstream investigative journalism and reporting on this issue.
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Here is a video of a small protest that Penny held in\n    solidarity for Daphne Caruana Galizia, in Auckland on 3 November 2017.
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Penny Bright has been arrested 22 times after being (unlawfully) denied speaking rights at Auckland City Council, mainly on matters relating to water.\n    Four District Court Judges have acknowledged the 'Public Watchdog' role - so that is why she describes herself as a judicially recognised Public Watchdog'\n    on Metrowater, water and Auckland regional governance matters.
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Penny has also been described in the NZ Herald as an 'anti-corruption campaigner' in the fight for more transparency and accountability particularly at\n    local government. Penny Bright helped to set up the 'Stop the Supercity' group - which is totally opposed to the attempted corporate takeover of the\n    Auckland region to run it 'like a business, by business - for business'.
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She hasn’t paid her rates for 9 years, and won’t until Auckland Council tells us how our rate payers money is being spent. See her Greenplanet interview\n    about this – here.
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Having been a mayoral candidate three times, she has a public profile that people are bound to have an opinion about.
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Always campaigning with an element of humour, Penny signs her e-mails with,
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‘Her Warship’. 
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Also, that we are connected by invisibility, be it the air, the magnetic field - then we have the microbiome - bacteria that are in our gut, gastrointestinal\n    tract that weighs about 1.5 kilogram - that composes a gigantic amount of our DNA.
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We Have Multiple Brains
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Tom goes on to say that science is talking about the brain being the intellect, the heart is the intuition and the gut with our microbiome - being the\n    instinct. Tom says that it’s the gut that connects us to another reality the 3rd brain - Dr Marco Ruggiero - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DKgT5Go6sU - tells of the brain microbiota that is our human gut. And that there maybe a fourth\n    brain operating within our brain as well.
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The saying ….. “I had a gut feeling” - that many people state, is now being validated.
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That we are absolutely interconnected - Also a new modality called ‘M braining’ - www.mbraining.com    - is about multiple brains - and that leading edge researchers are saying that when ‘consciously’ we bring all these 3 brains together into coherency\n    - we find that as a human - we are far more aligned - that we negotiate life more gracefully due to the fact at all our ‘brains’ are ‘systematically\n    aligned.’ Meaning - we make correct life decisions
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Greater Awareness 
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So that when we make the correct decision - it’s because of this coherent alignment - that some say this intuitive aspect may reach out into the fourth\n    dimension and breach the time barrier - thus we are ahead of the curve.
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Tom further states that there are neurological studies that show that the brain is actually making decisions before we consciously make them. Retrocausalilty\n    - which Tom says is fascinating - https://www.scienceandnonduality.com/retrocausality-can-the-present-affect-the-past/    
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Which brings up free will - and Tom says he thinks that we do - but … - listen to the interview.
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Globalised Food, Effecting our Gut
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Tom goes on to say that due to our globalised marketing and food distribution systems, that we are eating so much food that is out of season and out of\n    synch with our own microbiome - https://www.nature.com/subjects/microbiome    - i.e if we are not eating locally this is causing disturbances in our metabolism thus affecting us with subtle mental lapses. 
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We can experience a psychological effect due to eating food shipped in from overseas that’s causing mental aberrations due to the affects of having incorrect\n    bacteria in our gut dealing with all kinds of food, from various climatic zones and regions. 
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Tom introduces us to Russian Science
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Sergey Vasilieve
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The Russian scientist Sergey Vasilieve on long range action fields - regarding the influence of sun and planets on planet our planet Earth. http://astrozet.net/articles/ZemletriasEng.pdf
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Plus Alexander Chizhevsky’s 1897 to 1964 - work on helio biology - how the sun’s influence on the biology on planet Earth. Plus biological rhythms. That\n    humans are affected by the sun’s 11 year solar cycle. and much more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Chizhevsky    
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That his research on instantaneous action influence across time and space - is a long way in advance of Western science.
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Sunlight and the Laws of Physics
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Tom goes on to say that sunlight is instant - that it is instantaneous - or space scalar or like Tesla transmissions. 
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Stating that all light is instant and that “we are thoroughly connected in real time to the universe.” That stelar transmissions are instant - This is\n    really important information to research and broaden our understanding. Toms says that behind everything - there is another level - that we have no\n    idea how fast light is really traveling and he is profoundly knowledgeable and researched on these hidden energies.
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That the Russians are into plasma physics and the electric universe - they are far in advance of ‘public’ Western science.
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The Russian Vladimir Vernadsky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Vernadsky    1863 - 1945 and the Noosphere - In Vernadsky's theory of the Earth's development, the noosphere    is the third stage in the earth's development, after the geosphere (inanimate\n    matter) and the biosphere (biological life). Just as the emergence of life fundamentally\n    transformed the geosphere, the emergence of human cognition will fundamentally\n    transform the biosphere. 
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In this theory, the principles of both life and cognition are essential features of the Earth's evolution,\n    and must have been implicit in the earth all along. (Tim) - A future sphere of mind that will out grow the biosphere yet integrate with it, where at\n    heart the human race develop into a greater understanding that we one global family and that the possibilities of intuitive - telepathic unity are\n    pronounced - this is one of the choices that humanity can take - if we awaken to ‘who we are’.
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American Julian James 1920-1997 is mentioned - The origin of Consciousness in\n    the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. An interesting perspective. 
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Renaissance Pulling Back the Curtains
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When Galileo first used the telescope there were two things:
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That the telescope was a military instrument - that could be used for war and because of his status in Venice at the time this is one of the reasons he\n    was able to obtain it.
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In doing so he discovered the moons orbiting Jupiter and realised for himself that the earth was revolving around the sun.
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Tom says this was also still a time of witch hunts - Where he says that ‘the right brain shut down and man’s left brain took over’ … by weighing\n    and measuring things - dispassionately.
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Science and the Measuring and Weighing of Things - 
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Don’t blame everything on Galileo 
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Physics - the flight of the cannonball - .http://www.physics.mcgill.ca/~moore/P101/Lectures/Lecture-5.pdf
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Tom further states that as an extension of Galileo that the Accademia del Cimento (Academy of Experiment) in Florence Italy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accademia_del_Cimento\n    - Actually issued an official: contra leva tatam - maxim - stating that you were not allowed to talk about the higher forces any more … only\n    that which could be weighed and measured was now an official edict! 
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Hard Science had begun!
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Rudolf Steiner Opens ‘Inquiry’ All Up Again  
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Rudolf Steiner 1861-1925
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This is why Rudolf Steiner started off Anthroposophy so as to overcome scientific limitation - as Steiner said they were now entering the age of the ‘intellectual\n    soul’ - but Tom said that in order for us to develop properly (before we entered that realm) we had to develop the discursive - which is the non intuitive\n    form of consciousness … but we have become trapped in it. Meaning that science sees, No Soul, No God, only matter.
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Toms says that by following Galileo’s cannon ball narrative - we come to Cern today in Switzerland and the Large Hadron Collider? - where underground scientists\n    are still smashing Galileo’s cannon balls together - meanwhile above ground, life is happening on the surface - that scientists don’t even believe\n    exists - because they still can’t measure it on their equipment …
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Tom quotes from Steiner: 
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That when mankind gets to the end of his descent into matter he will end up with a vacant metaphysics.
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Listen to Tom’s viewpoint of the movie - ‘What the Bleep’ - and where it drops out. That there is no comprehension of the higher forces - that we call\n    the etheric forces - which are basically warmth, light, chemical and structural activity and life.
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Yet Nikola Tesla stated: “The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries\n    of its existence.”
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That these forces basically weave all of life around us and we are yet unable to weigh or measure them … but you can perceive them and this is done\n    in the intuitive development of consciousness …
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Steiner pointed to Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe’s work - the metamorphosis\n    of plants - listen …. now it gets fascinating 
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Ernst Michael Kranich
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Cosmological botany - Planetary influences upon plants - 
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https://translate.google.co.nz/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst-Michael_Kranich&prev=search\n
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Goethe and archetypal plants … and his ability to see using his higher mind.
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Tom says there is only one actual plant - the vegetative surface of the planet - which goes through all these different metamorphoses. 
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How do plants grow and especially vines and creepers - they are influenced by the planets - especially Mercury. 
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The sun is the stem, the roots are the moon and the leaves are Mercury and when they grow further out they are influenced by Venus - that for instance\n    - Bind weeds like Morning glory tendrils that turn around a stake or anything that can be attached to - to grow towards the light … due to the\n    influence of the orbiting of Mercury. Listen …. fascinating 
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Jagadish Chandra Bose - who is also mentioned in the Autobiography of\n    a Yogi and the Secret Life of Plants - Listen - equally fascinating … 
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Bose's place in history has now been re-evaluated. His work may have contributed to the development of radio communication.[22] He is also credited with\n    discovering millimetre length electromagnetic waves and being a pioneer in the field of biophysics.[35]
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Professor Giorgio Piccardi    from Florence University 1950’s and 60’s - chemistry dept studied chemical reactions due to the sun’s influence.  Including viral diseases following\n    solar cycles - diphtheria, polio scarlet fever - listen … 
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Lili Kolisko - A brilliant student of Rudolf Steiner. 
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Paul Stamets - “Mycelium fungus to save our planet” 
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ALSO in this interview:
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Archetypes within nature 
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Holographic universe - yes, but what are projecting on? This is what interests Tom.
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Covering the wave particle duality. 
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The sun represents the dot and the blue sky represent the sheet. - and it happens in front of us every day.
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In Toms closing statements he mentions.
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The Bankers - and the international slave system - are still in control.
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The system is us, neglecting our inner responsibility and connection to the universe and our planet - he says we have to wake up!
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On the Aotearoan Maori - he says that we need to get savvy and realise that there is another story on New Zealand.
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He whakeputanga and the 1835 declaration of Independence 
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_the_Independence_of_New_Zealand    
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This was an extremely interesting interview - The only disappointment was that I, Tim got in the way by talking too much. When it was all about what Tom\n    was wanting to offer.:(
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Tom was once the editor for Borderlands in the USA.
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http://borderlandresearch.com 
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https://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/tom-brown-takes-us-down-the-thorny-path-of-truth    
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https://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/tom-brown-researcher-into-energy-space-mind-and-matter    
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Emancipation
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\u2028\u2028Kate Sheppard and her fellow suffragists gathered the signatures of nearly 32,000 women to demonstrate the groundswell of support for their cause. The\n    result of this was that the Electoral Act 1893 was passed by both houses of Parliament and became law on 19 September 1893. \u2028\u2028New Zealand women gained\n    the right to stand for election in 1919. The first female MP, Elizabeth McCombs, was not elected until 1933.
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It took until 1984 for the number of women in Parliament to reach double figures. \u2028In 2014 there were 69 males in parliament and 31 women!\u2028\u2028 Should we\n    rest without full emancipation of women being implemented in our society? Since the women’s liberation movement quietened in the eighties society has\n    landed up with wide and worsening inequalities, and women suffer most in this type of society, directly and indirectly.
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One hundred and twenty four years since women got the right to vote, the journey is far from over! 
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“The gender pay gap in this country is symptomatic of     a bigger problem”, says Angela McLeod in this interview. 
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New Zealand ranked tenth in the Global Gender Gap Index 2015 after\n    countries such as, and surprisingly, Rwanda and the Philippines! New Zealand    climbed one rank to ninth last year owing to improving its position on the Economic Participation and Opportunity sub-index, with higher female labour\n    force participation. Since we were the first to give women the vote, we should expect to be first!
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New Zealander, Sandra Coney gave an excellent speech    at International Women’s Day this year. She says, “I want to raise here a precept of the early women’s liberation movement that is still highly relevant.\n    That is, you measure women’s progress not by how women are doing at the top but how they are doing at the bottom.\u2028
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A Living Wage\u2028\u2028
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In some circumstances women still get paid less for doing the same job as men.\u2028 There is a 9.4% gender pay gap in New Zealand. This is ridiculous, and\n    often low paid women workers are exploited, yes in this day and age.\u2028\u2028 The minimum wage needs to increase as many women are trapped in low paid work.\n    Benefits then can rise and that will help the many solo parents, mostly women, who are struggling to survive and are sometimes in abject poverty. 
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It is from that background that exploitation of women and violence against women can appear.
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Traditional Roles
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We all know the historical role of women in the kitchen, as caregivers and nurturers and there is nothing wrong with that. However women must have the\n    choice to be all that they can be. Some enjoy the home environment, although in the current financial environment many are forced out to work for financial\n    reasons. Even then many women are the primary cooks and cleaners at home and jobs are not shared equally between partners. (I for one, would prefer\n    to cook a meal than mow the lawns!) 
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However only 3% of firemen (FireMEN) are women. And as a man just pointed out recently, there are not too many male midwives around. So traditional roles\n    still play a part in our society. Many people refer to doctors as HE and nurses as SHE for example. However we must be sure that these differences\n    occur because of choice and not from patriarchy.
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Unconscious Bias
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More insidious than individual issues is the promotion of bias in the media, and retail areas. Try going shopping for young children and find non gender\n    specific clothing. It is not easy. Pink for girls and blue for boys is very prevalent along with violent hero pictures on boy’s t-shirts and pink fairy\n    dresses for girls. Toys are similarly categorised. This gender bias is much more evident, as I buy for my grandchildren, than it was in the eighties\n    when my own children were young.
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Watching the sports news on TV is another area of bias. Male sport dominates and so you may be unaware that our NZ women’s rugby team, for example, has\n    won five World Cups and the men have only won three!
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It is very clear that there is gender bias in the workplace.\u2028 The government has reached its target to have 45% of women on State Sector Boards, but the\n    private sector is quite different, with only one business leader, Kate McKenzie CEO of Chorus,\n    in the top NZX 50 business leaders.\u2028
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Empowering Women
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In an attempt to overcome bias in employment, the New Zealand Law Society released a draft Gender Diversity and Inclusion Charter    for comment by lawyers.
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“The voluntary charter is an initiative of the Law Society’s Women’s Advisory Panel that was set up to look at ways to support the retention and advancement\n    of women in the legal profession. It also aims to address pay equity and encourage the implementation of unconscious bias training for all lawyers\n    and key staff.” 
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As well as the law society driving reform within its ranks, we need government legislation to drive a more equal society. 
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Empowering women is the most important thing we can do to build a better society. 
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The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality on which Angela McLeod is a member of the New Zealand committee seeks to:
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Establish high-level corporate leadership for gender equality
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Treat all women and men fairly at work – respect and support human rights and non-discrimination
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Ensure the health, safety and well-being of all women and men workers
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Promote education, training and professional development for women
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Implement enterprise development, supply chain and marketing practices that empower women
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Promote equality through community initiatives and advocacy
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Measure and publicly report on progress to achieve gender equality\u2028\u2028
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To hear more on women’s rights, please listen to Angela McLeod in this interview.\u2028
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Angela McLeod is the past president of the Federation of Business and Professional Women, New Zealand, and a UN Women National Committee Aotearoa New Zealand    Councillor, \u2028Upper Hutt City Council Chair, and is on Wellington Region’s Waste Forum.
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She says: \u2028“I have lived in Upper Hutt all my life and I’m passionate about our city and environment. I want to: put our interests first; fight to keep\n    us out of a Super city; strengthen our local economy and community; upgrade all our train stations; keep our water publicly owned, from source to tap;\n    clean up the Hutt River and build an effective rural strategy. \u2028My husband (Mac) and I live on a lifestyle block in Whiteman’s Valley and we own a\n    local retail business.\u2028I have been and continue to be, involved with local and national civil society groups.”\n    
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Angela has much to say on women’s issues including the upcoming election.
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This interview is sponsored by: The Awareness Party\n    
 
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Well the answer is quite simple - it has nothing to do with North Korea - and Peter gives a documented quote from Condoleezza Rice. US Secretary of State\n    2005–09. 
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Saying what it does do, is expose the extreme cynicism of the situation and the complete lack of respect for other human life if you are not American.\n    
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Quote - “the North Koreans are like some sort of road kill on the highway of history …” 
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What is really going on is about America - and the US containment of China - policy
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Most people do not know that there was no peace treaty signed by North Korea and the USA - so a ceasefire was arranged - as both sides knew that they could\n    not prevail. Evidently this still irks the US military. 
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Peter still reckons that up until 1971 - they were still keen to have a go at ousting the other - but US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger went to China\n    and President Nixon a year later, changed the geopolitical map - and North Korea suddenly realised that if another war happened that they may not now\n    be able to rely on China so - after weighing this US China dialogue - they decided to ask South Korea to have a peace treaty and get closer together\n    again. - and though they had some talks and it was thought a good idea - nothing really happened (and every year up until today - the successive Kim’s\n    have in their New Year speech proposed and asked for a Peace Treaty.) Hence the above overture to the USA.
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Peter Wilson of the NZ DPRK Society - New Zealand - Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Society - (Also known as North Korea.)
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Backgrounder
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Peter Wilson is a freelance consultant who worked for the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the Food and Agricultural Organisation, including alongside\n    the UN in the UN Development Program - where previously he had worked for long term projects like 2 years in Papua New Guinea and 4 years in the Philippines\n    - implementing long term projects and that eventually morphed into short term projects - like project planning and supervising and troubleshooting.\n    He ended up working twice for the UN in North Korea the first time being in 1997.
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Media Programming
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For decades North Korea is a country that the media has always portrayed as an: impoverished rogue state; secretive state; the world’s most isolated and\n    Orwellian state; the whole rotten carcass of the North Korean state; a nuclear weapons state; instability within the rogue state; Stalinist state/the\n    last Stalinist state; a failed state with nuclear weapons/ nuclear weapons state; the state as a religious cult; the world’s most closed state; police\n    state; failed state. 
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Peter says that in the study of the media’s description of North Korea’s state of well being - that every different adjective is used as a prefix before\n    ending in the words ‘North Korea’ and when compared with South Korea there is no such prefix used in front of the words South Korea. Which shows huge\n    amounts of bias. So that we have all been conditioned to see North Korea in a decidedly negative way. However when he looks at where the articles in\n    the media come from they are Bloomberg, Reuters (head office New York) Time New York Times, Washington Post - they are all American sources and reflects\n    the Washington line - And Peter states that Washington looks at the world through a different type of prism from what we in NZ look through. And it\n    is true.
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(Yet, the fact that Donald Trump calls these above publications (that include CNN) being fake news agencies - brings Peter to laugh about the ironies of\n    existence).
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The situation of North Korea
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Having worked for a small UN Agency 20 years ago in Pyongyang called the International Fund for Agricultural Development - Peter had access to virtually\n    the whole of North Korea in 1997 - where he witnessed first hand the plight of the famine at that time. Though it was bad - it was nowhere as near\n    as horrendous as the Western media portrayed and that the reason why this drought lead famine was due to continuous bad weather and climatic conditions\n    and the fact that North Korea was kept out of the international system - due to the USA locking them out of the International Monetary Fund - which\n    meant they could not belong to the World Bank - or to the regional development banks like the Asian Development Bank - That Peter says that the Americans\n    one day, must have blinked and North Korea became a member of the International Fund for Development - which is just a tiny extension, as a multilateral\n    financial institution.
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Peter has spent the last 40 years of his entire professional career having worked in 21 different Asian countries especially in all the poorest and problem\n    areas which in 1997 took him to North Korea - because they were at the height of their food crisis. It was a US$50 million project dealing in fertiliser\n    and improved crop production of which Peter was involved in $13 million of that - for increasing production of small livestock such as ducks, geese,\n    sheep and goats. When he first went there he had little knowledge about that country - probably less that the average person today knows - mainly because\n    today we are getting more news coverage.
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However what little he didn’t know really did not stand upon to that he really saw on the ground. That life in North Korea is very different as to what\n    is portrayed by the media - in this case the US media. 
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His most recent visit was last month, August 2017 having worked there on two occasions and on the 5 other occasions he has visited he has represented the\n    NZ DPRK society. This time he came back a little bit staggered. 
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The Economy is Growing Fast 
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He said the economy was booming!
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He estimated at least three times the numbers of cars on Pyongyang streets since he was last there exactly two years ago. The shops are bursting with consumer\n    goods. Their military deterrence missile/nuclear programme has accelerated.
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It was brought home to him that sanctions are totally farcical. They just don't work!
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From all we are told by the media, North Korea is an aggressive threat to the world. They are not. North Korea's crime is to stand up to the United States\n    and not allow US Corporations to trade there!
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The South Korean Central Bank’s latest study maintains the North Korean economy grew at least 3.9% last year - However Peter thinks that the growth could\n    be a lot more than this 3.9%, due to the way the GNP is assessed by the South Koreans.
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Peter says that over his numerous times of visiting that he can easily see that the standards of living are increasing and it is quite different from what\n    is portrayed in our media i.e they are not having to eat grass!
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As Peter has been working in a large number of Asian countries for 40 years, that to be effective he said you have to understand the system - where the\n    power is - who is up who - and if you don’t understand that political context - plus the social context you will not get what’s going on in these countries.\n    So in having to visit many strange situations, assess them all and then be productive - that was the factors that he dealt with. 
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This interview covers:
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US basketball player Dennis Rodman and his frequent visits to North Korea to assist in sporting skills and opening more understanding. That Rodman wants to play peace-keeper between Trump and Kim 
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That Peter in 1997 was asked to be on the ground to see exactly what the drought was like and the famine that the Western media told us about. He says\n    it was a privilege to be selected for this UN assessment trip which as an extension of the World Food Program and Food and Agricultural Organisation.\n    They were awake to this as there definitely, was a problem. So this team - possibly the first Western team ever was able to travel extensively right\n    through the country because for the aid money to go to North Korea, the United Nations had to know the seriousness of this event.
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But what they were looking at didn’t actually gel with what North Korea was telling the world -because people were not dying by the thousands (or eating\n    grass) and though there was hunger there were not nearly as serious - a problem as we had heard from the Western media - and Peter was able to see\n    that there was not a huge increase in the deaths of elderly and children.
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Climate: the ground in North Korea is frozen hard for 6 months a year and that only 15% of the land can be used for arable farming.
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The North Koreans say they have 172 frost free days a year - they don’t say that they have so many sunshine days a year, or so many rainy days like we\n    do in NZ. So for 6 months of the year they have to work really hard through this time to grow enough food - but as North Korea is a very mountainous\n    country with only 15% arable land they just can not produce enough food in that small area - and they utilise whatever space they can. Peter says that\n    historically they have to work really diligently, and though their agriculture is technically very good - he says they have to make sure that they\n    have enough food for the coming winter.
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The Failure of the Soviet Economy affected North Korea
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This is where the deconstruction of the Soviet Union comes in, in the early 1990’s - for when it deconstructed the USSR - North Korea and also Cuba had\n    always been subsidised by the Soviets, and as they were going broke - they were not able to give food to their ex client states (like Cuba too). That\n    when the bad weather hit North Korea - there was a major shortfall. Because they could not source cheap diesel and fertiliser and when it came to food\n    - especially grain, it all stopped because they had no trading system with the West at all. 
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So that when Russia finally emerged out of the USSR it was broke - and needing hard currency themselves wanted payments for goods in hard currency e.g\n    US$ - but North Korea had none of that either.
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So the North Koreans actually exaggerated their circumstances a little and they were able to receive free food from Oxfam and the other charity agencies.\n    Which he said was quite clever of them.
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Peter then states that to this day - certain overseas mouth pieces state that two to three million people died - but he says - that’s not true - and that\n    sure, there were some deaths - maybe 250,000 over many years maybe up to 750,000 people, Peter says that there may have been 3 to 400,000 premature\n    deaths that happened. Note NZ contributed aid at that time 
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However when George Bush 2 came to power he swapped the game plan and instead sent food to Africa. So the North Koreans still need to now top up their\n    food requirements - grain wise and they they have been able to buy this on the international market as they have the cash. What is not known is that\n    the US put the first sanctions on North Korea in 1950 and they are proposing to do it even more. - but it is clearly not working … as the North\n    Koreans are making their own consumer goods as well.
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Consumers Goods & Military development is accelerating
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So North Korea’s military development has accelerated and so has their standard of living and the economy is growing and the sanctions just don’t work.
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Nuclear Tests, Missile tests and Satellite systems
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Containment of China: The reason why America does not want a peace treaty of any sort is, because it's all to do the US containment policy of China. The\n    US wants forward defense in South Korea and Japan, and as far away from the United States of America, however Kim is bringing home to the Pentagon\n    and the State Department - that he has the technology to build missiles that will one day be able to reach the heartland of the US, but North Korea\n    is yet not in the arena of placing a nuclear warhead on a missile. 
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Meanwhile across the radio waves, TV, satellite systems and the internet the US is ramping up North Korea as the bandit nation that will definitely send\n    an intercontinental missile to America or any of its allies - and this story has been fanned by the US corporate media - and the South Korean people\n    have bought it - plus the Japanese public and 99.5% of the whole world - have been taken in by this continuous rhetoric. 
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US wanting to be the Dominant Country on Earth
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(With hundreds of bases globally the US wants to be the only dominant player on planet earth. They are not looking for partners other than the Anglo American\n    alliance, with Israel somehow inserting itself into the equation as well. China is still in the ascendancy and is overtaking America in most areas\n    of production and trade and modernising its military very rapidly. Thus China is seen as the greatest threat).
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General Wesley Clark Youtube (Mentioned in this interview by Tim)
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The reason the refugee crises came to Europe over the last number of years was given by General Wesley Clark about 10 days after 911 when he went to the\n    Pentagon and was told by another General that the US was going to take down about 7 Middle Eastern countries. And this has basically happened and is\n    still happening under cover of the Arab Spring revolutions. Syria being the latest and then - on to Iran. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RC1Mepk_Sw 
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The Neo-Cons in the US are the ones directing these actions. Plus, an unconscious humanity not taking any responsibility throughout the West to address\n    the Neo-Con agenda.
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Peter mentions William Blum - ex CIA agent who tells about the list of 57 countries since WW2 that the USA has been involved in attempting and in most\n    cases changing a regime to whom they wanted . https://williamblum.org 
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The fact that is: of all the countries that have stood up to the USA - it is North Korea. Which regrettably makes them more hated by Uncle Sam who uses\n    all means of propaganda that can be trained on them by US corporations to constantly demonise this country. Note NZ was demonised when it became Nuclear\n    Free and thus was ejected out of ANZUS, by the US.
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Rejection by the US Government - again 
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In January last year - the North Koreans made a proposal to the United States - and said that if you halt your war-games with South Korea - they will freeze\n    their nuclear development program - and this will give us the space to talk - Washington said NO.
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Because of the US military controlled Governmental intransigence - this has driven China and Russia even more closer together. Plus, Putin has come out\n    supporting this freeze - but to no avail.
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New Zealand's Role - the Helen Clark Labour Government many years ago opened up diplomatic contact with North Korea and was consistent in remaining in\n    contact - however the National Government under Sir John Key has cut this link - and there has been no contact for 3 years and Peter states that it\n    is Wellington’s fault, because Pyongyang wants to talk. 
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Being Shunned - At the time of Nobel Peace Prize winner, Barack Obama’s 2nd Presidential election North Korea sent a letter to him asking for the cessation\n    of hostilities stating that they wanted a Peace Treaty.
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Asking for:
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 Recognition of their sovereignty 
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Wanting the lifting of sanctions 
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Wanting all foreign troops out of the Korean Peninsular\n        
 
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Finally asking to talk about an implemented and Internationally agreed upon Nuclear Free Korean Peninsular 
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The answer from Obama - nothing ….
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Peter states that today this is still the North Korean Policy of wanting a Peace treaty
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Finding Neutral Nations to broker an agreement (Where is NZ?) 
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Norway is seen as a country with the courage and the vision to get out into the world and forge peace and bring people to the table - whereas NZ shies\n    away from any ‘major global engagement’ and for reason we do not understand. 
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Ache in Indonesia, Palestine, Sri Lanka are mentioned as having Norwegian involvement and Peter tells of meeting a diplomat from Norway by chance in Pyongyang\n    and asking him why not North Korea seeing Norway's has been so worldly active? With the diplomat saying the reason there is no action on the Korean\n    peninsular is because the USA would not be happy.
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Other Subject Matter Covered
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The North Korean Voting System 
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Covering of the Leadership of the three Kim's since the 1950’s and why only them? Peter stating that they are following a Confucian model and it is not\n    really that different from China or Vietnam and or Laos. That North Korea, also sees flaws in these systems - saying that the rural people in both\n    China and Vietnam are being left out of the equation.
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The North Korean’s are making their own business model and not following exactly what China or Vietnam are doing - they are doing their own version of\n    business - because they know that the people in the cities in China are doing well but as above the people in the countryside are not and the North\n    Korean Government want to even the playing field. They are conscious of this inequality in Vietnam as they see it as worse than that of China - and\n    Peter says they look him straight in the eye and they’ll tell him “it is no better in the West - where the rich are getting richer and the poor remain\n    poor.”
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They say that they are still looking for a better way - whilst still holding to their socialist ideals being egalitarian and they are modernising and getting\n    ready to interact with the global economy and have a fairer society for their people.
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Listen to Peter …
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Education
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English is now being taught in Primary, Secondary & Universities Whereas in 1997, it was only being taught in universities so as to teach diplomats\n    and so forth..
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Agricultural food production
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30% of food is now traded by sole traders - where as many years ago it was all run by the state.
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Health and Medicine
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Hospitals are very good - well trained personnel. 
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They were using interactive TV technologies communicating with other doctors and nurses in the other towns and cities.
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Housing
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In the last 20 years - Peter surmises that nearly the whole country has rebuilt or modernised all it’s housing and apartment blocks, in the 20 years he\n    has been visiting the country - where in 1997 it was just a country of square concrete grey block houses - but today huge changes and now there are\n    some architecturally stunning apartment blocks been built.
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Peter encourages whatever new New Zealand Government that gets elected to restore relations with North Korea, just like Helens Clark’s Labour Government\n    did prior to this previous National administration. 
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Notes:
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There was only 54 minutes to cram as much as we could into this interview.
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 US Activist Gloria Steinem and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maireed Maguire an Irish Peace Activist - Marched for Peace in Pyongyang 23rd May 2015 
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Peter Wilson\n    
NZ DPRK Society 
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http://asaa.asn.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/asian-currents-13-08.pdf
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The article entitled \"The Demonisation of North Korea.\"
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QaNA9eSQVE 18 minute video (with Anchor NZ butter)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=387&v=yPYxrmxOvcQ fly over better\n    than thought 
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http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/92073468/terence-obrien-baptism-of-fire-for-brownlee\n
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The orchestrated “Korean crisis” is not about North Korea. It is an orchestration that lets Washington put nuclear missile bases on China’s border, just as the orchestrated “Iranian crisis” was the excuse for putting nuclear missile bases on Russia’s borders.  \n    
Paul Craig Roberts: Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury for Economic Policy and ex Associate Editor of the Wall St Journal.\n    
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org\n    
 
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His own interests focused on marine recreation and sport - high performance sport, leadership, coaching and outdoor education. 
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A professional sailor who as a youngster was a keen ‘yachtie’ winning both NZ and World titles as well as a crewman on Sir Peter Blake’s round the\n        world winning team - plus been involved in two America’s Cups as well.
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He calls for collaborative work and for ordinary people at grassroots level to lead from the front. For having a healthy understanding of the vastness\n        of our ocean systems - and having spent a lot of time racing and visiting other countries, recognises that from a planetary perspective - the global\n        marine systems are in increasing trouble and that these challenges must be urgently addressed. 
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Acknowledging that NZ has still got an opportunity to initiate the much needed corrective measures if we are to arrest the decline of fish stocks,\n        ocean pollution, drifting plastics and runoff from the land - among numerous tipping points. 
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Indigenous Connection
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Mark says it is our engagement with nature that has to be addressed as we pakeha and white races have put distance between us and the natural world\n        - whereas indigenous peoples are affiliated far more closely as they have lived more embedded in the natural process. Pacific Islander and Maori\n        have a natural affinity to the cycles of nature. Especially harvesting food, and survival etc and of their understanding of the seasons and the\n        food planting and gathering. He further reiterates, that for indigenous peoples - that connection goes beyond the basics of knowledge and integrates\n        through into cultural connection as well as spiritual wisdom .
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Having been around as the human species for about 200,000 years and a great majority of this time - all of us has been deeply connected with nature\n        - we all have been indigenous peoples.
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That for we in the developed world, especially Australia and NZ it has been a relatively short time - that we have actually lived apart from nature\n        - quite possibly only about 3 or 4 human generations - or from the industrial revolution onwards. What this means is that in our DNA - in our ’substance’\n        for the greater course of our history we have had that deep connection with nature as part of who we are.
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Mark then goes on to talk about our immersion into nature and the psychological shift of our perspective as we embed ourselves into the greater awareness\n        of the immensity of its power. Covering also our spiritual well being - and that through recreation, getting away from city and urban life and\n        going bush, to the mountains, on a river or a lake - to sea, that recreation is actually ‘re-creation’ - and the time to restore our energies and\n        well being.
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Covering working with nature as against it - reading the signs, wind direction, water currents, moon phase and aware of the weather and being able\n        to astutely adapt to harness the natural forces of nature - by bringing about a greater attunement and wellbeing. Where we can not control wind,\n        waves or rain, but we learn how to adapt.
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Some days - all goes well and the elements are warm and soft whereas some days or nights nature throws the full force of its fury and we have to be\n        very focused and alert - thinking ‘gee - am I going to make it through this?’
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He says that the contrasting situations are healthy as they are awe inspiring and re-connecting and they give us a different perspective that we cannot\n        control Mother nature or control everything that happens to us or everything that surrounds us. What this does it forces us to slow down to the\n        pace of nature and he says that this is a very healthy thing. Because most of us today are rushing to everything - to work, home from work, events\n        and other commitments and our days are very, very full - and we control largely what we do - where we go, when we choose to do it - or others control\n        it for us.
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However, when we are out in the middle of the ocean in a very small boat we cannot determine what happens - and in these situations be it calm or stormy\n        - it can be very primordial - a very basic thing and Mark sees it as a very good thing as it lets us get a true feel of nature - inside.
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New Zealand Environmental Challenges compared with Overseas.
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Speaking on the waters surround NZ - they are largely pretty clean especially the further out we go, however closer into the shore we have numerous\n        challenges because 3 or 4 generations ago (40-60 years) the conditions were far better, but NZ’s population has increased with much development\n        around the Auckland coastline. As well as globally the population has now jumped up by an extra 5 billion people/consumers since 1950.
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This huge spike in population has had a large affect on this country, on the shoreline and coastal waters. However he says we can still engage with\n        the sea today where our health is not put at risk - whereas with so many countries overseas the coastal waters are so polluted that you would never\n        swim - let alone, put your head under the water - worse swallowing a mouthful or having it enter your body by a cut or an abrasion - especially\n        where there are large populations living on the water’s edge, or that their catchment drains into that coastal ecosystem. So there are compromised\n        ecosystems as a result of human activity and our disposal of waste products either deliberately or accidentally that he says is very sobering …\n        so much so that it is always a joy for him to come back to NZ waters and a cleaner marine environment, which he says we cannot take for granted\n        and that we need to be very vigilant about it and that we have to work very hard to maintain. 
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Everything is Connected 
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Everything is connected - what ever we do on the land has an affect on the inshore coastal environment - the same pattern has occurred - for example\n        - car tires and the chemicalised particulates wearing off on to the road - off the tires, as well as the dripping of fluid out of car exhaust pipes\n        onto the road - then it rains and runoff and stormwater enters into the coastal waters - curtailing and degrading the area and forcing away fish\n        and shellfish from rocks and surrounding bays - etc - for example Auckland’s East Coast Bays are virtually devoid of the super abundance of fish\n        life of 80 years ago.
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Talk to any person of 60-70 years plus of age and they will say that things are know where as good as they once were. There is a lot of wisdom in the\n        Elders and they can tell us how it’s used to be like - so that we have this information that is telling us about this long term slow, chronic degradation\n        - and this is very difficult situation to solve! 
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What We Can Do
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For answers, there are some worthy innovative NZ’s schemes at present - marine protected areas which are stark contrasts to the degradation that is\n        happening. These are Goat Island at Leigh http://www.doc.govt.nz/parks-and-recreation/places-to-go/auckland/places/cape-rodney-okakari-point-marine-reserve-goat-island/\n    
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on the East coast - North of Auckland and Tiri Tiri Matangi Island http://www.doc.govt.nz/parks-and-recreation/places-to-go/auckland/places/tiritiri-matangi-scientific-reserve-open-sanctuary/        that have been locked away for a sufficient amount of time and are now thriving - especially as Goat Island was left to its own renewal other than\n        to stop fishing and extractive industries and now it is alive with fish and a huge drawcard for people wanting to see how NZ once was. As for Tiri\n        Tiri Matangi - tree planting has occurred plus the introduction of native bird species and now it is a paradise of greenery and bird song - where\n        once it was barren grassland denuded of trees.
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So with ‘commitment, will and effort’ - we can bring back nature with some conscious decisions being made to turn things around. NZ has many ‘off shore\n        Arks’ where islands have been set aside to become sanctuaries for endangered native flora and fauna and these are very successful that they are\n        Islands of Hope - John Craig and Neil Mitchell on bringing Tiri Tiri Matangi into being - that bold decision making is needed - like Prof John\n        Moreton and Bill Ballentine did with Goat Island as advocates getting people to think about protecting the marine environment and bringing people\n        with them.
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Grassroots Action
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These examples Marc says are really important - because when we act together many superb results can come about. These are empowering stories and that\n        our future can be far better as a result. He says grassroots are the answer - he is a massive fan of the people who work in the ‘not for profit\n        sector’ - people whom have made huge sacrifices of time, energy and money and made enormous sacrifices for causes that they believe in. 
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From large organisations like the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society to the small\n        ones like the Motutapu Restoration Society or the education group ‘Experiencing Marine Reserves’ - a small not for profit charitable trust that takes children into marine reserves to show them\n        deeper qualities of nature and what marine protection can do. 
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Volunteers by the Thousands
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Right across NZ here are hundreds of thousands of NZers who volunteer to make a difference because they believe in it. 
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He says that these dedicated people are just not acknowledged enough which is a great pity - they are the real NZers - the real kiwis doing great things\n        out there - we need to be proud of what they do - they are unsung heroes - never getting national awards or headlines in the media. 
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To Mark they are the real heroes of NZ. He encourages us to take leadership and see what we can do around your particular area and take some people\n        with you and do weeding and clean up beaches, streams etc.
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Local Communities Working Together
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Local communities - in nature, with and for nature - establishing win wins - as meeting good people and achieving a satisfactory result, because he\n        says there is a primeval connection that after a full day or a week of working together - we will go home and have the best nights sleep in a long\n        time because we have met and worked alongside people from vastly different walks of life, all with good intentions and especially being team spirited.
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Good People Committing To Co-operate 
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Mark states that the portrayal of human behaviour and existence that comes through the MSM media is not an accurate portrayal of the great majority\n        of people - the great majority of the humanity whom live in this world and in NZ are good people - they are well intentioned - they care about\n        their families, they care about their neighbours and they care about nature and they care about their country - These people don’t get the headlines!Listen\n        ...
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There are people everywhere who have decent values and morals and will help you out - who will be friendly, who will greet you - who are people you\n        can trust - this is the essence of being a decent person - it’s important to remember this. Plus, that we hold these values for ourselves as well\n        and take the high road. 
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Values and Principles
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He mentions that some of the above principles may have been more prevalent 30 to 60 years ago - but the principles of honesty and integrity and decency\n        and looking after one another are what he feels are at the heart of what is is to be a human - and certainly what it means to be a New Zealander.\n        
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We talked about Sir Peter Blake and team spirit and what this means. Though a cliche, a champion team - will always beat a team of champions - what\n        is needed is a tight synergistic team. He said Peter intuitively understood a number of things. 
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He could take on a competitive team that could have more resources, perhaps be more talented, be more experienced and beat them because of the power\n        of the team.
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Where as a member of his team you always felt that you were important - that you mattered - that your opinion could add value. 
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So even if you were sweeping the floors or cleaning the toilet or the person with a brain the size of the planet making computations of fluid dynamics\n        and design of the boat - you were important. 
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That we are all part of a greater whole and that we all depend on this planet that we share.
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When we pool and pull together collectively - we make a massive difference.
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Conscious Choices
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Decision that we take - the products that we buy - the packaging that we use - the cars that we drive - the decisions we make of the companies that\n        we support - or the candidates we vote for. We need to be Aware. 
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In the end Mark says that we have to do the best we can with what God gave us and that this is the mantra that Mark lives by.
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Covering the ‘Overwhelmers’ - Fukushima - radiation in the Pacific ocean - etc - how do we address situations like this? Plus Climate Change. 
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What can I do as one individual to be able to make a difference? 
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Mark says - collectively this is where we make major changes. 
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Saying that we need to take heart with Sweden’s Volvo’s decision to make all electric or hybrid cars in 10 years time. That they don’t make these decisions\n        lightly - that they are ‘reading the tea leaves' - they see that there is a greening of the market place and they are positioning themselves to\n        take advantage as well as lead …
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Voting
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Voting with your dollars - not buying from certain corporations who are at variance with your philosophy - thus more people supporting this notion\n        will impel the company to change its outlook - its products range - its way it connects with consumers. 
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But first - before you lead others - lead yourself - walk your talk 
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Mark talked about mental health and that we in NZ have some major challenges around disempowered people - especially male youth in this country of\n        getting to a point of a dark space - that when we do good things for others or nature and give of ourselves - we also reap the rewards of that\n        good act as well - that by giving we have a better sense of our purpose - we have more satisfaction as to who we are as a person that if we like,\n        we really can achieve a greater level of contentment and happiness.
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He says that ironically that one of the answers to mental health is to dedicate at least some of your time to helping those who are less fortunate\n        and are in such a difficult situation than you are.
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Being Respectful
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 Without being disrespectful Mark says that a lot of the mental health challenges - are actually quite inward looking and are quite self serving - it’s\n        about me - it’s about awww - I’m in such a difficult situation and my life is terrible and I can’t find a way out - and he is not disrespecting\n        that - but one of the ways forward is to actually start thinking about how we can help others, because there are always people who are in a more\n        difficult life circumstance than us!
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If we are able to do something that can help them or if we can find a way to reconnect with nature and that we can plant a tree or a series of trees\n        or do something that can allow us - that at the end of the day - we realise that our existence has mattered - that it has made a positive difference.\n        That through us being here - the place is better than it was - these things have an enormous personal benefit for us - listen to the interview\n        for more on this serious subject.
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Separation from nature - from our society and the community - it leads to material things outside of ourselves that can cause many problems …\n        listen … these are distractions
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Giving is Important - from Ourselves to the Collective Greater Good.
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This interview covers communities coming together. 
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Technology as a separator and not necessarily a bringer of people face to face and eyeball to eyeball and closer into hugging distance.
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Mark talks about Natural Empathy 
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That we have wicked problems - climate change - plastic pollution - declining fisheries - coastal sedimentation and near shore pollutants 
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All these are our collective fault - we are all part of the problem. 
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How can we come together and to do something different - as opposed to making them worse? 
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That we start this philosophical conversation and have the ability to make compromises. 
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“I will give you this - if you will give up that.”\n    
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Mark asks us to find ways to end polarising viewpoints.
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That as we all share the same planet - let's come together to resolve these issues for the sake of future generations.
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Dr Mark Orams - most definitely worth listening and taking in.
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Bruno Gröning left behind the knowledge of how to absorb a natural healing power that can bring long-lasting health to \u2028every human being. Back then and\n    still today, healings of\u2028 chronic illnesses that have lasted for decades, as well as of \u2028drug and other addictions, have occurred worldwide.\u2028This is\n    confirmed by numerous healing reports that have\u2028 been carefully examined by doctors of the Medical \u2028Scientific Group and documented using medical evidence\n    by independent physicians.
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Bruno Gröning, born in 1906 in Gdansk, (then Germany, now Poland) was an unassuming worker who relocated to Western Germany as a refugee after World War\n    II. Before the war he held various occupations, a carpenter, a factory and dock laborer. Then, suddenly, he was the center of public attention. The\n    news of his miraculous healings spread all over the world. From every country came the sick, petitions and proposals. Tens of thousands of people made\n    the pilgrimage to the places where he worked. A revolution in medicine loomed.
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Bruno Gröning went to South Germany in August, 1949. He wanted to get away from the tumult surrounding his name and withdrew to a private estate near Rosenheim.\n    At first he was able to keep his whereabouts a secret. However, once the first newspapers reported about his arrival in Bavaria, the masses started\n    arriving.
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Up to 30,000 people a day streamed to the “Traberhof” in Rosenheim. Press, radio and the weekly news program reported on events. Even a film was made,\n    titled “Gröning,” documenting the events taking place around him.
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Spending time in Nature
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Every year Friends of the Bruno Gröning Circle of Friends meet to conduct “hiking weeks”. These began in Austria in the late 1980’s. With the worldwide\n    spread of the teaching, the friends of Bruno Gröning in other countries also wanted to hike and spend time together in nature in their home countries.\n    Now hiking weeks take place, for example, in Switzerland, Italy, France as well as India, Australia and the USA.
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This activity is coupled with a conscious approach towards nature in the sense of Bruno Gröning's words \"Back to nature\" and \"Nature is God\". To absorb\n    nature in peace and quiet presents a wonderful contrast to commercial tourism and brings people closer to God and to the origin of life again. While\n    spending time in this way in nature at the hiking weeks many friends have even experienced healings.
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\"Please, please do not be gullible! Today I say as I always do, 'You don’t have to believe what I say!' I do not demand it. But you have one duty: to convince yourself of it!'\n    
- Bruno Gröning
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Trust and believe, the divine power helps and heals.
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Lecture dates and further information: https://www.bruno-groening.org/en\n
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Pawel Schemet at the Chernobyl power plant - survived radiation sickness!     \n    
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I (Tim) went to a weekend ‘Change Agent’ workshop back in 1999 in Auckland that Robert presented and learnt much - hence I am still enthused as of today.\n    However Robert is now taking the deeper context of change to another more focused ‘local to global level.’ They are called ‘The 3 Harmonies.’
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This below is an introduction to Change Agents, that leads into the Three Harmonies.  
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A change agent is someone who can bring a vision into a manifestation here in our physical life. Usually it is someone in a catalytic role. Often, they\n    bring people together and help them focus on something as a shared goal and enable something new to be born.
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It takes a certain amount of courage, because a change agent is doing things before everybody else says – ‘oh yes that’s a brilliant idea.’ Change agents\n    need to recognise the value of some new approach and have the perseverance to shepherd it through to actual manifestation.
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Note that not all changes agents are promoting change that you would approve of …
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However the change that Robert Gilman promotes is with people who have a caring about what is happening on the planet, a caring for the earth and for its\n    people and its species and who would like to be more effective in being able to manifest that caring. Robert says that they have this inner intuition\n    that they are here in this time in history to make a difference. Yet they often find it challenging. Robert’s calling at present is to work with people\n    who already in their hearts are oriented to making a difference and assist them to be more effective and joyous as change agents 
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Today the collective unconsciousness is stirring as it recognises that humanity is in a tight situation regarding its collective planetary future.
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Robert suspects that there is also within that ‘collective unconsciousness’ the realisation of opportunity for a truly brighter future. (Robert’s use of\n    ‘bright future’ is totally different from the NZ National party’s use.)
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He feels that the long-term trends show we are closing in-on, within a generation or two, ending warfare as an institution.
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This is only one of the changes that his decades of working in this field lead him to believe are in ‘the works’ .
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Humanity has many challenges – the warming climate, species extinction, various social problems, etc. – that we have we have yet to solve. Robert has spent\n    over 40 years studying and writing about these challenges and now feels that we already have practical, tested solutions to essentially all of them.\n    The obstacles to implementing these solutions all come back to fear, fear that we have inherited from 5000 years of cultures based on maintaining everyone\n    in a traumatized state.
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For thousands of years the winning strategy for worldly success has been to Enforce the Three Dominations:
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The domination within. Doing everything with will. 
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The domination over others.
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During all that time, visionaries and idealists have pursued a different strategy, what Robert calls Embody the Three Harmonies:
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The harmony within.
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The harmony with others.
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As appealing as many have found this approach, it’s not been a strategy for outward success.
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Until now.
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The long-term trends of cultural evolution suggest that we are currently in a ‘tipping zone’ where increasingly those who succeed in practical terms will\n    be good collaborators who embody the three harmonies. Those who pursue domination will find themselves more and more isolated and unsuccessful.
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With the goal of speeding up this ‘birth’ of the Planetary Era, Robert has developed an ‘adventure tour to the future’. Called Bright Future Now, it helps people deepen their embodiment of the Three Harmonies so that they can personally\n    step into that bright future now and be more effective and joyous change agents in service to the Earth and its life. Bright Future Now is a 6-week\n    online, highly-interactive process that integrates into the lives of busy people all over the world. 
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Listen to this interview and discover how deepening your skills of cooperation can speed up your own transition into the Planetary Era.
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CAFCA, (Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa) announces the launch of AIM (Aotearoa Independence Movement) and invites you to join them.
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CAFCA is preparing to initiate and drive a nationwide dialogue to advance the case for a non-aligned Aotearoa based on policies of economic, military\n        and political independence.
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This is not a new thing from CAFCA - it has been part of their core issues since they were founded more than 40 years ago.
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Murray Horton talks most knowingly about political history and current day issues that contribute to the founding of the AIM campaign.
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Murray has been a Christchurch-based political activist since 1969 and is the Organiser for both the Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa (CAFCA)\n        and the Anti-Bases Campaign (ABC)
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He is a University of Canterbury graduate, and has worked in a number of \"real\" jobs, the longest being 14 years as a Railways worker. His redundancy\n        in 1991 was followed by his becoming the full time paid Organiser of CAFCA.
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He says:\n    
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“The advent of Donald Trump in the US provides an unprecedented opportunity to take a good, hard look at Aotearoa's place in the world\".
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And to ask the question - \"Why are we still a loyal member of the American Empire?\"\n    
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As the old saying goes, you are judged by the company you keep.
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CAFCA says it's time for this country to pull the plug, to finish the business started in the 1980s which saw us out of ANZUS; and break the chains\n        - military, intelligence, economic and cultural, etc, etc - that continue to bind us to the American Empire.
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Let's deal with the world on our terms, not on those dictated from whichever empire we happen to be a junior member of at the time.
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Somebody needs to take the initiative and we're happy to do so.
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“What is AIM? (Aotearoa Independence Movement.) It's a campaign, not an organisation.
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What is a specific example of what being non-aligned would look like? An obvious one would be to get Aotearoa out of the Five Eyes spy network and\n        close the Waihopai spy base. That would remove this country from being entangled in wars and spying that serve the interests of the US and and\n        other countries, not ours. Another one would be to drastically tighten the foreign \"investment\" laws governing who owns our companies and land.
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What will AIM do to \"initiate and drive this nationwide dialogue\"?.
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That will be decided by the organisations and individuals that get involved in the campaign.
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It is not about Donald Trump.
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He is simply the catalyst who offers us a once in a lifetime opportunity to build this campaign and create a truly non-aligned Aotearoa.
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We know that there are plenty of New Zealanders right across the political spectrum who are just as appalled as we are by what the world is witnessing\n        going on in the US every day.
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But it's not about whoever happens to be US President.
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This is about the longer view and the bigger picture.
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Nor is it \"anti-American\" (or \"racist\" or \"xenophobic\", for that matter).
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We stand with the American people who are fighting back in their millions. We stand with them as we stood with them in common causes ranging from stopping\n        the war in Vietnam to the invasion of Iraq and the failed attempt to impose the TPPA on our peoples.
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The campaign has begun for a truly non-aligned Aotearoa. You'll be hearing more from us. We need as many people as possible to get actively involved”\n        Murray Horton
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See here for the Aotearoa Independence Movement’s website.\n    
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It includes Murray’s speech given at AUT Pacific Media Centre, “Time for Independence from a Crumbling US Empire.”
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http://canterbury.cyberplace.org.nz/community/CAFCA/aotearoa-independence-movement.html\n    
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Previous Interviews by Murray Horton on GreenplanetFM.com
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2014 - http://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/murray-horton-spokesman-for-the-campaign-against-foreign-control-of-aotearoa-cafca\n        
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2011 - http://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/murray-horton-of-the-campaign-against-foreign-control-of-aotearoa-cafca\n    
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This interview is sponsored by ‘The Awareness Party.’
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http://www.theawarenessparty.com\n        
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Phil is passionate about and dedicated to capturing and amplifying the much needed spiritual and systemic changes that characterise our emerging global\n    culture.
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Looking at the issues he says, “Some people still have no idea that there are people and families who have more influence in the direction of humanity’s\n    future than those who work within the government apparatus. Yet of those who understand the power that both old and new money yields, many still find\n    it hard to believe that the people who really run the show behind the scenes do not have humanity’s best interests at heart. To them I say, just have\n    a good look around. Put aside the strong evidence of a Satanist ideology and pedophilic tendencies within the uber elite, and pay wise attention to\n    not just the system itself, but the health and prosperity of the people\".
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First, the system. The money supply is a scam in which currency is created out of nothing, where the profits go back to those who create it instead of\n    the people and their community needs. 
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Food is tainted, as is water. Medicine is in general a toxic soup of adulterated elements too, which struggle to resolve the symptoms, let alone cure the\n    fundamental issues. Now of course there are many natural ingredients that can be highly effective against the widespread dis-ease which permeates our\n    so-called modern world, but they’ve been so effectively suppressed simply because the people would manage their own healing on a local level.
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And that is outside of the desired control of those who are hellbent on their power trip of ruling the world. This theme is present through all of this,\n    actually.\n    
Then there’s the mainstream media, which is a monopolized mess of propaganda and hypnotism. Now it is true that you will get some truth through these\n        channels, but in the most part, information that reveals the big realities, especially regarding the theft of various elements of the system, will\n        not be televised for society’s benefit.
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Each and every one of us has surely seen how the corporatized media works for their own interests, right?
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Then of course there’s the government. Big money, through their lobbyists, ensure that macro policy design supports their agenda. Its crony capitalism\n        on steroids with a political puppet arsenal that makes Pinocchio look like he’s just had a hit of truth serum.
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Take for example Australia’s Prime Minister. As an ex-managing director of Goldman Sachs, which is a banking institution deeply embedded into the banksterism\n        that exists today, his appointment is such a massive conflict of interest that it is dumbfounding that the Aussies don’t physically escort him\n        out of Parliament house. To add the final blow, he is also deeply in the pocket of the pharmaceutical drug dealers which have literally killed\n        millions of people, as well as destroyed many more people’s lives through addiction and increased sickness.
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Yeah, sounds legit.
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So what does the public education system do regarding all this? Well, it maintains and perpetuates this status quo, of course.
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Enter the people. There are three S’s which characterize humanity’s internal world today, which are sadness, stress and sickness. Ask nine out of ten\n        people and they’ll be either in one or more of these states, or simply completely disconnected from themselves and their purpose.
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Contentment is rare. Common sense is uncommon. The authentic, empowered man or woman is nearly non-existent. Of course on the surface people seem ‘fine’,\n        but peak into their lives and it soon becomes pretty clear that it’s whirlwind of bitterness, smallness, hatred, jealousy and competition.
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That’s not to say that our fellow men and women aren’t mostly good-natured and caring, but damn we’re lost in a web of bullshit. We’re all part of\n        this to some degree or another, but very few seem seriously motivated to get out of the sick race and genuinely surround themselves with good vibes\n        and good lives.
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Why? There are many reasons, but to simplify it, it comes down to indoctrination, ignorance, laziness and fear. People just don’t understand, and they\n        don’t want to understand, because it means much more than just changing their lives. It also means authentically facing themselves and the outside\n        world, which means completely redesigning themselves and their concepts of reality.
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So instead, many people find solace in giving back in some little way without having to do the hard work. One example is giving money to charity, without\n        focusing on the core systemic areas that would actually deal with the problems. It’s so unfortunate too, because many charities and foundations\n        are very much embedded and even complicit in suppression of the truth.
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After all, there’s no need for that organization to exist if they solved the cause they were fighting for.
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In any case, the world we live in is not one of general health, happiness and harmony. Instead, we have sickness, sadness and stress. And that doesn't\n        even account for the super S of scarcity, instead of abundance. So even if the ruling class genuinely had good intentions when it comes to the\n        care of you and your family and friends, they’ve clearly failed.
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Either which way, it looks like we’re going to have to step up our vibration of consciousness and sort this mess out for ourselves, especially in our\n        own lives. Or not; I guess time will tell. 
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Phillip J. Watt lives on the Mid North Coast of NSW Australia. He is an activist for individual and collective change and has devoted his career to\n        supporting this evolution. Phil best identifies as a truthseeker, writer, self-help guide, organic farmer and activist who has lived a life of\n        self-determination and built a strong repertoire based in leadership, teamwork and seeking the essential knowledge and skills to holistically support\n        himself, his family and his clientele. 
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Phil's written and film work deals with topics from ideology to society, as well as self-development. His love for spreading empowering messages evolved\n        into being a leading writer for independent on-line media dedicated to mindful, holistic, progressive, well-informed and adventurous living. He\n        is also an online and in person presenter of information relating to the truth and freedom network. 
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Phil is passionate about and dedicated to capturing and amplifying the much needed spiritual and systemic changes that characterise our emerging global\n        culture. He has a background working in multifaceted areas including journalism, policy development, security, project management, social work,\n        operations management and providing individual and relationship guidance. He also has the privilege of interviewing a variety of progressive leaders\n        on his YouTube Channel.
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Follow him on Facebook @ Phillip J. Watt, watch his interviews with an array of inspiring guests at 'The Conscious Society' YouTube Channel, read his\n        latest work at his new website www.pushingthetippingpoint.com and visit his\n        personal development website www.vitalityguidance.com.\n    
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This interview is sponsored by The Awareness Party\n        
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“The present convergence of crises––in money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and more––is a birth crisis,\n    expelling us from the old world into a new.” 
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“When we must pay the true price for the depletion of nature’s gifts, materials will become more precious to us, and economic logic will reinforce, and\n    not contradict, our heart’s desire to treat the world with reverence and, when we receive nature’s gifts, to use them well.” 
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“It’s a very ancient idea that the universe runs by the principles of the gift. That human life runs by the principles of the gift. And that in fact the\n    purpose for our existence, the reason why we’re here, is to give. And that everybody has a gift that is important and meaningful, and maybe even unique\n    and essential. It’s certainly true in an ecosystem where every species has an important function, and without that function, without that gift that\n    it gives to the ecosystem everybody would be a little bit poorer. The system as a whole would be a little bit weaker.”
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“And this is a new understanding that may be only 40 or 50 years old, in the west at least. A hundred years ago, or even 50 years ago, scientists thought\n    that you could eliminate one species, eliminate in fact all the bad species, and make nature better. But we’re understanding now that every being has\n    its gift to give. And this shift of perception hasn’t been integrated yet into our institutions.”
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“Mainstream economics doesn’t really understand this. It says that human beings don’t really want to work. There’s a phrase in economics, “the disutility\n    of work.” Human beings don’t want work, so we have to make people work with these incentives, this money that overcomes your natural disinclination\n    to create, to be productive, and to give something to other people. You have to get something in return, otherwise you won’t want to do it. And it’s\n    considered good that we have a system based on scarcity, that creates anxiety, that kind of forces you to work.”
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“Money is just an agreement. Money only has value because people believe it has value. It is something that we create through our agreements. You can say\n    that money is a story. It’s the symbols that we interpret in a certain way, and that means that they’re valuable. So why have we agreed to create a\n    system of value that is the enemy of all of the beautiful things we want to do?
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The paragraphs above are from Charles Eisenstein’s presentation, “Sacred Economics, money, the gift, and society in the age of transition.”
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http://charleseisenstein.net/sacred-economics-money-the-gift-and-society-in-the-age-of-transition/    
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In this interview we covered the underlying causes of our current economic difficulties including the need for an attitude change about money, and the\n    system, and how these both need changing.
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Money is not a neutral energy. 
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It has ‘scarcity’ built into it. It creates endless growth of the economy because more money needs to be created in order to support the growth.
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We are not only reaching growth limits but we are reaching spiritual ones. There is a psychic limit to the cost of impoverishment of life when everything\n    is effectively converted into money.
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Charles answers questions on some of the most hopeful trends he sees today; his vision for a new economy; the key to transitioning to sacred economics;\n    and what can we do in our communities to contribute to a new economy.
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On speaking about the new POTUS, Trump, Charles says that almost anything could happen in the US, including government breakdown, and creating a new constitution,\n    or even extreme scenarios such as break away states,
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He offers the concept that the cell is a microcosm of the human body that we can understand how a cell works (one of the 50 trillion in our body) by\n        making analogies with how a body works. 
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With all the magnificent machinery that we call the human body, there is no new function that's present in your human body that's not already present\n        in every single cell. You have a digestive system, a respiratory system, etc, - so does a cell. 
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The fact that we have become disconnected from our bodies has become legion as especially with Western males, who think they are bullet proof and abuse\n        their bodies trusting that Western medicine will revive them with a cure to carry on. 
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That the human body can also be seen as a microcosm of our planet is another example of our connectivity. Our body is composed of air, water and earth\n        minerals - so is our planet. That a human blood system is 3.5% salt - so are our oceans. Our body has a respiratory system, our planet has an atmospheric\n        system. Our body has acupuncture meridians - our planet has ley lines. http://ancientexplorers.com/blog/ley-lines/        
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However Bruce opens up in this interview by saying that we humans have to take note – that though scientists have been mentioning it for some time\n        now – the hard cold fact is that our planet is into the 6th major species collapse – that as we have massively increased our population and ecological\n        footprint, especially in the last 150 years– we have not recognised where this is leading us, and continually fail to heed the warning signs.
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What science is increasingly becoming more shrill about is that the present loss of species is 1,000 times greater than the back-ground loss. Which\n        means there are always losses, but these are infinitesimal because 2,000 years ago we would have had only about 500 million people max – living\n        without machinery and technology. 
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Now we are approaching gigantism - where with 7.5 billion human beings we are in many ways infesting the organism that supports us. 
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Our planet, Mother Earth. 
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Now why would Bruce be bringing this to our attention, having written 3 bestselling books that have accentuated the possibility that we humans can\n        evolve stupendously fast to become profoundly aware that we can - with much inner change and reflection - become super conscious planetary beings.\n        To choose to wake up to the reality of what’s happening and evolve a ‘new knowingness’ based on cooperation and shared responsibility. 
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He also mentions how the bio-web, or the web of life that embraces and underpins the biosphere is starting to show signs of imminent collapse …\n        The great coral reefs that are bleaching globally as well as the fast approaching collapse of the ocean fisheries - that we are ignoring at the\n        peril of our children. 
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This rapidly approaching fisheries collapse is scheduled to hit by around 2048. 
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Yes we have heard it all before – yet now we have a seasoned voice articulating the urgency. Someone who has a deep understanding of the evolutionary\n        process and its downside.
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Coral reef bleaching, he says is like, when we see life as a pyramid – everything at a lower level is built upon supporting everything at other levels\n        above it. So if we drop out the lower level, then everything that it is holding up – drops out all the higher levels including us humans – and\n        at present it is about to fall and collapse. 
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Geologist studying time periods call this the Anthropocene age. 
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Anthropocene age is about humans … and what they are noticing is that the atmosphere, the water and the land is being altered by we humans -\n        it’s being called the human interference phase … which we are seeing in all the climatic / weather changes – bottom line we are facing the\n        extinction of the human culture. This has also been induced by the thousand of atomic bomb tests, plastic pollution and massive deforestation of\n        tropical forests, soot from power stations, concrete, and even the bones left by the global proliferation of the domestic chicken were now under\n        consideration. etc.
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We have two choices. 
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The two choices are – to continue down the same road of growth at all costs towards extinction - and it’s looming fast – Science conservatively states\n        by 2048 there will be no fish in our oceans - 2048 – just over 30 years … due to three things:-
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Overfishing – destroying breeding grounds and polluting the water. 
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We have known this for a while yet no one has done anything.
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What do we do … because we can not delay ….
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The other choice …
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Bruce mentions the biological imperative and that it’s built into every living organism – that being ‘the drive to survive’ … all animals, birds,\n        insects, fish - will flee if threatened and when we translate this to the human condition today we are witnessing a global response from people\n        that to many of them - ‘it’s not going well’ and the gut response from increasing numbers of them, are now reacting - ‘knowing that something is\n        going on’ and this is ‘the collective receptivity.’ We know that at heart we are going in the wrong direction and that at present we need two planet\n        earths to support our consumer levels of extracting of vital resources, minerals, oils, wood vegetation .
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So we now have a situation of ‘America First and Bruce posits the possibility that the USA will be the first to collapse and break its structure due\n        to its leadership … With a major monkey wrench being thrown into the system and waking people up everywhere - that everything is essentially\n        dysfunctional!
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The ‘new President of America’ is precipitating an evolutionary change – forcing people to push for change to a more evolved state .
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But when positive fights a negative – they cancel each other out and Bruce mentions the metaphor of – using a positive wire and a negative wire - put\n        them together and you get sparks and fire and you end up with a loss - loss situation. 
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We can go out against something and cancel our energy or instead coalesce our positive energy and ‘be for something.’ 
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We can do fear and fight or flight or we can do GROWTH.
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1% of disease can be attributed to a genetic issues … the rests are essentially psychological and what we are programmed with from the outside\n        world. Plus of course environmental considerations. Coughs colds influenza, malaria etc (seen 14 minutes 53 seconds into the interview after the\n        introduction).
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‘We are the environment’ – the Judeo Christian bible says that first there was an environment and then humans were dropped into the environment – but\n        we grew and evolved out of the environment … we do not have domain over nature – we are nature ….
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So when we are chopping down the environment we are chopping away at ourselves because we are an extension of the environment. Self destruction and\n        self sabotage are synonymous in our current paradigm and the resulting stress is a psychological issue.
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So where we are currently at - is that we are inducing our own evolution. That we have caused our own ‘evolutionary driver’ - in the words of Barbara\n        Marx Hubbard - to force ourselves to evolve to the next evolutionary level.
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This is where Bruce’s book ‘Spontaneous Evolution’ presents us with a blueprint to advance conscious choices and make the jump to a new paradigm. 
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\n    In its 2016 July 7 issue the leading scientific journal, Nature, published a remarkable essay by Richard Conn Henry, professor in the department of\n        physics and astronomy at Johns Hopkins University. The essay ran under this rubric:
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\"The Universe is immaterial-mental and spiritual. Live, and enjoy.\" As unusual as such an essay may be for a major scientific journal, what really\n        interests us is that prominent physicists have been making statements not far removed from this for several decades, arguing, for example, that\n        consciousness is a fundamental aspect of the physical world. And yet, right into our own day biologists, for example, have continued speaking as\n        if the rock-bottom reality of the world consisted of little mechanistic devices of one sort or another. This is clearly the picture that philosopher\n        Daniel Dennett has in mind when he tells us that evolution occurs by means of \"mindless and mechanical\" processes.
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However beyond the quantum level, possibility is rich in potential and Bruce has been breaking into new realms in this arena for well over a decade.\n        
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Children get programmed by the age of 7 that 70% of their upbringing is disempowering, self sabotaging and limiting. We need a new enlightened program\n        that adeptly shifts the focus away from duality with a better choice of vernacular. 
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Can’t, won’t, shouldn’t - the usual suspects can be re-honed to offer other wiser word choices - so that instead of the child by the age of 5 experiencing\n        hundred of versions of no, stop keep quite, you can’t do that, you shouldn’t go there, you won’t succeed - we get in along side them and offer\n        them other ways at going forward. Have you endeavoured to see it this way? Have you heard of …? This is a way that I have succeeded in.\n        etc 
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This is Bruce at his enthusiastic best - even when dealing with the overwhelming challenges that are facing us as a species. The aim for Bruce is not\n        to evolve the individual into a new Einstein - but to evolve the race - the human race and we are running out of time and space to gift our children\n        a healthy balanced and bountiful planet. - we are on the precipice!
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Bruce then gives us a pointer.
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When it comes to the Matrix the movie - if you still have a video store, you will find it in the Science Fiction shelves – Ahhhh Bruce says …\n        actually ‘it’s a documentary!’ - yes that’s right! – a documentary! We are in the matrix now and we have been programmed and the program is that\n        of limitation.
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If we wake up we can make an evolutionary jump!
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This is Bruce in the flow - he states what is imperative and he articulates it in an entertaining way.
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Possibilities await us - all we need to do is courageously question more, knowing that ‘we are also spiritual beings having an earth experience’ and\n        that we have not only entered the quantum field we have always been embedded in it, but not known it. - That everything is consciousness as per\n        Bruce’s recently joining Tom Campbell - in that we are all extensions of ‘the Greater Consciousness’ that Tom, a physicists - so adeptly explains.
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We are the change and the sooner we embrace it wholeheartedly the sooner this extended profundity will shine into our life, bringing with it a far\n        deeper appreciation of existence as well as a widening smile to our countenance.
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An enjoyable interview with Bruce Lipton - quantum trooper and metaphysical teacher.
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Tom Campbell - Part Two of his cultural tour of New Zealand
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Tom Campbell PhD - from the US has an impressive career in applied physics. Having worked in military intelligence, reverse-engineering foreign technology,\n    as well as in missile defence, including working on huge engineering projects for NASA - the US space agency - up until very recently.
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Tom was brought up and graduated in science within the mainstream university system and then by chance found himself living only 45 minutes drive from\n    a person called Robert Monroe. Monroe had been experiencing situations where he would randomly shift his awareness to where it would be outside of\n    his body and he would be ‘on the outside looking in’ and able to float and project his awareness to different locations. 
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This has had some people labelling it soul travel, astral travel or plain ‘out of the body experiences’ and Monroe could not understand it. So he looked\n    for some young scientists grounded in reality who had been basically educated that we live in a soulless and mechanistic world and that we are only\n    a body with a mind that is inside the brain.
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Monroe, who had now spent a lot of time experiencing these differing states of being of - out of the body - and shifting his consciousness to other realms\n    cut a deal with Tom and the other scientist. “Study what I do and make sense of it in a scientific context and I will show you how to do what I do.”\n    This started a relationship right up until Monroe’s death. https://www.monroeinstitute.org 
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In this interview Toms says that at a subatomic level below the quantum reality we have to understand that everything is at its most basic level - is Consciousness.
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That Consciousness in turn is basically information and where does this information come from? – It turns out that consciousness - is an information system\n    and we humans are individuated units of consciousness (like you and I).
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We are chunks of consciousness that share information. That’s what you do if you are an information system – so we pass information back and forth. As\n    animated chunks of consciousness – we are aware – we know what we are doing - but, what about this physical reality – what is it here for? 
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This is where I mention :
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The four basic forces of nature are gravity, the strong force, the weak force, and the electromagnetic force. The theory of general relativity explains\n    gravity, and quantum mechanics explains the other three forces. Right now, no one theory that everyone accepts can explain all four forces.
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String theory is a theory that could become the \"theory of everything”.
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And questions like:
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How large is the universe and how eternal? The steady state Universe …
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528 hertz is supposedly to be the frequency of Love
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No accidents in the universe ? Correct?
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Where does sound come into it? Because sound vibrating on liquid or sand particles can bring form into being …
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Is our universe part of a multi verse like how a V 8 motor sequence works. 
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Akashic records?
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Karma - the law of return?
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Why can you not contact Robert Monroe now?
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There is so much to the makeup of reality
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What’s its purpose? And the logic goes like this … If you are an information system - you have to continually reduce entropy … entropy is\n    a scientific word that is a measure of disorder. Entropy has a way of just happening – like things have a way of … like decaying, falling apart\n    – things tend to become unorganised. Disorganisation happens over time – it just naturally does that even eventually those molecules will breakdown\n    - that’s called Newton’s 2nd Law of the Thermodynamics it says the entropy always increases, that taken to its final conclusion has - from the scientific\n    mind set - that if we wait long enough our universe will end up only with hydrogen atoms and elementary particles - that is what science says that\n    this is what will be left - as everything will disintegrate.
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However when we units of consciousness realise that we must slow down entropy we can consciously come together in a growing mass of shared consciousness\n    and make a choice – follow the path of love or go down the path of fear. However, when the individual units of consciousness care about each other,\n    are cooperative - they share – it’s about service to the greater whole - it is not about self. 
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Fear on the other hand is that you trust no one, it is all about self and you are always protecting your back. Because everyone is looking to take your\n    piece of the pie. However even in these situations they may strategically come together to group and then start to plunder the ones that are alone\n    – then they may work together to corner the market – (so to speak) and with them having turf wars it finally ends up with conglomerates merging together.\n    That when we see what’s happening today with the giant mega complexes – corporate raiding etc and what has happened on Wall St, in the USA - we see\n    the down side of reality not serving the whole. 
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Where as the units that work together we have more trust – goodwill, shared success and growth and creativity. Like how can I help you – how can I help\n    to better the whole. Which side is the better to involve yourself with? Especially for the future of children and it has to be the love side. The logical\n    conclusion is that if you are an information system you want to survive – you need to lower entropy – the best way to do that is through cooperation\n    it’s through being - Love. Caring about others.
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Also covered is the feed back mechanisms - consequences, learning … and we are in a entropy reduction trainer for consciousness – just like pilots\n    go to an inflight trainer to learn how to fly an airliner. Whereas we are also in a simulation - a virtual reality and Tom sees it as our mission to\n    become love. To decrease the entropy of our individual consciousness and by doing so we reduce the entropy of the whole consciousness system – and\n    we are a part (albeit small) here to evolve the larger consciousness system and to keep evolving … 
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Tom also states that Relativity and Quantum Mechanics can not work together at the level it is endeavouring to be understood. But when you see everything\n    from a standpoint of consciousness being embedded in virtual reality - you are able to pull it all together.
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See the double slit experiment.
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This shows that our reality is not materialistic and not deterministic – it is probabilistic and particles don’t really exist – there is potential particles\n    that obey the laws of probability – and that is how this world works .
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Tom has devised 6 experiments that he wants University physics departments or any institute world-wide that do research on things that are ‘impossible’\n    as in minor miracles as they crack open the old thought form and bring through a new reality of possibility and that consciousness is behind it all.
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What is happening today is the emerging consciousness that has been seen to be on the fringes of science and reality is now moving very quickly to the\n    centre. 
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Tim brings up other subject matter such as:
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Timothy Leary coming on stage in Los Angeles in 1988 and telling the audience that we are totally surrounded by information. That we decode this information\n    and make sense of it. He was an early up taker of seeing everything as being bits of information and data and frame it in those words
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Captain Edgar Mitchell 6th Man on the moon –of The Noetic Sciences was also at the same Expo where he mentioned he had had synchronised experiments with\n    telepathy between him whilst on the moon and people here on earth and the results were very promising. 
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Tom says that throughout most of the universities today, any with a strong Physics Department you will find up to 20 - 30 % of the all physicists there,\n    will be saying we want to look far more deeply into virtual reality and consciousness. Because that is where our next evolutionary step is taking us.
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Today at Cern in Switzerland they are now looking at electrons as having the properties of charge and the properties of mass - thats the way you represent\n    an electron in a computer – it’s a point with the attributes of mass and the attributes of charge – if they look at an electron that way – there math\n    will predict correctly how experiments come out. If they think of it as a little chunk of mass with a charge – they can’t get the right answer – because\n    it’s just information and their experiments will not come out correctly. This is where we are today. 
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Also mentioned in this conversation is NZer Brian http://brianwhitworth.com/ from Massey university who too is\n    on the leading edge of the consciousness revolution – talking up ‘virtual reality’ very early in this millennium.
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Covering mystics talking about reality from Shri Aurabindo to the Buddha seeing that this reality is illusionary – and Tom says this is about as close\n    to saying that the reality we live in is as close to as you can get - to saying that this is a virtual reality.
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Yes, mystics have understood this, for millennia and it is available because we are an individuated unit of consciousness and we can have unlimited access\n    to this … because the internet has connected us into one simultaneous web of interrelationship.
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That virtual reality is also sub set of something larger and must have behind it a greater consciousness – and when we surrender more and get out of our\n    intellect and into our intuitive field – we see a larger consciousness as well as the wholesale emergence of spirituality and love making itself known.
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Also covered 
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Holon’s Arthur Koestler that everything is nested in another archetypal system.
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This can be demonstrated in the holarchic relationship (subatomic particles ↔ atoms ↔ molecules ↔ macromolecules ↔ organelles ↔ cells ↔ tissues ↔ organs\n    ↔ organisms ↔ communities ↔ societies) where it expands … 
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Eco systems ↔ biosphere ↔ planetary ↔ solar system ↔galactic ↔ universal ↔ multiverse ?
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each holon is a \"level\" of organisation, and all are ultimately descriptive of the same set (e.g., a particular collection of matter). The top can be a\n    bottom, a bottom can be a top, and, like a fractal, the patterns evident at one level can be similar\n    to those at another.
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That had Alfred Russell Wallace been able to get his theory of evolution out to the world before Charles Darwin it would have shown far more cooperation\n    within nature where animals and plants found certain non confrontational niches. Our culture today would not be so programed as in this - semi dog\n    eat dog program we have been inculcated with.
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This is how Elisabet Sahtouris sees a differing kind of evolution.
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www.sahtouris.com 
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Internationally known as a dynamic speaker and media personality, Dr. Sahtouris is an evolution biologist, futurist, professor, author and consultant on\n    Living. Show’s that within evolution there is a lot of co operation.
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Bruce Lipton too signals that cooperation within nature\n    is seen to be a way through for the human race to solve its many challenges. 
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Covering minerals evolving from 12 major minerals not long after the big bang to 4,000 plus today. 
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Civilisations evolving and devolving especially when there is fear involved.
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Unity Consciousness: 
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 Using the information that Tom is bringing here to NZ and spreading it across the nation - through fibers of light across the web that covers our country\n    – to stimulate peoples interest in unity consciousness – and that we are seen as important energy bundles expressing our inter-connectiveness and aspirations\n    for a far better future for all biota and in particular our children and grandchildren …
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Tom mentions that we can not achieve it appropriately from the intellect – we must move our understanding down to our chest cavity and that is has to be\n    fully embraced and felt from the heart – if we really want to initiate the much needed change that at soul level we have all been calling for.
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Tim mentions that we are nearing what Teihard de Chardin the Jesuit Priest (that did not find favour from Rome) called an Omega point – where at heart\n    we as a humanity transform into a type of global group mind where we retain our own identity yet are able to surrender into a greater consciousness\n    … 
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And that this momentum that we are in at present - is in Toms’ words – our destiny as a humanity.
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The larger consciousness can also for reference – be called God, the Divine, Source, the Creator and we are an integral part of it. This larger consciousness\n    system is also finite, (which I Tim found is a very interesting statement) its not perfect, it’s a real system that is evolving. It’s not a done thing\n    - it’s an evolving system.
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By expressing it this way – that is is a larger consciousness - it misses some of the dogma that we have either been programed with or held too zealously\n    in our thought process.
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This way you do not get tied to the dogma, nor the ritual. The larger conscious system just keeps on evolving so as long as it keeps on growing it will be eternal – making us as  eternal too - this is a cosmic win win – forever - and is our destination.  
    
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Two-Day Cultural Connection Workshop 
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Dr Robin Kelly from Auckland author of The Human Antenna and The Human Hologram will be part of the panel on Sunday along with Marla Frees a psychic from\n    the US - both representing different aspects of Tom's Big TOE. Tom will incorporate their views of reality within the context of a physicist's science\n    view of our reality in addition to showing the similarities between the ancient traditions and culture of NZ and his MBT theory. 
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Where: Auckland University of Technology\n    
When: Saturday March 4th and Sunday 5th March\n    
Cost: $400 US with lunch included on both days (US$250 for GreenplanetFM radio listeners - use the discount code: RK250\n    
Bookings: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/my-big-toe-2-day-cultural-connection-workshop-tickets-27504741422    
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There will be no ticket sales at the door so all bookings must be in advance on Eventbrite. 
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\"The Universe is immaterial — mental and spiritual. Live, and enjoy\" - states Richard Conn Henry, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at The Johns\n    Hopkins University, Maryland.\n    
 
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In some ways it could be described as reading the ‘information field’ that is the sum total of a person’s ‘wave form’ - or body. She is also able to access deceased loved ones in the same way.
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She has come to Auckland, NZ to present her findings of how consciousness survives death, alongside Dr Robin Kelly author of the Human Antenna and the\n    Human Hologram who lives in Auckland
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In doing this she is making the paranormal - ’normal’.
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Remember this statement by the greatest scientist ever to set foot on earth?
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“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.”\n    Nikola Tesla
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Marla’s receptivity to the invisible is able to bring healing and insight to anyone seeking deeper understanding about relationships, health, career, family,\n    and spirituality.
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So what do we call a person who has ‘certain’ abilities that mainstream science is reluctant to acknowledge? This is because, even today, our scientific\n    apparatus is not yet refined and calibrated enough to measure the sensitivities of the invisible?
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However, this new science is now including new vernacular and terminology to describe the way we decode information - that’s predominantly experienced\n    as emanating data streams. Now we are more able to decipher and comprehend the invisible - and far more adroitly.
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Today, we still have the word ‘psychic’ being somewhat thrashed about in the public realm - from over a hundred years, that when we look at the root word\n    of ‘psyche’ it’s from ancient Greek and means soul. However, today we have psychologists and psychiatrists working with the human mental process, yet\n    most are unable to factor soul into their understanding of the gift that is the human body.
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Marla has been involved in actively researching the psychic world and it’s hidden potentials for 30 years and has now a vast experience. She has also been\n    studying and working with Tom Campbell, (interviewed last week on GreenplanetFM.com on the ‘theory of everything’) Marla’s joining Tom and his team\n    for the first part of Tom’s Cultural Connection Tour here in Auckland.
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Marla states that it’s important to have our own experience and this way we will understand the ‘larger consciousness system’ which is another terminology\n    now being used to describe the Universe, God, Source, the Divine etc. As this scientific expression sees itself free of the emotive loading that religions\n    have claimed domain over.
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She sees this ‘consciousness’ as being all information and uses her psychic capabilities to be able to receive, understand and share with others.
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The Universe is immaterial — mental and spiritual. Live, and enjoy, states Richard Conn Henry, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at The Johns Hopkins\n    University, Maryland.
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Marla has 20 years of therapeutic studies and 18 years of life coaching along with her on going exploration at the Monroe Institute, the largest educational\n    center in the US for the study of expanded states of awareness. Bob Monroe originally started off studying ‘out of the body’ experiences and the Institute\n    teaches others to do that and more. She has also been trained in remote viewing that the US army uses (and that is another story) plus has volunteered\n    her skills to various law enforcement agencies, by tapping into the ‘larger consciousness’ passing on information freely - in the Latin term - pro\n    bono public ‘for the public good’.
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Today she spends her time helping people whose loved ones have died to both reconnect and validate that we really do live/survive beyond death.Marla is\n    able to hear, see and feel what those loved ones want to share with us.
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She is also radio co-host on the large paranormal internet / radio network in the US.
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Whitley Strieber’s www.Unknowncountry.com’s, Dreamland. Where she interviews credible science and spiritual authors - people out on the edge. Whitley Strieber\n    is a well known author of a series of books including, ‘Communion’ and introducing the possibility of having close encounters of the first kind with\n    UFO’s and Extraterrestrial beings.
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She like Tom Campbell says we have to lower our entropy which means consciously slow down disorder - retain more order by being far more heart-centred.
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By explaining the new metaphysics in a new language it is easier for even hardline scientists to learn the new skills to access ‘the larger consciousness’\n    (the universe) that they cannot only have success, but recognise what they are tapping into is God and as a result - do not feel threatened.
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As with Tom Campbell, in last weeks interview - science is recognising that consciousness came before the physical. 
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See Eben Alexander MD\n    
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A renowned academic neurosurgeon, spent over three decades honing his scientific worldview. He thought he knew how the brain, mind and consciousness worked.\n    A transcendental near-death experience (NDE), in which he was driven to the brink of death and spent a week deep in coma from an inexplicable brain\n    infection, changed all of that–completely!
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He was shocked to find the hyper-reality of that spiritual realm, which many had reported in NDEs. He has spent the last five years reconciling his rich\n    spiritual experience with contemporary physics and cosmology. His spiritual experience is totally consistent with the leading edges of scientific understanding\n    today.
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Together, science and spirituality will thrive in a symbiosis offering the most profound insight into fundamental Truth, yielding unimaginable power. The\n    keystone is in global progression of individual conscious awakening.
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Marla also mentions Elisabeth Kubler-Ross\n
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The Swiss Psychologist who in her life time interviewed 20,000 people who had experienced ‘near death’ and ‘out of the body experiences’. Though she had\n    been deceased for some time - she met while Marla was experiencing an ‘out of the body state’ and who asked Marla to access information in one of her\n    own Elisabeth Kubler-Ross’s books giving the chapter and page number, that when Marla came back to reality - located and accessed that book and there\n    on the page that she was given, was the sentence stating that “she firmly believed in life after death!”
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Intent comes up yet again. If we have a consistently ‘honest intent’ and we ‘put out our needs’ to the ‘greater consciousness’ - we will be answered. Not\n    necessarily for your wants or desires but you will receive what you need and what is best for you growth and understanding.
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Dr Brian Weiss MD\n    
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Who today is is an American psychiatrist, hypnotherapist, and author who specialises in past life regression. His research includes reincarnation, past\n    life regression, future life progression, and survival of the human soul after death. 
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As a traditional psychotherapist, Dr. Brian Weiss was astonished and skeptical when one of his patients began recalling past-life traumas that seemed to\n    hold the key to her recurring nightmares and anxiety attacks. His skepticism was eroded, however, when she began to channel messages from “the space\n    between lives,” which contained remarkable revelations about Dr. Weiss’s family and his dead son. Using past-life therapy, he was able to cure the\n    patient and embark on a new, more meaningful phase of his own career.
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The interview covers many subjects - of the changing social landscape of our world today. ‘If you want to make changes for the better - ask in a respectful\n    way.’
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We must learn to ‘forgive both ourselves and others’ - this brings about profound change and softens our countenance.\n    
Touch is important especially when it comes to men, who are not in relationship and who are often alone or just hang out with other mates doing bloke\n    stuff.
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Peter Levine\n    
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Dr. Peter A. Levine PhD in medical biophysics a doctorate in psychology. He has worked in the field of stress and trauma for over 40 years and is the developer\n    of Somatic Experiencing. Peter’s original contribution to the field of Body-Psychotherapy was honoured in 2010 when he received the Lifetime Achievement\n    award from the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy (USABP). That same year he also received the honorary Reis Davis Chair in Child Psychiatry\n    for his innovative contribution to therapy for children and adolescents.
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Beginning in the 1970’s, Peter’s explorations into how animals deal with threat led to the development of a method that is highly effective in dealing\n    with the effects of overwhelm on our nervous system, called Somatic Experiencing (SE). SE is a clinical methodology based upon an appreciation of why\n    animals in the wild are not traumatised by routine threats to their lives, while humans, on the other hand, are readily overwhelmed and often subject\n    to the traumatic symptoms of hyper arousal, shutdown and dysregulation.
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The interview then progresses onto the state of play across the USA that has culminated in a new administration that’s changing the way people think -\n    and are asking where is the future of our children and grandchildren going? 
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Marla, as if ‘tapping into the collective unconsciousness’ of the American people expresses what seems to be an undercurrent rippling throughout that nation.\n    That there is a major change agent in power calling out on so many levels. That the disposed, those who have seen jobs off shored, loss of homes and\n    the thought of a benevolent future, have to now come together and initiate community oriented grass roots change with Non profit start ups. etc.
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Furthering the interview: She states that ‘our people are our strengths and a ‘good leader’ intuitively knows this. That communities coming together must\n    find innovative ways to support their leaders and empower them to do the very best they can and by following due process - also hold them to account.
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She uses the analogy of ‘a boil on our butt that we can’t sit down and be comfortable with’ so we need to act together for the benefit of today’s and tomorrow’s\n    children.
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When it was mentioned that ‘we need to love our neighbour as ourselves’ Marla says yes, - ‘however’ the imperative is to love ourselves first - so that\n    we can be empowered and full, within our chest cavity. If we have no love in our heart, we need to seek support and help to change and inspire all\n    who we come in contact with. Love is a force that emanates from our being, that penetrates the darkness and that can be ever so subtle in its affect\n    on us - as when we feel it - it’s so heartfelt and unmistakably wonderful as we expand our being in a state of profound gratefulness and thankfulness.
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In this interview, Marla along with Tom Campbell another remarkable change agent for a ‘greater consciousness’ is here in NZ to offer new insights and\n    understandings about existence. That we live in a world that is shifting its compass points to allow people to realise that change is happening, and\n    that we embrace it, remain calm and realise that we are part of a greater whole - that we all can tap into to change our lives for the better. For\n    both ourselves and the greater community as a whole.
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Another initiative Marla is involving herself is with how elders wish to share with the youth of today. Marla joins Molly Ireland a local study coach,\n    to offer a better way to focus for your children, empower them to navigate their way through life and assist their growth. So if you have any young\n    ones between 13 and 18 years and would like to give them this opportunity.
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Have them join Molly and Marla on Sunday the 12 March in Remuera from 10-12 noon and you can text Molly on 027 600 8605 so as to take this further.
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Does Consciousness Survive Death?
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Where: Jubilee Building - Parnell Community Centre, 545 Parnell Road
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Note that Tom will be doing an introduction this Sunday. 
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Where: Parnell Community Center, Parnell, Auckland\n    
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However as a scientist with an extremely enquiring mind he has spent 30 years plus of his life - researching - ‘out of the body experiences’ also known\n    as ‘remote viewing’ for the Monroe Institute and studying especially\n    the nature of consciousness and reality. 
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And, he’s done this by remaining open-minded about these topics that include the placebo affect and statistically measurable power of intent, and lucid\n    dreaming. All this is within this ‘theory of everything’ which he calls My Big TOE - Theory Of Everything.\n    
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Since the end of the 2nd World War in 1945 and up until today - we have been taught through our education and the higher levels of learning (some will\n    say programmed) - especially, throughout our universities - - that the universe is here, all by a random fluke, that we are all here - by chance -\n    that God, spirit and soul do not exist and that we live in a mechanised machine-like universe and that scientific dissection has not found any soul\n    or anything related to spirit and that our telescopes have not been able to find heaven or God.
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Tom talks about as a child being a ‘right brainer’ and a holistic perceiver when as a younger person he went into science so as to get a better grounding\n    and understanding of what the building blocks of existence were. Yet, when gazing down into the subatomic world everything is energy packets and probability.
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He says that the ancient mystics understood much of this and that even Buddha, way back, saw reality as illusion - that the Australian first peoples, the\n    aborigine saw the dream time as an extension of this reality that we all inhabit. As they experience it from an intuitive level and not on an intellectual\n    level.
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That human soul definitely exists and is an extension of the greater ocean of consciousness …
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That ‘Consciousness' came before the Big Bang ...
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Virtual reality is the big scientific study as of this moment with 10’s of thousands of physicists researching this realm.
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The overall message is for us to grow up, to care about others and not be so self-centred … it’s all about cooperation and caring - it’s - to\n        love
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The Placebo Affect - what it is and that it works in so many situations.
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BUT he says - be skeptical and disbelieving until you get the experience and then you becoming far more knowing. 
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Tom Campbell Events in Auckland
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Tom is going to be here in Auckland at the end of this month giving presentations on his understanding of existence and reality. Big Picture stuff.\n    
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Consciousness in a Virtual Reality
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Thomas Campbell presents this half day introduction to his work which unifies physics and metaphysics, mind and matter, purpose and meaning, the normal\n    and the paranormal into one complete scientific understanding. Tom will talk about his TOE (Theory Of Everything) in a way that will be easy to understand\n    both by existing supporters or by those new to his ideas and theories.
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Bookings:\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/my-big-toe-consciousness-in-a-virtual-reality-tickets-27502910947\n    
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Two-Day Cultural Connection Workshop 
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Dr Robin Kelly from Auckland author of The Human Antenna and The Human Hologram will be part of the panel on Sunday along with Marla Frees a psychic\n        from the US - both representing different aspects of Tom's Big TOE. Tom will incorporate their views of reality within the context of a physicist's\n        science view of our reality in addition to showing the similarities between the ancient traditions and culture of NZ and his MBT theory.\n        
 
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Where: Auckland University of Technology\n        
When: Saturday March 4th and Sunday 5th March\n        
Cost: $400 US with lunch included on both days (US$250 for GreenplanetFM radio listeners - use the discount code: RK250\n        
Bookings: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/my-big-toe-2-day-cultural-connection-workshop-tickets-27504741422\n        
 
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Each time a bank makes a loan, it essentially creates money as debt. \n
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This system results in problems such as increasing levels of household debt and inflating property prices.
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It ensures a rapidly widening income gap.
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In New Zealand we are allowing our children to go into debt slavery!
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First they have student loans; then they may have a mortgage, and then they are expected to save for their retirement.
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If we continue with this system we will fail as a society.
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In this interview Don Richards, co- founder of Positive Money New Zealand, talks with Lisa Er about the problems and the solutions.
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Positive Money New Zealand began when Sue Hamill and Don Richards had the current debt based system explained to them in 2010, while watching, “ Money as Debt”. When they learnt that New Zealand operated under the same system - they customised the UK campaign to the New Zealand\n    situation.
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Don explains how new money is introduced into the economy by private banks as loans and is shown by water coming though the tap. 
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As they create the money themselves, the only constraint is people’s ability to take on higher and higher levels of debt. This created money distorts the\n    property market and allows house prices to increase year in and year out, irrespective of demand.
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Banks make enormous profits from money creation – more than $5,000 million dollars each year - $10 million dollars a day and most of that money disappears\n    overseas. Imagine what we could do with $10 million dollars a day. It is a huge drain on our economy. 
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There is however a bigger problem. When people repay their loans, that money disappears from the economy, which is represented by money going down the\n    drain. 
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Loan money that is repaid to the banks cannot then be lent out again because as the original loan money was created from nothing it must return to nothing.\n    
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In banking terms money is “destroyed” when people repay loans. This is ridiculous and is probably what the former governor of the Bank of England, Sir\n    Mervyn King, was alluding to when he said “Of all the many ways of organising banking, the worst is the one we have today”.
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For our economy to work, more people must get into debt than get out of debt.
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In times of recession, people take out fewer loans as confidence in the future declines, and more people repay their loans. The banks also get nervous\n    as their confidence in people’s ability to repay loans diminishes and they lend out less money. 
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Governments make matters worse by introducing austerity measures, cutting back on their spending. This further reduces the amount of money in the economy,\n    prolonging any recession.
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When confidence picks up, people take on new loans faster than the old ones are repaid, banks become bolder and lend more and the government spends more,\n    creating a boom. This is the boom and bust cycle which is an artificial construct based on a flawed monetary system.
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Positive Money’s Solution
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The Positive Money solution would have the Reserve Bank issue our money supply debt free and they would take control of the tap. 
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The money being introduced into the economy by the Reserve bank could be spent by the government on infrastructure projects such as hospitals, roads and\n    bridges or new schools and the need to government debt would disappear.
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Our government debt is currently $110, thousand million dollars and the Government pays Five Thousand Million Dollars in interest alone each year. This\n    equates to 14 Million dollars a day that it does not need to spend. 
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When you add the principle repayments that do not need to be made, the amount of available money is staggering. Imagine what we could do with all of that\n    extra money.
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There would still be a place for private banks though. While they could no longer create money from nothing, they would have to attract deposits from those\n    willing to invest. 
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In this way loans from the private banks, once repaid would be available to be lent out again, thereby putting a plug in the bath. 
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The boom and bust cycles would smooth out and the available money in the economy would rise. 
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With more money in circulation New Zealand would move from a low wage economy to a high wage one.
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Governments from the left could use the additional money to increase social services and provide a Universal Basic Income or pay off the student loan debt.\n    
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Governments on the right could use it to pay down the Government debt and reduce taxes. 
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We would no longer need to engage in risky offshore drilling or engage in fracking, or mining in our conservation estate to grow our economy – it would\n    grow organically. There would be money for free education, proper schools, affordable health care, a decent retirement income…
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The International Monetary Fund paper that was mentioned in the Seven Sharp clip endorses a similar solution. Here is a quote straight from the paper:\n    
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the benefits would be: dramatically reduced public and private (net) debt levels (because money creation no longer requires simultaneous debt creation),\n    better control of business cycle fluctuations, complete elimination of bank runs, output gains of 10% and inflation can drop to zero without posing\n    problems for the conduct of monetary policy. 
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Not only would the New Zealand economy thrive, individuals and families that are struggling to make ends meet under the current system would prosper. 
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About Positive Money New Zealand
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Positive Money New Zealand is a campaign to move New Zealand from a debt-based economy to one that operates with a full reserve in which money has been\n    issued debt-free and interest-free.
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This will free the nation and its people from the crippling effects of ever increasing interest bills - that keep the majority of people on the debt treadmill.
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The campaign is based on one that has been running in the UK called Positive Money - which started in May 2010 as well as a similar one in the United States\n    called the American Monetary Institute - which began in 1996.
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Positive Money New Zealand is now part of a global network of organisations dedicated to reforming our banking system.
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About Don Richards
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Don lives in Whakatane and is married to Sue Hamill - the co founder of Positive Money New Zealand. He has two daughters from a previous marriage and became\n    a grandfather in May 2011.
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Don has worked in a number of key industries during times of significant change in New Zealand’s recent history. He was employed by BP Oil New Zealand,\n    working in their Retail Strategy unit during the deregulation of the New Zealand oil industry in the late 1980's.
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He also worked for Standards New Zealand in the late 1990's as it grappled with the transition from state funding to the user-pays model. In addition,\n    Don worked for the New Zealand Dairy Board, leading up to the formation of Fonterra and beyond. Don then worked for BRANZ (Building Research Association\n    of New Zealand) for 11 years as their Quality and Environmental Manager prior to moving to the Bay of Plenty. 
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He now works as a Director for Simple, Effective Solutions that offers consultancy services for Health and Safety, Environmental and Quality Management\n    systems.
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Don has also taken on a number of community based projects including organising clean ups of Wellington harbour which started in 1997 and continues to\n    this day. In 1999 he was awarded the title of Conservationist of the year for his efforts. In addition, he organised street parties for his neighbours\n    and ran a campaign to stop whaling in the southern ocean - called Friends of Tangaroa.
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Links mentioned in the interview:
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Bryan Gould article in The Herald.
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The Secret of Oz.
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This interview was sponsored by The Awareness Party.
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In the intro before we went to air - I asked Guy if he was open to me looking at ALL possibilities and to even humour me in my indulgences. 
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So read on dear reader - this is a very unique interview and I will summarise what subjects I was unable to totally cover at the end.
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I knew this was going to be an insightful interview, because Guy had already laid down the parameters of his argument:
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That in 10 years humanity on our planet would become extinct.
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Well, I am 12 years older than Guy and have heard statements like this before... but 10 years!
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Then he opened the door to take him up on his following statement on his website: Nature Bats Last. 
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As always, I’m open to alternative views. In fact, I’m begging for them, considering the gravity of this particular situation.
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I was ready for Guy, but I needed another hour to be able to build out a more compelling case for a global shift in consciousness. Or to at least seed\n    the ideal.
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One of my first interviews (that I do not have a record of) was with NZ’s top scientist for 2004, Peter Barrett. At that time he was Director of the Antarctic\n    Research Centre at Victoria University of Wellington.
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In his acceptance speech for the Marsden medal for exceptional scientific achievement he stated: “We have to change our ways because continuous growth\n    and business as usual on our planet, will cause us to become extinct within the next 100 years.\"
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Well, the status quo in Wellington were not happy and he was asked to recant and offer up another statement, which he duly did, and stated: “the end of\n    civilisation as we know it!\"
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That same year I also interviewed James Lovelock, instigator of the Gaia hypothesis, that our planet is a super organism. He too implied that we had reached\n    a tipping point.
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His two subsequent books The Vanishing Face of Gaia and The Revenge of Gaia were grim and pessimistic outlooks at what was happening due the sustained\n    abuse and avarice that we humans have been engaged in, especially over the last 70 years in exploiting our great sustainer. 
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He too said that we would not make it into the next century.
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He said “Enjoy life while you can. Because if you’re lucky, it’s going to be 20 years before it hits the fan.”
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That was early 2008, however he later stated in 2012 that he was an alarmist. He still maintains that by the end of this century 80% of the population\n    will be wiped out. 
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When hearing Guys pronouncement last week that \"humanity would become extinct in 10 years time\", I was already case hardened. As a ‘trooper’ it did not\n    phase me - I was/am ready.
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I've been steeled for this since 1975, when I read the Doomsday Book by a Gordon Rattray Taylor. This book covered the fate of what we as a humanity were\n    doing to our planet.
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In one nights reading it shocked the daylights out of me altering me substantially to this day.
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His foreboding narrative of the future of Planet Earth painted a collision course with the death of humanity, into a morbid, lifeless, Martian outlook.
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So I opened up with the recent Paul Henry morning TV3 show where ‘NZ’s loose canon and fervent denier of so many things’ was totally gob smacked.
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For this was the first time of hearing of his 10 years death sentence to his future dreams, unfinished diatribes and indulgences. He was like a goldfish\n    blowing bubbles, yet looking very closely at Guy, you could see his eyes intently staring out at the world.
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The original 4 minute sound bite interview turned into a 10 minute one, as Paul wavered all breaks for advertising. He wanted more information about his\n    starkly shortened future!
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In short, Guy maintains that planetary temperatures are all locked in already. We have blown the thermostat of our planet and we can’t do anything now.
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It’s like giving the command for an oil supertanker that has been at top speed to stop! This takes something like 120 miles or so to bring it to a complete\n    halt, as its momentum is so powerful.
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Guy encourages us to go back to the land, take action and protest this takeover, such as in South Dakota at Black Rock.
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“It’s the right thing to do”, he says.
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People today suffer from NDD or ‘Nature Deficit Disorder’. We have lost our connection and don’t know wh