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Elandra, New Zealand author of “From Stardom to Wisdom: Healing & Love Beyond the Spotlight”, and upcoming book “Voices & Visions of Our New Earth”,\n    is an international health and healing educator trainer and practitioner. 
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She was a top Auckland University scholar, international prizewinning dancer, model and actress who went on to a career including co-starring with Roger\n    Moore and Tony Curtis in London’s Hollywood. Deeply unhappy at University she frequently contemplated suicide; her longing for transcendent wisdom\n    was met with academic intellectualism and“tall poppy syndrome”. 
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Later as a movie actress in the world of celebrity, fame and fortune she was horrified by her experience of the exploitation and addiction to money and\n    power. Turning her life to yoga and spirituality, dressed in white, running a Californian ashram yoga center for 20 years, she again experienced how\n    giving away power– in this case to spiritual devotion –encourages the dark side of cults and spiritual leaders and gurus, for whom power corrupts,\n    as they turn into self-aggrandizing power-hungry predators,who get away with betraying, exploiting, and abusing hundreds of thousands.
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After finding soul family in immersion in the Aloha Ho’oponopono Healing shamanism of Hawaii, her mission became clear; to expose how power corrupts, and\n    to encourage the choice for a life of purification of character – (rather than the lust for fame and fortune), leading to our culture’s addiction to\n    the multiplication of wants and toxic success.
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She has a message for you today about the urgent need in NZ to begin to heal, once and for all, the Tall Poppy Syndrome.
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Elandra's opening statement expresses overwhelming thanks and appreciation of what I (Tim) do as a host of GreenplanetFM, which catches me off guard and\n    places me in a humble position…As an elder of our society feeling her graciousness, I reflect that this kind of acknowledgement is exactly what\n    is needed for all of us,to open the heart connection, to make us feel validated, and to feel part of a warmer and greater whole; a true family and\n    community that is welcoming and totally supportive of each other.
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So what is the Tall Poppy Syndrome and where did the term come from? It’s actually a shocking story. The specific reference to poppies occurs in Livy's\n    account of the tyrannical Etruscan king, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus. He is said to have received a messenger from his son Sextus Tarquinius asking\n    what he should do next in Gabii, since he had become all-powerful there. Rather than answering the messenger verbally, Tarquin went into his garden,\n    took a stick, and symbolically swept it across his garden, thus cutting off the heads of the tallest poppies that were growing there. The messenger,\n    tired of waiting for an answer, returned to Gabii and told Sextus what he had seen. Sextus realised that his father wished him to put to death all\n    of the most eminent people of Gabii, which he then did!
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Tragically what the Tall Poppy Syndrome has morphed into today especially here in NZ is that we have in many ways 'ducked for cover' and quietly put our\n    head down to do life in a quieter 'kiwi way' - of not standing out, and worse still, making sure no one else stands out - through what has become an\n    ingrained habit of justifying the heavy utilization of criticism and bullying in school and workplace. And worse, even viewing it as a virtue.
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Other than in the sporting environment, or in cases where somebody is famous, we remain subdued, and do not express appreciation for others, nor stand\n    up for the virtues and values that most civil societies stand for. This means that anyone wanting to excel may want to choose to leave NZ for overseas\n    pastures, or may descend into despair and depression (leading to NZ’s highest suicide rate in the world for youth and over 60).There is no one to talk\n    to; vital emotional support from family, community and society as a whole is non-existent or invisible.
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Elandra mentions coming into Auckland Airport terminal every year (for over 25 years) and feeling this heavy contractive energy - of unshed tears, deep\n    sorrow - (I Tim, when I was a steward for Air NZ returning from the US, be it LAX or Honolulu also really felt this constrictive and constraining energy\n    when coming home - it was very heavy) but I did not mention this in the interview - because it was not about me!
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She talks about why NZ has the highest suicide rate for youth and over 60 years of age in the world. She talks about suppressed feelings,held back deep\n    grief and underlying anger that has not been (consciously) expressed and, with no place to share, unshed tears with no place to safely flow.
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Of course the biggest picture perspective of all is that we live in a patriarchal society, an authoritarian driven society, where we are basically at war\n    within ourselves through not valuing inner knowingness, inner authority and inner trust. But the world’s Zeitgeist is and must be changing. We have\n    no choice now but to learn to value the indigenous ways of the honoring of the Earth, Nature, and intuition. We all had ancestors who knew how to live\n    in harmony with the Earth and Stars…
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In many ways - like the previous weeks interview of Paul Levy - the \"Wetiko Virus\" has taken hold of the general consensus here, the result being a major\n    sense of lack of societal leadership by NZers in this country. Many even defer to others who have moved from overseas to now live here. Wetiko (Native\n    American term for dark energy) is a mind virus that has in various degrees become surreptitiously installed in us all.
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Having done so it manifests as the “inner critic” that puts you down within yourself, and that in turn causes you to put other people down. Which erodes\n    your self-esteem causing you to then also hide and shun friends.
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Elandra describes how in the process of healing her inner critic certain words came to her and she in shock wondered where they came from ... these sneering\n    words inside saying - \"You will never write your book, Elandra – you’ve been trying for 30 years - just give up,you pathetic woman. Why don't you just\n    dig a hole and go die!\"
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So she wrote these words down, and she looked at them closely and then these words she heard - fell away - because - this mind virus - does not want its\n    existence to be seen and acknowledged. Let alone going public by sending it to 800 people in a group! By overcoming the desire to remain ‘private’\n    it worked, now she has a voice inside that never says anything negative about herself and instead cheers her on saying \"I love you Elandra”.
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Tall Poppy Syndrome causes us to withhold love as well as withhold its expression - she says that in NZ withholding Love, and appreciation and expression\n    has become a virtue! She sees this as the most insidious thing that is happening in this country, this is now \"a very NZ thing!\" There is also a sense\n    of inferiority in the NZ psyche, plus defensiveness, making it difficult to mention these things…
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She says we have to change this attitude and fast.So first we have to recognize it.Also, Elandra tells of her counselor friends having young people (and\n    all ages), show up exclaiming – “I don’t know who I am anymore!”They have no real authentic role models – just films, pop idols etc.This in spite of\n    also the wonderful people in NZand those who do work with love to help people in despair etc.
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Listen...
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This interview broaches much subject matter.
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She talks about the USA being not one country but 50 countries all different from each other! They are called states but are 50 countries in ONE!and these,\n    each one, is mostly far bigger than NZ – so how can you even compare?!So with the reflection of this vast geography there is a sense of vast space,\n    space and room to expand your psyche and consciousness(I concur),and your heart is big, ‘cos it has more room - and so she says that the Americans\n    generally support the expansiveness of expression and the heart (Tim having lived there twice - I concur) So in USA it is different,wanting to stand\n    out is celebrated, supported, applauded and lauded!
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In NZ growing up feelings were not really in our vocabulary – most of us as children did not have parents who addressed feelings - (I Tim, didn't know\n    there was a different between thinking and feeling - I was unknowingly brought up that way). Parents are afraid of their children’s expression of pain\n    and anger and will shut them up fast. Hear Elandra talk on 'when we were babies and tots' many of us when crying were not really supported and were\n    told to keep quiet and close off to how we felt – listen
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In NZ it is the status quo normal to suppress feelings, especially ones deemed negative. This means that speaking out your truth is not done. Withholding\n    expression of truth of feelings – from self and others, (whether negative or positive), is highly dangerous to your health, indeed a cause and catalyst\n    for many kinds of health dysfunctions.It is actually taboo in NZ to be on talking about or expressing feelings, (I Tim concur). Especially about talking\n    about suicide...
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There is also distrust of mental health and going to psychologists etc. and understandably ... because they are not trained with a full holistic knowingness\n    of the human condition - they are in most cases all intellectualizing.Remembering that 'Psyche' in Psychology and Psychiatrist means Soul in ancient\n    Greek…but not fully recognized today.
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As an intuitive professional healer of over 35 years Elandra notices that psychologists in most cases are untrained to track where your pain or condition\n    and feelings are - in your body. The conditions for healing to happen - safety and sacredness - need to be honored, and then the psyche/body can reveal\n    itself, and can speak out.The body actually reflects – it actually IS - the subconscious, and when “the field” is held with no agenda the body will\n    reveal to the consciousness and soul what is happening and needed for healing. Then soul retrieval, coming back to balance and wholeness just happens,\n    easily.
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Once we recognize these locked up feelings then we can deal with them – speak them out loud when alone, even shouting into a pillow – for natural release\n    and natural healing...Plus having someone to support you just by listening,(with no agenda to fix heal and save) just BEING THERE, presencing, that\n    is a huge plus.
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Listen - how Elandra takes someone through a healing session...
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So there is a cure!Since tall poppy does not like to be seen, acknowledging it openly is the cure ... and the beginning of healing. The more we let it\n    be seen, let our vulnerabilities show, get together with people and talk and share love, the more the wetiko virus loses its grip.
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Elandra states that she has been a victim of 'Tall Poppy Syndrome' many times. But, by hearing the inner voice saying to herself'I love you Elandra' -\n    this statement validated her and her heart to such a degree that it allowed her to raise herself above victimhood and feeling incapable and unacknowledged\n    and seeing herself in a positive light. She says this is one way with dealing with not being able to cope etc. The continuous daily expression of love\n    - is very important - Listen...
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We have to love and appreciate each other. It's also so much about bigger interconnection, intimate and honest connection within the family and with neighbors\n    and the greater community.
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Acknowledge it! Address it, talk, feel feelings, share freely what works to heal this insidious cutting down mindset!Rise up the spirit with continuous\n    daily expression of love, appreciation and praise to everyone around you!Empower love, big love called “awakened oneness awareness”, founded in authentic\n    feelings and utmost integrity.
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The battle for self-love is for most of us the greatest battle we ever undertake, “the longest journey you will ever take is from your head to your heart”\n    - because if we have no self-love (confidence and assuredness) - then we are a shrinking violet and some could say 'a victim.' But when we can accept\n    and get inside ourselves and end up embracing all aspects of self, we can experience true love for ourselves (warts and all) – and then we generate\n    an inner glow - our inner candle and this is when we become empowered and have a certain felt knowingness that we are more connected inside. Then we\n    feel the oneness with our greater selves belonging to and part of nature and the greater world, plus the infinite dimensions that we are essentially\n    immersed in.
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So we are more at peace within our skin and we are more self-confident and inner directed - because we are coming from an empowered loving inner self.\n    This allows us to provide selfless service to those in need, and helping people expands your sphere of goodwill, and provides and spreads great joy.\n    Which is the ultimate antidote to tall poppy, embracing it all within big love and joy!
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In this post Covid lockdown humanity is up for grabs. Whatever media can do to distract you and sew seeds of doubt and fear - you can be assured they want\n    your attention and they want it all the time.
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The media are not here to empower us from an inner standpoint. Nor are they here to inspire us at a spiritual level - or that of soul. Reason being, is\n    that we instead are being programmed to be walking desire bodies, to become consumers that will end up … consuming our life support systems.
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How can we break the spell …? 
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Regarding: 
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COVID
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Governmental Laws
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Freeing up who we in essence - are.
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Kia Ora and greeting dear listeners, Tim from GreenplanetFM, here in Auckland in Nuclear Free New Zealand - Note that Nuclear Free was once a big deal.\n    Yet, for some unknown reason it seems no longer?
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However, I am communicating and checking-in to see that you and your family are healthy, relaxed and well. That in particular you are well resourced both\n    externally and internally and that your inner candle burns strongly in these very unsettling of times.
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You may have wondered why GreenplanetFM.com has been somewhat quiet over the last two months - well it has been to gather information that is factual and\n    empowering and in particular gives us a planetary overview as to what is happening in this profoundly eventful year - of 2020 - where I trust we have\n    the clarity of vision to foresee the challenges and possibilities at this critical point in time, as we enter the third decade of the 21st Century.
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To give you a heads up - I will mention a few pointers that I wish to cover during this program, so as to let you know what are the priorities of today’s\n    GreenplanetFM.com show
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Note, that as this is all vountary, especially this write up by me, I invite you to understand that I am not a wordsmith or a radio jock, just an ordinary\n    human being doing my best for a better world view and biosphere for all.
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Is - of our unique perspective from NZ - being so far from anywhere - we are in many ways on the outside looking in - at all the events on earth. 
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Then - this COVID crisis and Lock down - and the question - is this just ‘a very virulent’ flu virus that mainly affects the elderly and those with\n        compromised immune systems?
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Is this global COVID event - a pretext for an evolutionary shift and is a precursor to a new paradigm? That the mass of humanity are confronting a\n        gigantic change in perspective - like mass ‘consciousness’ readying itself for a new interpretation on life?? ‘That it is more than a revolution\n        - but a Paradigm shift’ - to a higher level of being?
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That this crisis may have a darker motive- being used by vested ‘global banking interests’ to ‘close down economies’ and get countries and people into\n        more debt?
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And, has the lockdown been used as a practice by ‘the powers that be’ to see how in the future they know how to accomplish a complete planet wide lock\n        down of the global population, and their hand held communication systems too?
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Does 5G play a darker role as it is rolled out ‘under urgency’ across virtually all countries, globally? 
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But on a lighter side - that due to the lock down ordinary people have been able to meet their neighbours, and realise that we are surrounded by many\n        good hearted and kind people we never knew. That we may be able to reboot the local and national economies with a sense of more cooperation, goodwill,\n        relocalising and seeing our communities more from a grassroots and holistic standpoint.
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That we here in NZ have an opportunity to lead by example in working with the land and nature in a far more conscious and regenerative way. That brings\n        us into more communion with nature’s bounty.
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 Is this crisis an evolutionary driver to compel us to recognise that we may be or are ... spiritual beings having an earth experience - and that it’s\n        impelling us to grow into a higher level of being?
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And what does this mean in relationship to our metaphysical connection to all existence. That at soul level - will this lead to an unveiling of a greater\n        cosmic story? 
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We are here today - all sharing of the same invisible breath that our planet and biosphere bequeaths all biota. Which I wish to address some of the many\n    issues from a local to a global perspective - because we here in NZ may have a very different vantage point, being tucked away around the curve of\n    our home planet - about four thousand kilometers away from Antarctica and a little over 2,000 kilometers from Australia. We are somewhat isolated,\n    from any large land mass - to the degree that NZ is also the closest major country to the International date line - which means ‘we see tomorrow first’\n    - being 2 hours ahead of Australia - around 12 hours ahead of the UK and and around 16 hours in front of the USA - (depending on daylight saving.)
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Hence our strategic situation - to be ahead of time. Though this may not necessarily mean that we in this country are ahead of the curve, we also could\n    be seen as being ‘used as a localised experimental guinea pig in a living laboratory in a planetary wide social experiment as well’. 
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Being so close to the International Date Line it could be said - from a science fictional point of view - we are already domiciled in ‘tomorrow land.’\n    That this may assist us in seeing differently - the status of our planet - be it from a geopolitical perspective, or within the homeostatic bubble\n    of the biosphere - abounding and occupied with myriads of wildlife. But, more so - seeing our planet as a colossal living superorganism, called Gaia\n    or as Maori say, Papatuanku - and as David Icke once said to me - that our planet is a vast swirling - information field. 
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That from our situation - we can realise that our world view may be very different, but it is only from a point of view of perspective. 
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Remember our human body too is a mass of subatomic frequencies - we too are an information system, and an energy field within a greater universal - energy\n    field. 
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From this standpoint - where subatomic physics and biology coalesce - it is imperative that we learn and understand that humanity as we know it to be -\n    are entering another paradigm, a new way of being - and that we are alsocoming to an ‘omega point’ in the evolution of our planet and civilisation.\n    This was first advanced by Teilhard de Chardin, the evolutionary, trail blazing Catholic priest, who was ‘shunned’ by both the Pope and Rome early\n    last century. His message is also translating to a spiritual awakening as well, that we all share the same breath and that deep down within our being\n    we have realised that there is far more to our life than ‘to be born - to reproduce - and to die.’
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This is important to dwell on. We are more than just following our animal instincts. 
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Therefore, I wish to touch on this shift that is affecting us all - as we grapple with the reality of the world - a world that is changing so fast - and\n    regrettably for many there is no eject or slo-mo button - because in truth we have to come to terms with what’s in our face - especially the corruption\n    of the economic and political order that is in lockstep with unbridled media and fake news, and how we urgently need to discern truth from fallacy.
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And its important - we owe it to our children and grandchildren - we definitely do … and this is what I am hearing, especially since that smoke\n    filled day of the 5th of January, 2020 when bushfire smoke blew across from Australia and obliterated the clear atmosphere of NZ - which caused many\n    of my friends and acquaintances to question what we are bequeathing our youth and our young ones of tomorrow? 
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Because at heart we all intuitively know that the way our industrial civilization has been intensifying and multiplying - that the consequences of profit\n    before people and future generations would in the end have us all - going over the cliff.
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We also know that we have been living excessively and totally unsustainably. 
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We intuitively ‘get it’ that our planet and nature can only take so much unconscious punishment.
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So now we have had a breather - and this breather to many, especially for those living in cities - has been the clearest air that we have breathed for\n    many, many years and even decades and longer - we are now realising that what we have been putting into our body temple - our lungs has put our health\n    at major risk, and the statistics globally give us ample evidence of this pollution, especially in China and India where the data has gone through\n    the ceiling. 
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So during this ‘virus’ time-out - ‘rahui’ (Maori for rest and recovery) can we reflect on this global current ‘event’ which has affected us all here in\n    NZ, too. Though compared with other countries we in NZ have not experienced the suffering that many others are still experiencing. We are indeed fortunate.
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The Global Lockdown
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Little did we know that the whole dynamics of our world view would alter, that over just a couple of days in March, we would all be virtually confined\n    in our homes, flats and apartments - nationwide and in all Western countries (excepting Sweden). But, that’s another story.
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The Fear that Resulted
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What I find is more than a little interesting is the amount of fear that has been generated as a result of COVID - raw fear to be exact. To the degree\n    that I had a friend arrive at my place and though we have been close for 40 years - they definitely did not want to give me a hug, they thought that\n    this virus was like the plague! 
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So what are the consequences for our global population?
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Though there are 7.7 billion souls on earth, a web search says that about ⅓ of the earth’s population is/has been locked down, but it will be some time\n    before we get the real numbers. 
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Media Influence
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Meanwhile - with global communication at our fingertips and ubiquitous MSM blasting our sensibilities in all directions - (whilst also coming under increasing\n    scrutiny) - we can yet be further more distracted by the hundreds of thousands of social media postings ‘some very conscious and mindful’ - filling\n    our minds with data - some of it conflicting, but there is some really good information and inspiration out there. … 
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Time to Self Reflect
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However as covid fatigue is also upon us we need to stop and reflecton - ‘why me, why here and why now?’
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This to me is the time to ask ourselves - what is life all about? More later in this article. 
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A Global Catharsis?
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Because we are in many ways ... going through a catharsis on a global scale - definitely in the Westen world - and … seeing we have been engulfed\n    in consumerism, and materialism … and its offshoot - planned obsolescence and pollution and that so many of us are just awash in ‘stuff’ - that\n    includes debt and mortgages.
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But, that’s only part of it. We have been sucked in and distracted by glamour, celebrity and titillation and … all that glitters - is definitely\n    not gold.
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So we are a little worn out as if we have been washed up on the beach and the tide has gone out … and it’s time to reorient our whole being to another\n    way … we have to make a conscious choice or shall I say - it would be a good idea to start looking if not transforming our life to at least\n    look at renewal and regeneration of who and how we can be.
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So what is it that is going to change us enough to that of a happy, joyful, caring and compassionate creative being?
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Well ...There are a number of things that I intuit are important ...
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Because every baby born into this realm is an energy bundle of exponential potential - and that’s true, we are just that - energy bundles of exponential\n    potential and we have forgotten this. 
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Have we been programmed to become ‘gods of limitation?’
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This is an important statement. Is our present predicament of helplessness and victimhood, due to unconsciously being programmed to become ‘gods of limitation’\n    and we have in many ways become self fulfilling prophecies, and locked ourselves into this body that we inhabit whilst all around us in every direction\n    is both infinity and eternity. The whole universe in all directions is just coiling with suns through deep dimensions of time. And here we are ...\n    isolated cases ... that if we could see with a higher more expanded vision - that we are all extensions of a global family. The human family, that\n    we are a part of. 
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The other thing that I touched on earlier - is we have let our ‘inner candle’ go out. Or worse … we did not even know we had an inner candle - this\n    links us with a spiritual dimension that at soul level is integral with our relationship to the whole of existence. 
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This is big. 
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Ok - enough of the preamble …
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Getting back to our day to day life, that we have been dealing quite intensely with over the last 8 or so weeks. 
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That what this invisible and stealthy virus has done is brought us into a new awareness of the hidden dangers of reality. Even though we have been dealing\n    with unseen atomic radiation since Hiroshima and Fukushima and now with Covid in so many countries. But, there is also the continuing deployment of\n    the 5G telephone system, globally - coming under the spotlight. We are truly being initiated into the Aquarian age of the unseen world.
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As Nikola Tesla stated - that when humankind starts researching the invisible - we will make more progress in one decade than in all of our history. Yet\n    though every town and city on earth are powered by Tesla’s genius - we are still light years of understanding what he offered humanity. So as an additional\n    question? Do you really know much about Nikola Tesla?
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New Stringent Laws Enacted by the NZ Government 
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Now today, we have the NZ Labour Government who were shoehorned into power by the goodwill of a minor party at the last election. They have enacted legislation\n    under urgency - to basically take control of NZers lives - like never before. This legislation gives excessive power to our Health Minister and the\n    police: meaning ‘warrantless searches of our homes.’ Fortunately, this legislation has to be taken back to Parliament to be re enacted every 90 days\n    - at least this offers some kind of sunset clause - that if we can eliminate the covid virus - then we can do away with this Law, we trust - forever.\n    
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Never let a good crisis go to waste. This is a saying that has been bandied around over the decades by numerous people in power, globally - and if a situation\n    requires drastic action, this was one instance. There was another one in the previous John Key Government, that was based on the Government Communications\n    Security Bureau (GCSB) that collects and analyses intelligence. The politicians who voted against this Intelligence Bill that was pushed through ‘under\n    urgency’ - all voted for this one over the last week. Yes, the very strange dynamics of politics. 
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Invasion of the COVID virus.\n
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Tim’s Note. During the SARS situation I flew into China from the 4th of July staying to the 22 August 2003 living in the Zhejiang Province during this\n    time. I had entered Shanghai airport when officials wore masks and we were tested with a breathing apparatus at Customs. But, by the time I left the\n    country these measures had been relaxed. I also was in skype contact over the last few months with friends in their high rise apartment in the city\n    of Suzhou around the same distance from Wuhan as Auckland is to Wellington and at first they were confined to their building, and had food ordered\n    by email sent in, but prior to the 18h of April, for a week they had already been flying around China with no need to take drastic measures. It has\n    been relaxed there ever since, so I was told. 
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The COVID:19
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There is still a big question that many more people are scratching their heads about. Is this a new dangerous virus or is it a more virulent flu? One that\n    affects the elderly more than children? Especially those with compromised immunity systems.
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The statistics show that this seems to be the case - especially in NZ. However, I encourage you to do your own research and please don’t go to a Government\n    website, or specifically a corporate website - find out from numerous different sources. 
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Once Search Engines Were Independent
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Just note that Google is not necessarily a friend of humanity and like its subsidiary, Youtube, though they have some excellent information, which Google\n    owns - these Internet mutations constantly use algorithms to sideline you if you question the status quo. Twitter is the same too. You have to be far\n    more adroit in using the web to do your research. 
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Why, because these Corporations are in league with the major media corporations being high up in the pyramid of power structure as well - they are there\n    to control the narrative away from us waking up. 
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New Zealand’s Response to the incoming virus
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But first, let’s quickly look at how NZ became infected by COVID. What we find is that when the Government realised that this was a fast spreading, global\n    viral situation the wisest move was to close off our country. They stated that they were closing off NZ’s airports, especially Auckland. But, the airport\n    remained totally porous and passengers were not only shocked that NZ Biosecurity were MIA (missing in action) - they were ‘job smacked’ as the ‘NZ\n    Herald stated’ - of the abysmal and total lack of preparation and coordination of the border security systems. NZ just did not have any means of handling\n    the thousands that were pouring back home through the airport and fanning out into Auckland and beyond. 
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NZ Herald kept breaking the news!
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It was the alertness of the NZ Herald that called this out - time and time and time again and they ran articles showing up the total ineptness and incompetence\n    of our Government's liaison with border security. It is just plain luck and good fortune that there were so few returning NZers who had the virus.\n    To be frank - NZ dodged a bullet. 
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New Government Laws Enacted
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So yes … where are we at present - as these are unprecedented times with unparalleled circumstances - and ‘our elected servants’ in Wellington,\n    New Zealand’s capital city, have finally enacted draconian legislation without due consultation with the electorate or the learned elders other than\n    mirror the worlds global media which is essentially 6 bloated communication corporations in the USA , with a compromised BBC from the UK. Essentially\n    all parroting from the same shrill song book. 
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Which translates to - Keep the citizens on a very tight leash and if it means obtaining loans from overseas banks and adding more debt to the country and\n    in particular for the younger generation to pay off - so be it. 
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Note, that we never learn as to ‘who are the ones we get the loans from?’ Not one politician will ever stand up in Parliament and ‘want to follow the money’\n    - and ask the question. But who is giving us this money? Someone has to own this debt, there has to be ‘someone’ up through the levels of compartmentalised\n    banks that reach on up into the pyramid of power, who actually owns this debt. Any guesses who it might be? 
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What the awakening global public are fast realising is that the world corporations and banking institutions are all in bed together, and they have agreements\n    to use MSM where it helps them concentrate power further up the pyramid of power. 
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But, more of this later … at another time - but most ‘conscious’ people already have worked this all out.
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So in this radio show I have some musical breaks to give us some easing up of the frequencies. Within the sound tracks the lyric content is my subtle way\n    of letting us know that there is a way through this situation - that surrounds us. The song that I played was 48 years old - an old flower power song\n    from the Moody Blues “We are living in a world of make believe.” I will put the lyrics down below.
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Re Envisioning A NEW New Zealand
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What has come of NZ during this hiatus or ‘rahui’ - to use a maori term - (to take time out, rest and regenerate) - is that many New Zealanders are wondering\n    how can we initiate new economic and ecological ways of making our country far more successful, in that we be more aligned with the ways of the land\n    that supports us with healthy food and sustenance, plus working together more as a community at the grass roots or relocalising. 
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That, in this program I mentioned some of the radio content that GreenplanetFM has covered over the years, that mainstream media in this country have essentially\n    shied away from, or mentioned it once, just to get it out of the way. This subject matter for reasons you will start to realise - is connected to showing\n    the shortfall of both big business systems and essentially the degrading of our environment.
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Regenerative ways of working with the Land 
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Most of you will know that a good portion of NZ arable land is under commercial management, so interviews were conducted with knowledgeable holistic authoritative\n    people on how to benignly revitalise our agricultural sector which has the countries largest ecological footprint and also - value for money. This\n    being to encourage the integration of new biological and regenerative farming methods, that are able to take the ‘chemical load’ out of the equation.\n    Thus biological and regenerative farming is fast gaining momentum, not only here in NZ - but in South Africa and Australia but we can include the USA\n    and Canada too. But, we still have a long way to break through critical mass. 
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This transition is now imperative, as the end product if we have to use such a word - results in healthy animals, soil, and rivers and that products are\n    more nutritious and have a longer shelf life and being more wholesome. One of the most enjoyable benefits is that the farmer and workers become more\n    healthy and attuned to nature at the same time - because they are working and co-creating with natural processes. This conversion is also opening the\n    door even more so to organics and biodynamics which means an even more discerning market and the proverbial win win situation.
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This is a revolutionary shift for farmers and regenerative and biological farming are going to be the savior of the dairy industry here in this country,\n    and at the same time it will take care of the land, the soil and the microflora, especially bacteria and fungi as farmers discover the hidden drivers\n    and the deeper secrets of the soil.It is educating them into a sacred relationship with the land that they are stewards of.
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This is really big as it brings into focus the ‘circular’ economy.
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Permaculture Time
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We have also covered many interviews on Permaculture - Which really has to be brought forward into the public consciousness. This is the Time of Permaculture.\n    This ‘integral land management system’ out of Tasmania is based on the topography of the property, arc of the sun, wind direction and tree cover plus\n    shelter belts, also water resources, gravity and trickle irrigation. Inclusive of the land, with ponds as well as swales to direct rainwater and terracing.\n    
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This pioneering method is in many ways a ‘one stop shop’ - (for need of a far better description) based around the family home (accommodation) and barns\n    and sheds to be in some ways the nucleus of a planned localised eco sphere of influence, with gardens and orchards and paddocks of animals and poultry\n    in an integrated and multi layered way of farming, gardening and cropping. All this being a truly dynamic microcosm of the mineral, animal and vegetable\n    Kingdom environmentally working in unison as one. The next level is tying in with marketing plans so that fresh produce can be accessed from the web\n    and that distribution networks funnel this quality food to either villages, towns and cities or ready for export. Permaculture and horticulture could\n    be a profound new way forward for NZ because it is essentially organic, so the food is from heirloom stock and is nourishingly, nutrient dense. 
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Exploiting Fishing Numbers in NZ Waters.
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There are a number of interviews on the state of fish in NZ coastal waters and these have all been real eye openers. NZ’s Exclusive Economic Zone, is the\n    fourth largest area of ocean under its jurisdiction on earth. A gigantic area that is also part of the ‘NZ Commons’. Which means it is basically owned\n    or under the care of the whole of the NZ public. This is overseen by our elected ‘servants’ in Parliament. They are taking care of it on behalf of\n    us.
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Are they doing a good job?
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Do you know if they care?
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Or are our politicians just deferring to a Department within Government? 
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Well, what we learn is that this fishing industry is controlled by about a dozen families and we are finding that the quota management system is failing\n    us on all levels. This ‘quota management system’ billed as one of the most comprehensive on earth’ - is awash with poor governance, lack of oversight\n    and vast waste. Here we are with the commonwealth of the oceans bounty to draw from and we are abusing this privilege year after year, decade after\n    decade. So I encourage you to listen to any of the interviews of Scott Macindoe from Legasea - a very articulate communicator who by default is voluntarily\n    doing the Government's work for them.
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The Quality of Drinking Water
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We have conducted interviews on the fluoridation of NZ’s water supply, and the Professor Emeritus’s that have been interviewed have clearly stated that\n    fluoride definitely interferes with one’s brain and that it is a neurotoxin that reduces the IQ of children. China has conducted studies and found\n    that there is a considerable drop in intelligence. But, because it is a Chinese study Western medicine ignores it at its peril.
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However, fluoridation appears to have already done its damage because our politicians in Parliament and local government have no understanding of what’s\n    in the water they drink. So until enlightened governance comes - this subject is a lost cause and the best we can do is suggest that families buy in\n    fresh pure, vital water in large containers and make sure that their children drink only quality non fluoridated water, and preferably not chlorinated\n    water either. You can purchase filtration systems - however the costs can be substantial. These were excellent interviews, but no uptake, by the NZ\n    authorities. 
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As an aside, I once told the Radio Station Manager Terri Byrne that I didn’t want to be a ‘protest radio program’ - and she immediately countered by saying\n    - well, you can always be an ‘activist radio program.’... sigh ...
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I wish to also cover a few more subjects of what we have previously aired - to enable you to extend your understanding of what we have been endeavouring\n    to achieve in bringing these disparate but important subjects to public attention. 
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Lisa Er did two very powerful interviews, one on Vaccines, with Bruce Lipton and that taken orally we get safer uptake, and this interview got the highest\n    amounts of hits ever for GreenplanetFM because it is a very contentious topic, especially as Bill Gates wants to vaccinate you for the Covid 19 virus\n    and every subsequent virus that follows.
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The other by Lisa too, is on 1080. This is the aerial poison dropped from helicopters across huge areas of NZ bush - as a means to kill and eradicate possums.\n    But, by doing this NZ is using something like 95% of the world’s total production of 1080, and the agonising deaths of other animals that happen to\n    eat the ‘baits’ is incredibly horrendous, and excruciatingly cruel - it is a shock to one’s senses. 
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There is also no independent research on the effects on the micro organisms in the soil as a result of this mass poisoning - when we know through Newton’s\n    Third Law of Motion - ‘for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.’ That this is being totally ignored, to our peril, because these poisons\n    enter into the many different water systems. 
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Factoring Children into all Legislation that affects Their Future
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We have been extracting from and poisoning from the living earth Gaia to such a degree by taking resources that this is having such a knock on effect that\n    it’s our children and grandchildren who will be starkly affected. 
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There is an urgent need to have within all NZ Government Legislation, a specific clause that calls for ‘Children and their collective future to be factored\n    in all Laws that are passed.’ 
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‘This has to be Noted, prior to all Acts being passed into Law. 
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Back to COVID
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This radio discourse goes on to discuss the current COVID situation and that the World Health Organisation has such a powerful role in dictating policy\n    around our planet. 
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That the World Health Organisation, is an off-shoot of the United Nations, yet the WHO has in turn has been virtually usurped by Bill Gates, a drop out\n    from college who through his power and influence colludes with a Dr Tedros the Head of the WHO, to tell us that all 7.7 billion have to be inoculated\n    against these viruses, by the WHO. 
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It’s messy … believe me - but this is a global situation - we as a planetary civilization that is still endeavouring to find itself - have been\n    mesmerized in a spell - a malaise (for want of a better word) - that settled over the world around the year 2,000, and was exacerbated by what happened\n    in New York on 9/11 and since then - humanity and society as a whole - have been on the back foot.
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You will have to use the web to research what I written here.
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I invite you to consider https://duckduckgo.com/ for your web searches. There will be better web browsers, however\n    please peruse what they offer freely and see how this can protect your privacy - because Google has all your search results for the last 20 years,\n    plus.
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This from Breitbart, a conservative news website, which is not a website that I go to, states: Tedros Helped Beijing Hide the Severity of the Chinese Coronavirus\n    Outbreak
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On January 14, months after health officials are believed to have detected    the first case of the virus in China on November 17 of last year, the WHO was promoting    a Chinese claim via Twitter that there was “no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission.” Meanwhile, the disease was spiraling out of control.\n    The WHO tweet came a day before the first case to reach the United States reportedly    flew from Wuhan to the state of Washington.
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Then we have a Nigerian viewpoint
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https://www.thenigerianvoice.com/news/287025/the-gangster-head-of-the-who.html    - I encourage you to research this more.
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When we deep dive into Tedros’s back story, he has no degrees in medicine - just like Bill Gates the eugenicist yet they both want to control the destiny\n    of the 7.7 billion human beings, who are alive today. 
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Now a deeper dive into Bill Gates in India, where there is a growing backlash from Indian families that have children that have been adversely affected\n    by vaccines that come under Bill Gates’s umbrella.
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https://www.uspoliticsandnews.com/why-didnt-bill-gates-vaccinate-his-own-children/    
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Given that the vaccination issue now impacts all families in America, directly or indirectly, you’d think it would have garnered more media attention when\n    it was learned that vaccine champion and Microsoft founder Bill Gates refused to allow his own children to be vaccinated.
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This admission came from the Gates family’s personal physician in Seattle, who was speaking behind closed doors with other doctors at a symposium last\n    year (someone at the conference leaked the conversation, so the doctor himself technically did not violate doctor-patient confidentiality rules).
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The doctor reportedly told his colleagues, “I don’t know if he (Gates) had them vaccinated as adults, but I can tell you he point blank refused to vaccinate\n    them as children.”
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So please use your discretion and research further.
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Robert Kennedy Jnr on Bill Gates - gives us even more concerns.
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https://www.naturalblaze.com/2020/04/robert-f-kennedy-jr-responds-to-bill-gates-statements-on-a-mandatory-coronavirus-vaccine.html\n
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RFK Jr.’s full comment follows here:
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Vaccines, for Bill Gates, are a strategic philanthropy that feed his many vaccine-related businesses (including Microsoft’s ambition to control a global\n    vac ID enterprise) and give him dictatorial control over global health policy—the spear tip of corporate neo-imperialism.
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Gates’ obsession with vaccines seems fueled by a messianic conviction that he is ordained to save the world with technology and a god-like willingness\n    to experiment with the lives of lesser humans.
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Promising to eradicate Polio with $1.2 billion, Gates took control of India ‘s National Advisory Board (NAB) and mandated 50 polio vaccines (up from 5)\n    to every child before age 5. Indian doctors blame the Gates campaign for a devastating vaccine-strain polio epidemic that paralyzed 496,000 children\n    between 2000 and 2017. In 2017, the Indian Government dialed back Gates’ vaccine regimen and evicted Gates and his cronies from the NAB. Polio paralysis\n    rates dropped precipitously.
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In 2017, the World Health Organization reluctantly admitted that the global polio explosion is predominantly vaccine strain, meaning it is coming from\n    Gates’ Vaccine Program. The most frightening epidemics in Congo, the Philippines, and Afghanistan are all linked to Gates’ vaccines. By 2018, ¾ of\n    global polio cases were from Gates’ vaccines.
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In 2014, the Gates Foundation funded tests of experimental HPV vaccines, developed by GSK and Merck, on 23,000 young girls in remote Indian provinces.\n    Approximately 1,200 suffered severe side effects, including autoimmune and fertility disorders. Seven died. Indian government investigations charged\n    that Gates funded researchers committed pervasive ethical violations: pressuring vulnerable village girls into the trial, bullying parents, forging\n    consent forms, and refusing medical care to the injured girls. The case is now in the country’s Supreme Court.
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And here: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/05/vaccine-safety-program/589354/\n
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US$4,000,000,000 has been paid out to people who have been affected by vaccines. Meanwhile MSM has remained silent on this. 
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Yet the answer in the short term is: 
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Hydroxychloroquine - Donald Trump has been taking it all the time and he never wears a face mask.
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China told Costa Rica what to do: 
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costarica.com/hydroxychloroquine-the-drug-costa-rica-uses-successfully-to-fight-covid-19/    
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(China told Costa Rica 10 days before the NZ kiwi health advisers told our country to lock down.) China in bed with Costa Rica?
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China knew about Hydroxychloroquine
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“In Costa Rica we have been applying hydroxychloroquine since we had a meeting by teleconference with personnel in China who attended the emergency in\n    the cities of Shanghai and Wuhan,” explained Ruiz.
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That videoconference, offered by the Chinese Embassy in Costa Rica, took place on the night of March 18. It included, among others, the director-general\n    and the director of epidemiology of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (briefly as China CDC).
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexledsom/2020/05/10/hydroxychloroquinenumber-of-prescriptions-explode-in-france/#56428ce2180f    
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Despite the warnings around taking hydroxychloroquine    to combat the symptoms of COVID-19, prescriptions in France have increased by as much as 7,000% in certain parts of the country since the pandemic\n    began.
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As reported by La Provence,\n    a study looking at the 466 million French prescriptions written since the pandemic began in France, show a huge spike in doctors prescribing the drug.\n    In the last week of March, for instance, over 10,000 people were prescribed hydroxychloroquine in Marseille alone.
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So it is Now all in the Open. We have been conned
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Donald Trump openly admits he takes hydroxychloroquine every day and you see him at outdoor press conferences maskless and all the others with masks on\n    especially Dr Fauci whilst the whole world looks on. 
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We do not know who to believe anymore!
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So in essence we are being influenced by forces and energies that are leading us to feel Lost in a Lost World. This second song 48 years old by the Moody\n    Blues - clearly lets us know where we are and what we need to be aware and conscious of.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhNl6wIkVs8 
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Lost in a Lost World
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The Moody Blues    
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I woke today, I was crying
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Lost in a lost world
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So many people are dying
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Lost in a lost world
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Some of them are living an illusion
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Bounded by the darkness of their minds
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In their eyes, it's nation against nation against nation
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With racial pride
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Sounds...
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Thinking only of themselves
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They shun the light
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(Shun the light)
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They think they're right
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(Think they're right)
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Living in their empty shells
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Oh, can you see their bodies thrashing?
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(So many people, so many people)
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Crashing down around their feet
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Angry people in the street
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Telling them they've had their fill
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Of politics, people who kill
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Grow... the seed of evolution
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(So many people, so many people)
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Revolution everyone
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It's just another form of gun
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To do again what they have done
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Let all our brothers come and get some
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(So many people, so many people)
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Everywhere you go you see them searching
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Everywhere you turn you feel the pain
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Everyone is looking for the answers
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Well, look again; come on, my friend
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Love will find us in the end
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Come on, my friend
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(On, my friend)
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We've got to bend
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(Got to bend)
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Down on our knees and say a prayer
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Oh, can you see the world is pining?
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(So many people, so many people)
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Pining for someone who really cares enough to share his love
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With all of us so we can be
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An ever-loving family
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Have we forgotten who loves who?
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(So many people, so many people)
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Children from a family tree
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That's longer than a centipede
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Started long ago when you and I
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Were only love...
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(So many people, so many people)
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I woke today, I was crying
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Lost in a lost world
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So many people are dying
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Lost in a lost world
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So many people, so many people
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People lost in a lost world
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So many people, so many people
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People lost in a lost world
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Source: LyricFind
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Songwriters: Mike Pinder
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Now for 5G
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GreenplanetFM has completed many interviews on the dangers of 5G. Meanwhile the NZ Government - lockstep with the Telecommunication Corporations continues\n    the roll out - unabated. 
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from https://www.nexusnewsfeed.com/article/health-healing/is-5g-a-deadly-trigger-for-the-coronavirus/    
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\"5G Microwave Effects at 60GHz
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In 2001, Shigeaki Hakusui, then president of Harmonix Corporation, explained why fifth generation wireless technology was needed to reach the goal of creating\n    smart cities. He said it would require bandwidth and efficiency to meet the data demand as the Internet moved toward mobile technology. That was two\n    decades ago.
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Hakusui noted that 60GHz was the true radiofrequency that\n    would allow for reliable transmission of data, due to its “98 percent oxygen absorption” rate. That allowed for the invisible signals to be sent from\n    point A and B, and back again on the same path. Super-efficient and a technological milestone.
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“Since the presence of O2 is fairly consistent at ground level, its effect on 60GHz radio propagation is easily modeled for margin budgeting purposes.\n    Also, the high level of attenuation from oxygen absorption makes even the worst weather-related attenuation insignificant, especially on the short\n    paths where 60GHz systems operate,” Hakusui wrote.
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He stated unequivocally that 60GHz would deliver the last mile efficiently, as the “oxygen absorption makes possible the same-frequency reuse within a\n    very localized region of air space.”
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\"for every breath we breathe our blood transports oxygen throughout the core and extremities to the vital organs, heart and brain.
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If 5G at 60 GHz frequency zips through the air, absorbing most of the oxygen, disrupting the electrons that bind 02 molecules that, combined with a hydrogen\n    atom, form water vapor what is that frequency doing to blood cells, which consist primarily of water and carry the oxygen?
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Does the disruption of the body’s biorhythm, breathing, and oxygen distribution begin to explain what happens to the people who dropped dead?
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The Mt. Everest ‘Death Zone’
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Studies of acute mountain sickness show that as climbers ascend in altitude, they hit an endurance wall from a lack of oxygen. “At 4500 m [14,764 feet],\n    the real amount of oxygen in the air composition is only 12% diluted, which is approximately 60% of sea-level oxygen,” according to Brazilian scientists,\n    who published a paper last year.
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Higher up the mountain in the “death zone” of Mt. Everest, climbers die due to severe hyperbaric hypoxia, even with bottled oxygen, as their blood coagulates.\n    In another view, altitude sickness starves the brain of oxygen.
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-Ends Ferratin. Iron in the red blood cells, from bone marrow. It all adds up.
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So yes, there is a major health problem when it comes to 5G deployment and the oxygen absorption in the human body. 
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The final part of this program offers the question, how does a human being living on a planet, break out of fear and entrapment?
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In so many ways we need to return to the cradle of the spirit - this is our time.
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This last piece of today’s radio show was very short as I only had 55 minutes - so I do extend it here to just open up the story of our place in life.
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There is ample evidence that at a subatomic level we are all energy fields oscillating at a specific frequency - within a planetary energy field - that\n    in turn vibrates within a universal energy field.
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And so in this solo show I took this time to remind us to journey in a more inner direction to look at other metaphysical and spiritual viewpoints 
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Question?
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Is humanity lost in a lost world? Because we know that we are definitely struggling.
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Have people, especially in the Western world lost their moral compass? 
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Well if we spend trillions on armaments and not on citizen diplomacy it appears that way. 
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Is it because we are looking outside of ourselves?
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Virtually all sages, mystics, etc would say turn within.
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Mostly what we are seeing on TV, and video is chaos, fragmentation and dysfunction. Same for radio and newspapers.
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Our children are exposed to much of this?
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What images and sounds do we take to bed every night, if we are watching a continuous diet of horror, the macabre and death?
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How does our subconscious deal with this ‘programming?’
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By looking without - we have forgotten to look within. What do I mean by this? 
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Notice that fear has become so rampant - resulting in people being stressed, worried and unable to make sense of the world.
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Poor sleep?
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Poor health?
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Poor relationships?
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Poor work performance?
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Yet, those with a faith seem to be far more ‘at home’ due to their belief systems.
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Yet, how come the earth’s population has been gripped by fear? Why is this gnawing away inside of so many? 
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Well within living memory, it’s been gradually coming to this point since - essentially the end of World War II.
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After the war, the four main ‘English’ speaking countries that were the victors were America, Canada, Australia and NZ. Britain sort of re-built - but\n    the other 4 were basically unaffected and just kept growing and in many ways unconsciously kept exploiting the situation and landmass that they were\n    living on. 
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These 4 countries were not invaded or war zones - and so they ‘quickly got back into the saddle’ and after some years of rehabilitating themselves, became\n    consumer driven countries that increasingly morphed into what we have today - neo liberal everything - having in the 60’s feminism in tandem with Flower\n    Power emerging kind of in San Francisco, and a burst of creativity and a momentary (but continuing) spiritual renaissance that carried into the 70’s\n    and the emergence of ‘the Force’ in Star Wars in the late 70’s ‘we sort of’ carried on through with sex, drugs and rock and roll - to electronic sounds\n    - through punk - to today thoroughly ‘dumbed down’ the male of the species in particular not present, but preoccupied - we are now awash in ambiguity\n    and transgender everything and the kids distracted with gadgetry and the only thing they cling to is their mobile hand held that links them into the\n    omnipresent ubiquitous AI - the global surveillance system watching our every move as a huge slice of society drink processed water, scoff factory\n    and industrial food and get our fix from both risqué, videos and big pharma and piped in infotainment, that purport to be the News.
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Welcome to dystopia, where 1984 and Brave New World fuse together to purplex consensus reality. \n
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And amidst this increasing swirl - hope for the best.
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In this whirlpool of consumers consuming themselves - we have danced away from the tradition of couples, waltzing and holding each other and whispering\n    into each others ears - where we rocked and rolled with each other into the limbo then the twist of separation in the early 1960’s where the sexual\n    revolution hotted up and we increasingly viewed the glamour of physiques, shouting over noise, looking out for the next ‘piece’ of excitement where\n    we now have at the basic level of day to day life nearly - zero clue as to what’s our spiritual inheritance and the metaphysical substance behind all\n    form. And yes, there is Christianity, but also empty churches yet some revival at the fringes. (These Christian groups are keenly interested in the\n    current situation that surrounds us and looking at prophecy and what are the linkages to what is happening in the USA?) Especially the draining of\n    the Swamp and the Qanon phenomenon).
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But, with more and more choices and options the message of a deeper connection to a greater purpose for humanity and our reason for being is being lost\n    in the smoke and mirrors that the media throw at us continuously.
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“The purpose for existence is to find out the purpose for existence” - but this idea has been virtually eliminated from the human discourse. 
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We have been reduced to walking automatons - “garbage in and garbage out” - because we have all chosen ‘the blue pill.” 
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Atheism takes over via Education 
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With science pronouncing that God’s only a dead backdrop for our own drama - we find that a creator has been lobotomised out of the academic and intellectual\n    mind, with the Hubble telescope finding no trace of heaven and doctors with high powered electron microscopes, failing to find our soul - the emptiness\n    of being a 3 dimensional object hungering of the 5 senses is such that escalating suicides are the statistic that seems to allude to a country wide\n    denial that this is sort of … acceptable - solely because of the pace of life that it is inevitable anyway - that there will always be plenty\n    of wreckage in the fast lane as we entered 2020 and NOW it’s time to refocus.
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But wait, there is more!
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What about the Good News?
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There is a way through this ... 
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Once upon a time most human beings believed that there was a greater being, a Source, or Creator or a God of some sort. Indigenus societies have many myths\n    and legends that cater for the birth of existence.
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These fables tell of a birth or a creation of some kind.
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Be it from Babylon, Egypt, Greece, or India or the Americas and Australia - Aotearoan-Maori, there was a spiritual force that manifested existence into\n    being. That, there was a God force or ‘something akin’ that has eventuated with we humans, walking and living here on this earth in 3 dimensional form,\n    yet each of us having an ‘essence’ or a spiritual connection to something greater.
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The ancient ruins of civilization testify to the greatness of these epochs, especially the starkness of the Great Pyramid paradox on the Giza Plateau in\n    Egypt. - right up until these current crazed and frenetic times, where separation from nature and the biosphere that supports us. Yet, many of us intuitively\n    know - this is why we have to surrender … but to what?
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Cut to today, where I live in Aotearoa NZ, we are in such a hurry that we have turned our back on how this country was basically colonised (invaded), most\n    recently by Northern hemispherians namely the British who supplanted their civilization/culture over the ‘so called indignous’ culture of the Maori,\n    who had been in this land mass since around the 1400’s and that they can recall via their singing of their geneology (whakapapa) that goes back to\n    the seven main canoes (waka) that brought them across the Pacifc to these shores. Today Maori still have a connection to the earth and recognise Papatuanku\n    as their sustainer. Though our consumer society deadens this connection. 
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Now today if you talk to an established NZ elder or someone within the Government bureaucratic establishment - NZ is still recognised as ‘basically’ being\n    a Christian country following the 2,000 year tradition that emerged out of Palestine/ Israel.
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That the new colonial NZ belief systems and Laws were essentially based around Judeo Christinaity and English Law, the Magna Carta - and that our Parliament\n    before opening would always start with a Prayer for all elected Representatives to be honest and commit to do one’s best for the highest good of all\n    people. 
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The premise of the prayers, would ask for God’s oversight and blessing and finish in invoking the name of Jesus Christ - because as previously mentioned\n    NZ was from colonial times - proclaimed a Christian country. (The word of Jesus Christ in very recent years has now been deleted from this prayer,\n    due to the secularization of New Zealand’s present day culture. Plus, there has been a large increase in migrants coming into the country. These new\n    arrivals have other faiths and neo liberal ways have endeavoured to cover for a wider spread of people, by not focusing on the use of the word Jesus\n    Christ, when opening Parliament.
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https://www.quora.com/Is-New-Zealand-a-Christian-country\n
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Meanwhile as surveys attest, it also means that NZers are increasingly turning away from a/their spiritual connection to a higher being or God. Herein\n    lies the challenge/conundrum of why so many people are now either, too stressed, turning to alcohol and drugs, or lost in indulgences such as gambling,\n    sex and other taboos among many other survival challenges.
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That we have lost our connection to the source of where we spring.
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So many people do not believe in anything now other than the material world of things and the physical form, such as financial success, being a billionaire,\n    having celebrity and fame and other sorts of surface activities. 
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Many would say we are lost in a lost world.
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Here is the challenge
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A belief system premised on an unseen but present spiritual world intersecting and coexisting or overlighting this physical world,is said to not exist,\n    especially to a growing percentage of people who would call themselves atheists. 
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Having rejected any creation myth - which tells of God or a Creator who made the universe and is everywhere omnipresent - what we now have is a gigantic\n    void, that the ‘big bang’ just seemed to happen. We are all here by fluke or chance, that a tree is basically a machine, same for a frog, butterfly\n    and a whale.That we live in an inanimate world but when a present day scientist, like Dr Rupert Sheldrake steps up and asks questions about ‘Dogs who\n    know when their owners are coming home’, or about phantom limbs after a loss of an arm or leg, or acknowledging the feeling of being stared at from\n    a distance - other questions have to be factored in to make sense of a culture that has distanced itself from the subtle realms of energy and the unseen.\n    
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However there is another way of seeing our connection to something that is greater.
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An old saying - “that we are spiritual beings having an earth experience.”Is becoming relevant to more people.
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Well for many people this opens up the game plan hugely, because other people from other faiths can easily comprehend this - even at a basic level.
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Being grateful and thankful … seems to be a precursor to recognizing that we are all connected as cells in a greater organism as in our planet being\n    a colossal super organism - that has in turn - loaned us a body in which to live. 
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Our Living Planet is being belatedly seen as a gigantic super organism. The ancient Greeks called her Gaia. See Jame Lovelock
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 Our planet lends us a body, free air, free rainwater, and until recently a free food chain. What do we do in reciprocity?
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Another way is to remind our children that we have an ‘Inner candle’ and that we all know that candles need oxygen. It is our planet and environment that\n    gives us oxygen. Here lies the connection where we can start to revere nature once again. 
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In ending this I wish to talk about the soul.
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The Greek word for soul is psyche 
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But again we have lost our connection.
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A psychiatrist is a soul doctor - but you will not hear them say that.
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This is why we are in many ways - Lost in a lost world.
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We have lost our way.
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Out of the Body or Near Death Experiences
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Any study of ‘out of the body’ or ‘near death’ experiences will give you ample evidence that we are not our body. Our physical body which does act like\n    a machine also has an ‘occupant’ a consciousness - and there are 10s of thousands of studies where ordinary people have had ‘out of the body or near\n    death experiences’ and came back.
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These endless stories of people who have been in accidents and found themselves floating or hovering above their body whilst, hearing every sound ,be it\n    of nature, of traffic or of doctors frantically working to keep their heart beating are throughout libraries globally. Yet, with the 26,000 universities\n    around our planet there is very little to no interest in following up on the matter of why do so many people have these experiences? Where the learned\n    academics and intellectuals have zero interest in this phenomenon and go out of their way to decry everything in relationship to such experiences.\n    Arguing against the evidence that can be proved by what was recited after returning to their body or hospital bed. 
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As a side note, I found myself on stage in front of a full house of 1600 people in the Auckland town hall in 1986, giving a bouquet and thanking Elisabeth\n    Kubler-Ross the Swiss Psychiatrist. Who had spent a good part of her life interviewing up to 20,000 people who had encountered OBE and NDE experiences\n    - confirming that we most definitely live beyond our body. 
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It is only when we stop believing the unconscious ones who think they know it all, because they have a degree etc yet, have not studied such experiences\n    seriously - we will then finally awaken to the fact that we are spiritual beings having an earth experience.
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I end with a song that is over 50 years old by the Moody Blues … 
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‘Have you heard’ Part 2
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eYa1upM4pA 
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PS, what will most probably be the most lasting in this broadcast are the 3 songs. Their lyrics and the imagery they let out will easily last for years\n    to come - and by then I trust the human race will have made it gracefully into the new paradigm 
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Wishing you well and yes, we all will eventually be Red Pilled.
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Sincerely,\n    
Tim:)
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Ps - sorry for the meandering in this missive - there are so many possibilities, yet there has to be some kind of cosmic trigger to shift everyone to burst\n    out of their present configuration. We are all presently in the birth canal to a new paradigm, and what could have been a more rapid process now seems\n    to be a longer drawn out labour. All births are messy and there is always a lot of pain too. 
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In the meantime we have to become self-reliant and resilient and trust that the good will come through, yet also plan for a hard landing.
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Estimates of the number of slaves today range from around 21 million to 46 million, depending on the method used to form the estimate and the definition\n    of slavery being used. The amount of money comes to about $150b.
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For those living in North America they will not use the term slavery, especially as so many American blacks are descendants of slavery and they prefer\n    to use the word ’trafficking’. \n    
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As Kathleen is a Sister of Mercy here in NZ - when working for the 'Year of Mercy' which was 2015, she and other people from 42 countries embraced a ‘theological\n    reflection process’ and out of that they focussed on two areas - the degradation of the earth and the displacement of peoples. She was then asked by\n    her congregational leader to be the NZ liaison person - to collaborate with people within the umbrella group - internationally. Where they use the\n    latest technology available, including Skype to all connect up, and share resources and strategies.\n    
 
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Slavery has been present for Millenia
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As someone who has a background in Biblical studies - she has looked back through scripture and in the New Testament she says we cannot face the word ’slave’\n    and it is there so often - and it has been basically translated to the word - ‘servant' and by doing that it sort of obscures the words meaning. That\n    people in the time of Jesus lived in the Roman Empire that depended entirely on slavery. 
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Which she states is a hidden evil that is dominating our world today.\n    
 
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In New Zealand\n    
 
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She says she was privileged to go to the 'Tip of the Iceberg' conference in Wellington in August 2017 and this was where they worked and collaborated with\n    local people to raise awareness of anyone that they may think is being entrapped by certain business or working conditions.
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This was lead by the NZ Government’s Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment - and that the US Embassy was involved as well. A Rev Chris Frazer\n    (a Diocese of Wellington deacon for social justice) was very much behind it as well.
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 https://www.anglicantaonga.org.nz/news/common_life/trafficking_aware\n    
 
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Also involved was the Wellington Anglican Cathedral. It was opened in the NZ Parliament by the current Minister of Immigration at the time the Honourable\n    Michael Woodhouse and he was very supportive of the whole proceedings. It brought together NGO’s - non Governmental organisations, the NZ Police and\n    she said there were an impressive number of people there. Many of them working at the grass roots.\n    
 
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Food Growers Association, Faith groups - from the Catholic Church and the Salvation Army including Andrew Wallis CEO of the Anti Slavery organisation -\n    Unseen, from the UK spoke - and though NZ has been at the forefront of having women vote, being Nuclear Free and being strongly anti apartheid as in\n    South Africa - Andrew says that in tackling this crime NZ today is where the UK was 7 to 10 years ago. So we have a long way to go to catch up with\n    where Britain is currently at.
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 https://www.unseenuk.org/\n    
 
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The reason is that in Britain they have the 'UK Modern Slavery Act' where every business is registered and annually must put in a report stating that they\n    know the three levels where their goods come from.\n    
 
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Say it is a shirt - so who did they buy it from, where was it made and where was the cotton or the fabric grown? That at each level - they must prove that\n    they are monitoring the product all the way. Thus, following the money to the source of the produce, is how everything is being recorded. This methodology\n    was strongly focused on at the conference - especially by the NZ police.\n    
 
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If any person is ‘brought’ into NZ and its is suspected to being involved in human slavery - first communications has to go through the Immigration Department\n    (as the predominant victims are usually recent arrivals into NZ) - this she says is a very complex procedure even before it gets to the police. Where\n    as, in the UK - it comes immediately under the Crimes Act.
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The take-away from the 'Tip of the Iceberg' conference - was to get new legislation like the UK passed in NZ as soon as possible.\n    
 
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2016 was the First Conviction for Slavery in NZ
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In NZ we have had very few convictions for human slavery in this country. (Most NZers have no idea that such a thing would exist in this country.) 
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For the first time the NZ Police were able to convict a perpetrator of bringing 16 Fijian people to NZ with lavish promises but to then double cross and\n    entrap them to become enslaved. See below link.
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The NZ police said it took about 2,000 hours of work to get this conviction - being a huge time consumer due to the complexity of our Law. The outcome\n    of the Conference was that we need to advocate for a change in the Law so as to have it upgraded and streamlined so as to address this horrendous bottleneck\n    to rapid enforcement and justice.\n    
 
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This situation was only found out because the Fijians were allowed to go to church one Sunday and one of the congregation noticed how upset a Fijian woman\n    was and went over to see her and ask her to come and have a cup of coffee and that was when the lady spilt out what was happening.\n    
 
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https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/84262716/faroz-ali-found-guilty-of-human-trafficking    
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So Kathleen says that it’s imperative for us to be very alert and be mindful of situations popping up amidst us - because it is just below the surface\n    and we need to know this.\n    
 
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Here is a list that covers points like:\n    
 
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If a person does not carry their passport, and do not know much about visas - or they are not willing to say where they work or for whom they work for.\n    
 
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Or if they are escorted to and from work and they state that they are working everyday and for long hours. 
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If they do not know where they live or are fearful of giving the address.
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That they have not been paid. If they hesitate as to talking about who arranged their contract or visas … if they are paying off large debt. Are\n    there signs of self harm and they seem starved. 
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Finally if the are young people and are absent from school.
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So the imperative is for us to be mindful and aware of people - particularly immigrants, because had that lady at church not been crying and a parishioner\n    notice and kindly offered to ask to help and assist - those 16 Fijians could still be enslaved today.\n    
 
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[What would their family in Fiji think when they were cut off from these workers here in NZ? It must have been very concerning for them.]\n    
 
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Other talking points:
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Stop the Traffic - Fuzz Kitto - who says that traffickers are really smart so we have to be smarter … traffickers are creative - so we have to be\n    more creative … traffickers are organised - we have to be more organised … traffickers have smart systems so we have to have better ones.\n    Traffickers disempower people - we have to empower people. Traffickers try to make people invisible - we have to make them visible. Traffickers work\n    across borders - we must work better across borders. Traffickers do more for less - we have to do more for less.
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 https://beslaveryfree.com/australianfashionforum 
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Remember the vehicle driver in Britain recently where a large number of Vietnamese people died in a container on the back of his truck. This type of trafficking\n    is everywhere. We only hear about it, if the police or customs catch them red handed or in a horrific disaster as in this case.\n    
 
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Kathleen mentions the documentary film Blue Jeans about workers in sweatshop conditions and terrible pay and long hours - where she mentions that NZ clothing\n    firms have now closed and taken the business offshore to Asia. With the same ‘old reason’ - that it is uneconomic to run a business in NZ. Hence sweatshops\n    produce cheap goods.\n    
 
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Keeping the word ‘Slavery’ in the public consciousness
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The British want to always name it as Human Slavery - as against Trafficking - and horrendous as it is we are told that 12.5% of victims are in the sex\n    industry and that the vast majority of others say 25% are children are slaves being under 18 and the rest are labour slaves.
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Also mentioned were crew on ships coming to NZ ports, be it cargo ships or fishing boats and that many of the crew are found to be horrendously exploited.\n    For with fishing boats they can be at sea for months on end and when they dock in NZ ports there is no real ‘haven’ for crew to go and enjoy ‘recreation\n    and rest’ and she even states that though NZ has signed an agreement to offer up a place where visiting crew upon landing can find as a safe ‘location’\n    to reorient themselves - that has not been forthcoming. To the degree it was mentioned that the crew are often paid in US dollars and in Lyttelton\n    she said there is no bank, they are for US$1.00 given change in NZ$1.00 - (one for one) which is totally immoral.\n    
 
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Also mentioned
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Kevin Bales a very courageous advocate - Free the slaves - blood and earth - uncovers many dreadful situations around our planet - smart phones = mining\n    rare earth minerals especially in the Congo.
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https://www.freetheslaves.net/ He links the exploitation of the poor people to the exploitation of the earth.
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An article Kathleen did for Word Day against Trafficking in Persons 30 July
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https://www.mercyworld.org/newsroom/enews/issue-830/ 
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Kathleen said with regards to paedophile networks and sex traffic or organ harvesting etc - this was outside her field of expertise.\n    
 
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Yes, the Jeffrey Epstein saga is the tip of the iceberg and there is a huge white slave trade going on that has lots of East European girls conned into\n    applying for modelling careers outside of Eastern Europe and then once away from their own country are kidnapped and pushed into prostitution etc.\n    
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Finally Tim mentioned the Executive Order signed on the 21st December 2017 by Donald Trump.\n    
 
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Executive Order Blocking the Property of Persons Involved in Serious Human Rights Abuse or Corruption
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Law & Justice 
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Issued on: December 21, 2017 
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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic\n    Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) (NEA), the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability\n    Act (Public Law 114-328) (the “Act”), section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (8 U.S.C. 1182(f)) (INA), and section 301 of title\n    3, United States Code,\n    
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I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, find that the prevalence and severity of human rights abuse and corruption that have their\n    source, in whole or in substantial part, outside the United States, such as those committed or directed by persons listed in the Annex to this order,\n    have reached such scope and gravity that they threaten the stability of international political and economic systems. Human rights abuse and corruption\n    undermine the values that form an essential foundation of stable, secure, and functioning societies; have devastating impacts on individuals; weaken\n    democratic institutions; degrade the rule of law; perpetuate violent conflicts; facilitate the activities of dangerous persons; and undermine economic\n    markets. The United States seeks to impose tangible and significant consequences on those who commit serious human rights abuse or engage in corruption,\n    as well as to protect the financial system of the United States from abuse by these same persons.
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I therefore determine that serious human rights abuse and corruption around the world constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security,\n    foreign policy, and economy of the United States, and I hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat.
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https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-blocking-property-persons-involved-serious-human-rights-abuse-corruption/    
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Professor Frederick von Dreger, (former Chairman, Dept of Political Science, UPEI, Canada) retired, dissects media 'deceptions' and'hoaxes' - and tells\n    us that governments, universities, and the media have been obscuring the truth from the public- for decades.
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As a Conspiracy Analyst. - he states that Google and its offshoot YouTube, plus Twitter, and Facebook are constantly using algorithms to censor what we\n    see and access in the Western world. 
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Yet, awash with data and all sorts of information that we network, we trust that our understanding is accurate and that the wording is in fact the truth\n    of the matter. All of this having to do with our sovereignty and liberation as individuals and at the same time desiring to unify us as a humanity\n    which collectively shares the same aspirations. 
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We are already involved in World War Three
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Professor von Dreger says that at this moment we in the western world are now in effect experiencing a sort of \"World War Three\" - a massive conflict,\n    not of direct physical violence but a massive chaotic series of battles of misinformation, disinformation, hoaxes and deceptions of all kinds in which\n    we are now sadly and very deeply involved. This is mainly due to MSM (MainStream Media) including Universities and various professions and so on.
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The US Intelligence Agency invented the term: Conspiracy Theory 
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Professor von Dreger's overview is this: He says that people who look at what’s going on behind the misinformation and disinformation are often called\n    'conspiracy theorists'- so it's important to look at the word and realise that it was 'coined'- invented -by the CIA after the assassination of President\n    Kennedy. And the reason that they did this was to ridicule people who had any sort of suspicion about what had actually happened, and to persuade most\n    people that the official story of Lee Harvey Oswald as the lone gunman is totally correct - whereas in fact the report issued by the commission set\n    up to investigate the matter is not true. There were actually several people involved in the shooting of President Kennedy - and the people who have\n    researched this have documented what that deception and conspiracy is all about.
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So the term ‘Conspiracy Theory’ was invented and used to ridicule people in order to discredit anyone who is suspicious or directly opposed to the ‘official\n    story’. Now people who are seriously investigating, researching and documenting what is actually happening have started calling themselves ‘conspiracy\n    analysts’’ and Ayran as an 80 year old sees that more and more people are doing deeper research into events that have occurred which leave unanswered\n    questions - especially looking behind the disinformation and misinformation that is being provided by the MSM as well as governmental and other 'official'\n    sources.
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Big Tech Corporations and their Over Arching Control
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Professor von Dreger said that we are seeing this very clearly since the advent of the expression 'Fake News' which came up with the election of President\n    Trump. If you look back 4 or 5 years ago - this expression was not in the public vocabulary. 
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He said that their reason for putting out Fake News by the Main Stream Media - CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post (owned by the 'so called' richest\n    man on earth- Jeff Bezos of Amazon) and other major publications - is to cause confusion and chaos and as a resultto increase their control over the\n    population.
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The major institutions in the 'System' are letting us down
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What are these major institutions? A central one is the present Banking conglomerate, one of whose major responsibilities is meant to hold and secure people's\n    deposits and savings. That task is to a large extent not being carried out in favour of the population. Instead of doing that, the major banks are\n    not only \"skimming the cream off the top\" but amassing it in their own hands. 
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However, Prof von Dreger points out that people are increasingly awakening to the fact that these banks - such as the American Federal Reserve, the German\n    Deutsche Bank, and even the Vatican bank - are in fact amassing vast wealth and therefore more power and control in their own hands.
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Psychopaths and Sociopaths
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He then says that many of the people at the top of these banking and media conglomerates are, clinically speaking, psychopaths and sociopaths. 
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The characteristic of such types enables them to use their financial power and political control to foment wars and all sorts of corrupt dealings, and\n    still be able to sleep at night. He then says that he and I, (Tim)- like most of the rest of the population, could not do that.
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Bloodlines 
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He continues that these ‘families’ belong to certain family bloodlines - and that if he mentioned any names you would most probably recognise them immediately.\n    Families and clans such as the Rothschilds - and similar ones that everyone has heard of - are obvious examples. 
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He said he will not delve into names other than saying there is a very small clique - often called the Cabal, the Globalists - some call them the \"Illuminati\"\n    - he just refers to them as the 'Big Boys' - that they are the people that are controlling the System and increasingly getting richer, whilst the poor\n    are continuously becoming more marginalised and poorer and that this has become very marked in the last 20 years or so.
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Shrinking Middle Class
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Thus the middle class are finding themselves being squeezed and more so - and are losing and struggling far more. 
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This can be noticed with jobs disappearing, with fewer ordinary permanent occupations and only casual jobs - foreign people are being brought in to undercut\n    wages - and off-shoring work by corporations to China etc where there is a cheaper labour pool. This knock on effect makes the middle class shrink\n    and become poorer and cash strapped..
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What is the mindset of these psychopaths and sociopaths?
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Then Ayran asks the question? What is it that makes the psychopath able to do this? He says that they come from backgrounds where they themselves in their\n    upbringing have been socialised and brainwashed - or indoctrinated. - So how do they do that? 
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He gives an example of one such place where they gather - in this case Bohemian Grove which is in Northern California - with is a large 2,700 acres estate\n    among trees where the rich, be it businessmen, politicians and persons of note - attend gatherings and have strange ceremonies. 
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These ceremonies are weird - and he says there is clear evidence of this in the form of video documentaries, some of which have been published on youtube.\n    It’s a very protected enclave - only invited members may show up - most are from the global as well as the American elite. Note also that very few,\n    if any, women are ever present there.So what do they do?
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They obviously hang out with each other and have a good time. One such ceremony is when they dress up in black robes - wear peculiar black hats and carry\n    torches and stand in front of a 40 foot stone owl called Moloch in a ceremony called the - ‘Cremation of Care’ (listen) Evidently - even the elite\n    have to go through a further process that even if you have any 'care' whatsoever about your fellow human beings - that has to be extinguished - and\n    hence the name - the ‘Cremation of Care’ - and Ayran says - it is really deadly stuff. Listen.
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Mentioned in this interview are the Bilderbergers, the Skull and Bones, the Council of Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission plus the Club of\n    Rome, all of them being ‘closed’ societies where one can only attend or join through personal invitation by one or other of those who Ayran calls the\n    members of the \"Big Boys Club\".
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Nefarious Activities?
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What is claimed in this interview is that this elite is involved in much of the drug trade - the opioids - which is a total calamity - particularly in\n    the US. Also, human trafficking - including the sex trade - and that they are involved and associated with the pedophilia group. That the top pedophiles,\n    the top banking and media people are all connected at other levels as well - in what President Eisenhower called the Military Industrial Complex. 
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Prof von Dreger points out that this is an interconnected group of the elite and that these very same people are involved in a major ‘coup’ centered in\n    the United States Government at the present time.
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Donald Trump is now battling this Global Elite
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What is conveyed in this interview is that certain military often called the ‘white hats’ have recruited Donald Trump to take down the so called global\n    elite and controllers of banking, people trafficking and pedophilia.
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That there is also a growing split in America - that people are being polarised - that even the Alphabet agencies - the FBI, CIA and NSA are split, including\n    many agencies of which there are about 15 or 16, many of which most people have never heard of. All divided between the so called ‘white hats’ - the\n    ones who want to restore the ordinary rule of law and the American Constitution - and the black hats or globalists whose objective is to bring about\n    a New World Order to centralise all power and control in their hands. 
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As the story told by Ayran continues - certain top operatives in these agencies along with the US military, particularly army generals who have been fighting\n    endless costly wars that have destroyed millions of lives and used and spat out traumatised soldiers to be virtually left to survive the best they\n    can - have said enough. No more foreign wars and wasting trillions of dollars on other people’s wars, especially those caused by the US Neocons.
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Military Support
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Notice that Trump has on so many occasions had photos of him surrounded by military Generals.\n    
The result being that - they supposedly asked Trump to assist them to restore the US Republic.
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As the story unfolds these - top brass and others - approached Trump and asked him to stand for president in order to lead a massive movement to use all\n    possible legal means to \"take our country back\" and restore the Constitution of the United States. Their objective being to restore legitimate government\n    in order to protect all ordinary citizens and ensure a civil and cooperative society. Meaning a basically humane and basically peaceful country.
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They went to Trump and said ‘we will support you so as to take the system down legally’ (by draining the swamp).
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Because, if it is not done legally - if you can't proceed through the legal system by using the courts - the constitution - the civil laws - the next step\n    is that you go to force. That beneath the law - if the law does not work - you get to force and what does force mean? People becoming violent - you\n    are going to have an insurrection - you are going to have a revolution - you are going to have a civil war - So first - let’s endeavour to do this\n    legally, and this is what they have been working at doing ... and that is why Trump is being attacked. 
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First the Russian witch hunt - the Democrats blaming Russia for hacking the voting - which was found to be false - no Russian collusion or any sort of\n    obstruction of justice by anyone in the Trump campaign.
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This was the clear conclusion of the Mueller Report - Trump's campaign was cleared of any wrongdoing. The next accusation was of racism - and that failed\n    - that Trump is against Blacks and Latinos - but those groups have come out and said that they are better off under Trump’s economy. 
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Next comes the Ukraine affair where Trump is accused of strong-arming the Ukrainian President by threatening to withhold military aid to the Ukraine if\n    they do not give up information on Ex Vice President Biden and his son, Hunter, for his business deals with a gas company which has been paying Hunter\n    Biden huge sums of money - essentially for not really doing anything, since he has no background or expertise in that field - and this current part\n    of the attack against Trump has been going nowhere as well.
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So what the Professor is saying is that we are seeing the mainstream media becoming more and more desperate in its attacks against the current administration\n    in the United States and that we are at the cusp of, or near on to the outbreak of a civil war there - that we are on that cusp as of today.
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Donald Trump was selected because he had the capacity of a very potent narcissist - and would be the only one able to bulldoze down the opposition.     
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Tim mentions that after he saw the movie \"Eyes Wide Shut\" by Stanley Kubrick - who died very soon after he had completed it - that he started connecting     the dots. That \"Eyes Wide Shut\" alerts people to the fact that rich American family members are invited to extravagant and elaborate functions - and     then blackmailed via drugs, sex and videotapes of their participation and activities at such events. Much like the recent scandal of Jeffery Epstein     who then mysteriously died whilst in prison.         
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The NEO-CONS
Neo-con wars - on a video posted on youtube and elsewhere, American General Wesley Clark immediately after 911 was told that the US military was to be     used to invade Afghanistan - and that:        
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“We’re going to take out 7 countries in 5 years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off , Iran.”
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RC1Mepk_Sw (3 minutes)
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This was a blatant move to control ‘other countries' destinies and essentially destroy them and take whatever resources they might have for the use\n        of the Global Elite.
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That the whole Bush family are also part of the ‘establishment’ that Trump has to deal with - and this includes Barack Obama as well.        
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As this story unfolds we hear:That Donald Trump is basically an American patriot whose main intention is to restore the Constitutional system in the\n        USA. Ayran's view is that even with Trump succeeding, there may well be a continuation of a system which allows for millionaires and billionaires\n        in the United States, and hence a very unequal society. 
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However, that will be a huge improvement on the truly insane criminal system that exist today. Even the very rich will be reminded by members of their\n        own group that their success and survival depends on a content middle class in a reasonably civil and cooperative society.
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See, for instance, Nick Hanauer ...... , a current American billionaire speaking on a youtube video on this issue.https://youtu.be/q2gO4DKVpa8        
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Other snippets from this interview are ...
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That Donald Trump is a bull and he is ramming the gate and that he is the first - of possibly several to come ...
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911 the False Flag Ayran mentions that 911 - was the biggest deception on the US people. He calls it The Biggest Elephant in The Room. Top people within\n        certain secret service agencies in the American government and their allies in the private sector planned, managed organised and staged it, in\n        collusion with Saudi Arabia and Israeli intelligence. One of the main reasons behind this was to have the US fight proxy wars on behalf of Israel,\n        especially to contain Iran and subdue it, one way or another. 
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Ayran does not go into it but suggests two of the best writers are: 
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Christopher Bollyn \"Solving 911 - The Deception that Changed the World\"
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https://www.bollyn.com/public/Solving_9-11_-_The_Deception_That_Changed_The_World.pdfThis\n        is a free download 
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Rebeckah Roth - a retired US Flight Attendant, now a grandmother, who has written four 4 books as 'novels' to protect her sources,\n        and is even now writing a detailed nonfiction account of exactly what took place in the American aviation sector on Tuesday the 11th of September\n        2001.
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https://www.rebekahroth.com/ 
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These are written as 'fiction' but she documents exactly what happened that day - using fictional names to protect her sources. She is living ever\n        so quietly today - Ayran is somewhat surprised she is even still alive, given the extent of criminal actions and violence used by the Big Boys\n        to silence opposition when it's deemed necessary. All the various 'false flag' events clearly indicate that. 
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Rebekah's attention was first piqued by the various mobile telephone calls that were supposedly made from the planes, which she knew were not possible\n        from their altitude and would simply not have been placed to their respective recipients. 
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After she had written her first book, entitled \"Methodical Illusion\", more and more information came to her from various of her connections within\n        the airlines where she was even able to get the passenger list and found that there was not a single Arab on any of those flights. Mossad, the\n        central Israeli intelligence agency is also mentioned here.
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911 led to the invasion of Afghanistan and then the war in Iraq. That has rendered these countries as basket cases.
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That then continued under the guise of the ‘Arab Spring’ and the destabilisation of the Arab and North African countries and the Eastern Mediterranean. This\n        resulted in war refugees from these countries descended on Europe. See above video re General Wesley Clark and his two revealing meetings with\n        a Pentagon General. 
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This has seen progressive countries like Scandinavia take in immigrants from war ravaged countries that now has Sweden taking far more than it can\n        adequately absorb and appropriately accomodate - as a result it has become known as the rape capital of Europe. Do an internet search.
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This combination of events which Professor von Dreger calls World War Three can now be seen operating on multiple levels, creating chaos and putting\n        people against each other on racial, religious, colour and gender grounds as well as differences of income.
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Ayran states a process that has been planned by these crazed control freaks and their allies is to create chaos, divide, split up and create insecurity\n        in the population at large. 
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Other Important Information in this interview.\n    
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The Federal Reserve is not a US Government owned Bank. It is a privately owned bank, owned by the global elite - who dictate monetary policy to the\n        American people and Government, in alliance with other central banks in various countries. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OibqdwHyZxk 
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This is a very critical 3 minute video
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 Thus if we want to find the heart of the ‘storm’ - Washington is the place to look at - and it is still being fought out legally with courtrooms and\n        lawyers fighting - battling it out. Especially with attempts in Congress to impeach the President. 
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At present the US marines have been put on alert so as to keep law and order.
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The Supreme Court is being highlighted - especially in judging in a ‘constitutional crisis.’ as to how the ‘executive branch’ can act - i.e what the\n        President can do by Executive Order or can not do among many other legal doings 
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This also brings up who can be charged on sedition and treason - (listen) and that they could try people like ex CIA John Brennan for treason etc.\n        The same goes for Ex FBI leader James Comey and Ex NSA leader James Clapper, plus many, many others. 
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Justice Brett Kavanaugh comes up in the conversation as when he was asked at his Supreme Court confirmations - if the US Military could be used within\n        the country under certain circumstances and what could be the outcome? 
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For example, is the US army entitled to be called up and take over and try people, including American citizens, accused of crimes and then take ‘appropriate’\n        action.
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Dr Steve Pieczenik is also mentioned - saying that certain people\n        in Government are running their own agenda and accruing much debt in the process - and that the US public are paying for it all.
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https://stevepieczenik.com/ 4 minute video
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Republican Old Guard and Democrats are both wanting Trump out of their Game                                                      That\n        there are politicians on both the Republican and and Democrat side involved in the current impeachment processes to use whatever means possible\n        in their attempts to take down President Trump. The vast majority of Democrats who are still following Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and many Republicans,\n        including the late George Bush Senior and George W Bush Junior, Mitt Romney and Mitch McConnell (plus now deceased John McCain) and others of the\n        old guard of the Republican party, are very keen to remove Donald Trump from office.
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The recent arrest of Jeffrey Epstein on charges of human and sex traffic and his involvement in pedophilia rings - especially using threats and blackmail\n        on very highplaced people after flying them to his sex island on the Lolita Express - then his subsequent murder/suicide.This has now been taken\n        off the news and the MSM- because it brought too much focus on Bill Clinton who flew there 26 times - plus Prince Andrew and even Hillary Clinton\n        - shows there is a huge coverup by MSM - as it exposes this darkness to ordinary Americans - of what the elite are hiding.
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This is being directly connected to Donald Trump’s signing of the:\n    
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Executive Order Blocking the Property of Persons Involved in Serious Human Rights Abuse or Corruption\n    
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https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-blocking-property-persons-involved-serious-human-rights-abuse-corruption/        
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The recent ‘take down’ of convicted Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein is being linked to this ‘executive order.’ That when all the global pedophiles are eventually\n        taken down - it will also collapse the higher strata of the globalist bankers, and other corporate heads - as they are all inter-linked in a hush\n        hush - mum’s the word, conspiracy of silence. 
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Draining the Swamp
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Trump stated he is going to ‘drain the swamp’. The swamp is essentially the in-house matrix that comprises the US government agencies that govern Law\n        and Order - as they are in many ways an arm of the New World Order - in ‘lockstep’ with the US Justice Department that extends into the banking\n        world of Wall Street and then the corporations that basically control commerce throughout the USA and then around the planet. And the Military\n        Industrial complex is totally in there as well. 
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Taking in and dealing with this data 
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On a personal level Aryan asks us to be civil and polite - that we have to find ways to cooperate and get on together. That we listen to each other,\n        share what is empowering and also what ‘we need to know’
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Some links of Interest                                                                                                                                                          Robert David Steele        Former CIA operator and white hat. A very profound exposé
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HHlpxTx99o 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeytzB8J0dI 
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Kevin Shipp interview: Former CIA Office, white hat and whistleblower:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqG_fkQCeE0 By Greg Hunter ex CNN and Good\n        Morning America.
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Paul Craig Roberts https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/ Ex Assistant Secretary\n        to the US Treasury - under President Reagan and ex Wall Street Journal deputy Editor 
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The New York Times - is the enemy of the people - per Donald J Trump https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1140252528304631808?lang=e\n    
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SGT Report                                                                     https://www.youtube.com/user/SGTbull07/videos                                                  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dai5-2Exks0&feature=share                                                                                           Very clear and recent interview of - Harley Schlanger
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X22 Report                                                                           https://www.youtube.com/user/X22Report                                                      https://www.youtube.com/user/X22Report/videos
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There was little time for Ayran to comprehensively cover all the angles in this interview, in just 1 hour.\n    
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What is being communicated is that America has been ‘targeted' to lead the planet into the New World Order - where global governance is ‘ordained’\n        by an ‘elite' at the top of the pyramid.
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However, even up until today, the USA has not yet quite become this ’so called’ leader That there are both Democrats and Republicans that want this\n        NWO - has to be acknowledged - however from George Herbert Bush, Bill Clinton, to George W Bush and Barack Obama power has been ‘deftly’ consolidated\n        by fewer and fewer people.(see how few media corporations there are, with now only six major players in the US. That with the media as their voice\n        piece there was going to become eventually a ‘One World Government’, and with the people herded into smart cities where they would be more easily\n        controlled.
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This was supposed to be the future that Hillary Clinton was to eventually fulfill, but Donald Trump got in the way.\n    
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However as more people do not believe ‘fake’ news - alternative media is taking its place. Yet, we have to be careful and discern to make sure that\n        the alternative media is not skewing the narrative as well. That in a world where Google is now deftly hiding newsworthy information - through\n        their algorithms - it is more challenging. 
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As for Donald Trump. We see him everywhere in the media. He is vilified at every turn, especially by the worlds ‘liberal’ TV media - CNN, ABC NBC,CBS\n        etc including the established digital media and press - globally - all essentially singing from the same song sheet. In so many cases he speaks\n        his mind and goes off script - wading into delicate situations that often defies protocols and says things that do truly astound you. He also has\n        made statements that are also are full on hyperbole and makes untruthful statements as well. All in his mind to fire up his electoral base and\n        to push back where ever he can. 
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Yes, he has walked away from the Paris Agreement on Climate change. Saying it has to be renegotiated - whatever that means?
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He has stopped the US involvement from signing the - TTPA. Where as NZ did sign it.
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He has opened up Alaska to oil drilling. Upsetting all environmentalists! 
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Cancelled the Iran Nuclear deal. There is another story around money and cash here.
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Engaged in Peace efforts with North Korea. This has to be an excellent move.
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Plus shifted the US Embassy to Jerusalem. To a howl of protest.
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There are many things that he has done in the last 3 years.
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Some say that for him to ‘drain the swamp’ he has to play 5 dimensional chess.
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By opening up the Alaskan oil fields - he has temporarily appeased the oil lobby.
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By shifting the US Embassy he has temporarily got the Israeli’s on board.
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Yet all this time he is slowly rounding on the ‘dark side’ - to take them down.
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Today, everyone is awaiting the report of the alleged Obama-era abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court, which has caused\n        a delay in the conclusion of Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz's investigation. This report is about Donald Trump being spied\n        on after he announced his decision to run for the Presidency of the US. If this report finds in Trump’s favour, - this will mean that Comey, Clapper\n        and Brennan are guilty of illegal acts and could face jail. But more so even Barack Obama. 
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This whole Trump episode is ongoing - and this coup to get rid of him has yet to be exposed as MSM still has a grip on the American public - but is\n        increasingly diminishing as people see through the fake news that is becoming more and more frenetic.
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However, we must remember that he was voted in to find a way to work with Russia and not go to become even more aggressive with it - as Hillary Clinton\n        was pushing for. 
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Stay tuned - love him or loath him - some time in the future the truth will come out. Be ready for it. 
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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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 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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Business Enterprises     \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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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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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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https://eowilsonfoundation.org/e-o-wilson-on-saving-half-the-earth/\n
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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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May 3, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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Thistle Hall, 293 Cuba Street\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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Thistle Hall, 293 Cuba Street\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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Other subjects covered:
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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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There is much more to this very interesting interview and in speaking with John Aldworth afterwards it gave me a sense that he is only looking for the\n    truth on this matter of when was Aotearoa first settled.
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http://www.ngatihotu.nz/2018/11/01/forbidden-history-by-john-dudley-aldworth/\n
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http://forbiddenhistory.co.nz\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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Together we can make a difference.
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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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Addictions
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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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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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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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We need solutions and we need to laugh at ourselves and that differences are OK – it's good to have differences
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Concerns about sameness – the “same swamp of sameness” as if we are all being homogenised – and been put through a blender until all things are the\n        same – with the resulting - “group think!\"
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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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Station Axioms
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Truthfulness – fairness – compassion – a positive contribution – these a writ components to life – politics is not.
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What do you stand for? – Roy wants thinking individuals – he wants to stimulate the natural inclination with the people.
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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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Good high quality food, organic, non GE or GMO’s
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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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Vaccines that contain mercury and other substances like human cells. He mentions laconically - its cannibalism and has been introduced for years\n    
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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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Any person from another world looking in at our farmers – would have to find them guilty of poisoning people through the produce that they grow.\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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But. he says - “if these subtle poisons do not kill you - they definitely dumb you down.”\n
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Professor Emeritus Paul Connett’s name comes up.Who says in an ordinary society there are 5% genius and 5% idiots and the rest of society are in the middle\n    but when we add fluoride to the water – it shifts the spectrum by 5% - which means instead of their being 5% genius’s there aren’t any - and there\n    are now 10% idiots in our society.\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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Now these 14 communities along this river dispose of their “treated effluent” back into the Waikato River as well!!\n    
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Fourteen river bank communities are involved.
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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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This interview goes on to coverCell phones … hullo? Hypnosis? What’s really going on.People farmingCompartmentalism Depopulation \n    
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Scalar waves EMF frequency influences on animal brain wave patterns 
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Telephone towers have 300,000 watts Our mobile phone only uses only 3 or 4 watts
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This interview then goes right off the charts …
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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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This interview is of an honest man doing his best to relay the truth 
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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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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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https://www.nzherald.co.nz/thecountry/news/article.cfm?c_id=16&objectid=12006636    
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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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Social Credit’s web site is www.socialcredit.nz\n
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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.     
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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.
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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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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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Author Dr Ramzy Baroud’s speaking tour of NZ talking about his new book “The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story”
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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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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.
\n
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        
\n    
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. 
\n    
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). 
\n    
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.”
\n    
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. 
\n    
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.
\n
If New Zealand is truly 'the least corrupt country in the world' - shouldn't we arguably be the most transparent?
\n
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.
\n
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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This interview was sponsored by The Awareness Party\n    
 
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