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Never has New Zealand been so divided as of now - not since the ‘racially selected’ white South African rugby tour of NZ of 1981.
This was when thousands of very courageous New Zealanders, especially the young, in their 20’s, 30’s and 40’s donned crash helmets, padded clothing and made wooden shields and went into battle for the black and coloured South African’s.
Who could never vote or represent their country. These principled NZers went against the Conservative ‘National’ Government of the time and were prepared to blockade rugby stadiums around the country. This was a battle for justice and the right for self determination due to people being judged by the colour of one's skin.
With this week’s show Tim started off with greeting all breathers out there across Auckland's greater region and further out within the teaming biosphere of our sacred planet - where he mentions that all animals, trees, plankton and humans - share the one breath - as of this moment.
Stating that we are immersed in momentous times - all of us - and we are unknowing of the outcome …
Saying - that he sincerely wishes you all well as we revitalise ourselves for the future that we didn’t plan on - but intuitively many knew could come to us - in one way or another.
We are the 5% of this planet's awakening population that could be far more than 7% or even 10% of people engaged in this Great Awakening.
With 7.8 billion souls sharing the invisible breath during this time - he said we must remember that we have been given a free body in which to live and he trusts - prosper and experience moments of joy - which is our birthright.
As you very well know we as a humanity are realising that we have to come together in ‘unity consciousness’ to create a new way of breaking out of the hypnosis that MainStream Media has used to capture our mind, close down our heart and in some clever ways - control our very thought process.
We are surrounded in possibilities
The imperative for us at this moment on this magnificent planet - we call home - is to realise that we are all surrounded in possibilities, and that we must start with our inner self and make sure that every thought and every word stated and each action we take is going to make us - at heart - a more honest, courageous and forthright human being that at soul level resonates with service to the greater good.
Service to self in these times is not an option. Yes, many of us are even challenged by our family members - so if you find yourself at odds with your family - still keep your love strong for them and our neighbours in the neighbourhood and community that we live in.
Becoming Aware ASAP
Education and sharing of empowering knowledge is more than important - it is imperative - if we are to gain a foothold in the narrative that has been censored by MSM and has kept our citizens in the dark
Note that there is a chance that GreenplanetFM could find itself de platformed and taken down - like the hundreds of thousands overseas - due to the controlling hitech corporates in Silicon valley and beyond - wanting to interrupt our narrative that questions not only their ethics and motives - but also why are they stifling free speech?.
New Zealand’s Birthright is Free Speech
Fortunately coming from New Zealand where free speech is a foundation stone of our country and as long as it is not slanderous and obscene or extolls acts of violence - GreenplanetFM.com will always be able to broadcast - even as in the case of an interview with Lynda Wharton, a natural healer here in Auckland being taken down and deleted by YouTube - we trust that we will continue to freely express ourselves as we work to emancipate humanity from the malaise that has fallen over a large percentage of our world.
Planetary Power Struggle of Freedom and democracy - versus Control
However - Tim draws our attention as we explore the deeper implications of losing the importance of our freedoms and he reiterates that there’s a planetary power struggle happening that has been going 24/7 - silently in the back ground - as certain power players wield their influence over an unsuspecting humanity - we, who have been doing our best to survive, have a family, work to finance ourselves and have time off for rest and recreation and learn what it is to be human.
This too was covered to a degree in last week's excellent interview on GreenplanrtFM.com - of Joe Rifici - who talked about many of these main points.
Saying that his power game is known by those like myself who have been quietly researching the ‘pyramid of power’ for 45 years - a structure that basically the elite occupy - and at all levels of power - from the apex at the top to virtually the bottom of this pyramid. I give you one guess as to where we are, in this structure. Yes, the great mass of humanity, the 90% plus - we ordinary citizens - are at the bottom, holding up this multi layered bloated structure that we are financially indebted to … and that syphons off money from us to feed them all - further up the system.
However - their corrupted system is coming apart - it can no longer sustain them for much longer - because we have come to a limit of growth - we have reached multiple tipping points be it environmental, economic and societal.
Plus, ‘we are waking to their game …’
As you very well intuit our whole way of life within the biosphere is now under threat and I ask you what country on earth has a government of integrity and is loved by its people? This is where we have come to - as a humanity.
Our elected representatives of all political parties have run away with their own agenda and in many ways - not listening to us - have gone rogue.
With a global population of 7.8 billion souls, yes souls - we have become too many for them to control - and … wait for it - there are too many of us awakening at the same time as more and more conscious researchers and activists are calling out truthfully - that - Covid has been deployed - yes that’s right - deployed to take down the global public to more manageable numbers. The horror is - that we are learning that there is a depopulation agenda being actively pushed. Why are the Governments especially in the Western Hemisphere in lockstep in wanting all of us, including children to be vaccinated before the year is out? Where on this planet are children going down with Covid? The stats say that all children have a 99.99% recovery rate.
Yet - the vaccination is actually the greater problem by far - because it is not a vaccination - but an injection.
Tim then states - Now as you listen to me dear listeners I am communicating to you today - from my heart - there is no anger being transmitted - Please note this.
What I am asking New Zealanders is this - how many babies have had covid? How many infants, children, teenagers and twenty somethings? These apparently are not vulnerable groups and have never been. The vulnerable people are those my age in their 70s, 80s and 90’s - who have immune systems that are tired, due to possibly eating factory or industrial food, and drinking chlorinated and quite possibly fluoridated water, with little sunshine and little to not enough exercise.Are lonely and lack social support and love. No wonder the elderly are susceptible.
Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine and Zinc - Work
But to get to the point - it’s a straight out fact that ivermectin is a proven safe alternative that is exceptionally cheap - as it is not Patented and cannot be turned into a cash cow for any corporations. Note that in the Dominican Republic just recently - 6,000 people were treated with Ivermectin — but as MSM does not know where the Dominican Republic is - they ignore this struggling but resourceful island nation in the Caribbean.
https://dominicantoday.com/dr/covid-19/2020/09/29/doctors-cure-6000-patients-with-covid-19-with-ivermectin/
Most remarkable is this statistic on Ivermectin used as prophylaxis. In a randomised, controlled trial of prophylaxis in hospital staff in Argentina, it yielded a 100% protection against covid19.
If ivermectin was taken, no one developed the illness.
Don’t you agree it should be made available immediately??
Please share this with everyone you know.
It’s without question one of the ways to end this absurd tyranny.
Dr Mike Yeadon
Ps: ivermectin has been used in over 3,000,000,000 (3 billion) doses all over the world & it has a remarkable safety profile. It’s on the WHO’s list of Essential Medicines. Not to use this is corrupt.
https://rumble.com/vjbmg7-the-case-for-ivermectin-craig-kelly-mp.html
https://therealnews.nz/2021/06/05/has-the-nz-government-been-duped-by-big-pharma/
However - there is also hydroxy chloroquine and zinc as well - that the NZ government for some unknown reason stopped it being sold on the 24th of March 2020 - just 4 days before our country wide lockdown - what a coincidence … Note that it is often difficult to find these links again on the web.
https://pharmac.govt.nz/news-and-resources/covid19/covid-19-hydroxychloroquine/
Note that Pharmac does its best to not want to know how good hydroxychloriquine and zinc is.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/120796969/coronavirus-demand-high-for-game-changer-drug-amid-caution-and-optimism
Do you see how we are being constantly duped?
However we are having courageous doctors of conscience from many, many countries coming together and speaking out about this Covid narrative and even here in NZ stout hearted ‘conscious’ doctors around 60 of them - have put out an SOS to the Government and people calling for an immediate halt to all injections - they have contacted our Government to cease this injection roll out - but have been ignored.
Tell me listeners - would 60 doctors know far more about human health than opportunist career politicians?
Do you hear this call by these astute and brave doctors? - we have to stop these injections - because it is not a vaccine - as vaccines are supposed to have part of the disease in it that we are inoculating for. Note that as of today, Covid has not even been isolated. I repeat not even isolated - so what we have in the injection is mRNA and other adjuvants - that due to secrecy and patents that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have locked away - we are not allowed to know.
So here we have a so-called global pandemic that could wipe out hundreds of millions if not more and the US Government has given multiple billions of dollars to Big PHARMA corporations to manufacture vaccines and on top of this allowing these corporations to ride the pigs back and make many billions more.
Tell me the name of a compassionate corporation … there is none - they do not exist - they are here to extract anything out of everything - with virtually zero social conscience.
However, because American taxpayers paid for this vaccine why should it be patented? - but the secret is - that the corporations do not want humanity to know what’s in the injection - that in fact there is graphene oxide in it - plus other adjuvants - what is an adjuvant? Note that honest doctors will see that the contents of this injection is a poison… and this was found when in Spain researchers were able to obtain a good number of phials and using high powered microscopes were able to ascertain that the contents were Graphene Oxide - a known poison.
Meanwhile MSM went into full gear practicing damage control, and did their dastardly best to smother the story …
https://rumble.com/vjoqlr-phizer-vaccine-seems-to-be-99.9-graphene-oxide-and-more-tests-are-scheduled.html
https://chemicalviolence.com/2021-07-14-spanish-study-pfizer-vaccine-toxic-graphene-oxide.html
Here in New Zealand - MEDSAFE a Governmental Department - has previously asked Pfizer - 58 questions - even to what is in this so-called vaccine? That the injection is still in its trial period - it usually takes about 7 years to establish safety. - and now Medsafe has rolled over - even though the FDA Food and Drug Administration in the US has not given the all clear as to the safety of this insertion of molecules - of what we know nothing about - into the sacredness of our bodies.
So dear reader, it is regrettable those who have believed the big Pharma propaganda - that’s been amplified by mainstream media with Politicians singing in chorus - that those who have taken the ‘shot’ are now an experiment. A walking and sleeping - experiment, that no one on this planet knows what will be the outcome.
Video Audio Played
Tim then plays an interview of a South African doctor Dr Charles Hoffe who has been practicing medicine for 28 years in the small, rural town of Lytton in British Columbia, Canada and he has administered about 900 doses of the Moderna experimental mRNA injection and is now coming forward to warn as many people as he can about the severe reactions he’s observed in his patients, including death. This resulted in his being fired from his job at the local hospital. Naturally as any doctor who follows the Hippocratic oath would do - he stopped and realised too late what he had done and is now exposing what he has found out because he cares and has a conscience.
https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/how-the-jab-works-why-it-causes-blood-clots-at-a-microscopic-level/
The Interviewer was Laura Lynn starts with:
Dr Charles Hoffe has been practicing medicine for 28 years in the small, rural town of Lytton in British Columbia, Canada and he has administered about 900 doses of the Moderna experimental mRNA injection and is now coming forward to warn about the severe reactions he’s observed in his patients, including death. This resulted in his being fired from his job at the local hospital.
He tells host Laura Lynne that the core problem he’s seeing among these patients is microscopic clots in his patients’ tiniest capillaries, of which Clif High has commented, “Blood clots occurring at a capillary level. This has never before been seen. This is not a rare disease. This is an absolutely new phenomenon.”
Dr Hoffe explains that these micro-clots are too small to show up on CT scans, MRI, etc and can only be detected using the D-dimer test, of which 62% of his own patients injected with an mRNA shot are positive.
“We now know that only 25% of the ‘vaccine’ injected into a person’s arm actually stays in your arm. The other 75% is collected by your lymphatic system and literally fed into your circulation so these little packages of messenger RNA, and by the way in a single dose of Moderna ‘vaccine’ there are literally 40 trillion mRNA molecules. These packages are designed to be absorbed into your cells. But the only place they can be absorbed is around your blood vessels and the place where they are absorbed is the capillary networks – the tiniest blood vessels where the blood flow slows right down and where the genes are released. Your body then gets to work reading and then manufacturing trillions and trillions of these spike proteins. Each gene can produce many, many spike proteins. The body then recognises these are foreign bodies so it makes antibodies against it so you are then protected against COVID. That’s the idea.
“But here’s where the problem comes. In a coronavirus, that spike protein becomes part of the viral capsule. In other words it becomes part of the cell wall around the virus. But it is not in a virus. It is in your cells. So it becomes part of the cell wall of your vascular endothelium. This means that these cells which line your blood vessels, which are supposed to be smooth so that your blood flows smoothly now have these little spikey bits sticking out…
“So it is absolutely inevitable that blood clots will form because your blood platelets circulate round your blood vessels, and the purpose of blood platelets is to identify damaged vessels and stop bleeding. So, when the platelet comes through the capillary it suddenly hits all these COVID spikes and it becomes absolutely inevitable that blood clots will form to block that vessel.
“Therefore, these spike proteins can predictably cause blood clots. They are in your blood vessels (if mRNA ‘vaccinated’) so it is guaranteed. Dr Bahrdi then said to me that the way to prove this is to do a blood test called a D-dimer blood test.
“The blood clots we hear about which the media claim are very rare are the big blood clots which are the ones that cause strokes and show up on CT scans, MRI, etc. The clots I’m talking about are microscopic and too small to find on any scan. They can thus only be detected using the D-dimer test…
“The most alarming part of this is that there are some parts of the body like the brain, spinal cord, heart and lungs which cannot regenerate. When those tissues are damaged by blood clots they are permanently damaged.”
The result, says Dr Hoffe, is that these patients have what is termed Reduced Effort Tolerance (RET) which means they get out of breath much more easily than they used to. It is because the blood vessels in their lungs are now blocked up. In turn, this causes the heart to need to work harder to try to keep up against a much greater resistance trying to get the blood through your lungs.
This is called pulmonary artery hypertension – high blood pressure in the lungs because the blood simply cannot get through effectively. People with this condition usually die of heart failure within a few short years.
Dr Hoffe warns sadly, “These shots are causing huge damage and the worst is yet to come.”
Note that this interview does not include Graphene Oxide - which Spanish researches age they found, in numerous Covid Vaccine phials that they managed to purloin.
See Dr Jane Ruby on - www.StewPeters.tv
Tim furthers his critique of what is going on.
You see we must be brutally clear - Corporations are ruling the world. They have no conscience … Tell me of a kind one?
They due to their enormity are controlling more and more Government’s globally at the behest of an agenda higher up the pyramid.. The USA once seen as the bastion of life, liberty and freedom has been on the ropes for many decades now. This is due to insidious corruption, infiltration, blackmail and wars - however, it has always been dabbling in changes of Government even before the Second World War, especially in its control of South America - but there has always been corruption there.
Note, that president John Kennedy could not stop this and has since been taken over by both Neo cons and more recently by an insidious infiltration of dark money, bribery, blackmail and extortion. See the movie Eyes Wide Shut, that got the producer Stanley Kubrick eliminated for the exposure of how the dark does its capture of innocent but financially well healed prominent people.
You can also see the Will Smith, John Voigt movies Enemy of the State that is 25 years old now that will show what they were able to do then - and where they are today - who knows? But if you love your kids you had better get your gluteus maximus up and into action.
Just recently we witnessed the latest version of shadow corruption by elite blackmailer Jeffrey Epstein of certain elements of the elite and his notorious aircraft the Lolita express to Orgy Island in the Caribbean - and how he was quietly delivered out of prison and his deeds of his deceitful sleazy business ventures, hidden and swept from the headlines of news papers, TV and radio media. All aided and abetted by what we have found out is the crooked Department of Justice in the USA and by ‘gate keeping’ Alphabet agencies like the CIA and FBI that control all the nodal points in Washington and indeed have insiders in the 5 Eyes intercept and listening outpost that NZ has found itself enmeshed and embedded in.
So we are seeing ourselves in an extremely corrupted world.
Tim read out this letter by the NZ doctors to the NZ public and Government
www.nzdsos.com
This below is a public letter penned by Ethical and honest Doctors to the NZ Government and the Health Department to halt the injection into the unsuspecting NZ public - which as of today Thursday, 5th August there have been over 60 people die shortly after taking that injection.
Deaf to the Deaths
Jul 22, 2021
Fellow Kiwis, this is a post that we have worried we would need to write, once the evidence of death and serious injury from ‘the Pfizer’ became clear enough, and we could receive confirmation from various sources.
That time is now. Everything that follows is the truth, as best as we can uncover it in these sinister times, from reports made to us and from our own investigations. Many concerned, passionate and courageous “ordinary heroes” who are exhausted yet tireless, scared yet redoubtable, and furious yet focused are DETERMINED to rescue our beautiful country and we thank them from the bottom of our hearts. Like us at NZDSOS they probably never imagined in a million years they would be cast into this situation. Perhaps Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago should have been required reading at our schools.
Thankfully, many Kiwis do talk to each other when bad things happen, and they are talking to us now.
Get ready for the tragic consensus.
We believe the toll of dead and injured is at least an order of magnitude greater than we are being told. Yes that’s 10x more, so rather than the couple of dead people the gov grudgingly tells might just be related, out of the dozen or so death reports only the government claims to have received, we say that at least 40 human beings have died already, often suddenly and unexpectedly, suspiciously close to their vaccination. We know of another 80 ‘probables and possibles’ where there is not yet enough information on timing etc. Most of these cases are close enough that a proper investigation MUST be carried out, as befits the clinical trial that all recipients are part of.
However, some uncertainties exist of course, not least due to the forces apparently pre-aligned against proper reporting. Absolutely, some of these cases could turn out to be unrelated, but we know that few will be investigated properly, if at all, and not least because ACC could be bankrupt overnight if the truth emerged, and the streets would be seething. Utes blocking our cities? You ain’t seen nothing.
Many of the injured feel fobbed-off but angry and are shooting videos and photos. What has really struck us in following up these reports is the climate of fear of speaking up amongst the shocked and bereaved, and this is present in society generally. We would never disclose private details unless asked of course, and many reports are made by concerned friends and family without the knowledge of close relatives. This is unsurprising given the control and suppression of social and intellectual discourse these days in favour of a single narrative. Social media has been so weaponised that bereaved parents might even continue to recommend vaccination, out of the dread of losing their last remaining links to their support groups and a desperate need for their sacrifice to the greater good to be validated. All this whilst at their most vulnerable and raw. Human psychology laid painfully bare…
Based on the huge numbers of post vaccine deaths reported in the US, EU and UK (now over 30,000), it is frankly ridiculous to imagine that our ‘vaccine trial team of 5 million’ would not have to offer up it’s own casualties to Pfizer et al, so by extrapolation we would have expected at least 20 deaths so far, and have been warning the media, government and all MPs of this from the start. In fact, as we write this a lawsuit has been filed against the CDC by an insider who claims a dramatic suppression of the true number, more likely 45,000, this in the US alone. If accurate, and Hipkins has his way, then several hundreds of dead Kiwis – and thousands of seriously harmed – will give lie to the words safe and effective.
Remember we are doctors and have taken oaths, we have not made this stuff up. You couldn’t anyway.
It appears that the unwillingness and inability to investigate any deaths was baked into this rotten cake months ago. From the get-go, the CDC in the US knew that serious harms and deaths would result, and so Medsafe would have been aware. Tenders to software companies by the UK government before their roll-out PROVED that it was expecting an avalanche of serious effects that would cause existing on-line systems to collapse. This is all now public domain information.
In fact our politicians and ‘vaccinologists’, with zero training in forensic pathology but expertise only in cheerleading this particular vaccine come hell or high water, and with apparent superpowers of foresight and X-Ray vision, are stating that deaths are unrelated, sometimes after only a few unseemly days. Their apparent certainty is nauseating and extremely offensive. They are like a truculent child who screws its eyes shut to deny to itself that the milk is even spilt.
It is doubtful that enough timely post mortems can happen to inform rapid inquests to prove absolute causation and call a halt, given the very convenient shortage of pathologists and coroners. We have been told, and directly experienced, that our monitoring systems are overwhelmed and underfunded. The Centre for Adverse Reaction Monitoring (CARM) is overloaded, and Healthline has written urgently to MOH to report the unanticipated volume of reactions being reported. No reply so far, but this is our experience too of the Ministry of the Only Source of Truth.
What to do with this death and injury info? Well, if the media was in any way our proper fourth estate, they would be educating and informing, and demanding accountability. But, it no longer ‘leads if it bleeds’ – or clots either. Sadly, even recently sympathetic commercial radio has been brought back into line. Our lawyers confirm we are absolutely entitled and morally compelled to raise an alarm so that those paid to respond may feel obligated to investigate, or dismiss the information at least. This is hard factual data that requires the time of day from our bureaucrats and professionals.
The morally corrupt and deniers will cry “Conjecture, innuendo, smears, half truths!”; perhaps we are trying to scupper the imminent super-vaxer stadium event in Auckland, of up to 15, 000 of our young, or the inaugural schools roll-out intended for Whanganui, to greet them next week after their holiday.
How many of these kids will be first told that the vaccine has killed over 30 000 people around the world, but true numbers will never be known. That the vaccine does not stay in the arm, as our leaders lied ridiculously, but concentrates in the ovaries, brain, heart, bone marrow etc. This may mean nothing, or a very nasty something. We just don’t know, THERE IS NO DATA but we have our suspicions.
As do the government have their suspicions….
…. that paramedics may need to follow up or report vaccine injuries, so are prevented from doing so
…. that hospital docs might need to access the vaccine record database to deal with blood clots or other cases, so this is made difficult for them
…. that there are conscientious concerned hospital workers, so should be dobbed in on a confidential phone line
….. that people may ask doctors if their stroke, heart attack or other illness, or their loved one’s death is related, so the Medical Council commands that we parrot the “Safe and Effective “ mantra, hoping we will get in behind, abandon informed consent, look away, and not function as society’s early warning system for this experimental gene therapy.
….and finally that doctors may be compelled to speak out. So we are, and by sending confidential messages and speaking to us directly, so are many others. We are grateful to them, and to the public, the paramedics, nurses, allied health and admin staff in the health system, and emergency and frontline and military workers who are all bearing witness.
Shame on everyone involved in pushing this illegal, unethical, experimental and frankly lethal injection, with some seeming bizarre and undisclosed properties, especially into children and pregnant women! Doctors, start thinking for yourselves again, are you in a trance? But the usual mantra is that the hypnotised do not do things that contravene an important moral principle. Maybe that is crap?
So come on Hipkins, and the rest of you also behaving like unreconstructed power-drunk autocrats, instead of threatening us all, like the line you crossed on July 10 2021, with forced injections, “by any means necessary”, like some Stalinist or Nazi jackbooted thug, please do the job we pay you for, open your eyes and look around, and reject the orders that have already killed some of us, no matter what the inducements offered to you or threats made..
And if you don’t, along with your attack dogs in the media and the apocryphal ‘good people standing by doing nothing’, may you look into your childrens’ eyes and never have a restful night’s sleep again.
Come on Kiwis. Bloody wake up.
Oh, and please check out International Ivermectin Day online on July 24 to learn how we can get our old lives back if authorities were actually serious about ending this situation.
So there we have it - the 60 or so NZ doctors who follow the hippocratic oat - first do not harm.
https://nzdsos.com/2021/07/22/deaf-to-the-deaths/?fbclid=IwAR0FJXpkQ3ddBKQafNFYDvps8S7OJyMoWLr8gyv9qnX4bWjRLHY_oH8zvOw
So there we have it - if anyone has a medical emergency - you would beg any one of these medical doctors take over and save your loved ones - but when you have politicians doing the bidding of their overlords Big Pharma and the drug, note drug corporations - our do as you are told politicians tow the party line - bowing to pressure all the politicians our rogue servants kowtow to their bosses of their respective party machines.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/bombshell-lawsuit-govt-whistleblower-says-coronavirus-vaccine-deaths-at-least-45000
Then Tim talks about our country cousins in the rural regions and sectors.
Especially, with regard to what is rolling out across the rural areas of NZ and what will impact them and eventually end up in all villages, towns and cities of Aotearoa, New Zealand. This is, the unheralded and for most - the secretive deployment into the rural sector (because few have fast internet speeds) - the United Nations Agenda21 and 2030.
If you go to www.aag.org.nz (Agricultural Action Group) and go to the link and download the fine print of what that Agenda actually is - and it's a 352 page document - that covers every aspect of our lives - healthcare, education - that stock takes every single living being and resource and mineral on the planet - so that they can control it.
You start to get the picture, because we have not been consulted or involved.
That they, the top of the Pyramid of power - want to eradicate that which is not sustainable - and that is - the private ownership of land. i.e farming - private ownership of motor vehicles, roading, irrigation, ski fields, golf courses - even the family unit - in their eyes is listed as unsustainable. That this is something that they want to eradicate. So once we read the fine print we become aware of where our Government is taking us - she says that the insane legislation that is crippling our agricultural sector - starts to make sense.
The Deputy Prime Minister showed his colours and dug himself into a hole of his own making earlier this year.
In this interview, we also hear that no politician in NZ's Parliament is mentioning Agenda21 and Agenda2030 - or the Great Reset - Why? Because they are gagged from breaking ranks - (Mum's the word).
When in February of this year we had the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance walk out of a radio interview on radio Magics Talk Show - with well known national TV news reader and sports host Peter Williams. on: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/02/the-great-reset-grant-robertson-pulls-out-of-weekly-slot-on-magic-talk-with-peter-williams-after-shooting-down-conspiracy-theory.
Then this very well known broadcaster Peter Williams was accused of being a conspiracy theorist ¦ Listen ¦
Follow this link and you will find that the Deputy PM has created for himself an untenable situation. Because he actually went to the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos in Switzerland, with the Prime Minister in 2019. Follow this link to the World Economic Forum and you hear Prince Charles being used to front a 2 minute video focusing on the degradation of the global environment. The same environment that sustains us all and that all the corporations of the world have either contributed to destroying or let happen on their watch.
The World Economic Forum and their financially powerful media machine are now using this cloak off respectability of telling us how they are going to save us all - they want to punish humanity for the situation we are now in, by imposing (a much needed clean up operation) - but have factored humanity out of being helpers and educated participants™ in this equation). They are now going it alone with their top down ideological plan.
https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/finance-minister-travels-davos-world-economic-forum-brussels-and-london
What comes through in this radio discourse is that our politicians lie and because they have a compliant and obedient mainstream media, (who - according to Heather Meri - have been paid off with a $125 million grant) Have closed ranks and do not criticise the NZ Government anymore. Therefore a great percentage of NZ citizens do not hear or read of these lies. Note - if a country of 5 million people can have their communications system paid off with $125 million.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JB9-uL9o-w VIDEO The great reset - 4 minutes
https://rumble.com/vkazvv-graphen-dance.html 1 minute
Plus, this planned addition of the Great Reset that the World Economic Forum from Davos in Switzerland is going to superimpose over our planet and civilisation. Is real and it is coming soon with no fan fare from our Government where in Wellington.
This new economic model will cover every survival contingency regarding the well being of the 7.8 billion souls on this planet, including all biota within the biosphere.
In closing this very important interview - I wish to emphasise that we as an individual, a family, community, region and as a country can rise to the occasion - as a heart felt unifying spirit of cooperating people.
We are now starkly realising that there is a stealthy global control game being enacted - to lock us as a humanity down.
Over the last few decades we have been gradually dumbed down by the media - and an education system that teaches us not to question - or to be curious and to wonder! All you have to do is listen to the inane news every hour on all the talkback and music stations NZ wide to hear - 3 minutes of drivel as the saying goes.
This can be noticed with Mains Stream Media - with the younger generation not reading a newspaper - be it local or national - or watching the news with TVNZ and TV3 parroting virtually the same continuous rhetoric. We have found ourselves drowning in the semi - censored swamp of sameness. With a media that takes in feeds from overseas that are all multinational corporations pushing the same lockstep agenda.
The churches have failed us too - Christianity has taken a major hit in this country just like other western countries, because they virtually bore people to death, with leaders who appear so disconnected to Christ. By failing to call a halt on corrupt practices and stand up for justice. Sadly, you can see this today with near vacant churches across the country.
Yet from most religious accounts - we are spiritual beings having an earth experience - that we are far more than we ever thought possible. Huge numbers of people globally have had 'out of the body' or 'near death experiences' - where they have found themselves outside their body looking down on it - in many cases seeing doctors frantically working to keep their body alive. GreenplanetFM.com - has done a number of interviews based on this and what is the soul?
There was much more information divulged in this radio show.
Best have a listen - and note that this was a one 72 year old man show that ended at 2am in the morning when the radio station shut down all its computers and Tim had to go home - without listening to the final edit.
Note: https://americasfrontlinedoctors.org/ has been taken down - this is censorship.
https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/ This is a go to web site
https://www.globalresearch.ca/ - excellent
NZ Websites:
www.thebuzz.nz
www.therealnews.nz
www.Voicesforfreedom.co.nz
www.seemorerocks.is
https://nzdsos.com NZ Doctors
Note that if there was a pandemic - all the homeless would be dying. Note in America no homeless are going down with Covid and there are many of them especially in Democrat cities.
Please checkout www.GreenplanetFM.com and https://www.youtube.com/c/OurPlanet/videos
Kia kaha and Aroha
Stand strong and Love
Tim
NZ Farmers are pushing back against bureaucratic Government and Local Council regulators (especially land grabs) due to no open communication, or open meetings and sharing of information and genuine consultation.
Rob sees the farming sector throughout rural NZ being challenged like never before. Yes, there is water pollution, chemicals on the land, (huge stocking numbers - Corporate farms) and health issues that need to be continually addressed. However, what farmers have been experiencing though is escalating Governmental regulations, plus local Council intrusions into their lives by a hive of unknown bureaucrat regulators pushing an agenda, that in many ways is - one size fits all.
The United Nations Agenda21 and Agenda2030.
This adds to the recent GreenplanetFM.com - interview of Heather Meri Pennycook - where we cover many of the same issues - but worded differently, especially the expanding nation wide push back that continues to grow, via Groundswell, but with a very defined focus.
Yet, what’s getting under the ‘farming sectors’ skin is the extreme lack of face to face consultation and communication. especially the sharing of information at local gatherings, town hall meetings and villages. For the farmers it’s just more paperwork, and compliance. Like the Emperors of the past exacting tribute from the peasants and having an intermediary, the Governor collects taxes and that one follow ‘dictats’ - without human contact and open discussions.
This has resulted in the Groundswell uprising and farm tractors descending on villages, towns and cities across NZ with a follow up statement that this will occur again mid August if the Govt and local Councils do not front up.
Yes, it’s about the pace of change - on the back of climate change - increasing storms, encroaching sea levels and weatherevents but it’s being run by bureaucrats - who have no skin in the game - with no financial risk involved making demands on a map somewhere.* Plus, most bureaucrats have never been out in stormy cold weather - in the wind and the rain, helping cows calve or sheep stuck in a drain, or dealing with a flood, fallen trees etc etc.
Yet it’s about SNA’s. What is an SNA? SNA stands for Significant Natural Area and they are becoming important whichever way you look at them. Forest and Bird says they are "New Zealand's most important remnants of native habitat - places where rare or threatened plants or animals are still found". However after the signing of the United Nations Rio’ Agreement in 1992 - NZ committed to Agenda 21 and more lately, Agenda2030 - so as to impel environmental and ecological change by 2030. Hence the ’so-called’ hurry’.
However the fine print and the detail is all hidden in plain sight.
Like the 17 United Nations sustainability development goals - they look and sound wonderful - we are going to eradicate poverty and have equality - have a sustainable future and look after our environment.
But, if you go to www.aag.org.nz - and download the fine print of what that Agenda actually is - and it’s a 352 page document - it virtually covers every aspect of our lives - healthcare, education - and a stock take every single living being and resource and mineral on the planet - so that ‘they’ can ‘stock take’ everything thing - eventually right across our country - and more and more are saying - control it.
https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/rosa-koire-agenda-2030-is-totalitarian-takeover/
From your reading you will see that the Agenda wants to eradicate that which is not sustainable - and that is - the private ownership of land. i.e. farming - private ownership of motor vehicles, roading, irrigation, ski fields, golf courses - even the family unit - in their eyes is listed as unsustainable. That this is something that ‘bureaucrats’ want to eradicate. So once we read the fine print we become aware of where our Government is taking us, Be it National or Labour (Greens) - that due to no consultation that this ‘unconscious’ legislation is crippling our agricultural sector - starts to make sense.
That everyone has to do their own research - bypassing Google and using Duckduckgo.com because if you are not aware of what’s in the fine print - and you learn this for the very first time - it will sound quite bazaar - so the imperative is for all NZers to see what is being planned for our future - and if you are a parent - your children’s future. (and that you have been cut out of the dialogue with zero say).
Note, that anyone who criticises the Govt narrative is deemed by the Govt as a ‘conspiracy theorist’ - however when you read the fine print you realise that this is ‘not theory.’
On the AAG.org.nz web site you can see the video for yourself of the NZ Prime Minister stating that this Labour Government is going to carry out all the contingencies of the Agenda2030. Plus the link to the UN Agenda document.
Many NZ farmers, contrary to common belief, are not farming for the money - it’s the lifestyle they love and they wish to hand their farm on to their children and future family generations. However certain contingencies within the UN Agenda2030 - make their plans basically unobtainable.
Now - this has never even been a serious discussion with NZ farmers.
This is a far ranging plan that in essence wants to do a full stock take on all biota within the biosphere and all inanimate things as well. For example, on the microcosm - a corporation completes an annual ‘stock take’ of everything that corporation incorporates.
For example: Land - buildings, automobiles, trucks, bulldozers, (aeroplanes, ships) office equipment stationary, stock - be it live stock, (animals) and product (wheat, soy, maize - iron ore, oil, etc) and what monies they have in the bank, stocks, shares, gold, silver, bitcoin, IOU’s, sureties etc.
What the Agenda2030 does - is stocktaking of everything in every country so that countries assets are known by the bureaucrats in a UN building somewhere and they then command how a farm shall be run and governed on a planetary scale.
Yet, that bureaucrat may not know squat about farming and the culture - and especially the prevailing weather, climate etc of that particular farming region.
It is this macro managing from afar that is disturbing. Just have a look at how the WHO - the World Health Organisation acted over the last 18 months to see how their edicts are given out.
This is where Agenda21 is leading us. So that those ‘who make the decisions’ can see what is happening on our whole planet at any time, but with a limited understanding of how farmers may live.
To them they do not want to distinguish countries as such - but see just ‘trading blocks’ - North America, South America, Asia, Africa, Europe etc. At this moment they are still piecing together how these so-called Trading blocks will fit. Or at least make it public.
Though National Party Leader Jim Bolger signed the 1992 Rio de Janeiro Agenda2, it was John Key who signed Agenda2030 - so for the farmers of NZ - they have to realise that a huge percentage of them voted for the National political party run by these two Prime Ministers. - that in many ways is aiding and abetting the silent, stealthy and hidden program that is being rolled out now.
This is where there is a gigantic gap between the Agriculture Action Group and Groundswell - https://groundswellnz.co.nz/ have a huge chasm to cross.
AAG.org.nz see the global clamp coming on fast whilst the Groundswell supporters basically think that getting rid of the Labour Party will save them.
This is where they have been hoodwinked by National Party politicians not telling the truth or saying that the UN Agendas are conspiracy theories - when in fact - National are basically as donkey deep into the take over of NZ as Labour and the rest of the political apparatus.
There were a number of National Political Party representatives in the crowd at the NZ wide Friday Groundswell event - who remained quiet, keeping their head down - because they do not want a discussion around Agenda21 or Agenda2030 - because then the farmers would become wise to the fact that Labour and National are just different wings of the same pterodactyl.
The Paris Climate Treaty was signed by National Party Ministers Paula Bennet and Simon Bridges at the end of 2015. The Zero Carbon Act was passed with unanimous support from National in 2019 which makes the legal changes required from the Paris Climate Treaty previously signed. So Groundswell farmers and rural people have to see that this change that is being enforced - is beyond NZ politics.
Just 2 months ago, one of the largest protests seen in the Far North saw Māori converge on the Far North District Council offices, opposing the council's plans to declare large swathes of land as SNAs – significant natural areas.
Māori saw it as a breach of their rights as landowners and were upset at a lack of consultation, but it wasn't just Māori who were part of the hīkoi. They were joined by significant numbers of Pākehā farmers and property owners, a fact veteran activist Hone Harawira remarked upon.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/civil-unrest/only-the-french-know-how-to-protest/
The Great Reset
Now as an adjunct to the United Nations Agendas - we now have from - stage left the emergence of the World Economic Forum out of Davos, Switzerland. You will have read snippets and heard sound bites of the super rich and celebrities, flying there in private jets taking up runway parking space at the airport as they descend on their annual glittering conferences to engage in ‘how we are going to solve world problems.’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JB9-uL9o-w - 4 IMPORTANT minutes
This is the showcase event of the likes of political figures, business leaders and cultural leaders …. under the heading of various vernacular like …Successful Global Corporate CEO and Entrepreneur or internationally acclaimed actor, fashion icon and mental health ambassador - all to win the younger unknowing, wannabes over etc. Or Global Shapers, Young Global Leaders, and Social Entrepreneurs - Thought Leaders etc - all among the Elite - rubbing shoulders - ‘being friendly’ do you remember when rock musicians like Bob Geldof and the lead singer from U2 and a stream of film stars hobnobbed at these type of events.
Be it Tony Blair, Prince Charles, Leonardo Di Caprio, Bill Gates, go do a duckduckgo.com - search and watch the WEF videos - you will see them ‘conveniently’ placed in the videos - to get your ‘buy in’ and convince you that what frontman Klaus Schwab is doing - is going to be good for you, the rest of humanity and the planet as a whole. But they never speak of one's heart, of love, of soul, spirit - it is a Godless organisation. Some would say that communists like it very much - specifically for that very reason.
This is very sophisticated propaganda - to swing the youth - especially in the tech, smart phone, chat world to ‘ready them to transition to a world that as the World Economic Forum stated and then quickly withdrew - that ‘by 2030 we will own nothing and we will be happy’.
NZer’s across this country have to become very alert and savvy to this global marketing machine and ’thought adjuster’ - as its agenda is total world control with a mandate from the United Nations.
Bood security is possibly the only single issue on which all New Zealanders can agree...and as you see the breakdown of supply chains around the world - especially America it could very well create famine and unbeknown to most - food shortages are a significant part of the "Great Reset".
Strategy Going Forward.
Wisdom is finding the weakest point in the global media strategy and focusing all available energy on …exposing the truth - that means , the many groups with grievances against this seemingly corrupt government would be wise to (1) shun attempts to "politicise" their issues and (2) put put some of their good activist energy into supporting the farmers. Without a doubt, ALL issues confronting us are critical to our survival: 5G, the so-called "vaccine", climate (manipulated by geo-engineering), chemicals in food, water, soil etc. This is hidden warfare, directed against US. Humans.
To win, we need everyone on board.
The Word Economic Forum have now silently made their move under cover of Covid - and are exposed and people are seeing their moves to use the lockdowns to take control of the world economy - They have all the world's great banks on board as well as all the world's media BBC, CNN, the New York Times, Washington Post, CBS, ABC NBC, - all the way down to the AUSTRALIAN, TvOne and TV3 to a greater extent Radio NZ, Talkback etc and the status Quo are now moving as fast as they can to capture us all before we wake up en-mass and see what they have planned for us.
https://sociable.co/government-and-policy/timeline-great-reset-agenda-event-201-pandemic-2020/
Hence the importance of getting to farmers before they become co-opted by the National Party and be hoodwinked and sidelined to not see the real issue - losing NZ’s sovereignty and their farms as well.
When we talk about an awakening happening across NZ people are realising that even though we thought we were free - that in actual fact - NZ is a Corporation of the City of London and though you may not beleive this - each person born here is a chattel of the City fo London and even migrants - they in return become a chattel too - see previous interview of Jacques Windell https://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/jacques-windell-is-new-zealand-a-corporation-of-the-city-of-london
This is a taster - but you dear reader have to take this further.
Snippets from this interview
SNA’s Significant Natural Areas are taking this away from the farmers. With no compensation.
It’s destroying the economic viability of those properties …
The need for binding Citizens Initiated Referendums As in the Cantons of Switzerland.
Blockchain technology integrated with this method of voting - to make secure so it can not be corrupted and tampered with.
NZ needing a Written Constitution
https://groundswellnz.co.nz/
https://aag.org.nz/
https://landfreedom.net/home.html
Instead of google use for searches - duckduckgo.com
Note that the World Economic Forum never mentions …heart, love, soul etc - it is Godless
Check out …
rumble.com
bitchute.com
Brighten.com
https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/ This is a go to web site
NZ Websites:
www.thebuzz.nz
www.therealnews.nz
www.Voicesforfreedom.co.nz
www.seemorerocks.is
https://nzdsos.com
Note that suburban and rural news papers are around 60% owned by one entity.
Vitamin C & D3 is very important for us to take to keep our immune system robust.
Eat as much organic food as possible. Drink unsanitised water. Fresh air and daily walks for exercise are an imperative.
That NZ is a Corporation of the City of London - this has shocked many unknowing people -
That no matter what, we are entering a new paradigm and we have to educate and learn that we are free beings and retain our sovereignty - yet on a planet of 7.8 billion beings - we meditate on a ‘planet of peace’ and in ‘unity consciousness’ - that we are an emerging global family.
Everything is connected - we are in the 4th industrial revolution - which is AI - artificial intelligence driven plus has dictionary computers and surveillance over the internet.
You have the Waihopai 5 Eyes listening system at Blenheim with its dictionary computers - listening for key words and automatically tracking and recording …
5G wireless radiation - and towers - turning off wifi at schools and kindergarten and hard wiring all devices in school rooms - especially around infants.
Dirty power in buildings - rooms wired with electricity that are unhealthy - it's like living under overhead high power lines.
Fairfax bought Rupert Murdoch’s localised NZ newspapers about 60 in number across all the cities and rural areas - they only produce editorial and advertising - That media is not ally reworking to pull the strings of community together. There is Neighbourly - but it is tightly hemmed in. It is not really open at the level of awakening NZ.
Rob Wilson is an excellent communicator.
Apologies for the rushed job at this write up. One person can only do so much. :)
Ps - I was shocked at how many of the farmers had taken the ‘shot’.
Turn your TV off - turn your radio off. I have, 25 years ago.
Use alternative media above. Please.
None of us would have thought that humanity - especially in the Western World would be cowered and on the back foot as we are today. Disunity across Nations. Particularly, Australia, Canada, the disunited Kingdom and the Un-united States and here in NZ as well.
That has finally caused farmers to descend on our towns and cities. There is an underlying unrest and social/psychological turmoil.
What we have found ourselves in - is a hybrid version of a non-physical civil war of the spirit - between those who question virtually everything - versus those who obey the Government narrative - parroted verbatim by subservient 'bought and paid for' - MSM - tools of the Globalists at the apex of the pyramid of power.
Great Reset - World Economic Forum.
The global elitist and their political puppets 'have made their move on humanity' and the method is based on the Great Reset out of Davos, the World Economic Forum in Switzerland. It will be a cashless society where everyone will be surveilled and with your name attached to a number. It is not coming, it is here - having been enacted by gradualism and progressive - little by little, bit by bit - movements. It could be a matter of months - or by Christmas and into 2022 - but it will be 5 years earlier than (Agenda) 2030.
Joe, when going to university in the USA saw the US Govt toppling elected governments in South America and Central America and also the invasion of Vietnam and says that corruption has been in the USA - since the virtual beginning. But, in the last 60 years it’s accelerated and he says it's coming to the culmination of what we witness today. Secrecy and Covert operations and ‘black’ operations and false flag operations have been the hallmark for the last 60 years. Saying that if people are not aware of this history and the Assassination of John F Kennedy and his brother Robert as well as 911 in New York etc etc, – they are not getting the picture. Particularly of what we are seeing today and that it is actually happening.
So besides intelligence operations, the military industrial complex has been instrumental – furthering their own interests and the money to be made with war and invasions etc. But more so - the development of technology – and essentially in the US, technology starts with the military.
The US takes public tax money and funds and then does the research and development of most technologies – and in this interview – microwave technology – which they started – and digital technology as well. They have been doing this at the public expense – and eventually they will commercialise what they want to make money from and after the Research and Development has been completed will release these technologies for military applications and the rest into the consumer market. Like microwave ovens for example. and sonar for war ships and fish finders for recreational fishermen etc.
This is where we are at today
Mass Media – Tyranny
Which has been totally taken over – by the Corporate world - ‘and captured’ – so today we have just a handful of networks in large countries controlling all of the media – newspapers, television, radio etc. Plus much of the internet - so again, it’s a centralisation of power and a total takeover of communications – news and media.
Again by a handful of corporate networks. This has never happened in history before. There have been over this time some journalists and journals endeavouring to get to the truth – and were instrumental in stopping the Vietnam war – and if it was not for courageous journalists that war would have carried on for who knows when?
Pharmaceutical – Medical Tyranny
This has come about in many ways by people becoming disempowered and the abnegation of personal responsibility for their own health. That humans have gradually - and slowly over time, abrogated responsibility to take care of their ‘sovereignty of their body’ and all that entails. They gave themselves away – lock stock and barrel to a medical establishment that is part of the Pharmaceutical medical industrial complex and just 'believe in that authority and science and medicine to the point that it has become the new religion.' It has become a church. (but it can’t heal cancer, baldness or the common cold).
The High Sacraments of that church today is - vaccines
The other is the Digital High Tech Corporations – Silicon Valley – who control all of the internet – media – social media – it’s totally controlled once again by Alphabet – Google – YouTube – Facebook – Twitter etc. etc. Just a handful of people who are controlling the narrative and censoring everything outside the Government and Corporate interests. Where we now have the Covid and ‘Quaccine’ with 5G wireless as the end game.
This is Joe’s viewpoint, based on decades of research and looking at where this end game would come to a culmination point. You must listen.
Stating that we now have a multi-pronged full spectrum asymmetrical covert war. Happening as you reread this - NOW.
Its biological, its chemical – by meaning chemical he says fluoride and chemtrails – radiological – Fukushima Japan and the collapsing of the Northern Mid Pacific ocean ecosystems and all of the ionising radiation that is being leaked into the environment.
Including energy weaponry – dews and propaganda used as weaponised propaganda.
We are in an end game that is inconceivable if we have not been following what has been happening over the last 60 years.
Joe states it’s not a judgement and it is not to blame - (yet it is to a certain extent) because you have your old maxim such as:
‘Democracy means you have to be eternally vigilant.’
Joe then goes on to talk about freedoms and the discipline that is needed when we as free beings living in a democracy need to be aware of.
That the United Nations Agenda21 and 2030 must be seen for what they are.
That it is a top down agenda that has never been taken to the people of any country and discussed openly – and talked through and agreed to – but is being applied across the board by Councils in secrecy and it is this secrecy that is eroding our cherished democratic process.
Joe mentions that the land that the United Nations building is situated comes from the Rockefeller family – this as the story unfolds - being part of an elite plan for One World Government, or more latterly – the New World Order.
https://www.collective-evolution.com/2017/03/21/the-new-world-order-david-rockefellers-chilling-1991-speech-at-a-bilderberg-meeting/
The Rockefellers are the ones who control Big Pharma globally and all that it represents. (Note – That both John D Rockefeller died at 97 and David Rockefeller died in 2017 at 101 – that their choice of medication was homeopathy) http://whale.to/b/ruesch.html
Parts of the UN’s plan is around Agenda21 and Agenda2030 having sustainability goals that have never been debated, discussed, argued or agreed upon and these are to be integrated into the NWO – the 'New World Order.'
BUT WE WERE NEVER TOLD ABOUT THIS BY ANY OF OUR ELECTED SERVANTS CURRENTLY WINING AND DINING AS OUR ELECTED SERVANTS IN WELLINGTON.
See GreenplanetFM.com - interview of Heather Meri Pennycook of 'Significant Natural Areas' - of significance, SNA's - land being locked away over the objections of landowners.
The Agenda on Sustainable Development has been rolled out globally to local governments – they have 'infiltrated' every Local Government (Remember – Infiltration as against Invasion) - as a strategy.
This all comes from the power elite at the top of the pyramid of power – from the World Economic Forum, in Davos Switzerland – the Bilderberg’s, the Council of Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission, Club of Rome, Codex Alementarious http://www.healthymoneyvine.com/codex-alimentarius.html - all these Clubs – they are all involved – they are the 0.1% of the 1% - and it’s all coming into focus in what we are facing - now.
Depopulation
Finally, Joe states that he will be blunt that what we are facing now with 5G and Covid and the injection' regime is depopulation.
https://stovouno.org/2020/12/13/the-georgia-guidestones-and-the-globalist-plan-to-reduce-humanity-to-half-a-billion/
Notice the horrendous numbers of injuries and deaths across NZ and especially Europe and America of people who have had the Covid - injection, as it is not a vaccine. The NZ St Johns Ambulance system is under increasing pressure due to many people suffering from side effects of this injection. This has all been censored and when the people find out the numbers - the push back against the Governments will be immense.
Smart Cities is our next destination?
That the people who survive this depopulation will be installed and shunted into ‘smart cities’ - driven by omnipresent (invisible) 5G technology and the yet hidden 'benefits' of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. People will have no access to the wilderness and the expansive beauty of nature – as that will be reserved for the power elite and to a lesser degree their political minions, etc.
With 5G that has not been given a 'clean bill of health' - we must remember it is invisible - it will encompass a huge spectrum that carries enormous amounts of data – they will have a fully deployed intelligence system plus total control and surveillance of vitally oil every move.
The next step is to deploy the 'Social Credit system' that’s in China. Thus, the metropolitan smart cities dwellers will be living in a dystopian sci-fi controlled situation as never ever conceived of by all previous sci fi writers or film producers.
How we can wrestle power back into a Free Civil Society
This interview then opens up – to the capacity of the human individual to recognise that we are beings of incredible capabilities that we can awaken our wonderment as a human living on a planet. That our curiosity in the infinite and eternal universe can challenge us to witness both the macrocosm on a starry night vista as well as delve into the microcosm of the subatomic world that we are intimately connected to. Which is our continuous breathing of the invisible atmosphere around us and recognising the magnificence that is nature and of the world that we have incarnated into.
This is the time of ‘a great awakening’ – we as a species have come to the limits of a world that has been denuded and poisoned and we are co-evolving and co-creating our way to a new reality – and in many ways we are birthing ourselves into a new understanding of existence. A new paradigm if you wish and we are in the birth canal and we are meeting some major contractions – yet it is also bringing us all together. Yes, a birthing process is painful and messy and yet we as 7.8 billion souls know that the promise of a better world is on its way.
Because at heart we know deeply within ‘that we are spiritual beings having an earth experience.’
We cannot be stopped now we have passed the critical mass of 7.7 billions beings and the primal urge to become ‘sovereign beings’ in a greater realm - is now unstoppable. So we work as a team of unified beings to welcome in a time of profound renewal and goodness - and it’s coming. Shared inspiration and working diligently for the greater good is our catch cry and the youth and the young ones who have not been closed down by their mobile screens - are also energetically supporting us ….and can healthily support us and this notion is also being shared by the elders my age group - who having been fortunate to enjoy their cake and eat it - realise that their children and grandchildren must be able to experience the beauty and joy that so many of them have had the privilege to encounter.
Challenges Aplenty - in a world of Denial.
That the current science of technology is the new religion and has become loaded with atheists or agnostics, who have lost their connection to their feelings and empathy towards their neighbours - and in deed - all biota.
Doctors, academics and intellectuals – Locked in their heads - refuse to look at ‘near death’ and ‘out of the body experiences’ – Note that they REFUSE to acknowledge this phenomena – so please look at GreenplanetFM.com shows and research for yourself. – We are ‘energy fields oscillating in time and space’ - as cellular organisms animated by the soul. That every baby born into this realm is an energy bundle of exponential potential and love – and that we are eternal. Do not let the inverse storyline of the ‘establishment’ hypnotise you any more …
Melting back into Mother Nature
Get back to nature … everything is connected – be in nature - barefooted – earth-ing – feel the pulse of the great mother beneath the soles of your feet – share in the holy breath that invisibly keeps all biota alive – from ocean plankton to elephants to eagles and cetaceans – we are all connected … by the one invisible breath.
Wonder deeply on a clear warm night when you lie looking up into the magnificent galactic vault coiling with suns through deep dimensions of time.
We are free thinking beings inhabiting a body for a precious moment of time. Joy awaits us … if we do the ‘inner work’ and let go of our shadow.
Note of caution! – Joe states we will not overcome this assault on us – by playing into the elites game plan. By reacting to their means and their weaponry - they with their technical resources have us covered on so many levels.
So don’t play into ‘their Plan.’
We instead can employ the human spirit – employ music, dance, joy, laughter, nature and play. Including self empowerment – basically fearlessness.
Also, it’s our service to the greater whole – ‘they’ - the 1% of the 1% cannot conceive selfless acts of goodwill and Love - it's inconceivable to them - of the goodness of the ‘real human spirit’ - these are all blind spots to them - that they are unable to fathom and even plan for.
NOTICE - ZERO HEART, LOVE and SOUL IN THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM VIDEOS
Also realise ...
That nearly every country is becoming more totalitarian and they are all doing it simultaneously and you dear readers of this - have noticed this - have you not?
Conscious NZ Doctors Push back against Government and Health Department overreach.
https://nzdsos.com/letters/)
New Zealand Doctors SOS - speaking out – 50 doctors see the transgressions … ‘First do no harm’ and they are witnessing the injections being deployed against everything Covid – especially telling everyone they must ‘take the shot.’
You DO NOT HAVE TO take the shot as of this moment - 20/July 2021.
Note that with censorship by youtube, that is owned by Google and that you can check out many good doctors interviews on www.bitchute.com, Brighteon.com and Rumble.com - do future research on this platform. Using Duckduckgo.com
A new Nuremberg Trial case is coming forward. Note that after the Second World War the Victorious Allies put on trial of the German and Nazi high command, plus media and doctors. Those who were found guilty of 'war crimes' and 'crimes against humanity' were put to death.
The Nuremberg Trials then set the standard for the rest of the world and you will see this progress over the coming days and weeks into Septemer where there is going to be a trial of many people implicated in Covid 19 as well as the so called quaxcccine program.
The Covid Disaster is in fact a Trojan Horse and those at the higher levels of the Pyramid of Power are complicit and the NZ media are aiding and abetting the propaganda of fear across Aotearoa - this nation of New Zealand.
THERE'S NO VARIANT... IT’S NOT NOVEL... NO PANDEMIC. DR DAVID MARTIN WITH REINER FUELLMICH
https://www.bitchute.com/video/4FdvU43qOdfD/
A FINAL WARNING TO HUMANITY FROM FORMER PFIZER CHIEF SCIENTIST MICHAEL YEADON
https://www.bitchute.com/video/9Ci2jK1yFoOd/
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-doctors-trial-the-medical-case-of-the-subsequent-nuremberg-proceedings
What is happening is that the Status Quo and the elite are all working together in the locking down of humanity.
Joe states they will not win this totalitarian move. (Tim concurs)
They think that what they are doing - is to save the planet – using depopulation
They lack, heart and love –
This takeover will fail
Joe mentioned in his previous interview - the word Yuga - a 26,000 year time cycle.
The Kali Yuga, in Hinduism, is the fourth and worst of the four yugas (world ages) in a Yuga Cycle, preceded by Dvapara Yuga and followed by the next cycle's Krita (Satya) Yuga. It is believed to be the present age, which is full of conflict and sin.
The "Kali" of Kali Yuga means "strife", "discord", "quarrel" or "contention" and Kali Yuga is associated with the demon Kali (not to be confused with the goddess Kālī)
It means "the age of Kali (demon)", "the age of darkness", "the age of vice and misery", or "the age of quarrel and hypocrisy". Kali Yuga is described in the Mahabharata, Manusmriti, Surya Siddhanta, Vishnu Smriti, and various Puranas.
As you can see - across virtually all countries there is a lack of leadership and compassion. There are so many levels of corruption. Kali Yuga can be seen ‘when matter becomes its ‘most densest’ and that this is the time ‘when the shadow gets its chance to dance.’
Hence the total freefall into decay and decadence that we are witnessing today.
This was an excellent interview of Joe Rifici
The 2 Prongs – 5G and the Vaccine – they are very much connected … This is the gist of this interview - you will have to make the effort to listen - just as I made the effort to record this interview, edit and write this up.
https://stovouno.org/2020/12/13/the-georgia-guidestones-and-the-globalist-plan-to-reduce-humanity-to-half-a-billion/
http://stateofthenation.co/ - look through this US web site
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2021/07/10/deaths-from-covid-vaccine-so-high-that-the-fact-can-no-longer-be-suppressed/
https://seemorerocks.is/5-doctors-agree-that-covid-19-injections-are-bioweapons-and-discuss-what-to-do-about-it/
https://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/n-b-doctors-panelspike-protein-bio-weapon-being-transmitted-by-vaxxed-people-to-non-vaxxed-4-22-21/285498
Irregular hybrid, full spectrum multi faceted - This is a SILENT WAR - being ‘run’ by high tech communications systems and AI.
We’ve been infiltrated by Communist Chinese and Globalists, an alliance that was sealed in the early ’70s and has been progressing ever since. They’ve come in through the institutions, they’ve captured Congress, and Parliaments - they’ve captured the courts through blackmail, bribery or extortion.
NOTE: Wokians – are slaves that have been programmed.
It's called infiltration as against invasion.
https://seemorerocks.is/
See how the Kali Yuga has taken over the USA - where no politician is ever indicted for crimes as of the 20/07/ 2021
In Britain, Canada, Australia & NZ it’s the same too. Lies go unpunished.
“We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy the economy.”
― Chris Hedges ex New York Times and Pulitzer Prize winner.
Becoming educated and involved.
NZ Websites:
www.thebuzz.nz
www.therealnews.nz
www.Voicesforfreedom.co.nz
www.seemorerocks.is
www.https://nzdsos.com
What people may not know is that the current roll out of the 5G telecommunications network, is a massive undertaking being coordinated around the world and pushed by the corporate elite.
Engulfing the entire planet via 100 thousand satellites, millions of telecommunication towers, small cells and billions of 5G connected devices flooding the world with invisible electro smog pollution in the form of electromagnetic radiation.
The 5G rollout will increase man-made electromagnetic radiation at unprecedented levels with little to no concern for the safety and wellbeing of the humans who will be exposed to it.
In Australia concerned citizens have formed a political Party called the ‘NO 5G Party’ - that will be in every state across Australia. Ray is the president of it at the moment and they have a thousand members and at the next General Election they will be running candidates in every State, specifically on electro magnetic radiation issues. Also, its a Party to educate people that there has been a unprecedented upgrading and building of Mobile telephone towers and ‘small cells’ for 5G across Australia - saying it has been happening here in NZ and that most people have no idea that this is happening as we read to this.
That in Australia all the Telcos are eagerly waiting the Australian Govt’s 5G 26 Gigahertz frequency sale. We know that the 26 Gigahertz band is a frequency that is billions of times higher than the frequencies that we have been exposed up to now. Thus is very problematic health wise. The will come to NZ too.
This will mean that 26 Gigahertz Non ionising electro magnetic radiation penetrates our bodies.
26 Gigahertz Non ionising electro magnetic radiation penetrates our bodies. Through both skin and tissue at 26 billion pulses per second.
Compared with only 50 pulses per second as found in the 50 hertz frequency - as irradiated by many of the electrical appliances around the home.
Vodafone in this interview admits that the radio wave penetrates the skin - listen. And Ray says that he is sure that people do not consent to that.
Some frequencies penetrate the skin to a depth of 8.1 millimetres.
ARPANSA.gov.au - the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency - listen toabout Dr Ken Karipidis - is an expert on jopw tradition affects the human body.
What this has come os that humanity is being assaulted
These wireless frequencies are an assault on the human body. This is where the battle lines are.
The Crimes Act in NZ 1961 - Under Section 2 - gives an interpretation - An assault means the act of intentionally applying or attempting to apply force to the person of another - directly or indirectly or threatening by any act or gesture to apply such force to the person of another.
Electro magnetic radiation is a force and if you do not consent to it - then who ever is touching you or penetrating you - must stop. Otherwise it is an offence under the Crimes Act 1961.
Listen to this interview: Of Dr Bruce Hocking’s research with children in Australia in 1996 - irradiated from 3 broadcast towers in Sydney NSW. LISTEN - he found that there was a 60% increase in childhood deaths from childhood lymphatic leukaemia in the immediate vicinity of those towers. His was a time when the frequencies were far lower than todays frequencies.
Listen to 19 children dying with lymphatic leukaemia in Rome Italy when the Italian supreme court found them guilty due to them living in to closer proximity to the Vatican radio station.
| https://www.abc.net.au/news/2005-05-10/vatican-radio-officials-convicted-in-electro-smog/1567232 An Italian court has found a Roman Catholic cardinal and a director of Vatican Radio guilty of polluting the atmosphere with powerful electromagnetic waves from a radio transmission station. |
Note that today - Leukaemia is now the most common cancer in Australian Children
Mobile phones were introduce in 1981 and the sharp increase in childhood leukaemia is no coincidence. Have a listen.
Ray also mentions that a sleeping virus that is dormant in a human body can be reactivated when exposed to non ionising radiation . This is important information.
Healthy Heavens Trust in Australia
https://healthyheavenstrust.org
This is about regarding Satellites in low geo stationary orbit. Ray’s team have filed against Elon Musk and other satellite providers in exposing Australians to electromagnetic radiation from satellites - because they do not know what degree of exposure Australians will be exposed too.
Bodily Affects.
Synapses and nerves are affected as well as cardiac muscles. There appears to be no cure for exposure to non ionising radiation.
Ray says that the new wireless towers are pumping out very powerful radiation - have a listen.
Stopping this radiation in Australia is schools is becoming very concerning in schools - a duty of care issue - if wifi is throughout schools - they are technically assaulting the children.
Thousands of Satellites in Low Earth Orbit.
100,000 SpaceX lanced satellites will be up above our head in the next 5 years - plus high altitude platform stations. (see previous interview of Ray) mostly launched from Australian soil - at Wyndham launched into the stratosphere - they are like a giant drones that can stay up there for months.
Get this! - Each Orbiting Platform is going to be the equivalent to 1,800 base stations, each … they will circulate in a 200 kilometres circumference and they will have a seamless connection to earth base stations. They are designed to connect to high altitude satellites as well as our basic telephone towers,
There is another reason why this is all happening - your mobile phone will be able to be charged from these flying platforms and you will never have to plug your mobile phone into the wall to get it charged - ever again . Note, there is no mention of the health effects from all the electrical charges and frequencies that we find ourselves immersed in.
No health affects have been factored in. The flying wing will via wireless electricity charge your phone from then on.
Ray further says that it’s planned that all your appliances in your home will be powered this way - TV - radio, toaster you name it. Even your electric car is supposedly planned to be automatically charged (what a fantasy). Wireless power transfer has been around for a long time. Nikola Tesla was planning to do this over a hundred years ago and had completed the preliminary testing and it worked. But, in those days, there was no way to ‘monitor it’ and ‘charge for it’. So JB Morgan, Tesla’s financier not wanting people to have free transport and pulled the plug on Tesla. The battery powered Tesla cars of today - are a compromise.
Listen to Ray, mention that in Australia they have the worlds largest database on health affects. That the scientific consensus states that there is ‘wireless’ data that states 68% of all studies - show adverse health affects. Only 24% of all studies show no effect. I did not ask him about the other 8%
Even high voltage powerlines - have affected the birthing rate of cows and Ray on behalf of some pastoralists - have taken the Power companies to court and won - Have a listen.
Tell the Telcos that you do not consent to being touched by wireless radiation - and then communicate with these and other Telcos about it - and to stop.
www. no5gparty.org.au
OTHER Subjects Covered.
Electro magnetic hypersensitivity is on the increase globally - especially in cities - known as EHS it’s an established medical condition.
We briefly cover the Nuremberg II Trial that is coming up up in September - supposedly on the Isle of Man near England. to counter all the lies being Propagated by MSM and big PHARMA - lock-stepped with the political process in the Western World
That chemists and nurses are now giving jabs - not doctors - begs the question is this professional conduct in relationship to informed consent? Remember the hippocratic Oath - First di not harm.
Rocket Lab here in NZ and putting satellites up across NZ and around the Southern Hemisphere. Legal liabilities from space debris.
Becoming educated and involved.
NZ Websites:
www.thebuzz.nz
www.therealnews.nz
www.Voicesforfreedom.co.nz
www.seemorerocks.is
www.https://nzdsos.com
This is a whopper of an interview, I can see why people in the rural sector of NZ are flocking to hear Heather Meri (and Rob Wilson) lay out the UN Agenda 21 and 2030. Plus, the planned addition of the ‘Great Reset’ that the World Economic Forum from Davos in Switzerland is going to superimpose over our planet and civilisation.
This new economic model will cover every survival contingency regarding the well being of the 7.8 billion souls on this planet, including all biota within the biosphere.
Heather Meri says that there is more legislation coming out of Parliament that is going to affect us. However she has addressed about 80 meetings around the country over the past 6 or 7 months - 37 in the North Island. Encouraging groups to form so has to assist in educating their community, but in particular, to do their own research. Some weeks ago she had about 250 people show up to a talk in the Nelson area of Moutere - because people are waking up to what is being planned for them. That there are SNA’s being ‘Significant Natural Areas’ - and the local Council has just sent out letters to people who have land holdings with circles around huge areas of their land saying that this area is going to be designated an SNA a ‘significant natural area’. This may or may not include natural bush or anything that you recognise needing protection - some people had an area of gorse … but what Heather Meri says - it's a blatant land grab … that once this land is designated an SNA you still pay rates on it - but you have to fence it off - you have to do the weed control, but you are not allowed to put animals on it or to use it.
Land owners are aware of the need to protect special areas in NZ, and people that Heather Meri knows, are already availing themselves of Queen Elisabeth 2 Covenants and Riparian planting - and fencing off native bush. People are proud to take care of our environment here in NZ - she says there may be a very, very, small minority of people who are not playing by the rules and this needs to be addressed - but you don’t blanket legislate the entire country and treat everybody like a criminal and cripple their viability on their farm.
People are losing between 30 to 90% of their land use.
This is shocking … in Kaeo in Northland, we have heard at a people's meeting that 42% of the land in Northland has been claimed as a SNA - that there were a number of people at that meeting who said their entire land holding was designated SNA other than where their house presently stood and with only one meter from the house. Everything else had been designated SNA. ( in a later text to Heather Meri, I said have them photograph that letter and share it with AAG.org.nz - and build up a file.
Sometime this July, legislation is coming on a National Policy Statement on Indigenous Biodiversity - and in this the Government is going to take the criteria for allocating SNA’s - and make it even more wide spread. Heather Meri says now they are including mobile fauna - for example the native falcon - if a native falcon flies over your property and decides to nest in your pine forest - the authorities are going to put a circle around your pine plantation and make it an SNA.
So once you can’t use it or harvest it or plant or run livestock on it - most of the time you are destroying the viability of one's farm.
To the layman this makes no sense - but when you look at the big picture and ask where this is coming from? It’s further up the pyramid of power. You get a crystal clear understanding.
In August 2019 the Prime Minister of NZ was the keynote speaker at the Goal Keepers Conference in New York - a Bill and Melinda Gates initiative where our PM stood up and told the audience how NZ was achieving the goals of implementing Agenda 21 and 2030. Saying that these agendas had already been integrated into our legislation. Though this has been enacted through Parliament basically no-one - meaning ordinary NZers has any idea of what this is all about. It’s - Hidden in plain sight.
Like the 17 sustainability development goals - they look and sound wonderful - we are going to eradicate poverty and have equality - have a sustainable future and look after our environment.
But, if you go to www.aag.org.nz (Agricultural Action Group) and go to the link and download the fine print of what that Agenda actually is - and it's a 352 page document - that covers every aspect of our lives - healthcare, education - that stock takes every single living being and resource and mineral on the planet - so that ‘they’ can control it.
You start to get the picture, because we have not been consulted or involved.
That ‘they’ want to eradicate that which is not sustainable - and that is - the private ownership of land. i.e farming - private ownership of motor vehicles, roading, irrigation, ski fields, golf courses - even the family unit - in their eyes is listed as unsustainable. That this is something that they want to eradicate. So once we read the fine print we become aware of where our Government is taking us - she says that the insane legislation that is crippling our agricultural sector - starts to make sense.
Heather Meri says that everyone has to do their own research - because if you are not aware of what’s in the fine print - and you hear her for the very first time - it will sound quite bizarre and crazy - so the imperative is for all NZers is to see what is being planned for your future - and if you a parent - your children’s future. (and you have been cut out of the dialogue, with zero input).
She says that anyone who today criticises the Government narrative is deemed by the Government to be ‘a conspiracy theorist’ - however when you read the fine print you realise that this is ‘not theory.’
Saying that on the AAG.org.nz web site you can see the video for yourself of the NZ Prime Minister stating just what you have read. Plus the link to the UN Agenda document.
The World Economic Forum of Klaus Schwab from Davos in Switzerland and the ‘Great Reset’ - is coming - and Heather Meri says once you destroy the agriculture industry in NZ our economy crashes and then the World Economic Forum will step in.
Listen - dear reader if you do not click and listen to this interview - and grok what is being explained - you will be forever struggling to understand what is being planned for you. Because this is too much of an effort for me to convey the contents of this interview. ( I too have to have good sleep and a life - Tim).
We hear that Agenda 21 is based on the Communist Chinese model - per David Rockefeller - Per the Rothschilds. Do you connect the dots? We are moving towards the State controlling everything … coming down from the top of the global pyramid of power.
We also hear in this interview:
There is supposed to be a new Act (or an addendum coming before NZ’s Parliament - called the Domestic Terrorism Act - which is going to come into force very soon and it will give NZ Police unprecedented powers equal to those that were seen in Nazi Germany, or by the Stasi in Communist East Germany. Facism and Communism joined at the hip.
That our police (who are compelled to obey orders) can come around to our house - without a warrant, do a search, take anything that they want and arrest you on suspicion that you are going to be anti Government or, say something to the NZ public that would be detrimental to the Government narrative. Who we have been told “that, they are the only source of truth.” (Shades of Orwells 1984 ) Because, YOU are now wanting to become a - 'whistleblower or a truth teller.’
Like checking your facebook or youtube comments - checking your emails (note if you have a Google email address or a hotmail Microsoft email address - these emails will pass through a dictionary lens and will be read and catalogued. This is how we were sucked into their game plan) and thinking that you ‘may’ be a danger to national security, report you to someone higher up. It gets serious now. That you could be ‘done in and reported’ via an 0800 number - i.e pimped on - then arrested whilst in the street for being who you are and that once arrested, no representation and possibly with no time length on your incarceration. This could be NZ’s future - not that ordinary NZers would ever want this - but this is what could be forced on this nation - under the New World Order.
The Deputy Prime Minister showed his colours and dug himself into a hole of his own making earlier this year.
In this interview, we also hear that no politician in NZ’s Parliament is mentioning Agenda21 and Agenda2030 - or the Great Reset - Why? Because they are gagged from breaking ranks - (‘Mum’s the word’)
When in February of this year we had the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance walk out of a radio interview on radio’s Magic Talk Show - with well known national TV news reader and sports host Peter Williams. on: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/02/the-great-reset-grant-robertson-pulls-out-of-weekly-slot-on-magic-talk-with-peter-williams-after-shooting-down-conspiracy-theory.html
When this very well known broadcaster Peter Williams was accused of being a ‘conspiracy theorist’ … Listen … Follow this link and you will find that the Deputy PM has dug himself into an untenable situation. Because he actually went to the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos in Switzerland, with the Prime Minister in 2019. Follow this link to the World Economic Forum and you hear Prince Charles being used to front a 2 minute video focusing on the degradation of the global environment that all the corporations of the world have either contributed or let happen on their watch - and now they want to punish humanity for the situation we are now in, by imposing (a much needed clean up operation) - but have factored humanity out of being ‘helpers and educated participants’ in this equation). They are now going it alone with their top down ideological plan.
https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/finance-minister-travels-davos-world-economic-forum-brussels-and-london
What comes through in this interview is that our politicians lie and because they have a compliant and obedient mainstream media, (who - according to Heather Meri - have been paid off with a $125 million grant) Have closed ranks and do not criticise the Government anymore. Therefore a great percentage of NZ citizens do not hear or read of these lies. Note - if a country of 5 million people can have their communications system ‘paid off’ with $125 million.
5 million people = $125 million
10 million people = $250 million (2 X 125 million)
100 million people = $2.5 billion (10 X 250 million)
300 million as in America = $7.5 billion (3 X 2.5 billion)
But, the US has 330 million people = another $750 million (3 X 250 million) Plus 7.5 Bn = $8.25 Billion
This amount in the US media hands 24/7 would traumatise the US population to death!
Heads Up. In this interview we hear that the word ‘Sovereignty’ or ‘personal sovereignty’ is going to be included under the Terrorism Act. That is if we NZers invoke the usage of this word in regard to our own ‘inner sovereignty’ (being our relationship with God) we could be tried in a Court of Law for being a … terrorist. This is NZ post Covid 28.03.2020.
We also hear in this interview:
Regarding the land grab, SNA’s - of ‘significant natural areas’ - refuse authority to allow ‘them’ to come onto your land to do surveys of areas that they are going to map and then take. So say NO.
Plus refuse to fill out the survey form they send you. Or even respond.
Being aware of unknowingly ‘entering a contract’.
If the Council posts you a survey map of your land - often with incorrect boundaries - asking you to respond - if you do - then you have entered a contract with them and as the Government is a ‘Corporation’ of the City of London - by engaging with them - (so the story goes) you then ‘re-contract’ with them, again.
Heather Meri gives a quick run down on NZ being a Corporation - including the Police, Work & Income NZ, the Justice Department, the Court system - all the Govt Agencies are extensions of the City of London.
She says they have a New website called www.Landfreedom.net - go up and have a long look - these people are organised.
You must listen to this interview - as Heather Meri says - once we see why we have been hoodwinked into being part of a Corporate Agenda - you amy have a momentary head explosion - but sitting still and sitting through all that it leads to - frees you up into being a ‘free being’ - In time and space. (We just have to clean up what’s been shackling us for so long.) Especially how we have been tricked into contracting with the Government entity - time and time again.
Other issues talked about
The Government centralising water - controlling it, plus adding fluoride (a neurotoxin) into all town and suburban water.
(see the many GreenplanetFM.com interviews on this )
Including chlorinating even spring water - as well as rainwater collected from roofs - the Government wants to control this too.
Trust and the NZ Government.
The NZ Government, who for generations we trusted with our lives - are not what they were once - this is a great shock to most people who after looking behind the curtain realise that there are agendas that creep down from the pyramid of power. - (but do not feel disheartened - we are the 99% and we have righteous indignation on our side plus all the other virtues of honesty, right action and goodwill.
https://usawatchdog.com/bio/ Interview of Dane Wigington on https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org - the cause of drought in the USA etc etc
Look up https://www.unanz.org.nz - Heather Meri says the UN is going to open many more offices across NZ - why?
There is a huge amount of data being shared in this interview that has not been mentioned. - please listen, share and research for your self - using - https://duckduckgo.com
In closing this very important interview - I wish to emphasise that we as an individual, a family, community, region and as a country can rise to the occasion - as a heart felt unifying spirit of cooperating people.
We are now starkly realising that there is a stealthy global control game being enacted - to lock us as a humanity down.
That over the last few decades we have been dumbed down by the media - and an education system that teaches us not to question - or to be curious and to wonder … all you have to do is listen to the inane news every hour on all the talkback and music stations - 3 minutes of drivel as the saying goes.
This can be seen with Mains Stream Media - with the younger generation not reading a newspaper - be it local or national - or watching the news that TVNZ and TV3 parrot virtually the same continuous rhetoric. We have found ourselves drowning in the semi - censored swamp of sameness. With a media that takes in ‘feeds’ from overseas that are all multinational corporations pushing the same agenda.
The churches have failed us too - Christianity has taken a hit in this country just like other western countries, because they virtually bore people to death, and failed to call a halt on corruption practices and stand up for justice. Sadly, you can see this today with near vacant churches across the country.
Yet from most religious accounts - ‘we are spiritual beings having an earth experience’ - that we are far more than we ever thought possible. Huge numbers of people globally have had ‘out of the body or near death experiences’ - where they have found themselves outside their body looking down on it - in many cases seeing doctors frantically working to keep their body alive. GreenplanetFM.com - has done a number of interviews based on this and what is the soul?
Note that over the last 70 years universities and educational institutes have been swayed to believe that the universe is a fluke of existence that God does not exist, nor does the soul and consequently they have done away with anything metaphysical or spiritual.
Yet there are more and more people having mystical experiences and there is a fast growing body of evidence realising that we live after death and that our body is in fact a temple - which we need to cherish with fresh air, pure water and an organic food chain. Plus experience love, laughter and joy
https://landfreedom.net/home.html
https://landfreedom.net/objectives.html
AAG.org.nz
For another NZ based news web site sharing knowledge for people:
https://thebuzz.nz
Mother, Author, Researcher ‘What is happening behind the curtain?’ The UN Agendas, the World Economic Forum - Your Future?
Giving a wider understanding of the issues facing us today, both in NZ and globally. Worth your while to listen to the whole interview.
Author of ‘We are Revolting’ and her new book just out ‘Under the Shadow’, Antoinette lays the groundwork of her research as to what is happening on a global scale. She says she is a big picture person.
The fact that over the years, our NZ Governments, both left and right have signed us on to the United Nations Agenda21 and Agenda23 that have slipped through without there being a public discourse or debate and education of ‘we the people’ as to what does this all translate into. Why the silence and why have our elected representatives not mentioned this to their constituents? Especially as this all started back in 1992.
Then there is the question of what’s the game plan being acted out under cover of the Covid crisis? Where and where does the World Economic Forum from Davos in Switzerland put the ‘Great Reset’ in place. Where the cashless society comes into being, that by 2030 ‘we will own nothing and we will be happy’ - how about - full of Joy! Note, that both our Prime Minister and our Deputy Prime Minister have attended the World Economic Forum in Switzerland. Yet a quietened NZ MSM, ‘soothed with ample funding’ from our Government discreetly looks the other way.
This is what happened - the Fourth Estate (your Media) have remained silent and tight lipped.
www.AntoinetteJames.com
With a new book just out:
UNDER THE SHADOW: Agenda 21 in New Zealand
New Zealand National and Labour governments have collaborated in binding the country to UN goals.
National Prime Minister Jim Bolger signed Agenda 21 in 1992,
without democratic debate!
Labour Prime Minister Helen Clark rolled-out NCEA underpinned with UN Common Core Curriculum goals in the early 2000s,
without democratic debate!
National Prime Minister John Key signed Agenda 2030 in 2015,
without democratic debate!
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern authored New Zealand’s first Voluntary National Review 2019: An audit of the country’s progress and commitment to UN 2030 dictatorship, without democratic debate!
Every New Zealander’s life is going to change for the worse.
UNDER THE SHADOW is a 314-page exposé of Agenda 21/2030 outcomes and projections in New Zealand. This publication has over 300 quotes and citations from many documents, publications, speeches and statements.
Under the Shadow gives the Agenda backstory, names the architects, explains the ideology and exposes the elites main driving force.
Copies of UNDER THE SHADOW can be purchased on AMAZON or for New Zealand postal addresses, directly from the author - $35 plus P&P
Having presented this info at many public meetings last year, I found the tree metaphor became an easy way to untangle while putting a handle on the very historic and complicated UN tiptoe to Agenda 2030.
This is the contents to give you a feel to what is covered -
Preamble.…………………………………………………...9
Life Under the Shadow of Agenda 21..................………..15
Religious Roots…………………....……….21
Isms…………………………………….….....28
One World Religion………………….…......36
Grafting of Agenda 21………………………………...........39
Arborists………………………………………39
Arthur Balfour……………………...…...39
Alger Hiss………………………..….…..40
Successive Popes………….….……….....40
Alice Bailey……………………..…..…....43
David Spangler……………………....…..45
Maurice Strong…………………....……..46
Benjamin Crème………………..……......50
Robert Muller…………………..……......51
Pierre Teilhard Chardin……………....….52
U Thant………………………………....54
House of Rothschild….……………...….55
House of Rockefeller……………...…….58
Hothouse effect………………...…….….….....65
UN prayer Room………………....……..65
Ark of Hope……………………....…….65
Earth Charter………………...……….....67
Gaia and the Temple of Understanding....70
Burning Bush………………………..….71
“Church”……………………...…….…..72
Different Pots Same Plant…..….……….…….………....…..76
League of Nations……………..……………..76
United Nations………………………………78
Rio Earth Summit…………………..………..84
Agenda 21 Metaphor….................….….….……...….....….....89
The Roots….……………………..……..........90
Of manipulation…………………….…..90
Of indoctrination…………………...........91
Of propaganda…………………………..91
Of coercion…………………..………….92
The Trunk……..……………....………….…111
Social Justice……………………….…...116
Economic Justice…………………….…119
Environmental Justice……………….….120
The Branches………….……….……..……..126
Earth Charter……………………….…..126
IUCN…………………………....……...127
ICLEI……………………………….….132
The Fruit………......……….………..….........136
NZ Voluntary National Review………..137
Ardern, Goal Keepers Address………...139
Sustainable Development Goals……….143
SDG 1………………………...…….…144
SDG 2…………………………...….…146
SDG 3………………………….….…..151
SDG 4………………………….…..….152
SDG 5……………………………..…..157
SDG 6……………………………....…159
SDG 7…………………………..….….164
SDG 8………………………………....172
SDG 9………………………………....181
SDG 10…………………………….….185
SDG 11………………………………..189
SDG 12………………………………..194
SDG 13………………………………..198
SDG 14………………………………..205
SDG 15…………………………....…...209
SDG 16………………………………..215
SDG 17………………………………..220
SDG 18 kept secret……………………224
Kiwi Fruit…………………………..….230
Waikato Initiative…………………..…..230
Wilding…………………………..…….235
Urban property grab…………….……241
Smart Growth……………….………..249
Significant Nature Areas……....……….250
Fertiliser……………….....…..................…….254
Think Globally………………...….…..254
Millennium Declaration……….……..254
Publicprivate Partnerships…….….….256
Staking………………………………….…..260
Hegelian Dialectic…………….……..…260
Delphi Technique…………….…..…….261
Gaslighting…………………….…….…263
Precautionary Principle………..……......266
Pruning………………………….………….270
Weeding………………………………........272
Protestant Christianity…………..……..272
Thinkers……………………………….273
Nationalism……………………………275
Truth…………………………………..275
Time to fortify the Pa……………………………………..279
Axe to the Root: TIMBER!........................................................293
Final Word………………………………………………..303
Of course COVID, WEF, AI all fit into the jigsaw puzzle of secrecy and word trickery.
I am a "big picture" commentator. Understanding the big picture makes it easier to understand the incremental steps by our gov and councils to ultimate end-game of communism that will best be described as a 'technocratic oligarchical scientific dictatorship'.
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Antoinette states that in 2019 the Prime Minister of NZ wrote NZ’s First Voluntary National Review to the United Nations - which is basically an audit of NZ and saying to the UN bosses where we are at, as a country. She says that it has all the basic feel good language - but behind that are ‘word definitions’ - and that there is a lot of word trickery going on.
Shared Responsibility and Public Private - what do these words really mean?
That key words are frequently placed in this Agenda’s schedule - words that give us the ‘feel good vibe’ such as ‘wellbeing’ and the question is posited what does the word ‘wellbeing’ translate to for the elite at the top of the UN, plus bankers and movers and shakers? What does ‘wellbeing’ mean to the elite at the top of the pyramid of power?
Have a listen - because what Antoinette says is very important for us all to take in.
From Tims point of view as the interviewer - I did not want to get in and argue points - I was instead offering a platform that is based on Freedom of Expression - and I know that we are being limited as time passes. Whereas as Antionette says, as a Christian that we need to be taking care of human life. That we are sacred beings - (Tim believes we are souls inhabiting bodies - (see his previous interviews about souls and near death and out of the body experiences.) Note that in most cases Atheists refuse to debate this).
Antoinette states that we are in the decade of eco restoration and that is a very good thing in Tims estimation - however it’s all about how the top of the ‘pyramid of power’ is going about doing this.
So this is a very important point to understand - we need both - but how the Agenda’s are being promulgated is that the Governments are making no effort to educate the public. There is no use of the Fourth Estate to educate humanity of what is the issue and what is at stake here.
There is a balance … we have to take in the precautionary principle in situations - like the non growing of Genetically Engineered food in NZ - But, when it comes to Covid the authorities are not following this themselves. Because in NZ for example, the Pfizer injection has not been passed as safe by the FDA and that it is still in an ‘experimental phase’ as per Med Safe here in NZ. so there is a huge in-congruence with how our elected servants are governing us - some will say ‘ruling us’.
The current Government’s understanding of Agenda21 according to Antoinette is that their adherence to Agenda21 is to the restoration of the environment as it was before man walked on our planet. This is seen as going too far - too fast - especially with 7.8 billion beings that need water, feeding, housing, health and education - etc.
Antoinette mentions Rosa Koire on NZer Vinny Eastwoods show. link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MPKl1yskKs
In this interview Antoinette also mentions:
Bill and Melinda Gates - at the Goal Keepers Conference 2019 - where our Prime Minister commits NZ to the Agenda21 Goals.
That at present NZ is now locking away significant natural areas … But, this is not being done with open transparent, local, and district participation of the land owners and the farming or agricultural community. It is being imposed.
This interview talks about top down control coming across NZ’s rural sector - South Waikato for instance has been given a plan to control its water - (and we need plans to clean up our water) - however rural people are not being kept in the loop and the authorities are forcing the issue by initiating local bylaws etc without having open discussions with the locals.
This is coming from the top down. This is not localised democracy.
Antoinette - stresses that Local Government is not doing the work around having meetings with local rural residents or local town hall meetings and giving people a heads up on what it would like to do or what is actually going on. It all appears to - being put in place and that everyone in the community just has to comply. Like - it’s being forced upon the people.
The rural sector is about to be managed … where previously in a localised community district or region - ‘we the people’ governed ourselves by democratic principles. However this does not appear to be happening.
What we hear in this interview is that we are being ‘Ruled by an elite’ - that sees us in many ways as useless eaters and that we do not have a soul … this is why management of the future is being set up - because in many ways we as a society have not been alert and have let our local democratic system deteriorate, by not voting - to such a degree that ‘others’ have stepped in and in many ways subtly hijacked the process.
This Interview includes:
The Fabian Society and the connection to the Royal Society … Article 61 and the Nuremberg code
He Whakaputanga. The flying of the 1835 Flag, when 34 Maori Chiefs came together to re-emphasise that they were independent.
Antoinette says she raises this flag at her home.
This interview covers a vast number of issues that have not been given any coverage or discourse in NZ. Once we in this country were very keen on participating in our young democracy. However, you can see how the voter turnout at local government elections has fallen dramatically over the last 50 years and it is at this level that change is being forced upon us, because there are fewer checks and balances.
Antoinette as a mother and someone who has witnessed the decline in all areas of family, education, health and community life over the decades has decided to make a stand. She has to be acknowledged and empowered for standing up to a system that has lost its way and or been infiltrated.
Well worth grappling with the subject matter she brings to us all. Because we are in the grips of and irregular warfare.
Mentioned in this interview is the link between 5G and Covid.
https://www.rfglobalnet.com/doc/fixed-wireless-communications-at-60ghz-unique-0001
https://transition.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Engineering_Technology/Documents/bulletins/oet70/oet70a.pdf
Also, that there is in place a new Nuremberg Trial coming due to the unlawful acts of Government and Health officials around Covid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJXCG3tXwj4 Dr Reiner Fuellmich
https://reesereport.com/ - 4 minute videos to get the point across.
There is an axiom that states - The means justifies the ends, not the ends justifies the means.
You will find that both Facists and Communists will go with ‘the ends justifying the end’ - whilst those who believe in virtue and principled morality - will always go with - ‘the means justifying the end.’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZC0NOljRWQ&t=282s Vox 2014 Police State Contagion:
NOTES:
Tim mentions that in 1992 at the Rio UN Conference in Brazil, that 192 Nations signed up to Agenda 21 - Under the auspices of George Herbert Bush - who as the Head of the CIA spent 12 years in the Whitehouse - 8 years as Vice President and 4 years as President. With his son George W Bush having another 8 years as President in the Whitehouse.
What were these insiders doing during this time?
www.AntoinetteJames.com
New Zealand with the fourth largest economic zone on earth is facing a major dilemma with its vast fisheries. Being now essentially run by a handful of fishing families. That as an industrial fishing machine it still controls the narrative regarding fishing in NZ waters. There is a dimension of Maoridom who are responsible for managing Treaty of Waitangi Settlement assets, but regrettably the NZ Government's Ministry of Primary Industries - 'is captured' due to their inability to manage for example red snapper in NZ. But the whole much lauded 'Quota Management system, is a major failure.
Scott clearly states that for change to really happen - is that we need a crisis. This will then pull us all together to solve this huge out of control quota management system and all its attendant challenges. Quoting Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize winner in Economics 1976 - who declared - "Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change."
He said that though the recreational fishing lobby took the establishment to the HighC, the Appeals Court, the Supreme Court winning each time - and being awarded costs and yet 'there was still no apparent change.'
He said that the recreational fisherfolk were learners in how to deal with the well financed fishing lobby - that it was just a battle!
In this interview we learn that fishing rights are now 'property rights', they are eternal.
Those who did the most damage to the fisheries - got the most reward.
This is totally incongruent with a democracy. NZers are being sold a lie.
Fishing companies are today getting poor economic returns. Poor returns for whanau and Maori Families.
No businesses have been established for Maori to be engaged in, since 1992 when the treaty settlement was signed. Only a handful of Maori businesses have come out of this - actually the system has gone about disestablishing small businesses and small scale anything.
This Scott says is the problem of this Neo liberal circus that is happening.
Scott encourages us to see YouTube - price of fish video - it's only 15 minutes - very important. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIQNDYoymMU
Precautionary approach to NZ fish stock is imperative
He states that we must now take on the precautionary principle in relation to fish stocks and that we can not go below 50% of the fish species that are being fished. Meaning 50% of the unfished biomass. That future generations are depending on the fidelity of the fishermen of today, be it Government, commercial or recreational.
He says that what is happening is that we 'manage' our fisheries - the 4th largest area on Earth and that it is based on computer models and on maximum sustainable yields. He says it's a fantasy and an illusion. (listen) - He says that as a country we have to find a way to replace these destructive fishing methods and management systems, as 'they' have had 40 years of opportunity (plunder) - but their days are over - they have taken the best that was and they have left the fisheries in a very sorry state. - listen.
Respect for all of nature
He further states - it is time now for us to have respect for these animals, respect for the environment, respect for our communities, we have to have employment in our regional areas, yet we need to have commercial fishing - but not in the senseless way is is exploiting the fisheries, the ocean and our collective future. Scott gives the two main supermarkets chains here in NZ a towelling for selling fish that is dead, ageing and devoid of life force. That we in NZ fool ourselves into thinking that we are eating fresh vibrant food from the marine environment.
Aquaculture - not necessarily a burgeoning industry.
It is not saving wild fish - but quite the reverse ... listen he will school you yet again. It's very polluting and the food the caged salmon is not wild, but processed food from man - with a smattering of wild fish thrown in to make it sound more legit. Green lip mussels in Scotts opinion is a very good choice - even though under the mussel farms there is a lot of excretions from the mussels on the seafloor.
Bottom trawling comes in for a hammering as well.
Tarikihi, Gurnard, and John Dory in the North island waters have been basically fished out and are no longer available to recreational fisher folk. - essentially gone ...
But snapper are a tough customer - they also spawn for months - they will eat anything - even themselves. They are fast, strong and robust. Scott says that fishermen often go out and if they catch 7 snapper - they are happy with that - but there are no other species - so if you are snapper centric - there are still a lot of them about - but that is it - only snapper - what's down beneath is very sparse when it comes to the other species ... where once had a wide variety of tasty fish.
No champions in the Government or Councils for the future of fish?
His question is - where have all the other fin fish assemblages gone? How come? They are definitely in trouble - and where are the defenders of all these disappearing fish. They too have gone? They are not in the Auckland Council ...
Where is our trevally? This story is a farce - they are 'dumping' hundreds and hundreds of tonnes of trevally into Saudi Arabia, France and the UK at $3.00 a kilo whole - and until recently the return was $2.00 a kilo. All (in Tim's opinion) under the auspices of an inept Department of Primary Industries aided and abetted by an unconscious Parliamentary process. That though they are our paid servants they have run away with their own Agenda ... (now what could that be?).
Cameras on trawlers ... is basically a non starter - the situation is not clear - poor focus - (have a listen). Observed behaviour is modified behaviour - but with no cameras they steam out of port over the horizon and they are a law unto themselves.
The Lobbying and power of the industrial fishing machine reaches deep down into NZ's Parliament and nullifies the idea of cameras and what we call - decent behaviour.
Daniel Pawley - from Canada and his offering - "the sea around us" http://www.seaaroundus.org/tag/daniel-pauly/ - found that trawler skippers were not telling the truth and that catches were 3 times or 2.5 times more that were reported.
https://www.youtube.com/c/OurPlanet/videos
Scott calls for a total closure of the intertidal zone - between high and low tide. A total Closure ...DO NOT TAKE A SINGLE LIVING ORGANISM in the area. That means nothing off the rocks or out of the sand for at least 5 years ...
The protection of the fragility and vulnerability of the intertidal zone requires some real leadership.
A rahui is the only way we can stop the killing of any sea animal in this zone!
Rahui is only a stop gap measure though.
Scott says he has far more faith in mana whenua and community working in cooperation than in any Governmental intervention. Means the indigenous people (Māori) who have historic and territorial rights over the land. It refers to iwi and hapū (Māori tribal groups)
This will have the full backing of the recreational fishing lobby, the NZ Angling and Casting Association, is 65 years old The NZ Underwater Association - 68 years old - Yachting NZ - Spearfishing NZ this is larger than one would think. With the NZ Sport Fishing Council there are 57 clubs with 37,000 members - Legasea.co.nz is embedded in all of this.
www.Kaiika.co.nz - where unwanted fish parts after they have been caught. Left over heads and frames that are healthy and edible and then finding a home for them where other people can cook and eat them so that no part of the fish will go to waste. See last interview.
So far 150,000 kilos over the last 5 years have found their way freely to welcome homes and families to eat. = no waste.
Moana Fishing company - www.Moana.co.nz - shares their off cuts of fish to the under-resourced and now Sanfords is coming on board ...
www.ScottSeafood.co.nz - in Henderson is helping too. (Listen to the interview).
Stopping Slave labour on overseas trawlers - is mentioned.
Auckland University Business School. Thank you Christine Stringer, Nigel Howarth, Hugh Whittaker and Glen Simmonds, for exposing this unsavoury practice.
GreenplanetFM.com do a search using the heading of ‘Fisheries Management’ - and you will get all of Scott’s interviews and also do one from Michael Field, who tells what has been happening in the Pacific and the layers of lies and distortions.
An excellent interview of Scott Macindoe - hitting home runs every few minutes.
www.legasea.co.nz
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/17/chinese-fishing-armada-plundered-waters-around-galapagos-data-shows
This interview of Meg’s has in turn brought her into focusing on Constitutional Lawful Processes. That she says is the baby of the movement - in that we are just realising that we have been had. That this is all new to us. It’s like we have finally pulled back the curtain and found out that we have been manipulated for all this time. All of us - though the Establishment will never admit it, nor will the politicians that run this country
They are just not aware that they too are a chattels of the City of London - this is what we are all finding out. As I said … we have been had and this is just another example of why the world is in such an inharmonious mess. Because at heart we can not understand why we the people, have virtually no say - whilst banks create money out of thin air by adding extra zeros whilst at the same time they and Wall St for example are riding high on the hog on bloated salaries, share offerings and socialised losses.
This is why people from all walks of life are saying enough.
20,000 years ago when a human being woke up in the morning - they were a 'free being.' They had free air, free unpolluted rain and river water and a free food chain. They could wander hunt, fish and gather at will
Cut to today and we find that we are controlled like never before - passports, licenses, passwords, ID Iris Analysis - http://www.celticnz.co.nz/transport/Time_Line.htm
Plus Surveillance and Tracking. This interview with Meg, also backs into Common Law and goes back to using an ancient Law process, called the Magna Carta. This came about in England in 1215 - With Article 61, that some people call Clause 61.
"We are using the oldest and highest law Article 61 to protect us, break all birth certificate scams and stand as we the People of New Zealand (and the Commonwealth) united in saying we will not comply with the tyranny that is upon us!" It is about Personal Sovereignty - and also the need for - 'informed consent.’ Sovereign or Slave? - Universal Sovereign The Magna Carta is when the Barons, who were Nobles and land owners and overseers for the King of England (who was off the rails) demanded that King Henry who was ‘out of alignment’ - be reigned in. The Barons were supported by the Peasants and Serfs - as they were under the auspices of the Barons. That because of the King’s excesses they petitioned 25 Barons to approach the King asking for a more humane deal, because the King was becoming a slave driver and the peasants were being overly exploited … listen ... The Magna Carta has never been repealed and has been invoked 5 times since and the last time in 2001. Against Queen Elisabeth II. See Treaty of Nice. Have a listen … Meg will explain it more clearly. FACEBOOK search - PLD International New Zealand. Practical Lawful Dissent Yes, this is in so many ways - an ‘exposé.' See Dan Hermansen as well as Jacques Windell https://www.youtube.com/c/OurPlanet/videos Or GreenplanetFM.com
Megs’ Story.
Up until Covid - Meg was living a good life with her family, however when the Covid lock down kicked in on the 28 March 2020 - she as a health professional started looking at some of the inequities that were happening. Like why do we lock down a healthy population when it is usual to cordon off the people who are sick. There were anomalies and things that just did not seem right - so she started researching and it led her to the ‘sovereignty movement’ - that is starting to spring up all over NZ.
In doing so …she came upon articles on:
Practical lawful dissent - which is a movement which uses ‘lawful constitutional’ processes and it helps you if you remove yourself from the propaganda of the Govt, educational institutions and the media and you relearn your ‘common law.’
This gave her an understanding about the Covid Vaccination campaign as a mother of two pre teens - she did not want them to be vaccinated when the Pfizer vaccination has not been proven as safe and that she did not want her children to be experimented on.
She says that she as a loving mother has determined that none of her children will fall fowl of these medical treatments. Because they are not actually vaccines - see Dr Sherri Tenpenny, Dr Joseph Mercola, Dr Christine Northrop. etc
But more so, that NZers need to be aware that we always have choice and that we have sovereignty over our own body. Therefore we can choose to have a vaccine or not. She also has concerns that our Prime Minister has not allowed this to happen in certain areas especially the Ministry of Defence as well as for specific MIQ - Managed Isolation & Quarantine staff.
So Meg says it’s about using an ancient Law process, the Magna Carta from 1215 - in Particular Article 61, that some people call Clause 61.
That as NZ is an extension of the British Empire/Commonwealth, it’s the highest law standing and that this is our security clause - saying it is providing us with a Lawful remedy against tyrannical Governments - and at the time it would/could have been used against tyrannical heads of state.
This in turn brought her into focusing on Constitutional Lawful Processes. This Meg says is the baby of the movement - in that we are just realising that we have been had … That this is all new to us. It’s like we have finally pulled back the curtain and found out that we have been manipulated for all this time. All of us - though the Establishment will never admit it nor will the politicians that run this country
They are just not aware that they too are a chattel of the City of London - this is what we are all finding out. As I said … we have been had and this is just another example of why the world is in such an inharmonious mess. Because at heart we can not understand why we the people have virtually no say - whilst banks create money out of thin air by adding extra zeros whilst at the same time they and Wall St for example are riding high on the hog on bloated salaries share offerings … and socialising all the losses that we the people pick up ‘as the Banks are too big to fall.’
This is why people from all walks of life are saying enough.
We have to remember that the diamond market has been rigged for generations, gold is rigged (see Libor) silver is rigged - everything is rigged whilst ordinary humanity are struggling just to make ends meet.
Meg says that we need to know that there are some very well educated and learned people across NZ and beyond who are gradually decoding and putting the jigsaw together. They (we) are understanding as to how we as a humanity and a nation were hoodwinked by an elite based in the City of London. This was done hundreds of years ago - way back in time, and that they are essentially pirates - and the Far East India Company - was their pioneer system - that got 30,000,000 Chinese hooked on opium 170 years ago. The lies and crookedness go deep.
Meg talks about a mentor of hers Jacqui Phoenix a Canadian now living in the UK - because both the Canadians and the British people are endeavouring to work out why those two countries are Corporations of the City of London - (the Aussies too) as the British Empire assimilated what ever country and people that could be assimilated. Very much like the Borg in Star Trek - but on a softer scale.
Meg asked Jacqui why are the sovereignty movement’s having so much difficulty in uniting? Why not unify under one umbrella - and she said it comes down to the same old situation - ‘some people are into service of self’ - ‘whilst others are into service to the greater good.’ That this is a time of a higher calling - that we humans now have to step up. Because what we have coming is the World Economic Forum from Davos in Switzerland and their Great Reset.
We are now in their cross hairs of an undemocratic takeover by the global elite and we - being everyone of us - have not been educated beforehand, by our Governments (our elected servants) or MSM as to what this all translates too. Some of their YouTube videos do not constitute a learning/educating situation. Thus by default, we cannot trust an imposed economic order that says - by 2030 we will not own anything and ‘we will be happy.’
But, will the elite be in this situation with us themselves? Or will they be like in George Orwells ‘Animal Farm’ - Some animals will be more equal than others. Note the pigs were at the top of that pyramid, very much in control.
That these people have multi millions and billions behind them - they will not go short of all luxury items … and you? How will you be faring?
It’s a loose affiliation of millionaires and billionaires … As Paul Simon sang in Boy in the bubble - listen - but now they are consolidating ...
She mentioned that Jaqui Phoenix remarked that NZ’s facebook page is very slow in getting what is truly happening and that we have to get it together particularly under Article 61 and redress the current situation or else we will be finding ourselves well behind the 8 ball.
PLD International New Zealand - facebook page There are people from UK, Ireland, Australia, Canada, South Africa and NZ.
Listen please.
Taking an Oath
Meg says that there is an oath taken - to signal that you are a free being.
To REPEAT
That this all stems from the MAGNA CARTA in 1215 where the Barons realised King Henry was off the rails and the peasants and serfs who were under the auspices of the Barons - petitioned them, wanting them to approach the King asking for a more humane deal because the King was a slave driver and the peasants were being exploited …listen
The Magna Carta has never been repealed and has been invoked 5 times and then last time in 2001. This was against Queen Elisabeth II. See Treaty of Nice. Well this is big - due to the Queen's refusal to take action - she to certain people had betrayed the People that she represents. Their narrative goes that she must resign, and … all the Governments that come under her ‘jurisdiction’ - that they too resign. Have a listen … Meg will explain it more clearly
David Robinson - the founder of the Sovereignty in the UK stated that we are dealing with imposter’s Governments and imposter Heads of States - that the Magna Carta has not been repealed since 2001 - so … watch this space and get researching - Note Google will hide lots.
This excellent interview from a very adept communicator of the challenges facing we NZers due to obscuration of the truth about the make-up of the Pfizer vaccination.
Lynda, a Naturopath, Acupuncturist and holistic healer for over 35 years is finding herself working up to 50 hours a week following the Covid vaccination narrative both locally and globally. What she is learning is shocking her daily. Day after day, week after week, month after month she is realising how 'unsettled' the science is.
Statements made a couple of weeks ago that were seen as conspiracy - yet after a short time - these so called conspiracies become far more factual. She gives some hard data to reveal her point and all the way through this compelling interview - we hear time and again of major distortions coming from both the Government, the CDC and MSM 'mainstream media'. Echoing the 'storyline' that is being promulgated by Pfizer and all the other big vaccines corporations - all in ‘lockstep’ with Big Tech, and Governments - especially those in the Western hemisphere.
Adverse Bodily ReactionsFor example, there are now untold numbers of women globally who have had the vaccination and that straight afterwards, their menstrual cycles become completely deranged and unfathomable. That this is happening very shortly after their vaccination takes place.
These are the most painful periods they've ever experienced and are exceptionally heavy periods. Menopausal and post menopausal women are even having periods after years without a period and all these thousands of women are sharing this over social media - and the MSM and the CDC, plus 'science voices' - immediately stating that it was all bunkum and denying it all.
But, just last week the CDC and MedScape in the US, have now admitted that they do not know exactly what the vax may be doing. Yet, they do concede that they are recording problems with women and their menstrual cycles.
The Vaccine is still an Experiment
The ‘warp’ speed plan in America to produce a Covid vaccine - especially by Pfizer as one of the vaccine makers - is still an experiment as they only tested it for a number of months. Yet Pfizer has been able to pressure the NZ Govt into not making them responsible if any NZer has any health issues after being vaccinated. This has to be construed as totally immoral.
Because most vaccines take 10 to 12 years to test - this is a huge gamble by all concerned with this 'injection'. This was basically a 2 month trial, and NZ has willingly embraced it - as they have in other countries.
Red Flags
So as the community data comes in from ordinary people throughout the greater community - more red flags are being raised ... red flags of side effects.
(Note: An acute allergic reaction to an antigen (e.g. a bee sting) is one in which the body has become hypersensitive).
So in NZ we are seeing an anaphylactic reaction in about 1 in every 4,200 people. Whereas in the USA their stats are seeing about one in about every one point, eight million doses administered.
So when we look at NZ's stats, to Lynda's understanding - this is a massive red flag! When we were told in NZ we could expect about one in a million, but now it's 1 in every 4,200 people. One in 4,200 people is not a rare side effect!
MEDSAFE and the Unanswered Questions that Pfizer have not yet answered.
The 58 questions that NZ MEDSAFE have asked Pfizer have still not been answered yet over 60,000 NZers have been injected. When we find out that Pfizer was only given a provisional consent approval, by MEDSAFE. A provisional consent only!
Listen to how Linda tells of the ongoing trial with this vaccine and its effect on animals - This will get you sitting up and paying attention!
That the NZ Government continues to state that this vaccine is OK for pregnant women.
There are now over a thousand reports of stillbirths and miscarriages being reported in the US and elsewhere (listen to this interview for more info). However many people are not reporting their adverse effects for many differing reasons.
Note there is insurance cover - no recourse to chase up Pfizer - and this is global - the vaccine corporations are calling the shots. They are controlling the game plan and riding the fear wave.
Hear how in America the reporting of any accidents from vaccines is so very low - that it could be as low as only 1% of parents communicating with the US authorities about vaccine related injuries - why? (listen ...
But with this vaccine roll out in the USA - they have received 862,000 reports of adverse events with 5,900 deaths - she said that we also have to acknowledge that these may have a lot of other contingencies attached - so until this can all be verified - just watch this space.
Dr Jessica Rose ... from Canada - https://www.globalresearch.ca/study-analysis-vaers-shows-covid-shots-likely-cause-deaths-spontaneous-abortions-cardiovascular-neurological-immunological-adverse-events/5745797
Says there are about 500 deaths each week in America due to this vaccine. - Best listen to hear what Lynda is saying about this.
This is serious especially for women.
Massive vaccine doses of injury has not been processed - there are millions of people who have been vaccinated but the data is missing on adverse reactions due to not enough health officials to record this data. Here in NZ we are having the same problem.
CDC & VAERS Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System www.vaers.hhs.gov
Linda says do your own research - go to grass roots level health workers on social media as this is the only way ordinary people can actually get the information out. etc. Join groups studying the health effects of vaccines - this is where you will learn at the coal face.
Do not go to any 'science or medical' journal or even hospitals - because they are censoring all the information. These establishments are just that - ‘the establishment’ and they are all ‘hard nosed’ and lock-stepped together pushing out the same untruths and distortions.
When you research yourself of the adverse health effects, you will read so many astounding stories and really feel these visceral narratives of people who are deeply pained and troubled by what is happening ...
In Israel nearly all have been vaccinated - and reports of suffering due to the media silence - is very problematic. Plus they have a vaccination passport now - You can not enter public spaces without your vaccine passport. (This may be 'momentarily' put on hold) - however this is deemed to be a ploy that the Israeli Government will deliberately go back on. Watch this space.
For NZers Experiencing Adverse Effects.
www.phvc.otago.nz/reporting
Such as blood clots, heart attacks and strokes ...brain bleeds - neurological disorders, paralysis - plus - sudden unexpected guests in the 2 to 3 weeks - post vaccine
She says it is imperative that you do your report - because this is still an experimental vaccine - it's a novel technology - everyone who has the injection becomes an experiment - and no one knows the short term or long term trajectory of this. No report means that you will have a zero chance of any support in the future. So please make a conscious decision to report any adverse effect.
SheddingThe term 'shedding' is mentioned and this was originally not going to be spoken about. As, it's all over Vaccine social media and has heads turning all around the planet. Have a listen as this will instil a sense of seriousness.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/YsUfcJmNF196/ Dr Sherri Tenpenny
Senator Mr Robert Lee Hall of Texas - tells us all the true factual numbers from VAERS for the Covid Vaccine
https://www.bitchute.com/video/Fwj5x1RlzF0y/ 4 minute video
There is so much more in this interview and the imperative for you dear reader is to listen and then - share, Share, SHARE.
Having known Lynda for over 15 years I know that she is a devoted mother as well as a healer who has dedicated her life to a healthy existence for all of us.
Thank you,
https://off-guardian.org/2021/05/18/how-the-cdc-is-manipulating-data-to-prop-up-vaccine-effectiveness/
Is this young woman still alive? - Is anyone following up on her? this?https://www.facebook.com/messenger_media/?thread_id=732108822&attachment_id=196512455615221&message_id=mid.%24cAAAAAAtcNDx-8zpL6F4wfUBoOr9c
“We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy the economy.” Christopher Hitchens - Pulitzer Prize Winner and ex New York Times Writer.
Peter Daley, a researcher from Australia, tells us of the shocking revelation that the North Pacific Ocean is having its ecosystems collapse due to the radiation that poured out of Fukushima in 2011.
We are also having to deal with the blatant fact that the Tepco nuclear plant wants to release over a million tons of radiation water that has been collected and stored up until now - so as to not flow into the Pacific ocean. The storage tanks are poorly engineered and are already leaking.
Now the Japanese Govt wants to release this tritium water into an ocean that is already becoming an environmental catastrophe. Meanwhile the MSM ‘mainstream media’ censor it all - along with all the marine biology departments of West Coast Universities on the other side of the Pacific as well as in Japan.
This is a crime against humanity as well as all biological life in the Pacific basin.
Alia Bee, of Voices for Freedom here in NZ, is a volunteer group headed by three women and now a rapidly growing number of volunteers across the country.
The reason for their concerns are escalating due to the incessant questionable media programing of the New Zealand population.
Learn how they came about, to having around 10,000 members and growing - and would like to increase their membership ten fold and then some.
They came about by wanting to set up groups across the country to assist those people who had felt lonely and left out when the lockdown across NZ happened. Because the feedback that they had received was that many people felt unsupported - especially not being able to have visitors and family come to them. To do this they used social media to build up a network of courageous volunteers and now there are 47 neighbourhoods and communities already.
They are also running introductory meetings NZ wide so that people with concerns and also wanting to get to the truth as to what is 'really' happening regarding the Covid 'injection' rollout and in particular MEDSAFE’S 58 questions that Pfizer 'have yet to furnish' for the NZ Government. https://www.medsafe.govt.nz/
These meetings are creating the space for people to discuss in a more open forum - and most halls where meetings are taking place are in many cases - packed out.
10,000 on email database - they have FB, Instagram and Telegram and at present Gab is getting ready. They are also wanting more people to mirror their content around NZ to build up a greater resonance - thus to have a wide variety of platforms before they get 'booted' off some of these platforms as Alia said - they are rattling a few chains at present.
They also have over 500 volunteers willing and waiting to go - however it creates another problem as they need to be all vetted (this is very important) and after that placed in certain areas of expertise and areas of trust - so this in itself is a huge logistical challenge. Because, if you get the right conscious person in the best situation - you can get a huge uptick in the way the organisation flows outwards to the community and in turn receives back as well.
Listen to their poster campaign - against the government’s constructed dialogue - by doubling the Government's print run and printing 2 million flyers and raising this money in 48 hours ...
Front Line Workers Taking the Jab and Suffering Ill Effects.
It’s imperative to comprehend this - to what is secretly being shared with Voices for Freedom from 'front line responders' and border officials - some are being secreted into hospitals and then quietly transported to somewhere else.
Soldiers too are suffering - and Voices are calling out for whistleblowers - because they have uncovered a silencing of the media including officialdom about people who have been vaccinated then suffering from major ailments - listen to this interview and make your own mind up. This is very serious.
Also with large screen TV’s taking pride of place in living rooms and lounges in NZ - children, after over a year of constant barrage - are experiencing terrible anxiety - infants getting a sneeze and even instances when this happens - kiddies saying that they 'must get tested'.
Note that pregnant women have been ‘told it is safe’ for them to have a vaccine ...
I did not get round to talking about shedding - :(
https://healthimpactnews.com/2021/urgent-5-doctors-agree-that-covid-19-injections-are-bioweapons-and-discuss-what-to-do-about-it/
https://science.news/2021-05-07-salk-institute-reveals-the-covid-spike-protein-causing-deadly-blood-clots.html
https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/amazing-polly-this-isnt-about-a-virus/#comments
It gets interesting around 18 minutes in. Note though, that the ‘circular economy’ deals with recycling and especially with pollution and is being very much misunderstood here.
For serious subject matter research use duckduckgo.com
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AAG.org.nz - the Agriculture Action Group has been founded across New Zealand to push back and question Government intrusion, especially when it has not been announced in the Governments manifestos.
This is all about the lack of consultation and enforced regulations and fees at a localised level - via NZ Councils on how we use our land.
These requirements are now being foisted on an unsuspecting NZ public. This has all been arranged and 'agreed upon’ with the United Nations and is known as
Agenda21 & Agenda 2030.
In addition to the above is the inclusion from Davos in Switzerland, of the World Economic Forum’s
'Great Reset’
'Where we are told 'that by 2030 we will own nothing and we'll all be happy!'
That together these two models are going to be superimposed over all nations that will lead to the long planned for
NEW WORLD ORDER.
These words were uttered by US President George Herbert Bush when he first mentioned them back in September, 1990.
Now, today, there is an urgent need to ask, why are these two critical global ecological and economical initiatives being inserted into everyday life especially in the Western World and here in NZ. Note that recent NZ governments have made no effort at all to announce this in their political manifestos or brought any of this to the NZ public's notice via MainStream Media.
Now farmers in particular are finding that they are being regulated and having to fulfil certain conditions having had no local community input from Councils or Central Government - prior to what is happening today.
Where once ‘we the people’ elected servants to act on our behalf. There was always open dialogue and consultation, with meetings and written submissions. Resulting in questions being answered so that the electorate were ‘ kept in the loop, but in this interview we hear that farmers, essentially the backbone of the economy of our vast rural sector, have been sidelined. Instead they have found themselves controlled by bylaws and legislation that has been enacted with no consultation or their knowing.
What we are learning is that there has been a huge level of secrecy in relation to how these ‘programs' have been developed and deployed. Though, certain astutely placed ‘buzz’ words have been used to soften the story line, when finally put under the microscope we learn that, ‘we' are being told what to do and what's to happen and that we must ... comply.
Agenda21 & Agenda2030 along with the Great Reset are a 'top down game plan' for planet earth. However, there is an urgent necessity to have 'grass roots' input from communities on the ground that takes localised situations and conditions into consideration and be acknowledged. Not a ‘one size fits all’.
But, this has not happened.
Yes, we are very aware of all the many serious environmental challenges within the biosphere that have to be acknowledged and dealt with. As well as the completely unsustainable failing 'casino economic system' that we are ensnared in - that is essentially corrupt to the core.
But, if we as a democratic country based on the Rule of Law - believe in an honest system of Government, are not allowed to have a country wide discussion with local town hall meetings and full media coverage - especially at 6 pm ‘ every' night - we will realise that our long held cherished freedoms - have been hijacked. This we can not allow.
Question; did you give permission to our Prime Minister to make this decision that she made in New York in 2019? See video below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XsUV7pwSRg&t=448s
The Interview:
Listen, this is critical information … too much to write here.
AAG.org.nz The Agriculture Action Group.
What is happening or about to happen is all an extension of the Fourth Industrial Revolution - an omnipresent computerised wireless world - where we are immersed in escalating oscillating frequencies 24/7.
This wireless radiation coming from both ground towers and the 40,000 plus 5G satellites that Elon Musk and SpaceX are deploying as of now. These technologies will be overlaying and bombarding all of nature and every square millimetre of the biospheres surface.
Notice with spokesman Klaus Schwab of the Great Reset who oversees the World Economic Forum’s videos - that no ‘love' is mentioned in them - that there is a lack of heart in the narrative. Yes, they point out what the problems are - however all the answers to our planetary problems are coming from the top of the pyramid of power. That they are not coming up from the grass roots, from you and I at a localised level. What we want to hear and see is that we are included in this narrative and that there is heart in this equation.
Question … is there any warm joy in what the Great Reset is going to do for you?
Time to mobilise - share this ….
Some Talking Points of the Great Reset:
A global omnipresent digital society with zero cash.
The absence of small business owners - only Corporations.
Living in Smart Cities totally connected to overhead satellites.
Unable to save organic seeds, or rainwater off one's own roof.
Decreasing access to the great outdoors.
24/7 Surveillance and zero privacy.
Breathing questionable air.
Drinking fluoridated and chlorinated water.
Eating Factory and Industrial Food - non organic - no life force.
Submitting to edicts around health requirements - e.g Covid.
Sourcing information via search engines that censor.
Enforced ‘Gag' Orders when employed by the system.
The lack of Love and connection within the Community.
These above statements need to be addressed ASAP.
More to come.
(For example I, Tim - wanted to have this as the heading for this interview:)
Katherine Smith: Covid - the truth about vaccines that Pfizer & the NZ Govt are deliberately hiding.
However, in deferring to her as the founding Editor of The Real News - you can recognise her measured response to be a serious voice of reason - in the midst of the current moral malaise of the local and global Fourth Estate.
The Interview:
Listen This is critical information …
New data coming out is that Covid19 is in some respects a vitamin D deficiency disease. However there has been startling alternative results that are being totally censored by MSM and Governments. (Same old - same old).
MEDSAFE NZ has asked Pfizer 58 questions relating to the vaccine - especially what is in it - and Pfizer are falling back on confidentiality due to it being their intellectual property. So on one hand they say we are in a global crisis and on the other hand tell us to pay now - money up front. Corporations - we know what drives you.
The trials for the research and data on this particular Pfizer vaccine do not end until 2023 - and yet the NZ Government are herding NZers like sheep into pens ready to vaccinate them all.
Thus we here have become an experiment .... with no guarantees or insurance cover of any kind. None Zilch Zero compensation.
Plus Pfizer is immune to any liability whatsoever.
They have a free pass and our Government has capitulated to them ... this is compounded madness and insanity - whilst Mainstream Media do what they do best - by changing the subject and pretending that we are not to be concerned.
Listen to the Government myth that vaccines are safe for pregnant women. LISTEN - because there have been no tests on pregnant women.
What is also in this vaccine is PEG polyethylene glycol - and if you have heard these words before you will find them in a bottle of antifreeze for your car - when used in sub zero weather related conditions.
As previously stated MedSafe here in NZ has asked Pfizer to answer 58 questions - regarding this vaccine and yet the answers have not been forthcoming.
www.therealnews.nz
The 2nd Edition has now been published as print - but not yet in digital form. However click and gather other important information in the meantime.
Kia Kaha & Aroha
They are calling out the lies emanating from our Government lock stepped with big PHARMA’s Agenda.
Now, with the statement - “No jab - No job!” - in a democracy such as NZ’s, this for many - is a step too far.
Janice Priest has been a natural clinician for over 50 years and has witnessed the continuous transition from a more personal and natural healing realm to that of ‘a chemical drug for all ailments’ regime as propagated by big Pharma. Which has in turn morphed alongside the WHO + to now a vaccination for every human.
As a very experienced naturopath and clinician this interview leads with how to take care of our body naturally, by preventative measures that you can readily access from your garden or local grocer. From 15 minutes in though - Janice talks about the larger picture in dealing with the Covid narrative, the untruths of media with Government coordination and as in the heading - outrageous fear mongering by our elected representatives in an endeavour to control the vernacular of spin.
We cover basic health challenges but more so to have us superbly healthy as we go into winter.
Prevention:
A glass of water when you wake up.
Vitamin C - our ancestors were strategic and stored up for early winter change of weather - honey, lemon, garlic and apple cider vinegar - plus fish oils, omega 3’s - organic olive oils
Extra virgin flax oil as oils make you flexible - dry lips means your body is short of oil. Remember high quality oils, in green tinted bottles - not golden oil that you can see in rows in the supermarket. Keep away from them. Cider vinegar a dash in water - or warm cider vinegar and honey.
If you lack oil your throat can become hoarse and your body may get stiff bones - plus you are more susceptible to colds and flu. Even hemp oil is very good, but only for short bursts - not month after month as hemp oil is a calmative …so it is ideal if you want to calm somebody down … because it has a certain relaxant in it. So it is best to have vitamin A oils - being fish oil.
Parents 60 years ago gave cod liver oil or halibut oil once a week to children.
Also 60 years ago when you entered a NZ hospital - Cod liver oil was one of the first things you were given.
You can make garlic oil - that soothes the mouth and kills bacteria on its way into the throat. Check out methods on the net. wwwduckduckgo.com
Parsley comes in as an excellent herb to have in your garden or at your doorstep. So important to have this herb as it's rich in iron. Many homes used to have a lemon or even a grapefruit tree in the garden - until the medical profession stated that grapefruit was interfering with their medication - but lemon trees are excellent as a preventative action, as lemons are such a great neutraliser of acidity in our body.
Janice also encourages cinnamon and nutmeg - as they are great immune supporters - and they are so cheap to purchase from the grocery store and you only need a tiny amount. Be it in your drink or on your food.
Eucalyptus oil is still very important and you just rub it into your chest - it’s a great preventive against a hostile environment.
Babies need to wear a hat or bonnet when going out into the cold and especially the evening. Plus prams - these days are built having the baby look forward - where once all prams had the baby looking at its mother. Because, car exhausts and fumes at pram level come directly into that baby's presence and they breath these particulates in, than their taller adult parents. So please, get a pram that allows the baby to always look at its Mum or Dad.
Natural clothing - babies today are not being clothed in wool undergarments or even cotton nappies - they are being dressed and covered in fabric derived from oil and unnatural synthetic products. For children today - they need wool underlay and they need their wool hats over their ears due to the weather changes here in NZ - because babies being so small have difficulty in retaining their body heat. So being wrapped in natural fibre is a plus. Remember, alway have a pram facing the pusher - because of the eye contact and flowing supportive love.
Previously in NZ - patients when entering hospitals would be gently strapped in wool - if suffering from shock or trauma and-or severe flu, colds etc - Including having hot showers - then wrapped in wool garments so as to sweat ‘it’ out.
Once NZ hospitals used to have their own gardens - so that they could supply fresh food for their patients - and even trade with local farmers for fresh food, fruit and vegetables daily.
But today with a controlling sanitised medical and health system - they instead have taken the easy way out by buying in factory and industrial food which has very little life force in the food. This food is usually over cooked by unconscious cooks who have had no training in both dietary understanding and healthy food preparation. So we continue to have hospital staff feeding this ‘life-less stuff’ to people who are in hospital to actually become healthy and well once again.
Note that patients were always wheeled outside each day for some sun, for a good 30 minutes to an hour every day to take in vitamin D and some sunlight colour therapy …there was none of this covering them up so that they don’t get sunshine.
That Matrons and Sisters oversaw our hospitals making poultices - herbal tonics and what have we today? Big PHARMA and the Medical Association instead - wanting to prescribe - drugs.
We learn from Janice who trained in the 1960’s that Doctors were not necessarily brought into the hospital, unless it was an emergency. In those days Sisters and Matrons had more authority and they made decisions that stabilised the patient. Listen Janice tells it as it was. - it’s very interesting - especially when compared to the ‘cooler’ more distant like treatment metered out today. There was an actual duty of care - one reason being that the community in those days was smaller and that with a lower population there was more contact. Many people who found themselves going to hospital knew the nurses. They were not overrun by a huge influx of immigrants in those days - and most families were closer due to a mother and father being present as well as brothers and sisters plus grandparents etc.
Janice said that way back then - the nursing Sisters and Matrons stated that -
‘we will rue the day that we brought all these drugs into the health system.’
She said that she witnessed some terrible arguments around how to care for a patient due to new doctors with their new drug training …
Yet, she also states there are drugs that are very, very helpful - especially in accident and emergency …
Her message - get back to basics - don’t complicate your digestive system
www.mercola.com Very insightful regarding today's Covid challenge.
COVID - & Sue Grey Lawyer - putting the NZ Govt on notice!
We refer to our heading where Janice talks about the outrageous claims that our NZ Government are making (as the sole source of information that we ‘should be’ following - per statements from our Prime Minister) Listen from about 15 minutes into the interview … this has given cause to NZ lawyer Sue Grey to ‘put the Government on notice’ - that has at one level stopped them in their tracks - but only until they can wriggle around the law and proceed to follow the Agenda that is coming to them from other external entities.
Sue and the Government - https://youtube.com/watch?v=la4ISvAGUnc&feature=share
Janice says this push back by we the people against our elected servants is snowballing and only gathering momentum.
Yet saying we need to wash’s our hands all the time - which she says was the best thing our Government has done - same for Plunket -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plunket_Society - (In New Zealand the Plunket philosophy became 'parenting lore' and within three decades New Zealand had the lowest infant mortality rate in the world.
They have been saying wash your hands for decades too.
Wash hands before you go out.
Wash hands when you come home.
Wash hands before you eat.
If we follow this regimen - we can halt the spread of this very potent virulent - non-virus. Saying - that this is going to shock people. Saying once we do our research - that once a virus is exposed to the air - from 60 seconds to 2 minutes - it dissipates - it's gone. It’s the air that dissipates it. On the other hand bacteria are contagious. That there are so many anomalies in this whole vaccine saga and she as an experienced naturopath makes a statement prefaced by please - don’t take this vaccine - wait it out and observe what is happening with others who have especially had their 2nd shot. Saying that it does not bother her that the authorities come and growl at her at her age as she has been threatened by all sorts of people over the decades … for pushing natural health remedies and medicine and her book ‘Ocean of Drugs.’
Saying this vaccine is a change of your DNA. It is genetically engineered - a GMO - and it will go in and change out DNA structure and she says she knows of no natural remedies that will be able to undo the damage that this vaccine may do, especially if you come down with any altered state.
So with the previous natural preventative as mentioned, olive leaf and Swedish bitters are important if you feel you are coming down with something … she even mentions that the old people used to use whisky if they felt a cold coming on, as it kills bacteria.
The fact that the NZ Pilots Association have questioned the vaccine and a good percentage of them do not want to be forced to take it and even some Police are of the same mind.
What we clearly learn from this interview is that the vaccine cannot be forced on any one or made mandatory. The Law states that it can not be compulsory!
This has been tried and tested in International Courts and as it is a medicine - it can not be forced on anyone.
CAUTIONARY INFORMATION
Janice cautions - that if you take this vaccine - YOU WILL HAVE NO HEALTH INSURANCE COVER.
No ACC (Accident Compensation Corporation - because it is a clinical trial .
If you have a reaction to a proper - double blind tested registered medicine - then you have ACC cover. But, you don’t in this particular circumstance. You are left out on a limb.
And to suggest that you might lose your job if you don’t take the jab has certainly got the trade unions up in arms.
The Covid was/is a flu variant - it was nasty one - that hit people in the chest … deep into peoples lungs … saying is is some ways like a tuberculosis so she says if we get flu like symptoms - go and get a herbal lung elixir - run eucalyptus on your chest and look at all things as chest colds.
But the extreme manner in which this Government is handling this situation is just turning people off.
You must listen to how the Government is forcing their will over the NZ electorate and we are awakening to what they are doing with - for example, the fluoridation of all municipal water in NZ and also the chlorination of all country water and even water drawn from wells and collected rainwater off roofs. They are also wanting people who put in submissions to have credentials or else they will not accept one's submission.
These are our elected servants that are telling us that we can do and cannot do.
Is this not an inverse democracy that we see happening here in NZ?
Here below is a letter that Janice wrote in response to a Governmental Minister of Seniors who is also the Associate Minister of Health.
She submitted a friendly letter to the Minister of Seniors, whose also Associate Minister of Health Dr Ayasha Varreli and that she had contravened the Medicines and Advertising Acts by making claims in her article in the senior citizens newsletter. Her office replied asp. She sent it on to Hon Chris Hipkins, Covoid Response minister. When we looked up his credentials; he has a BA in Art and Criminology.
Here’s what she sent.
SuperGoldcard Newsletter.
Thank you for your editorial in this, the latest SuperSeniors newsletter.
I have been pondering on your notes, which was all about the latest vaccine.
The people you have addressed have been through depression, pandemics, several epidemics, global recessions, petrol hikes, personal losses, fought for the right to freedom of speech, fought in wars, lost families in wars, experienced high interest rates, different government policies, GE threats, rise in junk food, rise in technology, were brought up on homegrown foods, lived on tight budgets, recycled items and raised families.
To address these people in the manner of a ‘vaccine’ to save their lives is inappropriate.
In researching this vaccine, our generation would never take or use untested goods without guarantees, you have, in your article, underestimated our practical common sense. Why on earth would we want such a vaccine when there isn’t any pandemic, except the one the media are pushing, nor has this vaccine had any standard
double-blind vaccine trials. Besides, I spent 28 years in the media as an international magazine publisher and I can spot a corporation bender a mile off.
In all cases of flu, NZ’ers in our practical way use sanitizers, wash hands, after all it kills most bacteria and the latest research shows antiseptic nasal sprays work well to kill this flu.
Besides as an ex-staff nurse we know masks don’t last long as a deterrent to bacteria and pushing a untrialed vaccine is risky.
This flu the Government is pushing is not a virus based one. For those who haven’t done any research, viruses don’t last more than 60second outside the human body, so viruses are not contagious, bacteria is. Common flu variants are. In the meantime we are watching families lose their business, their jobs, their mortgages, their homes,
some have had to watch families die from a distance, couldn’t come home, attend funerals, while politicians just spent more and more money on a falsehood pandemic.
and your government says it saves lives. No income, no homes, suicide increases, separated from loved ones - is that the price of pushing a flu variant, genetically engineered vaccine?. Especially when vaccines are not compulsory by law.
We spent decades fighting to keep GE food crops out of the country and the Govt wants to inject this GE vaccine into our bodies?
Sure, we need to take flu epidemics seriously, the 'stay at home, wash hands' was sensible, like all flu’s we were raised to respect.
The extreme media focus over this subject is now having repercussions, there are legal actions taking place right now against the Government and several Ministers for allowing such falsehoods and making advertising claims which contravene our Medicines Act and Advertising laws. Even you made false claims in your article.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=la4ISvAGUnc&feature=share
May I suggest, in your next newsletter you address us in a more even balanced manner, after all we know all about life and death.
OTHER:
"People believe I'm sending a political message when I use the word "experimental" in talking about the vaccine. That is not the case. All the vaccines are in investigational stages only. The trials will not be complete until October 27th, 2022, for Moderna and January 21st, 2023, for Pfizer. You need to be informed it is experimental, and it needs to be your choice!" -Dr. Gold
American Frontline Doctors
https://madmimi.com/p/ec62421?pact=5064013-162999063-13198610966-df5dadf9e18b925b7f7ed4b49552d796a876a636
https://www.janicepriest.com/
Where it has been tried by the Romans, Attila the Hun to Hitler but they never achieved a truly global conquest. Well, today this is the latest ambition of globalists: the 0.001% and they have technologies that reach deep into peoples homes and by using psychological means are able to monitor all differing contingencies within the soul of all nations. Not only that, they have a level of centralisation of wealth and power - and corruption that has enabled an unprecedented attempt to destroy freedoms and rights - globally.
The pretext for this 'has been in the works' for quite a long time - this has been a result of decades of 24/7 (well paid) think tanks and strategies and planning. (e.g. supercomputer scenarios). What we are seeing now is a culmination of the most ambitious tyrannical project to be conceived by human aspirants to totalitarianism. And the pretext for this is which is the perfect pretext - basically it’s so much better than the terrorism bogeyman or some nation as a bogeyman - it's a microbe -
Joe says that it is pathetic - that fear has been unleashed on the global population and that it has been ramped up to such a degree it is causing psychological havoc among the human population. That they are giving up their rights and freedoms and that using as the pretext - germs as a disease on the human race. So as to be cowered at this moment to be controlled and become servile and allow the removal of democratic freedoms and human rights. It is so easy - especially when you have the total corruption of ‘mainstream corporate mass media’ - and he says let's face it - they are the linchpin - saying that none of this would be possible if we had a shred of real journalism left in widespread mass media.
Robert F Kennedy Jnr is mentioned as a world beacon to sanity
Del Bigtree on the highlife
Dr Andrew Kaufman
Dr Judy Microvitz
Rasheed Buttah
The World Doctors Alliance
https://davidicke.com/2021/04/02/vaccine-depopulation-a-must-watch-david-icke-dot-connector-videocast/
Joe says that when you see a famous figure who is being savagely attacked and being discredited by the establishment especially by MSM - that alone is a signpost that - that person is 'over the target' and is standing up for truth. That they have everything to lose and nothing to gain - so why would they be saying it as opposed to those ‘shills’ who are on the payroll and are in the establishment ladder of promotion and perks and grants etc - which are attacking them.
Tim asks for bravery at this moment of time - asking for New Zealanders to stand up and have the spine to be the 5 million to take the time to research and see what is really happening and Joe says that he feels that in NZ there is a lot of possibility for us to come through this - due to the fact that the Health Department is not going to be deploying the full force of the vaccine program for some months into the future. This gives us a very unique situation because we can assess what is happening globally. Especially we can see what is happening in the UK as around half their population have been injected and also in Israel it is the same. Facebook still has some very compelling stories about what is happening in these countries. We can also look at NZ as things are really heating up with the death of Pauline Hanna of Remuera on the day of her (supposedly) second Pfizer jab and the NZ media taking her off the front page and censoring all information relating to this.
This is like the smoking gun - it proves totally what Joe is conveying about our sell out media marching to the beat of a (very) different drum.
NZ Border and Health Workers to Take the Injection?
Also, the NZ government, attempting to force border workers and other public (health) servants to take the vax with a ”No Jab, no job” policy.
(Tim, we can not have our border security officials and personnel being used as guinea pigs - same for our soldiers who are here to protect the integrity and sovereignty of our borders. We have to protect our protectors. If they all become unwell - who will then take their place? Plus, who would want to?)
Once enough people become aware - rapid ‘conscious change’ can happen.
Joe intimates that when enough people become more knowing and receive more uncensored but ‘truthful’ information, there will eventually be a flip and change will rapidly unfold. Citing the fall of the Berlin Wall virtually over night and the fall of the Soviet Iron Curtain - (and even Apartheid in South Africa) - that seem to fall instantly - and rapid change can happen when the people are ready for a more transparent paradigm.
Saying this change has been building incrementally over time - until it reaches a critical mass - and he thinks it is just a matter of time - be it globally or in each country in their own time - but certainly in NZ we have been blessed in NZ with some extra time. So as to get a better handle of the dynamics and lies relating to covid and the vaccine rollout.
You can see patients in the US in hospital beds, on FB and Telegram - in one case a Johnson & Johnson injection one day - blood clots, seizures and aneurysms in the brain the next day - and our government has all New Zealanders lined up for this - and we are being herded somewhat like down a cattle chute to a destination no one ever in their wildest nightmares would believe - especially what a 'kind' government would do! What is the blatant hurry - when we have contained whatever it is?
Let's wait and see what is happening world wide and check up on the people who have been injected and see how they respond over the next 6 months or so. At present we in NZ are still able to export food, and yes, we are not producing to the amount that we would like - however when it comes to the health of our citizens - can we not wait this out?
REMEMBER - not one baby, or infant, child, teenager or twenty something has died in NZ from Covid. So let us wait for a little longer.
We must be aware that NZ’s indigenous people the Maori have already been overridden at so many levels by British colonial power and if they are coerced into having their physical sovereignty breached by injection they may very well rebel - (this is what some Maori are muttering) and anyone in the know - realise that for the last 60 years plus, many Maori have been trained as soldiers and are still wise in the ways as to how military operations are deployed. Therefore if ‘ordinary’ Maori are neglected in the decision making process and decide to ‘not comply’ in mandatory vaccinations this could very well overflow and instil courage in the young into how to resist being vaccinated.
Also mentioned, is the elderly - many who have lived long enough to have witnessed enough lies and betrayals in the political arena over their lifetime and have seen tyranny before and they will not be so easily led as more ‘concerning’ information comes to public knowledge due to social media skirting MSM programming. Plus, a lot of immigrants have seen tyrannical regimes far more than any New Zealanders - so they too will be on edge. So 'taking out' those most dangerous groups first would be an obvious campaign strategy.
Joe also says that where we have found ourselves today, is in essence a result of us allowing the system to roll on without any direct participation. Voting every 3 years is not participative democracy. We have in so many ways just stood by for decades and watched our governments and the elites, the wealthy and powerful corporations run away with their own game plan. From the larger context, virtually abuse and disempower Third world countries, taking over and playing power games over them. See Latin America, South East Asia and Africa, especially the Middle East - we the Western countries have interfered for too long.
Joe goes on to repeat what happened in Germany in and around 1933.
Remember These Famous Words.
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
That we today are culpable at this point because we became complacent, lazy, distracted and eventually thoughtless ... like acquiescent and apathetic .. and by us not involving ourselves we have eventually come to this point.
And it takes what it takes to wake us up!
So he says it is all perfect - we are now in a situation where we can re-right the ship of state - we now have an opportunity to involve ourselves and to even take another meme from America - drain the swamp!
That by involving ourselves we have to take the high ground and surmount what is being diabolically projected on us and take the required legal action. By cooperating together we can take the required action to stop this adulterated evil that has the world in a tightening vice like grip. So we have to rise to the occasion or we submit to being a casualty and that is precisely what is lined up for us.
NOTE: the noble path is that 'the means justifies the end' - whereas the darkened shadow side goes by 'the ends justifies the means.' Both Fascist and Communist will adhere to this power play. This is what the burning of the Reichstad in Germany in 1933 or the 911 'Inside Job' in America - evil never believes in goodwill, honesty, truth, principle - basically power comes out of the barrel of a gun that will be used on you - at will.
We in NZ have been far to spoilt and complacent and now that we in our oversight mode - we can see that the Government is being prodded by unseen powers and vaccine manufacturers - and are herding us down a cattle chute and there is becoming less and less wriggle room and as we put our head up and look further down to where the authorities have set up an injection station - we see the writing on the wall - and we realise that we never ever read the small print - we have let 'eternal' vigilance fade away ... so ... what is it to be?
Joe says now ... everyone will face a line in the sand. Listen - Subrogation or your Sovereignty - your choice - LISTEN
A defining moment and a very necessary moment.
Joe mentions this in the first few moments of the interview and didn’t elaborate - and I omitted to have him explain about the Kali Yuga. It is about the Hindu calendar, telling of the 26,000 years cycle and we are in the darkest of this cycle at present. ‘Where the shadow gets its chance to dance and matter becomes its densest.
Taking the Children’s Attention Away
We are having to see our children mesmerised and hypnotised with screens and super edgy everything on devices.
He questions subliminal activities on the screens and events happening below conscious eye level with frequencies that are unseen. Thus going on beyond their overt propaganda as to what is really happening via these screens;.
Joe has lived in NZ since1985 and when first here he saw a certain depth of thinking and general awareness of average New Zealanders - today 2021 - he sees a deep deep sleep and a lack of common sense or willingness to put 2 and 2 together - or willing to see the obvious when put right in front of one's eyes. So he is very suspicious of the ‘screen age’ especially since the year 2000 technological prowess has created this sensation, leading to virtually all children by 10 having access to a phone,ipad or tablet of sorts
Controlling Mechanisms Being Deployed in Plane Sight.
Our Natural Support Systems
This includes our air, water and food and chemtrails and the full spectrum attack on body, mind and spirit and blocking the pineal gland with substances such as fluoride - that this is all basically the most evil attempt he has ever been to prevent human evolution - the spiritual evolution of humanity.
Bill Gates is mentioned - the billionaire and the Bilderberg group, the Trilateral Commission, the Council of Foreign Relations and the Club of Rome and all the elite secret organisations that have been planning depopulation for a very long time - see the Georgia Standing Stones.
https://www.wired.com/2009/04/ff-guidestones/
Listen
Unbeknown we are to be surrounded by frequency assaults - millimeter waves within the 5G spectrum - beyond just mobile phones - because they are criminally insane.
https://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/ray-broomhall-spacex-plans-40-000-more-5g-global-microwaving-satellites-threatening-life-on-earth
World Economic Forum and the Great Reset
For example, Klaus Schwab - the Davos - World Economic Forum - a Rothschild Agenda - and they are 'programming us with the thought that in the near future we will not own anything and we will be happy!
https://www.weforum.org/great-reset/
Joe says that the government no matter what party - are servants to other masters and he says that they actually know it. They are not really our servants any more ... such is the way all governments around the world are today - they have all been infiltrated and are not really answerable to their constituents any more - hence wanting to fluoridate all NZ water that affect children's intelligence negatively and that also calcifies the pineal gland - (something thing that mainsstream health professionals don't really know about anything of its existence). https://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/dr-paul-connett-dr-vyvyan-howard-declan-waugh-fluoride-is-a-neurotoxin-that-reduces-iq-of-children
That ‘they’ - especially in little recent New Zealand - are now corralled and are in ‘way over their heads.’ Especially small countries like NZ - They are in essence - being pushed around and if things go 'south' - and Government collapses due to an awakened electorate and society - they will be classified like the French Vichy collaborators of Germany in the 2nd World War.
A POSITIVE OUTCOME FOR NEW Zealand and the future of Children.
Joe sees NZ as being a land of opportunity and innovation and creating a new bio harmonic holistic society. That NZ can still be the emerging microcosm for the planetary macrocosm - because we have basically good infrastructure in place and a wealths of knowledge from the past as well.
New Zealand has so many Superb things going for it as a Country
We here are still not commercially growing genetically engineered food - BUT the higher ‘monetarist’ echelons want to dilute our natural seed and crops with GE and GMO’s and if they can sneakily weasel their way through NZ’s biosecurity, they will do it. That we are also still a Nuclear Free Country and no super power can bring a ship with nuclear weapons on board or be nuclear propelled - into our territorial waters - especially our harbours, is a position of both sanity and a better future for children.
Joe calls on the movie Lord of the Rings to learn from its message.
An Extension of Lord of the Rings
NZ can become a beacon and a light for the rest of the world.
That Joe draws from left field the fact that the movie trilogy Lord of the Rings was filmed in NZ - and that Tolkin the author was a special human who understood many aspects and qualities of human nature. But more so, that Joe had a reaction to this trilogy because it was left out of the film. Hence the heading.
This Joe thinks is a tragedy because the ‘Scouring of the Shire’ was not included by NZ director PeterJackson - (I agree) - because it is all about cleansing and the rebuild - the flowering of their civilisation once again to bring all people together - to be free, and honest and experience joy and allow life to flourish - and they they lived happily ever after ...
What happened in this deleted part is very analogous to what is actually happening now - that we need to roll up our sleeves and bring about a new NZ and with entrepreneurial vigour and team spirit and save the day. The pity that this segment of the book being left out by Peter Jackson sadly did not show us this mirror that could have empowered New Zealanders to co-operate more and come together as a dynamic and synergistic, holistic, family of creative beings. Supra Hobbits :)
Joe states that this was one of the most important and satisfying chapters in the book !! And a very important closure of the whole book.
Because the small team of Hobbits came back to the Shire to see that Sauron’s minions had taken over the Shire and essentially sucked the life force and light out of it. Trees were being cut down and factories were replacing them - but upon their return - they were so empowered and had transcended fear, that when they entered the deeper part of the Shire their courage and shear brilliance in being, inspired the Shire Hobbits to overthrow these empty pretenders and then the the Shire became free once again - but even more so.
Joe says that it was a major pity that this was missed out of the book - because it was a metaphor for NOW - it was such a critical juncture in the history of the Hobbits and the Shire - the success of this, had it been filmed would have put Nuclear Free NZ and (nearly) GE FREE NZ blazingly out these on the world map - but ... you can think your response here ....
Also:
Kudos to Sue Grey and her growing team and the High Court case against the Medicines Act - and that what the Government is doing is essentially against the Law.
Joe is confident that critical mass is already encroaching and that NZ will be one of the first to turn the illegal vaccinating of NZs - around.
We have to be patient and only empowered - the system is unwieldy - because it is driven by ideology and not love - especially for the human species
Joe says though he wants to help and he does - ‘we can not be our brother’s keeper’ and that we can be too attached to results - knowing we are all on our own journey. Everyone has their own karma - everyone has their own lessons to learn and we can not judge lessons that might be for someone else. That we have compassion but also a certain level of detachment.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/we-are-now-entering-full-blown-tyranny-western-world
Thomas Wyse - "PUBLIC HEALTH ANNOUNCEMENT
There’s a serious pandemic sweeping the globe. It’s called the Propaganda Virus. It’s affecting billions of people around the planet every day.
The Propaganda Virus is a neurolinguistic pathogen created by humans as a biological weapon for mind control. It is comprised of language, cultural symbols, and memes designed to manipulate the masses toward a particular point of view in order to control opinions and behavior. The virus is transmitted through all forms of media communication and is particularly prevalent during political season.
The Propaganda Virus spreads by getting others to accept a proposition without challenge on logical, factual, or judicial grounds and to act in service of those false beliefs, side-stepping critical response in favor of emotional reaction. Repetition of suggestion and/or insinuation is one of the most effective means the virus uses to infect the masses.
Those affected may experience loss of personal agency and/or rational, independent thought which can lead to hatred, delusional thinking, severe depression, extreme emotional volatility, and in some cases deadly aggression toward self and others. Since the advent of the internet and social media, the Propaganda Virus can now spread like wildfire through the airwaves to the entire global community in real time.
The Propaganda Virus is highly contagious and can survive undetected in the human brain disguised as personal conviction. Protect your immune system through a build up of critical thinking skills. Do not consume and share media from biased sources with an agenda, and be sure to cleanse your brain daily with meditation while cultivating a positive mental attitude as negativity, fear, worry, and stress is a breeding ground for infection.
If you believe you’ve been infected by the Propaganda Virus then stop ingesting mass media immediately, pet a dog or cat, and consume a healthy dose of Nature until fear subsides and rational clarity is restored. All is well. 100% of those reading this will probably die anyway, eventually. In the meantime, it is advised that you live happily and spread love instead of fear.
Thank you! "Donna Trousdale, M.A. Linguistic Psychology
European trees are being targeted as a part of ‘cancel culture’ - whilst nature takes the hit.
Meanwhile this is all being sidelined by our elected representatives both at a national level as well as locally. The fact that exotic trees are being cut down because they were introduced by early European settlers appears to be part of the ‘cancel-culture’ that can even be conceived as a cultural marxist agenda. That is, to take down the past and eradicate it. The fact that deep ecology is being ignored and that the flora and fauna are under attack, defies common sense - especially when there is an actual program in Auckland to plant 1 million additional trees goes against common wisdom.
Main Points that Wendy Wishes to Convey
Wendy Gray 'chainsaw politics' tree felling Western Springs & Across Auckland
Tim’s Point of View.
When banker John Key arrived in Wellington and became Prime Minister, the game plan dramatically increased the 'centralisation of power’. This also enabled developers and monetarists to work towards wiping the board as if playing the game Monopoly to one of near, open slather.
Capitalising on ‘tree blindness’ due to a continued failing education system has now enabled Councils to turn a blind eye on nature and the natural world, whilst pretending to care, but in reality abetting 'chainsaw politics' and not really listening. Thus allowing our revered natural, ancient oxygen generators - air conditioning systems and water filtrators to be systematically eradicated by ‘unconscious' dictates of a 'cancel culture’ that in so many ways - wants to eradicate the past. Especially - vestiges of European heritage.
Listen to Wendy Gray as she clearly articulates what is happening in Auckland as she explains that anyone who is an advocate for trees has now been deemed ’the enemy’ and how vested interests lockstep with other Council interests are running another agenda. One that has no consideration for the ecology and environment of today and tomorrow - where building to the boundary is the way to maximise capital, or maunga (mountain) clearing of mature exotic trees eradicates the past. But, what this is doing is basically causing a greater separation especially for children of today or tomorrow - who may never grow up to the sound of bird song, the rustle of leaves or the fragrance of flowering trees.
Today humanity is caught in the crossroads of tumultuous change that's also a full spectrum assault on the senses of the human condition. Add to this Agenda21 and Agenda2030 and overlay this with lockdowns and a city surrounded by orange cones - 5G and CCTV cameras plus infiltrated with fluoridated water and you will grok that the once free spirit of humanity is now under unprecedented siege.
Wendy Gray - on how nature has to be revered and allowed to express its inherent beauty once again.
www.treeadvocates.com - and click on the logo too.
We must always become vigilnet when these words are mentioned by the MSM and Governmental officials - Public Private Partnership ...
In this interview of Sue Grey, lawyer from Nelson who has also researched Health issues and has a degree in biochemistry, we learn that things are definitely not as they seem. She has been an activist on the battle front over the last decade endeavouring to bring transparency to so many of the issues that now are bearing down on us and now - totally surround us.
She is also the Co leader of the OutDoors Party - Outdoorsparty.co.nz - and sees clearly that humanity and the ecology of our entire biosphere is at the crossroads of either we come together as a ‘conscious’ caring humanity - and in essence a global family … or continue down the path of becoming victims to corporations in cahoots with captured Government - who themselves are caught up in their own self serving agenda to not truly engage and empower the community from the grass roots up. When did you hear them mention ‘empowering the grass roots?’ To relocalise and work cooperatively with NZ’s communities?
I start by thanking Sue for her continuous selfless effort to want to educate the NZ people on ‘other’ specific health issues that are being ignored by the Government and Health Boards. As a lawyer, she could have gone into the corporate structure and become very successful, but she knows that we as a planetary civilisation are at the precipice and as a mother she wants a healthy future and planet for her children.
I wish we had more people both male and female in NZ who are committed as we need more conscious people engaged and activated.
Lock Down - Vaccinate - Reset
Today, sadly - it appears that Western governments globally are working towards locking down their people. With no apparent let up.
This is taking away choice - freedom to choose. Whereas Freedom is one thing - but, it’s also a great ‘discipline’ for us as well.
The issues Sue has been involved in lately is the calling for transparency due to the rapid deployment of 5G - in relation to the lack of research on health and what is the accumulative effect on humans, animals, birds, insects and the vegetable kingdom?
Now Covid and Water Control have impinged on her valuable time.
These below are some of the questions and answers that came up during this interview. That due to time constraints it has been impossible to transcribe this interview - however I trust that ‘you are able to listen’ as there is much valuable information that you need to know.
Because, if you wish to know the full context of what she conveys - please listen - it is only the memory equivalent of 3 or 4 photographs
This link below was a very recent presentation to the NZ Parliamentary Health Committee by Sue and Alan Simmons of the Out Doors Party - on both questioning and stopping the taking of our water rights away from us. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct-AJNY6nT8
In today's interview, Sue was asked that when she was a candidate in the last election here in NZ, did the Labour Government mention or signal back then that if they remained in power they would fluoridate and chlorinate NZ’s water supplies throughout the nation? Was this in their manifestos? She said that as far as she knows - this was never flagged or mentioned.
This being the case, is this not deceitful of our Government to now set about doing this virtually behind our backs? Because this is a gigantic issue that affects the health of the whole nation. Is this what has become of NZ’s socialist Labour Government ? If David Lange ex PM of the 4th Labour government had been alive today, he would surely call his own party out?
Was it Labour’s intention to always want to Nationalise more private property?
Tim mentions that when he was a teenager living near Matamata, in a farming community, the big statement then among some farmers and those involved in small business, was that Labour would eventually, one day - want to nationalise all of our farms, because they were socialists. But, for now they are wanting water …
Thus the question, have our elected representatives in Wellington - run away with their own political party agenda and subtly, but very clearly made it known to all party MP’s that they must not go against the party dictate? Even if the electorate that the MP specifically represents have got an alternative view point and want their elected servant to openly debate that alternative.
‘Toe the party line is the name of the game, especially if you want an interrupted steady income for life.’
Nationalising all Drinking Water Nationwide?
So now we have Labour moving to nationalise our water - and it appears all other parliamentarians (the opposition) are silent. That the Labour Government wants control of all water taken away from District Councils and have the Government through the Department of Health control this life giving resource - the natural commons. Whereas for generations across NZ the District Councils are elected and are answerable to the local electorate. The people. This current situation means centralising Government power towards a ‘command & control’ economy. Like that of the ex Soviet Union. This is where the Central Government can now dictate what it does to our water such as chlorinate and fluoridate all water that is for drinking.
Yes, they have their standardised ‘scientific’ viewpoints but there is ample evidence that fluoridation affects children’s intellectual capabilities. See GreenplanetFM.com - https://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/dr-paul-connett-dr-vyvyan-howard-declan-waugh-fluoride-is-a-neurotoxin-that-reduces-iq-of-children
Then scroll on down to the bottom of this page and there are three other GreenplanetFM.com - links on fluoride.
Even if it’s rainwater from your roof or a spring somewhere on your land, it will come under Government control. This time to add chlorination. Because the Government Health Department who are not elected officials will do the bidding of the Government in power. Which is strange - because for years now - multinational corporations have been extracting water out of various rural areas that have ‘water rights’ situated across NZ. This has been happening for many years and all that water has been free of charge other than a minuscule rental fee. Thus ambiguity continues to this day. Here is an interview of this.
https://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/niki-gladding-should-new-zealand-be-bottling-our-water-and-sending-it-overseas
The Commons
Sue mentions the Magna Carta of 1297 in England. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta - stating that ‘water is in essence a human right’ and that it cannot be taken over as it is an integral part of the web of life and the ‘Global Commons. Listen. The ‘Commons’ needs to be taught at all levels of the educational curriculum - so that NZers become aware of its importance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commons
COVID - this was the 2nd part of the interview.
With regard to the Covid equation Sue mentions that the Government has not complied with the legal requirements to further this Government's agenda it now wants to use lockdowns, when appropriate or needed and to roll out vaccinating the whole country. She has a link on www.outdoorsparty.co.nz - for you to see more.
As a result of this interview - the following is an opinion piece by Tim - apologies for the poor grammar and structure - due to time constraints
Wearing the Public Down
Today rapid change is being forced upon us - usually by corporate expansion and enterprise and abetted by government - especially in the cases of new technologies or land developments etc. These are being continuously deployed or actioned and are forcing change due to their financial power, control and connections. In NZ the Government ‘does its bit’ by asking for submissions from the NZ public. However after decades of being continually ‘on the back foot’ - the concerned and aware public are tired, under resourced and time constrained to have to ‘continually’ complete submissions or sign petitions, that have time constraints on them - that it has become an energy sapping process of continued letter writing, going to meetings, rallies and protests with placards and signs. This is a ‘controlled’ game that the Government carry on because ‘they are all fully paid’ during all these times. As the upper controlling echelons of these political parties always remain in power - for decades. Whilst the struggling electorate are unpaid and continually volunteer to stand up for the rights of the children of today and future generations - as well as the land and the sacredness of the environment, that sustains our very bodies.
It should be incumbent on those wanting to change the laws or release new technologies - that they pay for the public costs of submissions. User pays.
With the Government tying us down in having to write time consuming submissions, attending meetings etc, we have to ask, who really knows anything about the ones who have been chosen (hand picked) to read or listen to these submissions - who may not necessarily be fair adjudicators or discerning of what is being conveyed, or lack the capabilities of being impartial. Hence more and more people within the community don’t believe these officials will carry their concerns forward, but instead defer to the status quo.
The System is Designed to Wear Us Down.
This is a carefully crafted game-plan devised by powerful interests - corporations/bankers in lockstep with whatever current Government is in power, to continually put the populace on the back foot and ‘wear them down’.
Because they have the resources and connections to power, big money, lawyers etc they eventually steam roll the little person and the ordinary man into submission. Meanwhile, the politicians draw their salary, smug in the thought that they are above it all, and are still ‘seen to be giving the people a chance’ - to voice their opinion. This is where 21st century politics has descended and no wonder people have become cynical of the political process.
What is Agenda21 and Agenda2030
We now have Agenda21 and Agenda2030 being sneakily enacted (infiltrated) across the country whilst an unconscious NZ public are totally distracted with countless other issues. Especially with Covid, contact tracing and the population being ‘readied’ for mass vaccinations, (and there may not be any trace of the Covid19 in the vaccine itself). There is so much going on. However the ‘astute’ people within the NZ public have gone around MSM and via Social Media (and it has its pitfalls) - and these people are wising up. Especially now since the Governments open door immigration policies - these many new immigrants are realising that back in their country of birth - the Covid ‘thing’ - is taking many various and strange twists - see what’s happening in Israel, Britain and South Africa but essentially all of Europe and that the farmers of India are not becoming infected! Check out Globalresearch.ca - in this case - https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-2020-worldwide-corona-crisis-destroying-civil-society-engineered-economic-depression-global-coup-detat-and-the-great-reset/5730652
The Wellbeing Budget, though a World First is it a Red Herring?
At present the current NZ Government has a ‘Wellbeing Budget’ which is touted as a world leading initiative - and it is - it sounds fantastic, warm, and signifies compassion. That it is produced by a Government that cares and is kind - but look behind it and there is another story. It parallels all the ubiquitous orange cones that you constantly see on so many roads and streets throughout NZ. They are training us and conditioning us to ‘stay in line’ and to obey and stop on demand. To slow us down. It’s a program that is deftly applied under the theme of public safety.
The Wellbeing Budget has some exceptionally good contingencies but it’s a red herring to showcase that the Labour lead government supposedly cares. Yet, if it is truly honest it will show health statistics that are going through the roof - Sugar usage in food and drink increases, cheap unhealthy cooking oils, obesity increases, junk food increases, medication for depression increases, divorce increases, family violence increases, mental health increases, tooth decay - suicides (numbers are now suppressed etc) Accomodation costs increases, housing increases, immigration to pay for escalating infrastructure increases. It will also show the increased use of Monsanto’s glyphosate to spray complete paddocks ‘orange’ and that much of the Recycling System is being surreptitiously hidden in landfills. Even the continued poison 1080 use and who actually owns this company. The list goes on and the snowball gathers pace, whilst every day Joe Sixpack and Caroline Cardigan - grimly stare into their 72 inch telly, programmed and hypnotised by the 6pm news and worried that the All Blacks rugby team may lose and that their pizza delivery better not be late …
Here is Dr Ron Colman being interviewed in July 2018 on ‘genuine success indicators’ - this will bring home what it is meant to have transparent government and the challenges in implementing such a far reaching and important policy. https://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/ron-colman-genuine-economic-indicators
Is the NZ Media Captured by the State?
New Zealanders who are in their late 60’s, 70’s and 80’s realise from past experience that the NZ media seems to be coming part of the system’ - nearly like Pravda and Izvestia that were the mouthpiece of the failed Soviet Union and the communist agenda. That NZ media appears to be toeing the government line and we have to ask is it daily edging closer towards George Orwell's 1984? They have recently received $50 million from this Government and have tame journalists that will not question any discrepancies that Sue Grey points out in the Covid roll out. Especially within the acquiescent parliamentary press gallery. This Government has made financial handouts to MSM to keep them silent especially with the 5G health narrative and now with Covid and the planned vaccination of every soul that inhabits Aotearoa. There are more questions than answers that are being ignored.
Phone and book a time and take a delegation to visit your MP at their electoral office, don’t go alone - because unity is strength. Tell them that their vote hinges on ‘this meeting.’
COVID
Doctors here in NZ will not speak out about Covid Vaccines because the NZ Medical Association answers to big Pharma - which is basically based in America but with ties to Britain and other pharmaceutical corporations in Europe. Which in essence is a global control mechanism that goes back to ties to the Rockefeller’s in the USA. Hence Doctors are too afraid to speak their minds because they are terrified that they will have their license to practice revoked. This is a worldwide phenomenon and Big Pharma is in essence a legalised drug cartel and they are totally against any natural therapies because these cannot be patented. So whenever you see your doctor - he or she is very constrained in what they can say for fear of losing their licence and basically become unemployable. Note that John D Rockefeller and his son David, who recently died at 104 were ardent uses of homeopathy - just like the British Royal Family. Can you connect some dots here?
Note, hydroxychloroquine was mentioned as a cure for covid especially if you got to the patient within the first 24 hours or so. However Big Pharma instantly came out globally and clamped down on it and actually stopped it being sold here in NZ even though hydroxychloriquine has been on the market here for over 20 years. Remember how Dr Simone Gold and America's Front Line Doctors were excoriated by the US Corporate controlled media, for even mentioning that this was a cure for covid - such is the power of Big Pharma in lockstep with the 6 media conglomerates that control the US and the 7th being the BBC out of Britain.
A Global Government Coup?
In the interview with Bill Watson 3 weeks ago - he mentioned that we are in the middle of a global coup especially in the West. However controlled MSM does not focus on this at all (Why would they? As they are the communication arm for it) - and in fact do everything to obscure the fact - choosing to give us scattered news items that distract us into a fragmented understanding of the global situation.
Unbeknown to most, there is a battle going on for the soul of our planet, by those that do not believe in soul, or are anti-soul. Bill intimated for those adept enough to grok the big picture that under the guise of Covid - the plan is that Bill and Melinda Gates are to vaccinate the whole human race with an untested vaccine that more and more independent and courageous doctors are saying - is not even a vaccine. Note that Sue in this Interview says’ that there is no responsibility by the vaccine manufacturers in the case of any health or death issues that may result.’ They get a free pass. Listen to her share how Grant Robertson our Government Minister brought this in.
Sue says anyone who takes the vaccine is part of a global experiment.
The Great Reset
This is also the ‘planned’ time for the Great Reset. This has been touted by the World Economic Forum out of Davos Switzerland - to be put in place across the whole Western world. (and eventually beyond) This being ‘guided’ by Klaus Schwab as the only way forward and this will bring us the digital currency - and the end of the fiat cash regime and that we will not have any cash. ‘That we will eventually not own anything and that we will be (laughably) - happy.’ The end result will be that we will be living in the Fourth Industrial revolution where the Surveillance State will become the Security State all connected in the ubiquitous silent 24/7/365 day silent hum of 5G wireless frequencies that will interfere with our bodies health - but this does not matter because we are also in the midst of a depopulation agenda that Roy Harlow so sadly over the last two weeks expounded on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones
When you die before the vaccine - you only die of COVID - when you die after the vaccine - you die by everything but the vaccine …
It’s an Experimental Vaccine
The Vaccine manufactures have no liability if any injuries or deaths occur. The vaccine manufactures have it both ways - a free pass, to both riches and no responsibility.
No responsibility for ongoing daily health
Health - the NZ Government Health Authorities are not telling us how to be healthy - by taking brisk walks in nature swimming - being barefoot on the grass, breathing fresh air - eating vital organic food, drinking unsanitised ‘vital’ water - Yes it’s expensive - but get innovative and grow food in tubs - take some time out in sunshine and taking vitamin C. It is relatively cheap now.
Eating Supermarket Factory and Industrial food is not going to bring ultimate health and vitality to your being.
Use this as your search engine.
DUCKDUCKGO.com - for all your searches - far more than Google as it does not censor.
The vaccine was not brought in for COVID - COVID was brought in for the Vaccine - once you understand this - everything makes sense.
Higher discernment . Always important … so we encourage you to do your own research …
Also - How much joy do you experience? - Tim and Sue talk health and wellbeing and that we have to take time to regroup internally and that meditation and prayer are important to becoming present. That thankfulness and gratefulness are a daily practice etc
Sue’s web addresses.
www.letsbefree.com
Outdoorsparty.co.nz
suegrey.co.nz
Forget about who the messenger is - just listen to this 2009 message.
https://davidicke.com/2021/03/29/david-icke-predicting-the-covid-hoax-in-detail-in-2009-but-theres-no-conspiracy-zzzzzzzz/
Youtube alternatives:
Bitchute.com
Brighteon.com
Rumble.com - check covid
ForbiddenKnowledgeTV.net
Beforeitsnews.com - it is VERY out there - so I encourage higher discernment
UKColumn.org - in Britain - very good.
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act - George Orwell.
https://envirowatchrangitikei.wordpress.com/2021/02/19/hear-nz-lawyer-sue-grey-speak-on-informed-consent-your-legal-rights-around-vaccination/
https://www.americasfrontlinedoctors.com/exclusive-former-pfizer-vp-to-aflds-entirely-possible-this-will-be-used-for-massive-scale-depopulation/
Exclusive: Former Pfizer VP to AFLDS: ‘Entirely possible this will be used for massive-scale depopulation’
March 25, 2021 | Comments Offon Exclusive: Former Pfizer VP to AFLDS: ‘Entirely possible this will be used for massive-scale depopulation’
by Mordechai Sones
America’s Frontline Doctors (AFLDS) spoke to former Pfizer Vice President and Chief Science Officer Dr. Mike Yeadon about his views on the COVID-19 vaccine, hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin, the regulatory authorities, and more.
At the outset, Dr. Yeadon said “I’m well aware of the global crimes against humanity being perpetrated against a large proportion of the worlds population.
“I feel great fear, but I’m not deterred from giving expert testimony to multiple groups of able lawyers like Rocco Galati in Canada and Reiner Fuellmich in Germany.
“I have absolutely no doubt that we are in the presence of evil (not a determination I’ve ever made before in a 40-year research career) and dangerous products.
“In the U.K., it’s abundantly clear that the authorities are bent on a course which will result in administering ‘vaccines’ to as many of the population as they can. This is madness, because even if these agents were legitimate, protection is needed only by those at notably elevated risk of death from the virus. In those people, there might even be an argument that the risks are worth bearing. And there definitely are risks which are what I call ‘mechanistic’: inbuilt in the way they work.
“But all the other people, those in good health and younger than 60 years, perhaps a little older, they don’t perish from the virus. In this large group, it’s wholly unethical to administer something novel and for which the potential for unwanted effects after a few months is completely uncharacterized.
“In no other era would it be wise to do what is stated as the intention.
“Since I know this with certainty, and I know those driving it know this too, we have to enquire: What is their motive?
“The good news is that there are multiple choices available: hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, budesonide (inhaled steroid used in asthmatics), and of course oral Vitamin D, zinc, azithromycin etc. These reduce the severity to such an extent that this virus did not need to become a public health crisis.”
Moderna Chief Medical Officer Admits mRNA Alters DNA by Suzanne Hamner
Several prominent physicians, doctors, Sons of Liberty Media Health and Wellness expert Kate Shemirani, her colleague Dr. Kevin Corbett, and I have postulated that the current experimental mRNA injection for coronavirus, aka COVID-19, could alter one’s genetic code or DNA. Bill Gates stated it, which was included in my video “Human Genome 8 and mRNA Vaccine” on Brighteon.com. It is one reason the term “experimental human genome altering mRNA injection” has been used to describe the jab being foisted onto the mostly unsuspecting public.
While many in the media, Dr. Anthony Fauci and his merry band of chronic liars, and “fact checkers” have declared this claim as false, a video of a TEDx Beacon Street talk by Tal Zaks, chief medical officer of Moderna, Inc., one pharmaceutical company manufacturer of the experimental mRNA technology injection, confirms mRNA injection for COVID-19 can change your genetic code or DNA. This TEDx Beacon Street talk occurred in 2017. H/T to YouTube channel Silview Media Backup Channel.
Zaks calls it “hacking the software of life”. In the first minute of the video Zaks states, “we’ve been living this phenomenal digital scientific revolution, and I’m here today to tell you, that we are actually hacking the software of life, and that it’s changing the way we think about prevention and treatment of disease.” [Emphasis mine.]
He even repeats that they (Moderna) think of it like an operating system, which the Moderna website indicates as “Our Operating System”.
At one minute in, Zaks states, “In every cell there’s this thing called messenger RNA or mRNA for short, that transmits the critical information from the DNA in our genes to the protein, which is really the stuff we’re all made out of. This is the critical information that determines what the cell will do. So we think about it as an operating system. …. So if you could actually change that, … if you could introduce a line of code, or change a line of code, it turns out, that has profound implications for everything, from the flu to cancer.” [Emphasis mine.]
When “changing” a line of code or “introducing” a line of code” (referring to DNA), the “code” or DNA is then altered, meaning the individual or “subject” has now had their genome changed to what the “scientists” have coded. The individual or subject is no longer a creation of God but a creation of man, meaning the individual or subject could be the object of a “patent”. He goes on to say, the mRNA would tell the cells to “code” for the protein of the “virus”. This “viral protein” is foreign to the body. The individual’s body is making a foreign protein the immune system is to attack. When the body makes a protein the immune system then attacks, your immune system is attacking a protein your body is making, meaning what is occurring in an “auto-immune response” or “auto-immune disease”.
This has been repeated a number of times by experts, physicians, nurses and countless others. As readers can see, none of us were “whistling Dixie”. Zaks talks about turning this system on; however, there is no way to turn it off. When do the cells know to stop making this “viral protein”? The cells don’t; therefore, this continues for the duration.
In a normal vaccine, the immune system attacks the limited amount of “particles” in the adjuvant to produce antibodies or immune response that the body can recognize at a later time if the individual comes in contact with the same or similar “particle”.
The study Zaks cites at the 3:12 minute mark can be found and read here. The abstract is contained on the NIH Pub Med Library website. In the full test of the study on ResearchGate, the mention of “Luciferase” occurs on page 10.
A crucial piece of information in this study is contained on page 4 – “Ferrets immunized with 200 micrograms and challenged
[exposed to influenza H7N9 via IN (intranasal)] on day 49 had viral loads below the level of detection”. If a viral load was
“below the level of detection”, two questions emerge: 1) did the ferrets even contract H7N9 through intranasal challenge;
and, 2) if a viral load is below the level of detection, how do you know the animals even had a viral load?
This would bring into question the efficacy of the injection. Moreover, the studies Zaks cites as occurring in humans only lasted approximately 18 months.
At about the 4:00 minute mark, Zaks begins discussing mRNA vaccines for cancer. Immediately following that, Zaks discusses a children’s condition where a gene or “code” is missing that causes production of a certain enzyme critical for metabolism where the current treatment is to transplant an entire organ – in this case, the liver. Zaks proposes to inject mRNA that codes for the missing gene, a gene contained in DNA on the human genome, it would “correct” the genetic defect.
Ask this question: what causes the cells/body to produce needed enzymes/proteins? Zaks answers that by saying the genetic code or DNA. So, mRNA has to alter a genetic code or the DNA for the body to produce the proteins of COVID-19 for the body to mount an immune response.
Out of the words of Tal Zaks of Moderna, mRNA can alter the human genome. Whether by design or “unintended consequences”, this technology is being used to do just that. He calls this “information therapy”; although, some would call it “mad science”. In attempts to “rewrite” genetic code to correct defects, studies have shown there were “cascading failures”. In other words, changing one “defective gene” in one genome caused other genes to “fail” or cause problems. And, it was not just one subsequent gene becoming defective, but many. This is more than likely why there are over 400 adverse events surrounding the experimental mRNA injection.
So, the next time someone claims these “vaccines” do not alter the human genome or DNA, you can refer that individual to Tal Zaks of Moderna, Inc. who claims otherwise. Dr. Fauci should be eating some four and twenty blackbird (crow) pie.
No sitting back - but being sovereign within one's own being and 'consciously' encouraging all actions and initiatives conducive of right livelihood, neighbourhood support and a fully active localised community as being imperative overarching acts to involve ourselves - 24/7.
Then recognising that this is a planetary event. We the people have to ‘consciously’ take our whole planet back for the betterment of our children’s future and not Corporate dominance with Governments in lockstep towards totalitarian control over humanity.
That Roy's assessment of the present situation was the heading of this weeks interview: Humanity should join the Alliance to separate from the Deep State
We, as we read this, are in an undeclared state of war on the human species and all biota within the planetary biosphere.
When we take in all the elements that make up the web of life that embraces our planet - we witness the decline of air quality, see the ‘global dimming’ video as in Geoengineeringwatch.org - as well as the challenges around drinking water and that both the NZ Govt and the UK Government are pushing for fluoridation of all municipal drinking water in both countries.
But also, the poor state of brooks, creeks, streams, lakes and rivers. Whilst the seas and oceans are continuously under threat. Just listen to the unrelenting silence leaking out of Fukushima into the Sea of Japan and the greater Blue Pacific ocean.
Yet, it is also the sacredness of the land that is taking the brunt of human impact too. The erosion of billions of tonnes of silt and soil that run off our valuable countryside and farmlands globally. Not to mention what is flowing out of the Amazon basin due to unbridled deforestation. Plus other river deltas everywhere.
But to reiterate, that is only another part of it. NZs government is in the grips of wanting to fluoridate all municipal water supplies as they endeavour to take 'authority' away from Local Councils and put this all into the Department of Health's hands. That means Dr Ashley Blomfield who was trained and enabled by the World Health Organisation (the WHO) - which is now virtually and forcibly taking away the democratic rights and governance from we, the NZ people.
Notice that the UK Government is calling for this at this very moment too. Which begs the question is there a global coordination going on under the aegis of Agenda21? Note that by 1984 almost 66% of the Australian population had access to fluoridated drinking water, represented by 850 towns and cities.
Now there is the chlorination of all water being pushed by our NZ Government too. (Note; I was with a Munich official in Germany recently whose was flabbergasted that we in NZ are sanitising our water and wanting to use it as a means of mass medication). No wonder the dumbing down process is winning the race to the bottom.
It is relentless - look at the chemicalisation of our food system - herbicides, fungicides, insecticides, 1080, now with the extra hidden dangers of 5G wireless frequencies. No wonder children are suffering from allergies and autoimmune problems as well as anxieties that health researchers talk about comorbidities of different ailments overlapping into one large undiagnosed disease. Because these are all new ailments.
We are presently on the back foot when we need to be on the front foot - that natural, healthy methods have basically got the human race to where we are today over tens of thousands of years. Now we are being subjected to an onslaught of chemical attack with little long term testing. See how long the testing of the latest vaccines have had? We are all guinea pigs now - or are we in Roys estimate - part of a larger plan called ‘depopulation’
With participatory democracy the only way we can come through this - it is up to us - all of us, to make an effort locally and set up cooperative cells of ‘conscious’ participants and start connecting with other ‘conscious’ cells and continue with this process. Farmers markets are one of the best places to start this initiative - especially to purchase organic food and get away from factory and industrial food that is in so many ways devoid of ‘life force’ and freshness.
Then we realise that we are an Alliance of good-hearted beings that can see and separate ourselves from the un-human excesses of the Deep State. That is, the Corporations who have never really been here for the altruistic benefit of humanity - this includes the Alphabet Agencies and the so-called ‘Great Reset’ and the controllers behind them.
The intrusion into our lives of media that through ubiquitous 72 inch TV sets is hypnotising us, especially young and impressionable minds to not think but to obey - this war for the minds of the people of planet earth is being stepped up daily as MSM endeavours to program the very fabric of a society that essentially just wants to love their children, give them a wide education that includes self discipline and allow them to have the freedom to travel and eventually settle down in a healthy home and environment and experience nature and what it is - to be human.
In this interview, Roy intimates that in response to the imposition of the Great Reset from the World Economic Forum being promulgated by Klaus Schwab the warm and cuddly spokesperson for the World Economic Forum, there is another more caring and conscious way forward.
The WEF is an extension of the Rothschild, Rockefeller clique who are using buzzwords to set their vision of the world of the future by not mentioning the end game which is full immersion into an electronic wireless world of the Fourth industrial revolution. A world devoid of organic nature and the web of life - ‘but its focus on - the means justifies the ends’ - with 24/7 surveillance, ‘no joy’ - factory and industrial food and water - abeyance on multiple levels and though never mentioned - the imposition of computer chip implants and the transhuman agenda - where they will lobotomise us of our spirituality and will shoehorn out of us - all connection to soul.
There is no Love or heart-filled stories coming out of the World Economic Forum - for every child to be brought up in a warm loving family and that all can grow into the light of our own true selves - it’s not factored into their banker driven profit and loss controlled realty. Have a read … https://www.sott.net/article/449635-Decoding-Davos-The-Global-Endgame
Yet, whilst the WEF promotes their ‘cool’ agenda there is also another game in play and it is the new quantum banking system that is vying with the WEF. This supposedly is a fairer system and will be more beneficial for the bulk of the human race.
It also is premised on new free energy systems, disclosure of previous civilisations like what they have found in Antarctica recently - as well as they recovered spacecraft and that ‘they’ we have studied the bodies of this craft - per Captain Edgar Mitchell 4th man on the moon.
There is also the possibility of new healing modalities called Med Beds - where softer frequencies and plasma fields can heal our bodies on mental and emotional realms. This is big. https://americaoutloud.com/the-quantum-healing-technologies-of-med-beds/
This is what the Alliance is about. Good ‘conscious’ humans who are devoted to world service and not service to self. This is the emerging story whose time has come - the new awakening of humanity able to finally work towards its full potential as an emergent global family of 7.8 billion beings.
There were many other subjects covered in this interview - so please, when you are at home, cooking or tidying the kitchen - this is a good time to listen.
Internet Connections
Search with - duckduckgo.com
Use these below, alongside YouTube.
Bitchute.com
Brighteon.com
Rumble.com - (check covid)
ForbiddenKnowledgeTV.net
Beforeitsnews.com - it is VERY out there - so I encourage ‘higher’ discernment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMsn0bj_P6o - Israeli - medical apartheid interview with Ilana Rachel Daniel
Going Forward Together in Unity Consciousness
The key to going forward is to find other good people who are questioning everything - and if they are aware that ‘we are spiritual beings having an earth experience experience’ and address this - because as we become more ‘conscious’ we also become more caring in how we relate to others and to nature as well.
Never did we ever think that we would be in this chaotic and tumultuous of times - though many of us inherently knew that we would be seeing major change and shifts in perspectives - it is only when it actually happens - as what we are experiencing now are we realising the seriousness of the transformation that we are in.
Yes, we know we are in an evolutionary stage - which is painful and disturbing for most and we also are aware that there are certain forces who want to control us - especially by electronic surveillance means. However, are these forces compassionate? Do they see us as a community of beings worthy of sharing and receiving goodwill? Are they promoting participative democracy - are they willing to have open debates and town hall meetings?
Remember your neighbor's - team up and neighbour up and come together as conscious cells and conscious clusters of cells.
As Roy extolls - we have to connect and bring God back into our lives.
God has never abandoned us - it is we who have abandoned God.
You Will Know Them by Their Fruits
"Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves."
New King James Version
Roy Harlow - RushFM.co.nz
Exercising our humanity and protecting the youth and our common future.
There are layers of uncertainty warping across NZ today - people are time-constrained to get to the truth - the Government continues telling us that they are the only source of truth - but 10s of thousands of doctors in their droves have signed the Barrington Declaration for example - stating that the Covid 19 fiasco - has been completely overblown and that the truth is emerging that it is being used to enforce a lockdown strategy of the human race - that we need to be all vaccinated that in Roys words is a depopulation program.
This is the first time in history when the world’s people have been quarantined - because it has always been that the sick people have been quarantined - so this is a reverse standard imposed on us by the governing bodies. Roy says that he does not know if it has worked - because there are a lot of knock-on contingencies that have appeared - that we are not aware of that have happened during the lockdown. Like how many people missed out on having an operation and passed away - or died of anxiety. This has amplified the many suicides that have been, (and kept silent) plus how many divorces, family breakdowns, and businesses have failed. That many people are now unemployed and traumatised - for the downside effects have been far-reaching especially when we look at the statistics of who has died of Vovid19 in a country of 5 million people.
Suspicion is increasing rapidly in the public consciousness.
People are becoming more suspicious - they are seeing things not add up - other information coming from other sources - overseas family and contact from Britain where anyone who goes to the UK Column - https://www.ukcolumn.org/ will see just how profound the lies are. Especially in Germany, who know what a police state does to a nation (more so East Germany who went from Nazism to Communism) are now pushing back on the government and the WHO plus MSM who are totally in lockstep with their Government narrative. More so since the NZ Government has given the MSM media here $50 million to 'smooth the narrative' going forward.
Roy says that as an outsider from another country now living in NZ he has witnessed that as a small country we have been trained to depend on the Government and we have been trained to accept ‘so called’ authorities - especially in the medical sector as well as our education system which is also training us to obey and these systems are not really 'up to speed' in times of turmoil.
Remember how slack our border security and biosecurity were - when it was exceptionally porous after 28 March 2020 for many months. It was a major fluke that we were not overrun with Covid. Which most of the alternative press and many medical authorities are still today stating that Covid is a very potent flu virus. That is where the battle lines are formed today right until this moment. We get all the Covid stats but no influenza statistics. The status quo says that's 'because we have all been wearing masks and staying home - but we have not been locked down for all this time and very few have been wearing masks. Look at the furor that continues due to them saying wear two masks now.
Anyone who believes Dr. Faucie these days hasn't looked at his previous history and who he is linked to. A very questionable character.
Same for Bill Gates - listen to what we say about his activities over the last few years
Also, that medicine is still a pill orientated system - established health authorities are using pharmaceutical drugs whilst at the same time are not understanding that we - the human being are a component living in a seamless vehicle - of body, mind and spirit that has mental and emotional needs as well. We are not just a 3-dimensional machine that can be tinkered with. Yet for millennia and centuries, we have used nature as our healer - Hippocrates stating "let medicine be our food and our food be our medicine." Let nature and diet be the cure.
Note that John D Rockefeller and his son David who died 18 months ago at 104 years of age - that 'their healing modality of choice' was homeopathy and yet they publicly decried it and instead became the largest corporate dispensary of drugs. Mostly made from oil (which they owned, Standard oil became Exxon).
So the health game globally has been rigged - just like virtually everything else. i.e Diamonds, gold, silver etc etc.
We are being snooped on and censored at various levels.
Roy says that the most important pill to swallow has to be taken and digested. He says that humanity is now caught in a vast depopulation agenda and that we have to do our own research ASAP - because Google, Facebook, Twitter and other social media outlets plus all the huge tech corporations from Silicon Valley are in this too - and are censoring us in our tens of thousands - hundreds of thousands and millions - globally by not allowing the general public to access information and knowledge that empowers us.
Here at GreenplanetFM.com - I have noticed the increasing censorship to the degree I can ask a very direct question - questioning a corporation for example and Google will give me sanitised links, where by using Duckduckgo.com - or https://brave.com/ it will bring up information that Google deliberately hides. There are other web browsers that assist you against prying 'deep state' operators - but we can not guarantee the security that you may require because they all pass through the NSA - military spy base of Waihopai in Blenheim in NZ's South Island - where all texts, faxes, phone calls and web everything is syphoned up and stored and if there is a need to know - looked at over time etc etc blah blah.
Depopulation
However beyond this - Roy says that the unappetising truth is that there is an active depopulation agenda that is building up and it is increasing at an ever-faster rate, because as was mentioned in last weeks interview - the Great Reset by Klaus Schwabb of the Global Economic Forum says when he and his team of Rothschild bankers - that when they are finished with us we will own nothing and we will all be happy!
This depopulation program is stealthily being applied - and when dot-connecting becomes foremost in one's mind you can see ... how they all connect.
So I am asking you as a reader to mull this over and digest this information if your life depended on it - because in truth ... it does ...
With the present NZ government fast-tracking the chlorination and fluoridation of all water - in our once 'clean green' country - plus allowing farmers to spray whole paddocks with Monsanto’s glyphosate and then allowing cows to come in on the fourth day to eat this 'contaminated' pasture - What is the future of milk products in NZ and overseas?
To then have 1080 be dropped in thousands of tons across ‘once’ clean and green NZ. It is madness. Whilst the NZ Green Party kowtows to a hidden agenda.
Also, that the NZ Government still refuses to encourage NZers to grow their own organic food and especially to want NZ to be the organic food basket for the Pacific Basin - why? Because they obviously have no interest in human health and wellbeing - the Government's 'Wellbeing' budget though sounding wonderful and world-leading - is not interested in anything natural and organic.
There is also geoengineering and solar radiation dispersal - using aircraft to 'spray' microparticles at altitude in an extremely risky experiment - of deploying barium, aluminum and strontium into our precious atmosphere and environment. This then returns to earth and has a subtle increasing effect on all biota especially microflora - that the NZ authorities have no inclination and or resources to do any research and check up on what is going on.
https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/ - what is happening to our atmosphere - the 'Dimming' - is featured.
Roy gives a list if you would care to listen.
He further states that the old people are being targeted - as they in their 70's 80's and 90's have had the best education of our era. They were trained in critical thinking and problem solving such as being drilled in arithmetic - mathematics. They did not need and depend on calculators These are the people who have not been as deeply programmed to obey. Not only that they have a wealth of knowledge from becoming wise to all the pitfalls of life and they have no one to share this valuable life information with.
Whereas our younger generations over the last 4 decades have been virtually lobotomised from seeing the increasing declines of our environment as well as the ethical and moral malaise that we have found ourselves in - where 'anything goes as long as you do not get caught!' That ethics, principles and values (even scruples) are seen as laughable - that 'get it whilst it's hot' seems to be the mantra of MSM in all their advertisements. It's a total sham. You will notice that once universities were to study the universe - that is where the root of the word comes from. Now Universities are just training and programming departments to indoctrinate our youth to become a faceless part of a huge global corporate machine - where one works in cubicles as uncreative and obeying consumers - destined to a life of unfulfillment. Hence there are too many people on this planet so let's rid ourselves of all the unconscious people before they twig to what is happening to them and their family.
Yes - Universities do some experimenting and research - however, it is usually at the behest of a corporation that has bequeathed them money and hence the connection.
We need to teach self-sufficiency in our schools - but the bulk of academics and intellectuals are so disconnected from the environment themselves - they see the environment and trees just as a stage backdrop, to allow them to live out their own drama. They are unaware of how many breaths they take every minute. They are totally unconscious of the web of life in which they are enmeshed in. We now don't know how to be self-sufficient in food, medicine, energy and shelter. We have lost the know-how to live at a localised level. We are now increasingly dependent on a planned obsolescent plastic component from North Asia to solve our apparent dilemma.
If you push someone into a survival situation today they will become close to being traumatised not knowing where to start. Where once we had cubs and scouts where we were taught to be prepared - same for brownies and girl guides - but the hip and casual cool elements of society - discourages this - let’s just leave it to market forces. However - the skill to grow food, source fresh water - make temporary shelter may become very important in our rapidly changing future. Where once the British army after World War Two said of NZers as being 'long lean and ranging' - today if it came to describing the average NZ man as quite possibly - being the inverse of that.
Such is the deliberate dumbing down of the NZ schooling system at the hands of the elite from so called halls of higher education. Note that NZ has become the greatest failure at student maths. Well of course we won the race to the bottom - because very few parents are not interested - deferring to 'trusting the system' when we can not trust the system.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/300178702/new-zealand-students-record-worst-results-in-maths-and-science#:~:text=republished%20with%20permission.-,New%20Zealand's%2013%2Dyear%2Dolds%20have%20recorded%20their%20worst%2D,international%20maths%20and%20science%20test.&text=123RF-,New%20Zealand's%2013%2Dyear%2Dolds%20have%20recorded%20their%20worst%2D,in%20the%20test%20in%202019.
Now if you put an old person into a survival situation - well … they will say no problem. The women can preserve all types of food. Can sew and make clothes and grow food in a garden. The men can build a protective wall around the property, make a fire, build shelter, dig drainage and pipe in water. These skills are still here - but in 10 years' time - they will all nearly be gone.
Global Media Lockstep with Corporations and Governments
The biggest problem and challenge facing us is the deception of the global media - Roy covers this deception that they are engaged in. That the NZ government 'gave' to NZ media radio, TV and Press $50 million (yes I repeat this) so as to give the population of this fair country the information that they need to hear and take on.
The Covid controversy - Contrary information is now coming out world wide that directly opposes the storyline coming from MSM. We have the Great Barrington Declaration https://gbdeclaration.org/
As well as Robert Kennedy Jr - https://childrenshealthdefense.org/ - who are exposing the lies perpetrated by the doctors such as Professor Neil Ferguson of Imperial College in England who will be seen to be one of the most deceitful scientists of the Covid era - for his shameful predictions that initiated the first global lockdown.
The Agenda
Roy states that the agenda is non human - non productive and especially assisting growth for maturing of the human species. They are stifling that and engaging in reducing the human population - this is a massive attack on humanity and the 7.8 billions souls sharing breath as of this moment. But, it is being done so stealthily that the normies - who are watching TV, the footy or the yachting - who will still eat industrial and factory food and drink and think the Government is doing a good job - are hypnotised into not having to think any more - and the 'authorities' who should know better are keeping their head down and drawing their salary - letting this Agenda creep up on us as you read this.
Agenda21 and Agenda2030.
Roy says, Remember Pastor Martin Niemöller of Nazi Germany who is perhaps best known for the quotation:
First, they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out — because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/martin-niemoeller-first-they-came-for-the-socialists#:~:text=Martin%20Niem%C3%B6ller%20(1892%E2%80%931984),I%20did%20not%20speak%20out%E2%80%A6%E2%80%9D
Well in NZ , Australia, America, Europe and elsewhere the ACTIVISTS are speaking out. The Activists are the courageous ones - they are prepared to speak up for the children of today and tomorrow
Who will speak out for them when they are silenced?
Roy then talks about two systems vying for global dominance.
There is Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum and the Great Reset that is coming in under the cover of these Covid Crises - which uses the selling point by 2030 we will own nothing and we will be happy. It includes ‘nice’ buzz words taking care of the environment - well what have they been doing for the last 50 years? Compassion - when have they shown any empathy for anyone? And transhumanism - the denial of our soul - the denial of the sacred - to become a robot that will become part of the Borg.
https://www.weforum.org/focus
Then there is the new Quantum Financial system that 195 countries have signed up to that will be completely gold-backed - as of now, 23 currencies have been accepted. Because of the use of Gold - the monetary system will become stable and the value of the money won't change. They are eventually going to take out the variations due to the exchange rates ...
This was signed in October 2019 - they are going to allow possible 10 cryptocurrencies - this has not been made public - so this may be new to you. This will initiate the NESARA and GESARA programs and will replenish the public purse ... that has been robbed by the banking system for the last century. Blockchain technologies will be integral within this system.
Note that the Swift system was canceled on the 1st of November ...
Watch this space.
Back to our neighbourhood and local community.
Sharing food as neighbours - it's so easy - what you have a surplus of - we can share across the fence - however, there is a Law here in NZ that states that it is illegal to share food. It's in the books, the Statutes. I wonder who was the politician who shepherded this bill through Parliament? That they then voted it in too. Under the Food Safety Act - The Govt as yet are not enforcing this Act - but it's on the books and 'a government' clamping down on the nation could enforce it - though it would cause a mother of all back lashes ... kiwi's will be super incensed. So watch this space too. Because what reason would they put this through as it does not recognise neighbourly behaviour - we the people need to research as to why our servants in parliament in Wellington rammed that bill through - totally at odds with human nature!
But - we trusted our 'elected servants' and this is what they did behind our backs.
We talked about waking up at around 2.30am or 3am and many people are awake then. Roy in a previous interview raised the question that electronic pulses are sent out at various times across local wireless systems at an in-audible frequency 'something' that penetrates our sleeping minds and wakes us up. As if it is an experiment to keep humanity from falling deeper into sleep where we can become totally rested and enter deeper dream cycles. The following day results in 'brain fog' - can follow.
Tim mentioned that he wears airline eye covers to keep himself in total darkness - due to street lights intruding into the room at night -
Listen to 5G suburban lighting - the authorities have taken away the golden light - that aids sleep and replaced it with a bluish stark light which is more detrimental to sleep patterns.
That all analogue power meters have been replaced across the whole country with ‘smart metres’ and they took the analogue meters to the dump - so we can now not go back to the safer older system.
There are heaps for you to learn from this deeply spiritual man - especially the last few moments at the end of this delightfully inspiring interview.
Roy Harlow
www.RushFM.co.nz
Some informative web browsing for you:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/c0NjGwNZc7cI/ - Dr Vernon Coleman
https://www.bitchute.com/video/cEwlDQT2n7ri/ PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING IN ISRAEL
https://www.bitchute.com/video/MBIZ83eqjTfj/ Senator Scott Jensen Minnesota
https://www.bitchute.com/video/bEvZ2IASdoIc/ THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL - GREEN AND YELLOW BADGES (10 MAR 2021)
https://www.brighteon.com/688ebc19-d6c2-4527-b28e-dd5457a9994d World Doctors Speak Out 2 minute clips by 12 medical professionals
https://www.brighteon.com/3eab6f0e-3ac6-481f-a66d-d12759a897c6
https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/klaus-schwab-and-the-fourth-reich/
Kia kaha and Aroha - Keep your inner candle burning strongly
Kia Ora and good day to you all - I have been away from the radio for a while because of the need to rest and do the usual recharge - but also take in information to build my knowingness as well as rekindle the fire of my innermost interior - you know ... as in keeping my flame healthily glowing.
As you very well know with Covid surrounding us - we now live in a tumultuous world we have found ourselves in. To us living here in Nuclear Free New Zealand - we have never experienced as a whole country such turmoil - though when the Christchurch earthquakes hit 10 years ago, our Christchurch kin - suffered thousands of after-shocks for years that were psychologically traumatising for the people of that city and local surroundings.
Today we are nearing the anniversary of the first Covid lockdown on the 28th of March of last year and then just last week for those on the East Coast and the North of New Zealand - we experienced the real threat of a tsunami shake us out of bed - to rapidly move to higher ground - this has increased the daily psychological pressure on our nation's people - like never before since mobilising hundreds of thousands and sending many off to war back in 1940 to 1945.
So as of this moment countrywide we are on lockdown 1 and with only Auckland City in lockdown two.
And as of 6 March 2021, New Zealand has had a total of 2,398 cases (2,042 confirmed and 356 probable. 26 people have died from the virus, with cases recorded in all twenty district health boards. However, we need to question how did all areas of NZ come into contact with Covid? But there is also a larger question and that of the 26 deaths in a country of less than 5 million - this represents an exceptionally tiny fraction - percentage-wise.
Deaths: .0005% ; cases 0.04945% AND NO FLU STATS.
Now with Covid, I want to ask - why no babies, no infants, no children, and teenagers dying of covid? - we need to revisit this question as to why are the young ones not as susceptible as the aged? Because, are not babies more vulnerable than most people as they have yet to build up their immune system? Naturally, I trust that in doing so, that healthy Mothers will nurture with their own milk - giving healthy sustenance to their babies. Yes, I also know of the pesticides, herbicides and fungicides that are ubiquitous in our food chain - yes glyphosate too and anxiety medications - but this is another topic for another time ... yet there are so many questions around Covid that need explaining - we are noticing that ... we can see so many urgent questions and pressure points squeezing our community.
I note that within the NZ Government and Health Department Covid briefings on TV, I have never heard them encourage healthy eating and drinking practices. Like to obtain vitamin D from walks out in the sun and like taking in plenty of Vitamin C tablets every day. And there are excellent prices of $20 for 2 months supply. That to encourage us that citrus and fresh fruit and vegetables need to be eaten - which begs the question why does this government not take off GST from fruit and vegetables - like in Australia. Does not the NZ Government want a healthy, self-reliant and resilient workforce and population in general? Strange is it not?
Also, why are the health authorities not encouraging the intake of fresh vital water that has not been sanitised by chlorine or with the addition now of fluoride? Notice that the current Labour government is pushing for chlorination of all water as well as fluoridation - nationwide.
What's the hurry? Especially when it was only recently in Christchurch that the top Canterbury public health official, Dr. Alistair Humphrey has been sacked and is taking legal action against the District Health Board. It was he who fought against chlorinating (sanitising) the city's freshwater supplies. Saying all residents could have been forced to drink treated water, had it not been for him fighting the proposal for blanket chlorination.
He also criticised the Ministry of Health for saying they could not do mass vaccination of Canterbury residents.
So you can see that there are battles on numerous fronts within local government in New Zealand with regard to the health and wellbeing of our country's inhabitants.
Thus with Covid we have found ourselves engulfed in an asymmetric, hybrid psychological world war - totally foreign to the human condition.
Our planet's people from around early 2020 have been under a sustained mental and physical assault.
That this event that we are in the middle of - meaning the mind virus that is gnawing its way through the airwaves via TV and radio and print media is accentuating the fear factor that has become a hypnotic attack on humanities daily thought practice and process and it's affecting our hearts of both young and old.
Push Back
Plan B
Yet, in contrast to MSM there is at a micro level across NZ - we are hearing various opinions and insights as to how we as an astute and questioning public can consciously repel this Covid attack. With groups such as Plan B - www.covidplanb.co.nz - who are a team of professionals Doctors and scientists within NZ - who are saying - hold on - wait a minute there are other points of view and we are able to access these different viewpoints from some of the top Universities from around the world.
It is bizarre, as Auckland has just exited the last lockdown, and it was estimated to cost our economy 300 million dollars per week, and as the queues in foodbanks are expected to grow, with the lives of our poorest communities most affected. The mantra of kindness gives cause to question the fallout - around this word.
We also have Voices For Freedom - https://voicesforfreedom.co.nz
Three young Mothers have pulled a very focused team to gather to question the Government and edit the mainstream narrative.
Voices for Freedom are the NZ communities' response to wanting to do our own research and listen to other doctors, professors, scientists and health professionals to hear their perspective - especially as fake news, lies and untruths are ubiquitous to the world we inhabit.
So the imperative to know is... We are entering a period of mass psychosis ...
And we have to be like lions and go out and research...
Just to mention a few things - When you look at the slider on GreenplanetFM.com - you will see that we have covered a good number of the challenges that are facing us.
But check out our archives on the front page - it's very insightful - especially last year's interviews.
Looking at the larger picture:
You will also see that it is one continuous battle - this battle is for clean air, clean healthy water be it rivers lakes and oceans as well as healthy plentiful soil, abundant healthy food, preferably organic and healthy land, plus vegetation, and forests and a healthy animal kingdom that is treated mindfully and with compassion.
So we as a human race - all 7.8 billion of us - sharing one breath - are continuously having to become more conscious and alert so as to keep the precious biosphere regenerating and sustainable for the children of today and tomorrow. The key takeaway here is that it has to be sustainable for humans and nature - that the corporate sector and their unbridled desires to 'sustain their consumptive habits' have to be tempered with the need for our planet and nature to regenerate - this to be factored in - we have to protect the global commons, like fish, for example, being extracted and netted at such a rate that the fish are unable to recover and eventually go extinct. Note that biodiversity is collapsing due to unconscious extraction and harvesting.
Also, that still today in 2021 - Global Corporations who have never been known for showing compassion or empathy towards humanity are in many ways blindly following a dog eat dog - take no prisoners approach and if we humans do not become aware and organise ourselves and reign them in - they will herd us like cattle down a projectory that will lead us to ... well - you know where.
Notice that corporations are still making planned obsolescent products that end up in a landfill somewhere. Believe me - here in our country recycling is abysmal. This is unconscious thinking - we have become a throwaway society and we are programming our children to become unconscious consumers - readying us to throw ourselves away as well.
Now I want to be able to address the Covid situation because there are many anomalies that are now being questioned. With Peter Williams New Zealand television presenter and sportswriter who currently hosts the morning talkback programme on Magic Talk, a MediaWorks radio network.
This below from wikipedia: which I am not necessarily a fan of - but you make up your mind for yourself.
In Early February 2021, Peter Williams asked for opinions on talk back radio (and interviewed professionals such as Dr Simon Thornley an epidemiologist at Auckland University who has mentioned that the Covid Stats do not stack up on many levels).
Evidently Peter Williams directed listeners to an anti-vaccine site, a NZ website called 'Voices for Freedom' which according to certain pundits, was supposedly spreading COVID-19 misinformation. There's a link to this - So I encourage you to follow up what this touted - misinformation is.
Also in mid-February 2021, Williams questioned the Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Grant Robertson about his views on the possible implications of the World Economic Forum's Great Reset for New Zealand, and the related Great Reset Conspiracy Theory. In response, Robertson ended his weekly Magic Talk interviews, stating that he did not want to "shoot down conspiracy theories."
We will get to the Great Reset further on in the program.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Williams_(broadcaster)
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/magic-talks-peter-williams-gives-shout-out-to-anti-vaxxers
Now I want to back up a little to give you a little history - to allow you a deeper understanding of why I have involved myself in radio and GreenplanetFM.com - which has as its main premise - environment - health and consciousness - because within the biosphere - if we have a healthy environment and ecology - we have a better opportunity to be healthy ourselves - in body, mind, and spirit and then we have consciousness this includes becoming aware of our place in time and space as a human living on this planet.
So back in the early 1990s, I was active in calling for a global family - and even before that in 1986 I was very much engaged here in NZ being involved in Global Meditations - where we synchronised on a planet round basis to meditate and pray for world peace at a very specific time.
I was helped by Michael Fleck and Gillian Poole in what we thought was a very noble idea - to encourage people through all walks of life to take time out from all the distractions of life and focus on a peaceful world.
This global peace meditation was centered on 12 noon Greenwich mean time UK on the 31st of December - that translated to 12 midnight on the 31st of December here in New Zealand because we were at 180 degrees on the opposite side of our planet.
This meditation peace prayer was initiated by John Randolph Price https://www.johnrandolphprice.com of the Quartus Foundation based in Texas in the US - who with a team across America and elsewhere encouraged humanity and all who were listening to come together for this spiritual event on December 31st of each year. It was called World Healing Day, especially the World Instant of Cooperation, or World Peace Day - a moment of Oneness - to dissolve the sense of separation and return humankind to Godkind.
Like us being a conduit between heaven and earth.
To me here in NZ we occupied a very significant position being 12 midnight on the 31st of December - being like the first domino or first cab off the rank into the new year - as we were 12 hours ahead of the United Kingdom at that particular time - because we did not have daylight saving in this country in those days.
So when everyone else were meditating in 1986 - we in NZ were already meditating in 1987 at 1 minute past 12 midnight - so we wanted to set the tone of this template by already - being anchored in a peaceful future - like the saying - NZ sees tomorrow first - because we are the closest major country to the international date line - which runs down from between Russia and Alaska and is situated just over 100 kilometres off the East Coast NZ City of Gisborne. So being so close to this dateline we wanted to model being a living example of a peaceful country.- and hence the name and the moment - the World Instant of Cooperation …
We had a good reason for involving ourselves as … on 10 July 1985. During a covert military operation, two French military operatives sank the flagship of the Greenpeace fleet, Rainbow Warrior, here in New Zealand at the Port of Auckland as it was on its way to protest at Mururoa in French Polynesia - where the French had first tested nuclear weapons in the atmosphere and were also conducting tests underground, deep under coral atolls.
Also at that time in 1985 - New Zealand was basking in its position as leader of the pro no-nuclear movement. Then on 10 July, two explosions set by these French Secret Service agents ripped through the hull of the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior, taking the life of one of its crewmen causing an international uproar that was to remain in the headline news for months to come.
Well, to give this story some context both Michael Fleck and I had been on board the Rainbow Warrior 36 hours before it was bombed and we wanted to embrace the high ground and involve ourselves in what we thought was an idea whose time had come. Have NZ be a pioneer for global peace and as we were situated so very close to the International Date Line - this was time for NZ to be a planetary leader once again.
Previous to this we had both been very much involved in taking to the NZ public the new idea at the time - that of the Gaia hypothesis that James Lovelock had brought to the world - you may remember - the ancient Greek idea that our planet is a colossal living superorganism and that basically, we were extensions of our planet because our bodies are made from the air, water and minerals and thus as an awakening conscious being - we could share this notion that we need to take care of both our future and our planet - Thus - by working and being for peace and a prosperous future for humanity and that at that time on earth there were less than 5 billion souls sharing breath and now today we have 7.8 billion …
But, more so as another important component we were also integrating Rupert Sheldrake's Morphic Resonance into the equation. Sheldrake.org - being that if enough people consciously think, feel and be in peace and if there was enough of us resonating with this heartfelt ideal (state of being) that we could reach a global tipping point and hit a critical mass - and then with say 10 percent or even less of humanity doing it - this would break open into a new realm that would then shift the balance and cascade us all into a new paradigm of consciousness and world peace. This was also based on the Hundredth Monkey phenomenon - see wikipedia.org
So this is very important - that we need to remember and embrace, because with the madness of what is going on in the world' - we need to take time out, to be with ourselves or friends of like mind and sit still in peace, and thankfulness - especially here in New Zealand - which even today at this very moment possibly the most fortunate country on earth to reside in.
For as you very well know Mainstream Media can not be trusted anymore - Fake News is everywhere including social media so the imperative is to basically follow the money and do one's homework in researching and then cross-reference it.
So as you can hear - there is a method in all this madness to awaken our connection to the fact that we are a global family - albeit somewhat very disconnected from each other - yet knowing that we all share the same breath on this planet - that of the invisible breath that keeps all of humanity as well as animals and vegetation alive. We are far more connected than we actually realise.
I then interviewed Bill Watson on the phone who was a Professor of Psychology in China and Taiwan and is also an Alternative Health Practitioner specialising in Bio-Energetic Medicine.
Bill attended the recent Voices of Freedom Symposium in Auckland
Bills Report: The Voices Symposium— was well attended, about 100 people, and well managed; there were six informative presentations, followed by a Q&A session addressed to the panelists.
I found the event to be quite an uplifting experience, even though the topic is seriously depressing…because everyone felt free to express their opinion knowing it was “safe”, that they were in company with open minds that had done some research…so it was wonderful information exchange, and the panel gave clear, factual and inspiring talks about different aspects of the situation we all find ourselves in. My sense was there was a lot of networking and everyone left on a “high”-- like, something positive is finally happening, and we’re part of it.
The founders of the movement are three mothers whose approach has been sufficiently subtle to attract many Kiwis who might have been put off by the more common "in-your-face" approach, and what I saw at Voices was different from the usual gathering of gold cardholders: there were people of all ages at the meeting expressing concerns and sharing information. This is incredibly important to me as a father because in the big picture Voices for Freedom IS about reclaiming our core values as humans: freedom of choice, freedom of speech, freedom of movement.
People are starting to wake up to the wider implications of this pandemic and vaccine rollout, to the fact that its devastating impact has been engineered by a cabal: they are doing the research, reading the 2010 Rockefeller Foundation report that spells out the agenda in detail. They are looking at the videos of the Gates Foundation’s “Agenda 201” meeting—and they are connecting the dots. They are listening to MDs who are independent, not vaccine-sponsored.
As you mentioned, this is a global mass psychosis: this is resulting from the denial of reality. Why? it is impossible for many New Zealanders who have faith in their elected representatives to accept the possibility that they are being betrayed on such a massive scale…and so they turn their back on conflicting data, and behave in a rather paranoid manner--- demonise or dob in their neighbours, sometimes friends or family, and polarise the community because they can’t handle the cognitive dissonance. (the mental conflict that occurs when beliefs or assumptions are contradicted by new information; as Nietzche put it sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed). When you try to talk to the nonverbals they are, my mind’s made up, don’t confuse me with the facts…and the resolution of their mental conflict is typically believing comforting lies, which are easier to live with than unpleasant truths.
And this betrayal, that we experience as attacks on our individual (and national) sovereignty, are coming from three main sources: social media censorship, manipulative mainstream messaging that aims for thought control, and political correctness designed to force behavioural compliance.
-And what is the source of these lies? They come from offshore, part of the larger plan known the Great Reset, which encompasses far more than just the lockdown/vaccine agenda; it is also the 5G/ IoT / IoB/ Transhumanist agenda, the Green New Deal (global warming, CO2 agenda), the economic destruction/digital currency/Build Back Better agenda, (all genocidal) and ultimately the New World Order/ UN-driven Communism 3.0 agenda, as explicitly carved into the Georgia guidestones and cleverly built into UN agenda 2030.
Different agenda items, though all linked together, have been propagandised in order to appeal to different groups/individuals; when you choose to "buy into" (or are bought into) one, you're in them all—sold your soul. Each item has its own champion, funded by higher-level sponsors: Gates for the first phase, Gore for the next, LaGarde and banksters for the economy, Soros and Guiiterres for the transfer of national sovereignty to the UN. Schwab oversees the plan and he reports up to the “lower house” of the World Governing Council, which is composed of mainly corporate elite.
And make no mistake, this IS a coup. Here is the thing about a coup we need to understand... Once the perpetrators or conspirators take their plan out of the planning stage and put the plan into motion, there is no turning back. Totally exposed and guilty of treason if they fail, their lives are in great danger and no matter what is said or exposed, they must push forward till they have total control.
Others have tried and failed using a similar strategy. It was revealed that Hitler used the same strategy as they are deploying now: he told the German people that Jews were "diseased", which triggered the same level of irrational fear that is currently causing people to line up for injection and get irrationally angry at their vaccine-hesitant friends and neighbours.
What is being carried out is a well-defined psychological tactic because they instill fear in the mass herd of human sheep. Everyone to some degree has anxiety about catching a virus, you can’t see it and it could be deadly. (anxiety versus. fear: anxiety is worse because you don’t know how bad it is! You can calibrate the fear response when you know)
Then they count on obedience to authority to make the population controllable as was the case under communism. It’s all based on ideology, which is a worldview constructed from theories, beliefs, or philosophies--primarily economic, political, or religious—which has been used for centuries as the oppressive intellectual armoury of a social class. As Warren Buffett notoriously said: “There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.
You could say that the goal of the “undeclared war” is to eliminate the middle class by the destruction of the economic system, and you wouldn’t be far wrong. The primary goal seems to be to reduce the population of the planet by more than 80%. Georgia Guidestones bear witness to that goal. The intent is to recreate “Haves (nobles), have nots” (serfs), who are dependent and controllable through technocracy and transhumanist technology…and return the planet to its pre-industrial medieval state
Re: there are battles raging on numerous fronts within local government with regard to the health and wellbeing of New Zealanders. IMO This is just the beginning. We’ve already seen it with 5G, and the blowback on vaccines will be massive and ... The death rate worldwide following COVID mRNA vaccinations has been terrible: last week the CDC and FDA reported that in the 10 week period between Dec. 14 and Feb. 19, there were 19,769 Significant Vaccine Adverse Events worldwide, of which 966 died shortly after receiving an mRNA vaccine. It is all documented; we just don’t hear about it in the mainstream media.
What is happening in Israel right now with the rollout of the experimental Pfizer mRNA vaccine is what they have purchased and started to roll out here in NZ as well; we should be watching the Israeli statistics carefully. (and South Aucklanders are the first targeted group. Surprised?)
Since the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, the draconian measures being applied against Israeli citizens are like the Chinese Communist Party -CCP level - insane. Israel currently has the highest rate of vaccination in the world and has introduced the “Green Passport” program across the country, which creates a form of apartheid, a Medical Fascist State by discriminating against non-vaccinated citizens to prevent them from going into theatres, gyms, hotels, and other public venues.
This has created a tense, divisive atmosphere; the Israeli government is coercing/ intimidating/ shaming citizens to accept that taking this vaccine is the only way back to normal life. Non-vaccinated students can’t attend in-person classes and non-vaccinated restaurant patrons are forbidden from entering the building.
MSM Journalists are increasingly having trouble because the facts they are receiving from credible sources are increasingly in conflict with the official narrative. These are verifiable facts about the huge number of adverse reactions to the Pfizer vaccine, the tragic effects that lockdowns are having on families and businesses, the lies about masks, the destruction of the global economy and the middle class, and the wider transhumanist agenda.
If the Great Reset slogans like “you will own nothing and you will be happy” seem to be total madness, consider that every crazy new official report or video is part of their Plan, which will not end with mass vaccinations; it will go on with climate madness, total surveillance, thought control; a totalitarian agenda. The Virus is just the entry point into a world-wide tyrannical control operation.
One of their primary goals is to alter our DNA by unending mRNA vaccinations. According to my sources, neither of the mRNA vaccines, Pfizer, or Moderna, are FDA approved, rather, they have what’s called an EUA (Emergency Use Approval).
In Belgium, a group called doctors for freedom published a link with a worldwide map of registered adverse reactions of the vaccines, and they said
“The first vaccines they are offering us are not vaccines. They are gene therapy products. They…inject a synthetic pathogen, nucleic acids that cause our own cells to produce elements of the virus.” Essentially, your own cells make you sick, and can indirectly cause numerous diseases. That’s a Bioweapon! And this pandemic is biofascism--a war against human beings and the qualities that make us human. And [as mentioned in a previous podcast] that will have consequences for the human soul.
You asked: Does not the NZ Government want a healthy, self-reliant and resilient work force and population in general? Based on empirical evidence, the answer would have to be NO.
Many people have pointed out that there has been no advice coming from mainstream media or government about prophylaxis (preventive measures like vits A, C, D and Zn); the ones who are talking about ways to support immune systems; Fx&I MDs, alternative practitioners only.
[this is a key point] Soon there will be many vaccinated people beyond frontline workers. What I have not heard from any NZ health official is how to prevent the spread of COVID by the vaccinated! According to a report from a source in Switzerland, they will be contagious and sloughing off the virus for weeks after their injection, so there should be some way to identify them.
This info came from Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche, DVM, Ph.D. virology, independent seasoned vaccine researcher, who has held key roles with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and GAVI. He says the worldwide vaccination campaigns should be halted because there is “…compelling evidence that they will soon dramatically worsen the consequences of the current pandemic.”* (doco attached)
At this time perhaps one of the most important choices is choosing who to listen to, and where to research vital topics. Lockdowns, unprecedented mass hysteria and drummed-up fear are the product of ideology, and we are not powerless to defend our vital freedoms against power-hungry politicians, even if we are lacking journalists who are up to the task.
Ok Tim I will try to recreate what I talked about in the last 10 minutes of this interview: we led in with the Fourth Industrial Revolution; I went into too much detail and you were going to do a wrap when I mentioned a few things that I thought people should consider doing. Here goes:
People will change their minds. When they do, welcome them. Do not chide, but ask—“We have been watching the same movie. How did we initially arrive at different conclusions? And what has changed your mind/heart? And how can we work together?
Your voice makes a difference. Let’s make it too big to ignore: consider the recent Berlin rally. With guest speaker Robert Kennedy Jr We are fighting for our lives, our children’s lives. We do not consent. This rollout is part of their game—but you don’t have to play
Learn about Common Law. It is clear that other approaches to governance must be found, a new Magna Carta, a new Social Contract must be written.
Get educated about alternatives to the official narrative. Knowledge protects, and we are a vulnerable species. Knowing others is wisdom; knowing the self is enlightenment.
The 4th Industrial Revolution:
Let's make it a people's revolution. Back to the land, clean up the place without killing 7 billion humans. They want to yammer on about CO2 when the elephant in the room is--chemtrails/geoengineering/nanoparticulates poisoning the air, water, soil, crops...and EMF creating health problems via an orbiting satellite - a junkyard - and use of inappropriate bands of the EM spectrum. It will CRASH because where no love sings, there is only noise...and it is being driven by demons.
Here's the text, use as you see fit.
This is simultaneously a time of great opportunity and a time of the possibility of massive destruction.
We have started the fourth and final phase of “Industrial Revolutions'', which were each generated by inventions that changed the source and uses of energy.
The first began in the late 18thC (1765) with the steam engine, which facilitated the mechanization of agriculture and coal extraction.
The second (1870) began with discoveries of electricity, gas, and oil, which resulted in the creation of the chemical industry, the internal combustion engine, automobiles and airplanes. Simultaneously, new methods of communication--the telegraph and the telephone--were introduced.
The third revolution (1969) brought peaceful use of nuclear energy and new electronic, telecommunication and computer technologies, all of which supported R&D in biotech, space exploration, robotics and artificial intelligence.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution is the concept of blurring the real world with the technological world. According to the World Economic Forum, the focus will be on “cyber-physical systems”. We can see this happening already: virtual reality devices, robots and software that work side-by-side with humans, injectable nano-bots, 3D printers, medical diagnostic tools, the internet of things (and bodies) are a few examples.
This merging of technology into every part of our lives is becoming the “new norm”. It is a dominant feature of the Great Reset, planned for this year. However, it is invasive technology, and this “reset” has the earmarks of a technocracy/transhumanist takeover. Resistance is growing rapidly, so the impact that the fourth industrial revolution will have, how long it will last, or the direction it will take is not yet known. A wave of technology is now crashing into our personal and professional lives like a ton of bricks, and implementation based on a strategy of medical tyranny has thus far been heavy-handed, even “ham-fisted”, using fear-based tactics. So the question becomes, will humans embrace or reject this new level of technology when it becomes evident that it comes with a negative impact on personal health, safety and liberty?
Tim, there are profound implications here…
Klaus Schwab - a vertical integration takeover of Humanity -
https://humansarefree.com/2021/03/decoding-davos-the-global-endgame.html
COVID facts that gives us cause to question:
This below came in from overseas:
"Expecting a different outcome from the same procedure is a clear sign of insanity" - Albert Einstein
If the answer to this last question is yes, then you really need to TURN OFF your television!
"It is much easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled."
--Mark Twain
Klaus Schwab - a vertical integration takeover of Humanity -
https://humansarefree.com/2021/03/decoding-davos-the-global-endgame.html
Resources:
www.therealnews.nz - that Covid is an entry-level ‘event’ into the New World Order.
https://gbdeclaration.org - Signed by, 13,705 medical & public health scientists and 41,445 medical practitioners - The Great Barrington Declaration
https://covidcalltohumanity.org Burning Questions -
https://www.europereloaded.com/germanys-extra-parliamentary-cv-investigative-commission-launching-class-action-suit-against-corona-criminals-video/
https://sciprint.blogspot.com/2021/02/the-greatest-nuremberg-of-all-time-is.html?fbclid=IwAR01M_UnwgSPZPQlzzXW1FH5sSm_b41uUEVlLPjYxA9NZBKaA5R6aMaX6_M&m=1
What is happening on earth at present is a power grab for the human race. It is being actioned without any ‘consultation’ and debate especially with the people of all the countries of the Western World. When were we in NZ consulted about Agenda 21 or Agenda2030?
However the NZ Prime Minister in addressing the Bill and Melinda Gates Goal Keepers Conference on 26th September 2019 stated that our Government will actively commit to Agenda21 and Agenda2030 - but the video of her address has had that segment deleted. Because these two Agendas are becoming taboo - these have been ‘masked’ by other wording - so as to keep the public hoodwinked.
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/gates-foundation-event-ardern-calls-other-nations-copy-nzs-wellbeing-budget This is the TVOne version of that Conference that refer to both Agenda’s - that is conveniently excluded in this clip - but, it is in the public arena. I have seen it.
https://www.beehive.govt.nz/speech/wellbeing-cure-inequality
https://stovouno.org/2019/09/21/agenda-21-and-the-draft-nz-biodiversity-strategy/
https://stovouno.org
The World Economic Forum at the behest of the banking families and the Rothschilds etc have been planning the Great Reset for generations and have been waiting for the ‘perfect crisis’ and now, under the guise of Covid have set their Great Reset Plan in motion and for them, there is no turning back now. They will relentlessly pursue this course of action until they have a planetary lockdown-control system that is controlled by them. Unless ‘we’ break this spell - there will be no return to the freedoms we once had. Or to even debate them in a public forum.
Connect with your neighbours and friends at a community level. Build warm connections around food growing and sharing of skills and resources. It’s called relocalisation - supporting each other as small cells connecting with other cells to make contact with other warm-hearted groups and teams. United we stand - divided we fall.
The rapid chaotic change that is upon us is fundamentally a spiritual crisis - the human race has disconnected from their source and enmeshed themselves in the trappings of matter. With 7.8 billions souls on our planet - the absence of love across all races has to be bridged. The global family has to find innovative and creative ways to come together - especially for the sake of all children of today and tomorrow.
This just came through on Telegram with this message:
🌎World Wide Demonstration🌎
👏🏼 NEW ZEALAND is rising up 👏🏼
On March 20, 2021 New Zealand will protest side by side with other people from all around the world for freedom and peace ✨✨✨
More details will follow soon.
Please visit the channel:
t.me/worldwidedemonstration
I originally saw the reference to the World Freedom Alliance and this coming demonstration here:
https://www.nexusnewsfeed.com/article/human-rights/world-wide-demonstration-for-freedom-on-march-20/
REMEMBER: Unity Consciousness - for we are in truth - a Global Family
http://www.wakeupkiwi.com/index.shtml
I was scheduled for a final year interview but at the very last minute - it didn't happen, so this is an adlib broadcast which asks us to become mindful of that which surrounds us and to become conscious of the force that sustains our being.
In today's broadcast I remind us that:
Earth.
A biosphere.
A complex - subtly balanced
Life - support - system.
Et turtur nidum,
Ubi reponat pullos suos
Altaria tua Domine virtutum,Rex meus, et Deus meus
(You will understand the above when you listen to the broadcast.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfHXfy9Fs5E
Greetings to you all, from GreenplanetFM.com here in Nuclear Free New Zealand - and nearly GE & GMO Free NZ* - situated little over over 2000, kilometres from Australia in the South West Pacific Ocean and only 2.600 kilometres from the South Pole and the last major country to be colonised as well.
So here we are in many ways isolated from the rest of our global kin.
And what a year it was - and note … There is so much possibility … even in these tumultuous times and believe me - we can initiate conscious change and this opportunity is going to unfold all through this decade starting in early 2021 next year - that we are a global family awakening into being - but I am getting ahead of myself.
So Kia ora and a warm hello to you dear breathers of the one breath that envelops our magnificent biosphere and home planet - mother earth - our great sustainer …
Trusting that I find you warmly inner resourced, that at heart you are able to feel grounded and still. Being able to remain focussed yet fluid in your response to the winds of change buffeting the collective consciousness of the 7.8 billion of humanity - sharing the invisible breath at this moment.
2020 - sure has brought our perspective and vision into focus as humanity dealing with fragmentation and disfunction to realise the imperative that we have to come together as a species and a global family - because looking in at the earth from outer space - that is how we are being seen. We have to raise the platform of our viewpoint like that of the astronauts who journeyed to the moon 50 years ago.
Remember what they said - we live on a floating blue and white pearl surrounded by the so-called emptiness of space. It’s home for us all.
So every morning as our planet turns and the suns rays kiss the faces of us emerging from our sleep to engage in our daily tasks - as Mothers engage in caring for their babies and children and fathers go out working to bring in the cash for another day - (sorry about the stereotype) we must ask that there has to be something better for children for today and tomorrow - as we learn that every breath we take comes from the plankton of our oceans and trees and forests and grasslands of the vegetable kingdom of our biosphere.
We also have to be grateful that it’s our planet that lends us bodies in which to live. This is so profound that Mother earth lends us our body, yes … and it’s our planet that lends us free air to breathe and free rainwater to drink and until recently a free food chain in which to eat and nourish our being …
That we are taking in the three elements of air, water and the earth in the form of minerals - that there is also the 4th element and that is that of fire - and the sun which our planet orbits annually has another name - the Latin word - Sol - so there is an extension of light and fullness that shines 24/7/365 for millennia and eons - thus showing us that there is so much majesty in this world - that we have found ourselves surrounded in literally a garden paradise that to some remind us of a long distant mystery and story that we were once in another garden - one that was absent of anything that was not positive, optimistic of light and love …
So in recognising ourselves - we are one species of many colours, creeds & cultures that for millennia has slowly evolved from tribalism to city states, to nations and empires … and now we are in need of both a change of heart to unity consciousness to jump the divide and realise that we are all intrinsically connected - as a planetary species. However … that to be conditioned and homogenised by the present global institutions (MSM) into the same swamp of sameness is not the answer to a free spirit.
Remember we in Aotearoa NZ we used to have an educational system that encourages us to ask questions, and to be curious, to wonder. This goes back to the earlier times because NZ is an extension of the British education system which in many ways itself was founded on ancient Greek thought and knowledge, and I wish to focus here for a moment as I had the good fortune to go to Greece last year.
Ancient Greece
For such a small gene pool, the Greeks made very important contributions to life, especially philosophy, because Greek philosophers were "seekers and lovers of wisdom". They studied and analyzed the world around them using logic and reason. Although we often think of philosophy as religion or "the meaning of life", the Greek philosophers were also scientists, they studied the makeup of both nature and matter. They were also adept at mathematics and physics; they brought us the word atom - plus geometry, astronomy, and medicine, extending into anatomy, athletics and of course the Olympic Games . ... The Greeks were known for their drama and plays in their amphitheatres as well as sophisticated sculpture and architecture as well. More so, it was the birthplace of Democracy - and yes, they had slaves as well. Possibly one third of the population were slaves. The Greek culture influenced the Roman Empire and many other civilizations, and it continues to influence modern cultures even today. Note that the Greeks did not descend into the Roman darkness of humans killing humans in the Coliseum.
Aotearoan NZ Maori
However one of my main reasons for going to Greece, which was my third time, was that I have been a student of our living planet for 38 years, and it was the early Greeks who understood this - and they called her Gaia, the Earth mother - that’s over two and half thousand years ago and I wanted to see if their understanding, was similar to the Aotearoa New Zealand Maori - who here in this country have a very sacred connection to the earth - calling her - Papatuanuku. Recently, they have successfully engaged and secured the NZ Government to recognise a river, the Whanganui River (awa) as being a living entity that is embedded in the landscape of this country. Having a catchment area of 7,308 square kilometres. Furthermore, Maori have also worked with the New Zealand Government to have them bequeath, due to its geographical isolation Te Urewera of Tuhoi, the regional tribe or iwi - a national park that is essentially all forest that covers 2,127 square kilometres in size. Bestowing on this land to be a legal entity that has the rights, powers, duties and liabilities of a legal person. These are world firsts …
Having lived near on 72 years of my life in New Zealand - hanging out on the underside of the curvature of our planet, and spending 17 years as Air NZ flight crew flying from the Southern Hemisphere up over the equator into the northern Hemisphere - I had also spent time with Dr Elisabet Sahtouris - who is a geo biologist (among many of her other scientific attributes) and she has studied our planet as a super organism - but I have also had the good fortune to interview Dr James Lovelock - a polymath, who through his research with NASA, the US Space Program - gave us a hypothesis that is now a theory - that our planet is a colossal living superorganism. That, in so many ways, has birthed life and as the ancient Greeks say - “from her - all things have issued.”
And so I landed in Athens and set out walking to breathe in the magnificence of this ancient city and see the ordered splendour that they endowed to their civilisation. Yet, with one thing ticking over in my being - how did they come to an understanding that our planet was a living being?
Then it hit me … A cat has kittens, a dog has puppies, a cow has a calf, a sheep has a lamb and a goat has a kid. Also, a bear has a cub and a horse has a foal … and they all come from a Mother.
Then when I looked around me - in the street - I saw all of these people - men, and women, elderly, and teenagers and children - and they too - all came from a mother … so then the Greeks must have looked at their navel and their belly button and remembered that this is where they were connected to their mother, their grandmother and great grandmother …and in their mind traced back through the family tree and finally they must have deduced that in the mists of time - somehow, somewhere - their bodies must have come from mother earth - because - as in the introduction of this program I mentioned that we are made of the 3 main elements with the sun representing fire to show the four forces of nature.
Now when I relate this to the Aotearoan Maori - a great many of them revere Papatuanuku. Quite astounding really - because when in their company all I have to do is mention Papatuanuku in a context of food, water, wind, fish whatever - I manage to get their focussed attention and a wonderful conversation ensues.
And to anyone who understands Maori Lore - the belly button and umbilical cord to them is one of the most sacred connections they have back to source. They call it Whakapapa.
Maori who have an oral language - have another unique way of singing their connection to source and so they sing their lineage - or bloodline to their babies - pe`pi and children, tamariki - that by the time the baby is 4 or 5 they know their lineage perfectly - completely and this takes them back via the 7 canoes, their waka that they sailed a thousand years ago - from Hawaiki - their mystical departure place within the Pacific ocean - (moana) and at a very basic level - they have a greater sense of belonging and a connection to a/the source.
So this was part of my journey into Greece.
I also visited Delphi - where the oracle was a very significant part of how the Greeks divined the future - This is where the rounded temple of Athena sat with the rectangular temple of Apollo. Two very different structures.
Also, Delphi is known as the navel of the world - the navel of Gaia, such were the clairvoyants of that day able to see clearly - and for a certain amount of time - they nearly brought about a golden age - one that talks of Pericles and Athens.
Also over a very small aperture of time so many great beings incarnated into the small Greek landmass that also straddled Western Turkey where the splendour of the 2nd Acropolis only to Athens was built at Pergamon during the Hellenic period and just 170 kilometres further south is the ruins of the once majestic splendour of Ephesus and one of the 7 Wonders of the World - the Temple of Artemis and the Sacred Feminine.
Note the ancients knew about subtle energy. Our planet has energy lines and nodal points just like with acupuncture meridians. The British called them Ley Lines - Stonehenge, Glastonbury, the Great Pyramids of Egypt and many Cathedrals of Europe are situated along these Universal Lines of Invisible Force. They are in all countries, here in NZ too, right in Auckland.
I would like to finish this little Greek, Maori discourse by mentioning Pythagoras one of the more mystical philosophers of ancient times when it is purported that when we sit really still and are in a quiet meditative state - we can hear the music of the spheres and the planets all spinning. For it was he who originally intuited that our planet was round. That some planets are larger than others - and all spin and hum to a series of musical notes - and thus when sitting and listening to all these planets are part of a musical sound system - a symphony if you will … that we still today are not aware of.
We are beings of this planet awakening to a higher consciousness
So here we are today living on our magnificent turning, living world atlas - of 4 seasons - that every 6 months tilts away from the sun until 182 days later - incomprehensibly turn back to another season of warmth and light - all in ordered splendour - whilst below on the planet floor and at sea level, the vegetable, animal and human kingdoms draw sustenance from the 4 elements of earth, water, air and fire that keeps all species proliferating whilst hidden within the web of life, our planet’s mysterious temperature thermostat embed in the atmosphere and connected to countless other physical conditions keeps this giant super organism in stasis - and balance - enabling all life to magnificently stay homeostatically alive in relationship to a tightly coupled sublime - life support system.
So yes … we have to reconfigure our consciousness - our awareness of who we are … for there is a saying that the purpose for existence is to find out the purpose for existence … as to who we are - and that we are spiritual beings having an earth experience - here to fulfill our need to live gracefully as a global family awakening to our unknown potential, whilst in a world that is heaving in anxiety and un-fulfillment.
The Awakening Earth
This is our time and our incarnation to divine who we are and look within - knowing that we are surrounded in all 6 directions by infinity, coiling with suns through deep dimensions of time. It’s also our time to storm the inner self and recognise that we have been like dormant seeds nested under the ground and being like Gods of limitation, awaiting a new metaphor for ascension and to now burst out of our dark cocoon of unknowingness into the sunlight of a totally new day. Even more so - to ignite our innermost expression as embryo Gods and realise that every baby born into this realm is an energy bundle of exponential potential and love.
If there is one thing that we’ve learned from global mainstream media is we’ve been conditioned and desensitised at the same time - being boxed into something like a self-limiting 6 sided cube or more precisely a rectangle - when at soul level we need to increase and extend our aura of consciousness that surrounds us all - to that of the fullness of an expanding sphere and see more degrees of arc and dimensionally as well … with 360 degrees of perspective in every direction, both horizontally and vertically. Pushing out the barriers.
As we simultaneously - look deeply within as well.
Sure - from our first breath in this lifetime we came in full of passion and imagination …
our aim … extend the invisible envelope that surrounds our being … our auric field.
But, that was for many of us during the last century - now we are realising that life for us is potent and full of possibilities …
Now today, with instantaneous connection to nearly every human on earth we are only a moment away from a family smile and of a loved one - we are only a couple of degrees of separation and the way forward is to share the good and to spread that which will empower us as we realise our connection to 7.8 billion other possibilities - all endeavoring to find their way in life, where we can grow into the light of our own true self.
https://www.ourplanet.org/original-site/gaia.html
“Remember - when you were young … you shined like the sun - Shine on you crazy diamond …”
Roger Waters of Pink Floyd when he once happily wrote ‘Wish you were here’
THAT YES, we do need to learn much, more about inner discipline and what that signifies and even more about loving our neighbour. Also, to remember our roots as sovereign beings yet realise that we are all neighbours and that goodwill has to flow over all borders in the spirit of cooperation and collaboration. One planet - one earth - from the grass roots up!
ADDENDUM:
You may wonder why there is no ‘recent’ emphasis on Climate Change and especially the so-called driver Global Warming on the front page of this web site. Well, originally when I started broadcasting in late 2003 I was very keen to be the Global Warming radio program for NZ. Those who remember will be aware that in 2006 icebergs could be seen from the eastern coast of New Zealand's South Island, even from the hills around Christchurch. However, we have had no such increase in icebergs since then. https://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/11/25/iceberg.newzealand/index.html
Yes* - the glaciers in NZ’s Southern Alps are still receding and melting, the waters around the NZ coastline are warming especially in summer and as I always finish my hot shower with a cold shower every time I bathe - I notice especially this year that the water is not really cold but nearly lukewarm, because the water pipes that are in the ground coming to my home are showing that the ground is definitely warming. These three pointers are very serious.* However, in this radio program, I call out that there are two other very problematic situations affecting the atmospheric envelope that surrounds our planet.
These are geoengineering that includes solar radiation management, or SRM, ... SRM techniques include stratospheric aerosols, reflective ... composed of metallic aluminum, aluminum oxide and barium titanate and strontium.
The other, is the use of electronic manipulation of the ionosphere by transmitting radio waves up into the atmosphere. It’s also called Weather wars and Frequency wars and also known as HAARP frequencies. The US is definitely doing this so are China and Russia. This is very serious - however you will never get Ecologists and Environmentalists to sit down and go through the science of what is happening with these two terrible technologies that have been forced upon us - the human species. As for academics and intellectuals in our universities - their job seems to come before any other moral or ethical considerations. https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/
These two subjects are covered by this radio program and you can access them by looking at the ’slider’ on the front page. This state of affairs is a very sad and serious indictment by those in power and until ‘the swamp’ in the higher echelons of Governments globally, are collectively ‘drained’ - these deceitful and insidious acts will continue to the detriment of the biosphere, all biota and especially our children of today and tomorrow.
I played this wonderful song:
Lost in a Lost WorldThe Moody Blues
Seventh Sojourn****
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80nUhHofw0U
I woke up today, I was crying
Lost in a lost world
'Cause so many people are dying
Lost in a lost world
Some of them are living an illusion
Bounded by the darkness of their minds
In their eyes it's nation against nation, against nation
With racial pride sad hearts they hide
Thinking only of themselves
They shun the light (Some of them shun the light)
They think they're right (Some of them think they're right)
Living in their empty shells (Some live in their empty shells)
Oh, can you see their world is crashing? (So many people)
Crashing down around their feet, angry people in the street
Telling them they've had their fill (So many people)
Of politics that wound and kill (So many people)
Grow the seeds of evolution (So many people)
Revolution never won, it's just another form of gun
To do again what they have done (So many people)
With all our brothers' youngest sons (So many people)
Everywhere you go you'll see them searching
Everywhere you turn you'll feel the pain
Everyone is looking for the answer
Well, look again, come on, my friend
Love will find them in the end
Come on, my friend, we've got to bend
On our knees and say a prayer
Oh, can you feel the world is pining? (So many people)
Pining for someone who really cares enough to share his love
With all of us, so we can be an ever loving family (So many people)
Have we forgotten we're all children? (So many people)
Children from a family tree that's longer than a centipede
Started long ago when you and I were only love (So many people)
I woke up today, I was crying
Lost in a lost world
'Cause so many people are dying
Lost in a lost world
Lost in a lost world
(So many people, so many people)
(People) Lost in a lost world
(So many people, so many people)
(People) Lost in a lost world
Songwriters: Michael Pinder
Wishing you a Merry Christmas and an empowering and fulfilling 2021
After this 1st half on the sacredness of our living planet, I then reviewed the last years radio interviews that went to air on GreenplanetFM.com
The best quick synopsis of the interviews can be seen here:
https://www.youtube.com/c/OurPlanet/videos
I then went on to mention the important issues that each interview covered, when I realised that if I gave each kernel an in depth insight that was expressed - all these together, would be so staggering for the listener to absorb that I instead ‘pulled my punches’ and - toned it down - so that for the first comer to the program to not be blown out with this information - solely because the ‘diluted’ MSM has not honestly educated the planetary public of the issues and challenges that we face.
I wish to exhort and implore you to take some time out to play this below video. Because, what is happening is that the controllers of the City of London are endeavouring to lock down all of the disunited Kingdom as they see that Trump in America is slowly and methodically taking down the Deep State in Washington DC and it will not be long before he crosses the Atlantic and takes on the England and the EU - and drains the corruption there too.
Check 27 minutes in and 40 minutes as well - but please take your valuable time to become savvy of the distortions that we are living around.
https://www.ukcolumn.org/ukcolumn-news/uk-column-news-christmas-special-review-year
I finished by calling All Crew of Spaceship Earth to ‘action stations.’ That we have to take care of the ships embedded operating systems like air conditioning, refrigeration, water and food producing facilities and that in the days and years ahead ‘Unity Consciousness’ is the only way we can take care of today and tomorrow.
Meantime we at GreenplanetFM, wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year and especially 2021 - because, we will have much to do to freely live as hearted centered beings - navigating time and space.
This whole story has got the medical world completely at odds with itself. It has not been able to grasp the situation at all.
Eben Alexander, MD, was an academic neurosurgeon for over 25 years, including 15 years at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Children’s Hospital, and Harvard Medical School in Boston, - with a passionate interest in physics and cosmology.
He is the author of the New York Times #1 bestseller Proof of Heaven and The Map of Heaven. His third book, co-authored with Karen Newell, Living in a Mindful Universe, was released in October 2017. http://ebenalexander.com/
Listen to this latest interview but also do a youtube search and do some binge watching - you will find that he is proof that you can transcend death - but more so - finally recognises that all people who have a NDE and a OBE - are able to remember what they see, hear and experience - even as they look down from the ceiling where they have ‘floated’ - as they see the doctors and surgeons frantically working to stabilise their body and keep it alive - remembering exactly what they say, what they do, even if it is to go out of the theatre, beyond the hospital - everyone and everything is carefully noticed. That when finally they find themselves mysteriously returned to their body again - they recall EVERYTHING that transpired. That their spiritual body - ‘essence’ - call it what you wish - can still remember everything - even without a body.
Scientists like Rupert Sheldrake and others have stated that our memory is not stored in our brain or our body. That our spiritual body that oscillates at a far higher frequency has the capacity to be far more knowing, than what present day science can measure within the limitation of its instruments. This is where the new paranormal science is taking us. This is evolutionary science taking us to the next level - to the unseen.
It is opening the door to the new paradigm that we have been entering for the last 40 years, but have been too reluctant as a Western civilisation to fully embrace it - due to the mind set, or should we say set mind - of the scientific establishment. Who as a body of hard nosed skeptics - emphatically state that the universe and the big bang happened all by fluke or chance. That we are all a pure accident and that somehow lightening and chemistry and water, warmth and light coincidentally brought life into being and we wriggled our way out of the swamp onto horses and carts and up to the moon - that is all somehow held together in ‘a vacuum’ and we are born to reproduce and to die and that’s it - game over …
This is so far from the truth and like the 10 million people in the USA over the last century who have experienced OBE and ND Experiences - and the compelling-ness of all these occurrences that have been at many levels ‘censored’ by the MSM, or if not censored, in many cases made fun of and been put down as hallucinations or delusions. That MSM has been part of an orchestrated campaign to keep the human experience locked down and keep us trapped in our bodies to basically die an ignominious death and be forgotten.
What Dr Eben has done, is parted the veil or even obliterated the silkiest of shrouds beyond death to reveal and uncover the magnificence of the universe (and God) in all its dimensions, dominions, and realms of high frequency colour, sound, geometry and ordered splendour. So unimaginable and profound - that the vastness of existence within the inner planes and realms - is beyond our faculties to comprehend …
He says that right now there is a revolution happening between science and spirit that is occurring and is quickening and we are near a gigantic breakthrough … and the science of consciousness - that in essence, our souls are eternal. That we are Love and are Loved.
His Message:
The message he was given in his journey was … You are deeply loved and cherished forever - you have nothing to fear - you are taken care of … the lessons being, of kindness - compassion and unconditional love … also mercy, acceptance and forgiveness - these deep and profound principles … that are to govern our choices …
Also covered is experiencing our life review - 20% to 50% of people have a life review - where they go back to main events in their life where we harbour residual lessons to be taught and learned … and the interesting thing is when you talk to near death experiencers in this situation - they do not describe about experiencing their life review from their own viewpoint - but from the perspective of those around them who were affected by their actions and even their thoughts.
Listen it is important … especially in understanding karma.
He was told that he would be taught many things … ‘but you will be going back …’
Reincarnation comes up as an important lesson in soul growth - this may shake out those who have had an orthodox upbringing in their own particular Abrahamic religion - however there are so many cycles in life - from the carbon cycle to the nitrogen cycle, the sulphur and the potassium and oxygen cycles including seasonal cycles, moon cycles and cycling constellations to the Galactic Cycle and beyond …. So why not a cycle of the soul? - Plato and Pythagoras were aware of this and it is far more predominant in the Western world than is commonly known.
That our souls come back again and again in a process of refinement - until we can release ourselves from the ‘wheel of rebirth’ …
Other Topics Covered.
Indra's net = Eastern traditions … reincarnation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indra%27s_net
Listen to Eben mention the power of Prayer … If you are a skeptic and atheist and a non believer - just take one hour out of your valuable life today and have a listen to this man - as his experience totally flips the medical version of life and confounds the naysayers in science too. Yet, he says he is more of a scientist today than he has ever been.
That his memories have become more complex (detailed) after the coma than they were before …
That memories are not stored in the brain - see Sheldrake.org and others …
Briefly covered were:
Telepathy, precognition, psychokinesis - the ability to manipulate matter at a distance - distance healing are all mentioned though quickly - and shared death experiences …
Uvadops.org - University of Virginia - PAST LIFE research with children and reincarnation - Started by Dr Ian Stevenson and he says with reincarnation - this is where the world is heading (I heartily agree - Tim) …. it’s the science of consciousness.
He mentions Captain Edgar Mitchell 6th Man on the moon and https://noetic.org/
Eben states that the days of scientists saying that NDE’s are nonsense and don’t occur are over …
Because the only scientists who make such statements are the ones who don’t study or research any of the voluminous evidence that is available - globally.
Eben, says the Elisabeth Kubler-Ross with her lifetime research and 20,000 interviews of NDE and OBE experiences - was absolutely essential in helping him connect the dots in relationship to his experience and he gives her kudos for the mapping of the territory that she did all those years ago.
Now there are 100’s of scientists who are fully onboard following up on consciousness and the invisible realms today. https://www.ekrfoundation.org/elisabeth-kubler-ross/
He says https://galileocommission.org/ - is a very good resource …
Meditation is big with him - going within …
https://www.sacredacoustics.com/ Karen Newell, co-author with him on his new book.
This is all about Understanding the Destiny of Humanity …
We have to let go of the false sense of separation
We are all in this together - and it is truly all about Love …
He stresses Pierre Teilhard de CHARDIN - and his book The Phenomenon of Man -
(1881–1955), French Jesuit philosopher and palaeontologist. He is best known for his theory, blending science and Christianity, that man is evolving mentally and socially towards a perfect spiritual state. The Roman Catholic Church declared his views were unorthodox and his major works (e.g. The Phenomenon of Man, 1955) were published posthumously. He was basically shunned by the Roman Church. Yet, humanity is converging on the Omega Point and the Cosmic Christ and that humanity is still tracking on Teilhard’s timeline.
http://teilharddechardin.org/index.php/biography
Love and compassion and kindness …
He mentions all the planetary challenges we face within the biosphere - pollution, war, deforestation, climate, avarice - - you name it …
The Golden Rule - treat others like you would like to be treated
Treating animals humanely is important - because they too, have a very rich spiritual existence.
Towards the end of the interview I asked Dr Eben:
“There are no accidents in the universe?” He paused and said in relationship to him - “no, there are no accidents” I then posited - “therefore what happened to you has to be part of the plan to waken up humanity - ‘Gods plan if you will'' - “that what happened to you and how you are today assisting hugely in the awakening of humanity could be seen as a dispensation for humanity? - Or that in fact this was your assignment - this was your mission, to go through this journey and share your profound story that we are all eternal beings …’
I did not get to complete this below piece as we became engaged in talking about the above.
“That you, Eben incarnated into our world - studied the body and brain function, become an expert in this field and that in this age of modern medicine have medical science show on the screens and high tech apparatus that in this ND experience your brain had been predominantly destroyed - that you were basically clinically dead - yet you can have a miraculous recovery - and come back today in full consciousness, sharing joy and goodwill.”
“That this event had to BE” - and that this wonderful interview today could come as an extension of your mission.”
We also briefly mentioned that humanity ‘has to remember their inner candle, and keep it alive.’
This interview is a very important message for all souls on earth that live within the biosphere. That we all share the invisible breath that keeps our sacred bodies alive. That this invisible breath is shared by all biota - humans and all animals and - especially trees, vegetation and plankton that convert our breathed out C02 back to Oxygen in a magnificent loop of connectivity.
Anima mundi - Latin for World Soul
Next week we will have the last interview of the year - one that will interest everyone.
There are many perspectives on what is soul; it’s like the blind man and the elephant, each has an insight into a larger totality that’s beyond the view of all.
I think we get closer to the truth when we are able to suspend judgment about these different perspectives in our exploration of the nature of soul.
Bill said -: back by popular demand - haha. Before we get into it he says that words cannot express how important the American election has become for the whole world…and it is by no means simply about Trump vs. Biden or Republican vs. Democrat. It is about freedom vs. the Great Reset. This is a fight for the soul of America. These are surely interesting times! Fasten your seat belt!
Tim - good to know there are soul fans out there - folks who understand empathy and compassion - so what can we say?
All living beings have souls; some have “group souls”, they only function in a group context: a herd, a hive, a flock; do sheep have choices about shearing, being dipped, going to the works? Are those moral choices?
Is everything that involves a moral choice a Soul issue for Humans?
Bill says he thinks do. Sea Shepherd is a soul issue. WHY? The oceans are dying. The whales, from Orcas and Belugas to Blues, are disappearing. We fought whalers for them.
5G is a soul issue. Why? The biosphere (and us) are dying from different forms of radiation.
Electrohypersensitivity is becoming more common. Immune systems are weakening.
We are witnessing a sustained, coordinated attack on—us
It has been subtle and covert for decades, but not any more…
And what do we see? Humans are starting to fight back. Getting arrested, sometimes fined, sometimes beaten up, for unlawful (?) assembly. For not wearing masks.
As individuated, self-reflective humans, we are a species with individual souls. Soul is the immortal expression of Humans; from a metaphysical (religious, philosophical) perspective we belong to the “Angelic Soul Group”. Angelic describes our soul PATH, which is Service to Others. If we listen to our inner voices, to our Higher Self, our guides, we stay on the path. It’s the mind that gets us into trouble!
What’s wrong with mind?
Because the mind offers an illusion of control. There's nothing more joyful, more painful, more useless, and more powerful than the mind. The brilliance of your mind will not save you, it will only make you terribly certain. It took Bill many years to really understand what Gurdjieff meant when he said, “To be clever is to be stupid.” Being clever, wily, tricky is the realm of the mind. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gurdjieff
You can turn left by following your intuition and your mind may be giving you a million reasons why it is better to turn right… and they might all make sense. But the more you follow your instinct, your gut hunch, which is your inner authority, the more you will be making decisions that are correct for you. It’s important to not let the mind upset you or call the shots about what direction to take in life.
You mentioned guides and higher self. Do you recall your first contact?
The year before he started kindy. He saw his two guides, he knew their names, names he had never heard before, and he could see and describe them. One afternoon he opened the front door and let them in, sat them down at a little table in the living room, served them tea and had a conversation with them. His mother and a friend were sitting on the couch and witnessed this. Years later his mother told him that they thought he had a great imagination. He told her that his guests were every bit as real to him as she and her guest were. Contact with his guides tapered off when he went to school the following year, but he never doubted that they were with him, and still are.
Saying that 3D Earth is a school: it is a world of opposites, of polarities. Light/Dark, male/female, day/night, inner/outer, harmony/friction, peace/war; peace is a friction-free environment. Yin/Yang, push something long enough and hard enough, it turns into its opposite. It’s called the doctrine of reversion.
We contain the potential for both, and every choice, however small, is a test. It moves us in one direction or another.
St Paul how often we know the right, yet do the wrong?
That comes from listening to mind, using mind to make choices. Better to “go inside”.
How do we “go inside” when we are faced with important choices?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Ching
Bill said the Angelic Soul Group’s path is Service to Others ; you can easily spot them, people who are really STO shine with their own light. In reality most folks here in 3D reality are STS ‘Service to Self’ and need a lamp—and that’s OK as long as the core intention is STO. But there are many that consciously left the path many lifetimes ago, and by choice prefer the dark. They are totally committed to STS. They’re primarily materialistic, greedy, corrupt; they may have made a Faustian bargain at some time, a really bad choice, and they usually have psychopathic tendencies which means they have little or no empathy.
They also have the ability to knowingly do harm.
They are opportunistic, skillfully dishonest and they seek power. He believes it is a factor of electro-magnetics — they actually are 'magnetized to’ drawn into the wombs they resonate with. Like attracts like. The Bhagavad Gita actually describes that incarnation process “they have been “cast into wombs of similar disposition”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagavad_Gita
A good example of this is John D. Rockefeller, who once boasted that he would pay a salary of a million dollars to someone who is "...able to glide over every moral restraint with almost childlike disregard and has, besides other positive qualities, no scruples whatsoever and be ready to kill thousands of victims--without a murmur."($1MM adjusted to today =$31MM)
And his son David found one! His name is Henry Kissinger.
“It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.”
Bill, what was your first awareness that all was not well with the World Soul?
High school in the late 50s. I was outraged. 800 miles away…crops destroyed, Oct/Nov 1959 (61 years ago) started to do research. Read Silent Spring in 1962. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Spring
"Is there a soul evolution process? In which density is our astral existence?"
There are several different models or theories about this, just like no consensus on the transition years from the Baby Boomers to GenX, GenY, Millennials.
5th density as I understand it is about contemplation. In the chain of densities, one through seven, the souls exist in 1 through 4 and in 6th, actively, and in 5th density passively, so the 5th is said to be where souls go when you leave your physical body in 3rd density. You get to review this life and learn from it, then decide what it is you want to do in your next incarnation. It is pretty much accepted that the angelic realm, the bardo, the samboghakaya, the 6 lokas, all these “places” including heaven and hell, are all 5th density destinations that cluster not by geography but by thought wave.
Learning is necessary for progress of soul...it’s all about lessons. This is how we build our power center...
What do our souls have to look forward to in a higher density world?
There’s lots of speculation about ascension and what might await us. We have certainly hit a point in time where things are getting worse on this planet. Civilisations come and go in waves, and it is looking like the current wave has peaked and will be crashing in about 12 years, and humanity will be going through a dark patch in the near future. The ones that don’t wake up will be doing 3rd density over again.
In third density we live with the illusion is that there is no link between consciousness and matter. Actually consciousness can be matter. Light is gravity. Optics are atomic particles, matter is antimatter... just reverse everything to understand the next level... it is all about balance, and the answer must always be zero. And zero is infinity. The illusion is that there is separation. It is the alteration of perception that turns the axis and creates the illusion of distance you can reverse that and understand that there is no distance between us and, say, Alpha Centauri. If you warp space/time you travel by bringing your destination to you. In 4D you have the capability without the "mechanical technology." But even more importantly, you will be able to project into the future and see the consequences of any choice you make in the present. There won’t be any “If only I had done this, or said that…” There will be opportunities to work on what you’re passionate about with like-minded people without interference, betrayal, theft of IP or other painful experiences.
Personal story
In 1998 Bill was part of a research team in Taiwan, that was conducting a government-funded study of the effects of flower essences on the emotional patterns of Chinese patients.
One of his colleagues, whom he had known only briefly, was intensely psychic; she downloaded some information about him. She said that three lifetimes ago he made a very big discovery, was on the edge of fame and fortune; however, his results were destroyed and he was discredited by the establishment. This info caused something to crack inside, and it has been under repair ever since, it was a very deep wound that has taken this long to heal. Saying this was very useful information, it helped reveal a pattern in his life, and aside from experiences in this lifetime why he had a deep-seated fear and distrust of the establishment.
Bill, can you do a quick recap on the different views of soul?
There’s the Pre-modern Classical Paradigm, the Greek and Roman view was—neither spirit nor body, but an inner impulse. Soul is a living quality of the body that animates it.
The Greek word for soul is psyche; it is also the word for butterfly, which implies that it is capable of transmutation or metamorphosis. = reincarnation. ( which will be covered at a later date).
Soul is what moves us; we experience it in music and poetry…it is passion, desire, the peaks and depths of experience.
Tim talks of Muse’s in ancient Greece - being in his understanding, Greek for a ‘mind angel’ - that whispers in the ears of philosopher mystics - stories, poetry etc
Bill - Says -I correspond with concert cellist in Belgium who writes, “I can feel the change hanging in the air on a g string “
She says, “To be able to listen to music, and let it in, one needs an open heart--
Yet music can also help you open your heart, the vibrations gently massaging the muscles until the Soul is ready to open up and let it in :)
So if we are electro-chemical beings we respond to vibratory resonance, and Soul is a mystery: it arises from the world of spirit, and expresses itself through the physical body ….
Q: So where do we find it?
It’s not lost, we just don’t realise it’s there.
The German philosopher Novalis wrote: The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet.”
The American poet Auden may have been responding to Novalis when he wrote, “The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.” He finishes the stanza with, “I have no reason to despair because I am already there.”
This tallies with what I mentioned in the last talk, Hillman’s notion that soul is what turns events into experience, that those experiences are our stories, and rightly remembered and shared, they give meaning to our lives.
We have the expression “he’s lost the plot.” It’s about finding meaning, Tim. It’s what makes sense out of our individual lives. When people feel despair, often they have given up hope because they have lost the thread, become disoriented, don’t know what to do with their lives. One of the classics is Victor Frankl’s Man’s search for meaning. He was a WWII holocaust survivor.
The soul wants meaning and beauty…but we live in a world of more and more information and less and less meaning!
Tim: it’s a compliment to say that someone has “the soul of a poet”. Why is that?
Poems convey meaning in an elegant, compelling way. They “move” us to laughter or tears--or wherever the poet wants to take us. They can express the full range of emotions—the highs and the lows—in a way that others relate to.
Bill wanted to share this poem that takes us deep into the feeling of being out of harmony with the soul:
In a dark time, the eye begins to see,
I meet my shadow in the deepening shade;
I hear my echo in the echoing wood--
A lord of nature weeping to a tree.
I live between the heron and the wren,
Beasts of the hill and serpents of the den.
What's madness but nobility of soul
At odds with circumstance? The day's on fire!
I know the purity of pure despair,
My shadow pinned against a sweating wall.
That place among the rocks--is it a cave,
Or winding path? The edge is what I have.
A steady storm of correspondences!
A night flowing with birds, a ragged moon,
And in broad day the midnight come again!
A man goes far to find out what he is--
Death of the self in a long, tearless night,
All natural shapes blazing unnatural light.
Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire.
My soul, like some heat-maddened summer fly,
Keeps buzzing at the sill. Which I is I?
A fallen man, I climb out of my fear.
The mind enters itself, and God the mind,
And one is One, free in the tearing wind.
American poet Roethke died at 55, but lived through WWI, the Great Depression, and WWII; he saw…and felt much. He became manic-depressive after WWII, but was driven to write his best poetry in the last 15 years of his life. He had a hard ride, as did many men and women who have left behind a great legacy.
Yes, hard times can certainly bring out the best and the worst in humans…
Good times and bad have always come in cycles; I believe we’ve seen the best of times and along with the solar cycle, there’s a downturning with many out of work , businesses closed; what’s starting to look like food shortages worldwide and a coup in progress to crash the global economy…and many are still unaware, there’s’ reason to have deep concern for the future.
What creates harmony is balance. We’re ‘way out of balance. That creates intolerance. Without tolerance, freedom of expression is endangered. The last thing we need in our society is more government-mandated rules and laws that limit our freedom of expression, which is a core New Zealand value. Policing our speech, censoring our posts and telling us which words we can and cannot use is not the way to achieve a harmonious, tolerant multicultural society. We hear a lot from the gov’t and from supposedly vulnerable minority groups about the need to embrace diversity, but the one diversity they don’t tolerate is diversity of opinion.
…and the truth shall make you free.”
Today the truth is censored and many who actually hear it refuse to believe it.
Here are my assumptions about the future: our planet has become a very troubled place
Joseph Campbell wrote that the old myths no longer deal with present reality, and we need to come together, listen to each other’s stories, create new ones. He was the person who had a large influence on George Lucas of Star Wars.
The soul is the intermediary between the inner and the outer ((body and spirit), between life and consciousness; it represents limitless expansion of the higher self. I can say with confidence that my life will end, but my soul will go on.
Tim - and hopefully to a more harmonious place ...
Let’s talk about the here and now, and the role of Soul in the science fiction movie that we seem to be living in.
Ah, that could be one of many movies, my choices would be They Live or Bladerunner, the 1982 movie based on Philip K. Dick's 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? where the replicants rebel against their human creator. It was a very early and accurate portrayal of corporate control and what the modern occult arts can do in the real world.
Soul has been reduced to a physical mechanism by modern science, which is creating a world of machine-like creatures! And when we look to the behavioural sciences for soul, it’s much the same…
In modern Western culture, Psychology (Greek = knowledge of the soul) treats soul as a mechanism that can be predictably programmed…to sell products or manipulate public opinion. And worse, MK-ULTRA, program killers and erase their memories
On the other hand, Psychotherapy (= soul care) is about increasing self-awareness and enhancing the quality of life of the soul, and there have been huge advances in my lifetime.
In the early 90s Bill taught for several years at ITP in CA, which was founded by Abraham Maslow, one of the founding fathers of Transpersonal Psychology…which recognises a transcendent or spiritual dimension to life—and which offers a wider context to soul development. Assagioli was also a pioneer; in Psychosynthesis, the Spiritual self is developed as the center of sub-personalities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Assagioli
The therapeutic process shines the light of understanding into the dark recesses of the human psyche…and to understand is to forgive…and forgiveness has a liberating effect on the soul. (this is one aspect of the transformative process) & Ho’oponopono. This term is from Hawaii and extremely profound.
There is a focus on shadow work --reclaiming & integrating disowned elements of our psyche (disowned or unrecognised emotions, attitudes)
The Jungian approach to healing is alchemical—a series of symbolic processes for doing the inner work and transmuting the soul. It draws on correspondences to archetypes found in the Natural world. I’ll come back to this alchemical approach. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungian_archetypes
I also worked with Stan and Christina Grof for two years in the early 90s as Director of the Spiritual Emergence Network; it was created to help souls in crisis, often a Kundalini awakening, occasionally drug-induced. …Fillmore. www.stangrof.com
I think it’s important for all of us to make the connection between individual neuroses…and social problems…and to get involved, socially and politically.
What about Soul and career choices? What happens if we choose something that is out of harmony with what the soul wants.
There are no “wrong” choices, there are only “lessons”. Some people know exactly what they want to do with their lives and start training early; they become expert and successful at a young age…and then they are faced with different kinds of choices. Others may never find work that satisfies the soul, and change jobs many times (either out of dissatisfaction, or because they have many different lessons to learn, as was my case)
Throughout my career I’ve worked with more than 80 orgs in six different countries; in most cases, the goal was to change the company culture in ways that made them more effective. Effectiveness has two components: efficiency and satisfaction. Work can be “soul-destroying”, particularly if the focus is just on efficiency; it’s a bit like white bread and sugar, all the goodness has been refined out.
At one point in his life Roethke (with the soul of a poet) worked as an insurance salesman. Here’s a poem about what he “saw”:
I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils,
Neat in their boxes, dolor of pad and paper weight,
All the misery of manila folders and mucilage,
Desolation in immaculate public places,
Lonely reception room, lavatory, switchboard,
The unalterable pathos of basin and pitcher,
Ritual of multigraph, paper-clip, comma,
Endless duplication of lives and objects.
And I have seen dust from the walls of institutions,
Finer than flour, alive, more dangerous than silica,
Sift, almost invisible, through long afternoons of tedium,
Dropping a fine film on nails and delicate eyebrows,
Glazing the pale hair, the duplicate grey standard faces.
That poem is called “Dolor”, the word for grief in Latin.
I was part of a research team in the 70s that investigated “work spirit”. We interviewed people in “ordinary” low-level jobs e.g. on the factory floor, they had been doing the same job for years. They were singled out by their supervisor because their performance was consistently excellent. We wanted to find out what motivated them. They were quite extraordinary beings, very peaceful and content within themselves. Examples: (2)
One thing that many HR departments frequently use when they’re hiring is psychometric tests to select the applicant that’s best suited to the job they’re applying for. I would propose that in the future, all candidates for public office take a battery of tests, things like the 16PF and what’s called the Sorenson Pathology Index—as a measure of their trustworthiness. This has been a perennial problem and finally we are witnessing the extent of the corruption and I believe we will soon be seeing a collapse of people’s confidence in government, which in a world of global communication is more contagious than a flu virus.
Q: We are heading toward an evolutionary event horizon at a rate of knots.
What themes are emerging from the collective unconscious?
The modern scientific point of view is that the soul is a strictly physical entity, located in the Pineal Gland, which Descartes called the “seat of the soul”. …and we are now at the endgame of the age of enlightenment that began in his lifetime in the 17thC: scientific method, based on analytical thinking, became the foundation of modern civilisation. That cosmology which was built on the cornerstones laid by Descartes, Bacon and Galileo.
Those philosophers are responsible for our plight.
Cosmology describes "the world as (something)—their assumption is, "world as machine," which is a myth…and The world soul is crying: let us out! We’re not machines! We want to be free!
We need a new, different, and more promising myth. I like Hendrik Skolimowski’s point of departure for eco-cosmology, he suggests "world as sanctuary." (from sanctus, a holy place, consecrated ground). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henryk_Skolimowski
We should be having serious concerns about the ethical standards of the scientists engaged in nuclear, genetic, bio-warfare and nano research, to name a few. It is right to challenge and question, for this has become an age where technology is assuming the status of a god, and as we know, the goal of the transhumanists is to overcome death. This was foretold.
We’ve been warned; it’s all been hidden in plain sight. We all have to assume a share of the responsibility for giving up our power to these high priests without fully comprehending their values and motives
So … WHY is all this happening NOW?
It’s all about cycles.
We are living through a cycle shift of the World Ages, how that shift correlates to the evolution of both technology and human consciousness, how to live your life in sync with this great cycle change. An “age” is one sign of the zodiac, 30 degrees; 2160 years, so each degree is I think a consensus of astrologers would agree that we have fully entered the Aquarian age
Like the preceding age of Pisces, Aquarius is a symbol, and symbols are frequencies; they are used to send us info (for good or otherwise)…and they are being used to manipulate us by sending signals of coming actions through symbols. The core theory is social engineering, the work of Edward Bernays; it’s about controlling people by manipulating energy and engineering consent. It is the basis of predatory programming and literally a form of black magic. It's a form of subliminal mind control, a shell game of misdirection & distraction. And they are expert at it.
They make plans based on AI, Artificial Intelligence - they have the strategy laid out and they are using AI to drive the tactics because the global chess game is now changing rapidly and one of the transhumanist goals is to connect the human mind to AI. They will be experimenting on profoundly autistic children. https://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/dr-robin-kelly-what-is-the-trans-humanism-agenda-is-it-machine-versus-soul
Of course, the endgame is soul capture or destruction. They want to control us, and already we are seeing the result of lockdowns all over Europe, and how the press, the police and the politicians have been bought with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation money to enforce them and keep the people in fear.
So this is a critical moment in history: Demands on Humans are becoming unreasonable. It is no longer about reason and dialogue and finding common ground, it is about power and control. If they succeed, we can expect total surveillance, predictive programming, UBI Universal Basic Income and worse. The technocracy and transhumanist agendas are soul-destroying; If we are to grow out of our adolescent aspiration to play God and control everything, our technological ambition must be scaled down.
How can we compete with all that firepower? If we spot something, share the information widely. It will be reviled as conspiracy theory and banned from social media by the tech oligarchs but it shines a spotlight on the way they think and can alter their plans. I can’t help wondering if any of them are aware that they took a wrong turn somewhere in their past and believe it’s too late to go back. Like Macbeth at Dunsinane. Come wind, blow wrack—at least we’ll die with harness on our back.”
Be aware, don’t consent if something doesn’t feel right to you. Do the right thing, no matter what (and trust your gut—it knows instinctively what the “right thing” is). There are consequences for ignoring warning signs, also for doing nothing.
You mentioned that this is a form of black magic. Is it being used for soul capture?
Black magic is the use of occult means to gain power over others. It is not limited to primitive cultures, there are high-tech versions. However the methods to counter it and heal it are traditional and time honoured. That is the realm of the shaman.
What does that have to do with soul?
Bill Says says EVERYTHING. The shaman is a soul healer. There is growing soul sickness: we see it in people knowing the right, and doing the wrong (in some cases, the “wrong” means doing nothing)
We see it in spiritual amnesia--forgetting who we are, and what we’re here to do.
There is soul loss…that comes about through sale, barter, trickery (being gullible, loss of critical thinking), alienation…there is a stable full of them in Hollywood.
So let’s briefly explore the shaman’s view of reality. In virtually all tribal cultures you have a leader, a chief; in Maori culture that’s the kaumatua; you also have a shaman, that’s the tohunga. They're two different roles; one is a public position and the other is a private position. One looks after the physical well-being of the tribe, the other is a kind of doctor who heals through access to Spirit:
Soul is the vehicle for astral travel. For 000s of years, the shamans have been astronauts of inner space…they are people with an 'active third eye' who can see directly into higher dimensions. The tribal shaman lived apart from the tribe, their life path was developing occult power to gain access to the realm of spirits. Their primary concern was the relationship of the living to the dead, a relationship intimately associated with the Moon's waxing and waning, so they hung out in the mountains with the Moon Goddess.
The shaman's unique gift is the power to release the soul from the bodily frame in order to travel between worlds and return unharmed. In their roles as intermediaries between the living and the dead, between the worlds of the known and the unknown, they were respected and sometimes feared by the common folk. They could heal sickness and bring special knowledge from the spirit world for the benefit of their community. In times of serious trouble the tribe would consult with them--Axis mundi, trance, visit spirits (gods, ancestors) & return with information.
Whenever we suffer physical or emotional trauma, a part of our Soul flees from the body to survive the experience; with every new incident, our essence and vitality grows weaker. This process is called “Soul Loss”; in psychological terms, it’s called dissociation. It’s a natural protective mechanism that occurs when we become disconnected from our core, the source of our vitality. It’s the experience of losing touch with your Soul, which is always there in the background of your life, but it’s not always accessible due to the psychological traumas, abuses, and other blockages. Dissociation is used to survive potentially destructive traumatic events, such as
So how do we regain connection with our Soul?
Through a process called Soul Retrieval. In shamanic cultures, Soul loss is understood to be a spiritual illness. When our Soul fragments, the life force weakens and we open to all kinds of emotional, physical, and mental problems. Returning to wholeness and health depends on recovering the missing part or parts of the Soul through the practice of inner work,
So for example in Chinese culture, which has shamanic roots, drug, alcohol, gambling and other self-destructive problems are often dealt with by a shaman, not by a psychologist.
In some shamanic cultures, soul retrieval is treated as an initiatory process.
That’s correct, says Bill saying he has studied Mayan culture and explored archaeological sites in Mexico’s Yucatan, Chiapas and Guatemala since 1972; He became a Mayan daykeeper in 2004. In the Mayan culture there is a strong oral tradition; everyone sings songs and tells stories. Children are allowed to experience and express the full range of emotions. In initiations into adulthood, a young man or woman must wrestle with Death—they go down into the underworld to retrieve their own soul from their romantic feelings – those are feelings that steal the imagination by stealing their heart, which makes them feel hollow inside…
…but before that experience, the elders put them through language training, because in their cultural understanding they believe the greatest weapon against Death is the power of poetic language…that the words themselves have magical properties.
This might sound strange, but you can't kill death; the Mayans believe you can only beguile* Death, because it loves beautiful words so much it will make a deal with you. It will say, 'I'll give you back your soul IF on a regular basis you send messages to the Holy." (The Holy are 13 gods and 13 goddesses of the underworld; they understand and love metaphor--images without the verb 'to be.' When you do not have a verb 'to be' you can't speak unless you use metaphor. Gurdjieff said, “If there’s an I in one’s presence, then God and the devil are of no account.”
To distract the attention of; divert
To amuse or charm; delight or fascinate.
So the power of these initiations are that they cause these young people to become something that feeds life beyond themselves. It's not ego involvement or self enlightenment. It's something beyond yourself, for the universe.
Right. It’s pure Service to Others. STO.
Grief is a core emotion, it can be too powerful for the psyche to integrate. The soul longs to express feelings but holds back out of fear of the depths of pain that will be released. Shame and depression are considered to be an inability to deal with grief.
Somewhere deep in the memory of our souls, no matter what our ancestry, a deep understanding and capacity for wonder sits weeping…and waiting…
…and that emotional blockage can render people powerless in difficult times.
When we feel powerless, we long to be listened to. The pain is relieved when the story comes out, it frees people…
…and when stories are truly heard, it unblocks subconscious amnesia and transforms it into a liquid grief of remembrance. I have many times witnessed this unblocking, it is a powerfully transformative event.
Grief properly channeled is the source of art.
A Guatemalan shaman who lived through the CIA atrocities in his country over a 36 year period and saw his village destroyed and many of his friends and relatives killed told Bill something similar to what I (Tim) mentioned in last weeks show about the two wolves fighting:
He said, "You love what you love more than you love your hate. If what you love is the divine, story, culture, children, then instead of blowing a whistle, you'll strive to keep the seeds alive.” That’s how he transforms his grief, he considers that the source of his creative power. Keeping "the seeds alive" can be a means of spiritual survival in turbulent times.
Mayans treat caves and baths as sacred, places where the gods and first peoples were born. They believe steam baths and sweat lodges cleanse the soul; that was typically done before an important ceremony;
Bill says Tim!! - You and I are carrying a burden on behalf of generations of Humans, here and yet to come. Easy to be crushed under the weight of knowledge if people won’t hear your stories. They need to wake up, stand up, tell their stories before it’s too late.
Bill sailed here to NZ on his yacht - he is a sailor, coming to NZ on a waka. (canoe, boat, kayak) Saying he knows the sky. WHY, when you can see chemtrails frequently—have they been taboo at climate conferences ever since Rio?
That out of bounds because it is not part of the “agenda”, which is a big fat LIE. GeoEngineering—Gates—Harvard—American Elements—Rothschild’s PG&E. Fires. Hunger. Massive relocations. Landgrabs. Lockdowns. All pieces of the puzzle.
At the same time an increase in sex, violence, all free-to-view, another soul trap.
Addiction. Sex & love addicts, perversions made socially acceptable. What happens to the soul? Distracted from its mission/purpose/destiny. By devices. By artifice.
At this transition point there’s a war going on in an unseen realm. The Dark Side--Gates, Schwab et.al.--have been “cast into wombs of similar disposition” — as it says in the Bhagavad Gita.
Jean Baudrillard, the French social scientist, said “The sad thing about AI is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.” (= cleverness, crafty, wily)
What to do!
Go with your intuition.
Connect with those who add value, who make right choices
Your emotional state is important, if you keep your vibe up, you become invisible to them; our refuge is in higher states of consciousness.
I don’t fear death but I fear the consequences of soul entrapment as the result of wrong choices and embracing the dark.
There are Flower Essences (Covered 2 weeks ago) for different situations and mental/emotional states, there’s no need to carry a burden. As Tim says, let your candle burn brightly…so to do that you must be clear of emotional baggage. This therapy is both effective and relatively inexpensive.
In 1781 there was a mutation that transformed humanity. Not all at once, but over time…from seven-centered strategic beings to nine-centered beings, and no one took much notice. This mutation took place in the visual cortex, which had been honed through our binocular vision into a specific focus. For thousands of years the way in which one scanned the environment was also the way in which one collected information on the inside in terms of the memory system. This mutation in the visual cortex eliminated the need for our binocular vision to focus specifically, it opened up the potential of peripheral or receptive vision. That's very different from the narrow focused strategic look that relates to left hemisphere dominance.
Saying … There will be another significant mutation in this decade, 2027. This isn’t the time to discuss it, but there are already many signs that it will happen. It’s all part of the program that we live in, and we are homo sapiens in transitus.
Egypt was an ancient culture that had lots of rituals that related to Soul and reincarnation, or life after death. What wisdom have they passed on?
The Emerald Tablets are said to be written by Thoth, the Atlantean priest who escaped the deluge and is said to have incarnated into a line of Egyptian pharaohs from the earliest dynastic period for more than 2000 years. Whether that’s true or not, the Emerald Tablets contain some real soul wisdom. I have a few brief quotes here to illustrate:
Man is only what he believeth, a brother of darkness or a child of the Light.
Darkness fetters the Soul. Only the one who is seeking may ever hope to be free.
The body is nothing. The Soul is ALL. Let not your body be a fetter.
Only the Soul is space-free, has life that is really a life.
“When ye as men can learn that nothing but progress of Soul can count in the end, then truly ye are free from all bondage, free to work in a harmony of Law.”
There is much more in this interview - and that crying and tears are both a profound and wonderful way to clear our being of hurt, loss and trauma - well worth listening - just from a standpoint of knowing you are not alone. -Tim
Next Week’s Interview:
We are still flying by the seat of our pants -
Watch this space.
The core idea is that Nature, imaginative by necessity, has already solved many of the problems we today are grappling with: energy, food production, climate control, non-toxic chemistry, transportation, packaging, and a whole lot more.
Animals, plants, and especially microbes are the consummate engineers. They have found what works, what is appropriate, and most importantly, what lasts here on Earth.
However, we humans have only really woken up to this in the last 30 years.
If we could only mobilise our consciousness (and media) at a global level, we would be both amazed and shocked to realize that the answers to our challenges are already embedded in nature, the same living super system that we too are deeply embedded in, except we have disconnected ourselves.
Time to awaken and reconnect, to our great sustainer our planet and recognise that so much of the biota, have over millennia and eons have worked through phases of evolution to innovate the best conditions for life and the common future for this life.
In nature nothing exists alone.
Rachel Carson
Sam Stier: http://www.asknature.org
Learn more about biomimicry in video:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/janine_benyus_shares_nature_s_designs.html
And print:
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/feb2008/id20080211_074559.htm
NEXT WEEK:
What is the Soul? Part Two
With Bill Watson
Our Western civilisation essentially goes back to ancient Greece. But yes there is Egypt, Sumeria and Anatolia in Turkey. However, Bill starts with the 'Fates' that were embedded in Greek & Roman Mythology, the three goddesses who preside over the birth and life of humans.
Each person was thought of as a spindle, around which the three Fates (Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos) would spin the thread of human destiny.
We need to remember the word 'psyche', the ancient Greek word for Soul.
This translates to a psychiatrist being, essentially a Soul Doctor - however in Western medicine Soul has been lobotomised out of the medical vernacular. Science does not educate us in the spiritual realm as - if it cannot be measured and quantified, it does not exist.
If we go to Wikipedia - (which sadly is not the resource it could be) there are on earth today 7.8 billion humans of which ‘supposedly’ these numbers below show, that:
2.4 billion are Christian
1.9 billion are Moslem
1.2 billion are Hindu
0.5 billion are Buddhist
.394 Million are China Traditional
and
1.2 billion Secular[a]/Nonreligious[b]/Agnostic/Atheist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations
So with Christianity and Islam betwen them - there are 3.3 billion adherents who would beleive that they are going to live beyond this mortal life. That in scripture in the first book of the Bible in ‘Genesis’ we learn about ‘soul’.
That Hindu and Buddhist also believe in an afterlife solely because they (like other minor religions and sects) believe in an essence / consciousness that leaves one body and after a time enters the baby of another human body.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afterlife
So there is a very considerable number of humanity who believe in a soul essence that inhabits the human body. That is most definitely spiritual in nature and that science does not want to utilise the vast number of 25,000 universities planet round to further research this perennial doctrine that has been embedded in all world religions, beliefs and cultures.
Yet, there are now thousands of recordings over the last hundred years of 'Out of the body' and 'Near Death' experiences everywhere on planet earth. Even doctors and professors and hard core atheists have experienced them - however the ‘medical establishment’ only sees the human body as a physical machine made of flesh, bone and organs. So they still refuse to take this step. Science has made up its mind that ‘nothing’ exists.
This subject of ‘out of the body’ and ‘near death experiences’ is one of the more divisive questions on earth. For there are many who have been brought up to believe that we are only a body that has evolved by chance via Dawinian evolution. This idea consolidated when science later added on the fluke of the big bang bringing all into existence. Even God was taken out of the equation.
That when we reduce the human body down to its constituent components you will find no evidence whatsoever of a soul or a spirit. The non theist - better known as an atheist will argue and battle this subject out even though people who have OBE and OTB experiences can tell you what their parents were doing, wearing and saying - even though they lived in another country at that exact time - they will argue vehemently that it is all a hallucination and that these ‘other’ facts don't matter.
For some unknown reason the disbelievers will in most cases not give up until they expire on their last out-breath.
Though we did not cover this in any depth at all, Bill mentioned that C S Lewis said - we don't have a soul - we are a soul - to which I heartily agreed and when looking for this quote on the web, I find that C S Lewis never mentioned it - so we apologise for this. Here is the link:
https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2014/01/the-spiritualist-origins-of-you-dont-have-a-soul-you-are-a-soul
Tim mentions that we are being dumbed down as a society and a civilisation and that we are seeing the censorship of information - even that of the distant past is increasing, and it is hidden in plain sight.
For example the Bible which was supposedly first written 3,400 years ago. See at the end of each quote that the word mutates from 'Soul' - to 'Being' - to living ‘Person’ - then to 'Creature.' With such a rapid change in description, will the next iteration become a - 'robot?**
I jest - however I trust you get the gist.
Because of time constraints we did not cover anything from both Vedic and Egyptian writings. Though in the Vedas they mention Soul, because Ātman is a Sanskrit word that means inner self, spirit, or soul, being in the Hindu philosophy.
Shaman and medicine men in indegenous cultures also believe in soul as their whole cosmology is grounded in this notion.
A search for ‘sole’ on the web brings up:
The only Hebrew word traditionally translated "soul" (nephesh) in English language Bibles refers to a living, breathing conscious body, rather than to an immortal soul. This is interesting, because even Albert Einstein did not speak of the soul, unless it was in generic terms.
What Bill focussed on was, what are the virtues of a soul and Bill talks of James Hillman - who has much to say on the soul https://thesunmagazine.org/search?search=james+hillman&with=section%2Ccategories%2Ccontributors&useShould=true&type=article
Have a listen to what he says ...
However in relating to today reality Bill says that the human species have in so many ways has lost its moral compass. He explains this … listen
Also, Transhumanism comes up - that people who don’t believe in souls and eternal life are doing their best to build computers / robots so as to ‘house their consciousness’ - see Ray Kurzweil of Google to get an understanding. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil
Bill also mentions that we are in a shift of consciousness that is happening and there is a huge cycle that we are all enmeshed in and that by 2027 we will see changes that we have not planned for. Listen
There was much in this interview, Bill speaks of the challenges the human race has found itself in and offers up a way for us to heal our being. This healing Bill says is very important if we as a society are going to resolve our differences, and become well.
The words karma and past lives come into this conversation - so I do suggest that you listen - it is only a 20meg download.
What comes across is Bill’s duty of care and concern - he says that Bach Flower remedies are very good ways to heal our emotional realm and bring us back into our true self.
Bach flower remedy tinctures - healingherbs.co.uk
We also need to constantly remember that “we are spiritual beings having an earth experience”.
There is an old First Nations saying that you can hear of in America - of an old Cherokee teaching his grandson about life. “A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy. “It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil – he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.”
He continued, “The other is good – he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you – and inside every other person, too.”
The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, “Which wolf will win?”
The old Cherokee simply replied, “The one you feed.”
So it is imperative that we have the ‘correct’ thought, right words, and right actions - as we chart our course in life.
Captain Edgar Mitchell, 6th man on the moon had this to say ...
God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants and walks in the animal and thinks in man …
And the question is - what do you intuit is man’s next evolutionary-spiritual step?
13 Best Books on Near-Death Experienceshttps://www.joincake.com/blog/near-death-experience-books/
These books will give you an inkling of a great reality - however the subject of this interview was based on what is SOUL and do we have one?
Extra:
There is a new movie coming out this November called ‘Soul’ - it's a blend of Soul music that the Black community of America put their heart into when singing and playing music but it also covers another unique side by having a ‘discarnate’ soul floating around telling ‘his’ story that is totally integrated with the soul music of the main black character living in America .
I have not seen it in its entirety - but the three trailers are very interesting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4zAAMpRe-Y
Next Week’s Interview:
Stephen Simon
Producer of the film ‘Somewhere in Time’ with Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour, and Christopher Plummer.
In 1998, he produced ‘What Dreams May Come’ with Robin Williams, Annabella Sciorra, and Cuba Gooding, Jr.
On January 3, 2018, his wife and forever love Lauren suddenly passed away in her sleep. She was only 54.
Six weeks later, Lauren began to communicate with him … and in October 2018, they started writing a book together.
Wives, husbands, mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, grandparents, and many others have experienced communication with loved ones who preceded them beyond the veil that separates life and what comes after life. Many of you are having that experience now, and many more will experience it in the future.
You... we... are most definitely not alone.
Love and Aroha coupled with courage are our greatest gift.
At the start, Jacques prompts me to say, have a pen and paper ready, stating not to believe all that he says. That he too, is endeavouring to work it all out, through intense research into old records and books on the web etc all about the ‘forgotten past. Saying that we have no understanding or even knowledge of what has come to pass.
Because things are not as they are and as a researcher of both historical events as well as new technologies that are released on today's society, we can not necessarily believe the status quo.
It starts with Tim mentioning his interview 5 weeks ago of Dan Hermansen - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guzOgNpZn1k - and the United Tribes flag of 1835 in early NZ, keeping Aotearoa NZ ‘as a free country’ and that King William the lV would have Great Britain protect it. However that flag was cunningly displaced by the Union Jack at the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, in 1840 - that contrary to what the Maori chiefs were aware of, New Zealand basically became a colony of Great Britain. Hence Hone Heke, the first Maori chief, to sign this Treaty, cut down the flag staff 4 times due to his disgust in which this Treaty was being administered.
That then, in the comments field of Dan’s interview was this - ‘The Auckland City Council is a Corporation listed on Dun and Bradstreet - So Tim did a web search and we find it in Wiki’ - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dun_%26_Bradstreet
Also mentioned early in this interview was the British East India Company because it was an overseas extension of the British Government and was in many cases a ‘law unto itself’ where it cunningly introduced opium into China in 1825 that soon after, the Chinese addiction to opium expanded (to 4-12 million people). So this opens the question who was this Company and who governed it? As they had no apparent conscience. Yet, its flag was an ensign that was accepted by the British Government and Admiralty. Adjusted for inflation, at its height, the company was worth $4.1 trillion. (Oct 17, 2018) other searches suggest $7.9 trillion.
Jacques, says he has worked for the Central Government in South Africa and in Local Government here in NZ and is horrified at what he believes to have found!
Stating there are 2 fundamentals that are universal as it relates to the Law; in this case British Law.
They are:
1) Contracts &
2) Jurisdictions
Fundamentally all law is a contract
A contract aims to control the behaviour / actions of two or more parties.
Shortly after Jacques was born, the legal system in South Africa impelled his Dad to sign him away as a bonded surety to a ‘bankrupt franchise.’ Note that South Africa was part of the British Commonwealth until 1961 and rejoined again in 1994.
Unbeknown to his Father, while he thought he was doing the right thing, apparently registering Jaques birth, and signing the birth certificate, was actually signing a contract;
He made Jacques the surety to a bond in the ALL CAPITALS fictional name that the corporation had created to enslave Jacques for the rest of his life.
This Corporation? This will come later …
ALL CAPITALS you ask? Yes, they use what is called Dog Latin, which is capitals or block letters. By the way, Dog Latin was used to trick and deceive back in the days when serfs could not understand what the more educated were able to control how Law was administered. Note The Latin alphabet started out as uppercase serifed letters known as Roman square capitals. Ancient Greek started off this way too.
And it seems the legacy continues to this day;
In the English language all capital writing is not a proper noun;
A proper noun is the name of a man or woman, place or physical thing;
That all capitalised name is not a proper noun and therefore not a name;
For example a name used for an individual person, place, or organisation, spelled with an initial capital letter, e.g. Jane, London, and Greenpeace. Often contrasted with common nouns.
Is it a lawful contract? No, because his Dad was never given full disclosure of what he was actually signing;
So the birth certificates of everyone are traded on the capital markets and heaps of money is made from them, according to Karen Hudes, former World Bank lawyer. (do your own research).
‘Everyone includes people who are born in countries like NZ, Australia - and very possibly Canada, and the USA plus UK. Is India and Pakistan? Research it.
The Corporation establishes how much tax the child will pay over his or her lifetime and that birth certificate / bond is then traded on the capital markets;
Who is this Corporation and why does it trick parents into doing this?
The answer to the why question is easy; control and trillions of dollars;
But there is also a sinister reason, which he will come to later.
But who is behind the Corporation?
His research has shown that there is one massive Corporation;
All the others are subdivisions of the main one;
The biggest sub-division is the United States
The corporation is known by a few names; Triple Crown; Tri-Regnum, Triple Tiara and Three-times Royal
The Triple Crown was started as a testamentary trust in 1302 pursuant to the Papal Bull called Unam Sanctam, the Holy Singularity / Sanctified Unity;
Pope Boniface VIII announced that he would depose King Philip IV of France if need be and issued the bull Unam Sanctam ('One Holy'), the most famous papal document of the Middle Ages, affirming the authority of the Pope as the heir of Peter and Vicar of Christ over all human authorities, spiritual and temporal. (Bull = Decree or edict)
Underlying the trust, is a global estate. The Pope claimed he owned all land, all flesh and all, wait for it… souls!
All being part of the global estate.
But surely the Pope had no say over the affairs of England?
So did the Pope have control over King William the 4th when he said he would protect the NZ Maori Chiefs Freedoms in 1835? - even though the British were a Protestant country and had the largest seafaring Navy at that time.
Well, this is where things get interesting.
So let’s go back to 1215 when King John was forced by the barons to sign the Magna Carta. What happened two years prior to that? Early on the 15 May 1213 King John went to the church of the Templars at Dover and there he knelt before Pandulph, the legate of the Pope, placed his crown in Pandulf's hands and took the oath of fealty to the Pope in Rome.
Fealty is a feudal tenant / vassal’s sworn loyalty to a lord, in this case the Pope.
King John also handed the legate a document stating that for the atonement of his sins against God and Church that he surrendered into the hands of Pope Innocent and his successors forever, the kingdoms of England and lordship of Ireland, to hold them henceforth as fiefs of the Holy See - the Pope.
Many believe that John ceased being King when he laid his crown at the feet of a foreign priest;
So this is how the Pope claims he owns all land,
But how does he own all flesh and all souls?
Well, the ‘birth certificate’ is a contract remember? It is the commercial vessel which is floated upon the ocean of commerce. We are made to believe that that fictitious ALL CAPS name is our real name and as such we are made surety for the bond. But actually we have nothing to do with it and the so-called birth certificate contract is invalid because no full disclosure was given at the time it was signed or any time thereafter.
So they are tricking all of us into believing we have to pay taxes and fines and rates when really it is all deception. But, because we pay it we contract to the Corporation. When we vote, for example, we are contracting with the Corporation and giving it legitimacy. We are given the illusion of a democracy, but there is really no democracy. It is simply another deception.
How many believe that the Queen of England has anything to do with assenting to Acts of Parliament? Her title was changed and the Roman numeral of II removed and replaced by Queen Elisabeth 2nd If you don’t believe go and check out the NZ Governor General’s website. If a monarch’s Roman numeral, as appears in Queen Elizabeth II, does not appear in her name, they are no longer referring to her, but some fictitious entity.
However, due to the fact that no full disclosure was given to our parents when they signed the birth certificate, the contract can be rescinded, which means the Pope does not lawfully own all flesh and ‘souls.’
The key to remove ourselves from this contract is to understand exactly how it was constructed, so we don’t get ourselves into trouble when we rescind it.
The Triple Crown Corporation is made up of:
All the established nation-states were trans-migrated into corporations, which are the subdivisions of the Triple Crown. That he believes includes NZ & Australia.
This was all supposedly done in the 1700’s - do your own research - it’s a quagmire
Jacques says if you go to the Securities and Exchange Commission website you will find the NZ and Australian governments there, of which he has screenshots.
http://www.wakeupkiwi.com/new-zealand-corporate-government.shtml
In NZ, most of our ministries, like the Ministry of Justice, NZ Police, Defence Force, Treasury, Ministry of Business Innovation & Employment, etc are all listed on the biggest business website in the world; Dun & Bradstreet as companies, with sales revenue. I have those screenshots too. So New Zealand and Australia seem to be very much part of this greater Triple Crown Corporation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dun_%26_Bradstreet - but do your own research as Wiki has been compromised for years.
Jacques sent an Official Information Act Request to Justice Minister Andrew Little asking if the Ministry of Justice is a company. He has 20 working days to respond. It has been 2 months and still no response from the Minister. Why?
He has now referred the matter to the Ombudsman but found out that even the Office of the Ombudsman is listed on the Dun & Bradstreet website as a company with sales revenue of $6m.
The reason Jacques is making such a fuss about this is because in our legal courts he is convinced they are not practising Law. He believes they are controlled by the Corporation to monetise we citizens (or the slaves) - because last time he checked the Ministry of Justice sales revenue in one year was $395m.
Also if the Ministry is in fact a company, how can they administer justice, when there is a huge conflict of interest? How can a company or corporation be in charge of a country’s Justice system?
If the NZ Treasury is a company, how can it control public funds?
Our only saving grace, one would think is the old English Common Law but in 1986 the Constitution Act removed most of it. One has to wonder why?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_Act_1986 - But, was this the full account of what happened?
And then in 1988 the Imperial Laws Application Act brought it all back. Since then many amendments have been made.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Laws_Application_Act_1988 - Again this is so messy - what can we believe?
As Jacques has not had the time to investigate all of this yet - He has brought together a few bright minds to assist him - this is ongoing.
You see the English Common Law includes Magna Carta which was designed to protect individual rights. But, the Corporation does not want its slaves to have rights.
Is that why when one becomes a barrister or lawyer or solicitor one has to swear an oath to the NZ Law Society and at the ceremony all have to bow to the judges? When you bow to someone they become your master. How can a lawyer fight one’s case properly if he is subject to his master. Some believe that lawyers are there to ensure you contract with the court. As soon as you contract - you lose your English Common Law and inalienable rights as man and woman. Then they can do to you as they please. Ask the Ministry of Justice about that and they refuse to comment.
If any of your listeners would like to support the work that Jacques is doing, or want to be released from this system, you can contact me on trrassoc@gmail.com
So the point that Jacques has been endeavouring to make here, is that a system was created to enslave us for our entire lives; a system which subtly robs us of the life God (or evolution) (or both) - gave you and your inalienable rights. Jacques mentions it is also a system which now believes there are too many people on this Earth and that we need to be culled, through unsafe technology like 5G, vaccines, nano tech, chips that includes ruining the income of billions.
That he has never consented to be controlled by this system and he does not consent now. Nor should you. He is preparing to throw off the shackles and so should you.
People Around the World are Waking Up to this Deception.
Jacques reminds us, if we don’t stand together the 1% will totally control us, because currently we have no rights. Look at Victoria in Australia. Do they have any rights? Look at how people are being grabbed by their throats. They have caused no harm to anyone, but are being treated worse than animals by the so-called police and no one lifts a finger. So Tim says - “NZers get serious and savvy and start to challenge the authorities on this and similar issues. This is what a participative Democracy is.”
We have been conned into looking after the ‘I’ when the ‘WE’ is our safety.
The Corporation does everything to isolate us from one another, so they can control the WE, because they fear us. They are after all the 1% and we are the 99%.
Jacques says … do yourself a favour and switch off the mainstream media. They spread what they are told to spread and will brainwash you into their narrative every time. If you want to get out of the system, you need to get rid of the propaganda.
In South Africa the Zulus refer to Ubuntu.
For me it means we are all connected and we all need each other to thrive and survive. We have to stand against those that want to harm us or rob us of Ubuntu. If we don’t we, as the collective will be taken, one by one, like the protesters in Victoria Australia and lose everything our forefathers fought so hard and died, for us to have.
In NZ we have Aroha and this too is a major statement of Love and unconditional Love that is the building block of Maoridom.
Other points in this interview:
Sovereignty -
Australia has ‘Australia Day’ on the 26 January every year - this is when they ‘supposedly broke away from Britain.
America has Independence Day - the 4th of July when the became independent of Britain
Where is NZ’s day of independence from Britain? Some say it was sometime in 1947.
On 26 September 1907 the United Kingdom granted New Zealand "Dominion" status within the British Empire. New Zealand became known as the Dominion of New Zealand. The date was declared Dominion Day, but never reached any popularity as a day of independence.
In 1948 New Zealanders became New Zealand citizens – before that they had been British citizens. New Zealand gained full legal independence when Parliament passed the Constitution Act 1986. In 2003 a new Supreme Court was created, replacing Britain's Privy Council as New Zealand's final court of appeal. June 20, 2012
When is NZ day proclaimed in NZ? We do not have one …
http://www.wakeupkiwi.com/what_is_the_crown-City_of_London.shtml
Gag Orders - In NZ Local Councils will not let you speak out about certain information. Does this mean that even if you are a Member of Parliament in NZ that you are not allowed Parliamentary Privilege - to raise points that you think are of national importance? What are Gag orders - do you sign them when entering Parliament?
Please look at the back of the NZ Passport - the North Island has printed on it NZ - whilst the South Island has nothing.
Maps of NZ for the last 70 plus years have always had an even spread of ‘New Zealand’ across both the North & South Island , but not so on our passport. Why?
NZ IN 1967 changed their money from Pounds - to Dollars - a $100 bill was printed, yet though we have eliminated small coins we have not made a commensurate change by printing a $500 note - because NZers have forgotten that the $100 bill now is only worth $20.00 in 1967. That is an example of how docile and slumberous we have become - the bankers will most probably frog march us into a cashless society - sooner rather than later.
That people are encouraged to research Jordan Maxwell - Matrix of Power and what is Admiralty Law? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-cb1P-lZ_4
That so much is happening that it is all hidden in plain sight. Yet, NZ society as a whole - seems blissfully complacent and unaware.
In 2003, I (Tim) took my class of language students to see Queen Elisabeth 2nd at the America’s Cup Village in Downtown Auckland. That I then found myself in the middle of a loud beseeching by two middle class men dressed in suits calling and addressing Queen Elisabeth ll of England. They honoured her as the Head of the Church of England and Defender of the Faith. They politely but forcefully asked her to outrightly condemn the Pope in Rome as the Anti Christ and in league with Satan - and that here I was 5 meters from the Queen and 5 metres away from the two men standing on some seats. (this was more than astounding. Here they were still fighting the war between the Roman Catholics and the Protestants.)
That Treasury here in NZ has a direct line to the US State Department - Why?
That Donald Trump has recently taken over the US Federal Reserve - which is a private Corporation - asserting US Independence from the City of London?
When Donald and Melania Trump visited London in June 2119 they both broke a major royal protocol rule by shaking hands with members of the royal family instead of curtsying and bowing. To top it off, in a ceremony In London in front of the trooping of the colour and pomp and ceremony Donald Trump walked out in front of the Queen - which signified that he was in command and that the USA under Trump had made a major break with the City of London.
https://www.insider.com/donald-trump-broke-major-royal-protocol-visit-with-the-queen-2019-6
There have been whispers recently that Prince Charles in the last months has been crowned King to replace his Mother Elisabeth 2nd - so there are plenty of assertions flying around at present, that signify huge change is upon us.
Also that all the Lord Mayors of London have been Freemasons for something like the last 200 years, until Ken Livingston from the Labour party broke that spell … from 2000 to 2008. What does this portend?
When In NZ you receive a traffic infringement it is addressed to you in CAPITAL LETTERS - why? See above.
The Pope says we individual humans can not have a direct relationship with God - that we have to go through the Catholic Church? Why? Because this is how the Church funds itself.
https://www.ncronline.org/blogs/francis-chronicles/church-essential-faith-there-are-no-free-agents-pope-says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4svTOrMREA Where does this leave Protestants?
The United States Isn't a Country — It's a Corporation!
https://www.serendipity.li/jsmill/us_corporation.htm
https://wwwsolutionsempowerment.com - if you want support against having to comply and have enforced injections against your will. Click
This was more than an intriguing interview. It was also a call to waken NZ journalists who have become so distracted by political in fighting that they have become profoundly lost in their own drama.
Next Week.
What is the soul, why has the soul been such an important part of human endeavour for millennia?
This insightful interview of Dr Simon Thornley of Auckland University again shows that there are good reasons for us in this country to question authority and then furnished with new, rigorous evidence - chart our own course.
During the COVID lockdown crises, NZ as a country hunkered down as a "Team of Five Million" as the Prime Minister called us. We essentially did what we thought was in the best interests for the nation as a whole. However, after a short time there came from the academic realm, another voice that said hold on a moment, the statistics coming in seem to be not telling the full story, so let’s take another look at what's really happening?
This voice was Dr Simon Thornley who courageously stated that the facts were indeed not clearly stated. He also noted that Professor John Ioannidis of the Department of Epidemiology from Stanford University in the US was finding the same slanted stats and later on - Prof Carl Heneghan of Oxford University, in the UK also noted this.
When Simon looked at the early evidence at the first stages of the lockdown - of who were in hospital or were very unwell the statistics showed people dying who were actually expected to die in a short while anyway - as a result of old age or other comorbidities - such as heart problems, cancer and other ends of life ailments.
The statistics that he was able to gather showed by far the majority of people who were dying were in the 80s to 90s. This was supported in a Sky News Broadcast on the 20th of September they said that …. Back in July a statistical anomaly was spotted which changed the way COVID 19 deaths were counted. Previously Public Health England included any death of a person who had previously had Covid 19 as a Corona virus fatality even if they had recovered from the virus and died of another cause - and the person who spotted that was professor Carl Hennigan from the University of Oxford - who has been quite critical of the UK lockdown, going a step further stating that the British PM was surrounded by mediocre advisors!
In the interview, Simon lays out the anomalies and says that we in NZ need to be cautious, protect the elderly in particular and open up the country which means schools as well.
There are a good number of profound points covered in this ranging interview and the big one is that this Covid is very much like a very severe flu. Saying that this virus is not as deadly as we had initially believed.
https://youtu.be/SgixfAGVwT4 Simon on ‘Plan B’
The Interview:
Simon talks about when a virus kicks in it expands and reaches a climax at the top of the bell curve and then falls away. That is even with no intervention - saying that the virus eventually burns itself out - this is what we call herd immunity.
This is the way we recover from 99%of virus afflictions - that’s basically it.
So he says that the strategy that needs to be on the table, which Sweden was discussing was ‘herd immunity’ and sheltering the vulnerable - we knew for example that people in rest homes, in hospitals, were very susceptible to the virus - certainly people over the age of 65 - much more than people under that age … so that was a reasonable strategy …and he (like me) got behind the NZ Govt’s initial response to protect hospitals and rest homes and avoid the spread of the virus in hospitals. However, Simon said that the response went further with slogans - like “we are going in hard and early” and “we are going to eliminate the virus” and he said we know that the hospitals were never under threat in NZ. That even in the height of Covid - there was spare capacity.
Simon says that he sees that Covid19 has taken this ‘exalted status’ - and it concerns him - given its overall importance that in many ways there are many other important challenges within the health domain. Mental health and suicides which was mentioned towards the end of this interview.
We talk about Turkey and they locking down only the young and the elderly and having everyone between 20 and 70 stay at work and they had the same death toll - per % of population - virtually the same as Switzerland, even though the Swiss followed the conventional lockdown procedure.
Simon mentions that the Turk’s obviously were paying attention as to who was really at risk. Saying he is not sure about the young ones - the children and that his reading of the situation is that they are even at a lower risk of anything happening in terms of severe outcomes. Especially when compared with middle age people etc, that keeping the economy going seemed very sensible.
The Icelandic Experience - In Iceland they tested a considerable number and they found many with - Asymptomatic infection - so people there were testing positive with Covid - but without symptoms - so that was crucial information as we initially thought that everyone with Covid had severe symptoms and were going to need hospital treatment and may end up being fatal.
So this was important - and there are big questions as to why - and the knock-on effect around our planet is - why the degree of lockdown when Iceland showed up anomalies and people with Covid - did not fall ill?
Also Iceland opened up its borders and they seem to have readjusted their risk to some degree to the virus …. That their tourism industries are recovering …Listen
Also talked about was the CVC https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html in the USA and the rewriting of Covid deaths down to 6%. - you will have to listen
He states this ratio is of high interest and that is simply about the number of people who die of Covid and also who die because of Covid - stating there is a distinction there … and he says the definition is INTERESTING - divided by the total number of people who have Covid and initially the WHO stated this was very important that this was high - much much higher than what we would expect for influenza - for example about 3.4% for example - where we expect influenza to be about 0.1% or 1 in a thousand - so the WHO was saying - 3 to 4 in a hundred were dying compared to 1 in a thousand with flu - however listen to how Simon covers this and you will hear that the fatalities of Covid have been ‘dialing down’ more and more that they are now getting closer to the range of seasonal influenzas.
Listen as Professor John Ioannidis of the Department of Epidemiology from Stanford University is quoted as saying the fatality rate is about 3 in a thousand - the CDC is a little bit higher than that, at 0.6% - so he says we are seeing a ‘dialling back’ of the fatality rate from the virus.
Note that the age of deaths by Covid in NZ is virtually the same as for normal or natural mortality as he compared this for the year 2019 …Listen … that the distribution was virtually exactly the same. as the ages of the people who had died with Covid in NZ.
Simon mentions that this virus is not as deadly as we have initially believed - (Listening to this interview is better - it’s only 22 meg)
Prof Carl Heneghan Oxford Prof - Watch - evidence based medicine - Sky TV interview https://youtu.be/dxm2HZp8c3A
The Professor even states that “the British PM was surrounded by mediocre advisors”
That corona viruses and flu are seasonal - so listen
Love, connection and being with family and kin - is very important, if not imperative.
We hear that within the public health community there is a perception that by locking everyone down this is one-way they see as keeping us safe etc … like risk-free… by intervention - but there is also a knock-on effect as there is a major loss of connection - that people need to be with each other and experience love and family and warmth, plus touch being imperative for family and community.
But also stated is that we now know that locking down has very serious implications - such as in England - not only to the economy - but with Covid that people who are suffering from diabetes and cardiovascular to cancer, strokes - you name it - are now not receiving the attention that they previously received as Covid has cornered everyone's attention.
Here in NZ 50,000 people have gone on the unemployment benefit and being unemployed takes away people's feelings of self-worth. Paid Employment is very good for mental health. Not enough money for decent food - results in poor nutrition and also poor thinking and decision making.
As a result, he says - the lockdown is going to increase inequalities in NZ.
The NZ Govt itself did an analysis through the Productivity Commission on extending the lockdown for another 5 days in relation to the costs and it was clear to the economists writing that paper that they came to the conclusion of 95 to one - compared to the benefits - and this is information that the Govt was writing itself.
But this information was eventually swept aside … and it only came out through an Official Information Act Inquiry.
Govt insiders are thankful that there is another point of view addressing the Official Narrative.
Simon also mentions that he has had some contact with people in Government and they are glad that they are hearing another point of view - because they are concerned that New Zealanders are in many ways only getting a one-sided story.
This was startling - the PCR test is only about 70% successful. Putting the swab up your nose.
That microbiologists had to battle the NZ Government from sending infectious patients being sent back to rest homes - this is a shocker … NOTE this was an important factor in NZ’s apparent success, in keeping infections at bay.
VACCINES
The frail and the elderly have never responded well to any vaccine.
That fast-tracking a vaccine still could take years - saying the Mumps vaccine was the fastest, being produced at 4 years.
That ultimately we will have to live with the virus - ultimately
Hydroxychloroquine - has had some good results, especially the latest Belgium study. But we still need more research. Yet, very recently seven States in the USA have given the OK for Doctors to use it.
This was a very exciting interview for me - because Simon had an understanding that was considered outside the conventional viewpoint. The only thing was that there was only a certain amount of time to cover these questions.
This 6 minute video gives us another insight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kB0MEjHgkfM&feature=youtu.be
NEXT Week's interview is not yet sorted - however we will be doing our best to bring you the best information we can. - Tim
Yes, there were smokestack industries and a lot of steam as the industrial revolution built up - but nothing in the way of man-made radiation what so ever.
At that time human biology and the Schumann resonance for our planet was roughly 7.83cycles and all biota on earth were all in harmony. It was not until the Soviets put a man in space that cosmonauts and later astronauts had to have a little power pack attached to them running this frequency because if they are removed from this frequency of 7.83cycles - they will rapidly become very ill and eventually die.
So other than lightening and the Schumann resonance there was ‘nothing’ above this, so all the way up to invisible light there was ‘nothing’ and all was in harmony. But now we humans have almost completely ‘filled up’ all that ‘frequency’ range or space, with ‘artificial, mostly digital signals.’ Like being inside a ‘low powered’ microwave oven.
The Coming of Radiation
This all came about via the industrial revolution that leads to the so-called ‘enlightenment’ as we found the atom once again that the ancient Greeks had mentioned plus electricity and radio wireless and X rays etc and with it came the periodic table - the understanding of wavelengths and today we now have a multitude of ‘layered’ (ordered) frequencies all around us at present. This has resulted in many ways of an unrelenting (unknowing) technocratic industry that has built up, but especially over the last 30 years, with a ubiquitous global enterprise of using microwave radiation 24/7/365. However, what this rush has done is that it’s having a knock-on effect regarding health - to not only humans, our families, but to animals, and pets, plus birds, insects, and trees.
Where it all started with innocence and unknowingness - since the end of the Second World War certain scientific groups even within the world's militaries have realised that there are consequences. That in more recent times the commercialisation of these radio waves has meant that a great amount of money can be made from exploiting this ‘medium’ hence the ubiquitous mobile phones as just one of the new technologies that are on the global market these days.
Yet we are falling very short of ‘independent research’ done to find out the safety of this technology, however, Paul does tell us how the military took this tech to such a level that it was deemed by the US and allies to be the way forward using /national security’ as the reason to extract as much operability out of this expanding realm. He also says that the industry itself conducts its own safety standards and critics say that this is like having the fox guard the henhouse.
And the big question we need to ask … w is why not enough safety information in the public arena?
Electricity
He also mentions electricity which scientists do not have a full explanation as to what it is other than we can use it. Research the battle between DC - Direct Current that Edison used as against the - AC Alternating Current that Tesla brought to the world - that today powers every home basically on our planet. Yet, there is also such a thing as ‘dirty’ electricity and that is the radiation that it gives off - even in the average home today. Which is being ignored by the Electrical industry as well as Government and health officials.
Paul says in his days at school, he is 62 now and when he went to school hardly anyone was ill. Maybe a couple of kids would pull their inhaler out after a run around the paddock, that was it. Now he challenges us to go into any school in NZ and check out the health of those children - stating that there will in all probability be over 50% having an issue.
Dirty Electricity
Paul talks about a modern family home that he visited with various meters and found that it was overloaded with dirty electricity - that the two infants had been unknowingly living inside a wireless storm and were behaving erratically and waking up 3 to 4 times at night - even having video baby monitors. So after registering on his metres all the high amounts of radiation in the house they turned off the monitors and the power to the wifi and modem etc so that only the fridge was on at night etc - and within days the children became happy, healthy little infants. This shocked the parents - because they had no idea and this example is important no it is imperative for all parents to check out what is happening in our home and do it sooner than later. Following Building Biology and Ecology guidelines are important. Especially for building a safe home. (this was an abridged piece here. Clock radios emit radiation beside your bed etc. - Listen
Meanwhile academics and so-called scientists defer to archaic guidelines as well as with the deployment of 5G - they fall back on the WHO, the same organisation that is run by Dr Tedros with all its contentious connections etc, to Dr. Anthony Fauci and Bill Gates and all that is COVID.
ECO - The word has been misappropriated
The word eco in new buildings is being abused - it is more about economy than ecology. It's a star ratings system etc - = how can we save money - but doesn’t encompass health … (where are you at the NZ Green Party?) CFL light bulbs - compact fluorescent light bulbs have issues and now we have migrated onto LED lights - WARNING - not good for your health - as it does not give out a balanced spectrum of light. Do your own research ….’white’ is not a native colour for LED.
The human body is electrical - yes we are cellular, but we are also atomic and subatomic beings.
Humans are exceptionally electrical in our own bodies far much more than orthodox medical Doctors will be trained to understand or that the conventional medical system gives us credit for. (remember we are an energy field of atoms harmoniously oscillating in time and space in harmony with the Shumann resonance and this new technology of LED - is oscillating at exceptionally high frequencies - (you have to listen to this. These latest light bulb technologies are not good for your/our health
Paul says some people are more sensitive than others … But at a basic level - we are biological beings and that electricity is part of our makeup at a subatomic level - so we are all being affected.
It, gradually over time decreases our immunity system - it erodes our health and vitality … search GS meter Graham & Stetzer meters - check this out. https://www.stetzerelectric.com/store/microsurge-meter/
People especially in the Western world are becoming more unhealthier - earlier - hence the increase of people now becoming electro sensitive. Being able to pick up the wireless wavs wherever there is intense radio waves or computer usage etc.
Working in an office full of technology - can wear you out over time …. especially in a city office block
Saying - Sitting with a computer beside your desk and cables with your feet touching them - may be up to 10 or 20 or 30 volts - and that is very negative to your health - day in day out ….
Also mentioned.
Solar power comes in for questioning as the ‘inverters’ are the problem - there is a huge output of dirty electricity - you have to be awake to where your inverter is put. It is not biologically safe. Shield it or keep it away from the house.
Microwave ovens are toxic …. because the shear strength of the magnetron that is inside the unit -and then there is the poor shielding that is around it. (I, Tim have never owned a microwave oven.)
Mobile Phones
That now we have gone from 1G to 2G to 3G, 4G and going into 5G the tech corporations are becoming very clever and sophisticated as to how they pulse and modulate these frequencies … and they have had to do that to carry the increasing amount of data that they can now ’ship’ through the air waves - throughout busy cities, malls, sport and rock stadiums big events - where many people are intensely gathered - NOTE you/we are in the middle of it all.
So that the effect on our human biology is that the increased velocity of data - is becoming stronger and stronger and … even stronger - but worse and worse for the human inhabitants of this planet, not to mention flora and fauna and all biota inhabiting the biosphere.
Listen … that during the 2nd World War where radar played a huge part for the Allies in winning the war against the Nazis. It was when radar operators began to die due to the intensive frequencies that they were experimenting with.
But he said that this was not the first case of electro sensitivity as it all started in the 1890’s with the first case - when they started having telegraph along the railway lines that some of the telegraph operators began to become ill - Listen
Plus the old telephone exchanges where the operators connected all the calls by pulling and pushing in plugs to give the connection - they too were affected by electro sensitivity and became ill.
Unknown to Us
After the 2nd World War - the Russians said that this new technology of radar was quite harmful and they went one direction and the US went another way, with the Americans saying that military superiority was imperative, for both their communications and weapons. That unknown to you and I, there was quite a debate between both of these two countries ‘behind the scenes’ and even today the Russians standards are 100 x less than the Western standards - and China as well - which means their technologies in their countries are 100 times safer than what is being unleashed on the Western world. Which translates - that less is better for everyone's health, but we in the West are being ignored and overridden. Hence this radio program and all the 5G interviews are being done.
So that those two countries that are not known for good human rights have far more stringent safety guidelines for their own populations, than we in NZ and Australia - and the West have.
The Thermal Argument with 5G
Listen to how the heating or thermal effect was focussed on and never expanded upon - hence we have the fraught and cunningly employed idea that 5G only affects the skin - they based their standards on the ‘thermal effect’ on the largest organ of our body. Thus it has become dogma. That our NZ Govt and Health Department has totally bought into. (So it’s just not Covid)
You will have to listen as there is too much to convey.
The multi Governmental agency that overlooks this - note there are no Medical MD or biological professionals on these boards.
They are essentially all technocrats.
There are thousands and thousands of studies showing a biological effect - but all are being ignored.
In the US there have not been any in-depth studies of this issue for probably 30 to 40 years.
ICNIRP the International Commission For Non Ionising for Radiation Protection
So now with a military standard, the US tech people have decided to make consumer devices - phones based on a military standard. Listen
In NZ the Building Biology and Ecology guidelines are slightly concerning at 10 microwatts per square meter and significant concern at 1,000 watts per square meter - but the NZ Government Standard is 10 million microwatts per square metre - so this is how much the NZ authorities care about NZers health.
http://www.bbe.org.nz/
Testing of NZ Cell towers and in one instance in a residential area Paul got 200,000 microwatts per square meter. Saying - this is outrageous.
Listen to autism growing in the USA - 1970 about 1 in 10,000 and when it became more prevalent it became known as a rich white person's disease Then in the 1990s’ - about 1 in a thousand about 5 years ago it became one in 50 and it’s now trending to 1 on 25.
But, what has happened since that time is cellular networks and microwave radiation and wifi etc has massively expanded over the country listen …
To laptops - men and badly damaged sperm. Plus cell phones in men's trouser pockets Could this be the reason for the enormous increase in autism?
2020 hindsight is going to be too late for a lot of people … your choice … please network this to all your loved ones, family, and friends
The 4th Industrial Revolution
We are inside it now and it is ubiquitous
Listen and learn about the battle between the power companies and the Telcos - as to who is going to win the gateway to your home? This is fascinating
5G is not here yet - we are being conned - it's only 4 and 3/4 G but they are saying that it is 5G and it is safe - don’t be conned.
The current 4.3/4 system has increased from 5 megahertz to 100 megahertz yet cary 10 x more data - plus extreme fast speed - but there is only a certain amount of connections that they can facilitate per tower - so that means they are going to need a lot more towers in the street. Like 20 times.
Don’t allow trees to be cut down in the cities and towns in NZ
THIS MILLIMETRE WAVE TECHNOLOGY IS 100% unproven to be safe.
The military is using 5G as a doorway to crowd control systems and as a weapon.
This is a new technology and satellites are going to be beaming down millimetre waves too.
The Bio Initiative Report - Paul says is good https://bioinitiative.org/whats-new/
There is so much in this interview - but you dear reader have to now take the initiative especially if you love you children
http://safespace.net.nz/
Next week's Interview is still being sought - as we are flying by the seat of our pants.
Kia kah and Aroha - Tim
Saying, let’s take it to the highest aspiration of the human level - where we do not see any differences - other than we are human beings living on a planet. Therefore, what is it that we have in common with each other? When we have more in commonality than we have differences.
Roy’s been living in NZ for 45 years, is the owner manager of the radio station RushFM.co.nz and will be launching a renewed website in December - saying it’s imperative that we in NZ realise that we have huge amounts of possibility and potential, if we only realise our sacred connection with a greater reality.
I open up by mentioning last week’s interview of Billy Te Kahika as it’s the fastest growing political party in NZ and is getting much traction over Facebook and also our own YouTube, OurPlanet.org, and the GreenplanetFM.com web site. Roy then says that we want to express our high divinity and ideals, but we are forced to work at the coal face struggling for fairness - struggling for awareness and sharing - our what we are and what we are facing - but he says that as a single human being and spokesperson for a growing movement - it is a daunting task for Billy as a newcomer of lifting the consciousness of the people out of the differences and into the similarities and the unity - that is actually already here.
Roy says that we do not have to form a movement ‘because the human race is the movement’ - and we are all part of it.
Saying it is a matter of understanding of what we are going through and who we are - and looking at - what is our contribution - he says that we come into this world with nothing and we leave with nothing - so what is of value is what we contribute.
So our contribution is going to be relative to our perspective of life - and the current perspective of life that is being propagated - is the perspective of selfishness - Consumerism, and having ‘things’ etc. That we are constantly being forced into the survival concept = nobody else has enough money, nobody has enough time - no one has enough friends, nobody has enough … of anything. This feeling of having a restrictive standard of living - when the earth is abundant (by God’s Grace) - and where there is plenty for everyone - but it has been stolen by the few at the Top - to leave us with the concept ‘I have to look out for number one’ (An emergency siren goes off in the background of Roy’s house and neighbourhood - How synchronistic?)
As opposed to ‘what can I contribute to everyone else?’ If you want to hear some words of ‘tough love’ - have a listen - there are heaps of insights and learning in this interview. But, we are in a society that’s teaching us selfishness. That we have been conditioned and programmed to become selfish because we lack a deep connection to ‘self’ and to warm caring family values, as well as a spiritual knowingness.
He says we can look at the whole situation that is happening on our planet, geologically etc, our financial system - we can look at a host of different things plaguing society - or under inspection by society - or altering right in front of society - but, all of these are temporary issues.
Listen - because he talks about what is developing in your consciousness? Are you getting above** you or are you constantly worrying about your survival?
Are you actually endeavouring to help others reach their divinity and become better beings? Are you supporting people with truth and acknowledgment and encouragement? ONLY? Or are you guilty of passing on information that is not knowledge? (think gossip and trivia).
He goes into the fact that there is a very small group at the top of the global heap and they are rewarding themselves at our expense as they are farming us. We are being played …and this will continue and become more constricting - unless we break out of our self imposed - dream spell. Have a listen and become active …
Then we have ‘us’ …and our attitude is of co-operative compassion … However - this cooperative compassion is being discredited, it has been abused, it’s been neglected, its been marginalised - at every turn - by those who control the food, the money, the gas, the communications (media) the information …
So it’s leaving people going - I don’t get it, because in their heart they see that they are being constantly on the back foot…. Have a listen … Because an awakening is happening …
There are 50 or so different issues - that are all part of the same issue … it is imperative if you want to be freed up to connect the dots …
He goes on to ask - are we going to be divine selfless beings and care and share and help …. or are we going to fight and struggle and hassle over what we perceive to be as differences …
He says at present humanity's consciousness is changing … we are in the birth canal to ‘a great awakening’ - and Roy believes this …. and changing for the better …
But, huge segments of society will have to give up on what they have been trained to respond to or to do and let go - surrender … and accept what they knowingly and intuitively feel to be right.
That we cannot break up the family unit, as our education is teaching us to obey and not to be curious and to question … they are trying to inoculate us with poisons - now working hours per day have been extended for many - including half of Saturday - pushing rubbish and ignorance on TV - causing more people to become dysfunctional and the community more fragmented - pushing contamination of the food and the water and the air - ‘they’ are doing everything contrary to healthy human life … and this is the Awakening that has to take place … this is the awakening that we can all agree on.**
We do not have to fight the system - we just have to abandon it …and start a new one.
We have the capabilities and resources to reconstitute society on a natural sustainable platform - but we are being told by officialdom - no you can’t - you have to follow our system …
Because by following the system that is presently in place - leads to our demise
Roy says that when we are young enough we need to know that … we are spiritual beings having an earth experience …
But, the system we now have, has lobotomised this statement out of our vernacular - and the Churches have totally failed in this …
He also mentions that people have such poor memories they can’t tell you what and where they were a year ago - we have entered a time of forgetfulness - because in so many ways we are filling our minds with empty chatter and confounding trash. Roy says that this is the goal of ‘the system’ - to keep us all in irrelevance - with junk TV - macabre images of death and slaughter - and then we go to sleep and have all these images eat away at our psyche - and have a bad nights sleep - because we have programmed ourselves to let in dark images - hence the depression and with the youth - suicides it doesn’t need a ‘wheelbarrow engineer’ to figure this out.
This is not an accident - this is a deliberate program to stultify you and turn you against yourself. The system has a plan that is anti-human development and as we realise the air we breathe is contaminated, we’re drinking sanitised water with fluoride added, there is all sorts of chemical sprays on vegetables and fruit being factory and industrial food that we shop for in the supermarket, there is glyphosate now in the Auckland harbour. 5G wireless being enforced on us - and the list goes on - that 1080 is being broadcast over huge areas of NZ, that injections into our bloodstream are planned for all NZers and once we tie all this in and do the research - but not via Google we come to the inescapable conclusion that we are under assault by an anti human system!
The last 70 years has been an upping of the programming of us to not think - that is if we see an actor on TV wearing a white coat telling us to microwave our food and eat white sugar - this person is not a doctor - it’s an actor - we are being brain rinsed to believe everything on TV - now they are selling soft medications for headaches and the like - because we are not eating, fresh, vital organic food that has ‘life force’ and we are drinking chlorinated water and very possibly fluoride and we wonder why children are suffering from everything from immune deficiency syndrome to allergies and comorbidity of numerous sickness cascading over each other. Because our bodies cannot cope with a multitude of toxins flooding the system. So we either shake ourselves out of our slumber and do something ‘mindfully health wise’ or wait until our health becomes so serious that we are weakened by habits and our unknownness, to allow ourselves - to snuff out our inner candle and pass away ...
Other Subjects Covered
In NZ we have been miss-educating our children for two or three generations now hence more parents homeschooling their children as well as the increase in private schools most being Christian based.
Normalising Our Daily Life.
We are being homogenising society through media and education.
Think this - and everyone thinks ‘this’ - then think that and their attention goes to ‘that.’ Buy ‘these’ and people reach for their plastic card.
Whereas Socrates in ancient Greece - use the Socratic method that up until recently in the Western world was to question everything. Today we are educated and schooled instead, to ‘obey.’
So that people think the way we live in suburbia and go home and watch the 6 o’clock news, microwave our processed food etc - that it's normal - they think it’s natural - because ‘so many people’ are now doing it ‘that consensus reality’ believes TOTALLY in the program.
Americans will go to the doctor with a sniffle and have been taking antibiotics for generations and now their immunity systems have deteriorated to such a degree - that they are on multiple medications - keeping Big Pharma bloated with financial earnings - because sleepwalking to a burger of pizza parlour for a coke and fries is the programmed thing to do.
But what is it that makes me feel good inside? This is what Roy asks.
How much Joy can I experience?
When was the last time I loved life?
Saying - this is the most momentous time in history for us to come together.
Showing respect for mother nature - by going and immersing yourself in the beauty of what nature offers … This is when the healing takes place. Being bathed in grandeur and splendour. Breathing it all in.
However we did dip into the waters …
The NZ Government, right at this moment is doing its best to control all water across NZ and taking it away from all Councils - why? Agenda21 - Agenda2030. He says we are being deceived by the way the Government is dealing with water in all its manifestations here in NZ. They are not addressing the NZ Public - there are no town hall meetings to address this important resource and its allocation.
Roy says that we in NZ do not have leaders that are protecting us and our resources. We just don’t have them - they have been programmed to obey don’t rock the boat - as well as to essentially hide and blend …
Saying Billy Te Kahika has a huge job on his hands to get ordinary NZers mobilised - because they have been disempowered by years of TV programming drawn-out political processes and on the physical level - eating lifeless dead food and drinking municipal water devoid of life force …
Listen Roy discusses talkback radio, as it unravels across the airwaves yet easily becomes contaminated with no heart fulfilling conclusion … and especially the addiction of anticipation - that talkback is going to share some important knowledge and they draw it out and extend it - you go to the advertisements and come back and they change the subject and you end up being drawn out into a dead-end situation - so what people are addicted to is the anticipation, but you do not actually really get any knowledge … and resolution. A lot of it could be perceived as basically a bitching session.
It’s like hanging out for a hit of heroin - and the system sucks and sucks and nothing comes that fills your being with hope, joy … or knowledge.
You May get a little information - but you don’t get any knowledge that will change your heart - change your awareness - change your values - give you support. Saying it is a type of hypnotism …
That after 20 or 30 years now - people have little understanding of knowledge these days - yet, they are awash in unknowingness - having zero connection to history …
TV Radio and Written Media
Shortland St , Coronation St, Neighbours, Close to Home SOAPS - are mind control TV programming basically based on betrayal and revenge - it is a program to strangle the minds of viewers to become lost in a lost world - yet pay the advertisers handsomely for being the suckers that watchers are. There is no continuous stories of virtues, values and love or on open one's awareness of a greater reality.- just a cycle of wash, rinse - spin-dry and repeat of so many various crooked dark attributes peppered with titillation and clever camera angles.
We are programmed towards lower desires and base thoughts and feelings. To those who are aware - the human species is sliding down the chakras away from the heart and higher mind.
The riddle of the Sphinx on the Giza Plateau In Egypt, is mentioned. It’s an animal body with a human head. Signifying that the ancient pre Pharaonic civilisation, in a time that goes back probably 10,000 years plus - left a reminder for humans - that we have to evolve from the lower animal mind to that of the human higher mind.
We also talked about ‘Out of the Body and Near Death’ experiences - to realise that we are not our body … that we have another spiritual quality that is eternal - like the soul. That people have to research this - because it is life-changing for the better.
All is God and Nature - that the human race in many instances have become disconnected from …
Being warm and supportive with each other … and this connection helps us to awaken …
That the Bible has been rewritten so many times that it has lost its meaning at some levels - and that it has been sanitised.
Tim speaks of an early St James Bible that his friend has that says in (Matt. 2:1)
And three Astrologers came from the East. Then it changed to
And three Magi came from the East to now it is …
And three wisemen came from the East
Will the next re-write be
And three coca cola salesmen came from the East?
The Redline BIBLE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_letter_edition - This bible supposedly has words that are written in ‘red’ as being spoken by Christ. Though the context in which it is written is somewhat removed.
The Scofield Bible
http://churcheclipse.com/home/christian-church-takeover/dispensationalism/scofield-bible-fraud/
https://www.wrmea.org/015-october/the-scofield-bible-the-book-that-made-zionists-of-americas-evangelical-christians.html
The interview continues about the great deception that has been happening in banking + all religions - so that many movements globally have now been infiltrated …
‘Infiltration instead of Invasion’ - through all institutions especially in America and the English speaking world - ’sleepers’ have been put in place be it Justice, Education, Health, Agriculture, etc etc They are not here to lift us up to be inquisitive, curious and to ask questions. Do your own research.
What To Do
Walk away from the system … start your own.
Communicate with your friends and neighbours.
Farmers markets are good places to go to ‘get a feel’ for working and cooperating with good people.
Don’t buy fizzy drinks - Cola etc.( haven’t bought any for myself since 1977)
Source good fresh spring water.
Don’t buy fast foods. (I have not eaten at McDonalds or Burger King in my life) - so it’s possible.
Grow as much of your own organic food as possible.
Consider Homeschooling your children.
Join a TimeBank, Green Dollars or a Savings Pool. https://livingeconomies.nz/
Find reputable local products to buy.
Clothing - I buy quality second hand but occasionally from a new retail source (Farmers) - but no major labels.
Yes, we will still have to purchase petrol and all fuel stations are the same. This is a loss/loss situation
Buying computers and phones - just buy the best and most robust. We cannot win here. Apple is relatively reliable.
Furnishings - there are superb 2nd hand deals.
Purchase a good used car - Japanese are usually the most reliable.
Housing and land - it’s challenging. Build in mud brick and alternative local products.
Work within their system to build an independent system … this is where we need to start talking with our friends whanau and family …
Remember that there is a greater intelligence embedded through the universe, that a higher being exists and we have been programmed to forgo and forget our connection to Source to the Creator or as Roy openly states - to God.
Roy’s Radio Station Website www.RushFM.co.nz - with a new website in December 2020.
Quote:
American Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize Winning Author.
“We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy the economy.”
Once we understand this is a Western World Phenomenon - we can start connecting the dots.
Next Week
Paul Riddell - Radio, Wireless and Electrical Frequencies …
What you can do to isolate yourself from increasing wireless intrusion.
Healthy living in today’s electro-smog?
This has come about because we know that our planet, and the biosphere are in crisis. We are intuitively recognising that our freedoms are being constantly eroded. Not only this, but mainstream media is either censoring by omission or only feeding us information that may not necessarily be true. Especially if espoused by the Government - who are elected to be our representatives, and expected to debate and clarify every point of view in an open forum so that both they, and we, are fully advised of all pros and cons.
This interview tells of the emergence of the NZ Public Party and Advance NZ via social media, why so many people have been drawn to it, and illustrates a common thread that connects so many concerned citizens of today.
Yes, there is a metaphysical strand passing right through this narrative and it all revolves around either control or freedom. Not freedom to do whatever we want to do, but in having ‘Freedom’ - we know that we have to be self-disciplined when given such an immense responsibility.
This interview is about the soul of humanity and its impact on the soul of our civilisation.
The best way to understand this is by watching Robert F Kennedy Jr in Berlin 28 Aug 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM7NLlWZD5I&feature=youtu.be
Robert connects so many dots that it brings Billy’s focus into perspective. To such a degree that within the next 10 days Robert and Billy are going to engage in a live video discussion, together.
START:
In this interview I asked, Billy can you please start off with a little karakia - as prayer is important as it supports clear, good thought, correct statements, and right action.
We talk of his wife Corrin and his three children, his Tamariki, and also of his surname Kahika being short for Kahikatea - this being the tallest native tree in New Zealand! Taller than our mighty Kauri - As these trees can grow up to 60 metres high and given time - higher. So I say that he comes from a very important family tree, pun intended - or shall I say whakaapa. (laugh) He says it has many meanings - the expression to be a warrior and the expression of a leader - but quickly advises that he has no desire to be a politician or in Parliament and now he finds himself in front of a movement that he says is really not about being hungry or lustful for power - he at heart just wants to get on with his life, with his business, being a musician, having a little ministry with his wife and helping people. However these times that have come about now have compelled him to take a stand and air the concerns of many, many people of what we are seeing in relation to the behaviour of the present NZ Government. (but of previous Governments too.
He says he stepped forward as he found that there was no-one in the political landscape articulating what was happening and this compelled him to make a stand, not knowing that it would lead to the formation of the NZ Public Party.
Early Childhood
Billy grew up as an ordinary kiwi Maori New Zealander living in South Auckland in a ‘state house’ with his beautiful Pakeha Mum and Maori Father. Saying that he never really wanted for anything yet did not have a lot either. He says many people are still highly skeptical of how he could come from obscurity to leading the fastest growing political movement in NZ. Something that has never been accomplished before. That it is all about the message, the timing and what needed to be expressed in the public arena.
That a growing number of people have been in distress quietly thinking the same things but not having an outlet for their concerns, their thoughts and thinking. Some were upset, thinking that this lockdown situation that we are in - just could not be and Billy was able to amalgamate and aggregate people from across society that share the same concerns - and Billy was able to put a voice to it and unite it all and thus have such a message stream out across not only NZ but globally too. Because in his words - it is a true peoples message and a true peoples movement.
The Status Quo do not like Billy calling out the ‘system’.
As a result all the political parties, be it the major ones and the small independent ones in Billy’s words - hate what he is doing. Because he has noticed that NZ has been losing its sovereignty and independence over a long period of time. (This subject will be dealt with at another time.)
He tells of his COVID 19 experience and because as a family man on a little farm went into lockdown a week early, because he genuinely thought this the prudent thing to do with what information that he had at the time. However over this period he started to see cracks in the Government narrative. Listen - it is best hearing it from Billy direct. (It is only a 50 meg file - equivalent to 12 photographs).
Because what he started to notice were incongruencies with what the authorities were talking about. Remember, he had had some experience as a military analyst and viewed information in a holistic way of thinking and as he said - he was seeing that these authorities had differing perspectives that as team players they did not add up to one coherent story.
Contradiction in the Narrative.
So being at home with more time on his hands he put a lot of effort into research and assessing the information and found too many contradictions to the degree that when during the course of the lockdown they deemed to say that there was the potential for people to be arrested and detained and face charges. He states that this changed the narrative - that we were dealing with a highly deadly disease - he says that we understand that if it was a highly lethal disease - everyone would happily lockdown. But, earlier on Billy had been hearing these other narratives from Stanford University in the USA and their Department of Epidemiology.
This was headed by Professor John Ioannidis - and Billy noted that this was from an exceptionally well-qualified Professor who had ‘broken ranks’ with the corporate, health and educational world. His detractors said he misled the public and the US Media in lockstep all condemned him - because one, ‘he was his own man’ - and two the media, and universities are all part of the one mindset and that they need to follow the same ‘controlled’ narrative. Because he said that Governments globally need to relax - that it’s an overreach - saying don’t panic and it is not going to be millions and millions of deaths - that it is going to be within the range of the annual seasonal loss due to bad influenza.
This to Billy says is confirmed by the courageous Auckland University epidemiologist Dr. Simon Thornley who stated the prolonged lockdown is likely to cause greater harm than the virus to the nations long term health and well being, the social fabric, plus economy and education.
Agenda21 and Agenda2030
So Billy took this all in and then studied the United Nations, which he had been doing for over 10 years and all of its many different agendas and realms and he had himself visited the UN and met Helen Clark when she was number 3 there and to cut this short - that Agenda21 and Agenda2030 were in his eyes, problematic - because those that have made an in-depth study, as well note the buzz worlds of sustainability and green initiatives and the very catchy phrases of due care and the future of children living in peace and harmony - something just did not click for him.
NZ Prime Minister Commits NZ to Agenda21 & Agenda2030.
But what spiked Billy’s focus was that last September at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in New York at a presentation called GoalKeepers - NZ’s PM Jacinda Ardern had made a public commitment to the audience that she was going to commit to the full implementation of these two Agendas right across NZ and yet she has not made this statement on the front page of the NZ Herald or the first news slot on TV ONE, or TV3 or the lead story at Radio NZ. So there was one short story for overseas consumptions whilst the hobbits back home in the Shire in NZ learned of nothing but a quick news brief, on TV to the acclaimed silence of every NZ Member of Parliament to this day. Hence NZers' growing suspicion. You must remember Agenda21 was signed in Rio De Janeiro in Brazil in 1992 under the watchful eye of George Herbert Bush, US President, Ex Chief of the CIA.
Billy maintains that these Agendas become a totalitarian agenda were without prior consultation with the community from the grassroots up, we are not being told what they are being implemented. Because, it’s a top-down mechanism from the top of the pyramid to micromanage our planet - country by country, region by region, from villages, towns and cities that programme humans to be eventually asked, and ‘encouraged’ to shift from the rural sector into ‘smart cities.’ Yet this has not been discussed in town hall meetings across NZ or better still on a two hour TV slot with both TVOne and TV3 ‘simulcasting’ it to the whole country - calling on all citizens of NZ to tune into this nationwide debate and discussion as to what is Agenda21 and the best future possible for us, especially our children and grandchildren's future.
Told to obey, and not encouraged to consciously participate?
That our society would come under the aegis of protocols from above about where a human can live, breathe, drink, eat, watch etc. Would the United Nations declaration of human rights apply?
But aligned with the World Economic Forum inclusive of the Fourth Industrial Revolution - humanity will be herded into smart cities wherein Auckland for example saturated in a cloud of escalating 5G wireless frequencies we would be drinking water piped in from the Waikato river - being only tested for 100 different chemicals whilst upstream the catchment area brings in 10’s of thousands of farm, factory and urban roadside chemicals. Would we be allowed to grow organic food in both the back and front yard of our homes? Or, if not allowed, does that mean having to eat factory food and industrial food - devoid of nutrition, vitamins, minerals and ‘life force?’
Cashless Digital Society to be implemented.
In a cashless society which we are entering as you read - all transactions are tracked and everything is transparent. Agenda21 clarifies what we can and can not do with our land, what we can build, how we can build - what permissions needed. How we educate our children, ‘medical sovereignty’ to make decisions for you and your family what water we can catch, or pump up from the ground.
Billy maintains all of the above is entwined in Agenda21. Yet, there are also many concerned people, and plenty of lawyers and learned people currently in litigation against the UN’s rollout for this.
Why the Secrecy of Agenda21 and Agenda2030.
Why are our leaders not talking about this and then asking for feedback?
Why does the community at a grassroots level know essentially nothing about this? (other than they are too busy surviving and keeping a job to learn more about this. etc etc.
When Billy collated and pulled all this information together and then went on FB and called to all who wished to hear - it went viral and here we are today - with a rapidly growing educated population - connecting the dots and realizing that there are two narratives running. An overt one and a covert one. That when Billy started talking via social media - it went like wildfire - and people started sharing and liking and responding and NZers up and down the country realised that this was how they saw it too … and were ecstatic that someone had come out and courageous said it for what it is. That there have been over 2.5 million people on Facebook sharing, discussing organising and as of now there are 65 party candidates and the list is growing.
The feedback to Billy, is that NZers - these being lawyers, doctors, media professionals - business owners - wealthy people, poor people - every level of society are very concerned with the secrecy of what is planned for the country.
So today we are wanting to know about the Prime Minister's implementation of an Agenda that she has not gone to the NZ people to inform and appraise them of.
He said that the AdvanceNZ team has been working on all the policies that need to happen - that they have very qualified people organising and overseeing what needs to be accomplished.
Needing a New Constitution
Personal Sovereignty as a God given right.
Get our over priced housing under control - take an entrepreneurial approach to it - not a bureaucratic approach.
Address our everyday problems by encouraging ordinary people who see these challenges and address them and who are not groomed politicians - who are also not groomed to take the corporate line either …
He mentions not only our PM, but also the Minister of Health and the Minister of Finance as working for another Agenda.
There is so much in this interview for you dear reader, if you wish to know more you are encouraged to please download and listen. Yes it is long - but not as long as having to sit down and translate it word for word - believe me :) ta - Tim
Other Points
The Government is closing down localism and grassroots endeavours - especially in the rural sector. Notice that they never mention organics and how we can become healthy. During COVID lockdown the PM did not encourage us to eat healthy non sugary food, drink good pure vital water (which you can not get out of the tap.)
Were you encouraged during the first lockdown to grow your own food to become a little more sustainable and resilient as well as fit and being in sunlight? No, because the current Government is in lockstep with corporate food giants who only want you to eat chemically sprayed factory food. It would be no different if it was the National Government, they have been infiltrated with the neoliberal discourse as well.
Because Labour is very engaged with centralisation of power out of Wellington, in wanting more Nationwide control. Then we have Regional Control = Australia, Pacific islands and certain areas within South East Asia and then ...
Full planetary control?
Labour is going about this systematically. The National Party would also do the same - if in power.
But, Billy states we have to have a strong middle class - and this is being eroded.
What is stated here is that the Government is collapsing our economy and in doing so is racking up more debt, getting our country beholden to overseas bankers (who print money out of thin air) and so with the majority of Labour MPs not being business people and have not put their savings on the line - they have no understanding of the challenges and risks of owning and running a business - and thus have very little connection to small business and the responsibilities, etc .
Over reach by the Government?
The COVID19 Public Health Response Bill.
The NZ Govt states it is the only single source of Truth that we had the NZ Police use their Facebook page to say - exactly the same thing.
The NZ Herald article last week stated NZ has now debt of over $800 billion from a population of 4.8 million people - and that we could be forced to sell off the NZ communities remaining few crown jewels - the Ports of Auckland and whatever percentage of the Airport we still own.
We pay around $45 billion dollars in interest alone without paying off the principle - to keep our debts at bay. Covid has cost us $240 billion already.
The internet censorship Bill that Tracy Martin of NZ First put through - why did NZFirst want to do this? The hate speech Bill has to be re-examined as well.
That Chris Hipkins Minister of Health stated that action could be taken against people who spread lies and misinformation about Covid 19.
Turkey and Switzerland - Switzerland followed the global lockdown and Turkey followed suit - but they kept the workforce at the jobs - that anyone 20 and under stayed home and 60 and over stayed home too.
They were able to keep Turkey running at a high percent and both at risk groups were taken care of. When compared with the Swiss their statistics were comparable - but Turkey was able to keep their country running and not depend on loans, to bail them out.
Look at 6hr 25 mins onwards re covid statistics - very revealing https://youtu.be/cf_zWtdKKKQ
And Sweden - they went for herd immunity and after a very traumatic starts with a large amount of Covid health problems and deaths (the elderely) - they have now gained herd immunity and the initiator of this unique process has been sent to work with Dr. Tedros of the WHO to shape them up.
He went against consensus realitie’s buy into the fear and the course that Dr. Fauci and Bill Gates trumpeted and came out of this to end triumphantly.
He said very early in the situation that essentially this covid was a very nasty winter flu and they have come out the other side and their economy is intact and taken not had to be bailed out by intentional banks etc - They did not buy into the Who and Its Ceo..
Billy Talks of a Trojan Horse and the Bill of Rights in relation to a national emergency that the NZ Bill of Rights can be suspended. He states that should never be the case - because the elected politicians in Parliament are our elected representatives - to represent us - we the people.
He also queried why John Key paid $15 million to the discredited Clinton Foundation and that Jacinda Ardern donated $ 5 million to them in what has been found out to be a ‘pay to play’ racket. What is the procedure and checks and balances to allow a PM to make contributions of NZ tax payers money to an overseas foundation. Who gives the ok?
There is much in this interview when more questions could have been asked, but lack of time prevented this.
Finally - when we set up this interview - Youtube generated a random number sequence. This is what we got back. What was even more interesting was that for the first time in my 17 years in radio I asked an interviewee to say a karakia - a prayer. https://youtu.be/9M6F2yJEsus
www.AdvanceNZ.org
https://www.nzpublicparty.org.nz/
Next week’s Interview
?
We do not know.
Have an enjoyable and insightful 7 days.
Are we also going to be a cashless society only, using digital currency that will all be tracked from all integrated banks to every person throughout NZ/Globally?
Phil opens up saying that had ‘we’ had the courage we would have had a reset back in 2008 when New York’s Wall St and City of London ‘Ponzi schemes’ started to fall apart - but the Federal Reserve cleverly manifested trillions of dollars to bail out the bankers instead of the ordinary people who needed it. Like 14 trillion dollars of liquidity kept them afloat. Which Phil states was the absolute wrong thing to do - we needed to have let them fail - clean up their messes and then given them strict new rules in which to operate under and to state that ‘you cannot continue to hang out pieces of paper and expect other people to buy them. That was the first mistake.
The 2nd mistake was thinking that the problem was solved. Because with all this financial liquidity injected into the market - a lot of Governments and central Banks thought ok - that is a good job done and everyone went back to business as usual. However, it basically sent all the ‘problem gamblers back into the casino - with a new bankroll.
Now Phil says, we have got the same set of problems - overvalued asset markets - and too many promises to pay - on debts that can never be repaid. Which essentially has set up so many economies around the world to basically fall over at the slightest whiff on any headwind - and now we are in this headwind. COVID.
Like building up climate-related problems, COVID, plus countries in unrest and civil disorder in so many other countries that the financial system was not ready for this because it was already ‘running pretty much on fumes.’ So we are up against the same sort of reckoning of 2008 - but this time we do not have the luxury of having to pump limitless amounts of credit into these markets to get them to inflate again. So what are we going to do?
Phil says that there are a good number of players who are saying let’s get back to work and open up our economies etc - get the money machines flowing and just leverage more things - sell more things and pretend this never happened (sounds familiar?) All Phil can say to this - is good luck with that.
Because the reality is that people especially now during COVID are reflecting on the present situation and recognise that this is totally unsustainable and realise that we can not just keep on plundering resources and use the oceans and atmosphere for sinks for all of our waste products and not expect it to catch up with us. That there is now no going back - there is now a growing number of people who know that what we have been doing has to change - that we have passed through a one-way gate.
Does this reset mean we go cashless?
Cashless Digital Countries - who are going to go first? Sweden, Australia, Norway or Denmark? Phil says that NZ is very close as we are a small country with a very well integrated banking system and that we have been practicing for some while having the first EFTpos card system on the planet - back in the 1990s we put this in place, and it was not that costly and it did not take very long to have it all mesh together with all banks using one EFTPOS machine all connected.
So NZ was the global guinea pig (like so many other technical test trials). Phil states that NZ is seen as being successful having a nationwide system that can essentially do away with cash using credit and Eftpos cards.
Phil then mentions that the New Zealand Reserve Bank a year ago sent out a survey form to ask what New Zealanders thought about cash.
With these questions:
And what the NZ Reserve Bank concluded was that getting rid of cash would be a bad idea.
But, if the big boys overseas said DO IT. The Reserve Bank would do as they are told?
Listen around 10 minutes in:
Phil says that though we may have in many ways a cashless society - and though the Reserve Bank is wanting it - they will watch the situation and see how it all unfolds.
Phil says that cash is the only form of money in our broader economy that is not created as private bank interest bearing debt. This is a larger thing that people tend to leave out of the conversation. That right now 98 and a half percent of the money that is circulating and changing hands and is in transactions every day in NZ was originally created out of thin air by a commercial trading bank as an interest’s bearing debt. He says that the cash is kind of interesting because it is the only money that does not have that pedigree. It is the only money that did not come into existence through that original sin … of a mortgage or some other sort of bank loan. The reason this is important is because right now NZ’s private debt to GDP ratio is getting close to 200% - which means that the amount of money that is owed to banks and financial institutions is about double the turnover of our entire economy in a single year. Phil says most of NZ’s money comes into existence when people take out mortgages.
(Note: I did not want to interrupt Phil - but this Labour Government and the previous National Government have been accepting around 80,000 new immigrants into NZ per year, and I wanted to ask - is this allowing the NZ Government to ride high on the influx of the many millions of dollars flowing into the country as a result of these new residents, bringing all their cash into our economy?
Phil talks about the housing bubble as this is where most New Zealanders invest their money, and he asks - what will be the trigger when it pops? Because, he says - it’s on its way …
Hear about the stated policy of NZ’s Reserve Bank via ‘quantitative easing.’ They are able to print money ‘by offering it to trading banks’ as a backstop for all the lending that they want to do. The banks are very happy to do this - for by giving out loans this is how they make a profit - the interest on loans is the banks' income source (Note the 4 overseas major banks in NZ made over $10 billion in profits in 2018/19) So naturally, the top strata of the NZ Banks (Australian owned) want to keep this game going as long as they can.
Also mentioned in this interview
Learn that the Govt is acting as a hand brake on the NZ Economy.
Why do we not learn who the overseas Bankers are, that gives the NZ Govt loans? What bank? What are the terms? That the further you follow the money it has to go higher up the pyramid. Who are the people at the top? There have to be families that benefit from all this money ‘going uphill.’ Who are they? Why the muteness?
That NZ debt is continuing to increase. Why the silence from ordinary MPs about this? Because each Party will not allow an MP to break ranks and ask that type of question. The Parties control (muzzle) their members - this is why Parties and NZ politics are increasingly seen to be opaque, stagnant, and moribund.
That the NZ Government also does not invest its money where it would do the most good.
Not at the grassroots. Listen to what he says - our government is not consciously putting its money into areas where the community most needs it.
Digital exploitation is now rife on a planet that has already been exploited for its natural resources.
Phil says that we have gone into overshoot in terms of what we are doing to the environment - especially freshwater and topsoil, and pollution in general. That now the only frontiers able to be exploited are the ‘virtual ones’ by taking advantage of this digital space - the virtual world. This is where we also have to be alert. If you are not savvy with the latest technologies and monetary systems, get ‘professional’ advice.
Crypto Currencies and BlockChain technology - a lot are virtual ponzi schemes and pump and dump scams are in this realm.
BlockChain is a very useful tech - we just have clean out the abuses - so it can be used for the benefit of society
Can we prepare Locally and throughout NZ for a perturbation in the currency and cash realm?
If the Western world went suddenly cashless - would NZ follow?
Steve says keep some cash handy all the same - enough to get you by for a number of days just in case a bank did go down.
He says we are still in the Neoliberal lens and that there are bubbles that could collapse and affect us.
New Zealanders invest and own houses as their investment portfolio - not in new business and enterprises - where overseas that are more entrepreneurial.
Becoming Self-reliant and resilient.
It is very important for us to grow our own food where possible, especially organic because we know exactly what we are putting into our bodies. Plus, it is fresh and therefore our health is optimised and thus no visits to doctors
Tools to sustain us in case of breakdown or emergencies.How do we keep money or ‘currencies’ working when cash becomes unavailable?
Steve describes how a ‘Time Bank’ works to show how good and easy it is to implement. That a time bank is a ‘chit’ that has a number on it - that has a value of ‘one hour’ and you can trade these within your community if someone can mow lawns and another can cut someone's hair or paint a house and trades with repairing a machine or furniture - these chits can be traded. You can have a small computer run the whole local community and it can have up to a few thousand ‘locals’ engaged to work this way.
That you can download from the web programs like ‘Community Weaver’ a dedicated program - or Community Forge - or CES Community Exchange Solutions
A very good example of a community that is working with a Time Banks is Project Lyttelton in the South Island of NZ.
https://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/margaret-jefferies-project-lyttleton-sustainable-community-building-christchurch
To obtain more information on making your neighbourhood and local community more self-reliant and resilient go to:
https://livingeconomies.nz/
Links of interest:
Sweden is the most cashless society today.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/07/27/fact-check-cashless-society-isnt-imminent-wouldnt-eliminate-cash/5415027002/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q81d3cRK8SQ 4.12 into this short video of 12 minutes.
https://popularresistance.org/the-wall-street-crash-and-the-great-depression/
Could there be against all expectations a ‘Global Debt Jubilee’ - where all sovereign debt is forgiven?
I had that in my question list, but did not get around to asking for comment on this :(.
Next Week’s Interview:
To be announced.
Once it is recorded and edited and readied we will advise.
Thanking you,
Tim
Since this interview that took place on Monday 31st, we find that the CDC, the Centre of Disease Control and Prevention in the US have now stated that only 6% of US deaths have been from COVID19 alone. The other 94% had at least one other health issue at the time (or more) then along came the coronavirus that led to their death. This was basically due to their now weakened - immune system.
This fact has been known to many people like ‘silenced' frontline doctors and activists for some time now - but denied or censored by omission by MSM, hence the uproar today - as to question how large is this coverup by the so-called health ‘authorities?’
Tim covers this subject a little more at the end of this interview where he adds to this narrative.
With regard to this Interview:
It’s obvious that everything to do with vaccines, in particular, is difficult for all doctors - globally. The reason being is Big Pharma - as it controls both Medicine and Doctors, especially if they speak out on issues, specifically with alternatives or doubts. This is when the ‘controlled' Medical Association' will instantly 'strike Doctors off' from practising if they dare to question.
But … ironically the Russian/Putin vaccination is getting widespread condemnation and scepticism because it has been rolled out so early.
Note the majority of people that Dr Kelly meets, would be happy with a ‘safe' vaccine. They simply are not convinced by a rapid roll-out under Bill Gates" - no difference from distrusting Putin. A ‘clean' vaccine with no embryo remnants or nanoparticles is what is required.
Masks - Dr Fauci in the USA. First, health officials said we shouldn't wear face masks. Now, many are saying we must wear masks if we want to protect the economy, reopen the country etc … Mixed messaging for the global public?
Hydroxychloroquine & Zinc. The video touting Hydroxychloroquine as an effective treatment for patients infected with COVID-19 quickly went viral, gathering over 15 million views on Facebook alone. YouTube took it down and NZ authorities do not call for it to be used - even though it has been around for 60 years. Donald Trump took it at the start of the crisis and you can see him at news conferences with Dr Fauci and others standing beside him all wearing masks. What gives? Do your own research.
The Media - we have media news interspersed by openly deceptive advertising about all sorts of things. So the narrative is we are presented by fact/lie/fact lie. For example - NZer Sir Ernest Rutherford, who split the atom, is now lip-synching his approval of 5G. Our media is also dependent on advertising which is Machiavellian. When is TV lying - when is it telling the truth?
Questioning the Media?
The idea of open honest media is that because of the impositions on our lives and livelihood, we need our state broadcaster TVONE, TV3 and Radio NZ to produce a daily 2 hourly advertisement free, balanced debate on the pros and cons of lockdown, the pros and cons of the Great Reset, the pros and cons of mandatory vaccination - not crappy dating reality TV, etc.
We need to trust the public to make up their own minds armed with balanced information. In fact, if 'mainstream media' is to survive it must do this and not whinge about people getting their information from social media.
Media experts need to be retired from comments after 2 months - the reason being they tend to defend their original statements whether right or wrong. This is not healthy.
Media experts need to declare their conflicts of interest. This is exceptionally important.
Big Tech is now completely entwined with tertiary education and of course all mainstream media.
MSM is the propaganda wing of big tech (and big pharma.) The corruption has become ‘normalised' in NZ.
Big tech is completely entwined with the Royal Society, Callaghan Innovation, MacDiarmid Institute, and all Universities and media outlets. Deals with Huawei, etc have happened and the repercussions have yet to become obvious.
The Crown Entity status of Callaghan Innovation - a Govt/big tech collaboration. No matter which party is in, has to be far more transparent.
The planned Elon Musk brain implants without any knowledge of how the brain works have to be questioned. The theory that consciousness is an epiphenomenon of the brain - rather than the Hameroff /Penrose theory that our brain microtubules are foundries where the quantum world collapses - I.e we are filters of consciousness.
That by encircling the world with 100k satellites - and 5G - when we now know there is a circulating world microbiome in the troposphere.
How viruses and all life have coexisted for billions of years. How they are vital for life and integrated into our DNA. Mammals would reject their off-spring without placental retroviruses. This hits at the military narrative 'let's eliminate the virus'...the virus is bad, we are good etc.
Human unknowingness
So all this adds up to human arrogance - advancing while denying their ignorance. Ignorance of the workings of the brain, the lack of realisation of the interconnectedness of all things, the microbiome, Schumann resonances etc.
Selectively using the precautionary principle only when politically and financially advantageous - i.e why lockdown but no caution with 5G?
The State imposition and control of the patient/doctor relationship - and overriding of Doctors years of experience and clinical knowingness plus the doctors' duty of care when treating the individuality of the patient.
Metaphysical Understandings?
The last few moments of this interview opens up to extend into the holistic notion of soul and spirituality and that this COVID crisis - has through all manner of means, compelled people to question their very existence and why are they a human and living on this planet surrounded by time and space. That … at the very core of our being 'we can visualise our inner candle' that illuminates us to expound on the idea 'we are spiritual beings having an earth experience.' Worth pondering?
At the end of this enjoyable interview, Tim adds a little more about Senator Scott Jensen
MD - of Minnesota, who went to social media saying that COVID death numbers have been totally exaggerated especially for the elderly as these people were already suffering from other comorbidity ailments, such as heart problems and cancer etc and were in many cases near death. Yet, they were classified as dying of Covid.
Please note it is now very difficult to find the full video statement he made as Youtube and Twitter may have taken it down. Make sure that you follow this up, as he has since been censured by the Medical Authorities. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIXeeO3hh-E
Dear Reader - This is our time to stand for truth, especially in taking care of our children of today and tomorrow - as well as our biosphere.
https://www.pharmac.govt.nz/information-for/covid-19-pharmacs-response/covid-19-hydroxychloroquine/
Dr Simone Gold. The banning of her and Hydroxychloroquine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oSGIC_irVs
Making nonsense of the nonsense - satire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0y6M-N8wOE
RobinKelly.co.nz
Next weeks interview is still unknown. Such is the ever-changing landscape.
There are two important historical dates in NZ, these are 1835 and 1840. With Captain Cook’s arrival in 1769 he put New Zealand firmly on the world map. This then started a chain of events that to this day have yet to be satisfactorily understood or resolved by the elected representatives of this country. King William the Fourth, 1765 to 1837 - the King of the British Empire, on learning that New Zealand was possibly the last hidden land to be found and that it was the only country he knew of that did not have snakes, wanted to give it special status. In doing so he wanted to be the first Monarch to give a land that had been recently found its own independence and in doing so they would have his protection. This was a world first. No other Monarch had ever offered the indigenous people of any land their independent nationhood.
That during 1835, thirty four Maori Chiefs in the North of New Zealand came together and with King William’s support, created a new flag and this was important, because the world of that era had certain Laws that were based around the ‘raising of flags.’ That if a flag was raised on a landmass - that (from an Imperialist viewpoint) signified that, this land was now under the control of the country raising the flag.
With NZ’s presence now on seafarers charts, they began arriving in the early 1800’s as whalers, missionaries, traders for flax, wooden spars, as well as ex-convicts released from the penal colony of Australia, including adventurers from other nations. This brought about a calamitous impact on the resident Maori population who were here. Resulting in exposure to, alcohol, sex and disease, also dishonesty including firearms, and new technologies that basically devastated the tribal system that had been in place for centuries.
This was a time of upheaval for Maori.
Missionaries had also arrived to convert them to Christianity
The French, Dutch, and the British all had an interest to colonise New Zealand.
The race was on.
These seafarers from the Northern hemisphere continued to arrive and began violating rights in unaccountable, uncontrollable ways including violence such as the raping of native woman as no jurisdiction existed over them to control their actions. NZ was becoming a lawless land. One such statement was that a particular port Kororāreka was called the “hellhole of the Pacific”.
However, King William lV back in Great Britain, as the reigning Monarch wanted to control his subjects from criminal actions in a land where he had no jurisdiction at the time.
This resulted in King William lV commissioning James Busby, a British resident in New Zealand to draw up a Declaration of Independence, so that the native resident population could establish their own laws and govern themselves and this land independently. He also had learned that NZ had no snakes and this impressed upon him that this was a special country.
He gave the native chiefs three flag designs to choose from to initiate their ‘nation hood’ - and the Maori Chiefs chose their National flag. Called the United Tribes Flag.
The reason for the ‘Flag’ was that even in those days, International Law at the time stated that a country had to have ‘a flag’ to identify a Nation.
The Declaration of Independence was duly signed by up to 34 Maori chiefs on the 28th October 1835, at Waitangi in the Bay of Islands and a ‘new independent nation was born’ upon the raising of the chiefs chosen, King William lV royally proclaimed flag. There are differing versions of this. (In March 1834, HMS Alligator, was on hand (and fired the 13-gun salute) at the first hoisting of the first national flag of New Zealand, at Waitangi, Bay of Islands. This flag became known as the United Tribes Flag). *
The only flag of this land that has ever been ‘royally proclaimed.’
The new independent nations flag (which determines the jurisdiction of the land ) the Waka putunga Nu Terreni had a black primbrae around the saint George cross in the left top quadrant, signifying the British monarchs protection on the land, (a white primbrae, signifying the British monarchs protection upon the seas, admiralty law.)
This founding document,(the D.O.I) is the only document which has an associated flag that has never been lowered to change jurisdiction
The birth of our nation of New Zealand is 28th of October 1835.
Therefore the contention is that the Treaty of Waitangi ( TOW ) is not the founding document.
However, King William IV died in 1837 and thus was not alive to pursue the ideal of seeing NZ retain its independence as per the signing of 1835.
The Con
Dan in his research contends that Colonial house which is the East India Company, and the New South Wales Government of the time was/is a franchise. That it is an extension of the ‘City of London’ # and they wanted to colonise New Zealand in order to sell land to migrants.
Captain Hobson with his many cannoned ship, was commissioned to sail to New Zealand, to have a formal Treaty signed.
Which he duly carried out on the 6th of February 1840.
For what reason did the Maori sign a treaty even though they already had independence? Evidently this way, the British Crown# could establish colonial authority over an independent nation.
Yet Maori signed the Treaty. Note that Colonial House knew they could not lower the true jurisdictional Flag as it was the Kings ‘royally proclaimed flag.’
So a counterfeit flag was created that was similar to the DOI flag, but had 5 pointed stars not eight pointed, as in the blueprint of the chosen royally proclaimed flag,( the DOI) the Declaration of Independence.
The ‘counterfeit flag’ was lowered and the Union Jack was raised on the 6th February, 1840 that is now known as Waitangi Day.
Dan states it may as well have been a flag of Donald Duck, (because it wasn’t the United Tribes Flag).
He asks, what ‘lawful basis’ can the lowering of a counterfeit flag end the jurisdiction of the ‘founding flag?’
This is the reason for the Petition for a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the flag referendum. (listen to the interview).
New Zealand is still supposed to be an ‘Independent’ country, going back to the signing of that 1835 document.
Dan maintains that ‘We’ were, and right up until this moment are, under the lawful jurisdiction of the Declaration of Independence.
We never legally lost it.
The question then is, was the 1840 Waitangi Treaty jurisdiction lawfully executed ?
If not then, then they didn’t and never have had any jurisdictional right or legal entitlement over this land.
Dr Manuka Henare describes the events around 1835 and on to 1840.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzpUfKu-7PI&feature=emb_logo
https://www.maorirangersecuritydivision.com/
Other references in this interview include two well known Maori spiritual leaders in 1870 and 1916 who when wanting to practice living together in a very large tribal family were arrested by the NZ authorities for wishing to live peacefully on the land of their birth.
Te Whiti-o-Rongomai III and his life and peaceful stand at Parihaka in Taranaki https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/2t34/te-whiti-o-rongomai-iii-erueti
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Te_Whiti_o_Rongomai
Rua Kenana Hepetipa in Tūhoe Country, Te Urewera National Park.
https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/3r32/rua-kenana-hepetipa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rua_Kenana_Hepetipa
Next Week’s Interview
Is going to be a repeat, due to a 2nd Covid Lockdown, preventing me from travelling to the radio station. Am planning on doing them from home in the near future.
Niki says that most New Zealanders across a whole range of political opinions think that this is a significant problem and that we actually do not have enough clean drinking water in this country.
This statement is correct - in clean green NZ (hold your nose) she says there is an actual lack of good quality drinking water - and that local councils are having difficulty in providing fresh water for their communities. Plus, there is the added issue around plastic waste and these plants produce billions of plastic bottles over the lifetime of their operations.
She says it is a huge issue for everyone across the country.
That there is a range of issues:
Councils across NZ don't have a lot of money to remedy this situation.
A lot of Council water bores are from shallow groundwater.
To get higher quality water you have to drill deeper and that is an extra cost.
Nitrates, detrimental to health, that have dissolved in the water - cannot be filtered out.
Some Councils take water closer to the surface and treat it and the condition of the surface water determines the treatment it requires. This is a growing issue especially in Canterbury into Christchurch - but the big issue is nitrates in shallow groundwater - and that these cannot be treated. This is an increasing looming issue right across New Zealand.
Putting chlorine in the water supply to deal with viral bacteria etc is one thing but dealing with nitrates is a far more complex challenge. Being due to intensive farming over decades.
That we will have nitrates passing down through the soil and they will continue like this for decades - so it is a problem that we cannot get rid of quickly.
Water Going Off Shore.
Niki says her concern is that water bottlers are coming into NZ and taking away our very best water, our cleanest water, our deepest water. Thus local communities are having to fork out a lot of money to 'treat' their water and potentially not be able to get healthy, clean, nitrate free water. Especially into the future and she says we have to think of the future because these bottling companies are being granted 'consents' for 30 years (because they want continuity of supply) as they are putting in massive infrastructure and they need that security - but it appears that no one is looking ahead 30 years - to the state of the groundwater, community supply or basically anything at the moment and essentially there are no controls and no thinking of future generations ...
Tim asked - who are making these decisions in NZ? Who is allowing these water agreements to happen - especially when the community is kept in the dark?
She says it is an interesting/complicated state of affairs, we have quite a few small water bottling plants and they do not produce a lot at the moment - but we are now having some larger companies coming into NZ. Listen - this gets interesting ...
These corporations have been coming into NZ and talking with Government Ministers directly, such as NZ Trade and Enterprise - and supporting NZers who want to sell their land to overseas investors who want to bottle water and these Govt representatives have acknowledged doing this through their emails.
That NZ Trade and Enterprise - supports the sale of land. It has supported about 8 overseas enterprises over the years.
The NZ Taxpayer is helping finance these industries
It is supporting 6 at the moment and the NZ tax payers are actually supporting water bottling companies (Just like the Film Industry is supported by NZ tax payer dollars)
Some overseas companies do need Overseas Investment Office consent.
Listen how there’s a number of tiers - with high end solicitors being engaged at the top by the overseas entities and the cash strapped communities and Councils at the bottom.
At present:
That Aotearoa Water Authority is in court with a Creswell Company at the moment.
Plus Otakiri, water bottling is taking 1.1million cubic meters from a deep water aquifer per year near Whakatane. Link. www.Loveandcare.nz
That the NZTE brought the Chairman out to NZ so as to help him find the water he was wanting ...
So Niki suggests we need an entire country wide review to make everything transparent.
The NZTE's job is to help NZ businesses to Grow bigger, better, faster ... but it can also be a NZ business that can be ultimately owned by a foreign company. With the case of Cresswell NZ that wants to run the Whakatane venture as well as Cloud Ocean Water which is a NZ company which has just been taken to court by AWA Aotearoa Water Action, but ultimately it is overseas owned as well.
However recently (possibly due to NZ Community pushback) the NZAT have given up actively promoting water bottling to foreign investors. But, they will help a NZ land owner with a large water consent - a water permit - to sell their land to a foreign investor.
Who are these companies? There are Australian Companies that are ultimately owned in Japan. That is Frucor Suntory See: www.Frucorsuntory.com/brands-nz
But the big ones Aotearoa Water Action are battling in court are from China.
Tim asks - shouldn't NZers need to know who is taking our drinking water offshore? Niki says it is more than this. It’s to see what impacts are on our aquifers, future supplies, what about the plastic - what are the recycling facilities overseas? Because, NZ water is now packaged in plastic to go overseas. Are we basically exporting a plastic tsunami overseas?
The amount of NZ drinking water that leaves this country annually is a tricky one she says. In 2017, 28 million litres were being exported every year. In 2017 domestic use was about 158 million litres (packaged in plastic bottles)
Last year 118 million litres was exported.(See TVNZ) they did a documentary.
Local Push Back
Some years ago, Ashburton in the South Island was going to have a large water bottling venture that essentially was going to sell some land called Lot 9, which had a large 'water permit' attached to it that gave ‘free’ access to huge amounts of water - to an overseas entity, but when people heard about this there was such a 'huge organised and fired up pushback from both the local and the NZ community that it was not allowed to come into being.
Lack of Local and Central Government Oversight.
Listen - Councils have no duty of care to put out to the community an expression of interest by an overseas company wanting to buy land and ultimately a water source. Thus commercial undertakings of NZ strategic interests have yet to be set in Law to make sure that we do not lose valuable resources due to the public not knowing what is being bought and sold. There is no obligation by the Councils in NZ to let the Community know about important issues such as this.
Note that if you have a water right to the land you buy and there is a huge aquifer underneath - there is no Law in NZ stating that you cannot suck it dry! There is no limit on the volume taken out. (Thanks to the NZ Government still remaining conscious)
Water is part of the 'commons' and Councils and Government can not charge for it, that can only charge for the council infrastructure to pipe it from place to place. Listen - Niki is a very good communicator.
Strategically the water bottlers are looking at aquifers close to ports. Like Cresswell NZ Ltd. Especially in Whakatane in the Bay of Plenty and there are 3 water bottling plants within a two kilometre radius. Also the Whakatane Council was actively promoting the bottling industry and used rate payer funds on marketing the good value of water bottling.
Maori Perspective.
Tim asks are Maori and Iwi not upset? She says there are some Maori involved in bottling. One in Murupara was slated to start but it was abandoned because the iwi found that they were not going to have control of the water consent.
We have yet not grappled with Maori rights over fresh water as the sovereignty issue naturally has to be addressed.
Will we have to take our water, back from the company if our need in the next 30 years become urgent? What is the deal?
OverseasTrade Agreements
Trade Agreements that the NZ Government have signed. What are the sticking points if we want to break such deals? What is the punishment etc if we renege on a Trade Agreement?
The cultural side is also important. Maori are deeply embedded in Papatuanku - mother earth - they see rivers as living entities they are an extension of the Wairua - just like the Whanganui River has living entity status sanctified by the NZ Government and thus many Maori are offended in the gross commercialisation of what they see as sacred and an extension of their tribal land and indeed the tribe itself.
Listen .... the Government is in some ways boxed in due to Trade Agreements - as well as land use - and they were not conscious further back in time to classify water and give it a special status in its own right. The Government and Councils do not grok rivers and land from a holistic perspective and due to linear thinking, were incapable of seeing the big picture - that in Maoris eyes, we are dealing with a living being and water for want of a better expression is an entity within Papatuanuku and is akin to 'her' life blood.
Other Subjects covered.
Canterbury water allocation for dairy farms - after a certain level of use is reached - then farmers need to then buy it. Via in this case a company called Hydro Trader.
If you are in Canterbury and have a water consent to pump out water on your land. It keeps your land value high - even if you do not utilise it.
34 Billion Litres Per Year.
There is 34 billion litres of water per year that has been consented - but at present only 118 million liters are being bottled so the bottlers are still only doing millions .... just know that the water bottle industry in NZ is according to Niki - is not regulated. That there are no specific rules around water bottling - (thank you NZ Parliamentarians.)
They are not classified in the RMA Resource Management Act or in the Policy statement for Freshwater Management -
We can now see how ratepayers become the meat in the sandwich.
A Royal Commission Required.
We in NZ need a Royal Commission to sort this out. But, not just by industry and lawyers - but also land holders, ecologists, water specialists and health professionals too.
Niki says we need to look at it from a holistic standpoint. This is a word and a concept, though first used 100 years ago by ex Prime Minister of South Africa Jan Smuts - it is still too intellectually taxing for politicians of today.
At present we are bottling water and shipping all these plastic bottles overseas - and leave this plastic for some other nation to clean up. We export our environmental costs, under the pretext that what we are selling is pure water - pumped out of the ground for free!
Plastic bottles - in sun - lot's of micro plastics - children drinking from these bottles - health challenges etc
Niki says she doesn't want to see NZ farms dotted with water bottling plants.
Speaks out against privatisation of water - it has to remain public owned.
There is presently a court case against Cloud Ocean Water, who are extracting here in NZ.
This is a very important interview for all NZers - our adult bodies are composed of about 70& water, babies about 85% water. We need the best and highest purity for us all
We have to find out how land owners can obtain water consents and what is the process. That once a plot of land has a water consent - it has it for life?
Who is the person/ organisation who gives this consent to the landowner?
Can this consent be overridden?
How much does a water consent cost, if any?
https://www.aotearoawateraction.org.nz/
https://www.facebook.com/aotearoawateraction/
With human health including animal and vegetation health, being paramount, how can we organise a moratorium on Elon Musk and the current 5G satellite deployment?
That in their thousands they are being launched into low earth orbit and particularly over Australia and New Zealand, why the hurry and this continuing question ‘where is the independent health research?’
This was one of the most revealing yet shocking interviews that I have engaged in.
I talk with barrister Ray Broomhall from Tasmania who is part of a group of 14 lawyers Australia wide. They have voluntarily come together to educate the Australian public to the 5G ‘health dangers’ and also to advise them of a way forward to halt 5G towers and then bring a stop to this 5G deployment across their whole country. That no until ‘independent research and studies’ give this technology a clean bill of health.
NZ is also experiencing this same 'imposed' roll out of the global 5G network - with Government, Media and Telcos all in lockstep, to deploy it across the country.
Tim mentions that he had just come off the phone after speaking with Steffan Browning Ex Green MP who 'by chance' early one evening very recently happened to witness up in the early evening sky the deployment of a whole number of satellites and at first he was in awe of them as he gazed at this spectacle - and then he went into shock and realised that this was a violation and that this was not right - and so I asked Ray about this procedure of having 40,000 more satellites in near earth orbit constantly raking us with their wireless frequencies.
Ray says that Elon Musk is connected to even another company and he has just got approval from the International Communications Union as there was a world radio communications conference in Egypt last November in 2019. That NZ and Australia were party to this conference - and all agreed that Elon Musk now had approval to operate at the 60 gigahertz band. Which basically means it is a Free license type of arrangement where at the moment for wifi in homes - you can have it at 2.4 - out to 5 gigahertz - and the authorities have now increased it to the new wavelength band to 60 gigahertz. You will find that all smart technology will now have chips in them which will compliment the 50 gigahertz frequency that satellites will operate at. And you will find that wifi modems and mobile phones, laptops etc will be operating at 60 gigahertz as well. However Ray believes that Musk is actually going to add another 20,000 satellites and increase it to 60,000 in total.
Tim mentions 'they' are using the 'global commons' which is the upper reaches of the atmosphere to do what they are doing - but they have not got permission from both myself and Ray so how do they get this license to be able to 'overrule' the people down here on the surface of the earth?
Ray says this is what people do not realise, that there is legislation - particularly in NZ as we have the 'Outer Space and the High Altitude Activities Act of 2017 - which he says provided some sort of reassurance for NZ in regards to not only satellites but also in regard to high altitude platform stations and he say that listeners need to know that there is more than just satellites that are a concern - up in the heavens so to speak.
There is a thing called high altitude platform stations or HAPS or High Altitude Pseudo Satellites. These are not actually satellites as such but they are actually drones - which are about 80 metres in length - they fly around the 20 kilometre altitude mark in the stratosphere - so they are well above the clouds - they are solar powered but they are designed as part of the 5G roll out with all these 40,000 new Elon Musk satellites.
What they do is that they are each the equivalent to 1,800 towers and they operate in a 200 kilometres radius (and our Government and especially the 4th Estate our media TV, Radio and Newspapers in NZ are exceptionally quiet about sharing this critical information.) (No surprises here).
They are actually launching them from Australia from a base in Wyndham as well as from Hawaii and he says the corporations are 'rushing' to put up these high altitude platforms and that every 200 kilometres there is going to be one of these circling up in the air and they remain for about 3 months up there - then they are replaced with another. Whilst they then come down and land - get overhauled and revamped ready for the next assignment.
So it’s More than just Satellites
They are going to be operating at a whole conglomerate of frequencies - both high and low - from the one signal - from 60 gigahertz all the way down to your mobile phones etc like 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G - all combined - but not only sending data - but wireless power transfer as well. He says listeners need to know what this means. He says that in essence they are sending electrical energy down from these high altitude platforms ... so that our phones will not need to be plugged into the wall to be powered up. They will be charged automatically - by the airwaves - the electricity - like autonomous vehicles, plus other devices in your home thus eliminating power cords to the wall. Everything is eventually going to be powered, via the air.
So 5G is far more than what people realise. Our phones are going to be transmitters and receivers - and our modems meshed into the network that will be totally integrated into all the small transmitters on power poles outside on your street across all towns and cities - they will be ubiquitous - and basically the whole atmospheric envelope that envelops our planet will be one vast electronic 'cloud' of electronic data pulsing at increasing frequencies ...all at the same time - they will also be integrated into the macro system of the larger towers that we see dotted everywhere which he says they are erecting them in the thousands at the moment. So with overhead platforms and in a higher orbit satellites - this is all part of one integral unit - this is what 5G portends
So where is mother nature in all of this?
He encourages you to do your own research.
Ray mentions that the WHO in 2002 in a report on Microwaves and cancer said that Children should not be exposed to anything over .3 of a micro Tesla.
Now this is a magnetic field (we are surrounded by one of many).
Especially anything over.3 of a micro Tesla becomes problematic.
Listen to this broadcast as it is imperative that you make the effort - especially if you love your children and what could cause lymphatic leukaemia.
Some mobile phones operate at 6,200 micro Tesla’s - then things become very serious.
So there is a huge disconnect between what the WHO says and what is being put into children's homes.
The Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency
ARPANSA in Australia is the regulatory authority that NZ is part of in regards to standards. https://www.arpansa.gov.au/about-us
Listen to the conundrum of different standards between ICNIRP the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection Icnirp.org - that Basically says that 100 micro Tesla is the public safety standard BUT ONLY FOR SHORT TERM effects.
For long term effects the WHO recommends .3 of a micro Tesla - so there is a real problem here.
Yet in Australia and here in NZ, ARPANSA are following the ICNERP thus it's an issue here in relation to long term exposure to electromagnetic radiation.
That Ray's concern with his clients and his colleagues clients, is the huge exposure issue.
Oxygen depletion at 60 gigahertz - stating that when one gets exposed to 60 gigahertz research states it depletes 98% of the oxygen that it irradiates into - which is a real concern. Saying this is not a conspiracy theory and that dormant viruses are activated by electromagnetic radiation.
For Example: The Epstein Barr virus is asleep in all of us and when it's exposed to non ionising radiation - he says it becomes activated. Epstein Barr virus is 'herpes.'
He mentions vaccinations that the antibodies etc for vaccinations are made in animal embryos rabbits, chickens, rats, monkeys etc and if there is a latent virus possibly inside these tissues - in the vaccination, that is how it could possibly be transferred to humans. Plus we can see that the electro radiation can activate dormant viruses - and he is not suggesting that this happened in Covid - but there is a real concern that by exposing the planet and everybody to this radiation - that there could be more repercussions.
Listen. Wireless Towers in Australia - Doctors are now coming to the conclusion that these impose an extreme risk of harm to health and ARPANSA are aware of this...
That the Telco industry is following ARPANSA and are failing to listen to the medical practitioners and Doctors are saying that if people are exposed to this radiation. This is becoming a serious issue. Especially with regard to leukemia.
NOTE: There is not one medical practitioner that sits on the ARPANSA board.
They have a disclaimer - do a search and type up ‘ARPANSA disclaimer’ - you will find it says very clearly - that it is not set up to give health advice on electromagnetic radiation and non ionising bands etc - you best go see your qualified medical practitioner. They state it is only for educational purposes - ONLY.
Telecos - Being Held Up for Assault?
There is a Harassment Act 1997 here in NZ.
In Queensland the Law simply classifies that any person who applies force against another without that person's consent - that it's classified as assault.
In Qld applied force includes heat, light, electrical energy in any other substance or thing. So Ray says any electromagnetic radiation or electromagnetic energy comes under that interpretation/criteria
So technically that can be classed as assault.
YOU can get restraint orders against Telcos ...
Listen how doctors in Australia are using common sense mechanisms that are actually in place.
Check out Doctor Bruce Hocking … in an ARPANSA document.
Hear Ray talk on the brain's synapse activity can occur at 0.75 volts per metre.
Nerves can be effected at 6 volts and that the heart can be affected at 12 volts and be a serious health issue
You just have to Listen to this interview to grasp both the seriousness and the scope.
What To Do
Go to your doctor and make a statement. If concerned about self and children re exposure from this tower etc then ask the doctor to assess the situation and come to conclusion.
Ray says Doctors has stopped towers in their tracks
Listen to a case of 8 doctors who happened to be living in one street in Australia that were opposed to 5G - they had a community meeting with neighbours with 13 doctors attending in all - saying No - and they got the tower removed.
Ended up that Telco stopped the deployment of 2,500 small cells installations across Australia Physicians for Safe Technology https://mdsafetech.org/
Have a peruse of their site.
Leukaemia is a big problem. Do your own research.
There are 250 different FB groups in Australia, discussing the deployment of 5G
Ray said that we need to Exercise the Precautionary Principle and have a Moratorium until independent research gives a 100% assurance that 5G is safe. (which presently, it is not).
Go to your Local Council especially in towns and small cities and educate them.
In Australia now forming a political party called NO 5G.
Regarding Satellites passing overhead insurance is needed for rockets leaving and also deploying satellites.
Listen to the last closing minutes of this video about insurance costs in space.
This was one of the most riveting interviews I have done on technology and the imposition of it on the human race.
We have to become really aware that technology does not need nature to work. You can see that on the Moon and Mars. However, we are all born of nature and that all biota within the biosphere require a balanced healthy ecology and environment for the web of life to homeostatically flourish and continue.
This is an exceptionally important interview for the health of the human race and all precious life on our planet.
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Next Weeks Interview: Aotearoa Water Action
https://www.aotearoawateraction.org.nz/
Who owns NZ's water?
What is the NZ commons?
Overseas Water Corporations are pumping away drinking water and paying virtually nothing for this ‘taonga’ - resource.
Who are they and who is allowing consent for this practice?
Find out that 10s of $Billions of holdings are hidden with direct NZ Government knowledge - so as to not be scrutinised by 'we the people.’
We first cover some recent history, and the stopping of economic imperialism here in NZ on the far reaches of what was once the British Empire.
However it's about Offshore Corporations being able to profit from NZ resources and labour and taking all their profits away overseas and not really investing in the NZ community at large.
For example, back in 1975 at the bottom of the South Island the Bluff aluminium smelter was built by the Rio Tinto Group an Anglo-Australian multinational and the world's second largest metals and mining corporation. This smelter was classified by CAFCA as the largest corporate bludger in NZ. They obtained cheap electricity from Governmentally owned power stations - huge amounts - at a tiny fraction of what a NZ householder would pay for.
Murray also stated that CAFCA has a clear message – that it does not take immigration as a reason for the inequities of large amounts of money being taken out of NZ, as this can be easily hijacked and if you are not careful, slip into racism – especially if you are not vigilant.
The concern is foreign big business and their domination of virtually all aspects of the NZ economy.
Like land sales, banks, news media etc – but virtually any sector of the NZ economy you care to think about is dominated by TransNational Corporations. They used to be called MultiNational Corporations – because they increasingly operate in a huge number of countries, a number of them so global that they are far larger than the NZ economy.
Oil corporations and Apple, Google, Amazon and Microsoft – the digital corporations – they are enormous and continue via software developments to expand their influence whilst encroaching on ours.
NZ Needs to Become Self Sufficient.
AIMs of CAFCA – that NZ should be a self sufficient economy and that if you are going to have foreign investment it has to be for the benefit of NZers not to simply for overseas investors to ‘fill their own pockets.'
For example; 2,000 workers at the Bluff smelter will be now out of work. Because it suits the Corporate interest to do that. That a corporation basically does not have a social contract or obligation and they are doing nothing to improve NZ's debt situation. Thus CAFCA considers them to be a net liability – not an asset.
He mentions also the film playing now in NZ called 'Island of the Empire' and it's about NZ’s military relationship with the United States that's been updated with Murray starring (my words) way back in the mid 1980's featuring journalist Nicky Hager, ex Green MP Keith Locke and his sister Maire Leadbeater. Plus ex Activist now Mayor of Invercargill - Tim Shadbolt.
Also mentioned, is the 30 year old campaign against the Five Eyes Waihopai - Echelon Listening outpost for the US - UK alliance – that vacuums up all our, (meaning your) - telephone calls, fax’s, texts etc etc. And then saves them for later.
Green Rush - Murray mentions the excellent Radio NZ research on who owns our land.
The four largest private landowners in New Zealand are all foreign-owned forestry companies. This superb research by Radio NZ is an eye opener. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/400417/green-rush-foreign-forestry-companies-nz-s-biggest-landowners
The information comes from an excellent RNZ investigation into land ownership in New Zealand.
Using Land Information New Zealand data, Companies Office searches and other research, RNZ compiled a list of what is believed are the 100 biggest private landowners in New Zealand by area, not including the Crown and public entities (which control at least 28 percent of the land) or iwi (Maori).
Forestry – not the above radio NZ article which only focussed on land ownership and did not focus on leased land and that is more dominant. This is important to realise - that it is not what is recorded - but what is obscured or hidden.
Foreign direct investment (ownership of companies) in New Zealand increased from $15.7 billion in March 1989 to $121.7 billion as of March 2019 - almost eight times.
As a proportion of the total output of the economy, Gross Domestic Product, it has risen from 22% to 40%.
Statistics NZ data shows the countries where $100m or more in foreign direct investment was based as of March 2019 as being, in decreasing order: Australia, Hong Kong, US, Japan, UK, Singapore, Canada, Netherlands, British Virgin Islands, China, Cayman Islands, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Germany and France (though the investments from some countries have been suppressed). These accounted for 93% of foreign direct investment in New Zealand.. Australia alone accounts for 50% with $57 billion of the $113 billion total.
Murray continues, About You - the average NZ home owner.
The average house owner who owns less than 5 hectares of land and collectively owns about 1.5 % of NZ.
But, it gets worse - those who have around an acre of land with their house on it, such as Mum and Dad owned homes - the total comes to 0.5% of NZ.
Large units of Privately owned land in NZ
We have 4,600 people in NZ 0.1% of the total population that own half of the land owned by the 10 largest landowners.
Listen to this, because Murray says the present government is doing something about curtailing the sale of our land … Eugenie Sage, the Green, Minister for Lands ‘outside’ of Government (not invited to Cabinet meetings) has actually said No to an overseas buyer. The Transnational mining company Oceania Gold, who are mining in Waihi in the Coromandel (where there is a huge hole in the ground) was not allowed to expand its operations to buy more farmland so as to use it to dump more toxic waste – however she was overruled by Labour Govt Cabinet Ministers. In this case the Finance Minister David Parker who is basically at the top of the pecking order along with David Clark (also the Minister of Health ) who is associate Minister of Finance. Both overruled her.
However Murray states that since 2017 that this Labour lead Govt, of NZ First and the Greens has been doing something substantive to slow down the sales of land to overseas buyers.
The Government now has a watchdog type unit that is monitoring sales. Called the ‘Overseas Investment Office’ - you must first check in with the OSIO to see if you can buy … listen or better still track the links below this article.
Banking
$10,000,000,000 of banking profits from NZers annually - from 5 million people.
NZ's Four largest banks in NZ are Australian - These four Aussie banks constitute an enormous chunk of the NZ economy (and who is it who owns these Australian Banks? Do they have links back to the UK or the US? Follow the money ….
They are taking out of the NZ economy $10.3 billion dollars profit which is a substantial amount from less than 5 Million people. In the decade from 2010 up until 2119 they made $84.4 billion in profits out of satisfied NZers. Of which ¾ of this money left NZ.
We discuss how the ASB the Auckland Savings Bank, once a very successful ‘Trust’ bank was sold off to the Commonwealth Bank of Australia - which was then privatised by the Conservative Howard, Australian Government.
In NZ the many ‘Trust’ Banks that were here - were absorbed into Westpac of Australia. Only Taranaki and Southland remained sovereign.
We learn that Jim Anderton of the Alliance Party managed to start Kiwi Bank totally against the wishes of Prime Minister Helen Clark and Finance Minister Michael Cullen of the Labour Party.
In 2019 we learned of ‘other’ tax havens such as the Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Channel Islands which include Jersey and Guernsey, Dubai and United Arab Emirates and Island of Man – but the value of all their holdings have been suppressed as quote unquote – Confidential.
That the NZ government refuses to let this information out.
Listen ... we can go on becoming serfs in our own country or we can ask every political candidate why is this so? Even Ex National PM John Key mentioned that NZers may become tenants in their own country. Not that he really made an effort to alleviate that.
We also learn in this interview, how Labour’s Minister of Finance, David Parker is now making it more streamlined for overseas investors to buy into NZ. This is a shocker.
Note that any purchase in NZ that is under $100 million does NOT have to go through any Government oversight – and they do not show up in the statistics!
Murray gives an example – if the Auckland Sky tower went up for sale at $99.999 million dollars and someone from Russia, China or America wanted to buy it – that sale would not figure in any of the NZ Government books – it would just go through as an ordinary real estate transaction. (hidden from Public scrutiny) So you can see that the present Government has actually taken the goal posts away from the field altogether. This being done in plain sight by our generously paid elected Representatives who have run away with their own agenda by refusing to represent the interest of ‘we the NZ public.’
Just like selling our house or a flat or whatever … but in Australia it’s considerably higher - they have a $520 million threshold – so the Australian public are being shafted too.
That all sales under that $100 million threshold, 'fly under the radar' and the NZ Government (your Government) for decades has been complicit in this. You would have to question that they are wanting to do away with our Sovereignty as a self-reliant nation!
Have a good focused listen. This is an Election Issue.
In 2017 the Government put in certain breaks to stop certain countries coming in and bulk buying houses – Have a listen ...
Australian and Singaporeans can buy a house in NZ today or many, because of the NZ/Singapore Free Trade Agreement and the Closer Economic Relations (CERA) with Australia, respectively.
Note that recently the Australian Government convened a Royal Commission of Enquiry into their Banks (and the Insurance Industry) and have found very damning evidence of wrongdoing – but the NZ Government has declined to do the same – though the 4 largest banks in NZ are Australian owned. Which gives us cause to wonder …
We hear from Murray that over seas insurance corporations take in profits of $38 billion annually.
As there is an election here in September I asked Murray what questions we should ask Politicians in any public forum?
Every candidate be asked about* – why the Government rushed through the Temporary Overseas Investment (urgent measures ) Amendment Act – so that any foreigner has to have it run by a Governmental National Interest Test.
This is to stave off in the situation that critical businesses and infrastructure cannot be bought out in a fire sale - if due to another Covid or other national disaster that collapse the economy and then have a foreign entity or predator come in and scoop our assets up at a bargain basement price – an then exit the country …
Now most countries globally have done the same and in Australia too.
So* ask our political candidates to make this 'National Interest Test' - permanent – be it a farm or the Auckland harbour bridge – it has to go through that National Interest Test. Do you agree to that? That it be made permanent. Plus, to now make this to apply to transnational investors already operating in this country.
Murray said that the Bluff Aluminium smelter would not have passed this test – saying they are a bunch of bludgers – he said if the National Interest Test had been applied to all the overseas banks in NZ – they would have failed it too.
Also ask this question. Do you renounce the whole Neo Liberal Economic Model?This will let you see who is independent or who follows the party line.
Also mentioned that farms are being bought up and converted to pine forests – do we not need to keep the rural sector populated and have schools – villages and towns and the local infrastructure working sustainably - being robust?
Other subjects covered.
NZ sources so many of its medicines, pills etc from overseas - that a huge percentage come from India and this was compromised during the Covid lockdown - because we had all our eggs in one basket. The US too had 95% of its antibiotics sourced from China. Trump has certainly put a halt to that.
Rio Tinto of Australia and what they did on the island of Bougainville was totally lacking in a social conscience.
US Bases at Christchurch? It is exempted from NZ Nuclear Free Law, and NZ politicians will tip toe around it, trusting NZers will remain silent.
That NZ Legalised spying on NZ – by the J Key Government
The Global media program lies that NZ is an honest country, when it is definitely not.
Murray states that CAFCA is also for Progressive Nationalism Versus Globalism.
Wanting NZ to become as self sufficient and sustainable as possible.
To remind you all.
Find out that 10's of $Billions of holdings are hidden with direct NZ Government knowledge - so as to not be scrutinised by 'we the people.’
This is a giant scam and needs to become an election issue - and it will - with your help and assistance.
What I didn't get around to asking about:
Fishing companies in NZ.
TPPA. Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement. Anything we need to know?
Water resources being sold off at a pittance to overseas entities. I have this link.
To Aotearoa Water Action
https://www.aotearoawateraction.org.nz/ IMPORTANT.
Selling into NZ – Products from China that overtime deteriorate in quality.
I apologise to readers, in my listening and poor note taking and writing them up coherently. It's just too time consuming and then to reread and rewrite so that they make sense takes hours and hours. Trusting you forgive me as it’s all voluntary.
By clicking on the three below links you will be able to see the bigger picture.
Next Week’s Interview
Ray Broomhall
On the deployment of 40,000 satellites in near earth orbit that will facilitate global saturation of 5G wireless frequencies - everywhere.
The ramifications to human health, but more so to all biota in the biosphere.
What health professionals are doing to educate the public and Councils so as to slow down and stop invasive technologies that have not been ‘independently proven to be safe.
What we as families and community can do to protect our health and well being.
We consider the Government, the authorities and the schools to be sources of information … and it is very upsetting for people to learn that it is disinformation. So everybody has to now take stock and ask themselves “what do I believe?”
As today, across the English speaking world we are the moving target of an unremitting onslaught from global media. The majority coming out of the six US main corporate conglomerates with the British BBC carrying on the offensive, from the other side of the Atlantic. Feeding this out into the commonwealth of nations, from basically the same hyped up song sheet of fear, fraud and semi truths. It is becoming difficult to discern what truth is and what fiction is.
In this interview, Roy says that one of the things that he can point to universally is that during the Covid lockdown people had the opportunity to reflect on life and that is “how am I spending my time?”
What are my priorities and what do I really value and he says that on an individual level that this is a good thing.
If it took the lockdown to force everyone to put their phone down and stop and go through that exercise - he says OK - let's see that as the good coming from this lockdown.
And if it helps everybody come to the platform of a deeper understanding of themselves and a firmer understanding of their relationship with society and Roys says - he thinks this is a good thing.
Asking the question - what matters to me - Roy says - looking after ‘number one’ - but says that quickly gets old - we know that we can take care of ourselves and being born into this country offers us a great opportunity - ‘you are not for want’ - unless you are foolish about our resources - but using these resources correctly - so that you make a positive contribution - not only to yourself - but to the whole human society - is really waking up to the ‘selfless’ side of reality.
However, Roy says that we are all trained by the media and schools to be selfish - and he thinks that that is part of the transition that humanity must go through now. That we must recognise that selfishness has caused all of this - ‘them and us’ - mentality, and if we can come above that to a universal point of view - we can then put that to rest and all of us, individually and collectively - can achieve a higher conscious - perspective.
Coming Together as a Nation
That today, we still could be isolated in NZ for a certain amount of time to come and this interview covers how we in NZ need to come together and cooperate at grass roots with our neighbours, neighbourhood and community. However, Roy states that there is also a force that is trying to herd us - it’s treating us very much like cattle are treated - or lower animal species are treated. This force is stating that what we require is to be rationed or controlled - in what we know, including our freedom of movement - and our freedom of action and choice is all being controlled.
Multitudes of techniques are being involved here. You do not have to have a policeman on a street corner - the people in general will say, Hey! stop that - you! That’s not accepted here! So that we have a trained society and we have an overview of force - we have a Deep State - that is trying to make us less than our potential. That if we are now going to be cut off - in that sense - not so so much from the rest of the world - but from independence - we have to stop and take a look and if I get my independence back - I am not going to surrender it again, because I now understand its value and I have learned how to use it for a better cause as well as a better level of understanding.
Tim says - Once freedoms are given away - it's very difficult to get them back. That if we have our freedoms taken away by legislation - there has to be in it, a sunset clause - and a date where it ends and we have to have Parliament come to either continue that particular policy - or better, to open up our freedoms once again.
However Roy sees it in an inverse way - he says the freedoms and the Rights are already God given - this legislation is an artificial attempt to suppress what’s actually - already ours.
Note every time the NZ Parliament is Opened there is a Prayer to God that asks and reminds all MP’s to be honest and fair in the NZ Parliamentary Process of Governance. https://nzhistory.govt.nz/keyword/parliament
Stating, It isn’t that they are going to be given back - it’s we’re going to stop the false suppression. The Deep State and the Bankers and the Media who all work together to keep us enslaved - they are trying to make us think - we can’t change it. And that they have changed it, and it’s actually the other way around. They can’t change it - we have God given rights - their legislation voting 3/4 % or 50% or just over half or unanimous decision - this voting saying your rights are now gone - are an illusion. Saying this is something that they are trying to impose upon us - this is the narrative - this is the disinformation narrative - writ - we have these independences - they can’t be taken away from us - only if we succumb.
That NZers from the Grass roots - need to reclaim our rights.
Roys states - It’s not that they are taken away - you are just not claiming them. You are being made to think by this disinformation narrative that they have control of our rights and they award them to you and you should be grateful and we will take away what we want and we will return what we choose. - But, this is not true! The rights are there, they have been there for a long time - many many centuries older than this Government.
Or any of the current Governments - This goes back to the Magna Carta - this goes back to Aristotle - this is all the way back - God given rights have been recognised by intelligent men on the planet. That we today have artificial leaders - people who pretend to be leaders - saying - we can take your rights away and we can control you and we can educate you as we see fit - and we can financially enslave you!
That the ’system’ is actually trying to herd, operate - run us - control us.
But think of the people who recognise this - they will naturally unify - and turn against it.
We as a species - we are in a position where we have experienced much enjoyment - a level of economic achievement - however we are now on a platform of - having to survive as a species. So who is going to lead us into a future where freedom is also one of the greatest disciplines that we must recognise and treasure?
We have to understand that the media - the politicians - the banks and their policies - the perceived social authorities of our society. Such as when school will start - when it won’t - what you can do - your health and this and that and the other thing - that there are various foolish or innocent collaborators who believe they are doing the right thing - because they believe the narrative - but they are actively supporting a system that is taking away freedoms. Now - each of these categories are guilty of creating the same deception. Listen to this interview - this gets interesting …
The No Smacking Law for example - it was voted down by the people - a huge petition signed it from all over the country - but the Government ignored it. Our elected representatives - ignored it.
What this shows is that the Government our duly elected servants have stopped caring about the people’s opinion. Why?
Because they have another agenda - that is averse to our agenda.
Roy says our agenda is to survive - to be helpful - to be honest - to be compassionate to be stewards of the planet - to be upright in our dealings and honest - as a standard - teaching our children not to lie - that’s what we want … - but the government is of so much disinformation - for chidden it is fuzzy in their mind - what is the truth - and when do I lie?
That the Gender issues that are messing up young minds - is all part of the same narrative.
That when people watch something on TV, hear it on radio or read it in a newspaper - this Mainstream news is all fed from basically one source. With tentacles that come from the Deep State. Thus there is no independent news now. The 6 main media Corporations in the US and the BBC across that Atlantic.
This is to confuse the population - to muddy the waters and come back to … divide and conquer …
These corporations control as much as 90 percent of all the media in the United States. Consequently, this creates a sort of echo chamber in the media world, from television to radio to news.
While independent media outlets still exist (and there are a lot of them), the major outlets are almost all owned by these six conglomerates. To be clear, “media” in this context does not refer just to news outlets — it refers to any medium that controls the distribution of information. So here, “media” includes 24-hour news stations, newspapers, publishing houses, Internet utilities, and even video game developers.
The 7 corporations - are similar to the 6 banks that control money … whilst the WHO are working to control Health - and yet.. all of these are just one entity, at the top end of the pyramid.
We are being sold 2nd and 3rd rate food that we produce in our own country, here in NZ
Roy says the needs of the people are being restricted to ‘we’ the people. NZ produces some of the best quality, nutritious food on earth - but it is all exported and we NZers get second grade food in our supermarkets and then there are smaller independent fruit and vegetables shops that get 3rd grade produce. We are being fed poor quality food and even substandard food, like last year's fruit that has been sitting in cool storage for 10 months - and we are not calling out the system and mechanisms that allow this unhealthy tactic to be used against us. So we have unhealthy elderly and children and this is a growing cost on our national health system.
We have oil resources onshore and offshore and we are selling that for a pittance - and buying fuel from other countries for a higher price.
Importing and exporting the same food items that are produced in both countries
We are being pushed and inserted into the Globalist structure where you don’t get to buy local food (Agenda21 and Agenda2030) - and we end up buying food from some place - elsewhere. Yet, local fresh food in season is best for health. But this is being done because governments get to ‘clip the ticket’ and the old saying ‘sending coals to Newcastle’ is where something is supplied to a place where it is already plentiful, and vice versa. That this practice is rife - globally - is total madness. But, it is deliberately ignored by the captains of industry and all the major political parties. This practice is superfluous and unnecessary.
Farmers now are having to really struggle due to this madness - whilst the politicians look the other way.
This is why most children of farmers don’t want to become farmers - because they see their parents working their hands to the bone - 24/7 - so the children are forgoing the farm … meanwhile corporations circle like buzzards - ready through easy loans due to ‘connections’ to get their hands on low interest cash and buy up swathes of farms and the outcome - families leave the land and rural communities get depleted and the ‘managers’ with no stake or connection to the local community come in and run the farm like a corporate entity and extract every bit of juice etc out of the tired and over stretched soil.
However - Roy says that now even the corporate farms are in massive debt - and that they can be easily swallowed by the bankers - and taken into foreign ownership.
You have to take the time to listen - I am only 18 minutes into this interview.
He talks of Coke Cola taking so much of our water … all our logs go to China - with no value added - just logs with bark still on them.
… and on and on and on.
Roy talks about businesses being suppressed by regulatory restriction. Stopping us from becoming competitive and prosperous.
Listen to him talking about the little business person - striving - but not being able to pay expensive compliance costs - whereas the Corporates can get free passes - a citation only - where the little person gets hit with costs - listen …
Regulations are against the little guy … we need to cut them.
When you listen to this interview - you will learn that the political process is following a plan - and at the moment it includes all Parliamentary Political Parties and they are following a plan that is dictated from above - from a non nationalistic platform - being the globalist mentality to take over we humans on this planet - and though these political leaders can talk convincingly - but … they are actually scripted. They are following somebody else’s plan …and if they instigate a plan against their populaces - they get rewarded - and really well.
The structure of our society is a pyramid - the controllers - ‘shape’ the agenda at the top and people on the bottom layer take the hit and do the hard yakker (work) and the middle and upper reaches of the pyramid are the corporations and they are the collaborators who collude with the top.
But from a higher perspective Roy says that from a Godly point of view - if we turn the pyramid upside down - the real people would be on top - saying the God loves the individual - all of us are his children as sons and daughters and he says that the people who are at the top of the present day pyramid are exploiters and says the Lord has no love for them.
Listen - Roy talks about strength and how unity is strength - and the controllers do not want an empowered ‘grass roots’ movement.
The interview mentions the numerous Laws that were passed under urgency during Covid giving the Government more power and that took away our rights, ‘without’ consultation. This is the problem when we let ‘our elected servants’ run away with their own agenda - because we have become so complacent and lazy and let them get away with what ‘they want to do’ or are … told what they need to do.
The NZ Constitution is being rewritten at this very moment - but there is no draft for ordinary NZ to see or have a say - it has been taken out of the hands of ‘we’ the people.
There is a Food Safety Act
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=NZ+givt+food+safety+act+of+2014+-+you+can+not+share+food&atb=v189-1&ia=web
In this legislation you can find that the Government has a clause in there that can, if the situation requires, bring a halt to local people from sharing food. In a case of salmonella for example - there is a definite and valid case for this - but could COVID be used in this situation as well? Just saying ...
People Taking Control at a GrassRoots Level.
New Zealanders as a people have to organise and the best place is to come together at Farmers Markets that are throughout NZ and these oases are nodal points for connectivity across the nation - and Roy says that the organisers of these events have a major responsibility in making sure that as a leader of society they have a very important role to play.
Farmers markets facilitate personal connections and bonds of mutual benefits between farmers, shoppers, and communities.
That every domestically made product or service has to be catered for at the farmers market so as to cross pollinate with all peoples who want a more healthier life for their children.
Note, that Socrates in Ancient Greece used to frequent the ‘agora’ - (an assembly and marketplace) so as to encourage, exhort and inspire people to question everything - it was his place of choice to frequent and to wake up people and get them thinking. This is how it needs to be in NZ today - from now on.
Farmers Markets - to showcase all products and items made in NZ.
Let NZers make any product with their own ingenuity and creativity - not source anything from overseas and elsewhere. This is the time for novel products and resourceful invention. NZers have an extremely high number of patents per population, globally so this is so important for us to be innovative. It’s not about the organiser just getting a fee for a booth or sales site. It’s about instilling connection and unconventional brilliance in every market place in NZ where all the creative input from the surrounding area and region can come to a safe market place and make known what inspiration and processes and creations they wish to share.
Sell at Farmers Market under the criteria - Is this made here in NZ? You may be looking for an agent to sell your product or wanting a franchise etc etc - then this could be the place. Ask others who have high standing in the local community to verify good honest working relationships - so that goodwill and genuine trade can exist and be carried out.
Farmers Market Categories:
Other Subject Matter covered in this interview.
NetFlex can be a great distraction for today's society, with so much titillation and seductive material to side track and divert minds from important needs and issues.
Transhumanism - For people who are afraid of death - trans-humanism is the new opiate and lifeline to transplanting your consciousness into a machine. Google has focused a lot of attention on this.
Those kids with no metaphysical or spiritual understanding have been heavily influenced into wanting to go into trans-humanism and be enticed into leaving their consciousness in the cloud and computer networks somewhere in hyperspace.
Cubs, Scouts, Brownies and Guides - For children growing up these are excellent easy ways to learn survival skills like 1st Aid, cooking, building shelter, lighting fires safely, teamwork and team spirit. Being honest and doing a good turn
Talked on Zero Waste and many other subjects.
Including Tall Poppy Syndrome - how it is predominant here in NZ.
The Wayseer Manifestos - link as mentioned in the interview
… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPR3GlpQQJ
That the ‘deep state’ has in many ways never allowed America to reach its potential and that it has been bled dry by constant wars and division.
“We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy the economy.”
― Chris Hedges Pulitzer Prize winner on the state of America.
Roy finishes asking us to look into our heart to see what we want in this lifetime - and to look within for answers.
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Next Week
Murray Horton
Who owns NZ?
10 October 2019
The four largest private landowners in New Zealand are all foreign-owned forestry companies.
Foreign direct investment (ownership of companies) in New Zealand increased from $15.7 billion in March 1989 to $121.7 billion as of March 2019 - almost eight times.
As a proportion of the total output of the economy, Gross Domestic Product, it has risen from 22% to 40%.
Statistics NZ data shows the countries where $100m or more in foreign direct investment was based as of March 2019 as being, in decreasing order: Australia, Hong Kong, US, Japan, UK, Singapore, Canada, Netherlands, British Virgin Islands, China, Cayman Islands, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Germany and France (though the investments from some countries have been suppressed). These accounted for 93% of foreign direct investment in New Zealand. Australia alone accounts for 50% with $57 billion of the $113 billion total.
When asked about all the issues facing us he replies “what is our ecological relationship with each other and also with the planet as well?”
He says he comes at that - not as to be perceived as a narrow ecological radical - but as somebody who thinks he’s getting to the heart of the issue of ‘what are we doing with our life support system?’
He says he is very aware and cognisant of the trends - the downward trends and the degradation we cause to ‘that’ life support system. And therefore - what we also need to do to turn that around and that this action will affect every aspect of our lives.
That’s his essential focus and he states that he can take these issues down to (he trusts) to a very practical level and a here and now level - because it is ‘quite overwhelming’ … to have to think about the shear inter-dependence and the shear integration of all of these issues.
Listening and Being Aware of Nature
Though we produce huge amounts of waste by the 7.7 billion human inhabitants - Rod says that if we ‘listen’ to nature and take our understanding from nature - it naturally knows, having embedded complete circular systems - so that everything that is used - is reused - everything that is depleted gets replenished - and that in essence is the living system that is the planet.
So if we make sure that we are working with nature and not against it - and we are making sure that we are giving these incredibly complex ecosystems the chance to recover - then, because we are taking the pressure off them - then these ecosystems become far more resilient and can deal with far more variation.
Rod says that these ecosystems can then become far more productive - so potentially they can support more people on the planet ‘as long as we are making sure we are doing everything in sync with nature.
Circular Economy
The ‘circular economy’ was mentioned as one of these concepts and Rod thinks it is a very helpful idea, because it’s a very important bridge between how we think about our linear system now, which is to extract things from our ecosystems in order in which to make and consume things. Often this causes more pollution - which obviously is a very negative thing to put back into the ecosystem - or to incur loss of resources in that linear system. So he says how do we make sure that everything we do loops back so we make sure that we completely understand how to unmake everything that we manufacture? Stating that all the natural resources that go into what we make - can then be reused again. Or that human made resources and he says we have to be very careful of these - especially that we are working with nature and not against it. Like they are not building up, for example - heavy metals as a toxin in ecosystems. Eg. The heavy use of super phosphate in NZ has caused widespread contamination of farmland due to excess cadmium now being in the soil.
He also mentions our reusing and recycling things but also to repurposing items that we have previously used - to the nth degree so that we completely are ‘an integral part of the natural systems.’
Cradle to Cradle - came up - William Mcdonough and Dr. Michael Braungart https://www.cradletocradle.com/ and Rod likes this because it encapsulates in a sense, the life cycle that brings you back to where you started. So that you can start all over again. He said that this concept has been around for a while and has been applied to some extent by some ‘real champions ‘ but we have a way to go before all our human activity fits into that model and has ‘that’ right relationship. (essentially, there is a refusal by business and government due to having to change our whole consciousness to see that we are all part of a greater whole, and that all of nature has myriads of cycles embedded in it.
We humans have yet to make the effort to understand it. Whereas indigenous people are totally surrendered to the cycles of life, being the seasons, moon cycles, tidal, ebb and flow and more subtle ones like the water cycle etc -spawning season etc and see themselves as an extension of nature's process.
Conscious Recycling
Tim then mentions that back in 1993 on Deutsch TV he saw a program where BMW showed off a concept that they were working on where computers were used to follow a blueprint of a vehicle being built from the basic constituent parts by robotic machines. e.g. chassis, engine, cab, windows + doors, then windscreen, wheels etc to lastly internal fittings - to finally that BMW being driven off the factory floor. Then what they showed was that say 10 years later or 15 years - (depending if planned obsolescence was still in vogue) the car would return to a designated factory and the computer program would be reversed and the robots would start taking out the internal fittings, the wheels, windscreen, then the doors + windows etc until the cab, engine’ and chassis was left and then these particular components could be reused, recycled or used in some other way. This was a perfect plan to bring the waste signature of a manufactured product to the smallest ecological footprint possible - but somewhere in this process hardened attitudes have prevailed - and this noble idea has been shelved.
Initiating Change and Encouraging to Adapt, Modify and Transform the Way we Live and Work.
Rod also talked about how do we learn to encourage each other to change … and it is now very important since Covid19 became such a focus and influence on our lives. That the extraordinary statistic of our death rate in NZ was just over 2 people per million - whereas in the UK he said it is 900 people per million, which is 400 times our death rate. Latest 44,000. And we need to remind ourselves we have done well in NZ, but in the last month or so we have become rather fractious and anxious and he senses that we are shutting down to a degree, when his hope is that we can emerge out of the Covid Crisis and head of into a far better direction.
So Rod asks the question - how do we encourage people when obviously many people are struggling with so many things? That they may be unemployed, engaged in stresses and strains in the family and they are maybe worried about their health- and he is very aware of these important issues - and being able to support each other through this. But, needing to think and encouraging people to think how we might do things differently and better, is dear to him
However there is a lot going on:
He mentions: https://www.theaotearoacircle.nz/
The Aotearoa Circle and the late Sir Rob Fenwick - co founded with Sir Jonathan Porrit. Sadly Rob died in early March. (I was in touch with Rob some years ago for an interview and we just could not tie in a time.)
The Aotearoa Circle is composed of leading NZ businesses and Government Agencies, and the senior members of the entities involved. The central theme of this is about putting Natural Capital - i.e ecosystems as the centre of everything that we do. He says that rather conventional companies are starting to think in these terms. And he sees some real thought going on in the Circle as to what this future looks like.
Also here in NZ we had Vision Week - which a bunch of organisations got off the ground. AnewNZ was mentioned. This link was an interview with Dave Breuer - the initiator of AnewNZ. https://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/dave-breuer-founding-director-of-anew-new-zealand
Aotearoa 2020 vision https://www.facebook.com/aotearoa2020vision/ and Rod says that we have all these good ideas going on - but we have a very tired and exhausted political system.
Politically - NZ is tired and exhausted
Rod proffers up the meme that rather than reverting to tribal politics i.e just automatically voting for the party that you usually vote for or identify with - but instead - prioritise in your own life and in your own thinking - what is important to you. Therefore finding the part that best aligns with that thinking, and it may not be your traditional party. So vote for the two top issues rather than your normal default tribal loyalty vote. He says this will be a big help in this coming election.
Transcending Party Politics - with a Long Term Societal Consensus.
Rod talks about the short 3 years election cycle so that in this short time, a Government can’t get things done - but … it also ignores the fact that the issues we are working on, are very long term so …
He says we need a very strong ‘societal consensus’ on what we are doing that can completely transcend the short term election cycle. Because, we could never have an election cycle long enough for a Government to really have an impact.
Grand Coalition of the Major Parties?
Rod talks about Ireland where they, after much talking with each other and a stalemate of some months, they have finally agreed to a ‘grand coalition’ of the two major parties. This he says is a very encouraging idea.
He said the Germans have had them too, and though they are very complicated to organise and keep functioning - Rod sees this as a good sign to see that society has a common sense and a common understanding of what needs to be done and a real strong sense of a ‘commonwealth’ and about what needs to be done for the common good. Wealth not seen as a narrow monetary and financial sense - but a common inner wealth that is embedded throughout society as a whole.
NZ becoming a Cashless Country.
Youth today are not carrying cash - so when will NZ become a cashless society? Sweden is supposedly 80% cashless. What are the benefits and what are the challenges. The financial records of a country will be instantly at the fingers of the Minister of Finance, as well as the Minister of Inland revenue. Far less counting of cash and printing and smelting of money. It will start to stamp out the dark economy.
Will this happen in NZ and virtually overnight? Tim proffers up a scenario to Rob that this could be very detrimental to ecological, health or political activists - in that if the ruling government at the time, does not agree with your democratic right to call out shortfalls in Government policy or even practices that could be deemed corrupt. What is to stop ‘them’ phoning your bank to put a stop on all your EFTPOS and Credit card transactions and you are caught 200 ks away from home, with an empty gas tank at 3pm in the morning? Where you find yourself marooned, running late and unable to travel?
Rob says that there have to be safeguards specifically put in place like the ‘Bill of Rights’ - to make sure this does not happen. My retort, that I did not air is, providing we have a government of the people for the people. But, who is to say that a Government may, under ‘urgency’ pass through legislation in 24 hours - that makes ‘activists illegal’ and this comes under the umbrella of you being classified as terrorists?
Blockchain and bitcoin was mentioned - but we never got into it as it’s a one hour subject in itself.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution - basically followed on from the 3rd Industrial Revolution with transistorised technology and the start of computerisation in the 1970s and now it is ramping into a fully fledged omnipresent and ubiquitous presence planetary wide from near earth orbit to every area on the geosphere.
With the rapid deployment of 40,000 new satellites in geostationary orbit around our planet and with 5G technologies all working ubiquitously and microwaving our biosphere what are the health implications for humans, animals, plants and the microorganisms that are all interconnected for the health and well being of healthy biota?
Rob says that at the highest level he is in favour of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the cashless society too as it is only an evolution of human ingenuity. (providing that the controllers and bankers are honest and full of integrity).
Stating - that ecosystems have to have precedence as they are our life support system.
But, he is open about his concerns and stresses that there is nowhere near a strong enough connection back into the eco systems. So this has to be focused on. Stating, that it's not about remaking or reinventing ecosystems - but it is to make sure that what we do - fits in with them. And he says that we can then align with this.
He says with the integration of 5G it will help us hugely in being able to access and share information that will allow us to understand all the societal systems, communications banking transactions etc as well as monitor all ecological systems and that as we become more complex as a civilisation there will be this need to have essentially real time info so as to keep the whole system in balance and operating coherently.
Rod said he has done some research and reading and he states that he comes down firmly - that 5G is Ok for us, health wise.
Stating that 5G is not a source of Covid 19 - (Which was never a health point in the discussion, as 5G has been going on for over 18 months - and Covid only hit us early this year - but this is where the narrative gets hijacked - Tim)
Transportation in the 4th Industrial Revolution.
Electric cars - are not the answer for city commuting. Electric public transport can be. Rob states - we have to change our lifestyles.
London - has got on top of its congestion, with a big rebuild of its underground system - Plus New York too.
Copenhagen is a very successful city and In Brazil, Curitiba and mayor Jamie Lerner, was very innovative.
Tim said we need campions - but Rob says we also need buy-in …. to get our transport system efficient so that people don’t have to ‘fall back on private cars’
The interview covers:
Population
With the increase in population and people moving to cities.
The individual = parenting - values and virtues - family values -
To bring children into the world is a huge responsibility and to validate them
Old people too.
Rod said that have always known that it takes a village to raise a child - but the system has fragmented.
Men's Sheds for retirees - this gets the men out of bed in the mornings and gives them a focus to build or repair things. Older women seem to cope more easily, and can crochet and knit and are able to converse more fluidly.
Old people have stories to tell of their varied experiences - listening - validating them - writing these stories for posterity.
Hospitals in NZ, many were given land by Maori - fresh food for patients - today hospitals dispense seriously poor food and drink.
Living in Urban Areas
That there are 100 community gardens in Auckland - where all cultures can cooperate and grow fresh, vital organic food. Where they can share seeds, experience and recipes - and learn about each other's cultures and customs.
Globally in the future there will be 80% of people being urban dwellers Growing food in cities is going to be important. Rod talks a lot about bringing back nature into the cities. This is where we need liveable cities.
Biophilic Cities https://thehill.com/changing-america/resilience/smart-cities/482752-the-rise-of-biophilic-or-nature-friendly-cities
Birmingham - In Victorian times, the captains of industry way back believed in the Victorian ideal of parks and outdoor pursuits being really good for people - Birmingham has a large percentage of parks per population. Also the Cadbury Family started their factory there - being Quakers their venture with cocoa and chocolate - had very good worker relations - treated with respect and well paid - because Cadbury had a very strong social conscience.
Tim Asked the question in relation to NZ today.
Stating that the glaciers in the South Island are still melting and retreating.
That the seawater around NZ especially on the West Coast is warming.
Where are the Pillars of Society? The Civic Minded Elders, the Kuia and Kaumātua?
Where a hundred years ago Civic pride and giving back to society was in many different ways, the done thing - today there seems to be a void.
However there is a trend for older people to act as a mentor for our young people. Which is excellent.
Rod mentioned that he has been on NZ Town Hall meetings - online - to share and offer advice - which is a superb idea.
He talks about leadership saying that there are some very good community oriented people of all generations and describes this as being like ‘yeast in bread’ - that they are scattered throughout the community saying ‘we have some good ones’. I say yes, but not nearly enough.
Planet of the Humans, the movie that Michael Moore was the executive director of.
I, Tim said that it was an important documentary - as to me, who has been in the environmental movement since 1974 - it exposed many shortfalls in the environmental movement as well as some of their so called ‘champions - like Al Gore and Bill McKibben, who wrote an exceptional book - the End of Nature. Rob disagreed with some of the timings that were produced in the movies saying they were taken ‘out of context’ and that some of the data was dated.
He said that the UK is producing more energy from renewables than gas, coal and oil. (But, I forgot to ask about Nuclear, but the UK still has 15 reactors generating about 21% of its electricity as of 2020.
Rob’s major criticism of this doco was that they focused on ‘that there were too many people on earth.’ That overpopulation was the cause of our troubles. But Rob said the human population is only growing at one percent every year, but consumption is growing at 3% every year. This is where we are putting huge amounts of pressure on our biosphere.
That our trading patterns have to change, where we in NZ can produce the same diary products as the Europeans - so why do we buy their cheese for example - when the only difference is basically the packaging and the label? Distribution of food for example is another challenge, as there is also a huge amount of waste. However, we did not have time to discuss this.
That our population growth is projected to taper off at about 10 billion people. That is 2 more billion people coming into the world during this time. Another subject that we lacked time to speak about.
That we should remember that everything we do from now on, is to work with nature and not against it.
He mentioned that we need to stop strangling the natural world - or words to that affect - as without nature we can not exist.
I thoroughly enjoyed this interview and though I have a good number of differences with Rod - he is an excellent interface of the need to realise that it’s our planet that loans us a body, free air, free rain water and until recently a free food chain.
That he is constantly among business people, industrialists, farmers and economists - and is the one who can gradually awaken them to the fact that we are dependent on our planet and nature that so delicately survives within the biosphere. The sooner we recognise this, the sooner we as a civilisation will acknowledge that we are planetary beings and a ‘global family’ awakening from eons of time to our true inheritance.
That of actually being cosmic beings - expressing through 3 dimensional bodies and sharing and breathing the invisibility of an oxygen system freely given to us by ocean plankton, trees and foliage from around our ecosphere. Once this connection is fully realised - a major transformation in consciousness will occur and a new paradigm will be born.
Had we had time I would have liked to have Rod talk about Agenda21 and Agenda2030 and many other topics too.
Next time. :)
Next Weeks Interview
Roy Harlow
The Multi Tiered Disinformation Narrative that is Assaulting Our Planet and People.
Today, across the English speaking world we are the moving target of an unremitting onslaught from global media. The majority coming out of the six US main corporate conglomerates with the British BBC carrying on the offensive, from the other side of the Atlantic. Feeding this out into the commonwealth of nations, from basically the same hyped up song sheet of fantasy, fear, fraud and semi truths.
Here in NZ it’s’ the 'same old stuff’ as we as a nation forget we live on a planet. TV ratings decline whilst some disaffected citizens look for alternatives. As for our precious youth, country-wide, they remain hypnotised by minutiae and titillation on their smartphones, we increasingly wonder is there a way out of this dysfunctional and degenerating scenario?
What can we do?
In this interview with Glen, first we cover his new revolutionary ‘Periodic Table of Elements’ - that he has introduced to the world - that will have all physicists and chemists - globally exclaiming - “why did I not think of that!”
Glen furthers this ‘new paradigm’ that is upon us - by saying that as astrology is a fact of physics he welcomes any physicist to challenge this statement - but so far no one has stepped forward.
The global elite who control the world wide media use this media to put down astrology at every turn, Yet, behind our backs the establishment will always draw up a chart when their babies are born. Whilst these same ruling class will always check their chart or their countries chart before going to war or making a large incursion into a market, or change of government etc.
Thus they have contained and closed down the whole subject, that even academia and intellectuals shy away from it, for fear of compromising their occupation within the upper echelons of education and universities. (except in India).
As Nikola Tesla once stated.
“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.”
Glen welcomes input from physicists to look into this ancient of sciences to reinvigorate the debate on its efficacy.
In following up on this statement that astrology is a fact of physics - we have been told (programmed) that astrology is basically a witchcraft belief - and that ‘you have to believe in it’ - and he says that is not true at all. Saying that astrology is based on real things. Like the stars - that they are real things that are emitting real electro magnetic forces and we ‘live in the middle of this field’ of star force … and the old, but true saying that there are as many stars in the sky as there are grains of sand on the earth - and he says if we imagine that - then we have all these ‘beams of force’ that have been constant for billions of years that they create this sort of holographic energetic field and with that we have got the solar system moving - and we have this again like an atom - we’ve got the sun in the middle and we’ve got these sort of energetic magnetic spheres that in the atom will have the electrons all organised - whereas in the solar system we have planets that are ’sitting there’ spinning and condensing matter that has come from the sun but as they move around inside that magnetic shell - they change the form of that shell and so the star light that’s coming through those planetary shells are hitting different ’tones’ - so it’s like the difference between C sharp and C minus - let’s say Mercury moves around its shell - it warps that shell and so the tone coming from that ’star force’ is altered as it comes through there - and that’s what we receive - we receive that electromagnetic variance on the earth - here. So as the planets move they alter their magnetism within our solar system - and matter follows magnetism - so as the magnetism changes - so does the matter change.
So there’s a direct relationship between the movement of the planets and the effect on Earth.
Now within the ‘Biodynamic’ agricultural movement there are a few people who have done this work - but there is a particular book - called moon and planet - by Agnes Fyfe (http://garudabd.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/garudabd.org/files/BDAGEarthAstrolgy3.pdf ) - and this group have been involved in a method called chromatography - where they get the sap of a plant and they ‘rise it up through blotting paper and then they rise up silver nitrate and then they expose that to the light and it develops a picture - and it shows us the qualities of the sap of the plant at the time it was picked. So she did these trials over many years and every so many hours. That what she found was the direct relationship between the movement of the planets and the change in the plant sap. So she showed this direct correlation that plants are completely affected by the movements of the planets. Glen stresses that Astrology has been doing this for 5,000 years and astrologers have been watching this direct relationship. Glen has been doing this for 40 years - that there is a tremendous body of knowledge of what is the influence of the various planets when they are in certain positions and in certain relationships with another planet. So he says there is a very ‘worked up science’ of these effects and, He emphasises - there is no belief here - this is a direct relationship between the state of the field of the solar system and what is happening on earth - there is no belief here.
In this interview: Tim mentions - that the global elite use astrology whilst publicly putting it down - and Glen concurs
Stating that astrology is a fact of physics and is scientifically true and we have a society that wants to base itself on scientific fact yet deny the very basic fact of magnetism and matter. So this is an immense hypocrisy that science is perpetrating on ‘we the people.’ Where he says they will use it - they know it works - it’s a fact of physics and then they come along and try to fool people that it’s all fantasy. He calls it a huge fraud that the scientific community are perpetrating.
Yet, Nancy Reagan wife of US President Ronald Reagan, used the services of Joan Quigley to assist her with helping her husband at many levels during his Presidency. In an interview, Quigley mentioned that over the next seven years, she issued guidance, for pay, that went far beyond mundane scheduling to matters of diplomacy, Cold War politics and even the timing of the president’s cancer surgery.
Glen says astrologers are endeavouring to bring consciousness into a very unconscious realm. He says the greatest next step in human development will be when everybody starts to use astrology and that now with Astrology.com and Astro.com - all the information now is freely available to anyone with a computer. Stating that it is a very simple language based upon the 9 planets and the sun - (the moon being classified as a planet) there are only 10 planets in the whole game. So all the information now is essentially at our fingertips.
Please listen - there is so much information in this interview … far too much for me to type up … Glen talks about Venus and Mars and the times that they are in-synch and then the other times when they are in opposite situations - we get an understanding of how this all comes about - by looking at the position in the sky of these planets.
He talks about depressed people and what influences and planets can cause depression - that you may have three instances of planetary events influencing you over a very short period - but you can map out when this ‘transit’ passes - this, is a great relief. Meaning you are not going to be in a depressed situation for life. As all things must pass.
Glen talks about transits - and he also broaches previous lives or reincarnation as he expands on the vastness of this cosmology. That it is not just luck - that your birth chart is not just a bad lottery draw - it is actually a result of all of our past lives - be it a million or only a few … stating that our spirit is this eternal being - that moves from one life to the next and every experience we have - it’s like we put a T-shirt on - like been there and done that! So we wind all of this experience into and around our eternal spirit - and that becomes our sort of personality - and our psychology - and all of our neuroses - and all that is wound up in what we call the astral body - and he says this is what astrology is. It is the theology of the astral body - and this is related to the planets. The stars are the spirit realm and the planets are what we call the astral realm - and all of our experiences from the past are accumulated and that is what’s imaged in the birth chart.
Now from birth we have the ability to alter that field of activity and it is through our will, if we have a habit that we don’t like - our will says I am going to change this - I am going to physically force my physical body to do something else - and in forcing the physical body the energetic body has to shift - the mater sort of alters the magnetism as it were. Rather than the other way round. And so by doing that 10,000 times we form a new habit - so we have forced our astral body into a change - so that is the point of life. So this IS the place that we have the opportunity to reorganise this energetic psychology that we have - and so the birth chart is just the starting place.
Listen - Glen talks about progression - he also says fortunately for us the planets in the sky are predictable - listen ...
You choose your parents and country of birth too.
Quickly covered were subjects that you can research for yourself.
The rewriting of the Bible by Constantine at the Council of Nicea and the elimination of reincarnation out of the Bible.
https://probe.org/was-reincarnation-ever-in-the-bible/
He talks that we have reduced our understanding of who we are in the Western culture to that of body and a soul and God - and now science has relegated our soul to the mind and the mind now is seen in many ways as delusional and we take drugs to close down or get rid of the mind and now we are basically just a body …
Some would say an empty body ...
There was a huge amount of information given. This is some of it, below.
Questions that I never got around to asking were:
That Chartres Cathedral in France has the 12 signs of the zodiac as stained glass windows.
How does each planet have its characteristics embedded into their planet’s respective influences?
Venus = love beauty feminine - yet Mars = war energy and is masculine.
I encourage you to listen - and then use the two astrology websites to get a basic understanding of what your birth sign is. Then find yourself a good experienced astrologer.
Next Weeks Interview is Rod Oram
Rod Oram has more than 40 years’ experience as an international business journalist. He has worked for various publications in Europe and North America, including the Financial Times of London. He contributes weekly to Newsroom.co.nz, Radio New Zealand’s Nine to Noon, and to Newstalk ZB.
He is a frequent public speaker on deep sustainability, business, economics, innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship, in both NZ and global contexts. In Citigroup’s annual global journalism awards, Rod was the winner in 2019 in the General Business category in the Australia and NZ region for his columns in Newsroom on Fonterra; and he was the NZ Journalist of the year.
Nature is showing us the way. We must learn Covid-19's lessons for our relationship with the planet and help nature restore the living systems on which human life utterly depends, writes Rod Oram.
New Zealand as a small island nation, being so far from other countries stands out - alone.
Once a pioneer country pushing the boundaries of social change, science and physical acumen - it has also remained at another level comfortably numb and this interview addresses - to a degree, how could this be?
Elandra, NZer author of “From Stardom to Wisdom: Healing & Love Beyond the Spotlight”, and upcoming book “Voices & Visions of Our New Earth”, is an international health and healing educator trainer and practitioner. She was a top Auckland University scholar, international prizewinning dancer, model and actress who went on to a career including co-starring with Roger Moore and Tony Curtis in London’s Hollywood. Deeply unhappy at University she frequently contemplated suicide; her longing for transcendent wisdom was met with academic intellectualism and “tall poppy syndrome”. 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 power. Turning her life to yoga and spirituality, dressed in white, running a Californian ashram yoga center for 20 years, she again experienced how giving away power – in this case to spiritual devotion – encourages the dark side of cults and spiritual leaders and gurus, for whom power corrupts, as they turn into self-aggrandizing power-hungry predators, who get away with betraying, exploiting, and abusing hundreds of thousands.
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 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 the multiplication of wants and toxic success.
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.
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 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 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 community that is welcoming and totally supportive of each other.
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 account of the tyrannical Etruscan king, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus. He is said to have received a messenger from his son Sextus Tarquinius asking 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, 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, 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 of the most eminent people of Gabii, which he then did!
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 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 ingrained habit of justifying the heavy utilization of criticism and bullying in school and workplace. And worse, even viewing it as a virtue.
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 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 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 to; vital emotional support from family, community and society as a whole is non-existent or invisible.
Elandra mentions coming into Auckland Airport terminal every year (for over 25 years) and feeling this heavy contractive energy - of unshed tears, deep 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 when coming home - it was very heavy) but I did not mention this in the interview - because it was not about me!
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 grief and underlying anger that has not been (consciously) expressed and, with no place to share, unshed tears with no place to safely flow.
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 within ourselves through not valuing inner knowingness, inner authority and inner trust. But the world’s Zeitgeist is and must be changing. We have 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 in harmony with the Earth and Stars…
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 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 American term for dark energy) is a mind virus that has in various degrees become surreptitiously installed in us all.
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 your self-esteem causing you to then also hide and shun friends.
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 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 dig a hole and go die!"
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 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’ 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”.
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 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 of inferiority in the NZ psyche, plus defensiveness, making it difficult to mention these things…
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 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 also the wonderful people in NZ and those who do work with love to help people in despair etc.
Listen...
This interview broaches much subject matter.
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, 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, 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 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 out is celebrated, supported, applauded and lauded!
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 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 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 told to keep quiet and close off to how we felt – listen
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 expression of truth of feelings – from self and others, (whether negative or positive), is highly dangerous to your health, indeed a cause and catalyst 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 about suicide...
There is also distrust of mental health and going to psychologists etc. and understandably ... because they are not trained with a full holistic knowingness of the human condition - they are in most cases all intellectualizing. Remembering that 'Psyche' in Psychology and Psychiatrist means Soul in ancient Greek…but not fully recognized today.
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 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 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 reveal to the consciousness and soul what is happening and needed for healing. Then soul retrieval, coming back to balance and wholeness just happens, easily.
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 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 is a huge plus.
Listen - how Elandra takes someone through a healing session...
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 be seen, let our vulnerabilities show, get together with people and talk and share love, the more the wetiko virus loses its grip.
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' - 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 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 - is very important - Listen...
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 and the greater community.
Acknowledge it! Address it, talk, feel feelings, share freely what works to heal this insidious cutting down mindset! Rise up the spirit with continuous daily expression of love, appreciation and praise to everyone around you! Empower love, big love called “awakened oneness awareness”, founded in authentic feelings and utmost integrity.
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” - 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 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 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 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 immersed in.
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. 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. Which is the ultimate antidote to tall poppy, embracing it all within big love and joy!
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NEXT WEEK'S INTERVIEW
Glen Atkinson:
Taking us to another realm Glen states that:
ASTROLOGY IS A FACT OF PHYSICS
The global elite who control the world wide media use the media to put down astrology at every turn, Yet, behind our backs the elite will always draw up a chart when their babies are born whilst the elders will always check their chart or their countries chart before going to war or making a large incursion into a market, or change of government etc.
We have entered a new paradigm and ‘it’s a shake down trip.’ Old outmoded viewpoints are being superseded as we boldly enter the Aquarian Age.
As Nikola Tesla once stated.
“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.”
Wetiko is an insidious mind virus that has installed itself in us ...
In this interview Paul articulates so vividly his profound experience - which has brought him into a knowingness that he fluently shares with us, to realise that there is a very dark side that can be surmounted. You have to listen ...
Paul has a direct experience with wetiko - that also created so much suffering in him that it catalysed a spiritual awakening a few years later forcing him into a psychiatric system and he recognised that this dark energy was carried by his father as it is in one's psyche and this he said, nearly drove him totally crazy.
So he spent years studying, going to therapy, doing art, connecting with his dreams, studying Carl Jung, Buddhist practice, shamanism, studying alchemy - anything and everything that he could find to help him deal with the overwhelming suffering that he was experiencing. He sees now that the trauma and the abuse and the wounding that he originally got from his father - that it was like receiving a transfusion of the Wetiko virus directly into his soul ... and he became very sick.
He said he developed a shamanic sickness - and being in his mid twenties he had no idea what was going on.
The thing that saved him was when he had a spiritual awakening - and he was so ecstatic because he realise that he was having a collectively shared dream and that it was more than like a dream but the experience we are sharing 'is a dream' - that as a result he became so excited and so enthusiastic at this awakening that it actually got him into deep trouble - and this is what got him hospitalised.
Yet what saved him was that we - all of us are immersed and part of an actual dream.
Quantum Reality
This then goes into Quantum physics and deeper into the realm behind reality ... Listen
That the act of observing this universe at this level - influences it - every time. This is important information.
Revelations from quantum physics are the medicine for wetiko - that we are able to create change for the positive.
'We - each one of us - , have this enormous creative power that if we are ''' more conscious'' of it - that we are literally creating moment by moment our experience - of ourselves and of the experience of the world - but if we are not awake to that - well, that power in a sense boomerangs etc ... and this is what is happening in the world at present - and that is what we are seeing writ large on the world stage - it's taking down the planet and our children's future with it.
An example of Wetiko is people supporting policies that are actually killing them - like GE, glyphosate, 5G etc
Another example of Wetiko - is that they accuse people of what they themselves are doing …
Kundalini Awakening
Listen to Paul tell of his 'kundalini' awakening - when he was 24 years of age and he describes it as going from a 25 watt bulb to a quadrillion watt bulb and he said he was lucky it did not kill him - the energy that he tapped into was tapping into the 'source.'(the universe).
Listen to how he experienced this awakening ... that in actual fact we are all creative by nature ...
We are unlimited when we break out of the dream spell ...
Whilst at the same time - all of the trauma that he had experienced was being un-installed in his operating system - but he was so unprepared for it ...
Hear of the physically impossible things that happened as a result of experiencing this heightened state of being - that when some very 'still' Buddhist teachers arrived and the 'field expanded' and that miracles happened.
We are part of a vast collective dream
He says that we are all having a collective dream - that we as a humanity can tap into the field and start co-creating a new reality in which we see ourselves as extensions of a new paradigm that we can 'dream' into being.
Paul goes on to say that when babies take their first breath in coming into this world - they are domesticated, they are indoctrinated, they are conditioned ... told what is right and wrong ... but when we become aware and shine our light, we are basically told - that is not OK - LISTEN
TO THE DEGREE that when we are told to close down - we internalise this in our head and end up becoming our own control system ... But now ... as we are doing it to ourselves - we can undo it. Listen - there is heaps in here …
Wetiko is a daimonic or daemonic energy - not just personal ... but trans personal ...and archetypal and it can take over a human being ... it can literally possess someone ....
Wetiko he says is a quantum phenomena ...
Courage
Courage - he connects as the open heart of compassion ... he says to have the most courage is to have an undefended heart.
He talks of light - sometimes manifesting as a wave other times as a particle - but I will leave this up to you to listen to this interview for yourself.
He sees Wetiko as a Revelation and we are Halfway through it.
That the CORONA:19 virus is a lower dimensional reflection of the Wetiko mind virus - Listen
Wetiko is a multi dimensional phenomena
Other facets to this important interview
The CORONA virus is also impelling us to wake up.
Wetiko only has Power over us when we don't see it ...
In the Bible they talk about a ‘counterfeit spirit.’ It is an impostor and it - Wetiko is a vampire ... it’s the living dead and does not have a life of its own …
Paul says; We as humans are all shaman in training - but we just do not recognise this ...
We are in the birth canal as a humanity - on a journey to an ‘omega point …’
On this planet today, we are suffering from a sickness of diss-association in an increasingly polarised world and that this is happening inwardly and not only individually and collectively as a species - that from a dreaming point of view that this is an expression that there is something that's been birthed through us and we are simultaneously the new being that is being given birth to - we are the mothers of the being and we are the midwives - we are all of it.
Paul talks of community which is an exceptionally important to the Tibetan way of life
Talks of quantum physics and dreams and of our creative power.
We learn that in Tibetan Buddhism - all of life is a preparation for the moment of death - that you be open in anhearted compassionate state - and each day is sort of a microcosm of a greater fractal of that.
He says have courage and do not underestimate the power of compassion.
This interview really allows us to receive a greater understanding of the world that surrounds us and that actually penetrates us. Paul, as you can hear from the timbre of his voice, is in many ways an Adept, and articulates profoundly what he has experienced. We can learn much from this kind and passionate interview.
Any search on the web, or of youtube will bring up interviews of Paul.
https://www.awakeninthedream.com/biography
Next Weeks Interview.
Elandra Meridith is a NZ raised international health and healing practitioner, the author of “From stardom to wisdom healing and love beyond the spotlight”, and upcoming book “Voices and Visions of Sacred Earth”. A NZ prizewinning scholar from Auckland University, and international prizewinning dancer she went on to co-starring with Roger Moore and Tony Curtis in London’s Hollywood.
While at university longing for wisdom and vision and finding only vapid intellectualism she frequently contemplated suicide. Later, as a movie actress in the world of celebrity, fame and fortune she was horrified by the exploitation and addiction to money and power. Turning her life to spirituality, dressed in white running a Californian ashram yoga center for 20 years, she experienced how giving away your power and energy to devotion can help empower the self aggrandizing power-hungry guru in holy drag to betray, exploit and abuse hundreds of thousands.
After finding soul family in immersion in the Aloha Healing shamanism of Hawaii, her mission became clear, to expose corruption, what does not work, encourage purification of character instead of multiplication of wants, and to share freely the daily expression of big love, “awakened oneness awareness”, authentic feelings and sacred activism.
CHEMICAL WEAPONS moved from the battlefield to the farm field after World War II. 1080 is a WMD-Weapon of Mass Destruction!
SODIUM FLUOROACETATE: Sodium monofluoroacetate (or fluoroacetate), has the chemical formula FCH2COO-Na+, and is a highly toxic compound primarily used as a pesticide known commercially as Compound 1080.
1080 FLUOROACETATE IS EXTREMELY HAZARDOUS—1080 is classed by the World Health Organisation and the EPA as an extremely hazardous pesticide - CLASS 1A ECOTOXIN POISON. 1080 is a proven endocrine disrupter and impacts upon the body’s major organs. Just one teaspoon could kill 100 people.
The only sane and effective method of balancing ecosystems is to use the components of the living system to manage itself! Because of its isolated location New Zealand is the ideal environment for a countrywide program of RESTORATIVE ECOLOGY to show the world that ecosystem management can ONLY be done by using nature's methods.
The Permaculture Principle "The Problem IS the Solution!" points to the fact that issue with the overpopulation of "invasive species" is purely caused by the absence of apex predators. The New Zealand owls and raptors are too "small."
The only viable method of establishing a self-sustaining, self-balancing ecosystem is to introduce one or more apex predators capable of keeping the pest species in check. The ultimate aim of Restorative Ecology is to set up ecosystems harmonize themselves without any human intervention.
Thus by introducing one or more owls from Australia to manage the indigenous Australian possums this would keep the population under control, while still providing non-poisoned meat and fur for the trappers...thus serving an elite couture industry.
A countrywide program to get school children to make owl houses for the Powerful Owl and/or the Barn Owl would get the next generation interested in ethical ecology and the health of their nation.
In every way...environmentally, physical and mental health, fiscally, morally, ethically, scientifically and socially the 1080 campaign is destroying New Zealand via the criminal use of a grotesque weapon of war!
SHORT LIST OF TALKING POINTS
WHAT IS IT:—Sodium MonoFluoroAcetate is a CLASS 1A POISON first synthesized 1896 by Belgian Frederic Swartz—Hitler was told it was too dangerous to use as a chemical weapon—1940-48 Monsanto buys patent and manufacturers it—The Wigley family business Tull Chemical took over patent and plant from Monsanto in 1955—New Zealand buys 90% of their production—America under Nixon banned 1080 in 1972 due to it killing the bald eagles. New Zealand started using 1080 for pest control by 1957.
WORST POSSIBLE POISON: 1080 is called a CLASS 1A POISON because it is a chemical weapon that causes extreme suffering and death as it interferes with the energy production in the cells and halts aerobic respiration. 3% is metabolized to fluorocitrate which messes with the enzyme that run the Krebs cycle. Death is slow, gruesome and inhumane. It was used by Saddam Hussein against his political enemies. 1080 use in any country is not only terrorism against its human and non-human inhabitants.
CHEMICAL WARFARE: The NZ Government is engaged in a full on war against introduced "pests" which they say compete with and kill the native birds and other fauna. Their campaigns "Zero Invasive Predators" or "Predator Free 2050" speak to their intentions to keep at this chemical warfare—the end result of which will be the loss of the majority of native species and the brain damaging and disease of the human population. Even trace amounts damage mitochondrial DNA...In Whanganui where there is a 1080 factory "Orillion" and landfill for 1080 waste there are reports of retarded children, miscarriages, stillbirths and congenital malformations to the children of pregnant Maori women following aerial drops.
BAITS: The 1080 poison is mixed with cereal and green die and made into baits, which are aerial dropped from helicopters over the native bush, streams and water catchment. The baits kill everything either directly or by secondary poisoning as carnivores eat the insects, birds and herbivores that die. A farmer who lost 570 ewes following an accidental 1080 drop on his farm said that 6 months later sheep were still dying. Around 4,000 tonnes of 1080 poison baits per year are dropped on New Zealand, enough to kill 60 million people, & the quantity increases yearly. 100 tonnes of those spoiled and expired baits are buried in landfills around the country.
CLEAN GREEN: The Clean Green image of New Zealand is plainly under attack, as no other country is so fiercely killing both introduced and native species alike. Hikers report that after a drop the forests resound with the screams of dying animals and then they are silent...not even bird song. There is also the danger that sublethal traces of 1080 or its metabolites will end up in produce that NZ exports.
ALL ANIMALS SENTIENT BEINGS: In 2015 New Zealand also publicly declared that they recognized that all animals are sentient beings, and then they indiscriminately continue to kill them in the most extreme torturous way possible. Revealing a deep seated hypocrisy and performative contradiction.
CHEMICAL WEAPONS moved from the battlefield to the farm field after World War II. Chemical ecology and chemical agriculture are oxymorons. Systemic, nonselective, ecosystem-wide violent and inhumane poisoning of an ecosystem can never claim to be rational, sane or backed by “good science.”
“Everything is out of kilter in the ecosystems where it is used!” It creates “imbalance” in the numbers of living creatures in an ecosystem and is highly destructive to the life-giving quality of the soil and water.
YOU CAN'T BALANCE AN ECOSYSTEM WITH CHEMICALS WITHOUT KILLING EVERYTHING IN IT...including the forest and the microbiome itself. The restorative ecological way of reducing invasive species numbers is not to kill them but use them as a resource to feed the Apex predators. Thus supporting the ecosystem to balance itself.
NEED FOR LARGER RAPTORS: New Zealand is going to have to introduce at least one more apex predator species. The assisted migration of the Powerful Owl, Rufus Owl or Barn Owl from Australia and the distribution of specifically designed OWL HOUSES is the ideal solution to the 1080 debacle. This is a permanent self-sustaining solution which comes at very little cost to the taxpayer, with NO POISONING of the land and water.
LARGER APEX PREDATOR: As PEST species are used as food for both native species and STRATEGIC AMBASSADOR SPECIES brought in from neighboring countries to balance out the food chain. These ambassadors are generally a slightly larger apex predator introduced when the native apex predators are either too small or too few to control population numbers of the “pest” species.
NATIVE POISONS FOR BAIT STATIONS: There must be a worldwide ban on open-ecosystem dropping of poisons, that is just common sense, however that is not to say poisons couldn’t be used in special pest-specific bait stations using natural biological poisons which are not ecosystemic. Scientists have found a natural poison that tests show can kill rats in 5 to 10 minutes. The New Zealand native plant TUTU (Coriaria arborea) is poisonous to stock, but doesn’t lead to secondary poisoning, this could be used in cereal baits for rats and possums.
GRAND SOLAR MINIMUM climate extremes and crop loss means that the Native Bush will become a vital resource to keep people alive and healthy as society is disrupted by the chaos of epic scale floods, mudslides, fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts, volcanic activity and famine.
MAKE LOVE NOT WAR: Need to change thinking from combat to waste not want not and compassionate conservation. The four guiding principles of compassionate conservation used in the 21th Century are: 1. First Do No harm, 2. Individuals Matter, 3. Value All Wildlife, and 4. Peaceful Coexistence via Trophic Level Management ensuring that all levels of the trophic cascade are well balanced so the so called problem of “invasive species” are NOT a problem but a solution!!!!
CALL FOR INTERNATIONAL HELP? BAN 1080 HOMESTAY NETWORK:
To encourage an international environmental legal movement, the New Zealand anti-1080 movement could set up a free homestay network system for visiting international environmental protection organizations, environmental scientists, ecology expert witnesses, lawyers, activists, restorative ecologists, doctors, researchers and PhD students interested in doing a thesis on 1080 use in New Zealand.
The BAN 1080 Homestay Network especially encourages experts in natural ecosystem balancing and restoration, biodiversity, terraforming, forest revival and permaculture designers who work on a countrywide and global scale. This Homestay Network will further the efforts to establish New Zealand as a showcase for the most advanced ecological principles, environmental right practices and Natural Justice.
The project would lead to the promotion of eco-education, ecotourism, eco-education and research, besides improving local livelihood and promoting ecoarchology and cultural values.
The most important and popular career will soon be as a permecologist OR permaterraformer ie: restorative planetary management.
Herbert Marcuse said in his book One Dimensional Man, “The facile historical parallel with the barbarians threatening the empire of civilization prejudges the issue, the second period of barbarism may well be the continued empire of civilization itself.
1080 SOLUTIONS ~ ADVANCED RESTORATIVE ECOLOGICAL MANAGEMENT
Sodium MonoFluoroAcetate was first synthesized in 1896 as a chemical weapon. It is a Class 1a Poison that causes extreme suffering and death as it interferes with the energy production or aerobic respiration of cells, ie: the Krebs cycle. Death by 1080 is slow, gruesome and inhumane. The chemical weapon aerial drops of the super poison 1080 throughout the New Zealand forests result in human death, mutation, cancer, miscarriages and stillbirths, plus the violent death of farm animals and pets. You simply cannot have a thriving environment if you are indiscriminately killing off the entire food chain down to the microbiome of the soil, and including the very native species you are trying to save.
Thus the New Zealand government will ultimately come to the conclusion that open ecosystem poisoning is not only an ineffective pest control method, but is pernicious, calamitous and maleficent. It is only a matter of time before the New Zealand conservation methods are going to have to emerge from the dark ages and a new age of regenerative, restorative, and balancing methods of ecosystem management are adopted. We have come too far in heart and mind to descend to such a degree of barbarity and cruelty.
Conventional industrial and governmental environmental methods have relied on dilution and dissipation for dealing with noxious byproducts of their activities. The progressive sciences however have proven that both dilution and biological degradation are faulty and inadequate to the task, when considering the profound subtlety, omni-dispersive and ubiquity of nature and natural systems. Bioaccumulation of noxious substances up an ecosystem food web ensures that dilution and dissipation doesn’t work.
Both government and industry can no longer continue on with their dirty business as usual when we now know about the hado effect of the imprinted water from Emoto, morphogenetic fields from Rupert Sheldrake, the fructification and spiral flow of water via the work of Schauberger, water and the life of the cell Gerald Pollack, quantum consciousness of Stuart Hameroff and that Healing is Voltage of Dr. Jerry Tennant, and the electromagnetic nature of existence, plus Bruce Lipton and epigenetics. All such advances in science point to the fact that we must change our methods of industry and governance and heal our relationship to the planet. Indeed we must change ourselves!
Biodegradation of 1080 is a joke as it kills the very micro-organisms that are said to biodegrade it. Even if it does degrade it still spreads the element fluoride over the entire country...and if they keep it up, it will continue forever until everything is dead, because poisonous control of ecological systems doesn’t work to control “pest species” in an open ecosystem. Rather ecosystems must be made proportionally symmetrical by synergistically balancing the tropic layers within the ecosystem. If they are unbalanced then human intervention requires that new species of apex predators (or other ecosystem partners) be introduced and established to balance out the predator-to-prey numbers. This is the only morally intelligent answer to the burgeoning numbers of so-called “invasive species,” (possums, rats, stoats, deer and wild pigs). We just have to “balance” the food web, not exterminate it, thus it is obvious that omnicidal poisoning is contrary to effective conservation and ecology. Advanced naturalistic, restorative ecology makes up for the problems of past human intervention and allows ecosystems to balance themselves, which results in maintaining both balance and the self-sustaining mechanism of balance.
Besides ecosystem trophic layer management, the only other pest control method necessary would be changing our ideological perspective from “pest management” to “resource management.” The Department of Conservation should be concerned with ecosystem resource utilization and these outlawed “non-indigenous pests'' are in fact highly nutritious FOOD for the native food chain. Plus they represent a back up survival food resource for humans during the upcoming Grand Solar Minimum Global Freeze. The hollow fiber of Possum fur provides extra warmth and lite weight to fabrics. Thus one of the most advanced and economically viable fabrics during the global chill of the Grand Solar Minimum will be high-tech clothing made from merino and possum hair. A NZ Grand Solar Minimum cold weather survival clothing industry for the global market would provide million$ and new right-livelihood jobs, while displacing those few criminal profiteering politicians, corporations and pilots who are presently terrorizing the nation and condemning their own souls to everlasting hell.
The alleged problem of “invasive species” is no longer a problem but a solution via Trophic Level Management ensuring that all levels of the trophic cascade are permanently self-balancing. In which these non-native nuisance species are used as food for both native species and strategic ambassador species brought in from neighboring countries to balance out the food chain. These ambassadors are generally a slightly larger apex predator introduced when the native apex predators are either too small or too few to control the “pest” species population numbers. New Zealand is in need of larger raptors and is going to have to introduce at least one more apex predator species to fill the top of the bush food chain.
The assisted migration of the Powerful Owl, Rufus Owl or Barn Owl from Australia and the distribution of specifically designed OWL HOUSES is the ideal solution to the 1080 debacle. This is a permanent self-sustaining solution which comes at very little cost to the tax payer, with NO POISONING of the land and water. Given the right components an ecosystem will take care of itself.Instead of teaching the kids to become psychopathic killers of helpless animals the schoolkids could be put to work building the raptor nesting boxes and tracking their installation in a national grid throughout the country. These bird houses must be made of natural materials, built to last and erected at the ideal height in the canopy for each particular species of owl.
Considering the Grand Solar Minimum climate upheaval and the catastrophic natural disasters which will be decimating wildlife populations for the next 30-70 years, compassionate ecology in association with the introduction of strategic ambassador species is the ideal method of self-sustaining ecosystem management - in a world thrown into chaos by epic scale floods, mudslides, fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts and volcanic activity. Thousands of species will be on the move anyway due to shifting weather systems and loss of appropriate habitat, thus it is up to us “enlightened human stewards” to assist their migrations in ways that serve them and the existing trophic cascades.
The restorative ecological way of reducing invasive species numbers is not to kill them but use them as a resource to feed the Apex predators. Thus supporting the ecosystem to balance itself. The New Zealand government has much more urgent responsibilities than the ruinously poisoning of the country, making it uninhabitable for beast, bird and human alike. Establishing ecological homeostasis of organisms in harmonious connection with their surroundings requires working with nature instead of against it.
This Win:Win Ecology is an infinitely more intelligent, economical, safe and humane way of going about conservation in that it supports the health of the entire ecosystem and environment (including humans) and enhances the strength and stability of the global gene pool of valuable species. The four guiding principles of compassionate conservation used in the 21th Century are: 1. First Do No harm, 2. Individuals Matter, 3. Value All Wildlife, and 4. Peaceful Coexistence.
“Every time you try and improve on Nature by going against it you damage yourself, for Nature is your very being.” Anthony Demello
Intervention with a Class 1A super ecotoxin can obviously only bring insidious, dubious and ruinous results. The more poison they drop and longer this goes on, the greater will be the disastrous effects for the entire nation of New Zealand. Rather than a futile all-out war against nature, it is obvious that ecosystems can only be rectified and self-regulated using the methods of Nature herself. A restorative ecological management program must be undertaken in New Zealand, not just so that our “exports will be clean” but so that we can save the heart and soul of the nation. Now is the time to evolve beyond corpo consciousness to more advanced and intelligent, Nature compliant methods of conservation, ecology and agriculture, for the repercussions of industrial barbarism are undermining the very foundations of civilization and our capacity to be human.
Towards that end, together we can imagine, experiment and manifest this advanced, innovative naturalistic emergent ecology that uses uncommon sense to rectify and redeem our human relationship to the earth, to the betterment of all and with harm to none. Thereby this restorative ecological renaissance speaks to the deepest of our inherent values and sensibilities, reconciling the fact that human beings are a small but crucial part of a vastly and intricately connected system of living and non-living things.
Jana Dixon, April 2020
Full 1080 Debacle paper found at:
https://www.academia.edu/42322071/THE_1080_DEBACLE
https://www.google.co.nz/search?source=univ&tbm=isch&q=do+owls+in+australia+eat+possums&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj3uZvx9fXpAhVkzDgGHdfuCZoQsAR6BAgDEAE&biw=1080&bih=581&dpr=1.33
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/newslocal/city-east/a-rare-powerful-owl-that-feeds-on-possums-flying-foxes-has-taken-up-residence-in-centennial-park/news-story/1eb77b5a7481db84c19859defaa19f14
Next Weeks Interview
Paul Levy - Wetiko
Paul Levy who wrote the book Dispelling Wetiko -- Breaking the Curse of Evil.
There is a contagious psycho-spiritual disease of the human soul, a parasite of the mind, that is currently manifesting itself in the form of unprecedented conflicts and crises on a global scale.
This collective psychosis or mental virus -- which Native Americans have called wetiko -- covertly operates through the unconscious blind spots in the human psyche, rendering us oblivious to our own madness and compelling us to act against our own best interests.
Wetiko distorts our perceptions by stealth and subterfuge, acting through us while simultaneously remaining hidden. Unconstrained by conventional laws of time and space, this 'bug' in the system deceives us by working with the projective tendencies of our mind to appear external to and other than ourselves. Thus, the conflicts and crises which threaten the collapse of political, social and economic systems, and perhaps even of the biosphere itself, are nothing less than a revelation of our own internal darkness, the side of our nature that we all too often deny.
Glen’s groundbreaking way of looking at the Periodic Table is by shifting one’s 2 dimensional view point to that of a 3 dimensional viewpoint. By making it a round, circular method. This elegant shifting of perspectives, now enables a new way to begin to ‘unlock’ the secrets of matter. In the years ahead all chemists and physicists will marvel at the simplicity of what Glen has achieved and ask themselves - "why didn’t I think of that myself?"
Around 330 BCE, the Greek philosopher Aristotle proposed that everything is made up of a mixture of one or more roots, an idea that had originally been suggested by the Sicilian philosopher Empedocles. The four roots, which were later renamed as elements by Plato, were earth, water, air and fire. Similar ideas about these four elements also existed in other ancient traditions, such as Indian philosophy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_periodic_table
So over time right up through the industrial revolution enquiring minds have endeavoured to map out the ‘constituents of matter’ for over 2,400 years.
Cut to today and Glen takes this formalised 2 dimensional rectangular layout and reconfigures it into a circle or 3 dimensional sphere. What happens is that one set of elements on one side of the sphere has ‘corresponding’ elements on the opposite side of the sphere. The old axiom ‘As above so below’ comes into play here. Just as in astrology, Libra is opposite Aires and Aquarius is opposite Leo and as Glen is an astrologer he sees everything as circling around us here on earth in a 360 degree perspective that is a 3 dimensional map of the localised star field.
Building on Rudolf Steiner’s Teachings
Glen has been working at very subtle levels based on the teachings of Rudolf Steiner who though was an educator had a very profound understanding of agriculture - hence we get ‘biodynamics’ as a system of working with both the elements - as well as cosmic forces.
Using the ‘timeless maxim’ - ‘as above so below’ - and looking at the ‘structure’ of creation above us, we can get the pattern or model that we can use to look at us and the organization that occurs within us. So here we are living on a planet and out of it’s own life processes has created an atmosphere that concentrates oxygen and therefore supports life on earth. That our planet is sitting in a solar system with planets all rotating around the sun - sitting within the sun’s magnetic field and that field is like an onion with rings of magnetism and the planets run around on those rings and of course beyond that we have stars and our sun is a star and then we have billions of stars in our galaxy and beyond this we have billions of galaxies.
So the reality of where we are living is that we have this star realm, the planet realm, the atmosphere and then we have the earth.
So he says that there are 4 great dimensions that exist. Steiner says that all these four realms work in towards us - because all the stars are beaming ‘forces’ at us … like when we learn that there are as many stars in the sky as there are grains of sand on the planet - that we can have an image that we are living in the middle of an energetic hologram and that these stars have been beaming forces at us for billions of years constantly and where we are - we are held by this ocean of energy - and the sun within our solar system organises its own things and the planets organise their own things.
What Steiner says is that he uses Hindu lore saying that the star realm is ‘spirit’ - for the planetary realm he called ‘astral’ - for the atmosphere ‘etheric’ and the physical he called the ‘physical’.
So the 4 kingdoms of nature use those four ‘activities’ in increasing complexity - so the mineral kingdom is just the physical body and the plant kingdom has this growth and light so it includes the atmosphere and then the animal kingdom has movement and some degree of consciousness - which brings in the astral planetary sphere - and finally we humans bring in the star qualities and show up as our self consciousness.
Glen goes on to say that basically we are looking at everything as being a manifestation of just those 4 things. That when we bring this into balance we have health and if there is any imbalance within any of those 4 activities - we have ill health.
He says it’s a fairly simple game … but it is based on reality - the planets are real - the stars are real ....
Holons
Also mentioned were holons and we are nested holons in our planets biosphere and it is nested in the solar system which is nested in the galactic
And we have organs that are made of cells and the cells go down to molecules to the atomic and subatomic - that everything is integrated from the microcosm to the microcosm.
His Website has more detail. http://garudabd.org/
Periodic Table of Elements
The Periodic Table of Chemical Elements that we have today that goes back to the so called enlightenment the 16 century - and its rectangular shaped and is put together in so called family groups of elements. That there are 8 major groups of elements, then there are 10 groups of trace elements and then 14 groups of rare earth elements and in each family there is 7 layers some have elements in those manifest and other layers don’t. Now, Glenn has been studying soil science as part of agriculture - and you go down to where everything is atoms and atoms are these spherical balls of energetic activity.
Toroidal Spherical Form
Once something moves it starts to spin and it polarises and it creates this sort of toroidal form that has become quite common and the toroidal form is the pattern of existence - a sphere - everything is a sphere.
We all have our energetic activity around us - so we are an energetic sphere or field and planets have an energetic sphere and everything is an energetic sphere - so when we are talking about chemistry and we are looking at this rectangular pattern and we think of an element, for example like calcium.
So what we have to do is create in our mind this nucleus with so many protons and neutrons and then two or three rings of electrons and some of those rings are not full - they can take more electrons - this becomes the basis of the interaction of the element. If a ring is not full it will go on to jump on to some other element to fill that energy lack and this is how we get the chemical interactions. So it is really an interplay of spheres - so we are forever making an adjustment between the rectangle and the sphere - and to many it is one of the hurdles of coming to grips with chemistry.
Why not draw this up as a Sphere?
So Glen thought - why don’t we draw this up as a sphere - but first of all why not start with a circle and start from there and the above three groups - the majors, the tracers and the rare earth - so they are different numbers.
So when we listen to music and Glens background in astrology informs us as well because in an astrology chart we have these different angular relationships - we might call them 30 degree relationships - 45 degree relationships and 72 degree relationships between the planets - and he says that gives you the idea as in music that there is a 3rd harmonic and 4th harmonic and a 5th harmonic - and just as the 4th in music is discordant - where as the 3rd is harmonious and friendly - so that’s what happened between the planets. So in chemistry there is a 4th harmonic in the major elements - because there is 8 of them. There is a 5th harmonic with the trace elements - so this gave Glen the impression that they were different - they were running on these different sort of harmonics as it were - frequencies - so he could see them as groups and if we start to get this idea that everything is a sphere and therefore a circle is one 360 degree slice of a sphere - so we get that the circles resonate with the spheres - he says this is quite an important thought (come back to this later)
That every circle resonates with everything in creation. But in the development of the chemistry (it was well) we’ve got these three groups of elements and they can all be put on an individual sphere. Glen goes on to say what happens when we put something on a circle, that what we know in astrology is that we start getting these angular relationships - elements set opposite each other - they set at a 90 degree angle to each other - a 30 degree angle to each other - so what starts to happen when we put things on a circle we start to see relationships between the elements that aren't obvious in the rectangle. One of the classics in this is phosphorus and potassium set opposite to each other - are seen on a circle and in agriculture this is one of our greatest issues - that originally when settlers started farming here - they realised they lacked phosphorous, so along came superphosphate - which in itself is a very good fertiliser and they piled the phosphorus in, but then they realised the potassium was not active - and so they thought to then just pile in the potassium - and so along comes potassium phosphate, potassium chloride and they piled that in and then all of a sudden they realised that they were locking up all the calcium in the phosphorus.
So this is one of the biggest dilemmas in modern agriculture, especially in NZ is that we have this excess of potassium and although the calcium and the phosphorus is sitting there in the soil - it won’t be released.
Then once Glen did his circular periodic table it became very clear that it was this excess of potassium that was blocking all of the phosphorus. So he made up a product that would suppress the potassium and all of a sudden out comes all of the phosphorus and then the calcium comes out a little bit later.
He said that these chemical relationships start to become very obvious once you see them in a circle.. He further states that once we have all these 3 different groups of elements on a circle - then we can put them on top of each other. Then instantly we can see which trace elements have a particular relationship to the major elements - so that there is an interrelationship between all these elements that is impossible to see on a rectangular pattern. So the rectangular pattern does not work, and is not real - because chemistry does not organise to a rectangle - it organises according to spheres . As in atoms …
Tim mentions that Pythagoras 2,500 year ago in Greece said that when we still ourselves and meditate it was possible to ‘hear the music of the spheres.’ That the planets each have a different musical note, because each one is a different size with a different rotational speed - hence they each give off a distinct pitch or tone. So in truth - the music of the spheres.
The Circle shows the Pros and Cons of the Table of Elements
Huge areas of land in NZ are locked up because of cadmium - coming via the phosphate fertiliser - and cadmium is in the same family as mercury and zinc. That zinc as an element he says when sited on the circle is very prominent and sits very close to helping the etheric or the life processes work into the physical body. Saying we also know that zinc is a primary element that helps with fertility of plants and people. It is a primary health element. He says if you lift up the cadmium or mercury in an environment then it is going to debilitate the zinc and once this happens, it also immobilises the opposite element - which is manganese and there is an interrelationship between the two -and manganese shows up in good seed development - that for plants to fully reach the end of their life they have to have good manganese up-take - so the zinc and manganese interplay in this fertility expression.
So by upping the mercury and cadmium it knocks out the basic fertility process.
Glen says that where he is living (he has recently shifted there) that it has 10 times the amount of phosphate in the soil that it should. That it causes trouble and it affects and debilitates many of the other elements.
That farms with high levels of potassium used to balance out the phosphate in the soil results in all sorts of knock on effect and the metabolic dysfunction has cows pooping liquid feces and that is not good. For the cow is not 100% healthy and the soil and groundwater is affected too. Too much potassium is very problematic.
He said the various knock on effects are such that it is now not uncommon for farms to have 25% of cows not being able to get pregnant. The costs build up when the veterinarian has to come out every day to artificially inseminate the cows.
Regenerative Farming is very sound for Ecology and Animal Health.
Regenerative farming came up - where it is a fast growing farming practice across NZ and does not have any chemical input. Glen says that in the area he lives in around Waipukurau there are a lot of sheep and beef farms that have not been able to afford to put on chemical fertilisers (that destroy the soil) and so regenerative and biological farming is becoming a growth industry.
He said that other than some thistle sprays and some weed drenching - the beef and sheep industry are moving a lot closer to organics now.
Also covered in this interview was the amount of urea that is being put on NZ farms too.
Huge amounts of urea being used on farms.
It is common that farmers can put up to 450 kilograms of water soluble nitrogen on the paddocks per year and this had Dr Mike Joy state.
https://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/mike-joy-nz-ecological-voice-for-waterways-ecology
https://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/dr-mike-joy-the-true-story-of-new-zealands-ecological-status
That farms can run efficiently and actually do ok with only 35 kgs of soluble nitrogen per farm. He cautions too about ammonium sulphate on the soil, it kills all the worms and at that point cow dung will not break down - sitting there for months on end and that stops the grass growing …
Listen to this as Glen gives a good understanding of what happens at the back end of cows …
Farmers caught in a quandary that they have to let go of.
Hear of the dilemma around farms having shares in fertiliser companies - from which they gain a financial return, but with ‘over fertilising’ killing the soils and the micro organisms - other farmers are being impelled to move to low input biological and regenerative farming that doesn’t use these fertilisers.
OTHER subject covered:
Listen to Glen talk about the profundity of a circle To the circle on the shady side of trees, on Bach flowers remedies. It’s all very profound.
Glen talks about corruption and psychopaths that we have embedded in the economic system and it is everywhere at all levels of society. That this has to be addressed.
About bacteria that bury into rocks. That soil microorganisms, the bacteria and fungi are so important for healthy land management and a vibrant biosphere.
He mentions the NZ family company Bostock nz One of the largest organic producers of apples in the Southern hemisphere. It’s in the Hawkes Bay the area where Glen lives and he says it is a growing organic and GE Free area - but there is still a large amount of spray usage today. :(
Glen says back in the 60’s and 70s we did not have the organic knowledge and track record - but now we do. That NZ can really become a food producer of the highest organic standards and it’s a win win win for all.
Have we the will to bring about positive change? This is the question. Glen said that he is more than happy to be part of this regenerative renaissance here in NZ.
Glen is presently looking at fungal control - lime sulphur a chemical is sprayed for black spot but it curtails photosynthesis for that plant and it's still a big problem in organic fruit, like grapes and stone fruit. He is having success with powdery mildew and various fruit rot. So he is still experimenting with organic ways to bring balance into combatting different dis-eases. He is having some successes.
Glyphosate spraying is now rampant throughout NZ agriculture.
In the last few minutes of this interview I ask him why there are large paddocks in many areas of NZ that are orange in colour and stand out like proverbial - marigold fields? This is when Glen let’s go.
Farmers are spraying their crops with Monsanto’s poison - glyphosate. It’s everywhere - it is a crime against humanity and a crime against nature.
Listen to these last few moments where he and I rip into the upper reaches of the Farming organisations that allows this wanton destruction of the NZ environment. These last few moments really let out the lies and corruption that is going on in NZ that is totally sabotaging and destroying NZs already tarnished image of a clean green country. Please - make the effort to listen and then network it to friends, associates and others.
In finishing. I will have to get Glen back on radio very soon, because there were a few questions that I needed to ask him - which focus on the first 1/3 of the interview. The tying in of forces affecting humans plus, to ask him to more easily explain that ‘within a sphere you can place a cube’ and that ‘within that cube you can place a sphere’ - down - Ad infinitum - Just like the nesting Russian dolls, babushka.
http://garudabd.org/
Next Week’s Interview
Jana Dixon
Jana Dixon who was born here in Warkworth NZ, now lives in Boulder Colorado in the US. Jana is an independent researcher and author working on a variety of subjects such as natural health, permaculture, restorative ecology, the psychology of sovereignty, spiritual awakening and the design of Civilization Next.
Jana is particularly interested in the 1080 poison debacle having been a student for a couple of years at the "conventional" agricultural university "Lincoln College," in which research for the use of 1080 was conducted.
She is interested in biological pest control and favours the idea of the introduction of one of the largest animals into our NZ ecosystem as a way to control the 50 - 7 million possums in this country.
https://www.academia.edu/42322071/THE_1080_DEBACLE
The COVID lockdown has been on many levels a ‘planetary catharsis’ Greek katharsis, from kathairein ‘cleanse’, from katharos ‘pure’.
As a GP working from his home clinic he was able to assess and help patients, but fortunately did not have any with COVID:19.
NZ’ loss of life has fortunately been low at 22 deaths. Life is slowly opening up again. But, Robin is now dealing with the fall-out from the lock down.
This interview starts quietly however it was not long before it ramped up and some very potent information was shared that reminds us that we are in many ways being overtaken by technology that far exceeds our knowingness. To the degree that those whom possess it and deploy it, lack the consciousness of what they are doing.
Thus the world has changed radically. Those with existing anxieties and depression - have increased and are overwhelming. This situation has affected our physical health and immunity due to delayed treatment which also causes more anxiety.
Younger people in general have not been affected by COVID although there have been rare cases. Medical and nursing staff have been affected especially in close areas, where they are working with extremely limited social distancing.
Robin mentioned that due to the increased fear mode where we retreat into ourselves, even to child-like instincts - that this precedes the development of our rational brain that oversees everything. Our frontal lobe or cortex, can take stock of our emotions and in the face of fear we are very very vulnerable - especially if we do not have a great say in our current situation and we are locked away from being in any proactive role. That the majority of the population is very vulnerable, not so much now to the virus per see, but the control of the systems and also politics and corporations. And we are watching this unfold on a daily basis.
We are also seeing contradictions - Donald Trump not wearing a face Mask yet Dr Fauci and Dr Birx wearing masks and the latter are perceived as representing big Pharma and big Medicine. So there is this contradiction going on. Robin said it is important for peer reviewed studies among peers to get to the correct diagnosis and healing modality. We notice two days after this interview that the WHO has no interest in testing the viability of Hydroxychloroquine, because the WHO is invested with Bill Gates and his Foundation and is wanting to vaccinate the 7.7 billion humans who inhabit our planet - and to continue this for every over virus that may arise into the future.
At present there are a huge number of scientific papers coming out every day - especially in the US with contradictory statements and without complete peer reviewed processes. As a result the global public are now being exposed to a confusing amount of information - saying, wear gloves, masks and social distancing and another comes out equally - forcefully saying - that’s all wrong!
MSM Controlling the Narrative
Which Robin says is how we get the evidence and then peruse it to evolve the science - the problem we have is that MSM is presenting it in a black and white terms. They are presenting it the way - that their narrative wants to present it.’ They are not converting this information in a particular adult way and that version can not be challenged via mainstream media - they in essence control the narrative across all MSM, and that means any alternative viewpoints are not able to challenge them. Robin continues saying that they may think that they are protecting the public - but that is not the way to behave.
Professor’s Computer Model Gets It Wrong
Professor Neil Fergusson of London’s Imperial College ran a computer scenario - that freaked out the world - saying millions were going to die - basically causing the world economy to shut off and go into lock down. The result is, we will be picking up the pieces for years to come as an impact of his over estimation. But, not only that - we see people who originally were supporting the lock down, disobeying the precautions that were put in place and instead openly flaunting the so called lock-down.
So there were two scenarios - one for the ordinary people who were doing what they thought was right, whilst the authorities openly abused the situation as per the NZ Minister of Health going on a cross town jaunt to ride his bike, as a local example. Same thing happened in Britain and even Barack Obama playing golf whilst Michelle was saying on TV - stay at home!
Entitlement and the Abuse of Power
This NZ Minister doing what he wished is a classical state of ‘entitlement’. This Robin mentions is an example of narcissistic personality disorders and psychological disorders - and these people are being exposed … and people are quite rightly asking questions about this!.
Universities in Bed with Word Technology Corporations
It has also been revealed in the last two weeks that London’s Imperial College has a sponsorship deal with Huawei the giant Chinese tech and surveillance corporation to the tune of 5 million pounds and they are in collaboration with other world major offshore tech corporations. Plus, we also know that Bill Gates and his Foundation have granted Imperial College US$ 30 million as of March of this year. So we are seeing within the academic circles the state of tertiary education - basically around the world, being dependent on technology corporations. That their narrative is how we are all going to be ‘guided’ and progressed into the 4th Industrial Revolution of AI and dependent on 5G wavelength and above. etc etc.
http://www.chinabankingnews.com/2020/05/21/huawei-enters-5million-5g-ai-cloud-tie-up-with-imperial-college-london/
https://needtoknow.news/2020/05/bogus-covid-predictive-models-are-funded-by-the-bill-and-melinda-gates-foundation/ Scroll right down this post!
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being Enforced on Humanity
AI, the Internet of Things, Social credit surveillance, cashless society, mining of human energy and thoughts for cryptocurrency.
This is being done by using specific psychopathic seduction techniques.
Robin goes on to say that it’s a steady progression across multiple disciplines, platforms and modalities and areas into an artificially intelligence controlled world. This is where both the billionaires of Silicon Valley and the Chinese from a diametrically different perspective are wanting to herd the human race towards and they are now not wanting to wait for 2030.
Totalitarian Tiptoe Happening Now
The totalitarian tiptoe is now a giant leap forward that has been sprung upon us over the last few weeks.
In other words humanity unknowingly are enveloped in a controlled ‘technical fog’ and we are on the receiving end of it all - Like it or not.
He quotes Naomi Klein who in dealing with a high tech corporation in Maryland in the USA , now sees humans as being ‘bio hazards’ where as (sterile) machines are not.
This is where it is all heading - and that is ‘human-less and contactless technology.’
It has become the Time of the Machines …
He goes on to say if you talk about the Corona virus and 5G in the same breath - you are shut down!
Yet, whilst the lock down all the tech corporations have been making hay while the sun shines. Because they can still work remotely and all the systems are virtually in place - plus fibrotic cables globally - so super fast media is at their fingertips. They have 24/7 ubiquitous global connectivity.
The Battle for the Soul of our Planet is Full On.
Meanwhile the battle for the soul of our planet has ramped up. It’s a hybrid of what Biblical Prophecy is about - and instead of arsenals of armaments and nuclear missiles - it’s the invisibles - it’s about frequencies and viruses and fear - that, which can not be seen.
It’s hugely psychological too. The dark is extraordinary deceptive and it is being fought out mainly in the USA. The Deep State have also been in bed with China too. Heaps of deception everywhere. In the UK there is the 77th Brigade takeover of the UK Government.
https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/british-military-information-war-waged-their-own-population
We are in an Existential Crisis on a Global Scale.
Robin says that those who are looking deep and doing the critical thinking - the serious homework and the serious research - are being gaslighted (another psychopathic trait) as being ‘conspiracy theorists.’
You have to listen to the interview - for as an Medical Doctor, Robin’s message is - we are being railroaded by huge tech corporations that are shunting us all into a giant omnipresent frequency cloud that is global in scope and we will be relentlessly bombarded and fried by untested frequencies coming at us from not only our ordinary surroundings like 5G towers but from satellites from space as well. Not only this, but because of our reluctance to look this challenge head on we are also not being able to get out in front of the narrative.
Because MSM shuts us out. As you will notice, we will never have this discussion on TVONE - TV3 , Radio NZ or the NZ Herald - because they are all connected to ‘vested interests’ that do not feel any connection to humanity, or biota or the natural world as such. Nature in many ways has no part to play in the world of AI other than as a dead backdrop to our daily drama.
This 4th Industrial Revolution is not just based on frequencies for ‘supposedly’ bettering our life - they are based on highly focussed data connections from machine to machine. Like the Borg. See Star Trek. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borg
The human heart and aspirations are not factored into this - other than to seduce the unwary to the table and then be ensnared with this tech. Like your young ones with their flash new ‘smart’ phones.
Dr Robin say that when it comes out that these frequencies pose a danger to our children, our grandchildren and the unborn then it will be imperative that people understand - because when the human race does … it will never ever allow these wireless frequencies be deployed or used.
Calling out the Lies
But also … that all the tech industries lies that are being promulgated are not sustainable - so let’s keep going - let’s keep explaining and let’s apply the Precautionary Principle.
Governmental Double Standards?
As a result of this coronavirus we have seen enacted in the extreme - measures of closing down our country and confining us to our homes over the last two months. So why do we not apply the same precautionary principle to the ongoing increasing amounts of non ionising radiation - to a whole population in a way that is impossible to isolate ourselves from?
That the powers that be - can not have it both ways. If we have the precautionary principle for the virus - then to be consistent we have to apply this to 5G as well.
Because there are increasingly more papers coming out exposing the dangers of this technology, than there ever was for the coronavirus.
We can note that MSM media have become very quiet about Elon Musk’s super status of putting up 33,000 satellites in geostationary orbit so as to rake and microwave our planet with 5 G frequencies. That journalist and their ilk today have kowtowed to money over content as well and duck any controversial content for fear of being pushed out of the gala tent. There are very few NZ journalists who will go hard against the government in power, for fear they will never be invited to the many lavish functions that are frequently put on. Like, not wanting to be excluded from the revelry. ;)
No Journalists in NZ prepared to stand up?
Robin mentions Mike King, a NZ comedian who was fronting for the NZ Pork Board selling products made from pigs. Well, someone got to Mike and showed him the horrendous conditions that pigs were living in and being exploited here in clean green happy NZ. When he realised the slavery and inhumane way pigs were being treated he courageously said enough and resigned.
Now where is that ONE JOURNALIST in NZ who will stand up regarding 5G for instance and state that they want to produce a balanced article on the health dangers of radiation of wireless radiation - we only want one of two to do this and why is this not happening? Hello?
That virtually reality is coming. We have Siri from Apple and Samsung have Bixby…. plus Amazon has Alexa - sweet sensuous compelling voices …
Holographic Assistances.
The New York Times is working to have news readers that are holographic that will read the news (or their version of the news.) - and do exactly what is programmed in them for today. Like have the correct intonations - show empathy in the right places, smile warmly when required - the timbre of their voice, sound caring - as this becomes the new normal. That this will be the reality and we will think the news reader is real and if she is pretty enough and he handsome as well - we will eventually fall in love with them - especially as they ever so subtly flirt with us and possibly sound more and more like our best friend.
We are entering a realm where humans are to be ever so subtly lobotomised out of the equation and artificial intelligence - takes over.
And this great leap forward has happened in the last 6 weeks - due to the virus setting the stage as to how to communicate with a captured fair stricken audience.
We are going to see a radical shift in the future for humanity if Silicon Valley and AI robots have their chance to get into the driver's seat, Trans humanism - where Soul is to be superseded by machines?
This will speed up the move into trans humanism they say, by 2030. But, they want to get it happening as soon as possible - the reason being ‘they’ want a captured audience who have lost their spiritual connection to a greater reality.
That with this AI tech, that trillionaires will emerge from this - hence the race is on …that 29 people even now, have more wealth than that the bottom 3rd of our planet's population.
That Mom & Pop shops will disappear now in this post COVID phase and big tech will have its robotic warehouses filling texted orders and the shift will be monumental. It has been semi like this for 30 years plus - in some countries
Bill Gates vaccines for all 7.7 billion of us. Will we be further dumbed down with infotainment and ex-rated movies and subsidised cannabis? (Go and do you own research on DuckduckGo.com
Hydroxychloroquine - Big Pharma does not like it as it is extremely cheap, even though it has been around for decades.
Every drug has a downside and an upside.
Trump when photographed wears no mask, whilst Dr Fauci and Dr Birx have masks and because they are the face of big Pharma, pull rank on Trump, because they are doctors.
Over the last 6 weeks of this crisis, doctors in the field in the US have come out on social media telling that many people who die of other
diseases are being tested for COVID and if they find any trace of COVID are pronounced that their death was attributed to COVID, yet they may have died of a heart attack or cancer. For this they are being banned. This is a huge scandal.* This has been found out and exposed in Italy. https://www.breitbart.com/health/2020/05/27/italy-96-of-coronavirus-fatalities-had-other-chronic-illnesses/
Also the medical model in NZ have Doctors consultations last about 6 minutes - when 30 minutes is not enough. This too is a scandal.
The Human Gut and our Alimentary canal.
The Human biome - has trillions of viruses in our gut - but balance occurs - we are an ecosystem of viruses, bacteria and fungi. They all live within us and they mutate and we would not be alive without these viruses. They are part of our makeup. Listen to the story about the placenta virus - that without this virus - every mother would reject their baby.
We discussed that New York city in the US were having large losses people* Tim ventured because people are in a high rise city - there are very few gardens and thus factory and industrial food is eaten and it is often devoid of life force and vitality.
5G
Regarding 5G and its effects there are so many cofactors and we need to be looking and researching all these things. But, so many are deferring to the WHO and WHO says 5G is ok. There is even a conflict of interest with the Prime Minister's Science Adviser - Listen.
The Cashless Society
NZ, Australia and Sweden, are very close to switching to cashless. What are the ramifications? NZ youth now just don’t carry cash and use EFTPOS and this is going to have huge adverse ramifications for ‘activists or anyone who goes against the Corporate and Government narrative.’ YOUR CARD IS DECLINED. Please go to the nearest Police Station, Listen
AI - Universities in NZ Are eradicating the arts and philosophical departments, they have been cleansed of anything to do with higher mind and values. We are losing the higher arts.
Massey UnIversity here too. The classics are gone including pure science and health science as well as the biological sciences and marine biology. All these to be replaced by an AI Innovation block. Huawei are involved in this ….that NZ in the future will be AI run with the Internet of Things
Robin says we are sovereign beings - we have to become super aware ASAP
We will not be able to elect anyone to save us - as the system has all been set up - not in our favour.
The 4th Industrial Revolution however - can be cured with goodness - love and compassion - and common sense
We have to guide the machines to help us - also to not divide us … Robin says not the other way around but essentially we need a conscious awakening
They - the Tech world, are exposing their lies very early in the game - so being alert we can see their plans
Next Week. Glen Atkinson
http://garudabd.org/
His wish is to show how Living on Earth can be achieved in a friendly and cooperative manner, through working with our creations energetic organisation.
Glen Atkinson – an Artist who expresses through Astrology, Gardening, Homeopathy and Philosophy – has developed the agricultural and medical work of the turn of the century Austrian philosopher, Dr Rudolf Steiner, into a rational and secular approach of being with nature, while staying true to Dr Steiner’s energetic indications.
On 11th February 2020, he was conferred a ‘Doctor of Philosophy’ as recognition for ‘significant lifetime achievements in the field’.
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 your attention and they want it all the time.
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 that we instead are being programmed to be walking desire bodies, to become consumers that will end up … consuming our life support systems.
How can we break the spell …?
Regarding:
COVID
5G
Governmental Laws
Freeing up who we in essence - are.
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. Yet, for some unknown reason it seems no longer?
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 externally and internally and that your inner candle burns strongly in these very unsettling of times.
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 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 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.
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 GreenplanetFM.com show
Note, that as this is all voluntary, especially this write up by me, I invite you to understand that I am not a wordsmith or a radio jock, just an ordinary human being doing my best for a better world view and biosphere for all.
First:
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.
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 compromised immune systems?
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 gigantic change in perspective - like mass ‘consciousness’ readying itself for a new interpretation on life?? ‘That it is more than a revolution - but a Paradigm shift’ - to a higher level of being?
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 more debt?
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 down of the global population, and their hand held communication systems too?
Does 5G play a darker role as it is rolled out ‘under urgency’ across virtually all countries, globally?
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 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, relocalising and seeing our communities more from a grassroots and holistic standpoint.
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 us into more communion with nature’s bounty.
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 impelling us to grow into a higher level of being?
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 cosmic story?
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 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 our home planet - about four thousand kilometers away from Antarctica and a little over 2,000 kilometers from Australia. We are somewhat isolated, 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’ - 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.)
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 be seen as being ‘used as a localised experimental guinea pig in a living laboratory in a planetary wide social experiment as well’.
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.’ That this may assist us in seeing differently - the status of our planet - be it from a geopolitical perspective, or within the homeostatic bubble of the biosphere - abounding and occupied with myriads of wildlife. But, more so - seeing our planet as a colossal living superorganism, called Gaia or as Maori say, Papatuanku - and as David Icke once said to me - that our planet is a vast swirling - information field.
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.
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 field.
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 - are entering another paradigm, a new way of being - and that we are also coming to an ‘omega point’ in the evolution of our planet and civilisation. This was first advanced by Teilhard de Chardin, the evolutionary, trail blazing Catholic priest, who was ‘shunned’ by both the Pope and Rome early 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 we have realised that there is far more to our life than ‘to be born - to reproduce - and to die.’
This is important to dwell on. We are more than just following our animal instincts.
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 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 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.
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 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 of my friends and acquaintances to question what we are bequeathing our youth and our young ones of tomorrow?
Because at heart we all intuitively know that the way our industrial civilization has been intensifying and multiplying - that the consequences of profit before people and future generations would in the end have us all - going over the cliff.
We also know that we have been living excessively and totally unsustainably.
We intuitively ‘get it’ that our planet and nature can only take so much unconscious punishment.
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 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 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 the ceiling.
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 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.
The Global Lockdown
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 in our homes, flats and apartments - nationwide and in all Western countries (excepting Sweden). But, that’s another story.
The Fear that Resulted
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 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 this virus was like the plague!
So what are the consequences for our global population?
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 before we get the real numbers.
Media Influence
Meanwhile - with global communication at our fingertips and ubiquitous MSM blasting our sensibilities in all directions - (whilst also coming under increasing scrutiny) - we can yet be further more distracted by the hundreds of thousands of social media postings ‘some very conscious and mindful’ - filling our minds with data - some of it conflicting, but there is some really good information and inspiration out there. …
Time to Self Reflect
However as covid fatigue is also upon us we need to stop and reflect on - ‘why me, why here and why now?’
This to me is the time to ask ourselves - what is life all about? More later in this article.
A Global Catharsis?
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 in consumerism, and materialism … and its offshoot - planned obsolescence and pollution and that so many of us are just awash in ‘stuff’ - that includes debt and mortgages.
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 not gold.
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 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 look at renewal and regeneration of who and how we can be.
So what is it that is going to change us enough to that of a happy, joyful, caring and compassionate creative being?
Well ...There are a number of things that I intuit are important ...
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 potential and we have forgotten this.
Have we been programmed to become ‘gods of limitation?’
This is an important statement. Is our present predicament of helplessness and victimhood, due to unconsciously being programmed to become ‘gods of limitation’ 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 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 ... 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 we are a part of.
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 links us with a spiritual dimension that at soul level is integral with our relationship to the whole of existence.
This is big.
Ok - enough of the preamble …
Getting back to our day to day life, that we have been dealing quite intensely with over the last 8 or so weeks.
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 with unseen atomic radiation since Hiroshima and Fukushima and now with Covid in so many countries. But, there is also the continuing deployment of the 5G telephone system, globally - coming under the spotlight. We are truly being initiated into the Aquarian age of the unseen world.
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 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 question? Do you really know much about Nikola Tesla?
New Stringent Laws Enacted by the NZ Government
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 under urgency - to basically take control of NZers lives - like never before. This legislation gives excessive power to our Health Minister and the police: meaning ‘warrantless searches of our homes.’ Fortunately, this legislation has to be taken back to Parliament to be re enacted every 90 days - 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.
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 requires drastic action, this was one instance. There was another one in the previous John Key Government, that was based on the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) that collects and analyses intelligence. The politicians who voted against this Intelligence Bill that was pushed through ‘under urgency’ - all voted for this one over the last week. Yes, the very strange dynamics of politics.
Invasion of the COVID virus.
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 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 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 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 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 been relaxed there ever since, so I was told.
The COVID:19
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 affects the elderly more than children? Especially those with compromised immunity systems.
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 website, or specifically a corporate website - find out from numerous different sources.
Once Search Engines Were Independent
Just note that Google is not necessarily a friend of humanity and like its subsidiary, Youtube, though they have some excellent information, which Google 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 more adroit in using the web to do your research.
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 to control the narrative away from us waking up.
New Zealand’s Response to the incoming virus.
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 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 remained totally porous and passengers were not only shocked that NZ Biosecurity were MIA (missing in action) - they were ‘job smacked’ as the ‘NZ 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 the thousands that were pouring back home through the airport and fanning out into Auckland and beyond.
NZ Herald kept breaking the news!
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 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. To be frank - NZ dodged a bullet.
New Government Laws Enacted
So yes … where are we at present - as these are unprecedented times with unparalleled circumstances - and ‘our elected servants’ in Wellington, New Zealand’s capital city, have finally enacted draconian legislation without due consultation with the electorate or the learned elders other than mirror the worlds global media which is essentially 6 bloated communication corporations in the USA , with a compromised BBC from the UK. Essentially all parroting from the same shrill song book.
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 in particular for the younger generation to pay off - so be it.
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’ - 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 banks that reach on up into the pyramid of power, who actually owns this debt. Any guesses who it might be?
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 to use MSM where it helps them concentrate power further up the pyramid of power.
But, more of this later … at another time - but most ‘conscious’ people already have worked this all out.
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 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 from the Moody Blues “We are living in a world of make believe.” I will put the lyrics down below.
Re Envisioning A NEW New Zealand
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 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 that supports us with healthy food and sustenance, plus working together more as a community at the grass roots or relocalising.
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 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 the shortfall of both big business systems and essentially the degrading of our environment.
Regenerative ways of working with the Land.
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 people on how to benignly revitalise our agricultural sector which has the countries largest ecological footprint and also - value for money. This being to encourage the integration of new biological and regenerative farming methods, that are able to take the ‘chemical load’ out of the equation. 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 and Canada too. But, we still have a long way to break through critical mass.
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 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 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 door even more so to organics and biodynamics which means an even more discerning market and the proverbial win win situation.
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, 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 and the deeper secrets of the soil. It is educating them into a sacred relationship with the land that they are stewards of.
This is really big as it brings into focus the ‘circular’ economy.
Permaculture Time
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. 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 shelter belts, also water resources, gravity and trickle irrigation. Inclusive of the land, with ponds as well as swales to direct rainwater and terracing.
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 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 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 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 and that distribution networks funnel this quality food to either villages, towns and cities or ready for export. Permaculture and horticulture could 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.
Exploiting Fishing Numbers in NZ Waters.
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 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 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 us.
Are they doing a good job?
Do you know if they care?
Or are our politicians just deferring to a Department within Government?
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 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 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 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 doing the Government's work for them.
The Quality of Drinking Water.
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 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 that there is a considerable drop in intelligence. But, because it is a Chinese study Western medicine ignores it at its peril.
However, fluoridation appears to have already done its damage because our politicians in Parliament and local government have no understanding of what’s 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 fresh pure, vital water in large containers and make sure that their children drink only quality non fluoridated water, and preferably not chlorinated water either. You can purchase filtration systems - however the costs can be substantial. These were excellent interviews, but no uptake, by the NZ authorities.
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 - well, you can always be an ‘activist radio program.’... sigh ...
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 to achieve in bringing these disparate but important subjects to public attention.
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 amounts of hits ever for GreenplanetFM because it is is a very contentious topic, especially as Bill Gates wants to vaccinate you for the Covid 19 virus and every subsequent virus that follows.
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. 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 eat the ‘baits’ is incredibly horrendous, and excruciatingly cruel - it is a shock to one’s senses.
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 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 enter into the many different water systems.
Factoring Children into all Legislation that affects Their Future.
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 it’s our children and grandchildren who will be starkly affected.
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 in all Laws that are passed.’
‘This has to be Noted, prior to all Acts being passed into Law.
Back to COVID
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 around our planet.
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 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 against these viruses, by the WHO.
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 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 in New York on 9/11 and since then - humanity and society as a whole - have been on the back foot.
You will have to use the web to research what I written here.
I invite you to consider https://duckduckgo.com/ for your web searches. There will be better web browsers, however 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, plus.
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 Outbreak
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. The WHO tweet came a day before the first case to reach the United States reportedly flew from Wuhan to the state of Washington.
Then we have a Nigerian viewpoint
https://www.thenigerianvoice.com/news/287025/the-gangster-head-of-the-who.html - I encourage you to research this more.
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 of the 7.7 billion human beings, who are alive today.
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 by vaccines that come under Bill Gates’s umbrella.
https://www.uspoliticsandnews.com/why-didnt-bill-gates-vaccinate-his-own-children/
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 it was learned that vaccine champion and Microsoft founder Bill Gates refused to allow his own children to be vaccinated.
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 year (someone at the conference leaked the conversation, so the doctor himself technically did not violate doctor-patient confidentiality rules).
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 them as children.”
So please use your discretion and research further.
Robert Kennedy Jnr on Bill Gate - gives us even more concerns.
https://www.naturalblaze.com/2020/04/robert-f-kennedy-jr-responds-to-bill-gates-statements-on-a-mandatory-coronavirus-vaccine.html
RFK Jr.’s full comment follows here:
Vaccines, for Bill Gates, are a strategic philanthropy that feed his many vaccine-related businesses (including Microsoft’s ambition to control a global vac ID enterprise) and give him dictatorial control over global health policy—the spear tip of corporate neo-imperialism.
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 to experiment with the lives of lesser humans.
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) to every child before age 5. Indian doctors blame the Gates campaign for a devastating vaccine-strain polio epidemic that paralyzed 496,000 children 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 rates dropped precipitously.
In 2017, the World Health Organization reluctantly admitted that the global polio explosion is predominantly vaccine strain, meaning it is coming from Gates’ Vaccine Program. The most frightening epidemics in Congo, the Philippines, and Afghanistan are all linked to Gates’ vaccines. By 2018, ¾ of global polio cases were from Gates’ vaccines.
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. Approximately 1,200 suffered severe side effects, including autoimmune and fertility disorders. Seven died. Indian government investigations charged that Gates funded researchers committed pervasive ethical violations: pressuring vulnerable village girls into the trial, bullying parents, forging consent forms, and refusing medical care to the injured girls. The case is now in the country’s Supreme Court.
And here: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/05/vaccine-safety-program/589354/
US$4,000,000,000 has been paid out to people who have been affected by vaccines. Meanwhile MSM has remained silent on this.
Yet the answer in the short term is:
Hydroxychloroquine - Donald Trump has been taking it all the time and he never wears a face mask.
China told Costa Rica what to do:
https://qcostarica.com/hydroxychloroquine-the-drug-costa-rica-uses-successfully-to-fight-covid-19/
(China told Costa Rica 10 days before the NZ kiwi health advisers told our country to lock down.) China in bed with Costa Rica?
China knew about hydroxychloroquine.
“In Costa Rica we have been applying hydroxychloroquine since we had a meeting by teleconference with personnel in China who attended the emergency in the cities of Shanghai and Wuhan,” explained Ruiz.
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 and the director of epidemiology of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (briefly as China CDC).
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexledsom/2020/05/10/hydroxychloroquinenumber-of-prescriptions-explode-in-france/#56428ce2180f
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 began.
As reported by La Provence, 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. In the last week of March, for instance, over 10,000 people were prescribed hydroxychloroquine in Marseille alone.
So it is Now all in the Open. We have been conned
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 especially Dr Fauci whilst the whole world looks on.
We do not know who to believe anymore!
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 Blues - clearly lets us know where we are and what we need to be aware and conscious of.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhNl6wIkVs8
Lost in a Lost World
The Moody Blues
I woke today, I was crying
Lost in a lost world
So many people are dying
Lost in a lost world
Some of them are living an illusion
Bounded by the darkness of their minds
In their eyes, it's nation against nation against nation
With racial pride
Sounds...
Thinking only of themselves
They shun the light
(Shun the light)
They think they're right
(Think they're right)
Living in their empty shells
Oh, can you see their bodies thrashing?
(So many people, so many people)
Crashing down around their feet
Angry people in the street
Telling them they've had their fill
Of politics, people who kill
Grow... the seed of evolution
(So many people, so many people)
Revolution everyone
It's just another form of gun
To do again what they have done
Let all our brothers come and get some
(So many people, so many people)
Everywhere you go you see them searching
Everywhere you turn you feel the pain
Everyone is looking for the answers
Well, look again; come on, my friend
Love will find us in the end
Come on, my friend
(On, my friend)
We've got to bend
(Got to bend)
Down on our knees and say a prayer
Oh, can you see the world is pining?
(So many people, so many people)
Pining for someone who really cares enough to share his love
With all of us so we can be
An ever-loving family
Have we forgotten who loves who?
(So many people, so many people)
Children from a family tree
That's longer than a centipede
Started long ago when you and I
Were only love...
(So many people, so many people)
I woke today, I was crying
Lost in a lost world
So many people are dying
Lost in a lost world
So many people, so many people
People lost in a lost world
So many people, so many people
People lost in a lost world
Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Mike Pinder
Now for 5G
GreenplanetFM has completed many interviews on the dangers of 5G. Meanwhile the NZ Government - lockstep with the Telecommunication Corporations continues the roll out - unabated.
from https://www.nexusnewsfeed.com/article/health-healing/is-5g-a-deadly-trigger-for-the-coronavirus/
"5G Microwave Effects at 60GHz
In 2001, Shigeaki Hakusui, then president of Harmonix Corporation, explained why fifth generation wireless technology was needed to reach the goal of creating 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 decades ago.
Hakusui noted that 60GHz was the true radiofrequency that 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 point A and B, and back again on the same path. Super-efficient and a technological milestone.
“Since the presence of O2 is fairly consistent at ground level, its effect on 60GHz radio propagation is easily modeled for margin budgeting purposes. Also, the high level of attenuation from oxygen absorption makes even the worst weather-related attenuation insignificant, especially on the short paths where 60GHz systems operate,” Hakusui wrote.
He stated unequivocally that 60GHz would deliver the last mile efficiently, as the “oxygen absorption makes possible the same-frequency reuse within a very localized region of air space.”
"for every breath we breathe our blood transports oxygen throughout the core and extremities to the vital organs, heart and brain.
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 atom, form water vapor what is that frequency doing to blood cells, which consist primarily of water and carry the oxygen?
Does the disruption of the body’s biorhythm, breathing, and oxygen distribution begin to explain what happens to the people who dropped dead?
The Mt. Everest ‘Death Zone’
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], 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, who published a paper last year.
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. In another view, altitude sickness starves the brain of oxygen.
-Ends Ferratin. Iron in the red blood cells, from bone marrow. It all adds up.
So yes, there is a major health problem when it comes to 5G deployment and the oxygen absorption in the human body.
The final part of this program offers the question, how does a human being living on a planet, break out of fear and entrapment?
In so many ways we need to return to the cradle of the spirit - this is our time.
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.
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 in turn vibrates within a universal energy field.
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
Question?
Is humanity lost in a lost world? Because we know that we are definitely struggling.
Have people, especially in the Western world lost their moral compass?
Well if we spend trillions on armaments and not on citizen diplomacy it appears that way.
Is it because we are looking outside of ourselves?
Virtually all sages, mystics, etc would say turn within.
Mostly what we are seeing on TV, and video is chaos, fragmentation and dysfunction. Same for radio and newspapers.
Our children are exposed to much of this?
What images and sounds do we take to bed every night, if we are watching a continuous diet of horror, the macabre and death?
How does our subconscious deal with this ‘programming?’
By looking without - we have forgotten to look within. What do I mean by this?
Notice that fear has become so rampant - resulting in people being stressed, worried and unable to make sense of the world.
Poor sleep?
Poor health?
Poor relationships?
Poor work performance?
Yet, those with a faith seem to be far more ‘at home’ due to their belief systems.
Yet, how come the earth’s population has been gripped by fear? Why is this gnawing away inside of so many?
Well within living memory, it’s been gradually coming to this point since - essentially the end of World War II.
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 the other 4 were basically unaffected and just kept growing and in many ways unconsciously kept exploiting the situation and landmass that they were living on.
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 consumer driven countries that increasingly morphed into what we have today - neo liberal everything - having in the 60’s feminism in tandem with Flower 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 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 - through punk - to today thoroughly ‘dumbed down’ the male of the species in particular not present, but preoccupied - we are now awash in ambiguity and transgender everything and the kids distracted with gadgetary and the only thing they cling to is their mobile hand held that links them into the omnipresent ubiquitous AI - the global surveilence system watching our every move as a huge slice of society drink processed water, scoff factory and industrial food and get our fix from both risqué, videos and big pharma and piped in infotainmen, that purport to be the News.
Welcome to dystopia, where 1984 and Brave New World fuse together to purplex consensus reality.
And amidst this increasing swirl - hope for the best.
In this whirlpool of consumers consuming themselves - we have danced away from the tradition of couples, waltzing and holding each other and whispering 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 revolution hotted up and we increasingly viewed the glamour of physiques, shouting over noise, looking out for the next ‘piece’ of excitement where 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 form. And yes, there is Christianity, but also empty churches yet some revival at the fringes. (These Christian groups are keenly interested in the 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 the Swamp and the Qanon phenomenon).
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 in the smoke and mirrors that the media throw at us continuously.
“The purpose for existence is to find out the purpose for existence” - but this idea has been virtually eliminated from the human discourse.
We have been reduced to walking automatons - “garbage in and garbage out” - because we have all chosen ‘the blue pill.”
Atheism takes over via Education
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 mind, with the Hubble telescope finding no trace of heaven and doctors with high powered electron microscopes, failing to find our soul - the emptiness 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 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 of wreckage in the fast lane as we entered 2020 and NOW it’s time to refocus.
But wait, there is more!
What about the Good News?
There is a way through this ...
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 and legends that cater for the birth of existence.
These fables tell of a birth or a creation of some kind.
Be it from Babylon, Egypt, Greece, or India or the Americas and Australia - Aotearoan-Maori, there was a spiritual force that manifested existence into 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, yet each of us having an ‘essence’ or a spiritual connection to something greater.
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 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 know - this is why we have to surrender … but to what?
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 recently by Northern hemispherians namely the British who supplanted their civilization/culture over the ‘so called indignous’ culture of the Maori, 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 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 as their sustainer. Though our consumer society deadens this connection.
Now today if you talk to an established NZ elder or someone within the Government bureaucratic establishment - NZ is still recognised as ‘basically’ being a Christian country following the 2,000 year tradition that emerged out of Palestine/ Israel.
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 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 people.
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 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, 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 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 Christ, when opening Parliament.
https://www.quora.com/Is-New-Zealand-a-Christian-country?share=1
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 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, sex and other taboos among many other survival challenges.
That we have lost our connection to the source of where we spring.
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, having celebrity and fame and other sorts of surface activities.
Many would say we are lost in a lost world.
Here is the challenge.
A belief system premised on an unseen but present spiritual world intersecting and coexisting or overlighting this physical world,is said to not exist, especially to a growing percentage of people who would call themselves atheists.
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 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 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 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 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.
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However there is another way of seeing our connection to something that is greater.
An old saying - “that we are spiritual beings having an earth experience.”Is becoming relevant to more people.
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.
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 a colossal super organism - that has in turn - loaned us a body in which to live.
Our Living Planet is being belatedly seen as a gigantic super organism. The ancient Greeks called her Gaia. See Jame Lovelock
Our planet lends us a body, free air, free rainwater, and until recently a free food chain. What do we do in reciprocity?
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 gives us oxygen. Here lies the connection where we can start to revere nature once again.
In ending this I wish to talk about the soul.
The Greek word for soul is psyche
But again we have lost our connection.
A psychiatrist is a soul doctor - but you will not hear them say that.
This is why we are in many ways - Lost in a lost world.
We have lost our way.
Out of the Body or Near Death Experiences
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 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 death experiences’ and came back.
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 of nature, of traffic or of doctors frantically working to keep their heart beating are throughout libraries globally. Yet, with the 26,000 universities 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 academics and intellectuals have zero interest in this phenomenon and go out of their way to decry everything in relationship to such experiences. Arguing against the evidence that can be proved by what was recited after returning to their body or hospital bed.
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 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 - confirming that we most definitely live beyond our body.
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 seriously - we will then finally awaken to the fact that we are spiritual beings having an earth experience.
I end with a song that is over 50 years old by the Moody Blues …
‘Have you heard’ Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eYa1upM4pA
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 to come - and by then I trust the human race will have made it gracefully into the new paradigm.
Wishing you well and yes, we all will eventually be Red Pilled.
Sincerely,
Tim:)
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 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 to be a longer drawn out labour. All births are messy and there is always a lot of pain too.
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.
This warm and caring interview of Molly who herself experienced the loss of her husband to suicide after just 6 months of living NZ, helps us understand the tragedy of males in particular - taking their own precious lives. Molly Ireland
Facing the Dark
A journey into suicide
www.beyondthecourse.co.nz
Molly originally came from Alaska where it is 24/7 dark in winter and where she lived out in the tundra that in winter dropped to extremely cold temperatures below zero.
There is a lot of mental illness in dark winter latitudes. Be it in Scandinavia, Russia or Canada. Called Seasonal affective disorder (SAD).
Her husband Charlie was a talented movie editor - and after they got married moved to Los Angeles, where she realised that he had some health issues so they decided to come to NZ where life would be less hectic and because they wanted to come to ‘the land of milk and honey’.
Unfortunately, after 6 months here he took his life leaving Molly and 4 daughters to survive the best way they could. This heart breaking event took her on a path of soul searching as well as the path that she is on today, to help people who felt suicidal. Whilst at the same time bringing up her 4 girls - the oldest being 12 and the youngest being 6 year old twins.
She tells of how she then decided to open up and talk about suicide and be open and candid about it - which in secular NZ is not the norm. She says that it was by being totally honest with herself and looking it straight in the eye and say - this is what happened to my family - how can I help others? Which really launched her on a pathway to health.
This included the way she talked to her daughters about Charlie’s suicide and that people came around and supported her in her open, honest approach. She also said that she was a Catholic by upbringing - that in the Catholic world, to commit suicide was to basically go straight to hell. So there was a lot of shame involved and the challenge for a mother with 4 daughters was to face everything head on and create a new life for her and her girls. Even though there is a lot of stigma around mental illness today.
Molly talks about being vulnerable in NZ’s culture and feels that is is important that we talk out our feelings when a situation like suicide happens to us.
Like with Brene Brown in her Ted Talks - that we need to share more openly and we need to ask for help. NZers seem to not ask for help, however if they did, we as a nation would be much more aware and supportive of the mental health conditions in our country. That we are somewhat entrenched in being stoic and not communicating our needs to the large community.
NOTES:
Another important point in this whole conversation with Molly is the adage that goes back millennia but more recently to Teihard de Chardin - that says ‘we are spiritual beings having an earth experience’.
That our body is just a conduit for a higher spiritual presence.
We are all conduits, and that we have been conditioned to not understand what the meaning of being a conduit is.
That when children come into the world they are also souls - here to learn and grow into the light for their own true selves.
In her practice as a ‘wellbeing coach’ - Molly has many children come to her and around 80% of these visitors to her practice are under 20 years of age.
The necessity to instil in them that they are more than their physical body of flesh, bones and blood.
That there is an essence, that though unseen - is like our breath that too, is unseen, but though invisible is a force that keeps us alive.
That many children today are under such strain and stress - that they see life as not meaningful, and thus suffer from total loss of meaning …
In tossing out religion - but more so in our country, Christianity - ‘we have thrown the baby out with the bath water.’
There are thousands of instances of people having ‘out of the body’ to ‘near death experiences’ for us to realise that there is far more than we ever thought possible.
The fact that science has become so focussed on studying physicality - that they have not been unable to find God through the Hubble telescope or find the soul through the most powerful electron microscopes - does not mean that God or a higher presence does not exist - is that we have not calibrated our measuring devices to a high enough degree.
We have to realise we all have set backs and down times - but this is all part off our growing and learning … and that after a fall, we have to climb back on our horse and carry - on wiser from the experience. Yet, still being able to love the world and love ourselves - which is a profound character building exercise.
That in reality we have untapped inner resources that once we know how to access our true nature we can get through most things … becoming resilient and inner resourced.
Being there for your/our children and holding the (Loving) space for them to be who they are.
To be able to show up for our children in the best version of ourselves - every day.
Men and boys in particular in todays society do not have the vocal skill to express themselves. They are in need of a greater vocabulary and vernacular to express their feelings.
Your children are not broken- they are struggling - your husband is not broken - he is struggling too…
Listen and hear how Molly shares her vulnerabilities and ways in which we can all share our vulnerabilities - especially once the ‘field’ is set …
You are not a victim - listen to how Molly shares how we can empower ourselves out of this limiting mindset and social stigma.
With the highest youth suicide in the OECD - this makes NZ the land of milk and honey incongruent with its name tab.
More Governmental Attention to Empowering and Educating Youth
Molly wants to see more pockets of support beyond family and into the community and government at all levels - in health and education across the whole spectrum of what Government oversees including all institutions (prisons) as well.
Mike King’s name comes up and he is doing a brilliant job - however there needs to be far more support so that young NZers especially males do not resort to such desperate means as to take their own life - solely because they feel too ashamed or disempowered to call out for help and let people know of their plight.
This has got to change - all the hopes of Mums and Dads - dashed - because their young child who they held in their loving arms as a baby - has taken his/her life - because they had no one to relate to - this has to change - and this has to be addressed across the country - and to even be an election issue - headed - “What about our Youth?”.
This has to become a mainstream issue and a societal matter and we need to ask - what are the platforms to tackle this? That have to be in place - but are not there?
What are the structures that we need in place. Plus the importance of a nationwide conversation on this most concerning of issues.
With ‘boundaries’ becoming absent in so many homes, and ubiquitous TV violence and soft porn and titillation - what does it do to young open minds?
Children and social media - 7 hours day per day - filling themselves with irrelevant ‘stuff” that lacks wisdom and depth.
Molly asks, why can we not show the wholeness of humanity - our co-creative strength and resilience and of empowering and uplifting us all - by inspiring us to realise we are a global family with the capacity to grow together in support of each other.
We need to keep our children away from media that is terrifying and uncertain. Not left sitting in front of the 6pm news on a large TV screen.
Missing in this interview. We did not mention web sites that kids go to and music that children listen to - and the lyrics that can drive children to suicide.
Mindfulness what is it and how can we be more encompassing of other people, especially children who need to feel safe and secure?
We have also lost the ability to trust in something bigger than ourselves
Mentioned was the Labour Governments “Wellbeing Budget” - This is to be a major game changer - because the well being of NZers is to be factored onto the NZ budget.
https://www.labour.org.nz/wellbeingbudget - This is a follow on what is happening in Bhutan a small independent kingdom on the south-eastern slopes of the Himalayas.
Medically, there is no known gene for depression.
We as a community have to find community based solutions as to why are our children committing suicide. The fact that NZ is a world renown sporting country - however we need to curtail the competitiveness and have as an option that you may only want to play for fun and relaxation.
We have to have greater mindfulness as a society
We adults have to model - balance - relaxed ways to our children - however, we have to work on ourselves first - make the environment safe for children to talks and share their feelings - as well as things that hurt as well.
Sir Peter Gluckman the Science Advisor to John Key’s National Government of three terms brought up the horrendous statistics of NZ’s youth society - however both the media and NZ’s politicians, across the board did not get in and support his query as to what were the causes of this tragedy here in NZ. In speaking with a senior person for mental health - he mentioned that this subject was possibly too shameful and embarrassing for the front pages of the news.
https://www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2017/07/26/chief-science-advisor-reports-youth-suicide-news/
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11899504
An excellent interview for parents wanting to understand their children, especially if they find them withdrawn and uncommunicative.
Molly’s web site - www.beyondthecourse.co.nz
Molly Ireland
Facing the Dark
A Journey into Suicide
“We must always remind children that within them resides an inner candle. That the imperative is to keep this candle burning strongly for the whole of our life.”
It's just been published on Amazon.com.
Facing The Dark: A Journey Into Suicide by Molly Ireland
https://www.amazon.com/Facing-Dark-Journey-Into-Suicide-ebook/dp/B083VX3YJD/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=Facing+The+Dark%3A+A+Journey+into+Suicide&qid=1580338152&s=books&sr=1-2
On February 21st -28th, 2020 her kindle version of the book will go on sale on amazon.com for .99 cents (USD) and all proceeds will go to Skylight Trust, whose CEO Heather Henare wrote the foreword to my book. She is trying to spread the word about this as far and wide as she can to raise money for this amazing Wellington-based organisation. Skylight was instrumental in helping her and her four I recover from losing her husband to suicide in 2007 after immigrating to New Zealand only six months previously.
However now people will have to go to her website to support it:
www.beyondthecourse.co.nz
Long story but Amazon (apparently at the request of the NZ govt) has blocked the purchase of my kindle version as of yesterday. You can buy it if you have an IP outside if this country but not here. This is a big problem for my fundraising. It also doesn’t make sense and I’ve spent 2 days trying to get answers from both Amazon and NZ.
We will continue with GreenplanetFM repeats for the remainder of February. Thank you.
There has always been a lingering question as to why is 5G being hyped up, as the panacea for all things with communications and especially the internet of things. That they must deploy NOW as soon as possible! Why the hurry?
Claire Edwards has worked for 19 years in the UN in Austria as an editor on Drugs and Crime, anti Terrorism and especially worked on Space documents and the 'peaceful use of outer space' … which has a legal subcommittee and a scientific and technical sub committee and as a results she has a very good understanding of Space Law as well as some of the issues regarding space (which should be designated as part of the global commons).
What brought her to an in-depth understanding of 5G and its effect on human health is that in December 2015 the UN installed all along the ceilings in what is called 'public access points' in the UN International Centre in Vienna in Austria. These areas were for public use.
Radiation Exposure 'off the scale'
So she decided to take her radiation meter for measuring electromagnetic fields - and do some ‘readings' in this whole area. She visited the conference areas, where they had these 'public access' areas that were for mobile phones - cell phone access and also for wifi access. In these conference areas they tend to have very high ceilings - and she found that the radiation was not that bad, but in the corridors where most of the staff worked - as these were very narrow corridors - with metal walls and very low ceilings above all these public access points - her meter would not even measure the exposure levels there, as it was off the scale!
So she contacted all the authorities in Vienna, as well - also the UN medical service in Vienna - and also the Staff Union - and staff representatives. She said that this needs to be looked into and that they bring in the Building Biology people in to find out if these levels are safe. She spent two years chasing this up and the result was that everyone ignored her.
She says as soon as the technology was deployed she became ill (hypersensitivity) - she was ill for 7 months with flu and colds continuously. What she has found out since is that flu symptoms are nearly identical to electromagnetic radiation poisoning. Because it’s an environmental toxin.
Asking the United Nations Secretary General about 5G
She did not connect this at the time - but as soon as this technology was activated - that is when she started to suffer health affects. However as no one would do anything about it, she decided on early retirement and it was not until a year and a half later that the United Nations Secretary General made a visit to Vienna - during which he addressed the staff and she was still able to, as an ex UN employee - attend his talk.
So she addressed the Secretary General Antonio Guterres as nobody else would listen - telling him that this was extremely dangerous and that something should be done about it. https://www.takebackyourpower.net/un-staff-member-5g-is-war-on-humanity/
She was concerned for the 4,000 UN staff who work at the Centre and that were being exposed everyday for 8 hours or so. The reaction from the Secretary General was to make a joke out of this. Which Claire felt was highly inappropriate. Especially as he is an electrical engineer and a physicist. Where previously he had actually taught about telecommunications technology early in his career. So of all people, he should (would) have known what Claire was talking about. Naturally she considers this negligence in the extreme.
Meanwhile the staff in Vienna have been exposed to this for 4 years and she has heard of people who have collapsed and died, people who have had heart attacks, a phenomenal number of breast cancer cases. However, this issue is not being addressed.
So after addressing the Secretary General she wrote to the EMS Scientist Appeal of 2016 as well as well as the EU-5G Appeal of 2017 Stating that she has told the UN Secretary General of the dangers of 5G so he cannot say he doesn’t know now - because she has just told him.
What came as a result was that the professor of the EU - 5G appeal asked her to help them on the issue of Space, and she now has found herself assisting on a very committed level.
No understanding and adequate training in electromagnetic radiation.
The universal problem that is ubiquitous today is that medical staff are given no training to understand what the health consequences and effects are from electromagnetic radiation. So they simply do not know. However, people in the emerging understanding of the consequences of electromagnetic radiation - actually have a whole history that goes back to the 18th century when electricity was first generated - and she says that we know what all the symptoms are.
That electromagnetic radiation is alien to our biology - so it affects everything - it’s going to exacerbate every disease. And she said you can not basically list them.
And the medical staff do not really know - so what will happen is you turn up at a hospital and say - Doctor I am having all these nose bleeds - or all of a sudden I am having all the headaches - Dr I have something wrong with my heart. Am I having a heart attack? Dr I can’t get my breath - I can not breathe … I have pain all over my body … etc tinnitus - these are common initial symptoms.
Heart problems? So they send you to a heart specialist. Tinnitus - to a hearing specialist etc - however they do not know what is really happening. They do not see this as a “syndrome” - which is what it is. Because the medical people do not get training in it.
There are over ten thousand peer review studies - that the public do not get to hear or see.
Even though there are over 10,000 peer review studies of the effect of 5G - disseminating this information is a huge challenge. (When was the last time the NZ Herald or Radio NZ gave another side of the 5G debate?) However, Claire says that there have been over 28,000 studies - But the regulatory Agencies have been co-opted by Corporations and that guidelines have been set that are deliberately astronomically high.
For example - most of the world is using the ’so-called' safety guidelines of the International Commision on Non Ionising Radiation Protection.
It’s a Private Club
It is a little club in Germany - that under German law it’s actually a little private club. It operates under no transparency - no supervision - it appoints its own members, none of the members of the International Commision on Non Ionising Radiation Protection are medical doctors or environmentalists. These are technical people, who systematically dismiss all the science on the biological effects of electromagnetic radiation. As a result, they have set these ’so-called’ safely guidelines, so high - to give you an example.
Listen - to where in Sweden an apartment close to an antenna 10 metres away that to break the safely guidelines you would need 666,000 such antennas around this apartment in order to exceed those safety guidelines. (It’s a farce). It is like something akin to setting your speed limit for your cars when driving along the road at say a million miles an hour. You could never exceed these limits.
Also, regarding these International Commision on Non Ionising Radiation Protection 'guidelines is that a lie has been perpetrated.
Military use of microwave radiation - as weapons
The American military wanted to develop microwave radiation weapons. This is all documented. They, put together and compiled a whole series of compendia in the 1970’s and the 1980’s of all the bodies biological effects to microwave radiation - because they wanted to develop microwave weapons. We have this information, because it has been declassified and a lot of these studies came from the Soviet Union. There were thousands of studies listed.
In 1973 the World Health Organisation - which is part of the United Nations - held a symposium of which the title was
The Biologic affect and health hazards of Microwave Radiation. So this shows that there were and are biological effects.
Note that in 1976 there is a document emanating from the US military - stating - It's not desirable to have adequate public exposure limits - because this would impede the development of weapons and also impede the profit of industry. (The military Industrial complex).
Weapons Expert Barry Trower, calls this the saddest and most despicable document in history.
So this has all been suppressed (surprised?).
The International Commision on Non Ionising Radiation Protection insists that there are no biological effects and that there are only heating effects. This is what is called the ‘thermal hypothesis.’
The basis of the thermal hypothesis means that if you simply hold your phone away from your body, it cannot be heating you - and therefore you are going to be relatively safe. This is not the case because these frequencies are alien to our biology and it will interfere with our whole bodies biological system because our body functions electrically.
That exposing ourselves to microwave radiation is essentially killing our body. That is why the US military wanted to develop microwave radiation weapons - in order to kill!
Note that over the last 25 years with mobile phones and wireless technology we are now all immersed - 24/7 .
Insects and the effects of ubiquitous microwave radiation.
Insects are being affected - so what about bees? She says the phenomenon of colony collapse disorder - that the bees are dying. She states that when Marconi was doing his experiments with wireless in 1906 around 90% of the bees on the Isle of Wight died. They brought in fresh bees and they too died within a week. So this is a known.
Claire has talked with various beekeepers and they have shared many different stories. One keeper when visiting his hives had bees swarm out of the hive and attack his mobile phone, because they felt the emanations coming off the phone. Another bee keeper said that he very quickly worked out that the bees were dying when he placed his hives in between two antennas. So he actually made a map of the area where all the phone antennas were and made sure that he never sited his hives between two phone antennas.
Safety Guidelines - Incongruent?
The so called safety guidelines have been based on a 200 pound US military male - someone with a substantially sized body. With regard to the thermal affect - the smaller the body the greater the effect.
Therefore women are far more vulnerable to this. Especially children. Because children’s bodies contain more water - proportionately. Plus they have growing brains and their brains are always growing until adulthood. She mentions that a 2 minute mobile phone cal, with your phone near your ear will cause your blood brain barrier to leak. So children should never come into contact with a mobile phone. She says even computer use is detrimental, as children with their growing brains are especially vulnerable.
She states that there are reports of children in the USA who’ve been immersed in radiation who now have brains that are like senile old people.
A scientist from the US - Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT has predicted that by the year 2025 every second baby will be autistic. That the smaller the body the more susceptible it becomes. She states that effects to the foetus in utero, could occur? She talks about even small exposures causing autism and HDHD. Listen
In China, pregnant women are required to wear a protective apron to protect them from exposure to electromagnetic radiation. Plus the police even enforce the wearing of this apron.
But in the west we are never told about this exposure and remain oblivious to the consequences.
That even today some pregnant women find it convenient to use ‘their bump’ to actually put their laptop on and rest it directly above the foetus.
Bird deaths falling out of the sky. The Hague in Holland . Listen 24 or so minutes in. http://www.radiationdangers.com/5g/hundreds-of-birds-drop-dead-during-5g-experiment-in-the-hague-the-netherlands/
Coventry hospital in the UK - testing 5G for their ambulance service - and birds just dropped dead all around. https://www.sott.net/article/424669-Three-NHS-workers-die-suddenly-while-working-for-same-toxic-ambulance-trust-Could-5G-be-related
Regarding the elderly
There is a huge wave of neurological disease and death manifesting in the western world - are we entering a tipping point? She mentions the rates of dementia are escalating rapidly. Even dementia in people younger than 30 years of age. Listen.
Pacemakers could be a serious problem - especially stepping through metal detectors at airports. But, if we have ubiquitous 5G technology everywhere - what does this mean for people with pacemakers.
Satellites in geo-stationary orbit.
So with antennas every hundred metres and 53,000 satellites in geo-stationary orbit beaming down at us continuously from space - there will be no escape?
Effects on the human body
This includes replacement metal body parts - It could re radiate radiation deeper into one’s body.
Mercury amalgam fillings - could leak/
HEARING AIDS problematic serious pain in the jaw when exposed to wireless technology.
Hence the precautionary principle has to be enacted in the meantime.
We are an experiment in a microwave oven - but actually we are now an experiment with the microwave oven door being left open.
5G is to going to supersede 3G and 4G - yet we are all going to be exposed by them all as they are all still going to be used.
The accumulative effect of what all these technologies have caused over the last 20 years has yet to be measured.
Also covered is the Schumann resonance and that of the earth at 7.83 hertz - but it has changed and now oscillates higher. This needs to be researched.
Claire talks about the difference between 4G and what 5G Phased Arrays are.
She describes a directional beam that is part of this technology
Listen to this ...
That all the studies - 10,000 of them are being suppressed.
Closed In-House Research.
The Telecom industry finances its own studies and in doing so they muddy the waters … and though there are 25,000 plus universities world wide - there does not appear to be a University that is prepared to carry our ‘independent’ research. If an independent study of 5G on bees was conducted and the research was unfavourable against this new technology - the University could very well lose its funding.
https://www.webometrics.info/en/node/54
Just like the same play book as tobacco and asbestos, there is a war going on to hide the research on new products and technologies less they never get to market.
The truthful scientists can’t get published - and can also lose their tenure or and even receive threats …
Note: there is a race to deploy this technology before the public become wise to the dangers - hence the hurry.
Club of Rome
In this interview we also hear about the Club of Rome that started in 1972. It comes under the microscope with its report Limits to Growth.
“The common enemy of humanity is man.
In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All these dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome.
The real enemy then, is humanity itself."
That on a finite planet there are limits to growth especially in the extraction of natural resources and the resulting pollution, however we also hear that the findings were used to skew the evidence to find a way to halt the massive increase in population. This is where social manipulation comes in and brings us to the present day where population pressure is now being subtly manipulated. This also includes eugenics
https://www.amazon.com/Limits-growth-Project-Predicament-Mankind/dp/0876631650
The Club of Rome subsequently founded two sibling organizations, the Club of Budapest and the Club of Madrid. The former is focused on social and cultural aspects of their agenda, while the latter concentrates on the political aspects. All three of these 'Clubs' share many common members and hold joint meetings and conferences.
Club of Madrid: http://www.clubmadrid.org/who-we-are/members/
Ex NZ Prime Ministers - Helen Clark and Jenny Shipley are members.
Note that there is a push to: take power away from ‘local authorities’ and the people. This is part of the strategy to consolidate power. For example dissolve all localise Councils and bring them under a larger umbrella organisation. E.g the ‘enforced’ formation of NZ’s largest super city - that of Auckland.
To tie this all in to a more coherent understanding - there is a push by these Clubs to ‘influence consensus reality’ - however it is not being done ‘openly and transparently’.
That these organisations plus the United Nations have not come out and mentioned the ‘Precautionary Principle’ with regard to 5G is of concern to us all.
This means that we are being herded down a particular pathway - that is treating us to not being recognised as ‘souls’ in a human body - but more so, just a collectivised mass of humanity that can be told what to do - without us ever being engaged in the process of co-creating and shaping our future and the destiny of our children and grandchildren.
Finally Claire mentioned:
Is the Stop 5G Movement Being Hijacked? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JuiJtwH_uo
George Soros is involved. Where ever he puts his money - there are major problems.
The only way through this is for us here in NZ is to build up locally and take our concerns and educate our local residents and Councils as to what is happening. We have to organise locally.
“We need to do everything from a grassroots level.”
Note it is important that we do not align with stop5Ginternational.org as they have ‘another agenda running.’
This below is some information on the telecommunications situation in NZ about how 5G fits into the picture here.
First of all, to date the NZ government has ignored health concerns about 5G, seemingly preferring to take advice on health effects from a committee that includes people with telco industry connections. https://www.5g.org.nz/2019/02/27/why-is-the-minister-of-health-taking-advice-about-the-health-effects-of-5g-from-a-committee-influenced-by-people-with-ties-to-the-telecommunications-industry/
The Minister of Health and the Minister of Telecommunications refused an invitation to meet with Prof. Dariusz Leszczynski when he visited NZ late last year.
Unfortunately, the intransigence of key ministers in central government means that 5G is already operational in parts of NZ.
Vodafone has been able to launch 5G in parts of Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Queenstown. It is using a 3.5 GHz band for this. 5G has been introduced to parts of some of the smaller towns in the South Island by Spark. Spark is using a 2.6 GHz band for this and the towns are Alexandra, Westport, Clyde, Twizel, Tekapo and Hokitika.
Other than these areas, most of New Zealand remains 5G-Free.
There is a test zone in the Viaduct Basin in downtown Auckland where Spark has been (and probably still is) testing a 27 GHz band. Other than this, to the best of my knowledge, NZ does NOT have small cells producing this type of high frequency radiation.
A couple of smaller towns in the North Island have effectively fought off telco plans to build new cell phone towers and therefore helped to stymie telcos’ plans for 5G for their town. (They have done this with good community organisation and a lot of courage because in NZ, the regulations about cell phone tower placement are massively biased in favour of telcos – not communities – if you want background information it is here: https://www.5g.org.nz/2018/10/09/5g-in-nz-the-legal-and-regulatory-situation/)
In NZ we are facing a situation where telcos are generally pushing wireless communications in general, in addition to hyping 5G. Telcos are marketing wireless home phone systems to unwary consumers. (See this link: http://www.saveourlandlines.nz/news/why-it-may-not-be-such-a-good-idea-to-take-up-the-offer-of-a-wireless-landline-phone-system/) plus recently there have been a couple of reports about telcos refusing to connect customers to the copper system: http://www.saveourlandlines.nz/news/please-report-any-instances-of-telcos-refusing-to-connect-copper-landline-phone-or-internet-services/
Telcos here are also marketing “fixed wireless” internet systems even in areas where good internet is available via copper or fibre. (See: https://www.5g.org.nz/2019/07/08/if-you-dont-want-to-see-more-cell-phone-towers-in-new-zealand-dont-use-fixed-wireless-internet-services/ )
The other issue that we are facing here in NZ is that in November 2018, the government passed legislation (the Telecommunications (New Regulatory Framework) Amendment Bill) that means that access to the copper landline phone system is going to be phased out in many areas of NZ . Fibre has been installed, largely at taxpayer expense in most NZ towns and cities (the roll out of fibre is ongoing). See this link for a summary of the campaign against the Telecommunications (New Regulatory Framework) Amendment bill - http://www.saveourlandlines.nz/news/2019-update/
In practical terms, the passing of the Telecommunications (New Regulatory Framework) Amendment bill means that in order to have a hard wired internet and phone connection, most NZers will end up having fibre as their only option as most of the population lives in towns and cities. The 5G-Free NZ campaign encourages the use of hardwired phone and internet systems. See this link for details: https://www.5g.org.nz/safer-technology/
In terms of space-based 5G, there was a “consultation” in 2018 organised by Radio Spectrum Management NZ (which is a business unit of the government’s Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) and SpaceX indicated its interest in operating 5G in NZ in that consultation. See: https://www.rsm.govt.nz/projects-and-auctions/consultations/preparing-for-5g-in-new-zealand-technical-consultation/
NZ also unfortunately has a rocket launching facility on the Mahia Peninsula (the closest city to Mahia is Gisborne) where satellites are being launched including those with links to the US military/intelligence agencies.
https://thespinoff.co.nz/business/01-08-2019/spying-on-earth-rocket-labs-payloads-get-more-and-more-interesting/
https://thespinoff.co.nz/business/17-05-2019/shell-be-right-attitude-to-rocket-lab-putting-nuclear-free-nz-at-risk-experts-say
NB: I do not have any information about whether the Mahia site is being used for 5G satellite launches but this is obviously a possibility and for obvious reasons many NZers are not happy about the use of the site for launching military-linked payloads – especially given the huge grass-roots activism in the 1980s that led to NZ being a Nuclear Weapons Free Zone…
I trust this gives you a useful overview of the NZ situation.
For information about the rallies throughout NZ on the 25 January 2020 - please go to:
www.5G.org.nz
https://legasea.co.nz/
For decades he through his superb communication skills has brought together many local and seaside people across NZ to organise and come together - including Maori (mana whenua) - to advocate and campaign to ‘our' NZ government and the fishing industry for a more fairer deal for all people who love to fish. This has in many ways become a battle for the soul of New Zealand’s vast fisheries.
The Supportive Players
NZ Angling and Casting Association
NZ Underwater Association
Yachting NZ
Plus many other clubs that are not affiliated to the sport fishing council - like
The Outboard Boating Club of Auckland.
Since the time of Maori and over the last 250 years with the coming of the European the ability to catch fish off the seashore or in a small boat and bring home food for the family to eat and surplus for neighbours was just a standard neighbourly thing to do. But, Scott says that 'sharing of ones catch is a primary source of self esteem and self worth.'
Saying that this has an important part to play in our mental health as well. Of being part of a community and the sharing of goodwill.
A local Ngāpuhi friend (from Northland) calls taking a bin full of fish to his neighbours as a ‘maximum mana enhancement’ - a situation when driving home after fishing to be able to stop and knock on the door of a kuia and a kaumatua ( wise elder woman leader and wiseman elder leader) - offering them the opportunity to acknowledgement that elder in the spirit of goodwill. A fish (ika) and a gift (taonga) - Scott said he can not over emphasise this cultural importance.
Today this is continued in a very innovative and sharing way https://kaiika.co.nz and https://www.freefishheads.co.nz
This is a sharing and contribution to allow people to receive a fish head or frame that still has a lot of flesh on it, and utilise it for food and a means to not waste any part of the fish.
Called the trifecta of respect …
Respect for the animal - the fish that has given its life - respect for community and fellow man and … self respect and acknowledging that you have done the right thing.
This cooperative initiative is making headway - and over 60,000 kilograms of heads and frames have found their way to homes that want fresh protein
Scott says kudos goes to the Auckland Outdoor Boat Club for being the pilot for this to come into being and taking it seriously whilst committing significant resources to allow this to happen. https://www.obc.co.nz/
He also gives thanks to the Papatuanuku Kokiri Marae Whanau in Mangere, Auckland who’ve made many 100’s of collection trips to make this happen by distributing to families who really appreciate fish heads and need it as the health giving properties of fresh ocean fish are so beneficial.
https://kaiika.co.nz/marae-on-a-mission-reconnecting-the-community-to-healthy-food/
Educating, Learning and Knowing.
Scott says - 'you do not manage fisheries - you manage people’ and to have them better understand what’s at stake and contemplate and consider shifting their attitudes, expectations and behaviours. He says if that is the measure of success - then he feels very comfortable where LegaSea has evolved to on that side of the ledger.
Connecting with the wider community where food, health and goodwill combine together.
Scott acknowledges the leaders of the Ngāpuhi and Ngāti Whātua, Ngāti Kahu, Ngāti Kuri and Ngātiwai who have so generously shared their accumulated knowledge, their Mātauranga (can be defined as 'the knowledge, comprehension, or understanding of everything visible and invisible existing in the universe', and is often used synonymously with wisdom - over numerous generations.
They have taken Scott and friends into their houses - whare and onto their marae - meeting area - over 20 times for overnight stays and 30 to 40 times at specific hui’s or meetings.
They have taken Tauiwi – (people coming from afar) into the Maori realms or the phenomena of Manaakitanga (hospitality), Kaitiakitanga (guardianship and protection) and Rangatiratanga (often translated as 'self-determination or sovereignty). These being value systems that drive Te ao Maori (the Maori world view)
That only when one grasps the fundamentals of feeding of the visitor - to manaaki manuhiri - the obligation to take care of guests, do we deepen our understanding. ... listen
All of this effort is driven by a sense of rangitiratanga - an aspiration to lead by example based on inherited knowledge ..
Scott said he is running with this statement - because he and the LegaSea crew are totally committed to restoring abundance of fish in our seas and ensuring future generations get a fair go.
Stating emphatically - There is no conflict in abundance.
The NZ Quota Management Fishing System
Scott now turns his attention to the NZ Fish Stock Quota System that is creating total havoc within our fisheries.
And he mentions that he is hardening up the language in relationship to this kaupapa - ( topic, policy, matter for discussion, plan, purpose, scheme, proposal, agenda, subject, programme, theme, issue, initiative.)
As this present unsustainable fishing program that is overseen by the NZ Government - is leading us all in a race to the bottom.
That we in NZ have somehow or another - sold the lie to the rest of the world that we have some-how the best, world leading fisheries management system - has to be seen for what it is - a gigantic lie.
He said we are on the way to an unavoidable end game ...
Sustainable Depletion - how can we take as much as possible yet still just keep enough fish in the water until next year?
Our hapuka and bass are gone
Our trevali are decimated
Our John Dory, Gurnard and Tarakihi stocks are ridiculously over allocated and yet, unable to be caught.
Deploying Destructive Extraction Technologies
Fishing boats are using the most sophisticated technology that man can devise - with the incredible power of GPS and sonar and military technologies that have been modified and co-opted and used to catch fish by industrial bulk harvesting, indiscriminately. -
He states this is unacceptable.
Trawling technologies seining and dredging especially the trashing of the underwater environment by dragging nets and bottom trawling - scooping up all kinds of sea life. This is destroying coral and other three dimensional elemental ecological life forms growing on the sea bed - in a swath of waste and destruction across huge areas of the sea floor. (Much like how they do it is tropical rainforests with giant chains pulled between massive bulldozers, levelling everything in between).
Then the net is all pulled in and suddenly it's all over - everything is crushed - shattered - nobody is there to count or mourn the loss of mega billions of tiny little underwater creatures - never to see there life out where they are.
Property Rights
Scott says it's because the industry sees property rights is the only way to go. Enabling industry to make decisions - have ‘happy' business - small government - let the market take care of big decisions, everything will be good in the water garden - what a lot of … Listen ...
Global Commons
Tim brought up the words 'global commons' - that oceans actually are part of the global commons - owned by the people - with no one person having ownership of everything. The atmosphere is too plus Antarctica and Space.
The Legal Legasea Fightback
Scott said Legasea has come about over a number of decades - as a result of having put in high quality submissions to Government - including legal submissions to the High Court the Appeal Court and Supreme Court - where the courts agreed with them and their interpretation of the Law. Listen
Legasea’s aim: To take the rights of the sea first and not property rights that the fishing industry covets.
And no matter what Scott and the small guys did to share the abundance and bounty of the ocean - they came up against the same obstacle - this intransigent monopolist, industrial fishing machine.
A hand full of families - that have been granted at no charge the property rights - the quota from back in 1986 - (during the Rogernomics experiment) and more recently Mana whenua - Listen
Within NZ vast fishery area - the 4th largest on earth are over 600 different fisheries spanning 90 plus species - many that are never seen as they are deep water varieties.
He states that under the present regime that property rights are failing globally - so Legasea have developed an alternative system called 'rescue fish.’
He believes that this system has the certainty of rebuilding abundance, creating a healthy inshore commercial fishing fleet, whanau (family) businesses small scale - ‘know your fisherman’ This is going to be the ‘catch cry' - he says you have read it here first.
Know your fisherman - know how that fisherman goes about catching that fish, where, how etc - know what regulations that he must fulfil and then buy that fish of them - and set up a relationship.
It also means that there will be a debt to the government as we will have to buy our own fish back - to buy out of this unfair 'quota management system.' Listen
He also talks to Manuwhenua - and to get them in a far stronger and equitable situation - again - back to the Treaty of Waitangi https://teara.govt.nz/en/treaty-of-waitangi/page-1 - and build up some goodwill. At the very least give them the real rangatiratanga that they never secured under the existing settlement arrangement. Listen
Also Scott talks about having a 50% biomass of fish - this translates to there is always 50% of the fish of every species in the ocean. Present fishing systems are leaving a far lower % of fish in the water hence it is totally non sustainable leading to eventual collapse - Listen
Rahui, Rahui, Rahui,To put in place a temporary ritual prohibition, closed season, ban, reserve - traditionally a rāhui can be placed on an area, resource or stretch of water as a conservation measure.
Working Alongside MaoriScott talks of the privilege of staying at a Marae in Waimate North in the Bay of Islands where Ngapuhi are going to do fish management in a far more holistic way - around sharing the abundance … Listen.
To re-emphasise The quota management system - has failed us - having been based on property rights - that NZ was the first country on earth to do this and it is a failing system for 99% of the country and the people.
By definition it was an experiment - where the corporates ‘cleaned up!
The quota management system is owned by a dozen entities - who are monopolists and they are maximising the ownership and access rights.
(Tim here - Sadly far to much to write up - you will have to listen - astonishing stuff).
Scott tells about the infamous 1990 amendment where no select committee, no proper democratic process through Parliament - very dodgy MP Doug Kidd of the National Party said that the Legislation was a disgrace for Democracy …
Quotas today - they are paying over a million dollars a tonne for the right to harvest 1000 kilos of crayfish per annum.
Now there is also the conflict due to the falling of numbers of Maui dolphin and nets been used and it is really sad and messy - Listen. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1518731841601174/?fref=nf
Plus the weird marriage with the WWF with Stanfords and Moana fisheries - with a rescue plan based on more snapper quota …
https://www.worldwildlife.org
Start AnewWe have to start all over again.
He says delete ‘quotas’ and go back to square one and a blank piece of paper and start again - ask what do we as a society really want?
He says we want responsible people catching fish with a maximum respect - treating every fish in order to achieve maximum value - no more dumping over the side, no more discarding because it was the wrong fish as required by the quota - we want to see fisherman proud of the cameras on board to record the harvest - as well as around the ‘restraints' because its is all about goodwill. Listen
Legacy wanting significant resourcing in the people - simple kaupapa (policy, matter for discussion, plan, purpose, scheme, proposal, agenda, subject, programme, theme, issue, initiative.)
no profit in this - just restored abundance and a fair go for future generations
Controlling the GameAbout 10 families for over 50 years they have been plundering the fishery, at no charge, no resource rental, they are given 400,000 tonnes of fish a year from the NZ commons - there is no resource rentals,
They pay a minimal cost recovery levy and for research that tilts the data more in their favour to take more fish as against reducing the take.
Note: Having industry pay for their own research is always slanted in industries favour e.g Genetic modified foods, glyphosate and 5G wireless - so that it has to be always mandated to have ‘independent research.’
He encourages us all to join Legacy so as to support the ordinary fisher folk against the might of big money of the fishing cartel.
Finally - join a club - any club - this is where you can meet people from other walks of life and learn more about society and of the various strands that connect across a broad swathe of the community and society as a whole. Become more knowing.
If you are really capable - join a committee and work for the benefit of a greater organisation or greater whole.
There are very few people in NZ if any who have such a command of communication and knowledge of fishing stocks than Scott Macindoe.
This superb interview of him gives you faith in the future of this country.
https://legasea.co.nz/
This is it until next year, where 2020 vision offers us the opportunity to re-envision where we as a human species - can create and shape a future. A conscious future that benefits all biota and children and grandchildren of tomorrow. This is what we hold dear to ourselves.
Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from us all at GreenplanetFM.com in Auckland - tucked away around the curve in the South West Pacific in Aotearoa New Zealand - just 4 and a half hours from Antarctica, the vast ‘global commons’ that no country or person owns.
Kia kaha and Aroha.
This easy going, insightful interview of Will, elicits a feeling of knowing that throughout his life experience he has covered, 'both the map and the territory' and having published his remarkable book 'Now or Never' reminds one of Buckminster Fuller - that Will is committed to being a ‘catalytic educator and membrane extender.’
So having evolved out of the flower power generation of the 1960's I ask Will about the town he lives in - Ashland in Oregon that has a general population of about 22,000 people.
A Conscious Community Oriented City.
The reason why Will ended up in Ashland was that 17 years ago he was sitting in a hot tub at the local YMCA and overheard a conversation between some others 'soaking up' that was expanding on quantum physics. He said he learnt so much about the nature of reality in that short 10 minutes he said to himself - this is the town for me.
He says that there are so many people there who are immersed in the study of consciousness - and the network of 'conscious' people never ceases to astound him. That there are many teachers of so many 'disciplines' as well as holistic health professionals - retired diplomats and that there are numerous people who could become very famous, but prefer to remain quietly silent, and just do life, integrating into and being in community.
Many renown authors like, Neil Donald Walsh, (Conversations with God) Gary Zukov (The Seat of the Soul) and Jean Huston (The Search for the Beloved) - live there. That the town has a huge organic food-op that has over 20,000 members - that there are more members than people in the town ... that they are innovative and in the world of today - these people are aware - and as a community they are deeply concerned about the state of the world - they are active as well as 'participate in the community' and at the same time work to bring joy into their lives - other than despair ...
Not only that, Oregon, in which Ashland is situated, is the only state in the US that has a deposit on soft drink bottles and cans ... and Ashland's Police Cars have an insignia on the side stating 'Peace Officer' - not Police Officer - this is very recent ... a rebranding - actually Will says that the Police Chief could easily be at home listening to our conversation and would without doubt keep up with this discussion ... as well as 'contribute a lot to it' - saying that he is a wonderful man.
They have a citizens group that are very active around any abuse or violence in the area - and that do not have much ... there is a lot of attention being put on the homeless issue and poverty. They are a very proactive community and there are people who are retired who have a good amount of money - including giving and a lot of philanthropy and receive a lot of social support within the community.
In many ways Ashland is a 'microcosm' of how we would like it to be in the world.
A view of what is happening across America today.
I asked about the larger story of what's happening across the USA - he said what we are seeing now is the full extent of what is happening behind the scenes - invisibly. It is now out in the open - saying it's not as if corruption has just started - and dishonesty in high places ... manipulation, deceit and lies and all we are seeing - is so obviously out in the open ... that this has been going-on for decades ... and even though a lot of Americans are embarrassed, disgusted, alarmed with what has been happening - they are also grateful that it has now come out in the open where they can now see it and now perhaps have a chance to deal with it.
He said that he had been to a concert that day - and a musical piece had lyrics that were grappling with the turmoil of the world. These rang so clearly to him when they san - "a mind at peace with all below ..."
"a mind at peace with all below ..."
He then said that it's not sanctioning denial - he said that he keeps up with the news and has various sources that he studies every day ... he feels that there is a skill to develop and be able to witness what is going on - and then develop our own activism to help - without having a disturbed mind ...
The Quantum World and how it plays out in our daily life.
Regarding Wills insights into the quantum world - it is really about exploring energy - Listen - sorry - regrettably I do not have time to write this all up.
The observer effect - that at a sub-atomic level - if you are observing a situation - your are also affecting it - listen ... so what you look at - you will influence what you see ....
Also covered is - spiritual bypass and especially anger and rage .... Listen - very illuminating ...
Covering Barbara Marx Hubbard and her statement that today - 'we humans are in the birth canal to another reality or paradigm' ... to find that Will had lived in the same house as Barbara for a year and of the inner growth that took place during this time ... That she was an important world teacher around so many aspects relating to life.
Will talks about our shadow - and the darker side of our nature that has us saying and doing certain things in our life that in so many ways is incongruent with who at heart we truly are ... Listen
He talks about Ursula Le Guin - author of the Earthsea chronicles ... gist ...being frightened and always running from the darkness of our own shadow - and then stopping and taking a courageous stand and facing it. (I won't tell you what happens :))
Covering Anima Munde Latin for - World Soul - we are all connected - Namaste the Hindu greeting - ‘I honour the light behind your eyes - I honour the God (Atman) within you.’
What is the saying - ‘I know where you are coming from’ ... what does that correlate to?
I sense that where you are coming from is basically - in essence ...
Question can we stop what we are doing partly through our day - at any random time and ask the question - ‘how much love do we have for ourselves and the universe/divine as of this moment?’
Can we discipline ourselves to not be caught up in the daily drama of our existence and separate ourselves momentarily and see that we truly are connected to a greater realm that is eternal and that we can be 'present' with?
A recent poll in the USA found that 50% of the people who were polled did not have anyone to confide in. Will found this information heartbreaking. How have we come to this?
He further stated that we, he and I (Tim) were indeed very fortunate that we are surrounded by networks of people whom we could seek solace and share love with, of whatever is concerning us. This is very important.
We have to get back to being 'a human being' and not human doing ...
Will also talks about time travel - and that we are becoming time travellers - being present and then travel in the quantum field. listen
Within the quantum field - Will talks to dreams and the dream field and synchronicities ...
That our reality could actually be a dream just a different type of dream ....
That we are exploring a mystery or even 'the great mystery'
That ultimately Life is a mystery ...
Though a teacher, Will states that he never sees himself as an expert - all he wants to do is draw out the genius that is within all students.
"The purpose of existence is to find out the purpose for existence ..." - comes up as a question that we need to be aware of through out our life.
What is required is 'to culture a field that inspires the genius to come out in everyone who is there ...'
To be able to listen
To be very good listeners - Will talks to this - we have to be able to listen and show our intent to learn from the young ones.
"Noon day club" - pausing every day at noon for a short prayer or a mini meditation.
Will encourages us to set our smart phone alarm at 12 noon to give us a friendly reminder to remember who we are and that to give thanks and for-want of a better word, offer a blessing to the world.
This idea has been around for a while - but is has somewhat tapered off and Will is resurrecting it again as a centering mechanism or a homing ...
He said more and more people are setting there smart phones for noon and when the alarm goes off - are taking time out to refocus ...
Some people have a little declaration.
Wills is - "This is the moment - something wonderful is happening - I am creating the future with love ..."
He says this silently to himself, however if he is with someone and if they are willing - he says it out loud.
It is just to share a few moments of silence together and to feel ones energy broadcasting into mass consciousness.
Wills intention is to have millions of people to do this at noon every day around our planet in every time zone when the sun is at its zenith.
So that we get a pulsation of energy ...
And Will feels confident this can make a difference.
We all need to slow down to the speed of life - Life is not frantic ...
Simply slow down and enjoy being alive ...
And remember 12 noon ...
Thus was a wonderful relaxed interplay. Will is a very easy to relate to having a vast life experience of teaching, writing and conversing with people from all walks of life. Being gregarious and amenable - he is committed to our world, its people and especially the children of today and tomorrow.
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Know that Love makes life worthwhile.
Imagine a life without love. Sadly, so many people feel a despairing lack of love, even some who are successful and surrounded by friends. Over 50% of Americans report they have no one they can confide in. 25% live alone. An epidemic of loneliness is sweeping the world, spiking suicide rates.
What can we do about that?
We can discover and begin using a secret weapon that we already possess. “Weapon,” of course, is the wrong word. Let’s call it a secret super power. I won’t make you wade through twenty torturous paragraphs before I reveal what it is (while trying to sell you something along the way … don’t you loathe that website technique?).
We can express love.
This is a massive subject and will be the topic of an ongoing series of articles I’ll pen over the remaining weeks of 2019. You’ll receive them as part of your free subscription to The Noon Club. My objective? To educate you in what I’ve come to believe is the most effective technique for bringing deep, positive change into the world, benefiting ourselves in the process.
Education is one thing, application is another. As you read, you’ll also be experiencing the three-phase learning process I’ve discovered for translating new understanding into new action. Ultimately, unless we act on what we learn we’re just swelling our heads.
So, how can we help those who desperately want more love in their lives? This brings us to our first lesson in love and from this point forward I’ll use the “you” voice because I want this to be a real conversation between us, rather than a theoretical discussion about a vague “we.” So, pour yourself a cup of tea, settle back in your chair, and enjoy this deep dive for the next 5 minutes or so.
http://www.willtwilkinson.com/blog/join-the-noon-club
https://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/will-wilkinson-are-you-ready-to-act-and-be-the-change-you-wish-to-see-in-the-world
https://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/will-wilkinson-its-now-or-never-for-a-planet-in-crisis-we-need-to-activate-local-heroes-like-us
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 of slavery being used. The amount of money comes to about $150b.
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 to use the word ’trafficking’.
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 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 her congregational leader to be the NZ liaison person - to collaborate with people within the umbrella group - internationally. Where they use the latest technology available, including Skype to all connect up, and share resources and strategies.
Slavery has been present for Millenia 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’ 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 people in the time of Jesus lived in the Roman Empire that depended entirely on slavery.
Which she states is a hidden evil that is dominating our world today. In New Zealand
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 local people to raise awareness of anyone that they may think is being entrapped by certain business or working conditions.
https://movementonline.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Tip-of-the-Iceberg-conference-report-2017.pdf
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 (a Diocese of Wellington deacon for social justice) was very much behind it as well.
https://www.anglicantaonga.org.nz/news/common_life/trafficking_aware
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 Michael Woodhouse and he was very supportive of the whole proceedings. It brought together NGO’s - non Governmental organisations, the NZ Police and she said there were an impressive number of people there. Many of them working at the grass roots.
Food Growers Association, Faith groups - from the Catholic Church and the Salvation Army including Andrew Wallis CEO of the Anti Slavery organisation - 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 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 where Britain is currently at.
https://www.unseenuk.org/
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 know the three levels where their goods come from.
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 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 was strongly focused on at the conference - especially by the NZ police.
If any person is ‘brought’ into NZ and is suspected of being involved in human slavery - first communications has to go through the Immigration Department (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 as, in the UK - it comes immediately under the Crimes Act.
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.
2016 was the First Conviction for Slavery in NZ 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.)
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 entrap them to become enslaved. See below link.
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 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 to rapid enforcement and justice.
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 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.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/84262716/faroz-ali-found-guilty-of-human-trafficking
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 and we need to know this.
Here is a list that covers points like:
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.
Or if they are escorted to and from work and they state that they are working everyday and for long hours.
If they do not know where they live or are fearful of giving the address.
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 there signs of self harm and they seem starved.
Finally if the are young people and are absent from school.
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 notice and kindly offered to ask to help and assist - those 16 Fijians could still be enslaved today.
[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.]
Other talking points: 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 more creative … traffickers are organised - we have to be more organised … traffickers have smart systems so we have to have better ones. Traffickers disempower people - we have to empower people. Traffickers try to make people invisible - we have to make them visible. Traffickers work across borders - we must work better across borders. Traffickers do more for less - we have to do more for less.
https://beslaveryfree.com/australianfashionforum
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 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.
Kathleen mentions the documentary film Blue Jeans about workers in sweatshop conditions and terrible pay and long hours - where she mentions that NZ clothing firms have now closed and taken the business offshore to Asia. With the same ‘old reason’ - that it is un economic to run a business in NZ. Hence sweatshops produce cheap goods.
Keeping the word ‘Slavery’ in the public consciousness 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 industry and that the vast majority of others say 25% are children are slaves being under 18 and the rest are labour slaves.
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. 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 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’ 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 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.
Also mentioned Kevin Bales a very courageous advocate - Free the slaves - blood and earth - uncovers many dreadful situations around our planet - smart phones = mining rare earth minerals especially in the Congo.
https://www.freetheslaves.net/ He links the exploitation of the poor people to the exploitation of the earth.
Kathleen said with regards to paedaphile networks and sex traffic or organ harvesting etc - this was outside her field of expertise.
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 applying for modelling careers outside of Eastern Europe and then once away from their own country are kidnapped and pushed into prostitution etc.
Finally Tim mentioned the Executive Order signed on the 21st December 2017 by Donald Trump.
Executive Order Blocking the Property of Persons Involved in Serious Human Rights Abuse or Corruption
Law & Justice
Issued on: December 21, 2017
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 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 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 3, United States Code,
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 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, have reached such scope and gravity that they threaten the stability of international political and economic systems. Human rights abuse and corruption undermine the values that form an essential foundation of stable, secure, and functioning societies; have devastating impacts on individuals; weaken democratic institutions; degrade the rule of law; perpetuate violent conflicts; facilitate the activities of dangerous persons; and undermine economic markets. The United States seeks to impose tangible and significant consequences on those who commit serious human rights abuse or engage in corruption, as well as to protect the financial system of the United States from abuse by these same persons.
I therefore determine that serious human rights abuse and corruption around the world constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States, and I hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-blocking-property-persons-involved-serious-human-rights-abuse-corruption/
He says, “In my lectures I will present the current scientific knowledge as well as the current lack of scientific research on the biological and health effects of the 5G millimeter-waves. I will also present the evidence, and the reasoning, for the invocation of the Precautionary Principle and for the temporary moratorium on 5G deployment, while awaiting for the much needed scientific research on millimeter-waves.”
Dr. Dariusz Leszczynski, PhD, DSc is Adjunct Professor of Biochemistry, Division of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Finland.
He says: “I am scientist with keen interest in molecular biology research, or work as an expert/consultant, or as journal/book editor. Thanks to my age and working in universities around the world, I have a very broad experience in scientific research, in science publishing and in dissemination of scientific information to expert and lay-person audiences.”
Dr. Leszczynski, who researches non-ionizing radiation, emphasizes that, “there is a continuous talk about assuring that the 5G maintains low levels of EMF exposure. However, there is not sufficient scientific research to show that low levels assure no health effects in short- and long-term exposures (acute and chronic exposures). It seems that the telecom industry assumes that their low level exposures will not cause- ever -any health effects and the telecom industry forcefully imposes this scientifically unsupported assumption on others, especially governmental decision-makers.”
Rd. Leszczynski says there is an urgent need to start research studies examining effects of millimeter-waves on human health. However, there is a strong resistance from the telecom industry and from the decision-makers to start new research programs. The International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP), and the telecom industry, strongly propagate the idea that the low power of EMF emissions from the 5G devices will guarantee that human health will not be affected.
However, the same assurances were made in the 70’s when the first generation of cell phones was commercialized, followed by the unlimited spread of the 2G, 3G and 4G devices – as long as the device emits radiation within the ICNIRP guidelines it is considered as safe, which is not necessarily the case as shown by a number of research studies. As a direct consequence of the scientific research, in 2011 the International Agency for Research on Cancer classified radiation emitted by the cell phones and cell towers as a possible human carcinogen. This classification appears to be strengthened by the new research studies on 3G and 4G-emitted EMF published after 2011. However, what the biomedical research on millimeter-waves, performed in the future, will show is a complete enigma.
Why hasn’t the media taken this up and warned us all? Dr. Leszczynski explained that in many cases new outlets rely on Telecom businesses to advertise with them and so it could be a financial hit if they spoke out against these companies. He also explained that the media is reluctant to be seen as scaremongering and looking like tin foil hat wearers. The same probably goes for universities and tertiary institutions relative silence on this.
I asked the professor what the difference between 4G and 5G were. He explained that 5g builds on 4G but then includes millimetre waves that are much shorter and higher energy waves. While they can carry more information, their range is less and they are easily blocked by buildings and trees etc, therefore requiring more transmitters at closer proximity.
I asked about the effect on trees and it appears to be inconclusive, but certainly it is possible that trees could suffer damage from the energy from cell phone towers.
Again not enough experiments have been carried out and we rely on anecdotal evidence.
It is the same with bees. Dr. Leszczynski said there was a study done in Belgium that showed that the millimetre waves caused increased temperatures in bees, which could cause problems with bee behaviour, such as losing the way back to their hives, but there needs to be more study.
No matter what the future research will show, 5G technology will be by then fully deployed and without any possibility of reverse because the whole future life of humanity will be based and dependent on the functioning of the 5G radiation-emitting devices. He says, “This is a unique situation in the history of the human kind when the whole human population will be exposed to man-made devices emitting non-ionizing radiation that was insufficiently tested before deployment. What is and what will be the responsibility of the scientists, decision-makers and industry leaders who permit deployment of insufficiently tested technology that will affect us all? The answer is simple – no responsibility … because if any health problems will show up in the future, these will most likely take tens of years of time to manifest and, by then the persons that currently enable deployment of insufficiently tested radiation-emitting 5G technology will be retired or the proverbial “six feet under”.”
What would Dr. Leszcynski say to the government?
*The IARC classification of RF-EMF as possible carcinogen is sufficient to trigger consideration of the Precautionary Principle.
*Recommendations concerning RF-EMF and health effects should be based on science. However, many committees (SCENIHR, ICNIRP, WHO, HPA, SSI) simply disregard evidence of effects from epidemiological case-control studies and animal studies and say that the effects are not seen in scientific studies. Such statements disregard the evidence at hand.
*General public, decision makers and scientists at large have no idea what are the “criteria” used by these committees to dismiss the positive studies because, description of these “criteria”, is not provided.
What would Dr. Leszcynski advise the government to do?
The Precautionary Principle should be used for RF-EMF and should include, among others:
*Stop saying that there are no established non-thermal effect - if cancer risk increases in epidemiological studies it indicates that non-thermal effects happen.
*Strengthen the safety standards; change them to reflect the current scientific evidence, showing the possibility of health effects.
*Protect the children – applies to cell phone use; not so much cell towers.
*Develop better technologies that emit less radiation. Reduce exposures of general population by making health agencies to advise people to do so.
Many of the concerns of NZ youth in their 14 to 15th years is all to do with ‘image and likes’ – it all involves smartphones and messaging and being and staying relevant within their peer group.
Notes from this important interview:
This was a real insight for me as a person in their 70’s.
Here is the gist.
Just living for the present is essentially where they are at. Nature and whales for example - are not really an issue.
He says that global warming is on the radar but not that big as yet – Greta Thunberg is not yet big - though some of the young girls have started to put out a ‘care’ on their smartphones as to sort of – look relevant - not so much with the boys – but some have … He also mentions that some will ‘put out’ that they care – but actually they will not take any action. So if there is a ‘viral concern’ this would be it.
As for the future – that’s still a way off – it’s essentially having fun and it's girls, guys and partying - and then there is school and academic studies.
Stating that when they hit 25 years of age - they may have another look at what’s up and what is important.
Relationships between guys and gals – he says after a long in-breath – are not good. He puts it down to social media – texting to each other – there is not a lot of communication that is grounded in a good vocabulary – how?
He says we should not blame social media – it’s how we are using it (all the time) that it has changed lives and promotes things – but he says other things have festered out of it – and there are pros and cons – and as a result of social media - relationships are quite messy.
Jesse says he is in a relationship and dating a gal, and he is not into texting to her. He wants to talk with her, see her expressions on her face, the tonalities of her voice - as well as body actions – and he says you just can’t get this out of text.
Sex between the younger generation – is in his words - messy.
The girls in many ways to remain relevant – it is all about relevancy – and many may succumb to exposing themselves. So texts and photos that are intimate are often unscrupulously passed around - and this sort of thing comes back as a vengeance and many embarrassing situations occur. It’s a lose-lose situation – but to be relevant– it continues to happen.
Covering sex, pregnancy and abortion … Suicide - listen
Instagram – now does not show likes on posts … to stop people comparing themselves with other people's ‘likes’ this is to curtail negative feelings and even suicide – such is the need for many of the youth to compare themselves with others - but they are still ‘worried’ about getting the most likes …
Most of the youth are on Instagram and snap chat plus the new one coming up called tick tock – it’s a 'lip synching' app. He said some youth are still on FB but not as much as the others.
When asked if the younger generation feel fortunate – especially to be living in NZ – and the answer is that in most cases the youth of today are so caught up in their life with its drama, frustrations and challenges that they do not see themselves as being fortunate. Even though NZ has so much physical beauty, as well as freedom of speech that a lot of other countries don’t have. NZ is a fairly peaceful country too. A majority healthy country !! Youth are so fortunate here - but they do not take time to realise it.
When asked about God for today's young teens – to admit to God – it is considered and embarrassment – listen to this …
Karma – he personally believes in this – that good things and good vibes generate good things and good vibes … but, it is not prevalent as a word in the daily narrative of present day youth. He himself does good by just doing life with no expectation that he is going to receive some wonderful good karmic event – he is just basically doing life and doing it without any expectation ...
Baby boomers – he is not hard on them – as he sees his generations as not doing a lot as well.
5G tech – that the baby boomers are concerned about but what of the youth of today who are wedded to 4 G? What is youths take on 5G? Essentially unaware of the health risks etc. However he himself is very aware of what these new technologies can cause.
Rubbish on the footpath and rubbish on the beach – Jesse – picks it up. Is happy to be a role model. But, this too is not an issue.
Covering transgender issues – especially males entering females races and weight lifting and winning is this fair? – the challenge around transgender toilets – listen
Parent's – how he is very close to his parents and love is warmly expressed. They love each other. When asked about his friends relationships with their parents, he said that there is a lot of difficulty at that level. However, he gets on really well with all his friends parents.
Communication skills need to be taught especially around being able to coherently express oneself. Verbal skills he says are very important. That it is imperative for good communication - as far too many people are being caught up in the minutiae of millennial problems. Alcohol is a huge problem – not weed.
I came away from this interview basically very concerned about the focus of today’s teenage youth. It's as if a huge manifested bubble based on a construct of social media habits perpetuates itself to compel youth to think that having a new smartphone and texting each other is all that is relevant.
This is where we as a country need to address the concerns of our young ones and this has to be led from both the grass roots and from leadership at the very top of our country.
Cannabidiol (CBD) is non intoxicating and is safe to use, yet it is heavily regulated, unnecessarily expensive, and there is much prejudice from lack of knowledge about this product.
How it can become more easily accessible in New Zealand may be centred around whether it ends up becoming regulated as a food or as a medicine, and the results of the upcoming referendum.
In this informative interview, Tadhg speaks in depth about this, the history of cannabis, the extensive uses of hemp, and medical cannabis.
Tadhg asks:
Are you concerned about the state of the world? I am.
Lord Rutherford, (atom splitter), said that "we don't have money, so we have to think". It's time that we did that, because the status quo is failing. So, what do we need, and how do we get it?
A wealthy society needs good food, fibre/chemical feedstock, and medicine.
Imagine getting all of that from one plant, and it all being of the best quality.
That's the kind of crop we need in a climate changing world, a sustainable competitor to the petro-chemical and pharmaceutical industries.
Its curious to note, that despite Hemp offering us these gifts, it is that rare thing; a prohibited plant.
In NZ and much of the world, hemp is only able to be grown under strict conditions, and farmers usually struggle against hostile bureaucrats. In Canada, for example, farmers were prevented from selling fifty two billion dollars worth of hemp products over the last twenty years. The same practices exist here in NZ.
But Hemp is so useful, that it was a crime not to grow it in both Britain and the USA. In fact, you could even pay US taxes in hemp. Hemp was as good as gold, and used to make everything from dollar bills to the US Declaration of Independence (both Washington and Jefferson were Hemp farmers).
Hemp clothes are tougher and more breathable than cotton, and anti-bacterial too. (Hemp does not require the water and pesticides of cotton either).
Hemp makes breathable fireproof building materials, superconductors, plastics, fuels, and produces four times the cellulose of pine in only six months.
Hemp nut foods are better than anything else nutritionally. 30% digestible protein, all Omegas (3, 6, 9) and aminos, with Calcium, Magnesium and other essential elements in unusually generous quantities.
Most Renaissance painting was done on hemp, and with hemp paint. empen paints, hemp plastics, hemp medicines, the basis of Imperial power for millennia, and then imagine it being prohibited on the irrational grounds that hemp is a dangerous narcotic that causes interracial rape and murder.
The removal of this premier sustainable product left world markets open for the petro-chemical and pharmaceutical industries.
Despite written records of its medicinal use dating back 4,750 years, (including fifty years where it was a major European/US medicine), the modern medical system seems strangely opposed to the notion of hemp medicine.
This is especially curious given that hemp is full of 'our bodies own medicine'.
To clarify, Hemp contains molecules called 'cannabinoids', and so do we.
In our body we make 'endocannabinoids' (endo means 'inside').
We are cellular beings, and for six hundred million years these molecules have been natures standard means for information exchange at the cellular level.
They are 'signalling metabolites', like essential little e-mails inside us.
Without them, we cannot maintain normal function/health. Without them, we die.
That's why hemp is connected with a ludicrous array of therapeutic effects. Not because it's a magic hippy thing, but because the plant contains analogues of the molecules we make and need to maintain 'homeostasis', or balance/normal function.
So when we use hemp properly, as a food, we are supporting our bodies ability to maintain its own health through our cannabinoid system of G-Protein Coupled Receptors.
Its interesting to note that GPCRs are 'highly responsive to nutrition', that medical schools do not teach nutrition, and that medical schools do not teach about GPCRs-despite them being our mechanism of health regulation and protection.
'Medical cannabis' is a bit of a swindle, because all we really need to improve health outcomes is to return hemp to the food web and markets.
You can see the impact non-advertised legal hemp flower has had on medicine sales in Italy here
https://www.york.ac.uk/media/economics/documents/hedg/workingpapers/1907.pdf
Italian medicine sales are down everywhere, and by 11% in some categories.
This is why. Here are seven of the 140+ plant cannabinoids, and their proven effects.
Niccolo Machiavelli said that "there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all those who profit by the old order." But we all know that the current order of things is destroying our habitat and creating an authoritarian corporate neo-feudalism. To change this we must increase our economic sovereignty and environmental sustainability. The premier natural resource for achieving this is industrial hemp, but to get it we must understand it and demand better from our politicians.
The Hemp Foundation - www.thehempfoundation.org.nz
Community Notices re 5g:
'5G Technology on Health and the Environment'
Lecture by Professor Dariusz Leszczynski
6:30pm Tuesday 19th November
Auckland University Library Lecture Theatre B15
Princes St and Alfred St corner (Building 109) across from Albert Park
Doors open 6:00pm. Donations towards costs gratefully received.
Prof Leszczynski will also be speaking in
Hawkes Bay Sun 24Nov
Wellington Weds 27 Nov
Nelson Fri 29 Nov.
What is known about the potential cumulative long term exposure to untested 5G technology? What does the science tell us?
Does this require invocation of the precautionary principle until it can be proven safe?
Leszczynski, is a leading International expert on Electromagnetic Bioeffects Research, who will present the Pros and Cons of 5G Technology in the academic arena. It is a rare opportunity for the NZ public to have informed debate on the issue.
We need to raise more money for Prof Leszczynski’s tour.
You can help at the Givealittle page -
https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/help-bring-a-world-5g-expert-to-nz-in-november
You may also like to sign our 5G petition asking for the precautionary principle until 5G is proven safe.
https://www.toko.org.nz/petitions/precautionary-principle-for-5g-in-aotearoa-1
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Are you concerned about the state of the world? I am.
Lord Rutherford, (atom splitter), said that "we don't have money, so we have to think". It's time that we did that, because the status quo is failing. So, what do we need, and how do we get it?
A wealthy society needs good food, fibre/chemical feedstock, and medicine.
Imagine getting all of that from one plant, and it all being of the best quality.
That's the kind of crop we need in a climate changing world, a sustainable competitor to the petro-chemical and pharmaceutical industries.
Its curious to note, that despite Hemp offering us these gifts, it is that rare thing; a prohibited plant.
In NZ and much of the world, hemp is only able to be grown under strict conditions, and farmers usually struggle against hostile bureaucrats. In Canada, for example, farmers were prevented from selling fifty two billion dollars worth of hemp products over the last twenty years. The same practices exist here in NZ.
But Hemp is so useful, that it was a crime not to grow it in both Britain and the USA. In fact, you could even pay US taxes in hemp. Hemp was as good as gold, and used to make everything from dollar bills to the US Declaration of Independence (both Washington and Jefferson were Hemp farmers).
Hemp clothes are tougher and more breathable than cotton, and anti-bacterial too. (Hemp does not require the water and pesticides of cotton either).
Hemp makes breathable fireproof building materials, superconductors, plastics, fuels, and produces four times the cellulose of pine in only six months.
Hemp nut foods are better than anything else nutritionally. 30% digestible protein, all Omegas (3, 6, 9) and aminos, with Calcium, Magnesium and other essential elements in unusually generous quantities.
Most Renaissance painting was done on hemp, and with hemp paint. empen paints, hemp plastics, hemp medicines, the basis of Imperial power for millennia, and then imagine it being prohibited on the irrational grounds that hemp is a dangerous narcotic that causes interracial rape and murder.
The removal of this premier sustainable product left world markets open for the petro-chemical and pharmaceutical industries.
Despite written records of its medicinal use dating back 4,750 years, (including fifty years where it was a major European/US medicine), the modern medical system seems strangely opposed to the notion of hemp medicine.
This is especially curious given that hemp is full of 'our bodies own medicine'.
To clarify, Hemp contains molecules called 'cannabinoids', and so do we.
In our body we make 'endocannabinoids' (endo means 'inside').
We are cellular beings, and for six hundred million years these molecules have been natures standard means for information exchange at the cellular level.
They are 'signalling metabolites', like essential little e-mails inside us.
Without them, we cannot maintain normal function/health. Without them, we die.
That's why hemp is connected with a ludicrous array of therapeutic effects. Not because it's a magic hippy thing, but because the plant contains analogues of the molecules we make and need to maintain 'homeostasis', or balance/normal function.
So when we use hemp properly, as a food, we are supporting our bodies ability to maintain its own health through our cannabinoid system of G-Protein Coupled Receptors.
Its interesting to note that GPCRs are 'highly responsive to nutrition', that medical schools do not teach nutrition, and that medical schools do not teach about GPCRs-despite them being our mechanism of health regulation and protection.
'Medical cannabis' is a bit of a swindle, because all we really need to improve health outcomes is to return hemp to the food web and markets.
You can see the impact non-advertised legal hemp flower has had on medicine sales in Italy here
https://www.york.ac.uk/media/economics/documents/hedg/workingpapers/1907.pdf
Italian medicine sales are down everywhere, and by 11% in some categories.
This is why. Here are seven of the 140+ plant cannabinoids, and their proven effects.
Niccolo Machiavelli said that "there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all those who profit by the old order." But we all know that the current order of things is destroying our habitat and creating an authoritarian corporate neo-feudalism. To change this we must increase our economic sovereignty and environmental sustainability. The premier natural resource for achieving this is industrial hemp, but to get it we must understand it and demand better from our politicians.
The poor today are always working long hours in menial jobs to pay off something that is continuously breaking down. In many ways they are being punished for being poor.
If you have a hot jug, fan heater, hairdryer, juicer, toaster, vacuum cleaner and other consumer white ware - with a bit of luck you may get two to three year’s life out of them - and then they are off to the landfill.
This interview of Rex Weyler, is one of the original Greenpeace activists - when it was more a volunteer organisation - and they were true Rainbow Warriors - tells of the continuous battle on bringing humankind to become accountable and responsible for the wanton abuse and use of the earth’s critical resources.
This below is Rex’s most recent article ‘Its a waste world’ that was printed in Greenpeace Magazine https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/23747/its-a-waste-world/
A popular bumper sticker in the United States – typically seen on large vehicles, with giant wheels and vibrating chrome muffler pipes – reads: “My carbon footprint is bigger than yours.” This appears as a banner for the culture of extravagant indulgence. And wherever consumption is encouraged and admired, waste follows.
The world’s rich cultures are all wasteful, and not just because of excessive fossil fuel use. Even our modern electronic devices represent a massive waste stream. Last year, electronic waste reached an all-time record of 65 million tonnes.
Planned Obsolescence
Used bulb lamps collected by Greenpeace volunteers during the clean up at Bokor Island conservation area on Thousand Islands. © Dhemas Reviyanto / Greenpeace
Even modern LED light bulbs, for example, do not last as long as incandescent bulbs made a century ago. One carbon filament light bulb, at a fire station in Livermore, California, is still burning continuously after 120 years. Building things that last, and consuming modestly, used to be common human values. But that all changed with the advent of contemporary business models and modern marketing.
In 1924, three companies – Dutch Philips, German Osram, and US General Electric – formed a cartel, Phoebus, to shorten the life of light bulbs. Making light bulbs that could last 100 years limited their sales growth. They agreed on a thousand-hour standard, about three or four months of normal use, the historic beginning of planned obsolescence.
During World War I, the U.S. Treasury Department launched a frugality campaign to save resources for the war effort. Merchants, however, opposed the initiative. According to Giles Slade in Made to Break, US stores displayed signs such as, “Beware of Thrift,” and “Business as Usual.” New York retailers formed the “National Prosperity Committee,” with slogans like, “Full Speed Ahead!” and “Clear the Track for Prosperity!”
During the global economic depression in 1932, New York manufacturers circulated a pamphlet: “Ending the Depression through Planned Obsolescence,” the first known printed use of this phrase. An article in Printer’s Ink journal warned that the idea of durability was “outmoded,” claiming that, “If merchandise does not wear out faster, factories will be idle, people unemployed.” Paul Mazur, a partner at Lehman Brothers, declared that obsolescence, designing products to fail or wear out, was the “new god” of business philosophy.
In 1950s America, advertising firms learned that they could sell products not based on function, quality, or durability, but on novelty. Products were sold as “new,” “modern,” and “innovative,” whether or not the “innovations” offered any genuine value. The throwaway fashion industry was born on the notion that clothing “styles” allegedly changed every year, and that to appear “modern,” one must repeatedly buy new clothing. Ad agencies convinced popular journals to publish fashion sections to inform, or manipulate, the public regarding the latest styles.
Thus, the idea of well-made, durable products died away in rich nations, replaced by products that break, wear out, become obsolete, or go out of fashion. This trend has now seized the modern electronics industry.
E-waste and the cost of high tech
A small child sitting among cables and e-waste in Guiyu, China © Greenpeace / Natalie Behring
Since the 1980s, computers and electronic devices have made lives in rich countries more convenient and entertaining. Some observers expected that modern electronics would also make society more “efficient,” that computers would save paper and other resources. Those hopes, however, encountered what is known in economics as the “rebound effect“: Efficiency often leads to more resource use, not less. Human enterprise now uses six times more paper than we used at the dawn of the computer age, six times more lithium, five times more cobalt, more iron, copper, and more rare earth metals.
Mining for these minerals tends to be ecologically destructive and exploitive of human labourers. Due to increasing demand and low rates of electronics recycling, mining companies are now proposing strip mines on the ocean floor, a practice that ocean biologists say would permanently damage unique and biodiverse ocean ecosystems.
As computer chips got smaller, more powerful, and more energy efficient, the material and energy intensity of those chips increased exponentially. Since our computers require so little energy to operate, we may believe they are “efficient,” but we are measuring the wrong metric. To understand the high cost of high tech, we must consider the embodied energy built into our devices, our telecom infrastructure, server networks, and data centres. We also have to consider the sheer growth of consumption and the acceleration of waste.
According to Statisa, about 4 million cell phones are sold every day, over 1.5 billion per year. About 250 million computers are sold each year. The average lifetime of these devices is now about two and a half years. Manufacturers design in obsolescence, changing critical parts and marketing more fashionable, “improved” devices. We may marvel at social media and connectivity, but this level of consumption leaves behind a massive, toxic, and destructive waste stream.
Discarded computer monitor casings in a lagoon in Ghana. © Greenpeace / Kate Davison
Apple Corporation has become notorious for designing smartphones, tablets, and laptops that are difficult to repair or upgrade. These policies are not an accident or a necessity of technological advance. They are marketing decisions, designed specifically, like the three-month light bulb, to sell more products.
Between June 29, 2007 and November 3, 2017, Apple introduced 14 new iPhone models, one every 37 weeks. The company stopped supporting the first generation phones within three years, and continues to make previous phones obsolete and unsupported.
According to Jason Koebler at Motherboard, “Apple is trying to kill legislation that would make it easier for normal people to fix iPhones.” Apple designs products with proprietary parts that cannot be easily repaired and the company has actively lobbied against right-to-repair legislation in the US. According to a Repair.org study, both Apple and Sony have blocked environmental electronics standards that would support repair, upgrade, and recycling.
However, Apple Corporation is not alone. According to a 2017 Greenpeace report, other consumer electronics companies are lagging far behind. Although Apple has made progress in the use of renewable energy they are “moving in the wrong direction,” along with Microsoft and Samsung, by shortening the useful life of devices. Samsung, Amazon, Oppo, Vivo, and Xiaomi receive failing grades in every category, using toxic chemicals and dirty energy, making short-lived products that are difficult to recycle, and hiding the data about their practices. On the other hand, HP, Dell, and Fairphone are leaders in producing products that are repairable and upgradable.
Electronic waste has now reached over 65 million tonnes per year. Computers, screens, and small hand devices comprise about 22% of that waste, 14 million tonnes annually. According to a 2014 UN Report, Europe produced the highest per-capita electronic waste, over 15 kilograms per person every year. Asia generated the most e-waste, 16 million metric tonnes, followed by the Americas, 11.7 million tonnes per year. Since 2014 those volumes have increase by about 50%.
System Change
As with most of our ecological challenges, there are solutions, but the response requires more than marginal change. According to Deishin Lee, at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, “most waste is generated on purpose,” built into modern business models. Lee criticizes “output-oriented,” production systems that only consider the product. “Every output-oriented process,” she writes, “is designed to produce waste.” We can overcome this by shifting to input-oriented production, considering the value of all resources, how to conserve, and how to use resources effectively, with a minimum of waste.
Smartphone repair © RIcardo Padilla Roman / Greenpeace
Economist Tim Cooper, at Nottingham Trent University believes that a transformation away from planned obsolescence will require a “radical, systemic change.” In his book, “Longer Lasting Products,” Cooper suggests the change could be accomplish with economic policies to encourage minimum standards of durability, repairability, and upgradeability.
Quality goods, robust repair-and-servicing, and secondhand markets would result in more jobs and more economic activity for a given amount of resources. Cooper calculates that when consumers spend less on throwaway products, they will spend more for other services and investments.
In “Culture of Waste,” Julian Cribb, a fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, describes how we could reverse the trends toward food waste with government regulation to limit wasteful practices, full-cost pricing and taxing, subsidies for good stewardship production, and with education. The 2017, Greenpeace Report, advocates similar actions to create closed loop, circular production, beginning at the design stage, with all companies required to design recyclable parts, easy repair, and a take-back program for all products.
Growth swamps efficiency
Everything we build requires energy. Wasteful practices waste energy. Although we are witnessing an unprecedented effort to develop renewable energy, we are failing to keep pace with growth in demand. Unless we address the growth of human numbers and human enterprise, we are destined for the natural results of ecological overshoot. We also need to phase out fossil fuels and redouble efforts to build renewable energy infrastructure.
The following chart – prepared by Canadian energy engineer David Hughes, using data from the 2019 BP Energy Review – shows the annual growth in renewable energy compared to the annual growth in electricity demand. A great deal of this demand is due to wasteful manufacturing and sales practices. Two-thirds of the growth is met with fossil fuels. Furthermore, this only accounts for electricity. 83% of the world’s energy consumption is non-electric.
The only year that renewable energy growth exceeded demand growth occurred in 2009 during an economic recession. This chart reveals two critical pieces of our waste and energy challenge: (1) Renewable energy growth is not keeping pace with total energy demand, and (2) The way to turn this around is to end the expectation of endless economic growth. Some companies, such as Fairphone and Patagonia, have business models that account for slowing growth.
The idea that we should keep businesses growing by creating waste is no longer valid – and never was. We can employ more people by building quality products and repairing them. To reverse the trend of wasteful production, biodiversity collapse, carbon emissions that cause global heating, and general ecological overshoot, humanity has to embrace modest consumption and put an end to the era of extravagant indulgence.
References and Links
“E-waste World Map Reveals National Volumes, International Flows,” StEP Initiative, 2013, Quoted in Greenpeace E-Waste report, 2016.
E-waste: The Escalation of a Global Crisis, TCO certified
“Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America,” Giles Slade, Harvard University Press, 2007; and excerpts at Google Books.
“A Culture of Waste,” Julian Cribb, Ecology Today, 2012.
Guide to Greener Electronics 2017, Greenpeace Reports, October 17, 2017
“Overcoming the culture of waste” Deishin Lee, MIT, Sloan School of Management, 2017.
Power-hungry gadgets endanger energy efficiency gains, review of The International Energy Association analysis, John Timmer, 2009, ARS Technica.
The Global E-waste Monitor, 2014: UN University, 2014.
“Electronic Waste (E-Waste): How Big of a Problem is it?” Rubicon, 2018
Facts and Figures on E-Waste and Recycling, Electronics Takeback Coalition, 2014
“The monster footprint of digital technology,” Kris de Decker, Low-Tech Magazine,
“Electronics Standards Are In Need of Repair,” Mark Schaffer, Repair.org, August 2017.
“Apple is against your-right to repair i-Phones New York state records confirm,” Jason Koebler, Motherboard, 2017.
“Longer Lasting Products: Alternatives to the Throwaway Society,” Tim Cooper, Gower Books, 2010.
Culture and Waste: The Creation and Destruction of Value, Edited by Gay Hawkins and Stephen Muecke, Rowman & Littlefield, 2002.
“The L.E.D. Quandary: Why There’s No Such Thing as ‘Built to Last’,” J. B. MacKinnon, New Yorker, 2016.
“Patagonia’s Anti-growth Strategy,” J.B. MacKinnon, New Yorker, 2015.
What is happening here in NZ?Here in NZ we continue with this ‘business as usual’ attitude, superimposed over the whole country. It is ‘taken for granted’ and the NZ Government is basically none the wiser. They just continue to carry on as if everything is normal. The NZ struggle to get recycling more efficientNZ has not been able to get a deposit on soft drink or beer bottles, where once we had them. As a kid I used to be continuously walking up and down the main road collecting beer bottles as they were in those days just thrown out the window of cars. At the big rugby games at towns, dur9ng the curtain raiser prior to the main game, I was always able to collect enough coke and lemonade bottles to be able to buy a drink and a hot pie and have some change left over.
Why has NZ not been able to follow the legislation as in the State of South Australia and in the State of Oregon in the USA. Because, like all the other states in Australia and the USA - business interests in both these countries have overridden prudent ecological policies. Time and time again the breweries and Coke cola with huge financial resources and well paid lawyers - have been able to stop a deposit with regard to recycling - in its tracks. Hence, the throw away mentality is still prevalent in NZ especially with the unconscious male macho way of life. Yet, it could be said that as an extension of the top of this article that stoves, fridges etc don’t last long too too, when compared to how they were built 50 years ago.
A person working at a local transfer station north of Auckland said - If it was not for the Warehouse - he would not have a job! (The Bargain was not necessarily a bargain)Some of the other issues talked about in this interview was that big business is still calling the shots.
One of the issues is that businesses do not look at our planet as a complex living super system. They fail to see the biosphere as a homeostatic, self regulating system of trillions of living creatures that are all delicately balanced and embedded in the web of life.
Their (very limited) perspective is that they are on ‘a platform’ - that has raw products coming in (they are not interested in where these products come from or how they are extracted or gained) - all they want to do is then push (highly packaged) product out onto the market. It also does not really matter how much pollution they produce in the process - hence various governments world wide - have had to enforce clean air and clean water standards on businesses to force them to comply.
This has been an ongoing ‘battle’ for over 100 years.
There is no thought of ‘nature’ in any business model. Where as in America there is a remarkable treatise on this thought to come from a First Nations ‘Indian’ called Chief Seattle.
Privatise the Profits and Socialise the Costs - This means putting products or services on the market and if they do not measure up, then society picks up the costs. - Cigarette companies did this with cigarettes. They made money out of selling them but when smokers ended up in hospital beds - especially in countries with ‘free’ hospital care - it was those countries (the taxpayers) that paid to take care and treat those dying patients.
It was the same when the Wall Street bankers in New York took insane monetary risks back in 2008 whilst still collecting ‘extremely inflated commissions and salaries’ - that they threatened to collapse the whole US and world banking system. That the US Government was then ‘forced’ to bail them out - with the US taxpayer taking the hit.
This same mentality is pervasive within the current business world. Privatise the profit and socialise the losses. That there is now such a devastating effect by having to clean up the global environment as a result of business practices that did not factor in a healthy future of the world’s children.
Cradle to Cradle - and the Circular EconomyCradle to Cradle was mentioned. http://www.cradletocradle.com
Cradle to Cradle is a design framework for going beyond sustainability and designing for abundance in a Circular Economy.
The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability—Designing for Abundance is the eagerly awaited follow-up to Cradle to Cradle. Drawing on a decade of lessons, William McDonough & Michael Braungart put Cradle to Cradle®concepts into practice with businesses, governments, and people around the world.
Prof Dr Michael Braungart gave an interview on the subject of microplastics on 23-10-2018 in the ZDF news programme heute+. Car tyres are the main cause of the microplasty discovered in the human intestine, says environmental expert Michael Braungart. The main problem is the harmful pollution.
In the 1980s, Braungart dedicated his work to the environmental organization Greenpeace and beginning in 1982 helped to establish the chemistry section of Greenpeace International, which he took over in 1985. In the same year he received his Ph.D. from the University of Hannover's chemistry department. In order to develop solutions for complex environmental problems, EPEA was established by Greenpeace in 1987. Ever since, Braungart has been involved with research and consultancy for eco-effective products i.e. products and production processes in a loop, not only harmless to man or nature, but beneficial.
Time magazine recognized William McDonough in 1999 as a “Hero for the Planet.” In 1996, Mr. McDonough received the Presidential Award for Sustainable Development, and in 2003 he earned the first U.S. EPA Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award. In 2004, he received the National Design Award for achievement in the field of environmental design. In July 2014, Mr. McDonough was appointed as Chair of the World Economic Forum Meta-Council on Circular Economy.
Also mentioned was that we are reaching limits to growth and Rex and I touched on some of the major environmental challenges now affecting the biosphere.
Japanase built cars superior to American carsIt was quickly noted that when the Japanese car companies came to North America that it only took a few years or so for the American people to realise that Japanes cars were not only more reliable but they lasted longer. The planned obsolescent cars from Ford, General Motors and now defunct Chrysler were far inferior to the Japanese brands - hence their continued success in the US car market today.
Apple in the US comes in for some well earned criticism in the interview.
That between June 29, 2007 and November 3, 2017, Apple introduced 14 new iPhone models, one every 37 weeks. The company stopped supporting the first generation phones within three years, and continues to make previous phones obsolete and unsupported. Listen - Apple are not your kind and caring corporation. They are a hard nosed business wanting to continually corner the market for their own ends. Listen to how they and Sony stopped legislation to not allow their products to be repaired.
“Apple is trying to kill legislation that would make it easier for normal people to fix iPhones.”
A Global commitment to CHANGE … Transformation away from planned obsolescence will require a “radical, systemic change.” to encourage minimum standards of durability, repairability, and upgradeability. What's wrong with 10 years for everything over $4,000?
Having quality goods, robust repair-and-servicing, and secondhand markets would result in more jobs and more economic activity for a given amount of resources.
We could also reverse the trends toward food waste with government regulation to limit wasteful practices, full-cost pricing and taxing, subsidies for good stewardship production, and with education.
2017, Greenpeace Report, advocates similar actions to create closed loop, circular production, beginning at the design stage, with all companies required to design recyclable parts, easy repair, and a take-back program for all products.
There is a limit to growth on a finite planet
There is a limit to growth - that if one becomes an astronaut or a cosmonaut - they see clearly from space - that life within the biosphere can only take so much. That the increase in human numbers and their extracting and polluting practices is overwhelming the natural worlds ability to rebalance these intrusions because of the short time span.
Rex mentioned, that unless we address the growth of human numbers and human enterprise, we are destined for the natural results of ecological overshoot. We also need to phase out fossil fuels and redouble efforts to build renewable energy infrastructure.
France Under French law it is a crime to intentionally shorten lifespan of a product with the aim of making customers replace it. ... The French investigation is being led by the economy ministry's consumer protection agency. It follows a legal complaint filed in December by pro-consumer group Stop Planned Obsolescence (Hop).Jan 8, 2018
End of the line for stuff that's built to die? A new French law demands that manufacturers display how long their appliances will last. Could this stop planned obsolescence – products designed with restricted lifetimes? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2015/mar/03/has-planned-obsolesence-had-its-day-design
Apple investigated by France for 'planned obsolescence' - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42615378
https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/01/09/apple-investigated-by-france-for-planned-obsolescence-of-older-iphones/ - This is a Silicon Valley newspaper.
Also covered was Regenerative Farming and Biological Farming as a way to make soils more healthy and keep the soil from being blown and washed off the land. This farming method is most definitely the most important way to regenerate our land without using fertilisers.
https://www.ourplanet.org/Default.aspx?CCID=34961&FID=629092&ExcludeBoolFalse=True&ID=/greenplanetfm/search-resultsSo there we have it
However, it goes far deeper than this. ListenThis is a very important interview - on an imperilled planet that is awash with rubbish, toxins and the throw away society. That we have to ask the question - are we throwing away our future and our children and grandchildren with it? Time for decisive action, from the Grass Roots up. Not top down from the summit of the Pyramid of Businessmen and Bankers. This has to be where all ‘grassroots’ groups as in localised communities across every nation need to be brought into the conversation and also the planning and action.
Professor Frederick von Dreger, (former Chairman, Dept of Political Science, UPEI, Canada) retired, dissects media 'deceptions' and 'hoaxes' - and tells us that governments, universities, and the media have been obscuring the truth from the public - for decades.
As a Conspiracy Analyst. - he states that Google and its offshoot Youtube, plus Twitter, and Facebook are constantly using algorithms to censor what we see and access in the Western world.
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 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 which collectively shares the same aspirations.
We are already involved in World War Three
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, not of direct physical violence but a massive chaotic series of battles of misinformation, disinformation, hoaxes and deceptions of all kinds in which we are now sadly and very deeply involved. This is mainly due to MSM (MainStream Media) including Universities and various professions and so on.
The US Intelligence Agency invented the term: Conspiracy Theory.
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 '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 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 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 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 researched this have documented what that deception and conspiracy is all about.
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 story’. Now people who are seriously investigating, researching and documenting what is actually happening have started calling themselves ‘conspiracy 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 questions - especially looking behind the disinformation and misinformation that is being provided by the MSM as well as governmental and other 'official' sources.
Big Tech Corporations and their OverArching Control
He states that this dis-information and mis-information is being propagated by major institutions - techno giants such as Google - and he emphasises the fact that Google, Facebook and Twitter - plus Amazon and Youtube are all owned and controlled by the same people. These very few people at the top thus have the capacity and the power to put out information as to what is going on - and they are the ones who are interested in what some would call "dumbing down" the population - but Ayran points out that it is more like 'confusing' the population with information which is partial and distorted, when not actually incorrect.
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 Trump. If you look back 4 or 5 years ago - this expression was not in the public vocabulary. 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 man on earth - Jeff Bezos of Amazon) and other major publications - is to cause confusion and chaos and as a result to increase their control over the population.
The major institutions in the 'System' are letting us down
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 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 not only "skimming the cream off the top" but amassing it in their own hands. 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 Deutsche Bank, and even the Vatican bank - are in fact amassing vast wealth and therefore more power and control in their own hands.
Psychopaths and Sociopaths
He then says that many of the people at the top of these banking and media conglomerates are, clinically speaking, psychopaths and sociopaths. 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 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.
Bloodlines
He continues that these ‘families’ belong to certain family bloodlines - and that if he mentioned any names you would most probably recognise them immediately. Families and clans such as the Rothschilds - and similar ones that everyone has heard of - are obvious examples. 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" - 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 are continuously becoming more marginalised and poorer and that this has become very marked in the last 20 years or so.
Shrinking Middle Class
Thus the middle class are finding themselves being squeezed and more so - and are losing and struggling far more. This can be noticed with jobs disappearing, with fewer ordinary permanent occupations and only casual jobs - foreign people are being brought in to undercut 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 and become poorer and cash strapped..
What is the mindset of these psychopaths and sociopaths?
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 upbringing have been socialised and brainwashed - or indoctrinated. - So how do they do that?
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 among trees where the rich, be it businessmen, politicians and persons of note - attend gatherings and have strange ceremonies. 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. 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, if any, women are ever present there. So what do they do?
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 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 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 hence the name - the ‘Cremation of Care’ - and Ayran says - it is really deadly stuff. Listen.
Mentioned in this interview are the Bilderbergers, the Skull and Bones, the Council of Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission plus the Club of 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 members of the "Big Boys Club".
Nefarious Activities?
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 the US. Also, human trafficking - including the sex trade - and that they are involved and associated with the pedaphila group. That the top pedophiles, the top banking and media people are all connected at other levels as well - in what President Eisenhower called the Military Industrial Complex. 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’ centred in the United States Government at the present time.
Donald Trump is now battling this Global Elite
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 elite and controllers of banking, people trafficking and pedophilia.
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 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 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 a New World Order to centralise all power and control in their hands. 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 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 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.
Military Support
Notice that Trump has on so many occasions had photos of him surrounded by military Generals.
The result being that - they supposedly asked Trump to assist them to restore the US Republic.
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 possible legal means to "take our country back" and restore the Constitution of the United States. Their objective being to restore legitimate government in order to protect all ordinary citizens and ensure a civil and cooperative society. Meaning a basically humane and basically peaceful country.
They went to Trump and said ‘we will support you so as to take the system down legally’ (by draining the swamp).
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 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 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 legally, and this is what they have been working at doing ... and that is why Trump is being attacked. 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 obstruction of justice by anyone in the Trump campaign.
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 - that Trump is against Blacks and Latinos - but those groups have come out and said that they are better off under Trump’s economy. 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 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 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 of the attack against Trump has been going nowhere as well.
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 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.
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.
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 recently mysteriously died whilst in prison.
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:
“We’re going to take out 7 countries in 5 years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off , Iran.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RC1Mepk_Sw (3 minutes)
This was a blatant move to control ‘other countries' destinies and essentially destroy them and take whatever resources they might have for the use of the Global Elite.
That the whole Bush family are also part of the ‘establishment’ that Trump has to deal with - and this includes Barack Obama as well.
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 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 in the United States, and hence a very unequal society. 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 own group that their success and survival depends on a content middle class in a reasonably civil and cooperative society.
See, for instance, Nick Hanauer ...... , a current American billionaire speaking on a youtube video on this issue. https://youtu.be/q2gO4DKVpa8
Other snippets from this interview are ...
That Donald Trump is a bull and he is ramming the gate and that he is the first - of possibly several to come ...
911 the False FlagAyran mentions that 911 - was the biggest deception on the US people. He calls it The Biggest Elephant in The Room. Top people within certain secret service agencies in the American government and their allies in the private sector planned, managed organised and staged it, in 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, especially to contain Iran and subdue it, one way or another.
Ayran does not go into it but suggests two of the best writers are:
Christopher Bollyn "Solving 911 - The Deception that Changed the World"
https://www.bollyn.com/public/Solving_9-11_-_The_Deception_That_Changed_The_World.pdf This is a free download
Rebeckah Roth - a retired US Flight Attendant, now a grandmother, who has written four 4 books as 'novels' to protect her sources, 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 2001.
https://www.rebekahroth.com/
These are written as 'fiction' but she documents exactly what happened that day - using fictional names to protect her sources. She is living ever 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 to silence opposition when it's deemed necessary. All the various 'false flag' events clearly indicate that. 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 from their altitude and would simply not have been placed to their respective recipients. After she had written her first book, entitled "Methodical Illusion", more and more information came to her from various of her connections within 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 central Israeli intelligence agency is also mentioned here.
911 led to the invasion of Afghanistan and then the war in Iraq. That has rendered these countries as basket cases.
That then continued under the guise of the ‘Arab Spring’ and the destabilisation of the Arab and North African countries and the Eastern Mediterranean, where war refugees from these countries descended on Europe. See above video re General Wesley Clark and his two revealing meetings with a Pentagon General.
This has seen progressive countries like Scandinavia take in immigrants from war ravaged countries that now has Sweden taking far more than it can adequately absorb and it has as a result become known as the rape capital of Europe. Do an internet search.
This combination of events which Professor von Dreger calls World War Three can now be seen operating on multiple levels, creating chaos and putting people against each other on racial, religious, colour and gender grounds as well as differences of income.
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 in the population at large.
Other Important Information in this interview.
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 American people and Government, in alliance with other central banks in various countries. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OibqdwHyZxk
This is a very critical 3 minute video
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 lawyers fighting battling it out. Especially with attempts in Congress to impeach the President.
At present the US marines have been put on alert so as to keep law and order.
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 President can do by Executive Order or can not do among many other legal doings
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. The same goes for Ex FBI leader James Comey and Ex NSA leader James Clapper, plus many, many others.
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 the country under certain circumstances and what could be the outcome? 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’ action.
Dr Steve Pieczenik is also mentioned - saying that certain people in Government are running their own agenda and accruing much debt in the process - and that the US public are paying for it all.
https://stevepieczenik.com/ 4 minute video
That there are politicians on both the Republican and and Democrat side involved in the current impeachment processes to use whatever means possible in their attempts to take down President Trump. The vast majority of Democrats who are still following Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and many Republicans, including George Bush Senior and George W Bush Junior, Mitt Romney and Mitch McConnell and others of the old guard of the Republican party, are very keen to remove Donald Trump from office.
The recent arrest of Jeffrey Epstein on charges of human and sex traffic and his involvement in pedophilia rings - especially using threats and blackmail 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 off the MSM because it brought too much focus on Bill Clinton who flew there 26 times - plus Prince Andrew and even Hillary Clinton - shows there is a huge coverup by MSM - as it exposes the darkness to ordinary Americans - of what the elite are hiding.
This is being directly connected to Donald Trump’s signing of the:
Executive Order Blocking the Property of Persons Involved in Serious Human Rights Abuse or Corruption
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-blocking-property-persons-involved-serious-human-rights-abuse-corruption/
The recent ‘take down’ of convicted Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein is being linked to this ‘executive order.’ That when all the global pedophiles are eventually 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 hush - mum’s the word, conspiracy of silence.
Draining the Swamp
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 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 world of Wall Street and then the corporations that basically control commerce throughout the USA and then around the planet. And the Military Industrial complex is totally in there as well.
Taking in and dealing with this data
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, share what is empowering and also what ‘we need to know’
Some links of Interest
Robert David Steele Former CIA operator and white hat. A very profoundexposé
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HHlpxTx99o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeytzB8J0dI
Kevin Shipp interview: Former CIA Office, white hat and whistleblower:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqG_fkQCeE0
By Greg Hunter ex CNN and Good Morning America.
Paul Craig Roberts https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/
Ex Assistant Secretary to the US Treasury - under President Reagan and ex Wall Street Journal deputy Editor
The New York Times - is the enemy of the people per Donald J Trump
https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1140252528304631808?lang=e
SGT Report
https://www.youtube.com/user/SGTbull07/videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dai5-2Exks0&feature=share
Very clear and recent - Harley Schlanger
X22 Report
https://www.youtube.com/user/X22Report
https://www.youtube.com/user/X22Report/videos
There was little time for Ayran to comprehensively cover all the angles in this interview, in just 1 hour.
What is being communicated is that America has been ‘targeted' to lead the planet into the New World Order - where global governance is ‘ordained’ by an ‘elite' at the top of the pyramid.
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 NWO - has to be acknowledged - however from George Herbert Bush, Bill Clinton, to George W Bush and Barack Obama power has been ‘deftly’ consolidated 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 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 controlled.
This was supposed to be the future that Hillary Clinton was to eventually fulfil, but Donald Trump got in the way.
However as more people do not believe ‘fake’ news - alterative media is taking its place. Yet, we have to be careful and discern to make sure that the alternative media is not skewing the narrative as well. That in a world where Google is now deftly hiding newsworthy information - through their algorithms - it is more challenging.
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 etc including the established digital media and press - globally - all essentially singing from the same song sheet. In so many cases he speaks 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 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 to push back whereever he can.
Yes, he has walked away from the Paris Agreement on Climate change. Saying it has to be renegotiated - whatever that means?
He has stopped the US involvement from signing the - TTPA. Where as NZ did.
He has opened up Alaska to oil drilling. Upsetting all environmentalists!
Cancelled the Iran Nuclear deal. There is another story around money and cash here.
Engaged in Peace efforts with North Korea. This has to be an excellent move.
Plus shifted the US Embassy to Jerusalem. To a howl of protest.
There are many things that he has done in the last 3 years.
Some say that for him to ‘drain the swamp’ he has to play 5 dimensional chess.
By opening up the Alaskan oil fields - he has temporarily appeased the oil lobby.
By shifting the US Embassy he has temporarily got the Israeli’s on board.
Yet all this time he is slowly rounding on the ‘dark side’ - to take them down.
Today, everyone is awaiting the report of the alleged Obama-era abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court, which has caused a delay in the conclusion of Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz's investigation. This report is about Donald Trump being spied 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 and Brennan are guilty of illegal acts and could face jail. But more so even Barack Obama.
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 increasingly diminishing as people see through the fake news that is becoming more and more frenetic.
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 was pushing for.
Stay tuned - love him or loath him - some time in the future the truth will come out. Be ready for it.
It is becoming obvious that there is no recent ‘independent’ research coming out giving 5G technology - a clean bill of health. That undue health effects could arise from increased wireless frequencies have not been allayed. Meanwhile, having a little more time on their hands Grandparents across NZ are showing more interest in this recent technology and they are researching as to what 5G might portend.
Why have there been no ‘independent’ health tests completed on 5G wireless technologies? That due to the NZ Government not requiring evidence of such tests, many of the NZ public are becoming concerned. Yet, highly qualified independent overseas scientists are saying that this new fifth generation technology ‘ups the frequencies’ markedly. So where is the research for its safety and veracity? In the meantime the elders, the older generation, who over their lifetime of experience and disappointment at the ethics or lack of them within both Government and industry are rallying for the future of their children and grandchildren. As it is not only a health risk to humans, but also to pets, insects, especially bees as well as vegetation and trees in your garden and neighbourhood. The whole ecosphere could be unduly affected.
As a result New Zealanders are asking where is the evidence for its safety.
There are also more doctors than usual speaking out, as we hear in this interview
of Sue Grey a lawyer and specialist in emerging issues and Dr Robin Kelly a General Medical Practitioner who is seeing more patients who are in some way being affected by these emerging technologies.
So why is it when new technologies are invented and new substances are formulated that in so many cases, there is no Law that states that these have to be independently
tested and seen to be safe for the public to either use or be safe around.
With the steady increase in telephone frequencies from the 1st, 2nd and 3rd
generation until the one we have now the 4th - these have been seen to be relatively
benign - however the game has changed markedly now as 5G breaks through a new
threshold and this is where the frequencies become more intense.
Imposed Upon
Sue says 5G is being imposed on us without any explanation being given to the
public when it is only assumed that it is safe - when the evidence is that it is not safe. Why are we not able to see this evidence published in MSM? Why are they so coy in keeping this information under wraps?
Yet Safe, Fast Fibro-optics is being laid out across the Nation.
That a little over two years ago the Government spent $2 billion for laying out a safe fibre optic cable system that has multiple high speed uses - and now they are imposing upon us 5G with so many unknown influences - that are virtually all not understood - or even known about?
Robin, said when he started as a Doctor he was told that the most important person is the one in front of you. That we should study all the science in the world and then adapt that to the person in front. We are not working for a third party - we are actually working on that one person in front of us.
This also means being an advocate for caution - which comes from the perspective, he had drummed into him early when a student Hippocrates statement that said - ‘first do no harm.’ Which is the cornerstone of primary care practice.
But also to really examine, not only the science - but who is telling us the science - what is the motive behind those scientists and what is the funding behind those scientists as well?
Because over the last 20 years numerous senior editors of science journals have been increasingly stating their concerns about ‘conflicts of interest’ as many scientific papers may have big money and other ‘vested’ interests quietly pushing - in the background.
As a result, Robin is now very cautious when reading and assessing this information - and in particular the motives for such new medications and drugs and also technologies being ‘rapidly brought to market.’
Electro Hypersensitivity.
He has also seen an increase of people experiencing electro hypersensitivity to many things electrical. For example offices full of computers and linked technologies many of them wireless - so he understand that certain people become stressed or suffer headaches etc.
Lack of Informed Consent?
Sue also mentions that there is a serious issue about the lack of informed consent
even around trees being felled throughout the neighbourhood to facilitate wireless signals getting through without hindrance.
Usurping Nature?
Robin - explains that for the modern day human - nature is our healer - walks, rests,
stress release - is the best form of healing our being. He sees time out in nature as our rehabilitation, but now he says there is a different ‘counter culture’ coming directly across our society, the complete opposite of natural wellness and well being
that essentially says ‘eliminate nature and instead, live in an electro magnetic virtual reality.’
Feeding our Addictions?
Which is essentially saying - let us feed your addictions, plus let’s feed your dependence on technology to such an extent that you are going to do 5G at the expense of your health.
And as a doctor he finds this idea quite disturbing … stating he is not saying no technology, like most of us he likes technology too, but … it has gone out of balance completely. For example nuclear weapons. To the point that it is affecting the health of our young people - and it is influencing younger and younger children.
Children First
He says there are many very concerned physicians around the world who are advocates for children first and this is one of the drivers for his advocacy.
Sue says that science appears to be putting robots before people.
As people we have feelings and needs and we want to be able to choose certain outcomes in our life and not be classified as units of currency - as a convenience for people who want to make money from us. Yet, our whole system seems to be being driven down this path.
That it’s only those with the money who can choose and it doesn’t really matter what
people want and it is not really surprising that more and more people are experiencing
mental health and anxiety problems and she says it is really concerning …
Living in an Airport Security Area 24/7
Tim chimes in saying that airport security systems are an example of intense radiation.
Note that workers at these stations only are in these concentrated radiation fields for 8
or so hours a day - but whole cities and towns will be immersed in them 24/7/365 -
where everyone is saturated in non ionising radiation. This includes insects, birds, pets and vegetation.
Our Bodies Are Already Under Intense Stress.
That our body systems are already close to tipping points - all variety of things are loading our immune system. Mental health - of worry, unresolved grief, chemical toxins, emotional toxins … are cause for concern - as our ‘free NZ health’ system is already overloaded.
Accumulating Over Time
It’s a slow but steady accumulative assault on our immune system and our unique
human body and the ‘wireless field’ is becoming more extreme and Robin says that when someone tips over through all manner of accruing circumstances - then comes the denial from the status quo - who will say - well it has nothing to do with us … it’s to do with some other problem in their lives … - however it is to do with all of that - and everything has to be looked at in total. Yet, so many people will be running for cover - as people become more unwell and sick. However - the medical drug industry may actually be there to alleviate whatever ails them - as he says, that once deployed this wireless technology will become a tipping point (into deteriorating health) for many, many people.
The Law Society wanting to understand ‘causes’ in relation to the Law of the land.
The Law Society Sue says, always looks at causes so as to get a greater understanding of Law. But, with so many inputs that have invisible energies - it is extremely difficult to pin, say a disease to any one particular technology or situation.
In ill health what are the technologies that may have caused your tipping point health collapse? Your cell phone? The cell towers outside your home - or the smart meter outside your bedroom or a number of computers in your office … or a combination of all those things - that coincidentally ties in with your dog dying last week. Or all the different factors that are going on.
And the Law just cannot cope with that at all.
We need a whole new system of assessing risk - and science too is not very good at assessing risk either. As it was not designed to assess risk. It was designed to helping develop hypothesis’s as to how things worked.
And like the Law, it has it’s limitations - (Nikola Tesla) “The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.”
But we are not doing the research!
No Insurance Payouts?
Lloyds of London and the big reinsurers have stated that they will not pay out in the case of health problems as a result of 5G technologies. As the risk is far too big to quantify and assess. This has to be a wake-up call for the community at large.
Then Sue says if this is the case with the big insurers - why has the Government not come to this same conclusion?
In NZ because of the ACC law (Accident Compensation Commision) we can not sue our telco phone company - or the company who has a cell phone tower outside our window. Listen
But ACC doesn’t seem interested in checking this out so as to make sure they are not liable either!
Doctors, who take on this profession in most cases do so because they have an affinity to want to care and endeavour to stop something happening before it happens.
After studying this for a number of years - Robins is now concerned about the accumulative affects over the years … of increasing radiation. He says 5G will ramp everything up, however prior to 5G coming we are already experiencing damage - when we see the accumulated effects on health
Acting Minister of Health Julie Anne Genter of the Green Party, comes in for not wanting to look at the health effects, especially on children and the unborn etc - she essentially washes her hands of the subject of 5G as just a new application of radio technology. Listen
Sue says we have to stop now with a ‘moratorium’ until we have proof that it’s safe - as against rolling out until is is proved harmful.
Sue says we have to stop now with a moratorium until we have proof that it’s safe - as against rolling out until is is proved harmful
Advisors telling the NZ Ministers - in many ways are controlling the narrative and withholding information - by … omission.
What comes over in this interview is that Government advisers seem to be following an agenda to roll out 5G and not acting in the public interests and protecting fairly the community that they are supposed to be acting for.
Other subjects covered:
In Cypress there is a committee on environment and children’s health Listen
They are taking wifi away from pre schoolers as well as taking wifi out of children’s hospitals.
Ericsson, the telecom giant’s future vision is a $76 billion dollar industry based on health surveillance - and everyone in their game will be on tap 24/7/365 - and your data will be accessed continually - every cell will be identified, plus every fright that you get from reading information like this - will register as a racing heart on their computer systems somewhere overseas - even whilst you hide under your bed.
MSM = Main Stream Media - are now the tech industry - moulding minds with images and flash graphics now being a propaganda arm.
Laws in NZ need to be enacted to put onus on corporations deploying technologies and substances.
Why is the burden always forced upon the public when new technologies etc are introduced into the environment?
Why is not the proof of health and safety enforced by law on those deploying new tech and or substances ?
Lets see it is safe until it is proven to be dangerous is a farce … Cigarettes, asbestos, thalidomide, has caused so much harm, yet we the people have failed to vote in people as politicians to safeguard the public interest.
It is all back to front - putting the burden on the public. It has to be they who have to prove through an independent authority that their technology and substances are safe.
The EPA Environmental Protection Authority in NZ have abandoned their post … Why is the Environmental Protection Agency not protecting the environment? - why is the Ministry of Health not protecting our health?
The NZ Health Act 1956. When you search up the function of the Ministry in relationship to public health and this shows you in Section A … ‘the Ministry shall have the function of improving, promoting and protecting public health’.
Why is the NZ Health Department not ‘protecting public Health?’
The fact is that we the people have lost control of our Government Agencies.
Robin says that there is a lack of unity of head and heart
Artificial intelligence - is just that - it is Artificial and we have to recognise it is not real and will not be in our best interests as it does not have a duty of care.
That we have to stand up and say things Now …
What about the younger generation? how are they going to negotiate this technological electronic zone - especially with increasing suicides?
Dr Mary Redmayne in Wellington PhD completed her thesis on youth - intermediate age children and mobile phones. She was horrified by the amount of exposure they were receiving Listen - re, brain tumours.
Also a recent 5G talk she gave. https://www.5g.org.nz/2019/07/23/dr-mary-redmayne-to-speak-in-christchurch-on-raising-healthy-children-in-the-screenage-on-august-9/
Not covered in this interview is once 5G is established globally there are to be 20,000 geostationary satellites put up in orbit to then beam down to our planet radiation to microwave all sentient life with data - this is so insane that it has to be halted.
We learn that all children born after the year 2,000 are called ‘digital natives’ - yet what is their future to be?
Sue - mentions that Midwives could talk to Mums to advise them of the challenges ahead.
This is a very important radio interview for NZers to listen and share ...
Share, share, share and lobby the NZ Government for a Moratorium - thank you.
Nuclear Free New Zealand - Why not 5G FREE New Zealand as well?
5G.org.nz - FaceBook: 5G-Free New Zealand
Tim opens that he knows mothers who are not allowing their young infants and children to be in the room during TV news. As it’s too violent and overwhelming for young sensitive minds. In today’s world, there is a need for them to play, acquire communication skills and keep their innocence for a little while longer. However Lisa, as a mother of 3 boys, thinks that around 9 years of age they need to understand a little more about what is happening in their world.
The question then comes up - Where do you source your news from? Especially international news?
RT.com - (Russia Today) good for what is going on around our planet, but not necessary as to what is happening in Russia. CNN is not necessarily good anymore. Lisa, mentions El Jazeera - has some good things, but we realise it too has its weak points.
The Guardian - used to be relatively balanced but having a leftish viewpoint - that now having gone into the USA - has become very anti Russian so as to build up it’s US viewership. Lisa said Guardian let Jullian Assange down badly.
The BBC did not even get a mention.
Lisa, says news today focuses on the head not the heart.
Though the Guardian has relatively good ecology and environmental coverage. We then went free form and covered bees, as being the proverbial canary in the coal mine - being susceptible to 5G wireless radiation and becoming lost and not being able to navigate back to the hive. This being linked as a result of increasing global wifi frequencies. Then there are neonicotinoids (and very possibly glyphosate) that are being used in the industrial, factory farming agriculture sector
That bees provide so much - including health products as well as pollination for food. Lisa emphasises that the birds and the bees plus the insect kingdom are going to be the proverbial mass canaries in the coal mine.
Lisa - saving insects due their drop off in numbers is very important - glyphosate yet again but also neonicotinoids - a chemical that is used to coat the seed with this concoction and the plants grow up with this poison in them. This being deleterious - now there are basically no insects on our car windscreens … no moths at night on our outside light. Insects are disappearing.
https://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/karen-wealleans-pat-baskett-dangers-of-neonicotinoids
Superphosphate - leaving cadmium in the soil. NZ has a growing problem with too much superphosphate being spread across NZ farmland so as to speed up the growth of grass, but leaving a deadly problem in the ground. - cadmium a heavy metal. https://organicnz.org.nz/media-releases/toxic-time-bomb-blow-apart-health-wealth/
We covered illnesses - and Jodi Brunning’s recent GreenplanetFM interview - where she talked about many diseases and illnesses, bad tummy - intestine problems, skin rashes and lack of sleep - all happening at once as in some sort of convergence - they have named it ‘co-morbidity’. That these are unknown illnesses and there are increasing links to the agricultural chemicals we have in the food we eat and that are sprayed into our food chain. https://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/jodie-bruning-independent-researcher-of-health-especially-children-s-wellbeing-in-new-zealand
Lisa said homeopathics - continues to work for her Tim talked about the British Royal Family and its continued use and success with it for 150 years, especially in Germany and France. That it is deliberately maligned - but classical Homeopaths still being trained here in NZ. That we humans are wave-forms - and so are homeopathic solutions.
By 1948 the Rockefeller/Morgan Financial empires had already invested $800 million to manipulate pubic education in matters of health and pharmacology. Note; JD Rockefeller and his recently deceased 104 year old son David only relied on homeopaths to maintain their personal health. Ref. Heidelberg University Clinic Department of Psychosomatic Medicine Chief Consultants (Prof. Mitserlich and Dr Ruffler) opinion on Bruno Groning (24.10.51) BG-A 18 .
Neutrinos - instantly passing through all 7.7 billion of us.
Tim emphasised that there are trillions of invisible neutrinos zipping through us right at this moment, just under the speed of light. The come from our sun and all stars - passing straight through our planet and out the other side in less than nano-seconds. That nothing is solid - our body is in many ways a cellular hologram.
What do we do for our Great Sustainer?
Children are being brought up - to think that food comes from the supermarket - not really being taught how all of our food chain comes from nature - that we now have a sanitised media - sales are more important that growing your own healthy organic produce. (we acknowledge that not everyone has land on which to grow food).
Indigenous Connection
Lisa talks about indigenous peoples connection to nature and the source from where we spring. They know exactly where their food comes from.
Especially Maori and their connection - and their whakapapa - their umbilical cord linkage - following it back from their mother - through their ancestral lineage going all the way back to the 7 canoes (waka) that brought them to Aotearoa NZ from across the Pacific, supposedly around the 1400’s. They intuitively, sense and understand ‘connection’. Including to Mother earth - Papatuanku.
Where are today’s leaders in relationship to the future of children?
Tim asked about - where are the leaders of the world who are prepared to talk about the future of children? In particular his asking, ‘why can they not factor children into all future legislation?’
Lisa - because of short term thinking and what is going to make them popular for the next election - only for 3 year terms (NZ) She talks about that humans for some unknown reason do not ‘feel’ the future. Listen Brain does not get it but the heart does.
What are we leaving for the future to sort out?
Greta Thunberg and the children of tomorrow.
David Suzuki’s daughter in 1992 - never got the media attention way back then at the 1992 Rio Conference - where her addressing the UN was equally poignant, how did it take so long?
We wish Greta had mentioned the fossil fuel use - that the US military are the record user of fossil fuel.
B*ut what about the $trillions being spent on the worlds military? - we could solve so many if not all of our ecological problems by diverting military spending into environmental action.*
And if Greta could have also mentioned Fukushima in Japan - that is belching nuclear radiation into the Pacific - our local ocean.
(However as a young girl on the global stage it is a momentous task to be able to stand up in a public venue and talk from the heart. Question to you dear reader, could you stand up and without notes talk to 2000 people plus?)
T*hat there is plastic garbage in the ocean and that there are many other ecological challenges that are outside, climate change.*
Lisa, mentions that the status quo have got too much focus on money to want to move on climate change.
Other non polluting energy systems that have been silenced.
Tim - talks to other means - free energy devices that both Foster Gamble in the trailer to the Thrivemovie.com - tells - that the tech is here. Dr Steven Greer agrees - however this information is being silenced by big money, the fossil fuel and nuclear power lobbies and over arching vested interests.
Its ‘called censorship by omission.’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OibqdwHyZxk
Tim - that we could also work towards research into little black boxes that could possibly capture neutrinos passing through our planet and that as these neutrinos are now known to have mass - they may be very much like solar energy coming from the sun - hitting a highly refined ‘plate surface’ within the little black box that then catalizers an energy transfer into electricity. But this concept too is not in the public consciousness, yet needs to be.
Being sanitised by MSM - and sanitised from academia and not let out in the public domain.
Lisa says that new ideas that do come out - will end up being taken over by a large energy combine, who will buy the inventor out with many millions and then that corporation will sit on this tech break-through - having no intention what so-ever of taking this new revolutionary concept to the market - or giving clean energy to the human race.
Serious Global use of Microwave Technology
Lisa talks about microwave tech that is being used right up to this moment - HAARP technologies being mentioned and then microwave weather wars and how Mozambique was affected by a large tropical cyclone - a weather incident that culminated in yet another huge tropical storm that completely flooded a whole area where coincidentally oil had just been discovered. Resulting in the local inhabitants being forced to flee the area and then the oil corporation moved in. Lisa says is there a link? She also says people have to start talking about this - and doing one’s our own research. However note that Google in the last 3 years have been, changing their algorithms to hide information from their search engines and essentially censor anyone wanting to find out what is truly going on. This is a very serious matter for all activists but also mums and dads wanting to obtain more information so as to advise their children in the best possible manner as to what is happening and what we can do to change the narrative for the better.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-08-31/artificial-hurricanes-manufactured-deep-state-enterprise
Back to the News!
Tims asks the question; who is the person who chooses everyday what is to be on the news? What is the criteria from which they make their choice?
Radio NZ was mentioned as having some good news (but I Tim, find it too conservative for myself).
Tim talked of young children unsupervised on the web - very dangerous and very seductive - keep them away from the dark web.
Trolling and blogs that are 60% true and 40% distortion …
Lisa says she uses her intuition with regard to a lot of information that she sees now on the web. As a woman she says what else can she fall back on, but to use her sense of intuition to divine the truth.
Q and the Qanon phenomenon comes up - and who is Q or they?
Are they are right wing conspiracy theory - even if they say that the Rothschilds are at the top of the heap - and that Israel is to be left to last - that Obama and the Clintons are going to face extremely serious charges in the coming future.
That Jeffrey Epstein being a Mossad agent was used to compromise people and leaders in high places and blackmail them so as to have them do what their new masters deem as necessary?
The fact that Greta Thunberg has hit the headlines has also wiped Epstein and his nefarious activities out of the news and the global narrative, has been noted - as well as taking 5G out of the public discourse too, is also noted.
Censorship by Omission?
Donald J Trump and his Executive Order EO 13818 signed on the 21st December 2017. Is it connected to Epstein being arrested and jailed - being the first of many involved in people trafficking and pedophilia?
Blocking the Property of Persons Involved in Serious Human Rights Abuse or Corruption
To the many following this Executive Order they state that this is Trumps greatest initiative - the take down of human trafficking - that goes all the way up to the top of global (sex) trafficking and all the darkness that goes with it. This is what the Epstein case was - just the top of iceberg - and he got eliminated - by who we do not know? - But Epstein has been linked as a front of the Mossad. If you saw Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut - you see how sex and blackmail closed down all the rich families to what is going on at the top of the upper strata of the West. Who knows what is happening elsewhere? The Catholic Church and Cardinal George Pell being sentenced to jail - was this just ‘near’ the top of the iceberg too?
5G - the Nuclear Free Moment for NZ?
5G Vodafone and their 1400 towers. Lisa says people power needs to block the putting up of the towers as per her information of what was happening in the Coromandel. That these tower deployments need no authority to put up. They can be put up anywhere the teleco’s want with no public input - whatsoever. That means right outside your home dramatically dropping the value of your house.
Telecommunications corporations are now the largest corporate entities on the planet.
Lisa thinks that the Government will not do anything about 5G - they are tied into the Agenda - so yet again it is:
Grassroots action for us all.
Notice how few letters to the editor questioning 5G get published in the NZ Herald? Yet, there is a gathering ground swell - nation wide.
Call to Action
October the 23rd October near Smales Farm Takapuna on - Vodafone Placard demo - staff have been told that it is nothing to be of concern - just an upgrade to 4G.
https://www.facebook.com/events/3033575223534618/permalink/3039608389597968/
Stop 5G Placard Protest.
Where - Vodafone.
74 Taharoto Rd Takapuna
Auckland
When – Wednesday October 23rd
From - 11.30am - 2pm.
Parking may be difficult
Buses to Smales Farm + two minute walk
Bring – placards opposing 5G
Get creative!
Hope to see you all there and please share.
The World Media always wanting to frighten us.
Nuclear war coming up in the narrative between Pakistan & India - there is so much turmoil being fermented as of now.
Tim talked about how he was loosely affiliated in the early 1980’s with Beyond War a group in Palo Alto in California, USA.
The Beyond War Award[9] was created in 1983 and ran for eight years (1983-1990) to honor the great efforts of humankind as it moves to build a world beyond war. The award attracted national and international attention through the nominating and selection process.
What World Leader stands out today?
The big countries with Nuclear weapons won’t budge on their weapons.
Israel - has them in secret and ignores all calls to be more transparent.
The Atomic Energy commission are sent into Iran and North Korea - but not Israel
Survival Movement NZ on facebook
Food secure and resilience - listen to Lisa explain what is happening on this facebook forum
https://www.facebook.com/groups/470181836848018/
Alternative News
https://www.silverdoctors.com/headlines/world-news/cia-whistleblower-kevin-shipp-former-cia-director-brennan-will-rat-out-trump-coup-criminals/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeytzB8J0dI Roberts David Steele ex CIA interviewed by an Australian who gets a good number of dark questions answered.
This interview quickly takes us on her journey of immersion into nature - one that has inspired her curiosity to want to embed the natural world in how she ‘felt’ - existence. She has a sense that ‘everything is connected.’
This has expanded greatly since coming to New Zealand, and learning how much the Maori language, embraces the natural world and that the word Kaitiakitanga - means guardianship and protection.
Her first understanding came to her as a child, walking and observing the bush/nature near her home in Australia. Then as an adult making a difference to her community, she started to glean how ‘as in community - as in nature’. She saw that we can’t disregard any of our spheres or scapes, especially our soundscapes. To do so is to ignore a fundamental part of our connection with our nature. We need diversity for harmony and health.
So as a scientist and an agronomist lecturing in biology and its interconnections, she immersed her deeper self into nature the natural order and the web of all life. Here she found out about our inter relationship with the earth, and also the mineral kingdom and in fact - with all biota. That the vegetable and animal kingdoms were more than a symphony of living form, texture and pattern. But more - that everything is harmonically coupled to the natural ecology, and that within the biosphere there is an added frequency of sound that can both enlighten, heal and inspire. This is where Fiona is putting her focus today.
Becoming Educated
Fiona’s original training is scientific, having completed both a Bachelor of Agricultural Science at Adelaide University in 1986 and a Post Graduate Diploma of Agriculture at the University of Queensland in 1988. She has worked as an agronomist, lectured in Biology, Botany and Environmental Science and worked for the Department of Conservation in Australia as an education officer.
However, the more I delved into this interview the more I enjoyed what Fiona was conveying - as she migrated from her scientific self over to her artistic understanding of showing that in nature, everything is connected. The web of life is integral to our survival as a species.
Originally from South Australia she as a child spent a good deal of her time connecting with the bush and biota of the hills that surrounded the city of Adelaide. That later in life, when she studied the soil and botany she realised that diversity was so important to retain the nuance and balance of nature.
The effects of ‘Development.’
She says that when man, takes out big chunks of the ecosystems - by broad spectrum spraying or even clear felling of trees or planting monoculture crops - we are taking a big slice of life and area - out of the natural system. However, to mitigate this later on - can become fraught with challenges. So to minimise this from the very beginning, would be a very good forward thinking strategy.
With large cities especially in summer in Australia, like Melbourne and Sydney they become ‘heat islands’ but when we go away out to the bush and get under the canopy of leaves - we feel the instant coolness - hence we have to have trees in all cities … essentially greenbelts.
Fiona mentions that nature in the cities is very much seen as ‘lip service.’
Relationships - nature and community.
Now living in Whangarei, in Northern NZ - she has been teaching - but she comes back to - ‘relationships’ and who we are as a community and how our natural world functions.
She belongs to the organisation - Child Friendly Cities as part of her work in Whangarei - that if we can design a city that is safe and there are places for children to play and they get to experience nature - then that city will be healthy for everybody. https://childfriendlycities.org
Connection and Purpose
If you are connected to something bigger than yourself and you have a purpose and you can aspire to something that brings you forth into the future - then life becomes kind of cool - because of the sense of belonging …
Listen …
Working and Teaching With The Less Fortunate
Today, In Whangarei there is a wonderful experiment of working with people who have in many ways missed out on belonging in an extended family - sort of way - and that through playing music and being part of an orchestra - so to speak - they see themselves as part of a movement that opens them up to joint harmonies and a sense of belonging. It is validating everyone for the part that they are playing in working in unison for the betterment of the whole. Listen …
Fiona also integrates Natural Philosophy into her learning modality and that of Viktor Schauberger - known as the father of ‘water dynamics.’ Where the sound of trickling or running water can create a soothing natural ambience that allows people to relax into a realm where industrial sounds are left behind. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=Viktor+Schauberger
Maori
Fiona has cheerfully integrated the indigenous knowing of NZ Maori of Aotearoa. She also talks warmly about Maori and Māori tikanga (the Māori way of doing things) as in learning the language (te Reo) she is continually immersing herself into a very profound knowingness and connection that is also very holistic as well. She sees herself as being very privileged to participate and learn and receive a Diploma in Maori and see and experience this cultural gift in action. Be it in waiata (song) and poi dance, (synchronised use in each hand of a small ball on a string, - whilst singing) and weaving and carving.
She finds that Maori cosmology - lore and their very holistic understanding of their connectivity to Mother Earth - Papatuanku, has really opened up her world. Especially coming from a university education with its reductionist and mechanistic viewpoint of lifeless and dead matter.
That around our planet she said there are so many indigenous earth based cultures who have not only a grounded understanding of nature - but intuitively that can align with the ebb and flow of the homeostatic life force that is embedded within nature.
She says we have to make the effort by embracing and recognising and listening … to what nature is telling us. Especially Te Reo Maori (learning the Maori language) that since coming to NZ she truly finds how amazing the language is - that so much of Te Reo is premised on the living earth and Papatuanuku.
She endorses teaching Te Reo Maori in schools because it has such a profound connection with nature and the world at large - like Kaitiaki tanga. (Guardianship).
Fiona posits the idea that when we learn the Maori language - that as an oral language - it has another quality she finds lacking in English in that it goes beyond function as the English tends to do - and carries with it - and speaks to the heart - as well as function.
With Kaitiaki - it speaks to the being-ness of something - that English just cannot quite grasp.
She said that since coming to NZ she has grown more personally - that NZ because it is a verdant country, with more rainfall too - it can offer this quality, when you abide by natures ways.
That this growth via learning from the Maori language and of their cosmology of a living planet and the sacredness of nature - lifts her spiritually. That as a scientist she identifies with it wholeheartedly - especially in shifting from old thought patterns and family patterns and transforming her being and who she is in the world - especially in supporting her family and moving into the next generation.
Connection with the Giant Kauri Trees.
Kauri - wananga.(Learning) Waipoua Forest Northland. The iwi - Te ara-ra, are ‘kaitiaki’ of the forest - that the Kauri tree, is also linked closely to the Maori creation story. She encourages people to visit but first research Kauri before they even go to the forest ….
She talks about Maori Myth and why Kauri in some ways turns upside down the creative story.
Also the problem of Western society - medicine in using sanitisation to obliterate all germs and with that the good bacteria too. That as a society we are blanket killing so many single cellular bacteria - that it is all coming back to bite us solely because Western medicine is unable to understand the web of life, as above, so below. That the soil is a mass of micro-organisms of mega trillions - yet we ignore their benevolence at our peril.
She talks about being with children - that all we have to do is be who we are - not like someone else. That in her learning about connectivity and collaborating and cooperating in a ‘wananga’ and an open classroom environment - wonders can happen.
Other Topics Covered
Spending time deep within healthy old growth forest - how does it feel to immerse yourself in there among these ancient trees and the stillness ?
What are the health effects when living beside a main highway - with car and truck sounds causing desensitisation and increasing stress levels …
Industrial society is programming us to tune out, become more desensitised and not allowing open doors and windows to let the wafting fragrances of flowers or bird song to enter.
We as a society have to make sure that we have ‘rights’ to live inside a healthy soundscape, where peace can prevail allowing us to heal our being.
She makes the statement: It’s not how do things look - but instead - how does it sound?
Maori have a way to learn from each other, its called:
Tuakana teina where trained siblings teach younger siblings.
Older brother - teachers younger brother, older sister younger sister going on - or even sister - brother - called a scaffolding system of support.
Other subjects covered.
Artists - what they bring, is they are a bridge from the unseen to the seen and the physical world. We need to encourage them.
Home schooling came in as a plus ….
These was much more in this interview and I sincerely suggest that you have a listen to Fiona, who is someone entirely devoted to teaching and have children learn that we are all part of a greater community.
http://www.sistemawhangarei.org.nz
Peter can work out a person’s main character traits, tell if they will be re-elected, all from birth numbers that cannot be changed, and through using numbers associated with a name.
Numerology is seen as a universal language of numbers. These numbers can then be used to help us to better understand the world and ourselves as individuals.
Peter Vaughn is a numerologist and also a mayoral candidate for Auckland.
He explains how numerology works and gives some examples about what one can find out through numbers.
Numerology has its history way before the Greek philosopher Pythagoras. Pythagoras taught that number was the essence of all things. He spoke of cycles and patterns and waves of energy that existed long before the dawn of humanity, and how our life paths reflect great and eternal laws, whose origins and purpose remain hidden within the mysteries of existence.
Numerology can calculate life paths and highlight difficulties and good times.
We discuss some of Peter’s interesting numerological discoveries around suicide, and education.
Just imagine if we could use numerology to anticipate and reverse suicidal tendencies.
Peter Vaughan was raised in West Auckland, and although he has lived outside Auckland on occasion, he has always come back to the city he grew up in and loves.
Peter and his wife Carolyn have 7 children between them, and a number of grandchildren. This has reinforced Peter's strong connection to Auckland, and means he has a vested interest in it being the best it can be, now, and into the future.
Peter has an interesting and varied background, having been a soldier in the territorials, worked as an Electrician on large scale commercial and industrial projects, and studied Soil Science. He has also studied people extensively, and acted as an advisor to large corporates, helping them to choose the right people for the right roles through expert profiling techniques he has developed. This means Peter has a vast knowledge of the commercial environment, and is a solutions-based thinker. He will bring to the table solutions regarding the future of Auckland Super City including remedial action to address the recent Auckland City Council press release on the Climate Crisis. We have the technology and we must act now to make corrections and steer away from the causes of such life-threatening matters.
Peter has seen what is going wrong with Auckland, and has new and innovative ideas to get Auckland moving.
From his wealth of experience Peter recognises the financial waste politicians create, he will treat spending other people’s money with the respect it deserves. It is time to use Aucklanders hard earned rates money, wisely and look at cutting costs while delivering the services our city needs to flourish.
A Newly Led Council with You in Mind - Peter Vaughan’s manifestos
For more information on Peter’s candidacy, go to his website:
https://www.pvformayor.co.nz/
Alan, a hunting and fishing guide has been an outdoorsman all of his life. However over the last 50 years he has witnessed such a vast change in both the NZ way of life as well as the rapid decline in our once relatively pristine ecology and environment, that he has had to act.
That the only course of action to halt this decline was for him as an ‘out doors man’ - was to finally be impelled to start a political party to exact positive change.
Hence the birth of the OutdoorsParty.co.nz
Please Note this interview mentions: DOC = the Department of Conservation - MPI = the Ministry of Primary Industries and - ‘Winston’ = the leader of the NZ Party, which in the last election - 'held the balance of power' and that he was able to forge an Alliance with the Labour Party and the Green Party which enabled Jacinda Ardern to become the Prime Minister of NZ.
In this interview you will hear the timbre of Alan’s voice as he warmly articulates his love for our nation, our warm national character, our countryside and the magnificence of our scenery. However he also voices his disappointment of the Governmental agencies tasked to take care of our cherished environment and do the right thing for the future of generations to come. This interview was very enjoyable from the standpoint that Alan talked about a duty of care - that I as the interviewer became far to involved and talked far too much - when I needed to just ask questions - so I wish to apologise to Alan and listeners - for too much talk time.
The essence of this interview is on this web page and basically says it all. https://www.outdoorsparty.co.nz/
Walking and climbing many areas in the hills, ranges and mountains of NZ and specialising in being both a fishing and hunting guide. Alan has a very intimate relationship with the land and nature. This is where he has been able to dwell and think-through what needs to be done to restore our environment and bring through the old New Zealand values of yesteryear.
Quickly.
Healthy land, clean water, rivers and lakes and seashores
Regenerate fish in both inland waterways and along our coasts.
Speaking for hunters and fishermen and all activities of the great outdoors.
Low impact, high value agricultural production.
No more trawling of our coastal fisheries.
Establish environmental limits to economic growth
Focus on quality, not quantity in everything we do.
A society where health, happiness and compassion are our measures for success.
Major Platforms
A moratorium on 5G Technologies.
Halt aerial toxins of 1080, clean up the rapid decline of our inshore fisheries, and the importance to clean up our streams, rivers and lakes. Including hunting, land use in the public interest.
That all of these back into a healthy environment and ecology which equates to land, forests, and backcountry areas. Hence the name ‘Outdoors Party.’
Also realising that many people leave the cities on weekends and holidays to spend much needed time in the great outdoors.
Challenges
Dairy Farming
Alan mentions that the dairy farming industry, which is the backbone to NZ’s economy has to be challenged - especially on the Canterbury Plains where the irrigation sucks so much water out of the rivers and cows waste leaches so easily back down through the fragile soil - that contamination is escalating beyond the ability to control. He states that the industry has to take responsibility for it actions as it is majorly undermining our land and waterways as well as our future.
Dirty Dairying Exposed in the New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/15/opinion/new-zealand-cows.html
Fish & Salmon Farming
Salmon farming in NZ - is the cause of a huge amount of issues - from feeding low quality food to salmon, use of antibiotics, to the fish becoming diseased and that below the enclosure - high amounts of pollution that looks like a desolate lifeless wasteland.
Commercial fishing is taking from the NZ ‘Commons’ - which belongs to the NZ People - 'We the people own this resource’ - however it has been essentially taken over by an exceptionally small number of players. This is resulting in a huge waste of other species of fish, caught as ‘by-catch’ that are injured and returned to the water - but many end up dying - floating on the surface to eventually sink to the bottom of the sea. See further down this posting.
Hear about how the 'Recreational Fishing Reserves' that the National Party promised for the people, that were never taken up and followed through when they were in power. That there was no intention of this being actioned - and the National politicians breaking promises - year after year.
Kaitiaki
The word kaitiaki in Maori is mentioned by Alan - a very good word Kaitiaki is a New Zealand Māori term used for the concept of guardianship, for the sky, the sea, and the land. A kaitiaki is a guardian, and the process and practices of protecting and looking after the environment are referred to as kaitiakitanga.
It needs to be adhered to.
Aerial Toxins - 1080 poison.
Halting the aerial toxin 1080 being dropped by helicopter over large areas of the country which causes huge collateral damage to other animal species eating and taking in this poison and dying horrendous painful deaths.
He talks about the spin doctors from the Department of Conservation and the Green Party saying that they are totally accepting of this poison as the only option we have in this country. Yet, there are a number of small regions where the locals have used trapping and ‘targeted’ other poisons and they are highly successful - because with 1080, vast numbers of birds are dying - such as the native kea.
SPCA - has come out against 1080. But the Forest and Bird Society of all organisations, are so pro 1080 that they will not engage in finding other alternatives - other than continue supporting of ‘carpet bombing’ the bush and dropping tonne’s of poison green pellets where it gets into bush covered ravines and waterways - as they have no control of it - and as the poison pellets are made of cereal, birds are drawn to it.
Listen to Alan talk about 1080 - he will give you a graphic understanding by a witness who has seen deer that have eaten and taken in this poison and of the long horrific, agonising, torturous death these poisoned animals undergo that in Alan’s words is - unspeakable. Also talked to, was that 1080 is an extremely emotional issue - that has ferocious arguments coming from both sides of the ‘debate’ - because this issue is fervently being fought to actually save our fauna - however the process is so vociferous that after the 1080 argument dies down - the opposite actually takes place - silence and quietness throughout the entire area of the bush where 1080 is dropped.
5G
With the coming planned roll out of 5G technology across NZ - the Outdoors Party ‘is out there alone’ in comparison to all the other main political parties. They are calling for a ‘moratorium’ on the deployment of this technology. Especially as there has been no independent health studies that have been peer reviewed by independent scientists and doctors free from industry ties. At the time of this interview all the other main political parties have shown no interest in the health effects that this technology can/may cause. They are all pro 5G. Even though there are rapidly increasing numbers of very courageous scientists and doctors who are prepared to call out the industry for not doing ‘due diligence’ on the intensity of the frequencies that will be saturating all areas. This includes the rapid escalation of transmitting tower numbers being ubiquitous along all streets and neighbourhoods everywhere - many nest door to homes of families, schools and children’s preschools.
Who benefits from this tech? Alan says, 4G is quite ok for most of us. To take action people in NZ are talking about switching phone companies - Vodafone is going to be the first to deploy 5G across the country and so many Vodafone customers are changing to '2 Degrees’ - as they say their company is not going to 5G. This is one way to boycott the big guys. People are starting to organise in local groups across NZ and they are happening as this is being read. Sue Grey also belongs to the 'outdoors party' and was interviewed 3 weeks ago with much more info here.
https://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/sue-grey-the-urgency-to-educate-on-the-dangers-of-5g-technology-especially-with-mothers
NZ Coastal Fisheries being the 4th largest in area on earth.
Alan talks about these fisheries needing to being in the care for all NZers. Called the “commons.’ That they belong to the people of this country, and have to be managed for the people and our collective future. However large commercial interests have claimed 94% of the fishery and are taking huge numbers out fish of the sea, and virtually dumping these fish at low prices overseas. (Not adding value.)
So the perennial problem of the commercial sector is the continued netting of ‘by-catch’ - not the targeted fish that they have been given quota’s for - and then when caught - are dumped - most die due to being out of the water too long or are injured in this process.
The name Scott Macindoe comes up as a revered and highly acknowledged spokesman on behalf of the recreational fisherfolk of NZ and the challenges faced by them, especially against the commercial fishing juggernaut wanting to exert their need for more areas in which to fish. (listen).
Alan also wants NZ as a nation to focus on organics (not GE or GMO’s).
That we focus on value adding to all our exports as a huge number of logged trees are being exported from NZ without any ‘value adding’ to them. That we are selling them just as logs and we could sell them as sawn up and dressed timber or even more innovative products.
That we place an organic emphasis especially around health and that healthy food and food growing be taught to children in schools throughout NZ.
Legislation and the 1956 NZ Health Act.
The Act says it is for - improving, promoting and protecting public health.
What does it mean 'protecting public health?’
In promoting a healthy lifestyle for NZers, Alan states that when we take ourselves out doors into nature it can heal us in so many ways, especially from todays onset of stress and depression.
We also hear that being affiliated and going outdoors is spiritually good for all people, especially young people - with the result of far less health problems.
In this interview Alan shows his commitment to NZ’s fauna and fauna and what he and the Outdoors Party are undertaking for the good of the country. That is to exact change by going to Parliament to follow through on what their website manifesto states.
This is especially relevant to DOC whom he states - 'have lost their way.'
Alan Simmons https://www.outdoorsparty.co.nz
Having a Masters degree in physics he was influenced by his father’s books on the Rosicrucians that then took him into yoga and also to becoming a musician and experimenting with sound and understanding what constitutes sound, that some of the great masters brought through, as with Mozart.
When invited to work with Geoffrey Hodgson, originally from England, one of the most respected clairvoyants of the 20th century, Murray’s insight and understanding of the energies and frequencies that pervade and saturate the universe - took him deeply into the unseen world of Geoffrey Hodson. That - beyond the ‘filmiest of screens’ are other agencies of a higher order - devic beings - some call them landscape angels - that have in essence been over lighting evolution since life emerged onto our planet. Healthy Skepticism and not Dogmatic Scepticism*
Murray also talks about skepticism and what is healthy skepticism and not dogmatic scepticism - which like religions - especially Christianity it was very dogmatic until recently - that there is now a merger of science and religion. But that science too has now become so skeptical that it too follows the traits of becoming exceptionally dogmatic. Meaning, if you cannot see it and measure it, is not definitely not there.
Albert Einstein, who Murray mentions had mystical understandings was classified as a pantheist by the British Pantheist Society according to Tim’s communications with them back in 1996. That when NZ’s Lord Rutherford split the atom, Einstein said - that “Rutherford was the first person to tunnel into God.”
Also mentioned in this interview was Nikola Tesla’s statement “The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.”
Well, as we know - our universities are overburdened with subject matter as it is, thus science has made no real effort as things that are invisible, are also very difficult to commercialise.
Reductionist and Mechanistic Science
Murray talks about science today following a reductionist mechanical model - that by breaking down everything to its constituent parts to finally after cells we have atoms and subatomic particles. They say in the dissecting of an animal - it just works as a machine - and thus every living creature is seen as a machine. That this is actually valid - our bodies do act as machines - however the human body has been said for thousands of years, as always having a soul - or a spiritual essence.
The ancient Greeks from whom much of our scientific and biological language derive from, talk of ‘psyche’ as in psychology and psychiatrist - it means ‘soul’ - yet 90% of doctors may not believe in a soul, because they do not cover this or mention it, in their many years of medical school from 7 years to 13 years.
World Soul is Mentioned
The world soul (Greek: ψυχὴ κόσμου psuchè kósmou, Latin: anima mundi) is, according to several systems of thought, an intrinsic connection between all living things on the planet, which relates to the world in much the same way as the soul is connected to the human body. Plato adhered to this idea, so did Pythagoras.
However, back in 1957 in the then Soviet Union, Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain was published in America by Lynn Schroeder and Sheila Ostrander - this book really opened the eyes of the West - that not only were the Soviets studying psychokinesis they were researching telepathy and many other taboo subjects too.
However, unknown to most, the American’s were also working on some of these hidden ‘occult’ subjects as well. Harold Puthoff and Russell Targ of the Stanford Research Institute in California - were looking at ‘Remote Viewing’ and other scientific ways to access the hidden.
https://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/russell-targ-ex-cia-researcher-on-esp-and-remote-viewing
Murray mentions Charles Leadbeater who was a clairvoyant who was able to, in a deep meditative state - zero down and look into the heart of the atom. ThIs is a phenomenon that is outside of scientific man’s imagination. This is where Leadbeater was able to painstakingly count the number of protons in the nucleus of different atoms.
This momentous work on describing the structure of atoms - working through the periodic table to describe how many protons certain atoms had. This is very important - because he discovered the exact number of isotopes that were not know at the time, but subsequently we have now identified isotopes that now fill exactly those slots.
https://www.ts-adyar.org/content/charles-webster-leadbeater-1854-1934 Though this information too has not come out to the general public, due to MSM not wanting to delve into such data.
Murray’s ranging interview then covered his time with Geoffrey Hodson
http://geoffreyhodson.com/
Here he talked about his experiments he did with sound and colour as like the book - 'Music Forms’ - tells of how clairvoyants see the profusion of colour when certain music is played, in this instance the ‘hallelujah chorus’ (listen)
Devas or Landscape Angels
The interview went on to cover the great energies of ‘devas' that over lighted mountain tops (as well as in certain cases natural power points on the planetary energy grid. The books, ‘Kingdom of the Gods’ and ‘Clairvoyant Investigations’ - the latter writing, with drawings of the great beings or landscape angels that are present in NZ, over Rangitoto Island, and Ngāuruhoe, immediately behind Tongariro. etc (Listen)
It was also Geoffrey Hodson who introduced vegetarianism to NZ in 1943, because as a seer, he witnessed the dark clouds or thought forms that hung over abattoir’s and especially one giant one he saw over the huge abattoir in Chicago.
This was a very enjoyable interview with Murray. It is a realm that I have a keen interest in too. There is also a follow up - coming ...
Groups of people are organising across the country to have the discussion that the Teleco's are not prepared to have.
This is especially to do with health.
Recently groups have sprung up in Albany, Waiheke Island, Mangawhai, Torbay, West Auckland - Coromandel, Tauranga, Wanganui, Wellington, Nelson, and the Golden Bay/Takaka area so there is a grassroots movement spreading like mushrooms - because inherently there is a distrust of corporates, world wide as well as a reticence to believe in what our Governments are saying and not necessarily doing.
The Controversy. Sue originally was involved in researching 4G telephone wireless networks and that there was wifi very near to schools. Also, that telephone towers were placed close to play centres - like in one case 5 metres away and that the 'standards for this technology are written by the ‘corporates' who produce this technology. She also researched how the standards are enforced - about the NZ Government Advisory Committee and that if you are concerned about the harm - you are not allowed on the Government Advisory Committee.
5G Technology
5G radio waves are very short but very intense radio waves - and there is yet, not enough health data to support the safety of this technology.
There is also the deployment of telephone towers dispersed at around 100 meters distance from each other - especially in major built up areas like the inner city - but also across the suburbs and residential areas. Where our children spend most of their lives, including biota - pets, cats and dogs as well as flora - trees and shrubs.
But, we as a community have not been asked if we agree to having the close proximity of these towers to our homes. What Sue questions is, where is the public dialogue around this, when did the Teleco's engage us to ask us for our permission?
It's like Spark and Vodafone and the NZ Government are all ready to roll this technology out and we the community are still waiting to have the conversation as to its safety. Where is the engagement with the localised community?
The ‘Precautionary Principle’
Scientific Experts who are 'independent' who are not profiting from this 5G tech are realising that there are some serious deficiencies in the actual technology that is being ‘sold’ to us - as well as the process as to how we should approach this ‘new’ technology.
The ‘Precautionary Principle’ is not being adhered to - in the rush to get this technology out into the marketplace.
Why the Hyped Up Rush to Roll 5G Out?
As of this moment - if 5G was not rolled out for another year or two - how many people would it really affect? Would it affect you and your family? Would the world come to an end? Lets dwell on this, if we waited another year or two to really get clarity to its safety, would this not be prudent? Especially as we already see so many children suffering from health effects, that doctors can not diagnose as to what is the source.
Should we not also add to this a question around the decline in bee numbers? (The canaries in the coal mine?)
Sales over Civilisation?
The hype that big business is salivating over is driverless cars - well take one look at the coagulated motorways into and out of Auckland at rush hour every day - what's the urgency of a driverless car or wanting to download a movie or a video game into our smart phone in 10 seconds ...?
Really, is this where the narrative is going - that ‘we have to have it now’ and get it ‘whilst it is hot?’ If this is the general consensus - then we have to realise that the term 'conscious' choices will never prevail, as we as a civilisation lose our moral compass in a race to the bottom.
The Time lag of Learning the Pros and Cons.
People who have been alive for 50 years or longer will realise that ‘old NZ’ - was a country where there was a closer relationship between neighbours and community. That we once had politicians who we could approach and genuinely converse with. Political parties had ‘Manifestos” - which they produced prior to an election and that they would follow or do their best to adhere to.
Now-a-days it’s ‘ad hoc’ everything and intentions are thrown out the window as politicians 'make up policy on the fly' and they trust that because the world is moving at such a rapid pace that any flak or faux pas will have its 5 minutes in the headlines - to then be subsumed by more outrageous news to be quickly forgotten by the public - by the next election.
With the Corporate Agenda interlocking with Government, as the premise of the eroding of public confidence - we are finding that there is no real intent to educate the public on this global 5G issue. We are being subjected to glitzy advertising - telling us how much better the world is going to be with slick computer graphics and yet, all these videos do not show anything of nature - no trees, flowers or pastures green. (see Spark) - Because they are all being commissioned by head trippers who are controlling the narrative to buy into 5G.
Grass Roots Awakening across NZ.
However - across NZ there are concerned people who are aware of the problems that 5G may carry with it. Groups of people are organising to have the discussion that Teleco's will not have.
Such as recently in Albany, Waiheke Island, Mangawhai, Torbay, West Auckland - Coromandel, Tauranga, Wanganui, Wellington, Nelson, and the Golden Bay/Takaka area that there is a grassroots movement spreading like mushrooms - because inherently there is a distrust of corporate’s worldwide as well as a reticence to believe in what our Governments are saying and not necessarily doing or ... vice versa.
Global 5G Awakening
This grass roots uprising is happening overseas and at this stage it is in Brussels the seat of the EU Governmental Centre which has come out for a moratorium. But, Mill Valley in California is calling for a halt - Byron Bay in Australia is making a lot of noise and in Switzerland one of the Cantons has dug in and said stop.There are many other places, such as in Italy, Florence is pushing for the Precautionary Principle and the Rome district wants to follow suit. Even in Russia the Defence Ministry has acknowledged 5G’s problems. However, as MSM - ‘mainstream media’ (along with Google) is all pro 5G - it is extremely difficult to get a full coverage of how many regions of all the world’s countries are involved in pushing back.
The Minister of the Government of the Brussels-Capital Region, Céline Fremault, has vowed to halt 5G deployment. “The people of Brussels are not guinea pigs whose health I can sell at a profit,” states Fremault in an interview with L’Echo. “I cannot welcome such technology if the radiation standards, which must protect the citizen, are not respected, 5G or not.”
Brussels halts 5G deployment indefinitely: 5G project, says authorities, not compatible with radiation safety standards
https://www.newstarget.com/2019-08-20-brussels-halts-5g-deployment-indefinitely-radiation-safety-standards.html
How Citizens Can Organise To Come Together
In this interview NZ's Nuclear Free Movement back in the mid 1980s was invoked as an example of how individuals and communities across the country came together back then. This was when local people, like mothers, churches, disarmament activists and people just wanting a peaceful world went to their local, regional councils, including towns, cities and boroughs and having them pass municipal by-laws that made each particular area a Nuclear Free Zone. That over time the numbers increased until there were around 105 Nuclear Free 'Zones' across the whole nation. These covered an area of around 67% of human habitat - that allowed David Lange the NZ Prime Minister the mandate to make into Law, that NZ become a Nuclear Free Country. This was an example of democracy being allowed to fulfil itself.
Building a Groundswell
This example of community involvement could be used to encourage NZer's to instigate more 5G communities to show the Government our ‘elected servants’ that there is a huge groundswell of public opinion that is not at all happy with the way 5G technologies is being enforced on the NZ public. More so, that next year NZ is having its general election and this could very well be an election issue.
Elections Coming Up
Also that later on this year there are Local Government elections and Councillors have to be elected - and already mentioned in this interview 4 Board Members attended the Albany local 5G presentation that allowed them to see the seriousness of what this technology presents. As well as the concerns of the electorate.
How to Organise Locally at Grassroot Levels
5GFree-NZ on Facebook and www.5G.org.nz are places for you to peruse - especially - if you want to start up a local 5G Group.
Sue is also involved with Oceania Radiofrequency Scientific Advisory Association (ORSAA) It’s an Advisory Panel that brings together multidisciplinary scientific experts from the Oceania region as well as from other parts of the world. They are connected to many other leading experts globally.
https://www.orsaa.org/advisory-board.html
Doctors and Professionals are ‘encouraged’ not to speak out against 5G.
As a side note - because Doctors are in a profession with exacting standards - they have to have permission from their 'Medical Association' - if they wish to make any pronouncements on health issues in the public arena.
In the case of speaking up against technologies such as genetic modification, vaccines, fluoridation etc - this is way outside the bounds of what the Medial Association allows.
It is forbidden and if a medical professional speaks out against such subject matter they are 'warned' that they will lose their license and thus all such doctors etc are kept on a very short leash.
Hence, you will rarely see a Dr speak out on public health issues. The same goes for scientists and many University professors - as
well.
Doctor’s Grouping in Large Numbers.
There is a large group of Doctors ready to speak out - so they are grouping in numbers large enough to have safely in numbers. This is about to happen very soon.
This is a Global Issue … and we are exposed to 5G radiation 24/7/365
Science is finding DNA damage - and even our ability to clearly think, when in the presence of wireless radiation. Some liken this radiation to living in an airport security zone 24/7/365
The NZ Health Act
Legislation and the 1956 NZ Health Act.
It says that they are for improving, promoting and protecting public health.
What does it mean 'protecting public health?
This is where the focus of 5G needs to concentrate on. What are the NZ Authorities, the Government and the Health Department doing to prove that this technology is safe?
In this interview we learn that the Ministry of Health is interpreting the Act differently and not necessarily protecting public health - but more so vested interests! (Listen) - even just for the first 1 minute will give you a startling understanding of what we are having to deal with.
Time for a 5G Moratorium across NZ.
By enacting a ‘moratorium’ in the meantime - allows the ‘precautionary principle’ to be acknowledged - this to any wise, civic, responsible elder is the prudent thing to do.
Can New Zealand become a global leader and become 5G Free?
This is a very quick synopsis of only 15 minutes into this very important understanding of the dangers of deploying 5G before the facts of its safety and efficacy are made known.
5GFree-NZ on Facebook and www.5G.org.nz are places for you to peruse - especially - if you want to start up a local 5G Group.
https://takebackyourpower.net/
I enjoyed talking with Sue on this vexing subject, and to find a way to solve the 5G challenge. - Tim
Christine Rose is a Campaign Advisor for World Animal Protection, continuing her decades-long advocacy for better protection for Māui and Hector's dolphins.
In her role in this global animal welfare organisation, Christine applies her knowledge of politics and love of philosophy into 'the new frontier' of animal ethics, working to move the world for animals' welfare and rights.
The New Zealand Government has now released the public consultation draft for its Threat Management Plan, TMP, for Māui and Hector's dolphins – New Zealand’s only endemic dolphin species, and among the world’s most endangered. The proposed plan doesn't go far enough she says. It fails to protect all habitat for all Māui and Hector's sub-populations.
You can make a submission below by August 19, 2019.
MAUI AND HECTOR’S DOLPHINS
Māui and Hector’s are the smallest (and among the rarest) dolphins in the world and are only found in New Zealand. These much-loved dolphins are friendly and often interact with surfers and swimmers.
Māui and Hector’s dolphins are a New Zealand “taonga” (a highly valued treasure) and are celebrated in our culture and art. They deserve our respect and protection.
The official population estimate for Māui dolphins is about 57 and, in 2018 alone, at least four Māui’s dolphins were found dead on North Island beaches. Some of the small South Island Hector’s dolphin sub-populations number as low as 40 individuals. The problem is simple – much of the Hector’s and Māui habitat is unprotected from human threats and human populations. Areas they live in, travel through and need to survive have limited or no protection. Because of the fishing activity within their habitat, dolphins continue to get caught in nets and drown – sometimes whole families.
WHAT IS THE TMP - THREAT MANAGEMENT PLAN
The TMP is a plan used by the Department of Conservation and Fisheries New Zealand to help make management decisions around threats towards protected species in New Zealand.
The first Hector's and Māui dolphin TMP was created in 2007 to evaluate and manage the risks from threats such as fishing, tourism, vessel strike, pollution, climate change, and disease. Protection measures were established to help protect Māui and Hector’s dolphins.
The Govt only reviews its Maui and Hector's dolphin Threat Management Plan once every 5-10 years and these dolphins are on the brink of extinction. There are only about 57 adult Maui dolphins and some of the small South Island subpopulations are even lower in number.
The proposed TMP doesn't cover the whole dolphin range - it misses out off-shore range to 100m deep, and subpopulations on the North Island East Coast, between the North and South Islands, Marlborough Sounds, gaps around the East and South Coasts of the South Island.
It allows seabed mining and oil and gas exploration in most of the dolphins' habitat. it fails to impose a rigorous and robust monitoring programme. It allows 80-100 dolphins to be killed as by-catch every year. It overstates the costs to the fishing industry of full protection, and understates the benefits according to the work that has been commissioned by World Animal Protection.
It would seem that cameras need to be installed on all commercial fishing vessels.
GILL NETS ARE THE MAIN PROBLEM
Fishing nets have killed all but a third of the Hector's and Maui dolphins. It's time to stop! Gillnets are the most serious threat, followed by trawling.
Scientific research has proven that the current protection measures are NOT enough.
Fishing nets have killed all but a third of the Hector's and Maui dolphins. It's time to stop! Gillnets are the most serious threat, followed by trawling.
SO FEW DOLPHINS LEFT
About 45 Hector's dolphins live in Porpoise Bay in the Catlins, 42 off Otago, two or three hundred in Te Waewae Bay on the south coast, and about 200 off the north coast of the South Island.
Hector's dolphin is rapidly following in the footsteps of Maui dolphin, with their populations becoming more and more fragmented. One after the other small, local population has dwindled, endangering the species as a whole.
These dolphins range to 20 nautical miles offshore, so if protection is extended to all waters less than 100 metres deep we would see the populations grow and recover from the losses they have suffered over the last four decades. This would stop the continued dolphin by-catch (entanglement in fishing gear) problem.
WORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION
Christine also spoke about the four aspects of the work done by World Animal Protection.
Animals in Communities
Animals play a vital role in communities worldwide – and we need to protect them. Christine explains that they help governments to manage dog populations humanely and to vaccinate against rabies, instead of culling dogs. They share advice on responsible pet ownership. They prevent working animals being overworked and abused. They do whatever is necessary to protect animals in communities worldwide, including at home here in New Zealand.
Animals in Farming
Christine says, “The majority of animals farmed for food live in conditions that cause suffering and stress. It’s time to rethink farming.
The treatment of farm animals is the world’s biggest animal welfare issue – and it’s getting bigger. By 2050, livestock production will be twice what it was in 2000. Right now, more than 70 billion animals are farmed for food each year – two-thirds in conditions that mean they can’t move freely or live naturally. We campaign for progress at every stage – from farming to transportation to slaughter.”
Animals in Disasters
It is necessary to move fast to protect animals affected by disasters, reducing suffering and helping governments and communities to recover and rebuild.
Animals in the Wild
World Animal Protection works around the globe to protect and save world animals, and to keep wild animals in the wild, where they belong. They try and stop elephants from being ridden and allow them to be wild animals, for example.
You can find out more at https://www.worldanimalprotection.org.nz/
CHRISTINE ROSE
Christine Rose is a Campaign Advisor for World Animal Protection, continuing her decades-long advocacy for better protection for Māui and Hector's dolphins. In her role in this global animal welfare organisation, Christine applies her knowledge of politics and love of philosophy into 'the new frontier' of animal ethics, working to move the world for animals' welfare and rights. Previously she has been a councillor for Auckland Regional Council and a board member for Rodney District Council.
In her spare time, Christine spends as much time in and on the sea as possible. She's a writer often focusing on environmental ethics, and a ceramic artist and painter, inspired by nature and the ocean.
MAKE A TMP SUBMISSION
You can make a submission by either copying the submission below, or adapting it to one of your own, or sign this submission from World Animal Protection – but time is short.
Consultation: Hector’s and Māui Dolphin Threat Management Plan
Submission form:
Contact details - phone number, email
Email to: DolphinTMP@doc.govt.nz by August 19 2019
(Thanks to Suzanne Vincent for writing this.)
“The proposal falls far short of what is required. The best options described do not even approach the levels of protection for Maui dolphins recommended by the International Whaling Commission and the IUCN, or in the Green and Labour Party conservation policies. The options proposed to protect Hector’s dolphins fall even shorter, even though these dolphins are also endangered.
It is essential that the following measures are taken:
Large numbers of these dolphins are dying in fishing nets. For there to be any chance of these species recovering and thriving, human induced deaths must be reduced to effectively zero for both species. For this reason, only dolphin-safe fishing methods must be used in their habitat. Fishing is the most urgent threat, and these measures must be taken swiftly and decisively: it is not acceptable for fishing interests to prevail in this situation.
Research commissioned by World Animal Protection found that in comparison to the benefits to be gained from full protection throughout the full Maui and Hector’s habitat, the costs to the fishing industry are minor. 2. Cameras must be installed on all commercial fishing vessels to ensure compliance with the restrictions, and to ensure that bycatch is reported accurately: Monitoring is low in some areas, and more dolphins are being caught than is known; it is very important that we have an accurate picture of what is happening 3. Of these threats, seismic surveying and seabed mining pose the greatest risk to Hector’s and Māui dolphins. There must be an outright ban on seabed mining, oil exploration and drilling from the entire Hector’s and Māui dolphin habitat The severe pressures from noise and seabed disturbance from the activities of oil exploration, drilling and seabed mining, including sediment discharge, must be eradicated from the dolphins’ entire habitat. It is not sufficient to impose restrictions only for new activities, the threats must be removed from areas covered by existing permits. Government must take clear action to prohibit all activities that create disturbance to the habitat, and which could easily result in the loss of these species.
Thank you for the opportunity to make this submission.”
Jodie is a Trustee for Physicians Scientists for Global Responsibility, an organisation that has been around for about 20 years.
Its focus is on independent science information in the public interest, and the public’s right to be independently informed on issues concerning both ecosystem and human health. https://www.psgr.org.nz/about-us
Jodie also founded the organisation Rite-Demands.org to draw attention to the problems of inadequate chemical regulation, that currently is too outdated and too dependent on private industry produced science to protect public health.
However, she stresses that this interview is not on behalf of PSGR. This interview reflects her independent research on what is happening in NZ.
The challenges today are how to promote wellbeing in the population and protect NZ's future generations. Though at heart it is very simple – it is about good nutrition, clean food and water, and transparency and accountability in Government. But when you delve into it, it is very complex, because we deal with each issue separately – we put health issues in silos, but when people tip into one illness, they frequently tip into more.
The Data is Telling The data increasingly demonstrates that the nation’s health is being unduly affected by a combination of poor nutrition and toxicity that we are finding in the growing list of illnesses that we see in our population today. New Zealand doesn’t do much research to understand this, but this shouldn’t keep us from understanding the international science that indicates nutritional parameters are presently at very low levels. These can cause disease and depressive symptoms, as well as chemical exposures in the general public, thus creating long-term damaging stress to our body biology, that also sets the stage for increasing even more disease.
The increases in population level illnesses are alarming. But, especially in children.
Comorbidity
Jodie wants everyone to know what the word ‘comorbidity’ means – because when you become ill - you frequently do not become ill with just one affliction.
For example, the science literature shows that people with irritable bowel or a functional disturbance of the intestines - that about 60% of people are likely to also suffer from depression as well. Comorbidity is common. With obesity - there is a massive overlap with type 2 diabetes and depressive disorder - that is an issue and these have been increasing dramatically over just the last 5 years. Then heart disease risk, cancer risk, osteoporosis can be added in etc. Yet, we do not see budgeting in the public sector to talk about this cumulative cost of comorbidity.
Overlapping illnesses with other illnesses.
So if you are not taking in healthy food (chemical free, with appropriate, bio-available fibre), then down-stream, you may experience bowel issues - that is where we absorb nutrients. We are now having issues with bone density or we have rheumatoid arthritis - or we can’t properly concentrate at school, and it’s affecting our IQ and our ability to learn, cope and have resilience. All of these may be impaired as well. But, what is shown is that you just don’t have eczema or Crohn’s disease and fatigue - what you are experiencing can be an overlap of many ailments.
Why is this Happening?
The question that is being asked is why is this happening? Science tells us that we can have a genetic connection, but frequently a genetic disposition is a secondary factor, - it is the environment, the combination of dietary and inflammatory stress that tips us into disease that we are genetically predisposed to. (Of course some people will express clearly inherited traits in every generation.) This is why 50 to 80 years ago we did not have the huge numbers of problems that we have now.
Endocrinologists are noticing the problems
Hormone mimicking chemicals harm us at parts per billion and parts per trillion, lower than the levels chemical regulators look at. So what are the endocrinologists saying - like Dr. Leo Trasande - he’s looking at the plastics in our diet - pesticides, air pollution, personal care products, household products and that they are adding up. Dr Trasande said in the book ‘Sicker, Fatter, Poorer’ that the problems of hormone damage directly relate to the pressures from all these chemicals – ‘Endocrine-disrupting chemicals are the second greatest environmental challenge of our time.’ Second to Climate Change. This is how serious things are becoming.
Jodie, says we are affected from conception - a baby foetus inside its mother can be exposed to between 200 to 300 plus different chemicals. A young child is worryingly more exposed. For example you give a toddler a glass of milk and then give an adult a glass of milk - the toddler will have 3 to 5 times the exposure of the adult because of the size of the drink to body weight - so when you do a urine test or a blood serum test for that toddler it has a far greater exposure rate with high urinary or blood germ concentrations. This means that the toddler is being exposed to far more challenges than any adult – but there are no science resources in New Zealand to understand how this is harming our children.
This is not really being considered by regulators. - please listen
Just like a young mother putting on sunscreen to protect their child from the intensity of UV, yet the creams are now considered to have ingredients that are toxic as well.
Once NZ had an Independent Scientific Government Department - called the DSIR.
Need for Independent Science Research Jodie sees the importance to not only have authorities check food for safety but also we critically need funding to protect and regenerate our soil health so that our crops and our animals are healthier and more resilient to pests. The science is there. We need to inform and resource farmers via old fashioned but really effective extension services. Where once NZ had a very robust Government Department called the DSIR - the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, which had top quality research scientists who were free of any commercial interests and could check out and publish research on all aspects of nature - the food chain, and any other industrial purpose, having especially a deep focus on biology, but this has nearly all been lost. This came about, when the 4th Labour Government found themselves selling off a large percentage of NZ's State Owned Enterprises, the Crown Jewels of Government - and the DSIR was off loaded as well. Thus we lost an independent body of scientists who at one level were also public health watch dogs.
Lack of Robust NZ Media.
So the precautionary approach today has in many ways a very small voice - as the media, the Fourth Estate rarely puts out an article that for example, reflects who paid for the science, or what the ethical implications might be.
The importance of ‘basic’ science – science silos can’t address comorbidity
New Zealand pays people to do ‘applied’ ‘silo-like’ science – zero in on one little issues. But the important ‘basic’ science that can look across issues and see big problems is comparatively rare.
The importance of Epidemiologists Epidemiologists in NZ are so now very critical, as like Grant A Schofield, Boyd Swinburn and Alister Woodward - that we have very few areas in public health science where people are focusing on this multi-disciplinary problem - this comorbidity - that is not being looked at as either an economic problem or a ‘wellbeing' perspective. NZ is not paying people to research this area - just like Jodie, she is a volunteer and not being paid. So we have a vacuum in this field and it is important for the NZ public to address this yawning horrible gap in public health and in our general awareness.
NZ Revolutionary ‘Wellbeing’ - Budget did not cover food or diet.
Boyd Swinburn in referring to the NZ’s Government’s ‘Revolutionary’ Wellbeing Budget’ said no mention was made of food or diet - so this is a huge dropout by both treasury and the health department - because we all have to eat 3 times a day.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12245436 Jul 2, 2019 - Boyd Swinburn: Drastic change in our food systems needed. 2 Jul, 2019 ... Our future food systems must continue to add to our wellbeing
In asking about who else is speaking out about health and wellbeing …she said there are a lot of science based experts in NZ talking on the need for healthy nutrition, diet and the importance of micronutrients - but they are not getting any traction in Government Policy – their idea of ‘treatment’ involves drugs, not nutrition.
So Jodie says we just have to look further up the command chain within Government. In particular if public servants are really making rules and policies that are consistent with the purpose or function or intention of the Act - that then actually gives them the power to make decisions and rules. Everything the Government (our elected servants) does should be in the public interest, and there is a wide body of administrative law supporting this.
NZ Health Act 1956
What is it under the Act that our Government Departments are working for? For example - Jodie is talking with young Mums with two year olds that are home - she says - go to your computer and Search - Legislation NZ Health Act 1956 and then search up the function of the Ministry in relationship to public health and this shows you in Section A … the Ministry shall have the function of improving, promoting and protecting public health’
Note: ‘Protecting Public Health.’
Education for our children – connecting nutrition with biology.
We do not have home economics of food science - that actually look at nutrition - as food science is slanted towards food technology.
So teenagers are taught to prepare food for the market - Let's produces something suitable that can be sold on the market – but they don’t understand how cabbage or broccoli work in the gut to prevent disease and reduce mental illness. Preferably organic.
They are not taught that magnesium comes from plant chlorophyll that many thousands of years ago, prior to starting to become an agricultural society we were eating so many dark green leafy plants - and now the food we eat today is being denuded of the magnesium that we need in our diet.
A Better Green Healthy Diet improves Wellbeing.Due to our present diet, our body physiology that requires magnesium is devoid of this important mineral. Children are lacking this element that is in need to give them deep quality sleep at night. Current diets don’t provide the broad variety bioavailable fibre that the microbiome needs (the intestines) i.e to feed beneficial bacteria and fungi - that not only assist for better sleep, but better skin, plus they might not be so irritable and actually doing better in school tests, too.
Education is Needed!Our education system should be teaching our kids that a good healthy gut synthesises hormones, as well as makes neurotransmitters. The population of New Zealand thinks that mental health is only in the brain. Mental health is directly connected to stress and trauma – but critically – nutrition and toxicity (and the ability of the microbiome to deal with that toxicity).
They may not be so 'jumping up and down' - they might also not be so sad …
Deficiency In Our DietAnother example Jodie mentions - If we look up the B vitamins - Vitamin D and Vitamin C and magnesium and you look up the symptoms of deficiency - then come from the other end - look at depression and anxiety and look at the somatic symptoms the physiological body symptoms of depression and anxiety - and if every young mother did this and connected the dots as to where these deficiency symptoms that we are seeing in mental health - that this is why it's so debilitating to our youth or in Jodie’s words it’s actually trashing our young people.
Obligations of the Ministry of HealthConsider the obligation of the Ministry of Health – that they should have the ‘function of improving, promoting and protecting public health.’ - and we are given prescriptions of anti-depressants and anti-anxiety - she says they have their place - but they do not heal. Add on the other drugs for the frequently comorbid conditions…
The Ministry has the ‘function of improving, promoting and protecting public health.’
We have to clean up our diet and clean up all food additives going all the way back through the food chain to our soil and water.
This interview covers so many points affecting our health - within our body - but also the soil and waterways of NZ.
It is important that you take the time to download this interview into your computer as it is only 20 megabytes and that is the equivalent of around 7 photographs. - Tim
Extra Data.
This below is the 25th Australian dietary survey, It’s important as the North Island receives most of its wheat from Australia, these cereals have many different sprays of agrichemicals, so the mixture of chemicals (some of which probably cause cancer) on cereals is eye opening.
http://www.foodstandards.gov.au/publications/Pages/25th-Australian-Total-Diet-Study.aspx
Recommended reading:
Sir Geoffrey Palmer & Andrew Butler’s critically important 2018 book ‘Towards Democratic Renewal’ draws attention to the problems of democracy in New Zealand, with recommendations moving forward. Members at PSGR’s annual AGM stressed members read ‘Towards Democratic Renewal’ (ISBN: 9781776561834). The content provides an assessment of problematic governance and the requirement for greater transparency and accountability within the public sector. This book is a great gift for the younger generation, it is useful for understanding the machinery of government, while providing a hopeful and logical pathway to a new era of governance-direction and human rights for New Zealand.
An extract from a 2014 paper:
JA Tainter & TG Taylor: Complexity, problem-solving, sustainability and resilience: ‘Increasing complexity, effective at first, seems inexorably to accumulate and to evolve to diminishing returns, undermining the ability to solve future problems’.
‘Complexity is a basic problem-solving tool. Confronted with problems, societies often respond by developing more complex technologies, establishing new institutions, adding more specialists or bureaucratic levels to an institution, increasing organization or regulation, or gathering and processing more information. While societies usually prefer not to bear the cost of complexity, problem-solving efforts are powerful complexity generators. All that is needed for the growth of complexity is a problem that requires it. Since problems continually arise, there is persistent pressure for complexity to increase’. P.169
In human societies that are hierarchical, the benefits of complexity often accrue at the top of a hierarchy, while the costs are paid at lower levels. Since benefits and costs do not connect, the cost of complexity often cannot constrain its growth. P.170
Thousands of people today are opting to live with an intention to work and play together in establishing a high quality yet low impact lifestyle. Nested Communities
Blending nature and architecture into one’s daily living, opens a new vista of possibility for both creativity and group dynamics. To welcome 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 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 can live together in co-creative harmony.
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 - the Global Ecovillage Network is springing up like quintessential life force nodal points - all around the curvature of our home planet - taking us into the next evolutionary spiral of an awakening earth, nested in a regenerating biosphere.
A renewal of human endeavour
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 the human family - shaping a new tomorrow for our children’s, children’s, children. Recognising that within the new emerging paradigm limitation has no boundaries.
In this interview, Kosha tells us:
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 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 all participators realised that our present day civilisation was undoing the very fabric of both nature and the way we were living.
Also, that we need to reconnect again with each other in a duty of care and by being mindful, take over as guardians of life, by connecting to the power of community. That by their duty of care and inner wisdom realised that they had to not only sustain life but more so - regenerate life for all biota - within the majesty of our life supporting biosphere.
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.
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 of great integrity. From this they are able to share their experience, knowledge and solutions to assist new communities to grow and prosper.
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 Co housing - or Transition Towns - so have a deep knowingness as to how communities can cohesively ‘come into being.’
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 cultures - that are often the seed of such a project.
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 solutions - in a group situation - this is when novelty and creative energies converge- synergistically - and profound creative works evolve.
Based on all 4 areas of regeneration - around ecology, economy, social and culture.
GEN is also involved in supporting - co-op gardens - Green cafes, green schools - business wanting to become more holistically green - and conscious.
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 and eco nations and eco civilisations. Being all encompassing - Ecos - the Greek word Oikos to do with taking care of the home - the ecos-sphere - coming home to Our planet.
Global Family
It's a whole movement that is transforming human presence on our planet - from the individual up to societal change.
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.- and to show a pathway there - ‘they’ in her words - love to go there.
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
Indigenous communities are mentioned as being very important. As with the increasingly rapid changes brought about by technical and industrial man it has thrown so many traditions out of balance. Especially, as to what is happening with globalised land management, like industrial agriculture, cropping, harvesting, transport and marketing, that so many countries are having major challenges in adapting to this fast moving world. Particularly as to housing and educating the rural population to be participators in the future of their regions and countries.
Kosha also says that we are meant to sing ourselves back into life - that at heart need to find ourselves in a secure and peaceful situation that we are able to just sing ourselves into happiness. There are community gardens in Auckland where people come to garden yet, sing as well.
De-colonialisation - how do we heal this? Especially land issues that have not been acknowledged with indigenous peoples all around the globe who have been unfairly discriminated against. They feel very good about GEN and what it offers. To be able to learn the skills to reconcile many of the injustices that have happened over time.
Aotearoan Maori.
Especially regarding the marae becoming the centre of eco village learning.
Subjects covered: organic food growing, permaculture - renewable energy, and the fact that in the early 1970’s 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 to make the rural sector more productive.
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 able to offer substantial advice and information for any prospective groups of people wanting to commit to building a community, that and ways about getting funding for infrastructure etc.
Business Enterprises
GEN is focussing on social entrepreneurship so as to make communities resilient and viable and there are many innovative ways to cooperate and collaborate. Time banks, Green dollars, savings pools and all manner of ways to make diversify into the marketplace. They have so many resources to share as to how to sustainably build up a successful, localised, economic model.
UBUNTU
There were many other questions that did not get asked, especially the term Ubuntu, which comes from South Africa where Kosha was born.
“Ubuntu” is an African expression of ancient wisdom, which is echoed by all ancient civilizations. It simply means “unity within community” where everyone contributes their natural talents or skills for the greater benefit of all.
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 – 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.
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 and individual talents.
This interview with Kosha gives an excellent entry level understanding and overview of how to approach the challenges of forming an intentional (or any 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 the resources of a huge network of like minded yet diverse conscious people. This being a forerunner to a new planetary paradigm.
https://ecovillage.org
Hordur Torfason suffered as a young man fighting personal discrimination, having been bullied and chased from Iceland for being gay. He then gave what he had learned from it to the whole of Iceland, in the wake of the global financial crisis. He stood strong for human rights, and found himself leading Iceland in the ‘Cutlery Revolution’.
He came to New Zealand this year to speak about how ‘the leader he was looking for was inside himself’.
GAY RIGHTS
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 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 was inside myself”!
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. Constantly threatened, he had to flee to Denmark.
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 company.
Now accepted, “Hörður Torfason is a noted Icelandic songwriter and activist. He has written plays and poetry, played numerous roles on stage and in several films, directed about 50 stage productions and designed and built stage sets for most of them.” Wikipedia.
THE ICELAND REVOLUTION
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 three of Iceland's major commercial banks defaulted on their debts. The value of the national currency fell sharply. A severe economic depression set in. Unemployment tripled. Many people lost all their savings. The nation was in crisis. All around him, Torfason saw desperation, confusion and anger. "It was obvious no-one was going to help them," he says.
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 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.
He had two questions for parliament:
“Do you know what happened and how can you explain it?”
and “Have you any idea what to do about it?”
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 agreed. He led the idea but cleverly got buy-in from the crowd.
In the interview Hordur explains how two Iceland banks had been ‘bought’ by private interests for no money, showing the corrupt relationship between the politicians and business.
THE WRITING OF ICELAND’S CONSTITUTION
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 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 importance of having a constitution and how it should be reviewed or renewed every 20 years as things are always changing.
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 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 white middle aged white men behind parliament running everything.”
THE YELLOW VEST MOVEMENT:
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 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 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 protesting. He also advises to ignore rudeness, It is just the inability to express themselves.
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 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 disturbing the politicians in parliament. It is good to have an identifying theme when protesting.
WHAT NOW:
Recently Hordur had a book published about his life and protests. It is called, “Bylting”, which means both Breakthrough and Revolution in Icelandic. Here’s hoping it is translated into English soon.
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.
He lives in Reykjavik with his partner Massimo Santanicchia who is an urbanist, planner, and assistant professor at the Iceland Academy of the Arts in Reykjavik.
“Agent of Change” – a write up of Hordur’s 2019 visit to New Zealand.
https://www.odt.co.nz/lifestyle/magazine/agent-change-0
Here is Lisa’s 2013 Greenplanetfm interview with Hordur
https://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/hordur-torfason-icelandic-political-activist
Here is Lisa’s 2016 Greenplanetfm interview with Hordur
https://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/hordur-torfason-the-icelandic-revolution-activist
In this interview Allan tells the story about the finding of a treasure in the earth. It's called bentonite clay - Maori would call it a ‘taonga’ - in that embedded in the ground of the Southland Plains in New Zealand, they are able to collect from the 'living earth' a mineral clay, that when ingested - can profoundly benefit our health.
To which Allan states, 'nature is the chemist’.
Allan Thomas and his wife Noreen are from Gore in the South, of the South Island of New Zealand. As a genuine kiwi South Islander, Allan tells us in his down to earth way (no pun intended) - that he has always been into fitness, athletics, and health in general and in 2010 one of his mates, now his business partner - told him that the area where they lived had a clay that was extremely rich in minerals that upon it analysis they called it 'living clay.'
He intuitively felt that this was right.
Allan, intuitively upon reading this report on clay’s ‘efficacy' immediately decided to drink this as a soluble preparation - and noticed changes within his being very soon after. (listen to him drinking before thinking).
It was within days, that he cajoled his wife and his new-to-be business partners into sipping - to realise how healthy they felt - especially being able to have a very good restful sleep. At this time he also recognised that the clay as a soluble drink (or in capsule form) - was instrumental in detoxing himself from all the toxins that we are taking in from today’s environment. Many of them unknowingly.
With environmental toxins playing such a significant factor in the onset of all manner of illness and disease, it becomes imperative to protect ourselves from them, and to remove them from our systems as rapidly as possible. Unfortunately, it's impossible to completely avoid these toxins; they are in the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat. Internal cleansing and detoxification are needed to remove these substances from our bodies.
Fortunately we now have a more natural way to detoxify our body, that has very few reactions, and works very well —it's called calcium Bentonite clay.
What is Calcium Bentonite Clay, and How Does it Work?
Calcium Bentonite clay is a member of the Montmorillonite/Smectite family of clays. Also called Living Clay, it is one of the most sought after of the healing clays. It carries a uniquely strong negative ionic charge which causes it to magnetically attract any substance with a positive ionic charge (i.e., bacteria, toxins, metals, etc.). These substances are both adsorbed (sticking to the outside like Velcro) and absorbed (drawn inside) by the clay molecules. The toxins are then eliminated from the body as the clay is eliminated or removed.
Calcium Bentonite clay is used both internally and externally to detoxify the body. Clay cannot be digested, so when taken internally in liquefied form, the clay passes through your system collecting the toxins, and removing them as the clay is eliminated. If drinking the liquefied clay is not palatable to you, you can take it as capsules, or it can be added to food, juices, or smoothies. Used externally, clay baths have proven to be highly effective at removing toxins also. Because of clay's excellent drawing effect, the clay has the power to literally pull toxicities through the pores of the skin in the bath.
Allan talks about the energies of clay and he recognises something in it that he intuitively sees - as alive.
Clay can not be patented
Fortunately, since clay is 'nature made’ - it cannot be patented by pharmaceutical corporations, so they are unwilling to promote its use, however the downside of this is that most of today’s Medical professionals like doctors are unaware of the benefits of Bentonite clay.
In this interview Allan shares with us many testimonials as to the healing effects that people have experienced yet always with the caution of keeping your health professional informed. He says virtually all Naturopaths are aware of the many benefits of ‘clay’ - so they are always a good source of support and validation.
In furthering this interview Allan says that as we grow older certain ideas or thoughts come up and he reckons that he has been on the path to looking for a healthy way to improve the human condition. That essentially includes all of humanity and in this interview mentions the time when he felt a presence that has lead him to where he is now. Supporting people to draw from the earth sustenance that will benefit their long term health.
Energy and ‘frequency' are in Allan's estimation two important components underpinning and underlying our health and he mentions them.
He says, 'If natural medicine works for you - that’s all the science one needs.'
He really likes the word energy … because Allan maintains that the clay has certain energies that work on the more subtle areas of our health. He cannot name it as such - however he innately knows that the minerals have a certain charge and these may have a synergistic effect whilst passing through the intestines.
Stating a natural product has its own natural frequency, especially if it has not been interfered with.
I asked him, if there are bacteria in this clay?
He said no, that there are no bacteria in the clay and he says that due to the initial forming of it, there never will be.
During the interview - super phosphates get mentioned as we know NZ farmland is loaded with phosphates - Percy Weston writes - an important story about them
https://www.westonaprice.org/book-reviews/cancer-cause-and-cure-by-percy-weston/
NOTE: If minerals are not in the soil they are not in your food.
Allan talks about everyone having a gift of one way or another - from healing hands to green fingers etc … from my interview I felt a vibe from him that carried a duty of care as well.
If your body is sleeping - it is repairing …
Both Rudolf Steiner and Ralph Waldo Emmerson’s names come up in this informative interview
This interview to me was very insightful and I recommend that you further your research into this health modality. - Tim
www.Puresouth.co.nz Allan Thomas
Contact: 0274 33 66 46 Phone or Text
As the caretaker of GreenplanetFM.com and its ‘container’ Ourplanet.org how did Tim come to obtain two powerful US web names - especially now that Sir David Attenborough is the main focus for Ourplanet.com ?
Of the 7.7 billion humans who inhabit ‘our planet spaceship earth’ - more and more are rapidly recognising that ‘we are Crew’ - who have been ‘absent without leave’ - AWOL. Now the message and command of the moment is for all crew to return to their posts and consciously cooperate and collaborate to stabilise both the ship and its complement - and save the mission! But more so, they are finding out that their ship is a Mothership - a ‘super living organism’ that science is belatedly holding back in recognising.
Tim says that back in 1996, when living in Australia and the www was still in its infancy, he met a web savvy youth who helped him immensely in building a site and to register Ourplanet.org At that time ourplanet.com - was registered to the United Nations. So Ourplanet.org was the only option. He was happy with this as our planet is an organism - in actual fact, a super organism - whom the Greeks called Gaia, which was the basis of how Tim saw our planet. To him it was not a ‘com’ or anything to do with commerce - it was an organic unfoldment.
How it all started:
Liz coaxes and finds out about his upbring in a remote farming community in the rural sector of NZ, surrounded by many impoverished Maori - and his realisation that there is a lot of inequality in the world.
First Breath on Earth.
She starts with some history of Tim and his place of conception Te Poi (the Ball) and his emergence in Matamata (point, summit, bluff) now known as Middle Earth where Hobbiton is situated where scenes from the movie Lord of the Rings took place - So Tim admits to being a hobbit.
Rural Upbring
Liz draws Tim out on his early life, that there were many Maori living as neighbours and the extremely poor living conditions that they lived in. Living in two room shacks, no power for lights, hot water, stove, plumbed toilets etc and he recognised early how fortunate that he was being a dairy farmer’s son. (Albeit a cowboy).
One of the more profound experiences in 1972 and 73 was driving 16,000 kilometres through Africa and hitch hiking and catching trains throughout East and Western Europe and then from London travelling overland back to NZ, hitching, bussing, plus trains (boat to Perth Australia and Sydney NZ by air).
That having witnessed so much suffering in his journey at the age of 22 and 23 that he thought that it was too difficult to bring about change - so ‘let’s have a good time instead.’ However, not far at all from where he was acting out ‘being a party animal’ - he met some Auckland people who made him think ... What was it that nothing living was permanent? Why are our bodies continually breaking down? Who built the Egyptian Great Pyramid? Why are we here and why now? What are UFO’s and ET’s. Who was Apollonius of Tyana - and how did he de-materialise his body in front of Emperor Domitian in Rome. These were some of the subject matter that came up that he had not given much, if any thought to or knew anything about.
This situation - this turning point - where he hit ‘critical mass’ and experienced and realised a spiritual awakening that over a profound few weeks - changed him forever.
This was a major epiphany that in a matter of days - turned his world not only upside down - but inside out as well.
This was when he realised that ‘we are spiritual beings having an earth experience.’ This metaphysical overhaul was so transformational that daily he was recognising that we humans had all been conditioned by hundreds if not thousands of old outmoded stereotypes - especially the financial power controllers, politics - the war machine - but more so we were destroying the ecology and biosphere at the same time. That the destruction of nature had to stop - hence Tim had to make a stand.
That since this time in the Christmas of 1974 - he has continued this quest to both further his questioning whilst at the same time saying - if I, a fairly simple human can experience a major epiphany for want of a more defined word, then everyone else can. We just have to find the will, search for truth and be courageous and honest.
However at the same time, with no job or income - his name came up for an interview with Air NZ - and he was accepted as ‘a trolley dolly on a big tin budgie’ - As a steward, later called a Cabin Attendant - flying on DC 8’s DC10 and 747s and 767’s. Budgie - a native bird of Australia and an Aussie and Kiwi slang term for wide bodied planes - especially 747s. Also, in those days it was not commonly known that aircraft were burning off huge amounts of C02, and there were nowhere the number of aircraft in the sky at that time either.
Perceptions of Flying in Low Earth Orbit
This shift to long distance air travel opened him up to the whole planet, to what he called ‘open university’ where he eventually flew Trans Pacific, Trans Continental North America and Trans Atlantic into Europe - plus Trans Australia and up into the Near East.
Tim describes his perspective of flying as always ‘flying around the curve’ - he saw our planet from the outside looking in - Like the Timothy Leary, Moody Blues song - “He’s outside ... looking in.”
That (we, living in) NZ could be perceived as being situated - tucked around the underside of our planet and that when a flight takes off from NZ - the plane after gaining height of 10,000 metres would hour after hour ‘claw’ its way ‘up the planet wall’ over the Tropic of Capricorn then after numerous hours pass over the equator and eventually the Tropic of Cancer and down into Los Angeles, 11 and half hours later. That during this long haul flight, our planet would be also rotating on its axis towards our eventual landing.
This planetary overview allowed Tim when he was able to, to study all the ancient civilisations that had come and gone, and what caused their eventual demise - usually corruption of the psych or self caused environmental, for example cutting down of all the forest.. He also studied the various world religions as well, to see that at their start they offered so much for the human spirit.
Visiting Global Centres of Holistic Learning
Tim also visited many ashrams, intentional communities, centers of learning, going to festivals like the Mind Body and Spirit Expositions, Whole Life Expos - as well as visiting gurus, teachers on consciousness and metaphysical scientists and experts in their field. Also checking out new technologies, like the solar farms in California and the large windmill farms there as well. This led him on to follow up on hydrogen power and free energy devices among many other things as well.
Liz asks; What can we do to become Empowered
Tim talks to the metaphor that we are all seeds and we are have been underground and in darkness that when a certain timing occurs - that with an impulse - moisture, warmth etc - that seed can sprout and put down a tap root and push up a stem - that breaks out into the light of the sun and ... not being surrounded by blackness any more. This is a huge transition for a seed - to be in the light.
Then with photovoltaic leaves growing until the plant grows many - that eventually a bud, and then a blossom - to flower - petals open up - a fragrance of perfume may unveil itself - where does this essence go? (this process includes pollination).
Can the perfume of a flower be seen as a metaphysical analogy for something beyond the physical?
Is the essence of a flower a hidden message for us all?
If we were deciduous as a tree for example, this could happen year after year after year … and in another way … an egg, a caterpillar - chrysalis - butterfly and a metamorphosis.
The cycles of life …
That we are also an energy field in a greater universal energy field.
“That every baby born into this realm is an energy bundle of exponential potential.”
So what can we do? Liz asks;
Doing good in the world.
Lifting up people’s vibes
Pay it Forward - very easy to do -
Random Acts of Kindness
Being a Volunteer -
As Volunteerism is the glue that is keeping our planetary society together.
Lia and Tim volunteer for GreenplanetFM.com
Tim plants voluntarily plants trees to sequester C02 out of the atmosphere.
Ask yourself daily during a quiet time. How much love is in your heart at the moment?
Remember that all of humanity shares the same breath
The holy breath … connects us all.
Our Inner Candle
That we all have an inner candle inside of us - that Tim shares this thought with children all the time and that we have to keep our inner candle burning - and strongly - that there is one thing that flames like - and that’s oxygen and by breathing deeply - as in Tai chi and Yoga - or meditation - we can feed our inner candle with the rich breath of oxygen, albeit 21% of our breath.
We are a Global Family
That we are all a global family that are slowly awakening into being - that we need to innovatively and consciously find ways to connect with our society and community.
Grass Roots Change
Connect as cells and with other cells and then clusters of cells to initiate localised ‘grass roots' change - together we can be the change that is so necessary
We are a global family awakening to our connection through the sharing of the invisible breath. All 7.7 billion of us.
References:
This below is the 1996 web site.
The graphics have gone a bit awry and the population figures are old - but the idea is still very relevant today.
https://www.ourplanet.org/original-site/index.html
https://www.ourplanet.org/original-site/spaceshp.htmlPart One
https://www.ourplanet.org/original-site/wakeup.htmlPart Two
https://www.ourplanet.org/original-site/gaia.htmlGaia
Gaia sees us as flowering jewels of our planet and that as the petals open up towards the sun - we can realise that we can also grow into the light of our own true selves - and in essence realise our spirituality - as extensions of God.
Our Planet
Lends us bodies
Lends us free air
As well as free rain water
And until recently - a free food chain
What do we do in reciprocity?
Hence Ourplanet.org and GreenplanetFM.com
A work in progress.
How should Crew respond when meeting other Extraterrestrial Civilisations?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvDAHmQ1_tw 3 minutes. Star Trek - Errand of Mercy
Ps - I spoke directly with Spock - Leonard Nimoy when in Moscow in 1986 on a Peace Mission, about this particular episode and he said he remembered it well. (Tim)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j_aGdMinIM 5 minutes Star Trek - The Transfiguration.
Local Earth Situations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdneZ4fIIHE&t=4s 7 minutes This is about our - Heart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAObE1r_RFM 9 minutes The Way-shower manifestos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OibqdwHyZxk 3.5 minutes Some of the Challengers. Thrive movie
Our Planet Spaceship Earth
1964
"We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent upon its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed for our safety to its security and peace; preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work, and, I will say, the love we give our fragile craft. We cannot maintain it half fortunate, half miserable, half confident, half despairing, half slave to the ancient enemies of man, half free in a liberation of resources undreamed of until this day. No craft, no crew can travel safely with such vast contradictions. On their resolution depends the survival of us all."
Adlai Stevenson, John Kennedy’s US Ambassador to the United Nations,
2019
A message to Crew of Our Planet - Spaceship Earth
Calling all crew …
All crew to 'Action Stations'
the ship needs you like never before …
For eons she’s bequeathed us with her holy breath -
Same with her sparkling waters - baptising our being to a
higher frequency …
And nourishing us with her tantalising foods.
All within her overarching sun and moonlit vista’s, with
eye quenching panoramas of her majestic biosphere and pulsating life.
But, pirates have infiltrated the ships systems and leveraged
into critical areas of control. These marauders have their
hands on virtually all levers of power.
Crew quarters have become expensive to live in - air, food and water quality are questioned.
Inter deck fighting, wars and violence are throughout the ship, whilst drugs and alcohol are rife
Now propaganda has become the norm. Fragmentation, dysfunction and separation are causing alarm bells in more and more areas of our ship.
At many levels, we are forced to give away more and
more freedoms, whilst unknown agents snoop on every
message and call.
YET, there is a stirring throughout most decks, living
quarters and compartments. A holistic notion - or knowing -
that our spaceship is actually a mothership,
that she is a colossal, living, pulsating - super organism
from her - all life has issued.
That we are here on board to be part of a greater galactic symphony - in a movement premised on team spirit, cooperation, creativity and fulfilment -
of the potentialities of an unheralded, but exalted future -
where a new human emerges …
as a supra human
the message being transmitted …
that we at heart …
are embryo gods
and our time is now.
We … are being compelled ...
to wake up.
If you wish to donate and assist GreenplanetFM share the message to all crew please click on this link. https://www.ourplanet.org/donate Thank you . Naku Noa - Tim and Team - Lisa Er, Liz Gunn, Stephen Grant-Jones.
What they say they are doing - nobody can complain. But, what they are actually planning and what it means when you understand their point of view and their goals - you see that it is completely different than the ‘catch phrases’ they are using - especially when ‘they’ bring it forward to the peoples attention.
The whole gamut of Roy’s interview is that corporations and the elite, are in lockstep with big ‘global’ governance aim - to lure us, “we the people” - into ‘agreements.’
Agenda 21 which was in 9 parts has now morphed to Agenda 2030 - of 13 points - since 1992 and its signing by 178 countries at the Earth Summit (United Nations Conference on Environment and Development) held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is being overseen by the UN, other multilateral organizations, and individual governments around the world - that can be enacted at local, national, and global levels.
So essentially the agenda is looking at our planet earth and the whole biosphere to see what measures can be taken to stop pollution, the destruction of habitat, the halting of species extinction and the uncontrolled exploitation and extraction of non renewable resources everywhere. This includes the rampant use of bio-technology and dealing with radioactive waste.
So who could argue that these all need to be urgently addressed for the future of all children and grandchildren?
Agenda 21 also focuses on population growth, poverty, health and the disenfranchisement of the poor. Indigenous peoples, women, NGO’s and their place in this Agenda, plus multinational corporations, farmers and communities from villages all the way up to now what we call super cities of the world.
Finally where does science fit into this mix?
The Document
Agenda 21 is a 350-page document divided into 40 chapters that have been grouped into 4 sections:[citation needed]
The interview starts with Roy immediately stating that this is not a people friendly agenda. That it is a depopulation agenda - he does not mince words. He emphatically states that the wording is so compelling that any ordinary person would only want to countenance such sentiment. It reads well and sounds good - it appeals to common sense - but look at the deeper levels of it. Who is calling the shots?
So I ask him, what is it that he thinks/sees is problematic?
The word Sustainable
The big one he says is the word Sustainable - it is a word that can conjure up many different meanings.
A sustainable business is just one that is able to continue doing business for as long as it takes. Which every business wants to do anyway.
You can have sustainable forests or a fishery, that you keep maintaining at a certain rate or level - but it’s only maintaining - where it needs to be regenerated - where it needs to be cherished as nature - not just using it as a resource.
The word sustainability has been superseded by the word Regeneration - as regeneration means to put back more. That there is an eternal component to it. Regeneration has an optimism and can also be seen as a sacred act.
Of replenishing nature, of giving back whole heartedly.
However Agenda 21 does not talk in terms of regeneration of the biosphere.
Energy and Energy Production.
Energy production today involves the largest planetary change that we have upon us and we are being held hostage by vested interests of the massive fossil fuel and oil cartel. They do not and will not budge an inch, from their extractive and polluting industrial ways. They are controlling the agenda.
Big Oil & Fossil Fuel Thwart & Constrain - new energy systems.
It is known that from leading edge physics and its point of view, you can receive more energy out than you put into a system - yet the status quo says - oh, the 'perpetual motion machine' - and they scoff and demonise this in total - including the inventors as well - there is a constant refusal to acknowledge that this is possible (listen to Alvin Crosby’s interview of two weeks ago, where he proved that it’s attainable with water).
So yes, ordinary everyday physics proves it’s possible. The whole universe is structured as 'an over unity device’ - the sun continues to put out endless amounts of energy. How can this be? So the whole science and the physics is showing us, that there are other equations.
See The Thrive Movie - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OibqdwHyZxk
3 minute trailer. This tells us exceptionally clearly what the challenge is.
Roy states there are numerous desktop type ‘energy machines’ being produced - however he says the challenge is around scaling them up to be able to service the greater population. Yet, when someone does find the ‘over unity’ toroidal donut equation and produces a viable unit - they then go and patent it - because they inherently know that it’s very difficult to find that ‘unique mathematical combination.’ But, what invariably happens, that there at the patents office - this 'key global - nodal point’ - sitting in a very strategic ‘location’ are officials that are tasked to scrutinise all such 'gifts to humanity’ - where it then is essentially suppressed - usually with such hefty fees etc - and this has been happening since the 1930’s.
Yet, the Deep State for want of a far better word - control the narrative and the agenda - that is ... ‘don’t subvert or compete with the status quo!’
Roy mentions magnets and magnetism saying the energy behind what is magnetic - is a science that we know so little about - actions and reactions and forces and energies and that it is a ‘complete science’ - which we have in essence ignored. It works in tandem with gravity, electricity, it works into generation and yet magnetism is not taught!
Nikola Tesla is mentioned and his quote “The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.
Invisible Forces
Roy says that this is a very important point - as it is invisible forces that are taking humanities lives away as of right now - in this era.
That science does not study and research the invisible is fraught with danger and in fact what we may think as toys are in actuality - weapons. With Roy emphasising that we have to learn and study these invisible forces and like every other thing in the universe, energy can be used for good or used for bad. He says we have had these invisible systems suppressed from our knowing. Yet covertly, ‘the powers that be’ are researching and advancing these technologies in secret and they are using them to help consolidate their power whilst using these technologies against us.
With Agenda 21 and Agenda 2030 he asserts that inside these ’nice goals’ - and the ‘catch phrases’ they say - is how all their newly acquired advantages, are used against us. Though not mentioned in this interview - the plan to deploy 5 G wireless - was not the subject of Roy’s interview, he knows a huge amount about it - however he had too many other subjects he wanted to speak to.
Microwaves are detrimental to biological beings.
He firmly said - that microwaves are not good for humans - end of story. No matter what level, what intensity, what frequency - microwaves are not good for human beings!
We today are immersed in them. ‘We are living in a microwave oven’ and now we have wifi all over us - with the addition of satellites above - following us … there are so many things that are impacting our life. All being on the invisible platform of vibratory and frequency impact - on our consciousness and our health. Look at today’s increasing health statistics.
Walter Russell - unknown genius.
Another one of the invisibles comes up with Fukushima in Japan and the continuous belching into the Pacific Ocean of nuclear radiation still today. Roy mentions that Walter Russell and his wife Tao wrote a book in the 1950s called ‘Atomic Suicide’ about the impact of radiation and playing with the hidden building blocks of the Universe. In this book Walter Russell a poly math - stated that nuclear energy is wrong! That it creates a danger at every level that it is used. Listen
He mentions that ‘nuclear situations’ can appear where matter disassociates and starts to fall apart - because all of nature is based on balance - the dynamics of the atom - the electron and the neutron inside the atom etc. So the imperative is recognising that our science is running far ahead of our collective consciousness and this is why we today are in the disconnected un-peaceful situation we have on earth. Because ‘we’ the ordinary person doing life, have been separated away from the decision making process - and for some time.
Quote:
Nikola Tesla to Walter Russell “lock up this (Cosmic) knowledge in a safe for 1,000 years until man is ready for it.” www.Philosophy.org
With other facets of the Agenda 21
It was George Herbert Bush, ex head of the CIA who was Vice President of the US for 8 years and President for 4 years who initiated this document and signed off on it. Then Roy says that it was Margaret Evans, Mayor of Hamilton here in NZ who signed it and adopted it to make Hamilton a model city for Agenda 21.
He says that via the UN they have been altering, changing and controlling Hamilton from that time. It’s a model - an example city. Waitakere also signed it with Bob Harvey being the mayor - listen to my interview of him here:
https://www.planetaudio.org.nz/archive/green-planet/bob-harvey-the-eco-city/5997
Roy said that they were lured by the wording by the ‘catchphrases’ in the document as to something good - but Roy says look at Hamilton as a result. There are no 4 lane roads - there are traffic islands everywhere - they are called ‘Margaret’ islands - named after the Mayor - because there are so many - parking is restricted … Hamilton is such a difficult city to pass through (I agree I bypass it) - Roy maintains that with the way the traffic is controlled - it slows down our ability to be productive humans. Listen
He says this is happening globally - this is Agenda 21 - they slow down our ability to be productive humans. He says that Transit NZ is influenced by Hamilton Council. Listen
He talks about our best food produced in NZ is exported - and he said that is true of every nation that is under the control of the globalist government. Many to most of the globalist governments export their own food and import somebody else’s food production.
Clipping the ticket
WHY? Because they get to ‘clip the ticket’ - plus they get to control the food chain as well as accelerate the prices. He said if we did not sell all of our food overseas and instead ate the best (being high quality export grade) and then just sold the balance - 'they’ would not be able to control our food chain regime.
That cheeses can be traded between Britain and Holland and yet they are basically the same type of cheese. (Remember the term Coals to Newcastle) - But, as you can readily see, the standard of food in NZ supermarkets now has become so low - it is as if we are buying 2nd or 3rd grade food, whilst for example in the UK, superb apples can be sold that are juicy and crisp and like kiwifruit - have no blemishes.
Meanwhile NZers ever since Sue Kedgely left Parliament have had no champion of quality food standards.
Dumbing us down
Roy says, that part of the Agenda is that it dumbs us down - that we become subservient. (and eventually we become homogenised) … easier to control.. Marginalised …
Roy goes on that those who we elect, our Government Representatives, Members of Parliament - are just as much a victim as you and I.
They are drinking sanitised water, eating food that has glyphosate in it, they are being impacted by wifi and a variety of invisibles …they are just as susceptible to the deception as you and I.
He says the MPs have to be very special and a very focused individual, as well as exceptional capable at protecting themselves to be able to stand up to this barrage coming at them from all quarters - just to be able to survive.
An example. Goal number 11 from Agenda 2030
Now that can mean a lot says Roy!
Which means ban all gun ownership of private citizens (Globally).
Which means only obedient government officers can have or use them.
And he says it could enslave a class of people as impoverished.
Which mean criminalise those living in rural areas.
And institute protected areas … where the Government claims that it is owned by the people - but, they do not allow people to live there.
Force humans into densely populated tightly packed controlled cities …
Where they are under surveillance 24/7/365 and they are subjected to easy manipulation by the authorities
(Tim - says but I want to go out and be - in nature and regenerate) - Roy says we are of the earth and if she is our mother then we need to be in harmony with her … and cities restrict us. He says this is another aspect of the invisible attack.
That cities have become wifi and microwave hot spots and as such having an imbalanced vibratory rate, that our psychic balance is totally thrown out as there is no quietness and stillness due to so little nature. Like stands of dense bush and many trees with birdlife.
Food Codes and Irradiation.
Other subject covered is that irradiated food is coming into the country - that irradiation degrades its nutrition, plus only having tiny labels to tell us it’s irradiated by Caesium 137.
Labels on food is coded - as it is easier to hide what is in food and how it has been treated. Note that no supermarket has a large sign on the wall somewhere, telling us the numbers and what they mean and as a result most NZers seem to not care or even question …
Why do we in NZ still have no labels regarding GMO. What was it that watered down Steffan Browning’s Food Labelling Bill that went through Parliament?
Depopulation being the ultimate goal.
The fertility of the earth is what is being attacked …
Note - the falling fertility levels …
Yet, the Chinese have worked out a way to make deserts fertile. There are ways if there is the will to regenerate and grow green spaces.
Changing Dietary Needs - having less meat.
He says the catchphrase ‘that there are too many people on earth’ - can be countered, if we slowed down eating meat and started eating less and less - there would be no difficulty in our population surviving and thriving. Scientific research says that is very doable - ‘but, the will to stop eating meat is lacking.’
Cannabis is mentioned as it is used now for many herbal cures. That using cannabis in agriculture can lead to far healthier products and wholesome soil as well as sequesting Co2 down from the atmosphere.
Loving Care and our Relationship with Existence.
This whole conversation then morphs to what is it to be human and Roy talks of the wonderful virtues than can flow forth from a loving caring, compassionate human to one that when we awaken to our potential as a living, soul based humanity - we can live in joy once we courageously open up to our divine inheritance.
Roy goes on to speak so eloquently of us as a family of humanity that can support and work together with other kin and it does not have anything to do with race, colour, gender of wealth - just a firm commitment to the truth and then making a connection to the light behind each others eyes.
He talks about our heart - our inner self, our consciousness - we have to make this leap of faith …it’s about our being and our extension to God.
That the spiritual perspective has to override the material perspective because the spiritual perspective is on the eternal platform and the physical perspective is on the material platform. And the eternal is superior in every decision .
This was a very full-on interview of a committed and very focussed communicator
Roy Harlow
www.RushFM.co.nz
OUR INNATE INTERDEPENDENCE
He says “Make no mistake about it; there is a growing community of ‘awakening’ people are who engaged in a core dialogue about what it means to be human at the start of the 21st Century. This awakening is a natural evolution for human consciousness and is composed of two overarching parts.
First is a deep realization of the innate interdependence we have with the entirety of reality, regardless if we look at it through the lenses of ecology, quantum physics or spirituality. The second is recognizing the social and systemic dysfunction that requires collective action to be transcended by redesigning our society to reflect the new era that humanity is adventuring into.”
AUSTRALIAN ELECTION RESULT 2019
Phillip gives us a run down of the surprise Australian election result before going on to educate us about the value of hemp as a crop and a way to get away from the corporate control of our countries.
THE AMAZING USES FOR HEMP
Hemp can be used in so many ways: as food, paper, oil, textiles, and can be used to build houses and even cars. It is good for the environment and captures carbon.
Communities can be built around hemp.
He mentions reform of banking including having local banks, and in Australia the people's national bank needs to be re-established.
Below is a list that Phillip put together of what we need to visualise and then
CREATE TO HAVE A POSITIVE FUTURE
Individual & national sovereignty will be restored, including how that translates into legislation and policy.
Corruption will be squashed in our political system, including putting a halt to big business controlling policy, as well as ceasing the revolving door between government and the lobby industry.
The people who work in our government will be adhering to the rule of law.
The people will be properly represented in our government, including with more controversial areas of discourse.
The many severe issues that people are facing - such as homelessness, entrenched poverty, drug addiction and so much more - will be resolved in big ways, which would result with us being a shining example on the world stage.
In response to an increasingly globalised world, we will have localised a lot more (including local public banks, business, food & resources).
Our communities will be more self-sufficient, in case of any financial or environmental catastrophes.
Our children will be receiving better education, including proper health & life skills, as well as them properly understanding how they have the rights they have today.
The most advanced health treatments will be easily accessible to the people, including plant based medicines and other more natural therapies.
Our environment will be better taken care of, including using Hemp for biodegradable plastics, safe bio-fuels, nutritious food, stronger clothing, building materials, medicine and thousands of other products.
Local industry will be restored & our population will be more decentralised, which will revitalise and better integrate our communities.
Our Common Wealth, including public assets, will be returned to the people.
We'll have a free & fair media which reports on ALL the evidence, instead of being controlled by multi-billionaires and their agendas.
And the power will ultimately be in the hands of the people, including through a fair electoral system and Citizen-Initiated Referendums (CIRs).
He says - get excited, because to achieve all this all we need to do is work together regardless of our political or other persuasions. Together we are so strong, especially when we have an intelligent plan.
So get familiar with the above information, because it will be our weapon in battle when we take back our country for the benefit of ourselves, our environment, and our future generations... “
BIOGRAPHY
Phillip J. Watt is a clinical hypno-psychotherapist, author and public speaker who lives on the Mid North Coast of NSW, Australia. His first book, The Simulation, is a daring exposé of the human experience in the 21st Century. His other written and interview work deals with topics from spirituality to society, as well as self-development.
Before achieving his certification as a ‘Clinical Hypno-psychotherapist’ through the Institute of Clinical Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy (ICHP), Phillip helped countless people as a life coach, relationship mediator and writer. He has received hundreds of messages from individuals all over the world thanking him for how he has helped them to change their life.
Since 2012 he has written many pieces which have been shared across dozens of international platforms – such as Elephant Journal, The Mind Unleashed, Wake Up World and Waking Times.
He has presented at mindfulness conferences such as the ‘The Illuminate Conference’, ‘Paradigm Shift Summit’ and ‘The Abundance Festival‘, and has been interviewed on many podcasts, such as ‘Rune Soup’‘ and ‘Skeptiko’.
He is also the creator of a podcast called ‘Dissect Media’ (formerly known as ‘Redesigning Society’), where he has had the fortune of interviewing some of the most brilliant minds of our time, including Gregg Braden, Gordon White, Rupert Sheldrake, Dean Radin, Ellen Brown, Michael Tellinger, Geoff Lawton and Amit Goswami. In addition, he has a decade-long background working in the public sector as a social worker, relationship mediator and mentor for socio economically disadvantaged kids, adults and family units with serious behavioural and medical challenges. He has also worked in policy development and project and stakeholder management at the Federal level.
He is very active on Facebook and lately has posted extensively on the corporate media, the Yellow Vest movement, natural therapies and the Australian Elections.
WEBSITES
Coffs Harbour Hypnotherapy and Counselling
and The Mind Unleashed
and you can find him on Facebook.
Hydrogen Power
As a child Alvin listened to his father who was an aircraft engineer in the 2nd World War telling him that the British had spitfires running on hydrogen as well as the Americans with their mustangs.
Even as early as primary school through to secondary he would then ask questions of his science teachers if this was possible and the answer was always no - never - but as he learnt a little more from his father, he furthered his questioning - as he said that the hydrogen gas gave these aircraft a huge surge of power. However his teachers ‘towing the line’ that they themselves had been taught consistently threw the 3rd Law of Thermodynamics at him.
http://physicsforidiots.com/physics/thermodynamics/
However this idea of fire from water fascinated Alvin and whilst a kid he experimented with draining a motorcycle battery of the acid - putting fresh water into it and linking it to a power supply had it bubbled. So and he put a hose pipe in place to catch what was coming off and lit the other end of the pipe and a flame came out - to then explode - causing him to lose his hearing for a number of days.
Though it scared him - he now realised it was for real - so he decided to engineer this idea further. So with the assistance of a BP engineer from Britain giving him more information - he over time created a generator that could produce hydrogen and do real things with like welding and melting stone - the heat given off being around 4,000 degrees.
He then built a company that produced these hydroxy welding units here in NZ and for a while exported them globally.
Ether another far more subtle element
Alvin also talks about the ether - and maintains that it exists. He also said that the Hadron high energy particle collider in Europe the scientists there talk about the God particle - and this comes right down to ‘thought.’ That ‘thoughts’ are very much part of the creative process.
There is a lot of contradiction around the physics of hydrogen especially at Universities where they trot out the same statement time and again that it takes more energy to turn hydrogen into a gas than the amount of gas that you get out of this process. This he says is an old way of thinking.
He says that he got into trouble with the status quo by extracting a 26% return of energy - and he says that’s because science does not take into account - latent energy in the environment. He says have a look at heat pumps today and we get a return of 7 to 8 to One - return. Heat pumps, are a way shower that baffle the old paradigm.
Water is just not H2O as we have been taught there are something like 36 types of water - that is, stable water - where you can see it as a liquid - not as a gas.
It is very complex molecule system - so if we look at the electron cloud of water itself, it has a geometric triangle and when you put the 2 tetrahedrons together in 3 D - we get a star tetrahedron - Star of David - ice crystals - It starts to show us the secrets that re in the water.
Alvin mentions the Israeli flag and that inside - in the middle is a tiny dot. That this is very important - as it puts the whole Star of David into context.
Alvin refers to Job in the Bible to verses 38 & 39 - where Job, whom Alvin’s says was like a scientist - and these verses give more detailed information on the creation and the makeup of the world and nature. That God formed the earth, set its structure, put bounds to keep the sea under control, created all the heavenly bodies, and even controls the weather. Also the order of seasons, the power of waves and storms, the beauty of trees and flowers and lakes and mountains - all point to a benevolent Creator who made and sustains this world. We can find something about God by looking carefully at the world that God has made.
Alvin talks of water being a compound substance - yet not a substance of itself - and also that we humans are made of this same substance - that an adult human is about 65 % water, newborn babies 85% or more.
He says that we are consciousness in a water body -
Stating that in quantum mechanics scientists are very focussed on researching water - but this needs far more support and finance etc
The number of 3 6 and 9 are very important - the frequency of everything is allied to these numbers. (I did not ask him why oils for human health are graded as Omega 3, 6, and 9 as the narrative was moving quite rapidly at that time.)
Alvin talks about the illusionary world that we inhabit in that everything is energy and that oscillate at a particular frequency on this particular dimension - Listen
Water has Memory
Water has a memory - That he had contact with Jacques Benveniste, top-level French biochemist of impeccable scientific credentials, who gave the world the 'memory of water'. Talking about hexagonal water. Plus his controversial experiment into the efficacy of homeopathy. It can be noted that all over France and Germany today are homeopathic there are thousands of homeopathic practitioners and outlets for homeopathic tinctures. https://www.britishhomeopathic.org/
This was that provided Aucklanders and their elected representatives can become ‘ecologically conscious’ at this critical time of changing climate and insect decline. If the vision articulated by Sarah can be picked up by other cities across the whole of New Zealand, maybe - just maybe - New Zealand can hold its head up high as being a ‘clean green nation.’ A big ask? Yes, but the groundswell and grassroots support are growing far more as we realise the seriousness of our changing planet and biosphere.
The Love of Bee’s project - is an artwork and a framework for inviting people to engage in new possibilities - it transforms. Like something that may be considered a problem and is then rendered into something that we can co-create, re-arrange and re-design together. So the project people, use bees as a magnet - it works up our hearts and invites people to imagine that Auckland is the safest city on earth for bees. This is also where they can learn practical skills around the life cycle of bees and the flora that supports bees.
This is to make it easier for bees to be able to fly the 3 - 5 ks in search of nectar, etc. Especially the space that they travel in, has to be as safe as possible - and Sarah’s team, helps people learn regenerative organic practices so as to give the bees the best chance - to pollinate flowers to enable the highest proportion possible, of flower fertilisation.
Urban Farming - food growing in the city
With land that has been obtained at 527 Symonds St, Auckland city, along with a growing community of dedicated friends, they are focussing on the possibilities of 'urban farming' - regenerative organic urban farming and also creating strategies to deal with our climate change obligations.
Sarah talks about being given this small section of land to use in Central City, Symond's St, to experiment with, but for only a year - however as an artwork as well the brief that they are working with, they are looking to develop what they call climate change ready infrastructure. She believes that local urban farms and local living 'compost hubs' in unified projects gives them the capacity to develop 10 climate change ready values - which include carbon sequestration - biodiversity - wellbeing - water retention capacities - heat sinks - food security - local jobs - the transformation of food scraps into a useful resource - air filtration - social cohesion and - optimism.
So organic regenerative urban farms across Auckland, is an idea that is being seeded as a way forward and that with education and enthusiasm this will help make Auckland become far more bee friendly.
City Insect pollination (bees) is an imperative
Where cities were focused on infrastructure of roads and buildings, more cities today are wanting people friendly spaces and flowering trees, shrubs and flowers are becoming more common place overseas, where conscious decision making is benevolently changing the environment. In Japan, they are looking at bees as a means to pollinate flowers that are fragrant and that in Tokyo and other cities, they have focussed on this so that flower scents and fragrances enable people to feel more at ease and happier. So much, that the crime rate actually falls - due to the sense of peace and contentment within that larger community https://www.urbandesignmentalhealth.com/journal-3---tokyo-case-study.html
That there was measurable outcome of less violence - even if they may not call it resonance - but something happened, that softened the vibes.
Need for more flowers across cities and urban areas.
Sarah talks about the lack of flowers in cities and even here in NZ, this has a detrimental effect on bees - because with no nectar and or pollen - survival becomes very challenging - also in Spring you can have many bees and flowers but as Autumn comes with still many bees - but not enough flowers then going into Winter … survival becomes a problem. Note some apiaries are fed sugar during winter to keep the hive alive.
She says that for a bee colony to survive it needs a staggering number of flowers - to supply the needs of the bee colony being vital and flourishing.
One teaspoon of honey is equal to 12 bee lives of flying, foraging collecting and storing.
Honey is not only for the bees sustenance but also used so as to make wax. Seven ounces of honey is needed to produce one ounce of wax. There is a good amount of wax needed for the bees to make the hexagonal structure in frames so as to store honey and incubate the pupae - baby bees.
By planting more flowers that flower all year around is very important, but quality too is important and this impels us to look at our horticulture, agriculture and also our weed control strategies.
Herbicide Sprays are decimating the Insect Kingdom
Simply put, we have pesticides, herbicides, insecticides and fungicides - in our ecosystem now. That we have become so addicted to them and that we have forgotten how to operate without them, that we have on many levels completely degraded the ecosystem. Hard core herbicides like glyphosate, which is now banned in France - is taking its toll on the natural world.
Compost and Humus = Healthy Soil and Healthy Plants.
Sarah, talks about healthy vital plants and that if we are giving them the best of soil, and humus, water and light etc - you do not need to concern yourself with pests. If you have unhealthy plants - the pests can pick up the 'distress signals' from the unhealthy plant and so will attack and eat them. Listen as Sarah takes us on a journey into how the plant does life, in orchestrating a homeostatic relationship with the microflora. Especially how the plants infra red light flashes signalling to pests that it is unhealthy and that its defences are weak - enticing the insect pests to come and eat and or lay their eggs on the leaf. Which means that this plant now a goner.
Listen …
In New Zealand there are 28 native bees - yes this is true
Dr Ngaire Hart PHD nee in Auckland is mentioned for her work on native bees
https://www.fortheloveofbees.co.nz/ngairehart
NZ Farms that are Growing Soil and Humus
Christine Jones PhD from Australia is recommended by Sarah -
https://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/dr-christine-jones-regenerative-land-management-biological-farming-sequestering-atmospheric-c02
Agrisea bio stimulants https://agrisea.co.nz/industries/dairy/pasture-nutrition/
Hear about a farming couple near Taupo over a 3-4 year period they used bio stimulants - changed their grazing practices and grew their soils by a number of inches - then Christine returned and she had them do another test and then introduced multiple plants into their paddocks - so they drilled in 18 different plant species into their worst paddock and 5 months later Christine was on that paddock again. They then dug down in numerous areas of their paddocks and to their surprise they had built up the soil by one and half spade depths - in 5 months!
Because with all these different plant species added to the paddock - (along with Agrisea’s ocean mineral products) - like in rainforest - diversity builds resilience
Also mentioned is Ernest Gotsch - Syntropic farming in Brazil - and this fantastic 2 minute video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stABAx82TbY
Sarah talks about Climate change as now the 'evolutionary driver' for us as a humanity to come together and collaborate and cooperate to initiate the much needed changes to curtail all of our wasteful ways - that have been happening over a very broad spectrum.
She talked about projects become silo’ed and end up factionalised. That we have to think and visualise holistically and actively engage in ways of conflict resolution and fine innovative methods to find ways to bring opposing points of view to reconcile - to work toward a win-win situation - especially for the sake of children and those to come.
What I intuitively got from this interview is that Sarah is inclusive - there is room for everyone - we can not go on following the same patterns - stopping silofication of projects is an imperative - we have much more to agree on than to disagree on. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Desilofication
Big Changes Needed.
She wants big changes in how the city does business - that there are now many volunteers working as ‘a labour of love’ - who need to be trained up to be able to be paid for running very focused composting and urban farms - listen for the fullness of this.
Shared Opportunity
That instead of one or two business running everything that it needs to be a shared opportunity across the whole the city - where participants are empowered to initiate the much needed changes for Auckland to be a world leading city that is 'ecologically conscious.' That our strategies need to be diversified - just like soil systems need to be diversified - this is where the whole impetus is heading - especially if we want to change the paradigm before climate change and insect losses become beyond critical. We need to act now
Sarah acknowledges Richard Main, Trish Allen and Kay Baxter - for holding the vision of a healthy organic, regenerative future.
Sarah said that she is called the 'bee lady' - but she says she really is the biology lady ….
A wonderful interview ...
Sarah Smuts-Kennedy
https://www.fortheloveofbees.co.nz/
For the Love of Bees is a concept that helps seemingly unrelated ecological projects become one cohesive action via the lens of bees.
Now Auckland with 100 gardens in all - 75 as a result of Richard and his small team and 25 other independent community gardens - we ask - what does this effort portend for a healthy ecological Auckland?
With the original intention to combat, diabetes 2, obesity and heart disease - this initiative has over 2,000 participants and growing. There are hundreds of others involved that are now taking these learned skills back to their backyard at home.
NZ a Nation of interlinked Community Gardens?
We ask, can Auckland be the template for the whole of NZ, becoming interlinked in a vast network of community gardens nationwide?
Imagine if this could be championed by someone - so that no child would go to bed hungry, when it has been ascertained that when the new Government took power in NZ, 18 months ago there was said to be 295,000 children living under the 60% income poverty line in New Zealand. That being 28% of all children.
That today 155,000 children are living in material hardship in New Zealand. That is 14% of all children. How could this come about in this country?
It is a known, that high quality whole food and vegetables, preferably organic has a very beneficial effect on brain function.
When we feed our brain, the dendrites are able to function to their highest potentiality - and in the decades to come - we need to have all children living at optimum levels of being. That nutrient dense food, in a loving family setting - is an imperative.
Community Gardens
Cooperative Community Gardens are increasing throughout the suburbs of greater Auckland and this subject is becoming a talking point for people wanting increasingly better health, wellbeing and a feeling of connection with community working together in camaraderie and joy.
Availability of land is becoming an issue.
Obtaining the use of more land is becoming a priority. As we all know, land is at a premium and Richard is keen to find more opportunities for land to be gifted, even for a few years. So if you know of any situation, he and his team would be very keen to hear from you.
Free Practical Advise
Gardens4Health provides free, practical advice and support to community groups, organisations, workplaces and schools for the setting up of new community gardens and ongoing maintenance of existing gardens. The Gardens4Health team is currently involved in over 50 community gardens or initiatives across Auckland and provides access to a wide network of other gardens and useful resources.
Being a gardening expert is not required, but time, enthusiasm, and commitment are. The experienced Gardens4Health team are there to provide practical advice and support for all seasons of food gardening in Auckland conditions.
For more information please download our one-page information sheet and contact the Gardens4Health manager at gardens@dpt.org.nz.
www.dpt.org.nz
He aha te kai o te Rangitira? He Korero, he korero, he korero.
What is the food of the leader? It is knowledge, it is communication.
PS. I took a large number of notes regarding this interview, but even with the latest Mac tech - these can be lost in an instant, never to be retrieved - so with this sad loss - please instead, have a listen.
Richard is very embedded in community and garden settings - and it shows across a greater scope as in physical health of good high quality organic food, but the mental health of working with fellow humans with a common aim. Plus, with the added surroundings of nature and of both plants and flowers - caresses - ones soul - giving all involved - a deep sense of peace.
Richard says that working alongside various Pacific Island groups, Moslem women, Maori, Hindu, and many other ethnic and cultural groups, too many to mention here, it has allowed him to experience deeply, the happiness of people working and even singing together.
The camaraderie and friendship of working the soil and bringing forth a huge array of fresh vital vegetables and fruit gives everyone involved - immense satisfaction - that when shared with family and friends validates the vision of the good people behind this in the Health Board and Councils involved.
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?
Growth has become the secular religion of our time.
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 has become the secular religion of our time. This desire for consumerism is also consuming our future, yet ‘growth' - and even the ‘personal growth’ industry is exponentialising itself - as an idea that ‘inner growth and awareness can be sold as a commodity to people.
This preoccupation of ‘increase’ - which can be easily seen in the consumer culture, is becoming predominant.
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 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 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 keeps on growing his business and the repercussions are being seen in all areas of the biosphere.
Tumors grow themselves to terminate the host
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 demise. And the collateral damage is the person in question.
Respect for the Elder Generation
‘Respect your elders’ … in his days this is what Stephen said was a description of the way things were.
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 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 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 more of a plea - that is his present day description of the way it is.
Stephen says that something very fundamental has happened to people’s willingness to hold older people in inalienable high esteem.
The other half of this equations is that he says: Respect your elders and they - behave and comport themselves - respectably.
Where is the respect of Elders today?
The young today are having difficulty in finding common ground with elders and are fundamentally challenging the term ‘respect your elders’ - if not dismissing this notion out of hand.
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 say but this has been done on their elders ‘watch!' Listen to the interview.
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!
This being the case - we can understand why the younger generation have difficulty in respecting ‘the elders.’
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 demean the culture fundamentally?
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 them … Listen ...
Wisdom
Wisdom - how does it come about? Can you inherit wisdom? Stephen says it is not the case - Listen ...
Prejudices …and bigotry
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 these up. There is no wisdom involved. How come these be so easily picked up?
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.
Awake?
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
Hope?
What is hope? This was a big one and he deconstructs this word as well.
Tim here, I had a huge list of questions that I did not get around to asking many of these:
Questions that I had lined up - in any order ...
The Great Mystery … Life, death and beyond. What does he perceive as ‘the great mystery?’
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.
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 the sounds of the Earth crying.”
Did Stephen wish to add anything to this? We just did not have time ...
Psychology has become monotheism without God. This is what Stephen had mentioned in a video. Could he explain?
Anima Mundi, the Latin word for World Soul. His thoughts on this?
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 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 or he may have misunderstood my question. Listen
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 world with all its distractions and diversions - that they have omitted to cultivate any inner values, or ‘knowing thyself’ and deepening their inquiry 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 - But dying by medication - sliding into a worsening stage of coma and drugged out - lacking any focus or coherency - 'dying badly.' Stephen has written on ‘dying badly.’
We are death phobic and grief illiterate - these are from his previous statements and we just never had the time to follow this up.
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 extraction of anything from these areas.
https://eowilsonfoundation.org/e-o-wilson-on-saving-half-the-earth/
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 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.
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 nature. i.e have mystical experiences - as a result of fasting or a vision quest.
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 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.
That so many contemporary adults are reading non fiction, i.e Mills and Boon books - (plural) and are engaged in living vicariously through literature that is increasingly becoming more risqué and going into fantasy. That we are not acting responsibly, but in fact - deluding ourselves.
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 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 future and continue to do so - if we realised this, have you Stephen, any opinion on such a concept?
That today especially in education that women lead the men in their fields - schools girls academic qualifications are higher - since 1893 when women emancipated themselves for the first time on our planet, do you see woman as being pivotal in bring our civilisation to its senses?
www.OrphanWisdom.com
Stephen is in NZ from April 30th 2019
John Aldworth, the author of his book ‘Forbidden History’ states that virtually his whole life has been devoted to journalism. In particular with British 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.
He states that in the 19th century European historians and some Maori historians talked about things in their past that is now, virtually ‘politically incorrect’ today. That in fact there apparently were different peoples living here prior to the Maori or the Polynesians that came to this country.
Not taught in the NZ Education System
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 genuine part of our history.
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 of them are written about in his book.
A descendent of another DNA strand?
He introduces on person who maintains she is a descendant of the Patupaiarehe - fair skinned and fair haired - some with reddish hair that they have been 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. 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.
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 the other DNA is of Peruvian or South American origin.
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 from these people themselves. He says certainly some of them are.
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 - bloodline.
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 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 the time of Christ.
Listen to the interview
Waitaha - who are they?
John then says that the Polynesian Waitaha nation arrived after that - according to recently deceased Paramount Chief George Connolly AKA Hori Manuka Manuka 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 said that his people landed in NZ around 580 AD.
Then John says that there are actually other people but deferred to speak about it saying that it get confusing (I agree says Tim).
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 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. Because it is exceptionally unique.
See the YouTube Video 'Skeletons in the Cupboard' by Peter Marsh and Gabie Plumm … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z6PlYiQSTs
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. Today the South Island is known as Te Wai Pounamu, the waters of greenstone.
The Arrival of the Warrior People
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 among themselves.
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 Ranga - Waikato University Professor Tom Roa when asked agreed and said that there were people in that area before the Maori arrived.
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 and indigenous people that they found.
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 ship filled with warriors and went and took the lives of the population.
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
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 Crown and certain Maori Tribes from around NZ. But not all.
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
Other subjects covered:
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 … and do a web search.
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 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 takes it back to 2000 BC.
https://breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2016/01/mike-butler-disinterest-in-pre-maori.html
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 to these places - by Law.
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 to have been there far longer than the arrival of present Maori.
http://www.kilts.co.nz/stump.htm
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 truth on this matter of when was Aotearoa first settled.
http://www.ngatihotu.nz/2018/11/01/forbidden-history-by-john-dudley-aldworth/
http://forbiddenhistory.co.nz
She has dedicated a Facebook page called ‘Survival Movement NZ’ and invites everyone to come and participate.
This below is what Lisa leads with:
The world is in a dire state.
Climate change is lapping at our doors.
It is estimated that one fifth of the world’s population will become climate migrants, if they survive at all.
Global food security will be severely impacted. With food shortages, food prices spike.
There will be more floods, droughts, and forest fires.
Sea level rise will affect many places around the country and houses will become uninhabitable.
The world economy is unstable. At any time your local ATM could be shut and you could be unable to withdraw money. For how long you don’t know.
World trade could collapse as money markets fail.
If we don’t stop the widespread use of insecticides and herbicides the world will see an insect collapse in 100 years, which will cause the biosphere to collapse.. However our food supply will basically be destroyed at only a 75% loss.
How will we survive the next few decades if no changes are made to our lifestyles?
Lisa is asking us to get real and look at our uncertain future, and then do something about it.
What if?
Last year Lisa had no power for 4 days after a large storm hit Auckland and so experienced living with no electricity for that time. So she had to buy a BBQ, which she was able to drive and buy - so she was ok with cooking for those 4 days. She also had ready access to food and a generator to keep the freezer working.
But, what if a crisis was for a longer period? That it was city wide, provincial, or national? Fortunately Auckland has a gravity fed water reticulation system, from large storage facilities (with diesel generators as backup) - so water in most situations will get to everyone’s homes, as long as the economy is functioning.
If food in supermarkets runs out?
It is no good saying that you will be ok because you are off the grid or growing all your own food.
If there’s a major crisis there is the possibility of armed and desperate people coming in and taking all your vegetables from your garden and food from your house. We need to have in place staple food and essentials in localised storage facilities that is readily accessible for the supermarkets in the city?
Lisa states that if NZ put in place a well thought out strategy and plan to deal what nature or the global financial system issues occur - then NZ is well placed to weather it out. The proviso being - that the political process is involved.
So what does one do to make us resilient and more self reliant? We have to look at electricity, transport and food, especially food, and find efficient ways to get these items to people everywhere in the city and regions in the case of a major emergency or long term crisis .
Planning from both Central and Local Government.
This has to be planned for at both Local Government level and at Governmental levels. Lisa said contact both Local and Central Government and ask them what contingencies they have for this? Local Governments are easier to contact and have influence as well as contacts in Central Government.
Electricity Needs
In 2017 - 82% of NZ electrical needs were from renewables
In 2007 Helen Clark when PM set a national target of 90% renewables by 2025. With wind energy to make up most of this increase. Which is exceptionally and good for our country. Making it exceptionally high by world standards.
Lisa mentioned if a category 5 storm hit Auckland we could be without power for several weeks as a huge number of lines would be down.
However she says the key to this is preparation and in Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania in the USA - they are factoring in their cities future to be more green and aware.
http://pittsburghpa.gov/dcp/sustainability-resilience
Auckland Council’s website is a page where you can leave suggestions for consideration …. so she wants us all to support innovative ways to make Auckland (and New Zealand) resilient. However, there are some things that have to be done through Central Government as well.
https://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/environment/educationsustainability/Pages/sustainability-education-programmes.aspx
Creating Money within New Zealand
Lisa wants the Reserve Bank of NZ to create money, not private banking, as in the NZ Social Credit Party’s financial policy. As a small country we might be able to get away with it, and not have the overseas bankers turn the screws on us. But, she said that if there was a crisis - all the major countries would be crisis too. https://socialcredit.nz Supporting local banks and co-operatives is also essential
So we need to be aware and prepare.
Oil Needs
Tim - NZ has the capacity to extract both oil and gas. We need to have enough to keep every truck and bus running on NZ roads and Lisa mentioned back in the 1970's, with the oil problems, that we in NZ had carless days.
We have 3 months of stored fuel in the country as an emergency measure, but Lisa mentions no food is currently stored. Most NZ wheat is now is grown in Australia and processed there too. As Dr Janice Priest mentioned a few weeks ago in a GreenplanetFM interview Australian wheat is a strain that is heavy in gluten, whereas NZ’s previous wheat had far less gluten.
All of our rice is grown overseas - and Lisa says it's a big Achilles heel, that needs to be seriously addressed. Many other staples have to be imported rather than being grown here.
She mentions a TV series in Britain many years ago where a virus caused mass deaths and what few survivors there were had to scavenge and eventually fight for food and she says hungry people will fight till the death - that it was a very dark story - so why not prepare for the future especially as climate change may have unparalleled effects.
Transition Towns
Tim mentions 'Transition Towns' is operating in a number of places in NZ.
http://www.transitiontowns.org.nz - Originally it was set up in response arising from climate change, resource depletion and an economy based on growth.
Lisa says they at one level are fantastic but asks if they have solutions for a crisis in a large city.
Farmers Markets
Tim mentions that in the meantime farmers markets are a way forward and you can network from there and build relationships and have also sales of items other than food.
https://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/mark-spelding-thames-coromandel-localised-nz-communities-which-connect-and-prosper
https://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/jeff-griggs-transition-towns-mens-sheds-localised-food
Community Gardens across the Nation?
We hear that the Manukau Health Board are involved with 75 community gardens in their area and there are a further 25 community gardens happening in the Auckland City area. This too is a good start to enable community to come together and meet and cooperate and collaborate. There are many different ethnic groups as wells cultures involved, being a great melting pot.
http://www.dpt.org.nz
Living Economies - Is Very important
https://livingeconomies.nz
Tim mentions Living Economies - a NZ web site that can help anyone anywhere develop a system for your local community - especially setting up a Time Bank as well as Financial Pools and creating Green dollars and they have all the connections for you - just go up to LivingEconomies.nz and you can download computer programs to set up a Time Bank for example. Learn about Local money (also known as local currencies or complementary currencies) which is an approach to trading using voluntary vouchers (like “green dollars”) or tokens (print or electronic) instead of legal tender (such as New Zealand Dollars).
Project Lyttelton have over 700 people with their time bank for example.
Project Lyttelton a very good role model
We also learn that Project Lyttelton was very prepared for the devastating Earthquake that struck Christchurch in 2011 and they were pivotal in saving lives, because they had a telephone tree and so many people knew each other and being experienced in cooperation that the Civil Defence HQ recommend that all communities follow the way Project Lyttelton has gone about pulling the strings of community together.
Project Lyttelton received letters of thank you from the NZ Police, St Johns Ambulance, the Fire Brigade, the NZ Navy and especially Civil Defence, due to the fact they were able to mobilise rapidly and work tirelessly for the benefit of the community.
https://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/margaret-jefferies-project-lyttleton-sustainable-community-building-christchurch
Neighbourly - Lisa says this is important for us to either be aware of and or join.
https://www.neighbourly.co.nz/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI8ZaZwPXP4QIVSyQrCh1j7wMjEAAYASAAEgKJ_fD_BwE
Get Through - is a New Zealand Government sponsored website giving pointers to prepare ourselves for emergencies and other contingencies with at least 3 days of water, 3 days with of food and other preparations, like First Aid kits, batteries for radios, etc . This is good preparation for storms or earthquakes.
http://getthru.govt.nz
We Need a Champion
It would be good to have a New Zealander of sufficient mana to champion the need for a secure long term future to both Local and Central Government. Please assist us in finding this champion.
Lisa also mentions what other future challenges there are.
Insect collapse - If we carry on the same agricultural and chemical practices scientists state that 100 years out we will be in a dire situation, so we need to stop using pesticides and herbicides. The drop in numbers of bees and Monarch butterflies is showing us we are taking down our future.
Note that there are no insects on your car windscreen or moths at night or when you do not draw the curtains or close the blinds. Why?
Get off insecticides Neonicotinoids is the number one culprit for the decline of bees.
https://www.beyondpesticides.org/programs/bee-protective-pollinators-and-pesticides/chemicals-implicated
Go organic but first transition via Biological and Regenerative agriculture.
Do a search in GreenplanetFM.com
Now that France has finally banned glyphosate and now Monsanto products. Can NZ follow?
Lisa mentions Auckland Council contractors are using glyphosate which is very problematic, but so are home owners and farmers. Glyphosate / Roundup is a disaster. It is contaminating our food and killing grasses and weeds where insect lavae live and birds feed, and is now found in our bodies owing to its prevalent use.
Sikkim in India goes organic.
The state of Sikkim gets a jump on NZ agriculture. Why can’t NZ follow?
https://www.indiatoday.in/education-today/gk-current-affairs/story/sikkim-becomes-world-s-first-organic-state-wins-oscar-for-best-policies-by-un-1369158-2018-10-16
Lisa also mentions possible economic collapse. Some people are keen to go self sufficient but how do old people and retirement villages survive such challenges. Not everyone is young enough or fit enough to grow their own food. What are the contingency plans for those who can’t do their own gardening, and if there is flood, fire or drought, growing our own food wouldn’t be much help anyway.
Tim mentions that all the parks and golf courses in cities can be dug up and put into gardens - realising that the golf course greens would be very chemically toxic. But, this could be doable in a prolonged emergency.
There were many other interesting subjects mentioned in this interview.
Lisa talks about strong visionary leadership that can direct what needs to be done to manage the future. She says we must prepare now and not wait until it is too late. She says a government Think Tank, or similar, is needed to study where this country is insecure.
New Zealand must be self sufficient in food, go local, and be prepared to cope not only with our own climate migrants, but with those from overseas.
Climate change will transform more than 143 million people into “climate migrants” escaping crop failure, water scarcity, and sea-level rise, a new World Bank report concludes. See here - https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/03/climate-migrants-report-world-bank-spd/
On Facebook - Survival Movement NZ - Lisa invites people to participate.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/470181836848018/
Nature is our teacher
Darren as a child was influenced very much by his grandfather who had a wide ranging understanding of farming in the rural sector of sun affected Australia, where water was a major priority as well as the need for trees and the protection they offered.
So this early education, became critical in his connection to nature and recognising what this hardy land produced. Especially his relationship to the Australian flora and fauna, and with the added factor that he was quite well read - played a large part in his life when growing up.
He now sees his life learnings and that of the ‘Regrarian’ revolution as becoming the broad church of ‘regenerative agriculture’ - that focuses a wealth of attention on forestry (trees) and water. Added to this was that central Victoria, the region that he lived in happened to be the epicentre of organic farming.
Becoming Knowledgeable
During his calling, he has over the years given about 250 Regrarian courses around the world - in about 50 countries - he calls himself as basically ‘a sink’ having been able to take in a huge amount of information as well as glean knowledge from the many people he has rubbed shoulders with. He says that this has been his intention as he feels that he has very good observational skills, which are very important - in that when we look at what a farmer is - they have to be very good at working the land, engaging in drainage, creating swales, tree visioning, fencing, crop rotation. Plus the need to observe the weather, wind direction, the movement of birds flying - aware of temperatures, barometric pressure, sniff the air, and feel the texture of the soil in one’s hands etc. It’s grokking every nuance of the natural world.
Internet a Critical Component of Rural Communication
Darren says that the internet now is becoming a very critical component in sharing not only ideas but connecting farmers over a huge distance and can constantly keep them in the loop as to very current happenings as they occur, especially sharing critical information be it drought resistant methods, or establishing innovative ways of feeding plants, including making compost or and humus in critical weather events and other untimely occurrences that may quickly appear.
He also says that the most successful pathways will be from farmer to farmer - sharing tips etc as opposed to going through a consultant or a Govt official - and the costs that are involved, can be heavily reduced.
He emoted that he and others in the movement are very excited that they can facilitate the rapid movement of information to assist farmers. Especially producer to producer
Holistic Perspectives are Important.
Being involved in the ‘holistic land management movement’ and the methods of integrating with the ‘key line’ plan and design - by the late PA Yoeman’s and by extension Allan Savory - has extended his observation and understanding of grazing cattle and ruminants.
He also talks about the holistic way of being able to self determine what you want out of your future and what to do with your land in relationship to the whole. He said you have to recognise where you are at, (and not at) how resourced you are internally and where your land is at. Is it broken in land, or is it ,say bush and scrub, with no fences, cattle races, drainage etc.
Restructuring One’s Life
He talks about debt and ratio that can lead to serfdom, if you are not aware as to how to handle this. Like, it’s about restructuring ones life.
These are practical matters that he sees and that farmers to be have to get a handle on - they need to be talked about and talked out.
10% of Australian farmers are now doing ecological agriculture but a good percentage are still waiting on the evidence as well as the market to change. This other 90% group find it difficult due to their debt to equity ratio as well as their inability to finance the transition - and if your soil is lifeless - this can be quite a challenge. Same for the availability of water.
In the US the biggest movement that has been identified is that there are 3 different strands of Regenerative Agriculture.
These are the Regrarians and Permaculture practices.
Then the Savory Institute https://www.savory.global with its holistic management system and then there is the cover cropping and soil knowledge - led by Gabe Brown - http://brownsranch.us.
The third still focuses on wheat, so the change is not as great as they can still use the tech that they uses - ie. harvesters and seed sowers etc.
For grazers the change too is not a big change - fencing being a important component - electric fence developed in 1936–1937 by New Zealand inventor Bill Gallagher.
But, for a cereal grower to go from non organic to organic that is a huge change and very challenging.
Darren emphasises that we have to be very honest with yourself around being self determined and have all the available information - to make all of your decisions from being very well informed. He does not want people to diss-enable themselves by making decisions that have not been fully understood and researched. That the following generation on that land need to have the best possible start in this new land management system.
Keyline Method.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyline_design
There are 10 points of Regrarian agriculture of which two have been added to P. A. Yeomans
One to 8 as the scale of permanence. Yoemans work not really holistic, but definitely broke into new territory that excuse the pun. was groundbreaking.
Other Topics Covered.
Greg & Rachel Hart in there Southern Hawkes Bay Farm - that they are brave going outside the box - and doing a deal with Air NZ to plant trees and sequester aircraft carbon dioxide.
https://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/greg-hart-new-zealand-pioneer-of-the-family-farm-on-regenerative-agriculture-restoring-ecosystems
Darren maintains that NZ agriculture is very innovative by world standards.
European Farmers are Heavily Subsidised
Within the OECD - The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development NZ farmers receive the least subsidies. Where as the EU farmers get 50% of their farm income from Government subsidies. This is why Darren is impressed with the resiliency of the kiwi farmer.
He also mentions that farming has entered a new phase of rural resettlement and it is happening globally.
Far more people are doing degrees and diplomas and as a result farming is increasing. With 7.7 billion people and 5 5 billion hectares of agricultural land = about 7,000 square meters for each person. However, one figure is going up and the is other going down, yet he says we need more people in the production of food, fibre and energy crops.
He mentions Harry Weir of KiwiTech International in Bulls, NZ as very capable - a genius in productivity - based around land, family, and society sales@kiwitech.co.nz
Nutrient dense foods Jairo Estrepo from Columbia and his use of Chromatography to give you a soil/element read out
http://www.ragmans.co.uk/learn_with_us/courses/regenerative_agriculture_and_chromatography_id_65/
Cost is about $1.00 a sample - It gives you a read out about the minerals and living organism in the soil and can assess the mineral availability that comes from our food. Darren says this tech bridges both chemistry and biology and it’s an important tech to assist us. That humans and their needs are more complex - and Darren talks to that. That new fertilisers are now being put together to address all sorts of soil conditions .
Darren talks with clients about honesty - it’s a big question - especially that we don’t use claims of others - unless you can verify by testing these claims yourself.
Key line plan - is a farm planning method that in Yoemans words - controls water which is to control a greater part of your agricultural destiny … listen
Even if you only get 8 inches of rainfall, Yoeman reckoned that you could survive on a farm - that’s a lot of acreage of water - what are you doing with it?
Dr Rattan Lal, who is known as the soil god from University of Ohio in the USA - If we increase the soil carbon content by about one and half % in all of the world’s arable soils where we basically have the greatest influence - then that would draw down and sequester about 100 parts per million of Co2 which would bring us down to pre industrial levels - but have we the will?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTb63CDJ5sA
In finishing Darren said that humans must start behaving like perennial species - not annuals - and look further ahead in time.
That we also can take agriculture into more innovative areas by doing novel seed coatings and adding mycorrhiza fungi mixtures to soils etc - plus compost teas …
My final question to Darren, was that seeing he is constantly on the land, does he get a sense of our planet as a greater being - like indigenous peoples do? And he said that yes - there is a far greater presence than is acknowledged by the so called Western understanding of the world - or words to this affect - have a listen - his answer will delight you.
http://www.regrarians.org/about/darren-j-doherty-cv
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. 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 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 Orewa.
This was a light-hearted laughing - interview - that was both entertaining and softly enlightening. Val in her natural healing practice has devoted her life to health, happiness and wellness.
Early Life
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 ill as a result of a contaminated vaccine. 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 by using colour therapy he assisted her mother where orthodox medicine was not able to help her.
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 experience sparked Val’s interest in natural therapies. She became Murdock’s practice nurse and trained under his guidance.
Also, she studied reflexology and used this modality to alleviate her own migraine headaches.
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, used warm to hot water to sooth bodies and allow them to take in minerals to relax and heal the self.
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.
EAV 'electro acupuncture according to Voll.’
Professor Reinhard Voll from Germany devised this method to be able to measure human frequencies back in 1958 and Val experienced 30 years of practice with these machines - especially when she moved into Orewa House where she practiced for 22 years. https://www.biontologyarizona.com/dr-reinhard-voll
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 chemicals and even emotions that affect your health then corrects the underlying imbalances.
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.
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, tissue plus blood and bone, we - at a deeper level of being - consist of a subatomic field of energy that vibrates.
Thus, Val is passionate about raising one’s frequency so as to oscillate to a higher and lighter level of being.
Writing a song for humanity.
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 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.
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 by sharing the frequency of Love and Peace in a song.
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 with the help of her friends brought about a collaborative effort that is simply called 'Peace to the World.'
This song was entered into the global peace song awards and is now in the finals - out of ten finalists.
Cameron Barclay one of the 'Ten Tenors' agreed to sing the song with his beautiful voice.
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 of Cool Schools and guided by Yvonne Duncan’s work. 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 life tools to then take home and teach their parents. The ripple effect will be a huge boost for World Peace’.
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.
Voting is being done on FB and you are encouraged to follow the link below and vote for this song.
https://www.facebook.com/2018-PSA-Classical-Opera-A-Cappella- 298310317702500
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 and its outreach. The good thing being you don't need a FB account to vote.
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 order so towards the bottom, you will see Peace to the World.
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 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 here and you can help by sending this link to all your family, friends and contacts.
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 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 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, 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 put his heart and soul, along with his beautiful voice into raising the harmonic frequency of Peace and Love.
Click on the link below and please "LIKE"
‘Together we can make a difference.’
Thank you!!! Love and Light Valemma.
https://www.facebook.com/2018-PSA-Classical-Opera-A-Cappella- 298310317702500
The next stage is the public vote, which is the number of likes on facebook and the reach throughout the world of the voting public. You don’t need to have a facebook account to vote. If you want to vote, then email valemma@xtra.co.nz and we will send you the link.
When are the winners determined?
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.
Congratulations, Valemma, I am going to vote right away. Now you listeners out there, all over the world, yes, do vote. Vote for Peace to the World.
Vote for the message of peace, carried on the beautiful voice of Cameron Barclay of the Ten Tenors.
Together we can make a difference.
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 2001-2. 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 the Law Professionals course at Auckland University. 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. I enjoyed intervening these two very capable women who are prepared to offer a broad critique of where we are going as a country. 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 may not and then goes on to say that we have to take action, by educating New Zealanders of the issues. 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 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 healthy children have to become far more aware and then take action. 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 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 ingest quality organic food we can start to clean up our body. She noted that chemicals increase the risk of autism, cancer, Parkinson’s disease and infertility. 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 our body. 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 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 farm fertilisers and chemicals. Note: GreenplanetFM’s radio interview of Debbie Swanwick originally of Soil and Health mentions that huge areas of hectares in the Waikato are closed off due to toxic soils as a result of cadmium from super phosphates. Lisa ups the conversation saying that she has just started a FaceBook Group called 'Survival Movement New Zealand' - factoring the possibility of biodiversity collapse and preparing our country for all contingencies, at the same time keeping us free from pollution - including car and cow farts plus exhaust fumes (I left this in Lisa as it sounded funny and it was real too!) https://www.facebook.com/groups/470181836848018/?multi_permalinks=480918595774342%2C480917422441126¬if_id=1551823313432718¬if_t=group_activity Climate Effects. Realising there could be larger storms etc including drought, floods and in particular factor food shortages in there as well. Especially later into the next decade. 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. 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 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 9 Omega fats. 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 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 and regenerate cool green ideas and ideals. Need for Conscious Action from the Current NZ Government Liz states that Jascinda Adhern, our new female PM could have come through with a clean broom with really fresh policies and she says that the longer 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 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, no one from Wall Street and Goldman Sachs - was prosecuted or jailed. etc etc. Foreign Relations. 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 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!” Caveat Emptor - let the buyer beware! https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/29/venezuela-crisis-new-zealand-guaido-interim-president 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 York bankers, and London. Business Matters Lisa as a business woman always paid her employees above the minimum wage and that was near on 20 years ago when. For example, she paid the dishwashers $2.00 above the minimum wage. Covering more suitable business models, remuneration that is fair, share ownership by workers etc. Cooperatives and looking at Trust banks, Mutual Insurance Societies,, Building societies, Trust Hotels, and farmers cooperatives - the big one today being Fonterra - while the NZ farmers now keep a very wary eye on it, so as it will not be hijacked, by moneyed interests. 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. Lisa has done a number of GreenplanetFM.com radio interviews on this subject. (do a search) This interview covers: The Christchurch rebuild after the Earthquake. Many people are unhappy with what has happened. Women run businesses. In most cases women have a duty of care that benefits society. That employing unemployed who are emotional damaged is very challenging. That 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. Teaching self responsibility rather than victimhood. This was an important subject. The teaching of 'garden to table' in South Auckland schools with children learning about food growing and preparation, is vital for healthy body and especially healthy minds. Ihamatao in Mangere - A present day Maori land battle to keep their land that is raging as you read this. As the land is being taken over by Fletcher building. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12208671 Pania Newton, Maori activist, doing her best to save this sacred Maori land that goes back to the earliest arrivals from Hawaii, with its rich and fertile soils and its deep Wairua, or soulful heritage for all Maori. 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 of all ethnicities, and through which a sense of deep community can be built ... Please sign up and register your support for keeping the land in Maori hands. 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 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. Underfunding health issues - especially with children was another concern that needs to be addressed in depth, across the whole of NZ. 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. 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 and even more. Neo liberalism and selfishness and Socialism - sharing and cooperation? Wa also broached. 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 us a body, free air, free rainwater and until recently a free food chain. The realisation that we have become disconnected from the source form which we spring. Transcending victimhood. This is a biggy. That there has to be far more loving relationships in parenting and modelling good values to our children, 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 in which to live and bring up children. But, due to NZ becoming a Neo Liberal experiment, surreptitiously implemented by Roger Douglas Minister of 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 in 2017. 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, 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 society. 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 only when we come together as family, friends, neighbourhood and community can we realise the dynamics of connection, innovation, cooperation and collaboration. Consciousness and Spirituality. 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 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 body, and Lisa concurs and I, as the interviewer jump in and agree with them both. 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 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 whole. 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 the people, lead - for when we do - that is when the politicians follow. Note that when ordinary people across Aotearoa NZ came together in groups and small organisations and cooperatively worked together at a local level where suburbs, councils, towns, cities and regions finally enacted Nuclear Free Zones, that when they numbered over 67% of the population, then, and only 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 a "Nuclear Free Country." 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 District in the Hawkes Bay. Though new technologies like CRISPR – are being deployed to get around laws and GE Free areas. https://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/jonathan-latham-phd-the-dangers-of-gene-editing-and-gene-drives 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 "5 G Wireless Free Country" as the information coming from courageous scientists, and academics state that this technology is detrimental to not only human health but all biological health across all of nature - globally. 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 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, community that will be here for all children and biota …
New Zealand was once a country of many backyard gardens.
Janice talks about how NZ used to be a very localised, cooperative community-orientated country that used to grow a lot of its own food. That many people had gardens and orchards and that today with urbanised living and houses squeezed on to small sections - farmers markets have become more common as urban people still want to purchase fresh food that is preferably organic as well.
She said that up until 1996 NZ was self sufficient in growing its own wheat, a good healthy wheat, like you would find in Italy as they as a pasta making country grow good quality wheat. However in 1996, Fonterra the NZ dairy giant took over the wheat fields and turned them into dairy and instead NZ now imports a more unhealthy wheat into the country as to fill our bread eating needs. This is when 'gluten free' started to really emerge. She says if we go to Italy they have a very clear understanding of wheat as they are a spaghetti, lasagne and pizza eating country and she said we need this type of wheat to grow back here once again. (preferably organic).
Educating the local public in Natural Health
Very early in her life Janice became a qualified naturopath, who assisted people to get well and who lived on a lifestyle block on an acre of land with her 4 children. She had lost her husband - and to supplement her income, used to have bus tours drop in to look at her herb garden because she had the Herbal Education Resources Centre which she still has today.
Janice also put on some small Health Expos and the media would show some interest - as she was self sufficient with her large organic veggie garden and orchard - doing her own preserves and baking her own bread and home cooking. However, due to her ‘different' life style she was visited by Social Services who came to her house one day because some unknown person complained that she was neglecting her 4 children's eating needs. Yet, though she had food that she could pick, prepare and cook, they noticed that her deep freeze did not have any ice cream, green peas and white bread - and because she did not have - what they called 'the basics’ - she was taken to court for medically neglecting her children.
The need for more Health Information lead her into Publishing
Keen to share her herbal knowledge Janice continued to give talks to community groups as well as church gatherings and youth clubs and so on. This was when, she began to notice kids turning up with inhalers and she realised that in a number of ways this is a world going unhealthily crazy. That seeing she had a corporate background she started a little newsletter and published more health information because in the mid to late 1970s to have a plate with many greens on was unusual especially for the standardised commercial NZ family. It was from these humble beginnings Healthy Options came into being - and when she focused on meditation etc Rainbow News became an additional holistic publication.
The Old Ways from Grandmothers
One of the main features of Healthy Options was about the old ways - Grandmother recipes, stories and cures were printed as they were being forgotten and also being whitewashed by the sanitised medical profession. Yet, today scientists are starting to track back and investigate old grandmother cures. Because over the last 3 generations or so, many of them have been forgotten yet they are a very rich repository of century old remedies that not only work they also have no side effects either. She also states that old recipe books were disappearing off the shelves and forgotten.
Even the NZ Women’s weekly magazine, up until 1975 always had home tips in it and the magazine thrived - however in those days women would go to their doctor and say that they were using some kawakawa or calendula on their leg - or whatever herb they chose and the doctor would rubbish them! As the allopathic medical (drug) model was what doctors had only been trained in. This was one of the critical reasons why Janice started Healthy Options.
So with Healthy Options and Rainbow News it was in many ways a networking arrangement that gave out all sorts of suggestions for simple living, and easy to use tips for a healthy body. These cures were for basic as well as even more chronic ailments. Also, that while moving around interviewing people and networking she would hear of or meet practitioners who had actually had their officers raided and all of their stuff taken. This being sanctioned by the Government. Listen
The Rise of the Medical Establishment and the drug culture.
Whilst the NZ media spent a good couple of decades rubbishing natural health (and organics too) - the Medical establishment was made to be seen as the truth - the way and the light! But, in reality it was just creating more drugs, more reactions and more health statistics - that dramatically increased.
This is when it became very noticeable that the pharmaceutical industry started lobbying politicians …
Natural Medicine then morphed into Alternative Medicine - that changed to Complementary Health and has now morphed again into Integrated Medicine - when once upon a time it was simply called Natural Health. Listen to this little story ...
Natural Health = Traditional Medicine
Janice tells how this came about yet she mentions that all 'these names' actually are what the World Health Organisation calls - Traditional Medicine. As Janice says, that 80% of the world’s population still follow traditional medicine. That they will use their traditional medicine first before turning to drugs.
Being of Health Boards gives Janice an Overview
Janice mentions that she was also on certain boards that oversaw the natural health industry so she had an overview of what was happening especially who were the main players as well as the forces at play.
The NZ 'Round Table’ (of Top Industry Leaders) in researching successful businesses realised that with such a large number of New Zealanders taking supplements etc that if the National Government made laws against the 'natural health industry' - they would lose a huge number of voters - so they did a 180 turn and instead supported the industry here.
Fending off Australian Trans Tasman Harmonisation Control
Listen to this story on how we stopped the Australians from taking over our medicine regulations. This was a 12 year battle with thousand of people protesting (sound familiar?) Because the Regulatory Board was made up of big Pharmaceutical and medical appointees lock-stepped with MultiNational Corporations. This was the reason for wanting to conduct a ‘harmonisation proposal (between Australia and NZ).
Invoking an 1835 Aotearoa Maori Trade Agreement
In 2009 the Pharmaceutical Industry lost the chance to monopolise NZ - where they had been more successful in Australia - so they called up a meeting with the Trade Ministers and due to a particular 'trade agreement with Maori’ back in 1835 - NZ is now in a situation that the NZ Government can not make any legislative changes in our food and medicine. We are instead being influenced by other pressures - Listen
Becoming Aware of Industrial or Factory Food
Spraying of Round and Glyphosate - Bees are being destroyed.
In her practice today she is seeing malnutrition because New Zealanders are eating ordinary sprayed standardised crop food. Better known as Industrial or Factory food. For example, broccoli and lettuce are very high in organic phosphates. Saying, for good health you MUST eat organic broccoli, organic lettuce and organic green vegetables. Also, they are a greens that the insects just love - hence the spraying of them.
The best quality food grown in NZ is Exported
Supermarkets - basically all the best food in NZ is exported. Supermarkets get the best of the 2nd grade and then the 3 grade usually goes to independent grocery stores (with a few exceptions)
NZ’s Unconscious Health Priorities?
Note that the top two commodities sold in NZ supermarkets are Coca cola - because it is often cheaper than water. But, it does give you an understanding of the consciousness or the lack of consciousness of the average New Zealander - hostage to both advertising and being a 'walking desire body.'
After those two we have bread - white bread and then ice cream following up. So there we have it. An unconscious consumer base self sabotaging themselves for short term indulgences. Yet gluten free products are selling more now as a result of consumers starting to become - more conscious.
Organophosphates are getting into our food chain and Janice says they affect our memory. Organophosphates are a group of human-made chemicals that poison insects and mammals. Organophosphates are the most widely used insecticides today. New Zealand fruit and vegetable growers are using three pesticides restricted in the United States. ... A fourth organophosphate, chlorpyrifos, has been banned for home garden, non-agricultural use in the United States but is widely used in New Zealand.Jan 13, 2005 (Taken from latest Google search).
Janice introduces her very powerful and compelling book: Ocean of Drugs - the demise of healthy options. She talks about patients who show up at her clinic who are taking up to 12 different medications.
For so many people today are awash in pharmaceutical drugs that to be healthy is really a challenge - because many people do not know what these particular drugs are actually for! Plus the side effects are in many case very pronounced.
Janice still has her own garden and grows much of her own food and she says we have to become very aware of what's happening across the spectrum and that todays chemical input is extremely obvious and that we must take steps to eat a clean diet of organic produce.
Especially as cancer is increasing at an astonishing rate - that we have to ask the question, why is this so and what am I eating and what are we doing to ourselves to cause cancer to manifest? Especially that my body has rebelled against me.
There is so much more in this interview - that I realise Janice has a huge amount of knowingness on healthy living and choices that the imperative is to interview her again in the very near future.
This interview is a must for New Zealanders wanting to reset their health priorities and embark on a new regime of healthy options. To download and listen is only the equivalent of about 7 photographs.
For her Book - 'Ocean of Drugs' or Health Enquiries:
JanicePriest.com
HealthyOptions.co.nz
In this interview he powerfully articulates that what we take into our bodies can have a lasting effect and of the necessity and urgency to clean up our act - is an imperative.
The old adage that ‘the greatest pollution we face is that which is between our ears’ - ‘is our thought process’ and that the sooner we recognise our situation, the sooner we will be able to clean up both our inner and outer world.
David is touring NZ over the next few months to share with all concerned the latest knowledge on natural ways to regain optimum health and remain that way for the rest of our life.
Some important tips and reminders are:
Organic food, especially veggies and fruit is exceptionally important.
No Fizzy drinks for children.
Kamboucha* Tea is OK.
*Sugar is dangerous.
Fasting for adults is good for us all.
Watermelon juice fast – detox your kidneys as it is alkalising.
Rehydration is important as forty year olds and older are seriously dehydrated.
90% of David’s patients are dehydrated. He has machines that test for this .
Do not drink chlorinated fluoridated ‘tap water.’
Electronic Devices – don‘t use them before bed.
Turn your wifi router off at night before you go to bed.
David calls this sleep hygiene.
A good 7-8-9 hours every night.
Naturopaths in NZ devote 2 years to nutritional knowledge and if you get less than 70% in your exams you have to sit the entire course again.
Whilst MD’s in University have only 3 hours on nutrition, if they miss those lecture they do not need to repeat that lecture. Which clearly shows that food and nutrition are not a priority.
Aging gracefully
Every generation we are extending our life span by 5 years …
Zinc is crucial especially for men. Pumpkin seeds are important.
5 G wireless mobile phone clarion call.
Nine ways 5G and the IoT will harm humans, the environment, and Earth IOT ( the Internet of Things) * Health – The robust and growing independent science shows harm to our health from microwave radiation
Privacy – The invasion of our privacy from the collection and mining of our digital data
Cyber Security -The fast growing and devastating cyber security risks
Environment – The harms to wildlife, particularly bees, butterflies and other pollinators
Energy – The huge energy consumption to produce and power a wireless Internet of Things
Brains and Humanity – The effects on our brains and humanity from humans increasingly inhabiting the cyber world
E-Waste – The astronomical e-waste that will be generated from connecting virtually every “thing” to the Internet
Conflict Minerals – 5G and the IoT will vastly grow our dependence on conflict minerals, which have brought about the death of close to 6 million people in poor countries eg Congo.
Ethics — Ethical issues arising from the IoT. New human rights laws are being being considered; how should humans relate to robots and AI? The blurring of what was once a clear
NB: If you need information specific to the proposed NZ 5G system it is summarised at this link: http://www.5g.org.nz/2018/10/11/facts-about-5g-in-nz/
2019 NZ Wellness & Anti-Ageing Health Plan launch
& Biomat Tour Feb-March 2019:
Proposed dates - changes may be made all number dependant, (minimum 20 people per talk to hire a hall)
NB all talks are 7-10pm, 120 min PP presentation with DH and 30 mins presentation from Dianne Keen with a cuppa herbal tea afterwards other speakers by arrangement.
$25 at the door, $20 pre booked on Eventbrite pages to be linked to this here:
Queenstown Monday 25th Feb 7-9pm – St Johns Ambulance Hall, Frankton, Queenstown
Christchurch Wednesday 27th Feb 7-9pm – Avebury House, Richmond, Christchurch
Wellington Monday 1st March 7-9pm – Quakers Hall, Moncrieff Street, Mt Victoria, Wgtn City
Auckland North Shore Monday 4th March – Browns Bay Community Hall, Sherwood Room, Browns Bay
Auckland East Wednesday 6th March 7-9pm – Anchorage Park Community House, Pakuranga
Auckland Central Friday 8th March 7-9pm – Ferndale House, Pink Room, Mt Albert
Kerikeri Monday 11th March 7-9pm – Turners Centre, Kerikeri central
New Plymouth Monday 18th March (after WOMAD) – venue to be advised
Waiheke Island Thursday 21st March 7-9pm – Waiheke Sustainability Centre, (ex Bowling Club) Mako St, Oneroa
In this ground breaking 120 minute presentation David has mapped out and distilled his 30 years of clinical practice into an easy to understand Strategic Wellness, Health & Anti-Ageing Plan designed to help you live longer, healthier and reach your wellness goals faster than ever before.
Utilising state of the art scientific measurement technology (QXCI / VLA / S3) coupled with ancient healing knowledge & wisdom (Yoga & Qi Gung / Tai Chi) gleaned from native peoples all over the planet David has brought together a unique and insightful Wellness & Anti-Ageing Plan that works. He has been very lucky to have studied over the decades with some of the top names in Natural Medicine worldwide and has distilled their knowledge into one unified workable Health Plan that will give you results faster than you dreamed possible limited only by your time & effort and health budget.
David has been taught by Masters around the world including Dr’s Bernard Jensen, Gary Gordon, Jonathan Wright, Gabriel Cousens, Christopher Hills, Deepak Chopra, Bruce Lipton, and other Metaphysical luminaries like Louise Hay, Wayne Dyer, Neale Donald Walch, Robert Kiyosaki, John Kehoe, David Duggan, Brian & Amy Murray, et al.
David’s search for knowledge & truth in medicine & healing has taken him to many places both physically and metaphysically. Most of his teachers where truly holistic in their outlook and wrote and lectured on medicine & healing, and modalities that don’t give serious side effects without the use of cyto-toxic pharmaceuticals. The areas covered in this presentation include whole food nutrition, herbal medicines, essential oils, dietary supplements, genomics, epigenetics and the new biology. It also touches on the science of quantum physics & deep healing. This enables people in the early 21st century to truly benefit from a blended approach to health & wellness that really can act to turn back the clock if you are prepared to give a tailor-made fitness & nutrition plan coupled with state of the art nutrition and the new stem cell enhancers a serious 6 month trial.
In David’s multi-media presentation, he will be covering:
1) All 11 types of Arthritis including RA
2) 3 types of Diabetes (DIM1 & 2) including Metabolic Syndrome (DIM3)
3) All type of Cancers including all organ cancers & blood & brain cancers
4) All types of CVD including Strokes & Heart Attacks (MI).
email: david@hhc.nz
www.DavidHolden.co.nz & www.HoldenHealthCare.com
Author of seven books Nicky is NZ's foremost investigative journalist - covering - intelligence networks, environmental matters, politics and other issues. Whose books have both illuminated and shocked readers across the country as well as globally - as we as a nation find out to our consternation - that behind the news, the bureaucratic systems and the political world - truth is hidden from the masses on a grand and vast scale.
He is the only New Zealand member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. Their website https://www.icij.org/
A World First?
To people reading this from overseas it was Nicky who in 1996, essentially 'revealed to the world community' that there was a huge secretive global listening system in place that was ‘hoovering’ up all global electronic communications. Be it telephone calls, emails, faxes, web pages, Google searches, etc and now including texts, Facebook, postings, Twitter feeds etc, etc - all are being recorded to gigantic overseas data bases. This includes this posting you are reading - at this moment - (hi guys!)
Echelon = Five Eyes.
This system was called 'Echelon’ now dubbed 'Five Eyes' and these ‘bases’ were and still are in the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The Anglo American speaking world.
Though he was basically ignored in NZ, when the European Parliament heard about this they were initially very upset, especially the French and the Germans. So Nicky was invited to come to the European Parliament to report on his findings. However, to this day, this listening system remains in place as an integral part of the 'deep state’, to the degree that Angela Merkel the German leader, to her consternation, up until relatively recently, had her mobile phone tapped and all her private information recorded.
The interview:
The Police Raid
I asked Nicky if he feels safe in his home after the police raid in 2014 and the confiscation of his computers and files. His answer was that it was emotional disturbing - (listen).
Yet, as a result, he received an 'extraordinary apology' from the NZ police afterwards - stating they should not have done it and that they won't do it again.
Then in mid-June 2018, he accepted the apology and compensation for "substantial damages" from the New Zealand Police for the raid as part of their investigation into the hacking that led to the Dirty Politics book. The Police also acknowledged accessing his financial records as part of the apology settlement.
I asked, when the police have to pay up in instances like this, where does the money come from, us the NZ public? Which he agreed that basically it is us, the police are part of the Government that taxpayers finance.
Fortunately, Nicky had three top quality lawyers - who gave of their time to have the police, (who after 4 years) finally give an apology to him as well as make 'a declaration that they had acted unlawfully.'
He said he was very fortunate in getting the police to apologise. Because this might now stop them doing it to others who are far less resourced than him and his three lawyer friends.
In asking about society in general, Nicky states:
Most people believe in social services, pay their taxes and want to work for a better world for other people - and that it is only a relatively small number of people that muck it up on massive scale - by doing things secretly, unaccountably that no one knows what they are doing.
If journalists let the world know that they can do good quality journalism - this helps curtail people in strong financial and powerful situations from doing corrupt business and banking deals etc.
Investigative journalistic ideals work always towards a better world and how things can be right for a better future for children of today and tomorrow and he says there are more of us than them - and by persistence and focus we can definitely change things for the better. Because there illegal practices are essentially ‘mucking' it up for all of us.
When asked the question, about the lack of top quality journalists across NZ - and did he want to comment on this?
He said that there are a good number of very good journalists in NZ, however how the system is run, that it is very difficult to be published. (Listen)
To the question about the lack of quality news media - MSM? He states that when scrutinised MSN are not fulfilling its function in a democratic society.
When asked about Wikipedia - do you find that everything on it is factual and true? Especially about you, Nicky Hager, on your Wiki entry?
Nicky says he will never use Wiki, because if the topic is disputed - this is hugely problematic - especially if there are different sides and interests based around money etc - then Wiki becomes less and less reliable.
Some Wiki pages have people with glowing information - they may be important in someone’s estimate - because so much attention has been given to them. But we need to be very wary.
Do you get any feedback that certain entities go on to Wiki and change and edit the narrative? Yes, this too is problematic.
Is there a secretive war going on Wiki?
(Listen)
You have written 7 books of these:
1 Secret Power (See above)This also covered the GCSB the NZ Government Communications Security Bureau that can and does listen to all NZ communications within NZ.
2 Secrets and Lies
Is about Timberlands West Coast Limited an exposé - in order to cunningly win public support for logging of native forests (old growth) on the West Coast of New Zealand. (Not mentioned)
3 Seeds of Distrust
In this interview Tim mentions that contaminated seeds are still coming into the country especially over 168,000 tons of GE Soybeans, fed to pigs and chickens. Whilst the NZ Government / biosecurity are looking the other way. There is a lot more in the interview about other GE contaminants entering the Port Of Tauranga, having been rejected by China.
Nicky understandably (due to all his other many commitments) was not aware of this.
Tim asked Nicky about whole paddocks in NZ being sprayed with Monsanto’s glyphosate - causing untold hidden affects to the soil microflora and that when this information becomes known overseas - that NZ’s clean green image has been sabotaged by their own farmers - what are the consequences for NZ exports? Nicky was not aware of this as this is only just now becoming known.
4 The Hollow Men
5 Other People's Wars The war on terror in Afghanistan and beyond has been the longest foreign war in New Zealand history, yet most New Zealanders know almost nothing about their country's part in it. For ten years, nearly everything controversial or potentially unpopular was kept secret, and obscured by a steady flow of military public relations stories.
6 Dirty Politics In August 2014, Hager published Dirty Politics: How attack politics is poisoning New Zealand's political environment, featuring leaked emails between National Party figures and right-wing bloggers. According to Hager the book aims to tell the story of "how attack politics is poisoning NZ's political environment".
Hit & Run - with Jon Stephenson
Tim says that as NZ is now in the US Alliance once again, playing with the most expensive and lethal of weapons, it was a different story when the NZ Government democratically announced its Nuclear Free policy, back in 1987. Once this happened NZ Army service men - on bases in the US were shunned through no fault of their own. Many cases of being ignored by US service people made life very difficult for the NZers as they disengaged under NZ Government orders. Example cited: whilst walking along corridors bases in the US as soon as any US servicemen saw the NZ counterpart walking towards them, they immediately opened up any door to their left or right and went inside closing the door waiting for the NZer to pass and then coming out ‘after the kiwi had moved on.’ This was very un ‘warrior like.’ A true warrior respects another warrior from the other side and vice versa. “ True warriors do have codes of ethics, which they follow.”
The NZ Frigate Te Kaha being birthed in Honolulu July 08 2012
The frigate HMNZS Te Kaha and tanker HMNZS Endeavour were taking part in Rimpac, the world's biggest military operation, but while old enemies Japan and even a Russian ship were are allowed into Pearl Harbour, the New Zealand ships were sent to Aloha Tower - deep in the commercial heart of Honolulu. This was seen as being unfriendly, possibly spiteful, all as a result of NZ’s 1987, democratic process of not allowing nuclear armed or powered naval ships into NZ ports or waters.
Tim asked Nicky about the John Campbell Live - James Clapper episode - here in NZ. Where in March 15th 2011 – Top NSA Spy chief, James Clapper, flies to NZ to meet with John Key and this was so secret it was not mentioned at all by the NZ Government -...
This country owes John Campbell and the Campbell Live team for explaining how this was exposed - that an aviation photographer at Wellington airport saw a US Airforce Transport plane on the tarmac and photographed it and then enlarged the photo to be able to actually see who was getting back on board - that it was James Clapper on his way back home. he had been quietly here in relation to security and Five Eyes and NZers knew zero about it. Note the Campbell live show critique went along political lines. The left said something is fishy and the right blew it off as a conspiracy.
https://www.ourplanet.org/.../sprung-sneaking-into-nz-james-clapper-head-of-the-nsa
Note as Clapper is 'deep state’ he has been accused of perjury back in the US .
March 12, 2013, during a United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing, Senator Ron Wyden quoted NSA director Keith B. Alexander's keynote speech at the 2012 DEF CON. Alexander had stated that "Our job is foreign intelligence" and that "those who would want to weave the story that we have millions or hundreds of millions of dossiers on people, is absolutely false…. from my perspective, this is absolute nonsense.” Senator Wyden of the Select intelligence Committee asked Clapper, "Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?" He responded, "No, sir." Wyden asked "It does not?" and Clapper said, "Not wittingly. There are cases where they could inadvertently, perhaps, collect, but not wittingly."
This opens the question, does the spying facility in NZ spy on Australia and the Australians spy on the Canadians and the Canadians spy on the Americans - The US on the UK etc etc and on it goes, every country vacuuming up the other countries communications so that under oath, the intelligence officials can say they are not spying on ‘their own’ country?
So this was more than a very engaging interview.
What one comes away is that Nicky is straight down the line, my questioning could not sway him in any direction other than he told the truth from what he knew.
Though this was a serious interview there were a few little parts that made one laugh, mainly at the ludicrousness of it all.
We have all been birthed onto this planet and from our first breath our journey has been one that I would like to think, of being wanted, loved and that our parents and siblings make family life one of connection and joy.
Yet, has this ideal been materialised in your life? Kathy tells of her experience having just over the last 10 years been available 24/7 as a midwife - of assisting around 500 human babies to be born into our realm. She also says that there is an increasing understanding of new holistic preparatory methods, that once the prospective ‘first' mother-to-be, educates herself (along with her spouse) major positive changes eventuate. This translates to attending advanced prenatal class etc, (prior to birth) that from then on - virtually every birth becomes so much easier. That over the hours, days, weeks and months every aspect of motherhood, becomes so much easier for both baby and mother - making parenting very satisfying and fulfilling.
She mentions that in the current obstetric system 50% of first time births for mums are dramatic and traumatic - however when we add up the C section and also the instrumental delivery rate - this is what happens.
That any woman who are not fully engaged in their pregnancy - having too much happening in their life - (yet still think that they are engaged), but they are not fully engaged - like get really focussed and engaged and get as much information about pregnancy so that when the time of the birth happens - that it a fantastic beautiful, wonderful birth - everything goes better.
The enjoyment of feeding is better, the baby is thriving - virtually no post natal depression - the husband and partner are wrapped -everything just works better - everything flows in what Kathy calls the ‘cascade of normalcy’ -
She states that the Number 1 priority for the baby is:
The safest, most kindest, most gentlest birth. (Listen to what is often said next)
Mum’s to be - you need to quit work early if you can! It is important to be rested and relaxed
(we did not get around to soft nature sound or soothing music for the baby in utero …
Gold standard for mums doing part time work to 28 weeks and not working from 32 weeks This always turns out better for the mother - listen
Working to 38 weeks is definitely not the way to go.
Eating - the big one is for mothers is to avoid food poisoning - this Kathy says is what it is all about. Listen - Fresh, organic,
Mothers milk and the magic of what it does. Listen
Baby be fed breast milk for the first 6 months - has all the antibodies and goodness for babies intestines.
Formula - very technically advanced now …
Though no colostrum, be it a mouse, a goat or a whale - because we are born with our intestines sterile.
The need for us all to be aware of the inherent goodness of mothers milk.
China Visit
Kathy talks about her last months visit to China of 1.4 billion people, where there are 400 million millennials in there 20’s and 30’s. That each year 17 million Chinese babies come into the world.
China is relaxing its 1 person policy to that of a 2 child policy - yet, with no welfare system available, the children as they grow older become aware of filial responsible for ones parents …of taking care of them in their retirement - getting an education and working is incredibly important over there. That child has 4 grand parents and 2 parents who have an investment in that child. Plus a respected hierarchy within the family - they still have strong Confusion values.
Kathy states that:
China in 10 to 15 years time will be a world leader in child birth and all things related to babies coming into the world?
Acupuncture is incorporated into their practices as well as traditional Chinese herbal medicine. This is happening here too as we modernise obstetric care in NZ, with both acupuncture and homeopathy utilisation.
Topics covered included water births
Especially when it was first introduced in the 1980’s and water births need to be divided into 2 parts - one water labour and 2 water births.
Labouring in water is good thing approved though the jury is still out in relationship to water births.
Other subjects covered is learning to squat - for assisting easy births. Most women in the developing squat to do many chores and thus are able to give birth easier due to the practice of opening their pelvis more.
Questions that ‘I’ did not get around to asking.
What was not covered was that certain Amazonian Indians continually pass their babies from mother to father to grandmother to grandfather to aunt to uncle back to the mother and around all the other relatives in the tribes - so that the baby is so secure and at peace - that heart beats of different family member as well as energy given off is automatically sensed by the growing infant that some infants rarely have to crawl because they are always in some loving family members arms.
Not to use microwaved drink or food especially in plastic containers - even if approved as being microwave safe.
What are indigo children as well as rainbow and crystal children - (Very evolved souls).
https://www.todaysparent.com/baby/why-your-babys-gut-bacteria-is-so-important
Kathy’s Web site
https://www.kathyfray.com
I have watched John Tamihere from a distance, but became especially interested in his research on Auckland Council, when I read an article of his in the Herald on November 9th.
In the article John mentions Penny Bright’s ‘relentless requests’ for council to open its books. As Alan Preston and I have a petition now in parliament asking, in Penny’s words, “that the House of Representatives undertake an urgent inquiry into whether Auckland Council has failed to comply with the statutory requirements of section 17(1) of the Public Records Act 2005”, I contacted John to see if he would meet me.
Since meeting John, I have discovered a petition by Susan Wann that requests “that the House of Representatives conduct an independent inquiry into Auckland Council's performance, including financial accountability, and then pass legislation reforming Auckland's local government.”
So people are beginning to wake up to Auckland Council’s lack of financial performance and transparency, particularly around CCOs (Council Controlled Organisations) or Costly Creations as John has referred to them as.
Private procurement, or “contracting out” of public services, (formerly provided in-house under the public service model), is now often done under contract management. If there is no cost-benefit analysis which proves that privatisation is more cost-effective for ratepayers, then questions must be asked.
Both Susan Wann’s and my petition have been sent to the Governance and Administration Committee in parliament.
NZ law is very clear on the requirement for transparency in public spending:
Section 17(1) of the Public Records Act 2005 says:
“Requirement to create and maintain records
(1) Every public office and local authority must create and maintain full and accurate records of its affairs, in accordance with normal, prudent business practice, including the records of any matter that is contracted out to an independent contractor.”
John has discovered that $1.049 billion needs disclosure on via just 6 CCOs in the last annual reports. See his Herald article below where he also exposes the massive salaries of the CEOs of those 6 organisations. John says there is a need for whistleblowers.
John is very clear that people are waking to the fact that the Emperor has no clothes!
However he feels that we need to reset our culture. He says, “Kiwis are not stupid, they are waking up”.
He talks about the government’s next budget that is being called the Wellbeings Budget, where success will be measured by wellbeing. He is hopeful it will bring change.
He says supply-side economics has failed us and we need to acknowledge that. Supply-side economics is a macroeconomic theory arguing that economic growth can be most effectively created by lowering taxes and decreasing regulation and is often referred to as Rogernomics in New Zealand. After 30 years of it we have our profits going offshore and the gap between rich and poor has increased exponentially.
I asked John to imagine he was mayor, and what was the first thing he would do to rectify some of the issues we had raised. He replied, Clean the house”! He would like to keep democracy safe and one way to do that would be to appoint an integrity unit which in effect would be an ombudsman. Corruption must be addressed.
He spoke about recycling and homelessness, cycleways and a variety of issues.
He talked warmly of compassion and integrity and how we must not lose our humanity. Also democracy must not be retired to Netflix! Only 36% voted in the last local body elections and while some people don’t bother, others move house and so may not receive their voting papers.
John Tamihere Bio:
JT as is he is affectionately known - is one of Māoridom’s greatest enigmas.
Whether it has been battling in the political arena, where JT served two terms as a Government Minister or going toe-to-toe with iwi leadership over the rights of urban Māori, JT has never wavered from advocating for the rights and mana of his people.
Brought up by a rugby league loving Māori father and staunchly Catholic Pākehā mother, JT’s parents were a huge influence and encouraging force in his life.
Born 10th of 12 children, JT was the first to attend university, graduating with a double degree in arts and law.
In 1988, he was the youngest Regional Manager, Department of Māori Affairs and the youngest District Solicitor for Waikato Maniapoto Land District.
JT was appointed as CEO of West Auckland’s Waipareira Trust as Waitangi Treaty settlements with the Crown were being settled. But urban Māori were given no concessions or rights and JT, despite his own iwi affiliations, took the Wai414 Claim to the Waitangi Tribunal and later the Privy Council in London to address this injustice. The legal ruling of the Wai414 Claim recognised urban Māori under the Treaty.
That win catapulted JT into politics and he easily won the Hauraki Electorate for Labour, also appointed Chair of the Māori Affairs Select Committee. There was consensus that JT would become our first Māori Prime Minister, after winning the Tāmaki Makaurau seat in 2002 and promoted to Cabinet, that view seemed on track.
In 2005, JT left parliament, returning to Whānau Waipareira, where he has grown the organisation’s balance sheet by 90%, while establishing Waipareira as a local, national and internationally recognised whānau, who deploy services across an integrated framework.
He has also led the establishment of North Island Whānau Ora Commissioning Agency Te Pou Matakana. JT remains lead negotiator Ngāti Porou ki Hauraki and Chair of Ngāti Porou ki Hauraki and a Māori appointment on the Māori TV Board.
JT’s vision, leadership and genuine crossover appeal with Pākehā, has become a loss to politics but a major victory for urban Māori.
Here is John Tamihere’s Herald article, “Shine a Light on these Costly Creations,”
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=12156805&fbclid=IwAR2MvKVzEL6FR7qKJKmrRyUf7v1HjcAx8X71gOLS7Zz8ucX2qSfi4q-Z8Kk
Lisa Er and Alan William Preston’s petition press release
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1809/S00290/is-auckland-council-complying-with-the-public-records-act.htm
The subject matter, of experimenting on animals that have no voice, gives cause to wonder what we are doing as a so-called civilisation.
Where does mindfulness and a duty of care come into it?
But more so - compassion?
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 disdain when money power and profits are concerned. Just look into the eye of that forlorn guinea pig in this graphic.
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 the animal kingdom is not exploited by both pain and money.
On average over 300,000 animals are used in vivisection in New Zealand each year. These experiments are performed in universities, schools, polytechnics, commercial laboratories, government departments and ministries. The species used include hamsters, mice, rats, guinea-pigs, sheep, cattle, goats, birds, fish, alpaca, buffalo, cats, deer, dogs, donkeys, horses, pigs, and more.
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, there are cruel genetic modification and cloning experiments going on that we the public have really no idea what’s happening.
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,
That her strong passion for valid science and her obvious strong commitment for animal rights - combined together has pushed her into her current role, where she has in a little over 4 years embedded her ideals into NZAVS.org.nz
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 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 Zealanders demanding the abolition of all experiments on animals after obtaining affidavits from doctors all over the world who claim vivisection is medically and scientifically invalid.
Bette Overell is recognised internationally for her work in the new abolitionist movement.
http://www.whale.to/a/overell_b.html
So how is NZ progressing with regard to animal welfare?
A Brief History of Animal Welfare that influenced NZ
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 were to enforce the principle that it is iniquitous to inflict avoidable suffering on any sentient being. Its objectives included the banning of vivisection 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 study of vegetarianism.
His views were reported widely, including in New Zealand.
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 for a halt to the cruelty of Vivisection - yet his was truly a voice in the wilderness in those days.
New Zealand Organisations
Once it became clear that animal experiments were occurring in New Zealand at medical schools and agricultural research stations, anti-vivisectionists 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 of Vivisection were established in other centres by the 1940s. In 1944 the Council of Combined Animal Welfare Organisations (CAWO) was formed. This was a coalition of Theosophists, anti-vivisection leagues and the newly established Vegetarian Society, led by Theosophist Geoffrey Hodson. In its advocacy of animal welfare measures CAWO had much in common with the SPCA, but it had a no-compromise stance on vivisection.
In New Zealand there was some interest in the cause, and vivisection was occasionally debated. A few groups including feminist organisations and many Theosophical Society members condemned it, but the SPCA members had a range of views from total opposition to reluctant acceptance.
Gains and Losses
CAWO was successful in campaigning for regulations governing humane slaughter, and the outlawing of the sports of hare coursing and captive pigeon shooting. However, its anti-vivisection aspirations were thwarted by the Animals Protection Act 1960 which, although it introduced many reforms, made animal experiments legal.
This Interview Covers
Where we are today in 2018
Vivisection Is Still Happening!
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 sophisticated as well as simple anatomical models here today and Tara says that dissections could have been halted yesterday.
Massey University Veterinary Department is seen as very progressive and up there as leaders - but Tara cautions by saying Massey in other areas still uses some highly invasive purposes, never-the-less.
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 certain disorders so that students can pick up and learn from.
They have fake dogs (robots) that mimic certain heart conditions that students can listen for also.
But there is not yet enough of this across NZ.
Testing Drugs On Animals
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 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 are study after studies proving that experimenting on animals have no relationship to how these drugs will react on humans.
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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theralizumab
Thalidomide drugs were tested on animals with no side effects but caused tragic results in humans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide#Birth_defects_crisis
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 - to not even cause a ripple throughout society.
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. 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 are kept. Why blackout windows? - Animals need as much natural light as possible too.
Often, activists have to use the Official Information Act to find out what is actually happening
Tara says that it’s very difficult to get information especially as to what private companies are doing behind closed doors.
Other Topics Covered:
Support for stopping vivisection continues from within NZ with concerned public helping over long time periods, going back to the 1970’s and 80s. As this is seen as an ongoing important issue that many people contribute to - for their whole life.
Cosmetics testing on animals - Is now banned in NZ
But not the ban on importation of cosmetics that have been tested on animals
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/
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 are poured into their open eyes and on the skin of rabbits - listen
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.
https://www.nzavs.org.nz/the-six-foot-rats
It’s an important and powerful educational tool disguised as a fun and colourful children's book, by local artist Rebecca Gibbs.
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 in cosmetics and was the first company to be certified with the Leaping Bunny logo in 1997.
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 on animals.
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 who donate to animal groups that work towards freeing up animals from experimentation.
That today 100 million animals in the USA alone are being used in experiments
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 talk.
Dr Ray Greek is a global champion for the cause. http://animalvoices.org/2017/07/drraygreek/
Why Animal Testing is Ineffective for Preventing and Curing Human Diseases.
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 ways of researching and testing products for human health.
http://biomed21.org/about-us/non-animal-models-research-human-respiratory-tract-disease/
Ricky Gervais - Comedian and well known world personality - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ri
Is one of the more stronger advocates on the world stage who speaks out on behalf of animals.
New Zealand Politics
Mojo Mathers - Green - initiated the ban on animal testing for cosmetics in NZ
Gareth Hughes - Green - is prepared to speak up on this issue too
Jo Luxton - Labour - in the past rescued an ex lab rat
The DARK SIDE
Unwanted Chickens are killed by a conveyor belt - especially if males and don’t lay eggs.
https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/hack/chickens/7645698
Chooks still in cages today - a horror story laying eggs for unconscious buyers - the chickens are bred and designed to be trapped in 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, rain or wind, or soil beneath their feet
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 old and so are sent to the freezing works. However, they are being experimented on too. - listen
Vegan and Vegetarian choices - Tara is a vegan (and I myself, have not been a red meat eater or eaten poultry for 41 years.)
Also mentioned is Geoffrey Hodson who spent his last years living in NZ, giving lectures and sharing his knowledge.
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 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. 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.
http://www.geoffreyhodson.com/Assessment-&-Conclusion-2.html
A very thought provoking interview from a strong and articulate advocate that needs to be shared across greater NZ and beyond.
https://www.nzavs.org.nz
Weather forecasters and meteorological services are equally puzzled and in many ways shrug this off to 'climate change' and the increase of greenhouse gasses. Yet, some argue - this is an easy way out.
However, more astute researchers, albeit some amateurs among them are noticing many irregularities and are finding certain weather patterns incongruent with normal meteorological ones.
Global weather systems are definitely changing, but so is the geophysical realm as well.
In this interview Nigel informs about some of the variables that seem to stand out as being very irregular.
He also talks about his prediction regarding the 2016 Kaikoura earthquake in the South Island of New Zealand.
Based around a supermoon and various weather patterns and ‘anomalies' that could not be explained and he tells how when he went to the NZ Met service to share his insights that they, in his words 'mocked him' when he tells them of his research .
He uses the example of boom box stereo in cars – you know - boooom booom boombth boooom vibration that shakes the windows and floor of your car in the next lane – and there are also other frequencies that can vibrate at other levels. With seismic testing (in this case for oil) and the added influence of lunar forces, tides and gravity etc he said that:
"These earthquakes are not man made - but man induced".
The interview covers new technologies from Tesla to HAARP as well as what the human race has to do to become aware. Especially that secret military budgets, are sucking up money that know one knows what it is being spent on.
Is Our Government Intentionally Hiding $21 Trillion In Spending?
Jul 21, 2018 - This column is co-authored with Mark Skidmore, a Professor of Economics at Michigan State University.
Also, that with such overwhelming information that we individually have to become 'fully resourced within.' That at heart we need to have a very strong determination not to allow these subjects to take us down. Having purpose and a spiritual resolve is an imperative during these tumultuous of times.
International Media
When the Earthquake happened in Kaikoura NZ on the 14 November 2016, Nigel received a lot of international media attention after his predictive Facebook post on 6th November. However, he talks of attacks on his character, both public and private. He said he just wants to know what’s going on in the world. He is just inquisitive to how nature and life works.
Note, Steffan Browning the ex Member of Parliament for the NZ Green Party mentioned that there was a large floating oil corporation ‘seismic’ barge situated off the East coast of South Island between Christchurch and Kaikoura around the time of the earthquake.
The interview covers Fake News but also a 'Heads Up’ to what may be actually happening.
Fake News is now a global phenomenon – that much of the MSN news, especially beamed to homes in the US and Europe is based on fear and terror.
Mentioned also is the HAARP facility in Alaska – High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (do the research) plus other international facilities and more new advanced technologies that are now being deployed. Though not mentioned in this interview, researchers think that there could be 100 portable HAARP units being deployed globally. Not only in the USA. link is below *
That the tech is becoming so advanced that we do not know what weapons are being used - like space based weapons on orbiting platforms that are testing and using plasma technology.
Weather and Frequency Wars
When perusing photos of the sky zig zag patterns – and waves – can be seen plus seine waves – being curved and also sawtooth and triangular waves plus square waves or half rectangle – showing very crisp lines between clouds and blue sky – and these he states are not natural cloud formations. That they are perturbed clouds that in some instances make the clouds look like waves.
He mentions that NZ could be influenced by 'frequency systems' based in Australia affecting our Tasman Sea weather patterns and NZ being possibly having/relying on a certain amount or quotient of precipitation. (rain) This statement was not pursued, however this information may become more known in the future. He said that there are many non disclosed weather experiments happening. That time has to be taken in studying the large number of weather photographs and the complexity of how these systems constantly flow in and out. Plus he is not privy to many photos as they may be censored or just not posted on the web.
Secret Projects
Also discussed are 'dark projects' – of the secretive military industrial experiments – using high orbit space base weapons - that there seems to be some 'Directed Energy Events' involved with California's wildfires – that many people are realising could be caused by certain factions testing their technologies.
Called directed energy weapons – is one of the new technologies and Nigel gives a run down that says that the use of lasers, particle beam tech, plasma weapons, microwave and a whole assortment of direct energy systems are part of the US ‘defence’ departments secretive experimental arsenal.
It is important to know that weather warfare is not a new concept.
U.S. Military Wants to Own the Weather - Space.com https://www.space.com › Science & Astronomy
Oct 31, 2005 - U.S. Air Force Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) satellites compared “lights at night” images before and after Hurricane Katrina disaster. ... In fact, military officials and weather modification experts could be on the verge of joining forces to better gauge, react ...
The Ultimate Weapon of Mass Destruction: "Owning the Weather" for ... https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-ultimate-weapon...owning-the-weather.../5306386
For years now steering hurricanes in certain directions has been high on the military agenda.
On the West Coast of the US there has been devastating forest fires in the town of Paradise and previously in Redding and there are still ongoing investigations as to what were the really cause or multiple causes. That weather fronts flowing from west to east across the North Pacific ocean towards Canada and America seem to always be held back, as if hitting an invisible wall - that this ‘suspension’ of rain fronts are seen to be the cause of the droughts in California.
But is this at all credible? Who would believe such statements?
Then we talk about who would believe this – this is so dark that people just don’t want to know. Who would want to research such nefarious and subversive subject matter?
We then covered how to understand this subject without being taken down or becoming depressed.
Becoming aware yet staying strong and well fulfilled within
So we talked about inner discipline – becoming well resourced so as to keep in our heart.
Also, to awaken people to the shadow side of life if we want to bring peace to the world especially for all children.
Nigel opens up to express how he sees existence - saying 'life is a game' – and we need to be one step ahead of the game – by knowing what is happening and that it is still unwritten. That we are the writers of the script – 'that we are spiritual beings having an earth experience' and so we need to always be beyond becoming a victim.
Honouring Activists
He tells of an award system he is developing called ‘Levelling the Playing Field’ honouring activists and being rewarded with recognition and prizes.
That when activists keep the subject matter in the public mind, eventually the Government will in the face of overwhelming evidence do something like ban certain deleterious activities
Asbestos, thalidomide and DDT - have seen to be detrimental to health and human life and finally become banned.
This was both an interesting as well as overwhelming subject to bring to the public consciousness. You will never hear national radio from all the differing stations across NZ discussing such a subject other than* to dismiss it or to contemptuously disparage it. However, with $21 trillion in the US been hidden from the public of that country, you would think that this would be an exceptionally subject that the media in NZ would want to bring to public arena. This is what we are dealing with today. Be it fake news (distraction) or censoring by omission which, is very predominant not only in NZ, but in Western media globally.
And on occasions play GreenplanetFM.com radio shows to their central Waikato listening audience.
Links
www.geoengineeringwatch.org
Facebook page – weatherwars international https://www.facebook.com/groups/1310150419018802/ Rick Duart
https://www.facebook.com/nigel.gray.5
https://sorendreier.com/jeff-rense-geoengineering-and-the-disastrous-ca-fires/ *
Dutchsince - https://www.youtube.com/user/dutchsinse
NOT MENTIONED We must always be conscious that the use of super computers to run scenarios is always a major fundamental in the secretive defence and space based as well as financial scenarios. These supercomputers situated in all major countries are being used 24/7 to work out ‘best case scenarios’ - or ‘worse case’ - depending on what devilish scheme or chain of events that are being envisioned.
We also did not get around to mentioning the assault on the world whales and dolphin population – the cetaceans. The US Navy, but most probably other navies are using high powered sonar and other radar technologies to hunt for submarines silently submerged possibly half a kilometre down in the ocean depths. These electronic intrusions are having a horrendous impact on the cetacean population as they have such ‘sensitive hearing’ that they are picking up mans increasing technology interference that is violating their right to live unharmed anywhere in the earth’s oceans.
This farming method initiated by Rudolf Steiner is more than a profound holistic farming modality, as it includes organic produce, energising water, halting soil erosion, building compost heaps and especially its far reaching ways in pest management and control. But more so, human health and well being opens up spiritual qualities that allows us to recognise our connection between heaven and earth.
Peter Bacchus has been involved in biodynamics for over 65 years with an uncle going to Europe in 1924 to learn of this system, and then his father travelling to England to follow up on this in 1938. After the war returning to NZ, where he incorporated it into his own farm. So having been embedded in Biodynamics all his life, Peter has a wealth of information and knowningness as to its efficacy.
At heart we all know that the present global ecological situation is precarious, yet governments also are not focussing on the seriousness of the planetary environment. With huge swathes of tropical forests still being logged and barely a murmur. We are learning of habitat loss, acid seas, weather patterns gone awry - if we want to initiate change, we are obliged to make this happen at the grassroots level.
With Biodynamic farming, not only is Co2 sequestered into the soil, but so is nitrogen pulled out of the atmosphere to supplement plant growth. That the use of natural methods to pull down nitrogen, which comprises 80% of the atmosphere, is far superior to the ‘manufactured’ methods of nitrogen fixing.
in 2024, it will be 100 years since Biodynamics was introduced to the world by Rudolf Steiner. Peter posits the possibility of Biodynamics engaging in a large global promotion of the many modalities that are embedded in this unique and sensible farming method.
Main Points:
Burying Cow Horns
In this interview Peter talks about the use of cow horns which are filled with cow dung and buried for a certain period. He goes on to say that with exact measuring and the addition of other refinements, this dung is added to water that is also quantified and then continuously stirred for an hour. After which, say for a local garden, one can take a brush like a hearth brush dip it in the solution and then flicked over the surrounding vegetation. Where tiny droplets land all over the foliage and begins a certain affect. That translates to healthy, abundant growth of said plants, vegetables etc
This is called 500 and there is another caled 501 that is made of ground down quartz until its molecular constituents is that of a powder. Listen
Water Energising
Flow forms to oxygenate water -This is a natural means to oxygenate water and entrain frequency back into the water. Covering memory of water etc (see Viktor Schauberger) excellent for bring back to life effluent ponds and sewage waste. Listen
Soil Rejuvenation
Earthworms activation occurs after the 500/1 preparations - Peter tells of worm casting that we so thick they were like a sheet over the ground to likening it to spreading of marmite over a sandwich - it was so effective.
Soil bacteria and fungi and the imperative to include the microorganisms of the soil are explained as the foundation of all land use. Listen
Financial Reward and the viability of healthy vital premium organic food.
It is a proven fact that biodynamics and organic food brings a far higher monetary return than industrial factory food that is chemically laden. More money can be made because quality produce fetches higher prices.
Demeter is the the Greek goddess of the harvest and presides over grains and the fertility of the earth. Although she was most often referred to as the goddess of the harvest, she was also goddess of sacred law and the cycle of life and death.
What is Demeter in NZ? Demeter is a world wide certification system, used to verify to the consumers in over 50 countries that food or product has been produced by biodynamic methods. The Bio Dynamic Farming and Gardening Association is the certifier in New Zealand. (The Association registered Demeter as a certification trademark in 1984.) Inspectors visit the operators (farmers and processors) annually to collect information about their methods. A committee of assessors then decides whether to grant certification. Most committee members are experienced biodynamic farmers and/or processors.
Richard is a former Major in the British Army’s Coldstream Guards. He embarked on a quest to find respite from the psychological injuries of war by walking the length of NZ.
As a United Nations peacekeeper, Richard spent seven months in war-ravaged Central Bosnia during the winter of 1993-1994.
He and his troops were tasked to deliver life-saving humanitarian aid to trapped and starving civilians. This meant negotiating with militia leaders- as well as criminals, warlords and their followers, some of whom were under the influence of drugs and alcohol.
Their job also entailed protecting aid delivery routes, scouting for new routes and escorting UN and EU human rights monitors and war crimes investigators through volatile areas.
As well, they supported the numerous NGOs, such as Save the Children, Feed the Children, Medicin Sans Frontiers and Oxfam, by providing security and protection.
Richard’s rifle company came under fire from machine guns, mortars and shells. At times, they had to return fire within strict Rules of Engagement.
They also had to deal with “mission creep” as they maintained the balance between peacekeeping and peace enforcement.
All this was done during a severe winter and in mountainous terrain, on poor roads, with mines and IEDs (improvised explosive devices) an ever present danger and in full view of the international media.
At the peak of his command, Richard led about 220 men and women, including local interpreters.
He took his responsibilities seriously and knew that every decision could result in the injury or loss of life of those under his command. These responsibilities peaked when he and his men liberated and defended a besieged Muslim enclave in Maglaj.
During his tour of duty, Richard witnessed the worst that people can do to each other as well as many examples of courage and selflessness.
About six months after leaving Central Bosnia, Richard developed severe symptoms of post-traumatic stress injury.
However, like many servicemen, he considered mental illness shameful and harmful to his career. As a result, it took him eight years to seek professional help.
In this interview Richard talks about how PTSI develops in some people and not in others. He explains how the survival “Fight, Flight, Freeze” stress response hijacks the mind of the PTSI sufferer and how to release it.
He explores how lack of sleep, nightmares and flashbacks erodes the health, energy and willpower of someone in the grip of PTSI.
This brings up the topic of suicide in the veteran community, and more broadly within NZ as a whole.
Research indicates that about 200,000 NZers think about taking their own lives every day.
The comedian, radio presenter and suicide prevention spokesperson Mike King says that around 2,000 people attempt it and a certain amount actually die by their own hand. (NZ has one of the highest suicide and self-harm rates in the developed world.)
Richard has long since left the Army. He is now a mental health counsellor on Waiheke Island where he specialises in the treatment of stress-related patterns of depression, anxiety and anger, including recovery from trauma.
A dedicated community volunteer, he serves on the committee of The Friends of McKenzie Nature Reserve and within the Waiheke Island RSA.
He is actively involved in campaigns to help Waiheke Island become the world’s first predator-free and Dark Sky sanctuary urban island, as well as the campaign to prevent the spread of Kauri Dieback disease.
He is a keen proponent of eco-therapy. In this model, stressed out people heal themselves through activities that restore stressed-out land to health.
Richard founded the NZ charitable Trust, Walk Off War, to highlight and provide information about the recovery and prevention of psychological trauma, especially through connecting people with the natural world.
The idea for the Trust developed during a four month solo walk down the length of New Zealand a few years ago. Richard embarked on the hike to test the idea that nature immersion can cure modern stress-related maladies, including poor mental health.
Enroute, he discovered that walking in wilderness- as our Stone Age ancestors did for millennia - gave him much-needed relief and healing from his war experiences. The beneficial effects lasted about two years and, with regular ‘top ups’, they continue to this day.
Richard says that even though the mental injury of war is painful and life-limiting, it ultimately offers a gift.
Trauma can make us more human and understanding of others. It forces us to focus on what is truly important in life and to strip away unnecessary complications and possessions.
He also believes that when you are surrounded by beauty, bird sound, and natural colours, you can regain a profound sense of gratitude for what nature provides. It is our ancestral home and the source from which we spring. It is where anyone can walk off their war and step toward peace.
About Walk Off War
Walk Off War is a project with charitable status headquartered on Waiheke Island here in New Zealand. Initiated by Richard Margesson, Walk Off War aims to raise awareness about post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) for those on the front lines of public service.
walkoffwar.org
There is no such thing, as ‘public’ transport in Auckland.
The trains, buses and ferry services are publically subsidised, but privately owned, operated and managed, passenger transport operators.
Auckland Transport won't reveal how many public millions are being paid to subsidise private passenger transport, on top of their private profits.
Their books are not open - regarding the millions of public monies paid to subsidise these private passenger transport operators.
Auckland Transport won't reveal how many public millions are being paid to subsidise private passenger transport, on top of their private profits. Their books are not open - regarding the public monies paid to subsidise these private passenger transport operators.
State Capture' is where corporate vested interests get their way, at the policy level of council or government, in order to get laws passed that serve their interests.
With whom are the policy analysts consulting, before legislation goes through the council’s machine?
These are issues that both Lisa Prager and Penny Bright have been exposing.
Here’s an example: Auckland Transport has appointed Shane Ellison as its new Chief Executive. Prior to 2011 Mr Ellison was located in Paris with Transdev where he was responsible for global corporate development and innovation. Transdev (previously Veolia) runs Auckland’s trains!
Agenda 21
Associate Minister for Transport, Green Party MP, Julianne Genter is married to Peter Munns who is principal economist for MRCagney that advises Auckland Transport on cycle ways.
Perhaps Auckland’s push to create cycleways, when our aging sewage system is polluting our harbours, shows an ideology that is not allowing for a balanced use of Auckland Council / Auckland Transport’s money but rather a determination to get people out of their cars. This Lisa explains is part of Agenda 21, which New Zealand, and Auckland, are signed up to.
Lisa is a bike rider and is not against cycle ways. However when they go through shopping areas and take parking from local businesses they are destroying community and people’s livelihoods. Shops lose custom and so close down.
Their landlords then have to sell their properties cheaply to developers who then build blocks of flats, says Lisa, and our Australian shopping malls will expand to accommodate the population.
Mature trees are also being cut down. The whole cycleway project is ill thought out as shown in this article in Spinoff.
Lisa is also concerned at the spraying of glyphosate by Auckland Transport’s contractors – Fulton Hogan. The WHO has labelled glyphosate as probably carcinogenic but there is evidence that problems don’t just end there. Yet Aucklanders are having it sprayed on parks and berms all over the city.
Lisa Prager is an artist, sculptor, award winning documentary maker and proud co- owner of Garnet Station cafe/bistro in Westmere.
She trained as an actor in the late 70's at Theatre Corporate in Auckland, but left to become a political activist & pop artist.
Involved with Wake Up Auckland in the early 2000's she challenged Les Mills & Auckland Council's homophobic attitude towards the Hero Parade and homosexuality.
She stood with others against John Banks and the sale of pensioner/affordable housing and the actions of Auckland Council & Auckland Transport to transfer public assets into private hands.
She stood with others to fight the sale of airport shares, the privatisation of Westhaven Marina and the ideology behind the badly designed, unsafe, overpriced cycleways. Lisa supports a nationwide tree protection policy and replanting Native Bush not pines to fight climate change.
She is Currently Spokesperson for Occupy Garnet Rd movement.
This Link below explains the graphic on the top of the page
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=12152507
We only had 55 minutes to cover such a vast subject as there are many varying species in NZ. Having the largest number of different sea birds on earth - around our shores.
The number of introduced birds into NZ are many, including vagrants and migrants and the total number comes up to 435 different species. A vagrant is a bird that unexpectedly shows up – like the Laughing Gull that breeds on the prairies of the mid Western states of North America. Last year found in Opotiki in the Bay of Plenty.
NZ is the seabird capital of the world. 1/3 of seabird species on earth, visit or breed in our region
NZ albatross numbers are the highest on earth
NZ fairy tern now with only 40 in existence
51 NZ birds have gone extinct over time
Some Aotearoan birds may have become extinct due to disease from an introduced bird species.
Yet, we have not had an extinction of an endemic bird since 1970 - of the Bush Wren
Kakapo flightless parrot numbers are 154 after dropping to about 45.
The Chatham Island Black Robin went down to a total of 5 birds and yet it recovered with adept human management - now 250 - though - problems with diversity due to a small DNA base.
Little spotted kiwi – (only about 1900 birds now) where once there could have been millions.
There are 5 species on Kiwi plus various subspecies
That wild ducks can fly over 1000 kilometres and more.
This is a good information - too much to list here so I encourage you to listen to this interesting interview as to what’s happening in NZ, what birds are increasing and decreasing - about offshore island sanctuaries, what pests are having to be dealt with and other ways about getting New Zealanders to become far more interested and involved.
Especially in how birds and their morning sound welcome the new day, and assist us with insect control, scattering seed and pollinating flowers.
With stress, depression and health issues nearly becoming the norm in our 21st century contemporary society - ‘there is fortunately another way out.’ This is by taking a sacred journey into the very being of nature, where it begins with stepping out of our daily routines, strict plans, work and ‘to do’ lists, allowing space for the great mystery to be our guide.
Osher River Oriyah is an intuitive healer, author, storyteller, performing artist, and early childhood specialist based on Waiheke Island. Michael Fleck is co-founder of Good Company Pacific Cultural Journeys. Why do people go on retreats, pilgrimages, hikoi, and sacred journeys? What is it that calls them and beckons them to step onto the sacredness of this path of the natural world and into places for deep healing and inner peace. A safe place, where we recover our essential joy and purpose, and at the same time, activate the healing of our mother planet? Yet more so, that behind the filmiest of screens awaits yet another world, and the question - who are our ‘hidden’ companions?
Osher who originally comes from Israel in many ways a desert country, went to the US and there met with Native American women who changed her perception about life – from the standpoint of recognising the natural world – where nature was alive! And where nature held a key to her wellbeing, happiness and joy.
That also inside her she became aware of a great teacher that connected with her spiritual unfoldment within the new paradigm of love and unity. This being based on moving away from fear and into love whilst living in a day to day existence.
Michael – originally from the US, previously had taken Hawaiian elders and kahunas to Rarotonga for a Pacifica festival – and that it shaped his wanting to do the same through Aotearoa, by taking people out of the ordinary – beyond our everyday perceptions and intuitively tune into the vastness of natures process. To make a connection to this country and to see the natural beauty as being sacred. In particular, working with the group dynamics of everyone in that group ‘having an intention’ to want to ‘be together’ and be in a mindful state - to see and experience the sacred in everything. Thus lifting one’s state of being and allow one to ‘feel’ the subtle energies that most of us miss, that yet have always been embedded in nature’s beauty.
That the participants over time during these journeys, in melting into nature, become inevitably transformed in mysterious ways and shifts their awareness to realise a spiritual connection especially to the land and mother earth. Hence they are called sacred journeys. Nurturing us in a supportive group setting – all intent in growing their inner capacity to love and express newly realised joy.
Michael - In setting the field states; there are both man made energy fields and natural fields that surround us and a sacred journey is one where we step into the natural field of energies and for a small window in time, bathe our being in bird songs, insects sound, whispering waters and fragrant blossom scents.
He mentions insect sounds like crickets chirping when slowed down to the same correlation of a human life to a cricket’s life - time wise – the sounds of those crickets sound like angelic music. Gary Cook’s ‘soft wired’ up trees, emit much melodic like sound, too.
That we are totally surrounded by information 360 degrees and are inundated by the information age too, but we are missing out on the elemental kingdom.
Osher - Talks of her sacred journey into the unseen, that when she removed herself from the day to day basics of ordinary life and stepped over the threshold into the realm of the elemental world. Her journey was one of healing post traumatic stress from her mind to finally enter the heart and it open up a connection to become more at one to nature via the sacredness of this journey. Dropping out of the mundane – all her beliefs that she had - created fell away.
Osher tells of her connection to the elemental kingdom and what the Aotearoan maori call the Patupaiarehe or Tūrehu the fairy folk – listen
Of karakia - prayer, is very important to do when – visiting sacred trees, rivers, power points, situations, views, beaches, portals, and intuitively breaking out into singing spontaneous song.
In the shade of a giant kauri and having reverence for the forest giant Osher said she was told that the reason why the kauri’s were dying is because ‘the humans species vision is dying’ – due to disconnection from the grandeur and magnificence of nature and her exquisite beauty.
Michael - “We can empty ourselves of all that contemporary culture pours into us, and in that emptiness, we recognise the everpresent subtle rhythms and songs of the natural world, bathing us in refreshing innocence and delight.”
This is exceptionally important to acknowledge, as we need to soften and allow a warm and curious innocence to take place.
Osher - yes! And open to more play and playfulness – having been born in Israel, with its conflicts – Osher’s journey – finally into nature here in NZ softened and healed her heart and it softened to where she is now engaging with natures unfoldment and sharing this awareness with journeys into the natural realm of the forests, rivers and sacred places throughout NZ.
Seriousness has fallen away to be replaced with joy and laughter
Osher tells story of her contact with the elementals in Coromandel and that they save two songs with her - Listen
In today’s world intuition has been replaced by thinking – the so called left brain – that is very linear and focused on detail such as measuring and quantifying, where as the intuitive opens us wider to a greater vision plus poetic inspiration …
Osher talks about the healing virtues of nature, of Gaia (Mother Earth) and from her previous challenges coming out of war torn Israel – that if she can through nature and song, heal her being - she openly states - that anyone can – all they need to do is take that journey into the natural realm, into the garden again. We just have to have faith that we can heal our being and once again find our heart and that when caressed by nature’s symphony of outrageous beauty – healing can take place for joy to burst forth – we … just need to take that leap!
She mentions her up and coming sacred journey through the Coromandel that people can join. Plus the wisdom from the plant kingdom and plant medicine, that can be learnt along the way.
A Sacred Journey into Native Plant and Song Medicine
November 7-11, 2018
5 different gifted people, giving 5 half day workshops over 5 days
Come and step out into the unknown ...
Contact: Michael : netweavernz@yahoo.co.nz
Osher - FB - Inner Spring Or Healing Quest Coromandel
Last century, NZ became the first major country to become Nuclear Free. Thanks to the work of dedicated activists supported by thousands of ordinary New Zealanders we are still essentially GE & GMO Free today, too.
Can we quickly mobilise the populace, especially loving mothers, so as to empower all district councils, towns and cities nationwide to enact laws against the rollout of 5 G wireless networks?
The propaganda war is increasing exponentially as financially flush Telcos, like Spark, Vodafone and 2 Degrees - ‘spin’ the benefits of streaming nonstop media to our smartphones and target our unknowing youth.
All the while they are saturating the environment and us with intensifying frequencies from ubiquitous cell phone towers…Now they are planning to place new more powerful radiation-emitting “small cells” around 250 metres apart in our cities and towns.
Yet, we have not been told of the ‘health benefits' - as there are none!
On the contrary, knowledgeable scientists and health professionals have been warning us against this coming technology as the wireless industry has migrated from 1G to 2G to 3G and 4G. https://www.5gappeal.eu/ .
Now “Big Wireless” wants to introduce 5G and flood our neighbourhoods with even more wireless radiation whilst at the same time cancer and ill effects keep escalating countrywide. This is also now slowly overwhelming NZ’s ‘free’ national health system.
No, this is not a scare tactic - do the research yourself.
150 years ago - there was no microwave radiation other than extremely low levels from the sun and an occasional pulsar in space - coming in from millions of light years away.
Now we are metaphorically wading through a jelly of accelerating magnitude of microwaves and other artificial forms of electromagnetic radiation - and the general health and wellbeing of the populace has not been taken into consideration.
Nor has the health of nature, the biota within the biosphere such as animals and especially your pets, your cats and dogs - plus insects, bees and all trees and plants. http://www.5g.org.nz/2018/10/06/like-trees-enjoy-breathing-oxygen-you-should-oppose-5g/
Where is the scientific evidence proving that this latest technology is safe?
It is known (listen to the interview) that the telecommunications industry along with broadcasting - be it TV or radio and in particular the relationship to ‘smart’ phones – had a huge amount of influence in the development of the current standards in NZ as to what sort of level of microwave and other wireless radiation is acceptable and where cellular phone infrastructure can be sited.
There was negligible input from people who were advocates for ‘human health’ involved in the process of setting NZ’s current standards.
This was an ‘inside’ job, almost completely focussed on how it would benefit the telecommunications industry and profits. What this means that essentially no consideration to ‘due diligence’ or ‘the precautionary principle’ was taken in relation to biological life - meaning we humans!
So how do we relay this information to ordinary New Zealanders when we realise that MSM, mainstream media, the Fourth Estate have reneged on their duties to inform you the public.
Well, just like the many loving mothers and concerned ordinary New Zealanders back in the 1980’s who did not want to be targeted in a nuclear war between the USA and the Soviet Union - when we had no say what so ever in the matter other than we were obliged to go and do whatever America decreed.
So thoughtful New Zealanders became activated and banded together over tea and coffee and gatherings or all manner of situations to convince local council, boroughs, towns and eventually city councillors to enact Nuclear Free Zones across the whole country.
That finally when around 105 councils across the nation representing about 76% of the electorate happened, it gave the mandate to David Lange, Prime Minister of the 4th Labour Government to make NZ - ‘Nuclear Free NZ.’ And be a beacon of peace to the world.
This continues to be followed up in relation to becoming a GE and GMO Free country as well. With Hastings/Napier becoming GE Free, and all of Northland now becoming the largest GE Free area in New Zealand.
However we have arrived at a crunch time.
The previous NZ National Government in realising that people power was still prevalent and that GE Free activists were writing submissions, signing petitions and attending meetings and gatherings to advise and invigorate local Councils - that ordinary citizens did not want this unhealthy biotech in their regions.
The Government took action. They decided to keep ‘control’ of the narrative by endeavouring to usurp the power of local councils, towns and cities from governing their own local areas and regions. The Government wanted to prohibit councils from passing by-laws banning GE and GMO’s. Fortunately the High Courts of the land sided with the Councils.
However, we cannot be at all sure how the present Government will react to such a powerful global technology that is omnipresent and in everyone’s lives.
Why? Because (with the exception of putting out a consultation which appears to have been basically intended to elicit feedback from the telecommunications industry) they have remained deathly silent all of this year!
So the game plan is to share this information as much as possible especially texting this to family members and talk about this at the table, when hanging out with friends - because there is an imperative for New Zealanders to come together, share, cooperate and collaborate and start the movement to make NZ a 5G Free Country.
There is a 5G information website for NZ which is www.5G.org.nz
The pivotal story around Transhumanism is between those who believe in a soul or a spiritual connection to those who are essentially atheists and believe that once we die we exist no more. 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 machine or robot.
This interview neatly intersects with last weeks interview with Roy Harlow on Artificial Intelligence - AI - so if you enjoy this interview - you will really get a hit from Roys powerful interview.
This is one version of how Transhumanism is perceived:
The Transhumanist agenda is more than just Artificial Intelligence (AI), or robots taking over human jobs, or transgender restrooms at public facilities to accommodate an ever growing push for uniformity among the masses.
Transhumanism is Posthumanism. It is humanism with the optimism taken out, a movement that advocates for the transformation and the “advancement of humanity through technology” that runs the gamut from nanotechnology to AI. This paradigm is not limited to gadgets and medicine but also molds social, economic, cultural, institutional design, language, and the psyche.
To be clear, Transhumanism is a manufactured endpoint to human evolution…
Rosanne Lindsay, ND
This is the Technocratic viewpoint:
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 of our development but rather a comparatively early phase.
Transhumanism is a loosely defined movement that has developed gradually over the past two decades.
Transhumanism is a class of philosophies of life that seek the continuation and acceleration of the evolution of intelligent life beyond its currently human form and human limitations by means of science and technology, guided by life-promoting principles and values.
Max More (1990)
The conjoining of man and machine?
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 is it that machines will merge with humans? We already have heart pacemakers, artificial knees, ear pieces, teeth implants etc, whilst the list becomes longer each year.
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 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.
Bringing in Balance?
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 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 true intelligence
What is Soul and what is Consciousness?
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 all there is? That beneath the subatomic realm into the quantum field - does this connect at the deepest level into - consciousness? Sir Arthur Eddington said, ‘the stuff of the universe is mind stuff’ whilst Sir James Jeans said; ‘the universes was one great thought.”
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 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 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 because they look after us.`
‘Out of the body” and “near death” experiences confirm that humans have a detachable consciousness. (Soul Travel?)
‘Out of the body’ and ‘near death' experiences are now experienced by more and more people (as the world population expands)
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 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 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’?
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.’
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 viewpoint - that all people who say such things is that they were hallucinating and that the mind is playing tricks on them. 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 frantically worked at keeping their body alive. Telling them afterwards what exclamations were said and what particular actions and even mistakes were 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.
After experiencing these paranormal events, they become infused with compassion as well as a knowingness that will never allow them to doubt - and that life after death is a certainty.
The ‘Precautionary Principle’
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 about purpose, compassion and intent - what does it feel to be full and feel joy and fulfilment? Do we through our unknowingness allow certain things to filter into our consciousness - our ordinary day awareness - and conversely what are we finding out and also letting in. Are we conduits or walking antennae? Many mystics would agree.
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 - animals and insects perceive certain colours and hear certain sounds that are of a different frequency - yet we humans cannot.
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 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.
The Transhuman Perspective
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 computer intelligence will completely leapfrog/bypass human intellect and capabilities.
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; experts thought it was impossible ... until it wasn’t. Next-generation gene sequencing is decreasing in price, far faster than Moore’s Law for processors. In many ways, bioengineering is moving faster than computing. Today most promising of nine broad approaches to mortality and aging are genome stability, telomere extension, epigenetics, proteostasis, caloric restriction, mitochondrial research, cell senescence, stem cell exhaustion, and intercellular communication. So with Silicon Valley awash with ideas and scenarios - especially how to integrate nanotechnology into the human body, you can see the artificial excitement 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.
The philosophical ramifications are huge with this current momentum of the fusion of science, technology with biological processes. 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 indigenous cultures, rather than the somewhat simple and sterile dysfunctional futures depicted by many science fiction writers and futurists. 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 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 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 it all.’
5 G the Fifth Generational Wireless and Computer Network Technologies
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 millimetres - needing antenna and relay stations every 50 metres or so - outside everyone’s house - connecting everything to everything - driverless cars totally under control - all ambulances given right of way and it is all under control. 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.
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, a spin will be put on all this to tell us how very helpful this technology is going to be. First the hand hold phone, then the glasses and the watch - 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.
Meanwhile quantum theory entanglement - that every thing in theory is connected within the universal - or background field, is omnipresent yet little understood, is also present.
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 into a frequency storm of microwave data and information. So the health question is what effect is it having on our bodies?
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 to the world public.
Transhumanists, virtually all being atheistic - see the total zenith - the hopeful evolutionary capacity - as being held in our heads and our brains. (note that the heart brain and the gut brain are definitely not included in this equation.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdneZ4fIIHE
The Heart's Intuitive Intelligence: A path to personal, social and global coherence
Eastern Philosophies and Acupuncture
Robin talks about the process of emotions etc plus the Eastern philosophies and understanding of the human body - being energetic first and material second - like in acupuncture, that is connected by hidden meridians that Western Science still has huge difficulties with. That through meditation - and getting our brain out of the way - allows our creativity to come through.
That we need to be in a state of peace and compassion
Whereas transhumanists who do not appear to enter deep states of meditation and enter other deeper realms of consciousness - instead think that by marrying 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 is too late and they die - to then basically wipe their hard drive and end the program.
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 a computer chip upgrade. And that sets the scene for addictive activities. See last weeks interview with Roy Harlow.
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 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.
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 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 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 get into a rock concert before most others. 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 and unknowingly becoming like Manchurian candidates for the future.
Addictions
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 on any understanding of the great religions and spiritual teachings that will be targeted by AI and any compelling story about Transhumanism - the selling point - ‘get it while it’s hot.”
All these scenarios.
The interview also covers Rupert Sheldrake and ‘phantom limbs’ and ‘feelings of being stared at from behind.’
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.
We are not taking a precautionary - ‘first do no harm” - stand - primum non nocere
Is the Latin word that Doctors use.
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.
5th Generation networks are a world wide deployment - being done nearly all at once
Cognitive dissidence on a massive scale is happening and an almost cult like behaviour ‘en masse’ is upon us. That we can impose this technology on our body and TOTALLY improve our lives as a result, is what we are being programmed with.
Robots are now in health systems in the UK talking to patients - devaluing the face to face communications between carer and patient.
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.
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 - 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.
Mothers Love comes up as well.
1984 and Brave New world - a fusion of these two stories is now taking place.
Have a listen.
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
Whilst we, somewhat complacent, especially in the so called developed Western world, indulge ourselves in multiple distractions, Roy lays it out. That AI is virtually ubiquitous and is silently in the background data mining and collating our every move.
The concerning thing is that above the seemingly isolated corporations, charging you for your power, telephone and internet, your downloads, mortgage, rent and rates, plus groceries, and the credit card & EFTpos, banking chatter - of travel, hotels, bottle store, petrol and ‘incidentals’ - 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?
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 British, Chinese, Indians and the Russians.
Computers working in networks for the benefit of the business’s has been doing us well - however, when we give computers autonomy and they are programmed to take care of their own agenda - where will this lead to?
With the advent of algorithms and high speed super computing, the Americans have now jumped back into the lead over the Chinese - with computations of ‘mega billions’ a second - when independent machines can learn to self repair and more.
Registering global volume of calls, clicks and connections - networking on a global scale of all applications linking to a supergrid - the over intelligence - over the top of human knowing - is on its way.
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 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 you are missing.
Do the goals of the computers have the same goals as humans? This is where the challenge appears.
Note, that we do not know who to trust anymore because the economic machine is now too big to stop.
Look at where they are at in America.
Has the nation become stronger as a result of handing over individual power to an ‘outside authority?’ We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy the economy. ~
Chris Hedges The New York Times best-seller; Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt(2015); and his most recent America: The Farewell Tour(2018).
The imperative dear reader is to take the red pill and listen to this show. One of the best!
http://www.natureofhealing.org/transhumanist-agenda-future-humanity/
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/06/no-death-and-an-enhanced-life-is-the-future-transhuman
https://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=https%3A%2F%2Fimgur.com%2Fgallery%2FGp1uuQk&event=video_description&redir_token=Hby6HnP26w1SPM2IulZ_dHvKE2l8MTUzODEyNzY1NkAxNTM4MDQxMjU2&v=K-CTzSNtglQ
Roy Harlow - http://www.RushFM.co.nz
There is documented evidence into the unpredictability of genetic engineering. Yet there is mounting pressure for new gene technologies to be used with no regulatory supervision.
Gene editing is the genetic alteration of the natural world.
They are a stage after genetic engineering.
Whatever the size of a change made inside a cell, and some scientists like to say they are very small changes, how can messing with DNA be a safe thing to do, when we increasingly realise the connection between living things.
Organisms are self organising complex systems and so how can it be possibly safe to manipulate and mess with our food and animals?
Prominent International Advocate
Dr Jonathan Latham is a prominent international advocate for public interest science. He is co-founder and Executive Director of the Bioscience Resource Project and the Editor of Independent Science News and Director of the Poison Papers. He is recently been in New Zealand on a speaking tour.
Dr Latham holds a Masters degree in Crop Genetics and a PhD in Plant Virology. He worked at the Department of Genetics in the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA. He has published scientific papers in disciplines as diverse as plant ecology, plant virology, toxicology, genetics, and genetic engineering.
In this interview find out the difference between Genetic engineering and gene editing. What is CRISPR – (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) – and are there other types of gene editing?
What is the politics of food? How likely are the large corporations to say that gene editing doesn’t need to be included in food labelling?
Scientists can now harness gene drive mechanisms to control or alter natural populations. Is this safe?
The US’s secretive Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) has become the world’s largest funder of “gene drive” research. Why?
Modified mosquitoes with gene drives on board are already being bred and tested in labs and some may have been released.
The Impact of Gene DrivesGiven the profound impact that gene drives could have on species and ecosystems, their use is a highly contentious issue. There are concerns about the ecological safety of the eradication, replacement or enhancement of particular species of animals by means of genetic engineering. Communities and groups have differing beliefs about nature and its conservation or preservation. For those reasons, the rigorous testing and regulation of insects and other animals with gene drive systems is crucial.
https://www.independentsciencenews.org/
Bioscience Resource Project
https://www.poisonpapers.org/
US military agency invests $100m in genetic extinction technologies: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/dec/04/us-military-agency-invests-100m-in-genetic-extinction-technologies
A brief synopsis of the show
In this interview find out the difference between Genetic engineering and gene editing. What is CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) – and are there other types of gene editing?
What is the politics of food? How likely are the large corporations to say that gene editing doesn’t need to be included in labelling.
The US’s secretive Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) has become the world’s largest funder of “gene drive” research. Why?
Scientists can now harness gene drive mechanisms to control or alter natural populations. Is this safe?
Dr Jonathan Latham is a prominent international advocate for public interest science. He is co-founder and Executive Director of the Bioscience Resource Project and the Editor of Independent Science News and Director of the Poison Papers.
He holds a Masters degree in Crop Genetics and a PhD in Plant Virology and has worked at the Department of Genetics in the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA.
With fluoride being a neurotoxin, there is now, in total, around 377,655,000 million people worldwide drinking artificially fluoridated water. This represents 5% of the world’s population. Yet, there are more people drinking fluoridated water in the United States than the rest of the world combined, with about one third to three quarters of the population now drinking it daily. Trump that NZ! https://www.nzherald.co.nz/science/news/article.cfm?c_id=82&objectid=12000030
Today 50% of NZ tap water is fluoridated, a whopping 73% of Ireland and 10% of England and Spain as well. https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/magazine/magazine_article/fluoridated-drinking-water/
Science has known for a hundred years that fluoride suppresses thyroid function. Fetuses can be born without a thyroid gland at all but the mother will provide the hormone. The importance of the mother and what she takes into her body is very relevant. Professor PJ Pop in the Netherlands - has a number of papers - and what is noticed is that there is reduced intelligence once the fetus is born.
https://www.nature.com/articles/nrendo.2017.106
Pregnancy, postpartum and the thyroid: isn’t it time to offer women optimal care?
Please listen to understand this crucial information.
Note that students studying water management or to become doctors were never told anything about fluoridation in University. So they pass through University, in a state of unknowingness about what is added to the water.
There is very little fluoride research on the human body
Declan - says he first came into the knowingness that something was awry with fluoride in 2006 - when he found that no studies or research had been completed on the human body, other than the effect on teeth and bones. No other organs, or brain tissue or - anything.
Then in the US the National Academies 2006 report on fluoride and drinking water impelled the top committee who were responsible for this report, to bring together their top academics across the USA, from neurology, toxicology and dentistry to assess this data. They then put together a list of close to 70 different areas that they needed studies to be taken, to fill the gaps of lack of knowledge for the effects of fluoride on people’s health.
Could Downs Syndrome be a result of exposure to drinking Fluoride in tap water?
Declan goes on to say that Ireland has the highest ratio of Downs Syndrome on earth and these academics also posited the question of the possibility that it was ‘biologically plausible that fluoride exposure could result in Downs Syndrome.’ This was a shock to Declan.
https://fluoridefree.org.nz/2006-us-national-research-councils-review-fluoride-drinking-water/
Paul Connett talks about 52 IQ studies - the Bashash study funded by the US government - The National Institute of Health - as well as the EPA the Environmental Protection Agency is a watershed moment because all the other studies have come from India Mexico China and Iran - however our arrogant Western scientists just ignore these finding because… you know - they don’t make the grade …
http://fluoridealert.org/content/content-bulletin_3-9-18/
And in this major study - all the criticisms of the other 52 studies that have been done over the years were essentially addressed.
Listen: McGill, Harvard, Montreal Universities were all these top universities were involved. Etc etc
Now 50 papers have been produced on other aspects of neurotoxicity on elements like lead, mercury and so on.
A 12 year study by high quality scientists - they covered every single angle and every nook and cranny to prove that fluoride is toxic and has the potential to lower the IQ in children.
So the only thing left is for the politicians, the media etc to work out - what is more important for your Child?!
Healthy Teeth or a Healthy Brain?
Paul Connett, says brush fluoride on your teeth and spit it out - he says he is not anti fluoride just keep it out of your body interior.
Media Blackout?
Declan Waugh when learning of this study, followed it up and wrote to every newspaper in Ireland and radio station too - and did not receive one reply whatsoever - Even though it was a huge study!
There is basically a media blackout, even here in NZ - (we know that) hence GreenplanetFM.com - a.very small voluntary radio program - is filling the gap, essentially by default.
NZ’s one media response was that ‘Mexico’s fluoride levels are not relevant’ - (what does that tell you about the communicator of that statement?) That Mexico does not rate as a country?
There was zero response to the rest of the science. Yet, the Canadians in fluoridated areas - just last week made a statement that their levels are exactly the same as Mexico cities.
Listen to the tea drinking of NZ (Dr Mike Godfrey) - And that in Ireland one of the leading tea drinking nations per capita and that tea leaves are loaded with fluoride. That the leaves take up fluoride from the earth.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11885876
Paul Connett talks about how the percentage of people drinking fluoridated water iis affecting babies - listen especially of you are a mother with a loved one.
Drop in IQ in now a certainty.
Note that a drop of 5 IQ points would halve the number of very bright genius’s in our society and increase dramatically the mentally impaired.
What came across in this interview is that the NZ Authorities when aware of the dangers took lead out of paint - and discontinued adding lead to petrol - so why do they put fluoride in 50% of NZ’s drinking water?
Other information that comes from this interview.
Fluoride in beer - listens to these results !!!
Fluoride tap water to make up baby formula is - a no no.
Green Party of Ireland was anti fluoride.
Over the last 5 or 6 years throughout the length and breadth of Ireland the City Councils - County Councils and Local Authorities - plus their political representatives have voted to stop water fluoridation - from Dublin City to Cork City, to Galway and the Government - still refuses to act.
Yet the first act in Germany’s reunification was to stop water fluoridation in East Germany
Informed consent - The need to know.
Informed consent is an imperative - especially in medicine - but NZers are not receiving the latest data - we are being denied the information by our elected representatives.
In medical school the amount of training in toxicology is known to be minimal.
https://fluoridefree.org.nz
NOTES:
GreenplanetFM.com has two superb previous interviews by Lisa Er - one of Paul Connett & Dr Bill Hirzy on the Danger of Fluoride and another of Paul Connett that give a broad understanding of the issues.
https://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/paul-connett-dangers-mandatory-flouridation-public-water-supply
https://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/professor-paul-connett-dr-bill-hirzy-the-danger-of-fluoride
The day I was contacted to do this radio interview - I was in Munich in Germany. Coincidentally I then found out - with a lecturer in water infrastructure in Bavaria. He is interested in our country and was talking up NZ’s clean green image to me - when I told him that we chlorinate our metropolitan water as well as actively push fluoridation of our water too - he was shocked! The city of Munich has neither.
Question: Is there fluoride in NZ soda and soft drinks?
There are many myths about solo parents on the ’benefit’. These myths are perceptions that arise from stereotypes generated in public and private conversations.
“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.
They allow the government and its welfare policies to be shielded from proper scrutiny and help explain why there is little public outcry as the safety net supporting many families and their children is progressively eroded.”
Child Poverty Action Group 2013 https://www.cpag.org.nz/assets/Backgrounders/130402%20CPAG%20Myths%20and%20Facts.pdf
Myths such as ‘the benefit’ is a lifestyle choice, or sole parents are teenagers who can’t be bothered working, are very damaging.
In fact the majority of sole parents are between the ages of 25 and 64, and have had jobs, but need to be at home with their children for varying reasons. Just over 12% of sole parents are men.
In 2013 there were 234,000 children growing up in families on benefits and it is estimated that in New Zealand that one in two mothers will have spent some time on the ‘benefit’ by the time they are 50.
Read more myths and facts at the link above.
In 2017 the Labour Government announced a Families Package which has helped beneficiaries a great deal but unless we change the attitude of people generally, there will always be resistance against an empathetic government.
Housing is a huge issue for solo parents as Chantelle describes in the interview. Constantly having to move house puts families under stress and if children are constantly having to move schools, it disadvantages their education.
Chantelle Campbell grew up in West Auckland, where she still resides with her two sons. Chantelle has been raising her sons as a sole parent and has gained a Bachelor of Social Practice while her boys were younger, and now practices in the community as a social worker and community developer.
Chantelle is passionate about human rights, social justice and easing the challenges that sole parent families face. This has led Chantelle to founding, “Inspire Up Trust”, a charitable trust to support sole parents families to reach their full potential.
The e-mail for the trust is inspireuptrust@xtra.co.nz
Financial support is required to get a web site up and running for the trust. Please e-mail if you can contribute.
The two Facebook pages mentioned in the interview are “NZ Single Parents” and “Separation and Sole Parent Support”.
Whereas prior to the year 2000 we did not see such things however, especially since 2009, these trails are becoming far more obvious and this interview attempts to explain - why?
Why here in NZ and who would be involved? We see photographs of these in America, and they have billboards alongside freeways shouting out, “look up, they are chemtrails!” “What are they spraying?” - Yet why here in sleepy little NZ, what is it - that's really going on above our heads?
Malcolm Scott is an experienced and qualified researcher recognised by the NZ Tertiary Education Commission. He has authored several research reports for various organisations and is currently working on a thesis about people’s perceptions and experiences of climate change and chemtrails.
In 2015 Malcolm began investigating correspondence with various New Zealand government agencies especially the Ministry for the Environment about the public reporting of alleged high altitude chemical aerosol spraying operations from aircraft in New Zealand. These are commonly referred to by the public as ‘chemtrails’ and since the late 1990’s - chemtrails have become a global phenomenon …
A great many middle aged NZers have been looking up into the usual clear blue NZ skies since they were born and have never seen - what they have been seeing since the early 2000’s and especially from 2009 onwards. These ‘long white cloud’ like extended trails can even go from near on horizon to horizon. They can stay there for a prolonged time before after some while, slowly spread outward to eventually become a cloudy haze.
NZ Authorities Deny All Knowledge
Listen to how Malcolm has since 2015 been corresponding with the Ministry for the Environment, NIWA - the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric research, the EPA the Environmental Protection Authority, the CAA, the Civil Aviation Authority and also the New Zealand Defence Force - And in Malcolms words, all of these organisations - one way or another - deny any knowledge or involvement with Geo Engineering - whatsoever in NZ.
Aluminium, Barium and Strontium
Yet all of these organisations have received correspondence from the NZ public - and some of them have received quite detailed evidence - photographic and video evidence. Some have even received analysis of rain water concentrations specifically demonstrating aluminium, barium and strontium and even lithium.
That there is some very good research out of the USA by J Marvin Herndon http://nuclearplanet.com/ published in 2015 - about military craft flying in a grid pattern in California. That these aircraft are specifically modified and designed for aerosol spraying operations - so they fly a grid pattern backward and forward with aerosols that over the course of the day spreads out to in effect, cause a dirty grey sky haze. If you go on line there is a lot of material posted by US residents on what they are seeing in their particular region. Search Geoengineering.
NZ residents are posting to social media
In NZ it is nowhere on the scale that it is in the US, however NZ residents are still posting to social media almost on a daily basis. Also, they are sharing among each other and correlating what they see from different parts of the country and where certain airports are, including departures and arrivals.
Malcolm says that his correspondence with the NZ authorities is to establish what they know - and he said - “they know a lot.”
It’s about long trails from nearly horizon to horizon that hang there even up to a number of hours and gradually disperse, into a haze what is commonly called chem clouds - these are not simply emissions from jet fuel - there is obviously other chemical components and factors involved in this, where they remain and persist in the atmosphere - that connect directly to the science of ‘geo engineering.’
Solar Radiation Management
Note that over the last 3 decades that there has been a massive increase into the research of Geo engineering particularly the notion of ‘solar radiation management’ - which is the idea of spraying chemicals into the atmosphere to increase atmospheric albedo that reflects solar radiation back into space.
This is to supposedly reflect sunlight back into space so as to alleviate ‘global warming.’
This is a huge technology that has been growing out of the USA for the last 2 to 3 decades and apparently is being applied to many other countries around the world.
Malcolm mentions Geoengineeringwatch.org and also writer Elana Freeland and her many books. see https://www.aircrap.org/ - or https://byebyebluesky.com/elana-freeland/
Elana traces back to the early 1990’s to a CIA operation called Project Cloverleaf - do an online search. That it was a coordinated military operation since the late 1990’s (and in NZ the 2000’s) it has appeared to have escalated into a global operation that Malcolm says it has now morphed into complicity with ‘civil aviation operators.’
In NZ many ordinary citizens are out and about and are taking photos because they are interested in strange cloud formations etc and are posting them online. It has been noticed that many of the aerosol trails photographed are from commercial aircraft - because people are able to use aircraft tracking platforms to identify aircraft.
Military Involvement
Military Aircraft turning their transponders off. (leaving no signature)
Malcolm has also found that there are some aircraft that are not visible on the - ‘on line tracking services’ - that identify aircraft. These are presumed to be military aircraft that are operating with their transponders turned off. Therefore they are not identifiable. As the military have their own rules they do not necessarily have to comply with the same regulations and that of certain civil operations.
So military operators use unmarked aircraft - i.e converted aircraft with no military insignia and they are therefore hard to identify, however reports on social media say they have been seen in parts of NZ.
Overseas involvement
In Malcolms video presentation he mentions the US has taken 100 Boeing 757s and converted them for aerosol operations and according to William Thomas in his 2004 book Chemtrails confirmed - he confirms that the military have done this. https://www.willthomasonline.net/chemtrails---confirmed--.pdf
They have bought up old Boeings and refurbished them for aerosol spraying. For possibly a global fleet that is leased out to certain overseas military organisations. However the military in NZ have declined any knowledge of such operations. Even though an Omega AC10 aircraft Ex Dc10 - (with ties to Evergreen International) which is said to be a US military operation, was seen and photographed on the tarmac at Ohakea air force base in Palmerston North many years ago. Payload is 145 tonnes of liquid. What sort of liquid would this aircraft be carrying as jet fuel comes to NZ by ship? https://chemtrailsnorthnz.wordpress.com/2011/12/12/omega-air-aircraft-seen-in-auckland-at-ohakea-air-force-base/
Malcolm approached the NZ Defence Operations and said that as he was an Academic researcher was he able to take time looking at the aircraft that the NZ military have, like checking their log book and routes taken? This way he could confirm that they have nothing to do with aerosol operations and they flatly said No! This was from Gerry Brownlee who was the Minister of Defence for the National government and he in this letter denied any involvement by the NZDF in military aerosol operations in NZ.
The interview covers:
David Parker the present Attorney-General of New Zealand who gave a categorical denial that there was no geo-engineering happening in NZ. He signed a letter stating as such.
We are in a global experiment that is been conducted at altitude and also at ‘night time’ - to hide the activity of aircraft.
Is it going to produce more global heating or decrease global warming - professor Tim Lenton of Exeter University called this “an uncontrolled experiment.”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/top-british-climate-scientist-acknowledges.../5485739
It is being done without ‘our’ informed consent - and is being executed by unknown faces further up the military industrial system.
It is weaponising the atmosphere - Elana Freeland - writes of weaponising space. https://www.elanafreeland.com/geoengineering-transhumanism
There is no public consultation in NZ
Watch US scientist David Keith - a head tripping geo engineer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxDAa4jaafY - and his infamous ‘free-riding on our Grandkids’ quote.
Massey University testing to gauge NZers awareness about Geo Engineering.
https://www.ourplanet.org/perspectives/david-keith-scientific-pro-geoengineering-insider - Massey University Scientists talking it up? - 15th February 2014
The Massey article. http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/about-massey/news/article.cfm?mnarticle_uuid=536E4B82-C78D-9F68-89D8-CE947A65F0AC
That though there has been an increase in water/moisture in the atmosphere due to global warming - it cannot be used as an excuse that these ‘trails’ are a result of far more condensation etc. Because all these aircraft are flying in all climatic zones, seasons, times of day, pressures, altitudes and latitudes.
NOTE: In this interview we did not discuss as to how these spraying operations spray from the aircraft or how the liquids or whatever it is that is emitted from the aircraft - are stored on board. As photoshopping pictures can be too easily perfected. This dispensing subject will be left for a later interview.
Things to do:
Write to the NZ authorities - every email or letter becomes part of the public record - this can be then connected to either a Parliamentary process or a court process - this procedure will be a public record that will substantiate what is taking place in NZ.
This is ‘people power’ the same kind of people power that enabled NZ to become Nuclear Free.
Checking your rainwater storage
If on rain and tank water do independent tests on your drinking water: Hills Laboratories are qualified professionals - https://www.hill-laboratories.com/testing/water-testing/
Web Sites
http://poison.bioenergeticspectrum.com/contrailschemtrails.html
https://www.globalresearch.ca/chemtrails-aerosol-and-electromagnetic-weapons-in-the-age-of-nuclear-war-4/5617879
https://chemtrailsnorthnz.wordpress.com/ - run by NZer Clare Swinney & Jim Reece
https://www.globalresearch.ca/video-overcast-an-investigation-into-climate-engineering/5623740
The Swiss filmmaker Matthias Hancke worked on his first documentary OVERCAST for almost seven years. In 2007 he realized for the first time, that the man-made cloud cover was not a natural byproduct from aviation. http://overcastthemovie.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30mkxLR00wQ 16th of August 2018.
Geoengineering: An Interview with a US Air Force General ( Richard H. Roellig / interviewed by Dane Wigington ) where US General Charles Jones is also mentioned as being very concerned with what is going on. It is important to note that the US military and all Western military are “compartmentalised” - that they are only given certain information that is directly involved with their present station. They are kept out of the loop with all other operations - hence ‘they know nothing’ of other (secret) operations. This is standard practice, in all their operations and for that matter in banking too. Edward griffin - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKtLuCSQQjE
http://stopsprayingus.com Phd Scientist - video
Search for the US Air Force paper - ‘Owning the weather by 2025’ - stating that owning the weather is a force multiplier - The ‘original’ has been taken down off the web, but do a search - there could be other independent activists who have a copy.
1962 President Lyndon Johnson - raving about controlling the weather - project Popeye over Vietnam
There is much more in this interview than written here, that it is imperative for you to listen to and make up your own mind.
The children of today and tomorrow are depending on you!
This below is Malcolm’s excellent slideshow video presentation of 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fJFnl1zTuQ
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.’
The radio wave ecological footprint is zero, but the message is huge - global in fact and Roy has no limits.
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 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?
Roy has clearly set out goals:
Yet RushFM does not focus on politics as such because politics is so fraught with deception and Roy does not want to present anything that is untrue.
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 ‘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 of stated purpose.
Station Axioms
Truthfulness – fairness – compassion – a positive contribution – these a writ components to life – politics is not.
What do you stand for? – Roy wants thinking individuals – he wants to stimulate the natural inclination with the people.
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
He says RushFM says things that catch people ‘on the edge’ … He wants people to express their feelings – yet as peacefully as they can - he says it takes endeavour to express oneself
Saying - “it’s easy to be hard but it is hard to be gentle.”
Also - that we have been programmed with being PC. ‘Politically Correct’ so as to muffle our society. Not to question, be inquisitive and to wonder?
Then he talks Radio and Programs that he broadcasts.
Good high quality food, organic, non GE or GMO’s
Covering some of the major challenges of the 5 G Telephone Networks – Fluoride and the mass medication of the community
1080 Poison – and the discussion comes around to poisoning of your adversaries – That’s what we are doing to the human race.
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 – but the resulting leachate is ending up in our waterways. Listen
Vaccines that contain mercury and other substances like human cells. He mentions laconically - its cannibalism and has been introduced for years
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 … 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.
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.
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 we know what we are doing is basically insane – how can we just brush it off and pretend that is is not happening?
But. he says - “if these subtle poisons do not kill you - they definitely dumb you down.”
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 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 are now 10% idiots in our society.
Polluted Water Systems
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 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 – 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 that this 1080 has been filmed entering Lake Taupo. That some 14 communities source their drinking water downstream from its source – being Taupo, the largest city being Hamilton.
Now these 14 communities along this river dispose of their “treated effluent” back into the Waikato River as well!!
Fourteen river bank communities are involved.
Not only this – but antidepressants plus birth control, heart medicine and a whole plethora of different medications are in this waterway – and just before 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 suburbs. That there are no steps taken to purify (filter) most of these medicinal residues out!
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 that it removes the estrogen and makes a man - a man again. Because the men are slowly feminising …
This interview goes on to coverCell phones … hullo? Hypnosis? What’s really going on.
People farming
Compartmentalism
Depopulation
Scalar waves EMF frequency influences on animal brain wave patterns
Telephone towers have 300,000 watts Our mobile phone only uses only 3 or 4 watts
This interview then goes right off the charts …
Listen it is well worth your while ...
Note that Doctors will never speak out against the profligate use of drugs, because the Pharmaceutical Corporations who control the whole industry - will have you struck off!
Dentists will not speak out against fluoride, because the corporate Industry is lock stepped with big Pharma - so Dentist remain silent.
Water Scientists also remain speechless in relationship to 1080 poison - for fear of losing their job, due to pressure from higher up the system.
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.
This interview is of an honest man doing his best to relay the truth
RushFM.co.nz
I have known Gary near on 20 years and he has shared startling information that unveils to us a secret land that stretches back many thousands of years to when other peoples roamed the seas and visited early New Zealand.
The Vegetable Kingdom is Actually Conscious
Recently I was at Gary’s home in Katikati where he played live music directly from trees, where he was able to connect up to the leaves and the roots, technology - for these trees to ’sing' various ’songs’ that were quite melodic and beautiful. That this new knowingness portends is that trees have a consciousness and that they can feel, see and even share beneath the ground with other trees including in various situations other species of tree.
Tree Blindness
Gary goes on to talk about ‘tree blindness’ and that it signifies a massive disconnect of the human species from nature and Papatuanuku - Gaia, the earth mother. To the degree that trees are just seen as a backdrop to society - just a background setting - that on a good day, may offer shade from a bright sun and on a bad day gets in the way of your enjoyment or view. Trees are not really seen as living entities in their own right, and to many are just a commodity to grow, as a mono culture and harvest for money and material reward.
However more of humanity are awakening to this lost connection
However the mighty kauri that have stood for 2000 years and are venerated as forest giants like the towering Sequoia Redwoods of America do - when we take the time to sit or lie down on the ground beneath to look up - inspire us of the greatness of these silent beings who have witnessed countless generations of humanity that have come and gone.
The music device that Gary has is put out by the Damanhur Community in Northern Italy - www.damanhur.org however this work goes back 50 odd years to Cleve Backster and using bio feedback - etc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleve_Backster
So the sound of music in plants has evolved over recent years.
Place a contact on the leaf and another contact on the roots - that perfects a circuit and that is then run through a middi system - a computerised midi system and this converts what the tree ‘gives us’ which is static electricity - or something similar to static electricity. This is then converted into musical note, not raw static and it becomes something that we humans can listen to and that is melodic and enjoyable - there is a flow - the music changes from morning to night on the same plant - and will change its song at different times of the year as well. - Listen
Gary states that there are continuous little bursts of electricity going on inside all living things - from a blade of grass to an animal. That now there are many solo musicians, singers, jazz groups, and even small orchestras around our planet taking up this technology and integrating the sounds into their creative pieces.
Gary sees these collaborations with musicians and trees as a very enlightening way of opening up humanity to our connection to both the plant kingdom but to the natural world as a whole.
Gary then talks about plant consciousness and plant awareness and he uses the term ‘Tree Blindness’ in that modern society has in many ways forgotten that trees are living beings - sentient beings - and latter day humanity now only see trees as a back drop or part of the background - James Wanders and Elisabeth Schussler 1998 American biologists were the people who coined this unfortunate term. https://commonground.ca/cure-plant-blindness/
What is plant consciousness?
Gary talks to this and mentions:
NZ law protecting mammals as sentient beings - was a world first … https://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson.../new-zealand-legally-recognises-animals-as-sentient-bei...
Back in the 1980’s the Japanese government passed law called Shinrin Yoku or Forest Bathing or Forest Therapy - so that people can feel rested and at ease among trees and the local vegetation - and has become a cornerstone in ‘preventive medicine' in Japan - they find that it improves ones immune system.
That the Japanese Government really wanted its citizens to make use of its generous wooded areas for healing is a milestone in itself.
The translations is that just by walking through among the trees - you are bathing your whole body and being and also it is said - wiping your aura or energy field clean - as the greenery soaks up any energy that is holding you back and holding you down.
This is now been taken up in other countries as well …
Gary then talks about walking into the ‘bush’ - the forest - for a total immersion and the quietening of our mind and letting go of our thoughts - and then notice - what we hear, and see and observe what we feel and if possible stay for a good 2 hours and yet you will feel the effects even after a short 20 minutes - so forest bathing is in many ways available to everyone.
That music of the plants is a renewed doorway to the nature kingdom …
The interview then goes on to tell about trees talking and even seeing and recognising their offspring. Listen
This then follows on with the soil connection - the mycelium - a fungus a fine network of fibres finer than the hair on our head - and they can connect tree to tree and or plant to plant - which is a symbiotic relationship
Then we hear about how this all works … plant sugars and sharing between plant root hairs etc
Then introduces the term the ‘wood wide web’ see Avatar the movie and his Pandora is all interconnected.
Trees are a community - and we humans have lost our connection to this oxygen and life giving community.
Plant & Tree Blindness - is again seen with human housing developments - scraping the earth of its topsoil and cutting down local trees so as to make the subdivision more in keeping with so called 21st century progress.
Trees are seen as a cash crop in forestry to be logged or to be used for building etc etc
Yet trees are the bearers of fruit and nuts as well, but more so, are homes to multitudes of insects, birds etc.
Maori and their Reverence for Nature and the Forest.
Maori - had/have a sacred connection - Karakia or prayer - if wanting a tree. A sacred tree selection for carving or to build a waka - canoe this officiated by a Tohunga - (medicine man) to do the selecting for the tree to be felled.
Papatuanuku Mother Earth - Maori are intuitively plugged in - they know of their connection … whakapapa - their lineage used to be sung to all babies whilst in the arms of their whanau and hapu (family and tribe) - they know about connection.
In The Garden In Nature.
We learn that happiness induced inner chemicals in the human experience especially gardeners, uplift ones being. One doesn’t suffer from serious depression - because they are anchoring themselves in the soils and the richness of the earth with all its micro-organisms - the bacteria and fungi. Being barefooted is really good for you.
Getting our hands dirty and soil underneath our fingernails, plus fresh air and sunshine - increases out serotonin levels and joyfulness.
A soil bacteria - mycobaterium vaccae - triggers release of serotonin - and gardening becomes a natural antidepressant.
And Mike O’Donnell has always said - “we are not only gardeners of the soil - but we are gardeners of the soul as well”
https://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/mike-odonnell-the-water-man-from-paeroa
Trees have a heart beat - as they pump water up the trunk and that trees can see and make out shape and colour that there are millions of cells on the external surfaces of that tree, leave, branches and trunks that - these cells are exactly the same as the human retina but smaller published in the Nature Journal — listen
Trees go to sleep at night …they have experiments with infrared time lapse cameras and it is noticeable. Shhhhh tip toe on your bush walks eh?
Kauri Dieback …
https://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/mels-barton-kauri-dieback-what-we-must-do-to-save-our-iconic-new-zealand-kauri-trees
Tanekaha tree the ‘communication tree’ https://www.herbs.org.nz/tanekaha-fact-sheet/
In the interview the books ‘Super Nature’ - Lyall Watson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyall_Watson
‘The Secret Life of Plants’ - by Peter Tompkin and Christopher Bird are mentioned https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Life_of_Plants
Secrets of the Soil: https://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Soil-Fascinating-Breakthroughs-Scientific/dp/0060158174
Dorothy Retallack late 1970s - wrote the ‘Sound of music in plants.’
https://www.amazon.com/Sound-Music-Plants-Dorothy-Retallack/dp/0875161707
Bach came out tops, but Led Zeppelin didn’t do so well.
Elisabet Sahtouris - and the big picture … She is mentioned in this interview.
Gary Cooks web site: www.secretland.co.nz
The Portfolios that Steffan held in the NZ Green Party were:
In this interview many subjects were rapidly covered so as to give an overview of what are the possibilities of a free, truly green, healthy and independent country - one that is happily embedded in the biosphere.
Organic Food Growing
Steffan says that in relation to our small organic food growers - we have to make sure that they can survive as we are asking of them to grow the finest quality and healthiest, highest - nutritional food. So it is imperative that our growers survive economically too.
Steffan who for 15 years was an organic producer says organic growers have to be able to survive themselves and put a roof over their head and feed their children - and they are up against industrial food production which is produced cheaply by using in his words - some very ugly chemicals and ugly fertilisers as well.
These then degrade our rivers and that the chemicals are impacting on our health - that there are a considerable amount of chemicals in our food - so how do we compare our food? What is cheap food? Because the cost of these chemicals on top of our national health system and into our environment are not considered in NZ’s industrialised retailed food prices.
Whereas, organic producers holistic perspective does not, in most circumstances pollute waterways or the air with chemical sprays - and there are no known health and hospital costs as a result of eating organic food.
Steffan says there is a problem with costs - but as an organic producer - he at the peak of the season for a number of weeks - could and did sell organic food at the same price of industrial vegetables. He also mentioned that industrial farming is also subsidised in the form of cheap chemicals.
Steffan produced capsicums, tomatoes, aubergines (eggplant) beans, cucumbers, basil and chilli peppers - these were his primary crop.
By blanket use of heavy chemicals across a whole farm - all pests as well as benevolent insects are killed - it’s an easy fix. Whereas organic farmers target what needs to be curtailed and do this with traps, and other noninvasive chemical means.
Loss of Insects
There is a world wide decline of insects. Where 50 years ago if you drove 50 kilometers through a rural setting there would be huge numbers of dead insects splattered on the window screen of your car. Today - basically none - zilch.
Steffan says there are two reasons that he knows of.
1) Habitat has gone - bare earth actions be it farming and urbanisation - take away diversity - less trees, wetlands, shrubs, scrub and herbs.
2) Chemicals nicotinoids - the ‘neo nix’ - is what they are called for short - is known to kill bees and affect their health including other beneficial insects - plus there are also fungicides and herbicides as well.
France in Europe is an excellent example of push back against these sorts of chemicals - having kicked out Monsanto as they restore ecological balance to their environment.
France too has a huge number of organic food outlets right across the country - and are far more conscious of their food production and consumption. Food that is close to ‘use by’ date is never incinerated or sent to landfill - but sent to hospices and other needy outlets and possibly prisons etc = far less waste. Also Supermarkets will not buy from farmers who use nicotinoids. This is due to commercial outlets across France listening to consumer demands.
Steffan goes on to say that our NZ regulators - our ‘environmental protectors’ as in the likes of Government - need to say that we are going to do the right thing … and bring in the ‘precautionary approach’ but, instead - our regulators are turning away and ignoring their social responsibility.
Ministry for Primary Industries - need to have vision and courage.
New Zealanders have to keep the pressure on the EPA, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Regulators - where he says we need some major changes - especially in the Ministry for Primary Industries, particularly their lack of vision and their lack of courage in not standing up to industry There are also conflicts of interest - especially around GE & GMO’s and the release of these materials. That some of these officials have actively promoted GE and promoted chemicals when their job is to be a watchdog - for our NZ environment!
Especially when they are actively wanting easier access for GE materials to be released into the NZ countryside - and this message is coming from the CEO of the EPA - which is extremely concerning.
The community and the environment have be at the forefront - before the economy.
Steffan then mentions that he has just been elected back onto the Soil and Health National Council again. https://organicnz.org.nz
Steffan talks about the recent breakthrough that brought about a ‘GE Free Northland’. Plus the Soil and Health Association working with these Northern Councils enabling them - along with a huge number of ordinary NZers who volunteered their time to do submissions and rally to this cause - etc.
That the Soil and Health Association was able to get NZ’s High Court to back them in making sure that Councils such as Northland, Hastings, Hawkes Bay and to a certain extent the BOP - Bay of Plenty - the power to keep out experimentation from GE corporations. These biotech entities always wanting to release GE organisms into the environment, any environment.
Also covered. ‘Gene editing and CRISPR, also called CRISPR/Cas9.’ - etc so as to manoeuvre to find loopholes to let these experiments into the environment - but fortunately the EU has come out and said they are the same as genetic engineering! Which is a blessing for NZ.
The Precautionary Approach - is not anti science -
It takes our children’s future into consideration.
Steffan goes on to say - he is not stalling innovation There are many ways that scientists can use these tools in labs to research both plants and animals that can be used in non GE settings - He said we must not release these products into our environment - it’s very reckless to do so.
New Zealand can still be the clean green 100% direction that at heart - we want.
Our overseas consumers expect high quality food products - pesticide free - GE FREE - and leaving our country in a pristine state at the same time.
NZ organic production is growing.
Our growth in organics is increasing rapidly - and exports enable us to obtain premium returns.
As a result of regenerative agricultural systems, biological farming offers a prosperous future.
Bailey Perryman in Cultivating urban farming and Penelope Bundy have joined Organic NZ https://organicnz.org.nz so we can look forward to a sustainable drive towards organics here.
The Urgency of Training Soil Scientists
Hear how successive NZ governments have taken away the funding for ‘soil science’ in our major universities - and it is the soil that is the backbone of our country.
Air in NZ what is the quality?
Depends on where you live.
Marlborough for example - far to much chemical drift from viticulture - exacerbating cancers and degenerative diseases.
However in Marlborough there is now a significant growth in organic wines - so no chemical spray are used by them. HOWEVER - there is also an increase in non organic vineyards in the region as well, which continue to spray.
But there are now ample organic wines available to drink here in NZ.
Water
Rivers - nitrates and very poor forestry practices - or soil erosion have been deteriorating the water course right out to estuaries and sea. The fishing grounds are suffering major problems but as it has been politicised - it is now getting the NZ public’s attention.
Education comes through time and again in this interview - education is the answer.
BioSecurity
NZ allowed a whole host of pests to be brought in the country 100 to 150 years ago and this has caused problems that still have to be urgently addressed.
1080 is a very cruel death … listen to Steffan, who does not like it. Listen
He is very concerned.
We need hunters to go out and cull pests and also utilise the skins and meat if safe to do so.
Mycoplasma bovis in cows - we needed to cull them straight away. It’s a huge health problem for cows.Bio security was very slow at waking up to this outbreak!
National Security
5 Eyes Echelon listening and recording station in Blenheim - close it down is his statement.
It persists regardless of who is in Parliament. No NZ Government seems to have the power to close it?
Geo Engineering
Finally the air above us - what is Geo engineering - vapour trails, contrails and chemtrails?
The fact that analysis of the particulates are Barium, Aluminium and Strontium - what are these minute chemicals? And what is solar reflection? Solar radiation management (SRM) projects are a type of climate engineering which seek to reflect sunlight and thus reduce global warming.
Study looks into belief that chemtrails are real - NZ Herald https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11940711
Nov 5, 2017 - A new study has lifted the lid on chemtrails. ... The chemtrails conspiracy says that airliners are deliberately spraying chemicals.
This interview is definitely worth a listen. - Tim
That in most cases human health has been discarded or given a low priority. This rampant technological push continues to affect human health and wellbeing, influencing our very roots that connect us to nature - the source from which we spring.
Intuitively we know this, as our health is being affected and cancer and many other types of illness skyrocket. GreenplanetFM is by no way anti science - we are satisfied with 3G and 4G technologies - however when there is a constant push for more efficiencies overriding the health of the community - the inevitable push back occurs.
Corporate profits versus human health?
With humanity appearing to be the canary in the coal mine.
This very insightful interview tells us of what it is for a biological being having to live in an increasing world of oscillating frequencies that are continuing to intensify to the detriment of the natural world.
The vegetable and animal kingdoms are being affected. That means you and I and especially newborns, vulnerable babies, infants and children.
Humans are more than cellular bodies. The human body is composed of molecules, atoms and subatomic particles. There is a large body of literature that exists on the response of tissues to electromagnetic fields, primarily in the extremely-low-frequency (ELF) and microwave-frequency ranges.
In general, the reported effects of radiofrequency (RF) radiation on tissue and organ systems have been attributed to thermal interactions, although the existence of nonthermal effects at low field intensities is still a subject of active investigation.
This means that as new technological frequencies are deployed across cities, countryside and whole nations etc - we are in many ways an experiments in real time. We are the proverbial laboratory rats, that like GE and GMO foods, we are test cases for new technologies.
Smart Meters
The interview starts off with smart meters that are now becoming ubiquitous across NZ. Many people may not be aware that they are already in place at their power switchboard somewhere on a wall of your house. Your power company may have already installed one. Yet, certain people are very sensitive to the subtleties of a steadily increasing frequency spectrum and may not understand why they are unable to sleep or they may continually be restless. Reason being, that they are being affected by frequencies coming off their undisclosed smart meter.
There is no legal obligation for NZers to have a Smart Meter.
In NZ there is no legal obligation to have a smart meter … you can refuse to have a smart meter …
If you have one - you can get them removed in NZ. It may require a change in company - but you can remove them.
Though if you are living in blocks of flats or apartments there are challenges.
There are a variety on ‘non smart meters’ on the NZ market so do not believe the company line that some power retailers may tell you! Get more information from Legacy Metering Group
legacymetering.nz/ or www.stopsmartmeters.org.nz
This is the best option.
Smart meters have a lot of computer power basically, the equivalent of a modern mobile phone - and it is able to tell where certain lights and power plugs are turned on at certain times in a 24/7 cycle - like every utensil in the whole house. You are being monitored. Every electronic item use is being recorded.
Check the web site: Environmental Health Trust
https://ehtrust.org/
Education, Research, and Policy to Reduce Environmental Risks.
The interview leads into this; which gives you an understanding of how frequencies work.
Frequency weapon systems called Active Denial A US system.
The Active Denial System (ADS) is a non-lethal, directed-energy weapon developed by the U.S. military, designed for area denial, perimeter security and crowd control. Informally, the weapon is also called the heat ray since it works by heating the surface of targets, such as the skin of targeted human subjects.
https://www.rt.com/news/weapon-us-microwave-cannon-363/
What are 5th Generation Technologies?
They are more ubiquitous and powerful transmitter technologies!
A result of intensifying use of transmitting frequencies in telephones and complementary technologies - people can end up with electro sensitivity - or EHS electro hypersensitivity - or electromagnetic sensitivity - or EMS - or ES electro sensitivity.
The interview then covers the fact that the NZ Government - both Labour and National are wanting to phase out and take down copper wire telephone transmission lines. They now see them as an unnecessary cost, due to the roll out of fibre. But this means that people - especially older people possibly in rural areas will have to use mobile phones and it is known that there are instances of cancerous growths on the same side of the face that people hold up their smartphone to listen.
Katherine mentions the : save our landlines.nz - a petition …. www.saveourlandlines.nz/uncategorized/welcome/
Taking away copper lines - leaves us all open to either only fibre or mobiles ….
Back to Five G technologies https://whatis5g.info/ - website
The 5th Generation Radiation Frequencies Influences all creatures of the living ecology.
Birds are being affected so is urban wildlife, cats, dogs, guinea pig and pet rabbits. As for vegetation - over successive generations we will see for ourselves what happens.
Scientists and doctors warn of serious health effects of 5G Technology https://es-ireland.com/5g-5th-generation-greater-dangers/
Over 240 scientists and doctors from 41 countries have signed a declaration to officials of the European Commission demanding a moratorium on the increase of cell antennas for planned 5G expansion. Concerns over health effects from higher radiation exposure include potential neurological impacts, infertility, and cancer.
Experiments in China - show that rats heavily irradiated - can basically be all dead in 10 minutes. Listen to the interview.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLXfegUXlyo 38 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5AYRWvjiVg Only 3 minutes
The SCARIEST 3-1/2 Minutes EVER! - 5G will Weaponize Everything
Olga Sheehan - who once worked for the World Health Organisation wrote a book called “no safe place” - saying beaming microwave radiation from space - leaves all of life vulnerable.
https://olgasheean.com/who-harm/
There are 20,000 research papers on microwaves so there is no shortage of data - however there is a shortage of 2018 data going forward, which is understandable. Hence the precautionary principle.
All biota is affected - except certain bacteria and microbes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwyDCHf5iCY Dr Devra Davis
Remember:
We are dealing with a cascading multiple electronic microwave escalation - with wifi, cell phones, cell towers, smart meters, baby monitors and now 5G technology - We as a human race can be likened to living in a microwave oven that is slowly intensifying
Up before the time that electricity and wireless technology came into being - our planet was near on - a paradise!
Barrie Trower former Royal Navy microwave weapons expert says that the scientists who are producing this technology have absolutely no idea of the mathematics of the waveform that is being produced - but they know it is in the gigahertz range - he stated there are no safety tests on this tech but they know that these frequencies can interfere with the cellular structure of the human body - that it is not just one wave but several waves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGW62yuy7w8
Tom Wheeler - Active Denial the new microwave weapon - use for crowd control - to subdue an bring down crowds of people in a demonstration or rally.
https://www.ancientpurity.com/blog/5g-coming-soon
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. The results speak for themselves - hundreds sleeping on the streets, in cars, in sheds and garages, hundreds more living in taxpayer funded motel units 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, sewage systems, water supply and other infrastructure in disrepair, our "clean green" country under threat.
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 tried before in New Zealand and other places and worked brilliantly. It is being increasingly talked about internationally. It could work for us again.
"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 money it needs from private financial institutions when it could borrow from the country's central bank (the Reserve Bank), which it owns.
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.
Social Credit is committed to fixing that, and putting in place a financial system that works for New Zealanders.
Imagine if the government could create all the money that is needed.
“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 Prime Minister Michael Joseph Savage authorised the creation of new money so that thousands of new state houses could be built, thereby providing jobs for the unemployed and homes for the homeless and – incidentally – an income-producing asset for the government."
Quote from Brian Gould, “Creating Money for the Good of the Country”.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/thecountry/news/article.cfm?c_id=16&objectid=12006636
Chris Leitch is Leader of the Social Credit Party and its finance spokesperson.
Has been a campaigner for monetary reform since 1972.
He stood as candidate in Whangarei in 1984 and 1987.
He became the Party’s National President in 1989.
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 Muldoon stood down, coming in second. He and the team reduced an 8,500 majority down to just 1,200.
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 revenue-earning assets in public ownership.
Elected to the Waitemata Electricity Trust, Chris helped resist attempts by a foreign company to get full ownership and asset strip the company.
He has served as Board Chairman of the Whangarei Youth Centre, and the Onerahi Primary School.
He has been deputy leader of the party for two periods, once commencing in 1993, and again in 2014.
He was elected leader last month.
Social Credit’s web site is http://www.socialcredit.nz
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. Crime and family breakdown is seen as Gross Domestic Product
Household and volunteer work is seen as Gross Domestic Product
Pollution and its consequences is seen as Gross Domestic Product
Long term environmental damage is seen as Gross Domestic Product
Even War goes through the books as Gross Domestic Product!
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 of economic growth!
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. That prior to the 3 term National Party Key administration, that Labour Minister of Finance Michael Cullen was very interested in this concept - but Labour was voted out of office - and he was not able to follow through in taking this forward.
But in the meantime these losses are costing society and the country dearly!
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 as a whole.
Holism
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. 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 to our planet - Papatuanku as alive - or the earth acting as one great superorganism.
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 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 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 one vast - neural network). See the Gaia Hypothesis - James Lovelock
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’ 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 works. That the company or the Department is not acting as a ‘dynamic whole’ and thus efficiencies as well as enthusiastic participation - is throttled back. When in a very connected electronic world - the imperative is energetic team spirit, that on a grander scale then spontaneously engenders novelty and innovation.
Bhutan
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 and caring perspective. So knowing that Bhutan was a country that had a ‘happiness’ indicator I threw in a the comment - what about Bhutan?
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.
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 a Gross National Happiness (GNH) goal.
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 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 face value - with other countries poverty and all the other contingencies like clean air, water, land and food production, housing, education and health. You name it.
Synchronicity with what’s happening in New Zealand
Fortunately, this goal is still alive and well today and the present NZ government is putting a lot of attention into it..
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
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12086507
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 to our planetary ‘life support system’.
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. Yet, the warming continues - see the temperatures in Europe over the last month.
Shift in planetary consciousness -
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 neoliberalism and the status quo and that of the whole Brexit domino situation etc etc. Listen
Empowering Youth and Women
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, 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.
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 interview is about grassroots movements. An energised bottom-up regeneration and metamorphosis movement. This interview carried on to include many small towns, villages and regions in NZ consciously coming together as small focussed communities. See main page GreenplanetFM.com
These are about farmers markets acting as a catalyst to bring the community closer together so as to have access to cheaper, healthier organic food as well as to network together plus organising a of time banks. Especially that volunteerism can be rewarded by time bank credits.
Other Initiatives
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 this can only encourage the community to healthily become more engaged and connected.
This was a very lively and empowering interview. We both came away ‘happy and empowered.’
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.
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 a major problem ‘lurking’ under the radar across this most fortunate yet unknowing nation.
With challenges coming to us daily via the worlds media - 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 felt to go more public on this important issue.
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 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.
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 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 come out - ‘sunny side up’
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 into a world of abandonment and suffering.
REVIEW
Jim & Helen Moriarty
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.
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 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, the demonic force that is his father. So graphically detailed and truthfully portrayed.
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 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 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 products of post-colonial alienation and cultural disenfranchisement….It is a window into Wi’s determination to fix the things himself and be accountable, into societies shifting lens around the intolerable, and at times over zealous reporting and response to family violence and harm. ‘Thank God for that.’
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 and supported by others, who could see beyond the battered exterior into Wi’s loving sacred self.
Thankyou Wi and to your whanau for letting us in.
Nga mihi aroha ki a koutou katoa.
Jim and Helen Moriarty
https://www.romany.co.nz/
Though overstated, it has also given New Zealander’s a wake up call - as to what do we want for our families and particularly our children in our country so as to make our communities more resilient, and viable, but more so - economically, more friendly, as well.
Towns, Villages and City Suburbs are becoming closer and safer.
From ‘transition everything’ to, farmers markets, time banks, permaculture, holistic health, homeschooling, garage sales, and food buying co-ops - Communities are realising that localising as much as possible especially around food, learning and backyard growing activities …. Is making small towns, city suburbs and small rural villages far more cohesive and enjoyable. People are discovering their neighbours and creating deep connection and relationships.
It’s about innovation and integration of small business modals and setting the template for a regenerative 21st Century where families and communities can thrive together.
New Zealand hasn’t been a social-democratic paradise since Rogernomics’ deregulation, selling off public assets, and slashing state investment.
“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.
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.
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.”
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11987935
New Zealand needs to move away from our reliance on a low-wage economy where companies compete by paying people less.
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 the better option.
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 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 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 21.7%,
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’ resistance.
It eliminated hard-fought reforms like compulsory union membership, compulsory employer-employee bargaining, and unions’ special place in this process.
Listen to Robert’s interview including a shocking revelation about how New Zealand employers have been caught treating migrant workers, that feels like the final nail in the coffin of assuming New Zealand is the world’s best place to live and work in.
Robert Reid is President of the 28,000 strong FIRST Union after retiring as General Secretary in November of last year.
He talks about his life, his work in trade unions, the community and the role of trade unions today.
Robert has recently been appointed to the NZ Government’s Welfare Experts Advisory Group.
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 rid of conscription during the War on Vietnam and becoming the International Vice President of the NZ University Students Association in his first year of university.
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 until, like tens of thousands in the manufacturing industries was made redundant as Rogernomics named after Roger Douglas the radical monetarist Minister 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 community employment groups until returning to union work with the Council of Trade Unions as a regional organiser out of Palmerston North.
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 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 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 Secretary of the National Distribution Union which together with the Finance Union FINSEC, became FIRST Union.
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 Buy Kiwi Made campaign. Robert has also served on “industry good” boards such as Textiles NZ and the Forest Industry Safety Council.
Robert lives with his partner, Maxine Gay in Mangere Bridge and is a doting grandfather to 6 grandchildren.
It’s about individuals coming together to localise, in creating business around farmers markets, food growing, timebanks and cooperating at numerous innovative tiers and levels.
Many more NZer’s today are talking among themselves that there has to be a far better way for us to live, especially for our collective planetary future.
Up and down and across New Zealand, many 'kiwis' are slowly but methodically going about integrating with their local community - wishing to share at a deeper level, values that are expressed from the heart and from a place of honesty and courage.
From little villages, districts, towns, to suburbs in cities, farmers markets seem to be a key ‘nodal point’ where people can congregate and cross pollinate news and views of how community can come together - so as to become self reliant, and resilient as well as creatively taking innovation to a new art form.
Are you one of these cultural creatives? Who enjoys meeting people to talk deeply about how we can address the urgent needs within the biosphere of today. I trust that you are as the following interview I feel, will fill you with optimism and dear I say it, joy, which as you inherently know - we need to experience far more of - especially if we are aware of current world news.
Juliet Adams became a volunteer in Lyttelton (just beyond Christchurch) in the South Island, just after the earthquake that affected so many people’s lives. This came about because Project Lyttelton had a ‘Time Bank.’
A Time Bank - is a system that helps people to help each other, without money changing hands.
To join a local time bank - there needs to be a basic program on a small computer system so as to record what exchanges are being made. When you join you list the ‘skills’ you can offer towards the community and any other ways of helping people in the community to do things.
Plus, you will also ‘have some needs' as well where you would like some help.
For example if you spent one hour minding a friends children, they will credit you ‘one hour’ on the time bank records. Then you can use that credited ‘one hour’ on your account to pay someone to do something for you. Like fixing the broken fence or mowing the lawns. etc.
So it’s a matter of people exchanging their abilities and their time to help one another - without money changing hands.
What ‘time banks’ do is bring people and connection much more closer together. Where as money can be over convenient as in the human equation it may not play a ‘closer quality’ in reaching out to people and their inner needs. i.e good relationships that are far more healthy … where you spend time talking and making sure that everyone is warmly satisfied with the ’transaction’.
In Lyttelton there is over 750 members in their time bank - so if these 750 people congregated all togther in a hall - there is huge potential and possibility with the collective skills that are there. Thus a time bank like this has 'vast social capital' that can be unleashed and put to good purpose.
Community Treasure Chest.
The ‘community treasure chest’ - is where people who belong to a time bank, donate and credit their ‘one hour’ to the community treasure chest - which allows other people who are going through a tough spell and need a hand up, can avail themselves of accumulated gifted ‘one hour' credits from the Community Chest.
So that people who are not even time bank members can receive community assistance.
This is the difference between a system that is built around people - rather than money.
Project Lyttelton is based on many projects.
Having many community gardens - you give some work time and you can walk away with some of the fresh produce.
Garage Sales - about 4 or 5 a week - are all organised through Project Lyttelton - having a well organised, publicised outreach.
Saturday Farmers Market - which is a huge success - and this is where town and country meet and much sharing and networking takes place.
Helen Dew of Carterton and and Living Economies, North of Wellington and Margaret Jeffries of Lyttelton went to ITHACA in New York in the US many years ago and learnt about ‘time banks’ and brought the concept back to NZ. http://livingeconomies.nz
Today more and more Councils and Central Government are actively supporting communities to assist them to become more cohesive and healthy to improve the lives of their citizens. Healthy, happy people, as a result are not dependent on health services and do not draw down on the community or economy.
Locally there are Time Banks in Christchurch, Sumner and New Brighton areas.
Minimisation of Waste
Saturday markets - you can borrow a cup - take it away full of a hot drink or soup and carry it with you, refill it and later on in the day drop it back at the market and one of the staff will happily wash it at the end of the day.
Same for plates, knives and forks - you can enjoy food and have no concern about disposing anything in the rubbish - food scraps go for compost etc. A very clean thought out action plan to minimise waste. The idea of washing up is easily achieved and you have no concerns either.
Festivals
Many festivals are run in the town that bring people together.
Group Truck
Bertie the truck, can be hired off Project Lyttelton PL for localised use.
Fruit and veggie crates of fresh food are available every week.
They have a Library where many leading edge books on community building, finance and success stories of what is happening around our planet are available. This is where Juliet volunteers her time. As volunteering is a large part of PL.
Volunteering is the glue to keeping the community cohesive and flowing.
They also have shares in a health food shop that is owned as a coop called ‘Harbour Coop -, Selling healthy and organic food see - harbourcoop.co.nz
Project Lyttelton is a wonderful fulfilling experiment of people working and playing together.
It is also emotionally healthy as well as providing physical health for ones body.
It in many ways is the microcosm of the NZ macrocosm - where ideals and warm hearted values coalesce into unfolding a better tomorrow.
https://www.lyttelton.net.nz
NZ prides itself as country that has been a prolific food bowl for fresh quality food produced from family farms for over 130 years. ‘It’s in our bones.’
Now with the increasing rush of new technologies, many of these developments are being pushed on to ‘the market’ with a good number not being tested over a longer period of time or over a succession of for example seven to ten generations. (Glyphosate and GE organisms being the case in point).
This is where ethical considerations are being left behind in the haste to profit at all costs and in the process - overtaking or bypassing the code of - duty of care and the precautionary principle.
Farmers and people who work the land are by their nature conservative and do what they know has successfully worked for them in the past - and they are weary of smart young technocrats who may have never got dirt under their fingernails, selling them yet another device or method that takes them further from what they intuitively feel is natural.
So the saga of GE and GMO’s is now taking a turn for the better in NZ, especially for consumers in our country, as well as globally and in particular the ecology of this country.
This dialogue with Mark is a continuation of interviewing NZers around the country based on ‘pulling the strings of localised community together’ and linking them across the nation.
Mark is a passionate change agent and realises the importance of having robust and resilient communities founded around: Farmers markets, permaculture, organics, green dollars and Time banks as well as building shelter and sustainable buildings, holistic health, homeschooling, mensheds and women’s cooperatives, plus other regenerative initiatives.
That all of these connect the community into a vibrant, self reliant organism.
For many years in some cases decades there has been a growing awareness by NZers - especially away from the largest cities that in small towns and villages across the country, people still have a sense of community.
That people seeking both better connection, and environmental quietness away from the pace and size of urban conglomeration have gravitated to the rural setting, that is always accompanied by being close to the sea or ocean in some way.
So apologising in advance, I trust that you forgive me and advise me accordingly if I have committed your town, village of region below.
From Kaitaia up North, to Kerikeri, Hokianga, Whangerei and …..
To Thames Coromandel, Raglan over to Gisborne, the Hawkes Bay Hastings region. To Wanganui, Masterton
To the Soul Island of Nelson, Motueka, Takaka and Golden Bay, to Kaikura and Lyttelton, the West Coast and further South - people have steadily built a cooperative commercial understanding around markets and now farmers markets are a key hub to community getting to gather to cooperate in other ways as the threads of community tie in so many other aspects from holistic health, to shared working bees, permaculture, organics, recycling etc see list at the bottom of this article.
Marks interview on what is happening in the Thames Coromandel starts with how people are addressing housing and shelter.
Having many differing forms of life style, and various forms of building homes - Cobb houses , rammed earth, straw bale, lots of permaculture permutations - people living ‘off grid’ and largely self sufficiently - other people living semi on grid whilst developing organic businesses - green businesses, lots of sole traders - that is sort of going on at one level.
At another level also grappling with how to connect up with other parts of the community that are more traditional - who have come there to retire and live in peace by the sea but are now becoming alarmed by sea level rise and climate change - eroding roads as over the last 18 months massive storms have come up the Firth of Thames and the Coast road up to Coromandel has been taken out. Plus lots of flooding on the other coast and at Whitianga as well.
There are some intentional communities, as well as spiritual communities that are rarely well integrated into the larger community running meditation courses as well as extending into town as a shop presence.
People looking at ways of cooperating to group together on the land and adding tiny houses etc
But in a sharing of care, Mark mentions there is also now on the other side of the situation about 30 homeless people living in Thames - sleeping in cars - or sleeping out at the back of the community garden etc and some of them have various addictions of some kind or another so there is still growing challenges around the dispossessed that needs to be addressed.
Why? Because these people don’t have that sense of community and connection … and access to the resources to be able to change their lives - like to buy some land you are talking half a million dollars so there is definitely a different social strata
around different degrees of wealth, resources and affluence involved and amidst all this correct choices that have been taken.
Mark shares from a humorous perspective how the people strive for success and then laughingly asks how does one define success?
He says how do we equate neo liberal economics with half a dozen people sleeping in a car outside your house …?
That neo liberal perspectives are so interwoven into our society that often we all don’t realise how embedded we really are inside this economic model. Like a goldfish may have no concept of water!
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, 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 of great help in these turbulent times.
55 Palestinians have been killed and over 1,000 injured by Israeli forces since the ‘Great March of Return’ protests began on March 30 2018.
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 1948 and when 750,000 Arabs were forcibly removed from Palestine.
Roger will be covering a number of topics that include
*Israel’s continuing lethal attacks of unarmed citizens gathering in Gaza,
*Political prisoners, detention of children,
*House demolitions on the West Bank,
*Author Dr Ramzy Baroud’s speaking tour of NZ talking about his new book “The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story”.
Roger’s bio:
Roger Fowler is a veteran activist & community organizer, and played a prominent role in building the local protest movement against the war on Vietnam and South African Apartheid in the late 1960s & 70s.
He was manager of Auckland’s Resistance Bookshop and coordinator of the inner-city People’s Union community organization throughout the 1970s, an active supporter of the protest occupation at Bastion Point, and union delegate in the car assembly industry.
Roger is director of the Mangere East Community Centre, and organizer of Kia Ora Gaza which has sponsored NZ involvement in several international solidarity convoys to break Israel’s inhumane siege of Gaza.
He has led two Kiwi humanitarian convoys to Gaza which was featured in an interview on GreenplanetFM in 2016.
https://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/roger-fowler-nz-humanitarian-convoys-to-gaza-peace-justice-palestinians
You can DONATE to this and other fundraising for Palestine on the web site:
Kia Ora Gaza: www.kiaoragaza.net
This interview was sponsored by The Awareness Party.
He has lived in the New Zealand bush and studied the wairua, the spirit, of the plants of Aoteoroa, he has taught and tested New Zealand bush medicines, he has created beautiful art based on the plants of our bush so that the pictures and splashbacks he produces will positively affect the energy and resonance of the homes and offices in which they are installed.
He writes books and songs and musicals based on those same healing resonances, and his passion is to help young and old have a sense of belonging to each other and to Mother Earth, our Papatuanuku, our Source.
He believes that all dis-ease is from lack of connection and his work here is to help turn that around.
For any information about his homeopathic practise, bush walks, art and designs contact:
09 2835214
vandertouwrobert[at]gmail.com
Website: www.vandertouwdesign.co.nz
He is available for homeopathy on his Facebook page: The Homeopath. And his personal Facebook page: Robert van der Touw
His art and design is available in postcards, bookmarks, art cards, t-shirts etc on: artandsoulnz.com
His nature retreat place is open for visitors and guests on personal arrangement (guided bush walks, homeopathic consultation):
26 Kahikatoa Rd
Umawera, Okaihau
Northland 0476
Sage-ing is a spiritual practice that involves harvesting the wisdom of our lives and finding ways to transmit that wisdom as a legacy to future generations.
In developing an elder spiritual practice we pursue the path proposed by Rabbi Zalman Schacter in his seminal book From Age-ing to Sage-ing which involves, through introspection, the following:
There is even more to this nuclear episode - that we are allowing concentrated uranium oxide shipments into NZ ports en route to other countries, for maximising.
Denys says that changes have to take place in the ‘consciousness and the sentiments’ of near on 5 million New Zealanders as well as the rest of the world’s population to address what is really taking place today.
In 1974 FOE - Friends of the Earth started up in NZ so as to speak up for most environmental issues. Stating that social and ecological consciousness has to grow to be able to counter these increasing trends of disconnection from the planet that sustains us … and that we are also running into a generational problem that Bob hinted at in the introduction - of unknowingness of the issues by our youth.
Irradiated food entering NZ with poor or microscopic labelling.
Yet, during this time NZ also became the first country on Earth to ban the irradiation of food - However in the 1990’s because we lost our ‘ sovereignty’ through the CER - Closer Economic Relations with Australia - when both countries merged their regulatory authorities thus Food Standards NZ and every Australia State and Capital Territory got one vote only. It’s not like one vote one country like with the United Nations and so NZ had to go along with Australia’s Pro Irradiation stance, being out voted every time.
The result means that a whole range of exported Australian fruit and vegetables are imported into NZ and becomes our diet - which is irradiated with caesium 137.
First they started off with mangoes which was regarded as a sweetener - and now tomatoes and capsicums are irradiated so are grapes, pip fruit and citrus fruit.
Yet the labelling of such treatment continues to be poorly addressed and most people do not know that they could be eating nuclear irradiated food.
Concentrated uranium oxide shipments entering
Another large but silent issue is about concentrated uranium oxide shipments through NZ ports en-route to other countries.
This contravenes our Nuclear Free policy.
Up to 800 ton shipments of ‘concentrated uranium’ have been coming through the ports of Auckland - and the NZ workers at the port working on these ships were never told of these shipments - and this was completely under the public radar and unknowing NZ has no capability to deal with an accident or spillage inside these ships. The uranium is stored in the bow of the ship at the lowest levels and when asked why, was told that it is the furthest from the crews quarters - but that section of the ship is also the most affected area with storms at sea. FOE say that they have been shown photographs of containers of other goods that have been damaged by storms at sea and Bob says they look like they have been attacked by giant can openers.
So these two issues are ongoing.
Logging of old growth forests
Most of the important matters of FOE are long term environmental challenges that are almost hidden from the NZ public attention - they are background issues and yet are of critical importance - for instance FOE’s first involvement was to halt the logging of vast beech forests in the South Island that has actually been an ongoing process of 30 years of activism. The fact that this indigenous forestry project that was halted took 30 years of focus to bring the worst aspects of that to a halt. But there are still dangers of that type of project happening again as there are signs of the reemergence of the idea that it is legitimate to log forests that are on public land.
Another silent issue is: Gene Editing
Gene Editing and Gene Drives and an acronym - CHRISPR which are now wedging their way into NZ and FOE says they are probably perilous technologies - they may have some uses - though it is surmised that this is going to be used for military application and the research is going to be financed by DARPA - as there is a weaponised dimension to this technology - and used on human populations in a negative way.
Government complicity forces punitive costs to lodging appeals
Today to appeal against any environmental or ecological assault in NZ has become very expensive - where it once cost $50 to lodge an appeal to save some ecological treasure in this country some years ago, the previous National administration made it more punitive to take an issue to court, that it now costs $500 under the Resource Management Act to protect our ‘taonga’ (treasures) - our heritage and for a small volunteer ecological group, it is debilitating. Then they have to put up surety of costs - that could then be up to $10 - 20,000 - but first the Government will take your $500 and you may never get to court. The game is rigged. It’s stacked against the people - by ’the system’.
Being so, that both overseas and local business interests have been far more successful than environmental protectors. It’s unfortunate - yet that is the reality. There is no legal aid for cases brought about for the public interest, this needs to be addressed.
Note that a good judge and magistrate can determine in 5 minutes if this is a genuine case. Wherever an environmental case being brought is merely vexatious or important, Denys says it would not cost the Government very much at all to set up such a system, where important and authentic cases are heard with the help of legal aid.
This will allow the people’s voice to speak and to be heard in our own court system. Note that we NZers pay through our taxes for this court system as well as pay the salaries of the judges as well as the court rooms - as they are our courts.
Government Organisations not doing enough?
Just as the officials who are meant to be safeguarding the environment employed by organisations like DOC, (Department of Conservation) Ministry for the Environment, Land Care, etc- all these large Government organisations - we taxpayers already pay for them.They are actually our employees however they act as if we are asking them a special, favour to merely humbly knock on there door.
1080 another bogey that won’t go away
At present there is a new exposee on 1080 and insect death - originally it was designed as an insecticide - yes it does cause insects to die - DOC knows this is so and this information has been suppressed - but under the Official Information Access - recently a researcher was able to get information released. The original scientist Dr Mike Meads was going to present some of these findings to the NZ Royal Society but 10 days before he was going to do his presentation DOC fired him and closed down the whole story.
Here is Mike Meads telling us prior to his death.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixvo1DemwE4
NZ was the first country to introduce an Atomic Energy Act not long after the end of the 2nd World War and the DSIR (Department of Scientific Industrial Research) produced a booklet on it.
Atomic Energy Act 1945 – Radioactive minerals – Te Ara ...
https://teara.govt.nz/en/document/4781/atomic-energy-act-1945
Jun 12, 2006 - The purpose of the Atomic Energy Act 1945 was 'to make provision for the control in New Zealand of the means of producing atomic energy and for that purpose to provide for the mining and treatment of the ores of uranium and other elements which may be used for the production of atomic energy,
This insightful and shocking interview covers many other subjects as well.
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Bruce begins the interview with an introduction to his work and then moves on to speaking about the nature of vaccines and why he thinks there are problems with them.
The nature of vaccinations and the role of our immune system is a topic that is not really understood by the conventional public. It is generally accepted that controlling the immune system to create antibodies against
germs or parasites that try to attack us, is successfully done by vaccines. Parents are pressured to vaccinate their children. It is accepted that we can create an immune response by taking foreign elements, bacteria, viruses, and parasites, or pieces of these elements, and putting them into a solution, and then injecting it under our skin.
This is to invoke the immune system to make a response against these invasive foreign materials or antigens.
Generally we believe that the vaccines are the way to program the immune system to protect us from environmental parasites, bacteria and viruses. Therefore we have bought into the system of artificially putting these antigens under our skin to invoke an immune response. The question of whether this is beneficial or not, is now coming into the open.
Bruce address this issue from the point of view that immunology has made a misunderstanding about something very important called the tonsils!
He says, “If you recognize the nature of infants and their behaviour you realise that infants put everything they can find and fit into their mouths. Their own fists, arms, feet, anything they find in their cot, anything you hand them they will instinctively put it into their mouths.”
This is not an accident this is nature's natural immune vaccination system. What the baby is doing is sampling the environment. Everything it can reach will inevitably end up in its mouth! By this process the infant is actually introducing antigens into the immune system and initiating an immune response.
Bruce expands on this, drawing on his extensive scientific background. He also speaks candidly about the role of the pharmaceutical companies in this.
Currently we're finding an epidemic in regard to allergic reactions or hypersensitivity. We're also finding that people are bringing in the concept that autism is seems to be associated with the widespread use of vaccines, so there are very profound questions out there as to the safety of using vaccines to create immune responses.
In infancy when we give a large amount of vaccines to the child their immune systems aren't tooled up to handle so much, especially coming from an introduction that is not normal in any sense of biology, so basically forcing the immune system to respond to these vaccinations in an abnormal way is not in the best interest of the body’s system.
It is not the way it normally deals with it, and therefore that we are beginning to find that vaccines are very likely causing many kinds of problems. What is introduced into the system is not just the foreign cells and bacteria and the viruses or pieces of the parasites that they use, but also the chemistry in which the vaccines are created, which include a lot of mercury and aluminium and a lot of other things such as formaldehyde, which are poisons.
This is an attempt to enhance the immune system, but at the same time it is essentially overpowering it with poisons and toxins.
So Bruce has come to the conclusion that if we want the best vaccine system in the world we should actually focus on creating oral vaccines in nature's original way.
Bruce H. Lipton, PhD is an internationally recognized leader in bridging science and spirit. Stem cell biologist, bestselling author of The Biology of Belief and recipient of the 2009 Goi Peace Award, he has been a guest speaker on hundreds of TV and radio shows, as well as keynote presenter for national and international conferences.
Dr. Lipton began his scientific career as a cell biologist. He received his Ph.D. Degree from the University of Virginia at Charlottesville before joining the Department of Anatomy at the University of Wisconsin’s School of Medicine in 1973. Dr. Lipton’s research on muscular dystrophy, studies employing cloned human stem cells, focused upon the molecular mechanisms controlling cell behavior.
He speaks about vaccines in this short video : https://youtu.be/U6QMYiiqXL0?t=1
Dr. Lipton has taken his award-winning medical school lectures to the public and is currently a sought after keynote speaker and workshop presenter. He lectures to conventional and complementary medical professionals and lay audiences about leading-edge science and how it dovetails with mind-body medicine and spiritual principles. He has been heartened by anecdotal reports from hundreds of former audience members who have improved their spiritual, physical and mental well being by applying the principles he discusses in his lectures. He is regarded as one of the leading voices of the new biology.
Dr Lipton’s work summarizing his findings, entitled, The new updated 10th Anniversary Edition of The Biology of Belief, (Hay House Publishing, softcover, ISBN 978-1-4019-4891-7).
His second book, Spontaneous Evolution, Our Positive Future and a Way to Get There From Here. (Hay House Publishing, ISBN 978-1-4019-2580-2) and his third book, The Honeymoon Effect, The Science of Creating Heaven on Earth. (Hay House Publishing, ISBN 978-1-4019-2386-0)
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 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 of integrity and being foolish.
Being aware of this the Mankind Project came about in the early 1990’s in America, where three men got together wanting to take the conversation further, on men - especially around men’s masculinity and have men connect with their deeper purpose.
For indigenous cultures over millennia have had ceremony and initiations to bring young men into adulthood, to become responsible and accountable for their actions. This included being an integral member of the tribe and taking their rightful place within that community.
The Mankind Project knowingly acknowledge this saying, there is also another way - a more relevant and conscious way to become a man in the modern world.
As against a sensitive new age wuss or limp wrist response, they take young men through a rite of passage where men learn how to become responsible as to how we show up in the world. That our relationship to ourselves becomes very important
Part of an initiation is an ordeal. MKP takes men deep into their psyche to see what really makes them tick … and it is done through the new warrior training adventure the ‘hero’s journey’ - a gateway to a whole new paradigm.
Situated near the centre of this huge area sits the Cook Islands, Rarotonga and Atiu the tiny island that Captain Cook first visited in 1777.
Tui is a descendent of a paramount chief, who in turn is a descendent of a paramount chief of the island of Atiu, in the heart of the Polynesian Triangle.
The island is about half the size of Rarotonga. Legend says Tangaroa, the divine god of the sea, was the first inhabitant.
The first recorded European to arrive at Atiu was Captain Cook. He sighted the island on March 31, 1777 and made tentative contact with some of the people. Captain Cook never knew about the larger island of Rarotonga.
In this interview we learn about a way of life that is very different to present day ways in the West and especially about what is culture and what is custom.
As the Cook Islands are situated in the centre of the Polynesian Triangle Tu shares with us his heart felt cause for unifying the Polynesian peoples across the expansive Pacific ocean.
Pacific - Mid 16th century: from French pacifique or Latin pacificus ‘peacemaking’, from pax, pac - ‘peace’.
So he has localised his action and focus, to ‘pulling the strings of individuals into both unity consciousness and community’ - by bringing us cohesively closer together. In doing so, expanding outward yet recognising our inner world - the core of our being.
When I first met Will here in New Zealand, his relaxed manner made him easy to talk and engage with. I felt him as considerate and able to listen to who I was. I also got that he was focused - that he really meant that his ‘Now of Never’ call for humanity is both urgent and valid. That if children of today and tomorrow want a future of freedom, peace and prosperity - we have to start now.
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 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 planet. Especially in a family context where love and connection need to be the foundations of a healthy existence.
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 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.
In this interview you get the measure of the man - by his vision, commitment and his sensitivity to take a stand and walk his talk.
Whilst the US, has been distracted and immersed in ‘Neocon’ wars, especially in the Middle East and elsewhere it basically has no money to upgrade its own countries infrastructure.
From Communism to Consumerism Since Paramount Leader Deng opened up China to far-reaching market-economy reforms in 1978, China has increasingly impacted the whole world. With 1.3 billion people, in comparison to the USA’s 320 million - we are now seeing the might of ‘the China effect’. This has far reaching implications for our planetary ecology and geo-politics. Will China’s appetite for growth and ‘soft power’ - also take us beyond the environmental global tipping point?
Tim gives us a brief summary of his recent visit as to what is happening across the ever changing face of China and what portends to the future of quite possibly the human endeavor - in a world that is in need of wisdom, consciousness and leadership.
Right from the start both of these very articulate communicators share their knowingness as to the challenges and opportunities to heal what is becoming the affliction of the human race. Cancer!
What I like about them is that ever since knowing them - they have been focusing on encouraging us to see our body in a new light - to see that we need not be a victim of our genetic make up and that when we look beyond, into the quantum levels of the subatomic realms - new possibilities come into being.
This requires a shift in awareness, in consciousness - that we are energy fields in a localised planetary field that is embedded in a universal energy field - is opening up new vistas of not only health and healing, but living, our philosophy in life and indeed - our cosmology.
If perhaps you are aware of what’s happening in the realm of health and healing, there are some exceptionally unique perspectives being offered.
Speakers at this symposium include leaders in their particular fields, from the United States, Australia and New Zealand:, Jack Tips ND PhD, Dr Allan Frankel MD, Ty Bollinger, Glen Gillard ND, Greg Fredericks NMD, Dr Robin Kelly MD, Prof Bill Watson, Katherine Smith, Jon Eisen and Kim Knight.
The International Holistic Cancer Symposium (IHCS) is a regular conference organized by health professionals, the purpose being to share scientific evidence-based research on cancer prevention, treatment, management and support, and providing knowledge that encompasses treating the whole person, not just cancer tumours. It is a resource for all those who are interested in an evidence-based holistic approach to cancer.
The IHCS is for Governmental Agencies, Medical, Allied and CAM health practitioners, Cancer Support Organisations and Cancer NGO’s and Cancer patient lobby groups.
For more information: https://holisticcancersymposium.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4gKgUOm8VE
Regenerative & (Biological) Agriculture
Regenerative & (Biological) Agriculture can be and needs to be initiated very quickly over the face of all arable land in all the major countries on earth. This common sense system needs to be championed by all academics, farmers, and environmentalists - then the human society - if we want a future for our children.
Regeneration of the soil
The regeneration of soil through non chemical fertilisers with the conscious choice of mineral applications using regenerative and biological agricultural practices, can be and has to commence as soon as possible - it need not be delayed any longer.
What Phil Gregory PhD is saying has already been initiated by pioneers Graeme Sait, Ardern Andersen, Susan Jones and Elaine Ingham. We now have the answers - what we need now is the education and the will to implement this model of land management - and finally take down this C02 bogey - once and for all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3rhjqzVrRc
Taking down sequestering Co2 and building up soil
This is no longer a problem without a solution - Regenerative and biological agriculture is the solution and formula to global warming including soil loss and unhealthy animals and food chain.
The time is to start as soon as possible - with Government support across all levels of agriculture - and this needs trumpeting at the highest levels of government, business, and especially the media.
Pushing back the barriers of unknowingness.
Phil, Gregory was an astronomer who as part of a large scientific team used to study the night skies and during his later years was part of a huge awakening that there were planets orbiting stars in our galaxy. That in the last 25 or so years astronomers using the latest technological breakthroughs have found thousands of new planets - which is a gigantic step in breaking out of the isolation of the scientific mindset that did not or could not believe that there would be other planets circling stars not only throughout our galaxy of a 100 billion stars, but all the other billions of galaxies in existence as well. He also surmises that in 30 years time we may know if there is life on these planets.
Only 60 years of Farming Left if Soil Degradation Continues
After retiring from his chosen profession of Astronomy, one day whilst browsing through a Scientific American journal he read a piece by the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation that there is only 60 years of farming left if soil degradation continues ! 60 Years - that’s no time at all, he exclaimed!
So this immediately caught his attention - for having 14 grandchildren he realised that we would be leaving them in a very unstable world and so he committed to finding a way to taking carbon out of the atmosphere and sequestering it into the soil - that in turn supports the microbes which then assists in roots growth and plant life prospering.
Global Food Security - what are the issues
This 60 year only timeline lead him to also research all aspects of desertification and animal grazing - that are all imperative issues towards global food security.
Accessing Free use of Global Data
As an ex university professor he had free access to all the global literature on earth - so has been able to cast a wide net that enabled him to work out what is happening with the soils, the atmosphere including rainfall, erosion etc, etc.
Whereas all the professional agronomists he came across, unless they are affiliated directly with a university - it costs them hugely - up to US$17.00 to read just one paper - whereas to become more knowing you need to read hundreds of papers - so this means that the agronomists are so far behind in their understanding of nature and in particular soil science and microbial activity.
Professional Agronomists lack knowledge on micro flora and soil
This shocked Phil, because in the process in communicating with them, he found them woefully ignorant about current knowledge. Especially, of how soil bacteria and fungi actually work with plants, in taking out of the atmosphere carbon and the mechanisms of breaking down soil compounds making them more available for roots hairs to feed plants the required food for growth, etc
Soil structure and micro-organisms and what they do - (has been a complete eye opener for Phil)
Even if we stop burning fossil fuels today - the gases (including methane escaping the permafrost) are still going to remain in the atmosphere for a long time. - They are still going to continue warming our planet for hundreds of year into the future - so not are we having to stop putting gases up into the atmosphere - we have to bring them back and get them out of the atmospheric envelope that surrounds our planet.
There are Natural Solutions that can Solve Global Warming.
Once he stumbled into the literature he started making connections and one link lead to another and as he followed these ’natural’ connections he became very excited - and though he found very little info from the Canadian authorities - he found a large amount of interesting information and material within the branches of the US Department of Agriculture especially in the natural resources - services section where they had many tutorials on the soil food web by Doctor Elaine Ingham one of the pioneers.
This video link is of Phil Gregory telling his important story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWILIYSf5ts
He also found on Ted Talks - Allan Savoury from Zimbabwe - it made sense - it is not necessarily animal numbers - it’s the timing of the seasons that is important.
The US Department of Agriculture - especially in the natural resources - services section made a large contribution in the connection in the dots for Phil.
Don Rocoski - no till no Till - Washington Post 11.9.13 by BraD PLUMBER No till farming is on the rise …don rykovsky No turning of soil at all
Don Rykovsky powerpoints
This link - that is a power point is a superb contribution and statement as to what needs to be done http://www.phas.ubc.ca/~gregory/papers/GregoryBowenIslandPresentation24Jan2017sht.pdf
Saskatchewan Soil Conservation Society
Also early on in his research he found that in Saskatchewan up to 60% of the framers were engaged in no till farming - which means no turning over or ploughing the soil - Now today nearly 100% of them have gone no till.
This was also seen as a possible avenue of obtaining Government subsidies for soil sequestration - even though they were a little way ahead of the govt at the time. So spent a lot of time in measuring how soils carbon could be requested and they now have good data from 167 farms over a span of 14 years and these farms are fairly large. What they have deduced is that the farmers can sequester around 1 tonne of carbon per hectare per year. Which translates to the equivalent of taking 21 million cars off the road.
Thus the Saskatchewan farmers who only had one cash crop every two years were able to then have one cash crop per year and they went from the red into the black - and making money
This took Phil deeper into his quest for regenerative agriculture - where you not only sequester carbon from the atmosphere but you restore the biology to the soil, the microflora - and you move away from the chemical paradigm to a biological paradigm, which after all - this is how nature evolved . Nature has all the microbes in the soil and that hidden universe which as up until very recently has been a hidden universe. These microbes mine all the nutrients that these plants need - from the rocks and silt and clay - and nitrogen from the atmosphere - you get the works - all for free -without having to pay money to plough your fields or pay money for the chemicals - if we are conscious enough to learn and copy nature.
The next step is to inoculate the soil with a real good fertiliser and get those microbes back active again.
By only putting NPK - nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium the plant (sort of) thinks that it has some ‘party food’ here, that I do not need to share with the microbes and any of my root exudates - I can instead hold onto those, because I am addicted to NPK. So that the barter system that existed between the plants feeding the sugars and the carbon - the energy pills to the microbes starts to fracture - And the microbes in return supplying all the other trace minerals and all the other elements that the plant needs - that barter system is ‘now broken’ - its interrupted because the plants become addicted to the easy life - but of course these salts that have been put on - these fertilising salts that have been put on, dissolve in water and 80% of them wash off into the rivers causing all kinds of problems - algae blooms - nitrates in the water are very dangerous - they reduce the amount of oxygen that the blood can transfer through the body - that there was a Nobel Prize was won when they realised that this was the basis of cancer - and Phil goes on to say that we have created mountains of problems basically though ignorance with the use of these chemicals.
Listen to Phil talks about the predators and prey and even predators that prey on the predators - in a very dynamic system at a micro level - which is natures way - this high diversity of creating stability.
So the bacteria and the fungi they are at the base of this system - they are being fed ‘carbon pellets’ (if you like) - through the sugars from the plants- who are attracting them to their root system - so the bacteria and fungi they will - if there is any NPK nitrogen , phosphorus and potassium they will love that - they will just gobble that up and store that in their body together with the4 carbon that they are receiving from the plant - and they will also take in any dead plant or matter and recycle that - plus they secrete also biotic glues as enzymes and organic acids. These organic acids in the case of fungal hyphae - these invisible strands that spread outward everywhere as mycelium networks - hold for example is a myclillium network - whist the individual hyphae are quite invisible - but if you take some common rock like feldspar and slice it - then polish it and you look at it under the microscope you will find all kinds of tiny microscopic tunnels - these are tunnels that have been made by the fungal hyphae - they are actually burrowing in to the rock - and mining the elements - the basic elements that that rock is made of - pulling these laments back into their bodies and they eventually transfer these elements to the plant. Which in Phil’s words is quite magical.
In 2015 Scientific American article states that in its title - the Biggest mining operation in the world is carried out by fungal networks.
So all these fungal networks are pulling in all these resources and in return for the carbon - but you have to keep it mind that those fungi and bacteria - they like the elements as well and they need them in high concentrations to exist in nature. So they are also not readily wanting to pass on these or give them up - and this is where the predatory protozoa of bacteria and fungi come along and feast up - and they end up with an excess of nitrogen - too much is toxic so they excrete it out - poop it out and they happen to be right next to the plant roots - because the plants are attracting and feeding their prey and all are in extremely close proximity - as they are wanting carbon that the plant extracts from the atmosphere.
So that at any given time in an agricultural field - 99% of the elements that the plants need are locked up in the bacteria and fungi - and only at the rate that which the plants need it (as the plants are orchestrating all this) do the predators come along and covert by eating right amount of bacteria and fungi - create the correct amount of poop with is then taken up by the root hairs and feed the plant.
So this is one of the mysteries that the chemical world has not appreciated (Big Pharma) because they do not really want to know the biological understandingof how to unlock the secrets of the soil. They just want sales of nitrogen and chemicals to drive these into the plants - so that they can up production - and eventually get their money back - with zero respect of the land, soil and the microflora in the soil. Which degrades the soils that eventually either erode in floods or is blown away by the wind.
Bacteria and fungi help open up the ground so that both air and water can percolate deeper allowing for roots to penetrate down to greater depths into the soil - thus able to withstand drought and flooding
Listen this is fascinating stuff that every farmer and gardener needs to get their head around if they wish to become far more self reliant and resilient in the face of rapidly changing climate change and weather fluctuations.
Covering how microflora create soil structure - to get oxygen and water deep down into the ground - because plant roots will only grow deep if they have access to wattle and oxygen. Plant roots can grow well over a metre deep - thus can resist long periods of drought as there will be both food, oxygen and moisture down there. So the imperative is for NZ farmers to study and research this and not be talked into continuing the old paradigm of more chemicals being added to their farmland.
When North America was being opened up in the pioneering days of colonial expansion the farmers dug down following certain grass roots to over 3o feet down .
Dr Rlaine Ingham - the soil food web inc -
Listen how trees can have 150 foot deep roots and that a tree fed on the surface can transport this liquid matter down to its roots 150 feet down in a matter of 10 minutes!
Plough causing a compaction layers just below the depth of the plough and this hardens the soil. At the same time when ploughing you ares slicing and dicing the fungi networks destroying all the magnificence of soil structure - what the bacteria and microflora have magically put in place.
These are like underground cities and as Phil cals them buildings and networks that the microbes have created - were annihilated and the soils loses its integrity as all the fungi and biotic glues from the bacteria just dry up - so that it is free to be both blown and washed away!
its only in the last 30 years have we realised the damage that we have been doing … added to this it is only via microscopic instruments have we been able to study also what these microbes are doing - what is theirtr role in nature.
This was in 1985 when Elaine Ingham and her husband in 1985 exposed this knowledge to the world.- And that paper was not received immediately very well. Many did not beleive that nature had this ‘bartering system’ that was going on. It was not dod eat dog and survival od the fittest - but a more cooperative notion that old ideology refused to acknowledge.
then in 1991 others rediscovered their work and it has expanded vastly since then.
Phil did a university search on root exudate or plant exudate which is a key part of she discovery - now 2016 over 2000 papers on this coming to light.- focussed on the bartering system
Dr Teage and 14 orhwr authors - sequester carbon in the soil
Soil erosion resulting form agriculture is actually a large contributor to greenhouse gases = 28% of the problem of greenhouse gasses
Agriculture is producing 14 - 15% of greenhouse gases - but soil erosion
but what about the rest - 72% - thats fossil fuel burning?
yet regenerative agriculture in all its aspects - animals and crops - not mono culture but diversified crops - including cover crops so that there is always green material with roots in the ground - plus old farms had orchards, gardens pigs goats cows, sheep and horses - very diversified - resulting in the regenerative management of animals
if we did regenerative agriculture planet round we would instantly remove that 28% - but you would ake down 120% of the greenhouse gasses from all sources that are being released - back into the ground so under modest assumptions over the entire earth - we would be requesting 150% of the GHG we are currently putting up now!
To the degree that water a time we would have to slow this down so as to not have our planet cool too much - a delightful dilemma to be in
Listen to Phil spell out the maths and the assumptions that include all forms of GHG from transportation - energy lighting - you name it - deforestation and methane expelling.
Based on 3 tones of carbon sequester for every hectare - every year
*Gabe Brown - browns ranch.us
*Dr David Johnson in Arizona - rapid sequestration up to 24 tonnes per hectare - with the US Department of Ag doing the measurements for carbon - maybe only 20% of the arable land needed to pull this carbon out of the atmosphere.
Singing Frogs Farm - California.
listen - the French scientists are very switched on a bout regenertative agriculture
Why are academics sleeping this one out? They are a collection of specialists - suzanne simard fungi network
YouTube "the magic of soil - by Phil Gregory"
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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, anymore - This along with the moral and ethical malaise that daily via unfaithful (MSM) media erodes our efforts of goodwill, truth, joy and connection. Taking a Stand
We know that we have to take a stand. Why?
Because there is no leader - particularly in the political domain calling for and standing up for the future of children and the biosphere.
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 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 global family.
Will Wilkinson who has been a dynamic community activist on the West Coast of the US ever since the late 60’s has said - ‘enough of the old paradigm’ and is visiting NZ, which due to its geographical location ‘sees tomorrow first.’
Another Way of Seeing Who We Are
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 our way to creating the trim tab factor* and finally break free of the old thought patterns of dysfunction and fragmentation. By dynamically awakening possibilities within our own being - and across our nation - especially in small clusters of cells ‘we finally come together’ and become an inspiration for the rest of the world - hungry for positive community based change, peace and perpetual optimism.
The imperative being we must break free of dystopian movies and propaganda and instead plant and germinate seeds of heart oriented change and connection - that we intuitively hold so dearly - and we need to do it now.
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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 Forward and acknowledgements by numerous holistic and transformational leaders of North America - Will’s lead-in - captivating first chapter - sets the template for enabling this long awaited global transfiguration to finally show up and take place.
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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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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, inner voyager and lover of the natural world and all biota.
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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The Trim Tab Factor
We Are All Nerve Endings of Mother Earth - Gaia
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 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 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 endings globally who see this, that this part of Mother Earth is in horrific trauma and needs healing.
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 all share breath.
Question?
Do you wake up in the morning happy with the world and thrilled to be alive?
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.
Answers?
Have you any answers to this situation we have all found ourselves in?
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 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 - 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 been programmed and polarised into fortified areas of us versus them.
Every major country is building up arms at increasingly costly levels - as military industrial machines compete with each other in an escalation that defies description.
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 - are not interested in resolving conflicts across borders - and instead obstinately dig in and ramp up fear.
Well as in the introduction - it’s time for a stand - and to hold the line.
‘We’ Are a Grass Roots Evolution
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 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. Hence Will’s fortuitous arrival here in NZ.
By being an activated conscious cell (nerve ending) - communicating and connecting with other cells and allowing synergistic energies to synchronistically come into being - this is when intuition and group dynamics inspire us with innovative and novel ways of growing into a greater dynamic whole.
Connection is everything
Connection is everything, just like shared breath - and as we know many trees have deep rooted systems that connect like gigantic mycorrhizal fungal networks of underground hypha - that link with other tree roots which commonly knit as the ‘world wood network’ - They can communicate and collectively manage resources, thanks to “some kind of electrochemical communication between the tree roots”
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 multiple tipping points within the biosphere’s increasingly delicate ecology. Nature does not have anywhere near enough time to evolve systems of balance, change and compensation - due to the increasing global population that has been programmed to own more and more planned obsolescent material products and things.
What Will is here in NZ for is to take willing self motivated us, through three powerful stages of learning.
He has the skills and the know-how to teach us and empower us make this jump in changing old habits and patterns.
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 agents of conscious evolution - and take us into a new paradigm of mindfulness goodwill and global family.
To do nothing is not an option.
It’s ‘Now or Never’
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It’s 'Our Place’, to do our thing. Kiwis can put quality-made programmes up on the site. He says it asks of Kiwis “What are you going to DO with this new resource? You can MAKE things with this. You don’t have to ask permission” .
At 6.24, Bryan explains the problem with our current NZ media: a producer has to go through the gateways of the commercial television channels who really are trying to assess your programme on the one question of : “How big an audience can you bring to the commercial gaps?”.
It has always been thus. And if you’re good at that, then they will buy your next programme. It’s not about how good a programme is, it’s about what kind of audience? and how big will it be? to cater to the advertisers in the commercial gaps - and it all comes down to producing money instead of quality.
At 7.16, Bryan says the main channels are going to self-edit. They re not going to take a programme that is not going to fit well with their sponsors.
The other side of it is we tend to think of government- funded broadcasters as being more independent, but that is not true either, because they are not going ‘to bite the hand that feeds them’ and stand up to their government money-source.
If mainstream media gets money from a business, then that piper calls the tune.
At 7.46, Bryan explains that the idea for this came up about 3 years ago when he walked out of TVNZ one day having had it explained to him that his programme on health was probably going to get lots of ratings but “Really we’re not necessarily into the business of doing programmes in the public good. They have to be commercial because we might sell ourselves off one day” .
Bryan walked out of that building and thought: “ Well, if these guys aren’t going to do NZ public television, maybe I can.”.
Bryan registered a company called ‘NZ Public Television Ltd”, and he talked to friends: “ If you were starting television today, you wouldn’t do it in the way that the BBC told us how to do it all those years ago - no big dishes, sky satellites, large building. How would we do it today ?”
At 8.43, he says the answer is clear: we’d use the World Wide Web.
And how would we put our programmes up?
When Bryan talked to servers , they had gleeful visions of making lots of money out of this being a version of Netflix. But Bryan instead saw it as a bus station. You, the viewer, come to NZPTV to be pointed in the right direction of a programme that someone else is hosting on Vimeo or YouTube or other sites. So NZPTV is a curator of quality programmes with NZ content. And at 9.13 he says the producers and their websites - the people who own the copyright to their own work- will be acknowledged .
At the same time, NZPTV will also make its own programmes and put those up on NZPTV Vimeo and direct viewers to that content also. So Vimeo might be the host of a programme but NZPTV will direct traffic there.
At its core, the aim is to work out how to make cost-effective television and then also make it a People’s Channel which says - Look , you might see Bryan Bruce or others doing an introduction but it’s not his channel, it’s OUR channel. NZPTV will also help producers. Bryan says he has been to see NZ on Air and asked how many eyeballs a week does NZPTV need for independent producers to be able to be funded to make and put their programme up on this new platform. “ They couldn’t tell me” he says.
At 10.07, he says “ This is a new world for them !” NZ on Air don’t know what the numbers might be so NZPTV will educate them on what the numbers CAN be.
At 11.30, Bryan talks of his own motivations in programme making: “ What I try to do in a programme is say “ Here’s a problem. How did we get to this? Let’s unpack it a bit and look at some solutions”. That’s where hope arises - rather than leave people in a dark place with overwhelming negative story-telling “
When he made ‘The Investigator’, each case involved some element of The Law that needed further examination - for example- David Tamihere was identified while wearing handcuffs outside the courtroom . Was this a correct identification? And what are the rules for identifying someone? The Defence said this was unfair. The Court allowed it- so now there are new rules that apply to each of us. At 13.20 Bryan says when making a programme it’s important that you’re not just doing ti because ‘crime rates’. Why are you upsetting people and going through all of this misery again for the families that were involved for no good reason?
At 13.39 Bryan says he encourages producers to ask ‘Why am I making this? What is the outcome I want to have from it?”.
At 14.41 he says the question we all need to ask is “ Who owns the media now? Who owns the way that our attitudes and our opinions and our thoughts about life are formed?” .
The Big Questions to ask are “ Who -How-What -Where- Why”. He says those questions are often not being asked in journalism today. “ It worries me. I watch reporters ask very simple questions - even , are you having a nice day ?”.
At 16.14 he says he sees Free Media and True Democracy as connected .
At the start of the last century, the total number of people you could address verbally was on a street corner through megaphone. But the end of the 20th Century, you could address the whole world through the various media and now with the internet, you can reach places that don’t even have broadcast facilities but have telephone lines. At 17.01, he says “ If you can control the means of talking to people, whether for your private ends or for the government’s ends, that’s a lot of power. That’s actually a means of accumulating power.
And now what NZPTV does is give the power BACK to the People and says “ YOU are in control of the stories” .
At 19.05 he says this is a Wake Up. it’s more than just a channel. “ We’ll grow as much as the People want to do it. My call is out to independent producers. Our gateway is much wider than any of the public or private broadcasters. You can come to us with a programme provided that it is professionally made , something you might see on a commercial channel in terms of its quality of production. For example, if you have made a programme about the TPPA or Water Issues, and you’ve done your homework and kept to the Broadcasting Standards Authority issues of fairness and balance .
At 21.04 he explains balance in the context of his programme 'Jesus, the Cold Case' which was criticised because Bryan talked to certain theologians but not others. He says that the ‘balance’ is that, on any given day, a viewer can turn to the Christian channels and hear the opposite view.
It’s equally so for NZPTV, which would make sure that, with a controversial programme, then somewhere there is the counter view shown, or NZPTV itself would run the counter view so the viewer could see both sides.
At 22.00 he says that it’s not true to say there are NO editing gateways to go through, but they relate more to the legal ones- you cannot defame people , and if it’s an argument for one viewpoint, it must be well though out , or if it’s science-based, it must be peer -reviewed.
But at 22.19, he says NZPTV is not going to say to a producer “ It doesn’t quite fit with our sponsors” (because there are no sponsors of the channel)- or “It doesn’t quite fit with our ‘brand’ “ (which is commonly heard in Mainstream Media ).
In fact The NZPTV ‘Brand’ is Independence ! “ If it fits with that, we should have it “.
At 23.23 Bryan underlines that “ If we don’t hold on to life rafts like this , we’re all going to drown”. At 24.19, he says public education has taught questioning and yet we have a media that tried to manipulate popped who are actually very intelligent .
“ I’m always amazed at the wisdom that comes out of people from whom, at face value, you wouldn’t assume that wisdom”. At 24.50, he gives an anecdote from a programme he made called “Stand By Your Man’ about three women whose partners had committed major crimes. “ And she said “ They never fixed his drug and alcohol addiction - and that was his problem” And you’re just about to move from this interviewee, when suddenly they come out with this absolutely insightful gem about what we’re NOT doing for men or women in prison. We’re not addressing the issues that have led to them being IN there!”
At 27.55 Bryan outlines that one of the ways that governments gain power over us is: if they don’t collect data on, for example, how much Chinese money is coming in to the country, then they can pretend it isn’t a problem. No one knows! “ Oh”, they say “ it’s all just anecdotal. You’re just bashing the Chinese”.
Bryan says "NO! I’m saying: let’s collect the data! You’re giving away visas to very wealthy people - gold visas. If you have ten million you can buy a residency in our country . But what are these people DOING for our country ? And where is that money going ?”. And the answer comes back from the government: “I’m sorry we don’t know because we don’t follow the money trail” . At 29.10, Bryan suggests that one of the roles for NZPTV is to encourage independent producers to pick a topic, investigate it, and bring us the data that the government is not collecting because it’s' inconvenient ‘. “ The last thing that governments want is inconvenient truths”.
At 29.58 he says that if you DO your homework and collate the data, then policy changes” .
At 30.23 he talks of the effect of his programme ‘Inside Child Poverty” which went out on TV3 the week of the election in 2011. "There was a debate about whether it should have been screened in election week, driven by right wing commentators like Sean Plunkett who said Bryan Bruce should not be funded to make programmes like this! Then a marvellous thing happened. The National Government which had initially said “ This is made up by a left wing journalist”, then started to change its tune and admitted “ Well it might exist but we can’t measure it”. Then the Children’s Commissioner Russell Wills said “ Ok, I’ll get a group off academics together and we WILL measure it” They put out an amazing report. It could not be ignored any more. The word “child poverty’ became part of our vernacular. And by the NEXT election it was an election issue” .
So Bryan uses this example to say that this is what we can do as media people: we can investigate, we can collate data, we can inspire people. He credits The Child Poverty Action Group with inspired him to make the programme . He says they had been doing their work for years and he thought “ Well maybe I have few skills in terms of taking complicated things and trying to make them understandable - and that was my role. Something like 580 thousand Kiwis watched that programme and then the Public started asking questions. I had offered the programme to TVNZ and I seem to remember someone saying “ Who’s going to watch a programme with ‘Poverty’ in the title?” ( and 580,000 viewers is up there with All Black fixture numbers in terms of ratings ) “ .
At 33.17, Bryan says NZPTV is not competitive- but rather, co-operative. “ We could make a programme that is of great public interest and make it in a dynamic way. We could take the online rights and a mainstream media outlet could take the broadcast rights. That would be an adult way of dealing with different kinds of distribution “
At 34.48, Bryan says it’s no accident that one of the longest running programmes in this country is called ‘Fair Go’. He feels that deep down, most Kiwis believe in a fair go and many of felt terribly betrayed by 1984 and the adoption of Neo Liberalism and being told it was the only way we could go. “ Well it wasn’t. there are about 30 different kinds of capitalism in the world and if you look at what happened in Scandinavia, they took a deep breath and paused - and then they adopted certain elements ONLY. They fenced off policies to do with children, the elderly and housing, and then they said they would allow OTHER policy to be more entrepreneurial .
Whereas in New Zealand , the government said “ ALL of that is wrong and this new evangelistic way is right, and there is now only ONE way to do this”. Bryan cites David Lange’s book which shows he later realised this was the worst thing he did. In fact, he may not have fully understood it and “ To be fair, I’m not sure that many of us understood it at the time. I certainly didn’t” says Bryan. “ I did up one house and sold and got a better house. What I didn’t think about was that 20 years down the track, other people’s children would not be able to afford a house because of what I was doing - and many of us were doing. We were just doing the best by our families and we were encouraged to think that that’s what you should do. Even Roger Douglas may have thought he was doing the right thing. I’ve never spoken to him. I’d like to interview him. But the reality is; it WASN”T the right thing. It created a HUGE inequality. When the National Party came in afterwards and created The Mother of All Budgets under Ruth Richardson, then ALL of the childhood diseases that relate to poverty, skyrocketed. And that’s nothing to be proud of. That should have told anybody who had social concern that there is something fundamentally wrong with this economic system that is creating this.” .
From 40.30 in, Bryan discusses the structure of NZ Public Television.
At 50.09 he says one of the way it will benefit producers who have good product, is that they give that programme to NZPTV for free for 7 days and then it goes to the ‘Pay Per View’ section . But all that money goes directly to the producers, not to NZPTV. (This is also a reminder to viewers to check the weekly offerings on NZPTV as there is a brisk turnaround of programmes).
At 53.07 Bryan says the whole idea of New Zealand Public Broadcasting is to return to an early idea of television: namely , using it to communicate with one another , to talk to each other.
To find out more, go to nzptv.org.nz or sign up to Bryan Bruce on Facebook.
Greg has written the detailed notes below on the subject.
WHAT IS OFFICIAL INFORMATION?
Ask yourself what it would mean if the forensic truth of the 9/11 event became Official Information?
Were that to happen, then the arms of justice would be enabled to investigate, charge, and prosecute the perpetrators, and pronounce sentence.
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 the criminal justice system is to deter crime.
https://russiarobinson.wordpress.com/2014/06/03/classical-school-of-criminology-a-foundation-of-todays-criminal-justice-system/
TWO PROPOSITIONS:
Which of the above has a strong coherence with reality A or B?
AN APPROACH TO FIND TRUTH IN A SEA OF SPIN:
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 millennium. Kyoto and UN Millenium Goals are indicative of this trend.
FALSE FLAGS – WHY CREATE A CRISIS WHERE ONE DIDN’T EXIST?
Previously Governments and powerful actors have used false flag events as a means to disrupt the peace and move history in a particular direction.
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
9/11 WHAT OCCURRED?
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 all of the evidence, and that one can discriminate between factual and counterfactual.
What happened on 9/11 see timeline below: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_for_the_day_of_the_September_11_attacks and,
http://www.historycommons.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=complete_911_timeline&day_of_9/11=dayOf911
9/11 OFFICIAL TIMELINE
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.
8:14 United Airlines Flight 175, a Boeing 767, carrying 56 passengers and nine crew members, departs 14 minutes late from Logan International Airport in Boston, bound for Los Angeles International Airport. Five hijackers are aboard.
8:14 Flight 11 is hijacked over central Massachusetts, turning southwest.
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.
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. Four hijackers are aboard.
8:42–8:46 (approx.) Flight 175 is hijacked above Albany, New York, about 140 miles north of New York City, turning south.
8:46:40 Flight 11 crashes into the north face of the North Tower (1 WTC) of the World Trade Center, between floors 93 and 99. The aircraft enters the tower intact.
8:50–8:54 (approx.) Flight 77 is hijacked above southern Ohio, turning to the southeast.
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 the starboard engine, leave the building from its east and north sides, falling to the ground six blocks away.
9:28m Flight 93 is hijacked above northern Ohio, turning to the southeast.
9:37:46 Flight 77 crashes into the western side of The Pentagon and starts a violent fire.
9:45 United States airspace is shut down.
9:59:00 The South Tower of the World Trade Center collapses, 56 minutes after the impact of Flight 175.
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 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 was either the United States Capitol building or the White House in Washington, D.C.
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, located at the base of the two towers, is also destroyed.
10:50:19 Five stories of part of the Pentagon collapse due to the fire.
5:20:33 p.m. 7 World Trade Center, a 47-story building, collapses (from Wikipedia;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_for_the_day_of_the_September_11_attacks )
MOTIVE:
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 lessen the truth of the motive nor the reality of it... control and profit.
This time the crisis is large enough to ensure the solution is global.
The same interests stopped or disrupted the Kyoto settlement.
The world was heading toward a rapprochement at the end of the 20th Century. For "the Enterprise" to profit requires heightened insecurity.
There's more to the motive that I cannot yet say with any certainty, however I keep digging and closing my eyes and allowing the truth to come in.
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 is over 6 trillion now and unlikely to be sorted before 2020 or some such. Where is that going, or getting siphoned too?
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-audit-army/u-s-army-fudged-its-accounts-by-trillions-of-dollars-auditor-finds-idUSKCN10U1IG
http://www.globalresearch.ca/pentagon-cannot-account-for-6-5-trillion-dollars/5541244
And the cost of the wars? Who gets that?
https://sputniknews.com/us/201709291057824332-us-defense-department-more-lies/
http://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/files/cow/imce/papers/2016/Costs%20of%20War%20through%202016%20FINAL%20final%20v2.pdf
http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/lbilmes/files/the_financial_legacy_of_afghanistan.pdf
http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2017/05/29/How-Will-We-Pay-6-Trillion-Bill-Wars-Iraq-and-Afghanistan
THE MOTIVE IS HOW TO GET THE US INTO WAR:
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.
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 the extent to which the US economy has been gutted and turned to reliance on munitions and security manufacturing and service provision. It addresses 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 that which is observed in the post 9/11 wars and the catalysing event or “new Pearl Harbour” crisis event that the report prophesised:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/8ix8z0zguuf7h66/US%20%E2%80%93%20%20Aotearoa%20NZ%20Values%20-%20Do%20These%20Correlate.pdf?dl=0
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 Halliburton, and the mercenaries across Afghanistan and Iraq etc..
The Rebuilding America's Defenses report advocated for a huge increase in military spending, preparedness and capacity to both transform the military and fight on multiple fronts/theatres... it was prophetic on so many levels that it must be considered a model, blueprint, or designer wish list.
Wesley Clark's evidence of the War planning at the Pentagon, is also telling:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RC1Mepk_Sw
War economy on steroids = What is war about???
Ask Gen. Smedley Butler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nStSg75BNY
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 myself what else is there to say... see essay "Lest We Forget"
https://www.dropbox.com/s/7miq7ia5nfzwbl5/Lest%20We%20Forget.pdf?dl=0
My first bit of research into 911 was November 2006. (not all the links work anymore):
https://www.dropbox.com/s/tpr03n4ni602h05/911%20The%20Greatest%20Lie.pdf?dl=0
LESSONS:
Unless the 9/11 truth is properly considered, in all its ruthless genocidal ugliness, through Official Investigation and Justice systems, the litany of false flag events, already scorched into the history of power relations in the world, will continue. Our digression into criminal justice informs that opinion.
What to do about it?
What needs to happen to circumvent odious control of the Earth and its people?
KEY POINTS:
Whom ever controls the world, and "hijacked our peace with 9/11", then controls our NZ deep state.
It co-opted the US state and made it go to war for a lie!
Who said go 9/11? Answer this question and help the world toward peace!
9/11 and our alliance with the UK/US Empire got the NZ Defence force Community into the so-called Terrorist War on Afghanistan in October 2001, and Iraq in 2003, despite the NZ Government knowing that the Iraq war was criminal.
HOW GREG SEES IT:
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 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 provisions 6 a and b.
http://values-compasspointsinaposttruthworld.blogspot.co.nz/2016/12/working-on-open-egalitarian-and.html
LIFTING THE LID BIT BY BIT:
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 truth. Wikileaks provides this... 9/11 pager transcripts from the day:
https://911.wikileaks.org/files/index.html which requires a lot of time to get across.
And others talk about Wikieaks in these terms on 9/11:
http://911blogger.com/news/2010-07-22/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-annoyed-911-truth
GATEKEEPERS KEEPING 9/11 TRUTH SUPPRESSED – why do they do this?
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 rubbish:
Chomsky: https://off-guardian.org/2016/10/11/analysis-of-the-sophistry-of-noam-chomsky-on-911/
Monbiot explains why he believes the official version in 2007:
http://www.medialens.org/index.php/alerts/alert-archive/2017/846-george-monbiot-responds-on-syria.html
FAKE NEWS AND CONSPIRACY THEORISING:
Noticed the campaign commence in the immediate aftermath of Trump's election, with this article by Andrew Smith at the Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/25/pedlars-fake-news-corroding-democracy-social-networks ....to which I wrote the following critique and attempted to engage the Guardian comments moderators, who deleted my comment from the article.
http://values-compasspointsinaposttruthworld.blogspot.co.nz/2016/11/pot-calls-kettle-black-hypocrisy-of.html
HOW PEOPLE CAN ASSIST WITH THE DISPERSAL OF 9/11 TRUTH:
Inform oneself about the forensic truth of the event.
The perpetrators used nuclear devices amongst other agents to achieve the observed destruction.
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 First Responders, Ground Zero Workers, residents and workers from the WTC complex vicinity, particularly those in the path of the toxic dust cloud created with the steel and concrete of the WTC building structures:
http://911history.de/aaannxyz_ch01_en.html
"Solving 9/11" gets us to the Zionist connections to the event including fingerprints of the various IT, Intelligence and Security interests with so-called Israeli connections to the event:
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/File:Solving_9-11.pdf
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 2006:
http://911research.wtc7.net/
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 etc to the "killing fields" temp storage site. Note Killing Fields and associated areas display hi radioactivity.
There is the evidence of insider trading suggesting foreknowledge of the event. However the crime is larger than that.
A writer with the pseudonym EP Heidner wrote an extensive paper entitled "Collateral Damage" which highlights "the Enterprise and it's NSA/CIA connectivity 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 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 that the missile went into.... perhaps Heidner was a survivor or close to the investigation - that's one mystery, available at links:
https://www.scribd.com/doc/9442970/Collateral-Damage-U-S-Covert-Operations-and-the-Terrorist-Attacks-on-September-11-2001-28062008
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/File:Collateral_Damage_-_part_1.pdf
None of the above offer a whole truth, however each adds something to the jigsaw..
IT IS CLEAR THE OFFICIAL NARRATIVE IS FALSE:
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 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 Korea.
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.
HOW DO WE EMPLOY OUR INTEREST IN 9/11 TO ‘MOBILISE FOR JAIL’ FOR THE PERPETRATORS:
STATEMENT OF INTENT:
The clear requirement is that the people of the planet can no longer be held to ransom or terrorism by any entity.
BIO:
Greg Rzesniowiecki, aka Gregfullmoon, has evolved to fill the role of public advocate specifically on behalf of the public interest concerning the TPP. As is evident in the interview Greg has a wide set of interests which contribute to his perspective and worldview.
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 action group. He quickly came to realise that unpacking the 9/11 event would have profound implications for public perception of their governments and the governance of the planet.
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, and implemented and the consequences that flow from the conspiracy to punk the US government and people into believing the Muslim terrorists hijacking 4 planes and crashing them into US assets.
Appreciating the 9/11 truth allows one to appreciate that your government is not your friend!
It lies to cover up the 9/11 truth.
It lies to covering up illegal war making and criminal aggression.
This interview was sponsored by The Awareness Party.
ADDENDUM:
PSYCHOLOGY DEPARTMENTS BECOMING ACTIVE IN ATTEMPTING TO DEMONISE CONSPIRACY THEORISING AND INVESTIGATION - two instances amongst many:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ejsp.2331/epdf ...to which I responded with;
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
Also a complete think tank on the subject of conspiracy theorising in Europe is curtailing free speech:
https://twitter.com/COST_conspiracy/status/911152729262829568
http://www.cost.eu/COST_Actions/ca/CA15101
http://www.cost.eu/COST_Actions/ca/CA15101?management
Note: two (2) of the authors of the paper ,"Connecting the dots: Illusory pattern perception predicts belief in conspiracies and the supernatural" are on the COST Comparative Analysis of Conspiracy Theories (COMPACT) action committee... who's job is to...
...”this Action will adopt a comparative approach, investigating the causes, manifestations and effects of conspiracy theories in different regions and times, and drawing on insights from history, politics, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies and psychology. The Action will pursue the inquiry in three broad areas: the manifestations and modes of transmission of conspiracy theory in different historical and cultural contexts; the variety of actors and audiences involved in the production and consumption of conspiracy theories; and the psychological and cultural causes and political consequences of belief in conspiracy. Working closely with stakeholders, this Action will build a better understanding of conspiracy theories in order to develop an effective response to them.”
At no point do they investigate the veracity of the Official Information that the conspiracy theory might question, or refute... i.e. the investigation 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.
Greg.
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 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. This is a segment population however, that most of us know very little about.
Hadas is also interested in using her own social privileges, as a Jewish-Israeli academic woman, for ameliorating the Palestinian situation by speaking out about it. We discuss this later in the interview.
JEWISH HISTORY IN NZ:
This interview discusses the agency and power that are negotiated by older Māori Jewish women as their mana wāhine, renamed Polyfeminism. Polyfeminism is forms of feminine agency employing practical remembrance and resilience that combines the best of the Māori, Jewish and Pākeha (European) worldviews.
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 mixed ethnic tupuna as they resist injustices, and become role models for the next generation.
CONTEMPORARY MAORI JEWS:
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 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 in and outside their whānau, they are typified by ‘no-fuss’ attitude toward their mixed ethnic identity. As older Māori Jewish women, they derive power and constitute their identity through postgraduate education in subjects related to health and education, and in most cases, learning Te Reo Māori (the Māori language).
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 labour in attaining the cultural knowledge and education that lead to a balanced and healthier way of living. This metaphor also evokes comfort through the resilience and practical indigenous knowledge that feed forward their well-being and the well-being of their whānau and beyond.
ISRAEL / PALESTINE:
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 – “But then there is Jerusalem.”
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 by the Balfour Agreement, she finds the new Jewish settlements unacceptable. She feels that there was opportunity for both races to have worked things out together if there had been respect and understanding between them from the start. 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 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 Maori, the Palestinians should have had some compensation for land loss.
BIOGRAPHY
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 in food and emotions, nostalgia, home and memory, and issues of gender, migration and indigeneity.
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 researcher she worked for the Israeli parliament in the education committee, and the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem.
In 2016 Hadas won the Dame Joan Metge post-doctoral award by the Kate Edgar Charitable Education Trust to conduct the first study on Māori-Jews. Currently Hadas is teaching Hebrew at Kadimah School in Auckland, the only Jewish day school in New Zealand.
This interview was sponsored by The Awareness Party
To have our venerable forest giant die before us is making us realise that even far from all other countries on our planet - that we too can be affected by something that is microscopic and beneath our feet that can destroy a living treasure that can live to 2,000 years of age. It’s called Kauri dieback.
Kauri dieback is the deadly kauri disease caused by Phytophthora taxon Agathis. Following DNA studies, this fungus-like disease was formally identified in 2008 as a distinct and previously undescribed species of Phytophthora. Kauri dieback is specific to New Zealand kauri and can kill trees of all ages.
Microscopic spores in the soil infect kauri roots and damage the tissues that carry nutrients within the tree. Infected trees show a range of symptoms including yellowing of foliage, loss of leaves, canopy thinning, dead branches and lesions that bleed gum at the base of the trunk. Nearly all infected kauri die. In the past 10 years, kauri dieback has killed thousands of kauri in New Zealand.
Kauri is NZ’s canary in the coal mine with this organism and there are hundreds of different phytophthora around our planet.
The potato famine in Ireland was cause by a phytophthora and there is one in Australia called cinnamomi that is devastating forests in South West Australia.
Mels states that NZ authorities are not yet serious about this and our inaction is enabling this disease to spread
Because ecologists call kauri a key stone species - it is just not one species - as it changes the soil type underneath a kauri forest over the millennia to something called pod sol - which is a very leached soil type and they do this to support themselves and support other organisms that like to live with kauri (symbiosis) and kauri becomes surrounded by its friends.
Up to 17 different species that can survive alongside kauri. And this symbiotic relations is totally unique globally and if we loose our kauri, we will loose all these other organisms that depend on kauri as well. Thus she says it is not much to stretch this - that if no action is taken we could have extinction right throughout Northland. As this die off is doubling every 5 years.
Monitoring Report faults foot traffic for spreading it.
In August of 2017, the Auckland Council released a monitoring report showing that the places with the most foot traffic, particularly Piha and the Cascades and especially Piha have a risk of kauri going extinct in the next 5 years. Because the spread now is so large and has increased so much that if it doubles again - that in the next 5 years there will be no kauri in Piha.
The Auckland Council report - states quite clearly and in stark terms that if we do not change the management of our kauri forests in the Wairakere ranges - we risk losing all of the kauri.
The problem - These spores are carried by foot born human traffic and also mountain bikes that are then used in other areas of the forest. These tiny spores in the soil and mud, cling to our shoes or bike tires and the spread becomes easy.
It’s a bio security crisis affecting all of the kauri in New Zealand.
The range of Kauri in NZ is less than point 1% of what is was originally.
Before people settled in New Zealand, forest containing kauri covered much of the Coromandel Peninsula and northern areas throughout North Auckland. Today, the remaining 7,455 hectares of mature kauri forest is scattered in remnant patches.
Drastic Action Required
There are up to a million visitors walking the Waitakere Park annually.
Mels states the if we do not do something drastic as the management has been sporadic and patchy and wife we do nothing - we will lose our kauri.
Shoe cleaning stations are on many /most tracks to disinfect their shoes & boots, but unfortunately many people are not doing this small practice - the cleaning stations are quite rudimentary and people are spraying their muddy soles thinking it is a magical spray.
But as a somewhat benign spray it is not killing this organism. It needs to be a really, really good clean of your shoes and then a spray … and due to the condition of many of the tracks - mud is going to be moved around and deposited along these tracks and this is the crux of the problem.
The tracks in the Waitakere ranges Mels says are in an exceptionally poor state. For up to 20 years very little attention. She mentions that where stands of kauri are there are strategic scrub and spray stations - that the imperative is to use them every single time you came to one.
Not just once scrub and spray before going into the forest or one when you are leaving the forest. Because these ‘stations’ are strategically placed around all the different kauri and if you do not scrub and spray - you will just spread the contaminated mud to where the healthy kauri’s are - and there lies the problem - people are too unconscious to make a real effort, hence the rapid increase of this dieback.
Visitors are not using scrub and spray stations
Some of the Auckland council sites have been monitored for compliance - however it has been estimated that of the one million visitors year only 20% are scrubbing and spraying.
This translates to 800,000 people wandering around with this disease of their feet - causing this problem to rapidly spread.
Rats, possums birds and pigs are being blamed for moving this disease around but the monitoring has proved that it is always along the tracks that pass by kauri is where all the die off it happening.
Auckland Council has completed 2 major surveys of the Waitakere ranges in 2011 &2016 and clearly find that it is human foot traffic that is going up to trees, as these are the trees that are dying off. Trees that hide away from the tracks seem to be doing very well.
22,744 trees have been surveyed by helicopter and locked in by GPS and survey teams have checked each tree to do a health analysis.
Note it is not known how long it takes from infection until symptoms are expressed.
The Tree Council fb page - check the map - it’s like a cancer spreading along the tracks.
The Hillary Trail is badly infected …
The Cascades are bad too - over 20,000 people a day in summer - Piha has a lots people too. Very popular with runners too - hence this all adds to the infection along these tracks.
Pigs, rats, birds and possums are not to blame.
That she says it is not the pig, rats, birds and possums that are the cause as we would see are far more even distribution of across kauri and all over the ranges - but this is not so, as this contamination is happening all along the track network.
These animals do not exclusively use the track network like humans do. This makes it clear that it is a human problem.
The surveys show that 75% of trees infected lie within 50 metres of a track . Pigs are a problem, and need to be sorted but not the major cause by any stretch. But they are less than 25% of the problem and we humans are 75% of the problem and this is what we need to sort out.
Mels says that we humans need to own this and get it sorted. Accept responsibility for it and stop making excuses and take action.
She says that we would not see the doubling of the disease if it was only animals doing it.
The Hunua’s are another Auckland Council area forest that has no kauri dieback - so the imperative is to make sure that this dieback does not happen there - It has been surveyed exactly like the Waiitakere ranges - and the Tree Council is confident that there is no infection in the Hunua’s.
The Coromandel has a tiny number of infection sites - Northland has some infection but has not been surveyed like Auckland council have done, thus we do not know the scale of it, but it’s in Waipoua Forest and Trounson Park and on Great Barrier island too.
Infection of other forests - Mels says is a matter of time, not if …
Maori have said enough!
This is what Te Kawerau e Maki the local iwi (tribe) - the mana whena for the Waitakere’s have said - Enough!
Saying we need to get humans out of the forest and let it heal and for us to take action.
This is the forest they are kaitiaki of - that they are the guardians - to lose the kauri the Te Kawerau e maki - lose who they are …
They want a ‘rahui’ placed on the whole Waitakere area
Rahui is a closure and an exclusion of people from their normal activities - to let natural systems heal and regenerate - wanting us to respect the forest for this process to take place. They will be doing this very soon. Having asked the Auckland Council to do this under the sanction of a controlled area notice under the BioSecurity Act. Anyone found inside this exclusion zone woods be in breach of the BioSecurity Act.
Thus is backed by the Tree Council, Forest & Bird Society and the Friends of Regional Parks and the Waitakere Protection Society. They have all said this is what Auckland Council needs to do.
Mels say that Auckland Council must get in and move this whole initiative forward and if not the NZ Government may see fit to come in over the top of the Council - and force it to implement the closure, and then Auckland Council will lose all control over this process. Listen
Stating this is a national crisis for this toanga - treasure this keynote species that is unique that grows for up to 2,000 years - it is estimated .
She says it is not about spoiling every ones fun or a killjoy or exaggerating the scale of the problem - this is a critical time - it’s about the survival of a giant mega flora species.
She wants the tracks to be brought online again once the tracks have been upgraded so as to not facilitate the spread of the disease - this way we can get people back into the Waitakere to once again to bathe in the magnificence of the cool shade and beauty that the Waitakere forest harbour.
We must remember that is was only in 2007 that Kauri dieback was first noticed
Education
Education of New Zealanders is important. Because she does not want people to.be closed out forever it’s just a necessity now .. a temporary closure. To then rebuild the tracks and make them safe bio security wise.
Myrtle Rust another very recent problem in NZ.
Myrtle rust is mentioned too as an airborne disease and this now has been found in various areas of NZ - A great danger to NZ Christmas tree the pohutukawa. If seen - don’t touch, just photo and call the appropriate bio security authorities or Auckland Council.
There is another fungal disease in Hawaii discovered in 2014 - called the Ohi which lives in the soil, causing leaves to turn black and fall off killing a tree in s matter of weeks. They find that human movement is the cause of spreading this disease. They say that NZ pohutukawa tree could be at risk. It has affected about 75,000 acres of forest on the big Island of Hawaii and has now spread to Tahiti.
Mels says we have to future proof our forests - infrastructure that has to last another 50 years has to be planned for and put in place.
Call to Future Proof our Forests
This disease in some ways is an opportunity for humans to step up and wisely future proof our forests, our infrastructure and tracks, our biodiversity and get on top of biosecurity at every entry point in NZ.
She says one of the reasons she came to live NZ was to walk and hang out in NZ bush and forests and show them to friends and overseas visitors
Mels say that this disease may find other hosts other than kauri and we are finding that tanekaha is being affected - so this is why the urgency for NZers, Councils and the National Government to get in and educates the masses to support a major action to save what we cherish.
Kauri root system is shallow, sensitive and close to the surface making it vulnerable - listen
Mels then tells of the biological story of the roots and how a forest giant of a kauri succumbs to these tiny microorganisms cause starvation to the colossus above.
That Kauri cannot evolve fast enough due to the rapid appearance of this disease to build up its own immunity once again
Germination of seeds that then grow around the base of the Kauri as in a nursery - that may stay very small for 30 years or more - when a nearby tree dies and falls then the seedling take off and grow in the space provided to fill that gap.
Kauri does not keep its seeds for long - it instead has a ‘live’ nursery that stays within the umbrella of the above foliage - but with this disease the seedlings cannot withstand it and they die - so there is no generation alive to take off and grow when the parent kauri dies.
She wants urgent Council action - before summer of December 2017-18 as there will be 100’s of thousands of people tramping more disease around
Get behind the rahui.
Auckland Council is to spend $51.48 million on kauri die back over the next 10 years
Waitakere Forests are in many ways the ‘Jewel in the Crown of Auckland.’
She says that after the rahui - this process of opening new tracks etc can happen in stages - this is not a bad news story.
Incrementally open tracks once the fundamentals are in place.
Mels spell sit out - the strategy the mindfulness to get it right - with the education and championed by the Auckland Council in symphony with Maori.
Mels states we need all the firepower of NZ’s science - as we do not know what else this disease infects and how to actually destroy and eliminate it.
These 2 fundamental questions have not even been started in the last 9 years - Mels socks it to the scientific ineptitude in dismissing the urgency of what is attacking our venerated kauri - under the NZ Government’s MPI - the Ministry of Primary Industries.
Investment is needed into our future.
She lets it rip in the end.
www.KauriRescue.org.nz
With the advent of a strong and expanding ‘New Zealand Trade and Industrial Waters Forum’ which Tara was very much involved in - having over 2000 members is an organisation and science and knowledge exchange extending over 5 countries. It is designed to bring about affirmative action and change in NZ in mitigating the effects of industry in turning our water into a more sustainable resource.
We Exist on a Living Breathing Water Planet
Water in New Zealand - As a water scientist Tara states that when we look at our planet from space we see it’s blue and that is because we are essentially a water planet that gives us life - emphasising that there is no other planet in our solar system or that we have found beyond - that is covered in liquid water making earth - unique - and 70% of the earth’s oxygen comes from plankton in our oceans and the necessity to keep our oceans safe. i.e. from acidification. He also is a zoologist and botanist and acknowledges that our planet is a vast superorganism.
That if we take a basket ball and dip it in water - the thickness of the wetness is the depth of our atmospheric membrane that envelops our planet. - That humans live in a very narrow gas band when it comes to living a normal life.
Adroit use of technology as tools to monitor water quality
As a scientist he is able to use lasers to measure turbidity and the content of solids in water and also UV spectrophotometry to determine the chemical constituents and the composition of waste water. With remote stations situated all over NZ monitoring the industry and rivers and monitoring processes within industries to see how water changes form when it is piped into an industry to when it goes out. This technology is an economic driver for industry that wants to use less water or that they want to use water more efficiently as there are increasing costs involved in utilisation.
He says that as a scientist who studies the data, the main interest in water in NZ is based around it being an economic driver - and that the neo liberal expedient of the last 30 years has cause so many ecological problems as a result of businesses not factoring the environmental consequences of the extraction economy - one where short term economic gain causes huge expense to mitigate and rectify. That once science in universities was the hotbed of new breakthroughs of inventions and curiosity. This has decreased markedly.
New Zealand’s Capacity as an Intellectual Driver of Innovation.
NZ was once a world leader in innovation and in many ways it still is, however it’s a struggle for a start up company here and many of our inventions end up being bought out by overseas companies flush with funds and so the country as a whole misses out on many unique opportunities. Especially around intellectual property IP.
The good work that NZ water scientists do is on analysing the composition of wastewater and the automatic methods of controlling the treatment of it - is truly world beating - being at the top of their game and winning awards and medals for it.
These scientists have some of the best systems of sorting out - cleaning, rejuvenating, rebuilding or preventing pollution to rivers - anywhere in the world. Do these methods get used in NZ? - and Tara demurs - not very often - but they are used overseas quite a lot. He laments that recently our country has become an economic grocery shop for overseas corporations - when what he wants is a good caring country that will healthily educate his children.
Political Indifference of the Past
Tara mentions that once upon a time (sound familiar) politics changed and government and local government decisions were generational based on 50 years and beyond - that looked well ahead - now many decisions at a national level are based around election cycles, votes and to keeping the status quo in power. Which he states is a failure in our system of governance
Water - H2O - NZ’s Abundant Water Rich Produce
New Zealand is a water rich country, and that is to our economic advantage as our main assets arise from water. Because it is abundant, clean (mostly) it is free, and accessible as a food producer - dairy cows are made of water, vegetables, fruit, wine, mutton and beef are made of water, and timber via trees, that all come from a water footprint - we are fortunate that we have easy and good access to water. We are effective at packaging water into many various forms and selling it overseas and so as an economy - are a water nation. Whereas some countries are steel and iron countries, producing automobiles, electronics and machine tools, whilst other countries produce oil or minerals mined out of the ground. So NZ is very dependent on water, clean fresh water and we need to be conscious of this fact.
The NZ Economy Dairy = $13.6 Billion - BUT Tourism = $34.7 Billion
Though dairy is our biggest exporter at 13.6 billion dollars per annum, he says we are fooled because our biggest earner is tourism $34.7 billion that involves the whole beauty of our country - it may be a little amorphous as is not about money going to one smallish sector of the society it covers a wide ranging area spread - taxi drivers, bus drivers, hotel workers, cooks and chefs and waiters, airlines, small shops marketing people - it’s a permeated product so it is harder to assess, exactly what tourism earns - however treasury has done their sums - yet Tara asks why are we trashing all the rivers in our country, ruining our fishing spots - destroying lakes and making places where people can no longer swim and others - can no longer wade - for an export earner that is worth less than half of showing off the rest of the country to everybody else. Whilst that is only one industry - as there are other industries that use our water too.
Dairy has made strides to clean up its act
Tara admits that strides have been made to clean up the rivers from dairying and that they are not the only ones that pollute - Cities pollute - Hamilton pollutes the Waikato river, Kinleith pulp and paper mill pollutes the river - even geothermal energy pollutes the Waikato river. Listen to the arsenic story - and the need for better technologies.
Lack of Accountability
A milk order of $50 million was sent back to NZ from China being a baby formula incident, due to contamination by water. Others also have suffered the same fate. Listen
Our National Body is letting NZ down because there are ‘no country wide’ standards. Listen
Regional Councils could do far better regarding water. For example - there was a business here in NZ, that wanted to pump pollutants into a river and the Regional Council said - you can’t do that! - that’s our river! We like our river.
As we all know that once pollutants are in a river it affects the whole river down stream - so instead of building a wastewater treatment plant and treat their polluted water - (that upon complying with certain standards they could then pump that water into the river). This business went ahead and just built a cheap 94 metre pipeline over the fence/ border to the other Regional Council who did not care what was put in the river or not - so they off loaded their responsibility at the same time polluting the river and getting away with it.
Because the two different Regional Councils had different regulations.
Rivers being equated to living entities especially within Maoridom.
He talks about the spiritualisation of rivers as having the same rights as a human - such as the Whanganui - but we did not take this further due to other issues to be addressed.
https://www.ourplanet.org/articles/new-zealand-government-acknowledges-a-river-as-a-living-entity-and-a-park-as-having-human-rights
He talks about some frustrations around going to extremes in spiritualisation of such water and products - listen. These matters need addressing through better education.
Tara then tells of certain inequalities and distortions around lack of integrity with regard to water and the fact that the Regional Council are uncoordinated across NZ, and most are election driven. He gives examples that need to be urgently addressed and in a good number of cases explains how ‘the law is an ass.’ So if you are a water person, an activist and someone who cares - this insightful interview needs your attention.
The NZ Trade and Industrial Waters Forum
The NZ Trade and Industrial Waters Forum, which Tara was very much involved - with over 2000 members is an organisation and ‘science and knowledge exchange’ extending over 5 countries and growing - which is designed to bring about affirmative change in NZ with mitigating the effects of industry by turning our water into a more sustainable resource.
He talks about the cowboy system …
Councils requiring the ‘know how’ as well as having ethics embedded throughout the council business. Many people, though essentially very good humans, are voted onto a local Council but, for example - when it comes to building a $40 million wastewater treatment plant - they are not equipped educationally with the rigour and skills to decide on the viability of such a treatment plant.
In years gone by - all Councils actually had their own in-house expertise such as engineers to be able to take care of such situations. Councils had wastewater engineers, structural and civil engineers, it had a planning department - however, sometime ago the NZ Government asked Councils to become more cost effective and so all these ‘experts’ were ‘let go’ - but then afterwards the Council’s realised that they needed such expertise - however the fired experts in many cases had by now become ‘consultants’ and there are instances where when they were once saving Council ratepayers money, they then in a number of cases were now able to ‘capitalise on their situation’ and things got out of hand. Listen
There is a story about how a NZ Council - lost the plot for its ratepayers - listen to this one …
Listen also to how Wanaka Council in the South Island shows how successful a Council can be.
Check out the peer review process - one is in relation to IPENZ - Institute Professional Engineers of NZ.
One of the downsides of their processes that hampers peer reviews is that you are not allowed to use hindsight. Listen - so if they have already built say 5 waste water plants and they don’t work - that’s irrelevant because it is assumed that everybody will learn from their past mistakes.
Also you can not question the data - so if the information to build the plant is supplied to the consultant and it’s given to the peer reviewer and they look at it and the peer reviewer says - this information is rubbish - this information is not what is going into that plant … and they say … Oh yeah, but this … - and they then say no no, that’s not the question - if that data is the right data is that the right design?
And they go yeah but it’s not the right data - no no that is not the question, if that data is given to you is that the right design and they go … w-e-l-l … yes and they go TICK - right - and that’s the right plant then - but that is not the case, because the data is rubbish. Listen
To the OAR - the Operational Assessment Process - checks and balances. There is no system like this in NZ. It needs to come here.
This very needed interview covers.
Water bottling in NZ and plastic bottles
The Green Party and that they are a consensus party
There is power in the people - we have just forgotten it
Rivers and streams - that the water clarity is such that a river is: walkable, wade-able and swim-able but don’t put your head under the water … That in relations to this, there is some very deceptive spin by the previous administration
In Tim’s younger life he was able to swim and drink in the stream that flowed through the back of his family farm. Not any more.
Farmers and good riparian rights - challenges of farmers to fence off drains as being far too expensive for the average farmer. This is an issue that has huge costs involved.
Change of consciousness needed to understand our relationship with the land and a living ecology
Purpose of our Nation
To be born - grow in health - and be able to live your life freely - that
Gutted bio security at our borders, lacks cash and needs to be reinforced and grown.
Community involvement
Engagement of people
Get around the table create the dialogue and start the change
I asked him the question about 1080 - his reply - that it’s a can of worms.
Glythosate
Glyphosate in NZ Water? https://www.greenparty.org.uk/.../green-party-meps-peed...
I omitted to ask him about Glyphosate in the waterways as on the 13 of May 2016 a group of 48 Members of the European Parliament (MEP) took part in a symbolic urine test ahead of the European Parliament vote to oppose the EU Commission’s proposal to relicense the controversial toxic substance until 2031.
The inspiration behind what was labelled the #MEPee test was the results of a recent study in Germany which found that 99.6% of people tested were found to have glyphosate residue in their urine.
The results reveal that every MEP tested has been found to have glyphosate traces in their urine, with the average concentration being 1.73ng/ml. That level is more than 17 times the safe limit for drinking water. The lowest level found among the group was 0.17ng/ml, almost double the safe level. If this being the case, that means that glyphosate molecules are suspended in the human body and humans a walking time bombs. Because we are an experiment in motion.
In a previous GreenplanetFM.com interview with Dr Meriel Watts, by Lisa Er this is what was said.
NZ’s Government Department NIWA, the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, tested the water of Auckland harbour and were very concerned at the level of glyphosate in the water - Yet the National Government of the day was ignoring the aquatic environment.
https://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/dr-meriel-watts-our-food-is-denatured-through-chemical-use-nz
The fluoride question came up too, as GreenplanetFM.com is an activist program and if you wish to listen to two noted overseas health professionals this interview is an ear-opener.
https://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/professor-paul-connett-dr-bill-hirzy-the-danger-of-fluoride
In Conclusion
There were many other questions that I needed ask to drill down further - however that will have to await to another time. This interview I trust will be listened to by not only to the layperson, but scientists in general and local and regional body councillors as we now work together to not only pull the strings of community together, but as a nation cooperate and collaborate together so as to regenerate and renew our commitment to a clean, green New Zealand. A country that is not only a moral force for good, but also that we are a living example of a mature, independent nation, being a fair and honest player on the world stage.
An interview from a courageous scientist that will bring home to you the imperative of more transparent Governance.
1) Industrial Waters email - tara@nztiwf.org.nz
The New Zealand Trade and Industrial Waters Forum
2) Here is the link for the New Zealand Trade and Industrial waters Forum group on LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/4484284
3) The link for the industrial waters conference 2018 - http://www.confer.co.nz/iw2018/
there is a lot of what we do here and contacts for the committee.
Note: These scientists are basically a technical organisation. They don't really have a social media presence yet - and admit they are not public friendly - but are scientist friendly. :)
Meanwhile as we all slept last night in our crew quarters all around our majestic planet - spaceship earth - whilst turning on her axis continued on her predestined path onwards in our galactic journey that some are saying is to a grand destination that we know not of. Yes, that is right, as the 7.5 billion crew share breath that the ship automatically and in many ways magically provides - we are also becoming aware that our water supply has to be venerated - in that our ship has also supplied us with fresh water for eons and it has only recently that we have forgotten its importance and the urgency now is to cherish these transparent, life giving - liquid molecules that constitute up to 70% of our body.Yes, this is all food for thought as we realise that we are more than we have ever dreamed possible, due to certain crew coming into the understanding that the purpose for existence is to awaken and find out the purpose for existence - this time is now.
Dear crew the long sleep is now over …
Tom talks of the possibility of utopia, the harmonising and reconnecting with nature and where people are kind to each other - and that systems are put in place to ensure that human rights are upheld.
(Listen to Tom’s enlivened description of this process).
Matter and Consciousness
We open up with this quote below.
In 1957 an unheralded Nobel Prize experiment at the Brookhaven Research Laboratories in the US - took place.This had TD Lee and CN Yang win the award for physics, for showing that "cobalt in its observed radioactivity could tell the difference between its future and its past and utilises this fact in making a spatial distinction between its right from its left" - “It is able to choose what direction it takes!”
That we have not heard of this is because the invisible and hidden is not seen as an urgent area of exploration - even in today’s scientific world.
The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.” Nikola Tesla
Matter and Consciousness
Matter and consciousness - and the mysterious and that which is hidden. Tom says this subject was closed down in academic circles during the time of Galileo and he explains why - however further in the interview Aristotle too is mentioned as also shutting down the intuitive as he was the first to quantify by weighing and measuring things, and that opened the way for ‘that which was hidden - to be ignored’ - as it was not really - real. See write up of Tom’s previous interview. https://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/tom-brown-revealing-the-hidden-knowledge-of-invisible-subtle-solar-and-planetary-forces
Knowledge of Higher Forces - curtailed
So any knowledge of higher forces was disregarded and officially banned by edict. This Tom says is extremely important knowledge that very few know about. Hence why universities today focus virtually entirely on the physical - and is a far cry from the original meaning - from Latin universitas ‘the whole’, and not the root word Universe.
Matter is Not Inert
Matter may not be conscious as you and I, but it is not inert and there are experiments that show it is reactive and isn’t inanimate. Lily Kolisco’s work ‘Agriculture of tomorrow’ - one of the great Bio dynamic books http://www.koliskoinstitute.org/about-us/lili-kolisko/ - Many decades of research, working with colloidal minerals and crystallising mineral substances above and below ground during different seasons etc. Working with the noble metals and the planets - Gold in the sun, Silver in the moon mercury in Mercury, Iron in Mars Tin in Jupiter and lead in Saturn.
Many experiments with the changes in crystallisation patterns during different astronomical relationships especially that gold does not crystallise properly when the moon eclipses the sun.
Metals can have the same response when drugged as animals and plants do.
Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose. Bose’s work with plant sensitivity and anomalous readings - see his book “Response in the living and nonliving” that metals can have the same response when drugged as animals and plants.
https://tzmvirginia.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/bose-response-in-the-living-and-non-living.pdf
Sun and Planets Affect Metals on Earth
Giorgio Piccardi, in the University of Florence chemistry department 1950s and 60’s his book ‘The Chemical basis of medical climatology’. Why some chemical reactions don’t work when what’s happening on the sun and the earth’s related magnetic field at the time. Plus other anomalies were noticed over decades based on the earth’s tilt towards galactic centre on March equinox - that there were dips in readings - colloidal solutions were showing these up. ( listen it’s only a 70 meg download)
http://e-libdigital.com/download/the-chemical-basis-of-medical-climatology-.pdf
Crystals - Silica - Computer Chips - Memory - AI - Artificial Intelligence
The interview covering crystals and silica, crystal sets - a tiny crystal, with no batteries listening to radio stations from around the world - to silicon chips in computers and memory to AI artificial intelligence and some scientific atheists wanting to put artificial intelligence into our body - (Ray Kurzsweil) so that we can enhance our memory capability and that what type of consciousness is machine consciousness (and the challenge of machines having no ethics, normality or virtues) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil#Criticism
Tom voiced concerns about AI - as does Steve Wozniak of Apple, Elon Musk of Tesla and Stephen Hawking the Cambridge Futurist - that we could/will become a machine operating system - (just like the Borg in Star Trek and lose any semblance of self and soul.)
Transhumanism and Solid State Entities.
Covering Dr John C Lily’s work with the ‘solid state entity’ - an energy that for a better description can incarnate into the equipment. That Tom (like me) says - is anti life - Ray Kurzsweil’s name comes up and his ‘trans humanist agenda’ that is basically heralding the era/error of the time of the machines - instead of evolving the soul and realising a more cro-creative natural state of being. Trans-humanism is a disconnection from nature and the natural world and could be said to be based around lower ego. By merging into a computer and just be around forever is like a hijacking of the human spirit’s journey - and blind to the many great esoteric truths of the past. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Lilly
‘AI” - Something to keep a close eye on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HipTO_7mUOw&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs_HhZrCBdg
Rudolph Steiner and his Spiritual Understandings …
That mans mining of the earth has let out elemental energies and that there energies have incarnated into human bodies and these young beings many live by impulse and don’t yet have any real deep inner foundation and so through a progression like - go from kindergarten to primary to secondary and university as in universal. - Tom talks about the chakra system and that the overall picture in the vast scheme of things - all incarnating beings have human rights - all having the right of self development and to choose their path - but as we can see everybody is not born equal especially for self determination.
‘God sleeps and dreams in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in the animals and thinks in man. What is the next evolutionary spiritual step - for us?
Tom discusses this ancient saying that goes way back in time.
Ancient Traditions?
Hamlet’s Mill and the precession of the equinoxes and its basis in an integration of nearly all ancient traditions
The 2nd coming of Christ and the rising of Osiris. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet%27s_Mill
Tom states that ‘we are in a rising as of this time’ - we are at the end of the precessional cycle - Orion is at the highest point in the sky and it is going through these special alignments with the galactic centre.
He talks about events from Hamlet’s Mill - where some civilisations and cultures speak about ‘bitter millennia’ when the gates are open - solstice alignments - to galactic centre and the Pleiades are in here too - this great cosmic alignment that is going on - he says people have been waiting for this time … so Tom looks at astrophysics in relation to the ancient gnostics and the possibilities that await us.
Galactic Influences
Halten Arp - astrophysicist who was evicted out of the astrophysicist community - like a modern day Galileo - was on the 200 inch telescope at Mt Wilson in the USA and was a protege of Hubble investigating merging galaxies that grew out of each other. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halton_Arp#Critics He was also a critical of the Big Bang Theory.
Karl Seyfert and active galaxies - that all spiral and elliptical galaxy cores go through periodic core eruptions - which could even account for our galaxy also affecting life on earth with die offs etc - part of the whole metamorphic process - That our distance from the galactic centre is 26,000 years happens to be identical to our 26,000 year precessional cycle - so we are totally keyed into this process. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Keenan_Seyfert
Toms talks about quasars from another standpoint - ‘redshift’ and some wild offerings - listen ...
Neutrinos
Tim’s question to Tom - What about neutrinos?
Are these mega trillions of invisible particles that come out of the universe and zip through all living beings and pass right through this planet then onward into infinity … are these the etheric garment of God that is spiritual in nature and basically omnipresent?
There is a Youtube channel called Sky scholar offering insights about space. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntXJe9jTahA
The God Particle
We also cover the God particle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson
and that the Large Hadron Collider is the world's largest and most powerful particle collider, the most complex experimental facility ever built, and the largest single machine in the world, situated at CERN between France and Switzerland. Tom mentions that when fired up there is a ‘pertubance in the field’ that is in proximity to CERN.
This interview, like Tom’s first interview is extremely interesting and like his previous one https://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/tom-brown-revealing-the-hidden-knowledge-of-invisible-subtle-solar-and-planetary-forces is definitely worthy of listening to.
In this interview anti-privatisation and anti-corruption whistle-blower, Penny Bright, talks on issues around the three Cs - Corruption, Contractocracy, and Corporate Welfare, as well as issues around the private procurement model for public services. 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. If New Zealand is truly 'the least corrupt country in the world' - shouldn't we arguably be the most transparent? She says public transport is not public, and asks what the implications are of a fuel tax.
Penny has been involved in opposing the Tamaki 'Regeneration' project and speaks about dubious government and private dealings there.
She talks on the murdered Maltese investigative journalist who exposed the Panama Papers and has found some disturbing New Zealand connections.
Penny also speaks on State Capture, where private interests significantly influence the government’s decision-making processes to their own advantage.”
INTERNATIONAL RULE OF LAW FORUM
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 Rule of Law Forum at The Hague. There she informed the delegates that New Zealand is a “Corrupt, polluted tax haven.
She says, "My political 'bombshell' was about NZ's corruption REALITY, and
in my opinion, New Zealand is a 'corrupt, polluted tax haven - a banana republic without the bananas'. I also stated that the Transparency International 'Corruption Perception Index' (which NZ topped 10 times, sometimes 1st equal) should be screwed up and thrown into the rubbish bin of history.”
PRESS RELEASE THURSDAY JAN 26 2017
Penny Bright Independent candidate Mt Albert by-election says The 2016 Corruption Perception Index isn't worth the paper it's written on."
She says, "This 'Corruption Perception Index' is not based upon measurable, objective yardsticks - but essentially the subjective opinions of anonymous business people."
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1701/S00171/the-2016-corruption-perception-index-isnt-worth-the-paper.htm
“Here were objective, significant milestones or yardsticks for quantifying corruption REALITY, rather than relying largely upon the subjective opinions of anonymous businesspeople for PERCEPTION of corruption which in her view are a meaningless measure.
I pointed out how in 2010 how I had attended the Transparency International Anti-Corruption Conference in Bangkok.
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!
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 people?
Then another 'lightbulb' moment - was that Transparency International were not looking at the underpinning private procurement MODEL, and only the private procurement PROCESS.”
PRIVATE PROCUREMENT MODEL FOR PUBLIC SERVICES:
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 service model, you got into CONTRACT MANAGEMENT.
Government or Council staff were regarded as not competent to do contract management - so a 'bureaucrats would then hire CONSULTANTS to 'project manage' 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 and actually doing something productive - you might have up to 4 layers of pinstripe suits clipping the ticket, while effectively doing nothing.
How is that a more 'cost-effective' use of public money?
Penny says, “In 2010, at the Transparency International Anti-Corruption Conference, I asked a (high-faluting) panel - where was the EVIDENCE that the private procurement of public services, that used to be provided at central and local government level, was more 'cost-effective' than former 'in-house' service provision?
(It was like I had slapped the face of the person who was chairing the panel.
He literally did a 'double-take' and mumbled that there was evidence - but none was ever provided.)
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 services.
( IMO - it is the privatisation -private procurement - of public services which is the major source of GRAND corruption.”
THE ROOT CAUSE OF CORRUPTION IS PRIVATISATION:
Penny is one of the few people in the world actually saying that the root cause of most GRAND corruption- is PRIVATISATION.
How is it decided who GETS the contracts?
Remember - back in 2010 - the global amount estimated to be paid in bribery and corruption was $2.5 TRILLION!
This is a BIG deal.
The whole Neo-liberal myth and mantra - 'public is bad - private is good' upon which this massive privatisation of public services, locally, nationally and internationally was based - was NOT 'evidence based'.
The BIG business globalists - just MADE IT UP!
If there is no 'cost-benefit analysis' which proves the privatisation (contracting out of public services is more cost-effective' for the public majority of taxpayers and ratepayers - then it's 'CORPORATE welfare'.
Penny asks the most pertinent questions.
Shouldn't the public majority (the 99%) benefit from public monies - not a small minority of private corporates (the 1%)?
While there is a punitive 'Social WARfare' /'War on the Poor' regime waged against the most vulnerable and disadvantaged, there is, a completely different attitude towards the rich' on 'corporate welfare'.
Where exactly are billion$ of public monies being spent on private sector consultants and contractors?
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 exactly where these costs fall?
WHY IS THE PUBLIC RECORDS ACT NOT BEING FULLY IMPLEMENTED AND ENFORCED?
NZ LAW is very clear on this requirement for transparency in public spending.
The NZ Public Records Act 2005:.
http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2005/0040/latest/DLM345729.html
(1)Every public office and local authority must create and maintain full and accurate records of its affairs, in accordance with normal, prudent business practice, including the records of any matter that is contracted out to an independent contractor.
How can you have transparency or accountability without full and accurate records available for public scrutiny?
The NZ Public Records Act 2005 has been the LAW for the last TWELVE years.
Why is the Public Records Act not being fully implemented and enforced?
Penny clearly states that the full implementation and enforcement of the NZ Public Records Act 2005, would transform transparency and accountability, and this should be an urgent priority for this new Labour-led Coalition Government.
Penny’s call for transparency includes
“OPEN THE BOOK$!
CUT OUT THE CONTRACTOR$!
BRING NZ LOCAL AND CENTRAL GOVERNMENT PUBLIC SERVICES BACK 'IN-HOUSE' UNDER THE GENUINE PUBLIC SERVICES MODEL!
PURGE THE FORMER PRIVATE SECTOR BUSINESSPEOPLE FROM THE LOCAL AND CENTRAL GOVERNMENT 'BUREAUCRACY' AND BRING BACK GENUINE 'PUBLIC SERVANTS'.
and
STOP THE 'THREE 'C's!
The CONTRACTOCRACY, CORRUPTION and CORPORATE welfare.”
FUEL TAX:
In Auckland, what is being proposed is an Auckland Regional Fuel Tax, to help fund developments with 'public transport'.
However - there is no such thing, as 'PUBLIC' transport in Auckland.
The trains, buses and ferry services are PUBLICLY-subsidised, but privately owned, operated and managed, passenger transport operators.
Auckland Transport won't reveal how many public millions are being paid to subsidise private passenger transport, on top of their private profits. Their 'books' are NOT open - regarding the millions of public monies paid to subsidise these private passenger transport operators.
Penny calls to make Auckland Transport 'PUBLIC' again!
Get rid of Auckland Transport as a CCO, and bring it back under direct Auckland Council control. And no Auckland Regional Fuel Tax!
THE TAMAKI REGENERATION PROJECT:
The Tamaki 'Regeneration' project - has proven to be a “HUGE GENTRIFICATION SCAM” pushing state tenants off prime real estate. Under the National Government the ownership of 2,867 properties from housing New Zealand were transferred into this Tamaki Regeneration Limited – a 100% crown owned crown entity company. This company then is on selling the land.
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.
Penny speaks passionately about this, having spent months researching this issue and spending time on site with some of the tenants.
Here is a video about this.
Penny believes there should be an urgent parliamentary enquiry into the Tamaki “scam”.
STATE CAPTURE
A form of corrupt practice, which, in Penny’s opinion, is endemic in NZ, is 'State Capture'.
'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.
With whom are the 'policy analysts' consulting, before legislation goes through the Parliamentary 'sausage machine'? Penny says, “Check the Regulatory Impact Statements to find out.”
PANAMA PAPERS
New Zealand in Penny’s opinion, is a corrupt, polluted tax haven.
It was murdered Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia who
'blew the whistle' and twice exposed links between Maltese 'Politically Exposed Persons' (PEPs) and NZ foreign trusts being used for money-laundering, information that had been revealed in the Panama Papers.
On 1 August 2017, the (former) Chair of Transparency International, Jose Ugaz, at a meeting of over 200 people at Rutherford House, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, stated that John Key should be investigated over the Panama Papers.
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 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.
Why no NZ mainstream media coverage of this story?
Penny calls for an investigation of John Key over the Panama Papers!
MALTA SCANDAL EXPOSES NZ TRUSTS AGAIN:
It was murdered Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia who exposed, via the Panama Papers, how NZ foreign trusts were used as money-laundering vehicles by Maltese Politically Exposed Persons.
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, owned by the Haast Trust and Rotorua Trust in New Zealand.
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.
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 from the family of Azerbaijan president Ilham Aliyev.
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 Prime Minister Joseph Muscat's wife.
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, Keith Schembri.
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 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, Michelle Muscat.
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 Pilatus Bank, Caruana-Galizia reported.
Joseph Muscat denied the claims, calling it the "biggest political lie in Malta's history".
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 Inc, two Panama companies that are owned by Schembri and Mizzi, through New Zealand trusts.
The latest revelations, if substantiated, are an embarrassment for the New Zealand government, which announced an inquiry into its offshore trust laws 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 up Tillson, Hearnville and Egrant five days after Muscat's election victory in 2013.
Mossack Fonseca's files were obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung.
New Zealand subsequently amended its offshore trusts regime, requiring foreign trusts to file annual accounts with the New Zealand tax office, but with no further restrictions.
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 to open accounts for them because they were Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs).
The Panama Papers, however, show repeated cases of overseas investors filing false or implausible sets of accounts with New Zealand lawyers, who have limited means to verify the figures.
NEW ZEALAND’S SIGNIFICANT ROLE:
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.
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 New Zealand's foreign trusts played a significant role.
We need far more mainstream investigative journalism and reporting on this issue.
Here is a video of a small protest that Penny held in solidarity for Daphne Caruana Galizia, in Auckland on 3 November 2017.
Penny Bright has been arrested 22 times after being (unlawfully) denied speaking rights at Auckland City Council, mainly on matters relating to water. Four District Court Judges have acknowledged the 'Public Watchdog' role - so that is why she describes herself as a judicially recognised Public Watchdog' on Metrowater, water and Auckland regional governance matters.
Penny has also been described in the NZ Herald as an 'anti-corruption campaigner' in the fight for more transparency and accountability particularly at local government. Penny Bright helped to set up the 'Stop the Supercity' group - which is totally opposed to the attempted corporate takeover of the Auckland region to run it 'like a business, by business - for business'.
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 about this – here.
Having been a mayoral candidate three times, she has a public profile that people are bound to have an opinion about.
Always campaigning with an element of humour, Penny signs her e-mails with,
‘Her Warship’.
This interview was sponsored by The Awareness Party http://www.theawarenessparty.com/home/
Steve Papps joins Liz Gunn for Part II on what has shaped a child of a ‘Once Were Warriors’ childhood, into a man with the vision and determination to create change for our better health, in body, mind and country.
Steve’s Three Passions
Steve begins by explaining his three passions - nutrition, water guardianship and emotional wellbeing - which he has shaped into businesses whereby he can follow his passions, and give back from his learning and his innate belief system.
Papps Nutrition springs from Steve’s own experience of lack of health and fitness. In changing his own health and eating habits, he immersed himself in learning, and found a passion for teaching others how to create physical and mental wellbeing through nutrition.
Life Force Water is the second of Steve’s passions. It springs, as the name says, from the human need for living water if we are to have optimum health. Many people have no idea that water needs to be as alive as our fruit and vegetables.
And his third wave of human interest comes in the form of Papps Consultancy which draws on the work he has done in studying the Quantum Field and how humans in fact shape our own realities every day - often without realising it. From this awareness, arises the possibility of shaping the sort of reality and life of which we each dream.
Conscious Food and Water Choices
Steve says what most people eat is not ‘food’- it’s man made processed ‘stuff’. It’s not full of life.
Equally with water. Living water has a life cycle. It goes from a ‘juvenile’ stage, through a ripening process as it comes down from the sky, falls down mountainsides in waterfalls, in to river beds and down through rocks into underground water tables. This water is alive.
After 3- 4 weeks, the life force in ALIVE water in a container, will support bacterial growth. This is a good sign, the fact that water CAN go off! Water in taps and on supermarket shelves has been treated to stop bacterial growth- which kills the life force in the water. This affects us on many levels. Chlorine may well be subsequently filtered out of the disinfected water. But the fact remains that the molecular structure- the life force - within that water has been changed. Something has happened in order to keep it ‘safe’ to consume. It means that water in the supermarket can sit on shelves for many months without going green.
The disinfected water affects the good bacteria inside of us. Our good bacteria are at the heart of our immune system.
To support good immunity, living water must be drunk fresh from Mother Earth
Most of our vegetables - along with vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients - are in fact living water. Fresh food goes off. Living water also goes off. We want to take them both into our bodies in an alive and fresh state.
Humans are around 75% water - bones, muscles, brains… and the quality of the water we consume affects more than our physical being. It affects the quality of our thinking and the quality of our lives.
Steve discusses the role water plays in the ageing process. Ageing is a dehydration process. People start internally 'drying out’ through chronic dehydration over a long period of time. People in the country who lived off the land and drinking fresh untreated water from underground aquifers, have a different energy . The life force in their food and water gives them a different, stronger life force.
By contrast, in NZ cities, every week , 9 people lose an arm or a leg through Type 2 Diabetes…which Steve names as a lifestyle choice.
Type 1 Diabetes is inherited, while Type 2 is a malfunction in the pancreas. Steve says that can be treated by going back to the lifestyle choices that created it, and altering those choices.
Steve sees dis-ease as an expression of toxicity or acidity.
When someone has cancer, the tumour is cut out - but five years later it may well return. Steve is much more concerned to address the CAUSE of the cancer. Why did that body manifest this imbalance?
Steve believes that if one person can heal from cancer, there must be a way for all of us to heal from it. His whole focus is the cause rather than the symptoms. The ultimate aim is always to enhance the health of the person. People need to get well for themselves and for their families. He says his company's deal with the results, more than the theories, and he looks to see if the changes he helps people to make, result in their doctors reducing or eliminating medications after the health of that person improves. These are the true measures of success for Steve. Practical results, grounded in improvements in the everyday lives of the people he helps.
If Steve was walking into a family of diabetics about to breakfast on toast, cereal and jam, what would his advice be? STOP ! Eat living food. No requirement for carbohydrates while the pancreas is not working ( which shows up in the body as Type 2 diabetes) . No exotic, expensive, exclusive foods. Primarily vegetables, protein and healthy fats. exotic. It’s real food and in the right amount for the goals of each person.
The Importance of Amino Acids & Fatty Acids
There are two essential food groups. The body cannot produce these: essential amino acids and essential fatty acids. Every cell needs these in the right quantity.
We are a population which is totally overfed and undernourished. When the body says “ I’m hungry” , it’s actually saying “ Feed me nutrients” . By removing nutrients from manufactured foods, the person eating these processed foods will find they are still hungry after even a large caloric intake. The body is still crying out for nutrition. And so people keep eating the food that is devoid of nutrients, and wondering why packaged foods are so often hard to stop and put down. With Fresh Living Food, this does not happen.
Steve also talks of good fats and bad fats- such as cold pressed organic olive oil, egg yolks, coconut oil, avocado, raw nuts. The man- made fats are to be avoided at all costs- hydrogenated fats, margarine, soybean or canola oil- these are toxic to the body.
Body Building
He also talks of his time competing as a bodybuilder. He had to compete against bigger men. He decided he had to get leaner than them, and he outsmarted the competition ‘in the kitchen' through his refined food study. He talks of all the contradictory information on diet . He has put himself through many different eating plans for years. That way he found the ‘holes' in the plans- the point of diminishing return where the food plan is no longer effective. He was able to refine an eating process that works, grounded in principles that apply long term, to create potent health.
Steve discusses the mental toughness humans need to find to stick to making changes. It’s not discipline. It’s awareness. When you’re ‘aware' of something, it’s no longer hard.
He gives an example. Someone who wants to start a diet. They are not in the right state for success, when they talk about how difficult it is. So how to change the inner state? This is where his coaching in Papps Consultancy, kicks in. There’s a need to truly want what they SAY they want. Steve says "Imagine if I said to someone- if you keep to the plan exactly for 6 weeks- I show you the money- you cannot deviate for one meal, for one day- then I will give you $10,000. “
We always move towards what we focus on. Now the focus, the attention, is on what the person wants. And it’s no longer a matter of discipline. It’s a change of awareness.
A lot of self help information is a misunderstanding of how the mind works. You need to apply the principles correctly. Goal setting has its place but misapplied, it creates an internal battle. It’s ‘hard'. You’re constantly trying to ‘manage’ life. Steve offers the opposite.
With the $10,000 analogy, that person is going after what they have ALREADY created in their mindset. A 'totally unrealistic’ mindset, combined with a willingness to take action.
It’s about learning how the mind works, and getting beyond being enslaved by thoughts. You master your thoughts. If it’s your servant, your mind can serve you. But if you let it be your master, your mind will torture you every day.
Steve gives a wonderful example of how the mind can take both sides of an argument inside someone’s head, and behave like the worst best friend!!
It’s not a Discipline, but an Awareness.
There are events happening in our lives. Then there’s the person’s story ABOUT what is happening. Beyond all of that is an infinite consciousness able to observe these thoughts, and see the dramas created. Observing the way the mind jumps about, comes from just listening to your thoughts. Don’t judge the thoughts. Observe them.
Most people who have anxiety can deal with the ISSUE itself, but not with the anxiety ABOUT the issue, because that is like a ghost. Anxiety is really just a projected, imagined future. Getting stressed and depressed happens when someone becomes anxious about the anxiety itself. Instead there is a totally different way of looking at that which liberates people from the anxiety.
Addressing Addictions
Steve talks of addictions. They are a product of the story going on in the mind. He talks of a relative who has always been addicted to marijuana.
He then asked about his rehab and he labelled himself an addict. Steve said that once you have a label, you have to live through those labels. Instead, Steve asked him if he had an accident and lost his memory, would he still have his addiction? Who would he become without that story?
Steve says you can’t have an addiction without a memory.
We fulfil our labels. It’s important to identify behaviours, yes. But a label is not going to serve the human ability to change and evolve.
The perception is often back to front.
Focus
Steve focusses on getting the person’s energy and health improved so they have huge amounts of energy and life force.
The same principles apply across all areas- business, relationship, children’s emotional wellbeing and success, food, health.
The most fundamental part is having clear, practical goals. Most people have a fuzzy idea of what they would like but don’t pin that down to specific goals for today, for next week, for the next twelve months.
If you’re a business owner, do you have a clear financial goal for next week?
Becoming Wise
Towards the end of the interview. Steve discusses the genesis for his own learnings in all these areas - his own life experiences. He talked last time of having three children by 19 years old. This drove him to seek out financial success. He explains that he became a store detective who built his own company, to create New Zealand’s largest store detective company after just a year.
He talks of studying Bob Proctor’s work and Napoleon Hill’s book ‘ Think and Grow Rich’. He learnt the specific laws that apply to wealth and to relationships. He applied the principles and brought in millions.
Then he misapplied those same principles. Every thought is a seed. It sets off a specific vibration. His thought that stymied his success was “ Just don’t screw this up” .
He explains that humans will always end up where their energy is.
He ended up with depression. He learnt through that pain. He says “ I broke” - and it was a breakthrough.
Some of the worst circumstances can be the greatest opportunities for us.
Become aware of how to change that negative experience- accept where you are, and then with awareness change the energy you bring to what is showing up your life.
http://pappsnutrition.com
Martin, jumps into the interview likening our current economic situation to a tarmac road - the ‘neo liberal’ tarmac road - that is now breaking up, as there are more and more crises - and in among all the cracks there are many kinds of green shoots coming up to form a new ‘commonwealth’ society - and this in many ways is exemplified by Lyttelton and Project Lyttelton.net.nz - where Martin was being interviewed by telephone from.
That he states this is a global phenomena that’s actually happening in so many countries as a conscious change due to discontent with the ‘monetisation’ of so much of our culture and way of life.
Martin mentions that after the two huge destructive earthquakes that hit both Christchurch and also Lyttelton - the community pulled together and they both have been able to recover remarkably well - (and still having much work to do on this) and he asks the question. Does this prefigure the challenges we face with climate destruction if we do not take timely action?
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11935975 The slow moving disaster for NZ’s future - areas that are gradually being affected by rising sea levels.
The Commons
How can we live and have access to both land and a home?
Marine talks about Community Land Trusts and how they can take care of the ‘commons’ of land, water and air, but mainly land for farming and housing. Yet, we have also lost many of our connections with the ‘commons.’
The failure of Neo Liberalism
Saying that the pendulum in NZ is swinging away from Rogernomics and Ruthanasia (Slang for Two previous Ministers of Finance from the NZ Labour and National Parties that championed neo - liberalism) That we are now realising the need to re-balance our society during this present political times by inviting not only the public and private sectors but also the plural sector, the civil society sector - who he says we see for example in Project Lyttelton.
Community and Countrywide Ownership
That NZ was once a large co-operative country that had many commercial co-operatives - dairy farmers being the largest of them, but also, having huge Mutual Insurance Societies, Trust Banks up and down the country, Building Societies, Trust Hotels and Alcohol outlets - and we have basically let them slip out of NZ ownership and control since 1984, when the rightwing overseas bankers infiltrated the NZ Labour Party with the Neo liberal agenda, of self interest.
Co-operative Values
Cooperative Values of self help and self responsibility, community benefit, community participation, openness, transparency and community investment - which Martin says is a wonderful picture - why did we let all this go and why have NZers forgotten this profoundly important history? (Martin was taken back to learn of this.)
Same in the UK
He says that in the UK in the 1990’s and early 2000s, many of the building societies that were member owned and were mutuals for savings, loans and mortgages were privatised too and then they went bust! Resulting in the taxpayers shelling out a trillion pounds to support them in 2007-8.
In the UK Martin belongs to and banks with the Nationwide Building Society, and it’s still member owned which is the largest mutual still operating and it is very efficient and more effective and provide better service than the big five banks of Britain, that he terms casino banks.
Co-operative originated in UK
3 He talks about the early Co-ops in the 19th century and early 20th century in UK and the Newcastle area and spread to Australia and NZ - See Rochdale Principles.
The Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers, (RCEP) founded in 1844, is usually considered the first successful cooperative enterprise, used as a model for modern coops, following the 'Rochdale Principles'. A group of 28 weavers and other artisans in Rochdale, England set up the society to open their own store selling food items they could not otherwise afford. Within ten years there were over a thousand cooperative societies in the United Kingdom.
These were to counter - liberal laissez faire economic business systems of today - dog eat dog world.
https://community-wealth.org/strategies/panel/coops/index.html
Research published by the Worldwatch Institute found that in 2012 approximately one billion people in 96 countries had become members of at least one cooperative.[2] The turnover of the largest three hundred cooperatives in the world reached $2.2 trillion – which, if they were to be a country, it would make them the seventh largest.
This was one way of pushing back for the individual and those less financially advantaged … unity is strength.
Now today - how can we reinvent cooperative methods and recreate different ways of cooperating … this is what Martins sees as our localised challenge.
Today in the UK
In England in Gloucestershire the Stroud Commonwealth enable social businesses - that were very interested in local food. Having enabled the development of one of the first of 6 community supported agriculture cooperatives.
http://www.stroudcommunityagriculture.org/
This is a consumer cooperative who commit to buying produce from farmers a year in advance and they guarantee that income for a whole year. There are 290 people in this co-operative - they have a budget meeting every year - they agree with the farmers what should be grown and they support the farmers wherever it is feast or famine.
Now Stroud Community supported agriculture is an exemplar of this very different way of running a farm. Now there are over 200 of these consumer cooperatives throughout the UK. Listen …
Ooooby (Out of our own back yard)
Martin talks of NZ’s Ooooby as a world class exemplar of a grassroots food distributor - of boxed fresh organic fruit and vegetables run by a team with Pete Russell originally out of Waiheke island, now in Auckland and with connections into Australia and the US.
https://www.ooooby.org
Using leading edge software - to really connect people with quality food.
Also, Ooooby is looking at how ownership can be distributed among the founders, customers and producers. - They are exploring new ownership forms - the sharing of the ‘common wealth’ of their enterprise. Calling ooooby - a real green shoot.
Purchasing Land
Enabling farmers and communities to buy land and then put this into a farm trust.
A template for young farmers -listen - (it is only a 70 meg download = 35 family fotos)
Martin gives an example of how 8 hundred thousand pounds was raised and exchanged for shares - from 8,000 people - Farmland Trust. Listen to how they make it happen. Started off with only one extra job, now there are 27 jobs.
Now Co-operative UK https://www.uk.coop/is the trade body set up - to facilitate cooperative development.
As a result several thousand different provident and industrial societies have emerged out of this that have groups of people co-operating around renewable energy, for owning the village pub or owning the value shop. This has all come about from a standing start back in 2005-6.
Click to Listen - Martin shares lots of valuable information especially that we need an organisational structure that helps people reconnect with the land - through buying shares as well as a structure for investment - so the co-operative form is ideal for this.
Connecting with like Minds
This includes every year having festivals, courses and workshops - to keep the energy dynamic and people educated and learning.
Plus making the annual general meeting a festive event.
Reconnecting with the land and learning how to do this via artistic workshops from bird watching to biodiversity - interpretive walks and fantastic design workshops by permacuture - horticulture, bees etc is all part of a holistic understanding of our connection to the natural world.
Todays food revolution of fresh local, organic produce is also a cultural revolution as it is feeding our soul, giving nutrient dense vitamins and minerals to us as brain food - so that we make good decisions etc especially because of our deepening spiritual connection to the land. Plus with co-operatives slowly emerging especially in the UK it is an economic revolution as well.
Housing Ownership
Housing model - to find ways of owning your own dwelling.
Community Land Trust
Land is seen not as a commodity but as a commons - to be stewarded That for each community to steward their land commons is for community benefit - thus a lead structure is required. http://www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk/what-is-a-clt
Common Land - Freehold land in Britain can be held in common by a kind of community land trust called the National Trust - which is a body of 3 million members owning 1500 farms and own 3 or 400 stately homes - and people have the right to walk there - and some areas where commoner farmers have the right to graze cows there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Trust_for_Places_of_Historic_Interest_or_Natural_Beauty
A Community Land Trust
http://www.vermontcf.org/Portals/0/Uploads/Documents/bclt_strategic_plan.pdf
Burlington Community land Trust in Vermont - Shepherded through by Bernie Sanders - 3000, houses owned by their community land trust - which owns the land - where you can buy houses at 2/3 to 1/2 the market value - because the other half is owned by the land trust. A very interesting model.
Other Subjects Covered.
Co-operative Land Societies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_cooperative
Letchworth Heritage Trust
http://www.letchworth.com/heritage-foundation/about-us
Covering ohu’s that the NZ Labour Government started off in 1973
in a concession to counter-cultural values, it sponsored the development of ‘ohu’ – rural communes.
Happiness architecture and beauty - Kevin McCloud of Grand Designs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_McCloud
Special low energy homes that are environmentally benign.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/sep/04/grand-designs-presenter-kevin-mccloud-seeks-to-raise-50m-to-build-600-homes-a-year
Martin is here in NZ at the invitation of Caroline Hughes of the NZ Land Trust
http://www.thelandtrustnz.com
Martin Large of:
https://www.hawthornpress.com/about-hawthorn/
Mainstream science has looked at the Universe in a somewhat ‘tunnel visioned’ way, and have still not connected everything up in a wholistic/holistic process - into a greater picture - yet Thomas says when we put this big picture together - we are living on a magical plane of existence.
Also, that we are connected by invisibility, be it the air, the magnetic field - then we have the microbiome - bacteria that are in our gut, gastrointestinal tract that weighs about 1.5 kilogram - that composes a gigantic amount of our DNA.
We Have Multiple Brains
Tom goes on to say that science is talking about the brain being the intellect, the heart is the intuition and the gut with our microbiome - being the instinct. Tom says that it’s the gut that connects us to another reality the 3rd brain - Dr Marco Ruggiero - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DKgT5Go6sU - tells of the brain microbiota that is our human gut. And that there maybe a fourth brain operating within our brain as well.
The saying ….. “I had a gut feeling” - that many people state, is now being validated.
That we are absolutely interconnected - Also a new modality called ‘M braining’ - www.mbraining.com - is about multiple brains - and that leading edge researchers are saying that when ‘consciously’ we bring all these 3 brains together into coherency - we find that as a human - we are far more aligned - that we negotiate life more gracefully due to the fact at all our ‘brains’ are ‘systematically aligned.’ Meaning - we make correct life decisions
Greater Awareness
So that when we make the correct decision - it’s because of this coherent alignment - that some say this intuitive aspect may reach out into the fourth dimension and breach the time barrier - thus we are ahead of the curve.
Tom further states that there are neurological studies that show that the brain is actually making decisions before we consciously make them. Retrocausalilty - which Tom says is fascinating - https://www.scienceandnonduality.com/retrocausality-can-the-present-affect-the-past/
Which brings up free will - and Tom says he thinks that we do - but … - listen to the interview.
Globalised Food, Effecting our Gut
Tom goes on to say that due to our globalised marketing and food distribution systems, that we are eating so much food that is out of season and out of synch with our own microbiome - https://www.nature.com/subjects/microbiome - i.e if we are not eating locally this is causing disturbances in our metabolism thus affecting us with subtle mental lapses.
We can experience a psychological effect due to eating food shipped in from overseas that’s causing mental aberrations due to the affects of having incorrect bacteria in our gut dealing with all kinds of food, from various climatic zones and regions.
Tom introduces us to Russian Science.
Sergey Vasilieve
The Russian scientist Sergey Vasilieve on long range action fields - regarding the influence of sun and planets on planet our planet Earth. http://astrozet.net/articles/ZemletriasEng.pdf
Plus Alexander Chizhevsky’s 1897 to 1964 - work on helio biology - how the sun’s influence on the biology on planet Earth. Plus biological rhythms. That humans are affected by the sun’s 11 year solar cycle. and much more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Chizhevsky
That his research on instantaneous action influence across time and space - is a long way in advance of Western science.
Sunlight and the Laws of Physics
Tom goes on to say that sunlight is instant - that it is instantaneous - or space scalar or like Tesla transmissions.
Stating that all light is instant and that “we are thoroughly connected in real time to the universe.” That stelar transmissions are instant - This is really important information to research and broaden our understanding. Toms says that behind everything - there is another level - that we have no idea how fast light is really traveling and he is profoundly knowledgeable and researched on these hidden energies.
That the Russians are into plasma physics and the electric universe - they are far in advance of ‘public’ Western science.
The Russian Vladimir Vernadsky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Vernadsky 1863 - 1945 and the Noosphere - In Vernadsky's theory of the Earth's development, the noosphere is the third stage in the earth's development, after the geosphere (inanimate matter) and the biosphere (biological life). Just as the emergence of life fundamentally transformed the geosphere, the emergence of human cognition will fundamentally transform the biosphere.
In this theory, the principles of both life and cognition are essential features of the Earth's evolution, and must have been implicit in the earth all along. (Tim) - A future sphere of mind that will out grow the biosphere yet integrate with it, where at heart the human race develop into a greater understanding that we one global family and that the possibilities of intuitive - telepathic unity are pronounced - this is one of the choices that humanity can take - if we awaken to ‘who we are’.
American Julian James 1920-1997 is mentioned - The origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. An interesting perspective. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Jaynes
Renaissance Pulling Back the Curtains
When Galileo first used the telescope there were two things:
That the telescope was a military instrument - that could be used for war and because of his status in Venice at the time this is one of the reasons he was able to obtain it.
In doing so he discovered the moons orbiting Jupiter and realised for himself that the earth was revolving around the sun.
Tom says this was also still a time of witch hunts - Where he says that ‘the right brain shut down and man’s left brain took over’ … by weighing and measuring things - dispassionately.
Science and the Measuring and Weighing of Things -
Don’t blame everything on Galileo
Physics - the flight of the cannonball - .http://www.physics.mcgill.ca/~moore/P101/Lectures/Lecture-5.pdf
Tom further states that as an extension of Galileo that the Accademia del Cimento (Academy of Experiment) in Florence Italy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accademia_del_Cimento - Actually issued an official: contra leva tatam - maxim - stating that you were not allowed to talk about the higher forces any more … only that which could be weighed and measured was now an official edict!
Hard Science had begun!
Rudolf Steiner Opens ‘Inquiry’ All Up Again
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Steiner 1861-1925
This is why Rudolf Steiner started off Anthroposophy so as to overcome scientific limitation - as Steiner said they were now entering the age of the ‘intellectual soul’ - but Tom said that in order for us to develop properly (before we entered that realm) we had to develop the discursive - which is the non intuitive form of consciousness … but we have become trapped in it. Meaning that science sees, No Soul, No God, only matter.
Toms says that by following Galileo’s cannon ball narrative - we come to Cern today in Switzerland and the Large Hadron Collider? - where underground scientists are still smashing Galileo’s cannon balls together - meanwhile above ground, life is happening on the surface - that scientists don’t even believe exists - because they still can’t measure it on their equipment …
Tom quotes from Steiner:
That when mankind gets to the end of his descent into matter he will end up with a vacant metaphysics.
Listen to Tom’s viewpoint of the movie - ‘What the Bleep’ - and where it drops out. That there is no comprehension of the higher forces - that we call the etheric forces - which are basically warmth, light, chemical and structural activity and life.
Yet Nikola Tesla stated: “The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.”
That these forces basically weave all of life around us and we are yet unable to weigh or measure them … but you can perceive them and this is done in the intuitive development of consciousness …
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Steiner pointed to Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe’s work - the metamorphosis of plants - listen …. now it gets fascinating
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe
Ernst Michael Kranich
Cosmological botany - Planetary influences upon plants -
https://translate.google.co.nz/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst-Michael_Kranich&prev=search
Goethe and archetypal plants … and his ability to see using his higher mind.
Tom says there is only one actual plant - the vegetative surface of the planet - which goes through all these different metamorphoses.
How do plants grow and especially vines and creepers - they are influenced by the planets - especially Mercury.
The sun is the stem, the roots are the moon and the leaves are Mercury and when they grow further out they are influenced by Venus - that for instance - Bind weeds like Morning glory tendrils that turn around a stake or anything that can be attached to - to grow towards the light … due to the influence of the orbiting of Mercury. Listen …. fascinating
Jagadish_Chandra_Bose - who is also mentioned in the Autobiography of a Yogi and the Secret Life of Plants
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagadish_Chandra_Bose - Listen - equally fascinating …
Bose's place in history has now been re-evaluated. His work may have contributed to the development of radio communication.[22] He is also credited with discovering millimetre length electromagnetic waves and being a pioneer in the field of biophysics.[35]
Professor Giorgio Piccardi from Florence University 1950’s and 60’s - chemistry dept studied chemical reactions due to the sun’s influence. https://translate.google.co.nz/translate?hl=en&sl=it&u=https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Piccardi&prev=search - Including viral diseases following solar cycles - diphtheria, polio scarlet fever - listen …
Lili Kolisko - A brilliant student of Rudolf Steiner - http://www.koliskoinstitute.org/about-us/lili-kolisko/
Paul Stamets - “Mycelium fungus to save our planet” http://www.fungi.com/about-paul-stamets.html
ALSO in this interview:
Archetypes within nature
Holographic universe - yes, but what are projecting on? This is what interests Tom.
Covering the wave particle duality.
The sun represents the dot and the blue sky represent the sheet. - and it happens in front of us every day.
In Toms closing statements he mentions.
The Bankers - and the international slave system - are still in control.
The system is us, neglecting our inner responsibility and connection to the universe and our planet - he says we have to wake up!
On the Aotearoan Maori - he says that we need to get savvy and realise that there is another story on New Zealand.
He whakeputanga and the 1835 declaration of Independence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_the_Independence_of_New_Zealand
This was an extremely interesting interview - The only disappointment was that I, Tim got in the way by talking too much. When it was all about what Tom was wanting to offer.:(
Tom was once the editor for Borderlands in the USA.
http://borderlandresearch.com
https://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/tom-brown-takes-us-down-the-thorny-path-of-truth
https://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/tom-brown-researcher-into-energy-space-mind-and-matter
Don Huber who has just been here in NZ is also a former Colonel of the U.S. Army Reserves Bioterrorism Research Unit. He has taught courses on anti-crop bioterrorism and serves as a consultant on biological weapons of mass destruction and emerging diseases. He advises U.S. agencies on bioterrorism and biological warfare. He also goes by his word - that Glyphosate is a ‘Trojan Horse’ Professor Emeritus Don Huber, formerly of Purdue University states that there are three facts that everyone needs to understand about GE or GMOs:
Don Huber who spoke with me at the PlanetFM studios two months ago, here in Auckland opens with the statement that NZ farmland is still basically free of GE and GMO’s and relatively unpolluted with its attendant spray - glyphosate, however he states we need to make sure GMO’s don’t breach our borders, and that we need to keep NZ - GE Free and to make every effort to scale back our use of glyphosate - urgently.
Soil is a living entity
The soil is a living entity in its own right - it’s not just dirt. Every time you step on an acre of soil you’re stepping on up to 10 or 20 tonnes of living matter. Bacteria and fungi and the micro organisms of life. (just like the trillions of microorganisms in our intestines keep us healthy too)
A Cleaner Greener New Zealand
Don says that NZ can still be an answer to the world - because we have not contaminated a lot of our soil- yet he admits that we have some excessive chemical use in some areas - he sees that clearly and also the lack of knowledge of what these chemicals are doing. That their use makes life easier in some respects - but when farmers look at the long term process, the impact that it has on the individual, the family and the society does not actually make life easier. He says we still have an opportunity to have a working relationship with the soil, and capitalise by offering up quality organics with nutrient dense food that the rest of the world needs.
Control of World Food by Vested Interests
He states that there is an overt attempt in many areas of the world to destroy this opportunity. The desire of vested interests for monopoly, control and power without regard for the overall consequences of these practices needs to be recognised. That we are seeing our increased vulnerability - and a lot of it is because people have forgotten - he says that where we once had simple land practices - modern day scientific farming has brought us inflammatory bowel disease , end stages kidney disease and diabetes plus the extreme epidemics that we are seeing in the US and other industrialised countries.
He states we have not had to experience these because we have maintained high nutrient dense food products for our animals - grass fed and not necessarily corn fed animals etc. Stating that this is the message and the information that the world needs.
Taking Traditional Breeding to a New Level.
The message that Don Huber is sharing is that we are only harvesting 25 - 30% of the genetic potential of our best crops - and he said if we took the time and energy (it does not come free) we can develop ‘that expression’ of that genetic material and do it by a traditional breeding manner, rather than the virus type of approach that we see with genetic engineering. Because we have no idea what the unintended consequences that can occur with that - are. He says we have all the systems in place to be able to do it this traditional breeding program properly. The constant looking for a ‘silver bullet’ is a mistake and it takes us further away from the natural harmony that we have been embedded in for centuries and millennia.
Impacts on Farming Communities
Sociological impacts of small farms being bought out and amalgamated into large corporate farms is depleting the rural sector of families as people sell-out and leave the district. This is affecting farming communities across the board in NZ, the US and Australia. That the model which is growth and bigger and larger farms is not human or community friendly. The bigger the farm, the less time the farmer has to interact with one’s neighbours and the community loses out. Because you are not able to spend enough time to really get to know each other and interact as neighbours.
Harmony of the Land and Community
Being able to manage the ecology and living in harmony is an imperative. He talks of community and also that not only do crops grow but everything grows including the community in a magnitude that meets the needs of a society and the individual - so that vegetables and animals plus families can all grow together.
As a Colonel in the US Army Reserves
As an US Army Researcher (1957-1998) he also studied many aspects of bioterrorism. Mentioning what the military thought was a critical component of a good defence was diversity - that to make sure that all our crop species were not of the same genetic makeup, as in 1970 and 71, where 70% of American corn hybrids were attacked by a fungus that developed a mutation and all 70% of the hybrids were susceptible to that disease. Yet he carries on to say that 98% of soybeans, 70% of corn, 100% of sugar beet and cotton are all 1 green or 2 gene characteristics and those genes are all to promote disease susceptibility - not resistance - none of them are designed or engineered for greater disease resistance - everyone of them have to be more susceptible to the diseases so that you can get the expression of the genetic engineered trait - that the mode of action for some of the chemicals like glyphosate - its whole mode of action - is to give the plant a bad case of aids - then they are susceptible to all the soil born pathogens and that is how “round up” for instance works - it is to destroy the disease resistance of those plants that receive it that haven’t been engineered with an alternative.
He states that all it would take is just one simple mutation to make cotton, alfalfa, corn, soybean and canola - all those with the ‘roundup ready gene’- to be totally susceptible to a very severe disease. There are now documented over 40 diseases that are much more intense when associated with the glyphosate herbicide - because of the increased disease susceptibility - which he says leaves the US extremely vulnerable from a bioterrorist event - or for a natural event as per the Northern corn leaf blight epidemic in 1970 and 71. - Listen to the full extent of this, it is very important
Threats of Legal Action
He talks about GE crops being a Trojan Horse and that every farmer who sows GE seeds has to sign on the dotted line that they take full responsibility for any accident or cross contamination or anything relating to that crop. Letting the GE Corporation off, of being liable if anything does get out of control. Listen to the introduction in the very 1st minute of this program
Food Essential Human Right
He talks about agriculture being the basics of human society and survival and that that humans have to have carbohydrates, proteins, fats, plus have minerals and vitamins - without these the individual does not exist - so that when they are patented and controlled by corporate interests in the power controlling manner that we are seeing - without any liability or restrictions or controls - it leads to the downfall of the society.
The Demise of the Precautionary Principle
Don says the precautionary principle has been thrown out the window, when once it was a very valid and viable aspect in risk management - but today there is now no consideration for it at all.
The Escape of a GE experiment gone wrong in the USA - now entering the Pacific
http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2017/01/grass_seed_industry_fearful_ab.html
Professor Huber mentions the escape of ‘creeping bent grass’ - ‘roundup ready’ - engineered used primarily for golf courses - that escaped field trials up in the US - and that these grasses are very promiscuous and move along with the wind and it hybridise with other grasses and now it can not be contained. It got loose from 2 small private research locations and now is endemic in Washington, Oregon and Idaho - it’s now along the Snake River in Southern Idaho and Oregon into Washington and is now totally resistant to glyphosate - the rivers flows into the North Pacific and Don says the Pacific ocean will now take it far further into the Pacific basin and that it could even be a worldwide problem. Because it plugs up irrigations systems and drainage systems - ending up as an extremely invasive weed.
http://www.bluemountaineagle.com/Local_News/20160628/farmers-worry-who-will-control-escaped-genetically-engineered-bentgrass
The company Scotts Miracle-Gro - who allowed this GE experiment to escape the laboratory has been unable to eradicate it and now that it has basically contaminated the above States, farmers who have been growing organic alfalfa for instance, and then exported it to China have had China reject and return it due to the GMO contamination and there is a total legal wrangle around this due to a corrupted agenda by the status quo not being upfront and honest in taking responsibility for this unpublicised continuous disaster that continues to this moment.
Innocent Organic Farmers are Being Affected
This means that those who have a living and a livelihood around organics are being affected by this spread and that everyone who is finding their product contaminated with this GMO bent grass, are having to bear the loss of income and or OF their business. That those who have been negatively impacted by this, need to be compensated - and so this is where the battle lines are drawn on the lack of indemnification. This is also what MSM - mainstream media remains very hushed about and as a consequence middle society either in the US, Canada, Australia or NZ know nothing about. To our collective detriment.
Don calls these so called GMO - silver bullets - as time bombs waiting to go off.
He says we have had enough time to witness the destructive behaviour of the generic experiments that have been going on around the planet.
He sees them and the deterioration of the soil - and the increased diseased problems in our plants.
GE & GMO’s a Coming Major Tsunami of Health Problems
The deterioration in the health in our animals and in humans to the point that he says we are on the threshold of a major tsunami of health problems.
Cancer
End state kidney disease
Inflammatory bowel type diseases
Celiac
Crohn's disease
Gluten intolerance
Leaky gut
The situation is becoming so dire that slowly over time - like the frog sitting in the hot water - nearly all the young doctors, veterinarians, plant pathologists just out of university and basically programmed to not think, but only regurgitate what that have been taught - think that the above diseases are now just normal diseases and are unable to connect the dots to the onset of the GE and glyphosate insertion into the health system - especially in the USA.
This insightful interview covers:
Spontaneous abortion or miscarriage of pigs, goats and cattle - on land that has been sprayed with Glyphosate in tandem with growing GE Foods.
That it was now normal for many women to have numerous miscarriages before they can have a live birth and that even worse - that the doctors are not doing any autopsies on miscarried fetuses - instead just quietly incinerating them - Listen to this interview !
His wish for the future
he wants his grandchildren to have the opportunity that when they wish to have children that they do not have to go through the heartache of multiple miscarriages etc. He says we have to make a stand and that time is now.
He states that in El Salvador 25% are expected to die from Glyphosate poisoning of their kidneys - he mentions Sri Lanka and Brazil and that the people are suffering there too.
Dr Joseph Mercola link
https://nz.pinterest.com/pin/126030489545794596/
Joseph Mercola food integrity gmo don huber
European Parliament: Green Members of Parliament tested for glyphosate in April 2016.
48 Green Members that took part in a symbolic urine test ahead of the European Parliament vote last month to oppose the EU Commission’s proposal to relicense the controversial toxic substance until 2031.
The inspiration behind what was labelled the #MEPee test was the results of a recent study in Germany which found that 99.6% of people tested were found to have glyphosate residue in their urine. According to ELISA test results from the accredited Biocheck Laboratory in Germany:
The results reveal that every MEP tested has been found to have glyphosate traces in their urine, with the average concentration being 1.73ng/ml. That level is more than 17 times the safe limit for drinking water. The lowest level found among the group was 0.17ng/ml, almost double the safe level.
Now most Greens will be drinking the best quality water, eating organic food and yet this is what is happening. What will this do to our DNA, semen and ovaries over time and future generations and in our babies and infants? Are you asking this question?
https://www.greenparty.org.uk/news/2016/05/13/green-party-meps-peed-off-with-glyphosate-test-results
Glyphosate’s half life can be up to 22 years in the soil - which appears contrary to the advertising.
The US Geological survey in Florida shows that many of the Counties in that state have as much as 4,200 pounds of glyphosate per square mile.
This affecting all invertebrates, bacteria, bees, earthworms, fish the whole ecology is being impacted by glyphosate.
Lake Erie one of the Great Lakes is being studied by scientists at the University in Wisconsin and found that 1 third of a pound of phosphorous in Lake Erie, comes in for every one acre of ground (area) that is in the watershed.
He says what is few million acres? - do the maths - and that’s why we have a green Lake Erie, with dead carp and dead bluegill and other fish?
Lawsuits are piling up ready for Court
Listen to hear how many Lawsuits are waiting in the wings as class actions become more common - so as to compensate people who have been affected by poor health and that they are looking for the cause.
Glyphosate is found in the air, surface water, run off and well water because it is a highly water soluble compound and has been found in animal, human and plant tissue.
In NZ some farmers are spraying Glyphosate on grass, then 4 days later letting their cows eat this foliage - cows are then being milked - result is NZ milk, butter, cheese etc is going to the NZ and world market place. Professor Huber states that Glyphosate bioaccumulates - in cows hearts, brains, liver, kidneys, bones, and the milk.
Note that cheese has difficulty being manufactured, because it is a fermenting process and Don has seen cheeses that have failed due the the death of the microorganisms during fermentation.
The same with malt barley and fermentation for brewing beer - the microorganisms suffer when heavy use of glyphosate is used.
Professor Don Huber has hopes for New Zealand
Encourages us to hold the line - for as an 80 year old with 50 years in the game - he has seen this track history of GE and GMO and sees that it is a twisted tale of avarice and deception.
This is a wake up call for New Zealanders who care about their health, happiness and our ecology.
US Military Service Researching Bioterrorism
From 1963 to 1971 he was assigned to the U.S. Army Edgewood Proving Ground and Ft. Detrick Biological Laboratories in Maryland for research in chemical and biological warfare. He became Operations Officer (S-3) in a USAR Medical Group before moving to Medical Intelligence (business) Department Of Defense.
In 1973 he took command of a specialized Strategic Medical Intelligence Detachment (MIDS) assigned to The Office of the Surgeon General and U.S. Army Medical Intelligence and Information Agency, assisting in formation of the Armed Forces Medical Intelligence Center (now NCMI). He carried out these duties while serving as a professor at Purdue.
Though technically in the Army Reserve, Dr. Huber, whose expertise was in the Soviet Union’s biological warfare program, was part of elite nine and ten-person teams of specialized world scientists. In this capacity he commanded MIDS for eight years. Most of these scientists including Dr. Huber worked overtime without pay.
He moved from command of MIDS to Senior Medical Intelligence Analyst and then as Associate Director of the Armed Forces Medical Intelligence Center. Retiring from military service after more than 41 years, he continues work with our intelligence community, where he actively participates in oversight security of biological weapons programs and threat pathogen concerns.
Dr. Huber teaches courses on anti-crop bioterrorism and serves as a consultant on biological weapons of mass destruction and emerging diseases. He advises U.S. agencies on bioterrorism and biological warfare.
He currently serves without pay as the American Phytopathological Society’s Coordinator for the USDA National Plant Disease Recovery System program and is an active member of the Threat Pathogens Committee.
A message from Tim - Let those that scathingly criticise Professor Don Huber ‘walk a mile in his shoes’.
The Philosophy of Farming and Our Intimate Relationships with the Land and Biota. As New Zealand has been always known as a country that farmed cows and sheep - we are renown for being both innovative and highly productive, yet we can to far better than this.
Graeme Sait originally from Taranaki who has spent most of his life way from NZ is a global leader, and the question is asked, can one man make a difference? Is it possible that one person’s knowledge and enthusiasm can produce a counter tipping point to farming and land management - into a new upcycle. One where in a few short years, soil across our whole country can be revitalized, rivers, lakes and aquifers cleaned up, less livestock, (cows) needed but enabling far higher productivity? More Co2 from the atmosphere being sequestered by the microflora, the mega trillions of bacteria and fungi that live and comprise the soil? Resulting in more sustainability across the ecosphere?
Why? Because science is belatedly realising that the answer is found in the soil - healthy soil.
Graeme Sait, is the co-founder of Qld Company, Nutri-Tech Solutions (NTS), a recognised world leader in sustainable agriculture/horticulture. He is a sought after, global keynote speaker, plus was the founder of Radiance, the 6 day Wellness Festival in Queensland that attracted crowds in excess of 12,000. He has many years of researching health and wellbeing and the benefits of all the correct foods especially fats and oils to teas, herbal remedies plus soil health agricultural systems and biological farming etc.
Learn of the profound interdependence of soil microflora of bacteria and fungi that is crucial to plant growth, healthy soil (and sequesting Co2 from the atmosphere). Just like the micro flora in our gut and digestive system, when we are free of chemical additives, everything flourishes and comes back into balance.
www.nutri-tech.com.au
There's a grassroots revolution taking place as we read and its emergent principles are so profound that it is ushering in sweeping, positive changes to land use, farming and market gardening practices to our beleaguered planet, Mother Earth.
This most refreshing and insightful interview covers minerals, soil bacteria, fungi to plant health, that extends to vegetation, animal and ultimately to human health. Not quite organic, it however, leads us back into the organic world.
His inspirational vision for agriculture and human health has been documented in over 300 published articles and he is currently completing three new books, covering this vast subject. A much sought after, entertaining and informative speaker, Graeme has inspired audiences all over the world.
Global warming emissions and acidification of the oceans can be mitigated by conscious use of soil bacteria, soil carbon and humous and if we use appropriate knowhow found in biological agriculture … astounding possibilities not mentioned in mainstream media will give the youth (and all people of our planet) a much needed boost in morale and optimism.
In South Africa, the uptake of biological agriculture is expanding at near exponential rates as farmers witness the viability and in particular the yields from healthy soil of vital healthy produce. Lead by Woolworths 460 supermarkets nationwide, they only source fresh food from certified Biological farmers and producers.
Listen to the profound biological agricultural changes happening with Dole the world's largest producer and marketer of high-quality fresh fruit on the astounding shifts within this corporation that are happening at this very moment.
And in Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, having saturated the land with chemical and toxic agriculture, and the resulting highest percentage of cancers per head of population anywhere, are just now, changing course into biological agriculture.
Having personally witnessed two of Graeme's presentations myself, you will come away totally inspired to far better health practices, plus a greater respect for nature and the depth of knowledge this man has regarding physical health and well being.
His many interviews on GreenplanetFM.com - cover such a range of subject matter - it is so huge and compelling. (Do a search)
Covering the cause of the top diseases such as heart, cancer, diabetics, alzheimers and chronic fatigue, to cod liver oil's superb results, as well as coconut oil, the use (or non use) of cooking oils to mineral up-take, plus dumping your microwave oven, to no tilling of your home garden to the incredible results of rotation of cows grazing on pasture is the big story of the future … the list goes on.
The holy grail is soil health, based on bacteria, fungi, earthworms in concert with nature and reciprocity is the essence of this biological approach to producing healthy food.
WHY?
Farming over the last 60 years plus, has been based on the mistaken analysis in the 19th century of plant growth and that NPK, nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium were basically perceived as all that plants needed to utilize to grow, when in fact there are 74 mineral compounds that are all part of whole growth, however Western man has been full-on into unbalancing the soil to where we today have unhealthy soil structure, basically depleted in the other 71 minerals, with far less soil bacteria and fungi, resulting in unhealthy plants, animals and now humans - all due to factory farming, extractive agriculture and an increasingly toxic chemical ideology.
Fortunately, this is finally changing.
An inspiring interview regarding our collective future.
Previous GreenplanetFM Interview: Microcosm in the Macrocosm
http://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/graeme-sait-soil-health-management-human-gut-flora
http://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/graeme-sait-globally-recognised-revolutionary-keynote-speaker-on-soil-animal-and-human-nutrition
http://www.nutri-tech.com.au
Māori were living in Aotearoa, New Zealand when Abel Tasman from Holland in 1642 but especially English navigator James Cook in 1769 - put NZ on the map - that’s when the British and Europeans took notice with the early arrivals introducing many different ways of life. This included firearms, alcohol, the bible and private ownership.
Loss of Connection
This progressively diminished Māori connection especially with the natural elements and within their own Māori peoples - that upon the colonialisation of NZ - this was not what Māori thought was going to be the end result of the ‘te Tiriti o Waitangi' - (the English version of which is known as the ‘Treaty of Waitangi') – an agreement between two sovereign parties: the British Crown and the Māori .
Misinterpretations and violations of the ‘Spirit of the Treaty’ led to break down and huge personal loss which were basically ignored - and Māori grievances becoming prominent as a result, marginalising many in their own country. Wars over land and confiscation by the new Government were widespread. But this was no different from European conquest in Africa, the Americas, Australia etc.the original inhabitants became tenants in their county of birth.
Whakapapa - Genealogy - Bloodlines (and more)
Overriding Māori connection is the central theme of Māoridom being whakapapa … and papa pa and pa - two words - Catherine’s understanding is that - pa - denotes the idea of touching something - and when it is doubled - one can literally say that it doubles the original idea. If pa is touch, what is double that? Imagining when we see a double word like that - it is a transcendent idea of the original idea …. In this example it’s “connection”, which is central to Papatuanuku - Mother Earth - that connection - that is sacred - integral - so whakapapa is a core essence of who you are - because it’s our bloodlines, but more than that - it is that Māori belief is that they descend from God. That we´are children of God.
Catherine’s learning comes from her Kaumātua and Kuia - her male and female elders.
Kaupapa purpose (and more)
Kaupapa kau means - two parts - ka and u - ka is like an activator - it sets you in space and time - u - is like the idea to grasp something … kaupapa and - the papa part reminds you of your whakapapa - which reminds you of your connection to Papatuanku - the Earth Mother - the deity - the divine personality which is our Earth - and she then connects us back to Io-matua-kore - our parentless one - who was the first child if you like of pure potential energy … that Māori track back to the source energy - the source of everything.
She said that we need to fundamentally realise that from way back up until now that we need to grasp the idea that we are a divine spark - so from that awareness, what are we to do? What is our kaupapa?
Catherine says that upon this spark realisation - she is not going to be small … she is not here to waste time :) It's just “pono”: Truth.
Listen to her passion and power!
Realising our Potential
Catherine decodes for us the divine art within all people - and that we can grow into the light of our own true selves - when we are fortified with this deeply acquired knowingness - coupled to Aroha (compassion).
This is where Catherine vibrantly expresses herself in a very big way - that she wishes to leave a legacy - and change the world - and she is acutely aware that this is possible. We can make truly glorious transformations in this world.
A river being recognised as a living being
This lively interview covers the Whanganui (awa) river here in New Zealand with a catchment area of over 7,000 square kilometres as finally being legally recognised as a living entity in its own right - that under Maori auspices ‘ the river owns itself’ - and that it can now be revered as a living extension of Papatuanku - Mother Earth that is in itself heralding a paradigm shift to one where we recognise the sacredness of life and that we exist in a living pulsing universe.
Same for the Te Urewera park being over 2,000 square kilometres being the historical home of Tūhoe. Part of their traditional territory.
This interview introduces Bolivia and Ecuador and ‘ the rights of nature’ under the umbrella of Pachamama - that the world is waking up on a planetary scale that within the the atmospheric bubble of the biosphere we are far more intimately connected than we realise. Through air, water and minerals. Plus an essence as well.
That things within nature are our relatives - we are all connected through the web of life - that all biota share breath - be it animals, trees and vegetation plus humans all breathing in air and like other animals we humans breathe in oxygen and breath out CO2 whilst other more fixed biota - trees and vegetation breath out O2 and breathe in CO2 - in a profound symphony of interconnectedness and homeostasis.
And she says why should only humans get rights? Nature needs them too, which then brings up the intrusion into the natural world of Corporations declaring themselves as having legal personalities and in the US where it is entrenched and they are really pushing this agenda of Corporations having human rights. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood
Where Corporations are saying they are equal to humans in having human rights and even superior to humans and natural persons and environmental rights and she sees this as just an abomination - that the judiciary and the legislature of countries are going down that road and have abused and corrupted such a critical idea. That as she has a Law degree, she carries more weight in her knowingness.
The interview continues around a statement that Tim poses to Catherine, who deftly answers it in a diplomatic matter and from a higher level of consciousness.
Tim states: That because the Māori acknowledge and revere their ancestors and their past, whereas the Pakeha or white man especially in NZ, Australia, Canada and the USA, who as recent immigrants to these countries have all left their origins of Britain or Europe in the 17 and 18th century - have in many ways separated from their roots and in not honouring the past, instead consume the future - which we see as Corporations extracting from mother earth at an increasingly furious rate and leaving environmental desecration behind them - including major social purples for the localised inhabitants.
We are all Consciousness
Catherine, answers by stating - we could look at this and possibly get bogged down - instead she ramps this thread to a higher level, saying before we start looking at us based on colour or culture - that we are consciousness first - that she is ‘wairua’ in spirit and that we are humans first - then our other identities follow - that she is a woman - and then you can say she is Māori and that she does not want to get into separation an us and them thing - it is a ‘we’ thing - that’s what we are - humans living on a planet.
That there are so many crises on earth today and we have to address them together and we all have value and we all have something to offer to find the solution and she implores us to come together in the spirit of cooperation and solve that which is surrounding us and coming up over the horizon.
Unity of Purpose
So this is both our opportunity as well as our challenge - this she says ‘is the holy grail of where we must go’ - so can we come together and collaborate more and see the commonalities and not go to the differences - first - that just our reaction to go to these differences first when the true answer is the coming of unity of purpose and embracing goodwill in our individual and collective journey.
Catherine says we are here to experience diversity but in peaceful accord or words to that effect.
Listen … She is a superb communicator
The Journey is the Reward
It’s not about the destination - it's about the journey - and the discovery during this process / unfoldment.
She talks about some of her friends that have been given over to their grand parents for their upbringing - and they are a different breed of people - and it is clear as night and day - and it's lovely - that the children have a reverence and a respect as well as a calmness about them - that they are more grounded. She notices that in most cases their perspective is more expansive. Catherine would like to see this happen more, because Māori have done this before, but through the colonisation of NZ many old Māori traditions have been diluted and changed and many lost.
Children and Education - Knowledge of your Surroundings.
Knowing the bird life in their local area, their sounds, plus how many grasses does a child know? - and insects? - the difference between benevolent insects in comparison to honey bees and wasps and hornets. Plus trees and herbs, especially for their health giving properties. Fish names and whereabouts also.
Catherine covers earthing - getting outside on the lawn or in a field and lying in the grass and connecting barefoot. Or tree hugging and the electromagnetic science of feeling the electromagnetic field - that we can become in-balance if we are sensitive to be a ‘body whisperer’ in being receptive to what the environment and nature itself is whispering and breathing into us.
People say knowledge is power and Catherine jumps in saying ‘nah nah nah’ - acting on knowledge - is power …
She talks about academic associates who keep adding degrees to their name and continuing to educate themselves but possibly not having the time to share this new knowledge as in receiving and then giving. The same goes for our body and spirit - we need both a healthy spirit - wairua and a healthy body ‘temple' - it’s all about balance and combining all the parts of ourselves to become a full whole being. And she says that we have to be our best at the same time communing with nature to grow into the light of our own true selves.
Covering James Cameron’s movie Avatar that all the roots of trees were interconnected into one vast neural network right around Pandora the moon - and that the indigenous Na’vi could also connect through their hair to both trees and animals that were part of the natural order of that whole ecosystem. That there was in fact no separation - all living beings, Na’vi, animals and trees were interconnected. We humans are too -with the sharing of breath.
Chaos theory that has ended in it order
Catherine mentions chaos theory and eventual order out of chaos as in Mandelbrot theory - where all the parts are reflections of the whole - like the Russian dolls one inside the other - inside the other - inside the other - of nesting dolls Matryoshka - matry for matriarchal - motherly.
The ubiquitous Bruce Lipton comes up in Catherine’s conversation that we as a humanity ‘the human race’ are an evolving giant organism’ in our own right - as well as our planet being a super organism as well - that within the universal context that God is flowing to evolve what she is (she laughs) - universal consciousness or whatever we want to call it - Io (in Māori) and that the whole shebang - God is continually expanding and refining and finding new ways to experience itself - and so it is never ending … being eternal.
That we need to recognise this and that we are a part of that which surrounds us as we shift our consciousness to another higher level. Catherine excitedly states that she really wants to lean into this as she feels like it is being on the fringe of something new - where we can break out of our skin encapsulated ego and awaken to the true brilliance of who we really are.
Involving Everyone and Looking Within.
Then the question how do we assist in engaging people to encourage them into the realisation that we are all on a profound spiritual unfoldment, if we only shined our focus into our inner life and illuminated our shadow and our ego, that actually holds us back when we are here to release ourselves of our darker limitations. That the fear of ‘change’ being one of our barriers to engaging … We tend to make sure we avoid pain and seek out all kinds of pleasure … as people like and prefer certainty and dislike uncertainty intensely and that is why people fear change. Thus our society remains conservative.
Catherine talks about the ego looking back to the pleasures of the past or the future - when in fact the goal for us all is to be in the present - because that is where all the gifts are.
Cosmologies.
That the universe is both Yin and Yang it is both Tapu and Noa from a Māori perspective
The breath of Life - the Ha - comes into Catherine’s - discourse - including change and chaos.
Tim throws this into the conversation:
Ourplanet.org - is the Mothership of GreenplanetFM.com - his key quip - ‘it’s more than a revolution it is a paradigm shift.’
New and Larger Concepts
That we are co creators - if we are born of the Divine and we are divine sparks we must … have some of the characteristics and attributes of God - or universal wisdom and energies … which is creative power and being co creators
She thinks that the young and the millennial are moving fast and awakening to many empowering possibilities
Science and spirituality is converging - quantum mechanics and unified field understandings and wholeness
Science is also saying that most indigenous people have been right all along - that our body has another energy field or soul/spirit and that our planet is a super organism. That everything is an illusion - that we are all just energy fields - same for all matter
That the Golden Rule for Māori is tika, what is right and correct - Pono truth and integrity - and Aroha is compassion - and more … Love
If we are just mindful to the best of our abilities - (as above) we will go far and create miracles
It’s about values and your 'wairua' - spirit
She talked about consequences when violating natural law = Cause and Effect
Teaching Children - Tamariki (children) and Mokupuna (grandchildren) that acting too proud has consequences
Wants the study of ‘Civics’ to be in the curriculum into schools as most young people are disempowered and lack real connection to one’s local community
Civic - relating to the duties or activities of people in relation to their town, city, or local area and iwi - Māori peoples.
Plus more science into schools - the study of basic consciousness and basic quantum physics as she thinks the cart (focus on the molecular world) is currently before the horse (understanding consciousness).
Then at the end I belatedly ask her about her moko - her chin tattoo - and an interesting exchange happens. First Nation Peoples in the South West of the USA have them too.
This was a very insightful energised interview and sharing that is very compelling for all who wish to deepen their inquiry into indigenous matters.
The ‘kaupapa' (purpose) of Catherine's website is to share knowledge and wisdom that expands the collective consciousness, and contributes to the empowerment of people everywhere to be happy and free.
This kaupapa is underpinned by her desire to progressively realize her own personal happiness and freedom. But, as often said, one cannot be truly happy and free unless ALL are happy and free - so, I guess this will be an ever-evolving journey rather than a destination.
https://www.catherinem-ikenn.com
Catherine (Bl/B.Soc.Sci, LLM) hails from the two Māori peoples of Ngāti Kuri and Te Rarawa whose traditional territories are located in the Far North of the North Island of Aotearoa, New Zealand. Married with one son, she has a strong passion for indigenous human rights, environmental protection and lifelong education.
In the mid 90's she worked as a Government Policy Analyst and as a solicitor in Wellington. Since 2000, she project managed her Te Rarawa peoples’ historical Treaty claims settlement negotiations with the Crown, and later became a negotiator herself for her Ngāti Kuri peoples' settlement negotiations - both settlements of which were legislated in 2015.
In 2005 Catherine was awarded the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Indigenous Fellowship (representing the Pacific), and continues to represent her peoples in different UN work, as well as on two technical working groups (regarding climate change, and the Monitoring Mechanism for the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples) affiliated with the National Iwi Chairs Forum. She has also held several trustee positions for her peoples’ governing boards, and local schools (she's currently on the Board for Kaitaia College).
Womens Rights are Human Rights, but do we live in a society of sexism, patriarchy and unconscious bias? As Chinese Leader Mao Tse Tung said, “Women hold up half the sky.” In fact in New Zealand women make up 52% of the population and so hold up just a bit more than half! EMANCIPATION Kate Sheppard and her fellow suffragists gathered the signatures of nearly 32,000 women to demonstrate the groundswell of support for their cause. The result of this was that the Electoral Act 1893 was passed by both houses of Parliament and became law on 19 September 1983. New Zealand women gained the right to stand for election in 1919. The first female MP, Elizabeth McCombs, was not elected until 1933. It took until 1984 for the number of women in Parliament to reach double figures. In 2014 there were 69 males in parliament and 31 women! Should we rest without full emancipation of women being implemented in our society? Since the women’s liberation movement quietened in the eighties society has landed up with wide and worsening inequalities, and women suffer most in this type of society, directly and indirectly.
One hundred and twenty four years since women got the right to vote, the journey is far from over! “The gender pay gap in this country is symptomatic of a bigger problem”, says Angela McLeod in this interview.
New Zealand ranked tenth in the Global Gender Gap Index 2015 after countries such as, and surprisingly, Rwanda and the Philippines! New Zealand climbed one rank to ninth last year owing to improving its position on the Economic Participation and Opportunity sub-index, with higher female labour force participation. Since we were the first to give women the vote, we should expect to be first!
New Zealander, Sandra Coney gave an excellent speech at International Women’s Day this year. She says, “I want to raise here a precept of the early women’s liberation movement that is still highly relevant. That is, you measure women’s progress not by how women are doing at the top but how they are doing at the bottom.
A LIVING WAGEIn some circumstances women still get paid less for doing the same job as men.
There is a 9.4% gender pay gap in New Zealand. This is ridiculous, and often low paid women workers are exploited, yes in this day and age.
The minimum wage needs to increase as many women are trapped in low paid work. Benefits then can rise and that will help the many solo parents, mostly women, who are struggling to survive and are sometimes in abject poverty.
It is from that background that exploitation of women and violence against women can appear.
TRADITIONAL ROLES
We all know the historical role of women in the kitchen, as caregivers and nurturers and there is nothing wrong with that. However women must have the choice to be all that they can be. Some enjoy the home environment, although in the current financial environment many are forced out to work for financial reasons. Even then many women are the primary cooks and cleaners at home and jobs are not shared equally between partners. (I for one, would prefer to cook a meal than mow the lawns!) However only 3% of firemen (FireMEN) are women. And as a man just pointed out recently, there are not too many male midwives around. So traditional roles still play a part in our society. Many people refer to doctors as HE and nurses as SHE for example. However we must be sure that these differences occur because of choice and not from patriarchy.
UNCONSCIOUS BIAS
More insidious than individual issues is the promotion of bias in the media, and retail areas. Try going shopping for young children and find non gender specific clothing. It is not easy. Pink for girls and blue for boys is very prevalent along with violent hero pictures on boy’s t-shirts and pink fairy dresses for girls. Toys are similarly categorised. This gender bias is much more evident, as I buy for my grandchildren, than it was in the eighties when my own children were young.
Watching the sports news on TV is another area of bias. Male sport dominates and so you may be unaware that our NZ women’s rugby team, for example, has won five World Cups and the men have only won three!
It is very clear that there is gender bias in the workplace.
The government has reached its target to have 45% of women on State Sector Boards, but the private sector is quite different, with only one business leader, Kate McKenzie CEO of Chorus, in the top NZX 50 business leaders.
EMPOWERING WOMEN
In an attempt to overcome bias in employment, the New Zealand Law Society released a draft Gender Diversity and Inclusion Charter for comment by lawyers.
“The voluntary charter is an initiative of the Law Society’s Women’s Advisory Panel that was set up to look at ways to support the retention and advancement of women in the legal profession. It also aims to address pay equity and encourage the implementation of unconscious bias training for all lawyers and key staff.”
As well as the law society driving reform within its ranks, we need government legislation to drive a more equal society.
Empowering women is the most important thing we can do to build a better society.
The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality on which Angela McLeod is a member of the New Zealand committee seeks to:
Establish high-level corporate leadership for gender equality.
Treat all women and men fairly at work – respect and support human rights and non-discrimination.
Ensure the health, safety and well-being of all women and men workers.
Promote education, training and professional development for women.
Implement enterprise development, supply chain and marketing practices that empower women.
Promote equality through community initiatives and advocacy.
Measure and publicly report on progress to achieve gender equality
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To hear more on women’s rights, please listen to Angela McLeod in this interview.
Angela McLeod is the past president of the Federation of Business and Professional Women, New Zealand, and a UN Women National Committee Aotearoa New Zealand Councillor,
Upper Hutt City Council Chair, and is on Wellington Region’s Waste Forum.
She says:
“I have lived in Upper Hutt all my life and I’m passionate about our city and environment. I want to: put our interests first; fight to keep us out of a Super city; strengthen our local economy and community; upgrade all our train stations; keep our water publicly owned, from source to tap; clean up the Hutt River and build an effective rural strategy.
My husband (Mac) and I live on a lifestyle block in Whiteman’s Valley and we own a local retail business.
I have been and continue to be, involved with local and national civil society groups.”
Angela has much to say on women’s issues including the upcoming election.
This interview is sponsored by: The Awareness Party
www.theawarenessparty.com
In 1973 the North Koreans realising that they were not making any progress with South Korea on formalising Peace, wrote a letter to the US House of Representatives and the US Senate asking for a Peace Treaty and they have never received a reply, so here we are today - why no reply? Well the answer is quite simple - it has nothing to do with North Korea - and Peter gives a documented quote from Condoleezza Rice. US Secretary of State 2005–09. Saying what it does do, is expose the extreme cynicism of the situation and the complete lack of respect for other human life if you are not American. Quote - “the North Koreans are like some sort of road kill on the highway of history …” What is really going on is about America - and the US containment of China - policy. Most people do not know that there was no peace treaty signed by North Korea and the USA - so a ceasefire was arranged - as both sides knew that they could not prevail. Evidently this still irks the US military.
Peter still reckons that up until 1971 - they were still keen to have a go at ousting the other - but US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger went to China and President Nixon a year later, changed the geopolitical map - and North Korea suddenly realised that if another war happened that they may not now be able to rely on China so - after weighing this US China dialogue - they decided to ask South Korea to have a peace treaty and get closer together again. - and though they had some talks and it was thought a good idea - nothing really happened (and every year up until today - the successive Kim’s have in their New Year speech proposed and asked for a Peace Treaty.) Hence the above overture to the USA.
Peter Wilson of the NZ DPRK Society - New Zealand - Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Society - (Also known as North Korea.)
Backgrounder
Peter Wilson is a freelance consultant who worked for the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the Food and Agricultural Organisation, including alongside the UN in the UN Development Program - where previously he had worked for long term projects like 2 years in Papua New Guinea and 4 years in the Philippines - implementing long term projects and that eventually morphed into short term projects - like project planning and supervising and troubleshooting. He ended up working twice for the UN in North Korea the first time being in 1997.
Media Programing For decades North Korea is a country that the media has always portrayed as an: impoverished rogue state; secretive state; the world’s most isolated and Orwellian state; the whole rotten carcass of the North Korean state; a nuclear weapons state; instability within the rogue state; Stalinist state/the last Stalinist state; a failed state with nuclear weapons/ nuclear weapons state; the state as a religious cult; the world’s most closed state; police state; failed state. Peter says that in the study of the media’s description of North Korea’s state of well being - that every different adjective is used as a prefix before ending in the words ‘North Korea’ and when compared with South Korea there is no such prefix used in front of the words South Korea. Which shows huge amounts of bias. So that we have all been conditioned to see North Korea in a decidedly negative way. However when he looks at where the articles in the media come from they are Bloomberg, Reuters (head office New York) Time New York Times, Washington Post - they are all American sources and reflects the Washington line - And Peter states that Washington looks at the world through a different type of prism from what we in NZ look through. And it is true. (Yet, the fact that Donald Trump calls these above publications (that include CNN) being fake news agencies - brings Peter to laugh about the ironies of existence). The situation of North Korea
Having worked for a small UN Agency 20 years ago in Pyongyang called the International Fund for Agricultural Development - Peter had access to virtually the whole of North Korea in 1997 - where he witnessed first hand the plight of the famine at that time. Though it was bad - it was nowhere as near as horrendous as the Western media portrayed and that the reason why this drought lead famine was due to continuous bad weather and climatic conditions and the fact that North Korea was kept out of the international system - due to the USA locking them out of the International Monetary Fund - which meant they could not belong to the World Bank - or to the regional development banks like the Asian Development Bank - That Peter says that the Americans one day, must have blinked and North Korea became a member of the International Fund for Development - which is just a tiny extension, as a multilateral financial institution. Peter has spent the last 40 years of his entire professional career having worked in 21 different Asian countries especially in all the poorest and problem areas which in 1997 took him to North Korea - because they were at the height of their food crisis. It was a US$50 million project dealing in fertiliser and improved crop production of which Peter was involved in $13 million of that - for increasing production of small livestock such as ducks, geese, sheep and goats. When he first went there he had little knowledge about that country - probably less that the average person today knows - mainly because today we are getting more news coverage. However what little he didn’t know really did not stand upon to that he really saw on the ground. That life in North Korea is very different as to what is portrayed by the media - in this case the US media. His most recent visit was last month, August 2017 having worked there on two occasions and on the 5 other occasions he has visited he has represented the NZ DPRK society. This time he came back a little bit staggered. The Economy is Growing Fast
He said the economy was booming!
He estimated at least three times the numbers of cars on Pyongyang streets since he was last there exactly two years ago. The shops are bursting with consumer goods. Their military deterrence missile/nuclear programme has accelerated.
It was brought home to him that sanctions are totally farcical. They just don't work!
From all we are told by the media, North Korea is an aggressive threat to the world. They are not. North Korea's crime is to stand up to the United States and not allow US Corporations to trade there!
The South Korean Central Bank’s latest study maintains the North Korean economy grew at least 3.9% last year - However Peter thinks that the growth could be a lot more than this 3.9%, due to the way the GNP is assessed by the South Koreans.
Peter says that over his numerous times of visiting that he can easily see that the standards of living are increasing and it is quite different from what is portrayed in our media i.e they are not having to eat grass!
As Peter has been working in a large number of Asian countries for 40 years, that to be effective he said you have to understand the system - where the power is - who is up who - and if you don’t understand that political context - plus the social context you will not get what’s going on in these countries. So in having to visit many strange situations, assess them all and then be productive - that was the factors that he dealt with.
This interview covers: US Black Basketball player Dennis Rodman and his frequent visits to North Korea to assist in sporting skills and opening more understanding. That Rodman wants to play peace-keeper between Trump and Kim That Peter in 1997 was asked to be on the ground to see exactly what the drought was like and the famine that the Western media told us about. He says it was a privilege to be selected for this UN assessment trip which as an extension of the World Food Program and Food and Agricultural Organisation. They were awake to this as there definitely, was a problem. So this team - possibly the first Western team ever was able to travel extensively right through the country because for the aid money to go to North Korea, the United Nations had to know the seriousness of this event. But what they were looking at didn’t actually gel with what North Korea was telling the world -because people were not dying by the thousands (or eating grass) and though there was hunger there were not nearly as serious - a problem as we had heard from the Western media - and Peter was able to see that there was not a huge increase in the deaths of elderly and children. Climate: the ground in North Korea is frozen hard for 6 months a year and that only 15% of the land can be used for arable farming. The North Koreans say they have 172 frost free days a year - they don’t say that they have so many sunshine days a year, or so many rainy days like we do in NZ. So for 6 months of the year they have to work really hard through this time to grow enough food - but as North Korea is a very mountainous country with only 15% arable land they just can not produce enough food in that small area - and they utilise whatever space they can. Peter says that historically they have to work really diligently, and though their agriculture is technically very good - he says they have to make sure that they have enough food for the coming winter. The Failure of the Soviet Economy affected North Korea This is where the deconstruction of the Soviet Union comes in, in the early 1990’s - for when it deconstructed the USSR - North Korea and also Cuba had always been subsidised by the Soviets, and as they were going broke - they were not able to give food to their ex client states (like Cuba too). That when the bad weather hit North Korea - there was a major shortfall. Because they could not source cheap diesel and fertiliser and when it came to food - especially grain, it all stopped because they had no trading system with the West at all. So that when Russia finally emerged out of the USSR it was broke - and needing hard currency themselves wanted payments for goods in hard currency e.g US$ - but North Korea had none of that either. So the North Koreans actually exaggerated their circumstances a little and they were able to receive free food from Oxfam and the other charity agencies. Which he said was quite clever of them. Peter then states that to this day - certain overseas mouth pieces state that two to three million people died - but he says - that’s not true - and that sure, there were some deaths - maybe 250,000 over many years maybe up to 750,000 people, Peter says that there may have been 3 to 400,000 premature deaths that happened. Note NZ contributed aid at that time However when George Bush 2 came to power he swapped the game plan and instead sent food to Africa. So the North Koreans still need to now top up their food requirements - grain wise and they they have been able to buy this on the international market as they have the cash. What is not known is that the US put the first sanctions on North Korea in 1950 and they are proposing to do it even more. - but it is clearly not working … as the North Koreans are making their own consumer goods as well. Consumers Goods & Military development is accelerating So North Korea’s military development has accelerated and so has their standard of living and the economy is growing and the sanctions just don’t work. Nuclear Tests, Missile tests ands Satellite systems Containment of ChinaThe reason why America does not want a peace treaty of any sort is, because it's all to do the US containment policy of China. The US wants forward defence in South Korea and Japan, and as far away from the United States of America, however Kim is bringing home to the Pentagon and the State Department - that he has the technology to build missiles that will one day be able to reach the heartland of the US, but North Korea is yet not in the arena of placing a nuclear warhead on a missile. Meanwhile across the radio waves, TV, satellite systems and the internet the US is ramping up North Korea as the bandit nation that will definitely send an intercontinental missile to America or any of its allies - and this story has been fanned by the US corporate media - and the South Korean people have bought it - plus the Japanese public and 99.5% of the whole world - have been taken in by this continuous rhetoric. US wanting to be the Dominant Country on Earth (With hundreds of bases globally the US wants to be the only dominant player on planet earth. They are not looking for partners other than the Anglo American alliance, with Israel somehow inserting itself into the equation as well. China is still in the ascendancy and is overtaking America in most areas of production and trade and modernising its military very rapidly. Thus China is seen as the greatest threat). General Wesley Clark Youtube (Mentioned in this interview by Tim) The reason the refugee crises came to Europe over the last number of years was given by General Wesley Clark about 10 days after 911 when he went to the Pentagon and was told by another General that the US was going to take down about 7 Middle Eastern countries. And this has basically happened and is still happening under cover of the Arab Spring revolutions. Syria being the latest and then - on to Iran. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RC1Mepk_Sw The Neo Cons in the US are the ones directing these actions. Plus, an unconscious humanity not taking any responsibility throughout the West to address the Neo-Con agenda. Peter mentions William Blum - ex CIA agent who tells about the list of 57 countries since WW2 that the USA has been involved in attempting and in most cases changing a regime to whom they wanted . https://williamblum.org/ The fact that is: of all the countries that have stood up to the USA - it is North Korea. Which regrettably makes them more hated by Uncle Sam who uses all means of propaganda that can be trained on them by US corporations to constantly demonise this country. Note NZ was demonised when it became Nuclear Free and thus was ejected out of ANZUS, by the US. Rejection by the US Government - again. In January last year - the North Koreans made a proposal to the United States - and said that if you halt your war-games with South Korea - they will freeze their nuclear development program - and this will give us the space to talk - Washington said NO. Because of the US military controlled Governmental intransigence - this has driven China and Russia even more closer together. Plus, Putin has come out supporting this freeze - but to no avail. New Zealand's Role The Helen Clark Labour Government many years ago opened up diplomatic contact with North Korea and was consistent in remaining in contact - however the National Government under Sir John Key has cut this link - and there has been no contact for 3 years and Peter states that it is Wellington’s fault, because Pyongyang wants to talk. Being ShunnedAt the time of Nobel Peace Prize winner, Barack Obama’s 2nd Presidential election the North Koreans sent a letter to him asking for the cessation of hostilities stating that they wanted a Peace Treaty. Asking for: Recognition of their sovereignty - Wanting the lifting of sanctions - Wanting all foreign troops out of the Korean Peninsular - Finally asking to talk about an implemented and Internationally agreed upon Nuclear Free Korean Peninsular - The answer from Obama - nothing …. Peter states that today this is still the North Korean Policy of wanting a Peace treaty Finding Neutral Nations to broker an agreement (Where is NZ?) Norway is seen as a country with the courage and the vision to get out into the world and forge peace and bring people to the table - whereas NZ shies away from any ‘major global engagement’ and for reason we do not understand.
Ache in Indonesia, Palestine, Sri Lanka are mentioned as having Norwegian involvement and Peter tells of meeting a diplomat from Norway by chance in Pyongyang and asking him why not North Korea seeing Norway's has been so worldly active? With the diplomat saying the reason there is no action on the Korean peninsular is because the USA would not be happy.
Other Subject Matter Covered.
The North Korean Voting System
Covering of the Leadership of the three Kim's since the 1950’s and why only them? Peter stating that they are following a Confucian model and it is not really that different from China or Vietnam and or Laos. That North Korea, also sees flaws in these systems - saying that the rural people in both China and Vietnam are being left out of the equation.
The North Korean’s are making their own business model and not following exactly what China or Vietnam are doing - they are doing their own version of business - because they know that the people in the cities in China are doing well but as above the people in the countryside are not and the North Korean Government want to even the playing field. They are conscious of this inequality in Vietnam as they see it as worse than that of China - and Peter says they look him straight in the eye and they’ll tell him “it is no better in the West - where the rich are getting richer and the poor remain poor.”
They say that they are still looking for a better way - whilst still holding to their socialist ideals being egalitarian and they are modernising and getting ready to interact with the global economy and have a fairer society for their people.
Listen to Peter …
Education
English is now being taught in Primary, Secondary & Universities Whereas in 1997, it was only being taught in universities so as to teach diplomats and so forth..
Agricultural food production
30% of food is now traded by sole traders - where as many years ago it was all run by the state.
Health and Medicine
hospitals are very good - well trained personnel.
They were using interactive TV technologies communicating with other doctors and nurses in the other towns and cities.
Housing
in the last 20 years - Peter surmises that nearly the whole country has rebuilt or modernised all it’s housing and apartment blocks, in the 20 years he has been visiting the country - where in 1997 it was just a country of square concrete grey block houses - but today huge changes and now there are some architecturally stunning apartment blocks been built.
Peter encourages whatever new New Zealand Government that gets elected to restore relations with North Korea, just like Helens Clark’s Labour Government did prior to this previous National administration.
Notes:
There was only 54 minutes to cram as much as we could into this interview.
US Activist Gloria Steinem and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maireed Maguire an Irish Peace Activist - Marched for Peace in Pyongyang 23rd May 2015
Peter Wilson
NZ DPRK Society
http://asaa.asn.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/asian-currents-13-08.pdf
The article entitled "The Demonisation of North Korea."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QaNA9eSQVE 18 minute video ( with Anchor NZ butter)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=387&v=yPYxrmxOvcQ fly over better than thought
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/92073468/terence-obrien-baptism-of-fire-for-brownlee
The orchestrated “Korean crisis” is not about North Korea. It is an orchestration that lets Washington put nuclear missile bases on China’s border, just as the orchestrated “Iranian crisis” was the excuse for putting nuclear missile bases on Russia’s borders.
Paul Craig Roberts: Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury for Economic Policy and ex Associate Editor of the Wall St Journal.
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org
Steve Papps is here in conversation with Liz Gunn who admits from the outset that Steve was a valuable mentor to her when she was going through a divorce, short on funds and even shorter on self confidence. From those days, they have cemented a firm friendship. Steve has helped many people who are in challenging life situations and unsure about how to find a way through, and how to blossom again as people. A very harsh childhood
Steve Papps has three businesses - Papps Nutrition, Papps Consultancy, and LifeForce Water. All of this from a man who grew up in a home that by his own admission was a “Once Were Warriors” household.
Liz asks him about the early challenges he faced- an unavailable father, an alcoholic mother and a house where parties, violence, police being called in the night, and dire poverty, were the norm. Yet he found bright spots - the good foster families who took him and his brother in at times, a love of learning and of his schooling in Remuera thanks to the state housing in which they were lucky enough to live.
Steve talks of having to have a pillow over his face and ears as a boy ( and he still does this) to be able to go to sleep. With that pillow over his face, he would make internal resolutions that he would be a father who hugged his children and was connected with them, and also a man rich enough to provide for his children so he could give them the kind of childhood he was not enjoying . These were the early days of his unknowingly developing his ability to create a different reality for himself.
Determined to excel at school and in sport
Steve was determined to excel at school in sport. With his bright mind, he also soaked in the good learning. But at 13, that state house was pulled down and the family were moved to a much rougher area and to a school in Penrose. From there, the two brothers started getting involved in drugs and alcohol and his schooling suffered.
When he was 16, he found out he was to become a father. He had an innate sense of what is right. He chose to stay with the mother of his child and sought out work. By 19, he was the father of three children .
Being responsible as a young 17 year old
At 17 he took on a commission job. He realised he could make in one day, what he was making in a week in his other job. He followed the advice of his Maori mentor exactly- “ I didn’t out think it. I did exactly what he said “ . He had to keep a positive mental attitude and never give up. He simply never gave his attention to the negative thoughts. His first day’s sales were a record. “ You see Liz, I had to sell ( or ) my son didn’t eat “. By 18, he had risen to assistant manager of NZ for the company, and he was running a whole team.
Steve then alluded to the second company he began - a security company which became extremely successful for him.
Using certain Principles to focus on Success
Liz and Steve discuss the principles behind success, by looking at Papps Consultancy’s aim-to help people with their consciousness, to help people understand how the Universe really operates . Everything is a reflection of the internal world, the internal thoughts.
He took these understandings in to Papps Nutrition and into body building. From coming last in his first competition, after studying the nutrition to help him win, he ended up representing NZ at the most prestigious amateur championship Mr Universe . “ I became passionate - I outsmarted the bigger guys in nutrition and I studied how my mind works “
Steve now gets up at 4.30 am and does a 12 to 14 hour day at work plus his workout . By the end of the day, he still has the same level of energy as at 4.30, and he says it’s because he knows how to eat, how to drink water, how to think and how to breathe .
Combatting poor health and eating choices.
Steve talks of the growing levels of poor health in society . One example is the epidemic levels of diabetes - 9 people a week in NZ losing a limb because of diabetes - and yet he has seen evidence that it is able to be healed. “ Obviously there’s evidence that as a population, we’re doing something wrong . And it’s the way that we’re shopping, the way that we’re eating “
He says that most people are overfed and at the same time are starving- starving of nutrients.
Steve tells the story of a client, Colin, who had Type 2 diabetes. He was addicted to drugs and alcohol when he met Steve. He was very depressed. Steve did a nutrition plan for him . 8 weeks later, he had an appointment with the doctor and he was off all medication. His own doctor said to him “ Whatever you’re doing, just keep doing it” . The doctor added a follow up comment to that, which may surprise you when you listen to this interview. Steve was bemused- and he and Colin were both confused by the doctor’s comment. Colin’s life story completely changed with his better health, his diabetes healing, his drug free life, his weight loss from 124 kg to 82 kg, his fitness programme, but most of all , with the different thinking patterns he developed through his talks with Steve, and the coaching he received. Thanks to the shifts from that different perspective which Colin developed, he is now in a happy relationship, has a young child, travels around the world , and is on his way to getting his own home.
“Discipline gets you started, it’s just like turning the key in the ignition. What is required is awareness. Discipline will get you started but awareness keeps the change”
Discipline but more-so - it’s Awareness
Steve and Liz discuss the idea of awareness, and the difference of that from just positive thinking. He tells the story of Rene, his friend who now runs a successful business . But he used to have a false sense of “ NEXT week I’ll get my business started” ( and Steve talks about how people do that with fitness too - and in many other areas - “NEXT week I’ll get around to that “) . Steve tells the story of how he challenged Rene’s desire to stay within his comfort zone. Liz asks what happens when that human being takes that leap off the cliff.
Steve says every successful person will tell you about the failures they have had. It’s part of the process towards success. You can’t succeed without failures. And they’re not even really failures. They’re part of the refining of your consciousness.
Consciousness and Energy
Everything is energy, vibrating - protons , neutrons, electrons… but in their most refined form, it’s just one energy expressing itself in many forms. There’s actually only one energy vibrating on different frequencies.
When it comes to money, it’s all about the vibration we hold - it’s nothing to do with how smart we are, how many hours we work , or even the product itself! It’s as if there is a mirror. The mirror will reflect back to you the essence of the energy at which you vibrate. Ask -for example- how do I truly feel about money today ?? Steve has found that every wealthy person has one thing in common: they truly expected to be wealthy.
He takes a further common example- the woman who grew up in a home seeing her mother abused and now, as an adult, set at that frequency, she will tune in to an abuser, just as an abuser will tune in to a victim. It’s not from her conscious thoughts. What she needs is an awareness of deep subconscious energy ." Everything in your external world is a reflection of your internal world “
That person - that behaviour- can only stay in your life by you giving it attention.
Tuning in and becoming focused
Steve gives a powerful metaphor for tuning your energy, by likening the 'tuning in' to changing the frequency of a radio.
Reality is happening inside of you. It’s only your attention to something that makes it ‘exist' outside you.
Changing from within
Everyone is trying to change their external world, not their internal thinking patterns and beliefs. That is where the misunderstanding lies.
These are shifts in fundamental understandings. "Reality happens on the inside and the story we’re playing out on the inside, we’ll see hardened into physical form on the outside. But that’s not reality “ .
It all starts from within. Someone who is vibrating from frustration will manifest frustration around her effortlessly .
Our bodies consist of trillions of cells with their own intelligence
In each of our bodies are 37.2 trillion cells. That’s 37.2 reactions per second ! That’s an incredible intelligence flowing through us every second. Life flowing effortlessly. There are laws that operate this universe. The influence you have is tremendous and these laws of the universe are exact. The laws of the Universe. You can apply them in each area of your life. You can have a totally different life . But if you don’t even understand them, it won’t open up for you .
Awakening to possibilities
Liz asks Steve about that little boy with his head under the pillow, daydreaming of a different life. Living it in his imagination. Steve talks of Einstein saying that imagination is more powerful than knowledge. Imagination is Image- in-action.
Liz refers to that third company - LifeForce Water - and the book on water which Steve has written. And she asks him about his successes making millions in a security company. And how he also misapplied the principles which had helped him build up wealth and success, by saying to himself “Don’t you mess this up”. Liz says she will discuss this with Steve in greater detail in their next programme.
Learning from mistakes :)
And Tim Lynch, who was sitting in the studio waiting to edit the interview, later edited in the reaction of Liz when she thought they were all off air! It’s a spontaneous, heartfelt reaction to a man Steve Papps, who helps others from his own heart.
Papps Nutrition - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oil6YUKk3Hs
https://www.pappsnutrition.com
A conversation between two lively caring Kiwi women about the state of our nation. Liz Gunn and Lisa Er took time this week to Korero about the state of the nation and the ways in which New Zealanders can educate ourselves about our country and our world.
(A korero is a conversation or a discussion.)
Sadly, the wider research on our country’s current poverty and homelessness, on our record suicide numbers, on the widening gap between the haves and the have nots, can have the sense of a litany of failures . There are many reasons to feel discouraged.
BYPASS MAINSTREAM MEDIA
Yet the freedoms offered by the internet, and online (and radio) discussion, can offer a way through this sense of overwhelm.
Lisa and Liz discuss the ways in which to become more informed and to find the courage to question the norms and the prevailing viewpoints often sold to us through media acolytes of the government viewpoint. From there, it’s rewarding to become actively involved - by each of us making our own contributions, in our own corners of this country we love. Liz talks of her work with the homeless on our streets and Lisa refers to the nurturing of a system of values as a bedrock for political and societal decision-making.
Perhaps the biggest issue coming in to the election is the need to find the passion to stand up and to speak out. Certainly that is the spirit in the studio when Lisa and Liz meet for their discussions.
ISSUES
One can see on social media much distress about the poverty in New Zealand, lack of housing, homelessness, and frustration about the state of our rivers and lakes. There are those who passionately want change, to cannabis laws, 1080 drops, fluoride in our water, and the banking system. Others want to ensure that our food is safe and labelled, and that genetic engineering is not let out into the environment. Education and health figure strongly in the list of concerns that people have. Some people concentrate on single issues and become experts, and others view the issues from a bigger picture.
However all of the above, and more, need to be included in the discussions we have, especially before the elections. Unfortunately the mainstream media tends to focus on leaders and not on policy so some people feel disinclined to vote.
Corruption is another issue that people find hard to accept but as Nicky Hager show us in his two latest books, “Dirty Politics”, and “Hit and Run”, we need to be very awake and aware.
HOPE
Both Liz and Lisa hope that joining in with this korero - through your own listenership - will nurture passion in each valued listener, and bring the simmering fire in your belly to life in a burning blaze of thoughtful discussion on the main aspects of New Zealand life that need to be improved . Such outspokenness will lend an urgency to pre-election build-up, and may even inspire our families -and especially our young - to sign up as voters, and speak up as Kiwis.
Links
UNICEF report: New Zealand 34th out of 41 developed countries for child well being”
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/93583589/unicef-report-wellbeing-of-kiwi-kids-languishes-behind-other-developed-countries
“No lunches for poor children”
http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/shows/2017/05/lunchbox-differences-in-decile-1-and-decile-10-schools.html
This programme is sponsored by The Awareness Party
Caroline Robinson is the founder of Cabal, a creative studio exploring and advancing new pathways for regenerative development. Results of Cabal’s public art collaborations can be seen across Auckland City and beyond. The whole living systems practice behind these artworks, informs Cabal’s wider role as an integration facilitator, contributing to complex city-making projects by supporting project teams to grow the capability to work in full reciprocity within their unique community and place. I first met Caroline at Dave Breuer’s - Anew NZ ‘group mind gathering’ - at AUT - Auckland University of Technology. There she had a huge blank art board at this visionary function that let her visually translate the stories that speakers covered, to that very engaged audience. This enabled people to see how intellectual concepts and mental information can be elegantly transcribed into a visual form that was holistic in intent and that lead us to explore as participants, how we the people can become involved and renew our whole country.
Based on Measures of Genuine Progress (and “genuine economic success”), as a challenge to the misuse of GDP, via the measurements of social, cultural, economic, environmental and governance wellbeing - with the public shared visions determining the goals of wellbeing. (See at the bottom of this posting.)
Measuring Human Joy and Contentment
Dr Ron Coleman from Canada was at this function to explain and Dr Marilyn Waring http://www.marilynwaring.com/ as an Ex National Party Member of Parliament (who went/rebelled against the National Prime Minister Robert Muldoon, many years previously) introduced Ron as she had been doing work on the ’true’ cost of living index and how do we measure success - particularly our decision making process at a governmental level. Known as the ‘genuine progress indicators' - meaning not just managing the gross national product and financial benefits from across the country - but also understanding what makes us flourish - what brings joy and happiness and peace as well as bringing balance in a holistic way.
Today, Caroline as an extraordinary creative artist - is still very much aligned with the notion of ‘genuine progress indicators’ she remains very interested and curious about what are the conditions that we need for life to flourish within our homes, within our communities, our nation and our planet.
Community & Connection
Asking the question? - How do we create a flourishing for all of life - including ourselves?
Food being a conductor of getting together to eat and share … gatherings around eating and sharing - being a universal common ground - and in the world of today that needs to be more unified - Caroline's focus is - how do we bring this all together?
So what is it we need to improve? Like how do we re relate to each other - connect the fragmentation and those who have been isolated from each other? How do we best do this? So that we are working all together as a more dynamic whole?
Because the processes of regeneration of rebirthing of healing is becoming paramount as there's a lot that is out of balance and in crises - there is much that needs to be addressed.
So what is the journey we need to take to come back into wholeness and that everybody has a role to play in this.
And with the experience and the practices that she brings to the conversation -
The Land and Sacred Place
Caroline is very aware of place and the historical implications of how did that particular area come into being - the terrain, the living matter, the water sources and courses - the Maori tribes or iwi that were present prior to the coming of the white man - the sacredness of life over a very broad context .
That there are many areas of land in Auckland that housing and buildings sit on - yet underneath these houses are a hidden creeks where a spring once was. That in today’s urbanised sprawl a little rivulet - or tiny creek, can be a wonderful play area for young children - where the water is clear, healthy and cool. Kids can see their reflection, see the stones or marine flora around it, maybe cockabullies or kura - freshwater crayfish - yet today’s developers will most probably put pipes in this area and pipe all the water away underground and thus the stereotyped boring industrial housing complex - hypnotises us into a thousand high priced houses looking basically the same, on a treeless landscape - scraped of nature - is the NZ culture of homogenous sameness?
Auckland Connection -Tamaki Makaurau
Coming from a Taranaki farm near Stratford in the rural landscape, that had many different animals - gave her a deeper sense of nature and its richness. That when she arrived in high density housing Auckland gave her cause for reflection.
Tamaki Makaurau - Auckland, gave her another understanding of place - of the Maori, the mauri (essence) and going deeper and feeling the grief of the landscape and ecology of what has been lost - in the vast forest of what was once Auckland and the covering up of water courses or arterial waterways by burying them and piping that water to the sea as per the Horotiu stream for example that used to run down the centre of Queen Street in Auckland.
That there are springs or puna that are even very close to the PlanetFM radio station that emanates pristine water that bubbles up out of the volcanic rocks and lava - very pure water - and there are around 51 volcanoes that comprise the whole city of Auckland. With numerous cones that we can climb, dotted around the city.
Public Domain and Community Involvement
Caroline has a feeling for public domain and community projects
She has been involved in the Panmure and Glen Innes suburbs of Auckland for the master plan for the town centre - bringing story of people and place, including geological and ecological activity so as to define and development projects.
In this process - getting to know each other as humans is so very critical. if we are to develop trust - mana - wairua and mauri - all are integral to deeper connection.
Living Earth Papatuanuku.
The mentions Te Urewera in Tuhoe country - as a park with human rights - that for the Tuhoe people and the NZ Government acknowledge at some level that ‘the land is a living being.’ Papatuanuku - Mother Earth.
Caroline is focused on find a space for people to work out the complexities of the challenges that are facing us - and allow them a way to work themselves out.
Regeneration
In this regenerative practice it covers working out complexity - that there is a harmonising energy within nature that has the ability to work things out. Caroline says it is in many ways ‘beyond consensus’ - and in ‘trusting the wisdom of life.'
It knows how to work complexity out - all we need is the space to take the time to connect - and communicate - share the breath and weave family - and though this sounds philosophical there is a very pragmatic quality to it - see her sculptures along the motorway in Grafton gully in Auckland - where the artwork has an intention to speak to the resonance of that place and its history and respond to that.
She says that the art does not need to be a sculpture - that it can be a building as in the Living Whare in Taneatua - In Tuhoe country - it could be a roading project - even a skyscraper - (Listen)
That everything we do - needs to become an art form.
That the universe is a work of art - that our planet and all its biota and landscapes are an art form - thus the importance for us as humans is to create our homes on our home planet into art forms that embed beauty and geometry as a reflection of the magnificence of creation and of what we can evolve.
Something that Caroline says meets all of our needs at once … be it every building built - every community developed can be part of a regeneration into a greater whole. Economic - social, cultural - spiritual and our human developmental journey they can all coalesce together - it is possible.
That the universe is a work of art - and our planet and nature is one too
The Living Future Institute - https://living-future.org/
The Living Building Challenge - has a ‘check out test’ where if you are an architect and/or builder you have to use only materials that are ecologically sustainable and non polluting?
They have a red list of 25 chemicals, that cannot be in any building materials.
Firth Concrete in NZ now have a product that is biologically safe and comes up with a big tick.
You can now check your home building products - https://living-future.org/declare/declare-about/
‘A Declare Label’ Answers Three Questions: 1. Where does a product come from? 2. What is it made of? 3. Where does it go at the end of its life?
The Regenerative Economy is becoming a renewed mantra for today and tomorrow.
https://medium.com/@designforsustainability/towards-a-regenerative-economy-bf1c2ed6f792
Regenerative Building - One being finalised in the Wynyard Quarter here on Auckland Waterfront Educational Centre for Sustainable Coastlines. http://sustainablecoastlines.org/the-flagship/
Biophilia - living in accord with your home that is embedded in nature and all of life.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biophilia_hypothesis
This interview covers Homelessness too.
The amount of homeless in this country is a crisis here in NZ. That there are ways forward on this important issue for people to have a home and be safe and secure Not only warm and dry homes but homes that become temples of belonging - places where we can really belong and be and developed ourselves … We can do many things, we can build good homes, we know how to live on and with the land - grow gardens and quality food - let’s have a conversation about the larger NZ - where we all live. So that we are really regenerating life. (Listen)
Omaru stream Glen Innes Auckland - One of the few remaining streams that have not been piped and buried.
https://www.watercare.co.nz/SiteCollectionDocuments/AllPDFs/Glen_Innes_Matters_Feb_2017.pdf
“Ko au te awa, ko te awa ko au."
The whakatauki above, translated into English, says
‘I am the river and the river is me'
Call to Action
Caroline says: “climate change is a deadline for humanity …”
http://www.cabal.co.nz/
Introduction to Regenerative Development (5 short videos) https://vimeo.com/album/4650028 As per in the introduction of Dr Ron Coleman - Genuine Progress Indicators.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genuine_progress_indicator
I have just had Professor Mark Orams' in the station for a very uplifting exchange on the state of NZ’s inshore waters that connect out and around to embrace our whole planet. His own interests focussed on marine recreation and sport - high performance sport, leadership, coaching and outdoor education. A professional sailor who as a youngster was a keen ‘yachtie’ winning both NZ and World titles as well as a crewman on Sir Peter Blake’s round the world winning team - plus been involved in two America’s Cups as well. He calls for collaborative work and for ordinary people at grassroots level to lead from the front. For having a healthy understanding of the vastness of our ocean systems - and having spent a lot of time racing and visiting other countries, recognises that from a planetary perspective - the global marine systems are in increasing trouble and that these challenges must be urgently addressed. Acknowledging that NZ has still got an opportunity to initiate the much needed corrective measures if we are to arrest the decline of fish stocks, ocean pollution, drifting plastics and runoff from the land - among numerous tipping points. Indigenous Connection
Mark says it is our engagement with nature that has to be addressed as we pakeha and white races have put distance between us and the natural world - whereas indigenous peoples are affiliated far more closely as they have lived more embedded in the natural process. Pacific Islander and Maori have a natural affinity to the cycles of nature. Especially harvesting food, and survival etc and of their understanding of the seasons and the food planting and gathering. He further reiterates, that for indigenous peoples - that connection goes beyond the basics of knowledge and integrates through into cultural connection as well as spiritual wisdom .
Having been around as the human species for about 200,000 years and a great majority of this time - all of us has been deeply connected with nature - we all have been indigenous peoples.
That for we in the developed world, especially Australia and NZ it has been a relatively short time - that we have actually lived apart from nature - quite possibly only about 3 or 4 human generations - or from the industrial revolution onwards. What this means is that in our DNA - in our ’substance’ for the greater course of our history we have had that deep connection with nature as part of who we are.
Mark then goes on to talk about our immersion into nature and the psychological shift of our perspective as we embed ourselves into the greater awareness of the immensity of its power. Covering also our spiritual well being - and that through recreation, getting away from city and urban life and going bush, to the mountains, on a river or a lake - to sea, that recreation is actually ‘re-creation’ - and the time to restore our energies and well being.
Covering working with nature as against it - reading the signs, wind direction, water currents, moon phase and aware of the weather and being able to astutely adapt to harness the natural forces of nature - by bringing about a greater attunement and wellbeing. Where we can not control wind, waves or rain, but we learn how to adapt.
Some days - all goes well and the elements are warm and soft whereas some days or nights nature throws the full force of its fury and we have to be very focused and alert - thinking ‘gee - am I going to make it through this?’
He says that the contrasting situations are healthy as they are awe inspiring and re-connecting and they give us a different perspective that we cannot control Mother nature or control everything that happens to us or everything that surrounds us. What this does it forces us to slow down to the pace of nature and he says that this is a very healthy thing. Because most of us today are rushing to everything - to work, home from work, events and other commitments and our days are very, very full - and we control largely what we do - where we go, when we choose to do it - or others control it for us.
However, when we are out in the middle of the ocean in a very small boat we cannot determine what happens - and in these situations be it calm or stormy - it can be very primordial - a very basic thing and Mark sees it as a very good thing as it lets us get a true feel of nature - inside.
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New Zealand Environmental Challenges compared with Overseas.
Speaking on the waters surround NZ - they are largely pretty clean especially the further out we go, however closer into the shore we have numerous challenges because 3 or 4 generations ago (40-60 years) the conditions were far better, but NZ’s population has increased with much development around the Auckland coastline. As well as globally the population has now jumped up by an extra 5 billion people/consumers since 1950.
This huge spike in population has had a large affect on this country, on the shoreline and coastal waters. However he says we can still engage with the sea today where our health is not put at risk - whereas with so many countries overseas the coastal waters are so polluted that you would never swim - let alone, put your head under the water - worse swallowing a mouthful or having it enter your body by a cut or an abrasion - especially where there are large populations living on the water’s edge, or that their catchment drains into that coastal ecosystem. So there are compromised ecosystems as a result of human activity and our disposal of waste products either deliberately or accidentally that he says is very sobering … so much so that it is always a joy for him to come back to NZ waters and a cleaner marine environment, which he says we cannot take for granted and that we need to be very vigilant about it and that we have to work very hard to maintain.
Everything is Connected
Everything is connected - what ever we do on the land has an affect on the inshore coastal environment - the same pattern has occurred - for example - car tires and the chemicalised particulates wearing off on to the road - off the tires, as well as the dripping of fluid out of car exhaust pipes onto the road - then it rains and runoff and stormwater enters into the coastal waters - curtailing and degrading the area and forcing away fish and shellfish from rocks and surrounding bays - etc - for example Auckland’s East Coast Bays are virtually devoid of the super abundance of fish life of 80 years ago.
Talk to any person of 60-70 years plus of age and they will say that things are know where as good as they once were. There is a lot of wisdom in the Elders and they can tell us how it’s used to be like - so that we have this information that is telling us about this long term slow, chronic degradation - and this is very difficult situation to solve!
What We Can Do
For answers, there are some worthy innovative NZ’s schemes at present - marine protected areas which are stark contrasts to the degradation that is happening. These are Goat Island at Leigh http://www.doc.govt.nz/parks-and-recreation/places-to-go/auckland/places/cape-rodney-okakari-point-marine-reserve-goat-island/
on the East coast - North of Auckland and Tiri Tiri Matangi Island http://www.doc.govt.nz/parks-and-recreation/places-to-go/auckland/places/tiritiri-matangi-scientific-reserve-open-sanctuary/ that have been locked away for a sufficient amount of time and are now thriving - especially as Goat Island was left to its own renewal other than to stop fishing and extractive industries and now it is alive with fish and a huge drawcard for people wanting to see how NZ once was. As for Tiri Tiri Matangi - tree planting has occurred plus the introduction of native bird species and now it is a paradise of greenery and bird song - where once it was barren grassland denuded of trees.
So with ‘commitment, will and effort’ - we can bring back nature with some conscious decisions being made to turn things around. NZ has many ‘off shore Arks’ where islands have been set aside to become sanctuaries for endangered native flora and fauna and these are very successful that they are Islands of Hope - John Craig and Neil Mitchell on bringing Tiri Tiri Matangi into being - that bold decision making is needed - like Prof John Moreton and Bill Ballentine did with Goat Island as advocates getting people to think about protecting the marine environment and bringing people with them.
Grassroots Action
These examples Marc says are really important - because when we act together many superb results can come about. These are empowering stories and that our future can be far better as a result. He says grassroots are the answer - he is a massive fan of the people who work in the ‘not for profit sector’ - people whom have made huge sacrifices of time, energy and money and made enormous sacrifices for causes that they believe in.
From large organisations like the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society http://www.forestandbird.org.nz/ to the small ones like the Motutapu Restoration Society http://www.motutapu.org.nz/ or the education group ‘Experiencing Marine Reserves’ http://www.emr.org.nz/ - a small not for profit charitable trust that takes children into marine reserves to show them deeper qualities of nature and what marine protection can do.
Volunteers by the Thousands
Right across NZ here are hundreds of thousands of NZers who volunteer to make a difference because they believe in it. He says that these dedicated people are just not acknowledged enough which is a great pity - they are the real NZers - the real kiwis doing great things out there - we need to be proud of what they do - they are unsung heroes - never getting national awards or headlines in the media. To Mark they are the real heroes of NZ. He encourages us to take leadership and see what we can do around your particular area and take some people with you and do weeding and clean up beaches, streams etc.
Local Communities Working Together
Local communities - in nature, with and for nature - establishing win wins - as meeting good people and achieving a satisfactory result, because he says there is a primeval connection that after a full day or a week of working together - we will go home and have the best nights sleep in a long time because we have met and worked alongside people from vasty different walks of life, all with good intentions and especially being team spirited.
Good People Committing To Co-operate
Mark states that the portrayal of human behaviour and existence that comes through the MSM media is not an accurate portrayal of the great majority of people - the great majority of the humanity whom live in this world and in NZ are good people - they are well intentioned - they care about their families, they care about their neighbours and they care about nature and they care about their country - These people don’t get the headlines! Listen ...
There are people everywhere who have decent values and morals and will help you out - who will be friendly, who will greet you - who are people you can trust - this is the essence of being a decent person - it’s important to remember this. Plus, that we hold these values for ourselves as well and take the high road.
Values and Principles.
He mentions that some of the above principles may have been more prevalent 30 to 60 years ago - but the principles of honesty and integrity and decency and looking after one another are what he feels are at the heart of what is is to be a human - and certainly what it means to be a New Zealander.
We talked about Sir Peter Blake and team spirit and what this means. Though a cliche, a champion team - will always beat a team of champions - what is needed is a tight synergistic team. He said Peter intuitively understood a number of things.
He could take on a competitive team that could have more resources, perhaps be more talented, be more experienced and beat them because of the power of the team.
Where as a member of his team you always felt that you were important - that you mattered - that your opinion could add value.
So even if you were sweeping the floors or cleaning the toilet or the person with a brain the size of the planet making computations of fluid dynamics and design of the boat - you were important.
That we are all part of a greater whole and that we all depend on this planet that we share.
When we pool and pull together collectively - we make a massive difference.
Conscious Choices
Decision that we take - the products that we buy - the packaging that we use - the cars that we drive - the decisions we make of the companies that we support - or the candidates we vote for. We need to be Aware.
In the end Mark says that we have to do the best we can with what God gave us and that this is the mantra that Mark lives by.
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Covering the ‘Overwhelmers’ - Fukushima - radiation in the Pacific ocean - etc - how do we address situations like this? Plus Climate Change.
What can I do as one individual to be able to make a difference?
Mark says - collectively this is where we make major changes.
Saying that we need to take heart with Sweden’s Volvo’s decision to make all electric or hybrid cars in 10 years time. That they don’t make these decisions lightly - that they are ‘reading the tea leaves' - they see that there is a greening of the market place and they are positioning themselves to take advantage as well as lead …
Voting
Voting with your dollars - not buying from certain corporations who are at variance with your philosophy - thus more people supporting this notion will impel the company to change its outlook - its products range - its way it connects with consumers.
But first - before you lead others - lead yourself - walk your talk
Mark talked about mental health and that we in NZ have some major challenges around disempowered people - especially male youth in this country of getting to a point of a dark space - that when we do good things for others or nature and give of ourselves - we also reap the rewards of that good act as well - that by giving we have a better sense of our purpose - we have more satisfaction as to who we are as a person that if we like, we really can achieve a greater level of contentment and happiness.
He says that ironically that one of the answers to mental health is to dedicate at least some of your time to helping those who are less fortunate and are in such a difficult situation than you are.
Being Respectful
Without being disrespectful Mark says that a lot of the mental health challenges - are actually quite inward looking and are quite self serving - it’s about me - it’s about awww - I’m in such a difficult situation and my life is terrible and I can’t find a way out - and he is not disrespecting that - but one of the ways forward is to actually start thinking about how we can help others, because there are always people who are in a more difficult life circumstance than us!
If we are able to do something that can help them or if we can find a way to reconnect with nature and that we can plant a tree or a series of trees or do something that can allow us - that at the end of the day - we realise that our existence has mattered - that it has made a positive difference. That through us being here - the place is better than it was - these things have an enormous personal benefit for us - listen to the interview for more on this serious subject.
Separation from nature - from our society and the community - it leads to material things outside of ourselves that can cause many problems … listen … these are distractions
Giving is Important - from Ourselves to the Collective Greater Good.
This interview covers communities coming together.
Technology as a separator and not necessarily a bringer of people face to face and eyeball to eyeball and closer into hugging distance.
Mark talks about Natural Empathy
That we have wicked problems - climate change - plastic pollution - declining fisheries - coastal sedimentation and near shore pollutants
All these are our collective fault - we are all part of the problem.
How can we come together and to do something different - as opposed to making them worse?
That we start this philosophical conversation and have the ability to make compromises
“I will give you this - if you will give up that.”
Mark asks us to find ways to end polarising viewpoints.
That as we all share the same planet - let's come together to resolve these issues for the sake of future generations.
Dr Mark Orams - most definitely worth listening and taking in.
It’s all about an unfolding journey of working with the land experimenting with new and unconventional methods to bring balance to the ecology and yet be able to have the soil sustain them with high quality, nutrient dense - organic food. A life that he and his wife Rachel and children absolutely love. Greg has also been involved in a significant tree planting program that coincided with the Air New Zealand Environment Trust wanting to plant trees to offset some of their aircraft emissions. This enabled them to bring their environmental footprint back down to earth - by planting 85,000 trees, the vast majority being natives. The Family Farm
Greg Hart, his wife Rachel and family live beside a 30 hectare lake - (80 acres) on 1500 acres or 650 - hectares - which Greg says is an average size farm in the Hawkes Bay region for 1 and a bit person to run …
Their lake was where tuna or eeling took place by early Maori - plus waka or canoes have been found sunken in the lake too. These link back to Maori families, that Greg has connections to.
His farm is a mixture of beautiful rolling hills and some flat land and some steeper hill country with about 30 acres of remnants of native bush which he has been recently adding to.
Unfolding Journey of Discovery
It’s all about an unfolding journey of working with the land experimenting with new and unconventional methods to bring balance to the ecology and yet be able to have the soil sustain them with high quality nutrient dense organic food. A life that he wife Rachel and his children absolutely love.
He has a web page called ‘Restoring Paradise’ - where 1,000 years ago his area would have been in perfect balance …
It’s about working with the land, not extracting maximum yield - experiencing family, joy, people visiting and sharing.
Greg has been involved in a significant tree planting program that coincided with the Air New Zealand Environment Trust wanting to plant trees to offset some of its aircraft emissions and bring its environmental footprint back down to earth - by planting 85,000 trees, the vast majority being natives.
The plan was to restore ecosystems and regenerating native forests
To also become a working model of a sustainable regenerating agricultural system and have an open farm where visitors are encouraged to come and reconnect to nature and see where and how their food grows and comes from.
Because at present, NZ’s ecological systems, particularly due to dairy farming are becoming more out of balance.
A big driver for Greg is about sustainable food systems and food milage based on oil, and all the fossil fuels consumed in growing food. Grain imports coming from overseas to feed the pigs and chickens has a large ecological footprint.
In Greg’s estimation even his hens are not really sustainable either due to lack of granular food - with less organic wheat being grown in NZ.
Perennial as against Annual crop planting
Greg’s looking at more perennial crops so as to stop the continued cycle of growing each and every year, with more labour and fuel consumption disturbing the soil, the soil microbes, greater erosion etc.
He has noticed that his pigs are doing quite a lot of damage to the soil on his farm and he has concerns about lack of soil cover and that with recent rains - can wash away this precious soil into drains and away. etc.
Regenerative Agriculture
The present focus is on regenerative agriculture - it is somewhat like organics and an ecological approach to sustainable land management - like building up soil carbon and humus in the soil. This is by reducing our carbon emissions due to the way this particular system sequesters Co2 out of the atmosphere and locking it down in the soil, as the soil is the biggest sink of carbon - it’s naturally built into the ‘earth system’.
So regenerative agriculture takes and locks down carbon and makes the soil more fertile resilient and also capable of producing more nutrient dense food.
Darren Doherty - http://www.regrarians.org/about/ -
a Permaculture practitioner teacher from Australia - states: if the 5 billion hectares of agricultural soils around our planet were to increase their soil carbon content by 1.6% it would take out 100 parts per million of co2 out of the atmosphere - which is quite doable - this locking it back down in the soil. We could drop c02 content from 400 parts per million to 300 parts per million and it would really benefit our global food production.
Regenerative Agriculture increase biodiversity - whereas the present Neo-Liberal system is still cutting down forests to expand industrial agriculture - Greg is heading in the opposite direction and setting aside the less productive food growing areas and planting trees and restoring ecosystems and he is noticing the incredible increase in insects and bird life and nature is growing back into restoring itself with natural cycles starting to kick back in.
Water Quality
This brings up water quality and with quality humus this acts as a natural water filter and the need to keep the soil after heavy rains from washing into water courses, rivers and out to sea - affecting fishing beds etc.
Holistic Thinking
Greg uses a holistic grazing system and again ‘ holistic thinking’ is embedded throughout the methods that he is using right across his farm as he endeavours to intuitively read what nature requires to rebalance itself and build up the soil carbon with its trillions of microbes - the microflora - especially bacteria and fungi - the 'workhorses' of our planetary ecology.
The use of industrial fertilisers and chemicals are harming the soil biology - especially over the long term - when he wants the soil and planet to be thriving from day one.
Greg's Philosophy is ‘do no harm.'
One of his farming heroes is American Joel Salitin - PolyFace farm -http://www.polyfacefarms.com/our-story/ - Time magazine called him the most innovative farmer in the world and he is also a brilliant communicator - He is stacking enterprises on his land - by looking and mimicking how nature generates food.
Embedding Micro Enterprises across the Farm
Being innovative, Greg has created some small micro units - where someone can milk the cows and rear some calves and make an income from that. He is also direct marketing meat from the farm with home kills - and he has people with beehives - doing honey etc - and he sees there are incredible opportunities on the land that he is stewarding and care taking.
Having his own Lodging for Guests.
Having a portable saw mill is advantageous - he uses after cutting down his own trees into timber - which he used to clad his lodge that sleeps 17 people down on his lake side.- The Lodge can be used for reunions, events, workshops, presentation etc and many families and groups come to hang out in nature and reconnect with themselves at a deeper level. Even Corporate groups to breathe deeply again and chill out. It’s especially handy around education about earth systems etc, and of the necessity for people to understand the transition to regenerative agriculture.
Deepening Our Connection
That there is so much more that can be done to work with the land but Greg emphasises that it is about people working together and deriving more meaning at the same time.
The interview covers Pure Hawkes Bay - http://purehawkesbay.org/ - that is wanting GE free status for the region and has a lot of local Council support whilst the Federated Farmers from the opposite perspective are arguing against it and the conscious people of the region!!!
Greg's farm is an all grass system - no crops like turnips, swedes, maize and potatoes - as he wants to keep the tractor in the shed and see if he can live without disturbing the soil as much as possible.
Which leads again back to Holistic Grazing
Alan Savoury originally out of Zimbabwe http://www.savory.global/ - who observed the grazing animals of Africa from buffalo and zebra and to the bison of the American plains and with near on millions of animals in these herds - these animals live on a very long seasonal rotation and continually move along eating the tops of grass a lot of it tall and defecating and urinating at the same time. Whilst following hoofed animals break down most of the stalks which are composed of mainly carbon and are pushed down into the dung, into the soil that over time this has built up a deep rich organic soil rich in soils microbes. -
These African areas and great plains in America have some of the deepest richest soils that we have on our planet. That the richness of the soil allows great numbers of animals to be fed over millennia and the animals just kept moving - hence these areas are incredibly rich in grass, soil and deeply rooted plants and grass life. It’s turning sunlight into food for grazing animals. It’s also like composting on the soil surface.
Grass is basically a carbon pump, the leaves are solar panels - plants are one of the most effective ways of sequestering co2 out of the atmosphere and pulsing it down into the ground.
Greg is doing the same with his cattle using electric fences and moving the cattle everyday - and the rotational moving around the farm has the grass regenerating very fast and healthily. Because they are not eating every blade of grass percentage of leaves and stalks are still being ground into the soil along with dung and urine - the grass springs back into life quickly after …
Back to Joe Salitin and a carbonaceous diaper - dung + leaves and stalks + urine builds up and covers your soil. Caring for it. Listen to the interview
Note that pastoral agriculture is still the backbone of the NZ economy - but is is based on importing mega amounts of fertiliser for agriculture a lot of it phosphate from North Africa and Greg says that all the energy in mining it and trucking or railing it to ports - shipping to NZ then trucking to where it is processed then trucking it out to the rural regions and putting it in an aerial top dressing lane has huge costs as well as an ecological footprint skyrocketing.
Will we have a crimp in fossil fuels in the future? If so Greg is prepared to work as if there could be one.
Greg has learnt from courses in Biological Agriculture - (Listen to 4 interviews by Graeme Sait, as well as Arden Anderson, Christine Jones on GreenplanetFM.com) as well as organics and biodynamics and he finds that this holistic grazing management using these natural cycles has so many benefits.
Utilising Grazing and Tree Cropping Together
Greg then talks about environmental web sites that are saying if we want to save the planet we have to give up meat. Saying that he does not see any vegetarian eco systems in the world - yet animals are part of this nutrient cycling - and he is focusing on growing food producing trees on his farm - to get away from cultivating annual crops for our food. Where instead an integrated perennial polycultural system where you have food producing trees nutrient cycling trees and animals also working through the system - grazing under the trees etc.
Greg talks about vegetarianism and a meat diet - (listen) re rice and pasta wheat not grown in NZ same for pulses are all imported. These use up food miles. Meat is local.
Mark Shepard - ‘Restoration Agriculture’ - https://permacultureapprentice.com/permaculture-profiles/new-forest-farm-mark-shepard-100-acre-15-years-of-establishment/ - that all our energy and cultivation is going into annual crops - rice, wheat, soy and corn - it’s so energy intensive every year - that the soils get ploughed up and the sun bakes and bleaches soil organisms in the heat and then rains can come and wash the soil away - it is disastrous at many levels - there is no sustainability in this, especially when you add chemical sprays and fuel use.
Nut trees in NZ, Greg says is a grand idea reducing our need for a lot of annual soil cultivation. Walnuts, almonds, and hazel nuts have potential in this country
Universities - the need for natural soil science.
Universities are not doing deep soil science - studying nature - but instead are looking at chemical band aids and trying to force feed the plant whilst in many cases destroying the microorganisms that are pivotal to feeding the plant. Many scientists are also spending so much of their time writing submissions for funding that they are spending a great deal of their time endeavouring to dream up ways so as to be financially viable. The commercial expediency of the Neo Liberal winner takes all approach to business - is devastating true scientific research in NZ.
Today’s industrial farming has only one big winner, and they are the large agro combines and corporations. Whilst the farmer in so many instances is chemicalising his farm, depleting nature and selling unhealthy produce onto the market.
Sam Lang - https://www.nuffield.org.nz/projects/ - Nuffield 2016 scholar travelling the world staying with Greg looking at sustainable systems and to get financial support to do these studies finds that finance is quite difficult to obtain in the current commercial environment - especially researching a green option.
Covering his crowd funding program with ‘million metre streams’ -https://millionmetres.org.nz/ - planting around his lake on his property.
Diversity of nature and a diversity of people who end up visiting - it’s the friendships and relationships and the warmth of connection - he loves sharing with people a farming experience.
People can also become ‘a friend of the farm’ with an annual membership and people can - using that money plant trees with Greg's vision of ‘Fields of Food. https://www.mangarara.co.nz/product/friend-the-farm/friend-of-the-farm-subscription/ -
He has just had a visit from the Grand Chancellor James Cook hotel in Wellington and this keen group have turned up 5 years in a row and each year they grow another row of food trees on his farm - and this is what happens when you are receptive to work with the NZ public. In the future Greg says that there will be so much food that visitors will take it away and surpluses given to charities …
We also have to get away from this scarcity mindset - to one of abundance
This is only a portion of this very interesting interview. - Tim
These 2 recent videos which include Mangarara - The Family Farm and Greg's philosophies. "Restoring Paradise" and "Regenerators"
www.mangarara.co.nz
When the Christchurch Earthquakes struck 6 years ago - Project Lyttelton was already in operation and they were in many ways pivotal in assisting in and around Lyttelton during and after this disaster. Project Lyttelton in the South Island could be deemed one of the more unique communities in NZ - as enterprising people are doing effectual things as they build warm community relationships that support each other in their daily life. Situated on the other side of the Port Hills only a few kilometres from Christchurch http://www.lyttelton.net.nz -
Why does a community come together?
Because these people enjoy warm hearted company that belongs to a creative and caring organisation. One that has the component of Time Banking being integral and is within the umbrella of Project Lyttelton - it is in many ways the glue that along with mindfulness and love - hold this little community together. When the Christchurch Earthquakes struck 6 years ago - Project Lyttelton was already in operation and they were in many ways pivotal in assisting in many areas of this disaster.
That as a community it is very open to ideas - if someone comes to them with a concept they will first - run it past their ‘vision’ - and if it fits and if there is a champion of this vision - they will take it on and support that idea. The important component, is having a champion to run it - as often ideas do come up, but if they have no champion it fails because no one is ‘eating breathing and being it.’
When they take on an activity or enterprise, Project Lyttelton also puts an advisory group around it, as it can be quite lonely, and this advisory group can then offer ‘group wisdom’ to support and assist it in steering this idea or concept into fruition.
Mind Maps & Time Banks Are Important
So they draw up a Mind Map to get a spatial plan of what ideas come up - many of them innovative and what Margaret has found that time and again, that a Time Bank is integral in nearly every mind map that they draw up - because a Time Back has the names of people who have the skills and the know-how and connections to make projects happen.
Time Banks, Margaret says, are the blood supply or the nervous system of the whole area - that as a singular person championing their own project where you have to be your own lawyer, accountant, marketeer, artist, salesperson, go-for - when you are part of a team - you draw from the collective skills of your Time Bank. This is the gift and magic of organising a time bank in your localised area. You are resource rich!
In NZ Time Banking is based around people’s secondary skills - that are not their main form of income - as they are taxed if they are following their primary financial means of earning a living. For example - if you are a builder who can do hedge cutting by swapping an hour with a florist who is prepared to paint your garage - one hour of each doing what they are ‘2nd best at’ - is how time banks are structured here in NZ. In the USA and the UK - time banks are exempt from tax - so NZ is very behind with the times on this issue. Where in future there may be an opportunity in NZ when more Time Banks become ubiquitous across the country - there may then be legislation passed that allows an accountant to swap an hour of their accountancy time to have one hour of lawn mowing done, by a full time lawn mower - in return.
A Large Membership for Their Area.
The localised Lyttelton Township has a population of 2,500 and around the broader basin it’s naturally a lot larger - yet their Time Bank has around 780 members - which offers up a very broad area of skills that can be drawn on.
They also have Savings Pools where people save collectively and yet lending to each other interest free - and the trust that is around this unique way of pooling money is very abiding.
Huge Amounts of Trust.
Margaret says that one of our biggest blocks is around how we think and that we need to have a totally new look at how we bank, because we have in some ways a large collective block on how we see banks these days - from the large ubiquitous commercial banks and our unknowing-ness around Savings Pools, Cooperative Banks - Trust Banks Time Banks and Green dollars.
Strong Values Base
Project Lyttelton is strongly values based - which they don’t actually name - but have a postcard with pictures of these values on - which ‘hint’ as to what these values might be. Margaret talks a lot about love and also generosity and kindness and the practice of generosity does amazing things and to offer things to people - not expecting anything in return - allow marvellous things to happen.
Rebecca Solnit’s book: A Paradise Built in Hell - Extraordinary Communities that Arise from Disaster - http://www.onthecommons.org/paradise-built-hell#sthash.R8lu4JYo.dpbs
Where in disasters people do come together - Whereas Hollywood may show mayhem and everyone running amuck but in reality - people all pull together - they sense a deeper connection - Margaret says that when a disaster happens, everyone ‘drops their stuff’ and only think about helping their neighbour - that before the authorities finally show up - that little window before - is like paradise (group mind connects) - because everyone is working together - and now today, with that disaster behind them - many people go back to how they were prior to the Earthquake and forget what once was - and Margaret understands that - because our world is run on a financial model - that earning money and getting money to buy things is the central thing - and this brings about disconnection again.
Listen to Margaret talk about how the Time Bank came to be of huge assistance in the Earthquake that also affected Lyttelton - big time.
Associate Professor Lucy Ozanne has written a document on Time Banking -
http://timebanks.nz/resources - That during the time of a disaster, was actually documenting the Lyttelton Time Bank before that disaster struck and was able to follow through giving major insights to its efficacy - as there is very little research on a group being monitored prior to and during a disaster. This document has gone world wide showing that a Time Bank can be pivotal when disaster strikes.
Challenges
The NZ Authorities acknowledged and appreciated what Project Lyttelton accomplished during and after the Earthquake with no financial support. However Margaret says that Time Banks need to be acknowledged in such a way as to pay the administrators, because they cannot live on just credits alone etc - as there is rent to pay and all the other costs in living are many. She says this needs to be changed (because at another level they can act as an auxiliary Civil Defence) and it’s too hard for Time Banks to just exist without greater support from the established order. As Time Banks can run far more efficiently if there is someone working in a paid role. This way the community would become far more cohesive, mindful and caring.
Funding for local initiatives like Project Lyttelton is becoming more difficult to obtain too - for reasons unknown - community initiatives of closer knit neighbourhoods is very difficult to enable Government officials to comprehend - so she and the Project Lyttelton team are looking at social enterprises to enable them to support themselves.
Social Enterprises
Their farmers market falls into this category - on good Saturdays they have 50 plus stalls at their market - which all pay a fee that pays the Farmers Market manager as well as supporting the community garden. That Garage Sales are another social enterprise - and this is continuing from strength to strength. (Listen to this interview) People will give stuff and earn ’time credits’. Plus Project Lyttelton have rented an earthquake deserted (but safe) building where people also bring all their items that they want to sell.
Community Group Involvement
If you are a community group you can come and run that Garage Sale with that group officiating and at the end of the day they can receive the ‘profits of the take' etc and that is the way community groups can piggyback on outreach of Project Lyttelton's goodwill. For example $500 profit was taken on one particular Saturday.
And they can have 4 Garage Sales a week. They have two part time employees - so they are providing work. People who are in real need - they don’t have to pay … Margaret, says she loves this model and it feeds people at multiple levels - and the people who run it get to know who needs what in the community. (listening is best)
Time Banks Again - there is not a model that suits everyone - as all situations are different - however the general principles apply - transplanting one model to another area though good in theory - always needs to be revised and changed for that other area or region.
Living and Thriving in the Community
Margaret gets her weekly shopping from the Farmers’ Market - due to it being organic and fresh - not from the supermarket where a lot of produce is packaged cartoned and tinned.
A Local Co-Operative
Project Lyttelton has a ‘friendship’ partnership in a Co-op in Lyttelton which has whole foods and it is owned by 200 people in Lyttelton - this is where Margaret obtains her whole foods, etc - so she shops at the Farmers’ Market and the Co-op. That the Co-op also acts as a conduit for all the localised farmers and producers that can sell their products into it and whatever organic produce that they only grow in a very short season - they can bring it to the Co-op.
Social Interaction
They do a lot around food - and shared events - Farmers Market on Saturdays are the best social bumping space to meet people.
Project Lyttelton has a board meeting once a months and they eat and discuss things - paid staff and volunteers meet every week and there is always food there - the savings pools meet every month over a shared meal too.
Another fun event is called grow your own - and a dinner of your own growing - (Listen)
The important Essence or Ingredient of Community is:
Openness - being open with all your accounts - let everyone know where you are getting your money from.
Being Truthful
Love
Being Values based
And Appreciative Enquiry - looking at what is going well and seeing why it is going well - and transferring why it’s going well, to other things and projects - and while it is going well including values, like looking at clear communication and acting kindly towards each other.
Including understanding conflict resolution - not that they have had real conflict but to embrace the skill of negotiating through goodwill. Gaining skills to work between and with each other.
The Significance of Appreciative Enquiry
Put up an idea and the very next question is, where’s the money? - Project Lyttelton very seldom gets that question now - listen to how they manifest their money - note it is very inventive and novel …. Margaret says if they have a dream - put it out there - drop all attachment to it - and then it starts happening … and all sorts of possibilities come into being … keep talking to people - because they may have skills and they may be the answer.
What NZ needs to involve themselves with, is that each NZer is encouraged to find what finds them joy and what they feel drawn to and follow this notion.
As this is an Election Year we need to be more involved at a national level and raising questions as to what we would like NZ to become … and raising questions.
Be involved in letter writing, submissions - attending meetings even marches and rallies Margaret said she is not drawn to such things, but when times require it she has done it from time to time.
Thinking Global and Acting Local - is where her passion resides.
Present Focus
Project Lyttelton are in the process of running a repair cafe … and remoulding plastics … looking at their waste stream - educating people into the finite nature of our resources - using things wisely and effectively - plus recycling, reusing and reducing items.
She mentions Doughnut Economics - Kate Raworth https://www.kateraworth.com/
As we are taking and extracting far more from our planet’s resources - some say we are taking far more than our planet actually can replace.
Becoming aware of our ecological well being - our mental well being and our spiritual well being. Deepening our connection with life.
The Global Commons - recognising that the global commons belongs to no one except the biota of our planet - The Global Commons is the opposite to a corporate raid.
Connection at a Higher Level
Margaret wants to see a method where ‘groups’ can be in contact and develop the skills in linking organisations together so that we can share - be more cohesive and connected with each other - especially spokespeople.
By building the capacity to communicate nationwide across the sectors - grassroots groups - organising for a common purpose. So that we network our vision to more and more New Zealanders across the country, pulling the threads of community closer together.
Such as ‘Not for Profit's’ in Christchurch need to form a Time Bank and all work together - and start linking up with expertise and material things like a shared truck or digger as an example.
In a Future Scenario Margaret would like to get rid of party politics - as it locks down initiative - and that we are now caught up in the games that are being played between various parties - as there is no real discussion - (which she admits is a sweeping generalisation) but we understand what she is saying. That the issues have to be debated in a far more open forum.
Instant Localised Internet Voting
She would also like to see ‘instant localised voting’ on a ’safe, non-hackable’ system that allowed people to vote on initiatives at a very localised level - that are binding - in that smaller regions could have more control over their affairs - and possibly voting on Daily Issues even - they would come up on your computer at specific times - maybe every day and this would involve us in ‘Participative Democracy’ and we could vote on the issues. (Listen to the interview)
She also wants a group of people within the localised community to become ‘the voice of the community’ - so that instead of having one person speaking on behalf of the community that these ‘elected people’ - from youth to elders - can then speak - knowing that at heart they have the communities blessing - Margaret says there is a lot of wisdom embedded in her community so why her? And when you get this group together - you can pay them in time credits
This is a very thought provoking and empowering interview of bringing ‘conscious’ care to you localised area and community.
http://www.lyttelton.net.nz
“We need to base our farming on biology, not on chemicals,” says Dr Meriel Watts. “New Zealand needs to WAKE UP to what is going on in conventional farming in this country.” “Our food is denatured through chemical use, and New Zealand, compared to the rest of the world, lacks the political will to address this.” Educating the New Zealand Public
New Zealand needs to face up to the widespread use of chemicals that are applied in agriculture, either topically or coated on seeds, and how the chemicals affect our food and therefore our health. There is a toxic plethora of pesticides, herbicides and fungicides, along with artificial fertilisers that make chemical companies masses of money, but are not to the benefit of us, the consumers. One might think that a so called clean green country, like New Zealand, would be keen to show itself as just that, but instead we apply toxic chemical after toxic chemical all over the country.
In one evening meal, that is not organic, you could be consuming as many as 17 different agro - chemicals in small quantities. Research on how they all work together has not been done. New Zealand’s chemical assessments are not being based on science.
Encouraging the NZ Government to involve itself in a Global Awareness Movement
The Formal UN Recommended Organisation SAICM- (Strategic Approach to International Chemical Management) states that highly hazardous pesticides be phased out and replaced by agro-ecology. (Agro-ecology is known as organics in NZ.) However, although 170 countries are involved and send delegates to the meetings, incredibly New Zealand has not chosen to be involved, and seems unaware of the serious repercussions of chemical use. Meriel states that the heads of the Departments for the Environment, Health and Agriculture (Primary Industries) need to attend to learn, and realise the critical situation that NZ is in.
Where is the powerful influence that keeps the toxic chemicals in use? Here’s an example from the US.
Dow Chemicals has given a million dollars for Donald Trump’s campaign fund. Dow are makers of Chlorpyrifos. This pesticide has been banned by Sri Lanka and Yemen and US scientists have identified it as a major concern, but of course after that donation, the hopes of getting it banned in the US have been dashed.
A New Chemical that has Shown Up on the NZ Market!
In New Zealand we are unsure of the influence by companies like Dow. However the pesticide Chlorpyrifos is used here in New Zealand. There is not much political will to ban it, and although home gardeners are not allowed to use it, the government still allows its use on farms, and by commercial gardeners.
Children are especially at risk. Chlorpyrifos is an acute nerve toxin and suspected endocrine disruptor that has been linked to numerous health issues. It has been found in human cord blood and is known to cause foetal damage and neuro-developmental disorders. Most recently, it has been linked to an increased risk of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in children.
Chlorpyrifos is found at particularly high levels in children. It is prevalent in fruit and vegetables; also in dairy products, nuts, cottonseed, wheat and wheat-based products such as bread and pasta, rice, maize, chickpeas, fish, muesli, jam, olive oil, pizza, hamburgers, raisins; also soft drinks and drinking water.
HAVE YOU EVEN HEARD OF CHLORPYRIFOS? Before this interview, I hadn’t.
How do NZers have their Elected Servants in Government,
Take Heed of Ubiquitous Chemicals?
So why does our government lack the political will to put a ban on chemicals like chlorpyrifos, glyphosate / Roundup, 1080, and the bee threat neonicitinoids?
Agriculture is the largest sector of the tradable economy in New Zealand. This means that farmers have a strong voice around decisions made that affect them. They and the large chemical trans-nationals will undoubtedly have influence regarding decisions made, that could affect them. However we the public need to have a voice about what affects us – namely some very toxic chemicals.
NZ’s Government Department NIWA , the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, tested the water of Auckland harbour and were very concerned at the level of glyphosate in the water - Yet the Government is ignoring the aquatic environment.
The Soils are a Barometer to Healthy Food, Animals & People
“Our soils are sick from greed-based, irresponsible agricultural practices, pesticides, chemical fertilisers, erosion and mineral depletion, all of which stop or reduce adequate microbial activity in the soil, rendering them sick and/or dead and sterile. Sick soils make for sick plants and sick plants make for sick humans and animals.,” Says the president of the US National Health Federation, Scott Tips.
If the soil is poor, not enough micro-organisms are taken up into the plant. So we are replacing nourishment with chemicals. The answer to growing good strong healthy plants that do not need chemical assistance, lies in the soil.
We cannot put the entire blame on farmers, says Meriel. The whole approach to pesticides has to change, from home gardeners, to household use as well as farm use. We can’t very well demand farmers change without stopping using fly spray, for example. Fly spray is made with synthetic pyrethrum and is carcinogenic.
The level of cancer is soaring around the world and yet we are not informed about agricultural and industrial chemical use, and its effect on human health.
New Zealand is between 10 & 20 Years Behind -
When we Need to be Ahead!
New Zealand is, in Muriel's opinion, between 10 and 20 years behind in understanding the side effects of pesticide use. This is unacceptable.
She challenges which ever government is in power to create a caring state and ensure the health of all people throughout the country. One main way to do this is to walk away from the chemical cocktail that affects us all.
Dr Meriel Watts had a Bachelor of Agricultural Science and a PhD in risk assessment of pesticides and the consequences of its flaws for pesticide policy.
She has been working on behalf of civil society for 27 years on pesticide issues and safer alternatives – including for Greenpeace and the Soil & Health Association. Now she works (since 1993) for Pesticide Action Network (PAN), a global network of about 600 civil society organisations in 90 countries – coordinate PAN Aotearoa NZ, Senior Technical Advisor to PAN Asia Pacific, the regional centre in Malaysia, and represents the global network at UN chemicals conventions, agreements and technical groups.
Meriel has been involved in NZ’s organics sector for about 24 years – including helping to establish and run Organic Farm NZ – a low-cost certification scheme for growers supplying only the domestic market. Together with her partner, she runs a certified organic farm, on Waiheke Island, supplying locals with fresh fruit, vegetables, eggs and olive oil.
Author of 5 books on pesticides, Meriel has contributed to numerous other publications including monographs e.g. on both the glyphosate and chlorpyrifos, act.
Her most recent book = Replacing Chemicals with Biology – Phasing out Highly Hazardous Pesticides with Agro-ecology - is about why we need to phase out chemical pesticides. That successful growing without pesticides is possible and is now being proved globally and what policy changes are needed to get us there.
The websites mentioned in the interview:
Replacing Chemicals with Biology: Phasing out Highly Hazardous Pesticides with Agroecology: http://pan-international.org/resources/
and
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, report on pesticides to UN human Rights Council, A/HRC/34/48: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Food/Pages/Annual.aspx
Also of interest may be:
PAN International List of Highly Hazardous Pesticides: http://pan-international.org/resources/
PAN International Consolidated List of Ban Pesticides: http://pan-international.org/resources/
PAN International Monograph on Glyphosate: http://pan-international.org/resources/
This interview was sponsored by The Awareness Party
Liz, is asking for some leader in NZ to stand up and have the courage to say that we as an island nation, want a GE Free country and be the organic food bowl for the world. With no more Monsanto influence and definitely no more glyphosate.
She wants us to become a ‘planetary ark' and be that 'organic food bowl’ for the world.
Plus, she WANTS a really clear - NZ Government funded - free from influence - media platform TV - Radio and newsprint / digital where we have quality policy journalists back again, investigating anything within the public domain as well as envisioning healthy possibilities for all of our children’s - collective future.
After leaving broadcasting, Liz spent a decade in Australia as a full time Mum and having to learn child rearing with no backup of grandparents or nanny help which she had had when she had worked full time for TVNZ. So she really learnt to be a hands on Mum and how to connect emotionally with her little ones and so it was a wonderful learning curve as a human being, noting that she underlines that she learnt more from her children than they learnt from her.
Deeper learning of the Self.
Liz also speaks about her experience then of a profound lack of confidence. At first she thought it was post natal depression, but realised that there was a deeper layering - where she had parents that they themselves struggled and Liz shares the challenges that her mother had and the subsequent burden that Liz carried as a result of their relationship and she was not able to really be there for how Liz wanted - a mother to-be.
To this end Liz learnt to become very adept at putting up a front - and ironically ending up on television - very capable on the outside - she was seen as always happy when she was a young lawyer yet struggled with health related problems that resulted in a deep lack of confidence - yet she was able to portray the opposite in the world, by looking and acting happy.
With bringing up her children and marrying the inner Liz to the outer Liz and then understanding what has shaped her and in decoding what is it she is here to be and do - who is the Liz? How does she integrate her desire to serve in the world with being a whole authentic human being and realising and reconciling that both her parents did their very best to bring her up as best as they could. And Liz goes into this in expressing her humility - realising that we can let go of things that do not serve us and that are not real - and we can become the people we probably were put on this earth to be - but often through painful experience.
A difficult marriage was another part of her learning and she states sincerely how grateful she is in many ways - though she laughingly says she is not fully reconciled with that yet:). Because like her childhood experiences with her mother - it dug up all the things that she did not want to look at - and what she couldn’t escape … So she says to her kids as well - that life - like the Buddha says is about suffering - so you accept the suffering - but Liz then brightens saying that this life is like a gorgeous mysterious university course that we did not even know we had signed up for!
That the lessons will keep coming back and back - the same lesson often until we have the inner resilience, the inner fortitude - and the willingness to look at what that lesson brings us. Thus we learn and we grow and we can then graduate to another class. Which she laughingly says - has been like the last 10 years …
Covering myths and legends and Joseph Campbell and our journey of traveling deep dark valleys - and the struggle to get through the day, like just getting by by crawling as if in a dark place - but being a mum and committed to her children there is no recourse other than to hang in with her kiddies as she was so committed as a mother and a parent.
A Near Death Experience and a Greater Understanding.
Then Liz tells of a broken heart moment in hospital when she nearly died as doctors worked diligently on her heart and she witnessed this by ‘looking down on everything from the ceiling - (this could be said to be an out of the body experience or a near death experience) - she said for a moment she felt that she was floating on the softest warmest, most loving golden clouds and realising that she could stay there, this was wonderful - I can give up - this is easy - and at that moment both her beautiful children were right at the forefront and the feeling was so powerful - ‘I can’t leave them, they still need me’ - and that the urge for life was so much greater than the urge to run away from the pain of life - and she came back to her body - to recuperate and heal.
Then the discussion covered ‘the purpose for existence - is to find out the purpose for existence’ - and Liz was emphatic it was certainly not about power or money or status - the house we own or the cars we drive … that those things are so deeply ephemeral and so transient and for many it is a frightening place because so many people fear death.
What Liz says that experience taught her that she had nothing whatsoever to fear.
The interview then covers names like Ramana Maharshi and Gangaji to the Dalai Lama.
Questioning Material Values
Liz surmises - why do we in the Western developed world set about to amass so much material wealth, houses, bach’s, numbers of cars, boats clothes etc. If we didn’t fear death would we just get on and experience life instead?
What she feels is that material wealth means nothing other than what she can leave in the hearts of those that she loves. And her greatest achievement is loving her children with all her heart. Listen to this as Liz expresses herself so deeply, in such a warm and humble way.
That for children to open like the lotus flower and being the humans they can be - and this is what she feels needs to be extended across the community of NZ.
This interview also covers an experience Liz had in Sydney when she was at a function of the media magnates the Murdoch’s where she witnessed these very successful media barons and realised that with all their collective expertise and media and satellite outreach that if only they wanted to bring whole countries together and have communities connect and share in a better tomorrow - these people could basically create a large shift in changing the world into a more peaceful and harmonious place. However in her intuitions of seeing them huddled most of the night with Rupert and Lachlan, including James Packer in a corner - out of the way at this function - she realised how close yet how far away we are at pulling the threads of humanity together.
That if they only felt connected to all people - they would feel so loved and valued in the world - that wherever they went they would feel so much goodwill flowing toward them - however this is not the case.
That Liz found that she had so much compassion for them - because the elder Murdoch who owns Sky Television and the Australian newspaper and a huge slice of Australian and British newspapers and until recently virtually 75 % of all NZ suburban newspapers Once owning the Controlling Interest in Wellington’s Dominion newspaper and being the 2nd largest media conglomerate on earth owning 20th Century Fox and the Wall St Journal and a huge number of media companies.
That she just intuited that their energy was not warm and light hearted and that they were basically not happy at all.
Generosity of Spirit
This conversation then continues around generosity of spirit of giving and bringing a little joy to people who are experiencing unhappy lives - especially on the streets here in Auckland where the homeless are seen in greater numbers even though the NZ Government is crowing about our $4 billion surplus for the last year.
Then Liz tells that when back in Australia of giving her last $2-00 to a homeless person when she found that she was unable to withdraw any cash from her account at an ATM. So being in Sydney away from NZ - taking a leap of faith giving that $2.00 minute amount away to a destitute person in the street and making them feel acknowledged and then having to go through the challenge of having to rely on the goodwill of friends to help her out over the ensuring days.
Micro Funding those less fortunate
Liz’s dream is of having enough funds to set up micro finance for women, especially those women who have come out of failed marriages and have to start again to make a living - or in Africa where a death or disability throw the onus on the woman to make a living. And it has been proved over and over again when women are able to receive a loan for a chicken coop or garden seeds - that they are fastidious at paying back their loan. That they in most cases are brilliant at running their little businesses and they get the family back on their feet when they may have to learn totally new skills to find a creative way to make a living.
So with micro funding Liz wants to assist NZ woman to get back on their feet by becoming independent as in many cases they have given up their career to take on family responsibilities whilst the husband has continuously advanced his own career thus he is always skilled up. Thus there is a lot of fear and trepidation for middle aged women having to rejoin the workforce and back into the thick of things in a new job, new technologies, new expectations - new performance quotas etc
This is a difficult arena for women - look at TV in NZ there is no older women there, at the moment.Ageism is still prevalent.
Liz’s talks about her work, when starting out as a young lawyer - and how she saw the reality of it. But, she found what disillusioned her was that if you have the money - you can get the best lawyer in town and they can stitch up the case by getting someone off - when in fact they were the guilty party. When she thought that Law was about justice - that the present government has made huge cuts to legal aid in NZ recently, that many Lawyers did not agree with this - even those who were innately conservative themselves.
Homelessness - how could this happen in New Zealand?!
Liz says her heart aches to see the number of homelessness we have here in NZ especially Auckland )and particularly in a year where the NZ government are 4 billion dollars in surplus - which coincides with the election coming up in less that 3 months time). That she has been going around Auckland and making videos and interviewing the homeless and hearing all their various stories.
She is mortified - as this should not be in NZ - we are basically an extraordinarily caring people - but … and she in meeting so many of these homeless people and seeing a profound dignity in many of them and the hopeless situation they are in.
A kind and caring compassionate woman …
Stand up before this election and make a fuss about homelessness.
The Dalai Lama’s statements about humility and connection come up and yet there are many laughs during this interview.
Covering what Mike King is doing with youth suicide in NZ and that this too is a stain across our nation.
She tells of an experiment with rats and heroin and the environment. The end result is that after rats are put in a stark and boring environment - given the choice they all turn to heroin instead of drinking water. But, when they turn their cage into a myriad of things to do - to climb, swing, run on a wheel, snuggle into warm covered areas - they eventually all end up rejecting the heroin and instead they enjoy the variety and opportunities of a captivating environment.
Many people in a state of homelessness have been involved with drugs, but had they been in an environment that had offered them possibilities to learn and to grow and experience a more conducive atmosphere - of connection - many would not be suffering as they are today.
Possibilities of changing both our outlook and our inner state of being
This then introduces Bruce Lipton and our body of around 50 trillion cells - and his theme - change the environment for the better and the situation will change accordingly. That all our organs are working in unison and we are not doing any of this consciously. That as a top scientist / professor at Stanford University in the USA, he realised that we need not be a captive and slave to our genes. That we can by ‘shifting our consciousness’ evolve our genome and become far more healthier humans. Books - Biology of Belief and Conscious Evolution.
Liz see NZ as having changed dramatically in the last 9 years
She sees so many homeless and as a mother - wonders how this has continued to escalate.
Liz shares that NZ needs to become more sovereign and independent - that when David Lange of the NZ Labour Government saw that our country had a large majority wanting to be nuclear free nation this gave him the mandate to make us a Nuclear Free country. Liz feels that as a small independent nation (and we trust a moral force for good) that we be weary of US influence being too strong here and for example the lack of transparency with the Waihopai Face Eyes Echelon spy station in the South Island being cause for concern.
Regarding trade she like many here in NZ who were voiceless felt a great relief that the TPPA did not go ahead and that we need to be adept at finding innovative ways to sort out fair trade.
However there is also the challenge of transparency of Government - and this is an important issue - which is also a global issue. That we New Zealanders have to be both more alert and proactive to make our elected servants in Wellington bow to the wishes of ‘we the people.’
In reiterating what she sees as issues.
1) The homeless
2) NZ becoming a GE and GMO Free organic agricultural food bowl for our world.
3) A new Transparent media outlet for open communications - TV, Radio & Digital.
This is what in a democracy media is all about, not glove puppets - John Campbell has gone - this is dangerous for democracy we dependent on a free and courageous media.
Nicky Hagar if you like him or not - he was vilified for laying out so many truths - which were all shoved aside - with no-one in Government prepared to accept the lies that the Government had hidden. This is why we need a conscious NZ public and this is why Liz has been called to act like a warrior woman, and a Mother.
There is too much at stake and too much to lose.
NZ’s fisheries and marine environment are currently being mismanaged for the benefit of a few heavyweight fishing industrialists. Sound familiar?
After 30 years and repeated examples of dysfunction including reports of widespread labour abuse, fish dumping, misreporting, and monopoly institutional stagnation, the time is right to return to the basic principles of managing New Zealand’s natural resources for the benefit of the nation.
With an nationwide election on the horizon we the people are having to decide how our precious marine resources are going to be managed, now that we know that the Ministry of Primary Industries refuses to listen to the People.
Scott as a spokesman for LegaSea - a public outreach that wants to go beyond the 35,000 fishing club members in 58 clubs and talk to the vast number of people who either love fishing - do a bit of fishing or get a few fish that they share with their neighbours or just like the idea of having abundant in shore coastal fisheries.
This is what they have been doing over the last 5 years communicating with fisherfolk. They also encourage people to make contributions so as to share the load as they look towards taking care of NZ’s spectacular marine environment so that everyone can both enjoy and fish from.
The challenge is to engage with complex NZ Governmental Ministry led management, processes. Especially the world’s leading internationally acclaimed ‘quota management system’ - which most recreational fishermen will know is far from the truth. Most in the know realise it is a farce. Listen to this interview. plus Previous interview with Scott.
LegaSea’s database has 45,000 subscribers and growing as fisherfolk realise that recreational fishing are being squeezed out by the NZ’s National Government's Ministry of Primary Industries - lock stepped with industrial fishing.
Scott tells of working in cooperation with the NZ Sport Fishing Council and having to take the Minister and Ministry of Primary Industries (the Government) to the High Court, the Appeal Court and then the Supreme Court in the 2005, 6, 7, 8, and 9 journey, where certain Governmental and Ministry activities were regarded as illegal and poorly conceived management practices for the plentiful kahawai the ubiquitous peoples fish where the Law came out on the side of the righteous and not the Government - thank you Justice Reese Harrison and thank you Chief Justice Sian Elias for the superb judgements that full costs were awarded in the NZ Sports Fishing Council’s favour. Note neither of the above two Governmental parties appealed!
Sadly Sanford’s and Sealord’s the big two industrial fishing Corporations - because they are very well financed did what they continue to do, but what came out of this, is this:
The Supreme Court ruled that ‘the Minister’ shall allow for public interests and recreational interests - and may set the total allowable commercial catch at zero! - if he or she is reasonable.
(Question: What type of Government is it, that ‘the people’ have to take their own elected servants to the Highest Court of the Land to get them to come to heal? )
LegaSea are wanting to:
Establish a Royal Commission of Inquiry
Objectives:
We need to redefine the purpose of fisheries development and establish institutions and instruments that achieve the environmental, economic, social, and cultural benefits due to all New Zealanders from the use of our natural marine resources.
Nothing less than a Royal Commission!
To allow Recreational Fishers to have restored public confidence in the management of our inshore fisheries.
(Tim countered - with the importance of a ‘neutral selection process’ for this Royal Commission - that they select the appropriate prospect - not jobs for the boys - like retired ‘well connected’ business people or politicians who have been put out to pasture. Because these ‘commissioners’ would be, taking home $1500 a day to sit and mull over what decisions to take, that will not necessarily be in the fishing industry’s interests).
It was ventured and stated that it was fair to say that the incumbent National Government of today is very closely aligned with the commercial sector - and a Royal Commission of Enquiry - to get this momentum over the line - against the run of play - is a must! - full stop! -
Citizens Initiated Referendum
LegaSea are giving serious consideration to initiating a Citizens Initiated Referendum - which in 18 months could give us an answer - an unbinding one - but it would let NZ know what the general consensus is regarding our ocean taonga. (treasure).
Recently the CEO of Seafood NZ a representative organisation of all sectors wrote in an update:
"That the proportion of New Zealanders who felt the industry’s reputation has deteriorated compared to the 12 months earlier increased from 10% in 2015 to 17% in 2016.
Those deteriorating public perceptions put us in a dangerous position the lead-up to a critical general election with a resurgent Opposition aligned with environmentalists that may be unsympathetic to fishing.
We have already seen Government policies out of left field around marine protected areas that impact on fishing space.
The best way to keep the politicians out of our industry and secure our property and customary rights is to enhance our social licence. If the public are reassured that we are good people doing good things for the benefit of all New Zealanders, the political parties will see no reward in challenging that.
To that end, work is well advanced on a communications campaign aimed at influencing public opinion.
It will go public in July, based on prime time television promise to protect our precious ocean resources.”
The above is the way the Fishing Industry is going to soften you up, the unsuspecting NZ public.
The other urgent reform is a new Allocation Principle to be added the Fisheries Act. This Principle would guide Ministerial allocation decisions and be based on a commitment made by Labour Minister Colin Moyle, Minister of Fisheries, in 1989. This commitment is commonly referred to as Moyle’s Promise –
“Where a species of fish is not sufficiently abundant to support both commercial and non-commercial fishing, preference will be given to non-commercial fishing.
This position reflects Government’s resolve to ensure all New Zealanders can enjoy and benefit from our fisheries.”
This Allocation Principle needs to be added to section 10 of the Fisheries Act 1996 to achieve the following outcomes:
Bottom Line
The bottom line is that commercial fisheries are wanting more fish. And the recreational fisher folk are basically getting in the way.
Scott states emphatically that:
The inshore zone needs respite care. Benthic (seabed) diversity and abundance needs restoring, and the priority needs to be to remove all industrial methods.
A century of ever-expanding use of heavy, bottom contact mobile gear has changed the seafloor from a thriving benthic community of organisms to a desert of fine silt. This silt is resuspended and distributed further each time mobile, industrial fishing gear is towed across the sea floor.
The Government needs to: Remove industrial fishing methods such as the appalling trawling, Danish seining and dredging, from the inshore zone. LISTEN TO SCOTT Tell it as it is.
$1.8 billion for export fish receipts = 300,000 tonnes caught.
Recreational fishers take approximately 10,000 tonnes = 10,000, thousand kilos = 10 million kilos of fish.
With NZ public participation of around 600,000 Kiwis who participate are spending approximately one thousand million dollars of which $130 million dollars is GST plus another $35 million dollars of PAYE from the 8,000 plus jobs that are generated by recreational fishing - that compares to the 20,000 jobs in the commercial sector - remember they are catching 94% of the fish taken each year.
Scott tongue in cheek states that when it is all financially sorted we the recreational fisher is paying about $20 per kilo of fish caught and then we give it away, we share with friends and neighbours. Saying there is a deep need to express ‘manaakitanga’ - the generosity of giving and sharing …
Bottom Trawling Needs to be Outlawed
Scott then tells of how the bottom trawlers drag across the seafloor surface destroying any possible semblance of an aquatic garden where fish live, and survive - turning it into a desolate area of total destruction that has never seen such devastation for possibly millions of years … mega millions of tiny little organisms and layer upon layer of sea creatures getting larger as the food chain increases up to the upper level fish.
The swath that is left, just wipes everything out into a desert of swirling silt and mud with visibility zeroed out and the surviving fish and other organisms somehow have to start all over again within a destroyed underwater sea garden. Knocking out huge numbers of ecological sensitive organisms whilst those in the trawler above have no idea whatsoever - of the holocaust they are causing down below.
Listen to Scott describe what is really happening. The Indiscriminate uncaring harvesting and when the net gets brought up on the deck - any fish not in the ‘quota’ are dumped over the side - in most cases already dead to float and rot and eventually sink.
Trevally are very NZ fishy story
Trevally, 800 tonnes of trevally are being exported year after year, after year - whole - frozen - no added value, no GST - full container loads to Saudi Arabia, France and the United Kingdom - at what price? We here in NZ are paying around $12-00 a kilo but overseas we are giving it away at $2.70 cents and that’s a peak price. Where as trevally is one of the best fish on earth to eat as sushi. Japanese people living in NZ cannot believe their good fortune here.
Kahawai are being exported after being trawled up by the industrial Danish seiner fleets here in NZ. To be sold less than $5-00 a kilo is an insult - but is being sold for $1.70 to the Africans - the Cameroon and the Côte d’Ivoire, (the Ivory Coast).
This is not acceptable - if we cannot get more than $5-00 a kilo - leave it in the sea so that is can reproduce and double its size over a few years.
Crayfish (kura) are now in crisis - they are disappearing and depleting … along the East Coast North of Whangarei down to East Cape covering hundreds of kilometres.
The word depletion came up in tandem with ‘Sustainable’ as Scott sees that sustainable fisheries is not concerned about the sustainability of fish stock and the marine ecology - only that the fishing industry can sustain itself - whatever the costs.
Listen to Scot tell it as it is. Explaining the giant lie that is the ‘Quota Management System. (like clean green NZ) He calls it sustainable depletion and is the Government’s name of the game.
This commercial fishing juggernaut in their submissions are consistently saying ‘more, more, more, more While the non commercial fishers position - are consistently prepared to say less, less, less, less and we are willing to come to the table … and talk about how they can constrain ourselves and shift our attitudes, expectations and behaviour to generate a rebuild and have abundance … Yet, there is only one side willing to come to the table!
To get involved with Legasea
Send: Scott@legacy.co.nz an email or 021 macindoe = 622463 and have a Chat and get in touch with reliable, professional courteous - ‘Less is more’ - regular updates.
NOTE:
We now have the NZ Government asking the Department of Primary Industries to double NZ’s export of fish by 2025 (same for Dairy exports). This is not taking into account at all the ecology and the environment that produces this abundance.
Amend the Fisheries Act
It is imperative to amend the Fisheries Act to remove the maximum sustainable yield.
The attitude of bulk harvesting and freezing and marketing in containers is pure idiocy - there is no respect of nature’s process, for the fish population or nature itself. Everything is up for grabs. = Neoliberal Economics - winner takes all.
Home Support
Legacy now has over 400 business and affiliate organisations here in NZ supporting them and the NZ Sport Fishing Council because they know if there is no inshore fish to catch they will suffer …
ITM all 100 outlets are behind Legasea - Hunting & Fishing - Yamaha & Honda & Shimano and Rod And Reel - Burns Co
FreeFishheads.co.nz - this is big! 20,000 people have there name down for a free feed. Scott thanked Matt Watson for making it happen. Go on line and put your name down - this way you can feed you family after a quick road trip to a beach near you and pick up some free fish heads and frames.
Check Papatuanuku kokiri marae in Mangere who have collected 6,000 kilograms of heads, frames and offal and taken it and ‘tidied it up’ and this rangitara kai has been given to needy appreciative people - the offal buried in their gardens.
This is a very social and community oriented project that is successful
Check out www.fishcare.org - for best practice - how to handle a fish how to best utilise such fish
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When you are truth teller and are prepared to break with convention to get your message out at great personal sacrifice - spare a thought for the continuous courage of Scott Macindoe. This was as usual a very powerful and potent interview that will never get to MSM (Main Stream Media) as you will now know they are basically only aligned with the ‘commercial sector' - as in the US and elsewhere.
http://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/scott-macindoe-are-we-about-to-see-the-end-of-recreational-fishing-in-new-zealand
To those reading this semi transcription, I apologise - Doing the interview and recording, editing and transcription is a labour of love - it’s all voluntary - so if it seems a little wordy and convoluted - please know that everything you have seen and listened to here has been done in the spirit of goodwill and the best of intentions. Naku noa Tim
We must demand rigorous ongoing and independent testing as to the effect of aerial 1080 drops on New Zealand’s wilderness, fauna and ecosystems. Clyde and brother Steve have won International Awards for their 1080 NZ documentary, Poisoning Paradise The movie Poisoning Paradise is about the aerial dispersal of 1080 throughout New Zealand in order to kill rodents, mustelids and possums. This poisoning now has become a highly controversial topic with conservationists, environmentalists, and members of the public.
Clyde Graf and Steve were sons of Egon, a professional deer hunter, based in NZ’s Te Urewera National Park.
In 1996, youngest son Steve went to Canada and videoed amazing wildlife footage. Returning to NZ he teamed up with his brother Clyde, and together they began to make The Graf Boys' videos.
Since then, The Graf Boys have produced six hunting and outdoors DVD titles, and two documentaries. Their documentary, Poisoning Paradise, has won four international awards (England, Ireland, Japan, and Culture Unplugged online festival).
See their YouTube Channel The Graf Boys.
What is 1080?
Sodium fluoroacetate, known in pesticide form as 1080, is the organofluorine chemical compound with the formula FCH₂CO₂Na. This colourless salt has a taste similar to that of sodium chloride and is used as a metabolic poison.
1080 is extremely toxic to all air-breathing organisms. It blocks the body’s muscle and organ's ability to absorb energy from its food, and results in a slow and inhumane death, typically 8 -24 hours for birds, 2-4 days for large mammals. There is no known antidote for this deadly poison.
Not only is 1080 highly toxic to mammals, birds and insects- one scientist has even discovered that it is toxic to plants and so forests do not do so well after 1080 drops.
Controversy
The latter may be controversial, but in general 1080 and its effects on animals through primary and secondary poisoning, and on humans through water supplies, is not well researched, especially considering the huge amount of 1080 poison tipped from helicopters over our forests. If there are any unanswered questions about its use and the results, then more research must be undertaken, not only by DoC (Department of Conservation) but by independent scientists, preferably from overseas, to avoid any collusion.
In this interview Clyde gives important information on the New Zealand government’s financial interest in 1080. New Zealand uses 80% of all 1080 used in the world. In fact it is banned in most countries overseas.
19 different native bird species have had corpses test positive for 1080 after aerial 1080 operations, however, it is known that the small sample size, and the lack of a control group needs highlighting. There is a need for long term population monitoring. These concerns are completely absent in DoC summaries.
Bird Deaths
Birds reported killed by 1080 poisoned cereal baits include morepork, weka, tomtits and grey warbler, and fauna known to eat cereal bait include kea, kaka, little spotted kiwi, kokako, saddleback, kakariki, pukeko, insects, koura and lizards.
The number of possums in New Zealand was estimated at 47.6 million in the mid 1980’s. When possum control is taken into account, the number of possums has reduced to an estimated 30 million as of 2008/9. This is not a very large reduction when considering both the environmental and the financial cost of the large scale poisoning operations.
In a Landcare Research document 2009 it states
“Control of possums alone may not always have net benefits for native biodiversity because, for example, of the increase in rodent numbers, and hence predation on native animals, that can occur when possum numbers are reduced (Ruscoe et al. 2008).”
This is important because once the ecosystem is no longer managing itself and is interfered with by humans, it no longer functions so effectively. “It takes one year for rat populations to come back to pre-poisoning levels. By the second year rat numbers were higher than before the operation”, Dr Ruscoe from Landcare said. Scientists warn that this paves the way to rat plagues.
Poisoning from 1080 occurs through eating the dosed baits (cereal pellets) or from the flesh of poisoned animals. Carcasses remain poisonous until they are completely decomposed, which makes 1080 particularly lethal to dogs.
Dog Deaths
The Life Style Block (LSB) website states regarding dogs and 1080:
“Dog owners should take particular care near areas where 1080 poison has been used as dogs are extremely susceptible to the poison.
There is no antidote and it causes every appearance of extreme distress in dogs, and the signs can last for hours before the dog dies. It’s very distressing!
Poisoned carcases can remain poisonous to scavenging dogs for many months if they have been preserved in very dry conditions.”
Death from 1080 poisoning typically involves nausea, vomiting, convulsions, pain and foaming of the mouth, and can take anywhere from 1-72 hrs, depending on the species and the dose. From an animal rights perspective, we should not be allowing such an extremely painful death. Possums stoats and rats are not the only animals to die this way. Other wild and domestic animals become unintended kill, and it persists through the food chain.
Animal rights organisation SAFE has concerns over 1080 use and calls it a “cruel and indiscriminate poison”.
Do we as humans really have the right to kill sentient beings in such a gruelling manner?
Drinking Water?
Clyde is now involved in a new web site http://www.watersourcenz.org/ which will become live shortly ( if it isn’t already). On the home page it asks the question, “Do you drink bottled water sourced from New Zealand forests?” The question is relevant not only about bottled water but about water coming to us from such places as the Hunua dam in Auckland, which is fed from streams that have been in 1080 drop areas. Can we trust the DOC and health board information we are given when we know that government has financial conflicts of interest? Listen to the interview for more on this.
In 2010, Scientists Pat and Quinn Whiting-OKeefe presented to Taupo District Council on 1080. They included the following information:
“First, there is not a single scientifically credible study showing that aerial 1080 when used on the mainland is of net benefit to any species of New Zealand’s native fauna. Thus the upside for native species is entirely unproven, despite 15 years of increasingly desperate attempts by DoC to show one.
Second, there is overwhelming evidence from DoC’s own research that aerial 1080 is killing large numbers of native animals, including birds, insects and other invertebrates. Moreover most native species remain entirely unstudied. Thus there is plenty of proven downside for native species.
Third, there is not a single ecosystem level study. That is, we don’t have the slightest idea of unintended consequences and secondary negative effects of which ecological science assures us there are many.
Fourth, while it is probable that possums, if unchecked, would in time cause some shift of tree species in our forests, the degree of that shift is not great and fear of canopy collapse is wholly unwarranted.
Fifth, DoC’s 1080 research is generally of poor scientific quality, is biased in favour of DoC’s agenda, and DoC chronically and systematically misrepresents what their own scientific research actually shows.
Sixth, regarding bovine tuberculosis (TB), AHB’s own research shows that there is a clear alternative: ground-based baiting with species-specific bait stations. Plus possums as a vector for bovine TB can be controlled by trapping or ground-based baiting solely at the forest pasture margins to a depth of 3-4 km.”
Clyde points out that New Zealand is classed as being free from TB, and that only 50 possums have ever been found to have been infected with TB.
The Whiting-O’Keefe’s two retired PhD scientists from the USA were interviewed about the problems of 1080 by GreenplanetFM.com - in 2010.
Alternative Strategy
In an article in The Otago Daily Times, rheumatology professor and keen tramper Fiona McQueen gives a solution to New Zealand’s pests, after being shocked at what was seen in Fiordland.
“An alternative strategy would be to incentivise possum trapping, boosting the fur industry and relieving unemployment in areas such as the West Coast. This could be achieved without the grim reality of ‘‘by-kill'' and allow our international ‘‘clean and green'' image to regain some credibility.”
This interview with Clyde Graf was sponsored by The Awareness Party
I start this telephone interview mentioning Waihopai the Secret US controlled Five Eyes - Echelon spy station as it only a few kilometres from Blenheim where Steffan lives in the South Island. Steffan held the Security and Intelligence portfolio for the Green Party for many years. Thus we both concur that there is a very good chance that our telephone interview was being recorded - as that is the nature of the beast. Stephen Browning - Retiring NZ Green Party - Member of Parliament.
This is one of the more important interviews of the last year. I urge you to listen and or download and listen at will. (Tim)
This interview exemplifies Steffan’s courage at talking truth to power as he exposes the sham of what neoliberal agricultural policies are doing to NZ, but he also speaks of some very good grass roots initiatives happening right across our country.
Steffan’s days as an MP are engaged and occupied.
Meeting with meat inspectors - beekeepers as well as the incursions of disease through our biosecurity such as myrtle rust - he says there is always something to do with regard to protecting our environment -
Also, that as NZ is a primary producer of food being isolated from the rest of the world, away from many global diseases that the imperative for us is to have an alert and well funded bio security system. This has not been happening - especially over the previous years of the National Government administration. where today we are battling to deal with numerous incursions - due to these Governmental funding cuts. Though very recently there has been a little more funding - especially to respond to myrtle rust for example. He notes that the focussed staff at biosecurity are overworked and whilst there has been a 70% increase in foot traffic coming through airports and ports, there is not really a commensurate increase in funding.
Myrtle rust is now a growing problem - and yet we still have no national plant control forbidding sending seedlings and plant material anywhere within NZ. At present we are now still on the back foot in dealing with these new diseases.
It being imperative that we protect our country’s natural integrity and biodiversity.
However the main two projects that are resting with Stephen is around glyphosate and the Country of Origin - the Food Labelling Bill. This is a carry over from the petition of 37,000 signatures that ex Green MP Sue Kedgley initiated in 2007 - that was not able to get the ‘cross party support' to make this law. Stephen has made some slight modifications to the bill she originally drafted back then and it is now moving forward.
Steffan said that even the Labour Government in 2007 we’re not going to push it through - then not long after they were out of power they changed their mind (consumer pressure?) or just snatching some Green policy points?
What Steffan finds is that the political acceptance to this has changed markedly because of consumers growing concerns - especially now with the ruling National party allowing it to pass its first reading and go to a select committee. He says that as all parties voted for it - it's a very good omen - with ACT the only party voting against it. Their reason being that they want to make a stand as being ‘always more right than that of National’ our so called centre right - Governing Party.
He says that this Bill’s further progressing - will go through some due processes - but he said it has some interesting ’support’ behind it.
Saying that it should go through, but the window is closing before this general election - however - no matter who is in power - it should pass into Law shortly - so this is a major blessing for food consumers here in NZ.
Steffan mentioned that sometimes the universe does provide and that serendipity sometimes shows up …. listen for the rest of this.
He is also following up on the Food Safety Law Reform Bill within Parliament to get GE Food as well as irradiated food monitored and enforced as intended. Because it has not been! So it's a wait and see situation. Because this food component has not seen the labelling of GE or Irradiated being enforced since 2003.
Steffan asks readers and listeners that of they see a product that has on its label ‘GE or Irradiated’ to contact him … C/- Green Party.
It is a known that GE soy is coming into NZ - a lot of it for animal feed - some going into our bread as well as tofu. Being food for poultry and pigs. This is an ongoing story in itself and need investigating.
Salmon Fish Farming:
Presently salmon farming in the Marlborough Sounds is an increasing ecological problem. There are in some cases too many fish in too smaller confined net area and the fish are defecating to such a degree that it is laying waste to the seabed below. Plus fish are also suffering diseases as well as general production problems due to basically - unhealthy conditions. Like intensive dairy farms they have far too many fish in the one space. So the fish mongers are now wanting to expand into outer lying areas of the Marlborough Sounds where tidal flushes are better, however these are areas that they previously agreed not to go into. (They are wanting to shift the goalposts.)
Steffan notes that the industry is expansionist and every few years wants a bit more and a bit more …
50% of the world’s fish are consumed from fish farms especially in Asia. However the reason that salmon is being farmed is because we have over the years abused the wild salmon industry here in NZ and extracted too many fish that it has not been able to sustain itself.
Here the King salmon farms feed on a mixture of anchovy caught off the South American coast - other fish waste and also animal waste from our freezing works and more and more vegetable protein as it’s cheaper. However this feed mix changes the omega 3 and omega 6 in the makeup off the fish and it is nowhere as good as they suggest it is. Steffan recommends that we look at other South Island salmon companies further south to source more healthier fish.
He states this whole fish farming scenario has been a huge emotional and financial cost to NGO’s and the Marlborough Sounds residents as a result of this particular salmon company. He says that even democracy has been compromised and that we need to be building up and restoring the wild fishery and being majorly conscious of focussing on strong sustainability, instead of saying ‘it’s stuffed’ now let’s move on to the next unsustainable practice …
Organics
In NZ organics is growing by 10 -11% a year, however we have no government champions - in that they in many ways come close to sneering at the word ‘organic’. Whereas in Denmark the Government has organic targets and is very supportive of the industry, that they are going to have 14% of their food growing production organic by 2020 - and this is what we need here in NZ. Mandated targets and conscious government enthusiasm. Plus the Danes have included pesticide reduction strategies as well.
Steffan also met with Dutch officials in the Hague and they have some very good initiatives happening in the Netherlands too. As does Germany - but these countries are still using many pesticides as well! Austria is also pushing organics as a new way forward.
The NZ wine industry is working towards 20% organic wine by 2020 - Steffan states that they may not get there, because there is such a proliferation of non organic grapes being produced that is diluting (no pun intended) the sector because of their increasing numbers.
Villa Maria here in NZ, a large family owned business are doing very well in this organic sector and will be 50% organic by 2020.
The so called Sustainable Wine Growing NZ group - Steffan gives them a slap - as dragging the chain and being more words than action. Having a low bar as their target - but Steffan ever the commensurate community activist says that they have done one good thing and that is they now have ‘integrated herbicide management’ - so instead of automatically spraying every 2 weeks they actually monitor and see the need for spraying - before they go about doing it.
But when he recently checked, and they have been around since 2007 - that last year 70% of the whole Marlborough viticulture area - and it is huge - 70% of the surface area including just inside the gate and the headlands - not just under the vines and between the vines - was herbicided in spring as they try and get a little 1 degree or half a degree of frost protection by having bare ground warming up in the sun and that warmth would slightly emanate at night and thus reduce the frost a little more.
But the organic guys don’t do that, yet they still succeed just as well. So there is an outrageous level of glyphosate being sprayed to the degree with have glyphosate resistant rye grass there because they have been spraying it so regularly. So sustainable wine growing is not what it says it is. But he says they are slowly lifting the bar and he applauds them as it is still only by voluntary means. In taking this further Steffan drops a bombshell in relation to the PR that is being pushed out and that it is profoundly unethical. Listen to the interview.
There is good organic growth in the horticulture sector and pipfruit and kiwifruit.
Dairy
Steffan talks about dairy and the huge price differential between ordinary conventional farming and intentional organic dairy farming. Fonterra’s last public price for organic milk solids was around $9 per kilo whilst the non organic farmers are starting to cheer because their price has crept up to $6 again after being around $4.
But our Minister and successive Ministers (have lacked the vision and courage) to grab this opportunity and get in behind NZ farmers and make farming more profitable at the same time cleaning up the water and sequestering more Co2 out of the atmosphere. Why? Because they are so market infatuated - and market forces will rule. However in Parliament Steffan was able to get National MP Ian McKelvie
the Select Committee chairperson who was keen to look at the ONZ Organic NZ market report that Brendan Hoare prepared and it was very well supported and received at that level of Parliament.
https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/ofa/pages/237/attachments/original/1460079394/OANZ_Market_Report_2016_EMBARGOED.pdf?1460079394
But even today - NZ has no government regulation around the word organic and there is nothing to stop anyone calling anything organic - So here we are 2017 and we still have no legislation - (so you can see why it’s been so difficult for organics to be accepted in the public consciousness because by far the majority of our politicians have no idea of what it signifies - what so ever.
Glyphosate - Monsanto
European Parliament: Green Members of Parliament tested for glyphosate in April 2016.
48 Green Members that took part in a symbolic urine test ahead of the European Parliament vote last month to oppose the EU Commission’s proposal to relicense the controversial toxic substance until 2031.
The inspiration behind what was labelled the #MEPee test was the results of a recent study in Germany which found that 99.6% of people tested were found to have glyphosate residue in their urine. According to ELISA test results from the accredited Biocheck Laboratory in Germany:
The results reveal that every MEP tested has been found to have glyphosate traces in their urine, with the average concentration being 1.73ng/ml. That level is more than 17 times the safe limit for drinking water. The lowest level found among the group was 0.17ng/ml, almost double the safe level.
Now most Greens will be drinking the best quality water, eating organic food and yet this is what is happening. What will this do to our DNA, semen and ovaries over time and future generations and in our babies and infants? Are you asking this question?
https://www.greenparty.org.uk/news/2016/05/13/green-party-meps-peed-off-with-glyphosate-test-results/
NZ Glyphosate
Steffan says that Glyphosate is made up of many other chemicals called adjuvants and thickers and spreaders and emulsifiers that go into a formula - some of these will penetrate the waxy cuticle the skin of a leaf - there are others that will make the spray spread evenly and there is a range of different compounds that go into a full formulation and come up with a brand name like ‘Roundup’ from Monsanto.
There are also other surfactants and formulas that are part of this concoction.
In this interview Tim mentioned that he knows of an agricultural professional in Waikato who told him that farmers wanting to clear away grass so as to sow a summer crop. So they will spray their grass with a glyphosate product and after 4 days cows and other animals are allowed to then eat this sprayed grass. In checking with this professional on 26/06/17 it was reaffirmed that some of these cows will be milked and that milk becomes a dairy production commodity - like milk, butter, cheese and milk powder. Hence Tim only sourcing organic milk products since he learnt about this a few years ago.
WeedMaster TS540 is one such product that is on the NZ market. This is what the Directions State:
After application of Weedmaster TS540 a withholding period for grazing stock is not required (except where ragwort is present). However, it is recommended that grazing or cultivating is delayed for 1 day after treatment of annual weeds or 3 days if perennial weeds are present to ensure absorption of Weedmaster TS540
There are 91 glyphosate based herbicide products registered in NZ but according to official information that Steffan has access to, it may only be about 80% of glyphosate products that are out there on the market within NZ.
IARC the International Agency for Research on Cancer says that Glyphosate was probably carcinogenic in humans. http://www.iarc.fr/en/media-centre/iarcnews/pdf/MonographVolume112.pdf or see Wiki
Check POEA in Europe it is effectively banned - as one of the adjuvants was so highly toxic in its own regard - let alone as a mixture in the formulation of glyphosate.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/monsantos-secret-formula-dangerous-chemicals-in-glyphosate-herbicide-slip-pass-eu-regulators-due-to-data-confidentiality/5403982
Also, Steffan mentions - it must not to be used as a desiccant that is sprayed on crops ahead of harvest. See above
75% of Glyphosate products in NZ have this highly banned toxic POEA adjutant in their sprays and when Steffan asked Nick Smith the Governmental Minister in charge, what herbicide sprays in NZ have it? Nick Smith replied that he cannot allow this information into the public arena - due to commercial considerations!
The EPA the NZ environmental protection authority is now an ‘economic protection authority.’
Listen to how the EPA sent a retired toxicologist to do a glyphosate report and pull apart the strengths and weakness of the IARC report (and because he was retired he had no need to worry about future tenure) - who with his credentials was able to basically fob the report and give Glyphosate a free pass - by stating ‘it fulfilled industry standards’ or words to this effect. Steffan mentioned that the Official Information Act showed that there was some kind of collusion between big business and Government Agencies including the Ministry for Primary Industries as to having edited this report as well.
Yet Steffan stated that he knows scientists here in NZ who counter all the statements that this report uses to get glyphosate off the hook. He is calling for a thorough investigation of the EPA to the full extent of the Law.
This interview goes on to include Methyl Bromide fumigation of export logs at ports.
Steffan talks about the ongoing need for recapture of this gas instead of letting it blow away in the air stream.
This information below gives you an understanding, however due to the scope of this I Tim, as a volunteer doing this by myself am copying off the web information that I trust will give you a greater understanding.
Port’s decision a win for workers and environment. From Scoop.co.nz
The Green Party is applauding the decision by the Ports of Auckland to require total recapture of the toxic gas methyl bromide at the port by the end of the 2017, and says other ports must now follow suit.
Exposure to a gas being used on an industrial scale at Port of Tauranga evidently doubles the risk of contracting motor neurone disease, new research has found.
The revelation states that methyl bromide gas to fumigate logs at the port may pose a health hazard to people in surrounding areas.
Mr Browning said the ports in Tauranga, Whangarei and Napier were "carrying the burden" of methyl bromide fumigation. Fumigators at other ports, including Wellington, recaptured the gas after use so that it could not escape into surrounding areas.
Mr Browning of the Green Party called for a new facility to be built at the port that would allow safer fumigation.
"If it's not methyl bromide it will be something else, so we need recapture," he said. "It can't go on like it is."
Methyl bromide is used to fumigate logs for export. Exposure to the gas, when it’s not safely recaptured, can pose serious risks to people’s health and contributes to the depletion of the ozone layer.
“We’re really pleased by this decision. The Green Party has been campaigning for years alongside workers, community groups and many others to end the exposure of people to this toxic gas," said Green Party pesticide spokesperson Steffan Browning.
“Methyl bromide, if inhaled, can have long-term impacts on the brain, and increase the risk of cancers and neurological issues.
Finally this interview finishes with Steffan telling us about the Security and Intelligence Bill that was pushed through NZ’s Parliament in 2013 under urgency - at the same time that Eric Holder the US Attorney General was in NZ, along with the Attorney General’s of Canada, the UK and Australia along with a contingent of FBI officials - all present in NZ whilst PM John Key railroaded this Law through Parliament without the deeper context of an informed parliamentary and nation wide debate.
Watch this Eye Opening video that can also be also accessed on YouTube.
http://www.ourplanet.org/perspectives/steffan-browning-security-intelligence-loss-of-sovereignty
23/August 2013 in Parliament you said:
"I implore one of the 61 MPs who has previously supported this legislation to change at this vote and allow a full inquiry first. The Government has failed to provide a real justification for this fundamental attack on our democratic rights and freedoms, and the legislation facilitates the legal establishment of a surveillance State in New Zealand".
http://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/steffan-browning-ge-organics-biosecurity-security-intelligence
Steffan finally finishes with some of the highlights of his political career - his love for what he does in the organic world.
He is drawn to hands on projects that people are doing … closing the environmental loop and being so close to the land, with passion and love.
Meeting wonderful people and his love for his family and friends.
This is an important interview to be able to understand the courage and measure of this man. Download and listen, it shows that we as NZers have to be very alert to what is happening in this land of ours.
Do you want to elegantly express yourself and feel empowered by having more freedom and really connect with people? Plus, “Making Life Far More Easier, Fulfilling and dare we say it - Wonderful?” Never before have we needed a greater range of communication skills to allow us to reconnect as family, community and a global society. To speak authentically and from our heart.
With the media polarisation of society, be it local or global - along with an education system that is constantly needing to encourage our skills in conflict resolution as well as reconciling opposing points of view, how are we going to become a more caring, unified and trustworthy society?
New Zealand is often rated as one of the most peaceful countries in the world and yet has a very high rate of domestic violence and teen suicide -- both indicators that more can be done to give alternatives to beating up on ourselves and each other.
Nonviolent Communication (Also known as “Compassionate Communication”) is one option.
It has been shared in this country and around the world in schools, workplaces, spiritual communities, social change organizations, and public workshops. It helps develop the ability to empathize with ourselves and others, to express ourselves with both authenticity and compassion, and to transform conflicts into creative opportunities to connect even more effectively.
It teaches us how to joyfully reclaim our freedom from "shoulds" and "have to's", discover what truly matters, and to improve relationships with ourselves and others. All of these skills are vital for today’s changing world, where we are increasingly faced with the reality of our interdependence across cultural and political differences.
Though NZers are a polite people, we are often not as forthcoming in speaking our truth because we do not want to hurt other people’s feelings or, are actually fearful of talking truth to power.
However the imperative is: that it’s not about being nice, it's about being real!
We here in this country - especially our men folk are basically a quiet, unemotional people (except when the All Blacks or Yachties are winning) and in general lack the vocabulary to express ourselves emotionally when in a situation that requires both presence, mindfulness and … being vulnerable.
When we embrace Nonviolent Communication we find that there so many more tools to assist us to a deeper quality of our being - being authentic and speaking from our heart - from a space that is not encumbered with anger, frustration or poor self worth.
In our present busy and stressful daily life the imperative is, that we are now able to enlist the methods on NVC - to bring about a deeply felt shift in our response to both life, love and people and open up a new vista on how we approach existence.
Starting with the ‘macro’ big picture the USA versus the Soviet Union (now Russia) if we could deescalate the nuclear tensions then in 1990, why not now - today? Donald Trump has been for it!
Also, on the micro - how are you doing with your relationships with your family, sisters and brothers, or your loved one? Are you stuck and have internal dialogue constantly gnawing away inside, because you find it to difficult to communicate or just lack the assistance in articulating your needs to ‘clear the air?’
From the macro to the micro - to reconciling differing points of view in our living rooms with family - to total frustration with the political system and your local political representative. - how can we de-escalate differences in our daily life?
This is what non violent communication can do …
But how?
How do we stop the war in our own heads and also beating up on our own selves and also stop the wars with the people that we love? - our wives, husbands and loved ones?
This naturally includes the work place, in team games and localised groups.
Plus how do we go for what we want and instead of to a place of fear and frustration and focussing on what we don’t want to - how do we go for what we want?
With NVC - Nonviolent Communication - it is a big piece of the how - a way to decouple yourself from conflict and use wise choices and tools to take a step back and then mindfully engage in coming together once again.
Tim mentions that with domestic violence very predominant - much of it due to lacking in able to express oneself intelligently - and by needing a larger vocabulary tool box in which to draw from. Also that having a sense of worth and valuing oneself so that we are not in a constant state of victimhood.
It is very important to being able to articulate and clarify how we feel and also ready to listen. These are not strong points in our society and many are to be found in the male of the species.
Jean mentions she knows of a NVC practitioner who has worked with people who have physically abused their partner and he introduced NVC communication as part of his group intervention with them. This resulted in zero % recidivism rate - which is unheard of.
So how do you get past the thoughts and the blame and so if we are angry at somebody and we go into our ‘habit thought’ it is THEIR fault that I am so unhappy - that we might want to punish them and beat up on them in someway - but that may be a tragic attempt to meet their needs for more happiness or more well being - it’s just not going to get us where we want to be.
Instead we want to teach people - we want to teach ourselves - how to go for what we really want.
So part of the how is to catch ourselves and step back … as to what is our intention here. So do we want to connect or do we want to do the same old patterns of judging and blaming?
It will most probably get us more of the same so the first thing is the zero step - to ask ourselves what is my intention here?
Take a breath and take stock … to reconnect to ourselves - we do it with practice and tuning into our body and self connecting … am I noticing that my muscles are getting tense? Is my voice increasing in volume - i.e - am I shouting … Am I noticing that my voice isn’t getting higher?
Sooooooo, what am I feeling? Scared? Angry? So what am I needing ….? Some peace? Some power? Or a way to step back into well being … and am I at this moment, having power over my own self or am I - at the mercy of my habits - old thought patterns - my habit energies and I might be about to say the same old thing that I have said before … you idiot, why are you doing this … and I am just going to get the same results I’ve gotten before which probably will not be at all beneficial!
So NVC gives us tools as to where to put our intention to get the outcome we really want and to really put our attention to connect with the person that you are committed to - then we are on the same page and then we may have some very different smarties as to what you want to see happen next.
This interview covers many instances of how we can clear old patterns and break new ground in understanding relationships. When partners learn to adeptly articulate their needs and express lovingly and mindfully their needs - play comes into it and repartee and banter can come into it as well.
The importance of all parties agreeing in the spirit of goodwill to find a way forward really allows non violent communication to come into its own where relationships flourish and everyone finds themselves on the same page.
Taking the ‘vibes up’ - communicating their needs - then singing the vibes up again at the end.
Non Violent Communication needs to be a skill that every person leaving school needs to embrace. The need for peaceful relations needs to be championed continuously from the Prime Minister’s office all the way down and across our nation.
http://www.nvc.org.nz
Klaus has just returned from addressing the highest body of the United Nations. The General Assembly - on Earth Trusteeship in April of this year. He is a Professor of Law and Director, New Zealand Centre for Environmental Law, University of Auckland; Chair, IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law Ethics Specialist Group.
With all the mounting ecological challenges, climate change, melting tundra, ocean acidification etc - that face us today these are finally being acknowledged as the logical symptoms of a disease and Klaus reiterates this - a disease that is permeating our society as a result of economics gone mad.
As an extension of the Chicago school in the 1970’s and then policies by Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher we are left with posing the question - who will look after the planetary environment?
That economics having been the main and in many ways the only fundamental agenda over the last 35 - 40 years that we (even ordinary NZers) are realising we are now in deeper trouble. That without factoring urgent ecological solutions and taking action - we are to experience environmental blow-back of increasing proportions.
We have been going backwards over this time especially as we have added another three and half billion souls to the planetary population. In doing so - the web of life ‘Nature’ - that embraces and integrates all the ecosystems that are layered over each other from the micro to the macro have been put under unprecedented stress. All due to the increase in mans dominating nature especially around deforestation and pollution at all levels - that has been so overwhelming that our planet’s biota, natural systems and feedback loops are unable to cope with the rapid changes that are upon us. It’s all happening far too quickly and our biosphere can not adapt fast enough in the time available. Thus, with multiple tipping points being reached the possibility of cascading problems is an extreme urgency that has to be addressed. Biosphere collapse has to be avoided!
Today, business people in general when we sit them down and talk ‘one on one’ they will agree that the commercial sector are grabbing and extracting voraciously from the earth, however when they go back to their corporation they cannot or are unable to initiate change. The main reason being that the business world in general has failed themselves by still being ‘ecological illiterate.’ This being predominant in the extreme in the global political arena as well.
Today the concept of sustainability has so often been distorted, co-opted, and even trivialized by being used without the ‘ecological context’ that gives it its proper meaning. So, it is worthwhile to reflect about what “sustainability" really means.
What is sustained in a sustainable community is not economic growth or competitive advantage, but the entire web of life on which our long-term survival depends. In other words, a sustainable community is designed in such a way that its ways of life, businesses, economy, physical structures, and technologies do not interfere with nature’s inherent ability to sustain life. It may be also likened to ‘durable prosperity’ - that nature will last ad infinitum.
The first step in this endeavor, naturally, must be to understand how nature sustains life. It turns out that this involves a whole new conception of life. Indeed, such a new conception of life has emerged over the last 30 years. Called ‘The Systems View of Life’ it is grand synthesis of this new understanding of life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If2Fw0z6uxY
Looking back.
Historical Limitations.
Klaus reviews Western civilisation over the last 3-4,000 years and though we as a Western material culture have ‘seemingly’ benefited hugely from our endeavours we have gradually committed so much ecological and cultural damage - that we are now belatedly realising that there is a limit to growth on a finite ecological - planetary system - that we are now teetering on overhang.
When we go back to Greece the word oikos means household and nomos means management. Oikonomos, economy, is thus - those things concerning the management of the house or home as on our ‘home' planet - earth. Note that eco for ecology and economics also have the same root prefix.
Thinking in terms of relationships is crucial for ecology, because ecology —
(as mentioned above - derived from oikos) is the science of the relationships among various members of the Earth Household. Many indigenous cultures embody profound ecological awareness and think of nature in terms of relationships and patterns.
Looking at what the Western model has brought to the world.
Dualism: Can be seen as another Western construct.
The separation between the human sphere and the natural sphere. Where once we were connected to the earth - the wind whispered, the trees sighed, the brook gurgled and oneness within nature permeated much of life from as far back as neolithic times. We were embedded in natural forces.
That over time the academic Greeks started to quantify and measure and objectify things and dualism and ‘separation’ gradually came into being. We put up walls and insulated and isolated ourselves from the environment.
Anthropocentric: human centeredness - that we can measure everything through the lenses of human experience and that we only look at the environment for its usefulness.
Materialism: the predominance of measuring any reality in the terms of matter as against energy or spirit - or the intangible. Having things and measuring success by ‘owning’ things and stacking them up all around us.
Atomism: and our modern science where we are very proud “knowing all about very little and losing the ability to learn a little about everything” … A shift from a more general understanding to more precise expertise - and thus not seeing the larger context. Locked into reductionism and reducing everything down to the mini particle and eventual invisible energy packets.
Greed: when individuals and materialism come together and the so called ‘enlightenment’ - celebrating the idea of individual freedom - another European invention - (has a lot of good things going for it - like human rights and even democracy and so forth) - the dark side is individualism that came into being and - taking it all - with no limits becoming a norm. This translates that one does not have a sense of collective interdependence and responsibilities anymore - and when you combine these with capitalism and materialism we see the 001% of the 1% express what they are doing at the top of the power structures of today.
This is what we have today. We have a great deal of separation - living in buildings doing our best to experience some sort of community yet people have in many ways - just become consumers rather than citizens.
Economism: that we measure everything through the lens of economic cost benefit analysis - time is money - be it Local or Central government. How much is that worth? How much did you win, how much did you lose? My net worth is ………..
Add up the 1st letters of these 6 words and they Equal = DAMAGE
This European experience is totally out of step of non European cultures thus the need to heal our planetary systems and be more open to listen ….
We need to become citizens of the earth see ourselves as brother and sisters with other parts of our planet. We are in this together - so we need to know what is it like to articulate what it is to be human on this - our beautiful planet earth.
The necessity now is to have a Nationwide Conversation and talk about long term strategies.
We are all integrated within the web of life - even if we do not realise it - and with all biota. However, with climate change upon us and the invisible membrane of our atmosphere that envelope’s our planet as the only barrier between us and deep space.
The imperative is to understand we are together - breathing in and out - this invisible barrier that is fundamental to our survival as a species. As Chief Seattle the American First Nation medicine man stated “whatever we do to the web of life - we do to ourselves.”
That we as humanity need to understand what the ‘global commons’ is and then how to honour it and respectfully work with it. This is when we learn to become ‘Ecologically Literate.’
http://earthcharter.org/virtual-library2/images/uploads/Korten%20Earth%20Charter%20Indianapolis%20Talk.pdf
Why were three courageous Australian Quaker grannies for Peace arrested by military police for blocking the road to Shoalwater Bay Military Base Queensland, in 2015? BUT - That did not deter them. They protested again, at the super secret spy station - Pine Gap on September 2016. Having enticed Helen Bayes into the studio, this interview covers not only the story of these staunch seniors, but also explains something of Quakers, and their peace testimony.
As part of Peace Convergence 2015 'Quaker Grannies for Peace' set up a tea table blockading the access road to Samuel Hill / Shoalwater Bay military base, which is used for the Talisman Sabre military exercises.
(Talisman Sabre is a biennial joint Australia-United States military exercise. It involves joint exercises performed by the Australian Defence Force and the United States Military across six locations in northern and central Australia, the Coral Sea, and in Honolulu, Denver, and Suffolk, Va., though the bulk of the exercises are concentrated at the Shoalwater Bay Military Training Area, and other locations in northern and central Australia.)
Grandmother of thirteen, Helen Bayes explains why they would protest this: "Our Quaker peace testimony from 1661 says 'We utterly deny all outward wars and strife and fighting with outward weapons for any end or under any pretence whatsoever.”
The grannies set up a table and chairs and prepared tea and cake in order to engage in dialogue with military personnel.
"Negotiation is not currently part of the war rehearsals, so we are drawing attention to this missing element," said Helen, " Yet it essential to achieve peace."
The Quaker Grannies said they came "with the conviction that a world of increasingly destructive weaponry threatens our continued existence and that nonviolent strategies are essential to our survival".
After being arrested by military police and handed over to local police, the Grannies were convicted, on July 14, 2015, of trespass, and fined $500 each, with no conviction recorded.
In 2016 “Quaker Grannies for Peace” set up breakfast on the road to Pine Gap, and invited military personnel arriving for work at the base to sit down with them.
The action was one of a series of events marking the 50th anniversary of the secret US military facility at Pine Gap, by groups advocating for the base’s closure.
Founder of the Quaker Grannies Helen Bayes said: “We are asking Australians whether it is appropriate for a foreign country to be operating a secret facility with no transparency on Australian soil; a base that may well be implicating Australians in wars that our government has not entered into.”
Located half-an-hour's drive south-west of Alice Springs, Pine Gap is one of Australia's most secret sites. It collects various kinds of data from the Asia Pacific and the Middle East, including targeting data for American drone operations and assassinations.
Partly run by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), Pine Gap is a key contributor to the global surveillance network ECHELON. (New Zealand’s Waihopai Spy Base is also a part of ECHILON, or Five Eyes. It is a secure communication facility, located near Blenheim, run by New Zealand's Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB).)
Helen Bayes is a Melbourne based English-born activist who won the Australia's Human Rights Medal in 1999.
She was born into a Quaker family in Northern England and migrated to Australia in 1966, at age 22. She has 4 adult children and 13 grandchildren. She holds a BA in Social Work and BA (Hons) in Social Administration, and had a 15-year career in the National and State Public Service in the areas of Social Policy and Community Services.
Helen resigned from the Public Service and set up an international child rights advocacy NGO called the Australian Section of Defence for Children International, and has served that organisation in Australia, in Geneva, and on the International Council for 20 years. Helen Bayes was awarded the Australian Human Rights Medal for this work in 1999.
Helen's concern for the rights of children grew into a fascination with early Quakerism. As Eva Koch Fellow at the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre, she researched the views of the earliest Quakers on the nurturing and guidance of children and young people. She was the James Backhouse Lecturer in 2002 (the Australian equivalent of the SP Gardner Lecture), entitled Respecting the Rights of Children and Young People: A New Perspective on Quaker Faith and Practice.
On a lighter side, Helen collects Quaker bonnets, one of which she is wearing in the above photo.
News
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/quaker-grannies-blockade-road-pine-gap-breakfast-spread-dawn
http://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/pine-gap-spy-base-alice-springs-what-you-never-knew-about-topsecret-facility/news-story/b684b7e9ea355860379e50498f236486
Quakers – who are they
http://www.fgcquaker.org/explore/faqs-about-quakers
Addendum
You can about the book, “Dangerous Allies,” by Malcolm Fraser, (Australian PM from 1975 to 1983) which argues that the time when it was in our strategic interest to have a strong military relationship with the US is over, and that now Australia would be better off with a more independent foreign policy. (New Zealand too!)
https://theconversation.com/book-review-dangerous-allies-by-malcolm-fraser-25995
and
https://www.aspi.org.au/publications/reassessing-malcolm-fraser/SI89_Malcolm_Fraser.pdf
and our Greenplanet interview with Murray Horton on why New Zealand needs an independent foreign policy:
http://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/murray-horton-time-for-independence-from-a-crumbling-us-empire
This interview was sponsored by The Awareness Party
This is an inspiring story of dedication to clean up the NZ environment and create new jobs. The proverbial Kiwi win/win situation. Yet, Zero Waste has to be a NZ wide Government sanctioned mantra if we are to get on top of our pollution challenges. Being a staunch advocate of recycling for most of my life that when talking to Warren, I concur that to get the Powers that Be to make recycling mandatory - nationwide - has to become an election issue - so as to show the younger generation that adults do care for our children’s future.
Warren and friends have just launched the Great Kiwi Bottle Drive
www.kiwibottledrive.nz
Where the small town and community of Kaitaia in the Far North recycled 20,000 bottles and cans in 4 hours. Exceeding expectations -
Where at the Kaitaia market - many people supported this ideal - with a very community spirited input.
Children were involved - many very young and it was heartwarming to receive their bottles and give the kiddies some money in return.
They filled a large curtain-side truck with empties. People cleaned up streets, roads, harbours and beaches and their uncles back yards and brought all the empty containers to get a refund.
Now this initiative is heading South to more towns and communities throughout the whole of NZ. Parliament being one of the stops.
With the idea of creating up to 2,500 plus jobs, savings for Councils, money for families and community groups. Including almost tripling our recycling rates with over 1 billion bottles saved from landfill, streets and our oceans!
Cash for container schemes - are going well around the world however NZ is lagging behind world opinion. Warren's team are about to change this!
Glass, aluminium and all plastic containers, plus the cardboard juice and milk containers need to have a deposit paid so that the loop is closed when they come back full circle to be either reused, or broken down and made into another item, or product.
‘Reuse’ stores are now popping up in communities here in NZ especially with clothes that have been outgrown etc.
Warren says that the police have mentioned that recycling depots helps keep kids off the street and involved in an active cause.
There is a very good Zero Waste program that Maori are involved in on marae throughout Aotearoa NZ. http://parakore.maori.nz/news/
Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/parakore
FB page has many members – and it’s about growing the awareness https://theconversation.com/five-golden-rules-to-help-solve-your-recycling-dilemmas-65552 We have to get serious with our waste! Warren states that Recycling is not enough – that we have to embrace ‘product stewardship’ or 'extended producer responsibility' where the producer of a product has to be responsible for the whole life cycle of their products. The New Zealand Product Stewardship Council http://www.nzpsc.nz/ Has to be supported and understood. At present South Australia leads the way in Australasia with a very enlightened approach that has been in practice for over 40 years. Waste in NZ Landfills. Here in our country -186,000 cubic meters of space is taken up by bottles and cans etc thrown out in NZ each year. Nearly 200 metres high by 200 metres long and 200 metres in width. All this is potential money, being thrown away! Call to Action What works around the world is “refundable bottle deposits” Warren and team are pushing for a national deposit bottle scheme however, the packaging and beverage industry have successfully lobbied against one for 25 years … or more. This is why we have bottles, cans and containers scattered all over our clean green country image! New Zealand would have had a bottle deposit system over 20 years ago if it were not for the packaging and beverage industry lobbying against it. Also there is e waste – tires and batteries that have to be factored into dealing with this vexing problem of waste. Little do New Zealander’s know that we already have container deposit legislation – that was under the Labour Government's Waste Minimisation Act 2008 Where the Minister can declare a product a ‘priority product’ for a product stewardship program – a mandatory one - like for tires, e-waste, batteries but the National led Government Ministry has made them all voluntary and it is not working – because … Listen to this startling interview to find out the reason why? NZ used to be ahead in so many sectors of the Environment and ecology - etc , but now we are well behind. Bottle banks – what happened to them? Listen to this! www.recycle.co.nz click on the half crushed and you can read: "Compared to other developed countries, NZ has a vague and scattered approach to achieving zero-waste status. This website aims to help us recognise and address the problems before it is too late.” What a whopper of a statement! Nowhere in the world are they getting more than 40% without having a bottle deposit scheme http://www.cashforcontainers.co.nz/ Recently at the last local government annual conference in support of DDS Container Deposit System - 90% of Councils agreed to have a deposit scheme set up on all waste containers here in NZ . Plus a recent survey of NZ said 91% of NZers wanted it. But the lobbyists have been going around all the mayors and sowing discord … The narrative has been twisted to suit the status quo - time and time again, we have government by lobbyists (Shades of the USA) Lobbyists Undermining the Political Will. Learn about how NZ breweries and Cola producers fight tooth and nail not to have a deposit system here in NZ and also Australia – (an eye opener) Listen to the down right deceitfulness and lies in this battle against the drink giants as they target and discredit good honest people doing their best to enable a cash deposit to be gained from returning of containers after use. Now Northern Territory in Australia has adopted CDS and also New South Wales and Queensland – so the whole of Australia is coming on board except NZ. Because of the big breweries and soft drink manufacturers! See who the major culprit is … (No wonder I have not gone out and purchased their unhealthy sugar products for over 40 years.- I was correct! Tim) Plastics in the Global Ocean! Microbeads what are they? Microbeads are manufactured solid plastic particles of less than five millimeters in their largest dimension. They are most frequently made of polyethylene but can be of other petrochemical plastics such as polypropylene and polystyrene. Microbeads have become so ubiquitous that an estimated 808 trillion pieces swirl down American drains every day. They are now floating in the water column everywhere at different levels – when containers fall off ships – toxic chemicals and micro particles of plastic are 10 or 20 times more than the amount of plankton in certain parts of the ocean – fish eat them … This is a terrible story that needs action at every level of Government, in countries that have shores or outlets to the sea. We are overloading our world and particularly the oceans with plastic. Today many small groups in NZ are coming together and are putting in for waste and recycling contracts – most are holistic thinkers and co-operatives. They are community oriented and believe that by thinking locally they can achieve many good things for their localised environment. Raglan is one such community. Kiwbottledrive.nz sign the petition – please … https://www.nationofchange.org/2017/05/30/snake-vomiting-bottle-highlights-worlds-plastic-problem/ I enjoyed this interview, because Warren showed what we the people can do and it was very enlightening because we now know where the challenges lie and that we need to commit to organise. By taking action we can bring about a major change in policy to get NZ up there as a leader in conservation, and environmental concerns.
We as a human race are just now becoming aware of the extraordinary healings that occurred through Bruno Gröning (1906-1959) which ushered in a new era of spiritual healing. Bruno's teaching is a path to healing.
Bruno Gröning left behind the knowledge of how to absorb a natural healing power that can bring long-lasting health to every human being.
Back then and still today, healings of chronic illnesses that have lasted for decades, as well as of drug and other addictions, have occurred worldwide.
This is confirmed by numerous healing reports that have been carefully examined by doctors of the Medical Scientific Group and documented using medical evidence by independent physicians.
Doctors, psychologists and healing practitioners of the Medical Scientific Group regularly share their experiences through lectures, both domestically and internationally, in order to make Bruno Gröning's knowledge accessible to people worldwide.
Bruno Gröning, born in 1906 in Gdansk, was an unassuming worker who relocated to Western Germany as a refugee after World War II. Before the war he held various occupations, a carpenter, a factory and dock laborer.
Then, suddenly, he was the center of public attention.
The news of his miraculous healings spread all over the world. From every country came the sick, petitions and proposals. Tens of thousands of people made the pilgrimage to the places where he worked. A revolution in medicine loomed.
"Please, please do not be gullible! Today I say as I always do, 'You don’t have to believe what I say!' I do not demand it. But you have one duty: to convince yourself of it!'
Bruno Gröning
Trust and believe, the divine power helps and heals.
Lecture dates and further information:
https://www.bruno-groening.org/en
I have known Robina for over 30 years, she is one of New Zealand’s most experienced Permaculture teachers. She is now an elder and is passing on the torch, sharing the taking on of roles, responsibilities, plus the methodology of a Permaculture educator and designer.
She has been extending the Permaculture philosophy of our social needs, the inner being and the ‘invisibles’ that link the web of life - on numerous levels.
Having a similar world view to Robina, Courtney too relates closely to indigenous ways of becoming more aligned within the localised environment.
Going beyond but inclusive of the the importance of the physical environment, they are looking at the social needs of both family and community, the inner being - our inner landscape and the ‘invisibles’ the agreements and codes of conduct - that we all embrace as we embed our being into the web of life - on numerous levels.
Robina relates her story of taking Permaculture out into the world.
Robina tells of her South African Permaculture venture where the NZ High Commission at that time, assisted in financing her with putting in a Permaculture system.
The task in the late 1990’s was to change the school ground which were basically of sand – into a productive learning environment along with Josee Le bel her NZ colleague.It was a dangerous assignment as they were the only two European people in that locality. Plus, Daniel Nepia who with Maori whakapapa – (bloodlines), was seen to be coloured.
This initiative just took off and now it has been replicated around South Africa and it now fairly well embedded as a practice or way forward or blueprint in future education within South African Government structure.
Robina says it was challenging … and that she also worked with squatter settlement leaders and totally redesigned from a permaculture perspective - permaculture values and permaculture principles – their squatter settlements that were predominantly tin shacks with shelter being basically knocked together - but they could also easily knock them down again. So afterwards, when Robina’s left, they, through a participatory process redesigned everything and knocking it all down replaced the settlement along permaculture lines. These included gardens and water systems etc. As an informal settlement.
Yet one of her more challenging assignment was in the first world and the United States. The Suquamish a Lushootseed-speaking Native American people, located in present-day Washington in the United States. Where they were very marginalised and living in substandard conditions and in no way were representing their previous culture with many working and gambling in casinos. To Robina it was tragic to see what had happened to them. (The same tribe that Chief Seattle was once a leader. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Seattle)
Courtney Brooke
The need to know what the challenges are:
Courtney Brooke who comes from the South East of the USA, sees that the local population have increased urbanisation and that farms disappeared, thus people have lost touch with growing both veggies and fruit and it is beneath their dignity to get dirt under their fingernails.
Thus they frequent supermarkets and get their polished apples with a sticker on never daring to go out and pick an apple off a tree, or worse - pick one up off the ground for fear that there may be a worm hole in it. (that they just will not cut it out and eat it, which is still good and fresh). Such is the disconnect from nature in the first world, because it is educated (programmed) out of us.
That many people in the USA bees and wasps are bugs – no real distinction – get rid of them - and weeds, as against plants. Weeds are often plants that are good, but just in the wrong place in many instances… some are invasive whilst others are medicinal and culinary.
That there is a major predominance of mono crops in America – one is known as a lawn. A prestigious symbol of how well off we are and our well manicured lawn of a mono culture (one grass type only) is another game that is being played out. For example if a dandelion plant pops up on one’s lawn yay it is a medicinal wild flower – but if you are not aware that nature’s plants all have a medicinal quality and if you don’t have a relationship with the plant kingdom – then this is just another weed that upsets the picturesque beauty of the lawn.
This is where permaculture uses and values diversity on our planet.
As for permaculture in NZ – Robina says we are a humble people – who like to grow quietly about transforming their land. It’s like if someone stumbles upon a property and asks about it or talks to a neighbour who knows about it, and maybe asks if they could see that property and with no fanfare it grows from people talking and sharing and after a while it gets on the map and the general public hears about it.
She says most people are quite grounded and eloquent and can readily talk about how they manifested their creation and often do not mind talking about it and sharing so as to inspire more uptake. For example Robin and Robert Guyton http://foodforest.co.nz/the-guytons-riverton-food-forest-nz/ in Riverton the deep south of the South island and their food forest - a plethora of fruit trees, among perennial herbs and native plants – are thriving. This is where they value heirloom apples and pears due to the very temperate climate and at the autumn show many growers come and share all varieties plus grafted ones too. She says that this is deep within the culture.
Also with Community Gardens Auckland Wellington and Christchurch having many – Auckland having over 50.
See Kelmarna Gardens and their seed store http://www.kelmarnagardens.nz/
Plus the Hamilton Permaculture Gardens that has a whole permaculture example among the beautiful floral landscape plus a microcosm of a backyard quarter acre section these examples are all over the country, but is not shouted out across the media.
Brendan Hoare and Richard Main’s names come up with what they did with organics at Unitec here in Auckland.
Courtney mentions that hui’s and meetings and gatherings that are nationally happening around NZ annually are really important in every province around the country - where issues are talked about and training courses take place.
Shwe says, people are turning up to see how they can make ‘broken systems better’ being that permaculture is a ‘solutions based design system’ that is where the movement is also heading – be it a landscape system or a social system.
It is like looking into the book of nature and perusing the underlying patterns that uphold intact systems and using that patterning and language to create systems be it food systems, social systems, economic systems – what ever it is – a landscape system - that mimic those patterns of nature in order to create functional systems that are honouring life, earth and people.
Robina Passing on her Experience
Robina, says that as an elder after 35 years at the cutting edge of the wave, that in passing on information to the younger generation she is finding them hungry, savvy and quick to embed the old earth wisdom. That by passing over the baton to our planetary youth they realise that we have to take sustainability to a new level of enduring prosperity and deep ecology.
That it is time to take stock and actively and consciously pass on the skills of regeneration to younger people who are ripe and ready and who Robina says has another blueprint than her. It’s like they have come into the world with a better knowing and the dedication to make a better world for them and future generations – in ways that she does not conceive of.
This being an intergenerational shift of wisdom deep knowledge and life energy.
Sun, seasons, wind, gravity, soil, tree belts, building materials, position, soil structure, microbes – and as a community etc.
Courtney talks about that many people who also turn up to Permaculture gatherings is that they have land that has been broken down and they want to turn these around and make them far better and viable. Because Permaculture is a solution based design system – they are always looking at grounded innovation. Be it a land based system or a social system – they are looking at how nature works out these situations. Or As Courtney says looking at the book of nature and the underlying patterns that uphold intact systems.
What Robin says from her perspective of Permaculture these days - it's now Social Permaculture. Since the late 1970’s the focus has been on the landscape - transforming the landscape into productive , functional; sustainable systems – and she says that the weak link has been the people, hence the evolution of a people component and teachers like Robin Clayfield http://dynamicgroups.com.au/about-us/
in Australia and
Starhark http://starhawk.org in the USA
and Looby McNamara in the UK http://loobymacnamara.com/home/
(Plus Robina here in NZ).
This is by applying the permaculture principles of design and integrating it all into social systems – so that the can be really resilient. Check their web sites.
Invisible Structures
Bill Mollison the initiator of Permaculture also did a chapter on invisible structures – legal systems, how to communicate and how to do governance - to bring about sustainable communities, where you are land based as kaitiaki – care takers of land. Food production on the land and building soil fertility – having thriving children and families that are intact
Research global eco-village network. https://ecovillage.org it’s a very good source of community resources and info – plus models of what to follow.
Sacred Earth festival URL http://kawaipurapura.co.nz/voices-of-sacred-earth-festival/
What has happened since the Christchurch Earthquake - is that it is now being called “the edible garden city.”
Some Councils in NZ have sustainability as one of their platforms and this is where Permaculture can back into their Sustainability Department and offer them their experience.
Robina relates to her work with Project Lyttleton www.lyttelton.net.nz/ - giving permaculture workshops nearly every weekend to the affected people of that city – and tells a very emotional story of her connection to the city of her birth – and that grass roots organisations may hold the key to that city.
Transition Towns also is mentioned as we deal with the increase of climate change and where it is going. http://www.transitiontowns.org.nz
How do we mobilise a country to come together as a conscious ecological community at one and aligned with the land.
The subject of Nuclear Free Zones comes up as a grass root movement so does the ideal of having GE and GMO Zones as well and what are the catalysts to instil in people the need to take care of our children’s future.
Robina said pre Christchurch earthquake people in say supermarket queues talked about the weather – post earthquake - the shift was immense – they showed deep concern for all people they stopped and talked with them – there was a level of commitment as they inquired caringly about each other.
What is the catalyst for rapid compassionate change?
What is it that will magnetise the community to wake up to their unity as the sharers of breath in our common future. Robina surmises – do we need an inner earthquake to snap us out of our dream spell of disconnection? So that we rise to the occasion of giving and or service to make the change that we at heart would love to witness and be part of.
There is a big awakening around our planet – however many, though they are concerned and care are still not sure what to do and put their energy into.
So Robina says – what is your passion? Just go and push the edge and step out. And if our intent is pure that in the spirit of goodwill, the world of nature and the ‘invisible’ does its part in coming in and just holding hands with us by opening up new territories and giving gifts and bestowing on us so much energy that you never look back …
www.Localisingfood.com - project around nz SOS save our seeds. Documentary Videos and short stories on this web site – global impact
Plus food forests growing in public places around the country
Courtney says she would dearly like us to become ancestors that future people will be proud to descend from … She also speaks so elegantly and in the flow with a youthful yet wise exuberance.
This was a delightful interview of Robina & Courtney - lots of passion and emotion - the salt of the earth.
https://earthcare-education.org/wp_earthcare/about-us/robina-mccurdy/
For over 45 years being on the leading edge of conscious change, Robert says “we now are leaving the Empire Era, that took over from the Tribal era, and we are now entering the Planetary Era”.
I (Tim) went to a weekend ‘Change Agent’ workshop back in 1999 in Auckland that Robert presented and learnt much - hence I am still enthused as of today. However Robert is now taking the deeper context of change to another more focused ‘local to global level.’ They are called ‘The 3 Harmonies.’
This below is an introduction to Change Agents, that leads into the Three Harmonies
A change agent is someone who can bring a vision into a manifestation here in our physical life. Usually it is someone in a catalytic role. Often, they bring people together and help them focus on something as a shared goal and enable something new to be born.
It takes a certain amount of courage, because a change agent is doing things before everybody else says – ‘oh yes that’s a brilliant idea.’ Change agents need to recognise the value of some new approach and have the perseverance to shepherd it through to actual manifestation.
Note that not all changes agents are promoting change that you would approve of …
However the change that Robert Gilman promotes is with people who have a caring about what is happening on the planet, a caring for the earth and for its people and its species and who would like to be more effective in being able to manifest that caring.
Robert says that they have this inner intuition that they are here in this time in history to make a difference. Yet they often find it challenging. Robert’s calling at present is to work with people who already in their hearts are oriented to making a difference and assist them to be more effective and joyous as change agents
Today the collective unconsciousness is stirring as it recognises that humanity is in a tight situation regarding its collective planetary future.
Robert suspects that there is also within that ‘collective unconsciousness’ the realisation of opportunity for a truly brighter future. (Robert’s use of ‘bright future’ is totally different from the National party’s use.)
He feels that the long-term trends show we are closing in-on, within a generation or two, ending warfare as an institution.
This is only one of the changes that his decades of working in this field lead him to believe are in ‘the works’ .
Humanity has many challenges – the warming climate, species extinction, various social problems, etc. – that we have we have yet to solve. Robert has spent over 40 years studying and writing about these challenges and now feels that we already have practical, tested solutions to essentially all of them. The obstacles to implementing these solutions all come back to fear, fear that we have inherited from 5000 years of cultures based on maintaining everyone in a traumatized state.
For thousands of years the winning strategy for worldly success has been to Enforce the Three Dominations:
During all that time, visionaries and idealists have pursued a different strategy, what Robert calls Embody the Three Harmonies:
As appealing as many have found this approach, it’s not been a strategy for outward success.
Until now.
The long-term trends of cultural evolution suggest that we are currently in a ‘tipping zone’ where increasingly those who succeed in practical terms will be good collaborators who embody the three harmonies. Those who pursue domination will find themselves more and more isolated and unsuccessful.
With the goal of speeding up this ‘birth’ of the Planetary Era, Robert has developed an ‘adventure tour to the future’. Called Bright Future Now, it helps people deepen their embodiment of the Three Harmonies so that they can personally step into that bright future now and be more effective and joyous change agents in service to the Earth and its life. Bright Future Now is a 6-week online, highly-interactive process that integrates into the lives of busy people all over the world.
Listen to this interview and discover how deepening your skills of cooperation can speed up your own transition into the Planetary Era.
Can New Zealand become non Aligned? Can we as a small educated nation control our own destiny and become more independent and not be dragged into the military industrial complexes, war games - based on planetary control by the corporate elite?
CAFCA, (Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa) announces the launch of AIM (Aotearoa Independence Movement) and invites you to join them. CAFCA is preparing to initiate and drive a nationwide dialogue to advance the case for a non-aligned Aotearoa based on policies of economic, military and political independence.
This is not a new thing from CAFCA - it has been part of their core issues since they were founded more than 40 years ago.
Murray Horton talks most knowingly about political history and current day issues that contribute to the founding of the AIM campaign.
Murray has been a Christchurch-based political activist since 1969 and is the Organiser for both the Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa (CAFCA) and the Anti-Bases Campaign (ABC)
He is a University of Canterbury graduate, and has worked in a number of "real" jobs, the longest being 14 years as a Railways worker. His redundancy in 1991 was followed by his becoming the full time paid Organiser of CAFCA.
He says: “The advent of Donald Trump in the US provides an unprecedented opportunity to take a good, hard look at Aotearoa's place in the world.
And to ask the question - why are we still a loyal member of the American Empire?
As the old saying goes, you are judged by the company you keep.
CAFCA says it's time for this country to pull the plug, to finish the business started in the 1980s which saw us out of ANZUS; and break the chains - military, intelligence, economic and cultural, etc, etc - that continue to bind us to the American Empire.
Let's deal with the world on our terms, not on those dictated from whichever empire we happen to be a junior member of at the time.
Somebody needs to take the initiative and we're happy to do so.
“What is AIM? (Aotearoa Independence Movement.) It's a campaign, not an organisation.
What is a specific example of what being non-aligned would look like? An obvious one would be to get Aotearoa out of the Five Eyes spy network and close the Waihopai spy base. That would remove this country from being entangled in wars and spying that serve the interests of the US and and other countries, not ours. Another one would be to drastically tighten the foreign "investment" laws governing who owns our companies and land.
What will AIM do to "initiate and drive this nationwide dialogue"?.
That will be decided by the organisations and individuals that get involved in the campaign.
It is not about Donald Trump.
He is simply the catalyst who offers us a once in a lifetime opportunity to build this campaign and create a truly non-aligned Aotearoa.
We know that there are plenty of New Zealanders right across the political spectrum who are just as appalled as we are by what the world is witnessing going on in the US every day.
But it's not about whoever happens to be US President.
This is about the longer view and the bigger picture.
Nor is it "anti-American" (or "racist" or "xenophobic", for that matter).
We stand with the American people who are fighting back in their millions. We stand with them as we stood with them in common causes ranging from stopping the war in Vietnam to the invasion of Iraq and the failed attempt to impose the TPPA on our peoples.
The campaign has begun for a truly non-aligned Aotearoa. You'll be hearing more from us. We need as many people as possible to get actively involved” Murray Horton
See here for the Aotearoa Independence Movement’s website.
It includes Murray’s speech given at AUT Pacific Media Centre, “Time for Independence from a Crumbling US Empire.”
http://canterbury.cyberplace.org.nz/community/CAFCA/aotearoa-independence-movement.html
Previous Interviews by Murray Horton on GreenplanetFM.com
http://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/murray-horton-spokesman-for-the-campaign-against-foreign-control-of-aotearoa-cafca 2014
http://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/murray-horton-of-the-campaign-against-foreign-control-of-aotearoa-cafca
2011
This interview is sponsored by ‘The Awareness Party.’
http://www.theawarenessparty.com/
Jonathan Cole is a Solar Engineer bringing innovative and new solar techniques and technology to New Zealand. Right from his landing in NZ Jonathan noticed that the sky was so much more brighter here than he had seen in the Northern hemisphere – even from Hawaii in the middle of the Pacific the horizons were now unclear.
Noticeable for him on most occasions here were the clearly defined razor sharp horizon lines when looking out to sea. He has not seen anything like this for 15 years due to the massive recent industrial outpourings north of the equator. That for New Zealanders, the lack of atmospheric pollution is taken for granted whereas Jonathan is becoming used to witnessing a yellowish haze that blurs the horizon line when looking out anywhere in the Northern hemisphere. Even when he in an airplane at 30,000 ft it’s basically the same.
Whereas in the Southern hemisphere Jonathan states that there is a better chance for us in this hemisphere to have a healthy and comfortable life style, without atmospheric pollution - by introducing new clean steady state solar technologies
Though solar energy comes from a fusion reactor that could be very dangerous, however fortunately it’s situated 93 mile -s away journeying through space. So we are basically safe, and that the atmosphere of our planet essentially can act as a shield without causing us to much harm.
Due to the ozone level over NZ and the lower latitudes of the Southern hemisphere being thinner – more intense sunlight there is a higher number of watts hitting the ground per square metre - especially when compared to the Northern hemisphere – so it is a natural move for us in NZ to start utilising this solar energy to power up our country.
Germany is far closer to the North pole than NZ is to the South Pole – so if the Germans are the top global solar country, then NZ has a huge advantage and opportunity to take this to the next level. Jonathan says NZ can easily do this and it would be cheaper as well, due our closer position to the equator.
Storage:
Pump water uphill … for night time gravity driven generation use. Having a central storage dam that can be used on demand. Tesla’s name came up briefly as being able to tap into our planet as a spinning dynamo. Plus the large battery packs now becoming available.
Jonathan then tells us that he has been working on stored energy for the last 35 years and it is not just sun light – it’s light energy that we can extract energy out of. Even when it is cloudy – light energy always hits the earth. So when there is light it can be turned into electricity.
He states he can store electricity in batteries that can now last 25 years on a solar system of his own design – and for the very few times that the days were heavily clouded – have a small generator just in case.
Also, that he has never had a power outage with his solar energy system. i.e no stoppage or failures.
Clean Power.
This is a major benefit as well as eye opening information!
Solar energy also has a very good advantage in that it gives you very clean power – that there are no surges or spikes as it evenly distributes the flow from the battery to all the appliances that need power. As a result he has never had a light bulb burn out or a stereo stop working or a washing machine or hot jug – because there is no surge or spike. This is where batteries and solar energy can save all your electrical appliances - from burning out. The unrecognised beauty of solar energy from batteries is that all appliances will last an exceptionally long time.
In NZ where we have 230 volts they can spike up to ten times higher - up to near 2.500 volts when the power surges along the lines. These are instantaneous and just blow many appliances out. This can occur for example when a very large refrigerator compressor in a supermarket turns on – and there is a huge ripple along the power lines and the knock on effect – results in spikes and thus the appliances can get fried.
He said that where he lives in Hawaii, he is still on the grid, but may only take 1 and a half % of power off it, just to cover heavily cloudy days.
Meaning 99% of electricity comes from the sun and the other 1.5% from the grid and in the USA, China and Australia this displaces an enormous amount of Co2.
Listen to Jonathan as he spells it out.
He further states that he can produce a solar energy panel that includes all the electronics - a small computer and batteries that will last for 25 years for $600 US. That is correct ‘everything’ lasting 25-30 years. What the electricity companies need to do is get in and do solar units too – there is good cash in this. Plus, they have the finance to further the research and paradigm, however they are suffering from stranded investment – being that they have already invested in their own future and have to now hang in for these next 30 years to extract whatever they can from their investment.
Costs Coming Down.
We may have plenty of hydro and windmill power generation here in NZ which is renewable – however solar is now delivering electricity at 8 cents a kilowatt hour – which Jonathan says is about a third of what we are paying here in NZ. Even with hydro power at 70% of power generation for NZ - it’s a high maintenance operation. Solar power has virtually zero maintenance in their operation. Now and then wipe the solar panels.
Today solar panels are being made with over a 50 year life time and inverters that change DC current to AC with a 25 year guarantee. Which mean if something mechanical happens to it, you do not have to pay to replace it.
Solar is all solid state – with no moving parts and no friction – virtually zero wear and tear.
Other Subjects Covered.
Cells that can come in rolls like wall paper and that you roll them down your roof. At present they only last about 5 years.
In the next 20 to 30 years - Worldwide there is going to be a huge percentage of electricity demand that is going to be met by renewables - especially solar – mainly because it will outperform static combustible technologies including nuclear.
Transport of the future where practical – Tesla batteries & long haul trucking by GPS navigation.
Lack of space for car parking in cities be it in the CBD or having room to park and house cars in a family of two adults and two teenagers in the city … No parking on the street?
More people will opt for more public transportation in the cities and hire cars from drop centres if one is urgently needed. In Munich Germany - electric BMW mini smart car 33 cents a minute swipe your Credit Card and get in and start driving – you finds the car by a smart phone App in a street station near by.
Air transportation is being designed as well with specific air corridors to keep some sort of order - Germany -Lilium
https://lilium.com/
Tesla - Elon Musk – Hyperloop ground transport at high speeds
Listen to this conversation about transport that is electric, clean energy and silent
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperloop
Part Two
The Human Condition
Especially a durable prosperity that goes a step beyond sustainability.
That human beings can exhibit the highest elements of our nature and have faith that the forces of lightness gain predominance and make things better.
It is incumbent for us to utilise our creativity to improve the world or use it that ends up having so many negative consequences that future generations are having to pay for.
To be conscious of what choice we make when we wish to improve our world and planet’s biosphere.
People be trained in schools about consequences.
That corruption of our inner being is expressed in the outer world – because we have not listened and taken into account our conscience
Listen to the end of this interview to Jonathan as he opens up on taking us into conscious thoughts and conscious actions - as we bring more light to the world.
http://www.lightontheearth.org/index.html
This soul brother is ‘out there’ he is prepared to give it a go for all that he is worth. Upfront and into it, and a courageous willingness to ‘have a go’!
Back in the 1990’s Rev Billy noticed a more overt method of marketing products that was being pushed into people’s lives and as a vulnerable consumer it engaged him by appealing to his status and power, good looks and youth – and he was tricked into it. And it kept turning his head.
Then somehow with the help of friends and teachers and the fortune of the luck of the draw - he decided to resist! He was just tired of getting rolled over by the glam and whizz bang of seduction and the dazzle of neon super models when he walked through New York’s Time Square. So out of these circumstances he emerged out of the pavement - as a preacher on the Broadway sidewalks of Time Square.
And with help of some cohorts created a theology in which Mickey Mouse was the antiChrist. Then he placed himself in front of the Disney store and began to encourage and exhort people, that if they entered the Disney store and shopped - they would be sinning! You will have to listen to Rev Billy rage against the machine – ‘that they are all sweatshop products’ – and that type of preaching would go on for hours and hours . And he received all sorts of different responses … and he got better at it. And he got what preachers got … your whoop – yes your whoop! …. And after some months he got his whoop up to speed and that he could preach at a thousand bored listless tourists, drifting like cattle and get them to consider to go into the Disney store - OR NOT. And this is when Billy’s Ministry began.
It began in his own self-defence, but also a willingness to appear foolish and he encourages all his listeners (he laughs) to be foolish and we have to cross-over from that character that we have been ‘conditioned’ to be.
The American comedian Steve Martin in the movie “Leap of Faith” came up and Billy said that he was influenced in this role by comediennes, rock and roll and jazz. He would also go to Evangelical and Pentecostal ‘performances’ where there would be grandmothers passing out on the altar and people screaming - and then he states that many of those churches were right wing in their content. So he turned off the content and just learned how to preach. Listen to Billy, wind up and show how it’s done!
Yet Billy did not really want to be a preacher, because he was brought up by abusive right wing Christian parents. However he in the end could not resist, because having the backup of a choir and great music made the message even more compelling. So when he really got good at it – the Church of Stop Shopping had to have a choir – and he found many people who agreed with his contention that consumerism is the devil – starting to sing his lyrics. – He doesn’t really know how it actually happened - he said he was lucky – it was a blessing - out of the blue – it just became.
Surmising that it was partly persistence, stubbornness and the willingness to let go and be foolish.
Billy states that we have to be open to the mysterious and the earth telling us in whatever subtle ways we can perceive - that the indigenous peoples have been telling us from day one that consumerism and everything that it entails is not the way forward in our relationship to our great sustainer, our planet. It is not the indigenous people way to just make money and conquer nature.
Visiting Standing Rock in North Dakota
Listen to Billy tell us what happened up in Standing Rock in North Dakota where he took his Stop Shopping Choir and that so many other indigenous tribes from around our planet had converged in support of the First Nations of North America. He finds himself with the Aotearoa NZ Maori and in particular their haka - he realised that they had a deep connection to the earth. Listen to here his tell his story.
He said all other tribes were singing water related songs that were so very moving – that he and his Choir started crying.
He mentioned that the songs seemed to have Beethoven’s 9th beat - that he felt his life changing …
And right next to him and the Savitri D were 15 Maori who when they dropped into their karakia (prayer) followed by a haka ‘it scared the hell out of Billy and his group” … that knowing about other first peoples from around the world makes a huge difference to how he saw life.
That Rivers are becoming recognised as entities
He then mentions the Whanganui River ( awa) as having recently been given living status and classified as an entity. This he said was wonderful and that other countries like India are following suit. http://www.ourplanet.org/articles/new-zealand-government-acknowledges-a-river-as-a-living-entity-and-a-park-as-having-human-rights
He sees that the reengaging with this knowingness, that the Whanganui river is an entity – shows that the global neo-liberal economy has a limit. That this emergence of such an event means that indigenous cultures can now take the higher ground in seeing that the earth is both living and sacred. See India recently passing legislation as well as what has been happening in Bolivia and Ecuador etc.
Billy sees this as an earth-aluya moment in our history -this is what we are waiting for …
Billy states that he is very grateful for the leadership that has come his way. (It takes huge courage, especially in the USA). He is grateful that the indigenous – earth peoples have survived the extraction and murderous ways plus the diseases of our European culture. To still be here as carers of the earth – that which lends us bodies in which to live, plus free air, water and until recently a free food chain.
We need to drop the old story of conquest and empire and consumers consuming our planet and allow the old stories of pre ‘city-state’ culture, to come in. That the word natural needs to been seen as far more sustainable than cultural and allow the earth to re-enter our consciousness.
Being mindful in one’s actions
Both Billy and Savitri D his dearly loved wife are very mindful and respectful of the lives of humanity and are very caring of how they language their connection both to people and our planet as a whole.
He intuits that the uprising on earth today is more than a message to him it is an instruction – that the earth is giving a signal to join her – in this uprising …
Covering
Then present situation in America and what leadership is required.
We have to come back to the living earth.
I then interview for 25 minutes, Savitri D - Billy’s wife and leader of the ‘Stop Shopping Choir’
The Church of Stop Shopping is a radical performance community of about 50 people.
Who are united around their values …
And recently they have been going inside banks to show their resistance as consumer activists. For example they even travelled to North Dakota to the Standing Rock - access pipeline. In super of the First Nation peoples.
Their strength is their creativity and communal energy which focuses on political activism, being radical earth activists with heart and soul.
Being earth oriented they look at natural systems for clues - such as a healthy bio-system is diverse. They look for resilience in their human community as much as they do in their physical landscape – some would say a permaculture view – a very broad view of integrated designs of things.
Yet a lot of their work involves standing on police lines protesting … and doing it with song and hilarious preaching plus ferocious preaching too. Disrupting the normal tone of protest – adding clever and artistic props that they make themselves. Plus, over the last 15 to 20 years they have developed a broad vocabulary to add to their protest and resistance – using every different strategy they can imagine. One continuous strategy is focus on climate change and to keep it in the public consciousness all the time.
This with keeping fossil fuels in the ground, trees deeply rooted and animals healthy … to reduce human chauvinism in its industrial effort to extract the last of earth’s gifts out of her. Is what they are here to protect.
Savitri says she and her troupe are wild people who live in the city – being the human wilderness of New York city.
And New York is the entry point of the USA and the road is unknown – but people show up as they find a way to divine a way to survive and make a new life for themselves. As an artist it is very exciting but for an ordinary person too, just wishing to become financial stable.
Cultural creatives hare challenged to come together. As the arts now are becoming very commodified and institutionalised – and it is difficult for an artist to be political – as sponsorship option evaporates instantly – and has always been that way.
People in NY are in a hurry – but they are open …
Some of the protests were:
Singing about Monsanto and honey bees, neonicotinoids and pesticides, plus being pollinators where they dressed as honey bees – and the fact the the Stop Shopping Choir is so diverse that there are always creative input to their shows.
BP comes up for some attention … Marktown East of Chicago – is supposedly a cancer cluster area – so they went and sung to the people of that area – about capitalism and the extraction the fossil fuel industry – and these people are going through hard times so ‘the choir’ has to communicate with them in a gentle and respectful way – without undermining the value of what they have put into their own life – albeit working for a corporation that is basically only profit motivated.
That though in a hostile territory the payback was that they were very well received as they both educated and healed these workers by showing that they cared.
What are we to do?
Start sharing deep story with each other – being caring and insightful – be open to change and don’t get sucked in by mainstream media – it is not productive at all.
What will make people more active and engaged?
Community holds us up and supports us – community is powerful and capable of profound things – someone gets tired. But there is always someone having an up day and they come in alongside you and lift you up. Tend to your garden and nourish all your relationships.
Gather together to work with you affinity groups = people you know and trust and build strong cohesive relationships. It’s a long game and the challenges are not going to go away tomorrow.
Yet Billy states that in the USA things have never been darker yet things have never been brighter … yet we need Noble courage to stand up!
The present president is showing to the public face that the macho fundamentalism is bulldozing and extracting every last drop of what the earth can supply.
What was interesting was that Bernie Sanders presidential bid was largely an Occupy Wall St platform.
http://www.revbilly.com
I really want to share this interview with you as it was a heartfelt eye opener for me as it showed that there are many people in our towns, villages and rural regions across NZ, diligently focussing on pulling the threads of community together - in many ways under the radar - at a grass roots level.
As a ‘systems thinker’ Anneleise Hall’s insights are invaluable to all people who are wanting NZ as a whole - to prepare itself to become far more robust, sustainable and resilient. With a fast coming future descending on us - we need to really commit to ‘conscious action!’ Not only for our biosphere and all biota, but especially for the sake of our children and grandchildren too.
Many years ago, Anneleise was working for a local newspaper in a small region on NZ’s West Coast where she basically had full control of the content of that newspaper and as she was there for many years she got an overview of the makeup of this small town and she noticed that after the extractive industry of logging was closed down and the subsequent good pay-out by the NZ government - it interested her how this small town responded to losing major income streams – and how they innovated.
So in putting together the newspaper she grew an awareness of other ways of entrepreneurship such as the West Coast wild foods event, which went on to a film festival then tourism and art - resulting in boosting their own income and the local economy.
She ended up teaching young teens skills how to get a job and build up their self-worth that lead her into community work – then it was noticed that a lot of kids had fallen through the cracks – that if there was no sport, there was not so many options – so she started up a trust to get music into schools and the smoke free rock quest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smokefreerockquest
Because of the lack of interest in some of the challenges of the youth and the teachers of the schools unable to have the time etc, that she noticed another small town nearby that had a ‘green dollar’ group and they were having markets in the weekend and it was quite active. It was here that she enjoyed getting fresh organic produce that were traded – and use the ‘various credits’ for other things and people were building tiny houses and rebuilding buses as a sustainable community was growing up on her periphery .
Yet on the other hand, Anneleise still in her newspaper role, was harvesting stories from around the world of other small towns that were doing very exciting and innovative things to mitigate the so called perfect storm of global circumstances. With globalism creating massive change even if it was not necessarily in everyone’s awareness at that time – she said that she was just led there without really being conscious of how it would unfold.
As she was in an industry where she was able to get all the news-feeds from around the world via news-wire and in doing so, receiving torrents of information that she could choose from. She was in a microcosmic situation of a little NZ town – looking out towards all the other towns globally in the greater planetary macrocosm – and how these towns were changing to meet the ever changing global circumstances.
One thing she became aware of just how creative people are and what is the potential when you start to think outside the square by creating real long lasting positive change – and this empowered her – in realising that these small towns and regions could really progress.
That when one town creates an innovative model – it gives other towns a blueprint and an ompetus as to how they too, can reinvent themselves.
Then Anneleise talks to the fact that she is a system – of breathing heart, lungs and this is her immediate ecology – and then in her family unit that’s another ecology and then her community - it is an even larger one – and all the parts interlink and interweave and if we are healthy, that little local microcosm is too. That there is a correlation that if our wellbeing as individuals is healthy, there is a very good chance our community will become one too.
Uncertainty and faster change affects us all
She noticed that the more uncertainty and faster pace of the world affected our levels of stress, depression and anxiety - plus fear of the future increased.
As a result of the changing global dynamics, she is also seeing more fragmentation and mistrust – as we haved moved away from our innate humanity and the ability to cooperate, when we as a species are really social creatures, and have been basically interrelating since the beginning of time. Whereas the current program that we are being inundated with is having the best, the brightest always winning, “we have gotta have this” mentality … and it’s turned into such a competitive mind-set that it’s now a case of the haves and the have nots. The winner and the losers and that can be seen nearly everywhere especially in the 2nd decade of the 21st century.
Yet in our hearts:
Yet in our hearts there is another thing happening, people are moving back to really basic ways of being, that she finds very exciting. That all this has been seeded over the last 30 to 40 years – that was quite fringe back then – is now becoming more and more mainstream as people look at a ‘time bank’ or green dollars and a community garden, a local food growing project, an energy project like a car pooling project - all being ways to counterbalance the status quo. Especially as the resources on the ground cannot keep up. (i.e - be sustainable).
So when the Christchurch earthquake happened, over the hill in Lyttleton the ‘time bank’ that was set up was able to quickly jump into action and able to be utilised by the emergency services because they had their own telephone tree and were already embedded and known throughout that community.
This is where PLAN B comes into it.
Project Lyttleton http://lyttelton.net.nz - cherry picked all the other pilot initiatives that were happening anywhere in the world, to see how they may be integrated into their localised situation
This is where Anneleise then noticed that the mainstream newspapers were not interested in printing any articles on ‘time banking’ – that Project Lyttleton Initiator, Margaret Jefferies could not interest these local corporate newspapers into covering this innovative method of enabling the community to become more resilient and self reliant.
She noticed there are little pockets in areas where inspired people inhabit and come together – however how do you communicate with these people when the mainstream local newspapers do not wish to help you? (hint, they are not here to bring community together ‘they’ are here just to make money and keep the status quo – Tim)
It took a while to build up the time bank – because the whole concept of throwing ‘money’ out the window and instead trading on ‘time’ was so new! “That one person’s time was exactly that same as another person’s time – so that every bodies time - is equal.”
That everyone has something intrinsic to offer and everyone’s time is equal.
Dr Edgar Cahn – Time bank guru: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_S._Cahn
It was a way to not use our national currency the NZ dollar, especially if we were short of cash and instead at a community level get things done with just a giving of one’s time.
Anneleise says that from a systems thinking process, it is a rich ecology where there is a much greater choice when the community engages in a community wide ‘time banking’ system. This is because there is an amazing range and depth of talents and skills plus expertise that when you connect into and access this community you have this goldmine of real knowledge and wisdom.
That time banking is really a facility to go beyond our instinctive ‘modern’ mistrust of each other and start to rebuild both networks of community that Anneleise says, were once far more prevalent back in the past.
So the key here is to have some clear, accurate and balanced communication forms going on.
In the UK the Time Bank system expressed itself differently as the Government allied them to health centres – in giving assistance to old people in their homes and by helping out the elderly in their house, it meant that they could stay and live in their home longer instead of having to move to a retirement village for example. Also in Britain’s Prisons – (listen to hear the story)
The Non Market Economy
The ‘non market economy’ can be seen as up to 40% of the economy – like child care, care for the elderly, civic participation – volunteerism – all of this work is not contributing to GDP and it is not measured – yet it is the glue that holds our communities together.
So these activities are the foundation of our healthy human existence - yet under our current economic measuring - they are completely ignored.
Love comes into it !!! What is that worth?
Sustainability is a whole system – of many interlinking components that is inclusive of ‘closing the loop.’
Even the garage sale and car boot sale are parts to this whole. Where you are reusing and recycling things they are all integral to your community functioning at a social and at an economic level.
Having connection in your community is critical
Having a network of friends and kin is imperative! (listen)
Healing was another imperative !
Transition Towns
Malicious propaganda via mainstream media like sensationalism of war, terrorism, crime etc – we must not let it undermine our sense of community, undermine our sense of connection, undermine our humanity and our caring for other people - and to where this leads us …
Systems thinking and healthy children growing up with healthy boundaries, that have healthy connections to each other and our world – this requires a lot of modelling. Modelling what the adults are doing in the community. So if adults are heart centred and aligned with a very balanced intent – positive change can ripple throughout the community.
She mentions Bruce Lipton’s understanding of ‘conscious evolution.’ See www.brucelipton.com
Finding that laughter and connection is in community.
Finding that little quiet place in nature or meditation – this is so essential to us in bringing us back to our basic humanity.
Letting go of stress, letting go of the negative media programming.
As a ‘serial researcher’ :) … these are other things covered by Anneleise:
We do not know what will eventuate until we go out into the community and involve ourselves.
We need to commit to make things happen
There is a richness of people who have skills talents and gifts to share.
We need to get together – share ideas and rebuild trust as well as rebuild a collective energy – where we work together in a cooperative movement and collaborate - as against competition
There is a document on http://lyttelton.net.nz – called ‘our story’ – which is like a blueprint or template, of what you can do.
Anneleise would also like to see a reduction of poverty and incarcerations, better health care, swimmable rivers – even a universal basic income … plus curtailing foreign land investments and what we need to do in regard to the election cycle.
Time banking and other community financial methods can be found on:
www.le.org.nz
An extremely vivid overview of someone who has thought deeply of how community comes together - 5 Stars. A must listen for NZers wishing for a greater cohesive community connection.
anneleise(at)gmail.com
Australian Phillip J. Watt is an activist for individual and collective change. He does not mince words. His interview is a balance of wake up calls, and talking of positive solutions. Phil is passionate about and dedicated to capturing and amplifying the much needed spiritual and systemic changes that characterise our emerging global culture.
Looking at the issues he says, “Some people still have no idea that there are people and families who have more influence in the direction of humanity’s future than those who work within the government apparatus. Yet of those who understand the power that both old and new money yields, many still find it hard to believe that the people who really run the show behind the scenes do not have humanity’s best interests at heart. To them I say, just have a good look around. Put aside the strong evidence of a Satanist ideology and pedophilic tendencies within the uber elite, and pay wise attention to not just the system itself, but the health and prosperity of the people.
First, the system. The money supply is a scam in which currency is created out of nothing, where the profits go back to those who create it instead of the people and their community needs. Food is tainted, as is water. Medicine is in general a toxic soup of adulterated elements too, which struggle to resolve the symptoms, let alone cure the fundamental issues. Now of course there are many natural ingredients that can be highly effective against the widespread dis-ease which permeates our so-called modern world, but they’ve been so effectively suppressed simply because the people would manage their own healing on a local level.
And that is outside of the desired control of those who are hellbent on their power trip of ruling the world. This theme is present through all of this, actually.
Then there’s the mainstream media, which is a monopolized mess of propaganda and hypnotism. Now it is true that you will get some truth through these channels, but in the most part, information that reveals the big realities, especially regarding the theft of various elements of the system, will not be televised for society’s benefit.
Each and every one of us has surely seen how the corporatized media works for their own interests, right?
Then of course there’s the government. Big money, through their lobbyists, ensure that macro policy design supports their agenda. Its crony capitalism on steroids with a political puppet arsenal that makes Pinocchio look like he’s just had a hit of truth serum.
Take for example Australia’s Prime Minister. As an ex-managing director of Goldman Sachs, which is a banking institution deeply embedded into the banksterism that exists today, his appointment is such a massive conflict of interest that it is dumbfounding that the Aussies don’t physically escort him out of Parliament house. To add the final blow, he is also deeply in the pocket of the pharmaceutical drug dealers which have literally killed millions of people, as well as destroyed many more people’s lives through addiction and increased sickness.
Yeah, sounds legit.
So what does the public education system do regarding all this? Well, it maintains and perpetuates this status quo, of course.
Enter the people. There are three S’s which characterize humanity’s internal world today, which are sadness, stress and sickness. Ask nine out of ten people and they’ll be either in one or more of these states, or simply completely disconnected from themselves and their purpose.
Contentment is rare. Common sense is uncommon. The authentic, empowered man or woman is nearly non-existent. Of course on the surface people seem ‘fine’, but peak into their lives and it soon becomes pretty clear that it’s whirlwind of bitterness, smallness, hatred, jealousy and competition.
That’s not to say that our fellow men and women aren’t mostly good-natured and caring, but damn we’re lost in a web of bullshit. We’re all part of this to some degree or another, but very few seem seriously motivated to get out of the sick race and genuinely surround themselves with good vibes and good lives.
Why? There are many reasons, but to simplify it, it comes down to indoctrination, ignorance, laziness and fear. People just don’t understand, and they don’t want to understand, because it means much more than just changing their lives. It also means authentically facing themselves and the outside world, which means completely redesigning themselves and their concepts of reality.
So instead, many people find solace in giving back in some little way without having to do the hard work. One example is giving money to charity, without focusing on the core systemic areas that would actually deal with the problems. It’s so unfortunate too, because many charities and foundations are very much embedded and even complicit in suppression of the truth.
After all, there’s no need for that organization to exist if they solved the cause they were fighting for.
In any case, the world we live in is not one of general health, happiness and harmony. Instead, we have sickness, sadness and stress. And that doesn't even account for the super S of scarcity, instead of abundance. So even if the ruling class genuinely had good intentions when it comes to the care of you and your family and friends, they’ve clearly failed.
Either which way, it looks like we’re going to have to step up our vibration of consciousness and sort this mess out for ourselves, especially in our own lives. Or not; I guess time will tell.”
Phillip J. Watt lives on the Mid North Coast of NSW Australia. He is an activist for individual and collective change and has devoted his career to supporting this evolution. Phil best identifies as a truthseeker, writer, self-help guide, organic farmer and activist who has lived a life of self-determination and built a strong repertoire based in leadership, teamwork and seeking the essential knowledge and skills to holistically support himself, his family and his clientele.
Phil's written and film work deals with topics from ideology to society, as well as self-development. His love for spreading empowering messages evolved into being a leading writer for independent on-line media dedicated to mindful, holistic, progressive, well-informed and adventurous living. He is also an online and in person presenter of information relating to the truth and freedom network.
Phil is passionate about and dedicated to capturing and amplifying the much needed spiritual and systemic changes that characterise our emerging global culture. He has a background working in multifaceted areas including journalism, policy development, security, project management, social work, operations management and providing individual and relationship guidance. He also has the privilege of interviewing a variety of progressive leaders on his YouTube Channel.
Follow him on Facebook @ Phillip J. Watt, watch his interviews with an array of inspiring guests at 'The Conscious Society' YouTube Channel, read his latest work at his new website www.pushingthetippingpoint.com and visit his personal development website www.vitalityguidance.com.
This interview is sponsored by The Awareness Party
http://www.theawarenessparty.com
Dahr Jamail is the chief environmental reporter for Truth-out.org - the large web-based news and current events site from the USA.
An award winning writer of books such as:
THE MASS DESTRUCTION OF IRAQ
THE DISINTEGRATION OF A NATION: WHY IT IS HAPPENING, AND WHO IS RESPONSIBLE
THE WILL TO RESIST
SOLDIERS WHO REFUSE TO FIGHT IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN
BEYOND THE GREEN ZONE - DISPATCHES FROM AN UN-EMBEDDED JOURNALIST IN OCCUPIED IRAQ
Dahr has been here in NZ checking on some of the key areas and tipping points’ within our localised ecology. The diminishing glaciers in the southern alps being very noticeable. The other being acidic oceans. Plus the strange weather patterns that are skewing the seasons of spring, summer and autumn.
A third of the permanent snow and ice of New Zealand’s Southern Alps has now disappeared, according to our new research based on National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research aerial surveys. Since 1977, the Southern Alps’ ice volume has shrunk by 18.4 km3 or 34%, and those ice losses have been accelerating rapidly in the past 15 years.
http://hot-topic.co.nz/new-zealands-southern-alps-have-lost-a-third-of-their-ice/
Same for the Northern Hemisphere
Methane in the upper northern hemisphere is outgassing from the melting tundra. - in Russia, Canada and Alaska.
Permafrost is decaying rapidly not only in the arctic but right across the top of these northern countries.
Is the science letting humanity down?
There are 2,500 international scientists that are doing projections and they always work to the lowest common denominator. They play it conservatively. This is a problem as many of these scientists are Government scientists and they are beholden to their employers for their pay checks - they are frightened and will not tell the truth as it is.
The Great Barrier Reef
Looking at impacts of global warming and that the reefs wellbeing, recently in Australia and the Great Barrier reef is in trouble … remembering it is ‘an organism’ that due to human impact on the environment – we are causing changing environmental conditions that the reef is being ’bleached’ and there appears to be no end in sight. It is the largest coral event in the history of record keeping. The great barrier reef last year received over 90% of its entirety bleached with between 22% and 25% of it is now lost in one year.
Statistics are leading scientists to saying that by 2050 that 98% of coral reefs globally will be experiencing a ‘thermal stress event’- a bleaching event every single year.
25% of fish species are dependent on the life of a coral reef.
That if the water warms up on a reef and stays warm the coral dies but if it cools down again within- around 6 weeks – the reef will recover.
Already in the Caribbean sea we have already lost 90% of the entire coral reef system. Dahr has also just come from Guam and in the last 3 years they have lost 50% of their coral. So that is how fast it is happening.
The question is, why are the public not receiving this information?
Why is it that in the US, the media is run by basically 6 major corporations all straight jacketed into the vested corporate military banking industrial model – that censors by omission or just gives out fake news - ad nauseam.
The situation today is very serious!
How do we empower people? And emancipate them from the shackles of apathy and the psychological ‘it’s all too much’ - subjugation?
It’s all about connection … to nature and the cycles of nature – until more people go out deep into nature and have connection that is truly intimate – until they get it that we are an extension of our planet we are going to be scratching to get enough uptake to be the change that we wish to see in the world.
Because if humanity does not step up to the plate then near term extermination will come upon us.
If we do not have a clear map to see what is happening – how can we make the correct decisions?
Darhs credentials of putting himself on the line!
Having been in one of the sieges of Fallujah in Iraq, Darh came back with PTSD ‘post traumatic stress disorder’ and came to meet Joanna Macy http://www.joannamacy.net/aboutjoannamacy.html - who follows a Buddhist methodology in dealing with grief and loss and the psychological effect of tragedy - among many other ecological and peaceful matters. However he has been able come through this now, though it still has an affect on him.
Dahr says that not receiving correct and truthful news is a huge problem and that he had to get out of corporate America to obtain news outside their sphere of control and influence to learn the truth and what was really going on.
He said that he realised that the lies and distortions that the US engaged in and that it was involved in an illegal invasion of a sovereign country and broke countless Geneva conventions. However, if he read information coming from the United Nations or (at the time) the ‘Guardian’ or the ‘Independent’ in the UK he got a very different understanding. But where do we go today to get concise truthful information?
The truth about Climate Change
For Dahr states that this on going climate change and progressive warming is going to be the most important of issues especially for each successive day for the billions of inhabitant of our planet, period!
Dahr says this is huge, we are losing the biosphere in chunks and he only covered coral in this interview.
With the massive increase and release of pollutants into the atmosphere changing its composition and altering the chemistry of the oceans that we supposedly evolved from - to realise that our oceans will experience a collapse in fisheries due to overfishing and loss of habitat. Because one billion people derive sustenance from fish that live in and around coral reefs – where are they going to get their protein?
Look at the weather shifts especially the freezing weather winters in the North East USA. With massive fluctuations. Crops are being affected by this extreme situation – and bee pollination too.
In Africa.
That in the last 2 months the UN states there are four countries now experiencing famine.
Previously there has been a lot of grain sent from the US to Africa to provide relief - And he is not sure if this will happen under the Trump administration. (I did not get the opportunity to ask if it was GMO grain? Tim) This is only one example of the knock on effect of food production that has to been grown every year to sustain so many lives.
When in Russia it was so warm recently that they had record setting, wildfires – thus the weather patterns has affected their grain growing and instead of being a grain exporter Russia have to keep it all for themselves – but the prices then go up – globally.
Dahr maintains that even the Arab spring is all related directly or indirectly to climate disruptions …
That it was a vegetable vendor in Tunisia setting himself alight – it was an act of self-immolation as a symbolic act because people could not afford to pay for food. Because of drought caused by climate disruption. Dahr states that the same happened in Egypt – people could not afford to eat – Mubarak did nothing and this ignited a situation where he was overrun and his regime fell. Same for Syria – drought affected Syrian farmers that in the end walked off the land into the cities affecting the demographics with poor people igniting an insurrection that lead to Syria erupting in environment. (Tim, there was another component that I did not have time to question and that was a week after 911 in the US, where General Wesley Clark whilst visiting the Pentagon after the twin towers imploded – was told by another army general that the US was going to topple 7 other regimes in the Mediterranean arc - ending with Iran – that for reasons unknown - happened at the same time?). And look what it has devolved into now ….
Critical Information
Dahr, says that if there is one piece of information that he wants to bring home to everyone – “that it is happening now!”
That we cannot fall back on the default that there is still time – or that we can mitigate it or there is still this window … that is is just not true that a lot of governments today (including the NZ government) are banking on this lie.
That we, (the governments) refuse to jettison the fossil fuel economy because of all the strings that have entangled us into this all encompassing, octopus - that envelops the global economy. And though Dahr, feels we are already too late, by jettisoning fossil fuel tomorrow – that would be a starting point.
Tim then says that NZ’s challenge is that we have no politician of note or business person of prestige - who stands head and shoulders above all the other leaders in their field - prepared to speak truth to power relating to the climate change that we are pretending will go away – this is mainly due to the complete disconnect from the cycles of air, water and food production that our planet provides us.
Dahr wants people to halfway through reading any of his books – put it down and walk out into nature wherever you may be – the park, among trees, out in the bush, wade into a river, hike a hill or mountain trail – to just surrender to the elements and drop out of our head and into our heart - that 12 inches of descent into our chest cavity to where our heart pumps oxygen around our body temple. Just make the connection to the sacredness of not only our body – but to the earth that supports under the soles of our feet. To be thankful and grateful that we have an ecology that nourishes us. More so that we are not yet being scorched by the heat of the sun’s searing heat, or being in a war ravaged village or city in the throes of terror.
So with an emersion back into nature – for only when ‘we’ - the collective ‘we’ realise our connection and for a moment in time breathing in that sacredness of that ‘presence of being’.
To reflect that, for example in the US at present – people will not be able to petition those in power to bring about the appropriate change.
People Power at Grass Roots is the Only Way Possible.
Changing from the inside.
We have to get in touch with our own grief to recognise what is happening. In Dahr’s case he had been to war ravaged Iraq and had 5 assignments and had been in Fallujah during one of the sieges and witnessed first hand a lot of US war crimes upon women, children, babies - horrible things
And when he came back to the States he was suffering from PTS - Post Traumatic Stress disorder that Joanna Macy, out of the US says - that we need to get in touch with our grief. However Dahr was at that stage still extremely angry and did not know that he was in grief and couldn’t get in touch with anything as he could not feel much else. Then Dahr says that this, at another level is what so many people in the States are suffering from today - also - because of their exposure to yet another news flash of what preposterous things are happening within the USA be it economic, political, ecological or war.
When we need to look at gratitude and look at where we are, and the amazing place where we live – look at the good people that we have in our lives and the things that we can be grateful for and secondly we need to look squarely and honestly to exactly see what is going on. Plus, how progressed we are on theses destructive paths.
We have to realise that we have already lost large areas of ecosystems. Such as by 2100, Mt Everest may have hardly any glaciers on it. Same for Western Canada the glaciers will be no more. Sci fi movies have not gone there yet, - however we are in it and with the recently rain and flooding in Auckland largest city, (March 2017) we are witnessing climate change first hand.
He says that we have to not only get it intellectually – but also be emotionally engaged – this is where we experience what we are collectively doing to our great sustainer, our planet. We need to feel everything that goes with this … the rage at the people responsible – the rage at our own blindness to it until now – the sadness at what is being lost and the grief and despair and the feelings of powerlessness as to what has been happening - and finally from this place we can start to see things a lot more clearly and finally reconcile with the fact as to what actions do I need to now take.
Listen to Dahr as he takes the next steps …
That it is not an intellectual discussion any more – he says we have all the data – it is how do we take that incredibly long journey from the head to the heart – 25 centimetres and this is where he is writing his book - on the state of our planet and biosphere.
Finding a place of solace – and cherishing that place and caring for it, and making sure it remains because what happens when that place is gone? Then, what you can do to make sure that this natural beauty is here for the long term – our children … perpetuity - it’s about what is offered to us freely - clean air – pure water – a healthy food chain …
Joanna Macy’s work … called ‘the future beings’ is an exercise. She breaks the workshop into half. With one half of the group are here in present day and the other half are 200 years in the future – but the 1st assumption is that there are beings 200 years into the future and our planet has no more ice in the arctic – not much in the Antarctic and Greenland is basically a puddle Ocean levels are 100 feet higher and parts of our planet look like Mad Max. Sitting in front of you is a person who is huddled in a small community somewhere on our planet that is still habitable, endeavouring to survive as a species.
And to the group that is in today – we still have much of our biosphere basically intact – ice though retreating is still here in both poles and a good part of the great barrier reef is still present. But, what are you doing?
Listen to how Dahr responds when faced with confronting the refugees of 200 years into the future … Hint – a small act now can make a huge difference in the future – (A stitch in time saves nine). That NZ can be the trim-tab factor for our Planet – per Buckminster Fuller). http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1966/01/08/in-the-outlaw-area
Intent comes up and following through on doing what is best for the greater consciousness – in bettering the whole … being fully alive.
Tim’s critique - At present there are collectively tens of thousands of scientists who know that we are racing off the cliff, however they are not prepared to put their money where their research is showing them.
They do not want to collectively put a miserly 10 thousand dollars, from their own well-off pocket into a collective kitty to enable a couple of million dollars be put into a greater fund for a number of really hard hitting, high quality documentaries that tell it - as it is.
But, more so to empower us to action as the seed of this living planet ‘Gaia’ and show that we can wake up and flower as a race if we only tapped into our inner potential. (See Tom Campbell GreenplanetFM).
Do we have to leave it up to a movie star, Leonardo DiCaprio, and his timely movie ‘After the Flood’ to wake up the world? What are these scientists doing with their money. What are these billionaires that seem to be a dime a dozen - what are they doing with their money? Why are they not financially supporting the evidence and doing the right thing?
I would also like to mention that NZer Kevin Hester was instrumental in bringing Dahr Jamail to NZ and it has been Kevin’s unrelenting drive to keep this urgent climatic subject in the news here in New Zealand.
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/22521-climate-disruption-dispatches-with-dahr-jamail
What we are also up against:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/28/arctic-researcher-donald-trump-deleting-my-citations
John Seed = Deep Ecology = One of Australia’s most articulate communicators of, and about, the web of life.
John gets us in touch with the psychological dimension of our environmental crisis to get beyond the denial that most people greet the news - as to what is happening to our world – and if we are in denial about the terrible plight that our planet’s in –then our ability to celebrate the beauty of nature and the glory of the cosmos is severely hampered – because it’s resting on a very unstable foundation.
John’s work over many decades has been in collaboration with Joanna Macy from the USA. They encourage people to recognise that our deepest feelings of despair and anguish about what’s happening to our world, are an integral part of us being able to celebrate and glory in the wonders of nature and the wonders of creation. That if we are in denial and are unwilling to feel and to share our pain as to what’s happening to our world, then we are also unable to truly celebrate the beauty, that surround us.
This has led him to take people who are needing to be healed ‘on a journey’ so as to let them confront their hurt and fears and - from a psychological standpoint reconcile and rectify the trauma that they are witnessing across the face of nature today. This is an Australian story of a seminal conflict between the forest industry and the conservation movement over rainforests in northern New South Wales.
Battle for Forests
The battle over logging the rainforests of Terania Creek in 1979 started the Rainforest War in New South Wales. Some claimed Terania Creek to be the last un-logged rainforest in Australia. The war was a clash of values and cultures, but three important lessons came about from this conflict. These being the influence of the media, the role of science and ecology, and the spirituality of forests.
This ecological battle started a process that saw the eventual closure to logging and reservation in national parks of 900,000 ha of native forest, or about one third of the productive State Forests of New South Wales.
This halted the logging and sparked the NSW government's decision to gazette the remaining rainforest in NSW as a National Park.
John states “that even though we won that battle there are so many other battles...and in lots of ways they got worse."
"We still find it really hard to imagine that it was the first time people actively got out and protected the rainforest."
However John soon realised that in spite of the success of saving that forest and the wildlife that abounded, in looking at what was happening all around our planet - for every forest that was being protected, a thousand forests were being lost. And he saw clearly that there was no way we could save our planet at one forest at a time.
Addressing the underlying Psychological challenge.
That unless we address the underlying psychological or spiritual disease that afflicts modern humans one that somehow allows us to imagine that we can somehow profit from the destruction of our own life support systems – and that these actions are very enjoyable and rewarding for the participants - it would be of no particular significance to the future of the world.
So John began to study to understand why do we behave is such a self-defeating manner?
He mentions:
Paul Ehrlich https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_R._Ehrlich
The famous American ecologist and population commentator who said “we are sawing off the branch that we are sitting on.”
Clearly this indicates a psychological problem no matter how much the timber in that branch might be worth – it can’t profit us to do this. And through this enquiry he came upon a philosophy of nature called Deep Ecology.
Deep Ecology:
And this is where he could understand why we were behaving in this way. Deep Ecology was coined by the Norwegian - the late Arne Naess https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arne_Næss the emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Oslo University who said the underlying all the symptoms of the environmental crisis was the illusion of separation between ourselves and that of the natural world. The illusion … and this has grown into anthropocentrism or human centeredness.
The idea that we human beings are the centre of everything. This view sees us being the crown of creation - the measure of all being … and that nothing has any value except human beings – nothing is intrinsic. Things can have instrumental value if they are a resource for us. But really, we do not look at life as being a web or, if we do happen to see life as a web – we are the spider in the centre of it.
We are still unable to understand the science of ecology and the wisdom of indigenous people reveals we are but one strand in that web and if we destroy the other strands we destroy ourselves.
Connection to the Earth via Ceremony
John’s workshops look to how most indigenous societies practice and reiterate the connection between human beings and that ‘all our relations’ are not severed. Every indigenous culture has ceremonies and rituals that allow the human family to celebrate our connectedness and to nourish that connectedness. And these ceremonies involve the entire community and the children are there and are watching and are learning this. Indigenous people have this knowing that we are rooted and draw energy and nourishment from the living earth and enact it with reverence for nature in all their ceremonies – so as to never forget their roots. (When were you last bare footed walking on the grass of the earth?)
For 30 years John has been developing methods and skills to move us from a social identity to an ecological identity.
This interview covers Wetko – the mind virus that has infected materialist man and what we need to recognise - to break free. That the First Nation American peoples - saw the very connection to Mother Earth when recently here in NZ one visitor put on a small campfire, a dry branch of wood and reverently stated “to all our relations” – that the tree is of life, giving us light and warmth as well as taking in Co2 and giving us oxygen back.
Everything is connected. We are all in a grand cycle called life and it is this wonder of the web of life that is threatened by our foolish behaviour today.…
The Council of All Beings
An experiential process of deep connection – That Joanna Macy & John designed back in the mid eighties – and the book ‘Thinking like a mountain towards the Council of all Beings… translated onto a dozen languages - Now in Mandarin
www.joannamacy.net/
Originally Joanna taught “despair and empowerment “ and it is now called “honouring our pain for the world.”
Once certain boundaries are set – people are invited to share their deepest feelings of anguish, despair and horror at what’s happening to our world.
This is a rare opportunity because if anyone even hinted at expressing their feelings around this subject - under ordinary circumstances people instantly want to change the subject as everyone feels threatened when such feelings are openly expressed. But, as people are taken through this exercise – what follows is empowerment and we discover that (listen to the broadcast that John eloquently shows us a way out) - the end result is a celebration that then becomes possible!
Thomas Berry’s name is mentioned http://thomasberry.org/
A Catholic theologian, who instead of focussing his attention on the Heavens to find God, became a geo seer – studying the Ancient Greek word Geo – where we get as a prefix …for geology, geography, geometry, geodesy, geopolitics etc. Our planet.
The study of the earth … Is another way to see our connection to the earth in such another way as to experience a deeper relationship and link to the earth.
http://drewdellinger.org/ Poet who wrote the poetic introduction that John introduced us with at the state of this interview.
Also http://www.genesisfarm.org/about.taf Sister Miriam MacGillis of Genesis Farm that is dedicated to understanding the Universe and Earth as a single, unfolding process. That Genesis Farm offers diverse and innovative experiences that inspire a comprehensive approach to personal and social change. As a community facility it is open to all who are interested in exploring the sacredness of the land, their mission and their work.
Sister Miriam MacGillis created a process called the cosmic walk – and this is what John’s workshop will do on this coming Saturday night. (1st April 2017 at Kawai Purapura. See below) A spiralling story of the creation and the evolution of life. Which everyone participates in.
IndiaJohn then tells of his work in India, which as a country he says has given him so much inspiration to awaken his spirituality - that:
Bruce Lipton’s name comes up again with his work in India around organics and farming.
http://www.organicindia.com/ and Bharat Mitra. This became a movement in organic and biodynamic farming methods that were developed and practiced. The founder's mission being to offer safe effective herbal products to the world and he is the driving force behind an organic revolution that started with ORGANIC INDIA and is now taking root all across India.
Re forestation of the sacred mountain in South India
https://naturedesignsjohnfranci.com/projects-implemented/
In 1988 John, who is a founder and Director of the Rainforest Information Centre (RIC) was asked to assist in the co-ordination of the Annamalai Reforestation Society’s project to green the sacred mountain of Arunachala in South India. Now the mountain reforestation has advanced a long way since then. There is a good collection of different organisations working together to ensure the the success of the project. http://www.theforestway.org/greening/overview.html
Land rights for the Poor of India. John has been assisting these people for some time.
In December 2015, Rajeev wrote to John that the campaign to establish land-rights for the Katkari and other Adivasis was finally bearing fruit and “will help resolve the insecure village land issue in at least 600 – 700 Katkari villages”.
http://www.rainforestinfo.org.au/projects/india/rajeev3-16proposal.htm
The next steps are tree plantings to improve the fertility and productivity of their land. However, suitable native tree seedlings were not available and they are establishing a nursery “to ensure multiplication of diverse native plant species (fruits, uncultivated foods, vegetables, medicinal plants, fibre plants, sacred plants, flowering plants, natural dyes, etc)”
This interview of John Seed shows a dedicated man working for the earth.
Big Data Info: http://rainforests.mongabay.com
Johns Itinerary for Auckland New Zealand 2017
For the best information go to https://workthatreconnects.org/event/john-seed-in-new-zealand/
Sacred Economics and other thoughts – Lisa Er interviews Charles Eisenstein on Sacred Economics, and the world after Trump.
“The present convergence of crises––in money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and more––is a birth crisis, expelling us from the old world into a new.”
“When we must pay the true price for the depletion of nature’s gifts, materials will become more precious to us, and economic logic will reinforce, and not contradict, our heart’s desire to treat the world with reverence and, when we receive nature’s gifts, to use them well.”
“It’s a very ancient idea that the universe runs by the principles of the gift. That human life runs by the principles of the gift. And that in fact the purpose for our existence, the reason why we’re here, is to give. And that everybody has a gift that is important and meaningful, and maybe even unique and essential. It’s certainly true in an ecosystem where every species has an important function, and without that function, without that gift that it gives to the ecosystem everybody would be a little bit poorer. The system as a whole would be a little bit weaker.”
“And this is a new understanding that may be only 40 or 50 years old, in the west at least. A hundred years ago, or even 50 years ago, scientists thought that you could eliminate one species, eliminate in fact all the bad species, and make nature better. But we’re understanding now that every being has its gift to give. And this shift of perception hasn’t been integrated yet into our institutions.”
“Mainstream economics doesn’t really understand this. It says that human beings don’t really want to work. There’s a phrase in economics, “the disutility of work.” Human beings don’t want work, so we have to make people work with these incentives, this money that overcomes your natural disinclination to create, to be productive, and to give something to other people. You have to get something in return, otherwise you won’t want to do it. And it’s considered good that we have a system based on scarcity, that creates anxiety, that kind of forces you to work.”
“Money is just an agreement. Money only has value because people believe it has value. It is something that we create through our agreements. You can say that money is a story. It’s the symbols that we interpret in a certain way, and that means that they’re valuable. So why have we agreed to create a system of value that is the enemy of all of the beautiful things we want to do?
The paragraphs above are from Charles Eisenstein’s presentation, “Sacred Economics, money, the gift, and society in the age of transition.”
http://charleseisenstein.net/sacred-economics-money-the-gift-and-society-in-the-age-of-transition/
In this interview we covered the underlying causes of our current economic difficulties including the need for an attitude change about money, and the system, and how these both need changing.
Money is not a neutral energy. It has ‘scarcity’ built into it. It creates endless growth of the economy because more money needs to be created in order to support the growth.
We are not only reaching growth limits but we are reaching spiritual ones. There is a psychic limit to the cost of impoverishment of life when everything is effectively converted into money.
Charles answers questions on some of the most hopeful trends he sees today; his vision for a new economy; the key to transitioning to sacred economics; and what can we do in our communities to contribute to a new economy.
On speaking about the new POTUS, Trump, Charles says that almost anything could happen in the US, including government breakdown, and creating a new constitution, or even extreme scenarios such as break away states,
You can find Charles’ bio on his web site :
http://charleseisenstein.net/about-charles/
This interview was sponsored by The Awareness Party
http://www.theawarenessparty.com/
As many of you know Bruce Lipton is a world renowned author and a quantum - cellular biologist that takes evolution to the next level.
He offers the concept that the cell is a microcosm of the human body that we can understand how a cell works (one of the 50 trillion in our body) by making analogies with how a body works.
With all the magnificent machinery that we call the human body, there is no new function that's present in your human body that's not already present in every single cell. You have a digestive system, a respiratory system, etc, - so does a cell.
The fact that we have become disconnected from our bodies has become legion as especially with Western males, who think they are bullet proof and abuse their bodies trusting that Western medicine will revive them with a cure to carry on.
That the human body can also be seen as a microcosm of our planet is another example of our connectivity. Our body is composed of air, water and earth minerals - so is our planet. That a human blood system is 3.5% salt - so are our oceans. Our body has a respiratory system, our planet has an atmospheric system. Our body has acupuncture meridians - our planet has ley lines. http://ancientexplorers.com/blog/ley-lines/
However Bruce opens up in this interview by saying that we humans have to take note – that though scientists have been mentioning it for some time now – the hard cold fact is that our planet is into the 6th major species collapse – that as we have massively increased our population and ecological footprint, especially in the last 150 years– we have not recognised where this is leading us, and continually fail to heed the warning signs.
What science is increasingly becoming more shrill about is that the present loss of species is 1,000 times greater than the back-ground loss. Which means there are always losses, but these are infinitesimal because 2,000 years ago we would have had only about 500 million people max – living without machinery and technology. Now we are approaching gigantism - where with 7.5 billion human beings we are in many ways infesting the organism that supports us.
Our planet, Mother Earth.
Now why would Bruce be bringing this to our attention, having written 3 bestselling books that have accentuated the possibility that we humans can evolve stupendously fast to become profoundly aware that we can - with much inner change and reflection - become super conscious planetary beings. To choose to wake up to the reality of what’s happening and evolve a ‘new knowingness’ based on cooperation and shared responsibility.
He also mentions how the bio-web, or the web of life that embraces and underpins the biosphere is starting to show signs of imminent collapse … The great coral reefs that are bleaching globally as well as the fast approaching collapse of the ocean fisheries - that we are ignoring at the peril of our children.
This rapidly approaching fisheries collapse is scheduled to hit by around 2048.
Yes we have heard it all before – yet now we have a seasoned voice articulating the urgency. Someone who has a deep understanding of the evolutionary process and its downside.
Coral reef bleaching, he says is like, when we see life as a pyramid – everything at a lower level is built upon supporting everything at other levels above it. So if we drop out the lower level, then everything that it is holding up – drops out all the higher levels including us humans – and at present it is about to fall and collapse.
Geologist studying time periods call this the Anthropocene age.
Anthropocene age is about humans … and what they are noticing is that the atmosphere, the water and the land is being altered by we humans - it’s being called the human interference phase … which we are seeing in all the climatic / weather changes – bottom line we are facing the extinction of the human culture. This has also been induced by the thousand of atomic bomb tests, plastic pollution and massive deforestation of tropical forests, soot from power stations, concrete, and even the bones left by the global proliferation of the domestic chicken were now under consideration. etc.
We have two choices.
The two choices are – to continue down the same road of growth at all costs towards extinction - and it’s looming fast – Science conservatively states by 2048 there will be no fish in our oceans - 2048 – just over 30 years … due to three things:-
Overfishing – destroying breeding grounds and polluting the water.
We have known this for a while yet no one has done anything.
What do we do … because we can not delay ….
The other choice …
Bruce mentions the biological imperative and that it’s built into every living organism – that being ‘the drive to survive’ … all animals, birds, insects, fish - will flee if threatened and when we translate this to the human condition today we are witnessing a global response from people that to many of them - ‘it’s not going well’ and the gut response from increasing numbers of them, are now reacting - ‘knowing that something is going on’ and this is ‘the collective receptivity.’ We know that at heart we are going in the wrong direction and that at present we need two planet earths to support our consumer levels of extracting of vital resources, minerals, oils, wood vegetation .
So we now have a situation of ‘America First and Bruce posits the possibility that the USA will be the first to collapse and break its structure due to its leadership … With a major monkey wrench being thrown into the system and waking people up everywhere - that everything is essentially dysfunctional!
The ‘new President of America’ is precipitating an evolutionary change – forcing people to push for change to a more evolved state .
But when positive fights a negative – they cancel each other out and Bruce mentions the metaphor of – using a positive wire and a negative wire - put them together and you get sparks and fire and you end up with a loss - loss situation.
We can go out against something and cancel our energy or instead coalesce our positive energy and ‘be for something.’
We can do fear and fight or flight or we can do GROWTH.
1% of disease can be attributed to a genetic issues … the rests are essentially psychological and what we are programmed with from the outside world. Plus of course environmental considerations. Coughs colds influenza, malaria etc (seen 14 minutes 53 seconds into the interview after the introduction).
‘We are the environment’ – the Judeo Christian bible says that first there was an environment and then humans were dropped into the environment – but we grew and evolved out of the environment … we do not have domain over nature – we are nature ….
So when we are chopping down the environment we are chopping away at ourselves because we are an extension of the environment. Self destruction and self sabotage are synonymous in our current paradigm and the resulting stress is a psychological issue.
So where we are currently at - is that we are inducing our own evolution. That we have caused our own ‘evolutionary driver’ - in the words of Barbara Marx Hubbard - to force ourselves to evolve to the next evolutionary level.
This is where Bruce’s book ‘Spontaneous Evolution’ presents us with a blueprint to advance conscious choices and make the jump to a new paradigm.
In its 2016 July 7 issue the leading scientific journal, Nature, published a remarkable essay by Richard Conn Henry, professor in the department of physics and astronomy at Johns Hopkins University. The essay ran under this rubric:
"The Universe is immaterial-mental and spiritual. Live, and enjoy." As unusual as such an essay may be for a major scientific journal, what really interests us is that prominent physicists have been making statements not far removed from this for several decades, arguing, for example, that consciousness is a fundamental aspect of the physical world. And yet, right into our own day biologists, for example, have continued speaking as if the rock-bottom reality of the world consisted of little mechanistic devices of one sort or another. This is clearly the picture that philosopher Daniel Dennett has in mind when he tells us that evolution occurs by means of "mindless and mechanical" processes.
However beyond the quantum level, possibility is rich in potential and Bruce has been breaking into new realms in this arena for well over a decade.
Children get programmed by the age of 7 that 70% of their upbringing is disempowering, self sabotaging and limiting. We need a new enlightened program that adeptly shifts the focus away from duality with a better choice of vernacular.
Can’t, won’t, shouldn’t - the usual suspects can be re-honed to offer other wiser word choices - so that instead of the child by the age of 5 experiencing hundred of versions of no, stop keep quite, you can’t do that, you shouldn’t go there, you won’t succeed - we get in along side them and offer them other ways at going forward. Have you endeavoured to see it this way? Have you heard of …? This is a way that I have succeeded in. etc
This is Bruce at his enthusiastic best - even when dealing with the overwhelming challenges that are facing us as a species. The aim for Bruce is not to evolve the individual into a new Einstein - but to evolve the race - the human race and we are running out of time and space to gift our children a healthy balanced and bountiful planet. - we are on the precipice!
Bruce then gives us a pointer.
When it comes to the Matrix the movie - if you still have a video store, you will find it in the Science Fiction shelves – Ahhhh Bruce says … actually ‘it’s a documentary!’ - yes that’s right! – a documentary! We are in the matrix now and we have been programmed and the program is that of limitation.
If we wake up we can make an evolutionary jump!
This is Bruce in the flow - he states what is imperative and he articulates it in an entertaining way.
Possibilities await us - all we need to do is courageously question more, knowing that ‘we are also spiritual beings having an earth experience’ and that we have not only entered the quantum field we have always been embedded in it, but not known it. - That everything is consciousness as per Bruce’s recently joining Tom Campbell - in that we are all extensions of ‘the Greater Consciousness’ that Tom, a physicists - so adeptly explains.
We are the change and the sooner we embrace it wholeheartedly the sooner this extended profundity will shine into our life, bringing with it a far deeper appreciation of existence as well as a widening smile to our countenance.
An enjoyable interview with Bruce Lipton - quantum trooper and metaphysical teacher.
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21st Century Physicians in looking beneath the Quantum field are rapidly realising that the universe is consciousness and that they are calling it a ‘Greater Consciousness’ Tom Campbell Part Two of his cultural tour of New Zealand
Tom Campbell PhD - from the US has an impressive career in applied physics. Having worked in military intelligence, reverse-engineering foreign technology, as well as in missile defence, including working on huge engineering projects for NASA - the US space agency - up until very recently.
Tom was brought up and graduated in science within the mainstream university system and then by chance found himself living only 45 minutes drive from a person called Robert Monroe. Monroe had been experiencing situations where he would randomly shift his awareness to where it would be outside of his body and he would be ‘on the outside looking in’ and able to float and project his awareness to different locations.
This has had some people labelling it soul travel, astral travel or plain ‘out of the body experiences’ and Monroe could not understand it. So he looked for some young scientists grounded in reality who had been basically educated that we live in a soulless and mechanistic world and that we are only a body with a mind that is inside the brain.
Monroe, who had now spent a lot of time experiencing these differing states of being of - out of the body - and shifting his consciousness to other realms cut a deal with Tom and the other scientist. “Study what I do and make sense of it in a scientific context and I will show you how to do what I do.” This started a relationship right up until Monroe’s death. https://www.monroeinstitute.org
In this interview Toms says that at a subatomic level below the quantum reality we have to understand that everything is at its most basic level - is Consciousness.
That Consciousness in turn is basically information and where does this information come from? – It turns out that consciousness - is an information system and we humans are individuated units of consciousness (like you and I).
We are chunks of consciousness that share information. That’s what you do if you are an information system – so we pass information back and forth. As animated chunks of consciousness – we are aware – we know what we are doing - but, what about this physical reality – what is it here for?
This is where I mention :
The four basic forces of nature are gravity, the strong force, the weak force, and the electromagnetic force. The theory of general relativity explains gravity, and quantum mechanics explains the other three forces. Right now, no one theory that everyone accepts can explain all four forces.
String theory is a theory that could become the "theory of everything”.
And questions like?
So there is so much to the makeup of reality.
What’s its purpose? And the logic goes like this … If you are an information system - you have to continually reduce entropy … entropy is a scientific word that is a measure of disorder. Entropy has a way of just happening – like things have a way of … like decaying, falling apart – things tend to become unorganised. Disorganisation happens over time – it just naturally does that even eventually those molecules will breakdown - that’s called Newton’s 2nd Law of the Thermodynamics it says the entropy always increases, that taken to its final conclusion has - from the scientific mind set - that if we wait long enough our universe will end up only with hydrogen atoms and elementary particles - that is what science says that this is what will be left - as everything will disintegrate.
However when we units of consciousness realise that we must slow down entropy we can consciously come together in a growing mass of shared consciousness and make a choice – follow the path of love or go down the path of fear. However, when the individual units of consciousness care about each other, are cooperative - they share – it’s about service to the greater whole - it is not about self.
Fear on the other hand is that you trust no one, it is all about self and you are always protecting your back. Because everyone is looking to take your piece of the pie. However even in these situations they may strategically come together to group and then start to plunder the ones that are alone – then they may work together to corner the market – (so to speak) and with them having turf wars it finally ends up with conglomerates merging together. That when we see what’s happening today with the giant mega complexes – corporate raiding etc and what has happened on Wall St, in the USA - we see the down side of reality not serving the whole.
Where as the units that work together we have more trust – goodwill, shared success and growth and creativity. Like how can I help you – how can I help to better the whole. Which side is the better to involve yourself with? Especially for the future of children and it has to be the love side. The logical conclusion is that if you are an information system you want to survive – you need to lower entropy – the best way to do that is through cooperation it’s through being - Love. Caring about others.
Also covered is the feed back mechanisms - consequences, learning … and we are in a entropy reduction trainer for consciousness – just like pilots go to an inflight trainer to learn how to fly an airliner. Whereas we are also in a simulation - a virtual reality and Tom sees it as our mission to become love. To decrease the entropy of our individual consciousness and by doing so we reduce the entropy of the whole consciousness system – and we are a part (albeit small) here to evolve the larger consciousness system and to keep evolving …
Tom also states that Relativity and Quantum Mechanics can not work together at the level it is endeavouring to be understood. But when you see everything from a standpoint of consciousness being embedded in virtual reality - you are able to pull it all together.
See the double slit experiment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWI19Owk_1c
This shows that our reality is not materialistic and not deterministic – it is probabilistic and particles don’t really exist – there is potential particles that obey the laws of probability – and that is how this world works .
Tom has devised 6 experiments that he wants University physics departments or any institute world-wide that do research on things that are ‘impossible’ as in minor miracles as they crack open the old thought form and bring through a new reality of possibility and that consciousness is behind it all.
What is happening today is the emerging consciousness that has been seen to be on the fringes of science and reality is now moving very quickly to the centre.
This interview covers with Tim bring up other subject matter bush as:
Timothy Leary coming on stage in Los Angeles in 1988 and telling the audience that we are totally surrounded by information. That we decode this information and make sense of it. He was an early up taker of seeing everything as being bits of information and data and frame it in those words
Captain Edgar Mitchell 6th Man on the moon –of The Noetic Sciences was also at the same Expo where he mentioned he had had synchronised experiments with telepathy between him whilst on the moon and people here on earth and the results were very promising.
Tom says that throughout most of the universities today, any with a strong Physics Department you will find up to 20 - 30 % of the all physicists there, will be saying we want to look far more deeply into virtual reality and consciousness. Because that is where our next evolutionary step is taking us.
Today at Cern in Switzerland they are now looking at electrons as having the properties of charge and the properties of mass - thats the way you represent an electron in a computer – it’s a point with the attributes of mass and the attributes of charge – if they look at an electron that way – there math will predict correctly how experiments come out. If they think of it as a little chunk of mass with a charge – they can’t get the right answer – because it’s just information and their experiments will not come out correctly. This is where we are today.
Also mentioned in this conversation is NZer Brian http://brianwhitworth.com/ from Massey university who too is on the leading edge of the consciousness revolution – talking up ‘virtual reality’ very early in this millennium.
Covering mystics talking about reality from Shri Aurabindo to the Buddha seeing that this reality is illusionary – and Tom says this is about as close to saying that the reality we live in is as close to as you can get - to saying that this is a virtual reality.
Yes, mystics have understood this, for millennia and it is available because we are an individuated unit of consciousness and we can have unlimited access to this … because the internet has connected us into one simultaneous web of interrelationship.
That virtual reality is also sub set of something larger and must have behind it a greater consciousness – and when we surrender more and get out of our intellect and into our intuitive field – we see a larger consciousness as well as the wholesale emergence of spirituality and love making itself known.
Also covered
Holon’s Arthur Koestler that everything is nested in another archetypal system.
This can be demonstrated in the holarchic relationship (subatomic particles ↔ atoms ↔ molecules ↔ macromolecules ↔ organelles ↔ cells ↔ tissues ↔ organs ↔ organisms ↔ communities ↔ societies) where it expands …
Eco systems ↔ biosphere ↔ planetary ↔ solar system ↔galactic ↔ universal ↔ multiverse ?
each holon is a "level" of organisation, and all are ultimately descriptive of the same set (e.g., a particular collection of matter). The top can be a bottom, a bottom can be a top, and, like a fractal, the patterns evident at one level can be similar to those at another.
That had Alfred Russell Wallace been able to get his theory of evolution out to the world before Charles Darwin it would have shown far more cooperation within nature where animals and plants found certain non confrontational niches. Our culture today would not be so programed as in this - semi dog eat dog program we have been inculcated with.
This is how Elisabet Sahtouris sees a differing kind of evolution.
www.sahtouris.com/
Internationally known as a dynamic speaker and media personality, Dr. Sahtouris is an evolution biologist, futurist, professor, author and consultant on Living. Show’s that within evolution there is a lot of co operation.
Brucelipton.com Bruce too signals that cooperation within nature is seen to be a way through for the human race to solve its many challenges
Covering minerals evolving from 12 major minerals not long after the big bang to 4,000 plus today.
Civilisations evolving and devolving especially when there is fear involved.
Unity Consciousness:
Using the information that Tom is bringing here to NZ and spreading it across the nation - through fibers of light across the web that covers our country – to stimulate peoples interest in unity consciousness – and that we are seen as important energy bundles expressing our inter-connectiveness and aspirations for a far better future for all biota and in particular our children and grandchildren …
Tom mentions that we can not achieve it appropriately from the intellect – we must move our understanding down to our chest cavity and that is has to be fully embraced and felt from the heart – if we really want to initiate the much needed change that at soul level we have all been calling for.
Tim mentions that we are nearing what Teihard de Chardin the Jesuit Priest (that did not find favour from Rome) called an Omega point – where at heart we as a humanity transform into a type of global group mind where we retain our own identity yet are able to surrender into a greater consciousness …
And that this momentum that we are in at present - is in Toms’ words – our destiny as a humanity.
The larger consciousness can also for reference – be called God, the Divine, Source, the Creator and we are an integral part of it. This larger consciousness system is also finite, (which I Tim found is a very interesting statement) its not perfect, it’s a real system that is evolving. It’s not a done thing - it’s an evolving system.
By expressing it this way – that is is a larger consciousness - it misses some of the dogma that we have either been programed with or held too zealously in our thought process.
This way you do not get tied to the dogma, nor the ritual. The larger conscious system just keeps on evolving so as long as it keeps on growing it will be eternal – making us as eternal too - this is a cosmic win win – forever - and is our destination.
The Universe is immaterial — mental and spiritual. Live, and enjoy, - states Richard Conn Henry, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at The Johns Hopkins University, Maryland
Marla is a transformational spiritual medium who has been able to intuitively access heightened sensitivities within her own being allowing her to sense important information for one’s highest good. In some ways it could be described as reading the ‘information field’ that is the sum total of a person’s ‘wave form’ - or body. She is also able to access deceased loved ones in the same way. She has come to Auckland, NZ to present her findings of how consciousness survives death, alongside Dr Robin Kelly author of the Human Antenna and the Human Hologram who lives in Auckland In doing this she is making the paranormal - ’normal’. Remember this statement by the greatest scientist ever to set foot on earth? “The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.” Nikola Tesla Marla’s receptivity to the invisible is able to bring healing and insight to anyone seeking deeper understanding about relationships, health, career, family, and spirituality. So what do we call a person who has ‘certain’ abilities that mainstream science is reluctant to acknowledge? This is because, even today, our scientific apparatus is not yet refined and calibrated enough to measure the sensitivities of the invisible? However, this new science is now including new vernacular and terminology to describe the way we decode information - that’s predominantly experienced as emanating data streams. Now we are more able to decipher and comprehend the invisible - and far more adroitly. Today, we still have the word ‘psychic’ being somewhat thrashed about in the public realm - from over a hundred years, that when we look at the root word of ‘psyche’ it’s from ancient Greek and means soul. However, today we have psychologists and psychiatrists working with the human mental process, yet most are unable to factor soul into their understanding of the gift that is the human body. Marla has been involved in actively researching the psychic world and it’s hidden potentials for 30 years and has now a vast experience. She has also been studying and working with Tom Campbell, (interviewed last week on GreenplanetFM.com on the ‘theory of everything’) Marla’s joining Tom and his team for the first part of Tom’s Cultural Connection Tour here in Auckland. Marla states that it’s important to have our own experience and this way we will understand the ‘larger consciousness system’ which is another terminology now being used to describe the Universe, God, Source, the Divine etc. As this scientific expression sees itself free of the emotive loading that religions have claimed domain over. She sees this ‘consciousness’ as being all information and uses her psychic capabilities to be able to receive, understand and share with others. The Universe is immaterial — mental and spiritual. Live, and enjoy, states Richard Conn Henry, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at The Johns Hopkins University, Maryland. Marla has 20 years of therapeutic studies and 18 years of life coaching along with her on going exploration at the Monroe Institute, the largest educational center in the US for the study of expanded states of awareness. Bob Monroe originally started off studying ‘out of the body’ experiences and the Institute teaches others to do that and more. She has also been trained in remote viewing that the US army uses (and that is another story) plus has volunteered her skills to various law enforcement agencies, by tapping into the ‘larger consciousness’ passing on information freely - in the Latin term - pro bono public ‘for the public good’. Today she spends her time helping people whose loved ones have died to both reconnect and validate that we really do live/survive beyond death.Marla is able to hear, see and feel what those loved ones want to share with us. She is also radio co-host on the large paranormal internet / radio network in the US. Whitley Strieber’s www.Unknowncountry.com’s, Dreamland. Where she interviews credible science and spiritual authors - people out on the edge. Whitley Strieber is a well known author of a series of books including, ‘Communion’ and introducing the possibility of having close encounters of the first kind with UFO’s and Extraterrestrial beings. IN THIS INTERVIEW: She like Tom Campbell says we have to lower our entropy which means consciously slow down disorder - retain more order by being far more heart-centred. By explaining the new metaphysics in a new language it is easier for even hardline scientists to learn the new skills to access ‘the larger consciousness’ (the universe) that they cannot only have success, but recognise what they are tapping into is God and as a result - do not feel threatened. As with Tom Campbell, in last weeks interview - science is recognising that consciousness came before the physical. See Eben Alexander MD http://www.ebenalexander.com A renowned academic neurosurgeon, spent over three decades honing his scientific worldview. He thought he knew how the brain, mind and consciousness worked. A transcendental near-death experience (NDE), in which he was driven to the brink of death and spent a week deep in coma from an inexplicable brain infection, changed all of that–completely! He was shocked to find the hyper-reality of that spiritual realm, which many had reported in NDEs. He has spent the last five years reconciling his rich spiritual experience with contemporary physics and cosmology. His spiritual experience is totally consistent with the leading edges of scientific understanding today. Together, science and spirituality will thrive in a symbiosis offering the most profound insight into fundamental Truth, yielding unimaginable power. The keystone is in global progression of individual conscious awakening. Marla also mentions Elisabeth Kubler-Ross http://www.ekrfoundation.org - the Swiss Psychologists who in her life time interviewed 20,000 people who had experienced ‘near death’ and ‘out of the body experiences’.Though she had been deceased for some time - she met while Marla was experiencing an ‘out of the body state’ and who asked Marla to access information in one of her own Elisabeth Kubler-Ross’s books giving the chapter and page number, that when Marla came back to reality - located and accessed that book and there on the page that she was given, was the sentence stating that “she firmly believed in life after death!” Intent comes up yet again. If we have a consistently ‘honest intent’ and we ‘put out our needs’ to the ‘greater consciousness’ - we will be answered. Not necessarily for your wants or desires but you will receive what you need and what is best for you growth and understanding. Dr Brian Weiss MD www.brianweiss.com Who today is is an American psychiatrist, hypnotherapist, and author who specialises in past life regression. His research includes reincarnation, past life regression, future life progression, and survival of the human soul after death. As a traditional psychotherapist, Dr. Brian Weiss was astonished and skeptical when one of his patients began recalling past-life traumas that seemed to hold the key to her recurring nightmares and anxiety attacks. His skepticism was eroded, however, when she began to channel messages from “the space between lives,” which contained remarkable revelations about Dr. Weiss’s family and his dead son. Using past-life therapy, he was able to cure the patient and embark on a new, more meaningful phase of his own career. The interview covers many subjects - of the changing social landscape of our world today. ‘If you want to make changes for the better - ask in a respectful way.’ We must learn to ‘forgive both ourselves and others’ - this brings about profound change and softens our countenance. Touch is important especially when it comes to men, who are not in relationship and who are often alone or just hang out with other mates doing bloke stuff. Peter Levine https://traumahealing.org Dr. Peter A. Levine PhD in medical biophysics a doctorate in psychology. He has worked in the field of stress and trauma for over 40 years and is the developer of Somatic Experiencing. Peter’s original contribution to the field of Body-Psychotherapy was honoured in 2010 when he received the Lifetime Achievement award from the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy (USABP). That same year he also received the honorary Reis Davis Chair in Child Psychiatry for his innovative contribution to therapy for children and adolescents. NATURE’S LESSON Beginning in the 1970’s, Peter’s explorations into how animals deal with threat led to the development of a method that is highly effective in dealing with the effects of overwhelm on our nervous system, called Somatic Experiencing (SE). SE is a clinical methodology based upon an appreciation of why animals in the wild are not traumatised by routine threats to their lives, while humans, on the other hand, are readily overwhelmed and often subject to the traumatic symptoms of hyper arousal, shutdown and dysregulation.The interview then progresses onto the state of play across the USA that has culminated in a new administration that’s changing the way people think - and are asking where is the future of our children and grandchildren going? Marla, as if ‘tapping into the collective unconsciousness’ of the American people expresses what seems to be an undercurrent rippling throughout that nation. That there is a major change agent in power calling out on so many levels. That the disposed, those who have seen jobs off shored, loss of homes and the thought of a benevolent future, have to now come together and initiate community oriented grass roots change with Non profit start ups. etc. Furthering the interview: She states that ‘our people are our strengths and a ‘good leader’ intuitively knows this. That communities coming together must find innovative ways to support their leaders and empower them to do the very best they can and by following due process - also hold them to account. She uses the analogy of ‘a boil on our butt that we can’t sit down and be comfortable with’ so we need to act together for the benefit of today’s and tomorrow’s children. When it was mentioned that ‘we need to love our neighbour as ourselves’ Marla says yes, - ‘however’ the imperative is to love ourselves first - so that we can be empowered and full, within our chest cavity. If we have no love in our heart, we need to seek support and help to change and inspire all who we come in contact with. Love is a force that emanates from our being, that penetrates the darkness and that can be ever so subtle in its affect on us - as when we feel it - it’s so heartfelt and unmistakably wonderful as we expand our being in a state of profound gratefulness and thankfulness. In this interview, Marla along with Tom Campbell another remarkable change agent for a ‘greater consciousness’ is here in NZ to offer new insights and understandings about existence. That we live in a world that is shifting its compass points to allow people to realise that change is happening, and that we embrace it, remain calm and realise that we are part of a greater whole - that we all can tap into to change our lives for the better. For both ourselves and the greater community as a whole. Another initiative Marla is involving herself is with how elders wish to share with the youth of today. Marla joins Molly Ireland a local study coach, www.beyondthecourse.co.nz - to offer a better way to focus for your children, empower them to navigate their way through life and assist their growth. So if you have any young ones between 13 and 18 years and would like to give them this opportunity - Have them join Molly and Marla on Sunday the 12 March in Remuera from 10-12 noon and you can text Molly on 027 600 8605 so as to take this further. www.Marlafrees.com She will be here Friday the 3rd of March 7.30pm to 9.30pm Jubilee Building - Parnell Community Centre, 545 Parnell Road, with Dr Robin Kelly. http://www.eventfinda.co.nz/2017/does-consciousness-survive-death/auckland/parnell Plus Marla is on the panel of Dr Tom Campbell’s presentation on the 5th of March. Note that Tom will be doing an introduction this Sunday.
Where: Parnell Community Center, Parnell, Auckland
When: Sunday Feb 26, 2017 from 1-6 pm
Cost: $75 US with high tea included (US$60 for GreenplanetFM radio listeners - use the discount code: RK60)
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Tom Campbell PhD - from the US has an impressive career in applied physics. Having worked in military intelligence, reverse-engineering foreign technology, as well as in missile defence, including working on huge engineering projects for NASA - the US space agency - up until very recently.
However as a scientist with an extremely enquiring mind he has spent 30 years plus of his life - researching - ‘out of the body experiences’ also known as ‘remote viewing’ for the Monroe Institute https://www.monroeinstitute.org and studying especially the nature of consciousness and reality. And, he’s done this by remaining open-minded about these topics that include the placebo affect and statistically measurable power of intent, and lucid dreaming. All this is within this ‘theory of everything’ which he call His Big Toe - Theory Of Everything. http://www.my-big-toe.com
Yet, deep within the sub atomic domain of consciousness and quantum realms - reality also opens up to be inclusive of compassion, co-operation and love.
Since the end of the 2nd World War in 1945 and up until today - we have been taught through our education and the higher levels of learning (some will say programmed) - especially, throughout our universities - - that the universe is here, all by a - random fluke, that we are all here - by chance - that God, spirit and soul do not exist and that we live in a mechanised machine -like universe and that scientific dissection has not found any soul or anything related to spirit and that our telescopes have not been able to find heaven or God.
This is the standard viewpoint of our institutes of learning on our planet today. What you see is what you get.
If you can not measure it, whatever it is - then it does not exist. Or, it is just your imagination fooling you.
Subjects covered in this interview.
Tom talks about as a child being a ‘right brainer’ and a holistic perceiver when as a younger person he went into science so as to get a better grounding and understanding of what the building blocks of existence were. Yet, when gazing down into the subatomic world everything is energy packets and probability.
He says that the ancient mystics understood much of this and that even Buddha, way back, saw reality as illusion - that the Australian first peoples, the aborigine saw the dream time as an extension of this reality that we all inhabit. As they experience it from an intuitive level and not on an intellectual level.
That human soul definitely exists and is an extension of the greater ocean of consciousness …
That ‘Consciousness' came before the Big Bang ...
Virtual reality is the big scientific study as of this moment with 10’s of thousands of physicists researching this realm.
The overall message is for us to grow up, to care about others and not be so self centred … it’s all about cooperation and caring - it’s - to love
This is where we are evolving to - that’s the mission of soul … that’s the mission of individuated units of consciousness
The Placebo Affect - what it is and that it works in so many situations.
BUT he says - be skeptical and disbelieving until you get the experience and then you becoming far more knowing.
Tom is going to be here in Auckland at the end of this month giving presentations on his understanding of existence and reality. Big Picture stuff
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=tom+campbell+2016+youtube. Hundred of You Tube videos.
Tom Campbell will be presenting Consciousness in a Virtual Reality in Auckland at Parnell Community Center, Parnell, Auckland on Sunday Feb 26, 2017 from 1-6 pm $75 US with high tea included (US$60 for GreenplanetFM - radio listeners code:RK60)
On Saturday March 4th and 5th A Two-Day Cultural Connection Workshop at Auckland University of Technology.
Dr Robin Kelly from Auckland author of The Human Antenna and The Human Hologram will be part of the panel on Sunday along with Marla Frees a psychic from the US - both representing different aspects of Tom's Big TOE. Tom will incorporate their views of reality within the context of a physicist's science view of our reality in addition to showing the similarities between the ancient traditions and culture of NZ and his MBT theory.
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Rebuilding the decimated democracy - values as compass points.
Countering TPP and ugly sisters RCEP and TiSA - secret pacts to undermine the democracy.
TPP hangs in the balance.
The public opposition has been ignored by the government as it rushed to cement the TPP into the New Zealand Rulebook.
We await the attitude of the US President and Congress to cast the die. Will Trump allow congress to trump his campaign promise to stop TPP?
We cannot wait passively as our government is negotiating more of these corporate rights treaties; RCEP (Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership) and TiSA (Trade in Services Agreement).
RCEP is between the Asian economies led by China and India including Australia and ourselves. It has similar content as TPP and is negotiated in anti-democratic secrecy. Civil society is not informed until a final agreement is reached between the governments.
TiSA is between the advanced economies and encompasses services. See Wikileaks for leaked TiSA chapters which are about deregulating financial rules - it was deregulation that gave us the GFC (Great Financial Crisis).
We can work during the NZ general election campaign by seeking commitments from alternative government parties that they will withdraw from the TPP.
What do New Zealanders really want?
Greg has been consolidating the material he's been studying over the past couple of years.
He has been considering values as signposts to where the public mood rests.
It wasn't long ago that the NZ Government asked the people about their values. It was a component of the Flag Referendum process of 2015/6. New Zealanders were asked what they stand for. The people offered 10,292 flag designs. They offered 43,000 individual contributions of what they stood for.
View the word cloud below of most frequent values expressed by the New Zealand public. Here is the image from the website.
Place Picture IN here of: many words Like EQUALITY HISTORY FREEDOM that is in documents - Thank you - Tim
None of the above suggest the TPP. Forty three thousand (43,000) people is a large sample of the 4.6 million New Zealand population.
The Flag Referendum process was advanced as a constitutional matter. Surely the Stand For values are an important contribution to the values underpinning our NZ Constitution.
Is New Zealand a democracy?
Are the people's values reflected in the Government's policy settings?
Greg says the obvious finding is that the New Zealand Government does not reflect the deep values of the people of this State.
It appears the values theme runs deep in the Kiwi psyche.
Colmar Brunton finds ethical values run deep
Recently Colmar Brunton published their latest Better Futures Report (November 2016) highlighting that values matter to New Zealanders.
Scoop reported that Kiwis are hot on global sustainability goals.
“Most Kiwis rate global sustainability goals as very important – especially those relating to social issues – according to a report released today.
The Colmar Brunton 2016 Better Futures Report incorporated the results of New Zealand’s first ever survey into the public’s attitude to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), to which the Government signed up in 2015.
The 17 SDGs include a mix of social, environmental, cultural and economic goals such as no poverty, climate action, reduced inequalities, clean water and sanitation, decent work and economic growth and quality education.
Colmar Brunton Chief Client Officer Sarah Bolger says. "Between 60% and 80% of Kiwis rate each goal as very important. When those people were asked to name the single most important goal the top six in order of priority were: no poverty, good health and well-being, quality education, sustainable cities and communities, clean water and sanitation, and zero hunger.
It’s clear from this that New Zealanders care most about improving the day-to-day lives of others and there is a strong skew towards social issues in the top six goals.
In particular Kiwis think we need to do more towards achieving zero hunger, sustainable cities and communities and no poverty, as they believe our performance in these areas fails to measure up to the importance we place on them.”
Considering both the Stand For values and the Better Futures Report leads generally to what people might consider of import in the coming year. My purpose is to use these values to highlight a potential 2017 general election agenda:
Professor Jane Kelsey and It's Our Future propose ramping up the campaign against TiSA from 3 February.
The campaign is to gain commitments from parties to withdraw from TPP and to ensure that RCEP and TiSA do not undermine our domestic arrangements.
Questions for 2017 General Election;
How do we place TPP and trade and investment treaties into the election campaign? What is the long-term solution to democratise international treaties?
Is a Manifesto/Charter/Blueprint approach (2017 election and beyond) to these ideas a way of advancing our agenda?
The NZ constitution. Can we advance a constitutional policy that international treaties are negotiated openly and agreed in the parliament before signature?
There's a few initiatives to place the constitution and our status as a Constitutional Monarchy vs a move to republic. This won't be resolved in 2017 however there is a strong move to get the discussion going in a serious manner. I know there are a variety of perspectives on this, however it is critical we inform ourselves about possibilities and implications. To this effect the following might be of interest.
The following blog highlights some thoughts about the need to remedy some of our dilemmas:
http://values-compasspointsinaposttruthworld.blogspot.co.nz/2016/12/working-on-open-egalitarian-and.html
http://values-compasspointsinaposttruthworld.blogspot.co.nz/
Professor Jane Kelsey and It's Our Future propose ramping up the campaign against TiSA from 3 February, see https://itsourfuture.org.nz
Stand For Values are hosted here: http://www.standfor.co.nz/
Scoop published media release from Colmar Brunton 24 Nov 2016:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1611/S00349/report-kiwis-hot-on-global-sustainability-goals.htm
References for Constitutional reading:
The constitution book by Geoff Palmer and Andrew Butler, “A Constitution for Aoteoroa,” is of interest and leads to the whole question of what is possible with a discussion about constitutions. (They propose to accept public suggestions on their proposal till 30 September 2017, so it might occur in the midst of the general election.)
http://vup.victoria.ac.nz/a-constitution-for-aotearoa-new-zealand/
Their website: http://constitutionaotearoa.org.nz/the-conversation/speeches/book-launch-speech-geoffrey-palmer/
The draft constitution that Palmer and Butler propose:
http://constitutionaotearoa.org.nz/proposed-constitution-full-text/
Our current NZ constitutional documents are here:
https://gg.govt.nz/role/constofnz/intro
And the Maori report on the constitution is referred to here:
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday/audio/201821049/moana-jackson-a-new-constitution-for-aotearoa
and linked here: http://www.converge.org.nz/pma/MatikeMaiAotearoaReport.pdf
The Awareness Party Constitution: http://www.theawarenessparty.com/constitution/
And the Icelandic Constitution story here: https://medium.com/equal-citizens/on-icelands-crowdsourced-constitution-ad99aae75fce#.9hn79xmzw
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_constitutional_reform,_2010%E2%80%9313
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Vivienne has been involved for most of her life in understanding how human consciousness and spirituality are intrinsically linked and how we humans can grow and become exponentially more knowledgeable of who we are. This is a landmark breakthrough
Being sensitive to our bodily responses.
Have you ever intuitively tuned into your gut when in a situation where there may be danger, or a sense of risk? Well scientists have finally realised that there is a connection to a gut brain - and of course we have known that there has been a connection to the heart brain for many years now - when Joseph Chilten Pearce mentioned it 40 years ago.
Science finally makes the connection.
After many years of seemingly disconnected research, scientists in Australia have pieced together much of the desperate data on the human body to realise that embedded deeply with us all are specific organs of intelligence. This research has substantiated this gut brain and come out with a process called multiple braining and there is quite possibly more of these brains embedded in the human body.
Working with your brains them as against them where you get mixed signals.
Remember the statement I had a gut feeling, or I felt it in my gut. or My heart said Yes and my head said No!
There is a few minutes scientific practice that allows us to bring all three m brains to align together - where you will end up with a win win win situations because all brains will be synchronised and working.
With more research future findings that will probably show that the ‘vegas nerve’ will be a brain and possibly the 'reproduction system' will have a brain as well.
Plus a learned process to being able to align them …
So this is a new modality with plenty of room for far more research and develop it a lot further.
The practitioners involved in this new modality have a keenness to really advance this science into assisting the growth of consciousness.
These ‘M braining’ trainers and master trainers - ask this question every day - ‘How can I be the most compassionate creative courageous self today?’
Compassionate being related to the heart, creativity, to the brain and courageousness aligns to the gut. Thus by first aligning all brains through a simple exercise they become far more congruent and intuitively there life processes tend to be more harmonious and successful, due to their ‘mindfulness’.
At present stress is a major escalating global problem and with it can come addictions - that we involve our self in, thinking that drink and drugs can give us some sort of temporary relief - then there is now an increase in screen addiction - people staring into screens including pornography and now more drama - distractions - and a big one - the lack of self love, especially for the young - they can give out to other people but they can’t receive love for themselves- there is too much self-depreciation to the extent that so many young people doing self harm to themselves …
RENEWABLE TRANSPORT & FUEL The Tesla Phenomenon.
Next to climate change and what is happening within the biosphere, and the continuing societal unrest and need for peace, renewable fuel is the biggest challenge we face in our lifetime….. renewable transport fuel…. For us to commute, keep warm and lighten our night and our life - make no mistake there is not another challenge that will affect mankind as much as this.
Electric Cars, Trucks and Airplanes, wherever there is independent transportation - are all part of this chain.
Recently with close to 400,000 pre orders for new electric Tesla cars with $1,000 down, equalling $400 million dollars this is enabling Elon Musk to adroitly bring the components together to out flank the fossil fuel industry and their captive car manufacturers. This bringing a new era of clean safe energy that will dissipate the dark shroud of toxic molecules from being the epitaph for our civilisation - by endeavouring to break free of ‘a sector’ of the 1%.
This technology and knowhow is actually here today, yet 99% of our planetary population don’t know it. Yet the 0.0001% of fossil fuel corporations, who do know it - don’t like it … because it is a disruptive technology and they stand to lose.
We need an educated planet with the will to make the shift that we so urgently require.
Electric Vehicles.
Most probably, the best thing that ever happened was that the oil Corporations and their ‘compliant auto manufacturing’ Corporations, killed the prototype 1st Generation EVs “Electric Car” back in the late 1990’s. If this had not happened we would not have Tesla today as by doing so, this gave rise to Tesla Motors that is now disrupting the car industry … their goal is not to make expensive cars for ‘rich people’ - but to transform the ‘transportation economy’ to an electric fuel economy, powered by renewable energy.
The Nissan LEAF for example, is just a compliance car… a gasoline car converted to be electric. It complies with the laws in California, Europe and Japan, but the LEAF is not a compelling EV, the Tesla Model 3 is a very, very, very compelling car…. that happens to be Electric and silent.
This engaging interview covers:
The various Electric ‘EV’ type vehicles that are available here in NZ today.
That Whangarei, having the highest number of EV’s per capita in NZ is positioning to be the EV hub of New Zealand with the installation of five DC 50 kW Fast Chargers throughout Northland.
Why Tesla has got a jump on the field? Silent - power - (please listen to the free download).
Today, Los Angeles is seen as ‘a city of electric vehicles.’ A large growing market for EV’s.
The benefits beyond electricity and silence are:
The Nissan Leaf for example, has few moving parts, so less wear and tear and when it is service time, it has such a quick turn-around-time, that the company servicing the vehicle cannot make money because of there is little to go wrong. Whereas with an internal combustion engine, there are belts, spark plugs, filters, hoses, batteries, radiators etc etc. This is where conventional car service departments make their money. Nissan withdrew its Nissan Leaf from sale in NZ last year, because it was not a money maker for them.
Driverless - This is coming - 10 to 15 years time all trucks and a large number of cars will be navigating themselves around a street or road near you.
Compatibility of charging stations. This is still being worked out just like the old VHS and Beta video recorder battle and Apple versus Microsoft. However there are ‘add ons’ and extra inter connecting cables that you can easily stored in the boot.
How long to charge? Fast charge on the road 30 minutes. The Tesla range is from 335 ks to 400 ks - with battery improvements continuing to improve.
Battery pack on a Tesla can be changed if needed in around 2 minutes.
Petrol milage versus electric milage ? To get where you wish to go, the cost is equivalent to around 33 cents a litre of petrol.
Education is going to be the big thing and Joe mentions how schools are getting interested in showing their students
What sort of Governmental support so far - what more could they do? Please listen to the interview.
Air NZ has a growing fleet of electric cars with 76 as of March 2016. Saving about 65,000 litres of fuel per year.
The old fossil fuel lobby are very worried that electricity is going to encroach on their customer base.
What are the challenges?
Vector here in NZ has been a keen Tesla follower and are interested in large battery packs. Because power use in NZ’s cities, surges especially in Auckland around 5.30 to 7.30 pm at night and other extraneous gas of oil generation is kicked in to cover this spike, now Vector are looking at deploying these large lithium battery packs to cover this contingency.
Tesla has moved its factory to where the lithium mines are in Nevada so that the supply chain is kept to a minimum.
Note that lithium can be recycled.
https://www.tesla.com/gigafactory
https://www.tesla.com/supercharger
What sort of future do you see here in NZ?
What sort of future do you see for our planet?
We end with Joe, stating that we have to really get out and support this clean, silent energy and both talk and use this technology. The fossil fuel dinosaur is vehemently against it and like the electric car recall in the mid 1990’s where all but a few cars were were repossessed and crushed, the oil lobby could still do it again.
Once we embed electric cars into the public consciousness - this will be pivotal in bringing a paradigm shift into being on our planet. Opening up a totally new era.
A very intriguing interview with loads of optimistic and positive information.
www.bluecars.nz
Joe Camuso, originally from the USA, having lead a very interesting life for himself and now he with a family has started New Zealand’s first electric vehicle (EV) taxi business and is a founder and shareholder in Blue Cars, NZ’s only 100% Electric Car rental company.
The financial system that is enslaving us gets its power from our passive consent. Money is created by private-sector banks out of thin air, and then we pay interest on that!
Each time a bank makes a loan, it essentially creates money as debt.
This system results in problems such as increasing levels of household debt and inflating property prices.
It ensures a rapidly widening income gap.
In New Zealand we are allowing our children to go into debt slavery!
First they have student loans; then they may have a mortgage, and then they are expected to save for their retirement.
If we continue with this system we will fail as a society.
In this interview Don Richards, co- founder of Positive Money New Zealand, talks with Lisa Er about the problems and the solutions.
Positive Money New Zealand began when Sue Hamill and Don Richards had the current debt based system explained to them in 2010, while watching, “Money as Debt”. When they learnt that New Zealand operated under the same system - they customised the UK campaign to the New Zealand situation.
Don explains how new money is introduced into the economy by private banks as loans and is shown by water coming though the tap.
As they create the money themselves, the only constraint is people’s ability to take on higher and higher levels of debt. This created money distorts the property market and allows house prices to increase year in and year out, irrespective of demand.
Banks make enormous profits from money creation – more than $5,000 million dollars each year - $10 million dollars a day and most of that money disappears overseas. Imagine what we could do with $10 million dollars a day. It is a huge drain on our economy.
There is however a bigger problem. When people repay their loans, that money disappears from the economy, which is represented by money going down the drain.
Loan money that is repaid to the banks cannot then be lent out again because as the original loan money was created from nothing it must return to nothing.
In banking terms money is “destroyed” when people repay loans. This is ridiculous and is probably what the former governor of the Bank of England, Sir Mervyn King, was alluding to when he said “Of all the many ways of organising banking, the worst is the one we have today”.
For our economy to work, more people must get into debt than get out of debt.
In times of recession, people take out fewer loans as confidence in the future declines, and more people repay their loans. The banks also get nervous as their confidence in people’s ability to repay loans diminishes and they lend out less money.
Governments make matters worse by introducing austerity measures, cutting back on their spending. This further reduces the amount of money in the economy, prolonging any recession.
When confidence picks up, people take on new loans faster than the old ones are repaid, banks become bolder and lend more and the government spends more, creating a boom. This is the boom and bust cycle which is an artificial construct based on a flawed monetary system.
Positive Money’s Solution
The Positive Money solution would have the Reserve Bank issue our money supply debt free and they would take control of the tap.
The money being introduced into the economy by the Reserve bank could be spent by the government on infrastructure projects such as hospitals, roads and bridges or new schools and the need to government debt would disappear.
Our government debt is currently $110, thousand million dollars and the Government pays Five Thousand Million Dollars in interest alone each year. This equates to 14 Million dollars a day that it does not need to spend.
When you add the principle repayments that do not need to be made, the amount of available money is staggering. Imagine what we could do with all of that extra money.
There would still be a place for private banks though. While they could no longer create money from nothing, they would have to attract deposits from those willing to invest.
In this way loans from the private banks, once repaid would be available to be lent out again, thereby putting a plug in the bath.
The boom and bust cycles would smooth out and the available money in the economy would rise.
With more money in circulation New Zealand would move from a low wage economy to a high wage one
Governments from the left could use the additional money to increase social services and provide a Universal Basic Income or pay off the student loan debt.
Governments on the right could use it to pay down the Government debt and reduce taxes.
We would no longer need to engage in risky offshore drilling or engage in fracking, or mining in our conservation estate to grow our economy – it would grow organically. There would be money for free education, proper schools, affordable health care, a decent retirement income…
The International Monetary Fund paper that was mentioned in the Seven Sharp clip endorses a similar solution. Here is a quote straight from the paper:
the benefits would be: dramatically reduced public and private (net) debt levels (because money creation no longer requires simultaneous debt creation), better control of business cycle fluctuations, complete elimination of bank runs, output gains of 10% and inflation can drop to zero without posing problems for the conduct of monetary policy.
Not only would the New Zealand economy thrive, individuals and families that are struggling to make ends meet under the current system would prosper.
About Positive Money New Zealand
Positive Money New Zealand is a campaign to move New Zealand from a debt-based economy to one that operates with a full reserve in which money has been issued debt-free and interest-free.
This will free the nation and its people from the crippling effects of ever increasing interest bills - that keep the majority of people on the debt treadmill.
The campaign is based on one that has been running in the UK called Positive Money - which started in May 2010 as well as a similar one in the United States called the American Monetary Institute - which began in 1996.
Positive Money New Zealand is now part of a global network of organisations dedicated to reforming our banking system.
About Don Richards
Don lives in Whakatane and is married to Sue Hamill - the co founder of Positive Money New Zealand. He has two daughters from a previous marriage and became a grandfather in May 2011.
Don has worked in a number of key industries during times of significant change in New Zealand’s recent history. He was employed by BP Oil New Zealand, working in their Retail Strategy unit during the deregulation of the New Zealand oil industry in the late 1980's.
He also worked for Standards New Zealand in the late 1990's as it grappled with the transition from state funding to the user-pays model. In addition, Don worked for the New Zealand Dairy Board, leading up to the formation of Fonterra and beyond. Don then worked for BRANZ (Building Research Association of New Zealand) for 11 years as their Quality and Environmental Manager prior to moving to the Bay of Plenty.
He now works as a Director for Simple, Effective Solutions that offers consultancy services for Health and Safety, Environmental and Quality Management systems.
Don has also taken on a number of community based projects including organising clean ups of Wellington harbour which started in 1997 and continues to this day. In 1999 he was awarded the title of Conservationist of the year for his efforts. In addition, he organised street parties for his neighbours and ran a campaign to stop whaling in the southern ocean - called Friends of Tangaroa.
Links mentioned in the interview:
Bryan Gould article in The Herald.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10818930
The Secret of Oz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMTvf6g_2tY
This interview was sponsored by The Awareness Party
http://www.theawarenessparty.com/the-banking-and-monetary-system/
I knew this was going to be an insightful interview, because Guy had already laid down the parameters of his argument: In just 10 years time humanity would become extinct on our planet.
In the intro before we went to air - I asked Guy if he was open to me looking at ALL possibilities and to even humour me in my indulgences.
So read on dear reader - this is a very unique interview and I will summarise what subjects I was unable to totally cover at the end.
I knew this was going to be an insightful interview, because Guy had already laid down the parameters of his argument:
That in 10 years humanity on our planet would become extinct.
Well, I am 12 years older than Guy and have heard statements like this before... but 10 years!
Then he opened the door to take him up on his following statement on his website: Nature Bats Last. (www.guymcpherson.com)
As always, I’m open to alternative views. In fact, I’m begging for them, considering the gravity of this particular situation.
I was ready for Guy, but I needed another hour to be able to build out a more compelling case for a global shift in consciousness. Or to at least seed the ideal.
One of my first interviews (that I do not have a record of) was with NZ’s top scientist for 2004, Peter Barrett. At that time he was Director of the Antarctic Research Centre at Victoria University of Wellington.
In his acceptance speech for the Marsden medal for exceptional scientific achievement he stated: “We have to change our ways because continuous growth and business as usual on our planet, will cause us to become extinct within the next 100 years."
Well, the status quo in Wellington were not happy and he was asked to recant and offer up another statement, which he duly did, and stated: “the end of civilisation as we know it!"
That same year I also interviewed James Lovelock, instigator of the Gaia hypothesis, that our planet is a super organism. He too implied that we had reached a tipping point.
His two subsequent books The Vanishing Face of Gaia and The Revenge of Gaia were grim and pessimistic outlooks at what was happening due the sustained abuse and avarice that we humans have been engaged in, especially over the last 70 years in exploiting our great sustainer.
He too said that we would not make it into the next century.
He said “Enjoy life while you can. Because if you’re lucky, it’s going to be 20 years before it hits the fan.”
That was early 2008, however he later stated in 2012 that he was an alarmist. He still maintains that by the end of this century 80% of the population will be wiped out.
When hearing Guys pronouncement last week that "humanity would become extinct in 10 years time", I was already case hardened. As a ‘trooper’ it did not phase me - I was/am ready.
I've been steeled for this since 1975, when I read the Doomsday Book by a Gordon Rattray Taylor. This book covered the fate of what we as a humanity were doing to our planet.
In one nights reading it shocked the daylights out of me altering me substantially to this day.
His foreboding narrative of the future of Planet Earth painted a collision course with the death of humanity, into a morbid, lifeless, Martian outlook.
So I opened up with the recent Paul Henry morning TV3 show where ‘NZ’s loose canon and fervent denier of so many things’ was totally gob smacked.
For this was the first time of hearing of his 10 years death sentence to his future dreams, unfinished diatribes and indulgences. He was like a goldfish blowing bubbles, yet looking very closely at Guy, you could see his eyes intently staring out at the world.
The original 4 minute sound bite interview turned into a 10 minute one, as Paul wavered all breaks for advertising. He wanted more information about his starkly shortened future!
In short, Guy maintains that planetary temperatures are all locked in already. We have blown the thermostat of our planet and we can’t do anything now.
It’s like giving the command for an oil supertanker that has been at top speed to stop! This takes something like 120 miles or so to bring it to a complete halt, as its momentum is so powerful.
Guy encourages us to go back to the land, take action and protest this takeover, such as in South Dakota at Black Rock.
“It’s the right thing to do”, he says.
People today suffer from NDD or ‘Nature Deficit Disorder’. We have lost our connection and don’t know where much of our food comes from. Hence our lack of consciousness of our living planet.
There are always consequences. Year after year we have failed to solve the problem of growth at all costs. Not to mention the poisons we produce due to extraction of resources from the bounty of the land we inhabit.
We have had the warnings time and time again and we took no action.
We have all been born into the situation to find we are now born into captivity!
Lack of Connection
Kevin says the 1% are not burdened with empathy, to care about what they do. It’s a huge social disconnection that when they make decisions, they hurt the world.
My question to Guy:
Do you think we have sociopaths running the high end of our planet?
Yes, we have. He could argue that we are all part of the problem because we (in my words) have all become consumers, consuming ourselves and our common future. That basically 95% of us always vote on our bank balance and what’s in it for Me?
Kevin then jumped in and stoically stated that he wanted to be the last person planting the last tree on our planet, before the lights go out. I then leapt in and said I would be there with him! Ready to eat of the fruit of that tree!
We are Slow Learners
Then I introduce the concept that:
50 Years ago we heard that we would destroy our civilisation possibly in around 100 years or so - if we did not change our ways.
20 years ago they revised it to possibly 40 years
15 years it was down to 30 years
Now Guy today is saying about 10 years to go...
It nearly rhymes with.
50 years ago the human race were only using 10% of their potential
20 years ago they then said it was 7%
5 years ago it was down to 5%
2 years ago it was we were only using 2% of our potential
So we are using less and less of our potential … to find out we're using less and less of our potential …
What is going to happen in 5 years time?
Guy jumped in and said yes, we have totally lost our way.
Changing the Whole Focus: From Disaster to Changing of Human Consciousness
Without grinding into what is actually happening … temperatures rising, droughts, catastrophic events, etc. (I was even going to ask him about Geo engineering however our time was short and this is covered in my summary at the end.)
I decided to beat a path to the inner self, to our potential as a human and what can we as a humanity do, seeing the situation in Guys words was so dire.
Albert Einstein said that we cannot solve the problems with the same consciousness that caused them in the first place.
Where do you see yourself in relationship to this Guy? And he says he is all for it, but we have not done anything about it.
Next, Nikola Tesla said "when mankind starts researching the invisible he will make more progress in 10 years that he will have in the whole of civilisation".
Guy says that there is a lot that we do not know, because it is invisible and we have not learnt enough to become more evolved.
Tesla talked about the ‘luminous akasha’ as to where he tapped into Akashic Records . Akasha is a sanskrit word that Buddhists believe in “a permanency of records in the Akasa” and “the potential capacity of man to read the same".
What do you think Tesla was saying here? (listen to the interview for more)
We are one Molecular Unified Energy Field.
What about the fact that our planet is one unified molecular field that we are all connected - you to me in the gigantic sphere of atomic frequency - the air molecules between us, our bodies and this building is all one field oscillating at a particular frequency.
Guys says ‘that we are that.’
This is fact YES? We are “one field".
We Humans are the Nerve Endings of Our Planet
I mention that James Lovelock says that we humans are the nerve endings for Gaia, Mother Earth and that when someone stands up in the Amazon with a sign saying “No more deforestation!” they are a nerve ending telling the world that the Amazon is wanting help.
Same for someone standing up in Palestine with a sign saying “We want Peace”. This again is another nerve ending communicating with all other nerve endings that we need to change, stop war and heal for Peace.
Well the planet is inflamed and the ones who are hearing the Earth’s call and feeling this calling deeply, are coming in with compassionate mindfulness to be a part of ‘her immune response!"
Guy says that he is open to a miracle - and that we need to ‘Passionately Pursue a Life of Excellence’
We have the saying the ‘anima mundi' which is Latin for World Soul? So for arguments sake we could be all connected at the energy unified field?
We share the one breath - all of us.
This is all unseen and is invisible.
Kevin adds that the Nuclear power stations in the US are still going and there are dangers of invisible radiation escaping. The US government has now extended the power station’s licenses by many more years. Even though virtually all have passed their use by date.
They are now extremely dangerous because the cost of decommissioning them is outrageously enormous.
The Japanese reactors at Fukushima are equally dangerous because they have been idle and out of action for 5 years. They are now being recommissioned, and this is fraught with problems.
Guy says of Tesla and regarding ‘the invisible' that there is so much we do not know. He talks of 'dark matter' and that science is now recognising there are many other Universes other than our own. It’s a Multi verse.
And he says about a change of consciousness - is there enough time for a change of consciousness? … Mass consciousness? He says he does not know, but is open to it for sure.
Also mentioned are Walter Russell (the American mystic) and Viktor Schauberger, who have seen into the invisible.
Schauberger, (known as the 'father of water'), was able to lie down beside rivers and ‘become one with them’ in consciousness.
Meditation was mentioned as a way of being able to find solace from the outside world as well as heal from grief, which is what many people are experiencing as we learn of the plight of our home planet, mother earth.
The conversation then moves to Elisabeth Kubler-Ross where 1600 people came to listen to her tell of her research at the Auckland Town Hall. She had interviewed 20,000 people who had had ‘near death and out of the body’ experiences that we were more than a mere body.
This was to extend the conversation beyond the limitations of seeing the world from a 3 dimensional world devoid of spirit or soul.
That there is far more to existence than this world of the so called 5 senses.
I mention names like:
Who have all studied death and Guy agrees that death and dying plus sex are taboo subjects.
Also there are books like Super Nature - Dr Lyall Watson, prolific author of many books on life
The Secret Life of Plants and the Secrets of the Soil by Peter Thompkins & Christopher Bird. These books on nature extend our knowingness about how ‘alive’ nature is.
And we are now running out of time, to extend our view of the human capacity to learn and grow.
Guy says that finding joy and to be open to allow joy to find us is so important. Find your tribe. Go back to grass roots working with your neighbourhood. Pursue excellence. These are the best things we can do at present.
Guy says that extinction is a natural process and we are in the 6th great extinction.
Kevin says, that now he knows his time is limited, it has freed him up immensely. He can do far more things that benefit the community that he is part of, on the island that he lives on. And there is no better time than the now.
Guys says, if we had made the change during the cultural or flower power revolution in 1966-67 it may have made a difference to the world if it had spread.
However, our children and grandchildren are not being factored into our future.
This interview covers many other heartfelt subjects and is well worth the listen as it is sprinkled with little gems.
In Summary:
So that was it, we ran out of time.
However, I also wanted to cover the other unknowing capacities of the human being such as:
The story of savants
There was the 'Mega Savant' Kim Peek, best known by the movie character he inspired the “Rain Man” played by Dustin Hoffman in the 1988 film of the same name. Fast absorption was no problem for Peek, who could just as easily read and memorise a telephone book as a compendium of Shakespearean plays. Kim could take in 10,000 words-per-minute reading two pages at a time—the left page with his left eye and the right page with his right eye.
If a human can do this, can not any other human, once we tap into that aspect of our psyche?
Then there was fire walking - Fijians and Indians in South Asia and their diaspora in Sri Lanka, Mauritius, Réunion, South Africa, Malaysia and Singapore, who celebrate the Thimithi festival.
David Willey, professor of physics with the University of Pittsburgh, says he believes fire walking is explainable in terms of basic physics and is not supernatural nor paranormal. Willey notes that most fire walks occur on coals that measure about 1,000 °F (538 °C), but he once recorded someone walking on 1,800 °F (980 °C) coals.
Mind over matter?
What about Speed reading?
Anne Jones, six times World Speed Reading Champion told the Guardian media that most of the time, she reads at speeds between 800 and 1,500 words per minute. This is much higher than the average for a good reader given by fellow academics, of 200 to 400 words per minute.
Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt was among the most intelligent U.S. Presidents and famous for his efficient reading skills. He would often take in an entire book before breakfast. If time permitted after dinner, he’d read through a few more before bed.
Then his relative, President Franklin D. Roosevelt Inspired by his fifth cousin, Franklin D. Roosevelt adopted old Teddy’s auto didactic approach and taught himself to speed read. He began by fixating on two-to-three words at a time. He then pressed on to three-to-four, six-to-eight, and so on.
Eventually, America’s beloved four-term President could read whole paragraphs like ordinary folks read individual words.
Following in the Roosevelt’s footsteps, President John F. Kennedy made speed reading a personal priority during his tenure in the White House. With practice, he cultivated a rate of 1,2000 wpm, as he wanted to be able to read two or three books daily. JFK wanted his brother Bobby to learn to speed read, too, and the pair of Kennedy’s took classes together to that end.
So what is the capabilities of the human mind? This is the never ending question.
I also had many other questions about some yogi’s in India that I wanted to talk about. Information that’s not publicised in the main stream media such as Paramahansa Yogananda and his astounding death.
ET Intervention?
Plus, in my pre-talk with Guy before the interview, I did even mention to him the ET situation. Captain Edgar Mitchell (6th man to walk on the moon) mentioned on Campbell Live here in Auckland in 2008 that the US authorities have bodies and that they have been studied. So there is most definitely an Extra Terrestrial equation that has to be at least discussed.
If our planet is in free fall and losing it and they have super energy technologies that can reverse all the heating and reflect sunlight back into space... They could have reason to push into our world, defying the prime directive not to intervene in another planet’s evolution, however again I ran out of time to bring this subject back up.
Post Thoughts on 10 years or not?
With the subject based on only 10 years to live as a species, I personally have another slightly optimistic opinion.
The Antarctic ice is close to 1.9 km (1.2 mi; 6,200 ft) in thickness and covering an area of almost 14 million square kilometres (5.4 million square miles) containing 26.5 million cubic kilometres (6,400,000 cubic miles) of ice. It will take a long time to melt, as it is in darkness and cold for 4 to 6 months a year.
And Greenland has a mean altitude of ice at 2,135 metres (7,005 ft). The thickness is generally more than 2 km (1.2 mi) and over 3 km (1.9 mi) at its thickest point and covers an area of 1,710,000 km2 (660,000 sq mi). And yes there is the slowing down of the Atlantic ocean gulf stream too.
There are many, many other contingencies to play out before I adhere to Guys 10 year statement, though he has far more up to date information than I.
I remain confident that I am still going to enjoy a long life of a degree of happiness, bearing in mind we are in such a majorly critical evolutionary phase.
Yes, Geo Engineering! I was going to ask Guy about what is happening about Geo Engineering. (geoengineeringwatch.org)
I see there is a large in-house disagreement between them and Mr.G Edward Griffin of ‘What in the World Are They Spraying?’. However as this is still unclear - I decided against it.
Yes we live in very interesting times!
Creative Social Communicator with early history, first peoples and the awakening connection to the earth mother and the elements.
Today she is a celebrated filmmaker, producer and director covering the canvas of earth, water, and sky and the growing people’s reverence of Aotearoa and our great sustainer Mother Earth - Papatuanku.
Early Years:
Born in Ōtautahi, Christchurch, whilst studying at Canterbury University she did the ‘poet rounds’ of local pubs with people such as Kerri Hume and other home grown celebrities.
Then when visiting a playwright’s workshop in Australia she realised that only 1% of the world’s playwrights - were women this then inspired her to fire up and write. She then had a play produced on stage in Australia and in Christchurch help set up the Woman’s Action Theatre.
Then for 8 years produced one play per year, ‘Mother Tongue’ being one of them and with the NZ Listener giving it an amazing review it ended up touring the country. Being based on the first stages of a woman’s life. Featuring chant, song, dance and scenes through different aspects of a growing woman – like Offspring – the first 6 months of the 1st baby – and then another of an older woman who was a successful gold miner in the West Coast - Buller region.
That Christchurch Ōtautahi is where Kate Sheppard, who initiated the vote for women lived and was buried there. Kate also tells of her unique connection to the 1st vote by women in 1893.
Nuclear Awakening
Then to working in Free Theatre and Court Theatre and then onto radio drama which she loves. One of these was called Charlie Bloom, about blowback from a French nuclear test in Polynesia which went from East to West covering Samoa and affecting the the Samoan inhabitants 3,610 km from French polynesia and Mururoa. This bomb test was on the 12 September 1966. As a consequence of this test, called Betelgeuse, (named after the 9th brightest star in the night sky) in which a 120 kiloton bomb hanging under a balloon was exploded at a height of 600 metres in difficult wind conditions.
Not long after this Kathleen was living for a while in Hakano St, Grey Lynn in Auckland and there were many Samoans living in that street and there was a disproportionate number suffering from strange cancers and odd diseases then she found a book by Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) and also the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research entitled Environmental Effects of French Nuclear Testing. This exposed what was happening, including a map of the rain-out hot spots and rain-out dry spots all over this part of the Pacific. This was when leukaemia sickness was spiking at one of the worst rates at that time in this region.
Her play was also broadcast in Australia and Kathleen’s parents were over there for a few days and just looking for a decent radio station to listen to, heard Kathleen’s ‘Charlie Bloom’ being broadcast – just out of the blue and this is a theme that runs through her life – many magical moments of synchronicity.
Her most recent book is Earthquakes and Butterflies based on the Christchurch Earthquake and was played for a week on National radio here in NZ. Her book is a delightful, beautifully designed novel and photographic journal following Hone, Kara, Pieter, Hemi, Helena, Kay and Tess as they navigate their way through the tragedy of the Christchurch earthquakes.
"This is surely one of the finest pieces of writing to come out of the Christchurch earthquakes. Kathleen Gallagher tells, with deep tenderness and compassion, the story and spirit of all that the moving earth laid on the heaving doorsteps of Christchurch... Jane Hole,"Tui Motu" Nov. 2015,
Film
The documentary Water Whisperers - Tangaroa the film – evidently, it just sort of happened. With no finances or major strategy, when some people came to her at the last minute and asked her to film a raft journey from Lake Sumner in the Southern Alps to the Pacific ocean, this was enough to pay for Water Whisperers – plus when it came to support with this production - she says “it just seems to show up!”
This vibrant environmental documentary explores the healing and recovery of polluted and fished out waterways, and the conservation of wild water places - from mountain lakes, through rivers and out into the ocean. Subtle, sensitive and beautifully photographed - it is a quietly convincing voice amid the clamour of our fast paced society. People from very different backgrounds stand together - being real about the challenges they face, they show us there are solutions as well as problems that we have to address. This is an eloquent and utterly convincing call for greater protection and care of New Zealand’s lakes, rivers, coastlines and oceans.
"This beautifully put together and refreshingly optimistic local doco is one of the most enjoyable films I've seen in months ... Seeing an eco-doco so informative, entertaining, light of touch and unashamedly Kiwi was a real treat ... Four stars, easy ... a very accomplished and compelling film."
Graeme Tuckett - Dominion Post, Wellington
When filming Sky Whisperers - Ranginui - she tells of a small number of large hawks or kea flying right in front of her car windscreen blocking her view that she had to stop the vehicle in a middle of a mobile phone drop-out area. Whilst stopped a very tuned in Maori friend phoned her saying she must come to where he was – as the film had to start from Lake Waikaremoana - stating that “ I am waiting for you!”.
She had not planned on including him in the film and so due to the ‘strangeness’ of the moment, she then detoured to where he was some hundred plus kilometres away even though they were going to another destination to start the film. So driving through a storm she arrived at Lake Waikaremoana where he was standing waiting for her and her team, still in the middle of that storm. Where she proceeded to interview him then carry on back to the original destination.
This fascinating environmental feature, calls us to a closer intimacy with our skies. Celestial navigators, climatologists, a Nobel prize winning scientist, biodynamic, Maori and radio astronomers, farmers, fishermen and business folk who observe the sky, the air, the stars, the moon and sun cycles. Together they show how we can establish a way of observing, living and doing business which results in non pollution of our skies.
Tau Te Mauri - Breath Of Peace
A fascinating story of effort towards global peace, featuring eight peace people of Aotearoa New Zealand - spanning some seven decades - peace walkers, petitioners, and folk in small boats and on the surfboards sailing out into the harbours in the face of huge warships. A unique documentary, embedded in the movement of aihe (dolphins), tohora (whales), kotuku (white herons), toroa (albatross) and with an original score blending contemporary waiata and traditional Maori musical instruments. This film tells the story of how Aotearoa New Zealand became nuclear free and anti-war. It is an inspiration for all people, young and old, and for peacemakers everywhere.
Conscientious Objectors:
The Peace People of NZ go back a long way – to the Chatham Islanders to Te Whiti go Parihaka in Taranaki - who it is recorded influenced Mahatma Gandhi in his expression of peace.
Jack Rogers and the few who remain alive today … then Mary Woodward – protesting against the bombing of Hiroshima.
Hautu Peace People of World War II
“Hautu is the story of two WWII Conscientious Objectors put away in the rugged Hautu detention camp near Tūrangi on the Desert Road south of Taupo and their supportive womenfolk who were living in Christchurch and on the West Coast” in the South Island.
Kathleen states that peaceful energisers come through in NZ, every decade and this ideal moves around the country as in George Armstrong up here in Auckland with the Peace flotilla and Bunny McDiarmid and her Greenpeace work. Especially with the Rainbow Warrior moving the people in the Marshall islands away from the radioactive island that the US atomic testers used and then sailed away from.
The bombing in Auckland Harbour and all the other important Greenpeace issues that are still with us today.
And Nicky Hager NZ’s top independent researcher and Kate Dewes - all have worked for decades, on peace issues, to bring more peace in our world.
Kathleens Home Turf
That Riccarton borough in Christchurch was the first Nuclear Free area in NZ. – That is where Kate Dewes lives and where Kate Sheppard once worked and lived. Deans bush there too. It’s a place of much change.
Trees in the seven hectare bush include ancient kahikatea, totara, matai and hinau. The bush is now protected by a predator proof fence and is home to small populations of the Canterbury tree wētā and great-spotted kiwi/ roroa. Before European settlement, Pūtaringamotu was a valuable source of food and timber for the Māori. From the bush they produced carvings and canoes, and preserved pigeons.
These trees, up to 600 years old, are the descendents of a podocarp forest established over 6,000 years ago. They are the sole Canterbury remnant of kahikatea floodplain forest and as such have national significance.
Haharanga – Healing Journeys. He Oranga He Oranga
Healing Journeys
Many of Kathleen’s friends got breast cancer and numbers of them died. She talked to people who had terrible prognosis yet had survived and she found that it was in the quiet areas of place and the space – that healing took place.
This inspiring feature documentary follows the journeys of eleven cancer survivors through - bone, bowel, breast, ovarian, prostate, brain cancers, Hodgkins and nonHodgkins lymphoma, and leukaemia - to better health. It begins where the boiling heart of the earth rises up to the surface. It climbs the mountain peaks, descends the valleys and flows through the bush and on out to sea, exquisitely blending taonga puoro - traditional Maori music, Celtic harp and flute, and contemporary waiata.
She found that when people shifted to a more conducive environment their health improved immensely.
That it was in the forest the ngahere the ancient forest - the puawai – the blossom of the ancient forest are very healing in so many ways same for the way – running water swift flowing water helps cleanse - plus mirimiri a rubbing motion this inspired her to do the film Earth Whisperers Papatuanuku.
Earth Whisperers Papatuanuku.
Starring Rita Tupe – Tuhoi healer Craig Potton EYEla burgess herbal, herbalist, Gerry Findlay talks with birds Alan marks the botanist, hugh wislon who has a thousand hectoer of regenerating forest Jim ogorman organic farmer in Omaru Charles Royal maori chef. Kay Backster Seed Saver Makere Ruka – Waitaha kuia. This film went all over the world. And going to the huge film festival in Abu Dhabi in the Middle East winning the Audience Award. Then around the world like wildfire.
Yet to obtain funding is a major task …
Then Water Whisperers Tangaroa
Following the water from Mountains down rivers and out to the ocean – to the Poor Knights marine reserve area. Including Leigh as the oldest marine reserve in the world.
Raglan Fred Lichtwark and Eva Rikards working on restoring nature in the spirit of kaitiaki went from lowest to highest fish count in NZ shoreline waters. Riparian planting changed it all around increases of Eels (tuna) whitebait (īnanga) and over marine fish. A great success.
In this film there are lots of models for people to follow
Muscles farms out in the bay in Takaka were being affected by chemical and nutrient runoff from farmed land – So Landcare a Government Department brought the two groups together and after challenging times have sorted out! A win win!
Actions for today!
Locking away huge areas to stop fish depletion and overfishing – Andy Dennis who died recently in Nelson states that half our bays need to be locked up all the way to the 200 mile fishing zone. He maintains that this would allow all fish to recuperate to the same numbers of fish, that were here when Captain Cook arrived.
Yes, there are still vested interests who oppose this concept other than wanting to lock areas away – yet, when fishing sanctuaries a put in place the long-term results is for everyone benefits.
This interview covers Te Urewera as a park now having human rights and the Whanganui River (awa) being classed as a living entity
This opens up the narrative about Papatuanku the earth mother as a living super organism. That includes our intimacy with Papatuanku as a living being. http://www.ourplanet.org/articles/new-zealand-government-acknowledges-a-river-as-a-living-entity-and-a-park-as-having-human-rights
Altered Realities
That things happen ‘in the moment’ and time can alter and shift, it is not necessarily linear which we usually see from a rational standpoint.
In Earthquakes and Butterflies Kathleen states that time can also expand & contract - especially when major earth moments are happening.
The conversation then enters more non corporeal subject matter and the metaphysical connection to the land of Aotearoa.
She mentions when Leonard Cohen when he last came to NZ fairly recently, said “you live in the is place that is magical – yet you walk around it as if it is ordinary!”
Connection and intimacy with the land whenua.
Some years ago American First Nation peoples came to NZ to apologise to the salmon that swim and travel up the Rakaia River in the South Island (Te Waipounamu - The Waters of Greenstone) They wanted to honour the fish, because their rivers are depleted of chinook salmon today. These South Island salmon were brought from America to NZ in 1867. They then spent 4 days and 4 nights at the top end of the river singing, praying, dancing, talking and listening to the river.
Plus there other stories of Maori and kaitiakitanga - guardianship, protection, preservation or sheltering. Kaitiakitanga is a way of managing the environment, based on the traditional and cultural methods.
Listen to this fascinating interview of a creative, inner-directed New Zealander
http://www.wickcandle.co.nz/
http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/gallagherkathleen.html
Helen Caldicott came to New Zealand in 1983 with her husband and started from the bottom of the South Island, travelling from town to town and into cities, giving talks to New Zealanders on the horror of nuclear war.
By the time they arrived in Auckland, huge crowds were coming to see her, and they fully understood her stark yet powerful message.
This set the scene for setting up Nuclear Free Zones all around New Zealand culminating in 72% of the country sanctioning Nuclear Free Zones, giving the Government of the day the mandate to make New Zealand a Nuclear Free Country. This is democracy in action - and how it needs to be implemented globally. People setting the agenda for the government to enact it into law.
Today in 2016, she notices the Peace Movement is very quiescent here in NZ, hardly existing at all. The average citizen does not know what is going on - the media is not teaching people what is really happening.
Such as what the Pacific Pivot means, not informing them what this large display of naval ships in Auckland harbour represents - that the huge arms bazaar and military expo, just over a kilometre from the Mayoral chambers is being orchestrated and sponsored by Lockheed Martin, the largest weapons maker in the world, who she states: “Are killers”!
Not only this, but we in New Zealand are participators in an American military build up that she has never seen before.
She says that ex Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev and many others say we are closer than any time, to nuclear war - even at the height of the cold war, when NZ made it’s courageous anti-nuclear stand. And in truth, by not being the bearer of deep insightful news - “the media is determining the fate of our “planet.”
As president Thomas Jefferson said “ an informed democracy will behave in a responsible fashion.”
She then lays it all out:
The need for war is partly that of the ‘backroom boys’ who behind closed doors are embedded in the military industrial complex, because they need wars and the ability to steal the American people’s, tax dollars - that 60% of every tax dollar goes into killing - they call it defence - it’s not - it’s killing!
What America is doing in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen and Syria is absolutely obscene. But to them - isn’t it all really good!
Even the stocks in the US military machine went up enormously when Donald Trump was elected.
Now Trump is a totally unknown force - no one yet knows what he will do. However his one good thing is that he seems to like Vladimir Putin, and that’s a major benefit as she says that Putin has every single town and city in NZ, Australia, Canada, US Japan, Europe UK targeted with at least 1 hydrogen bomb. Note that Russia now has the capabilities of sending a missile up over the North pole totally around the planet passing over Antarctica then up to the South Island onward to the North Island, of NZ.
So it is in our interests to work towards finding ways to befriend Russia and not pose them as an enemy. Which the Neo-cons & US the State Department along with Hillary Clinton have been constantly doing.
Malcolm Fraser ex Australian conservative Prime Minister, before he died in 2015 stated.
That the then Soviet Leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, when negotiating with James Baker, on behalf of US President Ronald Reagan that when he brought down the Wall, freed up Eastern Europe and dissolved the Soviet Union that in doing so NATO should not move one foot East, or closer to Russia as this was an area of traditional Russian influence. But President Clinton pushed to expand the Nato alliance to the very borders of Russia. There was talk of the Ukraine and Georgia being included. The US BROKE THIS AGREEMENT - and then installed missiles in Poland frightening the Russians to rearm - and yet it is the Russians that are to blame for rearming! This in Helen’s words, is absolutely right.
NATO & Russia Today
She said “ NATO is America” - let’s be frank. The enlargement of NATO since the Berlin War came down, was orchestrated by Norman Augustine who was the chairman of Lockheed Martin and he went to the newly liberated countries from the Soviet Union and asked them if they wanted to be a democracy?
Even though in Helen’s words, America is an autocracy, Dictionary meaning. absolutism, absolute power, totalitarianism, dictatorship, despotism, tyranny, monocracy, autarchy; dystopia
They apparently agreed but to become part of NATO they had to re-arm to the tune of 3 billion dollars - so that the US Military Industrial apparatus, could then sell more weapons to them and by enlarging NATO creep all the way up to the border of Russia.
So, in Helen’s words, they could then provoke Russia and moreover tell the world that Russia is very aggressive. When is it is not.
If you read Putin’s speeches they are very moderate and conciliatory and he is really worried. Thus America has the absolute gall that now these ‘Neo cons’ in the State Department are talking about regime change in Russia.
She says can you imagine - the Russians lost 27 million people in the Second World War - boy did they suffer. The Second World war was fought and one on the Russian front. The Russians are a proud people, Putin is popular and having been to Russia herself Helen, sees that the Neocons that are driving all this talk of war is not of paranoia, but in her terms is evil. Because by provoking Putin & provoking Russia we could destroy life on earth and the whole earth is wired up like a time bomb every minute, every day.
Helen then goes on to call on New Zealanders being a brave, courageous people with their feet on the ground and not involve ourselves in the US military’s Pacific pivot and not allow any of their ships into NZ, even if they have no nuclear weapons and to not participate in war games. Especially, not allow Lockheed Martin and the 200 employees it has in 6 bases in NZ who has as their objective - unmitigated killing.
NZ has to stand up again as it did 30 years ago when it received the respect and admiration of the whole world.
Time for NZ to step back into that time again.
Then there are our Australian cousins that in Darwin in Northern Australia they are basing 2,000 US marines. Helen claims that Australian PM Julia Gillard had no guts and allowed it to happen. The last PM later in his life Malcolm Fraser wrote a wonderful book called Dangerous Allies where he said that Australian’s are just sycophants to the US and that they must get out of this alliance. With 34 US bases in Australia including Pine Gap which orchestrates the drone killings and would orchestrate nuclear war and are an integral part of the US killing system.
The last person who took the Americans on was ex Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and he was going to name the people and the CIA operatives who were working at Pine Gap the next day in Parliament. But he was dismissed and ousted, in a coup, led by the CIA, she states is a matter of fact. See movie ‘The Falcon & the Snowman’ She says since then Australian politicians have been a bit scared to take on the Yanks, but she says - they must!
Australia has lost its autonomy and lost its independence, and she sees that Australia is now really pathetic. Whereas compared to New Zealanders we are not pathetic at all and we can really stand up to the Americans and also provide a blueprint for what the Australians must then do.
We citizens of the world have to say NO to the Americans - she says they are addicted and we are enabling them to be addicted to killing.
With military bases in nearly every country of on earth - they have ringed China with anti missile basis and the same for Russia she wants them to get the hell out of these basis and leave us all alone and not be the world’s policeman
And she quotes “we should not be under their military umbrella”
We want to be safe and have no thoughts whatsoever of nuclear annihilation.
We bring our children into the world we do our best for them an every level we find possible. But why do this if they have no future?
The challenges around bought and sold politicians owned by the corporations comes up, (not so much as in America) and though we are living in a democracy - our representatives, have run away with their own agendas.
What we need to do
Helen says that we have to become educated with the challenges before us, and really know what we are saying, when we speak about these subjects.
One way is to book appointments at local politicians electorate offices and go and voice our concerns to our elected servants. That we teach them, because they in many cases have no real deep understanding of the many issues, they do not understand science on the whole, or medicine so educate them. Best go as a delegation of 3 to 5 people and get their attention and tell them that you vote every election. But doing it every week, with different people fronting each time.
Call to Action
Many adolescents have dropped out because at a deeper level of being, they know what we are doing is so out of alignment. That what we as a human species is doing is basically destroying life - that there is no future for them, the heritage that we have to bequeath them is terrifying to them - hence the suicides and drugs and alcoholism. Many of them have given up.
Parents can not abrogate their responsibilities. If we bring a child into the world - it’s imperative to care for them in every way possible - not leave them to the unpredictability of market forces and environmental depletion.
It has to be done through the media - articles through the newspapers - local news, letters to the editor get on talk back by giving a fictitious name, especially if you get cut off as they are apt to do in NZ - disguise your voice - be innovative and know you subject inside out and back to front.
As she said earlier, the media are determining the fate of the earth and this is how we educate people.
Be innovative and Creative
We need to get ourselves on TV, do many little ‘youtube’ clips, for both Facebook and other social media. Use social media to the max to expand the envelope of our horizons.
When she went to the USA in 1978 the Americans said to her “better to be dead than Red.” and she realised that that nation is psychotic (what is it today?) But she managed to change the nation’s mind by orchestrating 23,000 doctors to teach the US people by having workshops and by carefully explaining the dangers and horror of all things nuclear. That after five years 80% of the US opposed the concept of nuclear war.
That the daughter of President Ronald Reagan came up to her at one speaking engagement and said “I want you to speak to my Father.” Soon she was in the White house and what she thought was for a short moment spent and hour with him and the result was an agreement with both him and Mikhail Gorbachev to drop the wall across Berlin and free up all the Warsaw pact Eastern European countries and dismantle the Soviet Union - and it happened. Reagan actually stated that he would like the elimination of all nuclear weapons. (But his minders interrupted and said that this could not yet be done.)
She said that at one meeting Patch Adam’s (Hunter Doherty “Patch” Adams is an American physician, comedian, social activist, clown, and author) stood up and said that to get people’s attention we have to take our clothes off and walk across America - everyone thought that it was a great idea, that all took their clothes off then and their - hundreds of them male female, young, old, fat and skinny and down the street the walked yelling “Nudes NOT nukes” and were on the New York Times because the media loves sensational news - and Helen was naked with them.
Fukushima & the Crisis of Japan
Fukushima in Japan she calls a ‘crisis without end.’ She said that the media hides everything and now the radiation, four hundred tonnes of it per day is leaking out of Fukushima into the Pacific ocean. Her book - Crisis Without End - (order from Amazon.)
Fish being caught and sold on US Market with no labelling.
The radiation is now absorbed in the lowest levels of the ocean floor - food chain and much of the radiation is accumulative and it has now moved to the top of the food chain, where the cetaceans. It may take from a few years to 80 years for cancers and over diseases to appear, and it is very difficult to track how different cancers manifest from.
That the fish of the North Pacific are being caught and quietly/secretly being sold on the North American market as well as on the London market in the UK. It is a total disgrace that there is huge dishonesty. That the Japanese government has passed a law penalising any journalist who reports the truth about radiation poisoning within Japan.
I asked her about conforming that the health authorities have colluded in Japan, the US and Europe, by changing the danger risk for radiation from 1 milli-serviet as the maximum to 20 milli-serviets. She said she knew all about it and that that she covers this in her book Crisis Without End.
New Zealanders need to wake out of their complacency. This radiation is in the very ocean that laps our shores. It’s on it’s way and there had better be a national dialogue on it ASAP.. Don’t expect leadership from the top levels of Government. It all has to be done from the grassroots but we all have to educate ourselves in the process.
This is a riveting interview - Helen does not hold back and comes out swinging - I even cop it :)
Kate Dewes
Ph.D. O.N.Z.M (Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit) directed the South Island Regional Office of the Aotearoa/New Zealand Peace Foundation, among a huge number of other official positions.
Kate wraps it up by covering the last 15 minutes telling of the positive movement globally towards peace and disarmament. That progress is being made on many levels, even if we do not get reports from the media. She is very hopeful that most countries around the world are realising that we must act in unison if we are to save the future for our children and grandchildren.
Using the UN and the World Court there is much diligent work been done by many people, behinds the scenes and NZ is there too. Peace groups globally are cooperating far more and using the above institutions whenever possible. We are speaking out at the UN which we do on many levels that our UN Reps do their best to be independent, when we get a lot of pressure put on us by larger countries.
Back here in NZ the fact that Kiwisaver was ‘exposed’ for investing in armament corporations. We are exposing cluster munitions too, NZ has had a leadership role of taking other states to the World Court in the last 30 years.
We have now in essence a Southern Hemisphere Nuclear Free Zone that needs a little more work around ratification - progress is being made.
NZ is also taking a lead on stopping production of landmines.
Kate has witnessed huge changes - NZ has taken a leadership role especially in the United Nations.
Co sponsored a Nuclear Weapons ban treaty at the UN - we have been active there for many many years and will continue.
Progress has been slow but we as a planet have cut the number of nuclear weapons down from over 30,000 to 15,000 - What we now have to do is get countries to de-activate nuclear missiles from hair trigger alert.
It is seen that NZ must become much more independent and keep out of ANZUS, though we are being leaned on all the time to cozy up to the American military in most instances.
Kate is very hopeful of the future and sees NZ as continuing to be a strong moral force for good, especially in the UN.
We have tried to stay out of international wars, though we have had a lot of a pressure put on us, by our ‘friends’.
There are many thing happening at quieter levels, like recently the US had to admit that it was actually in Syria and that it was using DU or depleted uranium in this conflict, when it is being ‘marketed’ by mass media as a civil war.
We have ex National Party Prime Minister Jim Bolger and US ambassador, whose party was originally against NZ becoming Nuclear Free now travelling the world talking up Nuclear Free Zones. He and Jeffrey Palmer ex Labour PM are part of the ASIA PACIFIC NETWORK and are active in promoting a Nuclear Free world.
http://a-pln.org/activities/activities_view/On_nuclear_first_strike,_White_is_wrong?ckattempt=1
Kate Dewes
http://www.disarmsecure.org/people.php
Auckland New Zealand, with all its Mayoral and Council pomp and celebration was designated a City of Peace in December 2011. Today it is hosting 20 visiting warships in its inner harbour and at the same time 500 weapons dealers are gathering less than a kilometre from Auckland’s Queen St. They are attending this harbourside Expo from the 16th and 17th November 2016 in order to tap into the NZ government’s $20 billion defence budget for new procurements. In 2011 Auckland became a Peace City and that this resolution was ‘headed by a Peace Committee that Laurie was the Chair’ now finds itself as the focal point of a geo strategic naval war game this month - less than 20 kilometres off the shores of Auckland city, when NZ is supposed to be a keen advocate on being a Nuclear Free Nation and working towards being a Neutral Peacemaker too. As a result the Peace Movement of NZ is mobilising! All peace loving people are welcome to attend, a non violent demonstration prior to a blockade outside the ANZ expo centre. Details below.
The goal of this action is to bring both local and world attention to the fact that armaments and war are increasingly being pushed up the national and international priority list. Whilst, housing, health and social needs get less.
So what do we want the people of NZ and our government to do?
Download and listen to Laurie.
Why is the military/industrial complex in New Zealand?
Lockheed Martin is one of the world’s largest nuclear weapons, electronics and ‘security’ corporations and has a presence in New Zealand currently encompassing over 200 employees and operating on six sites in Trentham, Palmerston North, Burnham, Wellington, Auckland and Waiouru.
Note that though Lockheed is the principal sponsor, (with a woman CEO of all things). The 90 other sponsors include General Dynamics, Hawker Pacific, ANZ, Airworks, Auckland University’s UniServices, Babcock NZ, Beca, Safe Air, AVIS, University of Canterbury Spatial Engineering Research Centre, Callaghan Innovation, Mainfreight, and Datacom Ltd.
What is militarism in present day terms? Plus why now here in NZ?
It is to celebrate “Seventy Five years of the NZ Navy” and act at the same time - as a cover for selling weapons.
Lack of Will & Diplomacy on a Global Scale. Why?
Today, we have an issue of nuclear weapons being intensified with Russia & China being reclassified as the adversary and that no attempt is being made to mobilise diplomatic efforts on a broad front to look at resolving these issues and de-escalating what it happening. Why not greater diplomacy and Citizen Diplomacy as in the Reagan Gorbachev era?
Note that President elect Trump has consistently stated he does not want confrontation with Russia, so let us trust that this is so. And he does not get infiltrated with Neocon advisers who subvert him.
New Zealand as a Nuclear Free Peacemaker?
For NZ there are many options to concentrate around Defence but not Offence and re focussing our Foreign policy of engaging in Peacemaking and Neutrality. Training up all personal in the defense forces in the many methods and modalities of peacekeeping, and helping the community that is being assisted to become more cohesive and functional. Emergency power, health, water, shelter and policing via the rule of law etc. Including mediation skills, food growing and education.
What can we do as a nation as we already have an educational program in place that is championed by the NZ Peace Foundation - called Cool Schools. That has been introduced to thousands of schools across NZ. Where children learn the skills of reconciling opposing points of view with peer remediation and conflict resolution. A huge export potential of this innovative method of bringing people together in a mode of ‘learned communication skills’ and equipping them for the future.
However. Laurie goes far deeper talking about systems and structures and how to lay out the protocols on a vaster scale, that also encompasses not only local areas suffering from some disaster, but to larger situations involving whole countries. Listen to the broadcast.
peace foundation nz
Laurie finishes with a prayer and a song.
This piece below is gratefully taken from Action Stations here in NZ.
https://our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/no-weapons-expo-no-warships
We oppose the investment of billions of dollars in the military and new weaponry, which clearly does not deter terrorism, but rather contributes to violence, and war cycles.
We will not stand for the government supporting an arms expo for international weapons companies. This is proposed for 16 and 17 November 2016 in Auckland, sponsored by the world’s largest weapons manufacturer and maker of nuclear weapons, Lockheed Martin.
In June, 2016, the government announced $20 Billion of new spending on weaponry. At the same time, it extended an invitation to a US warship to visit NZ for the first time in 32 years. In November this year, this will all culminate in a week where warships dominate Auckland Harbour, and 500+ weapons dealers take over the ANZ Viaduct events centre for a trade show. The NZDF, Ministry of Defence and NZ Trade and Enterprise provide funding, personnel, equipment, displays and expertise for the Weapons Expo.
The $20 Billion new military spending includes the purchase of new warships and aggressive cyber warfare capabilities described by Minister Gerry Brownlee as a "significant weapon". This is despite that the government's own evidence that "the country does not face a direct military threat in the foreseeable future."
While billions are funnelled to multinational arms dealers, the real threats to ordinary people in New Zealand mount: poverty, homelessness, lack of adequate health care and catastrophic climate change.
Auckland Peace Action is a grassroots community group working to oppose the warships and the weapons expo. We believe that it is not possible to build a peaceful and just world while simultaneously acquiring ever more weapons and doing more planning for war. This petition is an important part of our campaign this year to bring pressure on the government. Join the campaign for peace!
[1] See "Does US Intervention overseas breed terrorism?" Foreign Policy Briefing. The Cato Institute. http://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/fpb50.pdf
[2] More information on the Weapons Expo can be found at
http://www.nzdia.co.nz
[3] http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/80835677/defence-white-paper-20b-defence-upgrades-for-new-planes-boats-and-cyber-security
[4] Ministry of Defence. 2016. Defence White Paper, p10.
http://www.defence.govt.nz/pdfs/defence-white-paper-2016.pdf
How it will be delivered:
Auckland Peace Action sees this petition as an important part of our campaign opposing the weapons expo and the visit of foreign warships in November 2016. We need your support now to make this petition as powerful as possible. All the signatures will be delivered in the immediate lead-up to the weapons expo.
It takes only a moment to download this from GreenplanetFM.com and you can listen to it whilst driving, bussing or training to and from work or leasure.
Lauri is one of the most dynamic grandmothers in NZ who clearly articulates what needs to be conveyed and very powerfully too.
ACTION DATES:
Tuesday 15th Nov: Dr. Helen Caldicott speaks
Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Dr. Helen Caldicott, the world’s foremost anti-nuclear activist and researcher speaks at 7:30pm, at the Auckland University of Technology. Hosted by the Peace Foundation.
Wednesday 16th: Blockade the Arms Trade!
Actively oppose the arms trade by the blockading the Weapons Expo. There are spaces for people who wish to actively blockade as well as space for support and family-friendly creative resistance. Check out the Facebook event for full details.
Thursday 17th: WALL of NOISE – Drown out the Death Merchants.
Bring your best noisemakers, instruments, banners and placards to drown out the weapons dealers’ party and awards ceremony happening inside. Evening. Check out the Facebook event for more details
Peace Flotilla: Time & place TBA
Join up with a boat, kayak, surfboard or your body to resist the warships coming into Auckland Harbour. Details confirmed closer to the day.
SATURDAY THE 19th Auckland Town Hall - the BIG MARCH 2pm.
Come and make a noise, and Bring Banners & Placards.
A Massive March for Peace
Wednesday 9 November 2pm
Press Release: People for Peace
A big turnout is expected for a March for Peace on Saturday November 19th at 2pm, starting from the Town Hall, Queen St, and organised by “People for Peace”.
Large numbers of people are stunned that the New Zealand Navy has invited approximately 15 warships to participate in the Navy’s 75 birthday celebrations and an International Naval Review. Other countries are sending senior officers to participate.
The vessels, with their array of deadly weaponry, will berth at both Ports of Auckland and Devonport Naval Base. This is a stark call to all peace activists who opposed the US warships in the eighties and worked for a peace that may now be under threat globally, and also to the new generation of young people who see the insanity of warfare and want to take a stand for peace.
“Even if the ships are non-nuclear armed, it is still not desirable to be reinforcing a warfare mentality and militarism when we should be promoting peace and underpinning the UN Charter that New Zealand signed in 1945,” said long time peace worker Lisa Er.
“By endorsing conventional warships New Zealand is effectively being groomed for involvement in future wars” she said.
In tandem with the warships visit is a weapons conference and expo, selling both military equipment and weapons, at the Auckland’s Viaduct Events Centre. It will bring together 500 arms dealers sponsored by Lockheed Martin, the world's largest weapons manufacturer and a producer of nuclear weapons. This is contrary to Nuclear Free New Zealand’s peacemaker policy role in the international community.
It also contravenes Auckland’s City for Peace declaration, signed on Dec 15th 2011, which states that “Auckland Council is dedicated to the promotion of nuclear free zones and a culture of peace based on social, economic and environmental justice, tolerance and nonviolence.”
Veteran Peace activist Laurie Ross says, “New Zealanders must ensure that the multimillion dollar weapons industry is not permitted to promote its warfare culture under the guise of security, business and free trade in this country.”
“Unlawful terrorism will not be stopped by nation states increasing their warfare capacity but rather by curbing the sale of weapons and militarism throughout the world” she said.
The March for Peace is an opportunity for the public to show en mass their disdain for warfare and their desire to live in a peaceful world, and is complementary to the Week of Peace events.
Contacts:
Laurie Ross laurie-ross@xtra.co.nz Ph 09 818 0696
Lisa Er lisa@peaceteam.org,nz mob 021 777 473
City for Peace Declaration:
http://www.peace.net.nz/sites/default/files/kiora/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/City-for-Peace-Declaration.pdf
UN Charter:
http://www.un.org/en/sections/un-charter/un-charter-full-text/
Sunday 20th: Peace Ships, NOT Warships! 1pm @ the Cloud
We’ll be having a peace picnic in the midst of the Navy birthday celebration reminding everyone that war is not a celebration bring banners, picnic stuff and other peace materials.
Scientific research into the ocean and ocean floor is based on what we can exploit from the ocean. Yet, science is also unveiling the possibility as to where ‘ocean mind’ resides.
Some researchers believe that bacteria in ocean sediments are connected by a network of microbial nanowires. These fine protein filaments could shuttle electrons back and forth, allowing communities of bacteria to act as one giant super-organism.
In James Cameron’s movie Avatar, the inhabitants, the Na'vi people of Pandora, plug themselves into a neural network that links to all the elements of Pandora’s biosphere, from phosphorescent plants to pterodactyl-like birds. It turns out that Pandora's interconnected ecosystem may have a parallel back here on our planet: sulphur-eating bacteria that live in muddy sediments beneath the ocean floor, as a tightly coupled living mat or network.
Going back 4 billion years where bacteria have been living in the ocean and creating the conditions for life to prosper on our planet – evolving the conditions for multi cellular life to eventually we humans.
There is emerging evidence that bacteria in the oceans form massive mats connected with things called nanowires. These nanowires allow the bacteria to breathe externally from their bodies – so it is collective breathing – and that they could be connecting as a neural network – so it is possible that the ocean floor is a vast neural network or ocean mind, with deep thought – 10,000 years of thought process that we humans may only take a couple of seconds to grok. What kind of thoughts might the ocean be having?
We are finding out that we live on a planet that is alive and that the ocean is a living being.
Hence James Lovelock’s Gaia Theory that our planet is gigantic super living organism. Here is the original Our Planet description posted on the world wide web in 1996. http://www.ourplanet.org/original-site/gaia.html
It’s only in the last 60 years has man created the tools to look around underwater – with masks, oxygen tanks and more lately bathyspheres.
As we become more sensitive and knowing, immersing ourselves into the sea and becoming one with the marine environment and ecology - makes it possible to dissolve into a greater knowing of the ocean - to osmotically take in information.
To address the big oceanic issues, in Glenn’s opinion - it’s about addressing our own personal relationship.
Western civilisation including we here in NZ have over the years become more distant and separated from nature. We have in numerous ways become disengaged from natural processes and from our planet as a whole.
Note NCEA -the National Certificate of Educational Achievement in high schools in NZ that they do not teach ecology. It is not part of the curriculum. Thus students are leaving school not realising that they are an intrinsic part of the web of life within the biosphere. Now we know why the young are disconnected – they are being deliberately severed from our planet. Whereas Maori children in many cases intuitively understand they are an extension of Papatuanuku, our planet.
This interview covers:
The International Union for Conservation of Nature recently passing a resolution to protect 30% of the world’s oceans by 2030 At this meeting 129 countries or 89% said yes – and signed. But 29 countries said NO. And 35 abstained from voting. Note that ‘Clean Green’ NZ was one of the countries that abstained. That NZ could not in this time of declining fisheries and in an ecologically challenged world, mindfully look at this important 30% protection, particularly for our children and grandchildren’s future, gives us cause for concern
Yet, in Antarctica 24 countries and the European Union agreed to protect 1.5 million square kilometres of the Ross Sea - the largest marine protected area on our planet, so far. 1 million square ks will be a ‘no take’ marine reserve. This is worth celebrating. Yet it is set to expire in 35 years time. Why?
The NZ administered Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary will be possibly the 4th largest protected marine reserve on earth. Covering 620,000 square kilometres, and the most significant of a fully protected area. It will be 35 times larger than the combined area of all of New Zealand’s existing 44 marine reserves.
The following activities will be prohibited in the sanctuary:
This is similar to prohibitions in place in marine reserves in our NZ territorial sea.
Challenges to our Oceans
Military testing sonar and microwave tech, even passing through some of these reserves! Plus electromagnetic energy that ships emit. These have been correlated to whale strandings and more science is needed?
Covering Professor Daniel Pauly of Canada – who says that there is no fishery on our planet that we could consider as sustainable. In 2004 he came to NZ and mentioned that we need to lock up 25% of our fishing grounds so as to rebuild up our fish stocks. He was criticised vehemently by commercial fishing interests here in NZ, but remains focused and undeterred.
In NZ, DOC, the Department of Conservation care for many offshore islands that are prohibited for humans to land on and they could in turn be extended to include fishing reserves around each island. So as to build up fish colonies again and create a “no take” marine reserve.
The ancient Hawaiians had an understanding that from the mountain top, down the valleys onto the beach into the water to the reef and out beyond the reef as one living holistic system. They did not partition nature.
Loss of NZ’s Endangered Maui Dolphin?
There is a belief with ocean ecologists that we are going to lose the Maui dolphins to extinction, because the NZ Government has no will to change the current situation. (34 minutes into the interview ) cut out before we email). Possibly only 44 are alive today.
They are found along the West Coast of the central North Island from Northern Taranaki in the South to Northland, just South of Opononi. In June 2014, the government decided to open up 3000 km2 of the West Coast North Island Marine Mammal Sanctuary – the main habitat of the Maui's dolphin – for oil drilling. This amounts to one-quarter of the total sanctuary area. In May 2015, estimates suggested that the population had declined to 43-47 individuals, of which only 10 were mature females.
Set netting in particular is seen as very problematic.
The Maui dolphin is becoming a very charged emotional issue in NZ as it appears that we could lose them whilst on our watch, possibly by 2025 or 2030. In a country that brands itself as Clean & Green, if we lose the Maui’s dolphin this will be a disaster from the standpoint of lack of mindfulness and the precautionary principle. To add insult to this loss it would affect the Maori people, as it will be a slap in their collective face, as their oral history tells of the God Maui, fishing up the North Island (Te Ika O Maui) out of the sea. This loss would be devastating for both Maori and New Zealanders as a whole.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maui%27s_dolphin
Government Changing the Rules.
At present the NZ Government is taking away from DOC, the Department of Conservation many decision making processes and handing them over to the Department of Primary Industries, because DPI is more of a commercial concern, based around monetary policies. This is where the government, our elected political servants are taking their own Agenda.
We as a people, need to instruct our government to do our bidding to enable 10% of our coastline to be designated as marine reserves and become far more informed.
Here in Aotearoa NZ the Te Urewera Park and the Whanganui River have been designated as having special privileges and rights. This was Government sanctioned and is an exceptionally visionary policy.
If it can be done on the land (whenua) then it can be accomplished on the ocean (moana).
http://www.ourplanet.org/articles/new-zealand-government-acknowledges-a-river-as-a-living-entity-and-a-park-as-having-human-rights#at_pco=smlrebv-1.0&at_si=5819316157fd1305&at_ab=per-2&at_pos=0&at_tot=1
Interspecies Communication?
Whales and Dolphin communication. By acoustics and sonar is covered. The www. - World Whale Web of Sperm whales connecting by clicks at deep ocean levels across the Pacific and deep levels.
Telepathy and possibilities of instant connection with large brain mammals?
Changing and cleaning up our oceans and our possible future.
We once had pristine oceans? Prior to the 17th century.
Will we (among our numerous and mounting challenges) realise our connection to the planet that loans us bodies, free air, free water and a free food chain?
As oceans bear the brunt of wastewater, from our homes and from sinks and bathtubs, to pipes, drains, creeks, streams and rivers all eventually find their way to the ocean. One way or another.
As we humans are composed of around 70% water and our bloodstream is about 3.5% salt - why have humans disconnected from our oceans? When in NZ the bulk of NZers are only 100 kilometres or less from the ocean.
Today, ocean plastic is outnumbering plankton 6 to one. That is correct - In certain areas of the ocean, specifically the subtropical gyres, micro plastic pieces outnumber plankton by 6 to 1. In other words, for every individual plankton there are 6 pieces of micro-plastic (micro-plastic being any plastic fragment smaller than 2 mm in diameter).
Micro plastic can now be found in every part of the Ocean, even in Antarctica, and on the ocean floor.
The majority has already sunk below the surface and out of our reach the only answer to stop this plastic onslaught from continuing is to stop putting plastic into the ocean.
Most of today’s challenges are extremely recent - especially in the last 70 years exponential acceleration and has grown across the whole realm of industry from products to pollution has escalated and the ocean is taking this all in. Including the nuclear radiation from Fukushima in Japan, that the world’s media and scientists remain tight lipped about.
Humanity has much to do in a very small window of time. The imperative is to connect with other people in your locality and voice your needs to commit to organise.
Write letters and phone you local MP and speak to them, either on the phone but better still with a small delegation of 4 or 5 of you and your friends. Let your Member of Parliament know your vote counts.
Glens web site:
http://www.oceanspirit.org
Do you go out fishing here in NZ and are you going to have further reductions of what fish you can catch? Because, the recreational fisher person is being totally ignored by the Ministry of Primary Industries and leaves the question: Is the government, along with commercial fishing interests with 94% of the catch, now taking aim at the 6% of the yield that the public harvest?
The lines are being drawn with our elected representatives in Parliament siding with Corporate Fishing to make it even more difficult for NZ families to catch their own fish.
Honest broker Doug Kidd, ex National Party Minister of Fisheries, saw this coming as far back as 1990 and endeavoured to empower the recreational sector by passing the Fisheries Act of 1996.
The scheme of the Fisheries Act of 1996 is that “fish come first”. By improving the biomass and hence the health and abundance of our coastal fisheries first, the Minister will then be able to fully allow for the non-commercial interests of the people of New Zealand to fish for food, as well as providing for commercial fishers to catch fish that is sustainable for our coastal fisheries.
This part of the Act has been under intense pressure to be changed to the total disadvantage of the public of New Zealand.
Organising People who Fish Around New Zealand’s Coastlines into Clubs.
Scott Macindoe tells us of his focus on ensuring the NZ public has an organised and professionally run representative organisation to stand up for the right of all NZers and our common future.
Saying we are blessed to have the NZ Sport Fishing Council on board as they have woken up to the precarious loss of fish species and by extension the commercial sector squeezing out recreational fishing, where there is already an imbalance of 94% commercial to 6% recreational.
For 60 years this Council has served the interests of clubs throughout NZ. Today there are 60 clubs affiliated to the Council, each being an incorporated society in their own right with their own constitution and democratic process. Many have their own premises with some being quite salubrious whilst others are very modest. Scott assures me that they take their responsibilities seriously and are not organisations that take short cuts.
They are very inextricably connected to the communities they serve and have extensive outreach across middle NZ that for example, in Whakatane there are over 4,000 members, Gisborne 4,300 members, Whangamata 6000 members with a waiting list, these clubs are relevant and growing.
These clubs all democratically elect their officers and committee and from these ranks choose a delegate to step forward and represent their clubs and members interests at a regional level. There are 8 regions each of which nominate a board member to sit on the National organisation - called the NZ Sport Fishing Council.
Scott (as the spokesman for www.legasea.co.nz ) has been co-opted to the Board of the NZ Sport Fishing Council and stresses their authenticity as an organisation. Their policies and principles are arrived at by way of remit that are thoroughly discussed and debated between delegates at a zone level and then to the AGM (Annual General Meeting) where remits are again voted upon and invariably unanimously, after some pretty vigorous debates and the reason that Scott ‘labours’ this - is that it does not get better than that. Stating that these clubs have built upon 60 years of focused authenticity.
And yet it is not good enough for the NZ Government’s Ministry of Primary Industries. Though the NZ Sport Fishing Council are constantly engaged with all Ministry lead science and fisheries management working groups, consistently attending Ministry led management and science working groups, always willing to engage. They engage with contracted professionals who consistently attend. They are there to gather information, report and circulate these reports where recommendations are made and carefully considered adopted or rejected as the case may be. Generally speaking, there is no one else in the room representing the public interest.
Of all the meetings that they attend the primary focus is for the commercial operators to find a way to squeeze more additional yield out of the fisheries whilst the NZ Fishing Council are saying - Hang on a moment! - it’s all about abundance - stop! We have to rebuild our inshore fisheries - we have to take less fish. So they are a lone voice.
Ironically or paradoxically he sees that they may be too good for their own benefit as with the High Court, the Appeal Court and the Supreme Court challenges to fisheries management in Aotearoa NZ. From 2004 through to 2008 they battled over the way Kahawai had been mismanaged nearly collapsing that fishery. This left the NZ Ministry not at all happy with the NZ Sport Fishing Council to the point that the Council might as well not exist as far as the Ministry and Minister are concerned.
So what is conveyed in this interview is that the average NZers is being jammed out of the debate in favour of Government and commercial interests.
However the NZ Fishing Council are relaxed and now organising and getting better and better at understanding what they are up against. There are alignments being established all over the place.
Building Alliances
They are organising and building alliances with the NZ Angling and Casting Association that caters for the interest of small land based clubs on the beach. The NZ Underwater Association, and the previous differences of the past that have been healed, (beyond healed) - now very trusting and reliable relationship as they now come together. Yachting NZ and of course Legasea that Scott is very much involved in. All are finding their place either affiliating or endorsing this growing organisation, the NZ Sports Fishing Council.
That in building up an organisation to represent ordinary NZers the Partners and Sponsors from the business world are stepping up. ITM (Independent Timber Merchants) has signed up for 2 years, the Hunting & Fishing chain of shops, Yamaha and Honda, Diawa and Wasabi, Black Magic, Club Marine Insurance and many other organisations & Scott then says that he has to be careful as when he’s naming names - as he may forget some and get into trouble. However, there are 60 companies that have come into support the ordinary NZer, and they are paying a goodly sum per annum to support recreational fisher folk to protect and rebuild local coastal fishing. This action is to put up a united front against the moneyed might and power of the commercial sector that is in bed with the Government against its own people.
These businesses are coming on board with not only cash, but also with rich access to extensive databases, rich access to their social media feed and reach. The Hutchwilco NZ Boat Show, DB Dominion Breweries and their low alcohol DB Export Citrus are all on board. What this is saying is that for the first time we have an organised recreational fishing lobby independently funded with zero government money and focussing on best practice and attempting to shift people’s attitudes expectations and behaviours. In particular as required to constrain, as required to conserve, as required to leave fish in the water in order to accelerate the rebuild of NZ 's inshore fisheries
In some ways he sees this as quite daunting as fishing can be a very religious feeling for many people, this is their time out, they do not want to be interfered with.
This interview covers:
Dealing with disposing of fish heads, frames and offal, that are delicacies for other races and cultures that value these - where we in NZ tend to discard them with not to much thought. That there is now a website dedicated to people who want to eat what’s left, can go on to https://www.freefishheads.co.nz. With 16,000 people registered, this is a win win that benefits many.
So this is one of Scotts important outreach projects allied to Legasea.co.nz - here to restore our fishing grounds for the average NZer to be able to 'fish for a feed.’
Being a 58 year old European NZer trying hard to not consume, for Scott, is a challenge especially whilst working with Legacy and half a dozen full time contractors taking these messages and issues, to the people of the real threats to NZer’s and to realise the magnificent gifts around our coast and conserve them before it’s too late.
Legasea: with 52,000 subscribed supporters and growing!
https://www.legasea.co.nz You are invited to sign up for free and they will send you a newsletter telling you what the current situation is. – ‘less is more’ – Scott also understands how overloaded our in-trays are.
He asks you to simply subscribe - to a free newsletter so that they can inform you and give you insights. You will find their newsletter very interesting and you may even wish to donate as well. You can even like their FB page or tick a box or two in the surveys and polls they run.
Legasea are well liked and a trusted source for a growing number of Maori iwi (tribes). Because they see them as taking care of ika (fish) and Tangaroa’s (God of the Sea) gifts of the ocean.
Scott reminds us of Martin Luther King in the context of the civil liberties and civil rights stating:
“It’s not the words of our enemies that we will remember – but the silence of our friends.”
The aim is to continue to build up NZ’s falling fishing stocks and make them sustainable for perpetuity.
That to have equitable access to that abundance is the goal to all NZers and not witness additional yield allocated to bulk harvested, low value, export focused commercial fisheries.
It is important to remind ourselves that 94% of all fish caught in NZ are taken by the commercial sector and the other 6 % by average NZers called the recreational sector.
Recreational Sector Harvest
Recreational Fishers take approximately 10,000 tonnes or 10,000, thousand kilograms of fish per annum by 600,000 fishers. Be it in small boat, off the beach or in the water – what they do with it is a very private thing – some people deep freeze it for later, most people take what they need, others gift it to family neighbours and friends over the next few days. For many the ability to share catch is a primary source of self esteem. Maximum mana enhancement to gift a fish as a taonga (treasure) – to knock on the door of a friend and say here, I caught this for you and hand over a fish, or a bag of fillets or half a dozen scallops.
Commercial Sector Harvest
The commercial sector harvest about 350,000 tonnes of fish of which 90% is exported.
Some of the figures and prices that these fish are sold overseas for - make Scott cry.
Including the discarding, dumping and disrespect of fish by the bulk harvesting commercial sector – plus the ‘miss reporting’ that has been brought about by the ‘quota management system’ where catch entitlements are poorly distributed.
There are many problems specially ‘by-catch’ where fish that are caught in nets that the trawler is not wanting to catch - so over the side they go and all the fish are dead or die, because their bodies just are too frail when brought to the surface as well as being crushed in the net.
By-catch in commercial parlance is either valuable or not valuable. Those that are not valuable (do not have rights - go back over the side to float on the surface in their hundreds and often thousands to be videoed and then shown on TV or Facebook.
But, it’s not only commercial - recreational fishers have work to do on this and evidently quite a lot of work in some instances.
Scott states “we all have to lift our game.”
Scott use the word atrocities – a word he states he does not use lightly in relation to the following:
Trevally: he says is a highly valuable fish, Scott says that he is happy to swop it for snapper.
A kilo of trevally in NZ is worth about NZ $12 retail including GST (not filleted). About 200 tones per annum is caught in public recreational sector. While the commercial sector with entitlements can catch about 3000 tonnes – though they can only catch 2000 tonnes per annum so there is no real constraints as it is over allocated – which Scott sees as really sad.
Much of this fish is exported. 800 tonnes per annum to France, Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom. Sold whole, frozen with no added value, no GST for $2.70 per kilo, last year $2.50 the year before, it was $2.30 - a rich, dense high quality protein source.
We have this incredibly high quality nutrient dense protein source and the greatest concentration of Polynesians grouped together in history, domiciled here in NZ in South Auckland and yet we have 45 dialysis machines working overtime at Middlemore hospital. Why? Because we are dealing with waves of people suffering from Type 2 diabetes through eating a poor diet whilst we take this sacred source that the Polynesian - who is hardwired to this as their metabolism is all about eating fresh fish and we are selling the best fish at $2.70 a kilo to France. This just blows Scott away!
Kahawai: We the selling 1,000 tonnes a year to Africa – Ghana and the Cameroon for $1.75 per kilo - So what is this all about? NZers would gladly pay $5.00 a kilo
The fact that we are selling our rich protein for such a low price shocks Scott (as it does me Tim doing the interview) and it should shock you dear reader – we are being done by commercial interests and none of these benefits are flowing through to NZers as a community.
Snapper: (tāmure ) We are exporting snapper to Australia sized at 25,26,27,28,29 centimetres – that we in NZ have to throw back dead or alive because of being undersized – yet the commercial sector can get away with this with the blessing of the NZ Government for a miserly $10.00 a kilo - we export 2.500 tonnes of this or nearly as much as all NZers combined in our entire public sector harvest – what is this all about? NZ snapper fillets cost retail $30.00 kilo plus.
Presently the NZ Government is angling to have the public sign off to a particular quota and all the rest be taken over by commercial interests. This will not happen on Legasea's watch, Scott assures us. Hence the Government MPI Ministry of Primary Industries refuse to give the public sector representatives the time of day.
And the NZ Government mission card for NZ primary producers is to double the export of primary produce by 2025
Who is the person/s driving this over extraction of the earth’s resources? This is the neo-liberal agenda that continues to steal the future of our children and grandchildren!
No Resource Rental or License
NZ Commercial Operators do not pay for a resource rental license – they can just take and extract from the ‘collective commons’ and there are no governmental regulations to make them pay for this resource.
What Recreational Fishing Adds to the Local Economy
The private recreation sector spends $950 million on bait, boats, rods and fuel etc. Plus charters, accommodation and 8,200 jobs within the industry as well all employees (PAYE) are taxed, there is the GST component of 15% GST plus fuel and road user tax. The recreational fishing industry adds to the local economy and with no fish, this sector would suffer hugely.
This interview also covers:
Doug Kidd the ex National Party Minister of Fisheries and Speaker of the House comes in for high praise, as he saw what was happening to NZ’s fishing stocks and spoke out about it very strongly.
These two links will put you firmly in the picture as to how commercial interests are working to disenfranchise recreational fisher people in NZ.
https://www.legasea.co.nz/articles/recreational-fishing-not-part-of-quota-system/
https://www.legasea.co.nz/articles/differing-perspectives-on-allowances/
The end of recreational fishing as we know it? It’s up to us to all mobilise and make the effort to join together and meet this challenge.
Scott also gives kudos to the Auckland Council for their visionary Hauraki Gulf Spacial plan along with Waikato District Council and the Thames-Coromandel District Council. Their coming together is going to breathe new life into this superb marine and fish environment.
This interview with Scott Macindoe, like his last one is superb. An articulate wordsmith and communicator he lays out for everyone what is happening and what we need to do.
His previous hard hitting interview November 2015.
http://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/scott-macindoe-advocate-for-fish-and-ocean-fauna
He finishes with the Maori word Tumanako which signifies hope.
A must listen.
https://www.legasea.co.nz
Christine Rose has a passion for life. She is an environmental advocate, in the community, nationally, and even internationally.
She has just returned from Australia where the Humpback whales recovery signals hope for the future. Watching (rather than swimming) is her focus as it's non-invasive and takes the human ego out of the whales' natural behaviour.
Humpback numbers in NSW were down to a couple of hundred animals when whaling stopped in the 1960s-70s. This year estimations put the numbers at about 27,000 went along Australia’s east coast, and they' are growing at 11% pa cumulatively. About 95% travel within 5km offshore on their way to Antarctica. That's why New South Wales in the best place for whale lovers like Christine.
In this interview we cover a number of environmental issues from the whale’s recovery in Australia to the New Zealand fishing industry.
Christine also speaks about the moral rights of animals and recommends the book of that name.
Touching on climate change and the 6th great extinction, Christine turns to some creative solutions. We even talk about the necessity of carpooling – an idea that is not shared much, as we are pushed to use privately owned public transport!
As a community and environmental advocate, Christine enacts the phrase 'think globally, act locally' into action - working on sustainability in her private life, in the community, nationally, and even internationally with the causes she supports and the life she leads.
Christine strives to lead a moral life - she's vegetarian, rides her bike wherever she can, refuses TV and the consumer society. She has solar panels, grows a veggie garden and lives in harmony with nature.
Locally, Christine helps build community - she established Bike Kumeunity, the Kumeu Children's Art Club, the Kumeu Arts Centre and she leads the ‘Kumeuknitty’ 'womanship' movement for women to share skills, knowledge, surpluses and love through knitting and crochet. She established Keep Kumeu Beautiful and organises WaiCare planting and water testing.
Regionally Christine campaigns for better walking and cycling - she's a voluntary trustee of SkyPath, which will see a walking and cycle way across the Auckland Harbour Bridge. She’s founding Chair of the Public Transport Users Association.
Since the year 2000, or earlier, Christine has dedicated a large part of her life to our endangered Maui's & Hector's Dolphins. She founded ‘Maui’s and Hector’s Dolphin Defenders NZ Inc.’ Christine regularly travels around New Zealand as an advocate, talking about the dolphins, helping all NZers to become stewards of this little taonga.
Christine runs Cetacean Spotting NZ a facebook page dedicated to celebrating whales and dolphins around the coast. She is also a volunteer/supporter of many environmental groups. She does pest control to protect Kokako and other species in the Waitakere Ranges. Most weekends she's out planting trees or helping community and environmental organisations to make the world a better place.
In her spare time, Christine cycles, camps, tramps, kayaks and is a practicing artist. She is a most heart-full person who seeks to build an empathetic culture through empowering others. She's a success at making the sun shine a bit more for us all by spreading joy and love in all she does, motivated by the public good and the ideal of a better world.
Hirini Reedy has moved to a state of being that he lives and moves lightly – whilst living at present in Aotearoa New Zealand - he likens himself as a ‘modern day navigator, or Bedouin’ – having no fixed address - having the sky as his roof the earth being the floor and ‘many’ spaces that he needs to be in.
In this ‘field’ he can contribute to the awakening that is happening as of this time.
He sees that our planet is dissolving old patterns and evolving to something new.
He sees how families have come into being and the family tree has spread to become now the canopy of our planet - that we have to look at families beyond our physical blood lineage, our cultural face – and look at the family of life itself. The family tree. This necessitates the need to return to the fundamentals to seeing ourselves as one huge family of many faces, many colours and many languages.
Being able to commune with all our extended whanau - ‘family’ so that we are having the spiritual recognition as well - as coming home to the practical family of his Mum and Dad and seeing them as they change and become old and being with them as they ready to transition.
This includes seeing the challenges of modern day housing and elderly care and embracing the extended family and not putting them into an old people’s homes – but to be able to be there for them. So that when they pass over – we can carry on the lineage and hopefully the dream of a better world to come.
Hirini shares with us poignant moments of his dear Mum and Dad - how dementia changes everything and that as a loving carer what he does to make their life as bearable as possible. To shower them with aroha and love. He expresses his abiding respect for people who are are carers for sick and elderly people. And that is something that will come to most of us to all understand.
Hongi - the Greeting of Connection
Hirini gives a very wide understanding of the hongi – the act of sharing breath – nose to nose – forehead to forehead – we are all breathers of life – we birth into existence with our first breath and go out - on our out breath … it’s not the end of life – but the end of the body temple.
Hongi is the phenomenon of joining breath to breath, being to being - mind to mind – heart to heart - you are bringing communion about these aspects of life itself – of family of community - of a greater being.
Hirini takes us through a deeper connection what hongi represent at a spiritual level that magnifies the knowingness that Maori have carried as a cultural norm as well as a commitment to deep awareness of being. The momentary convergence of auras – the fields - third eye to third eye - etc.
Today so many people are not breathing properly so the ‘ha’ – (the breath) is emphasised by Hirini throughout this interview.
Breathing properly?
We as a humanity are not breathing deeply into our belly – Hirini uses breath and sounds and gives bird calls – to emphasis his connection to other animals sharing breath and singing song and of his anatomy of sound that we too - can utter.
How to hold our breath without going into fear – when you are in situations where you have been forced to hold your breath in under water or smoke incidents and the need to ‘surrender’ in such cases.
Then Hirini takes us through a breathing meditation which is very potent.
He then talks about shifting our consciousness to be able to travel or ask as other indigenous people do and call on another animal to assist you and become an extension of our breath so as to tie-into-the-seasons –- the flows and the wave forms of creation itself. And in that moment we can attune to the ‘slip streams’ of other realities and actually make ‘that’ connection.
Hirini talks to the Abrahamic language I Am who I Am – and Hebrew and sings about travel to a different timeline from the travesties in the Middle East to the Pacific (Pacifist) ocean heritage where Maori have navigated for over a thousand years and more.
He talks of the above different timeline and a different intonation - because the Abrahamic religions in his intuition - need the softer waters of the Pacific.
Cleaning up our bloodline - Our Whakapapa
He talks about our incarnation – that we have to honour this life - and it’s about cleaning up our bloodlines – our whakapapa – so as to shift our evolution into a higher realm of being. That we need to look at the possibilities of being mortal beings that have been housed in various vessels, temples, to incarnate on this planet – especially to attain a sense of ancient memory - that we have chosen to be here - to be now at this crossing point.
He challenges us to go deep and far beyond appearances - where there is a substance where we can divine a certain knowingness that we can bring forth to align the harmonies again.
We are at a time on earth today where we see the devolution of ‘old thought forms' of old ‘fossilised-beliefs’ that need to dissolve – to allow a new wave to come through.
He talks about we all have to go beneath our surface and cultivate the ‘heartland’ to discover the essence of who we are. We have to do our own inner work and purify our own internal dogma. Heal the ghosts and the wounded ancestors of the past. And it has to begin with our own individual self. The disciple of thyself. Checking out both the Yin and Yang of the self. To finally emerge – being self resurrected - having gone through our own crucible of healing what we have broken and now become free of.
Transmutation
Using the analogy of a caterpillar to a butterfly. Leaving that what is now not of use – behind – and what emerge as the crowning of our being is an illumined and transcendent radiant self - that flowers - where we realise that we are not the body and that there is something far greater.
You will have to listen to this interview attune to Hirini’s words of oratory.
Awakening to our planet that lives beneath our feet.
What we need to do is connect and heal what is under our feet.
Hirini talks about our planet and how consciousness is rising and that we are all linked … and slowly the veils are becoming transparent and we are seeing through the illusion.
People are questioning their relationships – their work - their looking at the economics of what is happening from a local to a global perspective – of leadership - of elections and they are asking fundamental questions … is this it? Have we reached this point!
And we are all saying No – this is not it - and we realise that we have to look to our own inner guidance to find answers. That no external thing outside us that is not in resonance with our higher ideals - us – will now have no more control over us as we now can start to solve the myriad challenges that have manifested – so to awaken us up to a far greater reality.
Personal Responsibility
This continues with personal responsibility – holding the line – no matter what – committing to hold the line is becoming an imperative of having fierce love and compassion – and hand in hand we can do it – as he makes a compelling call – karanga – to involve yourself in both the transformation of self, but to stand for our planet and all her biota . Standing in the circle of the rainbow and holding the line. Becoming a disciple of thyself - cleaning out the temple to spring forth anew and write a new narrative. Let your voice, your harmonics out - open your chest cavity let the fire the (ahi) within your chest cavity out –
Creating Sanctuaries
Hirini says his job is to create sanctuaries – a place to feel safe and he has committed to find ways to keep us safe.
Aotearoa - can be and needs to be - A Peace Nation
He talks when he was working for the New Zealand Governor General and the implementation of initiatives to upgrade protocols that include Maori into the military forces. He had the good fortune to have had the ear of both - including the Commander in Chief of the NZ Forces.
The interview covers the British Army regimental system of the military - it is a powerful system and a dominating one and it has colonised many places globally - in its own image and it now needs to change and become more inclusive of all the imagery of the world. And that the warriors need to not become Special Forces – but instead Spiritual Forces.
He talks of Tu the God of war and also of the God of Peace and in this interview his dear old unwell Father comes into the room where Hirini is talking on the phone for this interview and what takes place is very profound and very synchronistic – as Hirini masterfully shifts the energy. (listen to this interview) :)
Saying that we today do not know how to make peace – because the god of war is getting far more media play and news reports – and the God of Peace is being subverted by vested interests. The NZ Army now has the capacity to be used as ‘peacemakers’ and go into areas and disarm the combatants into having a common song – to share food - to be able to hear the dreams of the antagonist and then put the options forward – otherwise we move precariously towards a devastated planet or - an opportunity for children to grow and flourish.
The NZ Defence Forces have the ability to bring together opposing points of view and reconcile them.
New Paradigm Emerges.
It’s not about nations now – it is about who are the ones who are to be the custodians of the future - of all biota and our planet. Our planetary magnificence cannot continue to be turned into commodities – of pieces and units of production or continue to turn people into units of labour – all people are sentient beings and part of the fabric of life and this planet.
And its Hirini’s dream that Aotearoa - New Zealand becomes the seed bed for this!
That we do not dream about it but turn it into a practical viable force. Starting from NOW!
We do not have the luxury of time – There are World War scenarios in the airwaves that are being ramped up by unconscious thought and disconnection!
So we have to have a Peace Star that rises from this part of our planet – from beneath the Southern Cross and the Southern Hemisphere light of consciousness in action.
To awaken the dark minds and show them the way home - towards the light, so that even themselves – those of the darkness, actually become happy - because they are now able to find a way home! So that we can bring peace.
This is part of Hirini’s work here. All our work - as he says. We are all connected.
The Military Industrial Machine is a huge monetary machine that is like a blind juggernaut.
Oath of Allegiance
Soldiers need to ‘swear allegiance’ to a greater Queen - to the Grand Mother of all Mothers - to that of our planet – going beyond what they have sworn previously –
He says that “Making the person who makes an executive order to drop a bomb, go to the place where it is to be dropped and stand there and if they are willing to accept that nuclear bomb falling on then – then they need to pull the trigger on themselves.” Otherwise let’s look at far more elegant options.
The Grand Mothers of Peace
That the Grandmother women are better peace savers - how do we co create with humanity to build the home? – the family and community to be more connected and cohesive? HOME = Heaven on Mother Earth. H.O.M.E.
Hirini, emphatically asks you not to listen or read this posting and then just walk away and distract yourself with anything to keep you away from doing what is best for our planet and the children of the future.
The little heaven resides in us – it is not an external place up somewhere - elsewhere – stop looking without because what you are looking for is inside you. It’s in you.
Hirini then ramps it up as dynamic orator!
Turn yourself inside out to reveal the star that has been sleeping inside you! Anything less is not worthy. We must be that which we can be – and we have to be FEARLESS and shed our old mental constructs and beliefs that have been handed down to us that no longer serve us!
Debt Amnesty
NZ with 4.65 million people and private and governmental debt is half a trillion dollars = $100,000 of debt for every person in NZ. How can this be?
Let us rid this – just like fruit falling from the tree it breaks down and rots then new shoots will grow up through it all …
He mentions debt bondage and new babies being born and that their names shunt them into a realm of being commodities.
He says we need to rename ourselves – shift the frequency of who we are - break the pattern - shatter the old thoughtform and transform like the proverbial monarch body and discards that which no longer serves us.
When we change the name we change the story.
We are still shackled to the European systems and the Westminster type Government – outdated thought forms - old paradigm thinking.
A new look at Sovereignty – what role does the Queen play in our existence – on our currencies – her Head on every coin.
The money system has to be changed … get savvy and research where it is going the ‘TPPA Currency Declaration’.
Does this mean that the Reserve Bank Governor having now more power than Her Majesty? Just like the US Fed, having more power than any Branch of the US government?
So what does that mean for the Oaths? – All NZ Government Ministers of the Crown? – The Governor General whom have sworn allegiance? All military officers? The Police? The Justice Department - Judges & Magistrates?
There seems to be no one in authority standing up to protect our currency - at all – everywhere it is noticeably silent! The bankers control the game!
He calls for us to be very innovative and find ways to transform the system - from out of the bones of the old debts there will arise a new conscious currency. This too is Hirini’s dream to align with the fires of creation and adeptly touch the slip stream and it then it will magically do the work for us. So that the currency is part of Creation’s dream itself.
Guardians of the Now to Protect the Future
As ex army Hirini says in the meantime we need Guardians. We need elder-kaumatua and guardians – some that are facing-out and some that are facing-in that you have these sentinels in place for a space of safety so that nothing gets through, not even unwanted psychic energy so that new ideas are born into a new sanctuary - creating the new seedlings – the new dream - the new embryo – the placenta is there for the embryo to grow - the nut furnishes the seed when it ready to sprout. Or the yoke and albumen that feeds the germ cell of the egg that when timing prevails - eventually cracks the egg open.
We need to be able to grow into a planetary awareness yet be able to localise underneath our feet. Under all our feet - (you reader and you listener under your feet).
Then Hirini speaks so very softly and yin-like and this is for you to listen to - as his poetic finale – magnificent.
He sings a chant with two different stones accompanying him. Stones that he rubs together to remind us of the physical plane that we are embedded in - that we can also rise above.
He finishes with a delightful rendition of the Bell bird song
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Hirini Reedy
A powerful orator - warrior of great standing - A unique and very different Polynesian being. At ease within his skin - his subtle bodies - his field.
The new paradigm that we are designing, languaging and shaping is one of collaboration – working in greater unison with group dynamics, bringing community initiatives into being by drawing on innovation, inspiration and goodwill. We have been expectant of what is to come next in the unfoldment of a new way of life – a new way of being – one that is a total upgrade from the top down pyramid model that has been - patriarchal, extractive and exploitive that has ended up denaturing and dehumanising our world. This model is now falling away.
Unique Geographical Area Laurence & Zahra are domiciled in the Northern South Island in the area covering Nelson, Motueka, Takaka & Golden Bay.
This whole area is a wellspring of change agents devoted to pioneering ways that people can live, be, do, work and thrive in communities and other ways of life.
From the renown Riverside community the very well known conscientious objector movement of the 2nd World War – now going for over 70 years - who were prepared to stand up for their principles and go to prison - To the Tui and Rainbow communities both been existing for around 30 years and a number of others spread around the area too.
There are many different initiatives happening in many different areas.
In education in Golden Bay there is more self-directed learning and other initiatives asking children what they wish to engage in, what they want their schools to look like now and in the future – plus many school Principle’s are engaged in looking at a new vision of education that is very much aligned with the NZ Government’s 2025 educational vision of more community input that incorporates holistic systems.
Plus ‘I Design’ studio – teaching children from grass roots how to use electronics - designing – coding - creating IP - yet have a preference to ‘open source systems’ for free – and ‘make a space’ initiated by a retired engineer to create interest within the localised rural community. Which typifies the releasing of the potential of new technologies of decentralising and re-localising non colonising …
This includes production manufacturing and invention based on how do people re-think, redesign, remake reinvent the world - and you are not going to put a cap on it.
Local Currencies In Takaka, the Hands system of Greendollars/timebank- is coming up to its 30th anniversary – with 10% of the regional population as members.
“How about a non-dollar system”. It’s a LETS system a local currency system, paper vouchers and an electronic platforms.
In NZ - Living Economies.
That hundreds of lets system globally use Community Exchange System out of South Africa.
‘Localising Food Project’ - From the Tui community creating documentaries and educating people to show the issues as why it is important to return to locally produced foods; The loss of seed varieties especially seed that has specifically adapted to each bio region so that they can grow and are resilient to bugs etc so no use of pesticide etc – plus teaching about free food forests – throughout NZ.
So what is happening in the top of the South Island is a reflection of wider movement somewhat as an incubator of new ideas as well as community engagement with these inventions and ideals. Groups of people holding very high ideals and yet being pragmatic in their practice of them.
Practical Community Building Laurence and Zahra want to know how to make practical these revolutionary, visionary - ideals and integrate them into people’s lives. Do a web search and youtube search on localising food projects – there is a whole archive for film footage of best practices – to save heritage seeds, to create food forests and food gardens in schools.- Especially Robin McCurdy one of NZ’s much loved permaculture pioneers.
Raw milk dispensing by farmers at the farm gate - called Village Milk via a chilled dispenser as well as a glass bottle dispenser that you can buy – it’s practically organic milk – it just has no certification – but its organic by practice – this is being franchised out across the country though government regulators endeavour to get in the way due to health concerns – however it is a revolution in the making. Especially, assisting with a healthy gut etc. and also the products of eating from fresh milk.
This is big and it will only grow when people realise that the milk they are drinking may be from - powder. Those white plastic supermarket bottles with a dark interior – which do not state anywhere on the plastic bottle that the milk has been pasteurised or homogenised – check it out - very strange.
Meanwhile NZ continues to slumber ☺
Joel Salatin in the US is mentioned as a keen raw milk farmer and the challenges he has to be able to sell from the farm gate.
Joel Salatin's "I drink raw milk (sold illegally on the underground market)".
Pupu Springs a Natural Event A Taonga among Maori with some of the purest water on our planet – deeply sacred place there are many springs over this whole Golden Bay, Takaka, Motueka Nelson area and Laurence poetically describes this in that the people of this whole region who are drinkers of such blessed water are themselves ‘wellsprings’ of goodwill, creativity and community as like the Pupu springs - expressing pure powerful goodness that gushing to the surface spreads its transparent latency among the populace that is springing forth this possibility of conscious change and transformation.
What is going right for us in the world today Zahra & Laurence talk about the good things going right for us in the world today … and this is what the community game is all inclusive of. They both created and designed it as inherently we have the solutions within us as well as the many solutions already been worked on and worked out right around our planet –
(Best Listen to this to fully realise the potential of what this game presents).
And a ‘Maker World for Schools’ – Instead of saying in 40 year time the oceans will have no fish and then move on to page 47 and focus on some other subject – what is being said now – is ‘what can we do about it?’ and have a discussion and do projects around finding innovative ways to look what can be done to bring about the much needed change to save our fishing grounds? And make this an important, empowering learning. Because all the maths, the language the sciences can still be learned by applying them to the subject being studied and looked at – the subject being totally inclusive of other learning modalities.
Children learn better on experiential project based learning - especially projects that matter to them – that inspire them – engages them fully so they learn by embedding topical and deeply focused information that always works towards the best possible outcome.
If the schools focus on right lively hoods – why not focus on enterprise education – today and the social implications of working together?
If the science is correct – that the trajectory is so dire then why waste children’s education on intellectual subject matter totally unrelated to survival – when the prognosis of our common future is so heavily weighted against life as we know it today.
Revolutionize Education! This is where Zahra and Laurence want to see schools transformed – and with Mainstream education realising that 1/3 or teaching jobs will be redundant in 10 years time due to automation and robotics – this is a perfect time for education and learning curriculums to totally up their game - be reinvented and become holistic community wide – lifelong learning and equip children with the many 21st century learning methods and subject matter to focus on their basic growth as a human being living on a planet. This translates to an empowered inner resourced and savvy younger generation equipped to face the future head on.
Which maker world for schools inspires them into the new collaborative culture.
Self Funding Community Projects The next step is how do you self fund yourself. – Listen to the interview.
Other Subjects Covered Technology breaking out. - disruptive technologies
Self driving trucks – soon they will be everywhere as they have only a simple A to B journey – many drivers will be out of a job. Millions of jobs worldwide will see jobs cease to exist.
All rote or repetitive jobs within a decade will be going within a decade – by robots or a computer program – UBER - you know about the taxi revolution – they state that in 4 years self driven cars will be here and by 2025 fast decking numbers of petrol cars will be on the road.
Community to come together when so many jobs start disappearing.
Could there be a student revolution start soon that is totally global and could kids shun school until the adult population can deliver a plan for a viable, sustainable future solution orientation that factors the requirements for all?
Decentralisation to Empower People Are Governments obsolete – but just have not woken up to it?
Scary as the situation is – the only option is to reinvent how we can live – together etc transformation now is our only option
Thus Zahra & Laurence see the urgent need for a training program with all the new project management tools that are now available – because we NOW have the tools to go forward to shape the new paradigm.
And they both state that they have most of the keys so that you can virtually take them out of a box and put them to work.
We are on the cusp of creativity that we have never seen before – 3 d printing of objects, machines, houses, gadgets etc - clothes will be dialled up or downloaded from a computer to a sewing machine device and the technology is already here.
They see humanity on a cellular level as a neighbourhood and they want to see our planet healed and the neighbourhood at the same time.
It’s an evolution revolution and it’s happening around our planet and Laurence & Zahra are doing their part.
Bubbles of creativity and community are popping up everywhere around our planet - they are becoming more and more = spreading out until their sides touch and then the tipping point will be reached and they will all merge into the new paradigm.
Food is an important piece of the jigsaw – have control of what we are putting into our body temple. Then we have autonomy – we have choice, health and better strategies and outcomes.
Other Interview Topics Ethics and values will become an important issue.
What if Greenpeace had incorporated Greenpeace Inc and set up a solution oriented arm – to provide for everyone everyone. Because they would have tens of millions of potential investors, stakeholders buyers suppliers employees – the could have been huge by now and gaining more adherents because their products and services were second to none! And ecological sustainability would be embedded throughout the network/organisation.
Corporations are in a death spiral and they are not loved by people and big doesn’t function anymore.
Collaborative is the new model Even businesses are collaborating with their own competitors today. Co-opetition. e.g. restaurant row.
Force fed Neo liberal nonsense of dog eat dog has to come to an end - dogs don’t eat each other either.
Our world is based on diversity and symbiosis
Noo map http://noomap.info/co-creation/ - Barbara Marks Hubbard Co creation and how we are working together to create and shape our future.
Open Source Society in Wellington NZ.
We have the capacity to work together and collaborate on large scale issues at a species level.
One of the more profound and grounded futurists being:
Jeremy Rifkin - The 3rd Industrial Revolution.
The Venus Project The Venus Project New Zealand - facebook page.
The Venus Project Beyond Politics Poverty and War
An extremely informative and inspirational interview - going onto the front foot and pushing the envelope well out before them - this is one interview to download and listen.
Ted is a peace and community activist, Permaculture designer and teacher that loves to grow 'edible landscapes' - He is truly an ecological visionary. Ted is also ex-military (12 years in NZ Army Territorials) becoming a peace activist, especially campaigning against depleted uranium, where NZ troops were deployed. NZ Defence personnel today will be suffering health problems because of this. He has also completed a master’s paper in remote sensing (aerial and satellite photo mapping) to compliment his Degree in Geology and Geography.
Ted co-founded Transition Towns Nelson, but with the change of government from Labour to National, they lost their funding for employing a co-ordinator, and with the collapse of the price of oil, lost their impetus, and most members drifted away. The one thing that survives is the Permaculture in Nelson Group (PNG), that he still co-hosts.
Hosting the Nelson Peace Group during after hours - he also lead a book discussion group based on the books by Daniel Quinn: 'Ishmael', 'My Ishmael', 'The Story of B', 'Beyond Civilisation'. This started a process of questioning the foundations of who he was and what culture he was living in.
Permaculture His main focus now is Permaculture gardening/design during the week. He’s also studying part time as a student on National Certificate in Horticulture, level 4.
He is passionate about his gardening, but especially about building healthy living soil, such as biological farming and especially soil banking, including installing chook runs and small water harvesting projects.
Activism He also follows a lot of writings and speeches by Guy McPherson on abrupt climate change - by Derrick Jensen on bringing down "civilisation", by Carolyn Baker and Andrew Harvey on grief work, and Paul Levy on the Greatest disease of our times: Wetiko = a collective psychosis.
Ted’s pretty sure we have entered a period of great change. He calls it The Great Unravelling. He hopes we can get to The Great Turning idea from Joanna Macy. It’s very late in the game though, collapse of the biosphere is well underway. But he’s here for the natural communities and the rest of life, to make a difference with the time he has left, regardless of how short that is, or isn't!
In this interview, Ted expresses condolences to Bill Mollison who with David Holmgren initiated Permaculture, a system that encompasses not only agriculture, horticulture, architecture, and ecology, but also economic systems, land access strategies, and legal systems for businesses and communities. Bill Mollison, died this last week after initiating a revolution on how humans can survive with living on and with the land,
Ex Military As an ex territorial soldier – he states that after 12 years of service he realised that even in NZ we live under a government of occupation on behalf of empire, it is about dividing and ruling the communities, it’s about opening the country up to rape, pillage and extraction – and this also includes the so called NZ defence forces.
Is not so much about defence of NZ – but actually an offensive tool of Empire – and NZ armed personnel have been used all around the world and are still being used as offensive weapons for Empire. With that realisation and start of the Gulf War in Iraq - Ted resigned and became a peace activist.
Stating that the modern industrial, intelligence, military, complex is completely insane and out of control – that it has been for sometime, but has been getting a lot worse.
Ted says he is so grateful that he has been given the opportunity to wake up to this and to take a stand even when his voice trembles and his knees quiver and say ‘this is not what we are here for.’ As an ex-soldier he stands and states - we can do this differently.
Indigenous Knowing At a local level Ted has studied and found himself embedding himself in indigenous wisdom and realised that indigenous peoples are ‘an extension of their environment’ and that they are infused with the ecology that surround them. That, they are intimately connected with the seasons and know that the earth is their great sustainer. That the people of the first nations of North America took into the deepest of consideration the term ‘looking seven generations ahead’ to see that the environment could peacefully fulfil their needs whilst they revered and acknowledged the sacredness of life.
Though very, very late in the ‘game’, Ted says this is basically our only way forward, because to carry on the same habits that currently run our paradigm is in essence a race to the bottom.
There is a great unravelling happening all around us today as the biosphere can only absorb so much punishment before the tightly coupled ecological systems that so elegantly overlap and blend both up and down the vastness of the nature kingdom collapse.
Rural Maori that Ted knows have much respect from him, because they know how to live more sustainably and understand living within community most being connected by a marae, or meeting place. This will stem from their original belief systems.
Localising Training as a permaculture, gardener-designer and aware of the radical things happening globally – his focus is very neighbourhood, at grass roots and what can be done locally as a humble yet stirring permaculture gardener. He finds deep satisfaction and huge relief in getting his hands dirty in the garden on a daily basis. Mainly helping out with friends, colleagues and clients to put in an edible landscape to help with biodiversity and raise as much awareness as possible. Maintaining that ‘civilisation’ (a swear word in Ted’s vernacular) is insanely unsustainable – and we could do it differently.
Meanwhile the indigenous methods have been quietly waiting for us to waken up to, as they have a lot of wisdom that could make a difference.
Education & Learning One of the benefits of ‘being’ and doing gardening is that Ted, can download from the web, interviews on organic gardeners and biological farmers telling their story, some interviews even from GreenplanetFM.com - such as Graeme Sait and Dee Pigney that their knowing is so very inspiring. That he fires up and enthusiastically put his whole being into aligning with the garden and helping with the landscape. And on a lovely day it is a joy and a pleasure …
Ted talks about soil bacteria and that the micro-organisms that when our hands are in the soil they somehow communicate across our skin membrane and interact with the micro-organisms within us. And there is a sort of osmosis that occurs that affects our brain chemistry and we feel good.
This helps him deal with the grief of watching our ‘civilisation’ and biosphere unravelling – yet - this connection with the soil and his hands in the earth, helps him deal with the hurt and thus the soil heals him as well as grounds him. By finding joy in this whole process and he states - deep joy it’s so profound and this is what keeps him going – this is his juice - however, he does not know how long he can keep doing this? But he will continue until he is unable.
Challenges Surrounding Us We talk about the huge change that is coming right now.
The 6TH Mass Extinction and we are in it right now!
200 plus species a day going to extinction – day after day after day – these are our kin – our cousins and we ignore this at great peril. And we do not know which of them at some stage in the radical interdependent interconnectedness of everything- is going to pull apart the web of life and impact us even more … So Ted does what he does - for them – doing his best for all the biota that live within our biosphere.
Radical Viewpoints? Asked by numerous people why he does not stand for local government – Ted states that if he did – it would only be for a platform – to rant. That he would state - from Derick Jensen’s book ‘End Game’ –‘that the needs of the natural community come before the needs of the economic system.”
So he is not about to be enter politics where he is up against the continuation of the same economic growth system based on money and export earnings, more housing sub-divisions and we will get more prosperous blah, blah etc. What he is - is an advocate for de-growth and smart decline. He is also an exponent for ‘growth of relationships’ – with each other and growth of relationships with everything within the ‘living community.’
He is for growth of recognising that we need to preserve, regenerate, revive and protect the natural environment – because without it we don’t have an economy!
Gift economy - Sharing Having a garden or chickens you can gift your produce to friends and people – it’s a wonderful feeling to do, because you have put so much love and good vibes into growing lovely organic splendour. Ted is an urban chook farmer which he feeds fresh greens to like puha and dandelion and they go crazy over wanting to eat it – same for silver beet and spinach. Listen to this talk by Ted - about his chickens and the win, win, win situations he is involved in.
Globally much more food comes from small farmers. He mentions Vandana Shiva – who in many ways speaks for small farmers on many issues, especially the perils of GE & GMO’s and mentions that Agri business is not only very new but it is not as productive as small farmers globally.
Starting Anew and Being More Heart Centred.
Having academic degrees did not satisfy him s he has switched course and gone off on a different direction .
“A revolution can start in a garden” says Bill Mollison - “and can be disguised as gardening” – so by including local food sovereignty – this is quite revolutionary – but it can’t stop there it has to be a lot more revolutionary – Listen to this interview to Teds response to being engaged in sedition☺
He finds it a fascinating time to be alive – so much in flux With barter, green dollars, times banks – and the GIFT economy.
Transition Neighborhoods seem to be the way forward – cells communicating with cells and clusters of cells …
Communion With Nature Are Humans biophobic? Why? We we need instead to be biophiliac’s, floating in biophilia –the love of nature – the joy of nature - the joy of nature with us and around us. We are an integrated part of the entire natural community. That natural community is not what we control – that natural community is our natural kin – is our family … listen for more to Ted on this interview.
Most indigenous peoples are unable to understand why it is taking us so long to work out that we are not separated from nature … they shrug their shoulders in disbelief.
Ted reckons that we will return to a light ecological foot print when our present economic system ‘drops out’ and by us then returning to total immersion in ecological communion with the land we can/may be able to draw from the earth for all our needs.
Separation and Disconnection & Why? He ventures the statement that we are actually in a dark ages and that at present humanity is neck deep in a malaise of greed, avarice, consumption and competition. A predicament that the North America First Nation Peoples say - that we are afflicted by Wetico – ‘the disease of the civilised ones’ – better known in some circles as being taken over by a mind parasite – and our urgent need and task is to face this - and climb out of this pit.
Ted calls it “climb-out-ology” - time to climb out to a light ecological footprint.
To also embraces smart decline and de-growth rebuilding our local land bases – a re-naturing of areas of areas.
Time is of the Essence And it is very, very late in the game! We may not pull it off – so be it - but he will continue unabated to his last breath.
Maori Understanding of Nature.
He is doing a lot for all those creatures and kin who are going extinct every day, by working with the ecology and talking to people of his concerns.
Ted, encourages us to go and listen to local Maori – and their communities as they are less individualistic and more community players. They having a reverence of nature and invoke their gods when cutting a tree down or going fishing.
What To Do? Plan A – continuance is unsustainable
Plan B - Big Green Party vision - renewable energy – smart cars etc – Ted doesn’t believe it will succeed – being not sustainable. Still based on industrialism and the extractive economy
Plan C - Energy descent and earth stewardship – David Holmgren said that this was the way – but has canned it recently and now says we are going to do plan A (brown tech) until we can’t and then when it crashes we immediately go to .
Plan D - Which is ‘lifeboat communities.’
Ted feel that this is closer to the truth.
NZ is a potential lifeboat community – hence our influx of migrant population, from nearly every country including a vast number of races.
Our economy according to the spin of the National Government is a ‘rock star economy’ however Ted’s says it’s unsustainably on the rocks. As it is immigration that is artificially keeping NZ‘s balance of payments in the black and it’s take their money to pay for housing and infrastructure.
There are many environmental communities still going across the country and they are surviving – Ted posits the idea of a ‘network of resistance’ – that their love of community and nature brings them together.
There are wonderful people living out on the land across the whole country who love their land and their animals and have been doing wonderful work helping to preserve, protect, regenerate and defend it.
The biggest difference between those in the world today says Derek Jensen is ‘those that do something and those who do nothing’ - Find what you like to do your passion – what you love that supports local community and land base and go and do it – because that is the only future that Ted can see.
Plan C is what Ted thinks is best as the political process unravels.
We have to work in community – we cannot do it by oneself – in todays world self sufficiency and self reliance is virtually impossible - it is to hard and lonely Talk to any remnant indigenous peoples who have lived for thousands of years and they will say - “how long has it taken you to work that out?”
Indigenous peoples say that they do everything with the village as their prime consideration - also the tribe – it’s about the community about the neighbourhood- it has always been ‘the collective’ – this is why they have been this sustainable for this long.
Present Day 21st Century Culture In our modern culture which is ‘hyper individuated’ - is narcissistic and is about ‘look at me, look at me, look at me’ … whose got the best toys? Whose got the biggest toys?Whose got the most toys? It’s gone insane - especially when we bother to look up and look around we see we are pulling the whole biosphere down, by pulling the rug out from under it by all - by our unconscious actions of material extraction and consumption.
Now ask the question. Where is your water coming from – where is your food coming from?
The message from the Hopi Elders the 11th hour – we are in it and it is closing on 12 o’clock – It’s come together time, know your community, know your garden. Hopi Prophecy.
Ted is hopeful of the Joanna Macy concept of ‘the great turning’ is going to come – but we cannot have ‘a great turning’ until we have done an unravelling says Ted - in this way of living – this incredible toxic hubris that keeps us trapped into thinking that this is the way humans are supposed to live.
And it is killing us (look at the cancers stats) it’s killing the community and it’s killing our planet at a rate never seen before. So the need to do it differently or we won’t be here.
In 1980 our planet population was 4 billion today it is 7.5 billion – we are locked into a growth fetish.
Hitting limits to growth.
Listen to Ted by downloading.
The change of the ages is happening right here right now!
Global Conflict & War As an ex military man the interview: Covers the Middle East – Syria, Ukraine & Russia and the proxy wars going on …
Plus NZ’s involvement with the Waihopai ‘Five Eyes’ spy base and satellite download and upload system - we are now a target - and most probably a target of a Russian Intercontinental ballistic missile that has an enormous payload and capacity to obliterate a vast area – not far at all from where Ted lives in Nelson and everyday he lives in a state of grace.
How can we evolve the organism that is ‘the human race’ to break out of the paradigm that we have made a habit of staying in – covering the 100th monkey phenomenon as a metaphor of shaping our evolution on a ‘collective and very rapid scale.’
We humans are it – time has basically run out …
Are you a Shambhala warrior that Joanna Macy talks about – there will be4come a time of great darkness that will then bring forth the emergence from all nations the Rainbow Warriors the Shamballah warriors – and their 2 weapons are … insight and the radical interconnectedness and interdependence of everything – and compassion
Time to talk truth to power to speak from the heart and the soul
That the indigenous people say today to we civilised people today is for us to decolonise our hearts and minds and look around and see that we can do this differently. This is what drives Ted.
This interview continues to cover:
Gaia that our planet is a super organism that we can align with and tune into.
Seeing the sacred in nature.
To all our relations.
Woodwide web – Tree roots connecting with many other trees.
James Camerons Movie Avatar - where on the moon Pandora all the biota can connect into a greater reality - animals, trees and the indigenous Na’vi.
This connection allows a Na'vi to sense the energetic and kinetic signals broadcast by creatures, plants and even the moon itself.
Connection – the dance of life and with nature – being in a state of love and joy and whenever we can - having gratitude and being thankful for nature and that which supports us. This is what Ted exemplifies and surrenders into.
A exceptionally stimulating interview.
In this interview Dr Guy Hatchard addresses this and explains how plants animals and humans have evolved together and how our gut is made to digest natural products better than synthetic ones. He is an absolute mine of information around this, the Gaia principle and quantum physics. Dr Guy Hatchard was formerly the Natural Health Products director at Genetic ID, a global food testing company. He now runs the Natural Food Commission to inform the public about the benefits of traditional natural medicine and the dangers of food regulation. Working with industry and natural health practitioners, he has organised a campaign to oppose the Natural Health Products Bill which is in the queue for its final reading in parliament.
Alliance against this BillAn alliance of Natural Products companies, doctors, and affected individuals are mounting a legal challenge to the provisions of the Natural Health Products bill.
The government is planning to present the Natural Health Products Bill for its final reading shortly with provisions that resemble the original bill, the Theraputic Goods Act, which was abandoned in the face of huge public opposition. The Ministry of Health has already begun to implement the bill’s anticipated provisions. Analysis of the latest version of the bill released on 15th March shows it will greatly disadvantage traditional medicine affecting the health care choices of tens of thousands of NZers. However as opposition to this bill is mounting, government has pushed it down on the order paper in parliament. This is an opportunity to provide more opposition, which as you listen to the interview and read below, you will see is most necessary!
A Draconian Law
In 2011, the Government and the Green Party promised a law that would encourage the use of Natural Health Products alongside conventional medicine as a precursor to an integrated, science-based approach to health. Instead the law has emerged from the corridors of power as a draconian and restrictive approach which is very different from the integrative approach to medicine which is beginning to flourish overseas.
1) The Bill has adopted a list of 5500 controlled substances from Australia and Canada which means that its provisions are similar to the Trans Tasman Therapeutic Products Agreement proposed in 2006 which was later abandoned after being roundly rejected by the NZ public.
2) Because the permitted natural ingredient list contains approximately 3000 chemicals and synthetics in addition to herbs; it will allow products labelled as natural to contain synthetic additives thereby debasing the meaning of the word natural, which will confuse and disadvantage the public.
3) It enshrines in law the idea that serious illness cannot be benefited by Natural Health Products despite the growing scientific evidence published around the world that nutrition and traditional medicines can have a huge beneficial impact on cancers, heart disease, digestive and respiratory illness, and other chronic illness.
4) It restricts free speech about the health benefits of food and introduces chilling penalties of up to $250,000 for those who communicate the benefits of natural products without first obtaining Government permission.
5) It places pharmaceutical regulators with no interest or expertise in natural health in charge of our food and health choices. These same people will adjudicate on traditional Ayurvedic, Chinese, Maori, and herbal systems of medicines. This is contrary to assurances given by the Hon. Jonathan Coleman to Parliament that Medsafe would not administer the Bill and product suppliers would be able to self-certify compliance.
6) The Government has tried to justify the Bill by saying that it will ensure the safety of the public, but no evidence of risk has been presented. It fact evidence shows it is far more dangerous to go out to eat in a restaurant or consume a bowl of salad at home than it is to take a Natural Health Product. Therefore there is no justification for introducing pharmaceutical style regulations.
7) It is a Henry VIII Bill, containing enabling and regulatory provisions which allow the Ministry of Health to take decisions for any reasons it believes to be relevant. This is poorly written legislation which is open to abuse, misunderstanding and litigation.
8) It contains a clause which prevents unfairly treated individuals and firms from asking a court of law to uphold the safeguards contained in the Bill. The only redress available is to ask the Authority to reconsider its decisions. This will frustrate justice and enable the Authority to ignore matters of fact.
9) Because there has been no credible attempt to rationalise the provisions of the Natural Health Products Bill with the Medicines Act 1981 and the Food Bill, it contains a hidden mechanism to allow pharmaceutical companies to gain effective patents over health giving traditional herbs which has already been exploited in Australia and will now be available here.
10) It wastes money and resources on restricting the natural health choices of the public, while serious and growing problems such as childhood obesity, hypertension, ADHD, and anxiety, which are largely caused or complicated by poor diet and nutrition, are almost completely ignored.
11) It places an additional huge cost on the natural health products industry through onerous regulations and charges which will increase the cost of products and likely ensure small and even medium sized companies have to go out of business as happened in Australia where dozens of firms have been forced to close their doors and traditional medicine suppliers have all but disappeared.
12) It allows unhealthy foods and products including tobacco, sugary drinks, and alcohol to continue to be sold, while restricting healthy choices. How irresponsible is this, and what a complete waste of resources?
Guy has made videos explaining his concerns, including this one, on the new global restrictions on Natural Health products.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q5AIzMyMDM&feature=youtu.be
This interview is sponsored by The Awareness Party. www.theawarenessparty.com
Jodie grew up to lose both parents due to cancer and she herself, developed hyperthyroidism and had to take medication that left her lacking in energy.
She didn’t really get her brain and life back until when she saw a herbalist – then her mind started to clear and she started looking at nutrition – which lead to cleaning up her diet.
It was a slow process because she was still fatigued and tired with two young children though getting better all the time. Having a Degree in Agribusiness she has had a keen interest in food production. But realised that industrial factory farming was denaturing food.
That wheat may have two fungicide treatments and insecticide treatments, plus it will have a coating before it sprouts into a plant (see neonicotinoids) http://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/karen-wealleans-pat-baskett-dangers-of-neonicotinoids?A=SearchResult&SearchID=3175113&ObjectID=12741231&ObjectType=35 but there is no scientific research on all of this.
Supermarket foods today are problematic as there are so many ‘snack bargains’ available and in many ways we are reluctant or unable to address this addictive behaviour. Mainstream media is basically failing in addressing this due to vested interests and advertising revenue from the ‘food’ industry. Especially in relation to very recent new chemicals being introduced into food, since most of these chemicals were not around 20 years ago and thus we were not eating them way back then.
Michael Moore the documentary maker in the US has put on record how big food researchers, explore ‘crave-ability’ and scan people’s brains to see the dopamine spurt when exposed to certain food, - how it sounds and tastes - as scientists want to know what is going on at deeper levels within our brain using hard science.
The addiction’s are more than sugar, they are carbohydrates – wheat, potatoes and salt in that mix – and we are not addressing the addictive nature of these foods. Because to the snack food industry - with addictive foods, you will always get a repeat purchase.
The other fact of the matter is - that Main Stream Media ‘MSM’ in many cases state that chronic illness that’s in the world today - has a genetic factor – when it could actually be up to 85% plus related to diet and exposures and we know that most exposures comes in through the mouth.
That wheat may have two fungicide treatments and insecticide treatments, plus it will have a coating before it sprouts into a plant (see neonicotinoids) but there is no scientific research on all of this.
Plus, there are chemicals in bread to keep it as fresh as possible. Including the possibility of soy and corn products – as seen on a great amount of supermarket food packaging and many of these may have been derived from GMO sources as well.
Most mum’s will possibly only read one article every few years to warn them of what is in food – but it usually happens only when a child becomes ill, or the parents go down with an ailment, will they then start to look at what they are eating – meanwhile their life becomes very stressful and they suffer a drop in energy – losing momentum for vibrant living and well being.
We need an active and diverse media in NZ but regrettably this it is not happening. That we have to wake up to the fact that we do not have ‘conscious’ media in NZ - especially covering the multiple interrelationships around products and their safety.
Governments are supposedly to be trusted, however we are rapidly noticing that they are not taking the electorate into consideration when once they did. There are fiduciary obligations that should not be breached.
The NZEPA - Environmental Protection Authority
is poorly funded (just like in the USA where it is deliberately underfunded) That the NZ EPA, just can not keep up with the onslaught of chemicals and new products and flora and fauna entering NZ that they just can not research and check out prior to being allowed into our environment or market place.
Plus, with trade and the need for the economic wheels to keep turning – there has become a slow compromise of standards, as overworked EPA can not keep up with their responsibilities and activity that is continuously increasing. This is because the guidelines - the protocols that the scientists have to asses, in this case pesticides are both outdated and have an exceptionally narrow focus.
This has resulted in that ‘we’ are not engaging in the in-depth studies of insecticides, pesticides and fungicides. They are NOT LOOKING at the full formulation. Most farmers know that the full formulation is more toxic. None of these full formulations when sprayed on a crop, are looked at from a combined formulation. They are all only looked at separately. This means that when you mix all the effects of herbicides, insecticides and fungicides together - the accumulative effect of all three - have a knock on effect that has not been researched or studied.
So we have an underfunded Government scientific institution given a contract with very limited scope that they ‘only stay within the parameters of what they have been given to study.’ They are not told to look outside these areas – so they are not really looking out for the public good, for in many ways the perception is they are just ticking the boxes.
Therefore we have children today being exposed to a huge onslaught of chemicals (Remember the slogan Clean Green NZ) – plus the sugar load – no wonder our children are become sicker at a younger age due to this toxic overload - especially from wheat products. So though we seem to live longer (with more drugs to keep us alive) we are having more young becoming ill as a result to all these chemical exposures.
Note, that the biotech corporations give the Government their specs and data and there are definitely limitations with the data offered, solely because they want to get their product onto the market as soon as possible and they are not always forthcoming with data that could compromise them.
Doctors are not able to speak out as ‘big Pharma’ is looking over their every move and doctors risk losing their license if they become critical of the chemicals that are persuasive in the food chain. As a result doctors in NZ are 15 years behind with what is truly going on. They are doing their best, but without Government sanctioning of top quality, honest food education, their task in many ways is like being the ambulance at the bottom of the cliff.
There is a need for honest Government talking about clean food – no junk food advertising – that we are today so far from a responsible Government.
The 2016 NZ Government Health Strategy came out recently but it was more like a communication strategy talking about prevention but they never mentioned what prevention was - they never talked about clean food or the tsunami of sugar addiction.
This interview mentions the challenges to communicate to NZers, especially mothers about ‘good practice’ and safe eating and it is a huge task - as most magazines sell the sizzle - the hype of fancy dishes looking and smelling tempting and delicious. Not their health contents.
Mothers are endeavoring to share and use FaceBook to communicate their needs and it is not helping parents fast enough to find the answers because they are often looking in the wrong place - when the game is to simply clean up your eating act and take in more organic produce that has never been sprayed or been fed chemicals. MSM – just won’t go there. (Just like in the USA)
That Glyphosate is sprayed now on our pastures and it’s on our food crops, on our pathways, it’s in our drains, along our roadsides, around our parks and no Council is testing for ‘Roundup’s - glyphosate in the groundwater – ‘none’ nor are they looking for it in our drains, creeks and river systems – WHY?
Even Monsanto’s studies in Europe have found it in Europe’s groundwater and river systems.
Recently 41 Green MP’s from 14 countries in the European Union were tested for Glyphosate in their urine and all 41 averaged 4 times the allowable amount for the EU and the Green MPs would eat and drink more organic food than the average European, by far.
We are just not looking at the fungicides and insecticides and the run-off from the land into the drains, creeks and rivers – So the question being asked is - where is the hard science testing for all these chemicals and the cumulative effects of them?
Most farmers are not told of the hidden dangers especially of the cumulative effect. Only when insects, bird and marine life become affected will we see that this matches the ill health that children are starting to be impacted by.
There is hidden secret science that is being kept from us because MSM are basically in the hands of big business.
Is Glyphosate in NZ milk products? Evidently no one in NZ is using the ‘latest leading edge technology’ to test for glyphosate in milk that has passed through the mammalian system.
See Monica Kruger – European study http://www.gmoevidence.com/dr-kruger-glyphosate-is-toxic-to-dairy-cows/
Basically science and the systems that the NZ Government have set up are failing people in NZ, and by default overseas buyers of our produce?
Note that Glyphosate can be sprayed on wheat crops – so do some research yourself.
As well as oil seeds – canola and your vegetable oils like soy used in convenience foods most are GMO’s and have been sprayed with Roundup.
Baby formulas and infant formulas, become very problematic when there is no robust testing.
In the NZ dairy industry – we need transparent protocols because Glyphosate is being used on NZ pastures before stock is grazed on it. NZ farmers are being TOLD that it is SAFE – so when one day the newsflashes on at 6PM screaming out that overseas somewhere - tests have found glyphosate in the milk – we can then look to Monsanto’s scientists for accountability.
This could be impacting animal health, sperm and egg levels causing deformities – we have not seen the tests.
Bread – what is it doing to us and our children?
Because of chemicals in our food we can not always see what’s actually happening in our food. Because anti fungicides keep the fungus at bay, same as preservatives in meat - stop it from spoiling early. We have to become far more aware.
Safer regulation makes for safer food – the EU has good regulation
ERPA in NZ is much closer to trade based interests than to Mothers …
Europe has recently made a recommendation in regard to Roundup and Glyphosate based herbicides that it should not be sprayed on food crops anymore and the major adjuvants or ingredients in the formulation – called POEA – should be taken out of Roundup and it should never be used around parks and where children congregate or play.
These recommendations are light years ahead of the NZ EPA and country wide regulations.
Julia Rutledge professor http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/profiles/staff/people/julia_rucklidge.shtmlnzh
How do we get the message out?
Talk with your friends over a cup of tea and coffee, at cafes, at school events, at sports in weekends.
Use FB appropriately plus link to good alternative media and be adroit - put your needs out among your friends.
Web search – put blog in front and after a few pages of commercial posts you get to some very interesting info
Listen to Ted talks or other programs – even GPFM.
When it comes to children eating industrial farmed food we are at present in a global emergency.
It is that developing babies, to infants, to children all the way up through their teens whose health is in balance. This is the critical time in the formation of all of their organs and growing body.
For adults it is different we are in essence fully formed so it is not as critical when compared to growing children.
So the imperative is to get organised to make sure we have a healthy future for all children and grandchildren.
www.rite-demands.org
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2016/05/03/glyphosate-food.aspx
https://www.amazon.com/How-Not-Die-Discover-Scientifically/dp/1250066115
In this interview, Roger Fowler, leader of two Kiwi humanitarian convoys to Gaza, encourages us to stand for peace and justice for the Palestinians.
The issue of Israel and Palestine is the world’s largest festering sore that is affecting other countries and by implication - wars. Placing displaced people where other people were already living is a massive international failure, and one that must never be repeated.
The result of this failure is shown in the three Israeli military operations over six years, in addition to nine years of economic blockade, that have ravaged the already debilitated infrastructure of Gaza.
The United Nations has said that the Gaza Strip could become unlivable by 2020 without critical access to reconstruction and humanitarian supplies. The U.N. issued similar warnings four years ago, even before the 50-day war, which left more than 2,200 Palestinians dead and countless others injured or wounded, most of them civilians.
Among many things, the report cited the degradation of basic water, energy, sanitation and education facilities and the region’s intense overcrowding as factors that may render the enclave uninhabitable by 2020.
Donor fatigue has left Gaza’s reconstruction at a standstill, and there is no political solution on the horizon. After three wars in the tiny strip, one of the few certainties in Gaza is another war within a few years.
The current suffering of the people of Gaza is almost unimaginable.
Nearly 80 percent of Gaza’s approximately 1.8 million people rely on aid agencies for daily sustenance. Unemployment is at 40 percent, more than double the level 15 years ago. Before the most recent war, nearly 60 percent of the population was food insecure, 95 percent of Gaza’s water is unfit for drinking and electricity is available for only a few hours a day.
The most recent military operation compounded already dire socioeconomic conditions and accelerated de-development in the occupied Palestinian territory, a process by which development is not merely hindered but reversed.
Divided in two parts, the State of Palestine is not an independent country and therefore the people have no voice in United Nations and do not have full sovereignty and control over their own territory.
Roger Fowler and Kia Ora Gaza have organised the following projects:
Roger Fowler went to Gaza on each of these occasions and in the interview he speaks about his Gaza experience, the occupied territories, and about his activism.
Roger organised the NZ Conference on Palestine 2013 and returned to Gaza on a fact-finding mission last November 2016,
Veteran activist & community organizer, Roger Fowler, played a prominent role in building the local protest movement against the war on Vietnam and Apartheid in the late 1960s & 70s. He was manager of Auckland’s Resistance Bookshop and coordinator of the inner-city People’s Union community organization throughout the 1970s, an active supporter of the protest occupation at Bastion Point, and union delegate in the car assembly industry. Roger is director of the Mangere East Community Centre, and organizer of Kia Ora Gaza which has sponsored NZ involvement in several international solidarity convoys to break Israel’s inhumane siege of Gaza. Roger was awarded a QSM Queens Service Medal in 1999.
Kia Ora Gaza is part of the NZ Palestine Solidarity Network which links up all the pro-Palestine groups throughout NZ. It was established from a series of public meetings to organise Kiwi participation in international efforts to end the siege of Gaza. This followed the Israeli commando raid on the ship the Mavi Mamara, which led the peace flotilla in 2010 which resulted in the deaths of 10 civilian peace activists.
Kia Ora Gaza is currently facilitating the participation of Green Party MP Marama Davidson on the Women’s Boat to Gaza peace flotilla that will leave Italy later this month. (September 2016)
You can DONATE to this and other fundraising for Palestine on the web site:
Kia Ora Gaza: kiaoragaza.net
This interview was sponsored by The Awareness Party.
Knowing the matriarch, the queen bee is the sexual organ of the hive - it is she who lays the foundation for the whole colony - but there are many challenges in a rapidly changing world of the varroa mite and colony collapse. That commercial operations use insecticides to control the varroa disease are likely to cause problems because queens do not survive as long today as in pre-varroa times.
Today, nearly every element within the biosphere,is under pressure and yet honey, is still seen as an elixir especially recently, as NZ manuka honey becomes a premium for its antibacterial qualities especially with the increase of dis-ease and other ailments - so how is it possible to be a pure honey advocate and producer in our world today?
Nine years ago Richard took time off working as an interior designer to take care of his kids instead - and became a hobby bee keeper that has grown into a robust little organic business.
Starting from 2 hives to 4 to 8 now he has 120 hives and a thriving little business. Living on Waiheke Island 7 kilometres off the NZ coast - there are many larger (land) sections with numerous fruit trees, plums, apples and citrus and quite well established too - as well as differing flower gardens including bottle brush, so there is a lot of feed for bees - plus manuka trees - as there has been more reforestation on the island. It was a little over a hundred years ago the island was basically denuded as they used the wood for charcoal in Auckland 17 kilometres by boat across from Waiheke. Native kanuka is now becoming predominant - though there are cabbage trees and flax as well. With very little agricultural and horticultural pressures there are more vineyards, with most of them running organic systems. Other than the use of a little fungicide, which Richard acknowledged is not particularly good for bees, they are not using insecticides that directly affect bees.
Glyphosate is still a challenge though most of the vineyards will not use it and there is not much of it used on Waiheke Island, in a commercial sense.
Bee’s being a matriarchal society the Queen may be the leader, but is actually the egg layer and genetic carrier for the hive as the bees seem to ‘just know' what they need to do - as in anarchy - being a very complex society - no real hierarchy - so the workers can manipulate the Queen as to what they want or ‘think' needs to be done and the Queen can do the same as well. He says it is such a complex society - the more you learn - the more you realise you have yet to learn.
Bees are quite complex - that they can ‘think’ for themselves even when they are connected to a hive mind. That the Bee is an esoteric symbol - especially from ancient Egypt, where they were readily acknowledged.
Nectar for the bees is their carbohydrate and for the flower that is the payment to the bee - for the bee being the sexual organ of the flower.
Honey that is made from nectar when capped off can be stored indefinitely.
Bee researchers overseas are looking at the individual honey properties from differing flowers, some have found anti inflammatory properties which is good for people in their older age.
The strain of varroa mite found in New Zealand in April 2000 was the worst strain of this pest - called Varroa Destructor and is here in NZ to stay. It easily infests hives by jumping from bee to bee within the hive or from flower to bee as bees forage for their food. Prior to that NZ was essentially an organic honey paradise.
Some bees are becoming immune to the chemicals that have been used. Richard listened to Randy Oliver in the USA and decide to go organic and is still successfully doing so. Randy has his own bees which he studies very intently and his relationship with them brings about a deeper intuitive knowing.
http://scientificbeekeeping.com
NZ has the highest number of bees ever at present and growing every year. But, the big producers use synthetic chemicals, which has its drawbacks.
It is very difficult to handle large quantities of hives organically as the extra precautions and checking all the time, is time consuming.
Colony collapse here in NZ has been nowhere as disastrous as it is in the Northern hemisphere. The bee is in some ways the canary in the ecological coal mine.
Bees in the US are a factory system with around 2.74 million colonies and it is huge for almonds in California. This is where they need a million hives to just pollinate the almond flowers. Bees are fed sugar water as well which equals a mono culture - thus shortcuts are taken everywhere and bees may get only one particular pollen, so it can have an effect that stops them becoming robust.
Pollen is what the bees eat and if there is only one flower such as the almond flower - there are problems - because they need a mixed diet.
The thrust of the interview then turns to industrial agriculture and factory farming.
Today’s industrial agriculture is the extractive model that is based on how much profit can be made and we are pushing it to the limits of what the biosphere can provide. We are needing to make some critical decisions as to what is going to be for us to remain as healthy human beings as well as retaining a sustainable environment that will serve future generations and Richard sees that this must apply across the board in all agricultural and horticultural businesses. He says that it is a ‘common sense thing’ and we have to get back to factoring our children into our common future.
Richard also says we have to question why corporations exist and what is their purpose? We have to look at them again, as we have set the whole game up with the wrong goal in mind - it can not be all based on the profit motive or increasing your share portfolio - we need to increase the value of our planet and the biosphere and we are finding this out now.
Manuka honey is big in NZ, but it has become too expensive for the average New Zealander to buy. One of the reasons is that ‘big bee businesses are paying farmers living close to manuka and bush, large amounts of money like $200 a hive for possibly 8 - 10 weeks of honey to place their bees close up, when flowering - driving up the price.
About his bees.
Most bees are Italian and we are not allowed to import any stock into NZ now. We do have Carniolan bees in NZ they are a darker bee plus a little black bee that the early NZ settlers brought with them to NZ - these a somewhat feral - but can be found in hives on Great Barrier Island.
NZ exports 35 tonnes of live bees out of the country. That is bees only, their body weight itself, nothing else - for example have a bee alight on your hand that is how heavy one bee is. Then extrapolate what 35 tonnes of these critters are worth in volume. Mostly exported to the USA and Canada as they cannot produce enough of their own up there. All those live bees are exported with a queen.
When the season finishes in NZ and the flowers stop producing - bees from hives are then harvested and a new queen introduced and they are flown up to the Northern hemisphere where that can start all over again as spring emerges - such is the way the industry has become global.
Worker bees may live 40 to 45 days, depending on how much flying they have to do, but in winter they will stay close to the hive, keeping it warm and can live for a couple of months - easily - eating honey and vibrating warmth keeping the little amount of brood around the Queen in the hive alive .
Bees are seen as not as healthy today as previously, as they eat lots of white sugar in winter - when for thousands of years they stored honey which they ate over winter.
A good organic honey apiarist will leave them more honey in the hive so they don’t have to give them sugar. Agrisea here in NZ http://www.agrisea.co.nz - make a sea weed product that can be added to the sugar water to give the bees minerals etc.
In China many trees are hand pollinated due to the atmospheric pollution and smog making it too difficult for bee or even other flying insects to live or survive.
NZ must down scale from the full on industrial factory system - by doing so we may be able to have a viable localised industry.
Compliance costs are huge in NZ pushing people to become bigger businesses - as they are the only ones who can afford the exorbitant compliance fees - so it is totally weighted against the small producer - as there is no government support - especially to contribute to smaller ‘craft; industries.
Thoughts
Richard states, people want the small craft industries that have their own essence and flavour - they don’t want the big homogenous industrial giant. They want to know the guy and even talk with them, who made their cheese, their wine or their honey or the chair you sit in - people don’t mind paying the extra - when they know who and how it was made …they want that human connection … we need to tell Government that we don’t need farms with 2,000 to 3,000 dairy cows, that we can have a farm of 200 to 300 cows and make a very good living - especially that in NZ organic dairy farmers are getting $9.30 per kilo weight of fat compared to the poor return of $5 that conventional chemical farmers are getting. So by supporting the smaller guys to make a better product that is more beneficial to health and takes care of the ecology is being seen as a wise decision.
Biological agriculture and increasing bacterial levels in the soil is bringing huge results - getting rid of the synthetic chemicals that we have been pumping onto the land.
The Corporate model - all it does is pay the investors and the investors have virtual zero to do with the running of the corporation and they have no responsibility and all they care about is the bottom line and how much that can be extracted out of the environment each year.
Richard says, set some goals and do some research, turn off TV and instead check and see where you milk comes from - or where your grapes get sprayed … or how many times your veggies are sprayed.
Grow your own food - or go to a farmers market. Check your seeds that you buy from the local plant shop - ask what coatings they have on their seed - make sure that they are not covered in neonicotinoids - which are extremely dangerous and need to be taken out of the commercial realm. That we need to be proactive as it is important to know what chemicals are on what and one individual can do that - it just means that we make the effort - as many other people can benefit from your initiative and Richard says that if we have a society doing that - then other good things can happen.
He re emphasises that colony collapse is a result of a whole cocktail of chemicals from many various sources all coming together to cause the collapse - the same is with neonicotinoids - they are all contributors to causing increasing problems within the environment.
Richard questions how did the earth system evolve and create healthy living ecological systems and biota that have made it over a hundred million years? That it has been basically healthy for us up until this last century.
When we embrace more holistic and natural systems this will enhance our future for children of today and tomorrow - without the use of all these chemicals.
He mentions that the TPPA, the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement, is also not in the best interests for the human race, being corporate centred.
http://www.waihekehoney.co.nz Richards Own Website
http://scientificbeekeeping.com Randy Oliver
http://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/karen-wealleans-pat-baskett-dangers-of-neonicotinoids
In finishing I wish to mention that I have interviewed four of the Evatt Family, each with an important viewpoint that relate at a holistic, community, involvement - level.
There is father Christopher and son’s Jonathan, Justin and Richard.
A very unique family.
http://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/chris-evatt-entrepreneur-business-mentor-and-assister-of-non-government-organisations
http://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/jonathan-evatt-the-columbian-native-kogi-message-for-humanity
http://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/jonathan-evatt-author-teacher-mentor-on-the-subtle-aspects-of-life-and-the-true-nature-of-man
http://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/justin-evatt-jasmax-architectural-firm
Today here on Earth there is a ‘Civil War of the Spirit’ underway. Racial divides, religious intolerance, material avarice, martial control, and intellectual arrogance all challenge us to love and to heal our great separation from oneness and unity consciousness.
So, what is it that drives ‘a man of the cloth’ to see that the Vietnam war was wrong, that Maori of Aotearoa New Zealand were dispossessed of their land, that the South African rugby tour of NZ was racially selected, and that nuclear power and weapons brought into a country that threatened no other country, was and is morally indefensible?
Do we think to any depth of wisdom these days? Have we cast values and virtues out the window as we embrace the shallow distraction of material comforts and indulgences? This is a question that we need to engage and think deeply about. For it is obvious that George Armstrong, ably supported by his wife Jocelyn, has dwelt on many of the underlying causes that separate us all from participating and being global family.
Though George was on good terms with the local Bishop, he realised that with falling congregation attendances, the Church had lost its way. It was not engaged with the community and whatever virtues and values that the Anglicans wished to embed in the wider community basically echoed inside a vacuum. That though his Bishop also had an understanding of Liberation Theology, that in those days was making a huge impression in South America - where the priests took Christ down from the cross and instead got themselves in alongside the peasants and served and worked with a hands-on approach to share the load of the downtrodden. For George intuitively knew that there had to be a better way if we were to bring peace and justice to earth.
Hence, his deep commitment to the issue of the day - on so many levels.
Born in Dunedin in the South Island of NZ, the youngest in his family, and though somewhat spoilt it was a lonely life as his many older brothers went off to post 1945 war activities.
As a boy he joined the boy scouts and embraced the moral quality of that credo, that he eventually became a strong Anglican and then he experienced an ‘angelical’ conversion of what it was like to have an intense personal sense of God - or the Divine.
After a stint at teaching in Waitaki in the South Island he then became an Anglican Priest and to have parishes in Dunedin and Christchurch when he realised that the Church as a religious entity was basically failing - as he could see it in the dwindling numbers - and he felt that in a sense it was a moral issue in that the church was not engaged with society - ethically - and after a few run-ins, he felt that he had to stand up in what he believed in - no matter what.
He eventually ended up teaching at a Theological College becoming ordained and realised that you can only understand yourself by being active in the world, that books could not really do that, or only to a small extent. So he felt that he had to get out and become engaged and involved with the world - and that the learning comes on reflection from the action.
Especially in his opposition to the Vietnam war which was a horrific shock for him - as it took him against his Church - including some theological students against his Church too. To one time taking placards into Good Friday procession saying that ‘Christ died for the Viet Cong.' And that the Bishop wanted him to get out of the procession and yet the Bishop was also good friends with George as he was quite partial to ‘liberation’ theology.
George, also found that there was a Buddhist strain in South Vietnam that was very aligned with him - as the Buddhist had a saying “they are our brothers who we kill.” That the Buddhist Nuns were also very strong on this - and this all linked to the heart of Christianity.
George’s mother had a sense that Maori spirituality was unique and when George officiated at some burials at Karatane, he realised that Maori and Pakeha understandings were very, very different. To experience Maori oratory and how it would flow impressed him and also that the historical wrongs to Maori from the colonialisation of NZ was important for George to understand - due to the enormous dispossession of Maori from their tribal land.
One important quality that George noticed, that even though this had happened to Maori - they had never lost their dignity.
George always felt it was a great privilege to stand alongside Maori in some way. He noticed that the young within Maori were more ‘out there’ than the elders which brought George into contact with the Harawira family, who he got to like as they quickly understood the nuclear threat to the Pacific ocean. However to them, the nuclear threat was just another extension of colonialism. But, it was the ultimate expression of the challenges we were facing yet on a totally different level. Especially, as it was our planet’s future at stake.
He talks of Honi Harawira’s mother Titewhai and about her astuteness and being both wonderful and frightening, plus mentioning and praising Walter Lini a theological student of George’s and an Anglican priest, whom eventually became the founding Prime Minister of Vanuatu.
Then the ‘white’ South African rugby Springbok tour of NZ that traumatically divided New Zealand like never before and the acclaimed statement that ‘this was a civil war of the spirit’ - George was one of the anti-tour demonstrators to break through the outer fences to actually get onto the football playing field in Hamilton and have the game cancelled - whilst the large crowd of 10’s of thousands were enraged and incensed, that they could not watch their game of footy. This news brought world attention to the fact that NZ supposedly a bastion of racial goodwill and fair play was engaged in playing a rugby team that was selected entirely on race.
That a large percentage of NZ was still in favour of the tour that I repeat in George’s take -“this tour based on apartheid was a civil war of the spirit”.
Though the tour continued after that canceled game many anti-tour protestors were so incensed that violence was discussed - yet George could not reconcile with violence in any way. There had to be a higher virtue overlighting all his actions.
Then came the NZ Peace Squadron or Flotilla. When in America at Princeton on a scholarship as he knew he needed a doctoral qualification to further himself, he witnessed on TV pictures a tiny canoe and inhabitant floating in front of the bow of a gigantic freighter - trying to stop it from going anywhere. As it was a ship dealing with armaments that was en route to a civil war in Pakistan.
This image stuck to George’s soul and he imagined that with many small NZ boats, launches, yachts and anything that floated if New Zealanders could get out there in front of visiting nuclear armed or powered warships and stopping them from coming into NZ, ports this would be the way. With growing media focussed on all this - any boats damaged, sunk or lives hurt in anyway would focus attention on NZ and its government and policies.
These ships ‘or creatures of death’ as George would say ‘and the image of death trying to force its way through life' was an easy concept for George to understand - so the Peace Squadron came into being.
The interview covers the Anti Nuclear Movement here in NZ and the Peace Squadron and that small boats had been sailing around to Mururoa in French Polynesia for many years to protest the French testing nuclear bombs in our backyard. So when the message went out all the crews who had sailed the thousand of kilometres there and back - showed up and they were very hardy souls, very mature, astute, committed and dedicated with excellent yacht skills as well.
Then George became a spokesperson for radio and especially TV, as TV media in those days were right on to it as it was in its infancy and wanted to get a good story so George and team received some very good coverage.
He also got very savvy to language the story so that it could not be edited out, (as media is very adept at twisting the context of most stories)
We then go on to talk about all the nearly 40 countries Navy’s who are going to bring their warships to NZ. That the NZ Navy is going to have a church service because the Navy has always had a close connection to Christianity and what type of service is there going to be as ‘thou shall not kill’ is key component to Christianity as well as the word Love.
George then mentions that the present NZ ruling National Party has lost its religious depth and are not really into Christianity because of the Church’s antagonism of how the Government economic policy is disenfranchising so many.
When asked where he gets his support other than his loving wife Jocelyn, George says he gets a lot of support from people and especially children. And in the 1980s where we were in the anti-nuclear disruption a lot of politicians from the Labour Party.
Finally:
George says that we must not enter into polarity with people on the other side of the divide - they too are human and that they have been caught up in the system - police etc are just doing their job … be courteous.
We are all caught up in the system if we like it or not.
He said time and again - we are not against flesh and blood we are against ‘principalities and powers’. This system thing that gets to us … likes the armaments race - it gets to us.
If we let the genie out of the bottle - then that’s it …
George in closing talks about ‘being born again’ that the evangelicals do not see this transformational unfoldment in its greatest expression - and that this continuance needs to happen daily as we grow and expand on this realisation and cosmic gift - he says it’s such an astonishing thing as you respond to the impulse of this religious experience and you keep this alive in your daily practice … Otherwise you can quite possibly sink down into a religious rut of some sort and you can’t see the wood for the trees.
Our challenge?
The image of the other - not understanding other peoples and cultures etc - we pre-judge and have prejudices of the other …
Dialogue is good, but working together is far better.
In future - make sure you practice what you preach - especially with all relationships.
Don’t forget your humanity - we are dealing with humans even on the other side of the divide
Get clever - we are pure GENIUS. Keep focussed and something will open up - the extraordinary will become manifest.
I have just come away from a devastatingly powerful interview by a very clear, communicator - Phyllis Tichinin. This being a ‘two tiered discourse’ - one that validated what I thought was happening in relation to glyphosate, but shocked me to the core all the same. The other confirmed that there is a fast growing healthy, non chemical, biological revolution of farming and horticulture happening across the rural face of NZ and beyond.
If this interview was played over Radio New Zealand’s nationwide network it would have mothers of babies and children in uproar. First: Is Glyphosate ‘slowly’ killing everything it comes into contact with, including humans? The statistics are saying yes!
The research being collated from all around our planet is confirming a coming nightmare. It is looking grim for most biota. That means you and your family, animals and vegetation including the elements of air, soil and water.
Regrettably, it looks like the unbridled avarice and corruption of the biotech corporations especially Monsanto, with their unscrupulous insiders - in allowing this cleverly disguised toxin into the sacredness of the world’s environment - is having a devastating affect on all planetary biota.
Second: This is really good.
There is a powerful yet quiet revolution happening across NZ (and globally) that farmers horticulturists and market gardeners have realised that there is another unique way of growing healthy food, without chemicals, called ‘biological agriculture’ that is rapidly gaining prominence over the chemical agribusiness that is taking down our country’s clean green image. (if we really had one)
That NZer Graeme Sait, American Arden Andersen and Australian Christine Jones, among many others have been at the forefront of introducing this methods to the world (all three have been interviewed on GreenplanetFM.com).
Thus, we have come to an important shift of perspective and of action. We are crossing over into a new paradigm not only in land management and connection, but to one of a new consciousness in our relationship to all planetary biota.
Phyllis who comes from California has a degree in Environmental Planning and Management with emphasis on soils and Ag economics, and worked for the State of California in ministerial level positions in energy conservation policy, municipal waste, hazardous waste management and coastal regulation. She is now based here in the Hawkes Bay NZ.
When in America, she met and married a NZer who was studying for his graduate degree in ecology and his focus was on the regulation of pesticides and insecticides and their affect on all levels of the environment, biota and ultimately the food chain. Thus with her environmental credentials plus her husband’s PhD in ecology she has embedded a very good understanding of how the environment is being saturated by chemical pesticides and insecticides.
Her ongoing focus has continued to cover the situation of soil, microbes, water and that extends into human health and what it’s doing in particular to our gut bacteria and the increasing understanding of microflora that inhabits our stomach and intestines.
Over the last 20 years, this has been a major theme that she has continued to deepen her understanding of the connection between soil fertility and environmental health where she has branched out and has her own business based in True Health an animal remedies firm. Where she imports specially made up certified organic tinctures - plant based extracts to act as alternatives to antibiotics so as to assist farmers to wean their farm animals off antibiotics. She has a small farm on highly mineralised, high brix soils with diverse pastures with her cows producing high saturated fats, including cholesterol that when taken appropriately she says are very helpful for the human body.
She has spent a lot of time with biological agriculture exponents Graeme Sait and Arden Andersen who are at the fore-front of a farming phenomena where they are doing brix tests on soils and remineralising them, bringing about healthy microflora especially fungi and bacteria including earthworm populations. Leading to healthy rapid vegetation growth. Thus doing away with chemicals fertilisation and applications.
In South Africa, where Graeme has a huge following pulling in very large crowds to his talks and field days he has had Woolworths the supermarket chain (not to be confused with the Australian & New Zealand group) through their 500 plus stores switch over to only sourcing food and produce from biological farmers under the name of “Farming for the Future, a holistic approach.”
In this interview, Phyllis clearly covers the major benefits of biological farming, having brought Graeme Sait to NZ for numerous courses where hundreds of NZ farmers attend and many more have now switched across to biological methods. This is where the soil is well mineralised and balanced, becoming more microbially alive and diverse and producing more pasture. What this method leads too is better quality and healthy fruit and vegetable that store well, taste great and have higher mineral and vitamin content (higher Brix)
This means higher dissolved solids which indicates that the food is going to be better for us.
By creating food from the soil up that heals people, that nourishes them deeply not just fulfills a hunger - but that they have the mineral building blocks to createthe enzymes and the tissues withintegrity - that actually translates into full and optimal health.
However, statistics from around the world are showing that the percentage of vitamins and minerals in our food are decreasing at an alarming rate. This decline is continuing and it has been linked to orthodox farming practices due the way we have been fertilising the soil and applying insecticides and herbicides to foliage. What this has been doing, in the words of Graeme Sait, we have been ‘bombing the microbe bridge’ that allows minerals to be absorbed by the plant in their ideal and proper forms. This is why plants are becoming too weak to be able to produce their own ability to repel insects and the more we farm in this archaic method, the more chemicals and sprays will be used as we embark down a slippery slope of poor soils, unhealthier vegetation and higher costs to both the the land, the farmer and consumer.
Healthy soils and healthy plants result in the plants being able to repel pests because they are so strong and robust. We need to know that all plants are medicinal as well as producers of food.
Protection of the Environment & Protection of Human Health.
If there was leadership in the EPA ‘Environmental Protection Agency’ especially in the USA, we the global consumer would be far more safer and the ecology would be too.
However, this is a global phenomenon, most countries have a poor record of making sure biotech companies are up front and legally fulfilling the precautionary principle.
With the EPA, a US Government Department it is known as the Global default watchdog of what is allowed out into the environment but it is poorly financed and it is deliberately kept to a low budget. This way it leaves the door open to when the large biotech conglomerates like Bayer, Dupont, Syngenta and Monsanto want to apply for a product to be released into the environment they are allowed tp submit their own ‘safety’ studies that they paid for themselves.
Yet time and time again they have posted fraudulent data, or manipulated it or made up the facts, or underplayed the risks that is has been near on farcical in many instances.
Now all that needs to be done is for the EPA to charge the applicants a far higher fee so as to employ the numbers and qualified personnel to test on behalf of the EPA. For there have been so many instances of even independent labs doing the tests and they have been found out, for fraud and taken to court, fined and jailed, but it still goes on solely because of the vastness of what is happening across the USA.
From a political science standpoint, which was generally the topic of her husband’s PhD thesis that in the US the EPA which has a global standing has never been in a position to be financially able to do the necessary research.
So why is the EPA so short of funds to be not able to do thorough testing? Well there is a cosy situation. That politically from the beginning the EPA lacked the quality and caliber of the scientists to evaluate the industry generated safety studies in the first place. The cosy chemical corporate lobbyists are cosy with the chairman of the Senate Agricultural Committee in Congress for example and they make sure that the EPA has a very, very modest budget and they can never really keep up with the industry bought scientists. And it they do, they usually they don’t last very long.
So there is a revolving door where the head of the EPA or the head of the US Food and Agriculture or some other regulatory agency happens to have been Chief Council for Monsanto for example, that definitely has happened and they put him in charge of approving Genetically Engineered crops in the early 1990’s There are multiple examples of someone from the industry been brought in to regulate their previous industry.
Unfortunately, this happens time and time again.
We now have the ubiquitous use of chemicals globally, remember the DDT spraying of everyone, and then the hurried ban on it? (No, very few do - as mistakes are quickly buried and covered up.)
The ever present use of herbicides and insecticides globally is having a disturbing effect – not only in the rural sector and farms but now in urban areas for parks and pristine home lawns.
The conventional NZ farmer /market gardener today are increasingly finding that they are totally incongruent with the precautionary principle, that when they awaken in the morning, their thoughts are based on – not what they are going to grow today, but what they are having to kill today? Which becomes a full frontal chemical attack of so many different sprays – so the farmers in essence, lose heart in that they are not 100% proud of their produce, because they know that it’s covered in poisons - so they can not really hold their head high and be proud.
Little does the NZ consumer know that under the auspices of the EPA, the ‘Environmental Protection Agency’ formerly ERMA the Environmental Risk Management Authority, that they they seem to have seemingly robust standards, yet they do not adhere to them.
As a result - Agriculture has become a killing field instead of a growing field.
A New Understanding.
In the last 4-5 years there has been a greater public understanding and reconnection across the soils, science, farming and health sector that microbes are the key to our planet functioning.
In particular, the ‘gut micro biome’ and their community and the health of these are critical to our own health. Which equals a diverse healthy ‘integrated micro biome’ be it on our skin, in the water, gut, tissue, blood – we need to have an inner ecology that is a reflection of a healthy outside ecology.
Science is today seeing that the human gut microbiome has been seriously compromised by anti-biotics, plus herbicides and insecticides .
They are notching that the vegas nerve from our gut microbiome to our brain is increasingly being affected as a result. This affects our mood, thoughts and feelings - depending on the state of the health of our gut.
Even the risks for alzheimers is increase dramatically. Very few in the Western world have a robust healthy gut.
C section births was mentioned too as problematic as babies born of the birth canal are far more able to cope because they picked up antibodies in the birth canal journey .
To sort this there is the GAPS diet cleanse that may be able to assist.
Marketing of broad spectrum herbicides:
Round Up and its active ingredient glyphosate is now marketed globally by a great number of companies as a broad spectrum weed killer.
It is extremely capable of killing all vegetation other than Monsanto’s GMO or GE ‘Round Up’ – ready, corn, soy and canola and as glyphosate use increases every year now - up to between 800,000 and a million tonnes is sprayed annually world wide.
It is now in our air, our water, in our food, and when we look into our food, there it is. 10 of the largest wineries in California have found it in their bottled wine. So it is now in our bodies and especially our growing babies, infants and children and we have no idea where this is leading us. It is also an antibiotic that is having a slow but continuous effect on our gut bacteria. This is just one of the many impacts that Monsanto’s glyphosate has.
It locks up minerals to the point that it is difficult for our body to get full nutrition. It directly causes infertility in all mammals. It blocks the transport of sulphur within our body and it shuts down our body to detoxify environmental toxins – through the cytochrome p4 50 enzyme pathway which is part of our liver system for detoxifying chemicals .
So not only is glyphosate an antibiotic, but is shuts down our own ability to detoxify glyphosate itself and most other environmental toxins.
With the increase of glyphosate we are also correlating an increase in alhzeimers, cancers , breast cancer in particular – non-Hodgkin lymphoma’s and autism is the big one.
The strongest correlation between glyphosate and Round Up is the marked increase in autism. Autism is related to gut microbiome dysfunction. Plus lack of sulphur transport.
With plummeting fertility rates too.
Phyllis asked the question – how are we going to function as a society when one out of 6 males in particular, but females as well is autistic and cannot function on a normal basis? Specifically - when they need to be reliable, hold down a job, interact with people, this is becoming a huge, huge issue.
This Interview then covers the NZ environmental health authorities, previously it was ERMA and now the EPA who have approved every single application for a GE or GMO trial in NZ that have come to them.
There has been over 60 applications some actually outdoor trials! So out of all of these expensive trials, none of them were commercialisable whilst at the same time ran tremendous risks of exposing the NZ environment to GE and GMO ‘constructs ‘ that for all we know could still be in our environment - hidden away from us!
The fact that microbes are so small and can quite possibly mutate once they are out there , it is then basically impossible to retrieve them. This is what is in supposedly clean green NZ that we were exposed too.
Regarding GE & GMO release, note that no insurance company globally is willing to insure in the case of a New Zealand GE or GMO mishap, because the liabilities would be so vast and could last to 20 to a hundred years for all we know – so they realise that GMO tests are problematic in the extreme. So who carries the can if there is a major mishap? In our country it won’t be the government - who is allowing this to happen, it will be we, the people!
Over seas you will notice no country wants to pay a premium for GMO food, not one. Why? Because it lacks quality nutrition and who really knows what is embedded in GE food?
However, what is becoming very noticeable is that many countries are wanting to pay a premium of non GE & GMO and organic food. The reason is obvious.
Organics and Premium Returns.
Organics in NZ has had a very bad rap for many years, being manipulated by mainstream media photos and video footage to be seen especially by the people living in the rural sector, as a hippy thing or non scientific – this being far from the case.
In NZ today, organic dairy farmers are getting $9.20 a kilogram of milk solids as against normal farming of $5.00 – so the conservative NZ dairy farmer is dragging his own chains!
Phyllis emphatically states that mainstream farmers do not have to wear thongs or jandals or grow a beard to go organic! Or not having to stop wearing deodorant!
In the US, organics is really spiking and in the dairy sector too. There is a 20% increase in production per year and it is growing fast especially with the growth of organic stores and supermarkets.
As consumers we need to vote with our dollars this is critical to where shape our future.
High quality high brix food, more regenerative input and biological agriculture are gaining momentum.
http://blog.nutri-tech.com.au/the-beauty-of-brix/
She states if we want to involve ourselves and even get angry if that is what it takes to control our food choices then we need to get involved! Create a small demo and front up!
There are people creating products that are harming us and our babies – so we have to shake ourselves out of our collective stupor and take control of what we put in our bodies.
We also need a gigantic co-operative organic super-market here in NZ to blow everything open!
Web site www.Truehealth.co.nz.
What do you want for your children? Do you want dynamic, well resourced, impeccably balanced, super-conscious children who are adept at survival at all levels?
What do you think is the best system available today for educating and teaching children?
I really enjoyed listening to Tricia as she divulged the latest advances in early childhood development in America.
As a secondary school science teacher with an understanding of much of the makeup of our world Tricia was always interested in alternatives …
One day she visited a school and upon entering – it changed her whole focus. Because, the classroom was literally a quiet hum of activity - where children were totally focussed on their learning experiences. It was the Montessori Method that made her realise that there most definitely is another way to enhance a child’s existence, where they are fully integrated into life.
Maria Montessori
Maria Montessori, born in Italy in 1870 was a physician and an educator - a pioneer for women’s rights as she was an active member of the suffragette movement. She started in teaching by working with children with mental difficulties and impairments to learning. Being empathetic and aware, she developed specific new tools for learning.
She was hired as a teacher by some tenement owners in the slums in Italy to school the tenants wayward children who were damaging the property when their parents were away working during the day. So she brought in these learning ‘tools’ that she had used for those with impairments and combining these with her other skills the children quickly became very engaged and at the same time, completely absorbed in their learning. This led to the students experiencing their own internal changes, they became calmer, self-disciplined and able to concentrate on their work for sustained periods of time.
At a preschool level, the child is in a process of ‘forming themselves’ – it’s not just a case that they learn their language, or the names of things. There is another dual process happening as well - there is an inner growth - that includes learning about the outside world.
When the child is in an environment which is stable, and supports them being engaged and interacting positively with their environment – it helps them to have an organized internal state also. The result is a well-resourced child who is very able, independent and responsive to life.
Maria Montessori said that she did not invent the Montessori Method of teaching, she said that ‘I discovered the child.’ She noticed that after students had engaged in a period of deep concentration with a learning activity, she saw that they would put their things away, and then have a phase of inner contemplation before going on to the next activity.
Maria Montessori engendered much interest and excitement with her discoveries, not only within Europe, but around the world so that people came from all over the world to learn from her and there was great demand from teachers to be taught the Montessori ‘method’. It is true that no matter where the children are on earth, they all have the same abiding interest and engagement when enjoying a Montessori learning environment.
Montessori for Adolescents Tricia spoke about her recently acquired Montessori qualification which she completed in August 2015. There at her AMI Montessori adolescent guide training course in the U.S. she met superb teachers who care deeply for children and for the future of our planet.
Not far from Cleveland in Ohio there is a Montessori farm school for adolescents, that connects children with animals, growing things and working alongside nature. Including understanding economics and how everything is interconnected. The value of food and produce and costing things out, as well as understanding both buying and selling. All aspects of economics are covered in a direct hands on practical way, including doing the books, doing the accounting, calculating the profit and loss of the various enterprises. Teaching and factoring in responsibility as the greatest freedom we can experience, and also eating what they have grown.
This farm school for adolescents was called by Maria Montessori “Erkinder”, which means “children of the earth (soil). They have a program where they board on the farm – they live and work, but not in the same way a New Zealander would grow up on a farm and go off to school. They have an integrated experience, this includes a deep connection to mother earth, work with animals everyday and this awakens their love and connection to all creatures. Including harvesting of food – be it honey or goat’s milk. All to do with allowing the children to connect and also realise what it is to survive. Engaging them in the commerce side, it shows how dependent on the earth we really are.
Montessori schools are based on having 3 ages in the one class together. At preschool 3, 4, up to 6 year old students are all in the same class together. For the new infants, the 5 year olds model the correct behavior, whilst the teachers are engaged in showing how to use the various materials.
The closer you can tie freedom and responsibility together – the better. (An interesting dialogue regarding this is in this radio interview.) Too much freedom and no boundaries is not responsible – leading to poor behavior. Children who are given responsibility within boundaries have clear expectations of them to bring about success, as long as teachers are included in this equation, and appropriate behavior is role modelled by their peers.
Maria Montessori has created some innovative learning tools – bead chains from 1 to 10, and a spindle box to show 0. All Montessori materials are physically manipulated by the students and kinesthetic learners benefit from experiencing these hands on learning materials.
In looking at the present main-stream factory model of education this different approach in Montessori becomes very insightful.
We are living in a world where jobs are going to disappear faster than they can appear as new technology comes on stream. Because innovation towards smart technologies are going to make huge numbers of people become redundant. Companies are doing away with workers across the board – one of the more recent examples being supermarket check-out machines.
Hurry up and wait! MainStream education is about ‘Hurry up and wait’. From the age of 5 to 18 children are being told to ‘hurry up and wait’ – It is inculcated in people. This is conditioning them to be not well integrated and inner resourced, but to do as they are told and be compliant. Tricia gives a powerful analogy of what this means as children are programmed to be told to queue and wait, then hurry up, and then cue and wait. Setting us up to become victims if we are not strongly inner resourced to see ourselves as empowered individuals who can slot into the world at our will.
The key to the Montessori Method is heart and soul, which is included in the whole process of having children feel that they are connected. Otherwise learning is just an intellectual exercise that you can easily forget as soon as it is done. There has to be an emotional connection. ‘Know thyself’ is part of the learning process in Montessori as a child becomes a fully integrated and loving human being.
The Montessori Method has as a part of it, ‘Cosmic education’, where students include the bigger picture into their learning.
The Montessori Glass Classroom The Montessori Glass Classroom is an event where the classroom has no walls and adults and those interested can look in at any time and watch how the classroom operates. Witnessing the focus and engagement of the children, and how the teacher guides the students in their learning experiences in the classroom.
This interview gives us an important insight into an ever evolving system of teaching and learning. Especially in regard to assisting and empowering little minds to be well resourced and prepared in our ever changing future.
Tricia is organizing a Montessori Glass Classroom at the Auckland Baby Show 19th, 20th and 21st of August at the ASB Showgrounds in Epsom Auckland from 10am to 5 pm each day.
Tricia Best, BSc, DipTch, AMI Montessori adolescent guide
http://www.babyshow.co.nz/whats-on/auckland-2016/partners/montessori-glass-classroom
Can an upsurge in world peace be gained by The Peace Foundation in schools in NZ & around the world?
I just interviewed Christopher Le Breton who as the co-manager of The Peace Foundation, I wanted to know if peace is actually possible, especially with the background din of horror, pain and loss in so many countries and expanding.
What he told me below shows that a small country like Nuclear Free New Zealand could be pivotal in world events.
This may be one of NZ’s greatest social and mindful exports of the 21st century. That Nuclear Free NZ could again become the moral compass for a planet of peace and a totally new paradigm.
“The Peace Foundation” was established in Auckland NZ 1975, with the vision of building peaceful local, national and global communities.
That in 1987, it helped bring about ‘Nuclear Free New Zealand’ in partnership with citizen groups around NZ all coming together. This awoke NZ and then the world woke up to NZ.
That in 2008, it managed to initiate a ‘chair’ of Peace Studies at Otago University in Dunedin. As a result it has become a leading centre of Peace studies in the World.
On the 8th of June 2012 was a main player in inaugurating Auckland as a ‘World Peace City.’
And over the last 20 years has been facilitating and teaching children in schools about ‘peer mediation’ and ‘conflict resolution’ in the ‘Cool Schools’ program. With children been taught how to mediate disputes for themselves.
This interview covers many avenues as to how The Peace Foundation can teach skills and methods to bring about peace in the classroom, playing fields and community all the way to national and global situations.
Showing too, that NZ could be a major global innovator to restore world peace, by embedding the Cool Schools program beyond the 2,000 schools that presently teach it to the rest of NZ’s schools and then exporting it with fully trained ‘ NZ Emissaries and Ambassadors’ to visit other countries, live alongside them and show them these easy to learn skills of peer mediation.
This may be one of NZ’s ‘ greatest social and mindful exports' of the 21st century. That Nuclear Free NZ could again become the moral compass for a planet of peace and a totally new paradigm.
Once this simple method of understanding is laid out - so that both parties comprehend how the situation started - that when through a simple process is understood and cleared - they let out a collective aha. In that moment of Yes! It changes - from what happened to what is possible - they end up high 5 - ing or fist bumps or shaking hands - hugs, - then on their way.
Where in our day in the 1950’s, 60s,& 70’ Chris (and myself) were never taught this at school, which fortunately, in the last 20 years has been introduced to over 2000 schools across NZ.
Naturally, the enthusiasm is to have NZ become a world leader in Peace-Making - having it languaged from the 'top of the Government apparatus being imperative’ and also up from the grassroots too. Bearing in mind we have to make peace with ourselves first.
The interview covers indigenous wisdom - that comes from the Aotearoan Maori Kaitiakitanga meaning guardianship and protection. That Kaitiaki means we are all guardians - and that we draw on the best of indigenous wisdom that maori have known for centuries.
At present, many countries are looking to NZ to find a ‘new model’ of how to live in community and as a country, because the current fragmenting neo-liberal economic system is not working.
Two great Maori leaders, Te Whiti o Rongomai and his uncle Tohu of Parihaka who living on the seaward slopes of Mt Taranaki here in NZ are seen as a non-violent, peaceful model and way of living and being. That there is anecdotal evidence that they inspired both Gandhi, as well as Martin Luther King. So this is a very compelling story from the heart of NZ. That in the 1880’s government troops invaded and destroyed their pa and marae, (group living area) arresting hundreds of maori and destroying and dispersing the whole village.
From a standpoint of The Peace Foundation, of bringing goodwill and harmony to our daily lives, the importance of Peer Mediation in schools is a win win win situation for all concerned. The result being, there are less problems in classrooms and in the playground - teens get on better - warmer relationships, less family violence in the home that ends up later in life with fewer divorces - and a calmer more coherent neighbourhood.
With the possibility now to teach Leadership through Peer Mediation stats show that classroom learning improves - with higher grades, classroom behaviour improves, plus more tolerance becomes evident as well.
The Cool schools program is a superb NZ first and need encouragement at all levels of civil society.
At present, The Peace Foundation has a CrowdSourcing campaign to take Peer Mediation into 160 NZ schools and then to the whole country. This would also include an understanding of Kaupapa Maori (a principle or policy) and then upon the success of this project take this overseas to other countries and spread not only to the world but bring about peace in all its inherent manifestations.
That when New Zealanders ‘kiwis’ go for their OE (Overseas Experience) they be ‘Peace Ambassadors’ as they will be totally skilled and equipped to solve areas of dispute and ‘reconcile opposing points' of view.
By doing this in such an honourable way, it will increase the knowing that what is being taught in NZ schools is a major gift and asset to peaceful coexistence especially in a world that is crying out for peace and goodwill.
The fact that the NZ government used to have a Minister of Disarmament - that was initiated by the Labour Government, speaks volumes of the past, but in 2012, the present National Government axed this bold intuitive.
However, it all comes back to the core of our being - that we need to live in harmony with our inner selves - as an extension of global family.
That David Lange the NZ Labour Prime Minister in 1987 wanted a Nuclear Free planet, but could not export this ideal, because our food exports were left sitting on overseas docks, especially in France and not moving. So to keep our farmers financial, our PM had to rescind the desire to export this noble ideal. NZ was blackmailed!
One big question for the MSM - Main Stream Media - why do they relegate ‘Peace & Love’ as being basically ‘dirty’ or even obscene words when in fact they most probably are the highest words in the human lexicon?
This is a very passionate interview with high ideals, that will inspire those who want to be the change in the world we want to see.
http://www.peace.net.nz
http://www.peace.net.nz/content/peace-foundation’s-crowdfunding-initiative
Peace activist Valerie Morse talks with Lisa Er on the upcoming weapons conference, warship visits and why this is bad for New Zealand and the rest of the world.
This November, coinciding with the New Zealand Navy’s 75th birthday celebrations, is the annual NZ Defence Industry Conference and Arms Expo, that includes approximately 500 international weapons companies.
The Navy "celebration" is a stage-managed marketing event to secure public support for future ties with the US, sanctioning wars, with ever-increasing budgets, and the recruitment of young men and women who are asked to fight and die.
This is proposed for 16th and 17th November 2016 in Auckland, sponsored by the world’s largest weapons manufacturer and maker of nuclear weapons, Lockheed Martin. Also sponsoring are Thales, Babcock, ThyssenKrupp, and Cubic Defence (all in the top 100 list of international arms companies), along with the NZ Defence Industry Association, itself an industry trade promotion group consisting of another approximately 60 members involved in weapons and military-related production.
Lockheed Martin currently has a $446 million contract with the NZ Navy to upgrade New Zealand's two frigates, Te Mana and Te Kaha; boats the Government has already indicated it plans to replace as part of its $20 billion boost to the NZ Defence Force, announced as part of the Defence White Paper released earlier this year. This enormous injection of cash into the military is happening despite the NZDF's own evidence that "the country does not face a direct military threat in the foreseeable future".
The New Zealand military has been continuously at war in Afghanistan alongside the US for 15 years; it is conducting regular training with the US Marine Corp, and it participates in the largest maritime war games in the world, the US-led Rimpac.
The NZ Defence forces original deployment to Iraq was aimed at helping a broader coalition, headed by the United States, to defeat Islamic State and reduce the threat politicians say it poses to New Zealand. Now the deployment has been extended.
New Zealand has clearly come under pressure from the US to stay on in Iraq. It is not just about the extra resources, it's about having more countries in Iraq as part of the coalition, giving greater legitimacy to the US-led "Operation Inherent Resolve."
Valerie says, “We’ve had enough of the politics of fear and austerity. We aren’t going to stand by while those who profit from misery, murder and repression meet to make new deals and congratulate themselves on their successes. We need YOUR help to blockade the weapons conference and to create a peace flotilla on the water to resist the warships.”
Get involved
To get involved, see the link to Auckland Peace Action below.
Valerie Morse is a writer, librarian, peace activist and anarchist. She is the author of two books: “Against Freedom: the war on terrorism in everyday New Zealand life”, and “The Day the Raids Came: Stories of survival and resistance to the State Terror Raids”.
She has worked on a range of grassroots community issues including war, arms dealers, climate justice, prison abolition and public transport. She loves to garden, and pet fuzzy animals.
Valerie is passionate in her opposition to war. She writes - “There are two broader interconnected issues that arise in opposition to the Weapons Conference. First, if there is a military, it needs weapons. Therefore, the issue of the Weapons Conference goes to the heart of the military project in New Zealand.
Does New Zealand need a standing army? The peace movement with a long trajectory back to the First World War would say no. Contemporary academics and commentators reject the very idea of the “Defence Force,” instead decrying New Zealand’s history of offensive engagement in foreign wars of empire and conquest.”
Both journalist Nicky Hager, and Russell Norman of Greenpeace, agree that New Zealand’s Nuclear-Free Act will not be threatened by the US Navy bringing a warship to be part of the NZ Navy's 75th birthday in November. Oh really? Think again! The US position on neither confirming nor denying whether its war ships are nuclear powered or nuclear armed remains the same. What has changed is the position of the New Zealand Government. It is now perfectly happy to use what is publically available and known as to the ships background, and so it is not going to ask anything further!
This is the first time in 32 years the US has been invited to send a warship to New Zealand. This event is the culmination of many years of work by those who wish to bring the New Zealand military back into the fold of US empire.
The New Zealand government has signed both the Washington and Wellington Declarations in recent years, re-committing the country to joint military cooperation, and conveniently side-stepping the nuclear-free issue altogether.
We as a country need to decide who we are. Wellington was declared a nuclear free zone on April 14 1982 and 40 local authorities in total had declared themselves nuclear-free by the end of 1984.
It is an affront to this country’s nuclear-free status that a naval exercise with United States ships will be taking place in the waters of the Aotearoa New Zealand this November. Are we a country that sits under the US military and nuclear umbrella, supporting foreign wars that have nothing to do with us; or are we going to stand up for our own sovereignty declaring that war is never a solution, and that we will insist on staying nuclear free.
Here is a link to Auckland Peace Action Group where you can get involved! https://aucklandpeaceaction.wordpress.com
Link to Valerie’s article “New Zealand’s Homegrown Military-Industrial Complex” http://www.converge.org.nz/abc/pr/50/pr50-005.html
Link to Valerie’s book “Against Freedom - The War on Terrorism in Everyday New Zealand Life”.
https://www.rebelpress.org.nz/files/againstfreedom.pdf
This interview is sponsored by The Awareness Party
http://www.theawarenessparty.com
I have just finished a grassroots interview with Niki Harre, a leading academic at Auckland University - involved in psychology and sustainable ecological solutions. During this interview, we talked about how she enjoys her immersion into evolving positive change with her local community at the Point Chevalier Transition Towns group, where she finds an active group of localised participators intent on walking their talk.
Because, she sees that there is a movement happening - one without a capital ‘m’ but, it’s a fundamental movement all the same.
For example, they have the following active sub-groups up and running: The Old Homestead Community Garden with the Dignan Street Community Garden Hub, and the Bulk Purchasing Group.
Then there is our Resource Pool for community members who would like to borrow mulchers, hoes, juicers etc.
They also have set up recycling for soft plastics at Pt Chevalier Primary School, Te Ra Road - to avoid this going into landfill - as well as a social calendar, that includes local areas in the larger community.
However, as an academic at Auckland University it is in the strategies as well as the processes that are enacted that Niki finds fulfilling, because she sees that there is a stirring within localised community a movement of connection happening - one that involves the neighbours like as mentioned before yet, without a capital ‘m’ but, it’s a grassroots movement all the same.
It’s when we act in our daily lives, whenever we’re doing things alone or are members of organisations following an evolutionary pathway that; just as when cells come together in greater self organising numbers be it growing from clusters of cells and evolving organs to bodies right up to organisations, when we are involved be it politically or not - ‘at every single level - we are creating the world.’
Like every morning, we wake up we start creating the world - such as how we get to work, how we interrelate with our colleagues, how we relate to our children - the party we vote for, wherever or not we go out and clean the local street - all of it, is part of creating the world.
So Niki is wanting to know how, in our efforts do we - become more integrated as possible - from the depths of our heart as well as acting in the political realm even at a localised level - and how do we recognise the actions that are beneficial and those that are problematic - it’s a hard task but to Niki it’s the task of being an activist.
And at a collective level, she considers the conversation we need to engage in - like what are we exactly endeavouring to do or create? That most people are recognising that ‘ecological and human flourishing’ are the twin pillars that go absolutely hand in hand - so the focus is really coming back to ask - how do people work and play together in the spirit of life?
Then, when she asks herself what are the key critical features to this quest?
They are - individual expressions which leads to diversity, which is giving of our best selves - giving of our peak essence and the other part is ‘community and cooperation.’
Just like when seeing a forest - it will have many, many species, and be very diverse at every level of biota, yet all those species will be living and doing in a form of co-operation, whilst all their different actions work towards having all the other species flourishing as well.
Each species ‘having its niche’ and fitting in.
It’s all about relationship.
Which leads her to explore the ‘Infinite and the Finite Games’ - as put together by philosopher James Carse.
Life is comprised of at least two kinds of games. One is finite games, in which the object is to win and the other is infinite games in which the object is to keep the game in play. Finite games have boundaries, include only select players and have rules that must not change for the duration of the game.
In contrast, infinite games have horizons that move as the player moves, welcome everyone into the game and the rules must change over time or the game will cease. In fact, when infinite players sense another player is about to lose, they attempt to change the rules to prevent this. Would you like to play?
To look at things in another way:
When parents bring children into the world, their babies are their treasures. Mum & Dad will do their utmost to make sure that their little ones are loved and cared for with totally, dedicated mindfulness.
Yet, to fulfil these aspirations, in most cases they have found themselves as the proverbial ingredients in a sandwich - that to survive in our Neo Liberal economic game plan, certain sacrifices have to be made.
When seen in this context - the tragedy of our time isn’t just all the damage we are doing to each other and our planet, it is that we aren’t even having much fun doing so. We’ve become stuck, too busy winning to listen to our hearts and each other.
Nevertheless, today we are witnessing new ways of doing and living that are now finally being articulated from that of a perceptive, psychological understanding. It is clearly showing us positive options that enhance relationships, pull the strands of community closer and enable us to strategize a way of resolving the challenges of survival.
Most of all, it is empowering us to involve ourselves into a new paradigm of ecological sustainability, peace and goodwill, and that which we at heart - all aspire to.
For it is now possible for us to change. The infinite game is right here, almost within our grasp, and everyone is invited.
If you want to play the infinite game or learn more go to www.infinite-game.net.
If you wish to listen into an ebullient an engaging conversation of emancipative possibilities and reinvigorating your life and your community - this intelligent and encouraging discussion with Niki, may very well stimulate you to take another step further. To really let you know that within your community, there are many unique and exceptional people plus prospective friends expressing their virtues in a way that is making the world and that of our children a place where we can find happiness, security and connection.
Have a listen as to how we can join the dots to a positive and fulfilling life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zExibEV_PY.
Niki Harre, is an associate Dean of Sustainability from Auckland University and has been involved in innovative ways to enable people to become engaged in the process of taking care of our common future, especially from the point of view of sustainability in an ecological context and in particular that which promotes human well being .
However, as an Associate Professor in Psychology - she is also very much involved in firing up one’s imagination so to enable people to realise that we can be the change in the world that we want to see. That we can shape our world in a positive way - if we all work both individually and together in community for the betterment of the whole.
Her book Psychology for a better world gives us insights and encouragement to become involved in our future, both on a local and a global level. It can also be downloaded for free.
https://www.psych.auckland.ac.nz/en/about/our-staff/academic-staff/niki-harre/psychologyforabetterworld.html.
Our guest today is Makuini Ruth Tai. I first met her as Ruth Tai. She is happy to be called either Makuini or Ruth, because she knows and honours the source of both her birth names.
Some two hundred years ago, the word Maori was not used as an identity term, It was only when the European landed on the shores of Aotearoa that a shift happened. When Ruth was young - she identified more with her whanau (immediate and extended family) and her hapu (sub-tribe or clan). The use of Maori as an identity label is fairly recent.
Ruth asserts that Maori was not just an oral language, it was also recorded. However, the European translators did not recognise the graphics as a written language. REO means language and voice. Every design, every pattern is the voice recorded/written in graphic form. Ruth is committed to decoding REO through the Rich Earth Oratory of the old time Maori, who understood the power of the voice and its varying tones. They didn't just 'talk', they also intoned or chanted and sang and were very passionate orators.
The interview:
Decoding REO Maori (Maori Language) in esoteric terms is extremely illuminating. This unveiling will resound throughout the Maori world and beyond - unfolding a renaissance in all things Maori and how we see and relate to existence in a 21st century setting.
It appears that British colonialists interpreted the Maori language incorrectly. That there was another esoteric level encoded in the resonance of the sound of REO. The evidence points to this.
In the 1800’s when the European colonised Aotearoa a land they called New Zealand, their mindset was of the Industrial revolution - being mechanistic - as well as of Victorian values - of the church - (and yes there were pioneers and adventurers). Essentially that was the level of language and understanding at that time.
That was the degree of ‘consciousness’ they brought to the actual translation of REO - into English.
The translators knew nothing of the pulse and resonance or the real depth of what was embedded in the language - especially that of the messages that were encoded within ‘every single word’.
Thus, they misconstrued the hidden elements.
Whereas Maori, who navigated the vastness of oceans by the stars, yet were equally at home in the density of the bush/forest - (that virtually covered the whole of Aotearoa NZ) - had indeed a language of immersion into nature itself. And Ruth in her personal research over many years, realised that we have not been able to factor in the depth of REO, so she has focused her life on recovering and unfolding it for a new paradigm that we are entering.
Ruth, unpacks the word Maori
Ma-ori …
ma translates as clear, clean, pure, white light. Ori is vibration, energy. When we see the word Maori with these insights we have a totally different translation.
We can see that the word Maori codes an origin from light and sound and today quantum physics speaks to this …
The words clear, clean, pure, white light, vibration or energy - do not speak of identity . Thus Maori describes who we are within ourselves - our state of beingness.
Kia Ora is usually only thought of as a greeting.
Kia is pronounced Key-Ah -
This one little word packs a lot of power.
Kia is the verb To Be, To Do, To Have.
Ora pronounced Aw-rrrah also refers to ‘wellness’ and ‘of Light and Sound’. Thus, to use the greeting Kia Ora you are in fact saying, "Greetings O Being Of Light and Sound. Be well, Do well and you will Have wellness".
Ora means receiving the light of that divine source - to bring us into wellness and we know in todays world via our technical knowhow, light and sound travel together. But in the early 1800’s the translators did not understand the higher dimension of both electricity and sound.
Kia Ora becomes more meaningful when you greet with this intention, when you greet each person as a radiant being of light and sound.
When mentioning Ra and the Egyptian connections - Ruth says Ra is also inner light, it is not always an outward projection.
When travelling to the US and spending time with first nation peoples, she noted a certain similarity of resonance or vibration as to how they spoke and voiced words… and how she perceived language to be. She recognises that first nations connect with nature and cosmos as first teachers - they sink into mother earth and are receptive to all that pulses. - such as star light and Matariki the Pleiades.
She mentions that the word mother and father used to describe Earth Mother and Sky Father - as terms of endearment are lovely really, but their personified names of Rangi and Nuku (Papa-tu-a-Nuku) convey an even truer meaning…
Cross over-words that are also in the universal field like tapu and taboo - how do they come about? Pu is always about the source - puna. It also means spring (where water emerges).
In this interview, Tim who was brought up in a rural area surrounded by Maori community that was impelled to speak English, mentions how he communicates to foreign visitors what Kia Ora means and in particular how to remember this important word.
Tim’s version = key - aura Kia remember as a KEY to open up something and ora is an aura - we all have an AURA or an energy field surrounding our body.
Ruth ' s understanding of Aroha
aroha is unconditional love
aro is a word for thought - how we breathe that thought - how we emote that thought - will either bring it to life or if we do not breathe it deeply if we do not emotionally involve ourselves around it - it just sits there.
aro is thought - also to intend and also to pay attention
ha is the life force - it’s the breath - or even the love force - the love behind the thought
She says that aroha is also obedient … it obeys everything - it is the unconditionality of aroha of love - that is its nature. So where we put our intention and our focus, that is what we are bringing into reality - we are moving the force of aroha to have it express itself in the here and now.
Thus, aroha becomes very extensive and all encompassing. It is having thought and breath unified - to become and to mean LOVE in all of its unconditionality… and to love wisely, which Ruth says is very important as our intent is critical. Where you put your focus you are going to get it - that love will always obey and always deliver. So it is how conscious we are in the moment - we need to be very mindful - our thoughts can be empowering or dis-empowering - the choice is always ours and ours alone, because we own the thought.
When it is all put together Ruth says it describes our aroha birthright
The interview covers tapu and the way seeds grow as well as introducing Rupert Sheldrakes morphic resonance into the idea that tapu may feed into the localised field, when the the tohunga (seer, expert) sets the intention for a tapu to be activated. Where a death occurs in a specific area, or that a crop or fishing area not be entered maybe because it was not the season.
The interview covers the historical setting.
We have to always remember that over the centuries the old time Maori had embedded a totally different wave length of thinking and being - and when the European came to NZ, they too had a very different wave length of thinking, too.
Europeans came from the industrial revolution and some were of peasantry or serfdom and escaped as described in William Blake’s song about ‘the dark satanic mills’ of England. Basically they landed in a country covered in jungle (bush) right down to the waters edge. Most of the new settlers had lived outside of the deepness of ’the nature’ - of really embedding themselves in the pulse of life that vibrated when you are surrounded by virtually no humans at all, other than the sounds of birds and insects plus the wind etc. The landscape was on occasions very still. The trees sighed, the creek murmured, the wind intoned, and the rocks smiled … and everything pulsed from sun up to sundown and throughout the evening of darkness and star light … This is what the old time Maori experienced and revered.
The Early settlers were strangers in a strange land… and had to make everything up usually individually or in tiny groups as they went along toiling, cutting, digging erecting involved in makeshift - many experienced hard learnings on the way.
Indigenous people are the nature people - they are the ones with their conscious connection to all the subtle and not so subtle movement that surrounds them, and through living and working in a group or community setting, they had their finger on the pulse of the environment that enveloped them.
Whereas as when the colonialist leaders landed, they were an expression of the corporate language that made their beachhead here in Aotearoa, and in doing so took away, or lost the heart connection …and turned it into something that distanced us from nature and today we have ended up with a language that has a hardness to it - in the sounds …
The interview moves on to cover:
Karakia is prayer - to bring thought into reality - to bring the sacred light into form.
The fact that Ruth can decode REO and divine a totally deeper level of being that has been slumbering for too many years - it’s like finding an esoteric pathway, when in fact we have in some ways been walking an exoteric path thinking that we had the Maori language sussed.
In Ruth’s words… with the decoding of the actual words as spoken by the old time Maori, we now have a window into the ancient language and she says that with the language of quantum sciences that we have at our disposal today, we can now comprehend the mother tongue, that Maori already knew and lived the science - way back then…
We spoke of Tane god of the forest, Tangaroa god of the sea and god of the weather Tāwhirimātea.
Plus the hongi and what it is as a greeting - 3rd eye to 3rd eye, forehead to forehead and sharing breath. That in many ways we are not today realising it as a sacred act - there is too much chatter and we are being casual about it, when it is actually a sacred act of connection, a special time to heal, to clear, to cleanse, to transform to transmute all of the ancestral lines.
That Maori always have their sacred connection to the Land - their local mountain, their river, their lake or spring - this extension of them, this connection is that these physical manifestations are seen as the elders.
In ceremonial greetings the women are the ‘first callers’ of welcome and greetings. They chant their oratory and weave all the elements and invisible forces of life into a coherency that connects all people to the occasion of unity.
There is also a plethora of female goddesses, but these were missed out by the early translators of maori myth and legend ... they are making a comeback today.
Finally, when European set foot on Aotearoa - Maori described them as pakeha
pa is to connect
ke is different
ha is breath
People of a different breath
This is only half of the interview. You can download the transcribed conversation in full and listen to the audio. It gifts us a very profound understanding of a people who have inhabited this land for at least centuries and some say since the beginning.
To reiterate - this language of a different frequency was not available to the early settlers, explorers and missionaries in the 1800’s. It was lost in translation.
This new rendition - throws light on a whole new way of: allowing, being, doing, seeing and understanding.
This is why Maori today are driven to protect and encourage all to learn REO Maori (Maori Language).
Connect with Makuini Ruth Tai at REO Communications on Facebook.
Listen to a medical doctor who also specialises in Eastern Medicine & Acupuncture talk about the challenges we face today.
Today I learn that doctors are having to deal with many variants of mental disturbances. That the art of listening is extremely important so as to gain trust and be sensitive to the many needs of a society that is becoming increasingly stressful.
From empathy, compassion and nurturing, to the challenges of abandonment, abuse and separation, to betrayal, sociopathy and psychopathy.
In identifying the darker side of the human character we learn that there is a certain percentage of people who show no signs of connection, compassion or empathy, but instead climb the ladder of the proverbial power structures to embed themselves at the top, or at a critical nodal point or as a gatekeeper.
Yet, the challenge for all of us is to become whole - whilst living in a society that has many dysfunctionalities and fragmentations. That people wanting to become more fulfilled, but lack a moral or ethical compass - instead, fill themselves with distractions and indulgences and get caught up - by becoming addicted to so-many fixations and obsessions, in an effort to fill this emptiness and lack of wholeness.
However, the only thing that you can really fill this emptiness, is love and joy - that which we cannot hold in our hand, being non material - like creativity, art, music, dance, fun and most of all of connection and warm and heart filled relationships.
By being mindful and empathic - it will take us into a realm where healing can take place.
In his practice as an MD, self compassionate people come to see him who are struggling with looking after themselves - 'as an act of compassion.’
Many are women which is probably why women suffer from chronic illness the most, because they care too much and become affected too easily. This being due to their sensitivity as their given role has been to nurture others and not necessarily themselves. Robin sees his role is to engender within them - self regard and self compassion - and to validate and empower them. (and there is much more to it, than this).
This interview also looks at identifying the darker/shadow side of the human character.
Though he does not often come in contact with this, in his own work or in family and community settings. He is however, noticing that patients are coming to him, and though not dark themselves have been affected by the dark side of others, be it in relationships or at work, be it abuse, bullying or more subtle signs of verbal abuse - even silence can be very abusive.
Also, some people can suffer early in life from abandonment or abuse and the result is that later in life certain genetic memories can be turned back on and the body, because it is older is less able to cope with it - and can switch on not only emotional conditions like depression and anxiety, but physical conditions as well - this is actually the epi-genetics of illness.
Covering abandonment and the feelings of separation - and abuse, plus betrayal - that some young people find that their spirituality was taken away from them as well - their innocence and purity gone and so is their sacred purpose - this is why the wounds and hurt goes so very deep.
In Robin’s practice he said it’s most important to really listen - that there is no separation and that connection is imperative. Especially, when dealing with cancer sufferers who are in a terminal situation - leading to the end of their lives.
He endeavours to always gather a team around that person, if they don’t already have a team - so that, that patient is then nurtured and feels supported by being part of a community. Also, Robin too can be part of that community and having the next door neighbour being part of it as well. They have to choose to have this close community that may include doctors, specialists and the home helper and the family.
Robin sees that abandonment is one of the greatest issues that we face because it creates a feeling that we are separate yet this is a false feeling - a falsity. We function best with more joy - with other people - and with their team around them thaey feel validated and you just love them for who they are.
We cover the topic of empathy - with sitting with someone - where you yourself remember in previous times in your own life, when you felt that lonely or alone. When with a patient you don’t straight away try a fix them or come out with a solution - you listen. Robin says there is a lot of talk about energy medicine - and he states that in this case too - being able to listen with an open heart is imperative.
As an acupuncturist, Robin is also able to tap in and listen to the many invisible signals that are within our body. That every organ in our anatomy has a different pulse or signature and he can quickly adetermine the health of any one of the particular organs. He does this by feeling the numerous differing pulses on the inside of the patient’s wrist. He can determine their strength and or weaknesses of any particular organ and then by using acupuncture needles he can bring about balance - by opening energy flows throughout the body resulting in integrating them into the wellbeing of the ‘whole body’ - as one, integrated system.
Also, that our society suffers in many ways, due to many of its dysfunctionalities and fragmentations - and while we have people wanting to be more whole, often they lack a moral or ethical compass, and instead, fill themselves with distractions and indulgences and get caught up by becoming addicted to so many fixations and obsessions … dope, booze, sugar, and also materialism - all to fill this emptiness and lack of wholeness.
And we are encouraged to fill this whole, because we are embedded into a consumer society who wants us and encourages us, to buy stuff and to buy it often. But, not only that, we are filling it with busy-ness - by always being busy .… and not centered.
However, the only true thing that you can fill this emptiness with, is with love and joy - that which we cannot hold in our hand, being non material - like creativity, art, music, dance, fun, but especially connection and being supported. (And heaps of hugs help too!)
Now all humans have this emptiness as we are born into it and during the course of our existence we fill this with the love of our parents and families and community - and that we embed - usually by osmosis - principles, values, morality, ethics from the family and the community that surrounds us.
Many people fill their emptiness with relationships that are not real and not loving and that too has its challenges. That when this subject comes up in a doctor patient scenario they start to cry and touch on this emptiness and sadness and one of the unique things about this outpouring of heartbreak is that the body appreciates this - there is no real damage done to our body - because of this recognition - healing can take place. The next step is to start filling that hole and that self esteem needs to be built up, especially with loving relationships - communing with nature and visiting lovely places. This leads to how they can fill themselves from within, with a reality that can make their life whole and meaningful.
Robin mentions that sadness can be passed on over generations - and this is particularly noticed if there has been a lot of generations having gone off to war. Yet, women too have inherited generations of repression and this also needs to be acknowledged and healed.
This interview covers many aspects of healing and how we listen is a most important component.
We also covers a deeper understanding of narcissism and when it becomes malignant narcissism and the shadow around that subject - that in turn leads to sociopathy and psychopathy and how we are now finally realising what these are and finding them at younger ages so as to engage remedial action before much societal damage occurs.
One of the traits of sociopaths and psychopaths is that they lie and then fully believe their own lies.
Robin introduces the unique book written by Paul Levy ‘Dispelling Wetiko’ It states: There is a contagious psychospiritual disease of the soul, a parasite of the mind, that is currently being acted out en masse on the world stage via a collective psychosis of titanic proportions. This mind-virus—which Native Americans have called "wetiko"—covertly operates through the unconscious blind spots in the human psyche, rendering people oblivious to their own madness and compelling them to act against their own best interests.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_Mh9jaxmbU
That 99% of the human race are salvageable and will see the light, but there is a certain percentage who are unsalvageable - this new knowledge is as a result of more recent data and research.
Robert Hare is most probably one of the world’s experts in all things psychopathic having written a book - ‘Snakes in Suits’ and he says that the capacity for corporations with these type of individuals in power to be one psychopathic monster - is huge. https://www.amazon.com/Snakes-Suits-When-Psychopaths-Work/dp/0061147893
Gas lighting comes up too. It’s based around how to manipulate (someone) by psychological means into doubting their own sanity: in the first episode of the movie, Karen Valentine is being gaslighted by her husband - from the storyline of the film Gaslight (1944), in which a man psychologically manipulates his wife into believing that she is going insane.
This too is how a psychopath can manipulate people. So we have to identify these traits written above and act - and it is slowly happening.
In regard to Corporate Psychopathy they will lie, they will deflect, they will speak over others and they will belittle them - and the need for public education around this is urgent - but we must be very careful as we could very well call out the wrong people - yet Robin states that this is a lesser problem - we just have to become far more aware …
Don’t purchase shares in their companies, don’t vote for them … be more conscious of your choices.
The more information we have the better the chances of remedial action so as to make a better more caring world for our children and grandchildren.
An engaging interview.
www.robinkelly.com
“Open the books,” is Mayoral candidate Penny Bright’s catch phrase, 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.
Auckland Mayoral Candidate and public watchdog Penny Bright talks with Lisa Er.
'Activists get things done'!
“It's time to stop the commercialisation and privatisation of Council services and regulatory functions, and return to the genuine 'public service' model” says Penny.
“It's time for we the people to take back control of our region, our assets and our resources!”
This October, voting Penny Bright for Mayor will not be just a 'protest' vote - but a vote for real change that will serve the public and the public interest - not corporate interests.
“I'm fiercely and genuinely politically independent and work on an 'issue by issue' basis. My proven track record is 20 years experience in local government, defending the public & the public interest, as a self-funded anti-privatisation & anti-corruption 'Public Watchdog'.”
“I am opposed to corporate control, locally, nationally and internationally, and am the only Auckland Mayoral candidate who is actively opposed to the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA).”
Penny also asserts that it is time to 'roll back Rogernomics' which was based on the myth and mantra 'public is bad - private is good'.
(Rogernomics neo-liberal philosophy embraces five basic principles:
1 The rule of the market
2 Cutting public expenditure for social services
3 Deregulation
4 Privatisation
5 Eliminating the concept of public good or community.)
“In my opinion, the only ones to have benefited from running public services in a more 'business-like' mode are those businesses which have been awarded the contracts.
However, if Government and Council public services are now being owned, operated and managed for private profit without cost-benefit analysis - then that, in my view is 'corporate welfare', to which I am totally opposed.
Open the books - cut out the contractors - bring Council services & regulatory functions back 'in house' under the public service model, and stop corrupt cronyism and corporate welfare.”
If elected Auckland Mayor Penny Bright will ensure the rule of law is implemented and enforced regarding ratepayers and citizens lawful rights to open, transparent and democratically accountable local government.
“I'm also totally opposed to 'democracy for developers' and question why all this 'growth' has to come to Auckland?
In my view, there should be a national population growth, migration and regional employment strategy.”
Who benefits now from this 'One Plan' for Auckland, in my view, are property developers, foreign investors, bankers, land bankers, speculators and money-launderers.
This is a 'Supercity' - for the 1%.
The Auckland region is being run 'like a business - by business - for business, the mechanism for this effective corporate takeover being the 'Council Controlled Organisation' (CCO) model.
It's time to stop the commercialisation and privatisation of Council services and regulatory functions, and return to the genuine 'public service' model.
It's time for we the people to take back control of our region, our assets and our resources!”
This time voting Penny Bright for Mayor will not be just a 'protest' vote - but a vote for real change that will serve the public and the public interest - not corporate interests.
Penny’s Bio:
AT 61, Penny sees her life as an onion, with many layers to her life.
Her formative childhood years were in the Wairarapa. She was brought up on a 6 acre lifestyle block in Carterton, where she picked strawberries in Greytown as a 10 year old, to help buy a pony with the required riding gear.
From this she learned to focus, and work hard to achieve what she wanted in life.
She did well academically, but chose not to go University, having discovered political activism in her 7th form year through joining the anti-apartheid movement.
After a year of hitch-hiking around New Zealand staying at Youth Hostels in the days when you could just walk into jobs off the street, she got on a plane to Sydney with $200 in the bank - to see the world.
She didn't get past Australia!
In Perth West Australia, in 1974, she got involved in the first famous campaign against foreign military bases in Australia, and was part of the 'Long March' across Australia against the USA base at North West Cape.
She decided to return to New Zealand to become more politically involved, and ended up working for 6 years in a home appliance factory in Masterton and working as a Union activist on the factory floor.
Penny was made redundant in 1981 and so went to Auckland to live. She was one of the 12 people who organised the anti- Springbok Tour protests in Auckland in 1981.
This resulted in her being listed as one of 8 'subversives' on then Prime Minister Rob Muldoon's SIS list, although she has never been able to get a copy of her SIS file, and the GCSB would neither confirm or deny whether she was one of the 88 New Zealanders who had been unlawfully spied upon.
After working for 4 years as an electronics assembler in a 'brown goods' factory, and being eventually sacked as a Union activist for being an arguably effective Union delegate, Penny did a welding course at (then) Auckland Institute of Technology (AIT).
She was first employed as a welder and then ended up doing an adult apprenticeship in a stainless steel fabrication workshop qualifying in Advanced Trade in Sheet metal Engineering, where she became New Zealand's first female CBIP (Certification Board for Inspectorate Personnel) Welding Inspector.
After doing some production planning, Penny became a Quality Assurance Co-ordinator, whose job it was to help ensure that pressure vessels didn't blow up, and make sure that quality systems were in place so that the jobs that went out on the truck, were that which the sales people had promised, and the clients had ordered and paid for.
After a change of company ownership when a number of people were made redundant Penny was subsequently hired as a Welding Tutor for 9 years at Manukau Institute of Technology (MIT), where she helped teach thousands of (mainly) men how to weld.
So Penny had 16 years of working in a totally male-dominated environment.
In 2000, she was made redundant from MIT, and having being fortunate enough to become mortgage-free that same year, Penny decided to work full-time on a self-funded basis on the political issues that she was involved with.
These were mainly on the local government front, as a founding member of the Water Pressure Group against Auckland City Council's commercialised water services company Metrowater, and water privatisation.
Penny has now been involved in local government issues in Auckland for the last 20 years. On the home front she has been together with ‘a lovely man’ who is hugely supportive of her, for over 10 years.
Always campaigning with an element of humour, Penny signs her e-mails with,
‘Her Warship’.
This interview was sponsored by The Awareness Party http://www.theawarenessparty.com/home/
PENNY BRIGHT’S ACTION PLAN TO ENSURE 'OPEN, TRANSPARENT AND DEMOCRATICALLY ACCOUNTABLE' NZ GOVERNMENT AND JUDICIARY:
1) Make ALL 'facilitation payments' (BRIBES) illegal.
2) Legislate to create a NZ independent anti-corruption body, tasked with educating the public and preventing corruption.
3) Legislate for NZ Members of Parliament (who make the rules for everyone else) to have a legally enforceable 'Code of Conduct'.
4) Make it an offence under the Local Government Act 2002, for NZ Local Government elected representatives to breach their 'Code of Conduct'.
5) Make it lawful, mandatory requirement for Local Government elected representatives to complete a 'Register of Interests' which is available for public scrutiny.
6) Make it a lawful, mandatory requirement for Local Government staff, responsible for property or procurement, to complete a 'Register of Interests' which is available for public scrutiny.
7) Make it lawful, a mandatory requirement for Local Government Council Controlled Organisation (CCO) Directors and staff, responsible for property or procurement, to complete a 'Register of Interests' which is available for public scrutiny.
8) Fully implement and enforce the Public Records Act 2005, to ensure public records are available for public scrutiny.
9) Make it a lawful requirement that a 'cost-benefit' analysis of NZ Central Government and Local Government public finances must be undertaken, to prove that private procurement of public services previously provided 'in house' is cost-effective for the public majority of tax payers and rate payers.
10) Legislate for a legally enforceable 'Code of Conduct' for members of the NZ Judiciary, to ensure that they are not 'above the law'.
11) Legislate to provide a publicly-available NZ Judicial 'Register of Interests', to help prevent 'conflicts of interest'.
12) Ensure ALL NZ Court proceedings are recorded, with audio records available to parties who request them.
13) Legislate for a publicly-available NZ 'Register of Lobbyists, and 'Code of Conduct' for lobbyists.
14) Legislate for a 'post-separation employment' ('revolving door' ) quarantine period from the time officials leave the public service, to take up a similar role in the private sector.
15) Legislate to make it a lawful requirement that it is only a binding vote of the public majority that can determine whether public assets held at NZ central or local government are sold, or long-term leased via Public Private Partnerships.
16) Legislate to make it unlawful for politicians to knowingly misrepresent their policies prior to central or local government elections.
17) Legislate to protect individuals, NGOs and community-based organisations, who are 'whistle-blowing' against 'conflicts of interest' and and alleged corrupt practices at central and local government level and within the judiciary.
18) Legislate to prevent 'State Capture' - where vested interests get what they want, at the 'policy' level, before laws are passed which serve their vested interests.
Policy of 2016 Auckland Mayoral candidate Penny Bright. www.pennybright4mayor.org.nz
Authorised by Penny Bright 86A School Rd Kingsland Auckland
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This week I interviewed David Icke the British researcher - on shattering the hypnotic program that has psychologically allowed us to sleep-walk our way into George Orwell’s 1984 and conversely, succumbing to Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World - by default.
David has a very interesting take of what’s happening today and even though we have been warned to participate more fully in our democracy, we have let our politicians essentially, run away with their own agenda. For instance, increasing their own pay packets regularly, and on many levels, basically dispensing with their commitment to being ‘our servants’ to act for the public good.
Note that, when we visit the book - 1984, we read that a totalitarian regime reigns by fear, using mass surveillance and the media to impose its authority on the populace. Those who step out of line risk having their existences erased. Rebellion is quelled by force.
Then we compare it to Brave New World, mass surveillance is unnecessary - rather, people are controlled by their desires; promiscuity is encouraged, people are given endless supplies of narcotics, and there’s entertainment galore. There’s no force to quell a rebellion, because one could never happen. The populace has become comfortably numb.
This then leads to the study of the hybridisation of the above two scenarios, where today, the controllers, bankers and their world wide security apparatus at the top of the pyramid - continue to cast their spell. They are doing this by feverishly working 24/7 to consolidate their power with ‘treaties’ and ‘acts’ pushed through under urgency - in many cases in secret without the knowledge of the masses, as they accelerate the neoliberal economic programme - in lockstep with the neocon agenda - coupled with the military industrial complex - to secure a One World Government.
So in this interview David decodes the psychological and mental processes that influences our behaviours in particular how we have been subtly programmed for decades and before that - to not now - question anything - especially consensus reality! That with the advent of electronic mass media, and mesmerising sound bites, plus mobile technology - and the titillation of stardom, glamour and celebrity, we are being constantly steered away from thinking deeply about issues. Specifically, negating the values and virtues we were once imbued with, many, generations and decades ago.
We have instead become engrossed and distracted in minutiae at the expense of the big picture.
So this lucid exchange, explains how we have become entangled in this spell, as well as awakening us to the real possibility of breaking this increasing mass psychosis and again reclaiming our humanity, our respective countries and our planet, especially for the future of our children and grandchildren.
This interview covers a diverse number of subjects and went for nearly 90 minutes. We will post the video of the full skype recording shortly, but this one hour interview will give you a warm taster.
In this particular interview David covers:
The nature of reality and the quantum field.
He then says that when we acknowledge that we are:
“Infinite awareness, all that is, has been and ever can be - and that ‘we’ are all possibility.”
A subtle, but substantial shift happens.
That every human has this potential - meaning you and I and everyone else.
This leads us to get beyond the onion skins - of the programming
It’s about “connecting the dots.”
That we live within a holographic universe - that our world is also and it is also illusionary.
Covering religion and the paranormal.
Programming and sleep walking.
Once humans open up to expand their awareness - it will be so great that it will out-picture the status quo, including the limitations of the shadow as we become able to expose that which has been recently closing in around us.
Banking and politics, are lockstep together.
Trans-humanism and this insidious and deceptive programming of turning humans into robots, with silicon chip consciousness. (He just touches on this).
Unless we awaken to our true-self and go beyond the program - nothing is going to change, especially for the better.
Decoding that our planet at another level is holographic - and that our planet is a vast swirling information field. As are all the planets and constellations in this quadrant of the galaxy.
That the universe is basically a colossal / gigantic wifi field so the more our awareness expands - the more of the field we become aware of …
Vibrations and how to be able to decode and access the many levels so as to understand, sound, sight, touch, smell and taste. That everything is information and how we can interpret and decipher this information - intuitively - spontaneously.
Plant intelligence and that there are many instances of people recording and measuring their responses, that we can have relationships on many levels. With animals too.
Pain relieving techniques that cut of the senses from an area in the body that is in pain. There are hospitals now doing this.
A global agenda for controlling the human race.
The minds of many just do not want to see things in the future - especially if it’s going to be perceived as difficult. Denial and negativity - certain people do not want to face reality.
A powerful piece on what is negativity and perceptions of why is it that people only want to see the easy and good things of life?
So the clever way is to manipulate people’s reality and ’tell them what they want to hear and read.’ Yes it’s true - ‘NZ is still very Clean and Green’ so, don’t be put off by a few radical hippy, greenies pointing out the data from scientific research!
This is becoming more and more pronounced here in NZ, as no matter how many untruths emanate from the present government, supporters will continue to believe their elected representative, because the unvarnished truth will erode their version of reality. So they avoid and deny this reality, to the long term detriment to society and our value system and our children’s future.
This is particularly relevant with the super secret global trade deals that are being enforced on us.
David clarifies what is happening regarding: The TPPA, the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement and the TIIP, The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership having different names but are one interlocking deal, like giant jigsaw pieces that slot together, that will clamp and lock all countries into a new world order of trade - run by corporations. Including the (CETA) The Canada and European Union (EU) Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement. These are all not people friendly and we have to wake up to what’s in our future.
Plus much other subject matter from 911 to Geo-engineering. This will soon be on the GreenplanetFM.com web site as an MP4 video - unedited.
David Icke will be in NZ on August the 6th at the Logan Campbell centre in One Tree Hill Auckland. from 10 am to 10 pm - to download what is happening.
Tickets: http://theworldwidewakeup.com
Join Tim on a journey into greater understanding as he reflects on the lifetime drivers that have pulled the threads of GreenplanetFM.com and Ourplanet.org together.
For any budding All Black or athlete we were conditioned as children in NZ, that we really could achieve success, especially in the realm of sport and take on the world.
This was favourably looked on throughout our schooling and this is where we could excel up to international level. It was basically how we played the game.
Born on a dairy farm in a well-off region near Matamata, yet among financially challenged Maori, I saw both sides of our so called bi-cultural society, and then in my early 20’s when traveling overseas it all hit me that there was so much inequity - and inequality - especially in Africa and at different levels throughout the Iron Curtain countries. That when hitchhiking and travelling back to NZ from the UK - overland, through the Middle East to India down to Singapore, I witnessed so many poor and struggling - when there was only 3.5 billion in the human population in those days.
This is where I really saw that our planet was in trouble, but not being empowered or having the skills to initiate change from the core of my being, I eventually accepted that this was the way things were and I just did what a large segment of the (younger) population do today and that is, have fun, enjoy and have a good time. Though I did make token gestures by donating to Greenpeace.
At the age of 25 I woke up from that life of self indulgence, pubs and parties to realise that we, as a human species especially in the West were methodically pulling the collective rug out from underneath our feet. That we were destroying the biosphere and it was happening at an increasing pace.
This awakening was synchronistically timed by meeting some very conscious people who saw this madness and were consciously aware that we had to question - how does a human being live on a planet?
By metaphorically stripping myself of all things physical, right to the essence of who I am, I started to reconfigure my being to understand my place in the universe as well as focus my attention on awakening people - any people to what is going to befall us, especially the children of today and tomorrow.
This has led me to an adventure of global proportions, that through serendipity and synchronicity has brought me in contact with leaders in many differing fields, at the same time validating to me - that I am on the right path.
This led me into living in a community, whilst I took a job, which I originally thought would be for 6 months, such was the mindset, that we could go from job to job in those days.
This so called job as International cabin crew for Air New Zealand took me on long distance flights around the curve of our mother planet, from hemisphere to hemisphere, Trans-Pacific and Trans-Atlantic - spending the equivalent of 2 years of my life flying 10 kilometres above the surface of our planet. (sort of like near earth orbit) and in those days we didn’t have chemtrails.
It was over a 17 year period that I was able to visit the ruins and study most of the ancient civilisations that had come and gone and I was able to check out many unexplained anomalies as well, including what their religions and philosophies were, and understanding far more as to why they collapsed.
It was during this time that I became aware that our planet was a giant living super organism - (Yet only later, embedded the idea that it (she) had loaned us bodies. Yet, looking down on our majestic planet and marvelling at much beauty and diversity, I also observed shimmering oils slicks floating on the surface of the vast Pacific ocean, areas of continuous denuded soil and clay in Malaysia, where mighty forests once sprung forth, brown soot covering snow in gigantic swaths of Northern Canada and Greenland and especially in 1976 - for 10 years or so, (before improvements in air quality) I used to fly through the industrial haze and atmospheric debris of Los Angeles international airport - hundreds of times. Then in 1993 I gave away flying as one of the main reasons being, the huge amount of oxygen a 747-400 used in its 11 hour trans Pacific and trans Canada - Atlantic flights, plus - other considerations.
However, I had so many adventures in many countries, meeting leading edge scientists, mystics, researchers and people modelling sustainability, especially in an ecological context as well as visiting areas at the forefront and vanguard of hydrogen energy, levitation and solar and windmill energy, holography and morphic-resonance - ideas far in advance of what were happening in NZ.
I also checked out intentional communities and ways that people shared shelter and living space. Attending lectures and events like the World Symposium of the Humanities, Whole life Expo’s and Body Mind & Spirit festivals. I was definitely gifted the opportunity.
Which leads me to today and the relaunching of GreenplanetFM as a new platform for conscious media, from a local to a global context.
That will be embedded in OurPlanet.org as a conscious intent, to encourage win win actions and deeds to our world.
Because it is our purpose to ask the question; “how does a human live on a planet?”
That our Planet is a colossal living super organism and an can be likened as a cell is embedded in a larger Galactic super organism.
That every child born into this realm is ‘an energy bundle of exponential potential.’
That we are far more than we very thought possible.
We are here to empower and inspire the individual to evolve the human race.
We will take it deeper then …
With Anima Mundi world soul - there is an intrinsic connection between all living beings on our planet, which relates to our world - in much the same way as the soul is integrated into the human body.
We have other subtle subject matter like the anchoring of the sacred ( Divine) Feminine in NZ in 1893, so as to join the sacred Male in the coming together of the yin and yang - the balance of the Male and the Female in accord to the unfolding of the new paradigm.
That in the words of Nikola Tesla, the man who brought electricity to virtually every home and building on earth: “The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.”
That the sacred feminine is under assault today and can been seen very clearly in the outside world as Gaia is relentless plundered, mined and denuded.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/68363264/New-Zealand-legally-recognises-animals-as-sentient-beings
The Animal Welfare Amendment Bill, states that animals, like humans, are "sentient" beings.
Yes, there are the overwhelmers, the fact that we are overpopulating.
The focus will also include that Our Planet is also a Spaceship Earth and ‘we are the crew’ coming back to our posts and using the recently deployed www to reconnect at another level etc
And that the crew have found out that their ship is a Mothership, ‘from her all things have issued’ - and they find out that she has another name - Gaia (Papatuanuku Maori) that the ancient Greeks knew of and understood and thus for us in the 21st century when we as an aware and conscious humanity wake up to our connection as a global human family and bring about peace, we become the flowering of Gaia - to become the Gaiasphere, (when we realise that we all share breath - ‘When she breathes in, we breathe out and when we breathe in she breathes out’ - the next level of evolution may make itself known.
That all minerals are evolving (a fantastic story since not long after the big bang) - to eventually the Noosphere that Teihard De Chardin - that at heart we Alpha and Omega and that heart introduces global group mind, and unity consciousness - all oscillating at the same frequency, yet every single human still has their own musical note and individuality as they melt into the greater oneness …
For the first time in human history the phenomenon of the global population ageing and its impact on social cohesion and economic sustainability is increasing - and needs to be addressed.
The political word for elders is gerantocracy … When soon, older people will be in the majority and we will have to rethink, what democracy is …
This interview is about re-languaging, leadership, acknowledgement and the impacting of more people ageing and how we factor them into the full healthy happy lives.
Covering New Zealand, to China and Japan as well as Europe - now known as super-ageing countries and NZ too, is getting close to becoming a super-ageing country.
Whereas, Europe has been discussing this issue for 20 years NZ has not. The OECD has been warning us as well.
For example - In Tauranga a NZ city of 130,000, ageing people are going to be 1 in 3 in ten years time - it is moving faster that we recognise.
An engaging interview that everyone in society needs to became aware of - the surge in numbers of people ageing and how are we going to factor the many variables as well as the costs into this phenomenon.
This interview covers:
What population ageing means - fewer young people-more older people living longer.
Super-aging nations, changing economies and international responses.
New Zealand ageing. Issues, challenges and opportunities - Time to wake up and get over ageism-stop denying the reality.
Impact in regions and communities that some cities like Tauranga will in 10 years time have 40% of its population as elders.
Need for changing the language, systems understand, adapt and innovate - the good work of Kiwi Bank, NZ Super Fund.
Age - friendly everything needs to be factored - urban planning, products and services for people living longer living more and longer after retirement
Investing in growing a Silver Economy - what is it, what does this mean, what is happening internationally?
Opportunity for younger generations, millennials to be innovative is finding ways to tap into this market, be for services and products.
10 age-friendly things to do today in your community new models-of care ( perhaps future of retirement villages) Men’s Sheds.
The role of Elders - leadership / values / role models giving hope to future generations.
When we look at Europe especially Greece, but also Portugal, Spain and Italy the populations are basically stagnant, the people are getting older and these countries are not really growing economically and the people continue to age and expect pensions. Where there is an urgent need for a new economic formula.
Fortunately, here in NZ, Michael Cullen when he was the Minister of Finance in the Clark Labour Government put in Kiwi Saver and the National Super Fund, but Carole feels that we need to contribute more to it. We evidently had one of the the top investment companies handling the fund, but when the Key Government came to power they stopped the investments contributing into that fund - despite the fact that it was/is a good performer.
At present because the ageing population have very few champions for this demographic, there is virtually no discussion that factors in the growing numbers of people who are over 60 etc and Carole says we can now include the 50 year olds as well.
With local government being pushed by central government to open up to more urban sprawl, how will older people who live further out of the city going to travel to their doctor, physiotherapist or hospital to visit friends or buy food etc - when they have to travel such huge distances and now may not be allowed to drive? Carole says there is a need for lifetime neighbourhoods or age friendly communities - so that those people can better manage their lives - instead of struggling to drive in over-full motorways or a poor train network.
What has happened is Katikati, near Tauranga is an example of people leaving Auckland over the last 10 years, and because it is a good thriving, modern, country town, with many facilities and good climate, it now has over 40% of its inhabitants over 65 years of age - and that demographic as a possible future microcosm of NZ - is actually greater than they have in Japan - however Japan because it is the highest ageing country on our planet, has already planned for these changes and can absorb the changing circumstances.
The interview also covers ‘social capital’ which is the people and their combined and diverse abilities plus qualities and how can we assist them and their community to make their area more cohesive and resilient.
Carole has a little mantra which says - “we need to understand what population ageing means - then we need to adapt and then we need to innovate”.
Local Government needs to start factoring in the aged in their 10 year plans and focus on the changing of the demographics - up until now they have been lacking and their vision.
For example - In Tauranga a city of 130,000, ageing people are going to be 1 in 3 in ten years time - it is moving faster that we recognise.
The critical issue is this is demographic denial and she believes that we are not languaging ageing - in that we are not talking about it.
Carol is very strong in calling out the way society talks about the elderly and that the ‘old people are the others’ - separated from society. She says, they are our people - and they are our families - and they are our grandparents and our parents and they are our elders. That if we deny them we are also in many ways denying our old age. She feels very passionate that we remain connected on every level as these older people have contributed much to our communities and our society as a whole.- especially the growth and prosperity of NZ.
She says the terminology of ‘older people’ needs to be languaged in a new choice of vernacular - using the words ‘mature and older people’ and we have ‘old and older’ people.
The last half of life can be purposeful and meaningful, that the baby boomers will never be old they will be pushing the boundaries at many levels.
We are coming into the ‘No Age Society.’
Our Future:
The longevity economy or the silver economy - is expected to grow globally by $15 trillion by 2020 and in NZ from 1$1.5 billion from 2011 to $65 billion in 2050 and you will never read or hear about this in the media or from politicians of the impact of the boomers.
Because ether are living longer and icing well - however though purchasing of good and leisure activities, Carole’s interest is in lifelong learning, of new skills extending our education reflecting on philosophical thoughts etc etc.
Retirement villages are denuding society of the wisdom and joy of the elders by locking them away in separation from their families and the community as a whole. It definitely does not benefit people at this age to lose connection with family, relatives, friends and community.
Yet, internationally countries, especially in Europe are adapting to these changes by manufacturing and marketing products that make life more easier for elders to negotiate life. (listen to the interview)
Carole languages the possibilities and the opportunities that we need to look for and work towards - this is a key focus for her. She has been at an arts debate recently where the discussion mentioned that the ‘neo-liberal economy’ has reached its limits creating many social problems and that it is time that we revisited ‘economy’ in far more people and community friendly ways.
Many old established towns in NZ are very possibly going to fall away because there will be no young people left and thus the ageing people will hang in until they finally die. And this is already happening in Japan where the Government has closed off villages and closed off roads as they are not economically viable anymore. In some instances schools were closed and turned into nursing homes for older people.
In NZ we have no outdoor gyms that are put up for elders to go out, have a get-together, do some exercises and meet and catch up.
When a person retires with a lot of accumulated knowledge - the name of the game is to have that person engaged somehow sharing this even if it only via workshops or other festivals or gatherings - maybe at night schools etc.
This is only from the the first 20 minutes of this engaging interview.
Footnote:
Yet, we also have to factor in climate change and all the other urgent global variables that are happening within the biosphere too.
Issac Oron and Charles Pierard chats with Lisa Er about the Universal Basic Income (UBI) as a Catalyst for Global Change.
Have you bought into the Puritan work ethic? Do you think everyone should have a job?
What happens as more work is outsourced to underdeveloped ‘cheap’ countries, and in the West increasingly robots do the work? Why not have a “basic income” paid to every individual to cover their basic needs. The governments would pay the same amount of money to each person, regardless of whether they work. A Universal (or Unconditional) Basic Income acknowledges that every individual has the same unconditional right to a basic income, sufficient for them to live in dignity.
Switzerland will vote on whether to introduce the model on June 5, 2016. This has come about by a petition which has been circulating, and enough signatures were collected to insist on a binding referendum. Supporters of the initiative have suggested that each adult would receive 2,500 francs (a whopping $3755.18 New Zealand dollars) a month, with children receiving 625 francs (NZ $938.80) a month until they reach 18. Their idea is to alleviate poverty.
Critics have stated that the model would encourage people to leave the labour market and would fuel a sense of injustice from those who continue to work to support those who choose not to. But can we really provide jobs for all, and do we need to? Apparently 64% of Europeans would vote in favour of a UBI, and only 4% would stop working, according to a poll conducted by German company Dalia Research, in April 2016.
Can we in NZ afford it? Perhaps not at the rate Switzerland is suggesting but do not dismiss the idea yet. We do after all, have a universal basic income operating for super-annuitants! At the moment most of the debate centres around its affordability, with most people thinking it’s either too good to be true, or too expensive to be good.
There will have to be changes to the tax system and the money creation system. That is for sure, but what is wrong with introducing a financial transaction tax, and a capital gains tax? If the Reserve bank printed more money would it really contribute substantially to inflation – or is that just a story told to us to keep us in debt?
We bumped into Labour MP David Cunliffe at the radio station, just before we did the interview and he mentioned a sum of $50 a week might be appropriate for a UBI. It is great that the Labour Party is considering a UBI, but I would say to that, why bother for only $50. The amount has to be possible to live off to be implemented without social welfare top ups. Introduced fully it will reduce a large amount of unpleasant bureaucracy associated with benefits.
A UBI would be a major change in the way wealth is transferred. It recognises the contribution to society that people who don’t necessarily get paid, like at-home spouses, artists, or volunteers in the community. It gives people more choice so they can, if they wish, quit their job to do training, or go back to tertiary education.
As jobs get more and more automated and outsourced people will inevitably be squeezed into fewer and fewer jobs, many of them poorly paid. Continue this process, and it is obvious that it is completely inequitable and unacceptable that people’s right to have the basics to live by, is in the hands of employers and corporate gate-keepers.zz
In this interview, self described social protagonists Issac and Charles speak not only about a UBI but about how we have bought into the money trap. Money is an imaginary concept and by validating it we make it real.
Issac also tells us how we are far more advanced technologically than in how we treat each other. Society seems to live to get back rather than serve. This advanced technology will eventually bring an end to everyone slaving for the dollar, and allow us time to evaluate our lives and help one another. However, to let that come about we do need a Universal Basic Income.
Approaching 40 years of experience on planet earth, with much passion for people, planet, music and movement, Issac Oron, brings this into the core group of Earth Beat Community, an organisation set up to bring awareness and presence throughout New Zealand and beyond. With vast experience in bringing people together, as a DJ, marketing and food technology in both New Zealand and Israel, this is where those elements take shape from vision to reality through different events that provoke, transform and bring people to be present and then to embrace new experiences. Issac is very passionate about Earth Beat community and sees it as a great opportunity not only to celebrate but also to enrich our lives alongside with our planet. After working and contributing over 15 years in the local music and food industries, now it’s time to make a change and share a space with local communities. “Together we can have unlimited power to do anything we want, anything we dreamed of, and anything we thought was impossible”. http://earthbeatfestival.com/
Charles Pierard was brought up in Hamilton and joined the media as a cadet journalist after he left school. Within a few years he found his voice and went into the Radio New Zealand Community Radio system in the early 80s. After a stint on the ABC in Darwin he returned to join National Radio as Auckland's Managing Producer in 1989, just in time to experience the first of that institution's many ongoing restructurings. He also presented a weekly arts show and a few hundred live concerts on Concert FM. He believes in everyone's right to think for themselves, and is frustrated that so many prefer to follow the imposed authority of the corporate government, church, medicine, media, and money industries.
Here is a brilliant web site on the problems of money and the banking system http://positivemoney.org/
This programme was sponsored by The Awareness Party
http://www.theawarenessparty.com/
This week I have Stephen Grant-Jones in the studio to talk about the relaunch of the www.GreenplanetFM.com website & the merging with www.Ourplanet.org into a dynamic, far-reaching local to global web presence.
GreenplanetFM is upping it game, it’s jumping its codes to a whole new platform by extending its outreach to as many people as we can who we share breath with.
In doing this, it is merging with Tim’s flagship website Ourplanet.org - which first went up on the world wide web as one of the pioneers of html coding and art work - 20 years ago in 1996.
When first put up it collected a number of awards for both content and aesthetics as well as gleaning hundreds of hits a week every year, whilst sitting ‘in suspense’ waiting to be truly activated - well, this time to accelerate our expansion is now!
Stephen Grant-Jones started building websites many years ago after being inspired by an interview he heard by David Bowie and was the person who took the GreenplanetFM audios and turned them into podcasts in 2008 with the streaming of the show via our website and iTunes.
What he has learnt during his tenure running a web design agency is an understanding of the different areas of digital marketing and how all the disparate threads can be joined together and optimised, this includes how websites are built incorporating SEO (search engine optimisation), writing copy, email marketing, video, social media, analytics and paid advertising. They all interlink together, into a complete strategy.
In this interview he talks about building a “strong web” and providing value first, educating, inspiring and entertaining, making sure that a website has many interlinking parts with other parts of the web, which is what we’re doing with the relaunch of the two websites into one.
Stephen explains how we’ve built the website using ‘Agile’ and ‘Scrum’ methodology to build the site in ‘Sprints’ or increments.
We talk about the direction that the new site is taking, going ‘mobile-friendly’, some of the functionality to expect and how you can help and be a part of the unfolding platform we’re creating.
By leveraging social media feeds (Facebook and Twitter for example) to draw people’s attention to our website, we can educate, inspire and entertain them with webinars, localised video, podcasts, blogs and news, plus articles - from unique planetary movers and shakers and others on the leading edge of positive change.
Also, every week GreenplanetFM will be on air - broadcasting from Auckland’s sky tower so that anyone who is intuitive to empowering and inspiring their life, can tune into 104.6FM from 8-9am every Thursday.
We’ve spent over a year on this project so far, with having to organise and coordinate getting 330+ one-hour podcasts from one server to another, and making sure we pay attention to detail to make sure we don’t lose any data and our place in the search engines.
Not to mention the actual design and development of the new website platform, all the specialised coding and building of ‘Web Apps’ that we’ve had to create.
As GreenplanetFM is a voluntary radio program and I don’t have any ‘products’ as such, we’ve had to ‘bootstrap’ or fund it ourselves with our own time, energy and money, so it’s taken some time to pull all the threads together.
We’re down to the last final push to get the site launched and have decided to do some crowdfunding to get it over the line.
Stephen and I will be holding a Webinar (or online presentation) to take you on a journey through what we’re creating and why. You can sign up for it here; www.ourplanet.org/webinar.
We’ve setup a page on PledgeMe http://pldg.me/ourplanet where we’re not just wanting to accept donations, we have some ‘rewards’ that people can choose from.
Join us as we release the first details and the launch date of the new version of our website, ourplanet.org
Stephen has just completed 6 digital marketing courses that cover Website Funnel Conversion, Email Marketing, Content Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Search Engine Marketing and Paid Traffic Mastery. He is about to complete the Testing & Optimisation and Data & Analytics courses.
He can be contacted through his LinkedIn profile; https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephengrantjones
(Due to Public Concern, this is a Repeat)
Are New Zealand citizens really wanting mass medication in their water supply?
For years health experts have been unable to agree on whether fluoride in the drinking water may be toxic to the developing human brain. Extremely high levels of fluoride are known to cause neurotoxicity in adults, and negative impacts on memory and learning have been reported in rodent studies, but little is known about the substance’s impact on children’s neurodevelopment. Despite many studies, the Government now appears to be planning to implement mandatory fluoridation to the whole of New Zealand.
Currently, only around 50% of households are on fluoridated water, with only 23 out of 67 local councils still fluoridating, many voicing their growing concerns about fluoridation risks and dangers. In response to more and more councillors and mayors deciding against fluoridation the Government is now taking the decision away from local councils and communities and putting the power into the hands of District Health Boards (DHB), who are under the direct control of central Government. Auckland Council is not one of the councils supportive of fluoride free. Many residents of Huia and Onehunga are currently up in arms about the addition of fluoride in their areas. Watercare extended the Waikato Line through Pukekohe westwards to the Franklin townships in 2014. No consultation or notification of fluoridation was made to the residents. So residents of the Franklin Ward townships of Buckland, Patumahoe, Clarks Beach, Waiau Beach and Glenbrook Beach (who receive reticulated water) have been consuming fluoridated water since 2014 without their knowledge, or the legally required consultation
Prof. Paul Connett, PhD, Emeritus Professor from St. Lawrence University USA is an, executive director of the Fluoride Action Network (FAN) and its parent organization, the American Environmental Health Studies Project. He tells us of the dangers of fluoride and how he, a scientist, first came to this In a meta-analysis, researchers from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and China Medical University in Shenyang for the first time combined 27 studies and found strong indications that fluoride may adversely affect cognitive development in children. Based on the findings, the authors say that this risk should not be ignored, and that more research on fluoride’s impact on the developing brain is warranted. Yet New Zealand Authorities are challenging Councils ability to keep being fluoride free or remove fluoride from the water supply. And isn’t it a basic human right NOT to be mass medicated, even if some might think they are doing us a favour? When the fluoridation of water began, there was little evidence for its long term safety (as for GMOs) and since then little attempt has been made to monitor its health effects systematically. Because there are so many unanswered health questions, fluoridation of water must be considered an ongoing experimental procedure, and as such it is a violation of the Nuremberg Code, which forbids experimentation on humans without their informed consent. In Europe, nearly all countries have either never fluoridated their water or have ceased doing so. Yet the incidence of tooth decay has declined just as much as in those countries that practice fluoridation. This fascinating interview with Dr Paul Connett, will raise alarm bells about many aspects of the mass medication of the population by fluoride and he challenges us to do something about it.
Tooth decay is caused by poverty and a poor diet, not a lack of fluoride Poverty is one of the biggest predictors of poor dental health. Many people do not realise that they should never put any sweetened drink, or even flavoured milk, into a baby’s bottle. Leaving babies to suck on a bottle is the cause of baby bottle tooth decay (early childhood caries). This is the main cause of children suffering extreme dental decay and needing tooth extractions, and fluoride will not protect from that.
NOTE: This interview is a repeat but the information is still valid and so is worth a replay.
Join the NZ Nationwide Campaign . We need to stop mandatory fluoridation now! www.fluoridefree.org.nz For 50 reasons to oppose fluoride – go here; http://www.slweb.org/50reasons.html
This interview is sponsored by The Awareness Party: http://www.theawarenessparty.com/home/fluoride/
Whangarei in the north of NZ is stirring and it’s around ‘community participation’ as a result of a small dedicated team based on collaborative leadership.
Food resilience is one of the important focusses of Transition Towns (TT) as it affects everyone, the poor, middle income and even the rich. We all need high quality food in our body to obtain optimum results. By relocalising their food system, which even here in NZ has been taken over by large corporate players and international supply chains, we have to have plan B.
Fortunately over the last 8 years, Jeff has been in Whangarei holding the space whilst many if not most TT’s have dissipated and/or fallen away. But, in Whangarei people come in and out depending on the issues and they are continually finding situations that galvanise people and engage community and get them involved. Which he warmly finds is contagious. Once you gain the awareness of people who want to find out what they can do, it then becomes all what they can do at a community level.
Especially film evenings when you have 'conscious get togethers'. One of them very recently being 'This Changes Everything' a Naomi Kline movie, assisting in pulling the threads of community together can build up a synergistic momentum.
Jeff mentions Cuba, being a classic example when the Soviet Union dissolved, it left the whole country of Cuba with no oil supplier as well as no chemicals for agriculture.Thus, resulting in the Cubans falling back on their own commitment to self and group responsibility which resulted in a very resilient community in a matter of 4 or 5 years growing into being.
He also sees that, we too in NZ are in transition and when we get community engaged and involved the coming together, the passion and the enthusiasm the commitment and the cocreation that happens it's potent and empowering ...
Jeff Griggs states that the principles of the Transition Town (TT) model are very robust, as it contains so many aspects that builds resilience back into community. Including co-opetition, community building and because it was positioning to cover the peak global oil situation, when it was sidelined by full spectrum fraking. This fraking did bring down oil prices, but in the process, in so many cases, destroyed the water pan with chemical pollution causing many unrecorded environment and health problems, like discharging flammable gasses into the water supply that came out through kitchen water taps.
What he now states is the end of cheap oil and we here in NZ, being dependent on oil needs, still exposes us to being vulnerable around oil supply. So going back to the TT model, it is far broader than just fraking and costly oil. This is where organics and permaculture meet, home schooling and holistic healing modalities, alternative currencies such as green dollars and time banks extend into the local economy, as well as a reignited ‘neighbourhood support’ system. Thus the strings of a community extend across many demographics and resilience comes into play.
Jeff thinks that when we pool all these components together there is 'collaborative' leadership and this word is becoming to be more known in the mainstream vernacular. When you get groups of people with common visions sitting down around the table actively listening to one another, looking at possibilities, getting creative in a co creative way the magic and the power that comes from that kind of round table discussion is quite mind blowing! When you compare this polite dialogue and sharing with the antics of NZ’s Parliament or US politics, we need go no further.
Validating collaborative leadership is a new way forward.
Which due to Jeff's experience in local government this is what is missing collaborative leadership.
The challenge now is to convince government and bureaucracy to commit to find ways to embrace collaborative style of being and working ... where you get rid of the win/lose scenarios and also the power struggles and the competition.
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” R. Buckminster Fuller
When you clear the old patterns put these old forms aside and embrace the new all of a sudden when people start engaging in this new way of working, the collective wisdom, the collective knowledge starts to emerge and this is where the leadership starts to come up from the grass roots level.
People practising this experiential learning of collaboration find it’s like the magic ingredient where you get the group together create the space and then you just let it go ... and the outcomes are so powerful its going back to community outcomes, community wellbeing and health of the environment all this stuff starts to play out.
The passion gets renewed.
This interview covers a lot of C words ...
Coopetition
Cooperation
Cocreation
Collaboration
Collectives
Community building
Can do ...
Commitment which many people seem unable to do ...
Other words for these times.
Local resilience
Reclaiming
Social enterprise
Self sufficiency
Personal responsibility
Be the change
When in a group situation and people are using this vocabulary you know that you are all on the same page and wavelength.
The Transition Towns model being a very well thoughtout model that with 12 parts to it Jeff thinks it is a very well structured system.
One of these unique parts of this TT system, calls for ‘inter generation’ connection and honouring the elders these are all components that consist of building interactive resilience back into communities the coming together the grand fathers/mothers the very young this is known within indigenous populations where is is very much a natural unified field.
One such initiative that happened when listening for the voice of the youth of Whangarei, was that no one was looking for their aspirations, they were not being actively factored into the future so Jeff and a team wrote to the Principles of the five major high schools in the City saying that their TT group was a voice of concerned citizens and they were interested in hearing the voice of the youth of today.
They asked for two students from each school and meet with all five high school representatives to support them in asking them to share their aspirations and get their voices out. So the TT group coached them in being media savvy and how to give presentations etc.
Then Jeff met with them personally for near on two years and they wanted to have a number of things, one being a forum to be able to communicate with government politicians and a youth space where they could come together and support each other along with other smaller objectives, such as tutoring. As a result the feel confident to go in front of the Whangarei Council and they have been acknowledged, listened to and have their own space and received funding for ongoing group consensus etc.
The TT group seeded it, now they have stepped back.
Then the TT group checked out the elders and saw that the women were far more organised and had their social networks, but the men, they were another story. Jeff said that he sees them at the library bring back cartloads of books they were just home reading. Yet, they had so much talent and skills sitting untapped by the community. Having heard about the Man Shed concept in Australia, where the Federal Government actually funds them because they can see the indirect health benefits of keeping the men occupied, because with no outlet the men get depressed, and go onto medication and the downward spiral ... and Jeff and a team decided to do it here in Whangarei where the end product is that there are now 80 men in a shed that happens to be the old Whangarei railwaystation.
This they purchased off the Council for one dollar, they are now restoring it, they are doing projects all over Whangarei for charities and non profits, Salvation Army, hospices, repairing furniture etc This being a total entrepreneurial old group of guys who love being together, love building things and love giving back to the community. They are now bringing in home school kids, women groups, also to learn many differing skills, that it is becoming a community point where everyone comes together to honour this intergenerational connection.
The next step being, to invite in young males who have missed out on connection with fathers and male energy to come hang with these older blokes and learn and laugh and again bring the intergeneration energies together into a more cocreative environment, these older men are ex builders, plumbers electricians etc with a huge resource of skills.
There are now mens shed in Kaitaia, Kerekeri and starting in Ruakaka and they are being donated huge amounts of tools and gear etc. It is overwhelming what is being donated.
Also mentioned in this interview is Barbara Marx Hubbard (whom we both have met) out of Northern California, who talks about "Conscious Evolution" as against, unconscious evolution, which is basically where we are at in this old paradigm that is hemorrhaging and not fulfilling humanities needs or the natural world. http://barbaramarxhubbard.com
Covering; GE Free Northland as championed by the Whangarei Council and the Far North Councils. Plus, honouring Zelka Grammer and her unwavering and dedicated work to keep GE & GMO's out of the North. https://organicnz.org.nz/node/624
Other TT projects are about re localisation. (Do a web search on ‘Localise’ NZ for the various web sites www.localise.nz ) This will give pointers about Relocalising our food and reshaping Northlands food production as well as integrating distribution and and understanding consumption systems.
Because Whangarei and districts have a niche climatic system, available water, rich soils many of them volcanic, the possibilities are huge yet compared to the food grown in Northland 100 years ago very little food is grown today.
Why?
6,000 people go to the Saturday morning Whangarei markets on Saturday morning. Based on the collaborative leadership model it is fundamental to bring in this new paradigm and re educate everyone including the present businesses, the institutions, the economic development people, leaders etc, to see just what is possible.
And ironically, all this Transitional Town dynamism is being done by volunteers, actually just three people ( Just as this radio program is totally voluntary as well) No resources or money other than their own time has gone into this project.
Jeff tells that last year he took 4 months off in 2015 to visit North America to study the local food movement, especially in Vermont, which has quite a counter culture and where Bernie Sanders comes from and they have this ‘localised food movement’ absolutely sussed. The Book called ‘The Town that Food Saved.’ Based around an organisation called ‘The centre for an agricultural economy.’ www.hardwickagriculture.org/ It's a social enterprise, is very entreprenurial and is self supporting.
Kaitiakitanga means guardianship and protection. Rahui and regenerating fish stocks. Northland being a GE and GMO Free Zone and Auckland City being the gate keeper to keep such materials out from the north.
The very high price that organic dairy farmers are getting for milk powder emphatically states that there is a world market for top quality healthy products. 5 times the price of conventional dairy prices. Covering a huge array of subject matter from Morgan Williams the ex Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment and how strong and forthright he was when taking that post.
That today, the NZ Government and ‘business as usual’ have corrupted and abused the word sustainability and deleted it from any ecological context, but use it to sustain the ongoing plunder of our planets resources, people and future.
The semantics of sustainability."if it is good for the environment and good for the people and good for the economy then you are well on track to be sustainable" Morgan Williams. It is the life supporting capacity of our planet that has got to be the main criteria for us in supporting the biosphere.
Progress indicators GDP and the measuring of gross domestic product Dr Ron Coleman who was invited by Dave Breuer of AnewNZ and who had Michael Cullen’s ear, ( The Minister of Finance for the previous Labour administration.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genuine_progress_indicator
The game is to replace the system with one that is going to work for our common future and environment, people and economy basically in that order.
In fact "it is not a revolution it's a paradigm shift" from the grass roots up.
And more and more people are twigging to it, as they tire of the same frenetic diet of homogenous unconscious drivel spewed out via the MSM and when they see the possibilities of TT’s bountiful expression and the garden of delight it awakens them to their real self and their connections to self and the greater community.
Neo Liberalism has been totally embraced by the NZ National Party and it is not serving the country as whole.
Food for Life in Whangarei is based in giving food to school children in low decile schools = 1200 meals per week.
Stopping food waste, at super market is something that is being looked at.\
USA Hospitals have an initiative called "farm to hospital" so as to get fresh food into hospitals from local sources. rodaleinstitute.org/farmtohospital/ and www.farmtoinstitution.org/
‘Sew good’ Where Whangarei women engage in teaching and sewing in a community workshop space. http://www.sewgood.org.nz
Whangarei, is maybe becoming a cellular nucleus or mothership to not only the localised area but for supporting new community collaborative initiatives in outer lying towns within the Northland region.
This is a wonderful interview that will warm your bones and get you excited. I apologise for this poorly written summary, there are only a certain number of hours in the day.(Tim)
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The 2016 New Zealand Organic Market Report.
Organic produce sales have increased 11% per annum across the country, as New Zealanders are becoming more mindful as to what they are putting in their mouths and swallowing.
This interview covers the era (and error) of the 1st World War where newly concocted chemicals were introduced in armaments etc, that were seen to also have an effect in seemingly speeding up growth in plants.
This onslaught continued into synthetic chemicals and the challenges we have today with industrialised factory farming becoming intoxicated from pesticides and herbicides.
That then turned into industrial agriculture - a particular ‘culture’ (not really farming) and now we are coming to the end of this industrial age plus its ‘so-called’ mythology.
Pesticide and (herbicide) use is everywhere in our civil society, our road and parks management, in conservation and agriculture, and it begs the question:– Are we going to continue to poison our environment, our soil, our food, (that means spray poisons directly onto food), then eat it?
Is this going to be our normal practice, now and into the future? Any sane person has to say, NO I do not think so! This does not make sense!
Thus NZ society is waking up to the realisation we have to clean up our act and quickly.
Few people are aware that the NZ organic movement has been in existence for 75 years and it was on the 7th April this year that Organics NZ celebrated their anniversary in Parliament, in the ‘grand hall’ - sponsored by a pan party Primary Production Select Committee, –where this event actually garnered some media attention. That Parliament was open to this Organic presentation showed that change is coming to the halls of power as a result of decades of honest toil and work by the organic producers sector.
So in the words of Brendan, organics is going “gangbusters” and if we discipline ourselves this sector can grow quickly with huge benefits to people, the country, our health, to the ecology, longevity and our children’s future.
Organics in NZ grew from 2008-2010 by 8% per year –and from 2012 -2015 it is up to 11%, with plenty of room to expand.
Not only that there is more awareness in general, but people are becoming more conscious of what is happening to their food. People are wanting to make a deeper connection to their food source and one of them is ‘through ’certified organic’ products’
The Market Report for Organics Aotearoa NZ that was produced, was sponsored by New World and Countdown, Ceres, Fresh Direct and Vespry. Here is mainstream NZ in behind this report saying this is the way to go. Though Brendan tempers this by telling us that instead of using the organics slogan “We are the answer”, to now saying “We have solutions”. Very real solutions.
Today, Fonterra’s organic milk powder has a value 5 times more than conventional milk powder. This should be an eye opener to NZ dairy farmers! Especially, in a fickle and topsy-turvy world market.
So who is it buying organic products? It’’s Generation Y, born in the 1980s and 1990s, comprising primarily the children of the baby boomers. They want authentic foods and are prepared to pay for it.
Buy Pure New Zealand - why?
Because the world wants what we are growing here, isolated away from the big industrial polluted northern hemisphere.
The big question being, are we prepared to listen to what people want and deliver that back to them in the way that they want it?
The market report is positive and there is a ground swell heading our way.
This interview covers:
How do young NZ people get back on to the land?
What does it mean to identify with place and merge with your land and farm, developing one's intuition, and being at one with the elements, knowing that you are gifting from the soil the highest quality food that retains its life force.
Using appropriate technology and knowledge to be at the forefront of land management. That we can have healthy soil, healthy food and healthy people and are delivering on biodiversity and ecology.
That NZ becomes the biological - ecological producer of nutrient dense organic food for the world.
The new way forward is based more on relationships from –the farmer, to the customer who is the consumer.
The 3 organic keywords are ‘growth, celebrating diversity and confidence’– because Organics Aotearoa see that this is achievable.
Note, that contrary to mainstream media’s message, most food in the world is grown through gardening and not through farming. This is provable.
Having your children work in the garden, do chores etc. Letting them understand the connection that plants grow in fertile soils to produce tomatoes and corn, that eggs come from chooks etc.
That when children spend quality time in the garden they embed themselves in connection to natural systems that is very real - it’s not a fantasy, it’s not a TV show or an iPad game.
Organic standards, what are they in NZ? – Bio Grow being the leading certification agency.
Today Countdown and New World have 77% of organic retail sales across NZ. Countdown has its own organic house brand.
Brendan tells the story of 500 hundred year old trees in the Ureweras here in NZ giving honey to Koreans –but, they don’t see it as ‘just honey’ they see it as medicine from an elder, one that is 500 years old.
When it comes to organic food production and land use the best results by far is when you are inclusive and participative. That your dealings are open and clear and when we involve ourselves in this intent, it becomes a relentless pursuit and endeavour to bring NZ land management, health and wellbeing - into fruition.
Managing continuous 11% growth needs very focused attention and nurturing where you can not take short cuts. Organics engenders integrity of being and of effort.
Now we in NZ need top down assistance, –we have done decades of bottom up grass roots work, now we need support from government to shift the energy for the whole country.
11% each year - it is happening! It may be an intergenerational shift, but it may come faster. If we get some major support from a ‘conscious’ NZ government - magic could happen.
Now we need some enlightened policy, some regulation, and it can not be political.
This is what is best for New Zealand and ultimately, our planet.
http://www.oanz.org
WHAT IS THE EARTH CHARTER?
The Earth Charter is an ethical framework for building a just, sustainable, and peaceful global society during this 21st century.
It seeks to inspire in all people a new sense of global interdependence and shared responsibility for the well-being of the whole human family, the greater community of life, and future generations. It is a vision of hope and a call to action.
The Earth Charter is an international declaration of fundamental values and principles considered useful by its supporters for building a just, sustainable, and peaceful global society in the 21st century. Created by a global consultation process, and endorsed by organizations representing millions of people, the Charter "seeks to inspire in all peoples a sense of global interdependence and shared responsibility for the well-being of the human family, the greater community of life, and future generations." It calls upon humanity to help create a global partnership at a critical juncture in history. The Earth Charter's ethical vision proposes that environmental protection, human rights, equitable human development, and peace are interdependent and indivisible. The Charter attempts to provide a new framework for thinking about and addressing these issues.
How do we integrate world citizens into a grassroots movement to bring this into being? Can the people of the Earth promote this idea so as to not lose power to the overriding corporate global resource grab that is ubiquitous and increasing?
With the TPPA the Transpacific Partnership Agreement and the TTIP Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership being foisted upon many countries in their respective regions, is the Earth Charter robust enough to ensure that humanity will be able to have a just and fair future?
We are now also deeply embedded in an era of the Security State of Global Proportions how is this going to affect the Charter?
As we near 2020, we are seeing that the Charter may need some revising and that we as a humanity have to go beyond ecological sustainability and repurpose how we respond to the rapidly increasing ecological, economic and societal challenges that are all presently converging.
Regeneration of the environment has to be a priority of the highest order, as well as looking deeply at the particulates in the air, water and food chain. With geoengineering being played with, what are the repercussions in our fast altering world, where democracy is now being seen as becoming very poorly represented and even problematic? (the two party electoral system in the USA and the UK) Whilst big world media becomes more omnipresent, globally yet concentrated in fewer and fewer hands.
Environmental Modification Convention
There is a need to give more teeth to enforce the rule of law on countries that break these conventions, especially ENMOD.
The Environmental Modification Convention (ENMOD), formally the Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques is an international treaty prohibiting the military or other hostile use of environmental modification techniques having widespread, long-lasting or severe effects. It opened for signature on 18 May 1977 in Geneva and entered into force on 5 October 1978.
The Convention bans weather warfare, which is the use of weather modification techniques for the purposes of inducing damage or destruction. The Convention on Biological Diversity of 2010 would also ban some forms of weather modification or geoengineering.
Yes, we definitely need regulation to stop unbridled degradation of the earth’s resources, because as most people know the corporate world’s only aim is to make a profit for shareholders. With corporate ‘responsibility’ seen with increasing suspicion we need to have this discussion of how we justly care for the 7.5 billion human inhabitants and the future of our biosphere especially children of today and tomorrow.
This is a repeat of an interview broadcast in 2006 and no doubt this important subject needs to be addressed far more in the public arena - now - 10 years after broadcast.
http://earthcharter.org
Time Banks, Green Dollars, Savings Pools
The interview initially starts with latest topics of Universal basic income, Bitcoin and crypto currencies and that people are awakening to the fact that central bankers don’t have a clue as to solve this ongoing and deteriorating crisis.
In NZ the situation today looks pretty good to the casual observer - listen to MSM and government sources and we are in a stable and robust moderately growing economy - everything is quite good, some of our major trading partners are experiencing some head winds but … ‘she’ll be right.’ If you rule out the dairy shock of the last 14 months and take out the Auckland property bubble but don’t worry about those little wobbles, we as a country are doing just fine!
What this means that we in NZ are going to be following most of the rest of the world into 'debt deflation' which over the coming years is going to take hold with a greater severity.
We have been a lucky country and managed to come through the recent (GFC) Global Financial Crash of 2008 along with Australia and NZ being almost alone in the world because we had many trade ties to China and we did not get hammered like other countries - Australian minerals and NZ dairy were doing very well. China being the last big bubble to implode and it looks like it is going to do so now as well - this is big news, for if China starts to deflate, the rest of the world has nowhere to go … who is going to prop up all the bubbles and asset prices? It appears that there is soon going to be a rush to get out of all the equities markets. As this has all been built on debt finance and short sighted policies.
Most small cities in NZ can do a certain amount of business locally, so that what is produced locally and the money that changes hands, gets recycled through the commercial areas of that town and district. however when it comes to big ticket items, money and goods or materials they may come from a larger more distant source, the money that goes around in a smaller isolated town or city, has a tendency to quickly go back out of town, sometimes very rapidly, hence keeping the area less financial and liquid.
If you have a local currency, like time banks this can cycle through the localised area continuously supporting local community and business, however if you have a national currency it comes and then leaves and if there is a head office overseas, the money actually leaves the country. For example the near on $5 billion in profit from the large Australian trading banks, and the 4.7 million NZ population, gives one cause to realise how much money leaves NZ for other countries.
At present local and regional government are becoming interested in embracing forms of alternative currencies (listen to the interview for more)
Covering the immediacy of putting in a Time Bank, you get the community engaged, working, and creating value and worth.
Time Banks are able to work in very well with voluntary agencies and there are a number of them in NZ and growing from strength to strength.
Project Lyttlelton http://www.lyttelton.net.nz as a time bank example, has become the glue of the community that as they had been established prior to the Christchurch earthquake it was through their tightly associated team and connectivity, that they were able to mobilise within minutes of the earthquake, have people on the ground and assisting hugely with civil defence, police, ambulances and the fire department and council.
Phil also gives a narrative as to how a time bank can be set up. Once you set up with freely available software and you have your team of early adopters you can branch out. Plus, get some of your charitable and non profit organisations onboard early because you can also assist these NGO’s donating ‘numbers of hours’ to them, which means that you can assist them with additional help, because of ‘serial volunteers' - people who like to work and donate their time and effort to the community. These people love to work for community and they are just living their values. This way Time Banks can put their ‘accumulative time’ into a ‘community chest’ which can be called upon and used by various charities etc. But also in a simple situation of a hairdresser swapping hours for their lawns to be mowed or gardening for house painting. Tuition for baby sitting etc.
That Christchurch City at present is looking at the possibility of a council backed regional currency - which is a very interesting concept. Margaret Jeffries is even talking about a UBI Universal Basic Income being included in this discussion.
Software used is called Community Weaver by Time Banks USA http://timebanks.org/get-started/community-weaver/
Also, Community Forge - Hamlets
http://communityforge.net/en/software
Note that the whole of NSW in Australia are on a Community Forge system.
Madison in Dane County is a time bank in Wisconsin USA and has over 2000 members at http://danecountytimebank.org
The founder of Time banks was Edgar S Cahn who was an invalid, yet he could still think and do simple tasks and he set out to create a time bank, because he did not like being seen as in-valid!
https://www.bostonfed.org/commdev/c&b/2005/fall/nonmonetary.pdf
We also cover Professor Thomas Greco who is presently in Greece to educate and assist in creating alternative currencies as Greece’s economy has floundered. That the imposed austerity exacerbates the problem that it is claiming to fix, because the people at the lower socio economic spectrum are the ones who suffer the most because all their money is spent keeping themselves from going under. So austerity starves the economy of liquidity thus you restrict economic activity. Time banks and ‘Green drachma’s’ can really pull the strings of community together and get an economy up and running very quickly and bring more stability and peace to the community. thgreco@mindspring.com for more information.
Phil says that it’s a good idea to have a back up and have a connection to a time banks or some other localised currency system - because you never know when you may need one.
http://www.le.org.nz
A very interesting interview, with one or two seconds of scratchy recording due to a chronic limitation in the use of copper wires in NZ’s telecom system.
Why is this government touting the TPPA, a complex and convoluted path to achieve a $2.7 billion by 2030? In 2015, over $4.5 billion was earned by our four big Australian banks alone which was a 30% increase in returns over a 7 year period. Our country's sovereignty and democracy is about to be lost for such little gain from the TPPA, particularly compared to corporate profit levels.
Since the TPP’s signing on the 4th February the government is steaming ahead with ratification, first reviewing the TPP agreement and the National Interest Analysis (NIA) through the present Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade (FADT) Select Committee process.
Over 3000 New Zealanders have provided the government with their views and evidence, at hearings in Wellington, Christchurch and Auckland, with more through the remainder of April in Wellington. The report from the FADT committee is due before the Parliament in May. If approved the Minister Todd MacClay will introduce enabling legislation to the House which will amend our New Zealand domestic legislation where it is inconsistent with the TPP treaty arrangements agreed by the 12 parties.
Greg Rzesniowiecki, aka Gregfullmoon, has evolved to fill the role of public advocate specifically on behalf of the public interest concerning the TPP. 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 action group. He quickly came to realise that TPP would make government’s ability to regulate for carbon emission reductions problematic.
It was local government in the form of Auckland Council which gave a lead in the struggle with TPP. In December 2012, the Auckland Council adopted a comprehensive 12 point policy in respect to the TPP. This policy has now been adopted by 12 New Zealand Territorial Authorities who in their territories represent 60% of the NZ population. Greg was involved in supporting that effort.
Greg has also been supportive of local TPP Action groups when planning their rallies and actions, assisting in Nelson, Wellington and Hamilton on various occasions.
Greg says we will have several more opportunities to voice our disapproval in the remainder of the year, however if we want to ensure that New Zealand does not ratify the TPP we need to make sure that the Government does not have the numbers in the house for the TPP and its enabling legislation. This means pressuring local MPs and members of the smaller parties such as Peter Dunne.
Activists also are continuing to promote the call for a binding referendum on the TPP prior to final assent. Greg was central in petitioning the Governor General to ask him to demand that the Prime Minister puts the question of the TPP to the people, otherwise the Governor General will refuse to give the legislation the final assent which requires the Governor General’s signature.
For more information on the TPPA See this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwqMp1ykbW8 or go to http://itsourfuture.org.nz/
For more information about New Zealand’s already eroding sovereignty, go to http://canterbury.cyberplace.co.nz/community/CAFCA/cafca-standfor.html
This interview was sponsored by The Awareness Party http://www.theawarenessparty.com/
Permaculture is a designed science system that is the most innovative planetary method available - of pulling all the disparate forces of nature together in a harmonious movement to live within the seasonal flow of the web of life.
Geoff is continually invited to go to many countries from very developed, to others that are environmentally distressed and now, situations of conflict where he finds himself putting both conflict and environmental circumstances back together - in a sustainable form. Even looking towards establishing eco city developments and eco villages as examples, as the permaculture design system covers all climates, all landscapes and virtually all contingencies.
Permaculture to him is essentially a journey of discovery through a career of assisting people towards embedding sustainable knowingness – which has been taught as a subject since 1979 - to over 15,000 students and NZ too has a number of superb students now fully trained as experienced teachers, many working globally as leaders in their field.
There is also a growing awareness that we need to be resilient and self-reliant and though not seen out in the public realm, behind the scenes there are many people who have a feel for the land, and see themselves asking the question how does a human being live on a planet and in community and sustainably.
That the word ‘sustainability’ is today used in every global aid proposal - where conversely when the Clark Labour Government administration here in NZ left power, it is alleged that the new National Government administration passed a memo to all governmental departmental heads, asking them to not use the word sustainability in any ecological or environmental context.
We have empathy. We walk in the shoes of others and care how we affect the world around us.
We have open minds. We value creativity and collaboration when solving problems.
We trust our people. We back people to achieve the remarkable.
We are future focused. Through our actions and behaviour we aim to leave the world in a better place.
The above is what Justin feels is a crucial part of how our future is created – that in a business sense the values are brought to the fore to just remind all the players within the business and around the business, of what we are there for and how we support each other and how we work together to enable better outcomes.
Justin see values as a pivotal issue as he sees our societal values are changing at a deep level and he feels it is quite problematic and is something that has to be addressed so the business is leading the way as they spend a lot of time at work.
Dr Mike Joy, NZ’s most high profile & prolific ecological voice for the waterways and ecology. How his valued insights has him consulting for LandCorp the NZ Government’s holdings that involve 127 properties, close to 1 million acres of land, and 1.6 million animals that need to be environmentally stewarded.
Mike says that the big challenge for NZ farms, especially dairy is through the increasing application of both nitrogen and phosphorus. That in assisting in quadrupling farm production in the last 25 years - that has benefitted the rural sector and the country as a whole, the downside is immense. As these leach out of the soil and into waterways where they feed nuisance plant and algae growth throughout our river and lakes. Also, that we are facing a critical problem with cadmium that is found in the phosphates that are mined overseas and imported into NZ.
We need a whole lot of frontline activists working to challenge this failing neoliberal system that we reside under, where the corporations are taking control, and democracy is likely to die, and where the government fails to listen to the people!
It is possible for brave individuals to make a difference. In this interview Icelandic protest leader Hordur Torfason speaks of what makes an activist, by relating his own experience. First he talks about his gay rights activism, and then onto the Iceland Revolution, of which he was the major initiator. Importantly, he allowed other people to do their own thing, and did not insist that everyone worked with him. This allowed other leaders to express themselves and come to the fore and the movement grew.
We live on a planet of majestic proportions, teaming with life within a biosphere of mega-trillions of beings.
From the microscopic and invisible to the macro-captivating mega fauna, from viruses and bacteria to the great blue whales and kauri and redwoods. To the council of all beings - all breathing in concert and growing and surviving within the seasonal cycles of a fecund yet increasingly stressed mother planet.
However - what of the future, where are we going as a human species? What is the destiny of our planet in these rapidly changing of times? And who best can speak to these challenges, other than the races and cultures who have held onto the old ways - the indigenous, the first nations - the ones who keep the soles of their feet firmly planted on the surface of the great mother, Gaia, Papatuanuku, our profound sustainer.
Listen to an inspiring introduction to what this weekend will share. This engaging discussion with representatives of this forthcoming event is persuasive and captivating. Knowing that there are devoted people, 'being the change we want to see in the world' is heartening. Let's support them by furthering this notion as we mobilise to care for our individual and collective future - for all biota.
Kevin Toomey a Catholic and Daud Azimullah a Moslem of the Auckland Inter Faith Council talk about the benefits and challenges of bringing the ‘interfaith community’ together including all the various strands of the humanity into one unified global family that lives in peace and prosperity.
Their aim is to promote interfaith cooperation around shared religious values to strengthen the public’s commitment to the values of civic participation, freedom of religion, diversity, and civility in public discourse and to encourage the active involvement of people of faith in every countries political life.
Jeff Phillips originally from the USA studied physics as he wanted to be an astronomer, then switched over to zoology and psychology after being inspired by Dr. John C Lilly and his work with cetacean consciousness where he was invited to California to swim with the dolphins.
The word ‘Civilized’ by definition means to live in cities and includes everything associated and linked to living in tightly organised, structureds, law making, stratified and hierarchical systems.
Jeff goes on to describe the differences between indigenous living and civilisation especially with the extractive economy to that of the consumptive economy where mining, from iron, to diamonds, to gold and coal and to today’s big baddie - uranium. It was either the people for the earth or the people against the earth. The indigenous not owning the land but instead being custodians.
The Resource Management Act (RMA) passed in 1991 in New Zealand at times, controversial Act of Parliament. The RMA promotes the sustainable management of natural and physical resources such as land, air and water. New Zealand's Ministry for the Environment describes the RMA as New Zealand's principal legislation for environmental management.
As the RMA and the decisions made under it by district and regional councils and in courts affect both individuals and businesses in large numbers, the RMA has variously been attacked for being ineffective in managing adverse environmental effects, or overly time-consuming and expensive and concerned with bureaucratic restrictions on legitimate economic activities.
Dr Mels Barton and Sean Freeman speak about the impact of the recent changes to the RMA
Should central government be able to control decisions made by local government? This seems to be the approach of our current government thus undermining local democracy, generally in favour of business interests. One could ask if the RMA is being turned into an economic development act! Changes to the RMA certainly won't build more homes.
The changes to the RMA from 2009 to 2013 have restricted the ability of local government to protect trees on urban allotments to those trees that have been listed on a scheduled list. In Auckland whilst there is some protection for vegetation that is located within sensitive areas such as riparian margins, coastal cliffs and Significant Ecological Areas (SEA’s) such sensitive areas, are not commonly found within our city's boundary. The current Scheduled List of Notable trees amounts to approximately 6000 trees which is less than 15% of our remarkable urban forest. For the remaining trees on private property there is effectively no protection.
Trees have a unique place in our environment. Without them, human life as we know it would not exist. Trees conserve water, make our air breathable, absorb air pollution, support our slopes and form the hub of enormous underground micro-environments that strengthen soil and foster insect life. In a city trees take up a lot of storm water that otherwise may cause flooding.
At a time when we all know the scale of the predicted intensification of building across our city, we have lost the ability to effectively protect our urban forest from property developers. We have lost the ability to protect those living assets which make our city a liveable place.
The country is divided as it hasn’t been since the South African Springbok tour in 1981. And probably along somewhat similar lines. This time it is over a complex international treaty – the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, TPPA (often referred to as the TPP). The negotiations were kept secret for six years, and for good reasons. Analysis of the final agreement shows that the TPPA is not in our interests. Beyond the spin and myths, there are three hard truths about the impacts of the TPPA on New Zealand.
Reclaiming our country NZ - a call to family and community values of goodwill cooperation & ecological mindfulness.
David Ford, in his own language:
I’m not fond of "blunt language" AND I reckon WE the Royal WE have got to collectively stand up & demand a total course correction to the Human race. If we really want to "save OURSELVES"; I reckon all we have to collectively do is to STOP PARTICIPATING ~ STOP CON~ SUMING ~ and start RE~CREATING & playing (without consuming! ) more.
WE collectively have PILLAGED our MOTHER PLANET ~ therefore WE can COLLECTIVELY HEAL HER. It's pretty SIMPLE.
David Ford describes himself as a simple South Island, NZ farm boy (& ex Red neck National party man) who went on a 3 year OE that has morphed into 42 years as a proud GLOBAL CITIZEN AMBASSADOR for New Zealand's core values of kindness, peace seeking, generosity & can do co-operation.
At the Paris Conference of the Parties - COP21 - almost 200 nations agreed to reduce greenhouse gases to levels yielding no more than 1.5 to 2.0 degrees of warming.
Scientists are convinced that anything above the 2 degree mark locks in changes to the planetary climate beyond civilization's adaptive capacity.
For some climate activists, like Gary Cranston, the accord was an exercise in empty, feel-good promise making. For example, a group of climate scientists recently submitted a letter to The Independent calling the agreement "false hope" and full of "deadly flaws." They cited the fact that the CO2 reduction commitments in the agreement don't kick in until 2020. By that time, the scientists argue, so much more CO2 will have been pumped into the atmosphere that we may already be locked into warming, pushing us above the 2 degree line.
In 2016 Christine Jones is coming to live in NZ, to assist farmers and soil scientists understand how biological agriculture can resolve pollution challenges caused by excessive use of nitrogen and phosphorous fertilisers. She says improvements to soil function will help restore waterways without any need to reduce the number of cows. At the same time, the cows will be healthier!
The book, The Catch:
The awakening in NZ at both Government and industry level that we have to totally change our fishing practices to conserve local and world fishing stocks.
That citizen initiated groups in NZ can make a difference if we commit to organise and make our voices heard.
This is about the exploitation of NZ waters by overseas fishing corporations.
The exploitation and near on slavery of crews working on these boats in NZ waters.
The vacuuming up of the last remaining tuna and large fishing stocks in the Pacific ocean, that last fishery on earth.
Of corruption and irresponsible attitudes at virtually every level in the worlds fishing fleets.
We have to act now.
Part I - (What is a Geomancer and Geopathic Stress)
Nicky describes what a ‘Geomancer’ is and how that relates to what she does. She has the ability to detect ‘Earth Energy’, particularly the Magnetic fields around the earth, also Geopathic Stress caused by underground water, and how this affects your health.
Part II - (Is there any science to go with it and how does it work?)
John asks Nicky if she can explain exactly how she dowses a house.
She explains how she grids through a house or an office or apartment even 40 stories up in an apartment this energy can be detected. So by gridding through the property, she can identify where exactly the noxious energies are.
Part III - Diseases
John is interested in what other diseases are linked with Geopathic Stress.
He asks what about things like ‘Chronic Fatigue’?
Nicky gives an example of a case study she has dealt with of Chronic Fatigue and it was the ‘office’ situation rather than a bed that lowered the immune system that caused this. John asks are there other diseases and also do you have situations where you can’t fix a situation?
Part IV – The Journey work
Nicky has been practicing ‘Journey’ work since 2004 from Brandon Bays. (http://www.thejourney.com/)
She uses this process to help people to deal with health issues based on the ‘Journey’ that Brandon developed over many years.
Should we be more concerned about terrorists or climate change?
What a question!
Climate change can kill with efficacy as huge storms hit with frightening intensity and after the winds go, leave a legacy of flooding and landslides.
More slowly, rising seas will gradually erase whole nations, and droughts will kill many thousands, and even cause wars over resources.
Western governments, however, are making it clear which they think is the issue to worry about. Climate change is taking a back seat, even when there has been a cyclone (cyclone Haiyan) that killed 6300 people in 2013.
However in early December 2015 the largest UN summit of the decade is to take place in Paris. The big question is will the delegates get the message to keep fossil fuel in the ground and to finance a transition to renewable energy by 2050? This is the aim of 350.org. Even that seems too little too late.
Also known as the backbone of LegaSea. (http://www.legasea.co.nz) His passion is to make certain that the vision of 'more fish in the water for future generations' is not something that we just talk about – he wants it to become our reality. He is an active environmentalist, a good fisherman, a talented networker, a successful businessman, a green-fingered gardener & a loving family man.
“We have to claim our oceans and fisheries back before it is too late.”
There are multiple challenges to our fisheries here in NZ. We all know that due to industrial netting, fish numbers are falling, some spectacularly and this is happening both globally and locally. This also includes dwindling stocks of crustaceans as well as shellfish. At the same time we are having to deal with poorer water quality such as increasing acidic levels as well as an increase in the overall NZ population especially in Auckland who are keen consumers of fish.
This is intensifying pressure on the local commons, which translates to the area of sea that all fish-life inhabit and that for the last so many thousands of years there has been a customary right, for anyone to go down to the beach or get into a boat and catch a fish or three, to feed their family and friends.
This interview is in many ways is an exposé of the Fishing Industry in NZ, which is the fourth largest fisheries in area on our planet!
Since 1995 Dita worked for the NZ Herald the largest newspaper in NZ, she is currently a TV Producer for TV One.
"Journalists need to be very independent, always questioning, always probing always saying, why? That’s the journalist's creed.”
Whereas people like Nicky Hager (author of Dirty Politics & many other books) who stands up and asks questions then states the facts, and is painted very effectively as a troublemaker and stirrer - a left wing radical by the government when in reality he is just doing good journalism - that is all he is doing even if the facts are 100% true, he is dismissed as a radical, out to bring down the government.
Is our government becoming so contemptuous of people? Dita states that if the National Party put people before all other considerations, she would be far more favourable to them, but people across the board are seemingly being factored out of the equation in favour of monetarist considerations. Putting people at the centre of what they do, is the foundation of how Dita wishes to see governments govern - without compromise.
Yelena’s methods integrate ancient knowledge and contemporary quantum sciences, providing simple, elegant and practical opportunities for wellness, for young and old.
Yelena says that people suffer because they have forgotten their true origins and lost connection with the deepest part of themselves. Unhappiness, loneliness and lack of joy are the effects of this disconnection, not to mention the personal and planetary health issues we are experiencing today.
We each have the power to change and make a difference. It all starts inside our own consciousness.
Yelena studied economics and worked as a banker before training in natural systems of energy medicine and healthcare so she understands the true value of investing in proactive personalised health.
The discussion includes astrology, plant resonances, the value of New Zealand plants from pristine environments and the effect this can have on your aura, your emotions, and with coaching how this can have positive effects for your ongoing attitudes and lifestyle.
Yelena Kostyugova is a Holistic Life Coach, NLP Master Practitioner, New Zealand Native Flower Essence Therapy Practitioner (Dip.NZNFE) and healer-shaman trained in ancient healing and shamanic arts of working with nature for holistic wellbeing.
Coming from a small village in Siberia in Russia, Yelena runs a life coaching practice in Auckland helping her clients to become connected with their own inner wisdom and live a purposeful life.
Should journalists be part of the solution, and not part of the problem?
Freedom of the press describes the right to gather, publish, and distribute information and ideas without government restriction. This right encompasses freedom from censorship, but does our media really have complete freedom in New Zealand? We need to ask this question when we see the government’s response to Nicky Hager’s investigative journalism, and Channel 7 is removed from TV in spite of having half a million viewers. A journalist was recently no longer required by the Herald after writing an honest critique of the TPPA, and what happened to Campbell Live and why?
David Robie, Professor of Communication Studies and Pacific Journalism, Director of the Pacific Media Centre, journalist and author asks these questions and more.
After seven years of negotiations on the TPPA, Ministers from twelve countries have reached agreement, but all is not lost as it has not been signed and sealed. Even though Tim Groser and other governments Ministers reached agreement, the TPPA has not been finalised. There are further steps before ratification and many ways that the TPPA could still fail.
Under the US Fast Track law, President Obama has to give 90 days notice to Congress before he can sign the TPPA, and must make the text public 30 days into that period.
Meanwhile, members of the US Congress and the corporate lobbyists who are ‘cleared advisers’ will get to see the deal. They will be seeking to change what they don’t like and making new demands. That will be the first of many opportunities for them to seek to rewrite the ‘final’ deal. So the earliest that the TPPA could actually be signed is next February, and that would assume that all governments agree with the final tweaking. So there is time to mobilize!
See below for details on the nationwide marches on Saturday November 14th 2015.
James’s aim is to bring community based grassroots organisations into fruition at the same time optimising conscious choices as to how we work and meld together as self actualised team members.
He sees an immediacy in doing this.
He brings people together to mesh them into a team, by using practical components including self reflection and meditation so as to have real grounded intentions. Be it through engineering to horticulture, he works to share skills and create products.
However, his message is that to make things happen we have to do them at grassroots level - here and now. His local project up in central North Auckland on the East coast is that in 18 months time he will show people that they can come and start working immediately as a localised opportunity in action. He maintains that if the community is not on board with their heart it simply does not happen, as he found out when working up in Shanghai, China for a year and that another important quality is that we have to be an active part of our community with no separation. To be inclusive is so important.
It is the 20th year anniversary of the yacht flotilla to the Mururoa atoll to halt French Nuclear tests.
New Zealand has always been an outspoken critic of Nuclear testing and nuclear weapons. In total, 175 explosions took place at Moruroa and Fangataufa, in French Polynesia - 41 of which were atmospheric.
In 1973,the New Zealand and Australian governments took France to the International Court of Justice in an attempt to ban the tests. France ignored the court’s ruling that they cease testing.
Glen Atkinson is a philosopher, biodynamics and agricultural expert, published author and was the astrologer for the NZ’s Womens Weekly for many years. He discusses his recent theories with John Coombs of Global Health Clinics.
Glen offers various solutions to the current challenges facing individuals and society. These include simple health issues, with reference to the work of Dr Rudolf Steiner, Astrology, and some of the key planetary dynamics currently influencing our planet.
Glen's theories include new advancements on the energetic qualities of the Torus, practical fractal significances and how the periodic table of chemical elements can be viewed in a more dynamic and easy to comprehend manner which directly correlates to our health and active consciousness.
Glenn's work with agricultural forces through his BD Max products have been developed over 40 years and include simple homeopathic solutions to help produce a better quality of organic nutrients and manage plant resistance to various pests and temperature fluctuations.
This conversation touches on esoteric knowledge as well as simple practical chemistry and social dynamics.
Glen has written 5 books which are available free on his website www.bdmax.co.nz
Glen also produces a range of synergised homeopathic human health products, which are available online or through Global Health Clinics.
For more information on the work of Global Health Clinics and practical health solutions to your daily needs please go to www.globalhealthclinics.co.nz
A group behind a web presence called You Being You, an online home for sharing wisdom to connect us with our true nature, ourselves and others.
One of the important gifts of ‘You Being You’ is that they have a wide experience and the skills to assist people address the psychological challenges of a world in transition.
That includes understanding your inside nature and focussing on easily understood vocabulary to express your feelings. Because one of the greatest challenges we have today is to be able to vocalise our feelings in such a way as to be clearly understood. There is a gigantic chasm especially among boys and men in finding the vocabulary to express their needs.
So what is it that affects us in a tragedy that directly afterwards people instinctively lean into each other for support and comfort?
This Interview covers the largest Peace Conference in New Zealand since the 1970’s and the need for action especially as New Zealand ‘has been' in the forefront of disarmament for global peace.
The necessity for New Zealanders and especially mothers who in nurturing their children need to strongly encourage their husbands to become far more proactive in communicating methods of curtailing and then disarming the escalating challenges of full spectrum warfare that is starting to dominate the news and media and that seeps into our consciousness on a nightly basis.
Inclusive of letter writing and rallies John says lets hit the military industrial complex in the pocket book. Lets follow up on any corporation or business what so ever that is making money out of armaments and warfare and target them at their finances by boycotting them and especially their subsidiaries and suppliers. Even a university that may be getting money from the arms race to further their research in hi tech design and electronic components.
Challenge the universities and challenge them on where they are getting their funding … ask for student boycotts of classes …. boycott paying fees - Now this is the Dr Hinchcliff a ”Companion of New Zealand Order of Merit” for services to education and the very first Emeritus Vice Chancellor of AUT University here in Auckland New Zealand and challenge them not just with words but with actions.
What is the over arching view point of human endeavour? Can humanity en masse turn our civilisation around?
How is it that we ‘are in our heads’ and forgetting our deep yet subtle connection to our planet and great sustainer? Everything in our world is basically cyclical and that we humans are embedded within all these cycles that are taking place around us, yet - without us noticing. We are instead, increasingly caught in the corporate treadmill of slash and burn and ‘get it now without looking at the consequences of our actions.’ This appears to be what western society is basing its economics and its life on.
Fortunately, more and more people are waking up to what is happening today.
New science has given a deeper understanding of biology and associated quantum systems to practically influence our quality of life.
This discussion reveals how by combining the opportunities presented by new technology with positive attitudes, lifestyle decisions and exercise we enhance our qualities of individual happiness and the wellbeing of our whole society.
If we are well we have more energy and mental focus to helps others, and have higher creative faculties for political or ecological considerations.
The core work of Shanti Mission is to give everyday people tools that allow access to their full humanity and thus their divinity - the inner landscape and the wisdom of the heart.
Parvati discusses why despite knowing that changing consciousness is the key to living in a sustainable world, it’s not the same thing as simply changing your mind.
Is the New Zealand government sheltering under the US nuclear umbrella?
113 nations have endorsed the Humanitarian Pledge which is to stigmatise, prohibit and eliminate nuclear weapons. Why hasn’t our nuclear-free country signed this?
Nine countries together possess more than 15,000 nuclear weapons. The United States and Russia maintain roughly 1,800 of their nuclear weapons on high-alert status – ready to be launched within minutes of a warning. Most are many times more powerful than the atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945. A single nuclear warhead, if detonated on a large city, could kill millions of people, with the effects persisting for decades.
There are global treaties prohibiting the use, production and stockpiling of certain weapons that the international community has deemed to be inherently inhumane and indiscriminate: chemical weapons, biological and toxin weapons, anti-personnel mines and cluster munitions. No comparable treaty exists for nuclear weapons. These remain, despite their unparalleled destructive capacity, the only WMD not yet comprehensively outlawed.
Tim Wright is Asia Pacific Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), a global coalition of non-governmental organisations working to mobilise people in all countries to inspire, persuade and pressure their governments to initiate and support negotiations for a treaty banning nuclear weapons.
Jonathan, opens with where we focus our attention is where we end up going and we are trained at a very young age from conception onwards there is conditioning and whatever our parents are thinking we as the embryo and baby become programmed with the thought forms that emanate from our mother then father etc. Bruce Lipton eloquently covers this subject.
The amount of information that is reaching the senses and inner sensibility of developing baby and child is vast. Including the receptiveness of a baby's brain wave sensitivity of its mother and what she is tuning into and all the variables of a baby basically awash in an ocean of information that is infinite.
Covering loving parents, family relationships extended family which spread outward into the surrounding community it bodes well for that child, and the necessity for us as a humanity to continually work towards this end. Cooperative cohesive tight, loving relationships are key to our individual and collective future.
Prominent Naturopath, Medical Herbalist and Educator Marianne Stobie discusses with John Coombs some of the radical new science based natural health options.
Marianne describes simple and practical systems now available to help achieve optimal wellbeing. Combined with this knowledge and the long term confidence this imbues, people can be helped to radically improve their quality of life and future potential.
What is happening in Russia at the moment, since the Anastasia series of Ringing Cedars books?
What is a Dolmen? Are they an extension of an ancient Vedic culture and are these monoliths really 7,000 - 9,000 years old, and how come they are reflected in the constellations of the night sky?
What type of schooling are the children in this particular area of Russia experiencing, relating to 'how does a human being live on a planet?'
What is happening at the many summer Eco Festivals across the face of Russia? Where people go back to the land to reconnect and seek community.
8 years ago Tim experienced a profound dream whilst camping between, of all things, two cedar trees, when attending a gathering of Dances of Universal Peace. This dream compelled Tim to travel to Russia for one month to investigate what it meant and along the way he discovered something extraordinary and magical.
In what has been called the defining decade, there's a growing sense of the need to reappraise our current global situation, and to question many of our prevailing assumptions. What if we really are the people we've been waiting for?
Christopher Le Breton is uniquely placed to make a difference at the interface of environment and development, having been an environmental project officer in the European Commission in charge of projects in the former Soviet Union. He was also a European Union environmental adviser and capacity-builder on the ground in Serbia. He has lived, worked, and travelled in 97 countries around the world, engaging at all levels, from Government to grassroots, from private sector to not for profit sector.
Christopher walked away from this lifestyle, sold his house in London, and set out to bike the world giving Awakening the Dreamer Symposiums as he went. After completing 75 educational workshops in 7 countries over years, including 50 of them cycling through Australia and Indonesia, Christopher Le Breton has settled in New Zealand.
He had been able to implement a number of projects in 10 countries over 7 years, inspiring people to create thriving, dynamic projects in their communities. These projects are boosting, for instance, local economies in Australia, saving indigenous wisdom in Indonesia & Ecuador, saving orangutans, and addressing climate change in Indonesia. On leaving Ecuador recently an indigenous elder asked Christopher to go back and change the dream of the modern world – that is to wake every one up!
Here in Aotearoa New Zealand, Christopher has set up Earth Partners Trust in partnership with tangata whenua, promoting the concept, understanding and implementation of Kaitiakitanga, guardianship and stewardship of the environment for the current and the next seven generations.
This wide ranging interview covers many interlinking and overlapping subjects, including; Consciousness, New Paradigm, Quantum Realities, Space Time - ET’s and UFO’s - Trans Pluto, Mother Earth, Sustainability, Ecological Awareness, Co-creation and Co-operation.
When we sleep at night we basically disconnect from our outer realm and bodily sensations and enter what JJ Hurtak says is ‘an ocean of consciousness, swimming in hyperspace’ - that our consciousness is not localised in our body it is open to a vast plethora of dimensions - as the Australian Aborigines aptly named the 'dream time.'
That there are many levels of sleep. Beyond rapid eye movement and all the analysis that has take place, and the usual mixed messages of dreams we experience, we can tap into other realms that are available to us every night. JJ Hurtak mentions the dreams of Joseph when back in Egypt and his ability to interpret them for the Pharaoh. So there is a long history of the potency of dreams, however with present day humanity, especially in the western world, we are awash in things, data, distraction and consumerism and rarely take the time to cultivate our inner being, and the levels of unconsciousness that may be just waiting to be acknowledged.
Desiree, also mentions how dreams can give us warnings and predictions and tells of one, as well as experiences of déjà vu.
“You cannot insert a gene you took from a bacteria into a seed, and call it life. You haven’t created life, you have polluted it.”
~ Vandana Shiva.
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization's definition of 'forest' includes commercial plantations of fast growing trees - often replacing biodiverse native forests relied on by local communities.
Perhaps this shonky description of a forest is really to accommodate industry, carbon sinks for emissions trading, and making money from climate change.
Forest conservation has been thought to be the simplest way to fight climate change, particularly in New Zealand, where cars and cows are incredibly effective carbon producers.
Have we now reduced the description of forests to ‘any area covered by trees’, discarding the structural, functional and biological diversity of non-tree elements that make up a forest, as well as the cultural importance of the interaction between forests and communities?
Drawing parallels between the treatment of workers and the treatment of natural systems, Gary Cranston talks about how the privatisation and the commodification of natural systems is being dressed up by polluters as a solution to climate change, and how these solutions must be replaced by solutions designed and implemented by and for those most threatened and least responsible for causing climate change itself if we are to realise an effective response to today's crisis of climate change and capitalism itself.
Forty-five years since the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) took effect, and 70 years since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, more than 16,000 nuclear weapons still exist-many on Cold War-era alert, ready to launch in 15 minutes.
Over the past 45 years, the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) has put in place an indispensable yet imperfect set of rules for creating a safer world.
Under the treaty, countries without nuclear weapons agree not to get them, and countries with nuclear weapons, (China, France, Russia, the UK and the US) agree to eventually get rid of them. India, Israel and Pakistan have nuclear weapons but have not joined the NPT; North Korea withdrew from the NPT in 2003, and then began testing nuclear weapons.
Meanwhile, nuclear armed countries are spending hundreds of billions of dollars on modernising their arsenals.
Is our lifestyle impacting on our health more than it did when our grandparents were growing up?
We have better hygiene for sure, so why are we not the picture of health that we should and could be?
Perhaps in the old days people spent more time out of doors and not on electronic equipment; they ate seasonally when food was available; they cooked at home and ate far less pre-prepared food; they didn’t eat GMOs, preservatives, stabilizers and food additives, and they had far fewer prescription drugs.
A Major Leftwing Think Tank In Aotearoa: Call To Action Or Impossible Dream? Sue Bradford interviewed by Lisa Er.
A Think Tank is a community-based not for profit organisation which undertakes detailed research and policy development in order to influence and enhance public policy formation across a broad range of issues, through publications, media work, lobbying, conferences, workshops and other forms of advocacy and education.
To improve the lot of the many disadvantaged New Zealanders it is imperative that we Kiwis join together and stand up for a significantly more egalitarian society.
If a Left Wing Think Tank can share input and influence in all sorts of areas where people show compassion for those less fortunate than themselves, then it will be well worth the effort getting this initiative off the ground.
Jeff is a gifted New Zealand composer and musician, especially in marrying the pan pipes with electronic synthesizers.
He has been playing since 1984 and has been consistently bringing through new sounds, hitting some profoundly beautiful notes and melodies as well as haunting numbers that touch the very soul of your being.
Over the last 10 years he has started to teach meditation that is very complimentary to the soft clear sounds or nature that he creates.
Can a new ‘conscious’ political party come into being from the grass roots up and take a large majority of New Zealanders with them to reshape our political landscape as well as revitalise our cultural aspirations?
NZ was once the envy of the world, as many New Zealanders owned their own homes as well as had a stake in a large number of co-operatives, mutual insurance societies, trust banks, building societies plus liquor and hotel trusts. Today - all gone.
We were once seen as a fair country where everyone basically would get a good deal. To many overseas countries, we in NZ were seen as more egalitarian, as well as a moral compass for good and we were known as being charitable.
So what are the key ingredients to governance and self governance so that we can all take our place within the context of a participative and an anticipatory democracy where we as a 'conscious' communities come together to cooperatively shape our entire nation.
How would a ‘new manifestos’ look when pulling all the differing threads from left, right and centre, into one coherent, dynamic and synergistically, resourceful whole?
Anne Huxtable, is an executive producer of the documentary, “Song of the New Earth – Tom Kenyon and the Power of Sound”, and is on tour in Australia and New Zealand during March and April 2015, to promote screenings of the film.
The film features the transformative life journey of the renowned sound healer, psychotherapist and modern day mystic Tom Kenyon, from a young aspiring Nashville musician to an internationally revered sound alchemist. Western science has confirmed what ancient traditions have known for centuries; sound has the power to heal.
Sound Healing (also known as Sonic Therapy) can be used as pure tones or as music and can positively affect a large array of physiological and psychological states.
We in New Zealand are still pushing nature closer to extinction and there are huge challenges. Yet, there are also some major game changer solutions that we can enact.
Like altering the New Zealand economic way of life to recognise that Conservation would be a very sensible thing to do. This being to place penalties that are such high costs on business that damages ecosystems, that it is just economical not to engage in.
This interview covers a vast amount of important information and was most enjoyable with Marie making very poignant points in a very eloquent fashion.
With a 1/4 acre section Dee has turned her garden into a food forest - saving heaps of visits to the supermarket, yet becoming super healthy in the process. She has 30 odd fruit trees in that area with raised veggie garden plots plus chickens and growing and harvesting 4 times a year the only things she buys are onions and mushrooms, because onions take to long to grow.
Visitors are totally blown away by the diversity of plants when visiting Dee’s garden. Yet, she also allows weeds like horehound to grow to make cough medicine including red sage as it may even be the first traditional Chinese remedy to gain approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
However, the biggest challenge for home gardeners is that for 9 out of 10, it is the soil that is the problem, having no humous and lacking in minerals, and prospective gardeners think that they can just buy fertiliser and pour it on however that's is not like it at all. We have to build it up, with seaweed, horse, cow and sheep manure, compost and involve yourself in a dedicated process for a wholesome soil web.
This lead her to writing a book on how to achieve this and that is how Gardening for Planet Earth was written, being totally different from other books because it was based on natures cycles that make life on earth possible.
After the last election Laila Harré felt not only beaten, but the need to withdraw and not actively participate in the political system.
So her psychology lecturer sister Niki Harré, (author of “Psychology for a Better World”) picked her up and suggested they went on a pilgrimage - walking and hitchhiking around North Island, carrying no money, presenting in different centres and listening to feedback from the community.
They created a tour that went from February 1st to the 28th 2015 in 27 different centres.
Laila tells us of the way they presented and got people talking.
There is a strong commonality of deep human values and to move forward successfully we need to recognise them and ensure that our social systems and institutions address those values.
The vision is, after all, in the hearts of the people.
This discussion with Bruce Lipton focuses on a variety of practical health solutions and proactive self empowerment options for people of all ages and circumstances.
Drawing from Bruce's best selling published work, the Biology of Belief, Spontaneous Evolution and The Honeymoon Effect, the interview provides scientific information on many aspects of holistic health to encourage a positive attitude and lifestyle balance for integrated mental, emotional physical and social wellness.
You will learn why a healthy attitude contributes to your health, how your brain can be reprogrammed for life enhancing benefits and how quantum energy systems affect our welfare beyond the recognised material dimension.
Barry Coates, Ex CEO for Oxfam NZ, Green Politician, studied as an economist at Yale in the US.
This is the voice of a human being who deeply cares … especially when there are signs that the international community are not going to step up to the climate change crisis … this should be deeply worrying, especially for our children and grandchildren.
This interview is from a person who has a wide hands-on knowingness of the challenges before us and the gumption to put his being on the line for future generations.
Bruce pushes the envelope in this barrier bursting interview.
We especially in the Western world mindset have let go of spirituality and all kinds of meta physical concepts and instead live in this material plane world and look what we have done to it? We have brought it to the 6th mass extinction today the species loss is 1000 times more in volume and speed than normal.
Bruce opens up and takes us beyond the veil to a realisation as to quite possibly – why we are here and gives a juicy snippet on some of the hidden qualities of existence. That we need not wait till we die before we can go to heaven, that when we are present and in the moment this is when we can consciously evolve as in Conscious Evolution and create from this instant onwards!
We are energy beings, most indigenous people have known this for ages … it’s Western man who has forgotten.
Fluoride reduces IQ and yet our government and the Department of Health still insist it is good for us!
Lisa Er interviews two US scientists, Professor Paul Connett and Dr Bill Hirzy on The Danger of Fluoride.
This is an informative as well as entertaining interview that takes a seriously light-hearted journey through the honeymoon effect, out to the other side … and back.
From the Prime Ministers Office down to Bart Simpson to Confucius to Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh including the Holy Breath. This also encompasses values and virtues to pleasure and pain, oxytocin and sin and the 6th great extinction.
The way forward through this, is to see humanity as one colossal super organism and awakening to a greater consciousness on earth is going to be the great decider!
This GreenplanetFM Interview with Jon Carapiet is wide ranging with Jon, coming through at the end with some optimistic pointers and positives.
This is more than GE and GMO’s it’s about the different high powered chemicals that are used on plants that are resistant to these particular sprays, but allow all other grasses, vegetation and weeds to be killed. This is the case here in NZ where I repeat - that animals are now eating the sprayed dying vegetation, and these animals are producing products, such as milk and meat that is now being consumed by unaware, New Zealanders.
It’s actually a battle against nature through toxic chemical saturation, especially with glyphosate that not only kills all of the targeted plant kingdom, but more so, affect the mega trillions of bacteria and fungi that are pivotal at breaking down the soil and organic matter making this instead, unavailable to the finite roots hairs of every plant.
John Coombs interviews Glen Atkinson, biodynamics specialist, biodynamic homeopath and astrologer on the interrelated systems that govern the universe, our planet and our own ecosystem or personal health.
Glen who has worked practically in this field for 40 years has made substantial breakthroughs integrating this knowledge using the work of Rudolf Steiner as a backbone and extending this with modern quantum science.
They discuss interrelated systems and opportunities for humanity.
This was a extremely interesting finale to GreenplanetFM’s year of broadcasting. Showing that innovation and intuitive insights are still pushing the boundaries here in NZ, and that as NZ is the closest large country to the international dateline, it can be said that we in NZ see tomorrow first.
From this discussion we still recognise that grass roots organising is the only way we can initiate change, being that which has localised support.
Lisa, laying down a new framework so as to guide us in self governance at a community to national level that is guided by a conscious blue print that takes human governance to a level never before envisaged and John, talking to quantum biology adding that for people to not be limited from lack of energy, we must ensure we operate at optimum health. With the use of new cutting edge health technology have our hormones in balance, eating preferably organic sustenance, to empower us to co-create our day, and contribute in the community as part of a far larger dynamic whole.
Lisa talked about the interviews that she conducted over the year from fraking, the TPPA, the rights of nature, Pachamama being in the Constitution in Ecuador, GMOs & GE and chemical sprays, the Palestine Middle Eastern situation and the launching of The Awareness Party
Johns focus was that 80% of the western world has thyroid imbalance, that overweight people, induces the onset of heart disease, partly because they can not lose weight effectively, resulting in lack of concentration, lack of vitality and with adrenals are out of balance, leading to low immunity and people are struggling to do even be close to their best.
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Ex Green Member of Parliament Keith Locke speaks about the Countering Terrorist Fighters Bill with Lisa Er.
The Government is legislating at breakneck speed to pass a Bill it calls "Countering Terrorist Fighters Legislation". It will allow the SIS to conduct video surveillance on private property, for a specific period of time without a warrant, and will enable New Zealand passports to be suspended for 10 days or even cancelled for up to three years.
All this, in case we harbour aspirant fighters for a fundamentalist Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. But experts like Richard Jackson of Otago University say the evidence shows that it is extremely rare for returning jihadists to commit terrorist acts in their home country. Is it wrong to create law, which offends our human rights, just to cover some very unlikely or exceptional future event?
Terenzo Bozzone is a world champion triathlete who pushes himself to the limits virtually every day. He has won 5 world titles discusses with John Coombs what it takes to drive yourself in a sport as tough as iron man whilst retaining outstanding values in the community and managing a healthy family life.
Terenzo is an ambassador for Life Education Trust which encourages children to make healthy choices about substances and nutrition, helping to reduce obesity and drug abuse whilst helping them feel comfortable with who they truly are.
Virin Gomber is a Coach, consultant and Certified NLP Master Practitioner, with a strong passion for consistent and ongoing growth in all areas of life including - health, wellness, career, wealth, relationships, spirituality and larding. He is committed to helping others achieve their goals in life.
Matt states that for NZ to be happy as a country and be respected in the world, you need to know what your place is and to be seen as a country that makes its own mind up for its people and for their interests.
This does not mean that you are selfish or isolated, in fact quite the opposite, because if you make your own decisions, you are not told which countries that you can deal with and which you can't. Which was certainly a factor when we were tied to our mother United Kingdom’s apron strings and later becoming a close ally to the United States which of course is reoccurring to this day.
This then opens out to how do we remain/become independent which is inclusive of indigenous people and being independent sets the framework of this interview. The question of independence is central to many New Zealanders.
Compost worms and earth worms are the unsung heroes of the composting world and the ecological world - generally. Aristotle called them the intestines of the soil, and Charles Darwin's last book was dedicated to covering the role of earthworm on our planet. Even in his day he was aware that many cultures in the 19th century were very conscious of the role that earthworms played in the creation of high quality soil and fertility.
When we understand the complexity and the relationships within the web of life and when we take the time to understand the grandeur in a fork full of compost, we realise that trillions of microflora, spiralling DNA, decaying leaf matter plus minerals and life force can be enabled to journey up through a young tree, to eventually manifest a juicy fresh golden peach in our hands - as undeniable ripe-full fruition.
From dark dirt of the earth to fleshy, succulence and juicy sweetness - the transmutation of minerals into food, nobly assisted by the humble earth worm.
Ben started off young, with grandparents having incredible gardens and his grandmother having bees so they were constantly embedding themselves in high quality food and the enthusiasm of growing food for themselves and that his parents were also into sustainability. So his upbringing was very focused on growing food by organic means in which he terms his Kaupapa - respect for growing food and eating it being always present.
Could you imagine that any government would be stupid enough to sign an international agreement that would allow overseas corporations to sue it, in secretive offshore tribunals, claiming that new laws and regulations have seriously undermined the value of their investments? Well, that is what our New Zealand Government and eleven other countries around the Pacific Rim are negotiating right now.
Deborah Howard, heart-centred Integrative therapist is interviewed by John Coombs about her approach to health and wellbeing and the opportunities which arise when our Heart - Mind - Body – Spirit are in balance.
In a world so full of possibilities this discussion covers a range of wellbeing possibilities for us to get aligned to our human potential both individually and collectively.
As a global community, we currently face vast challenges. We collectively depend on shared resources including clean water, energy, a just economy, access to food and the Internet. However, these assets are threatened by economic, political,and social systems that do not support what’s best for the vast majority of people or the natural world and in many ways they are not interested in changing their business model of growth for growths sake.
Yet, representing transition towns, eco-villages, small business cooperatives, spiritual communities, seed sharing networks, local currency practitioners, gift cultures, civic society, these new movements across the planet are the counterculture of today.
Initiatives and events like these give us great hope and encouragement that transformation is indeed occurring at every level of the human story: individual, institutional and collective.
Element magazine has a NZ readership of 140,000 people and could quite easily be New Zealand's flag bearer of conscious ecology, and business inclusive of food, health, community and leisure.
Listen to how James, being Editor of such a prestigious publication where one moment he may meet an energetic and inspirational person doing something that encouragers other people to follow suit, and the next message may be of an ecological report that is so devastating and disempowering. Yet, as a family man with two young boys, his resolve becomes even stronger to engage in publishing and sharing information and knowledge that can make this world a better place for us all to live.
Dr. John Hinchcliff was vice chancellor for 20 years of the institution variously called Auckland Technical Institute, Auckland Institute of Technology and Auckland University of Technology. He was responsible for the transformation of AIT to university status. His fields of enquiry are ethics, future studies, peace studies, and the philosophy of sport and education.
He has a long history of working on peace, nationally and internationally. In 1968 he coordinated the Inaugural Conference for Peace Action with 40 international participants including Nobel Prize winners, US and Australian senators and a pioneering nuclear physicist. In 1995 as a protest against nuclear testing he led a team of prominent New Zealanders to France. He was a member of the founding committee of The Peace Foundation in Auckland and has been a speaker at various international conferences on nuclear disarmament.
Listen to this highly accomplished man's concerns for the future, understanding of the interconnectedness of the problems, and why we need to change.
This programme is sponsored by The Awareness Party
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Dr Daryl Turner, a world authority and specialist in thyroid symptoms, discusses how to maintain a healthy Thyroid Gland. You will learn the value of Thyroflex Tests which are 98% accurate and simple inexpensive treatment programs to stimulate effective thyroid functions.
What is Hypothyroid? What are the symptoms and the consequences of Thyroid disease? What are the effects of the thyroid on quality of life, diabetes, heart health, weight management, balanced hormones, Alzheimer’s, depression, headaches, bipolar, myalgia’s, IQ and longevity.
In this the second programme of the Sacred Activism series with Marama Winder we explore the deeper dimensions of sacred action in our world. We are called at this time in an upwelling of positive change and transformation.
The coming together of the wisdom of the feminine and masculine is a crucial link in this shift and is elegantly portrayed in this interview. Alongside Marama’s potent voice of sacred activism and the deep feminine is Jon Winder who brings in the masculine perspective of our calling to sacred service.
This interview covers many aspects of what it is to involve oneself in sacred activism, from working with people, their rights, and justice for animals, the environment and our planet as a whole.
What are the principles of Sacred Activeness?
But first, what does the sacred mean?
“Something held in high regard, something beautiful and untarnished, something considered of worth and worthy of spiritual respect, something inspiring awe. All of these are sacred. The sacred can be described in exquisitely beautiful words like holy, blessed, revered, venerated, consecrated, sanctified and dedicated,” offers Marama Winder, sacred activist and global spiritual leader whose passionate love of people, planet and cosmos inspires hope and participation in the co-creation of a new world founded on compassion for all life.
Between 2% and 6% of society are actively engaged people - movers and shakers are change agents that have huge energy - they have very strongly held beliefs - they are very hard to influence, because of their own strong belief systems... very engaging and being ethics based. You also have the fast followers another 10% or so.
At the other end of the scale you have the actively disengaged again between 2 and 6% of society, though you would think that they were very dissimilar from the former, however, in many ways they are two sides of the same coin. These people, basically oppose things, because that is who they are ... they are also quite noisy and we focus a lot of energy endeavouring to change them, when in many ways there is no point. You also have the disengaged group, not quite as bad as the actively disengaged, which make up around another 10%.
HOWEVER, the best is to focus on the other 68% of society, they are the neutral group.They don't necessarily have strongly held belief systems and they are the ideal audience because they are by far the easiest people to influence because of a lack of strongly held belief systems.
Thus influencing them is a lot more easier, they can can swing either left and right and there are a lot more of them.
The choice of language when communicating with the 68% is critical...
Jonathan, well known overseas as a gifted metaphysical artist and cosmologist, creates computer graphics on the big screen presenting leading edge mathematics and geometry, unveiling to us both the unity and diversity of existence including the majestic tapestry of universal patterns.
Today our world is in a flurry of a hurry, with survival and the outside world impinging on our everyday life - finance, crime, war, job, family, housing, weather - that so much information is being pumped in to our living rooms and lounges, that for many of us, we are in information overload.
Time to take an in-breath and inhale the invisible that we all share and which keeps us alive. It has become very noticeable over the last 20 years that the pace of life has left us little time to catch up on what constitutes existence and to figure out our particular place in the world.
Where once we seemingly had more time to read a book, and contemplate the meaning of life, the situation has morphed down to a quick squizz of a magazine, and now to a 5 minute You Tube, to even quicker, hasty texts and tweets.
However, at another level, discoveries into the makeup of existence are still being made from understanding more about holography and that the universe appears to be holographic, to morphic resonance, the emergence of form, to quantum -everything- and interconnection and from chaos theory, to the fact we can - spontaneously evolve - on towards behavioral insights, teleportation and telepathy, whilst unknown to many - the evolution of consciousness continues unabated.
World authority Dr James Wilson discusses how to prevent or better manage stress and serious fatigue with John Coombs from Global Health Clinics.
Discover how we can usually overcome even debilitating fatigue conditions and go on to live highly productive lives by stimulating our adrenal glands with proven natural medicine systems which have helped thousands of New Zealanders already.
This involves a simple recovery program which also prevents us sliding into much more serious or chronic states of health.
Dr Wilson a busy Dr with a 9 month waiting list did his 3rd Doctorate degree researching chronic fatigue. He recognised this was affecting most of his clients and was primarily caused by overloaded adrenal glands. He called this Adrenal Fatigue and developed a highly functional system to overcome even severe fatigue using a combination of vitamins, minerals and herbs, as well as glandular extracts. This combined with leading a more balanced lifestyle can lead to high levels of vitality and a high quality of life.
The adrenal glands influence 50 different hormones in the body including testosterone, estrogen, the thyroid as well as many of the happy hormones and are critical for both vitality and healthy immunity. Discover how improvements can be expected in Libido, Sleep, Work Performance, Relationships, Creativity and Enthusiasm for Life.
What keeps people in poverty? Aren’t the minimum wage and the benefits enough to live off? Why are there 285,000 children in New Zealand being raised in poverty? Surely it is mismanagement of money, and the fact that people have too many children. People are lazy and want to stay on government hand outs.
These are the excuses that some New Zealanders trot out to excuse turning an uneducated blind eye to the suffering of our fellow countrymen / women.
Where is the understanding and compassion that should come in an egalitarian society, where we all respect and care for each other?
Emily Garden is the Project Officer for the Family 100 Research Project – a ground-breaking project that followed 100 Auckland families living in long-term hardship. Family 100 seeks to give a voice to these families in order to understand what factors work to keep people in hardship while others are able to move on to lead more secure lives. Emily has a Masters in Sociology from Goldsmiths College, University of London, and a background that includes tertiary teaching and community mental health.
Emily explains that many of the Family 100 Research Project participants spoken to describe having to choose between keeping warm or eating. One of the clients described it as a juggling act. One mother tells that she and her husband went without meals many times, just for the fact of knowing that their kids are fed. “We always put the children first. If it means we have to go without so they can have it, well so be it”. Another client described the stress that she goes through, and the everyday feeling of being overwhelmed. She said “I more or less thought there was no light at the end of the tunnel, I felt like I was knocking my head against a brick wall”.
Horrific pictures of the atrocities in Gaza have filled the news and distressed many people recently. However in the short time the news media have to report, there is little time for discussion as to why Hamas fire rockets into Israel, and why Israel responds or initiates as it does, with such disproportionate force.
On August 19th 2014, after a month of war, the Gaza death toll stands at 2,016, 70% of whom were civilians, in the small densely populated coastal territory. 10,000 people have been reported injured. Sixty-four Israeli soldiers and three civilians in Israel have been killed.
In this interview Tuma Hazou, explains the background to the 2014 Israeli incursion into Gaza within an historical perspective. Tuma was born and educated in Jerusalem. He then joined the BBC Arabic Services in London. He worked as a radio and TV journalist, a filmmaker in Jordan contributing to the BBC, UPI, ABC, and as special advisor to Prince Hassan, then Crown Prince of Jordan. Subsequently he worked in UNICEF’s regional Office for the Middle East and North Africa in Amman, as Chief of Information and External Relations.
Tuma speaks openly and compassionately about his concern for his people and the hopeless situation that they are in. He tells of the rise of Hamas and how it was partly funded by the Israelis.
It is notable that Hamas is not considered a terrorist organization by:
Russia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia
Turkey: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey
China: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China
South Africa: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa
Iran : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran
Arab nations: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab
Famously known over 40 years ago for his mystical journey up beyond this 3rd dimensional plane into what is perceived as the ‘angelic hierarchy or realms’, James Hurtak continues to share insights and information to awaken us to our life’s purpose as well as connect to our higher self and more.
Covering vast themes as futurism, archaeology, theology, quantum realms, sound, remote viewing and the development of consciousness, this seems at odds to the nightly news of political intrigue, crime and the terrible mayhem and savagery that’s happening in so many countries on earth today.
Yet, both he and his wife Desiree acknowledge, like many of us, that there is also an upward spiral taking place in the field of consciousness and expanding ones awareness … and they see NZ as being a mystical island country, that initiated the template for woman to gain the right to vote, freeing up the divine feminine and anchoring this much needed - balancing archetype.
Also, that NZ being a country that instituted so many early social reforms that in many ways due to our isolation from the rest of our planet, allowed us to become an embryonic catalyst for new ideas, consciousness and spiritual insight. The emerging microcosm for the planetary macrocosm.
Though the book ‘Keys of Enoch’ was written over 40 years ago, and has coded in it layers and layers of information that takes many years of self-reflection, meditation, prayer and silence to decode, they have between them just completed a new book called the ‘Over Self Awakening’ of our higher (spiritual) self, which is an integral part of us, but at a higher level. This higher self, which we have forgotten or dissociated from for as long as we can remember is the key to our coming into alignment with our spiritual purpose so that we can in this life, finally manifest a destiny that breaks the spell that we have previously found ourselves in.
John Coombs interviews Richard Margesson on the new Mindpath, rewire your brain programs, discussing Richard’s life and work.
Richard has led an adventurous life.
Brought up between a dairy farm in upstate New York and the bustling streets of Manhattan, he gained a BA (Hons) degree in the UK before joining an elite infantry Regiment in the British Army.
He has paced through the halls of Buckingham Palace, marched in the Queen’s Birthday Parade, trudged through the sands of The Gulf, led humanitarian convoys in Bosnia, started a restaurant in a war zone, rehabilitated former child soldiers in Africa, married his Yoga teacher, lost his boots to a dingo at Ayers Rock, built up two hypnotherapy clinics and slept under cabbage trees while walking the length of New Zealand.
Adventures can come at a cost, however.
Richard has gained first-hand experience of how stress can either enhance or degrade performance at work and home. With his wife and business partner Rosa, he founded MindPath to coach executives, business owners and their teams to overcome mental and emotional obstacles.
There is no PLANET B.
Sustainability is not just to do with the environment, but also our culture or society, how it thinks and what it does en-masse on a daily basis. Imagine - if our society is living sustainably and we are ‘consciously’ not creating consumer waste; that all our purchases are based on quality products, for example ‘clean food’ that everything is biodegradable, on how little waste (packaging) there is, we will be making huge progress.
That reducing our intake is also at the forethought of our minds, that all things are being recycled or reused and that everyone is mindful that we all are part of a ‘closing the loop’ culture our ‘knowingness’ will automatically realise that we are part of a greater whole.
This holistic notion, that we are embedded in the greater dynamics of the biosphere - of us all elegantly cycling ‘through’ everything and being aligned with nature as in ‘Cradle to Cradle’ the idea promulgated by William McDonough, we will be on our way home to being more ‘at one’ with the planetary ecology that we are embedded in.
At present we are far from it, as this is not being languaged from any level of Government, who at present have no intention of empowering the community to become more 'conscious' - solely because they are not.
This interview with Julio covers his upbringing in Brazil, where it’s the disparity of social economics, that widens the gap between the many poor people just subsisting and not really living in a healthy highly educated community.
Hunger Housing Heating Health – the Child Poverty in New Zealand – with Julie Timmins interviewed by Lisa Er.
We live in a society of benefit bashing. This is not only done by the uneducated, but by a wide range of people which includes the attitude of successive governments. This has resulted in the creation of a flawed in work tax credit, worth up to $60 a week, that while good for some families with working parents, discriminates against beneficiaries and so only assists some of the poor.
Our leaders have created a system that has left 27%, or 260,000 of our children being raised in poverty and a large percentage of those children come from families of beneficiaries.
This is basically the choice and the will of the people of New Zealand who are sufficiently hardhearted to say, Go get a job! Where are all the jobs! And where are jobs with appropriate hours for parents, especially women with young children?
How many of our political parties have made child poverty an election issue?
New Zealand’s Maui dolphin as an iconic species is hovering on the edge of extinction.
Maui’s used to be found all around NZ’s North Island (Te Ika o Maui - The Fish of Maui). Maui’s and Hectors (Papakanua) dolphins (they are sub species of the same group) were the most common dolphin along our coasts prior to the coming of the European.
The area of concern today is from North of Wanganui in the South up to around Maunganui Bluff in North Auckland.
However, their numbers have been falling dramatically, that back in the 1970’s there were 2000 in number and now we are down to around just 55. From 30,000 Hector’s in the 1970s, to 7,000 today, we can see where these species losses are trending.
Three Maui’s dolphins a year are killed in trawl/set nets in NZ, which are their biggest point source threat. We have to eliminate all human induced threats out of the habitat.
John Coombs discusses new paradigm proactive health and wellness programs with Naturopath and Wellness Services Manager, Marnie Rowllings.
Marnie and John, who is the Director of Global Health Clinics, chat through new frontier holistic health services which are helping people of all ages throughout New Zealand with personalised wellness programs.
Global Health Clinics helps people with a wide range of conditions from immunity and muscular skeletal issues, through to serious illness including advanced cancer and heart disease.
Marnie guides her clients through the range of options at Global Health. The clinic offers clients a one stop, whole health centre with fully integrated systems, from high tech analytic equipment through to muscular skeletal adjustments. They combine advanced technology with ageless wisdom and compassionate empathy.
John and Marnie discuss a variety of new approaches to wellbeing including Marnie's passion of conscious preconception and pregnancy preparation through to early childhood care, along with new concepts such as epigenetics and quantum healing which are changing the shape of health care.
What is it to be surrendered? To many people especially in the political sphere this is a contradiction in terms, how can you be endeavouring to change some thing yet be surrendered?
Yet, from a Gandhian perspective, being surrendered to the greater good, to doing everything to benefit the greater whole is in fact the coming paradigm that we are entering.
Gandhi expressed it this way. ‘I live in the centre of a circle that has no circumference.’
It’s called selfless action that transcends service to self.
How do we go about surrendering to a ‘greater power’ than the self?
Spending ones total life devoted to good, to the community at large and society as a whole.
A wander through the wilderness with Amy McComb as we take in the grandeur of nature and a delightful journey through the garden of knowledge.
The uniqueness of the many native trees in NZ allows for a very interesting odyssey for an empath, as trees embed their healing qualities in their being and this can be picked up by those who have an affinity with the plant world.
Married to this is having the proficiency of an honours, botanical science degree, that gives a sense of both what is going on and what is needed.
Maori saw trees as taonga and also that in ancient times trees were in many ways affiliated to god or goddess energy, that they were revered for the healing qualities that reside in them.
Note, that plants are drawn to certain areas and that they can teach us a lot about living together. Kauri don't like to be planted alone, away by themselves, because they will sulk however when grown in a grove, thrive together. Kaihikatea trees tend to grow in circular areas and grow in swampy or wet places as their roots like a damp environment.
The Kogi, descendants of the vast Tairona civilisation, and indigenous to Columbia, are perhaps the last pre-Columbian civilisation still living with their ancient culture in tact. For over 500 years they have been living high in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountain range, hidden away from the outside world.
The Kogi world centres around the profound understanding and direct perception of ‘Aluna,’ the creative spiritual dimension of The Great Mother. Descriptions of Aluna suggest it is akin to the Australian Aboriginal dream-time. The Kogi know the Earth to be a living being, arising from Aluna, and that all phenomena on Earth originate from this spiritual dimension.
They maintain that our actions of exploitation, devastation, and plundering for resources, and—more importantly—the misuse and abuse of our human energy is weakening the spiritual organisation of the Earth. They see that this is leading humanity and the planet away from the Original Intention of The Great Mother… toward our eventual destruction. They are aware this is not the first time there has imbalance and destruction of this kind, although it is perhaps the first occurrence on such a global scale.
Jonathan has spent much of his life extensively exploring the inner and outer worlds looking for answers and solutions to how we can live in accordance with Nature, physically and spiritually—holistically. What he found was a common thread of ancient wisdom weaving through all original traditions, cultures, and religions.
Steffan Browning, Green Party Member of Parliament. Spokesperson on:
Organics, GMOs, Fisheries, Agriculture, Bio-security, Customs, Forestry, Security and Intelligence. Steffan has been a member of the select committee on the Food Bill and has been instrumental in promoting changes to the original document.
A new law, replacing the Food Act 1981, was passed in Parliament on May 27th 2014. The bill introduces substantial reforms to the regulatory regime for the safety and suitability of food. This bill has been ten years in the making and has been sent to the select committee twice. It has just passed its third reading in the house and is to become law.
This bill is about food that is for consumption. It sets a new risk based bureaucratic structure that growers and producers will have to face but as consumers that may be a plus for us. Food Safety Minister Nikki Kaye says it will reduce compliance costs. There will be exemptions for small growers. How much bureaucracy should a small grower have to comply with however?
Laws governing the selling of seeds for growing have been changed and are no longer included in the bill. The bill is strictly about the safety of food that we are going to eat.
Steffan Browning and Labour’s Damien O’Connor have both put up amendments to the bill on Country of Origin labelling but the government voted these down. The Green Party has still got Country of Origin labelling in the parliamentary ballot, as that now seems the only way to get the issue addressed.In January 2012, when Steffan was supposed to be on holiday, many people flooded him with letters concerned about this bill. One concern was, where did genetic engineering fit in all of this. After all, it is a food safety issue, since genetically engineered foods are not safe.
If you doubt that statement is correct watch the movie that Steffan recommends,http://vimeo.com/68422959 'Genetic Roulette’.
One concern was that genetic engineering had been removed from the draft bill. Steffan worked with the then food safety minister Kate Wilkinson, and more recently with minister Nikki Kaye and has managed to include wording says that genetically engineered foods MAY be considered a food issue. This means that GE can be included under the umbrella of this food safety regulation, which would ultimately be beneficial, one would hope. The words are in the bill but the actions of this government are not supporting it.
Minister Nikki Kaye has allowed into New Zealand a new Soyabean that has been genetically altered to make it tolerant to the herbicides glufosinate ammonium and 2,4-D (an ingredient in agent orange) as well as roundup. This will undoubtedly create a health issue in the not so distant future. While each of the herbicides are not shown by industry’s own science to cause problems in the human body, there have been no tests on how all three work together. Independent science has shown some very concerning effects from herbicide resistant GE soy.
This latest soy has not been approved by the FDA in the United States yet, which is saying something! Currently in New Zealand no GE food is grown but Steffan talks about the importing of GE food into this country and how we are unknowingly eating it, as our labelling laws have not been monitored or enforced since 2003. He explains why you are probably eating GE in your dairy and meat products via the animals’ food, that may include GE soy, cotton seed and canola.
One of the concerns in this country is the lack of independent, not industry based, science. It appears that even our regulatory body FSANZ has some conflicts of interest amongst its advisors, so how do we ensure we actually are eating safe food?
Steffan says the whole system needs an overhaul. If FSANZ – Food Safety Australia New Zealand – can’t do better than this then we need to bring control back into this country, again.
Steffan is a tireless worker for a variety of food issues and is a major protector in Parliament of the integrity of our food. He is also quick to acknowledge the work of Claire Bleakley, Jon Carapiet, Suzie Lees, and others from http://www.gefree.org.nz GE Free NZ.
This programme was sponsored by The Awareness Party.
http://www.theawarenessparty.com
The saying that ‘we are spiritual beings having an earth experience’ is resonating with more and more people as this timely clarion call inspires us to action. And as we awaken to the realisation that our society is coming up against limits to our outmoded thinking, belief systems and thresholds - to what is unbridled growth, we are starting to reflect on the inevitable consequences of ‘business as usual.’
‘When the joy of compassionate service is married to a practical and pragmatic drive to transform all existing economic, social, and political institutions, a radical and potentially all-transforming holy force is born.’
This coming from the quintessential sacred activist, Andrew Harvey a global transition leader who invokes the sacred in every thought, deed and action in what is our collective … ever expanding cosmology.
If there was ever a time to fulfill our hearts calling for a better world, it has to be now.
From Mahatma Gandhi to Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama, and Martin Luther King, Jr., we have over the last century witnessed beings stand up to the status quo and against the odds, courageously show(ed) that their passion to represent the repressed and downtrodden continued, unabated.
Here in our country of Aotearoa we too have a growing number of people, who surrendering to a greater calling than service to self, devote their lives to doing what they feel, and intuitively know is right, to stand firm in the face of adversity as well as recognising the growing general consensus that things are definitely not sustainable.
Where once virtues, values and ethics were more deeply embedded in our community and that they were intrinsic to what we thought and felt society should embrace, yet we are also continuing to witness on a daily basis a greater void in the world. This emptiness is in many ways being foisted upon us from the global corporate juggernaut that has overreached itself and now, ‘sacred activists’ are riding the pendulum that’s finally starting to swing life back towards balance and that of community.
Todays new calling is for positive change, for deep dialogue, to open to new ideas, innovation and expanding the parameters of new paradigm thinking. At the same time bringing with it a warm hearted countenance, that unifies the spirit and connects with the common aspirations of so many people who have been affected, but have been struggling and unable to truly contribute to the world.
Thus, we are all being called to participate in this upwelling of transformation, in both the outer world and our inner realms especially our celebrating of our reverence for life.
So the question that now lends itself to your continuing curiosity, are you a sacred activist? Are you a metaphysical change agent? Do you know anyone who is? And, do you aspire to ignite your own inner wisdom and participate?
If this ideal feels compelling to you:
Join Diane Marama Winder and Michael Fleck
As we share and express what has been bubbling into our consciousness as that of the ‘sacred activist.’
Diane Marama Winder is an inter-spiritual guide, international teacher and intuitive messenger. She is unique among New Zealand's visionary writers and speakers. Her transformational and heart-opening work on evolutionary living and personal and planetary healing bridges many worlds - from corporate leaders to Tibetan Monks, health care to UN groups, youth and families to the unseen realm. An ordained interfaith minister and biologist, Diane is CoFounder and Spiritual Director of the Sephira Institute and the Winder Foundation with its B-Cool Program for Boys 'at promise.' Born in America, she has lived in Auckland for 15 years.
Contact: marama [at] aroha.net
Michael is an Auckland eco-activist and event designer, specialising in guiding people on sacred journeys throughout New Zealand and the Pacific. He is the co-founder of Ecoversity and the Good Company Pacific resource network.
Contact: michael [at] aroha.net
Brendan is a courageous advocate for growing of healthy food and the World Rural Forum have asked him to participate in what is a world civil societies initiative to the UN's International Year of Family Farming.
70% OF THE WORLD FOOD PRODUCTION IS PROVIDED BY FAMILY FARMERS
Of that 70%
50% comes from arable, cropping and gardening
12.5% come from hunting and gathering
7.5% is produced by small urban farmers
The other 30% of food production comes from highly mechanised Western farming.
25% OF THE WORLD'S POPULATION IS COMPOSED OF WOMEN FARMERS, which comes to about 1,600 million women. These women are usually running the household, bringing up the children, cooking, cleaning and taking care of the sick and or aged parents as well. (Spare a caring thought for them).
So the International Year of Family Farming is not about the family farm or farming, and it is more than just producing food and products. It covers, contracts, teachers, safety, health workers, education, land use, including farm labour, fisheries, forestry incorporating the whole of the global rural regions.
Brendon being the Oceanic representative and coordinator on a National level, gives a broad overview of what the challenges are; he has a team of 4 very qualified people here in NZ to support this initiative.
One of the main objectives is to explore here in NZ are:
Of these 5, three are to be focussed on.
At present NZ has no rural strategy especially for rural telecommunications connectivity.
None addressing debt and this is a large overhead for many farmers and gardeners.
None of the key issues addressing ‘identity’ are being discussed at ANY level.
Thus this initiative has created 'this Forum' for these discussions to be heard and addressed.
In this interview:
The word organics is broached to which Brendan replies, that when we drop the word organics and have the conversation under more generic terms everyone wants to talk about healthy food. Because from growing to marketing we are all interconnected.
What is the 'International Year of Family Farming' in 2014 and what is family?
How do we build a rural strategy for NZ and be lead by civil society and not going to the government for money.
How do we have conversations in rural NZ about GE, for example and water quality and soil degradation?
In the rural sector family farms versus corporate farms are a growing tension Corporate farms would not employ the local accountant or the local engineer or the local lawyer and other localised trades people.
So rural communities are suffering and how do we address this?
Forestry - a lot of deaths by accident - loss of family, father, and compensation, welfare etc - more care more training, more up skilling
Farming is about having a deep connection to the land and the farmers feet are also in the ground with an intimacy of soil fertility, grasses, trees, bird life, smells and the change of the seasons. However, you lose intimacy when your operation becomes too big ... where ... you can't or don’t walk your land as it is already digitally mapped, on GPS. It is also very much about finding that sweet spot on your land, and as a metaphor it’s around families and kids at play and immersing themselves in natures sounds, colours and fragrances, but also a lot of these days families are under stress. Like availability of finding partners for marriage and start a family. Where once there were community dances, tennis clubs, badminton and table tennis at the local hall. Yes, there maybe the rugby club, and that's the convergence point of a local area for anyone, not even rugby supporters.
Farms are not always about profitability and about production. It's also a good time and have friendships experiencing producing high quality products, being innovative, working with animals, machines, and sorting out problems, that makes rural living exciting. Kids can learn much, also to be gentle yet strong - nurturing in a growing way, not in a hunting, killing exterminating way, but feeling, being connected and honouring of place. This especially with children is becoming more rare. Note that there is also death on farms, that animals do die, and this has to be taken in stride as well.
Brendan intimates that this whole initiative could lead to transformational change in farming and land practice, if it gets the needed support / buy in.
Hear that in a private capacity Brendan's team come in alongside small to medium size NZ business get them fit and strong so that when match fit, they are able to go into the world and thrive internationally.
From production to market lead, now farming is becoming relationship lead i.e people wanting to connect with the farmer/gardener to learn about their food that is being sold into the city.
Putting ones soul into the land, blood and sweat (and tears) creates and enhances the land when we understand the energetics of building up soil fertility faster to a better quality etc using biological and ecological process like enhancing water standards and landscapes plus treescapes. It’s not really about technology, it's about techniques as well as the synergy of working with people all the way to distribution, marketing and overseas export.
Connection to quality is becoming relationship based. Especially with labelling of country of origin now being initiated in NZ. Called connection by biological and ecological consciousness.
Quality of care equals enduring relationships
Conscious connection, is growing every year and in this field of quality food it could be 7% per year.
Overseas they are now wanting to know about carbon neutrality, food miles, fairness of trade - pesticide residue, organic or not and wanting tests done again and .. again questioning plastic in foods, coverings and processes of foods. Being certified organic picks up a premium return. Organics means individual health, environmental health, uncontaminated soil, clean streams, no air born contamination, a better ecology from the local to the global this is what translates into health, that benefits the whole.
Learn also about how organics is being regulated in NZ and covers the fact that NZ's state of the environment has never been worse ... basically it means that 'we' collectively are not on the winning team and the reason is poor communication and lack of ... that their needs to be change in our mindset and that the languaging of ecological and environmental considerations be invoked in our daily vernacular.
Be it biological or ecological producer what ever the name .... overseas now the word organic and biological are synonymous and perceptive ears of discerning buyers are listening out for how we in NZ speak to our connection in the way we go about our farming practices.
Brendan also stresses that we be thankful when we eat food, be mindful of its growth into what it is … involve ourselves do gardening and grow some food.
It is actual gardeners not farmers that feed the world so be part of this shift in awareness.
And, be courageous and be daring ... of course you can ...if the seed is ripe ... plant more seeds.
And much, much more.
Conscious connection, conscious eating, conscious environment.
www.familyfarmingcampaign.net
www.fao.org/docrep/meeting/028/mg367e.pdf
Transnational Corporations are moving in to NZ where once they were only multi national corporations. The percentage of incursion into NZ is virtually the highest of any developed country on earth. They are dominating our country more and more as the laws of NZ are very laissez-faire and liberal, buying into established businesses that NZers have built and also buying up our land and housing as well. Generally it is open slather with very few exceptions.
THe TPPA is a wolf in sheeps clothing and when you peruse: http://www.converge.org.nz/abc/ you will get the picture. Big Time.
Free trade agreements are actual investment agreements to provide the means for trans national corporations to acquire more power, profit, control and riches and wealth under the guise of Free Trade ... NZ is being recolonised by Corporations.
In NZ the banks are creaming it. Not one is suffering at present ANZ, with record profits same for Westpac.
Subjects Covered:
Corporate Welfare here in NZ, namely Rio Tinto (the old Comalco) easily obtaining a $30 million dollar subsidy from the National Govt, by saying they will not close their smelter until 2017. Yet, they have a secret electric power deal that is far below the current rate for ordinary householders and ... the power that they take daily is equivalent to all the electrical power that is consumed by the city of Auckland. And they have been doing this for 50 years with every single government that has got into power. Note with no smelter, NZ would have huge amounts of excess power ...
Other situations where the NZ government gave our hard earned tax dollars as enticements to, were, Skycity, Chorus, Fox Studious, Warner Bros etc.
Note, Skycity's offer to build a National Convention Center as long as the Govt gives them umpteen poker machines to be unleashed on the public. And that this deal is LOCKED in for 35 years. That no Govt can ever reverse it no matter which Government gains power.
Chorus who is rolling out the ultra fast broad band cable across the country was told by the NZ Government Commerce Commission that they have been overcharging all customers by $10 per month and that they had to repay their customers so instead, they cried that it would send them broke, so the government came in and helped them out.
These are three examples of political interference and corporate welfare dictating how our elected Parliamentary servants represent, we the NZ citizens.
Then there is corporate tax avoidance, last year it was announced a day before Xmas eve, that the NZ IRD, Inland Revenue Dept reached an 'out of court settlement' of $2.2 billion dollars (around 80% of the total amount) with the 4 top Australian owned banks as they had previously dodged paying tax. This being the biggest tax avoidance case in NZ history. This was very hush hush, when in fact they all should have been taken to the highest court of the land. With an 'out of court settlement'
they avoided penalty taxes and court costs ... very cunning.
CAFCA also runs the Roger Awards for the Worst Transnational Corporation operating in NZ. The Roger award named after 'you know who' and is also represented by the pirate flag of the skull and cross bones called the unjolly Roger. The banks are always in the finals, especially the ANZ. This year the Award was won by Rio Tinto, with Sky City 2nd and 3rd being Chorus. All 3 were judged as interfering with the Government and receiving backhanded - handouts.
Note that in January 2014 in the Business Day column of the Christchurch Press it was stated that Facebook, Google and Apple made an estimated $750 million dollars in NZ in the last tax year but only paid less than $4 million in tax. That works out as a tax rate of 0.4% yet the NZ company tax is 28%, how did they get around this? NZ loses and CEO's and Shareholders of these transnationals win!
And they are not paying their taxes in the USA either, using offshore tax havens ...
In England the Tax Justice Network are looking at these deals - 'The price of offshore'. http://www.taxjustice.net
Then there is the TPPA the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement and the loss of NZ's sovereignty as well as a plethora of circumstances that will effect our country across the board. See www.itsourfuture.org.nz
TPPA is also means to 'contain' China from the US perspective. As the World Bank has just in the last week stated that China will overtake the USA as the worlds largest economy this year, and this is the first time that this has happened since 1872 when Britain was surpassed by the USA. Previous predictions were thought to be 2019 for China to make this break-through.
Note, if PHARMAC here in NZ is abolished it will mean huge costs for drugs in this country. PHARMAC drugs here cost 1/3 of US costs and 1/2 Australian costs.
Then we have the Security Apparatus, that composes 5 of the main countries of the 5 Eyes Echelon Communication Network. USA, UK, Canada, Australia and NZ.
ABC http://www.converge.org.nz/abc/
The NZ GCSB is increasingly doing the service as the subordinate and being even servile to the corporate agenda. In March 2013 the NZ Business Review stated that 'our spies principle mission used to be the defence of the realm, todays GCSB is about the protection of Corporate property and interests.'
GCSB and the Dot com saga, tells the NZ community that there is much murk behind the scenes ...
You can write to the director of the NZ SIS, Security Intelligence, Box 900 in Wellington and ask them if they have a file on you and ask for a copy of your file ...
Other points of interest in this information packed interview:
That the US now has access to all of NZ's tax records - the Law has been passed in Parliament ... passed in the last month or so .... who of us slept though this one?
That there is a direct telephone line from the US State Department to Treasury in Wellington.
That Wikileaks let out information that Americans wanted to allow NZ's spys to be connected directly to the Department of Homeland Security in the USA , however the NZ director of the SIS refused to approve it - so he was pushed out until someone more 'proactive' was employed.
Also, in those Wikileaks documents there was evidence that the US embassy was given all hours access by being given actual swipe cards to get into the NZ buildings of Foreign Affairs and NZ Defence HQ in Wellington so that they could come in day or night and have access to certain people and records and that sort of ... stuff.
Note that the NZ legal definition of a foreign company is anything more than 24.9 % yet our PM in saying we are only going to sell off 49% of Meridian and Mighty river power and Genesis, this is actually double the legal definition of a foreign company.
I encourage all listeners this morning to open up your web browser to www.cafca.org.nz and peruse this site, then tell your friends and neighbours that we are losing our country.
Murray has for 45 years, been at the forefront of educating the NZ public telling them that every week large slices of New Zealand's farms and city and suburban properties are being sold off to over seas entities. And much, much more.
In 2012, the Overseas Investment Office approved the sale of 43,080 hectares of freehold rural land and 8,554 hectares of leases and other interests in land to foreigners. About 10,000 hectares of the freehold land and almost all the leases and other interests in land were from one foreign investor to another. In the decade 2003 to 2012, the average was 133,942 hectares of freehold and 60,435 hectares of leases and other interests in land approved for sale.
Statistics on sales of land to overseas interests are poorly recorded and incomplete. Our best estimate is that in 2011 at least 8.7 percent of New Zealand farmland including forestry, or 1.3 million hectares, is foreign-owned or controlled and it could have reached 10 percent.
(Overseas Investment Commission and Overseas Investment Office. "Overseas Ownership Of Land: Far Greater Than The 1% The PM Claims", by Bill Rosenberg)
People's Rights Before Corporate Profit
Public Service Not Private Profit
An Independent Foreign Policy
No Unjust Secret Treaties
These topics include
Murray Will be speaking in Auckland
Friday May 9th at:
Pacific Media Centre
Sir Paul Reeves Building
Auckland University of Technology
4.00 p.m.
Local Contact: David Robie 021 112-2079
Full Itinerary here: http://2014cafcatour.blogspot.co.nz/p/blog-page.html
Websites of interest:
http://www.celticnz.co.nz/transport/Time_Line.htm
https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/putting_big_brother_in _the_drivers_seat_v2v_transmitters_black_boxes_d
Interviewed by John Coombs - Dr Wayne McCarthy has been in practice for 25 years working as a Naturopath, including primary care work in USA. Dr Wayne, a medical school graduate from Oregon USA, has used this training to develop what he believes is the most simple and cost effective health care options available.
He returned to NZ in 2005 to help get Ozone therapy established in NZ.
Dr Wayne has worked tirelessly since to promote Ozone Therapy building a practice to help thousands of people recover from a wide range of health challenges with many of them moving towards optimal health and vitality.
Ozone has proven effective for most health conditions as it helps fully oxygenate the body improving the immune system to a level where naturally occurring healing and vitality readily occur.
Prolotherapy another key aspect of Wayne’s portfolio fills an important gap between physiotherapy and surgery strengthening ligaments, tendons and cartilage, restoring joints and enabling normal function and mobility.
It’s especially good for old knee and back injuries as well as restoring shoulder strength and mobility. It’s potentially a permanent cost effective solution for sporting injuries.
Dr Wayne has also trained in osteopathy and psychology giving him an holistic portfolio of skills for dealing with most health challenges, from simple infections through to difficult chronic conditions.
To book to see Dr Wayne or for more information go to http://globalhealthclinics.co.nz/practitioners/wayne-mccarthy-ozone/ or call 09 4880208 Monday to Friday and the reception team will help you.
Dr Wayne is located in Takapuna on Wednesday and Thursday and Whangarei during other times in the week.
Motivated by what she saw around her on her island Kaua’i, Andrea Brower embarked on a career of social and environmental justice.
The largest pesticide companies in the world use Kaua’i and other islands in Hawaii to experiment with genetically engineered crops. Crops are created to either be herbicide resistant, or to create their own resistance.
Monsanto, Dow, Dupont, Bayer, BASF and Syngenta all operate their research and development programmes there. Virtually every type of GM seed variety passes through Hawaii and is tested in open air field trials for their new technologies. This involves very high use of pesticides and herbicides. 15,000 acres of land on Kaua’i are used for this research.
Ecological and health concerns are growing as a result of this continual onslaught of chemical residue which blows onto communities on as many as three hundred days a year.
Last year Kaua'i passed a county law that would allow greater public disclosure of pesticide use, as well as modest no-spray protection zones around schools and other places where children live, learn and play. Now Dow, DuPont Pioneer and Syngenta have contested this and filed a law suit against Kaua’i.
Andrea began with a degree in environmental studies and feminism in California. Then she returned to Kaua’i to work with a non profit organization called Malama Kauai. Here she worked on issues of food, energy, economics and sustainability. Malama Kauai have community gardens and while there Andrea also looked at global systems, larger processes and structures that affected how they could operate even at this local level.
This drove Andrea to study further and she attended Sussex University in the UK where she did her masters in International Development and the Environment.
She is now working on her PHD at Auckland University’s sociology department where she is preparing a thesis on Social Movements that Change Food Systems.
Andrea is most concerned about the capital structure that incentivises profit making in scientific research around our food, and not for the public good. Now decades of research is finding genetically engineering highly unsuccessful so increasingly these companies are buying up conventional seeds . It now seems almost unable for even small community gardens to be free of these corporate giants who aim to control global markets.
Angela cites a book called Foodopoly . In Foodopoly the author, Wenona Hauter, pulls the curtain back from the little-understood but vital realm of agricultural policy, showing how it has been hijacked by lobbyists, driving out independent farmers and food processors in favour of the likes of another GE giant Cargill, and Tyson, Kraft and ConAgra. She demonstrates how the impacts ripple far and wide, from economic stagnation in rural communities at home, to famines overseas. In the end, Hauter argues that solving this crisis will require a complete structural shift—a change that is about politics, not just personal choice.
Andrea talks passionately about this and her own research into our food systems.
She is not convinced that the labeling of GE food is an answer, although important, as it just means good food for the elite market and is not an answer for those consumers who cannot afford good food.
She is keen to see policies and economic structures changed to stop a handful of global companies controlling the food market. Some of these structures that need rolling include trade agreements, national policies, and laws that allow banks to speculate on the price of food. Changes are required to subsidy structures so they can support local and co-operative initiatives.
Above all Andrea would like to see grassroots opposition to the corporatization of our food.
A vivacious and intelligent young lady, Andrea Brower is has much to contribute and I really recommend that you listen closely to what she has to say.
This programme was sponsored by The Awareness Party.
The highest polling Independent candidate in the previous 2011 NZ election, David stood for Parliament in Waitaki, the 2nd largest electorate in NZ and over a couple of months of electioneering, walked 1500 kilometres and put his flyers in every post box of the towns in this electorate.
One of a Solar Vision of the Era and of New Zealand.
There are many insights gathered when not part of the Party system.
David is perplexed by the lack of involvement by the average citizen in NZ - and that we need to take a stand and say enough is enough ... because we in the Western world live in a corporatocracy and the only power we really have outside the ballot box is the power to boycott. Corporations who do not have global goodwill as their vision, should be boycotted - but we have to be organised ...
To Initiate a discussion and then a action plan:
Bring forth the solar age here in NZ and with innovation and tax incentives we could lead the future. Note that Germany the leading country in solar energy, is closer to the North Pole than NZ is to the South Pole.
Solar collectors on every house roof, along with a small wind generator and compulsory insulation of all homes, thermo pane windows and walls with 6 inch (15 CM) insulation.
NZ has become a very expensive country that is now over regulated ... plus the need to build a functional union movement in this country once again, one that works more cooperatively with possible bonus issues and even shares being offered.
Also stop thinking BIG, and get back to local systems, simple and small scale individual solutions - community oriented initiatives. Where people are empowered to participate. Farmers Markets, cultural events, swap meets, localised workshops etc
Localised health, growing your own food organically and integrating more holistic health modalities into your lifestyle.
Overpopulation is our planet’s largest problem, as everything stems from that, pollution, hunger, control of and lack of resources etc. However, over population is not being broached by society as a whole, because economic growth and its current unsustainable model is dependent on a continuously expanding population base.
Look at extreme weather events .. this is amplifying and we need to start stratigizing solutions and actioning them. Insurance companies are realising that their losses are escalating due to increasing risks around floods, storms and hurricanes etc.
That Gaia, Mother Earth is subtly and not so subtly showing us that things are out of balance and the resulting extreme events are increasing.
If we could engender a mass awakening we could turn the planet around very quickly, but first we would have to turn off our TV sets and start re-engaging with each other at a localised level and build from there.
Why have we become separated from nature, why are we allowing destruction of both the fauna and flora of our planet? - Having been in the Alaskan wilderness and even meditated close up with grizzly bears in the boreal forests, David senses that we need to realise our interconnection with the web of life. Yet, people in high places are not speaking out for the biota and the biosphere as a whole. There are very few planetary champions supporting nature.
Where as 40 years ago when David lived with his family on their Mid Canterbury farm and before TV came here everyone sat around the table and dialogued and debated and discoursed with each other. This was about the topics of the day, and the things we either disagreed or agreed with. To even take the other side of the debate and argue from that side, as this was the entertainment of those days.
First, A coalition of left and right independents who are also unbiased, self supporting and insightful thinkers but agree to sign a contract saying that they will work for the greater good of the whole of NZ, the environment and other species and our future on behalf of our grand children.
For example, retain New Zealand's Nuclear Free status.
That we look to and plan towards ‘Seven Generations into the Future.’ That all independent politicians sign such an agreement as a basis for a 'unified position.'
Party politics have become, that once you join a political party, you abandon your principles to your party and not to the public good and the future of NZ, because your following your parties policies which may not necessarily the best interest of the NZ. e.g the natural resource grab that is happening at this moment.
Have spirited discussions that come into informed decisions, are often better than ones own individual ideas - that being an aim of an independent movement. Working and communicating within the pubic domain.
What sort of vision should a leader offer their people? How do they factor humanity into it?
How is it that we in so many ways are eroding and closing down the magnificence of this jewel of a planet, when with some conscious decisions, education and policies we could turn this into a verdant garden?
Davids encounter when he was with singer Judy Collins, of talking with astronaut Neil Armstrong about his perceptions of life, when viewing the earth in the depths of space ... something very special.
Web search - the great american bubble machine that was in the Rolling Stone magazine,
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-great-american-bubble-machine-20100405
No one has sued the journalist for defamation after fingering many of the money men, because his facts were correct.
This is about how Goldman Sachs has engineered the recent global economic collapse and that they have been donkey deep in every collapse since the Great Depression. But, more so they have infiltrated every Western government and that our Prime Minster has been able to enable ’them’ to sell our NZ state assets and that he is implicitly implicated at the highest levels by believing in the Neo Liberal Agenda.
This entails corporations taking over via unbridled capitalism with no Governmental regulations and causing the destruction of the common wheel, the natural resources of our environment, the rights of citizens to have secure futures, the rights of Unions to be involved in the mix (as they are in Germany.)
See TPPA the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement as a means to this corporate end.
http://www.itsourfuture.org.nz
Present day neo liberalism is Not serving the common person, the community, the environment and our planet and our children’s collective future ...
This interview covers many topics:
About how a Prime Minister should lead, and David mentions true blue Jim Bolger ex NZ National Party leader and NZ Prime Minister and his assessment of present day neo liberal capitalism in the USA as 'printing money and hoping!'
David once sat alongside Milton Friedman in first class and intensely discussed the failure of present day economics and it is in David’s opinion that the greatest downside of todays economic system is the slavery that has come about from the debt economy. That people who have mortgages are too afraid to stand up and be counted unless they may lose their jobs, and not get another and very possibly lose their house as a result.
A mass mobilisation is needed like the ‘D Day mobilisation’ to educate ourselves on the dire consequences of leaving our common future to the 'political industrial extractive process' that is debasing our environment at a horrific pace.
Where all nations, all governments, all peoples and all businesses come together to re awaken, we seed and replant, re-clean and re-heal our ecologic and environmental systems, that include where we house our communities.
All the major political parties environmental policies are in the dark ages - our wetlands, being crucibles of bird and aquatic life.
The urgency of planting of trees, especially natives from today onwards for the next 60 - 100 years we can stabilise,the soils, halt erosion and sequester carbon from the atmosphere, build up native bird and animal life.
Starting in the school curriculum, teaching of civic responsibilities and long range thinking.
Having a Lower and an Upper House in Parliament, needs discussing and debating.
E col o gy eco-logos oikos (Greek) translate as house - came well before ... eco no ME
Research: Soil loss and the decline of civilisation - essentially all great civilisations in history decline because they destroy the environment
http://www.fao.org/docrep/t0389e/t0389e02.htm
NZ’s fisheries and the many challenges around sustainability, our need to lock away many fisheries for a number of years to be able them to replenish and recover. For example Orange Roughy.
What we need is 'A Collective D Day Awakening' - a collective D Day Moment where we all Mobilise for the betterment of our local and global future.
And much more ...
Back in the 1940s New Zealanders were described as long, lean, ranging and resourceful. This was one of the reasons we had community and communication with each other, however over the years with the advent of electronics and changing education and household patterns, we have become more isolated and where subtle and not so subtle methods of divide and rule have become more prevalent.
To choose our politicians not because they are leaders or statesmen but because they may make more money than other people, does not translate to mean that we as a country should vote for such a person thinking this politician will also make more money for the country. This is a fallacy, they only go on to set themselves up to make more money for themselves further on.
In todays world, we as consumers are being targeted to consume as many material resources as can be paid for and when we purchase a bargain, usually as a ubiquitous, toxic plastic article it is very soon in a landfill somewhere and we end up poisoning our resources and our future.
The loss of ethics and the understanding of what it means is being lost in our runaway consumer society.
Tara states that engagement with one another was what made us a great nation and the illusion that we are all separate is more of an idea proposed by the people who want to divide us and rule.
We are a fortunate country in that we can recover the environment and have clean air, water and food chain etc. We are also, not so much in debt that if we do not sell off any more assets (the ones that make the revenue for us to pay off the debt) we may very well be able to create our way into a resilient and self reliant, sustainable country and society.
It is both your fault and my fault that we have the situation that is happening in this country - why? Because we did not make the effort. Over 1 million did not vote in the last election.
Do we want to be bothered? Or, do we want to become a people who think and decide to take strategic action at the polling booth? Look at the lives that have been lost over the centuries as ordinary people courageously strived under horrendous hardship to have a say in their community. To insult these pioneers, these suffragette’s by turning our backs on these hard fought rights to universal suffrage, is not an option, especially in our world of decreasing freedoms, ethics and values.
In NZ it is against the law not to register to vote. Whereas in Australia they have taken it a step further, and that it is against the law not to vote.
Look at a possible tax incentive to vote and those who don't vote pay more taxes?
This interview covers much subject matter:
Conservatism and what it means - to Conserve. Old people planting trees, knowing that they will never walk under the shade of them. Thinking forward as to what will we bequeath to our children and grand children’s future.
Learning from advanced Northern European methods.
Environment - In Sweden, recycling is so efficient that now Sweden has to import other peoples recycled (rubbish) items so as to keep their industries going. They have not turned their whole country into an economic model as we have done under the RMA the Resource Management Act. Recycling is part of the common vernacular through out Swedish business and Government.
Education - In Finland, though not on the same wages scale as doctors, teachers are honoured as professionals. The Finnish educational system caters for parental and grand parental input in their highly acclaimed educational system. Academically they have one of the highest success rates in the world.
The TPPA the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement is a method to outflank NZ’s sovereignty. With regard to health, the TPPA has NZ in its sights the dismantling of PHARMAC and quite possibly the taking over of our hospitals by offshore corporations.
This also covers housing and overseas ownership of NZ, when we can not buy land in Fiji, China or Japan, why not instead lease this land and keep the ownership in this country?
GDP and the measure of how much growth we have where as like Dr. Ron Colman’s development of the Genuine Progress Index for Nova Scotia in Canada which includes the other side of the equation where car crashes, house fires, burglaries, storm damage and accident and sickness are factored into the whole economic understanding. And the books are balanced accordingly.
As a water scientist, Tara talks about:
The degradation of water, rives, lakes, selling off of NZ, that large corporate farms now may have only one house on them, where once many smaller farms built up the community as there were more homes and families. The advent of the larger and larger farms, are depopulating the community of families and this trend is escalating in NZ.
It’s our fault, as the government was designed to be a peoples process but now we are a people that are not engaged but instead disengaged. What can we do to reignite our interest in our own governance, be it at a local or a national level?
Our country is run as a business however, it can not be run solely as a business as there lies the fundamental difference that not everything has a monetary factor attached to it. Such as what about the knowledge banks of the elderly, and their input into community and society. The elderly have much wisdom and experience to offer. Lets validate them and bring them more into community decisions.
There is a way through this if we use the enlightened consciousness that we have been imbued with.
We need to be more involved with each other, we need to be able to pay it forward and at the same time as talking with our neighbours engage in pulling the strings of community together.
For New Zealand as a socially conscious country, we can once again be a global moral leader of how a small synergistic nation can once again be the emerging microcosm for the planetary macrocosm.
Finally, Tara will also tell you the story how he has been able to secure the name of: The New Zealand Party.
Contact: tara [at] NZactions.org.nz
Our interview this week is with Sue Alesbury and Caroll Macy. They are both experienced natural health practitioners capable of helping with both common and difficult to treat conditions.
John Coombs interviews Global Health Clinics' new Client Services Manager, Susan Alesbury on the benefits of being able to create and manage a Designer Holistic Programme not only as a curative approach but also preventative.
Susan Alesbury has a business background and is also qualified in many therapeutic modalities in her own right.
Her special interest is in discovering the Mind Body Spirit connection. From training with the Cross Colour Healing Association in the UK some 20 years ago, she has come full circle after recognising that healing was simply "Firefighting without looking for how the fires were being started". Since that time, she has trained in Clinical Hypnosis, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Aboriginal Dreamtime, and has trained to Leadership under Tony Robbins where she learned Human Needs Psychology. Now, with the advent of the Biofield Viewer and connecting all the dots with the mental, emotional and spiritual energy fields, Susan is finding the Colour Healing a very potent tool in her toolbox once more.
John then interviews Caroll Macy a specialist in metal and chemical detoxification. As well as helping her clients stabilise hormones which may have been disrupted Caroll helps stimulate the immune system to enable a full recovery.
Caroll’s work is helping many people who have tried for years to get well. Caroll’s system is at the cutting edge of bio energy technology based on the pioneering research and clinical work of Dr Yurkovsky a prominent USA clinician.
Bioresonance Testing is unique in its ability to pin-point exact information concerning the state of your internal organs and many different systems – and the Poisoning agents that may have been lodged in them. Finding which poisons are exerting a paralyzing effect is essential – no guess work – treat the cause, not the symptoms. The Therapy must induce not only the release of identified Metals, Chemicals, Viruses, Bacteria or Fungi; But, it must also support or rebuild the natural defenses of weakened or distressed Organs and Systems; thus preventing the poisons’ from being dumped back into them.
HEAVY METAL POISONING is perhaps the most prevalent and serious condition we find – playing a primary role in nearly all chronic diseases. Mercury and Lead are known to invade every aspect of the body such as the Bone Marrow, Brain, Bladder Bones, Uterus etc. Cobalt and Chromium may be found in tissue surrounding hip replacements. Mercury was once routinely put in our mouths and often still is; even though well proven to cause untold harm. All fossil fuels, from coal to petroleum, contain mercury. Petroleum is used extensively in many Beauty Products. Even the tuna and salmon (being high up in the food chain) we eat can contain high levels of Mercury. Lead, Arsenic, Cobalt and Cadmium are common parts of everyday life – without actually being recognised!
Listen to this interview to discover tips on how to either restore or improve your own or your families health, or simply for improving your general knowledge of health and well being.
For immediate practical help or to book and appointment please go to www.globalhealthclinics.co.nz
At the heart of the attack on our sovereignty is the TPPA (Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement). It is described as a 21st century agreement that will reach further behind the border than any previous free trade or investment agreement. Parliament will have no effective say over these new rules unless they require changes to New Zealand’s domestic law.
There are around 29 chapters in the agreement, very few of which involve old-fashioned trade. Numbered at about 4. Most of them aim to curb the process and content of government’s domestic policy and regulatory decisions.
In practice, the TPPA would give foreign governments and well-resourced foreign companies the right to influence our domestic decisions, and marginalise our own national priorities, advocates and agencies, including Parliament and our courts. Therefore the TPPA is a potent threat to national sovereignty over decision-making processes and institutions, and to open and accountable government. We can only hope that this government, and the next one, will resist the corporate overture and protect the democratic rights of the populace.
Interviewed by Lisa Er, Edward gives us a little of the background to the TPPA which began with an agreement between Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore and New Zealand. It was planned to be a gold standard agreement, with Labour’s Phil Goff negotiating for New Zealand. The US then became interested and now there are 12 countries negotiating the TPPA.
Edward Miller is strategic adviser at FIRST Union, organiser and spokesperson for It's Our Future NZ (the campaign against the TPPA) and is a founding member of the Aotearoa Human Rights Lawyers Association. He has recently completed a Masters thesis on food speculation, and is interested in food, trade, development, finance, and labour and environmental issues. His choice to become a lawyer grew out of his interest in activism.
Edward is concerned about the financialisation of our food. The world can actually feed 13 billion people, but because of financial speculators manipulating and inflating prices the distribution of food is limited to those with enough money to purchase. Agribusiness farming and practices, and scientific manipulation of our food is also a part of this growing corporate food rort.
Edward speaks about the supermarket duopoly in New Zealand that was recently highlighted, quite correctly, by Labour minister Shane Jones. Consumers and suppliers alike are subjected to the effects of pricing particularly by Countdown in their bid to be competitive and gain profit for their Australian owners.
The FIRST union, where Edward is a policy analyst and researcher, grew out of a merger of two unions, in 2011. FIRST is an acronym for Finance, Industry, Retail, Stores, and Transport. Edward explains the result of the deregulation of the forestry industry, the low union representation, and the resulting deaths. In the union they refer to those deaths as a Pike River every five years! Industry, which includes forestry, textiles, clothing and baking are the types of businesses that employ a lot of people, and that is declining, because of the global economy. Retail, tending to sell a lot of imported products or products made from overseas components, is on the increase.
Bearing in mind that most workers earn between $13.75 and $20 an hour Edward also highlights the new money lending business Payday Lenders that targets the small borrower. It appears to lend money at interest rates of a minimum of 300%. This is clearly unacceptable and should be regulated by government.
In fact the government’s ability to legislate will be seriously limited by the TPPA and so, rather obviously, globalisation is only serving corporate interest and the rich few, and is leaving the rest of the world behind, as the general population become poorer and poorer.
As George Sorus, business magnate, investor, and philanthropist observed, “Perhaps the greatest threat to freedom and democracy in the world today comes from the formation of unholy alliances between government and business.
"This is not a new phenomenon. It used to be called fascism: the outward appearances of the democratic process are observed, but the powers of the state are diverted to the benefit of private interests.”
This programme is sponsored by www.theawarenessparty.com
There are “NO WAY TPPA” rallies throughout New Zealand at 1pm this Saturday, March 29th. To find the closest rally to you, go to www.itsourfuture.org.nz
When you listen to this interview, you will very quickly notice that there appears to be no NZ businessman articulating the positivity and profundity of inspirational business models, that can bring a revolutionary impulse to family, community and cooperative commercial archetypes to this country.
If you think that we can wrestle back localised business interests, into the NZ communities hands - listen to this interview, based on Scandinavian and especially Finnish practices.
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Experienced holistic health practitioners Erica Lang and Liz Hart offer simple and effective tips and options towards relieving stress and experiencing optimal health.
Erica who uses a combination of Bodytalk and Counseling helps her clients with a wide range of health challenges. Her clients inevitably experience relief from emotional pain and stress , often feeling real transformational changes to their life.
Liz a local pioneer and teacher of Emotional Freedom technique explains how she helps her clients overcome long term health issues by helping modify unhelpful behaviors and attitudes. Liz offers empowering skills to self manage good health providing clients with tools for managing stress and pain.
This GreenPlanetFM program is sponsored by:
GLOBAL HEALTH CLINICS: 5 Anzac Street Takapuna North Shore City
Email: info [at] globalhealthclinics.co.nz
Phone: (09) 488 0208 (09) 488 0215
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Global Health Clinics use a creative blend of integrating contemporary and
alternative methods together to bring about greater well being or the
healing you have been seeking.
'When the last tree is cut down, the last fish eaten, and the last stream poisoned, you will realize that you cannot eat money.'
~ Cree Indian saying
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The Traditional Native American lifestyle is a life of prayer to all of creation. Prayer is so deeply woven into every aspect of life that there is a prayer for every action, on waking and greeting the morning sun, on eating and thanking all the beings that have made that meal possible. Each moment can be made sacred when gratitude is shown for the gifts of this life. This is most beautifully summed up in the phrase Mitakuye Oyasin, Lakota for 'All my relations.' When a prayer is made it is followed by these words that acknowledge our interconnectedness to all life on this planet.
The Web of Life is something that we are part of and this is celebrated in all Native Traditions. Celebration and Gratitude being at the core of Native American Spirituality.
And this gratitude, ritual and otherwise is something that we sometimes forget in our consumer societies so full of things that it often takes a moment to remember the small miracles of every day life.
'The Elm Trees will die, Huge stone monsters will tear open the face of the earth and rivers burning aflame.' These words are taken from The Seventh Generation Prophecy, one well known by many of the Native Nations and remembered here by Gail Whitlow of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), Mohawk nation. These words bring to mind Dutch elm disease that has wiped out all but a few elms left in Britain or much of continental Europe. Mining devastating huge swathes of the earth and Fracking that uses and pollutes huge quantities of our most precious resource, water, not to mention the local devastation in Australia where fires have raged for weeks in New South Wales.
The Seventh Generation prophecy says that seven Generations after White man has come into contact with the Native Americans is the time when change must come and that that time is now. Now, is the time to act to bring ourselves back into balance for ourselves and the planet. The prophecy says that this time will come when the wisdom teachings that have been preserved by native people will be needed as we learn how to come back into balance.
Gail Whitlow, Pipe Carrier and Medicine Woman says 'I am born into the Bear clan. This birth manifests as Healing and medicine. We all once knew our paths according to what clan we were born into. Most now spend all their lives searching for a connection.' Gail has set up Ancestral Voices healing center on the 6 Nations reserve in Ontario Canada where she was raised. Her life's purpose since she was 25 has been to create and facilitate events that foster the traditional ceremonies that allow our connection to Spirit.
Gil Aguilera is an Honorary Sundance Elder and Staff Carrier, member of Tokala Warrior Society, Chiricahua Apache Alliance, World Council of Elders, Facilitator of Global Spiritual Unity and Condor and Eagle Gatherings. A US Armed Forces Veteran with a successful career as a program administrator in Aerospace and government programs. Gil has been on a Worldwide journey of self discovery seeking the 'original spiritual instructions' that the great spirit handed down to us and how to best incorporate these first teachings into his own spiritual path is his life's mission.
This Journey has taken him to most of the North, Central and South America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. He has prayed with his Chanupa (sacred pipe) in many Native American sacred ceremonies and vision quests and sat in council with many indigenous spiritual world elders to discover his true spiritual mission. Gil utilizes his integrity, spiritual wisdom, and knowledge to unite people of all world cultures to integrate our living past culture with our present and to work together towards restoring our sacred relationships with the Great Spirit and Mother Earth.
The current environmental crisis of many of the worlds eco-systems has been foretold by Native American nations. The fulfillment of these prophecies at this time is seen as the call to wake-up and for people to bring their lives back into alignment into harmonious living with the planet.
Gil Aguilera, Gail Whitlow and Ruben Saufkie are coming to New Zealand to share their teachings at two not be be missed events. Ruben, a Hopi is from the "Patkiwunga" Water Clan and will be leading a Water Blessing Ceremony open to all at Kawai Purapura at 12pm on Sunday the 22nd March - Joining hearts and minds with many others in a synchronized global event.
For more information please contact Stephanie Frost at
frost.steph@gmail.com and check out the heartspace website at
www.heartspace.co.nz for full details on these events:
Tales from Turtle Island of Prophecies and Healing
113 Mt Eden Road
The Quaker Meeting House, Wed 19 Mar at 6:30pm
Healing The Sacred Hoop - Spiritual Gathering of Elders Kawai Purapura Retreat Centre, Auckland Friday 21st - Sunday 23rd March
Hopi Water Blessing - 12pm Sunday 23rd March @ Kawai Purapura Albany.
Years ago humans had no rights. In the times when slavery was legal, abuses to slaves were deemed an issue of property law, not an issue of human rights. From this relationship of owner to slave, you cannot have anything other than an exploitative relationship.
In this interview, Carl Chenery explains that this kind of thinking of human separation from, and domination over nature itself, is embedded into the very structure of our western legal system. Through our legal systems we attribute all the rights to humans as subjects, and everything else (except companies) as being objects or property to be owned.
Gaia, our living breathing planet that is home to all of us, does not have rights. And without rights, like an unfortunate slave, she, our only home, is being used and slowly destroyed.
On September 28, 2008, the people of Ecuador voted by an overwhelming majority (64%) to approve a new constitution which included Pachamama, nature, in the constitution, which was then ratified on Oct 20th 2008.
Carl Chenery went to Ecuador in 2012 and met with some of those who were central to the incorporation of the rights of nature into the constitution. He and others in the group from the organisation, Awakening the Dreamer, were keen to see if the ideas could be incorporated into a New Zealand constitution.
This progressive and conscious move by Ecuador is something that New Zealand would do well to look at.
Below are the Rights for Nature as written in the Ecuador constitution.
Article. 1. Nature or Pachamama, where life is reproduced and exists, has the right to exist, persist, maintain and regenerate its vital cycles, structure, functions and its processes in evolution.
Every person, people, community or nationality, will be able to demand the recognitions of rights for nature before the public organisms (courts and government agencies). The application and interpretation of these rights will follow the related principles established in the Constitution.
Article. 2. Nature has the right to an integral restoration. This integral restoration is independent of the obligation on natural and juridical persons or the State to indemnify the people and the collectives that depend on the natural systems.
In the cases of severe or permanent environmental impact, including the ones caused by the exploitation on non renewable natural resources, the State will establish the most efficient mechanisms for the restoration, and will adopt the adequate measures to eliminate or mitigate the harmful environmental consequences.
Article. 3. The State will motivate natural and juridical persons as well as collectives to protect nature; it will promote respect towards all the elements that form an ecosystem.
Article. 4. The State will apply precaution and restriction measures in all the activities that can lead to the extinction of species, the destruction of the ecosystems or the permanent alteration of the natural cycles.
The introduction of organisms and organic and inorganic material that can
alter in a definitive way the national genetic patrimony is prohibited.
Article. 5. The persons, people, communities and nationalities will have the right to benefit from the environment and form natural wealth that will allow wellbeing.
'The environmental services cannot be appropriated; its production, provision, use and exploitation, will be regulated by the State.'
As well as talking about the constitution, Lisa puts some hard-hitting questions to Carl around the commodification of nature, and the very real downsides of replacing conservation with market based environmental management. Does the role of the emerging multi-billion dollar per year ecosystem market assist or inhibit conserving biodiversity and natural geographical features?
Carl works as a sustainability strategist, and has contributed to a range of local and national initiatives including 350 Aotearoa, Intersect, Awakening the Dreamer Aotearoa, and ReGeneration Networks.
Carl was North & South Magazine Young Achiever for 2011, and finalist in Kiwibank Young New Zealander of the Year in 2011.
Carl loves being in the outdoors and spending time with his family including his 9 month old daughter Abigail.
Carl Chenery twitter: @carlchenery
Here are some excellent links to some web sites on topics that are mentioned in the interview.
Pachamama Alliance / Awakening the Dreamer Symposium
http://www.uptous.org/symposium
‘New Thinking on Sustainability’ Conference 14-16 February 2014 in Wellington, including speakers on Rights of Nature:
http://www.victoria.ac.nz/law/about/events-old/nz-centre-for-public-law/new-thinking-on-sustainabil ity
NZ Constitutional Advisory Panel Report on the 2012-13 ‘Constitutional Conversation’ (including feedback on Environment rights p51 and recommendations p48)
http://www.ourconstitution.org.nz/The-Report
Recent Waitangi Tribunal settlement developments:
Whanganui River Te Awa Tupua – “Agreement entitles Whanganui River to legal identity”
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10830586
Te Urewera-T_hoe Bill: "Te Urewera declared to be legal entity"
http://www.legislation.govt.nz/bill/government/2013/0146/latest/DLM5481637.html
Blogpost: Latest on the First International Tribunal on the Rights of Nature:
http://www.pachamama.org/news/latest-on-the-first-international-tribunal-on-rights-of-nature
Rights of Nature Article - Quakers Newsletter November 2012
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/r0yoz1a8jc0q77d/BI8UnEeTYy
This interview was sponsored by The Awareness Party
Every large city on earth is gripped with limits to growth. Especially cars in gridlock and clogging motorways and roads. We witness it every day at rush hour as we sit frustrated in traffic, wondering when will this increasing problem ever be solved?
Enter A New Idea:
The concept of affordable personal rapid transport pods, travelling above ground that whisk you across the city along an environmentally benign 2-directional elevated guide-way to your destination, in comfort, safely, swiftly and cheaply.
Is this possible? What would be the cost? Is it environmentally benign?
The system is called the Metropolitan Individual System of Transportation on Elevated Rail (MISTER).
With over $3 Billion allocated for a tunnel from Britomart in Auckland to Epsom, are the rate payers willing to dig further into their pockets for an outdated transport system, when that amount of money would cover the totality of suburban Auckland with a Personal Rapid Transport System?
The fact that even today the NZ Government is balking at such extravagance, gives us time to pause and look at other options.
Yes:
The PRT system, is a city-wide network linking all of the suburbs with each other and to the Central Business District and would transport people faster than rail or even car and directly to their destinations, without any need for transfers or parking space.
It would eliminate entirely the need for railway, light rail and buses in Auckland, while providing much more convenient, faster, safer and cheaper service, including it being available 24/7, all of the time without waiting and with no more than 2 minutes of waiting at peak times.
How does this compare with current 'solutions' ? At the same time, for the cost of building just this one underground tunnel system ($3B+) the PRT system would cover the entire Auckland area with over 300km of network, replacing all subsidised trains and all buses in the CBD and being capable of carrying 1 million plus rides per DAY, when current rail carries 10 million per YEAR !
PRT - Personal Rapid Transit See the video www.mist-er.com
Is a 50 year old concept, and as a result of inexpensive computing technology is now a feasible mode of mass transport.
It consists of :
Infrastructure consists of a light guide-ways suspended 10-15 meters above the ground, over city streets or along the curb side or in the central reservation of the freeways or wide streets. Small and frequent off-line stops. Automatic, small car sized vehicles transport one or a few passengers who know each other (family or friends) in luxury and comfort.
Travel is on demand and always available (24 x 7) Travel directly from start to destination with no stopping and no interchanges. High average speed of 50 km/hr or better.
Infrastructure development :
Let Auckland Rate Payers have a discussion here in Auckland and also across New Zealand.
Have Auckland be the Leading Livable City within the Pacific Basin.
http://mist-er.com
Kailash is a sound therapist, artist and inner world musician - bridge maker to indigenous peoples.
He is also a photographer and teacher of Kailash Chi Movements and Songdances.
As a multi instrumentalist, composer, songwriter and producer he is an internationally requested studio- and guest musician playing a great variety of (wind) instruments ranging from Didgeridoo to (Native American) Flutes, as well as reed instruments, percussive soundscapes, drums, crystal singing bowls, string instruments and vocals.
Within the last 20 years Kailash Kokopelli has shared his INNER WORLD MUSIC on every continent touching many thousand people all over the globe.
Kailash performes in schools, universities, therapeutical institutions, conferences, festivals, private and in concert halls all over the world, guiding his audience on musical journeys to the inner source.
He has been recognized as a tribal brother and bridgemaker by indigenous people as well as a pioneer soundtherapist by medical practitioners and international doctors. Many therapists use Kailash Kokopelli's INNER WORLD MUSIC for its relaxing and healing qualities.
In this interview Kailash explains what the possibilities are and how we surmount certain challenges by understanding the language of the heart.
We are all related as a human family and if we are to survive as a species, we really need to wake up to this simple basic truth that we are all related to all living beings on this planet. That we are Guardians and just not children of the earth and we have a responsibility of care to preserve what lives within the biosphere and the need for mindfulness as to how we live and express ourselves.
As an extension of the earth we need to constantly remember that what we enjoy today has been lent to us by previous generations thus the imperative that we bequeath a healthy sustainable world onto our children and grandchildren is so important.
He tells how we can come back to a place of harmony and find within ourselves a place of reverence, which is through our heart. And our heart is the inner compass for our guidance.
Where as in todays world we’ve become so enmeshed in our mind, our schedules and daily survival mode that causes us to lose our focus - whilst on our hamster wheels of separation and from that which supports us is diminished and in most cases lost. When, if we take the time, and listen to our heart, this is the way to a direct connection to source. – the great mystery of life.
We are a rainbow nation of many colours and creeds, that we humans are guests here on the earth and here for a limited time being related to all biota we can step into the sacred circle of life and immerse ourselves into a unity consciousness of all beings.
It’s interconnection with all life.
Remember we are all students of life, even a master if they are true to themselves, will admit to being a student … being present to deep listening.
We are in a time of imbalance and our planet is in transition through a major shift in energy and awareness and to the awakened - a purification - for what we do to the earth we do to ourselves and to future generations as well.
We need to look into ourselves to re evaluate our values, our virtues the ethics of how we negotiate life.
Being thankful and being in gratitude, is a key to magnetising success into our existence and this abundance we can share with each other.
Through the door way of the heart we can also access the akashic records and tap into a greater knowing beyond time and space.
Reciprocity: Is another key to our survival, through co-operation and co-creation.
If we continue the mathematics of economics, or ecology as we are promulgating now, we inherently know where this will lead to, yet we still continue to do this, when we know we have to break this chain.
We have built a world today at a huge cost to nations and the earth itself.
We have self limiting belief systems and encage ourselves within this context of our own ignorance or unknowingness.
Acknowledging our ancestors – we have our lives today, that have been bequeathed to us from our forefathers and the birthings from countless mothers – we have them to thank for our very fortunate circumstances that we live in today and we are taking this for granted – some would say abusing the privelegde through over indulgence, waste, abuse, drunkeness, debauchery.
However when we tune in to the magnifence of our bloodline, our linage – then comes the gratitude.
Sun ceremonies – the sun is full and rounded and gives out its light unconditionally and this is an invitation for us all to be able to express ourselves from our heart and let the light of who we are express its fullness.
The imperative is for us to listen to the first nation peoples, the wisdom keepers of the earth, those people who are immersed in earth energies, living among forests, mountains, along side rivers and streams and higher latitudes. Deeply embedded in the pulse of life, often barefooted.
To walk the path of beauty to witness the magnificence of nature – at the same to keep a pure heart to walk in reverence and to walk in gratitude.
Blue Pearl Mother Earth:
We here in Aotearoa are lving in one of the last 'Gardens of Eden' on our planet – Kailash's call to we NZers is to please preserve this living earth and all that is sacred and be responsible in taking true guardianship of what has been bequeathed to us.
The power of prayer too is emphasised – with a pure intention within a unified field – that 'miracles can happen.'
Listen to a very knowing man who from his youth has walked his talk and experienced a fascinating life well beyond the daily understanding of the Western mind.
www.kailash-kokopelli.com
Appearing at Voices of the Sacred Earth Eco Festival - 21st, 22nd and 23rd of February 2014 at Albany Northshore at - Kawai Purapura Retreat Centre.
http://www.kawaipurapura.co.nz
John Coombs interviews Patient Advocate and busy mother Tania Nevill and Wellness Coach and Lifestyle Mentor Susan Somerville on the practical benefits of well managed Holistic Health programs for people from all walks of life with many helpful hints and suggestions.
Tania Nevill founder of iconic corporate menswear company Working Style has a new working focus in life: helping optimise the wellness of the local community with obvious spin offs for her family.
Tania shares with you the process she went through to resolve long term fatigue from trying to balance family and a busy working life, as well as the long term benefits she and her family experienced from Holistic Health.
Having achieved her initial goal of more vitality Tania then focused on optimising her health which meant she can contribute more effectively to patient advocacy to benefit the whole community.
Susan Somerville has a science and psychology background which lead her to a diverse working career in accelerated learning, HR and environmental programs.
Having since trained in metabolic nutrition Susan follows Tania's thread with practical solutions to common health issues.
Her special interest is anti-aging and optimised wellness, which occurs when people initiate wellness lifestyle systems; including an obvious balance of exercise, sleep, nutrition and leisure with effective health care across the spectrum of physical, mental emotional and spiritual therapeutics.
Though environment health and consciousness runs through the program, we discuss the basic life needs of air, water and earth - soil & food.
Starting with air and the particulates of matter in cities such as Auckland and that due to the smallness of both the NZ population and the country, the wind is our default air conditioner in this country. That we are indeed very fortunate in this situation (some would say lazy).
However, we cannot avoid, deny or run away from what is perculating (some would say belching) out of Fukushima in Japan, and that is air born and water carried radiation from the defunct nuclear reactors that main stream media have been told to keep out of the headlines and out of the news.
The fact that Japan and the nuclear industry are joined at the nucleated hip and that the countries that surround the Pacific ocean are complicit in not taking the Japanese to the World Court is a travesty.
We move on to cover MSM (main stream media) and how it spins information and that our drinking water is being sanitised by chlorine (which also has a downside effect on our health) as well as we being mass medicated by fluoride. That Hamilton city ratepayers and citizens recently elected to come back into the 'fold of unknowningness' and continue to add fluoride once again to their water supply is yet another farce. So much so as to curtail their children from becoming more intellectually savvy than their parents, due to them not wanting to do any research on this subject what so ever. See Prof Paul Connett's startling fluoride research.
Aspartame and its dangers in Zero Coke and sugarless drinks, the NZ All Blacks rugby team involved in its promotion.
We move on to GE and GMO’s and that NZ still remains a GE Free Nation, but that Govt and Big Business are lock stepped in wanting NZ to become a GE contaminated nation as well as sabotaging our leadership role in being steadfast in the face of ethically bankrupt biotech corporations.
Note that to many other small countries, NZ is, despite the current Govt, a moral force for good in the world, and by remaining resolute in not surrendering our soverienty, we give strength to other countries to stand up to corporate dominance. Thus the TPPA the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement is not in the best interest of NZ citizens at all.(it never was!) It's only consolidating power for Global Corporate dominance.
We also talk about other ways to use grass roots media, to bypass main stream media and the addiction of people wanting to hear that their government and their corporate sponsors will take care of us … all we have to do is acquiesce and let them get on with it.
That every letter you write, every email you send, every meeting you attend that you act and speak strategically –REMEMBER; we are taking care of today’s and tomorrows children, on a planet that has increased its population by nearly another billion people since the advent of GreenplanetFM just 10 years ago. That is the equivlent of another 700 Aucklands side by side. Imagine this!
We both concurred fully with doing away with political parties – vote for the person and thatwww.theawarenessparty.com that Lisa initiated is offering unique and insightful ways of self governance that is inclusive and dynamic.
Also, that around 67 NZ finance companies crashed from around 2006 to around 2011. With the loss of $9 billion in savings disappearing. Yes, that's 9 billion NZ dollars from about 70,000 peoples life savings - just vanishing - and know one talks about it or even really investigates it?
We also cover cycles of our great mother planet, our magnificent life support system and sustainer and I hint that within the wheels within wheels and invisible cyclic systems that it would be worthwhile reflecting on the recycling of the soul in an evolutionary context of understanding our incarnation. Many of the major religions and philosophies over time have embedded this in their cosmology however, both Christianity and Islam have shied away from the natural world of spirals and cyclic knowingness. Yet, unbeknown some Jewish sects include reincarnation into their understanding.
However, this goes beyond the intellect into our intuition and more subtle frontiers of the mind and we now need to be understanding of the frequency that we oscilate too and how we can align with it.
All in All, a lovely chat with Lisa, that could have gone on for many hours, but as usual we were constrained by time.
Lisa Er & Tim Lynch
EARTH FILES FOR THIS WEEK
Prana New Year Festival And Join with Maya,
www.prana.co.nz/prana/new-years-festival-2014
You are invited for a 5 Day celebration and the 21st Anniversary of an inspiring & delightful Family Friendly, Music, Workshop, and Art & Dance Festival!
An event that hosts approx.1200 people on pristine land & access to remote and untouched Opoutere Beach, whilst keeping an intimate atmosphere with plenty of entertainment for young and old with this year's theme revolving around the 'Mystery of Life'.....
Come and celebrate connection, unity consciousness, mediation natural food, juices and teas and living deeply in concord with the land and ocean shore. Prana Eco Retreat is based at Opoutere/Ohui, alongside a 5km long pristine piece of Eastern Coromandel coastline.
They are a family run venue for the New Year Festival, smaller summer events, weddings, group workshops and personal retreats.
Prana land is a peaceful sanctuary where people naturally move towards transformational healing, personally and universally. A place that empowers a strong sense of 'connectedness' to something great: A gathering place for kindred souls!
Tickets are still available for early birds.
A discussion between John Coombs and Vivienne Berry on Holistic Health and the new work Vivienne is doing on multiple brain therapies.
They discuss simple and practical solutions to help people through life, to manage relationships well and to have more effective input into the community and workspace.
If we are to grow healthy communities and guardian the environment well we need a body of healthy people, with awareness of health and wellbeing both for individuals and society.
Achieving this is the work and life goal of John and Vivienne.
GLOBAL HEALTH CLINICS:
Practical programs for a healthy body, mind and emotions.
Managing healthy lifestyle systems for individuals and groups.
For appointments please go to www.globalhealthclinics.co.nz
5 Anzac St Takapuna 0622 North Shore City - Auckland
l. 09 4880208 f. 09 4880215 c. 02102462021
e. john@globalhealthclinics.co.nz
skype globalhealthclinics
In today's globalized economy, most of the everyday products we buy, wear, and eat are produced with labour from the developing world.
But do we ever think of the story behind the products that we buy? Who planted the seed for our cotton clothing and sheets? Where did the seed come from? Was it a genetically engineered seed? What fertilisers, herbicides, and pesticides were used on the cotton? How did those affect the health of the farmer workers. How old were the workers? Who removed the seeds from the cotton boll and who processed them, wove them and made them into garments? Were they paid adequately for their labours? This is the story of the cotton trail.
Theresa Grantham a haute-couture, or high fashion consultant and business woman in New Zealand, knew at a certain level there was a better way to service the fashion industry with a clear conscience. After a profound visit to India, she set out to change the karma of clothing and ended up launching a fashion brand that acts as a laboratory for social innovation and transformation.
The result is Atma Vichara. Atma Vichara was born of an idea that simultaneously developed in the minds of a group of people dispersed across four corners of the globe. This diverse group of individuals was inspired by a notion of another way to do business; of a way to value the people who are working to make products that each and every one of us are surrounded by.
Atma means consciousness or awareness or the unfathomable intelligence. Vichara means inquiry into. So Atma Vichara means inquiry into consciousness itself.
So Theresa and her partners are working to create conscious vibrational clothing, to bring morality into business. She prefers the word morality to ethics and says the business model is beyond ethics, sustainability and profit. They are creating a culture of positive storytelling, education, and transparency.
Theresa tells us of Value Chain Development. That is finding reliable ethical manufacturers and facilitating stakeholder interaction and engagement.
Then there is Supplier Development which involves rural outreach: and design interventions to improve lives of farmers and artisans. It also reviews existing supplier support programmes.
Business Model Development involves concept development, using fashion language to tell the story behind the label; business model design, and strategy and philosophy.
Translating ideals and ethics into company vision and mission is part of Organisational Development. There needs to be strengthening around core values; team building and value alignment. Self-inquiry is a basis for organisational learning.
All these contribute to creating a new way to do business, and from which others can learn and be advised.
You can find more on the web site: www.atmavichara.org
The sales arm of the organisation is www.seedtoself.in
To find out more about the cotton industry and why we need to be concerned, see the movie:
www.behindthelabel.it
This programme was sponsored by: www.theawarenessparty.com
New Zealanders working towards a new dynamic-community, democracy and goodwill.
Ranging over a wide variety of topics, that include complimentary and alternative health, the problems with chlorinated and fluoridated water. Biological agriculture as against chemical agriculture. Corporate control of chemicals and drugs, plus the galloping increase of corporate farming.
Our unhealthy common salt intake, lack of iodine is translating to global thyroid problems.
That five US corporations have virtually taken control of the world food chain, and use the WTO and the TPPA as mechanisms to tighten their grip.
He concludes with an overview of the USA and UK's astrological challenges that he says will become very evident over the next 18 months and how the US military appears only to go on the offensive when certain astrological configurations occur.
I asked Glen at the start of this interview to hit a number of balls out of the park and possibly he went one further and hit one, possibly two into near earth orbit ...
Glen's premise:
Using bio-dyamics and agricultural impulses first introduced by Rudolf Steiner and the basic thesis of as above, so below - as per the tree of life, leaves and branches above and perennial roots and feeder roots under ground.
Questioning how can we revolutionize and add to Biodynamics, because there are so many offshoots of the near religious connotations to it, that in many ways is not applicable to farmers for cultivation of the land and growing food, be it vegetable or animals. However, it is very much a science, once people learn to decipher the language of 1920's German to equate it to todays current vernacular.
With Glen's impute, this translates to plants being able to be warmed up to have a 3 degree frost protection capacity that has been tested by NZ's Horticultural Research Centre as well as increase photosynthesis by 20% and an ability to stop fruit splitting.
These are just a few of the new understandings of biodynamics, including highly potentized humus preparation of cow manure stored in cow horns under ground and silica sprays as well as preparations made of quartz crystals and dandelion, stinging nettle, yarrow, oak bark and chamomile, which we hear and know nothing about!
This process deals in minute quantities, down to parts per million and it leads into homeopathics, which again science has huge problems with getting their head around. The reason being most tinctures are so diluted that the particles are virtually non existence, and that only the wave-form exists, (such as the ghost in the machine).
Yet, we only have to look at the British Royal family, their robust health and long life and the Royal physicians who are steeped in homeopathic knowledge. Which is really a peoples medicine as it is also very cheap to produce.
In an ideal world, Glen would like to have as your healers Homeopaths and Naturopaths working together, as well as other secondary modalities (like acupuncture, iridology, chiropractic and osteopathy) along with a host of other natural remedial practices.
Note, that it is very difficult to make money out of homeopathy. Not like the multi billions that are channelled into pharmaceutical drugs where colossal patents and costs claw back their investment and ... then some!
Then Glen reminds us that at the beginning of the 20th century the call was for 'Government for the people by the people' - the 21st century is - 'Government by the corporations for the corporations' - the manipulating 1%.
With biological agriculture making inroads into dairy but even more so in the sheep and beef industry there is a rapidly increasing up-take that is two fold in nature, healthy non chemicalised soils is translating to healthy produce that is enabling a very healthy gut and alimentary canal in the human body, and a win win for all of us who are coming more conscious of holistic choices.
Now in Australia, the two largest controlling supermarkets have bought up a huge number of service stations including alcohol outlets and now due to depressed pricing, they are reportedly forcing many farmers into bankruptcy and buying their land, which means corporate control, and thus control of the food supply of middle Australia.
Then learn from a friend of Glen's that works at the United Nations that the worlds food supply is basically controlled by five United States corporations. Through the WTO, World Trade Organisation and now the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement, the secretive TPPA.
Hence the call for grass roots organizations to get savvy and organize ourselves into small dynamic cells to address these issues.
From the chlorination and fluoridation of water and the direct relationship with our iodine metabolism which knocks out our thyroid gland which stuffs up our metabolism, and then as the chlorine in our water gets to our gut it sterilizes that too, hence the beneficial microbes in our intestines are under constant assault.
If you are on metropolitan water … leading to the current explosion of uncertain, leaky gut and cancer of the bowel. Evidently, not too long ago 'they' increased the chlorine levels in NZ so as to sterilize the water to a greater degree …
Covering liquids that we drink, Glen asks the question; how can we have a bottle of fizzy drink cheaper than a bottle of water?
Then there is common salt and the lack of iodine, and that common salt is basically devoid of goodness, and that high sodium levels are supposedly replacing lithium in the brain and is causing bi polar disorders.
What the latest holistic research is saying is that ailments such as cancer, bi polar, diabetes and obesity are seen to be stemming out of our excessive use of common table salt.
Glens covers astrology as well, how the planetary elite use it for their own purposes, that Hitler used it, Ronald Reagan, and (the Royal Family) however the upper echelons of society do it in secret whilst publicly ridiculing it saying it is worthless rubbish. Glen mentions the physics of it, the geometry and that we live in an electro magnetic universe and that our bodies are also electro magnetic - we are energy fields oscillating in a universal energy field.
Glen then covers 20 minutes on certain astrological situations that I will leave for anyone who wants to follow this up to listen to this information filled interview.
A clue is that the USA and UK have major challenges for 2014 and into 2015, because of their astrological make up. USA being a Cancer country 4th of July and the UK being a Capricorn country based in the 1st of January 1801.
This is a packed out information rich interview, where Glen covers the information gamut in our localized universe and basically runs short of time.
Web site: www.bdmax.co.nz and http://garudabd.org
Independent researcher in spiritual science and metaphysics Tom Brown questions our world view and looks at how it is sometimes based on historically inaccurate science.
Have we created our society from a faulty model? Have Newton, Darwin, and others, made incorrect assumptions that science is still based on today?
How do our belief systems play into this, and why do we need a paradigm shift to correct this? Is our collective unconscious actually creating the reality that we experience? Is life as the quantum physicists describe to us, or have they got it wrong as well?
Referring often to Rudolf Steiner’s Etheric Sciences, Tom talks about man’s descent into matter, and how people are living in an illusion. Just to challenge us he asserts that not only is the earth going around the sun, the sun is going around the earth.
This interview will not only provoke you, but will stimulate you to question everything you thought you ever knew.
Before coming to New Zealand Tom worked as director & chief editor at Borderland Sciences Research Foundation in California. He also organised a global network of researchers and was publisher on numerous cutting edge projects.
In New Zealand in the late nineties he was the Founding Director of the New Zealand Hemp Industries Association.
He has written four books:
Created videos:
Edited:
Websites:
In the talk Tom refers to a movie by Ben Stuart, ‘Esotetic Agenda'
This programme is sponsored by www.TheAwarenessParty.com
Keep GE and GMO'S out of Auckland and Northland.
We need your help! PLEASE WRITE A SUBMISSION. See below.
We need massive numbers of submissions to Auckland Council.
Auckland's proposed Unitary Plan includes good statements to protect the community against release of GMOs.
However, could you take a minute or two to write in support of this - preferably using your own words - and adding any points you want including from the 'background' section further down
Your message of support is needed NOW - before the government changes the RMA to block councils having a role in protecting against GM risks, and before Federated Farmers and others write to oppose the Precautionary Principle in the plan.
Including your Contact details you could write something like:
"I write to support the policy of precaution on GMOs contained in the Auckland proposed Unitary Plan.
The Unitary Plan's precautionary GE objective, and methods & policies to achieve that objective, are important to the community.
I support local protection against GMO risks, which have been recommended by the Northland /Auckland "Inter Council Working Party on GMO Risk Evaluation & management Options"
I support a precautionary approach by council providing an additional tier of protection against risks of outdoor use of GMOs which central government has not addressed through the EPA."
Include whether you wish to speak to your submission and whether you would like to receive further information.
Email your submission to: unitaryplan@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz
Please email now.
Submissions close 28 February 2014 but please send your submission now, before The Minister for the Environment changes the law to stop any precautionary/ prohibitive GE content in the Auckland Council proposed Unitary Plan. NOW you can see what we are dealing with. The Government moving the goal posts, so that NZ may not become the only ark on earth for uncontaminated organic seeds.
Background:
Councils in Northland, Auckland, Bay of Plenty, and Hawke's Bay have responded wisely to concerns about GMOs by investigating the risks posed by GMOs in the environment, and how they can best minimize these risks.
In Auckland we must write in support of the draft Unitary Plan sections prohibiting GMO release. Auckland Council has worked with other local councils to control GMOs because of gaps in the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms (HSNO) Act.
The Plans includes:
• ensuring GM operators are financially accountable for the full costs of contamination, clean-up, monitoring and remediation
• adopting a precautionary approach to manage potential risks (economic, environmental, social and cultural) from outdoor use of GMOs
• protecting marketing advantages associated with a “GE free” status
• addressing community and cultural concerns of mana whenua.
NOW PLEASE INVITE YOUR FRIENDS TO DO THIS, SO THAT WE HAVE HUNDREDS OF SUBMISSIONS.
THINK JUST HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO HAVE OUR BIGGEST CITY AND DISTRICT GE FREE IN OUR ENVIRONMENT.
Keep Monsanto out!!
Thank you
Lisa Er
This extraordinary New Zealand migratory bird flies each autumn just before the cold and dark of winter all the way from NZ in the Southern hemisphere up via China and Korea to the Alaskan warmth and light of spring and the coming summer in the Northern hemisphere.
However, after laying their eggs and bringing up their young, the godwits then fly nonstop back around the curve of our planet - to NZ … a distance of 11,500 kilometers – without stopping, and for the ‘new born’s’ this is an astonishingly long distance voyage … and to an unknown destination too.
Now …. Imagine you are up in Alaska and autumn foreshadows the coming cold and darkness of winter and the godwits along the shorelines prepare for their epic journey south as they sense the prevailing winds and conditions and ready themselves for take off.
Finally lifting off to fly continuously hour after hour, the sun overhead will appear to track from east to west and after 12 or so hours the sun will set and darkness sets in - yet flying all night, up to an altitude of 2 or 3 kilometers above the earths surface, with starlight above them and the planet still turning on its axis, they will witness the sun rising in the east the next morning as they continue there arduous journey.
And with our planet still turning they will persist all day, all night flying without sleep or rest in a southerly direction – across the expansive Pacific ocean - continuously for another 6 days and nights ...
To finally swoop down into Miranda on the Firth of Thames in NZ, and safely land.
Having traversed 11,500 kilometes.
What an enormous ‘flight of passage!’
How can the godwit, a very small bird with a frail appearance accomplish such a gigantic feat and every time find its way 'home'?
When we look at the human species and look at our capabilities …
If a bird brain can find its way home, how come the human species has not realized that it’s 'our planet' that is our collective home, and the urgent need to take care of it, for as you may very well know, birds do not soil their own nest, so how come the human species manages to accomplish this act without even thinking?
This 52 minute interview covers some of the mysterious elements of physiology, such as the godwits ability to reshuffle proteins in their bodies before they set out flying and that this allows them to reduce the size of their food-processing organs.
Navigation; How do they know where to go and what time to fly? Introducing Rupert Sheldrake's ideas on 'morphic resonance' and other phenomenon beyond the visible.
Loss of habitat and decline of population and Fukushima radiation, and could Godwits be the 'Canary in the Nuclear coal mine?
References:
Godwits - Long Haul Champions by Keith Woodley from Penguin Books.
The Ornithological Society of New Zealand:
http://www.osnz.org.nz
http://www.nzbirds.com/birds/kuaka.html
http://www.sheldrake.org/Resources/faq/answers.html
Bird Migration is the one truly unifying natural phenomenon in the world, stitching the continents together in a way that even the great weather systems, which roar out of the poles, but fizzle at the equator, fail to do. It is an enormously complex subject, perhaps the most compelling drama in all natural history. ~ Scott Weidensaul.
Dr. Paul Connett, PhD, Emeritus Professor from St. Lawrence University USA. He is an, executive director of the Fluoride Action Network (FAN) and its parent organization, the American Environmental Health Studies Project.
For years health experts have been unable to agree on whether fluoride in the drinking water may be toxic to the developing human brain. Extremely high levels of fluoride are known to cause neurotoxicity in adults, and negative impacts on memory and learning have been reported in rodent studies, but little is known about the substance’s impact on children’s neurodevelopment.
In a meta-analysis, researchers from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and China Medical University in Shenyang for the first time combined 27 studies and found strong indications that fluoride may adversely affect cognitive development in children.
Based on the findings, the authors say that this risk should not be ignored, and that more research on fluoride’s impact on the developing brain is warranted.
Yet New Zealand Authorities are challenging Councils that want to keep being fluoride free or remove fluoride from the water supply.
And isn’t it a basic human right NOT to be mass medicated, even if some might think they are doing us a favour?
When the fluoridation of water began, there was little evidence for its long term safety (as for GMOs) and since then little attempt has been made to monitor its health effects systematically.
Because there are so many unanswered health questions, fluoridation of water must be considered an ongoing experimental procedure, and as such it is a violation of the Nuremberg Code, which forbids experimentation on humans without their informed consent. In Europe, nearly all countries have either never fluoridated their water or have ceased doing so.
Yet the incidence of tooth decay has declined just as much as in those countries that practice fluoridation. This fascinating interview with Dr Paul Connett, will raise alarm bells about many aspects of the mass medication of the population by fluoride and he challenges us to do something about it.
NOTE: This may be a repeat, but it has a NEW INTRODUCTION, covering what has happened in Hamilton over the last few months and why Hamiltonians would collectively vote to mass medicate themselves with chemicals that slowly over time actually alter the bodies chemistry and make up.
To get involved in opposing fluoride and for an overview of which towns are fluoridated in New Zealand go to FANNZ website;
http://www.fannz.org.nz/currentactivity.php
For 50 reasons to oppose fluoride – go here;
http://www.slweb.org/50reasons.html
Steffan Browning, Green Party Member of Parliament. Spokesperson on:
Organics, GE and GMO's, Fisheries, Agriculture, Bio-security and Forestry. PLUS, The Grand Daddy of them All: Security and Intelligence.
Steffan has been at the forefront of the New Zealand organics movement for more than twenty years. His aim is to have genuinely sustainable organics in New Zealand's food, fibre, forestry and fishing industries - which he states, needs to be integrated from a holistic perspective and 'also makes good business sense'.
Listen as Steffan divulges the challenges that organics face, on the front lines of GE untruths, agribusiness and the unknowingness of government of both holistic systems and sustainability.
Hear the most powerful and potent statement in NZ's Parliament for decades as Steffan covers the descent on Wellington of multiple layers of the global security apparatus that coincided with the 1st Reading of the GCSB Bill, it's knock-on effect and connecting the dots as to how NZ is cavorting with loss of its sovereignty, enabling the matrix to hover over, and hoover our fast losing innocence as a global moral compass - defender of democracy and citizen rights.
Covering the the machinations of the SECURITY & INTELLIGENCE BILL - THE GCSB BILL.
Steffan Browning on the GCSB and Related Legislation Amendment Bill
21 Aug 2013 | Speech | Steffan Browning Green MP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6kRIlhAftEI
"I implore one of the 61 MPs who has previously supported this legislation to change at this vote and allow a full inquiry first. The Government has failed to provide a real justification for this fundamental attack on our democratic rights and freedoms, and the legislation facilitates the legal establishment of a surveillance State in New Zealand".
This too is mentioned: NZ's increasing involvement with global military alliances, when we need to be an Advocate for Peace and Conflict Resolution.
FOOD GE FREE Organic 2020
The fight with Government inaction on GE in our imported fodder for cattle! GE Free New Zealand and our courageous volunteers battling big interests as of this moment. www.gefree.org.nz
Government inaction again regarding Food Labeling.
That we still have very poor food labeling in NZ as GE and GMO labeling is only voluntary where it needs to be mandatory across the board.
That 'Country of Origin' needs also to be clearly stated on the package, can, bottle as to where ingredients are grown/sourced etc.
BIO- SECURITY:
Pig Farmers and Bee keepers to combine to keep strong bio-security in place. Due to lax importation controls.
Huge challenges here for NZ. Nearly 50% of our pork is imported (why?) and there are 'sars' related global health problems that could easily come in to NZ in raw cuts of pork.
Border controls need to be strengthened far more stringently with more financial backing as shipping containers swamp the authorities and more lax controls are applied.
More unknown diseases, viruses are entering NZ at present.
FORESTRY:
Current rorts in Carbon Credits around deforestation and dairying replacing trees.
The adoption of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) standard shows that a national environmental standard is possible and the Government should advance one urgently.
That 11 humans are equal to one cow in their capacity to ingest and excrete. A conservative estimate is the number of dairy cows in NZ at present are equal to 66 million people inhabiting NZ, the same population as the UK.
FISHERIES:
Salmon, huge problems with Salmon farms, each ones 'waste' is the equivalent to a town of 40,000 people.
Growing problems with sustainable fisheries in NZ due to vested interests and having to patrol our vast fishing grounds.
1080 arial poison represents an ever-growing threat to New Zealand's 'clean, green' image, according to the New Zealand Deerstalkers' Association. How do the Greens position themselves to this when they are officially wanting an organic world? Steffan's answer to the vexing problem of possums.
And much, more.
Steffan Browning Green MP - Organic Sustainable NZ. This post needs to be seen by far more NZers - especially when we see where all of this is leading. If we do nothing, the children of the future, will not be angry, they will be enraged!
Dr Jim Salinger: Global Warming, his new book, 'Living in a Warmer World' covering NZ Rainfall, Sea Levels, Glaciers, Fisheries, Soils and Crops etc
Ex head of NIWA NZ's National Institute of Water and Atmosphere as well as a member of, IPCC, and UN Climate Recipient for the Nobel Peace Prize 2007.
This interview also stretches the boundaries of Government action and inaction, Media and denial, having a holistic view point, including questions of geo engineering and chemtrails.
NOTE: Expression of predisposition. I do believe that our planet is warming, and in fever, as per the auditory Gaian introduction to this particular program. (Tim).
This interview is a critical overview of most of the challenges coming to face the 7 billion plus of humanity including the mega trillions of biota in our biosphere.
Our planet Gaia's, fever at present is such that she is shivering and icing up again at the North and South Poles, but towards both the tropic of Cancer and Capricorn our planet is increasingly suffering from heat with both Europe, the USA and Australia breaking record temperatures. And when 'she sweats' with flash flooding - it's also wrecking havoc across her surface.
Just like we breathe in and out and the tides ebb and flow, Jim says that the icing at the Poles are a temporary phase, more so in the Arctic and we will see more melting, in particular other extremes, but not necessarily as fast as originally anticipated.
This was one of the 'significant factors' that I wanted to cover in this interview. Statements that could be classified as alarmist, especially in the short term.
Starting with my last radio interview with Jim back in November 2009 … on the same day of the email hacking and leaking (his included) around Professor Phil Jones of East Anglia University in UK - The emails showed they had problems with the fact that global warming temperatures were not increasingly rising … like a wall chart graph for sales of a very exceptional company.
That though continuous increases of Co2 were being produced, this was not translating as 'startling' temperature rises across the board, but instead the Co2 was being absorbed into the upper atmosphere and deeper into the oceans - and this seems to be one of the challenges still prevalent today. Slower rises in global temperatures.
Also, the science is still young and compared with 40 years ago, there were very few scientists studying our planet as a whole, James Lovelock, the Father of the Gaia Hypothesis, now a Theory was one of the first scientists to do this. He was seen as a poly math, one who is adept in many scientific disciplines and integrating them into a holistic web of relationships. i.e Geophysiology.
So we discuss the number of scientists engaged with climate change and in particular global warming. What institutions and research centers. Are they paid to do this? What percentage of them are? Who calls the shots as to how they are paid? Corporations putting money into universities?
The good news is that more scientists are finally engaging in holistic ways of seeing our planet as a whole super system. This being the next evolutionary step in our planetary world view.
For example, this would include Geology such as mineralogy, petrology & pedology, Hydrology, covering oceanology, limnology including glaciology & the cryosphere. Then the Atmospheric sciences of meteorology, climatology, atmospheric chemistry, and atmospheric physics. As well as disciplines in magnetic and gravity fields. These are but a very few of the many differing (and growing) disciplines that compile the 'earth sciences.'
I then 'pushed the river' in a number of instances because many of the dire warnings about rapid ice loss and more hurricanes that Al Gore many years ago warned us was coming and have not happened - and I said that this plays into the hands of the denialists.
For example in 2007, Al Gore predicted no Arctic ice In 2013 - stating US Navy calculations and that I watched him say this on Utube last night. Then I mentioned James Lovelock who fearing the worst in writing his last two books "The Revenge of Gaia ". and The Fading face of Gaia - he too says that he was alarmist …. He said that Australian Tim Flannery and Al Gore were also.
So what was the story?
That the melting and global heating was not as rapid as they first 'thought.'
Then I asked Jim why the New Zealand Royal Society was not out there actively supporting calls to halt the warming of our planet? Because they mention very little about global warming on their web site. Last posted article: 23 Sep 2010. That was three years ago. They covered acidic oceans … but that was over 4 years ago. In my estimation they seem to be a cozy little club …. and defer to the rest of the world.
Then I jumped over to NZ media especially Leighton Smith on News Talk ZB who brazenly ridicules global warming and has a quarter of a million listeners nationwide and he would be Jim's greatest nemesis on NZ's airwaves. Jim jumps in here and makes some strong points! And then there is Ian Wishart of Investigate Magazine, who has sold huge number of books in his large seller 'Air Con. If it is so important ... WHY ARE NZ SCIENTISTS NOT ADDRESSING THESE PEOPLE?
And that few New Zealanders are championing climate change. To the degree that the present NZ government is pushing for the extraction of oil, and gas by fracking as well as coal mining? Why are the Scientific community not calling the government to account?
Why is the NZ Government laughing behind the back of the global warming scientific fraternity whilst the Act party, who have been supported by NZ's richest men laughs openly at global warming as a total joke?
Brian Fallow, one of the very few aware NZ journalists said in this last month, that the Government's refusal to do much of anything to curb New Zealand's emissions is as economically myopic as it is morally contemptible.
Then we have Rupert Murdoch who runs so much of the global media … he is anti global warming, and recently had a swipe at Al Gore … The multi billionaires the Koch Brothers who are so loaded with fossil fuel money and support numerous anti warming organizations are getting away with buying media coverage, as well as keeping the pressure on to keep mining and drilling for fossil fuels.
Then there is Exxon Mobil. Doing the same and over the past decade, they have spent US$207 billion to buy back their own shares. This means if they can own or control 51% of their Corporation, they can do exactly whatever they want. Dictatorship of their own entity!
We also covered the challenges for NZ. Increasing sea levels - such as Auckland Metro Magazines January 2008 publication showing a number of frightening pictorial scenarios of Auckland being drowned in various levels of inundation by rising oceans. Note, both Auckland's main motorways are lest than a metre above sea level.
Then we covered fisheries and fish migrating towards the south more and more, then soil and 'biological farming' that Graeme Sait is a champion of as well as Arden Andersen, which Jim was not aware of as a major new initiative to change soil health as well as keep carbon in the soil.
Then livestock and flatulence as well as GE and GMO's (Jim expressed no keenness to run with this) and other subject matter to finally get to geo engineering.
I asked Jim about geo engineering, and he said that the UN will be putting out a statement next year about this. He said he was reluctant to engage in this method, that nature should be able to work within her own means to sort things out, not by mans tinkering.
Next chemtrails and Jim said that they were ice coming off the wings of aircraft at altitude. However, I stated that then they should dissipate after a short time, why do they remain in the atmosphere for hours on end sometimes stretching nearly from horizon to horizon?
As an ex Air NZ flight crew member myself for 17 years, I felt that I had seen enough aircraft 'vapor trails' over the years to notice how they peter out and disappear after 10 minutes or so, but these stay for several hours and that I had been up in New Mexico in the USA in July this year and photographed them from the backyard of the place I was staying at in Sante Fe.
I cover this more in depth in Earth Files at the end of this write up.
In closing Jim said, that we all have to get educated, and work towards a changing world, that the young Zero Generation , the youth of today is who he has faith in and that we need to become involved in the discussion as our future and children future are most definitely at stake.
EARTHFILES for this week.
That there is an increasingly ardent call by people and groups of citizens especially across America that the atmosphere is being clouded by long stretching aircraft chemtrails from horizon to horizon is gathering momentum.
The question; is a covert operation to curtail global warming, by spraying nano particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect sunlight back into space - happening? This being an emergency measure to halt overheating? And this is why hurricanes have been minimized and why James Lovelocks computations that global warming was going to be rampant by this time has not occurred, but has been held at bay, or limited by this chemtrail action?
Physicians are also talking about health concerns relating to breathing difficulties around the sudden spike in super fine particles of both aluminum and barium being found in both the environment and increasingly in health tests.
This vexing question is certainly raising more questions than answers and so am giving just one web site that you can scrutinize to peruse for yourself.
http://www.geoengineeringwatch.org
Why are alternative and complimentary currencies on this GreenplanetFM program being constantly emphasized? The reason is very clear, the global economic system is out of control, with bankers out of New York and London calling the shots (assisted by acquiescing politicians), and are printing money at will, leveraging bonds, hedge funds, derivatives, promissory notes and every sneaky, cunning ploy of chicanery being fostered on the unknowing public.
These snake oil banksters and hucksters are out to CON everyone who is unknowing, implying that everything is REALLY OK, that it is all under control, nothing to worry about - just keep buying. It's called keeping the status quo alive in an unsustainable consumptive and dishonest economy.
And you will never hear a squeak out of the Government, or any Government. Mums the word! (Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part 2, Act 1, Scene 2:' Seal up your lips and give no words but mum.'?
However, if things do slide and quickly and funds become scarce and money is in short supply, we have PLAN B, another method that is grass roots in intent and can be easily put in place. This simple 'Living Economies Educational Trust' could save communities across the country a lot of angst, frustration and even despair, enabling them to communicate with each other and at least put food on the table and also into the soil and assist in pulling the strings of community together towards an outcome of peace.
This erudite interview covers the problems, (being endemic and global) the challenges - (power structures) and the solutions - possibilities and empowerment at a localised community level.
That we need to learn what is going on and move quickly to solutions.
That growth for its own sake is the ideology of the cancer cell.
Phil deconstructs growth ideology on a finite planet, to the degree that we extract and take more and more resources especially from the environment, at the same time pollute and contaminate more and more until we run out of everything except our pollution that basically poisons and contaminates us - in our own waste.
That we have found ourselves in a debt economy that is really a pyramid scheme that has been running for a few hundred years and that it needs constant growth (and a growing population) to exist, if not it will implode, which it is having to face as of this very moment.
The problems of environmental degradation, resource over use, of pollution of inequality of social injustice, poverty, despair, wars all stem from a monetary system that requires continued growth to keep the momentum exponentially growing to keep paying the interest.
Which basically is an eternal ponzi scheme, with the central banks all acting in concert to keep propping up this house of cards with huge injections of capital - printed money!
The present high tech web related system slushes funds at light speed around the global casino and in the process syphoning more and more money off the 99% into the hands of the 1%.
SOLUTIONS:
Smart approach is the holistic one, the grass roots one with the community utilizing these parallel systems of localized currencies as well as the current traditional monetary system. Bringing together a strengthened neighborhood, more resilient economies and localized involvement that respects nature as being integral to the process of community livelihood.
The www.le.org.nz system, allows for the extension of credit and issues IOUs and assist you in finding needs or wants - and sell what you wish, and a buyer can also be found, all without using NZ dollars - where you can also purchase software to run your localized green dollar system and time bank.
Time Banks value everybody's time equally. One hour of an accountant is equals to one hour of mowing lawns = very egalitarian. A lot of tie-in with voluntary organizations that good deeds and work can be accounted for and be rewarded. Time Banks can act as a central coordinating location for all exchanges to take place. The community when allied to voluntary organizations end up assisting and looking after one another.
So successful was Lyttleton's Time Bank in the Christchurch earthquakes that NZ Civil Defense calls it a great model for connecting community that they are encouraging time banks across the nation via the Civil Defense organization.
http://www.lyttelton.net.nz/about-project-lyttelton/earthquake/lyttelton-timebank
Savings Pools. Based on trust, are both very simple and interesting, because they can trump the banks by not having you pay any interest. Working in localized groups you pay into a common pool and over time build up a substantial kitty and by utilizing the 'reciprocity indicator' it uniquely calculates the divvying up of the cash that is in the collective pool, and is then ready for loaning out.
Necessities:
Urgent need to form a new grass roots economy across the nation, because due to escalating interest rates the NZ current account is in a more dire predicament than the Minister of Finance and the Prime Minister will ever let on as they do not want to spook both 'their' voters or the market! Meanwhile, the Labour Party still continues to slumber and sleep at the wheel. Once the interest we pay overseas entities leaves NZ it never comes back! The big one for NZ is our growing private debt.
A very informative and empowering interview that Phil in his closing statement calls for a powerful renaissance within NZ communities to extend into more 'conscious connection' to acknowledge the 'commons' and the choices we make. That we actively commit to understanding and participating in alternative and complimentary currencies, as our future may very well depend on it!
http://www.le.org.nz
http://www.le.org.nz/index.php/support-us/37.html
With Mother Earth under increasing assault from Corporate-Machine-Mind-Man, we are witnessing 'business as usual' being increasingly ramped up to the doorway of the Beehive as unconscious miners, drillers, extractors and takers - beat their way to the welcoming mat of the Prime Ministers Office.
Aotearoa is up from grabs at present as hide bound macho-male-men prod, poke and plunder the deep recesses of natures secrets. Nothing now is sacred, other than the god of money and the power that it wields … REALLY?
What happened to ex PM, Helen Clarks emphasis on Sustainability and NZ being a leader in this field? It was lobotomised by internal memo to all Govt Departments within days of the Clark administration leaving office!
Well, fracking has now come to town in our fair country, as a quick fix for PEAK OIL, and for a few short years, we in NZ will join the Western frenzy of 'keeping collapse at bay' by skimming, sucking and raking off 'minor gains' in fossil fuels, as a breather from what we are leaving our fast coming future and children to deal with - an addicted 7 billion plus oil culture, with a physiological and a psychological dependence - that very soon runs dry … or becomes exorbitantly expensive! (This previous statement is countered by the industry saying it's giving us time for more renewable energy sources to be developed and deployed.)
Meanwhile climate change and our ecological footprint are figments of ones imagination - just whistling into the wind.
The annual $2 billion oil and gas industry of just Taranaki hosts 62% of New Zealand's 638 wells - 470 onshore and 168 offshore - boosting to thousands the number of jobs in the region. However:
So far, there have been 43 wells subject to 69 incidences of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in Taranaki.
Its a growing business and it's being opened up with unknown consequences.
Fracking is rupturing the inner geology of the ground beneath our feet. Where underground streams of water at differing layers, course silently in many directions filling up aquifers and nourishing in unknown ways the planetary body and ecology as it does with the human body.
What we are doing is we are drilling down deeply into the 'mother' - up to many kilometers down and then many kilometers horizontally,
A mix of water, sand, and various chemicals is pumped into the well at very high pressure in order to create fissures (sometimes small amounts of explosives are used) in the shale through which the gas can escape. Natural gas releases itself through these fissures and is drawn back up the well to the surface, where it is processed, refined, and shipped to market. But, some gas actually escapes up through the ground along the horizontal fissues breaking out at surface level seeping up into the atmosphere.
Also, the mixture of chemicals, that the gas industry uses is kept secret and does not publish and there are up to 700 different chemicals, benzine, diesel fuel, detergents, solvents and stuff like corexit that was sprayed on the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, all kinds of carcinogens, things that you don't want in your drinking water, your food or the air you breathe.
Fracking has been banned in France, Quebec in Canada, Pittsburgh, Buffalo in the USA and the Karoo region of South Africa. The EU has proposed a moratorium while investigation is carried out. Moratoria are in place in New South Wales Australia and New York State. The National Toxics Network in Australia has called on state and federal governments to introduce, as a matter of urgency, a moratorium on all drilling and fracking chemicals until they have been examined independently. However: This is not even on a discussion paper in NZ.
Where is the precautionary principle?
This is a far ranging interview from stories of water taps bursting into flame when lit with a match. To the struggle to get media on side - to be heard, lack of finance to fight cashed up corporations, scientists fearful to speak up, lack of political will (NZ for example) when there are jobs being offered in this mix. Long term poisoning of the aquifer, huge amounts of leaking gases out of the ground going into the atmosphere. Cancer clusters, health problems for humans and animals the list goes on.
http://www.dangersoffracking.com THE MATHEMATICS
500,000 Active gas wells in the USA X 8 million Gallons of water per fracking X 18 Times a well can be fracked. 72 trillion gallons of water and 360 billion gallons of chemicals needed to run the US current gas wells.
http://cleanwater.org/page/fracking-process
Here's a step-by-step look:
Wastewater (also called "flowback water" or "produced water") returns to the surface after the fracking process is completed. In Michigan, this water is contained in steel tanks until it can be stored long-term by deep injection in oil and gas waste wells. Fracking is fundamentally different than traditional gas extraction methods.
Fracking wells go thousands of feet deeper than traditional natural gas wells.
And earthquakes or swarms of them are problematic too especially in geological unstable parts of NZ.
Land owners in the Taranaki are now offering their land up as 'dump stations' for rock slurry and the chemical discharge of contaminated waste of what has been under the ground and are holding all this in large ponds with berms or bunds but, there are breaches and spills that get into waterways and creeks that do eventually get out to sea. What happens if they have continuous torrential rain?
Also, spreading this slurry over farms to have the sun draw out whatever moisture is in it furthering atmospheric pollution to the extent that Fontera has warned farmers that they will not collect from farms that are doing this process for fear of damaging their 'clean green' branding on milk products. Hooray for Fonterra.
Then there is the control or lack of it from the release of methane from deep under the ground. A good percentage, some estimate up to 6 or even 10 times as actually produced leaks out and vents straight up into the atmosphere and methane is 10 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than Co2.
Also, in this interview Steve covers the idea that our modern monetary system is a proxy for energy and that those who control the energy, basically control the money - that global trading is intrinsically bound up in oil flows.
Plus, the energy returned on energy invested, once 100 years ago for 1 barrel of oil you could get 100 barrels in return, today it is 1 barrel equivalent for every 10 barrels in return, the fracking ration is now 1 to 7 and basically it's becoming uneconomic at this scale …tar sand 1 to 5 and biofuels as low as 1 to 2 … and we are polluting our planet's water supplies in the meantime too
Again ... Where is the precautionary principle?
Question for readers and listeners?
Why are we being systematically excluded from the process of a say in how we use our natural resources? The public in NZ are being explicitly denied their voice - in this case of Fracking, only iwi and hapu and local authorities are being consulted (Note the Govt tie up with the Maori party here) and democracy has been suspended as in Environment Cantebury as there is no obligation under the law, as the Crown Mineral Act does not even require the Govt to consult with local authorities!
NZ also has the one of the lowest royalties rates on wealth as we grovel to offshore mining and oil corporates stealing from 'the commons' that's been gifted to humanity from the very beginning. Why? Because NZ is a 'cheap date' we give ourselves away and in return, get very low royalties as a country.
We need to educate ourselves fast on as many issues as possible and build up our awareness of whats at stake and organize appropriately.
I ask that you on-send this email to your networks and sub networks. Don't keep this to yourself, or be fearful of the consequences. This is a time to be courageous!
Phil Stevens formerly of Arizona now NZ. www.le.org.nz
RESOURCES:
http://www.lockthegate.org.nz
http://www.frackingtaranaki.blogspot.co.nz
Frack Free - Tararua | Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/FrackFreeTararua
http://www.eco.org.nz/key-issues/mining/fracking.html
Article by Dell Panny - Convener of the Environment Standing Committee for the National Council of Women, New Zealand
With Lisa Er, Standing in for Tim Lynch in Mobilising Consciousness
IT IS TIME for us to do more than just talk about problems or propose band-aid solutions.
IT IS TIME for us to stop addressing the symptoms that impede healthy, dynamic, sustainable, equitable, loving connections.
It is time for us to get serious about the transformation of our systems and cultures.
If we do not do this, our impeding patterns will keep us all locked in place.
Increasingly, people, communities, organisations and even political systems are becoming aware of the need to build connection to each other and to the greater whole to address the issues and crises we are facing today.
Paradoxically, while many are becoming more aware, they are also stuck in systems and structures that are dysfunctional, toxic and stressful creating mistrust, alienation and frustration. These negative patterns develop and spread, making it very difficult to affect positive change.
Sharif Abdullah visited New Zealand on his last stop of a global journey to examine the ancient roots of sacred civilization in search of the keys for creating a world that works for all living beings.
In response to the fact that we are collectively killing the planet he says, “The revolution is in CONSCIOUSNESS. Once you change your consciousness from Breaker to Mender, your actions will change. Trying to change behaviour, without changing the underlying consciousness that causes the behaviour, has always failed to achieve lasting change”.
Sharif Abdullah, J.D., is a consultant, speaker, author and advocate for societal transformation. His mission is to bring currently dysfunctional systems and structures into alignment with our common human and spiritual values, to create a world that works for all living things.
He describes the principles of inclusivity in his books The Power of One: Authentic Leadership in Turbulent Times, the award-winning Creating a World That Works for All, and the visionary Seven Seeds for a New Society.
Often at the invitation of government, business and religious leaders, Sharif has worked with people from over 100 different cultures in over 30 countries on 5 continents. He has received international recognition for his ground-breaking work including the Martin Luther King Lifetime Achievement Award (US), Sarvodaya Vishvamitra/ Universal Friend Award (Sri Lanka) and the Hero of Humanity Award (India).
The Commonway Venture, founded by Sharif and Leslie Hamilton, provides individual, group and organisational development to move beyond traditional pathways to unleash engagement, diversity and resilience.
For more information: http://www.commonway.org
or
http://sharif.commonway.org
This programme is sponsored by: http://www.theawarenessparty.com
See previous interview when in April 2012 I interviewed Peter Daley and obtained 24,000 hits on this site alone.
http://www.greenplanetfm.com/members/greenradio/blog/VIEW/00000001/00000193/Peter-Daley-on-the-Fuku shima-Radiation-Cloud-over-Australia--NZ.html#00000193 With mainstream media still blacking out information it's only the deteriorating situation in the last month, with steam vents escaping being evidence of criticality's in the underground coriums (a lava-like molten mixture of portions of nuclear reactor core), as iodine 131 and xenon detections have now been revealed in cities around Japan as well as in the air in South Korea.
The rising of ground water levels at the nuclear site, show that this water is now highly contaminated equaling billions and trillions of bacquerrells of activity, this due to the Japanese building a dam to stop the contaminated water from flowing into the Pacific ocean. But, this dam has caused the water table to rise and if water rises to ground level, it becomes fatal to workers walking around as well as making the site inoperable. i.e no remediation can ever be done.
As Japan is situated on an active earthquake zone and you have many buildings on top and with ground water rising you get liquefaction and this turns the ground into a liquid mud (as in Christchurch) and this is now under the reactor buildings that have super hot multiple reactor cores stored in 'so called' cooling pools and if these slip away in a minor earth movement, a nuclear fire could engulf the buildings sending radioactivity back up into the atmosphere.
Also, the 1,000 low quality storage tanks, which are storing radioactive water that they are holding to prevent getting into the Pacific ocean are showing signs of breakdown (some are actually leaking already) and could also crack open and spill their radioactive contents all over the site.
Mainstream media are playing this down so we have to wonder if there are any truth tellers out there at all. The few who are doing it are extremely courageous.
But the Pacific Ocean is still constantly having radiated water flow into it. Water columns of radiation - where plankton, fish, salmon and tuna have now bio-accumulated significant amounts of cesium. Health authorities have changed the maximum amount of radiation we can take from 1 milli-sievert now p to 20 milli-sievert and it has all been hushed up.
And there is a huge difference between external dose and internal. Once any radioactive atoms enters our body, radiation can become trapped there. A top Japanese professor resigned over this, due to the distortion of this issue of increasing to 20 milli-sieverts, especially for children, because it was far to high for them.
The greatest danger is breathing in radiation and getting it trapped in our lungs.
The safety of flying in the Northern hemisphere, best to limit it, and not fly at all between North America and Japan 'across the Pacific' and by default to Korea and China too.
Learn how the body distributes radiation, it does not distribute it evenly, but radiation gathers in the bones and the thyroid gland … listen and learn a little about strontium and cesium and plutonium and its effect on the human body.
Regarding the safety of NZ from atmospheric radiation, at present it is estimated that we are getting probably 5 times less than the Northern hemisphere is.
Hear that in the USA, Europe and Japan, government radiation monitoring stations are being turned off when a major 'event' happens and or adjusting their equipment to not actually show up the radiation levels, plus manipulating the data so as not to alarm the public. In Japan, they have been caught out manipulating the data on the screens.
This interview also covers the monitoring of radiation in Australia and NZ by aware honest people, privately doing it. The Government keep this data under wraps.
Bio accumulation of radiation accumulates in areas and particular currents - being eaten up the food chain from plankton to larger organisms to fish that end up being eaten by larger fish - up to human consumption and studies show it can increase up to 100,000 times and even a million times in certain circumstances.
North Pacific sea food like tuna and salmon being very questionable, and fish that swim also into the Southern Pacific.
Korea is banning fish from areas in Japan and some in China are calling for the same.
Well worth NZers checking out with our local orthnologists.
Godwits migrating to Alaska/Siberia and Japan could be 'canaries in the global coal mine.'
Mutton Birds (Titi = Shearwater). Evidently 33% disappeared after summer near Fukushima — Those making it back 'were in a poor condition' says New Zealand Govt researcher. A study near Auckland has found a third [...] failed to return this summer after spending the southern winter in their northern hemisphere base near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Department of Conservation researcher Graeme Taylor says the birds that did return were in a poor condition. April 2012. Where is 2013 research?
Humpback whales and grey whales what is their health like? And the huge reported die off of seals in Alaska, and salmon, herring, is also a worry.
The multiplier effect …
Studies of radiation point to the North Pacific ocean becoming 10 times more concentrated off the coast of North America than off the coast of Japan, that through wave action and wind this radio activity can become airborne and be blown inland, especially into the large coastal cities on the western seaboard where the people breathe it in.
The weakening of the human immune system, and what we can do to strengthen it. Pneumonia epidemic in Japan last year and a rubella one this year - are they connected to weakened immune systems? There is a reported hypothyroid increase of 28% in North America, is there a connection? Many deaths in the USA straight after the disaster in March 2011, were hushed up and were linked to the highly radioactive iodine clouds that initially came through.
Do your own research!
Food Lab has been organized by Peter in Australia.
He advises us to buy southern hemisphere food. To read the labels (note in NZ the labels say 'local and overseas' content. We have let the NZ Govt get away with this).
It is important to strengthen and reinforce our immune systems. Important to seek medical advise re iodine intake on a regular basis of any form.
Bentonite clay and zeolite … be wary … get expert advice
Ginger, garlic, vitamin c, Lyprinol are important.
Scientists have been silenced …. establishment has locked everything down - info only from private investigators is coming through.
Peters' monitoring equipment of atmosphere is quite sophisticated at recording data every 60 seconds and puts it all together 24/7, 365 days a year.
www.sccc.org.au www.enenews.com www.rense.com
Christina Barruel, New Zealand Cool Schools National Manager & Trainer, Donna Hourigan-Johnston of Mt Roskill Grammar (a peer mediation coordinator) and Del McFarlane-Scott of Ranui Primary (Cool School peer mediation program co ordinator).
In the early 1990s, Yvonne Duncan in association with the NZ Peace Foundation embarked on a innovative World First, to introduce to every school in NZ a skills based method to teach children how to resolve conflict and reconcile differing points of view, be it in the class room, or playground.
With this unique system been introduced to over 2,000 schools throughout the country since its inception, this could be a global game changer, albeit over a number of generations. Building upon relationships towards a Win Win World.
Could New Zealand become a 'world leader' in conflict resolution… and have hundreds if not thousands of trained emissaries skilled in the art of peaceful resolution of conflicts? These professional peacemakers would get invited to live alongside other peoples, within their cultures, and model in novel, innovative ways, goodwill and peaceful processes in action.
What has come out of this unique program is:
Students are the agents of change if you give them responsibility - their innate genius and creativity comes up with new ideas, (reflected from up to 70 different cultures that can be present in many of NZ's urban schools) as well students voluntarily taking on the mantle as ambassadors of social justice, being positive role models and standing up against bullying and harassment.
Some schools have a very high percentage of students who are trained as peer mediators and they are everywhere within the school grounds. Within these schools this has become a very popular 'service' and with a lot of mana attached to it. At Mt Roskill Grammar, around 250 students apply every year to be trained as it empowers them with a large array of life skills to assist them in negotiating existence, which in the eyes of the trainers is a brilliant service to offer any human being.
Virtually all young people, have at heart the ideal of hope, that things will eventually change and that keeping hope alive will ultimately evolve positive change - plus the sense of belonging (team spirit) for the common vision, inspires us all to involve ourselves. This knowledge empowers students to take responsibility to make schools a safer, and more peaceful place - where social justice becomes part of the every day atmosphere resulting in good local and global citizens too.
A 5 year old can even learn these skills and take them back to their family and whanau and show the larger family what they have learned at school and how to use these skills in a family setting - about listening and understanding and respecting each other.
Data in schools that have 'this program' is clearly showing that bullying falls away in the play ground. This is important, and there is a need for a champion like the Prime Minister and Parliament to get in and language the benefits of Cool Schools across NZ as often as possible so as to evolve our country into being more 'conscious' as an 'aware society.'
If many of those who are in prison had learnt these skills at school to resolve conflict, they would never have gone before the courts to end up in jail.
Imagine being taught these skills 50 years or more ago, how many more boy friends and grill friends one would have, plus far less divorces and the emotional upset, and financial stress. Think about it ...
This program also keeps students in school, as school become a safe place to be. Students can utilize their skills of being a mediator in a holistic framework to negotiate agreements on a daily basis, wherever they are, which assists them to grow and learn. Resulting in the preparation of a citizen for the world. Someone who can also cope with change in a fast changing globalized reality. It's prepping children for the future.
And the gift of teaching conflict resolution is that when the teachers of the Cools Schools program meet their students many years later in the outer world the students inevitably come up to them and thank them dearly, for teaching them these skills, as it has helped them across the board to resolve so many challenges that have come their way, like studies, job, family, relationships etc. A major Win / Win, for both teacher and student and all other 3rd parties.
I urge you to listen to this radio show as it will give your heart a chance to catch up on itself. You can feel the excitement of this studio gathering that it is actually palatable where the vibe carries forward such an optimistic view of how things can be.
peace, respect in diversity, paying it forward, goodwill in action, random acts of kindness, planting seeds, developing empathy, building self esteem, warm hearted citizens, character building, community
www.peace.net.nz
Today, about 2 fifths of the global population are classified as peasants and Ross feels moved to help label the collective aspirations of global peasantry, back into a relationship with each other, the land and ecology - where the world really works. This being in so many ways an antidote to the methodical ways of todays corporate machine - the so called 'NeoLiberal Agenda.'
'NeoLiberalism' isolates the poor and it invisiblizes them and so they drop of the bottom and they then turn into a problem for society to deal with, and instead of being an integral part of a cohesive and supportive community they become the rejects of society.
And they are growing in number …
This intriguing and provoking interview covers a very broad subject range:
People = peasants, producing food, on the land for the betterment of their community. Healthy food, from healthy land, produces healthy 'aware' peasants. Ross sees the relationship of food, land and society and how we relate to each other as community, as the 3 main 'interdependent' components that can tie us with a common thread.
Based on finding solutions of how individuals understand what it is to be an 'aware' peasant wanting to work in alignment with nature, while cohabiting in a world of todays fast moving mechanical, chemical, technical, corporatized monolith.
Covering the premise that the world is in great trouble and that we the people are the cause both unconsciously and consciously. This is resulting in the greatest threat to wellbeing and freedom everywhere that can now be laid at the door of 'corporate ambition' and its addiction to unbridled growth and expansion, within the context of our straining biosphere.
However, the greatest threat to this 'corporate ambition' is a well informed public! The challenge yet again is for the 4th estate, our media, to give us the information, truth and wherewithal to make informed decisions so as to act. Fortunately alternative media via the web is growing to fill this void.
Ranging over how we in NZ were 'Programmed' by Treasury & Rogernomics & the Hijacked 4th Labour Govt.
We were told that there was going to be a:
And middle & working NZ have never recovered from this, especially that NZer's who think they own their own house, are in reality just tenants for the Bank.
Positives
The plusses of living as an 'aware' peasant translate to:
Overseas
Urban Farming in the USA, do a web search for growing your own food.
http://www.ripenear.me An excellent Australian site to plug you into community.
http://www.ooooby.org Very good initiative here in Auckland.
There's a term in Europe called peasantisation, where farmers are going back to simple localised growing and selling and farming as an artist or artisanal farmer.
The Lost Gardens of Heligan www.heligan.com
The world-renowned restored productive gardens and pleasure grounds. The pioneering Wildlife Project offers visitors the chance to immerse themselves in how the estates of old were organized.
http://www.joelsalatin.com.au World best farmer … incredible production per acre.
http://www.viacampesina.org La Via Campesina : International Peasant Movement
Translates to: The road of the Peasant, is in over 20 countries, with a membership of over 200 million families.
Challenges for Peasants.
The land grab of Africa, where the Europeans and corporations are buying up much of Africa including Goldman Sachs, the UN is in there too 'and on the wrong side of the average African' plus, China taking-over this vast continent!
Search Shock Doctrine by Naomi Cline on South America and the gripping story of how America’s “free market” policies have come to dominate the world.
See Bryan Bruce’s latest brilliant and insightful TV3 documentary:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv/9074283/Mind-the-Gap-Why-most-of-us-are-poor
Locally
Ross's YouTube evenings in West Auckland cover subject matter such as Fracking, Smart metros, cancer, water, and corporate water etc with a discussion afterwards.
** Email sunnyvalefilms@gmail.com
Ross’s question?
What is it that we can do, that will make the world become better?
Organic gardening and mediation and what else?
Getting organised and doing it is the key.
Being a micro high tech peasant is another component too.
http://peasants.org.nz/overview
Corporate control of our global food system is not in the interests of people or the environment. Fewer and fewer corporations control more and more of our food chain.
Their interests are in making money, not feeding people good nourishing food. We need to establish a strong food democracy to halt the steady march of corporate agriculture.
This interview includes Claire Bleakely, president of GE Free New Zealand and speaks about her trip to China where she heard world class scientists at the International Conference on Ethnic Food Cultures and Food Safety, (held in Kunming, China,) present on a broad range of topics from ethnic and cultural values of food, to the evidence of harm caused by genetically engineered (GE) foods.
Claire went as a delegate from New Zealand along with Organics NZ Brendan Hoare, and Professor Jack Heinemann.
Professor Jack Heinemann from Canterbury presented a 50-year comparison of agricultural methods in the US and Europe that shows the introduction of GE plants has impacted negatively on yields, diversity and pesticide use across America.
HOWEVER: Tim Lynch and Lisa Er begin the programme with a discussion about the reasons for the DEMO 4 DEMOcracy this Sunday the 1st of September.
Almost a dozen demonstrations from Keri Keri to Christchurch will be held this coming weekend to protest the continued loss of democracy in New Zealand.
September 1st (the first day of Spring) is DEMO 4 DEMOcracy day, which will see family-friendly rallies throughout the country, inviting people to march under the banner of their choice, but in solidarity against the corporate take-over of our country, and New Zealanders’ blatant loss of sovereignty and democracy. Ten days of activities will continue the nationwide protests until September 11.
This initiative was launched only a month ago by Kiwis Connect For a Positive Future and has already convinced over 760 members and a large following on Facebook that it is time for “Human Need not Corporate Greed.” Much stress has been placed on the protests being peaceful, but not necessarily quiet: A suggestion to bang pots and pans has arisen following similar successful demonstrations in Argentina, Turkey, Canada and Iceland.
The perception that this country has the least corruption and the most transparency globally, no longer rings true to many people. While voicing concerns to government, numerous issues are not being addressed – from the GCSB and asset sales to oil drilling, mining, the TPPA and GMO’s & GE to low wages. For information on the TPPA (Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement) go to http://www.itsourfuture.org.nz
Kiwis Connect aims to build awareness amongst the public about these issues and it is intended to keep the Facebook main page even after the event. It is not pushing any political party but is about building awareness of the issues that are damaging this country - and looking at how to correct them.
The organisers hope New Zealanders will be united in integrity and peace, holding a banner for positive change for the good of everyone.
Further information can be found at;
http://kiwisconnect.org.nz
or https://www.facebook.com/groups/359292997530222
This programme is sponsored by www.theawarenessparty.com
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Please join DEMO 4 DEMOcracy Sept 1st! at 2pm, across NZ
We are Rallying and Connecting Kiwis, Nation Wide with the issues affecting the future of our communities, such as the corporate control and the erosion of our democratic rights and sovereignty. We stand for the basic principles of democracy, sustainability, social justice, and environmental integrity.
Nearly every sector in NZ is under intense pressure from either Government inaction or its overt and covert collusion with corporate entities, especially its dismissive attitude to a society requiring authentic leadership and statesmanship as well as a level of genuine care and concern.
Our Government is shrewdly laying siege to the NZ environment and people, under the increasingly shrill mantra of 'we have to make more money' by exploiting and extracting anything and everything. The earth our great sustainer as you know is under relentless assault, even as we intuitively realize we are at multiple tipping points within the magnificence of the straining biosphere.
With the state sell off of public assets, insidious security and intelligence breaches, super secret trade deals like the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement, corporate encroachments and lobbying, secret military accords & harmonization of Laws with the USA, we the citizens of NZ are on the back foot.
Low wages for workers, corporate infiltration into city councils, pharmaceutical corporations advertising directly on TV. No labeling of food sources, ingredients & processes, plus additional chemicals in municipal drinking water, failure to keep city air clear, unsafe food (GE and GMO's) unsustainable farming, destructive mining, corporate take-over of education, health and prisons & public services and the TPPA to bind it all in, all have the common theme of locking down our collective future.
And more and more issues are being thrown at 'we the citizens.' Not to mention the Fukushima radiation continuously spewing into the Pacifist ocean, our deep blue Pacific that laps our shores, with every Government acquiescing and remaining extremely silent, including No Nuke groups.
If we do not come together, and intelligently organize and unite the country by calling the government to account, it will only accelerate and get far worse!
We do not need prophetic statements to tell us where this is could all go.
The 1st of September Nationwide rally aims to cover all of the many issues that people see as important concerns and that are both affecting their lives as well as our countries future, especially our kids.
(http://kiwisconnect.org.nz) Downtown Queen St Auckland
New Zealanders Intelligently Committing to Organise for our Common Future
NZ as one of the worlds pioneering democracies has a long record of engaging in peaceful protest and dialog to bring about inspirational and social change.
Recent revelations made available from Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden have brought the realization that globally and especially to those of us in the West that we are totally immersed in a matrix-like security and intelligence apparatus that has been ticking silently and secretly in the background and over our shoulder. All under the guise of Big Brother - watching us.
Other than the French saboteurs and the Israeli passport spies, we in NZ have fortunately had no terrorist incursions. Thus the premise is put forward that with no external threat to Nuclear Free NZ, that the NZ intelligence community can, and is being used to spy on NZ radicals by the SIS. The Security Intelligence Services.
What is a NZ radical, and what threat if any are they to the State apparatus? Keith Locke who recently was able to view a copy of his NZ security files was spied on by NZ Government agencies since the age of 11 years. Now with invasive electronic means what is the future of NZers going to be like in NZ with the passing of the GCSB Bill? (Government Communications Security Bureau).
Connecting the: DOTS … _ _ _ …
In 2011 Kim Dotcom, a German was living in NZ as a new resident (in the Prime Ministers own electorate) and was running his Megaupload Internet company that was alleged to be illegal pirating copyrighted digital media, globally etc.
On information from the US authorities and the FBI, NZ Police made a spectacular raid on Dotcom's home in January 2012 and arrested him.
The NZ courts ruled that the raid was illegal due to the fact that it was unlawful for the GCSB to spy on a NZ resident, especially as correct protocols were not being observed by the police.
The fall out resulted in the director of the GCSB being replaced by a new recruit.
Ian Fletcher was appointed as director of the GCSB in February 2012. Mr Fletcher is a former diplomat. Fletcher was interviewed by the appointment panel after an earlier short-list of four candidates had been rejected by the Prime Minister on the recommendation of the State Services Commissioner. In March 2013, Mr Key admitted he had known Mr Fletcher since they were in school, but denied they were friends.
Answering questions in Parliament about Mr Fletcher's appointment, Key said he hadn't 'seen the guy in a long time' and hadn't mentioned he had made a phone call to Mr Fletcher when the question first came up in Parliament because he had 'forgotten' about it. Former GCSB director Sir Bruce Ferguson said the way Key had intervened in the selection process was 'disturbing'.
In December 2012, the NZ High Court ruled Kim Dotcom could sue the GCSB for damages.
Hence Dotcom is in the forefront of the NZers wanting far more transparency in how the government oversee security and intelligence in this country.
This GCSB Bill is opposed by the opposition Labour and the Green party, the NZ First Party and several left-wing groups, ESPECIALLY the NZ Law Society, and the Human Rights Tribunal, plus NZer of the year Dame Anne Salmond and ex Prime Minister Sir Geoffrey Palmer.
NOTE:
As the Prime Minister appoints both the director of the GCSB and the Inspector General. Associate Professor of law at Auckland University, Bill Hodge, says the watchdog should be appointed by Parliament rather than by the Prime Minister. Former prime minister, Sir Geoffrey Palmer agrees: 'There needs to be some separation between the inspector and the agency he overseas'.
With this legislation being put through under urgency, WHY is there such urgency?
Some important clues come through in this interview.
Evidence is also available that if one had too left wing a viewpoint your career would be affected by information collected by the SIS. Promotion would not come and visas may not be forthcoming from the USA for instance.
We learn how innocent people can be affected by spying, that spirals out of control due to a certain mind set of biases and prejudices and the urgency of checks and balances from a judiciary that administer the law of the land in an enlightened manner - is a must!
On another issue, it is important for NZers to also realize that Parliament basically has no say in Treaties. Governments and bureaucrats make treaties, but Members of Parliament basically have no say hence the TPPA the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement if signed of will be done only by Cabinet, who are hand picked by the Prime Minister.
(Authors statement. Personally as a NZer I am not an illegal downloader of copyrighted media and definitely do not make money out of it. I as a person on the sidelines saw Dotcom as milking the system in huge terms and living high on the hog whilst half the world starved. The macabre in this saga is; from being an outlaw, Dotcom (with his money) has now been cast as the savior of the public good from the oppressive hand of local and global surveillance systems).
Nearly every sector in NZ is under intense pressure from either Government inaction or its overt and covert collusion with corporate entities, especially its dismissive attitude to a society requiring authentic leadership and statesmanship as well as a level of genuine care and concern.
Our Government is shrewdly laying siege to the NZ environment and people, under the increasingly shrill mantra of, 'we have to make more money' by exploiting and extracting anything and everything. The earth our great sustainer as you know is under relentless assault, even as we intuitively realize we are at multiple tipping points within the magnificence of the straining biosphere.
With the state sell off of public assets, insidious security and intelligence breaches, super secret trade deals like the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement, corporate encroachments and lobbying, secret military accords & harmonization of Laws with the USA, we the citizens of NZ are on the back foot.
Low wages for workers, corporate infiltration into city councils, pharmaceutical corporations advertising directly on TV. No labeling of food sources, ingredients & processes, GE and GMO's, additional chemicals in municipal drinking water, failure to keep city air clear, unsafe food and water, unsustainable farming, destructive mining, corporate take-over of education, health and prisons & public services and the TPPA to bind it all in, all have the common theme of locking down our collective future.
And more and more issues are being thrown at 'we the citizens.' If we do not come together, and intelligently organize and unite the country by calling the government to account, it will only accelerate and get far worse! We do not need prophetic statements to tell us where this could all go.
The 1st of September Nationwide rally aims to cover all of the many issues that people see as important concerns and that are both affecting their lives as well as our countries future, especially our kids.
DEMO 4 DEMOCracy
http://kiwisconnect.org.nz
Highlighting:
We peace-loving New Zealanders are challenging the status quo from the outside, and are up against a combination of the existing system and a whole host of full time professional corporate and governmental insiders - who are hell bent on maintaining their power base, pay packets and superannuation at whatever the cost!
What we ask of you, is can you assist to make this important event happen? Can you with a small nucleus of people help organize your local town or city, or be put in touch with the volunteers already doing their best to make this happen?
http://kiwisconnect.org.nz/get-involved
This may be the most critical choice and tipping point in NZ of the 21st Century.
As all the issues that concern us are integrated, we have to now take back our country.
Because …
While we are busy watching telly, we're losing the country to outside entities! With so many people who were able to vote last election, less than 75% of the country actually voted.
YES!, Our future especially our children and grandchildren's is at stake. NZer's have become far too complacent, docile and distracted whilst being self absorbed in 'other things' that we have found that our sovereignty has been eroded and our democracy sabotaged. Yet not only that, every move and utterance is being electronically tracked or recorded, by (an eye at the key hole) a gigantic global security apparatus - that whilst the lights were on, nobody was alert or home.
This is correct, main stream media and worse, the Parliamentary press gallery have been caught with their pants down because they have got too cosy and lazy to do their due diligence.
We have all been conned!
Should the Govt pass the GCSB Bill over the next 10 days this rally could be the best time for us to let the Govt know that they have lost the faith of 'We The People'. We do not want to be spied on!
Is it possible for a conscious shift to a new localised monetary way of life?
Complimentary currencies, LETS. ‘local exchange trade systems’, mutual credit systems, barter exchange, including time banks and green dollars.
Entailing the decentralisation of money, as well as creating a monetary unit that is democratic, accessible and retains its value?
With a cast that includes Vandana Shiva, Thomas Greco, David Korten, Charles Eisenstein, Jean Huston, Elisabet Sahtouris, Bernard Lietaer, John Perkins, Hazel Henderson and Riane Eisler, this brilliant video needs to be seen by as many people possible - in all countries.
Katie Teague with no experience in the profession of digital media became successful in her art form when she committed, by saying a full YES!
As a therapist Katie noticed people carrying worries and concerns about money, as well as our disconnection from both our selves and the natural world. This as a result of the subtle and not so subtle abuses of how much money controls us, whilst at the same time we exploit the earth and the sacred to gain our riches.
This gave her the impulse to document her findings in relationship to money, its uses, the lack of it, and ways to earn money by means that are outside of mainstream consciousness.
Working four years to put it together with assistance from a Navajo medicine man that inspired the name of her production company ‘storm cloud media’ and who implored her to not start anything that does not end in beauty and for her to commit to giving beauty back to beauty.
In the unfoldment of this interview we hear that John Perkins the author of ‘the confessions of an economic hit man’ described business today as ‘predatory economics that goes with the speed of wild fire around the world’ whilst Hazel Henderson calls it ‘the hoax of the global casino – a giant Ponzi scheme’ and of the anger when people make the effort to find out, or are stung by being on the receiving end of it - a shift in consciousness starts to awaken us.
Basically we know our human nature even in a global context is not malicious, but we have become entwined in a monetary system that is set up to exploit, that is extractive and the collateral damage to families, neighbourhoods, cities and countries under present esculating vulture capitalism, is actually with out end. As exemplified by Wall St and the centralised banking system they are eroding our values plus physical and emotional wellbeing. With unrelenting pressure being put on the biosphere like never before too.
For when we research the system, it is designed ultimately to collapse because it has to feed off continuous growth, which is not achievable on a finite planet. Yet the mainstream of society is yet to grok this.
With over 7 billion people on our planet today the urgency of finding a better more equitable economic system has never been more critical. This is the question that the grass roots organizations are taking forward at this moment. From the lessons of the Occupy Movement to localized solutions, many people are still looking to evolve and involve themselves to find an answer to this vexing challenge.
This interview talks of the mysterious, of synergy, of an emergent quality that is organic and inclusive of wholeness and of the very possibility of an energy that comes about to self-organise and take us deeper into conscious connection, especially as mother earth groans as her ecosystems take the hit from the extractive corporations who straddle her girth.
Katies excellent inspiring FREE DVD is available to download on www.moneyandlifemovie.com I donated $10.00 as I believe in the exchange of energy, but it is FREE.
With Lisa Er.
Trees have a unique place in our environment. Without them, human life as we know it would not exist. Trees conserve water, make our air breathable, absorb air pollution, support our slopes, provide habitats for birds and animals and form the hub of enormous underground micro-environments that strengthen soil and foster insect life. Mature trees can even treat 16 cubic metres of storm water per tree per year.
So why does the government want to delete tree protection from the RMA (Resource Management Act) and prevent local councils from deciding with their communities whether or not to protect their own trees, and create “Nanny State” control from Wellington?
Trees that do not have formal heritage status and scheduled in a District Plan will now be vulnerable to changes to the RMA which will allow the fellow next door to cut down all the trees on his property without consent.
It seems the new changes to the RMA will smooth the path of economic growth at the expense of our environment. Where is local democracy when lobbying from the Property Council wins out over democratic processes?
Beginning with the trees Dr Mels Barton moves on to speak on urban planning, Auckland’s sprawl and the Unitary (30 year) Plan. She expresses her concerns about the mixed housing zones that could become a sea of concrete with no soil, grass or trees to absorb storm water, and how Auckland’s aging storm water system will not cope with the additional housing required for the one million extra people anticipated in Auckland.
She speaks very clearly on housing, and the social cost of poverty on society.
Dr Mels Barton emigrated to NZ in 1999 and ran her own environmental consultancy for a number of years with her late partner. Mels was a member of the Waitakere Ranges Protection Society executive for ten years until 2011. Since 2010, she has been the Auckland and National Coordinator for the week-long annual event ‘Seaweek’. She is also a trustee for the Weedfree and EcoMatters Environmental Trusts and was elected to the Tree Council Board in 2011. She is the Secretary of the Friends of Regional Parks and Chair of the Titirangi Ratepayers and Residents Association. She works for the Te Atatu MP Phil Twyford as his Issues Assistant and runs her own community newspaper for Glen Eden called The Guardian.
This interview is sponsored by The Awareness Party:
www.theawarenessparty.com
From Taos in New Mexico USA. A 'wayshower' to energy, food and housing independence.
Designing and building a bio harmonic home out of indigenous materials of rock and soil, but inclusive of old car tires, glass bottles cans etc, can manifest an exceptionally stable and sustainable 'earthship' home. That with the addition of solar heating and water treatment and storage systems, plus garden area can make your home capable of sustaining you and your family in a well lighted spacious setting for months, without you leaving the dwelling.
Earthships are becoming a growing global phenomena due to their use of waste and left overs from current western technologies and economic systems. With knowledge and skills ordinary people can do extra ordinarily creative things to build an off grid dwelling, that positioned facing the arc of the sun, uses both passive / solar and or windmill energy to power your future with out paying out huge sums to electricity and water utilities. Whilst at the same time keeping the building at a near on constant inner temperature of around 21 degrees all year long.
Originally in the early 1970s in America, Mike responded to the media presenting the future shortage of oil, for heating and cooling, plus electricity for running the home, including future waste and garbage problems with excessive cans and bottles, plus water shortages, sewage disposal and the obtaining of fresh food. So he found an innovative way to incorporate them into building these components into a house, an 'earthship' which he now calls the 6 issues of sustenance on this planet for the people of today.
Using sun and catching rainwater, he includes the physics and biology of our planet's ecology for sewage treatment and food production.
Having stand alone housing systems, allows us not to depend on power utilities, with their higher costs and power outages etc and in the US context, that the power is obtained through detrimental methods, mainly coal and nuclear generation. Wanting softer options he found more bio harmonically benign and self empowering ways to build on the land.
Topics Covered:
His building technique is based around old tires filled with rammed earth that keep the heat thermal mass in and are also very earthquake resilient. Tires do not out gas.
Regulation - an inhibiting force for independence.
Talks about pockets of freedom where there is less regulation - where are these areas?
Keeping the middle man out of the cost structure.
In the field of alternative housing and settlement we are evolving too slow on a planetary system that is changing and evolving very fast. We need to engage in regulatory change.
The need now is to take charge of our lives and being responsible for all our actions. This is inclusive of incorporating holistic systems showing everything overlapping and working together.
Listen to Mike as he succinctly relates to our house as if it is our body, with energy and water in and waste and water out, totally integrated inside and yet nestled and functioning with natural forces of the outside world.
http://earthship.com
http://www.garbagewarrior.com
Speaking in Auckland:
Evening seminars on Friday 5th and Sat 6th July
300 Sir Neil Waters Building @ Massey University, Albany, North Shore.
Also a screening of his new flick "New Solutions" on Waiheke along with a meet and greet Q & A session.
Booking information - http://earthship.co.nz/events
Mob: (027) 281 5022
Who owns and who controls the media in New Zealand?
Covering: The historical perspective, from private and governmental control to privatization?
History of media, early Maori newspapers, wealthy family owned papers in main cities and eventually union owned newspapers. To print media today and by extension web sites.
Then radio and TV their evolution that along with print media is now basically in the hands of about 5 owners and an increasing concentration into fewer hands. Other than TV NZ and Radio NZ, virtually all large media is overseas owned.
Overlapping into telecommunications, via telephones, computers and morphing into electronic espionage and security issues.
How can we encourage NZers to look for optimistic and solution oriented community news?
What is the outlook on the future regarding mass communications and media, including electronic control, such as turning off transmitting capabilities of mobile phones in areas of public demonstrations?
Transparency in a free and open democracy?
Quick Synopsis:
Newspapers used to be only owned by the rich but along came the unions, like the Transport Worker and the Maori Land Worker resulting in a completely different news perspective for the under classes. What happened?
Michael Savage in the 1st Labour Government in the 1930s introduced radio broadcasts of Parliament that opened it all up for the commoner to become more aware and engaged.
Censorship was prevalent from the first NZ Conservative Govt and also by Labour when it got into power.
Introduction of Radio and then TV was all Govt controlled. Then pirate/private radio.
The 1984 change of government to Labour and the neo liberal policies of Roger Douglas were basically underwritten by the NZ Govts 'Department of the Treasury' and that changed everything.
Resulting in deregulation of broadcasting after 1989 that led to many changes, National Govt abolishing in 1991 all foreign media ownership restrictions in NZ, opening up to all main media other than TVNZ and Radio NZ being either off shore owned or controlled.
We learn that: The Fourth Estate, is based on journalists and news media to raise issues of public importance and to advance levels of public debate - and to create the resources necessary for social citizenship. This today in NZ is clearly failing us miserably.
That global information today is readily accessed here in NZ and due to the web can now be sourced from non Western perspectives, such as RT, Russia Today which has become the first TV news channel in history to reach 1 billion views on YouTube, and Aljazeera and its well heeled Arab perspective, are more open than say Fox, CNN and BBC World. But RT and Aljazeera also have their undisclosed 'other side' too.
The world wide web has still huge possibilities to expand including tweets etc
Social media and web access etc can expand our communication over broad networks and areas, however it cuts both ways with the ability for surveillance coming back the other direction in real time = being a double edged sword.
Finally, 'we the people own the airwaves across NZ' shouldn't there be a social contract that anyone who broadcasts on these invisible airwaves, also put community oriented programs and documentaries on to assist and educate the public on daily life and not at 1 or 3 am in the morning? For example, TV2 and TV4 at present to many 'conscious' people are trash and rubbish dispensers that can be perceived as fragmenting and making more young viewers lives more disconnected and dysfunctional. Are these stations in their present format serving the public good?
www.thedailyblog.co.nz
**With Lisa Er.
Sponsored by www.TheAwarenessParty.com**
It is no secret that we are living in interesting and challenging times, and that we are in great need of not just innovative, but collaborative strategies for sustainability to address our planetary emergency head-on.
Nicole M. Foss is Senior Editor of the well-read website The Automatic Earth. Since January 2008, she and co-author Raúl Ilargi Meijer have been chronicling and interpreting the on-going credit crunch as the most pressing aspect of our current multi-faceted predicament. The site integrates finance, energy, environment, psychology, geopolitics and real politik in order to explain why we find ourselves in a state of crisis and what we can do about it.
Nicole is also an international speaker on global finance, energy and environment. She has lectured in hundreds of locations across North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, and has made numerous media appearances in a variety of countries.
Nicole describes our financial predicament, vulnerabilities, and the end of economic growth.
She speaks of strategies for coping with the financial collapse suggesting that the way to survive will come from the ground up, in community initiatives rather than from the top down.
She describes the functions of money, why it matters that the financial system is about to have an accident, and the cycles of economic expansion and contraction and how at the peak of an expansion phase, it involves credit (giving value to human promises to repay).
Promises only have value if people believe the promises. During an economic contraction phase promises are broken and cease to have value which results in a money supply crash and economic seizure, like in the 1930s, increasing probability of a systemic banking crisis as we see now in Cyprus.
Solutions include a financial strategy of no debt, of holding cash and gaining control over our essentials of existence. Building up businesses with local supply chains and distribution networks is required.
Other basics of robust systems include community building, time banking, local currencies, building social capital and relationships of trust that all build resilience. Nicole says you can’t change the waves but you can learn to surf!
Prior to the establishment of The Automatic Earth, Nicole was editor of The Oil Drum Canada, where she wrote on peak oil and finance. She also ran the Agri-Energy Producers' Association of Ontario, where she focused on farm-based biogas projects, grid connections for renewable energy and Feed-In Tariff policy development.
While living in the UK she was a Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, where she specialized in nuclear safety in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union, and conducted research into electricity policy at the EU level. She also has significant previous experience practicing as an environmental consultant.
Her academic qualifications include a BSc in Biology from Carleton University in Canada (where she focused primarily on neuroscience and psychology), a post-graduate diploma in air and water pollution control, and the common professional examination in law and an LLM in international law in development from the University of Warwick in the UK.
Nicole is in New Zealand to speak on “Limits to Growth and where to go from here”.
Her web site is www.theautomaticearth.com
The Good News:
There is a big increase organics in NZ.
In past 3 years organic produce sales have increased by 25%, organic beverages increased by 80% and organic wine has quadrupled production.
Franklin organic farmers grass roots organization of 300 people are organizing themselves by taking back control of their food supply, establishing community networks.
Humans no need to be competitive, but cooperative relationships brings connection and happiness in community
Organics NZ are still committed to be the worlds first organic country but Bhutan, Bali and Costa Rica are far closer. NZ organic growers definitely want NZ to lead.
What we are dealing with:
Though our Government is not talking organics to the world, ironically the world is talking organics to NZ. Especially China and Taiwan and milk supply for example, and if our food is contaminated the Chinese will instantly halt buying, because they are wanting 'NZs 100 percent pure products.'
This superb, newsy, laughter ridden interview covers:
Nestles - its problematic partnership with Fonterra.
Fluoride - which is a toxic waste product in our drinking water.
Cadmium - across NZ farms, in superphosphate - impacting both our health and animals. Damages the liver and kidneys in cattle and sheep that these organs in lambs and cattle over 18 months old are not allowed to be used for human consumption … and are being used for pet food? - is there a connection with NZ cats and renal failure?
Plus, NZ cadmium rates are already higher that the maximum standards that they have in the European Union. This heavy metal is a time bomb in our farming sector and needs addressing. In Waikato where more than 160,000 hectares are contaminated to the point that would have been officially labelled as a contaminated site. It can no longer be classed as contaminated because changes to legislation in 2012 removed agricultural land from any contamination classification. A contemptible way to get rid of the problem, by our NZ Govt moving the goal posts.
Milk - there is a growing consumer demand for raw milk in rural communities, that's not stripped of its nutrient value of probiotics, when milks is pasteurized, homogenized, UV'd etc. Raw milk is especially good for children and our Government actually knows
this, but is reluctant to champion it.
Food Labeling - If you cannot pronounce a food - don't eat it, and keep away from processed foods and eat only whole foods.
Remember - food is medicine, drugs are not medicine.
Diets - why low fat diets fail.
Biotechnology - the constant allure of untold riches for big tech corporations, that our Government supports.
Christchurch rebuild - organic gardens booming and better networks and health outcomes ensuring the security of their food is growing communities here.
GE & GMOs - the continuing problems, the imperative of food labeling of contents and country of origin. GMOs pose a 59 billion dollar threat to the NZ economy and our Clean and Green image.
Irradiated food - especially from Caboolture in Qld Australia, that radiates, tomatoes, capsicums and mangos with Cobalt-60. (don't touch)
Buy local - grow local, eat local = fresh.
Hospital food - the need of fresh vital food so as to heal ones body of both sickness and wounds, but under successive Governments has been ignored, but more so under the present Govt.
Chicken cages - abolishing in 2023, but pigs in sow crates are doing better 2015.
Bees - decline as are the butterflies = GE and pesticides.
Keeping Auckland GE free - Pass local laws so that Ratepayers do not bear the costs if a GE outbreak takes place. Compel the biotech corporation to being responsible for their mistakes.
GE Agriculture - is a dead end culture in the final analysis.
Go organic, become healthy, get wise.
www.organicnz.org.nz
What is it that compels a very fit and energetic octogenarian, to come back to NZ for a visit to give talks and share his insights across the Auckland region?
From the NZ navy, to the police to a farmer who went into local politics for 6 terms and realized that we should NEVER allow more than 4 terms maximum as any more than this and you lose your enthusiasm, energy and panache.
Saw town planning become so restrictive and that produced the growth of bureaucracy.
Realised in the 1960s that it was not National or Labour but 'the system' that was wrong, where Social Credit offered another viewpoint around finance and economy, he stood at different times against Bill Birch and also Winston Peters and Colin Moyle.
Always pushing the envelope he owned a health store in Australia and then 'moved on'. What motivated him was he did everything because he wanted to see how he could help people.
As a farmer he used to kill his own animals for meat and states that fat on meat is so important as it helps digest the protein, and that it is imperative that we have fat on our chops or whatever. Same for raw milk, it is essential that it is raw as pasteurized milk destroys beneficial bacteria along with the bad ones and destroys enzymes essential for nutrient absorption.
But there is an organization called the 'Organisation of Food Protection.' He says it is a mighty force, and he attended the last conference of 2,500 people, comprising of the manufacturers of instruments needed for testing things, the bureaucrats, the microbiologists and the lawyers who want to sue the farmers for various infringements etc. Evidently, Governments worldwide are looking to this organization for advice.
They want to sterilize every food, which entails the destruction of all enzymes etc too. What Geoffrey noted as a visitor, that they are opposed to raw milk being available to people as a choice. Fortunately, California and some other states in the USA allow raw milk as well as in Europe where it is sold via vending machines. Also now in NZ's South Island.
Some of the Subjects Covered:
We must be able to have choice to eat and consume genuine foods that give us energy dense nutrition and that greens are so necessary for iron for our body.
Too many people today are anaemic due to a lack of minerals in the soil, due to incorrect farming methods. Biological farming being the new innovative answer.
Also, that magnets and magnetism has an untapped future in the growth and yield of plants and its affects on the soil in general.
That cadmium in market gardens in Pukekohe is frightening … (and throughout NZ). That Clean Green NZ is being compromised?
Soy comes in for criticism because it it is being linked to a thyroid issue and that iodine needs to be absorbed through the skin to offset this, best get good advice from a doctor, health practitioner, or naturopath first.
With changes to the chemistry of the environment men are growing larger breasts in the USA and are having to engage in breast reduction surgery because of the estrogen in soy.
Imperative to keep family farms in NZ. Corporate farms are always driving the bottom line, and thinking chemicals always to increase output.
Use of pendulum or divining rod, especially for children to learn how to use a pendulum so that they can quickly test to see if the food they are about to eat is good for them.
An exceptionally interesting interview that covers a wide range of health matters and life experiences by an exceptionally strong and vibrant 87 year old with much wisdom to share.
http://www.westonaprice.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weston_A._Price_Foundation
http://www.vegsource.com/news/2010/07/the-truth-about-the-weston-price-foundation.html
Leanora ~ Out of Africa, Ex IT Silicon Valley, to bee keeping, lavender grower, organic gardener of the inner self ~ a woman's journey.
When we close our eyes to the outside world and become self reflective, we realize that we are all we have got. That if we want change in the outer world, we need to recognize that we need to change within as well.
From our first breath as a baby we soak up the imprints of our first contact, to our mother, family and extended family to community.
Surrounded in love we are secure in our localized environment and this allows us to be nourished and acknowledged and find our place in life.
Leanora traveled extensively to finally find NZ and a tiny island microcosm nestled on Waiheke Island in a community who practiced organic principles.
Here in the secureness of warm relationships she engaged in both inner and outer growth giving her an understanding of the psychological patterns that we as an emergent humanity need to become aware of as we clear our being of the need to drop anything that does not serve us. In this process of healing she encountered that there are many methods of clearing trauma and energetic imprints in our body, that hold us back from living our fullest expression.
The more we show up to connect with our sovereign self and owning who we are, the more we can shift to a deeper and clearer countenance of being.
That there are now many modalities of 'whole' practices, we don't have to go to the outside world for answers, shaman, priests, gurus etc
Being present and connecting to the wholeness of our selves, is a direct method of looking within to release all the old patterning in our make up which, can be accessed, cleared and sped up.
Conscious awareness, and not seeing things through the filter of what we have been programmed with - by our parents and society is in many ways the first step of many.
When we show up with an open curiosity, 'something else' can be revealed.
The key being to drop into our heart and ask what would love do, and where would love take us when requiring healing at soul level?
This is a soft and sweet approach to healing of the self, the divine self and the sacred feminine.
And for men, to drop down into ones heart and feel from this place of reverence, where our inner light connects us to our sacred male.
A time for us as a person, to the greater community to recognize that the journey to awakening opens up through our heart.
Remember ~ 8 hugs a day to keep your oxytocin levels up, and Leanora's stall on Market day on Waiheke is known as the hug corner as the bonding connections, enlivens the community.
www.Embodytruth.com
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~waiblue
Gavin, originally from the emerald isle of Ireland now lives in NZ, brings an insightful and holistic vision of how NZ can lead sustainability both locally and globally. And due to the unique and potent comments and articles in Element Magazine it's now becoming an important educator in both the business world as well as schools and community to looking after our children's future.
The whole idea of the Element publication is to use media to create (drive) positive change in society in a world that is all about consumerism and how we can make more money.
Using the triple bottom line and finding the balance between economic prosperity, health of the biosphere and the health of the people that live within the biosphere.
Would you imagine that any government would be stupid enough to sign an international agreement that would allow overseas corporations to sue it, in secretive offshore tribunals claiming that new laws and regulations (for example a ban on fracking, GE, smoking control laws or a cap on electricity prices) have seriously undermined the value of their investments?
Well, that is what the New Zealand Government and ten other countries around the Pacific Rim are negotiating right now under the TPPA, the secret Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement, and President Obama wants it signed by October of this year. Of course the country that has the most to gain will be the US and their corporations!
And do you really think the US needs our dairy products – the sale of which is the supposed benefit for NZ by joining the TPPA?
From what has been gleaned so far, if the negotiations are completed it will make it much harder for governments to pass new laws, to look after the environment, promote health, protect workers (from longer hours, less pay and possibly shorter holidays) and consumers, less stringent quality control, and very importantly not promote the public interest as it defers to lobbyists and private privileged interests.
Labeling of GE foods, for example, would be banned in the interest of the harmonization of laws between countries. The same for labeling country of origin of food. Present tobacco and cigarette rulings could be overridden and the same for alcohol.
We may have to compromise PHARMAC if restrictions are placed on generic medicines, thus making medicine more expensive.
Copyright laws will be toughened and more harshly enforced, restricting internet freedom and access to information.
Foreign banks, insurance companies and money traders will gain more powers to challenge laws designed to prevent another financial crisis.
If and when this secret Agreement is signed, it will not be debated in Parliament here in New Zealand, but will only need to be OK'd by the Cabinet thus short circuiting democracy in this country.
The list goes on.
“The TPPA could also be looked as a way of containing China in the Pacific”, Dr Kelsey says.
Professor of Law, Dr Jane Kelsey has been at the forefront of the opposition to the TPPA and she speaks candidly about the information that has been obtained through leaked documents, and the possible scenarios if it is signed.
Jane Kelsey has an MPhil from the University of Cambridge and a PhD from the University of Auckland. She has worked at the University of Auckland since 1979 and was appointed to a personal Chair in Law in 1997.
She a key member of the Action Resource Education Network of Aotearoa (Arena), and is actively involved in researching and speaking out against the World Trade Organisation, the International Monetary Fund, free trade and corporate-led globalisation.
She is also actively involved in campaigning for the New Zealand Government's full recognition of the Treaty of Waitangi and opposed the controversial seabed and foreshore legislation.
She has been an activist academic and public intellectual for more than 30 years.
http://www.itsourfuture.org.nz
Dr Christoph Schumacher: Professor of Innovation and Economics, Massey University Auckland, posits the question from his recent exceptionally well attended public lecture.
"I saw this professorial lecture as a chance to say what I’ve really wanted to say for years, that our current economic mantra is always about growth, but continuous economic growth is not environmentally sustainable, and it is not making us happy.
"Should we be aiming for continual economic growth within a finite environment?"
In other words, are we New Zealanders becoming more happier and less stressed with our current economic system of unrelenting economic growth that consumes resources and pollutes our planet?
‘There’s not a single country (other than possibly Bhutan) on this planet that doesn’t have economic growth as one of its key targets. But we have to stop and ask ourselves why?
'The drive for greater growth and productivity is depleting our resources without satisfying our material desires. He has linked current GDP growth with various happiness surveys and found the more we grow our national wealth, the less happy we become.'
This interview covers areas of where innovation needs to be encouraged with more readily available financial resources, tax incentives (and disincentives) as well as better planning and know how.
Also, the perceived leadership especially from the higher echelons of Government needing to language far more of the basic attributes of community and what we are leaving for our children's future.
For example, NZers are working longer and harder than we were 6 years ago but in Germany there are laws keeping work to 35 to 37 hours a week, and yet their profitability is better and according to Christoph, a German worker works about 400 hours a year less than NZ. That equals 50 days, and as Germany is doing economically very well, where is NZ putting its focus and what is it that we want to ‘grow?'
Is over arching media, a big intrusive programming machine, telling us to buy this, think that, go there, try these, making NZers spend beyond their means? Like; Buying Now, to Save? ‘And New Zealanders are right at the top of that list – our credit card debt is one of the highest in the OECD.’
We are being manipulated by TV, yet in Northern Europe there are laws outlawing certain types of TV advertising in front of children of a certain age.
Subjects this interview covers, our Government instead of being servants of the people, are pushing other agendas? Being business friendly at the expense of the environment, and sustainability, not encouraging organics, a cleaner and greener country and that the TPPA the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement is not being looked at or even acknowledged within the academic arena?
Christoph’s favourite quote comes from British ecological economist Tim Jackson: "Our problem is we are persuaded to buy things we don’t need, with money we don’t have, to make impressions that won’t last, on people we don’t care about." That’s it in a nutshell.
An interesting insight to how universities in NZ are positioning themselves in the narrative of commerce and community and how humans should live in these very rapidly changing of times. Especially, with increasing corporate dominance of our country and what this may mean for our common future.
Robina McCurdy: Community development facilitator, Organic gardener, Permaculture Educator, Land-use designer and Food localiser.
One of the best known permaculture teachers in NZ, Robina has taken her innovative approach to South Africa and into their schools the 'Permaculture curriculum' and assisted large numbers of people to become more self reliant and sustainable in growing of gardens and food production. Especially in squatter settlements, which have been funded by the NZ High Commission, where she trained up teams so as to make herself redundant, which is totally in opposition to todays economic ways which wants you to become 'dependent on the system.’
Starting young on an organic market garden in Christchurch, in an extended family in Harewood planting and harvesting was a joyful thing with aunties and uncles and cousins and the experiencing and knowing of community and connection with the land, and in particular the feeling that this was perfectly normal and not a rare event, and this 'connection' never left her.
Robina, has for the last 30 years lived in the Tui Community, a land co-op and charitable trust next to the Able Tasman National Park in Golden Bay, growing their own food and that, by extension the land has become embodied within her, and at very deep levels. To co-exist with wild life as well, all within an overarching cosmology that is embedded in Permaculture. Being a true marriage of the environment and the needs of the people.
Working in co operation with nature … then once nestled in, can start with growing food, then shelter and housing, community etc … a food forest.
She is now touring NZ with Earth Care Education Aotearoa where she is finding many gardens and groups across the land doing superbly and quietly working with the earth which she enthusiastically calls our taonga.
Working with Susie Lees and Politics of food security
http://localisingfood.weebly.com - they are assisting with understanding rights and responsibilities and ‘No to GE’ and what laws and legislation we need, to keep the community and grass roots organizations growing etc. Plus, being aware of the TPPA the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement and what impact it would have on this country as a top down agenda …
She uses the metaphor that NZ farming has at present diverged into two differing streams running down different sides of the mountain. One is organic, dynamic, free flow, non chemically driven, smaller families, nature friendly, soft on the earth and giving back to the environment, whilst the other is top down management, big business, exploitative, industrial, chemically driven, profit at all costs, energy and resources intensive that pollutes degrades and denatures the country. Exporting … our soils, our water …our natural resources … our taonga …
This signals the dichotomy of what we as a nation are doing with big money as the driver of the latter, and though bringing in huge monetary volume, is very short term thinking with no long term sustainable outlook.
Topics also covered:
The great turning that Joanna Macy calls where ethical consumption, the slow food movement, calculation of food miles, our ecological planetary footprint and the other … based on both fear and disconnect from Papatuanuku, our physical sustainer (no blame or no judgement) where everything is seen as up for grabs to pillage and take, and giving nothing really back being just a gigantic resource snatch.
Also covering the spiritual dimension in how we live and be and do in the moment trusting in living in the now, that what we manifest for the betterment of the whole takes us forward into the new paradigm in hand with how our ancestors and how our tipuna would like to see, being a natural and more cohesive world that comes into being.
This inspirational interview covers a wide realm of what is happening across the land of NZ at a grass roots level, and will leave you in a very optimistic frame of mind to get out and work the soil and grow both yourself and your community, your own healthy sustenance.
http://www.earthcare-education.org
Robert, from the far North in North Auckland is a vegetable grower who decided back in 1997 and with one other founded the Whangarei growers market. This market is the largest and oldest market of its kind in New Zealand and by many accounts is one of the most thriving growers (farmers) markets in the country, attracting between 4500 to 5000 shoppers every Saturday morning.
It is a 'David vs Goliath' success story that has enabled growers once on the brink of ruin, who were sick of the supermarket chains squeezing their returns, reorganized themselves and broke free. The market has grown by word of mouth and social networking and does absolutely no advertising to sell direct to the public.
This interview covers the challenges faced, the food that is produced, virtually all spray free, and moving towards more organic, fruit veggies, dairy, meat, fish, honey and is a place where relationships develop between suppliers and the public.
This is a place for small to medium growers to sell their produce, based on a set of simple principles that do not allow in the big boys and is a superb example of community coming together for mutual benefit.
GE Free Northland is also covered in this interview.
http://farmlet.co.nz/?p=419
Glenn, a New Zealander, has just returned from Schumacher College in Devon in the UK which runs courses around sustainability, using a transformative approach in helping organisations understand and find solutions.
In this interview, our planet is personified by referring to 'her' in her ancient name as Gaia, and is mentioned as science and reality combine, with ancient knowledge we realise that of all the major planets in our solar system, only Venus has a female name, yet the ancient Greeks 2,500 years ago had a name for 'mother earth' and they called her Gaia, 'from her all things issued'.
The many cycles of life on our planet, either cycle through the ocean or have contact with it as it's a gigantic dynamic system, in many ways the blood stream for the planetary body, which is 3.5% salt which in a uncanny way mirrors the salt percentage in the human body.
This interview covers the wholeness of our ocean planet, in that all oceans are interconnected.
The ocean is the life blood of our planet.
We have until now, only explored 1% of the deep ocean. This could be likened that possibly only 1% of the worlds population has explored the depths of their own inner realms, the psyche. (Greek for soul).
How do we take action to reclaim the ocean treasures of Kai Moana 'food from the ocean'. Can we embrace Rahui, the Maori word to 'lock away an area so that it can regenerate.' Back in 1981, NZ was in many ways leading the world in marine reserves, but that is no longer the case today.
With top down solutions from Government this can have a tendency to absolve the populace from responsibility by leaving it up to 'somebody else' to fix the problems for them. Yet now with Government wanting to cash up on the natural environment will it actually act, or instead ... not lead at all?
For the sake of future generations it is 'we the people' that need to take a leadership roll.
Learn that 'industrial' fishing has nothing to do with feeding people. The worlds major fishing fleets are owned by a very small number of families and a large percentage of fish caught goes for fish meal, pet food, fertilisers and other products and not actually feeding people.
This has grown out of control to include the totally destructive practice of bottom dredging by trawlers.
Recently the Japanese Government subsidized their Whaling industry by around US$30 million.
Listen from a Gaian perspective how plankton forms and gives off a spore (DMS) that seeds rain clouds on the micro level and that we have these giant repositories in the form of mega fauna, the great whales of the macro world. With their acoustic communication through the water to telepathic communication that includes some of Rupert Sheldrakes recent understandings.
Then to Glenn's experience of being enveloped within a field and feeling of connection with a Humpback whale while diving in Tongan waters and what it represented from a spiritual standpoint and our connection to what is sentience?
However circumstances were such we did not get to talk about the Pacific Ocean gyre garbage patch and now the Southern hemisphere Pacific gyre nor that the oceans were becoming acidic due to the increase in C02 being absorbed from the atmosphere.
This is an interview of a man who has a deep love for nature, the oceanic mass that surrounds our planet and his connection with all biota.
Glenn Edney and the scientific understanding of oceans and looking at ways to manage marine resources.
http://oceanswatch.org
What really went on in Iceland?
Iceland was the first of the economies to collapse in the increasing list of countries affected by the corrupt banking system.
After most people lost their savings, how did the people of Iceland survive? How have they moved from a complete financial collapse in 2008 to a successful functioning "local economy”?
After the collapse on October 2008 actor, singer and gay rights activist Hordur Torfason planted himself outside parliament. Every day for a week he stood in the same spot and asked the people two questions. The first, do you know what has happened in this country? The second, do you have any ideas about what we can do about it?
By gauging opinion on the streets, and through innovative social media, he devised three demands which reflected the people’s immediate wishes: the government should resign, the board of the financial supervisorial authority should resign, and the board of the national bank should resign.
Within three months and in extremely cold and wet conditions, Torfason inspired thousands of people to take intelligent action resulting in radical change in Iceland’s government and economy. All of this was achieved peacefully.
Top economists are now saying Iceland is showing the way: While many countries within the Eurozone have bailed out the bankers and 'made the public pay the price' Iceland let the banks go bust and actually expanded its social safety net.
Nobel prize-winning economist Joe Stiglitz noted: “What Iceland did was right. It would have been wrong to burden future generations with the mistakes of the financial system.”
Is it as rosy as it sounds, and what might happen in the next election?
Yet, why is mainstream media so very quiet about what happened in Iceland?
Hordur Torfason tells his story and explains that there is still much work to be done.
For details of Torfason’s 'extensive' March 2013 New Zealand tour go to:
www.theawarenessparty.com
See also www.facebook.com/HordurTorfasonNZTour.
Patricia Ranald, PhD of Sydney, Australian spokesperson for the Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network.
Interviewed on the underlying challenges of the secret TPPA, the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement and how it could adversely affect Australia.
(And NZ).
The TPPA originally started with NZ, Brunei, Singapore and Chile, but they have since been joined by the US and Australia and five other countries. US corporations are setting the agenda.
Australian civil society groups want the TPPA text to be made public and debated in Parliament before Government signs any agreement.
Why? Because they already have a Free Trade deal with the USA. They have had no economic benefit and are importing more from America than they export. For example, Australian sugar farmers did not get any additional access to US markets.
The US wants to include in the TPPA special rights for foreign investors to sue governments for damages in international tribunals if a law or policy harms their investment. This can undermine democratic health or other regulation by governments.
For example, Philip Morris the tobacco corporation is using an obscure 1993 Hong Kong-Australia investment agreement to sue the Australian Government for damages over its plain packaging legislation. They are persisting with the case despite the fact that the Australian High Court found that tobacco companies were not entitled to compensation for legitimate public health legislation.
These tribunals do not have the safeguards of national systems. The proceedings are secret, arbitrators can be an arbitrator one week and an advocate the next, and there are no precedents or appeals, leading to inconsistent decisions.
The general consensus is that these tribunals are biased in favour of corporate investors.
The US corporate agenda is seen by a growing number of Australians as tying the hands of Government. This can prevent present and future governments to regulate in many important matters, like access to medicine, keeping current environmental laws in place, health regulations, having 'No GE' labelling on food and not opening up essential services to international investors.
The Australian slogan is “Fair Deal or No Deal for the TPPA”
So far, there is no agreement that fundamental labour rights will be included and enforced in the TPPA. These are the freedom of association, the right to form unions, the right to collective bargaining, no forced labour, no child labour and no discrimination in the workplace. Without enforceable labour rights, increased trade can lead to a race to the bottom on working conditions.
Finally, we see that the Australians are fighting the same battle for their sovereignty as we are here in NZ
http://aftinet.org.au
http://www.itsourfuture.org.nz
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1303/S00033/tppa-academic-slams-report-pm-used-to-claim-35bn-gains .htm
Listen to a very potent and passionate appraisal of the forthcoming 2nd Holistic Cancer Congress in Auckland which continues as a World First for its integrative approach to cancer therapies and diagnostics.
With presentations from Dr Bruce Lipton PhD, Ian Gawler, Dr Thornton Streeter DSc, Dr Robin Kelly, Dr Nicky Baillie, Liz Hart, David Holden, Phil Kerslake, and Peter Chaplin – each top experts in their own right. If you need to know the very latest information on cancer, and all approaches to its prevention and treatment, you must attend this Congress!
Today, many people are being shocked to find that they have a form of cancer or a family member or friend has become afflicted. Modern mainstream medicines use of some very invasive methods, with varying success, has compelled many people to seek other more natural ways to heal and recover.
This Holistic Cancer Congress follows on last years ground breaking 1st Congress where numerous presenters receive rapturous, standing ovations as they offered up not only hope but results.
David also gives a very lucid assessment of the new holistic technologies that the team at Global Health Clinics in Takapuna have brought to NZ. High-tech equipment can now track 'aura' energies and actually photograph energy 'chakras' and give virtual instant data readouts, that have been approved by the US FDA. This technology can also check blood for quality, parasites, viruses and all manner of tests.
He then introduces the numerous therapists and their various and integrative skills within an extensive range of holistic modalities that is extremely impressive for NZ and shows just how talented this growing team of many years of experience, are capable of.
So much so that their level of expertise has shifted holistic integrative and complementary medicine to another level of efficacy, where energy medicine and a whole new way of seeing the human body is acknowledged in a 21st century context.
The world of relating to human health is changing fast and we need to equip ourselves with new knowledge from the basics of taking in of the best quality, air, water and food, plus rest, exercise, sleep, inclusive of close family ties, warm relationships and minimising stress.
A very comprehensive interview of the leading edge of Holistic Health, that will educate you to a far broader understanding of why people are consciously choosing the natural path to optimum health and wellbeing.
http://www.holisticcancercongress.com
Controversial figure Ken Ring is the only long range weather forecaster in the country. He has been predicting weather for over 15 years and in this interview he explains the differences between his system of prediction, using lunar orbits, seasonal cycles and by examining historical weather trends, as opposed to conventional weather forecasting via observation from satellites.
"No guarantee of 100% accuracy is claimed. Sciences that depend on nature's patterns are never exact despite best intentions," Ken says. He predicted this summer would be drier than normal for most of the country.
He highlights the politics of why it suits weather forecasters to get it wrong! Indigenous peoples and farmers have been aware of the moons influence on weather for years, but its influence is ignored in mainstream forecasting.
Ken challenges the generally accepted reasons for climate change and says the system is too big and powerful to be greatly affected by human activity. He also tells the story of the politics behind global warming science.
By observing and studying the earth, the sun, and the moon Ken has developed a system of earthquake prediction where it is possible to tell an approximate date when the moons pull on the earth is likely to create quakes. He explains the earth’s tide. Whenever the sun and moon are in line with Earth, such as during a full moon or a new moon, the tidal effects, are greater. It is during these times that Earth experiences most of its earthquakes.
A former maths teacher, he is the author of over 30 books on weather and climate in New Zealand, Australia and UK, including his New Zealand Weather almanacs produced every year since 1999. He also runs the Predict Weather website and consults to a wide range of local bodies, event organisers and corporates in three countries.
For the past five years Ken has been long-range consultant for Channel Seven, Australia's largest TV network, appearing monthly on their prime-time show, Today Tonight, and they have just renewed his contract. Whether you agree with Ken or not, you are likely to find this interview full of interesting perspectives.
His website is www.predictweather.co.nz
Most places in New Zealand have fluoride in the water, but is it dumbing down the population and making people ill? Fluoride expert Dr Paul Connett, professor Emeritus in Chemistry from St Lawrence University New York USA, says “Yes”.
For years health experts have been unable to agree on whether fluoride in the drinking water may be toxic to the developing human brain. Extremely high levels of fluoride are known to cause neurotoxicity in adults, and negative impacts on memory and learning have been reported in rodent studies, but little is known about the substance’s impact on children’s neurodevelopment.
In a meta-analysis, researchers from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and China Medical University in Shenyang for the first time combined 27 studies and found strong indications that fluoride may adversely affect cognitive development in children. Based on the findings, the authors say that this risk should not be ignored, and that more research on fluoride’s impact on the developing brain is warranted.
Dr Connett questions the appropriateness of considering a miniscule amount of improvement in tooth surface above the importance of the brain.
When the fluoridation of water began, there was little evidence for its long term safety (as for GMOs) and since then little attempt has been made to monitor its health effects systematically. Because there are so many unanswered health questions, fluoridation of water must be considered an ongoing experimental procedure, and as such it is a violation of the Nuremberg Code, which forbids experimentation on humans without their informed consent.
In Europe, nearly all countries have never fluoridated their water or have ceased doing so. Yet the incidence of tooth decay has declined just as much as in those countries that practice fluoridation. This fascinating interview with Dr Paul Connett, will raise alarm bells about many aspects of the mass medication of the population by fluoride and he challenges us to do something about it.
Details of Dr Connett’s New Zealand Tour can be found here - http://www.fannz.org.nz/paulconnett.php
Check out this previous GreenPlanetFM interview on Fluoride with Mary Byrne and Mark Atkin of Fluoride Action Network.
This GreenPlanetFM programme is sponsored by The Awareness Party.
www.theawarenessparty.com
The Earth talking to Humanity via Sten Linnander
Sten's quest in life is to understand how we can reconnect with the living world around us and take our rightful place as conscious participants in its evolution.
Prior to the year 2000, Sten kept receiving messages that he refused to believe, and it took him over a decade to come to terms with the information that he wrote down, and now has published it.
The challenge of not wanting to believe that the Earth (she) was actually talking, or whispering to him, caused him to question why he picked up these messages 'inside himself.'
That the earths atmosphere can also be perceived as an aura and just as radio and TV waves can pass through the atmosphere from station to receiver, so can 'sensitive' people pick up information too.
Most Indigenous peoples globally acknowledge animism and inherently know that rocks store information, as in crystals.
That we too can program crystals ourselves when we understand certain principles that shaman and medicine healers know of AND that the earth embodies information stored in rock as well as crystals and 'wants to convey' far more information to humanity …
Sten states that in stilling ourselves and letting go into a deeper quieter countenance and listening to the Earth, the more autonomous we become, that in fact we do not lose our individuality - on the contrary we connect with a greater possibility and being …
The Earth's message to us is to walk the earth as if every step we are kissing the earth - in a sensitivity of being - we walk the earth the same way as we ride a horse. We do not ride on a horse we ride a horse and 'become one with the horse' - same for when we walk the earth not walk on the earth. Many indigenous people understand this fully.
Listen to Sten, talking of this epic tale of love making and earth intimacy…, like only a Swede can.
The Earth states 'it is a sexual being …'
The love affair between the Sun and Earth gave rise to life on this planet …
Taking time to immerse ourself in nature, by rivers, lakes, oceans, mountain top etc, just to get away from our everyday world and … listen and let go … and we start pulsating in resonance with the earth.
The Earth interacts with our dreams - and our need to be 'conscious' prior to going to sleep.
However the Earth says the greatest impediment for communication is that we humans do not believe that the Earth is alive.
When I asked him about a statement in his book that was headed, humans beings and the earth as having a joint goal; allowing and combining Freedom and Intimacy, 'listen' to an elegant answer to this question.
Intimacy = In-to-me-I-see
Another statement in the book is called; RECAPITULATING THE PAST - he talks to this too.
And finally at the end of the interview Sten mentions that the Earth has a plan for humanity to build a device in which the Earth can speak to us, in our language and in images …and ultimately in voice …
And that 'time itself' is changing and we are just starting to perceive that this is happening.
I Am With You. The Earth Wants to Talk With Us
www.stenlinnander.com
Celebrating Voices of the Sacred Earth; Feb 8,9 & 10th of Feb 2013
Kawai Purapura - Mills Lane, Oteha Valley Rd, Albany on the North Shore
With Jenny Cottingham, Dyana Wells, Te Ngako Ngaropo & Dr Jyoshna La Trobe
'Sacred Earth Festival' & Symposium & Gathering of All Beings
KIA ORA: You are invited to celebrate the sacred in a festive setting of community and sharing of gifts, knowledge, spontaneity and song within a context of expansive enjoyment and kinship.
We ask that you commit to something DIFFERENT this weekend and involve yourself by either observing, listening, or participating in open, light hearted discussion and join in an event that brings forth a collective of NZ's top story tellers; of Maori, metaphysical ecologists, healers, artists and indigenous ideals of how as one seamless organism we can anchor a vision of a bio harmonic lifestyle and community.
With a holistic understanding that integrates scientific principles people are awakening to the need to creatively build community into a dynamic field of possibility. And that 'cultural creative's' need to be communing together. By showing up at this event, this in-breath of connectivity will carry you deeper into your heart and the fabric of your being and, of all being.
http://voices2013.kawaipurapura.co.nz/wordpress/
Attending, speaking & workshops:
Presenters & Wisdom Keepers
Barry Brailsford MBE: Author and Storyteller
Barry, the vehicle for 'The Song of Waitaha', has spent much of his life researching, learning and sharing the history and ancient lore of the Maori and Polynesian people. He is an elder story teller of ancient times.
Makuini Ruth Tai: Aroha Ambassador For Peace and Kaitiaki Pa Manawa.
Makuini sees herself as an Aroha Light Language Scholar and linguist as well as an Aroha Ambassador for Peace and Goodwill. Being a bridger in languaging ancient lore - towards a more expansive understanding
Dr Richard Nunns QSM: Taonga Puoro (Maori Musical Instruments)
Dr Richard Nunns QSM is a living authority on Nga Taonga Puoro (Maori traditional musical instruments). He has been described as one of New Zealand’s most remarkable musicians.
Michael O’Donnell: Artist, Environmentalist, Storyteller Catalyst
Michael of Tarariki Pottery Paeroa is an artist, environmentalist, storyteller and catalyst. In his own unique way he has learned to walk the path of the old peoples of New Zealand and Ireland.
Franchelle Ofsoské-Wyber: Matakite (Medicine Woman)
Franchelle is a New Zealander of Russian and Native American Cherokee descent, born with highly developed clairvoyant and healing gifts and comes from a lineage of medicine men and women.
Atarangi Muru: Maori ‘Hands On’ Healer, Lecturer
Atarangi is a Maori Healer and is affiliated to the Ngati Kuri, Te Aupouri and Te Rarawa tribes. She was raised in the small, remote, coastal community of Ahipara Northland.
Gary Cook: Researcher, Author, Temple Knight
Gary is a leading writer on the special nature of the mystic realms that are to be found in New Zealand and the South Pacific and leader of The Secret Land project. Showing his new video Friday Night called 'Voices of the Forest.'
Te Ngakooterangi
He will share knowledge around ” Revitalising the authentic spiritual power of the Tōhunga Ahurewa (Traditional Māori Spiritual Practitioners) in a modern world” (Masters thesis) – and “A new perspective towards reconstructing the traditional “Whare Wānanga” (Māori Spiritual Wisdom Schools) in a contemporary context” which is his PhD topic.
Ojasvin and Iris Davis: Grandmother’s Healing Haka
Ojasvin Kingi Davis is Maori from the people of Ngaitupoto, Ngatihine, Ngapuhi of Aotearoa, New Zealand. His bloodline and family traditions reaches back to the stream of Waitaha and Waiomu.
Antion: Guitarist, Sikh, Sacred Sound Celebration
Antion: 60’s world-class guitarist of rock star fame, he was the first Kundalini Yoga teacher in UK and Europe in 1970, the first non-Indian to sing sacred Kirtan in India’s Golden Temple, and the first non-Hawaiian to be honored as a master of chant.
Elandra Kirsten Meredith: “Hawaian Chanting For Healing”
Elandra LMT, BA: is a Yoga teacher of 40 years, a 16-year director of a West Coast Yoga Center, author of five Yoga Manuals, midwife, and international founder/director teacher-trainer of her own healing work, Lomi Chi Holographic Healing.
Dr Jyoshna La Trobe: Composer, Ethnographer, Workshop Leader
Jyoshna is a composer, ethnomusicologist and international workshop leader who has authored over 25 albums of original and ethnographic albums. Jyoshna’s speciality is devotional music of India, and completed her PhD on “Kīrtan and Ecstatic performance in Bengal, India”, becoming the first westerner to gain a doctorate in Rarhi Bangla Kirtan.
Plus: Tania Batt, Lyn Kriegler, Jimi Dale, Georgia Wood, Shakti Band, Gus Simonovic, Brant Secunda, DJ Anirvan, Gamelan Padhang Moncar, Bhadrasena, Margaret-Mary Hollins, Daring Donna, Elisabeth von Madarasz, Nicky Hammond, Kereru, Kerry Strongman, Bill Watson and Michael Fleck plus many, many other musicians.
These are just some of the speakers, presenters, healers and artists that will be present from the 8th, 9th and 10th of February 2013.
Kawai Purapura - Mills Lane, Oteha Valley Rd, Albany on the North Shore
www.kawaipurapura.co.nz
Ph 09 415 9468
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Discussing his perceptions of our great sustainer our planet, the biosphere and a deeper look at sentience as well as animism, including new information that all minerals on earth are evolving and that essentially everything in existence is evolving.
Progressing the possible transition of our earth society awakening and embracing a broader awareness both on the inner and outer planes and actually shifting to become a high energy, synergistic, co-operative and co-creative society.
Called the Noosphere, Greek for 'MindSphere' that Teilhard de Chardin the visionary Jesuit, evolutionist envisioned, that humanity upon awakening to higher aspirations and virtues, 'consciously' break free from the inextricable economic, ecological and societal malaise that we face on earth today and enter a new realm of being.
As climate change becomes more obvious we humans have entered majorly into the equation and in 2,500 years have gone from 250 million people, to 7 billion plus.
Our economic juggernaut has now cut down huge swaths of forests, drained wetlands and swamps, sprayed chemicals over the land, (that end up in the ocean) then put tarmac, concrete and roofs over Gaia's breathing earth, built 900 million cars, 300 million plus motor bikes & scooters, a 100 million trucks and busses, multi thousands of airplanes and with the intensifying military and their wasteful vehicles that ...
Gaia's embedded natural systems of atmosphere, oceans, land-mass and forests, can't react in time to bring balance, and 'she' in this extremely short period of time is being totally overwhelmed!
Hence climate change exacerbated by frequency and weather modification, plus military experiments as well ... is making it too tough for her to bring her house and biological systems into dynamic order.
Having a fever, she oscillates from extreme hot to extreme cold endeavoring to bring about balance, and in a fever she becomes hot and dry, then instantly sweats and she floods. Then shivering cold spells to hot drought like periods again ... and again… Winds could be anything from burping to possibly flatulence. Boils and pimples akin to volcanic activity. In a fever of this magnitude - that we know of no outcome - all manner of strange phenomena happens and IT IS HAPPENING NOW!
Listen to a softer side of Tim as he shares his love for the natural world, of 'connection' and how we urgently need to face ourselves if we as an earth community are to 'come together' as a global family within the context of unity consciousness.
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Arden Anderson, Ph.D. D.O. holds a Bachelor’s degree in agricultural education, a Ph.D in biophysics and a D.O. in medicine. He currently works in general preventative and nutritional medicine, while still consulting for some of the largest and most progressive farming operations in the world relating to biological agriculture.
His keywords are: holistic farming, sustainability, healthy bacteria in the human gut and in the soil of the earth. Plus the correlation between personal human health and planetary health.
He has visited NZ numerous times and has a growing following within the farming and horticultural sector here.
When young his father let his cows out of the barn to graze the pasture, so as to eat herbs and what we would term weeds and as a result they became more healthy and produced a healthier milk.
That any health or animal disease has to be correlated to soil science and the quality of the make up of the soil, its balance and the microorganisms and the nutrition in that soil.
He studied under Dr Phil Callahan the author of 'Tuning into Nature' that showed that insects only attach sick plants, which was blasphemy to the chemical industry as that conflicted with their addiction to selling chemicals.
Arden Andersen, said he went to university to understand soil, its nutritional value, balance, then to animals and health, finally to humans and our health. Which he calls biological and holistic medicine and that everything is connected within the web of life.
We learn that manufactured urea and ammonia nitrate does produce at first, fantastic results when it comes to growing grass BUT, the actual dissolved solids and the tangible feed value goes down. You gain on the swings but lose on the round-abouts.
Some salient points from this interview:
Calcium is the foundation for a healthy pasture and the biology in that pasture and environment as well.
Fontera is NZ's largest buyer of micronized calcium carbonate, and they are adding this to the milk as our NZ cow herds are not obtaining it from the feedstock they eat. It is a deficiency in the soil.
In the USA cows live to only 18 months old - and then 'burnt out' sent off to the abattoir, where once they lived for up to 12 years of milking and giving birth to calves.
He emphasizes that we must look at our human gut microflora, if we use anti biotics we will kill off all the good guys, so it is with what we do on the farm with our soil. Heavy fertilizer usage is unbalancing the land - all the way to the cow manure, that does not break down fast, due in many cases, to the use of antibiotics!
Listen to how organic dairy farms in the USA survive without chemicals and antibiotics and are one of the fastest growing areas in the milk industry in America. Organic Valley Coophttp://www.organicvalley.coop/about-us/overview/our-history/
That in America there is now between 4% and 6% of all milk being organic.
It is important for people working with the land producing crops and grass to take brix readings. These tell you quickly how healthy your plants are.
Also, Arden is very up to date with GE and GMO's. He categorically states that GE is not needed, and that to have GE crops to save the world from starvation is an absolute lie.
Non GE crops resists droughts in the USA far better as in the huge drought of last year when GE crops failed for need of far more water to grow. Also, yields of GE crops are nowhere near as good.
http://organicconnectmag.com/wp/arden-andersen-phd-do-the-root-of-good-nutrition
Why has Graeme Sait not been recognised by the Nobel Committee in both Sweden and Norway? His knowingness could revolutionise farming globally and reclaim back our biosphere.
The Philosophy of Farming and Our Intimate Relationships with the Land and Biota. One day we will realise that our life has to embrace the 'Ecology of Commerce' and this will be one of the greatest break throughs in consciousness.
Can one man make a difference? Is it possible that one persons knowledge and enthusiasm can produce a counter tipping point to farming and land management into a new upcycle, where in a few short years, soil across our whole country can be revitalized, rivers, lakes and aquifers cleaned up, less live stock, (cows) needed but enabling far higher productivity? More Co2 from the atmosphere being sequested by the microflora, the mega trillions of bacteria and fungi that live and comprise the soil? Resulting in more sustainability across the ecosphere?
Why? Because science is belatedly realising that the answer is found in the soil - healthy soil.
Correlate this with the gut flora that we have in our colon and intestines, where 100,000,000,000,000 (100 trillion) microorganisms breakdown the food we ingest.
We’ve only recently begun to understand the extent of the gut flora’s role in human health and disease. Among other things, the gut flora promotes normal gastrointestinal function, provides protection from infection, regulates metabolism and comprises more than 75% of our immune system.
Dysregulated gut flora has been linked to diseases ranging from autism and depression to autoimmune conditions like Hashimoto’s, inflammatory bowel disease and type 1 diabetes.
When we tie these two relationships of the microorganisms of the soil of our planet and the our gut microflora in our intestines, we note that both are becoming more acidic as a result of the 'input's we use. We are using too many chemicals and other ingredients, thus both are becoming infected with declining health.
When we treat the land and our body temple with the respect and reverence they are due, gigantic changes can happen that benefits the whole, and that change can happen fast!
Yes, there is another game changer coming through, at a grass root level and its called biological farming, which is bringing a holistic perspective of balance, to how we relate to all aspects of bringing forth the earths bounty. Resulting in healthier more vibrant pastures, vegetables and fruit, which in turn when eaten as food, a far more healthier body, be it an animal or human - results.
This is based on recognizing all the biota above and below the soil and its dynamic balance and how all the many cycles of nature interrelate. That being a holistic perspective of the web of life.
Listen to a revolutionary land management system that is being taken seriously by thousands of South African farmers, Woolworths throughout South Africa and Dole Corporation in the USA. With the uptake of millions of acres in Australia and now more NZ farmers awakening to its profitability and potential in this country, this method opens the door to a more organic world view.
Including new ways for humans to eat and drink locally grown sustenance that can help us lose weight, become more vital, add years to our life and grow young again.
Graeme Sait ex New Zealander, Australia's Key Note Speaker on Holistic Health, soil, animal and human nutrition.
http://www.nutri-tech.com.au
GreenplanetFM listeners this week have a rare opportunity to get their heads around carbon trading. Is it just a bullshit scheme carefully designed by left and right western governments to get corporate polluters off the hook? Or ought we to give the market approach a fair go? Or have we waited too many years already waiting for carbon trading to improve the climate??
Dennis Frank interviews someone with a career history as both a carbon trader and analyst doing carbon accounting of biomass processing systems in many countries. Ruy Korscha Anaya de la Rosa has been one of the people performing the measurements and calculations of carbon emissions in a variety of environmental contexts.
Ruy has worked as project manager of a number of greenhouse gas emission reduction projects in developing countries. He graduated MSc in Sustainable Energy Technology from a university in the Netherlands. He's currently a PhD candidate at Massey University in Wellington, researching the global-warming mitigation potential of biochar systems and the implications of biochar in carbon markets. He has lived in this country 3.5 years.
Carbon markets include both carbon-offsetting and cap-and-trade. The Kyoto Protocol produced a carbon-trading system based on carbon-equivalence polluting rights, rather than the original pollution-fines system agreed by the G77. The change was made to secure the agreement of the USA. Ruy says carbon-offsetting is vulnerable to fraud & speculation. Cap-and-trade was designed to permit business as usual under the guise of greening industry.
We must differentiate global-warming from climate-change. Climate-change is natural and it occurs gradually all the time. Currently however, it is being forced by global-warming that is the result of greenhouse gases being pumped into the atmosphere – primarily by polluting industries.
The inherent resilience of Gaia as a biosphere in dynamic equilibrium is consequently endangered. The inexorable trend of global-warming is driving the planetary system towards tipping points which we are now likely to encounter within our life-time. The global climate will then tip away from the stable state that has existed since the last ice age ended about 12,000 years ago, bringing an end to agriculture that we rely on to feed us.
Ruy says the Kyoto Protocol Clean Development Mechanism website provides different methods to account for carbon emissions (presumably depending on technology & environmental situation), that provide the operational instructions for carbon accountants. But most of the CDM methodologies were designed to just measure combustion, so he has progressed to the LCA framework.
LCA stands for life cycle assessment, which is the technical methodology used to evaluate environmental impacts of products (goods and services) along their whole supply chain, from "cradle to grave". Thus it is a more holistic perspective, Ruy says. What's more, it is the true cost accounting that the greens have been advocating since the 1980s.
His career path as a professional insider has made this accomplished young man wise for his years, and he tells us of serious concerns he now has about the way things are going. He says his field is still too young to have experts. It lacks transparency and paper standards are not being put into practice.
To those of us familiar with United Nations chronic bureaucratic dysfunction, this is no surprise. He has also arrived at our long-standing view that addiction to economic growth is the real source of the greenhouse gas problem.
He comments on James Hansen's alternative solution to that problem: fee & dividend, which is similar to what Al Gore has proposed. He identifies a flaw in Hansen's design. Dennis & Ruy discuss Hansen's critique of cap-and-trade. The floor of that market seems to be designed to ensure perpetual pumping of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere at the amount fixed to equal current production when the Kyoto Protocol was adopted.
Ruy tells us that reading Hansen's book influenced his thinking, as did his climate change concerns for his 3 year old daughter.
Ruy is part of Transition Towns Wellington & the Wellington Time Bank, 350 Aotearoa and Generation Zero.
Lynda Wharton, Acupuncturist and Naturopath, talks on holistic health with a special focus on women’s health (that guys need to hear too!!) interviewed by Lisa Er.
Without our health, life is not as exciting and fun as it is when we are healthy and active.
How many people have health challenges and what are the reasons behind these challenges? Are we eating well, or are we subjected to pesticides and chemicals, and genetically engineered ingredients in processed food; or are our immune systems hammered by the cumulative effects of life as we live it?
Often the choices we have to make in healing ourselves concern lifestyle and diet. First however there is the choice as to whether to visit complimentary therapists or allopathic doctors and practitioners.
It appears at times as if there is all out war between the two systems. Many allopathic doctors and their supporters are quick to label both old traditional cures and new treatments as quackery, especially if they are not ‘peer reviewed’.
Supporters of holistic health might accuse western medicine of only treating one part of the body, and not the body and mind as a whole. Opinion is that many pharmaceutical medicines have side effects that are more harmful than the disease itself and are designed to make money for the pharmaceutical corporations, suppressing dis-ease rather than curing it. One in four New Zealanders have visited a complimentary practitioner at some time, however.
Dr Bruce Lipton, author of The Biology of Belief (and GreenplanetFM supporter) writes about how what we think and our underlying beliefs have a significant role in our health. He says “Stunning new scientific discoveries about the biochemical effects of the brain’s functioning show that all cells of your body are affected by your thoughts”. This gives a seriously new meaning to the phrase think positive, and creates a scientific link between holistic and allopathic treatments.
Looking at the cause of a dis-ease, and finding the right solution for each individual person may be time consuming and can even cost more than we want to pay, but without looking at the cause how can we be sure to have overcome the illness that we may have inadvertently created for ourselves. And isn’t life so precious that it is worth all we have to be both physically well and emotionally happy?
Lynda Wharton explains that her aim is to uncover the cause of disease, and through education, lifestyle modification and non-invasive natural therapies, remove any obstacles to cure. Through harnessing the body's innate self-healing potential, to restore optimum health and vitality, she has had much success. She talks of the commonalities that she sees in the clinic and of the informative book that she has written: “Wellbeing - An essential guide to vibrant good health for women".
Many of Lynda’s patients are women and she speaks of the Super Woman Syndrome that is prevalent in western society. She describes the lifestyle, talks of the results of this, and suggests some preventatives.
Lynda also is very informative about breast cancer, and as one in 7 women in New Zealand experience some sort of breast cancer, this is an important interview to hear.
Lynda’s web site is http://www.lyndawharton.com
Dr Mike Joy, NZ 100% Pure! The challenges of truth telling in a commercially driven world.
Note: Since the Key National Government came to power, the word 'sustainable' has been deleted from governmental and departmental vocabulary.
Meanwhile ...
New Zealand is currently running at 162nd in our environmental performance out of 180 countries globally.
It is extremely difficult to access data on water quality in this country as it is 'locked away' from public scrutiny, even the Ministry for the Environment does not write it up for public consumption.
Researchers have to spend hours and days searching out any little snippet of information that is buried in Regional Council reports, because these reports too, are filed away from community analysis.
The reason for this impediment is because there is no Agency in this country that deals with such basic and important factual statistics and information and if this accumulated data was in the public domain, the Ministers involved would look so bad that the charade of 'Clean Green NZ' would be coherently shredded.
Yet, the latest statistics that are available for public information still go back to a 2004 report. Even though the 300 areas that are tested and sampled 'to this day' remain hidden from public view, and can not be accessed by scientists like Dr Mike Joy.
This vital information is being 'censored by omission' and the Ministry for the Environment and the 16 District Councils, only issue 'feel good' information on the better sites, (the upper high country where there is no population or industry) never the true story in the low land areas of farming, industry and population density. In essence, making a silk purse from a sows ear!
New Zealand has pristine highland lakes and rivers, which the tourist brochures revel in, but it is the low land lakes and rivers that are horrendously degraded in this country.
And it has been only in the last 20 years with the intensification of dairy herds that our water has really lost its purity. This due to the addition of far too many cows, as the population continues to increase.
11 humans are equal to one cow in their capacity to ingest and excrete. A conservative estimate is equal to 66 million people inhabiting NZ, the same population as the UK.
With the intensity of increasing cow numbers huge amounts of urine ends up in paddocks and in the process is changing the soil chemistry and seeping down into the water and into the greater catchment area, and this is not being factored into the pollution equation.
Adding to this, commercially manufactured urea is being spread on the land from urea plants as well as the use of more phosphorous to speed up plant growth, however a by-product of super phosphate is cadmium. NZ is now dangerously close to toxifying its soils, plant life and live stock with excess cadmium that ends up stored in the kidneys and liver of live stock, that if the animals are over 18 months of age - it is illegal to sell kidneys and liver for eating. (This is news to me!)
NOTE: New Zealand children are already exceeding the European levels of cadmium from our food chain
Scientists here in NZ like their counterparts worldwide are reluctant or prohibited from speaking out on environment or health concerns, for fear of losing their funding, or losing their job. They are under the hammer to keep their mouth firmly shut! Such is the power of the commercial imperative!
Treasury, which is the tail that wags the dog in this country is bloated with economists and Mike posits the idea that if we could have another department alongside it full of ecologists, we would strike a dynamic balance.
Mike says that what is happening in nature is that the fauna are now acting as the canary in the coal mine.
The tiny white bait (inanga) in our streams are being seen as the indicators of the health of our water ways and they are all being threatened, 4 out of 5 are now on the endangered list, same for fresh water crayfish and our eels, and the eel story Mike tells is near on bizzare in the extreme.
KPMG, one of the largest professional services companies on our planet, states in a new report that New Zealand has 5 years to clean up our clean green image, or we will lose it!
Dr Mike Joy: The true story of New Zealand's ecological status.
http://pundit.co.nz/content/mike-joy-answers-the-pm-with-hard-facts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bukH5h_pZRA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=RBL7oQhDB-k
To initiate positive community change a number of people have come together as part of a larger cell or organism, to language the possibility of how individuals acting in accord as a small group can consciously reach agreement so as to shape our unfolding future here in our suburbs in Auckland and as New Zealanders.
How do we as community find innovative ways that influences and enhances our daily lives for the common good, through insight, dialogue, strategies and novelty?
How can they encourage others that they most definitely as a group of individuals can make a difference to the way we live, because it is becoming increasingly evident that we can not depend on our national government to lead.
Nor the nations media, be it radio, TV or newsprint. The internet is our only savior at present. Lets keep it that way.
As you at a deeper level already know, we are intuitively aware of the challenges coming to meet us … from both a local and global context and they are increasingly impinging on our daily life as we endeavor to sustain ourselves and family through obtaining work and jobs, schooling and healthy bodies and the pressure for many is becoming greater as we also collectively put our environment under greater pressure … whilst the words of the great American Indian … Chief Seattle, who so astutely stated 200 years ago ring even louder today that … - 'what ever happens to the web of life, also happens to us.'
And Albert Einstein, whose insights into the human condition are scattered throughout the length of the 20th century so aptly said, 'that we can not solve a problem with the same consciousness that caused it in the first place.'
The imperative is we have to become more conscious …
This is what individually we can do, find like minded people and form a little nucleus that can connect with other nucleus's and start to claim your area sovereignty back. e.g stopping chemical road side spraying, No GE in NZ, a just two issues.
Its interesting 2400 years ago the Greek philosopher Plato mentioned that the downside of not involving yourself in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
No wonder he is still famous - he can read the future too!
Have you ever written a submission? For we urgently need submissions to be forwarded to government, and as the GE debate has come back into prominence, NZ could be on the threshold of giving away its Clean Green image to a corporate scam to make NZ a genetically engineered experiment. This is coming from the Monsanto's of the world and that a few scientists here in NZ are pushing it and are refusing to follow the precautionary principle. This is not the NZ we want for our children!
NOTE, our NZ weather forecasters, the scientists behind our weather consistently get their forecasting wrong, can we afford to have just one mistake with GE, not like the weekly misleading forecasts from our high tech weather office gives out?
So take some time to listen to this group of people articulate what they are doing to awaken the community to the opportunities and challenges and ... that we most definitely can make a difference.
By advising our elected servants in Wellington of your needs it will assist in keeping the integrity of NZ's sovereignty in this fast changing world. For as the people in America are finding out, they are continuously losing their freedoms and as Steven Spielberg despairingly said on TV some years ago, 'Americans are losing their freedoms and are voluntarily giving them away' and so are we, and we are doing it by leaving it to someone else to do the hard work, to take care of all children's future and very few are showing up and making the effort.
Yes we have to become more conscious and thus more proactive if we want the truly clean green freedom loving country that is our home.
Dennis Frank interviews Kiwi biochar advocates Graham Smith (an Aucklander) and Trevor Richards (who lives in Kuala Lumpur).
Biochar is a carbon-negative soil improvement technology that takes at least 25% of organic carbon out of the cycle and converts it into solid mineral carbon that remains stable in soil for thousands of years.
It increases soil fertility and raises agricultural productivity, reducing the need for synthetic fertilizers. It slows evaporation by helping soil retain moisture, which reduces nutrient-leaching and the need for irrigation.
Decomposing biomass adds large amounts of methane and carbon dioxide to the atmosphere and so does traditional wood-burning and composting. Burying biochar instead reduces the flow of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
Sequestering carbon in the ground is now a sensible way to mitigate global warming, according to prominent scientists such as James Hansen, head of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, and James Lovelock, creator of the Gaia hypothesis.
Biochar acts like a coral reef for microbes and fungi that are beneficial to soil and plants, enhancing root growth.
Just as coral reefs are the richest ecosystems in the ocean for biodiversity, so biochar in the soil likewise provides a base on which soil biodiversity develops, creating a more resilient ecosystem. Building soil biodiversity restores degraded soils & improves soil structure, reducing the need for pesticides by producing healthier plants.
Charcoal is a high-carbon, fine-grained residue produced by pyrolysis of biomass. If you heat almost any biological material to a certain temperature, and restrict or exclude oxygen, pyrolysis occurs instead of normal combustion.
Pyrolysis is the direct thermal decomposition of biomass in the absence of oxygen to obtain an array of solid (biochar), liquid (bio-oil) and gas (syngas) products. The specific yield depends on the design of the process - it can be optimised to prioritise either energy or biochar yield.
The gas can be used similarly to other fuels, to generate electricity, either by backyard mechanics or by sustainable energy entrepreneurs. The United Nations Global Clean Stove Initiative is providing 100 million clean biomass cook-stoves for the developing world.
Green technologies that convert waste to energy often produce biochar as a byproduct, and most processes that produce it use efficient renewable energy sources. Industry and communities can apply them to sustainably exploit waste biomass resources.
In Auckland Graham hopes to help set up a process using the proposed curbside collection of foodscraps as compost in combination with pyrolised greenwaste. Construction and demolition timber can be diverted from landfills, sawdust from sawmills and the output from chippers & shredders can be used.
Biochar further advances the green cause when used as a filter: not only to purify water but also to absorb nutrient run-off from farms, and to clean and regenerate rivers and lakes.
Current forestry uses tree trunks only, leaving the branches and leaves to rot & re-enter the atmosphere as greenhouse gases - so it makes sense to turn that into biochar instead.
Just consider the difference for reforestation of the Amazon: slash and burn leaves only 3% of the carbon from the organic material in the soil, whereas slash and char can sequester up to 50% of the carbon in a highly stable form! That's from biochar's Wikipedia page.
Dr. Tim Flannery is Professor of Environmental Sustainability at Macquarie University in Sydney, chairman of the Copenhagen Climate Council, and head of the Climate Commission in Australia. His 1994 book “The Future Eaters” is an ecological history of Australasia, and his 2005 book about global warming “The Weather Makers” made the New York Times best-seller list.
In his Amazon review of "The Biochar Revolution", he points out that biochar-making techniques are readily accessible to everyone - all of us, in our own gardens and communities, can contribute and make a genuine difference now without having to wait for our governments and institutions.
If enough people do so, the collective effort will generate sustainable benefits for everyone. He reckons that biochar may now be the most important initiative for the future of humanity!
Graham and Trevor are part of a group currently facilitating the formation of the "NZ Biochar Interest Group", which will be affiliated to the International Biochar Initiative.
http://www.biochar-international.org
If you are interested in finding out more, please contact: biocharnz [at] gmail.com
Maire Leadbeater has been at the forefront of political and social activism in New Zealand for much of her life. Such dedication is rare. Daughter of activist and writer Elsie Locke, and sister to retired Green MP Keith Locke, it is not surprising that Maire has been both encouraging of them, and inspirational herself.
As a peace and human rights activist, and a former social worker, Maire was also the media spokesperson for the campaign for nuclear disarmament on the 1980s and early 1990s.
She tells us of the blossoming nuclear free movement of that time, and how the flotilla of boats went out to obstruct nuclear war ships as they came into port, and how a small scale protest became a popular movement.
It is inspiring that New Zealand, the mouse that roared, found the political will to stand up to world powers and say NO to foreign nuclear war ships and to nuclear weapons. We do not appear to have had such courage since.
East Timor, for example is a country that New Zealand let down by turning a blind eye to the atrocities that occurred there, that were perpetrated by the Indonesian government after its invasion of the country in 1975. These atrocities continued until 1999.
Thirty seven years ago five journalists, the Balibo five, were killed while reporting there. Gary Cunningham, a New Zealander, was one of those five and yet our government never requested an investigation of his murder.
Maire is author of ‘Negligent Neighbour’- a book on the plight of East Timor following the Indonesian annexation in 1975, which was published in 2007.
Continuing to be active in the Auckland East Timor Independence Committee until 2000 Maire now represents The Indonesia Human Rights Committee as spokesperson. Their web site is www.indonesiahumanrights.org.nz
Another of our neighbours that the New Zealand Government has failed is West Papua.
West Papua is striving for self determination and is under the Indonesian Government’s rule. Maire has written many articles on West Papua and the New Zealand government’s foreign policy.
It is disappointing to find that in 2009 New Zealand’s Super fund invested around $8m in the Freeport McMoran mining company there, which has the world’s biggest gold mine and the third largest copper mine in the world. The profits do not trickle down to the West Papuan people however. Instead the indigenous people are displaced and the environment is being seriously polluted.
New Zealand has been a political leader, influencing the world on the subject of nuclear war, and yet sadly it has descended into following the big boys and ignoring the plight and struggles of our poorer neighbours.
Maire’s current favourite song is performed here by West Papuan George Telek Freedom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=qhJWwwPDaZc
Maire Leadbeater, shows that working for change can make a difference, as she joins others in raising awareness of human rights abuses and injustices, and is vigilant in following them through to their conclusion, as in the Nuclear free movement and East Timor.
Listen and be inspired by her dedication.
A New Zealander now domiciled in Qld Australia and founder of Nutri-Tech Solutions is an internationally acclaimed author and educator with a most compelling solution!
There's a grass roots revolution taking place as we read and its emergent principles are so profound that it is ushering in sweeping, positive changes to land use, farming and gardening practices to our beleaguered planet, Mother Earth.
This most refreshing and insightful interview covers minerals, soil bacteria, fungi to plant health, that extends to vegetation, animal and ultimately to human health. Not quite organic, it however, leads us back into the organic world.
His inspirational vision for agriculture and human health has been documented in over 300 published articles and he is currently completing three new books, covering this vast subject. A much sought after, entertaining and informative speaker, Graeme has inspired audiences all over the world.
Global warming emissions and acidification of the oceans can be mitigated by conscious use of soil bacteria, soil carbon and humous and if we use appropriate knowhow found in biological agriculture … astounding possibilities not mentioned in mainstream media will give the youth (and all people of our planet) a much needed boost in morale and optimism.
In South Africa, the uptake of biological agriculture is expanding at near exponential rates as farmers witness the viability and in particular the yields from healthy soil of vital healthy produce. Lead byWoolworths 360 supermarkets nationwide, they only source fresh food from certified Biological farmers and producers.
Listen to the profound biological agricultural changes happening with Dole the world's largest producer and marketer of high-quality fresh fruit on the astounding shifts within this corporation that are happening at this very moment.
And in Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, having saturated the land with chemical and toxic agriculture, and the resulting highest percentage of cancers per head of population anywhere, are just now, changing course into biological agriculture.
Having personally witnessed two of Graeme's presentations, you will come away inspired to far better health practices, plus a greater respect for nature and the depth of knowledge this man has regarding physical health and well being.
Covering the cause of the top diseases such as heart, cancer, diabetics, alzheimers and chronic fatigue, to cod liver oil's superb results, as well as coconut oil, the use (or non use) of cooking oils to mineral up-take, dumping your microwave oven, to no tilling of your home garden to the incredible results of rotation of cows grazing on pasture is the big story of the future … the list goes on.
The holy grail is soil health, based on bacteria, fungi, earthworms in concert with nature and reciprocity is the essence of this biological approach to producing healthy food.
WHY?
Farming over the last 60 years plus, has been based on the mistaken analysis in the 19th century of plant growth and that NPK, nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium were basically perceived as all that plants needed to utilize to grow, when in fact there are 74 mineral compounds that are all part in parcel of whole growth, however Western man has been full-on into unbalancing the soil to where we today have unhealthy soil structure, depleted in the other 71 minerals, less soil bacteria and fungi, resulting in unhealthy plants, animals and now humans, all due to factory farming, extractive agriculture and an increasingly toxic chemical ideology.
Fortunately, this is finally changing.
An inspiring interview regarding our collective future.
Previous GreenplanetFM Interview: Microcosm in the Macrocosm
http://www.nutri-tech.com.au
Graeme presented a full day Biological Farming seminar entitled 'Banking on Biology" in Pukekohe on Tuesday 30th October 2012.
A Human Wellness seminar in Ponsonby, Auckland on the evening of Monday 5th November 2012.
For further information, contact Guy Macindoe who is a representative for Nutri-Tech here in NZ - Guy's Email address is sustainz@pl.net or you can call or text him on (021) 931 832
Graeme also spoke at the Healthy Living Show - Viaduct Events Centre Westhaven Auckland on Friday 2nd November and was a member of a panel discussion on Sunday 4th.
Horse Sense and Conscious Connection with the Energy of Horses.
A short 150 years ago horses were both a means of transport and beasts of burden in all countries on earth though, the era of the machine age was starting to build up to what it is now.
Horses have been the mainstay of support for much of humanity since possibly 4000 BC, and have been mans companion right up until today.
Steadfast and patient these great beasts have other qualities that we in many ways have lost touch with, especially as we leave the rural sector for urban dwelling and city life.
However, there is much to learn from this potent animal as their raw energy helps ground us both in the moment and the recognition that nature still retains many secrets. within the animal kingdom.
Rosemary is a facilitator of many equine programs where horses interface with at risk children and adults as well as a therapeutic medium to help draw people out as well as express care and companionship.
The Zen of Horses -
Humans - Can be perceived as left brained dominant verbal - use of language, logical, reasoning, analytical, has identification, ego, feel separate, and have more a sense of me than we.
Horses - On the other hand can be sensed more as right brained, relational, have present moment awareness, non verbal, intuitive, they have the power to remind us silently of the union with all life around us.
The herd as a single thriving entity - its communal, interconnected and demonstrates unification in action. The mare leads from the front, and the stallion covers the rear, protecting and moving the herd forward. A grand interplay of patriarchal and matriarchal energies.
Every member has a harmonizing purpose through which both the member and the herd thrive. Horses are our greatest teachers for practicing conscious community (herdlife) and being and creating in the now moment.
There is a NZ-HALO™ - New Zealand’s Horse Assisted Learning Organisation covering many areas of interaction with and for people.
There will be a showcase and Charitable Trust set up meeting - 18 October 1pm -5pm. This includes working with at risk, special needs and young offenders.
NLP courses with horses programme 25 - 28 October & 9 - 12 November A unique quality training for personal and organisational leadership and change.
Plus other special events CLINIC - 27 & 28 December
and a Dune Lakes Lodge Easter Festival 29 March - 1 April
www.DuneLakesLodge.co.nz
This week on Green Planet FM we focus on politically correct thinking, and the harm it is doing to the green movement. Dennis Frank interviews one of the pioneers of conservation in Aotearoa.
Dr Robert Mann was a founding committee member of the New Zealand Foundation for Peace Studies, and co-author of the NZ Govt submission to the World Court for the lawsuit against French nuclear testing in the Pacific. He's now retired from his career as university lecturer in biochemistry and environmental studies.
Dr Mann has been a scientific advisor to cabinet ministers in our government, serving for 8 years on the Environmental Council Working Party on Energy, and 11 years on the Toxic Substances Board. As an active conservationist he was a branch chair for Forest & Bird, and was for 12 years a director of the Environmental Defense Society.
He discusses his contributions to the environmental movement with a focus on the political interface with the power structure at the time, and profiles three ideologies that have used the culture of political correctness to leverage sectarian benefits from our common wealth to the disadvantage of everyone else.
We idealists supported the rainbow coalition of the '70s to rectify historical oppression of minorities according to the principle of natural justice. Those who came into power in the '80s & '90s as a result have been covertly attempting to defeat democracy by eliminating free speech. Dr Mann informs us of some of his experiences with these people.
The political left and political right pretend to oppose each other but both destroy nature in order to obtain wealth. That's not the only area of traditional collusion between the left and right. They both also use state power to impose conformity of belief and behaviour upon the populace and quell dissent. They appoint people who think like them to positions of authority, so we get political correctness infecting our institutions.
These people do their best to ensure that alternative views and opinions are suppressed. So wherever you find censorship, you know it emanates from traditional collusion between the left and the right. It's vital that we not allow public service media to be controlled by people acting against the public interest.
Boys are taught to be heroes via fairy tales, myths, legends and history, from an early age. For us teenagers of the '60s the warrior archetype was wrong, so we tried to be peaceful warriors and set out to save the world from war-makers, polluters, exploiters and other evil-doers as heroes are meant to do.
If someone spends their life campaigning for these good green causes, we should reward them for such public service as elders who can pass on their wisdom to the young. Excluding them from public debate is not only morally wrong, it deprives future generations of role models essential to their survival.
Political correctness is a culture poisoning our society. Since it now emanates primarily from liberal socialists, Dennis Frank advises members and supporters of the Green Party to abandon their deviation to the left.
The green movement is neither right nor left, but in front. It's political arm will be more effective if it remains attached to it's body, and starts to demonstrate evident connection to it's brain.
If the Party becomes consistent with the green movement sceptics and swinging voters will be impressed by such emergence of authenticity.
A selection of Dr Mann's writings: http://www.kuratrading.com/HTMLArticles/writings.htm
(particularly the 1989 & 1991 articles on PC)
The top sites on gene-tampering: http://www.psrast.org
(incl. a Mann article)
http://gmwatch.org
Where is Sue Kedgley? What is she doing now after 12 years as a Green MP in parliament? Sue is reinventing herself as a freelance writer, columnist and media trainer and consumer advocate.
Having been in parliament, Sue is in a perfect position to comment on the difficulty for back benchers to promote any significant change in the government. She has also listened to people saying that they feel disgusted by the parliamentary process and are completely turned off by the nastiness and hostility in the debating chamber.
The low voter turn-out in last year’s election is likely to be because many people feel alienated from Parliament and the entire political process.
Parliament is fast becoming irrelevant, and participating in the democratic process doesn’t seem to make any difference these days. Sue says that there needs to be a review of every aspect of the way Parliament works, to see how it could be made more effective and relevant.
Lobbying the government is one way to create change and corporate lobbyists spend a lot of their time getting access to Ministers and government officials so they can push their client’s point of view.
Those who can afford to hire paid lobbyists, have more access and influence to Ministers, and therefore more influence on policy and legislation than Jo Blogs. Where is the transparency in political decision making? There is no public scrutiny!
Is the government really listening to the electorate about genetic engineering, food labeling, the Transpacific Partnership Agreement, and the food bill or do the corporations get the say. Find out Sue’s take on these subjects and more.
http://www.suekedgley.com
Today within the biosphere and the vast web of life, an awakening is taking place as the human species, Gaia’s most recent and gifted offspring is stirring.
With ecological, economic and societal crises exerting increasing pressure on our planet spaceship Earth, how will we as emergent 'conscious-crew' initiate the pressing and urgent changes to bolster and keep the integrity of our Mothership's life support systems intact? Especially in the face of scant support from old paradigm thinking, programing, inertia and unconsciousness!
How will 7 billion inhabitants and a vast majority of disconnected souls survive whilst a malaise settles over a complacent Western world, awash in materialism, distraction and celebrity, whilst under the radar, arming for war?
Though not covered in depth, there an is intelligence embedded in matter and throughout nature, and the inspiring realisation, that every human born on this magnificent planet is an “energy bundle of exponential potential,” leads us to acknowledge that we are in a position of profound opportunity and privilege, to unfold a new heart oriented consciousness from the grass roots and community upward which 'in actuality' we can realise at any moment of our existence.
Tim Lynch originally from Matamata - Hobbiton and of European and Maori ancestry, has studied the Gaia Hypothesis since 1984, and flew as international crew with Air NZ in near earth orbit for 17 years, where he intuitively was able to experience a planetary perspective unique to this age. For whilst flying through Gaia's respiratory system, it also enabled him to visit and study most of the many ancient civilisation sites as well as meet up with leading edge philosophers, thinkers and initiators and stay in many spiritual communities, ashrams and co-operatives.
And … ask the perennial question, how do we mobilize consciousness?
Tim Lynch Host of GreenplanetFM is interviewed on his historical roots, insights, intentions and his reason for communicating, by David Ford.
We are all cells in a greater global body, and how we participate in the larger body depends on what decisions we make - this translates to choice - conscious choice.
Seeing our world for as it is, yet staying clear and empowered to initiate the much needed changes that will bring people together and inspire them to enact positive and elegant solutions that are sustainable and earth friendly.
Keeping informed and aligned with higher purpose and not let the fear of the programming by mainstream media make one iota of difference to our psychological well being is imperative - resulting in inspired action.
At the same time doing our exceptional best with the knowingness we have to be constantly aware that we are living in the middle of a very, profound and extensive mystery.
Rose explains that by being inner directed and motivated to optimal living and opening up to being vulnerable, she has learnt much, whilst at the same time keeping a clear intent on positive community oriented change for others as well as the whole.
Having interviewed 25 people on love in action and seeding 'a whole new world' their stories tell how they have surmounted adversity to build prototypes for a new way of being, doing and living.
Covering local currencies, green dollars, and the complimentary currency system in Golden Bay in the South Island which is affiliated to the Living Economies trading system here in NZ, to building sustainable housing, growing healthy food through to inner work, health and healing and developing ways to bring community together ... and working with group dynamics especially team spirit and team building inspires us to a higher level of well being and happiness!
When we choose to integrate into community it builds up trust with those who belong to it, eventually growing into something like a large extended family where energy and flow and clear intent translate into a very dynamic expression of goodwill in action.
It is also very important to note the possibility of building a complimentary currency system along side the present mainstream monetary system and if this main system hits a hiccup due to global incompetence, we can easily migrate across to the localized community system.
To achieve this cohesiveness, is the importance of deep listening … to really listen and hear what is spoken and said. To make the effort to take in what is being transmitted to us.
This is all leading to the transformation of the self to something far greater, that opens up the metaphysical dimension and a spiritual unfoldment.
IN these changeable times, awakening to our true self in this life time … and being new culture makers and change agents ...
Rose Diamond - An inspiring team player http://www.awholenewworld.net
With Finn Mackesy & Gary Marshall joining Dennis Frank to tell listeners about their role in developing permaculture in Aotearoa.
Permaculture provides us with a spectrum of techniques and methods for improving our quality of life, and they all work by redesigning our habitat and lifestyle so as to minimise energy use and optimise our resilience.
These practical ways of ensuring our survival enable us to move beyond recycling and nature conservancy into a deeper shade of green.
This week Green Planet FM features a three-way interview, with Finn Mackesy and Gary Marshall joining Dennis Frank to tell listeners about their role in developing permaculture in Aotearoa.
Topics start with various definitions of permaculture, and range through the role of design in our lives, Finn & Gary's personal histories in the field, the community and educational services provided by Auckland Permaculture workshop, and their current expansion plan and strategy.
Wikipedia informs us that permaculture integrates ecological design with sustainable systems thinking and traditional practices proven to have ensured the survival of tribes, families and communities for long time periods without ecosystem destruction in their bioregions.
It draws from several disciplines including organic farming, integrated farming, agroforestry, sustainable development, and applied ecology.
The primary agenda of the movement has been to assist people to become more self reliant through the design and development of productive and sustainable gardens and farms. However in more recent years the trend has been towards the greening of cities and towns, to make the urban habitat more livable and satisfying, and more inclusive of nature.
Permaculture design asks these questions in each specific situation:
“Where does this element go? How can it be placed for the maximum benefit of the system?" To answer this question, the designer must optimise the useful connections between all components of the design so as to generate optimal synergy in the composite system that the design produces.
This is a good example of applied holism, where the focus is on how the parts configure in the creation of the whole, and catalyse the emergence of new valuable features in the operational system and resilient habitat
produced.
Permaculture design therefore seeks to minimize waste, human labor, and energy input by building systems with maximal benefits between design elements to achieve a high level of synergy.
Permaculture designs evolve over time via these dynamic relationships and elements and can become extremely complex systems that produce a high density of food and materials with minimal input.
How has permaculture transformed traditional gardening? Designing microclimates into your living environment enables you to grow marginal plants better.
Find out how to build soil so that it becomes more productive. Survival skills like this are increasingly important now that we can no longer rely on the global trade of goods.
After the interview there's a report on recent developments in solar power, including this country's first zero-energy and how you can monitor it's performance online.
Green Planet FM, keeping you up to date with all things green.
People have been altering our plants and crops since time immemorial so why is there concern over genetic engineering? What is it about this that is different from selective breeding or hybridization?
Is it ethical to change the DNA of plants and animals for our own use and is it safe? Did Mother Nature get it so wrong when she ‘created’ our world that we need to fix it?
Are the far reaching claims used, as the basis for extensive promotion of genetically engineered crops by the biotech industry, governments, government agencies and proponents of GE technology really true?
400 scientists from 60 countries concluded, back in 2008, that genetic engineering was no solution to food shortages in the developing world.
This research was detailed in the UN’s International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD) report.
The 2008 report concluded that GE raises numerous contentious issues for developing countries, such as gene transfer, contamination of organic and conventional crops, undermining of local practices, reduced food security and unpredictable or reduced yields.
Add to that the issues of liability and the health effects on both humans and animals that are increasing over time, then there are clearly huge concerns about the future of farming with genetic engineering in the environment.
If GE paints such a bleak picture, then why are huge corporations such as Monsanto bothering to push their products onto the market? Consumers overwhelmingly are voting with their feet so why keep expanding the market? Who is trying to stop the labeling of food to show GE or GE free?
These and other questions will be answered by Jon Carapiet, spokesperson for GE Free NZ and trustee for Physicians and Scientists for Global Responsibility.
Over the last ten years, Jon has been a leading consumer advocate in the area of food safety and consumer rights. He has regularly commented in the media and actively participated in the Royal Commission on Genetic Modification and other regulatory processes through ERMA.
Jon’s advocacy work has centered on the risks of commercial release of genetically engineered organisms to public health, the environment, and to New Zealand’s exports and tourism-based economy.
He has drawn on his professional expertise in marketing, as a senior market researcher, to highlight the necessity to protect “Brand New Zealand” and to pursue an ethical biotechnology strategy that is based on the precautionary principle and respect for community values.
Jon is motivated by his humanitarian concerns for people and the planet that are at risk from those seeking to exploit the world’s supply of food, our animals, and the environment.
Join us to get a real handle on where we are around GE in 2012 and to understand that one of the key ways to oppose GE is to insist on the labelling of our food, right now.
WRITE to The Herald.
Jon Carapiet
http://www.organicnz.org.nz/node/419
http://press.gefree.org.nz/press/20120815.htm
What effect do human emotions have on the environment and beyond? These and other questions are being put to the test in a bold, scientific experiment to measure the impact of both positive and negative thoughts and feelings on the earth's magnetic grid.
Worldwide, project initiated by the Institute of HeartMath LLC, a US based institution focused on bringing positive change to the world is a science-based, co-creative project to unite people in heart-focused care and intention, to facilitate the shift in global consciousness from instability and discord to balance, cooperation and enduring peace.
It is planned for numerous sensor sites to be strategically place around the world. Three are already in place in California, Saudi Arabia and England with four more funded and soon to be functioning in Canada, New Zealand, Brazil and South Africa. The sensors are funded entirely by charitable donation.
Emotional-intelligence (EQ) Tele summit 2012
EQ abbreviation:
1. (Psychology) emotional quotient, a (notional) measure of a person's adequacy in such areas as self-awareness, empathy, and dealing sensitively with other people.
This unique Summit is being initiated by Kim Knight, Director of the Art of Health, nominated last year for New Zealand Woman of the year for her innovative work in health and science. The summit will feature 26 world experts in the field of human emotion.
Presenters will demonstrate through proven methodologies how developing and using EQ is essential for personal health, healthy relationships, business achievement, successful education and authentic wealth creation. Above and beyond this, they will also share how the use of EQ (as opposed to only IQ) is a pre-requisite for the positive development of the human race and earth, and how the future of the planet may even depend on it.
Luminaries such as Dr Bradley Nelson (US), Richard Moat PhD (NZ), Rob van Overbruggen (NL), Richard Flook (CAN) and Kim Knight (NZ) will be joining the summit to share their revolutionary findings on how emotions have been discovered to be at the core of many chronic illnesses.
Many such illnesses have often been deemed 'incurable' in the prevailing medical paradigm, and presenters will share the dramatic and often instantaneous recoveries thousands of people have experienced using their ground breaking methodologies.
Other well-respected EQ experts included Joshua Freedman (US), COO of 6 Seconds, who will covering the role of EQ in education, Dr Manjir Samanta-Laughton (UK), aka the 'Punk Scientist' best known for her revolutionary findings in the field of quantum physics, and Pat Armitstead, the world's first joyologist.
Other cutting-edge topics include Adriane Hartigan von Strauch's (NZ) seminar on 'Quantum Intimacy', Brittany Watkins' (US) seminar on overcoming emotional obesity and Patricia Evans'seminar on emotional abuse.
The online global event will kick off Mon 3 September (US) with Marvin Oka, co-author with Grant Soosalu of the ground-breaking new book 'mBraining' and the 'mBIT' multiple brain integration technique, who will share how the latest findings in neuro-science show we have three complex and functional brains and how we can harness and integrate these multiple brains for greater success, wisdom and happiness.
The Summit will run for 2 weeks from 3 September until 18 September, with several live and pre-recorded 'virtual' events. Listeners can tune in from anywhere in the world via the internet and phone in for the live events to interact with presenters.
Free listening options are available, although the goal of the paid option is to donate 10% of proceeds from premium ticket sales to the Global Coherence Initiative.
For detailed information and registration see:
http://www.eventbrite.com/event/3741721590/EQ2012/20938544958
For details of the Global Coherence Initiative see
http://artofhealth.co.nz/s-events-telesummit-emotional-intelligence2012-global-coherence.htm
Kim Knight
www.artofhealth.co.nz
In 1983 Gerry started a ginger group, Engineers for Social Responsibility. The president of the New Zealand Institution of Engineers, Sir John Ingram (also chair of NZ Steel) tagged them ‘the lunatic fringe’, but his successor Alec Stirrat was kinder. He called them ‘the conscience of the engineering profession’.
In the early days of ESR, some uninformed IPENZ members expressed their concerns;
“that ESR is an activist group associating with non-engineers known to incite treason".
This was initially concerned with the the possibility of Global Nuclear War and the conservative element in NZ, wanted NZ to remain within the Western Alliances's Nuclear Umbrella.
In association with International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) and Scientists Against Nuclear Arms (SANA), ESR under the Chairmanship of Professor Jack Woodward prepared a series of 17 fact sheets.
These sheets were designed to describe in a concise manner important facts from scientific and medical literature about the dangers of nuclear war in a way which could be easily understood by non-technical people.
The fact sheets were distributed to secondary schools, and libraries in the Auckland area, members of Parliament and other decision makers throughout New Zealand, and to certain embassies and South Pacific heads of state. Users were encouraged to copy and redistribute the sheets. The sheets receive much commendation.
So what of today, how are we as an individual and as a collective to be socially responsible? Especially as we learn daily of the escalating challenges that come to meet us via the local and global media plus earth changes and strange weather patterns.
This interview with Gerry Coates in a more private capacity, looks at the current challenges facing us as both a nation and from a global perspective.
Recent news of the huge melting of ice in the Arctic circle and that between January and July 2012, the United States has broken 40,000 heat temperature records, ramps up the challenge of global warming, even as we have suffered from the opposite swing of the pendulum and experience cold wet snaps here in NZ.
The question of population too is an ever increasing dilemma that is verging on a crisis.
However, due to the overwhelming nature of the predicaments that we are faced with, how do we 'snap' out of our indifference to what is 'lapping up' to the very foundations of our civilization?
Covering diverse subject matter of:
Dealing with business people who think that they can carry on with business as usual, as if there is no concern to exploiting our planet continuously.
Where are our champions for our planet and future?
Mentioning James Lovelock, Al Gore and their drawbacks and the forthright articulations by David Suzuki and previously Teddy Goldsmith and the sad loss of Sir Peter Blake. Plus Tim Flannery who recently stated 'if we want change we have to get people to get the politicians to change.'
In particular we need a business champion with drive, mana and charisma.
Lester Brown, of World Watch …… his new book called World on the Edge covers three ways of instigating the much needed change if we are to bring our civilization back from the very brink of collapse. This will entail huge limits to growth. Limits that we have in many ways already exceeded.
Covering the costing of finite resources and the priorities of expenditure re armaments and that well over a trillion dollars is spent by the global military annually.
Plus, what is the 'true' story regarding the amount of oil we have = peak oil?
All this and more as we as a global family urgently have to come to grips with denial to avoidance to indifference ... to our common future.
www.esr.org.nz
As well as this excellent NZ site;
http://hot-topic.co.nz
With your host Lisa Er standing in for Tim Lynch.
Can we make the world a better place? Yes we can!
This is an underlying hope and drive behind all Christine does. While speaking about the unprecedented pressures on the Earth’s resources and growing inequalities, Christine inspires with solutions.
Living her beliefs by acting sustainably, and through her commitment to solving the problems of the coming times, Christine makes an impact on the world.
What are the emerging threats to our way of life? Is there such a thing as sustainable growth, and if not what is the new growth paradigm? Are we failing women, and what is the role for women in this post growth future?
These questions and more are covered in this delightfully frank discussion with Christine.
Acknowledging the awe inspiring beauty of the world, and the resilience and positivity of the human spirit, Christine speaks clearly about the decimation of Maui and Hectors dolphins - death by set net – in New Zealand.
She describes the tragedy of the commons:“The law locks up the man or woman; who steals the goose from off the common;. But leaves the greater villain loose. The one who steals the commons from off the goose.”
Finally she tells of the belief system behind all that she does, which includes that all important word, LOVE.
Christine served the Rodney area as an elected representative for the 15 years between 1995 and 2010. She was Deputy Mayor of the Rodney District Council, and Deputy Chair of the Auckland Regional Council.
She chaired various committees including the ARC’s Transport Committee and the Regional Land Transport Committee.
Christine has a first class honours degree in political science, and philosophy from Auckland University, where she also taught politics. She has been a supporter of both Greenpeace and Forest and Bird for over 20 years, serving in various governance roles.
Christine has also led significant environmental campaigns, most notably working with the Labour Government to protect Maui and Hector dolphins. She is a strong advocate of sustainable transport for Auckland. Christine was a candidate for the Labour Party in 2011 for the Rodney District.
You can also follow Christine on her blog:
http://christinerosenz.tumblr.com
This programme is sponsored by The Awareness Party
Dennis Frank standing in for Tim Lynch.
Dennis Frank presents 4 different contemporary applications of green technology that provide a substantial contribution to our progress toward a sustainable economy. He continues his discussion with business consultant psychologist Bill Watson from our broadcast on July the 5th.
Bill illuminates the cultural nuances of our economic relations with China, explaining key concepts that both create and bridge the cultural divide between China and the West. He describes ancient Chinese beliefs and their relevance in todays world.
When the focus moves to geopolitical relations, Bill anticipates a strategic shift in China as it reacts to the current imbalance in its interdependent power relations with the USA, and its economic relations with the West as a whole. Is the enormous debt now owed by Americans to China okay? If so, why is European debt not okay? Is the game changing??
They discuss how our common interests come into play. Dennis outlines key features of identity politics. Since we identify with groups we belong to, group psychodynamics tend to produce identity politics. Our motivations derive from our sense of personal identity, which emerges from the roles we play in groups.
As we change roles & groups, our self-image and behaviour shifts, so we often end up with various identities each deriving from a particular group context. Whereas westerners trend toward multi-dimensional identities, people in eastern countries are bound by tradition into unitary identity.
Dennis then expands his view of why an alternative political movement is now essential, and how it can be designed to be an effective change agent to get us all through the transition in the best possible way. Are you happy to go with the flow in the collective drift towards the gurgler? If not, you need to join those who can create the alternative.
A 75 year old mans relationship with nature and becoming reconnected.
Michael came from the UK and lived in Tasmania in Australia, where he started farming, moving into organics and writing a best seller on organic gardening.
It was when on the land that he experienced a deeper connection with nature by seeing through the eyes of another being, that his life began a dramatic change.
The majority of the human species, especially in the western world are disconnected from nature. At the same time we are living more and more 'sub consciously' as a species, not consciously and we are relying more and more on technology, and not on natural process.
Yet, humanity appears to be hard wired to resist change and in a changing world within a biosphere under intense pressure, plus global societal disfunction, it is imperative that we urgently change and act in the best interests of the human family.
This is by the acknowledgement of whole-brain/heart-soul connection and the conscious use of intelligence. The left brain intellectualizes but the right brain actually experiences 'love'.
So we must get out of the clutter of our heads and into our magnanimous hearts if we are to be serious about being more authentic, present and activating the solutions so urgently needed.
Listen to a exceptionally insightful explanation of how we have become decoupled from existence and that through the realization that we are all energy fields in a greater unified field can we actually create our way out of our present situation as it is today.
Living in the moment is a key to turning it all around and in particular, consciously choosing 'love' a word that we have yet to truly comprehend. For loves grandeur within a universal context is far beyond the emotional limitations we still manage to place on it.
For the worse thing for humanity is to continue more of the same.
A wide ranging discourse, from nature to our inner being, our physical make up, to planetary events, possibilities of 2012, the growing financial crisis, getting out of fear and communicating with nature and being in community.
A very lucid and consistent articulation by a strong and confident energetic man in his prime!
http://www.MichaelRoads.com
The 'SECRET' Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement, what is it? Do we want it, and who is pushing it?
Is the TPPA a deliberate attempt at integrating the NZ economy to be basically absorbed into the larger American dominated economy?
When signed … the NZ Parliament, the House of Representatives will not be passing the TPPA into law, but only Cabinet … and the Cabinet is picked solely by the Prime Minister.
At the highest level, Cabinet decisions are in reality that of the PM, if the Prime Minister says Yes, then the PM's decision prevails.
Because these negotiations are in secret, no one knows the true agenda, however a recently leaked document showed that only two of the TPPA’s 26 chapters were to do with trade. The rest were focused on new corporate rights, privileges and tools to override local government interests.
Items supposedly covered were about how secretive tribunals in other countries may/will decide on laws of this country. This then puts our NZ sovereignty at risk?
But the Australians are fighting back, especially the Australian Labour Party who need our support!
Find out why the TPPA is about keeping 'democracy out' of the equation.
Listen to an exceptionally erudite and down to earth interview with a highly articulate NZer on how NZ, as a country is giving its power and future away, due to 'we' the electorate, collectively abrogating our responsibility to become informed and act wisely.
A riveting insight to the machinations of trade and economics.
www.bryangould.net
"We are faced with an impending calamity that threatens to bankrupt the planet. This is one of those times when doing our best is not enough. We must do what is necessary... It comes down to a choice.... Reclaim our race and give our kids a chance for a future that you and I did not have. Let this be the century in which we stood as one and changed the course of humanity." ~ Daniel Rirdan
Calling for a complete change in our economic and political set up. With Corporations as they are owned now to be reconstituted and a new system of business set up. Including viable alternatives to the current banking system.
"Everyone to have a right of passage" for residence and work throughout the planet over a introductory 15 year period, the need for rewilding nature on a continental scale, (allowing gigantic park like areas to regenerate).
Under the agreement of having a 'planetary agency' to coordinate the big issues on behalf of humanity for a 'World Government'! Yes, this had to come up. But, in what form and who has the say? That, it can not be from the top down. Yet, the need to enable massive mega projects to be brought into being at the same time diminishing National Governments. This is both contentious and interesting.
Even the Rothschild's, Rockefeller's, JP Morgan, the Bilderbergers, Trilateral Commission, are mentioned as we grapple with the power structure and the need for each adult person having a say in shaping our local to planetary future.
Offering completely new ideas - such as bringing forth a new type of economy, including a footprint credit that each person would receive each month. Without a doubt, the plan is audacious, but Daniel says, it is achievable. It is backed by extensive research and development, a large array of peer-reviewed articles, and discussions with over a hundred world experts in their respective fields.
And population and over population... a thoughtful interview...
Listen to a very innovative method of electing a World Government with Daniel Rirdan, the author of "The Blueprint: Averting Global Collapse" and global strategist in world ecology challenges and solutions.
www.danielrirdan.com
With your Host Dennis Frank, standing in for Tim Lynch
Now that we're in transition from business as usual to the sustainable society, how do we work together to ease that transition and what should our priorities be?
Dennis Frank answers these questions in this week's Green Planet broadcast.
He profiles 7 good news green stories from the past couple of years, then with his guest Bill Watson he discusses an intentional community development plan for a Coromandel site that is being designed to serve as a model for regenerating local economies in rural areas.
He advocates that after a quarter century of talking up the paradigm shift, it's now time to take collective action to make it happen.
He suggests forming a genuinely alternative political movement to drive that process and outlines the design features & principles that such a movement must incorporate in order to be successful.
People see our global situation as threatened by financial collapse, climate change, destruction of ecosystems by the economy, peak oil, corporate control & corruption, etc - which are all part of business as usual.
What's the alternative? Working together in a better way.
Tune in to find out how!
How did Kim Fraser a barrister and lawyer, living a very successful and comfortable life on the Sydney waterfront, suddenly shift her focus towards a meditative life that then propelled her to establishing 10 centers throughout Australia to bring about peaceful change, both within and in the outer world?
Changing her name to Shakti Durga she has become an adept teacher at assisting people and community to grow in the knowing that they can cooperate and assist each other in a frenetic and challenging world.
Utilising many techniques and modalities she has built up a team that assist:
People who are challenged with serious illness, divorce, loss of a loved one, retrenchment or trauma as well as experiencing frustration and heartache in relationships leading to stress, anxiety and depression.
Alternative therapists wanting to learn another healing modality for a vocation in energetic spiritual healing.
People who want to improve their self-esteem, gain self-healing skills and meet like-minded people.
And to access who we are as a spiritual being living in a physical body here on earth.
This enjoyable, flowing interview from a strong and warm hearted woman covers a myriad of subjects and questions and shows why there is a need for such centers filling the vacuum in western society today.
Shakti Durga ~ http://www.shantimission.org
Her team are going to be in Auckland for an intro on the 6th of July at Kawai Pura Pura, Mills Lane off Oteha Valley Road, Albany.
7th and 8th July, 2 day - Ignite Your Spirit Work Shop with Savitur.
To register: nz@shantimission.org or call 027 256 3010
Ignite Your Spirit Therapy at beautiful Kawai Purapura
Fri July 6th: Music and Introduction to the weekend 6:30 pm
July 7th and 8th: Seminar 9:30am - 5:00pm
Bookings essential *offered by donation
An insightful, free range discussion pushing the boundaries of matter and reality and the experience of oneness in our relationship to nature.
Covering aspects of contemporary culture and belief systems as to how Holism found its place in todays world, and how Einstein personally viewed it as the companion to relativity for the world view for the whole of the 21st century.
Also, How can we experience transcendence in relationship to the collective consciousness and where to from here?
This thought provoking discussion tells that at one stage how 'holism' was introduced at the highest political level, but due to unknowingness, and the lack of scientists capable of supporting the magnitude of its implications, it lacked the political will due to the
political/educational system not being conscious enough to grok the possibilities.
So how do we educate ourselves, to 'wake up' and really see and realise all the relationships in the web of life, the connectivity across the vast interwoven ecosystems throughout the majesty of the biosphere we inhabit.
How do we position our process so that we scale down our unconscious resource plundering and instead sustainably find innovative ways to relocalize and consciously care with community to harmonize our relationship with the natural world?
http://www.alternativeaotearoa.org
The chemicalisation of our society and the chemicalisation of New Zealand, our food, our bodies …
Meriel Watts from Waiheke Island, trained in agricultural science before becoming a natural health practitioner and treating people poisoned by roadside sprays. She also co-ordinates the New Zealand branch of Pesticide Action Network, providing technical information to international organisations such as the United Nations.
Listen to one of only two full time, totally dedicated 'volunteer' activists against the chemical spraying of the thousands of kilometers of Auckland's suburban streets and footpaths with dangerous herbicides.
This is another battle for the health of Auckland's families as well as the ecology of the beaches, harbours and marine life, where the chemicals run off after rain.
Present focus:
Stopping the reintroduction of chemical weed management on roadsides and streets throughout the greater Auckland Council area, when for the last 14 years Auckland and the North Shore had a very successful non-chemical management system, and now the focus is getting Auckland Council region back onto non-chemical roadside weed management.
To get chlorpyrifos an insecticide banned in NZ where it is still used in agriculture, horticulture, on livestock and on roses, because prenatal exposures to even low levels interferes with brain development leaving children with neurological and behavioural issues that last a lifetime – like reduced IQ, ADHD, Autism.
http://www.pananz.net/ban-chlorpyrifos.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120430152039.htm
Meriel also clearly identifies that right wing corporate governments, still stack the deck in that the rich get richer and the poor slide downhill and that there is no languaging of organic and health (or holistic) practices for the populace on their agenda.
Where once the Greens and Labour had a food chart for buying and consuming healthy food, and that school tuck shops were once cleared of many items considered either junk food or sugar drinks, under the easily stated languaging of 'having freedom to choose' (our own poison) unhealthy food (rubbish) is now back on the National menu.
Note: If we received 'conscious' direction and support from 'conscious' Government and the Department of Health, we would not have huge queues of obese and diabetic youth to middle aged people lining up for hospital beds. Because the way we are tracking very soon unhealthy ill, New Zealanders will implode the National health system, due to the huge costs of taking care of 'unconscious' and ill patients sucking the health system dry.
Like what sort of civilization goes out and sprays poisonous chemicals over their food and then harvests it to eat. These are policies condoned by present 'unconscious' NZ agricultural and health policy advocates and those in power.
Or in the USA, a chemical corporation that has produced a herbicide that causes cancer, as well as a breast cancer fighting drug and they also happen to own the USA's largest for profit cancer clinic in the country. They profit from making and selling a carcinogen, then profit from the drug to treat it and finally it a coup de grâce, profit from the clinic where the people pay to get treated.
How 'unconscious' do we want to become?
Dr Meriel Watts - Contact - merielwatts [at] xtra.co.nz
The Chemicalisation of Society, and halting chemical weed spraying in Auckland Council areas.
Celebrate 25 years of NZ being Nuclear Free ... Hooray!... At Auckland's Aotea Square 12:00-3:00pm Saturday the 9th June. Town Hall Concert Chamber if wet.
Listen to an enthusiastic and inspired interview of one of NZ's tireless advocates of Peace in the World and Inner Peace, Within.
Hear how Auckland has passed a resolution as a 'City of Peace.'
That back in the early to mid 1980's, Citizen groups established 105 Nuclear Free Zones across NZ that comprised 73% of the country and gave a mandate for David Lange, the Labour PM to pass legislation through Parliament for NZ to become a Nuclear Free Nation.
That in 1992 at the World Court in the Hague in the Netherlands, NZ championed the Declaration 'that nuclear weapons are illegal,' this was another major break-through for this country.
Then on the 31st May 2012, the 'whole NZ Parliament' passed a resolution revalidating NZ as a 'Nuclear Free Zone' and committed us to supporting Norway's proposal to hold a conference in 2013, for the 'Abolition of all Nuclear Weapons'.
This all with the support of 5,000 Mayors globally, who have joined voices to have their cities proclaimed 'Cities of Peace' and for the abolition of nuclear weapons also.
The interview covers the celebration this weekend on the 8th and 9th in Auckland City, especially the Saturday afternoon concert of music, acts and speeches.
Celebrating those who work behind the scenes at policy level, to shape the way forward and that peace be your heart and peace be within you and your family, as well as in schools, in your community, with volunteer groups, as well as acknowledging Auckland's Peace Foundation and it's tireless work over all these years.
Laurie also takes a serious look at how we work towards peace and of higher values and virtues as we consciously evolve to a greater unity of purpose, that of a peaceful country embedded in a peaceful biosphere.
This brings us to how does Auckland become one of the most livable cities on earth and what is the criteria?
Behind all this is to have NZ become an independent neutral country, and have the skill to self organize the community just like we did to set up the 105 nuclear free zones, (but in todays context, for example, have GE or GMO free zones, like they are endeavoring to do in Northland).
The imperative being for conscious New Zealanders to become really savvy from the grass roots up - get together in groups and then lobby their local council to put benevolent change through. Then Councils can lobby the Central Government.
And yes, the continuing challenge of Fukushima in Japan and the radiation spewing out of reactor No 4 needs to be urgently addressed in the Nuclear Free debate.
http://www.disarmsecure.org/people.php
Celebrate 25 years of New Zealand being Nuclear Free, at Auckland's Aotea Square 12:00-3:00pm Saturday the 9th June.
Science is rapidly moving to recognize that our human body is far more than a highly organized cardiovascular machine, that it is a conglomeration of 50 trillion or so cells, all coalescing into a dynamic whole. Yet, at a deeper level a 70 kilogram human would have approximately 7*1027 atoms.
That is, 7 followed by 27 zeros: 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.
What this translates to, that every one of these atoms are part of a highly organized matrix, an ‘energy field’ if you will, all oscillating at the same frequency as that of the Earth our sustainer, which is also oscillating at a particular frequency.
New branches of the science of ‘energy medicine’ are becoming more predominate, under the names of — fractals, biophysics, neuro-quantology and researchers are exploring the role of connective tissue — our cytoskeleton, a fractal web of protein and water with crystalline properties that extends into every cell of our body.
Everything is connected by electrical properties and evidence is emerging that the Chinese meridians are another step to interfacing with the “quantum” field.
With science closing in on the chakras that go up our spine to the top of our skull, we are also breaking through into the areas of the ‘subtle bodies’ that are layered throughout our body.
This is taking us closer to the understanding that our physical body, the vehicle we inhabit is an exceptionally complex, profoundly dynamic, supremely magnificent temple, we can call "home".
We could even say, we are a "holographic being".
Listen to an easygoing conversation of how to perceive ourselves as this holographic being - opening to intuition, creativity and love as we heal ourselves into a higher level of understanding and an extended expression of consciousness and spirituality.
www.RobinKelly.co.nz and his new book - The Human Hologram
Our Common Future?
After 30 years of having an independent foreign policy NZ has now been maneuvered back into ANZUS, under the US umbrella in what is said to be the 'Subversion Of NZ’s Independence.'
In the last 10 years there has been a concerted effort within both the NZ Military and Treasury to get NZ back under the wing of the American eagle.
This is now virtually complete.
But why Treasury? What are the ramifications?
Waihopai in Blenheim, SAS in Afghanistan are our key chess pieces, however US troops in NZ, NZ engineers in the US and Navy exercises (Rimpac) are all part of the greater plan.
Nick Hager in his book 'Other Peoples Wars' clearly shows that there is another agenda running, that which entangles us in a dark and brutal side of secret missions and 'black ops' that defines the challenges that confront NZers who have no idea what is happening behind the scenes.
Where once NZ had a strong nationwide network of peace groups, these have faded away many having been lead by older matriarchs, dedicated to their children's future. The same for journalism, we once had insightful articles that were actually published and occasional documentaries on TV also. Now, we have virtually nothing!
Warren Thomson's call for NZ to let's have no enemies, let's have friends instead and that we send out emissaries of goodwill, assisting in education, health, housing, justice and conflict resolution as being a sane one to involve ourselves.
Where NZ has been a moral force in the world that was seen as a fair an honest broker, there has now been a shift in the balance to one where we are clearly perceived as not the independent country we once were.
If you love your children, what kind of future do you want to leave them?
www.converge.org.nz/abc
Imagine a cooperative peoples business, that everyone can join and that they can share in the profits and grow into a sustainable, high energy, synergistic organisation that every one can feel a connection too - a hub if you will, a communication nexus that allows you instantaneous association if you so desire it within this dynamic organism.
Is this possible?
That of a holistic business model, that empowers us to belong can causes a Ripple effect by Empowering people to create Abundance which is Life changing.
That through the Sharing of knowledge, energy and experience, on the basis of Trust, and dare I say it, Truth and Transparency, you can create and call on Wisdom and common Wealth from both a local to a global situation.
Can such an organisation be the emerging microcosm for the planetary macrocosm?
A template that can be continuously built on and replicated to be the evolutionary driver to better community both locally and globally?
One that has both metaphysical and spiritual qualities that draws out of us the virtues of goodwill and family and community values?
And it is springing up out of NZ as a Southern Hemispherical concept, that already has over one a quarter million members.
So if we are cultural creatives coming together for a better world of food, finance, housing, and community, plus, jobs, justice, transport and connection .... in an ecological environment of peace, I would like you to stay with me as I introduce Paddy Delaney who would dearly like to share with you the concept of you as listeners joining and becoming part of a cooperative community in process and being a part to a totally new paradigm, one that is a new archetype and an extended way of both being, and doing in a life transforming social and business context.
DISCLAIMER!
As the interviewer of Paddy Delaney of Real Stew I wish to state that I have no pecuniary interest what so ever in this organization and have no intention of being involved with it. I did the interview on the basis that there is an urgent need to have businesses that people can join and together build into a supportive, thriving, environmentally benign, commercial community.
I sincerely encourage you to take due diligence, to act responsibly and do your research in any endeavor that may come as a result of my interview relating to the possibilities of Real Stew.
Tim
John Seed is an Australian environmentalist and director of the Rainforest Information Centre which successfully campaigned to save the sub-tropical brainforests of New South Wales, other forests in Tasmania and across Australia and beyond.
He is also a prominent figure in the deep ecology movement including eco psychology and is co-creator of the Council of All Beings, and other re-earthing processes.
An activist to his last breath, John encourages us to keep hurling ourselves at this question of how do we usher in a new change of consciousness and to awaken to who we are … whilst furthering our connection within the web of life and the planet as a whole, that of deep ecology - Gaia.
Listen how he uses Facebook to fundraise globally, calling on the spirit of voluntarism as one of the few hopes the world has.
Encouraging the locavore diet, eating food from your local area, as against importing it from the other side of our planet. Including, connecting weekly into a local food cooperative called 'Food Connect' to purchase a box of fresh organic veggies.
(The NZ equivalent is Ooooby)
Transition Bondi where John again connects into is an extension of Transitions Townshttp://www.transitionsydney.org.au where they have as an example, their own bees and an aquaponic system.
Our equivalent here in NZ is www.transitiontowns.org.nz
Listen to a man who remains a leading activist around the globe, tell stories that empower and encourage us to instigate positive change to restore the earth and bring community closer together. Be it India, Africa, and Ecuador.
In 1995 he was awarded the Order of Australia Medal by the Australian vGovernment for services to conservation and the environment.
For more information about deep ecology experiential workshops, please see;
http://www.rainforestinfo.org.au/deep-eco
'Everything is connected to everything else'
A two stage interview, where Bruce passionately states the challenges to our collective future and then enthuses us to individually - spontaneously evolve a new way of being and thinking.
He says we are so more fortunate here in NZ where community is far closer, and that by taking the opportunity to participate and leading within our neighborhood, we can work together. This by strategising and activating innovative templates embracing an ecology of commerce, that embeds a social and community component into our daily lives.
This takes us back towards being more pristine within nature plus going forward, embracing more joy, connection and creativity
Bruce covers his visit to India, the resurgence of organic farming across India in particular Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh and how larger numbers of people are changing their lives through right livelihood, not only by farming sustainably, but eating healthy produce, as well integrating Ayurvedic principles into their daily life.
This superbly successful enterprise show's the way for others to replicate across the sub-continent.
www.organicindia.com
In another example Bruce enthusiastically tells of a student radical Paul Soglin, getting elevated into local politics in the small city of Madison, Wisconsin USA, that then reinvents itself as a dynamic, innovative and caring community, introducing the first day care programs and reforms to the city's hiring of women and minorities. Plus visionary inner city building programs, planning and much more. Enabling, Madison's bond rating (per Moody's Investment Services) to be upgraded to AAA status.
Under the Mayors Leadership, Paul Soglin, inspired the council and community to enable Madison to be named to the most livable cities list several times during his second tenure as mayor, capturing the number one spot in 1996 and again in 1998 in the USA.
http://www.cityofmadison.com/mayor/about/bio.cfm
Spontaneous evolution starts with us 'in the moment' and as a being composed of 50 trillion cells, it is how we connect with who we are in the inner world and the outer environment that supports us. When we realize the dynamics between these two interfacing realities and recognize the possibilities of momentous change - magic happens!
And we are all collectively responsible for what he says we can call 'the garden.'
Bruce Lipton: www.brucelipton.com
http://www.greenplanetfm.com/members/greenradio/blog/VIEW/00000001/00000261/Peter-Daley-Australian- Whistleblower-on-the-Fukushima-Radiation-Crises--Survival.html#00000261
Peter Daley from Caloundra in Queensland, is the researcher who blew the whistle on the radiation cloud over Australia that then carried on over to the South Island of NZ, passing over Dunedin.
Back on the 8th of January of this year Peter had programed his new high tech geiger counter to sound an alarm if radiation far above background radiation was measured.
The alarm went off at 6.30 pm measuring 0.80 microsieverts, which was eight times over the average level of radiation in the atmosphere and enough for him to stay indoors and close all the windows then call his friends to do the same.
Following this another person in Byron Bay in Northern New South Wales measured this same spike as well as another in Melbourne Victoria.
Then across the Tasman Sea to NZ, another researcher in Dunedin who was involved in nuclear sciences went out with a cloth and wiped all the rain drops off his car that was outside, he then put his geiger counter against the cloth to have it instantly burst forth with a sharp staccato reading. Visual observation saw peaks reach an incredible 1.89 uS/Hr !
So, what is going on here?
From many accounts the inevitable is happening. The nuclear radiation from the crippled Japanese, Fukushima power plant in the Northern Hemisphere has breached the equatorial belt and seeped into the Southern Hemisphere and now this contamination is gradually raining down on us from within the upper atmosphere.
How much, we do not know and it is difficult to find out as Governmental measuring stations and laboratories globally are not letting out any information.
What effect this will have on Nuclear Free NZ is anyones guess. Primarily because there does not appear to be anyone that we know in the public sphere, championing the Nuclear Free issue anymore. It's as if there is a collective dereliction of duty by the crew in this sector of Mothership Earth and they have all gone AWOL.
Yet, the Japanese ambassador to Switzerland has broken ranks with his Government and has taken this to Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the UN to ask for the worlds greatest brains to find a solution immediately.
Why? Because things are far worse than what we are being told.
Reactor Number 4 being in a super critical situation.
Question? What are Mums and Dads to do? As children are the most susceptible to radiation, what is their future going to be?
Listen to a very lucid and rational telling of the events leading up to this nightmare.
Originally from California, having fled the USA after being arrested 92 times for peaceful protest. She has been very involved in the peace movement, specifically around the issue of certain military systems deployed by the US, inclusive of many arrests of a nonviolent nature.
For the past seven years, prior to coming to NZ she has been very active in the organic food movement, and saying NO to Monsanto in an effort to stop massive pesticide spraying in the small town in Southern California where she was living.
Listen to her many adventures around those issues of an interesting political nature. Sunshine came to NZ believing the hype of Clean Green, Independent NZ and has been quite disappointed to find so much of the USA quite entrenched here.
She holds hope in her heart that people will wake up to what is happening and to take their power back before it is too late.
In this inspiring story of raw courage and benevolence she is happy to contribute her voice based on so many years of involvement in standing up for the sovereignty of community and the land.
Warwick, a New Zealander, has spent 20 years developing a world leading technology that under one umbrella eliminates industrial and household waste, turning it into a valuable resource for manufacturing many different products, but most important it recovers the energy from waste.
This system is a global first and is so necessary for today, as one of the greatest attributes of this system is that it reduces CO2 and methane going into the atmosphere from landfills. By doing this he is able to eliminate all landfills.
Warwick worked with scientists on floating Arctic ice ‘islands’ for two years, which have subsequently melted.
He has first hand experience on declining polar ice due to warming of the world’s oceans, which are reaching a critical threshold.
He sees the elimination of methane gas, a super potent greenhouse gas from landfills and atmosphere as a major step to remediation and sustainability.
Watch the Global Olivine video
This open, light hearted discussion invites listeners to join in an event that brings forth a collective of metaphysicians, healers, artists and indigenous ecological ideals of how as one seamless organism we can anchor a vision of an open, bio-harmonic lifestyle and community.
With a holistic understanding that integrates scientific principles people are awakening to the need to creatively build community into a dynamic field of possibility. And that 'cultural creatives' need to be communing together.
What are these foundations? - These Platonic building blocks and of how we individually and collectively weave the various strands of our potential into a localized Auckland area group that will empower us to manifest answers, solutions and connection for today and tomorrow.
And how does 'Kawai Purapura' as a venue in a glade of exquisite beauty, facilitate a unique event such as this to be the forerunner of spontaneity, joy and heart resonant connection and well being?
Where we can embrace new friends, kindred spirits and change-agents and celebrate, meditate, pray and play, sing and soar.
Walking Our Wisdom 'WOW'
Kawai Purapura Albany - Summit, Symposium and Gathering of All Beings
The coming together in celebration of community and sharing of gifts, knowledge, information and spontaneity of what is Wisdom?
Be inquisitive! 'WOW'
www.walkingourwisdom.wordpress.com
Jeff Hutner is the Editor of New Paradigm Digest from the USA.
Covering the leading edge of science, consciousness, spirituality - from the Microcosm to the Macrocosm; focusing on visionary qualities, as Steve Jobs who had just died, what did he bring to our world?
And that the word 'Enough' is anathema to capitalism - Now we need to understand voluntary simplicity and what it represents.
Having no TV can stop you with being programmed with old paradigm thought forms and Jeff says by finding your friends who are creative, are inner directed, and use their creativity to the services of humanity and life - we can bring ourselves into alignment with a higher intent.
Who do you serve? The current continuing ecocide or ... are you serving the restoration of your own, your community and the planets health? It's a choice!!
Some of the subject matter:
Entertainment - transitioning to Innertainment - Movies that inspire us
Play it forward - Important Movies with messages that don't make it to the cinemas are now being organized so that we can 'Play it Forward.
Covering the www.ThriveMovie.com and what it says.
The part that arts play in change Is very important.
This interview ranges over many subjects that all interlink with our present situation on earth today, and a new paradigm that is emerging. What is it?
This interview was recorded 4 months ago when Occupation Wall Street was bursting out and I felt very excited of the possibilities of a Unified World of Occupiers could do, that I held back this interview to bring into the studio Auckland based NZ Occupiers and supporters so that listeners could hear directly what NZers were saying and doing, thus I put this interview on hold.
Biomimicry (from bios, meaning life, and mimesis, meaning to imitate) is a design discipline that seeks sustainable solutions by emulating nature’s time-tested patterns and strategies, e.g., a solar cell inspired by a leaf.
The core idea is that Nature, imaginative by necessity, has already solved many of the problems we are grappling with: energy, food production, climate control, non-toxic chemistry, transportation, packaging, and a whole lot more.
Animals, plants, and microbes are the consummate engineers. They have found what works, what is appropriate, and most importantly, what lasts here on Earth.
However, we humans have only really woken up to this in the last 20 years.
If we could only mobilise our consciousness (and media) at a global level, we would be both amazed and shocked to realize that the answers to our challenges are already embedded in nature, the same living super system that we too are deeply embedded in, except we have disconnected ourselves.
Time to awaken and reconnect.
Sam Stier: http://www.asknature.org
Learn more about biomimicry in video:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/janine_benyus_shares_nature_s_designs.html
And print:
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/feb2008/id20080211_074559.htm
Jasmina has trained in 25 different modalities and is highly skilled not only in the area of helping others release their emotions but also at getting to the core of issues that are affecting people emotionally and this can frequently make a huge difference in their lives and mean a better quality of life.
Releasing emotional and mental blockages that are in the way to self healing can create conditions that allow “spontaneous remission”. With the removal of fears and other emotions, a new level of spiritual growth and consciousness often happens, because the previously blocking emotions are not there any more.
Listen to strong and passionate advocate Jasmina Kovacev who uses cutting edge mind, body and emotional techniques; for example EFT, Emotional Freedom Technique, Psych K, NLP, New German Medicine and other methods.
This January 11 - 18 2012, Jasmina Kovacev is at the Mana Retreat Centre in Coromandel for a special healing retreat for people affected with cancer.
It is an emotional support retreat which can also assist you back to becoming a healthy human being?
www.eft-emofree.com
efthelp (at) gmail.com
What are the necessities for a healthy temple body?
Air, Water, Food-chain, Exercise, relationships and our spiritual aspirations. In cities put your car windows up, air conditioning on recycle because if you smell then it is affecting you - There are 3 major pollutants in petrol.
Use negative ion generators in office buildings.
Water: Don't drink Auckland tap water … hazardous to your health clean your water up, with filtration or bottles water etc.Alkalize your body.
Food: organic is best, grow your own, eat more fresh food, green leafy veggies and alkalize your body
Do away with most oils, canola being one and that organic cold pressed is best. Extra virgin organic olive is good, especially for salads
Microwaves, just get rid of them - they De-nature food.
Don't eat corporate food - being dead food with zero life force and enzymes etc.
A New Way of Seeing Ourselves
Bruce Lipton - The Biology of Belief and Spontaneous Evolution … plus EFT Emotional Freedom Technique, progresses the understanding we need.
That we are not necessarily a victim of our genetics … we determine ourselves how we shape our life, our mental attitude, nutrition, lifestyle and exercise etc
Why? Because up to 90% of diseases are caused by emotional stress and our thought process, programing and habitual processes.
Listen for some startling statistics re what we suffer from that can be easily cured if we made conscious choices.
The difference between going for a quick 10 minute consultation with a doctor to be prescribed drugs compared with a 1 hour consultation with a holistic healer who will want to know what you take into your body, among many other things.
Learn about an American Indian healing technique that was also used in China
Note: That we need to earth ourselves by being bare foot this summer.
David, Gerard (and myself) will be at Prana in the Coromandel over New Year at www.Prana.co.nz
This interview is a repeat from December 2008
Steffan has been at the forefront of the New Zealand organics movement for more than twenty years.
His successful Bio-Gro horticulture business won both the Horticulture and Supreme awards in the Marlborough Rural Environmental awards in 2003.
His aim is to have genuinely sustainable organics in New Zealands food, fibre, forestry and fishing industries - which he states, "also makes good business sense."
He has also recently become a Member of Parliament for the Green Party of Aotearoa NZ.
Listen to a very revealing appraisal of the challenges that organics face, on the frontlines of GE untruths, agribusiness and the unknowingness of government of holistic systems and the wider ramifications of deeper ecology.
http://www.greens.org.nz/candidates/steffan-browning
How do we use our voice as an instrument to self transformation?
What do sound vibrations do for the human body, our DNA and memory?
Elandra, early in life found herself in the movie industry in England and Antion who was originally born Victor Harvey Briggs used to be in the backing group for Dusty Springfield and later played with the rock group The Animals.
However change happens and they both met through yoga, spirituality and Ram Dass, that took them from the hectic outside world to a more balanced inner realm.
The ongoing evolution from music to using sound as a method of vibrational healing, from Indian to Sikh and the many ways of chanting, specifically ancient Hawaiian sounds that have been passed from an ancient lineage - to alter our frequency and shift us to a higher octave of being.
Hawaiian cultural methods, such as lomi lomi, and spiritual healing modalities lead especially to sacred sound, chant and chanting focussing on the throat, the blue chakra to vibrate sound.
That the breath ... the 'ha' in the Polynesian vernacular of both Aroha and Aloha is the invisible life force that brings prana into being. Chanting vibrates our temple garment and this allows and opens to a deeper knowing of self, of healing and a greater connection to being.
That conscious thought and conscious action are now the imperative at this moment in time.
Albert Einstein stated: "The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant."
We have forgotten the gift and honoured the servant.
'Time to turn it all around.'
Elandra & Antion Meredith
http://www.HealthHealing.org http://www.antionmusic.com
After studying the global environment for 30 years and recognizing the profound workings of a living super system he expected a societal gestalt-shift, in awareness of what we are doing ... which has not yet come.
If we want a Green City, keep trees in Auckland and have green corridors for birds, - and bird song, to collecting pipies, fishing for ones dinner - to expanding community gardens, the pleasure of working in them with family. Harvesting, sharing of seed, bonding of relationships and encouraging farmers markets.
That in America on his most recent trip, many cities were driving change from the bottom up - especially Palo Alto in Silicon Valley, California from the grass roots up, where people are driving the debate and Council is facilitating the conversation. Where there's a lot of bicycle riding and many electric vehicles in this region.
However when it comes to climate change, mitigation is important but the conversation has moved on and it is now, resilience and how we survive and Paul's concern about America and whats coming, because of its unpreparedness.
Visioning the future with the Swedish, Natural Step System - casting out 100 years into the future, what do we want? Corporate food? Living in artificial environments? Acidic oceans? Or innovative change?
Transition towns again comes into focus, as a people driven grass roots organization, as change is not going to come from our government or council - it's going to come from the people. You, your family and community.
You are encouraged to go to the Auckland city web site and participate in local plans, that you who are reading this can participate in localized planning and shaping your future - insulating your home and adding solar across Auckland with a hot water scheme on your roof.
To indigenous peoples cosmologies, in particular the American Indians are aligning with today's high energy sub atomic physics.
Indigenous peoples inherent relationship to the earth and biota is actually real, that is leading us back to a spiritual relationship with that which is greater. To our living planet Gaia, a self regulating organism that has a soul - anima mundi. Plus Paul's dowsing for leylines in Britain which connecting over our planet are just like acupuncture meridians the Chinese call, dragon lines.
A wide ranging thought provoking interview.
Auckland Council Waste Management & Minimisation Plan
Alister Barry started filming on a yacht the anti French nuclear tests in neighbouring Polynesian waters, then focused on New Zealand's internal workings and the altruistic psyche as to why did early New Zealand decide to put in so much welfare legislation that people take totally for granted today.
What drove the early citizens to think deeply what it wanted for the future of our society?
Especially to create institutions to take care of us, like in sickness and welfare for the unfortunate. As well as the idea of an egalitarian society. What's that? ... I hear people say?
Once upon a time both the National and Labour Governments allowed people the right to FREE access to education and university to extend themselves to the fullest capabilities of our intellectual capacity.
Then things changed ...
New Zealand was deliberately targeted in the very late 60's and into the 70's to transform society away from taking care of ourselves as a more inclusive society but, to instead, accumulate wealth and thus be seen to be successful at the expense of everyone else.
And being a loser ... was being a loser ... and helping your neighbors or stopping to assist someone if their car was broken down, that's what losers do - winners TAKE ALL.
That was the subtle program adopted by Treasury (the Home of the TPPA planners) and later taken up by the Ministry for Economic Development that was in turn heavily influenced by the Business Roundtable ... connecting the dots ... to the selling off of New Zealand.
This is dynamite listening, as to how NZ lobotomized its public institutions and Neo-Liberalism subverting the economic welfare of a Nation.
And the cunning way to make SOE's (State Owned Enterprises) act like corporations that now 'have no social conscience' as they have to be 'profit driven', and here is the rub ... if they are just like any other corporation ... then just 'Sell them Off! ... Because they do not really serve us anymore e.g TVNZ, what social/societal considerations do they have towards bettering community?
Let's change things back to more how they once were, but with safeguards is the new message.
You will also hear that we have overseas agencies, adept at mind manipulation advising the NZ Government on what to do to enable the NZ public to be lead by the nose to acquiesce to anything that the National Government deems fit to toss off the table.
Listen to how senior members within the NZ government apparatus have become extensions of US policy and the State Department ... What are the ramifications of this?
And what about MMP? We must keep it! For though it has some weak points, we are being conned to give it away, when in actual fact we only need to tweak it. However, Alister will explain.
An illuminating interview that cleaves through the countries collective psyche and the way we are giving ourselves and our Nation away ... 'all before lunchtime!'
Today we have reduced it down to a slogan - 99% versus 1%.
Alister Barry
Someone Else's Country
The story of the New Right revolution in New Zealand
In a Land of Plenty
The story of unemployment in New Zealand
A Civilized Society
The war between teachers and the New Right over public education in New Zealand
The Hollow Men
The inside story of a National Party election campaign
www.thehollowmen.co.nz
Complimentary currencies, alternative money systems, green dollars and time banks and involvement with Transisition towns here in NZ.
Why?
New Zealander Deirdre Kent confronts us with an unpalatable truth. The world's money system is designed so that the money supply and hence the size of the global economy must keep on increasing exponentially or it will collapse.
Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Italy, Spain, France the list goes on ...
Solution?
As the global economy becomes more unbalanced, the need for NZ to become very knowing on how to set up your own localised monetary system so as to keep some semblance of order and cohessivness.
Deirdre Kent is also the author of the book:
Healthy Money, Healthy Planet
Developing Sustainability through New Money Systems
This means putting your money and energy into supportive systems too.
Note no Credit Unions went under during the 2008 global economic crisis.
IMAGINE, enabling yourself to earn more money to supplement your income.
Everyone loves time banks and it does not matter what your political views are ... you get paid for your time and you become enriched.
If you are a volunteer who does work, like clean up rivers, mind children, plant trees, pick up rubbish, bottles etc. your time is acknowledged. If you belong to a time bank and so does the organisation that you voluntarily work for ... you get paid for your time!
Directory of NZ Time Banks:
http://le.org.nz/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=37:nz-time-banks&catid=12 :time-banks
Green Dollar Systems Operate in Wairarapa, Wanganui and Golden Bay
Support local NZ owned and controlled money institutions like TSB Taranaki Savings Bank, Southland Savings Bank, Prometheus and the PSIS, which used to be called the Public Service Investment Society, these are people power banks, you can attend their annual general meetings and if a member, play a part in how they are run.
Kiwi Bank is good too, however it is controlled by the NZ Government, and depositors have no say as to how this bank is run.
The Finance Minister of the 4th Labour Government in 1984 changed the Reserve Bank Act giving too much leeway for bankers and now NZ needs to rein in certain aspects to mandate the separation of insurance companies, investment banks and commercial banks as they are become far too entwined. Also there is a need to monitor the corporate sector far more closely.
However the Reserve Bank Act could be also changed so that local councils and particularly Christchurch Council print their own localised currency and not use up our hard earned national currency - it's possible and it has to be instigated from the grass roots up, as the overseas bankers would tell the NZ Government to stop it! (because they would be missing out.)
We as a western civilisation are at the top of the bell curve, and it is vital that every human understands what this means, it's like we are at the top of the mountain in our global expansion and exploitation, ecological abuse, monetary debt societal dysfunction ... as there is nowhere to go, it's all downhill from then on ....
Unless we reorganise and shift our consciousness to another level of being. NZ is small and agile enough to make the change!
Check out and bookmark: Living Economies: http://le.org.nz
Credit Unions NZ: http://www.nzacu.org.nz
The Irish originated book, Fleeing Vesuvius is sold by Living Economies, explaining what could happen as demand for oil finally outstrips the supply and how an economy can no longer grow after peak oil.
Rob Hopkins, founder of the Transition Network, states that we need to move now from peak oil and climate change to the strengthening the local economy.
Listen to a very interesting and thoughtful interview that explains the current situation and then commences to show us that NZers at a grass roots level can create localised systems of governance of money as we transition to the ecology of commerce.
http://transitionaotearoa.org.nz/profile/DeirdreKent
John Hinchcliff has been in the peace movement most of his life, and made a large contribution to making NZ nuclear free and up until recently has been the Vice Chancellor of AUT - Auckland University of Technology.
Andy Hendrie is director of a health centre as well as executive director of a charitable trust which campaigns to improve outcomes for our healthcare and has been Occupying Auckland at Aotea Square since its beginning.
Listen to an interview that cleaves and slices right through the lies, the deceit, the media hype and censorship of what's happening in corporate America, especially in banking through to boardrooms and up to governmental level. To then translate this into the combined denial of what the two major political parties are avoiding here in NZ during this years election campaign.
And on the ground in Aotea Square, how the occupiers are endeavouring to clarify their grievances and bring forth a list of priorities that need to be addressed to shift everyone's focus to the next level.
As New Zealanders we need to restore values in our daily life and particularly the market place and work practices .... going beyond the flash material plane of houses, cars and bank balances to establish connection of being, playing and working together, loving nature, celebrating life.
With a large number of groups with concerns and grievances camped out at Aotea Square Auckland, what are the threads that can unify a common purpose and inspire aroha? Aroha that has been striving to ignite itself and find its place in both the moment and daily events from a localised situation across the nation of Aotearoa itself.
Can we prioritise values and look at these attributes within aroha, with respect for people and caring for them and caring for the environment and ecology, to caring for the future as well as the present and the past?
This is our individual and collective challenge.
Rogan, who has just resigned his job to be at Aotea Square full-time, having been part of the Occupy Auckland organizing team from the start and Simon, an activist at heart has also just taken extended leave from his job at a union to help out.
Two very articulate occupiers share what is playing out within the Occupy Auckland encampment and what their aspirations are.
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Another big question: When their time is up at Aotea Square, are they going to decamp in agreement and peacefully or are the authorities going to have to push the issue?
New Zealanders are very complacent and have had it exceptionally easy in the global scheme of things, with good Government safety nets, welfare, no food shortages, no war etc.
Yet, with $300 million weekly in overseas loans keeping us docile, we are now passing the 18 billion dollar threshold in just over 2 and a half years of loans and from unknown entities overseas, so the NZ Government is certainly leaving the younger generation a huge amount of debt … how should New Zealanders react to this?
Especially as debt is one of the greatest issues.
There are many things thing effecting the hearts and minds of everyone these days.
http://www.occupyauckland.org
Hine Ransfield from Occupy Auckland, social networker and Lisa Er, an ASB Auckland business woman of the year and Founder of the Awareness Party, have a conversation on Occupy Wall St to Occupy Auckland.
Is it a revolt, an uprising, an insurrection, a rebellion, or a revolution?
YES! all of these, by the 99% who see global control firmly in the hands of the 1%. Yet we trust the outcome will be conscious, peaceful and by a dynamic successful process.
Touch typing is mightier than the truncheon! And it can be.
Americans presently occupying Wall St and countrywide financial centers need our principled support. As New Zealand is the first major country to see tomorrow first, can we be a moral template for a peaceful resolve towards cleansing a global economic system based on debt, exclusiveness and adversity.
Here in NZ, many say that mainstream media is in the camp of the status quo, as it's a media that keeps us content, distracted, compliant and titillated. But in reality it is also a media of censorship by omission. For though Wall St has been occupied for a month, you will notice mainstream NZ media by not covering this, are either very conservative or compliant.
Yet, NZ can be the seedbed for a new consciousness. We are a stable country, with no war or starving, fairly well educated and connected by the web.
We also come from a deep knowingness of welfare and social safety nets, as well as once being a country based on numerous nationwide co-operatives, especially in the rural sector, trust banks, mutual insurance societies, building societies and liquor trusts. This being prior to private capital, in the mid 1980s early 90's mostly from offshore, cleverly circumventing these altruistic models, and today very little cash flows out to the community, but instead disappears overseas as profits.
Occupy Wall St is a great awakening of the West that if we are to thrive as a cohesive cooperative and awakened humanity, we have to do away with the banking system that has taken us to the abyss of uncertainty.
What is our next strategic move that will shift the balance back into the hands of the 99% that can for the first time evolve a planet of peace and security? A system that is holistic, inclusive, follows the precautionary principle and has a duty of care?
We are paying governments to find solutions, but they are not coming up with any, hence this disciplined global protest, because the Governments are at the behest of the money that continuously flows on upwards to banking interests. So much so, that we will never be told who we in NZ get our overseas loans from and what the conditions are?
Listen to two aware and active women share with me there concerns and aspirations about the Occupation that is presently continuing at Aotea Square here in Auckland today.
WEB LINKS.
"Occupy Auckland" Facebook Page: http://facebook.com/OccupyAuck
"Occupy Auckland" Website: http://www.occupyauckland.org
"Occupy Queen Street" Website: http://www.occupyqueenstreet.org.nz
I have witnessed some very profound things live on this website direct from New York;
http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution
Nobody in NZ is as eloquent and as clear in explaining ecological concerns as Jeanette Fitzsimons. I challenge any person in this country to explain off the cuff what is happening environmentally here in NZ … anyone! And to do it in such a way that you can feel her humanity in the timbre of her voice.
New Zealand's natural environment and resources are under assault from all quarters!
Jeanette gives an overview of what is happening, as more coal mines are planned with the long term view of every car to be diesel driven - from the extraction of coal.
Covering the increasing new methods of coal extraction to hydraulic fracturing or 'fracking' in Taranaki, we realize we are dealing with in Jeanettes words, a 'hydra' that continues to come up somewhere else.
Instead of phasing out coal mining the National lead Govt here is driving the hectic onslaught to extract more coal, see Denniston in the South Island, when we need to extricate ourselves out of the dinosaur age.
The conversation and planning needs us to invest in smart technologies and innovation (even retrofitting new 21st century synergistic turbines at the bottom of all the nearly 50 dams we have up and down our country) and keep the subject of 'energy' at the forefront of public awareness.
As for the ETS, the Emissions Trading Scheme, that it is basically a scam and that it has to be thought through. Who are the ones who benefit from all this money going offshore?
What about giant public forestry plantations that are superannuation funds for New Zealanders? There is one here at Kaingaroa, it's owned by Harvard University's endowment fund. So what about the NZ public, why are 'we' out of the loop?
So many issues … To not to be seen as too radical, Jeanette goes on to offer a strategic plan that allows us to continue mining the coal mines we have already open BUT over 20 years phase them out as they end their productive life, at the same time people in the industry keep their jobs but you don't employ any more new workers as you retire them off through natural attrition. Strategic thinking at its best as it puts the dinosaur fossil fuel industry to bed in an appropriate manner.
This is a superb clarification of the state of all the fossil fuel challenges in NZ that needs to be anchored and debated in the public consciousness.
http://coalactionnetworkaotearoa.wordpress.com
Bryan Innes and his partner Joanna Pearsall were the initiators of NZ's first EcoShow, and to this day continue their interests in the ecological and sustainability realm.
Now based in Turangi at the base of lake Taupo, they work the land at 'Awhi' Farm - the Maori word for embrace, which they are turning into a living example of sustainability and earth systems.
From working with soil, compost and mulch to tasting the sweetness of eating their own home grown organic food, they are truly living in harmony with the land.
Bryan is also experimenting with building homes with local earth materials that are cheap and affordable. Building one's own earth house is far cheaper than the mainstream models; these houses are insulated and warm, plus wooden cordwood housing actually breathes, and is ideal for asthmatics and those with certain allergies.
Bryan is also importing sustainable tools, such as scythes that are as easy and efficient as a petrol or electric weed eater, and better for you ergonomically, plus other tools made of bronze, with quality as good as steel, as bronze does not rust.
Also, following the Precautionary Principle, he is readying their lifestyle for energy decline as the global economic collapse continues to unravel.
Bryan is currently engaging Bernard Lietaer, the Belgian who was the architect of the Euro, who has shifted his allegiance to localized currencies, recognizing that the small micro-monetary systems have far more merit if we are to find a way forward. One example of this is the JAK interest free bank in Sweden.
Bryan is a gentle steadfast soul who is deeply confident about facing the future with our untapped potential for innovation and harmonious community.
www.ecoshow.co.nz
David Ford is a New Zealander who has spent much of his life overseas has decided to stand for Parliament as an independent as he feels that there is still no party who has a manifestos that fulfills his needs.
So why would a male in his late fifties want to drop everything and spend time canvassing his electorate with a message on conservation based community issues, simplicity, local, personal, organic and living healthy holistic lifestyle at optimal performance.
TURNING OUR ECONOMY AROUND and Eliminating Debt.
He believes the “blind spot” in our current Government & industry leadership thinking lies in a irrational adherence to the Northern Hemispheres “gospel of BIG”, & that this now dysfunctional hallucination has lead us into the current global economic/ecological crisis. A Crisis we will NOT emerge from by playing out the same old tired formulas & prescriptions.
It is time we all let go of this “collective hallucination” & boldly embrace a new paradigm which insures & secures an intact future for all.
Covering education, health, environment and justice, this is now a time for the conversation to extend beyond party politics to our kitchen tables and living rooms.
Expanding our health and wellbeing into the local community and eventually the biosphere as a whole. When we look at the microcosm us, in relation to the macrocosm of our planet, the only difference in many ways is a matter of scale. We can not afford to abuse our ecology, be it internal or external.
And that it is intergenerational injustice to future generations if we are not conserving all resources. What are we leaving our children and grand children?
What are the drivers that compel this man?
www.fordfuturenow.org
Neonicotinoids are often used as seed-dressing for maize, sunflower, canola and now many other seeds. However, as well as spreading throughout the entire plant and into the nectar and pollen, they also have a high leaching potential and seep into soils and groundwater.
Even low concentrations of the pesticide may be more deadly then previously thought due to their high persistence in soil and water.
Any insect that feeds on the crop dies. Any bee or butterfly that collects pollen or nectar from the crop is poisoned. Neonicotinoids behave like carcinogens, and easily contaminate ground and surface water.
There could be dire long-term consequences of environmental pollution with these insecticides, and these fears are now being confirmed by extensive research.
Even minute traces of these pesticides could be fatal to insects, as continued use affects food availability for birds, a lack of weeds resulting in a loss of insects, as well as seeds. This decline is also linked to a lack of larger insects upon which chicks depend for their survival, which in turn affects breeding.
‘An ecological collapse is already taking place before our eyes,’ says *Dutch toxicologist Dr Henk Tennekes told the British Ecologist publication. ‘Numerous bird species do not find enough food for their chicks as insects are being exterminated by pesticides. Insects are vital in ecosystems. In fact, we need them for human survival.’
‘In the UK alone, beekeepers [have in the recent past] reported a loss of one in three bee colonies,’ said a spokesperson. ‘This has serious consequences for worldwide food security, because bees are our most important pollinators and play a vital role in the food chain – it is estimated that one-third of human food supplies depend on bee pollination.
Bees are therefore like the "canary in the coal mine" – their deaths are a warning to us all that the health of the planet is under threat.
Karen Wealleans of www.changingspaces.co.nz and Pat Baskett: patbaskett(at)xtra.co.nz
In New Zealand, the Green Party via Sue Kedgely on Thursday, 08 Sep 2011 have taken an urgent submission to Parliament. To SAVE THE BEES.
It's a Report to the Local Government and Environment Select Committee.
Save the Bees Petition
Read more about this excellent work that Sue Kedgely is doing.
http://www.greens.org.nz/submissions/save-bees-submission
More resources;
www.beesource.com
www.greenhealthwatch.com urbanbeeprojectseattle.com/pesticidestory
www.gaia-health.com
www.pierreterre.com
When you have youth, are passionate, vital, believe in duty of care, how do your express it?
What generation is taking the lead in innovation in NZ? Who is articulating the conversation into a ecological framework?
Will our education and learning establishments create a new tomorrow, that is holistic in intent and puts us as a small country at the forefront of positive change?
Listen to a young, dedicated and enthusiastic voice raise the bar in languaging what it is to having New Zealand be a creative force as the emerging microcosm for the planetary macrocosm and use media technology to drive the message of connectivity inclusive of solutions.
As a grouping of 50 trillion cells we find that they all work in unison for the benefit of our body, especially when we live a healthy lifestyle. The heart as an organ freely distributes blood to all the other cells and organs of the body, just like the lungs supply oxy haemoglobin to the heart freely.
The need to perceive community and countries as cells in the global body that in the coming new perspective of mutual survival will have us all work towards everyone consciously benefitting the whole.
www.cellsofearth.com
The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment is a watch dog on the NZ Environment, outside of Government (like an Ombudsmen but with a small O), making sure that Government are following environmental protocols that are going to benefit the long term goals of the country.
In this interview Morgan clarifies what is green, sustainable and prosperous and that the Parliamentary political term is too short, as nothing really gets done. That there is only one educational institution in NZ that has integrated sustainability through everyone of its courses. Why?
The increasing costs of food, water and energy that will cause social unrest, and can we meet the social demand without having huge unrest.
And the many challenges that need to be addressed at a causal level, with an extra 2 billion population in the next 30 years.
Discusses the immediate and long view of NZ within the context of a deteriorating globalized economic, environmental and societal scenario.
John Robinson, who gained his Doctorate at MIT in the USA is highly skilled in global contexts, having worked for the DSIR, OECD, UNESCO, UNEP and UNU. Plus other wide-ranging interdisciplinary work.
His focus is to open up the inquiry to NZ's future, at a national level to debates and to argue pros and cons at conventions, and events to enable the discussion to connect both town and country and for engaged NZers to discuss and shape our common future in these increasingly precarious times.
When the people lead the politicians follow, and this is how it should be, especially when the populace have accessed the knowledge, are informed and are clear about consequences. Do we want to rise to this level of personal responsibility?
Topics Covered:
His research shows that we are a controlled society and are brainwashed, like no other peoples before us. Advertising and media control all the programs, so how do we break out? How do we the people reorganize the media?
John unambiguously states that capitalism and unbridled growth has had its day especially on our finite planet. As it is trashing the earth's ecosystems, habitats, oceans and forested areas. There is a limit to growth and we can only expand so far.
Science also has to be freed up totally, as there is a great deal of information that has been covered up and closed down and the need for open and free discussion, including policy analysts within Govt to express their views and concerns, including having jobs for all.
There is a need for the bringing down of our population and the debate of having fewer children, stop the overuse of the car and stop the roads of national significance. Advocating controlling our currency and restructuring or closing down the stock market . This includes tax changes.
Defaulting on our overseas debt, could be a possibility. What could be the outcome?
We need to get serious and organize our country and think about having a very highly refined wide-ranging interdisciplinary research system that is linked country wide, that dispenses information, ideas, and possibilities.
johnrob [at] paradise.net.nz www.ibws.blogspot.com
NZ can definitely model an organic society and be the planet's ark for heirloom seed, free of genetic manipulation and compared with all countries, we stand apart as having the communication system to bring about an urgent shift in awareness.
This being especially now, as food, energy and societal / cultural challenges face us down, when we can take a more simplified strategy to become intimately closer and connected to the land.
This is where the value set of this renewing paradigm is based on simplicity, reciprocity and organics - offering one means to that pathway with a very physical hands on approach, around community, the seeking of truth and the many virtues around being human, such as beauty, forgiveness and co-operation.
This change needs to be an individual and collective decision making process and not from a top down mechanism, for example, what type of society sprays chemical poisons on its food and then eats it?
There is a need, for us as modelers for a revitalised tomorrow to be far more conscious than this!
What is cultural intelligence? What is relationship? How do we align to the web of life? Brendan lucidly covers these topics and asks the question, can NZ provide leadership and not 'followship' in the months and years to come?
www.organicsystems.co.nz
www.organic-systems.org
www.ifoam.org
Under this initiative 39 Community gardens and an increasing number of schools are putting in gardens across the Auckland isthmus.
Are you a community based organisation, group, Marae, Church, or school wanting to set up an edible garden? You may be eligible for help.
The aim of this program is to make growing your own fruit and veggies the normal thing to do.
We are starting with community gardens in places like the Marae, schools, churches, public open spaces etc., so people can re-learn how to grow fresh veggies - and enjoy eating cheap organic veggies.
From that we hope they will go home and plant a few in their own back-yard. This is where it really has to start, out of our own back yards.
People working and sharing alongside each other, find kinship and camaraderie and deepen ones understanding of what it is like to be human and embedded in nature.
Community is a solution to global economic problems.
When we find ourselves outside our house or the building we work in - away from overhead lights, phones, computers and air conditioning and spending time in the garden, or grounds surrounded by trees and shrubs, we enter another realm. This realm is one that we basically disconnected from when the industrial revolution drew us into cities of brick, concrete and steel.
Now a grass roots revolution is again happening in the garden.
Richard Main Project Manager
Community Gardens across Auckland's Isthmus.
http://www.dpt.org.nz/Grdn4health/grdn4health.html
Gary Cook is a leading writer on the special nature of the mystic realms that are to be found in New Zealand.
An explorer of ancient sacred places and energy sites in the unique New Zealand landscape, Gary has devoted many years of searching and writing of the wonders to be found within the islands of New Zealand and the South Pacific.
His extensive journeys and experiences allow him to share much of the deeper nature of the forests, the waters and the mountains that allows us all to connect with the natural order in a deeper and more meaningful way.
The interview ranges over what evidence is available of earlier Portuguese and Spanish visits off the Northland coast, back to the Egyptians of Rata and Maui as well as early Chinese indications in the South Island.
To Auckland's energy nodal power point or 'acupuncture meridian' beneath One Tree Hill, Maungakiekie and dowsing to recognizing the sacred of mother earth in having reverence for nature, plus communion with the biota of the natural world, to what is the role of taniwha.
The author of two books in the Secret Land series, Gary is a regular contributor to Australian and New Zealand magazines offering readers unique glimpses of the sacred landscape of Aotearoa.
He holds honorary Doctorates in Science and Philosophy, and is a Temple Knight within the Supreme Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem and Knight Grand Commander of Grace and Duke of the Duchy of St Michel de Clermont.
http://www.secretland.co.nz
Is there another crunch coming ... as early as late this year? This is what is being perceived that maybe by 2012 at the latest.
Why is the Govt not looking at conservation measures or fuel efficiency?
The NZ National Government and the Labour Party refuse to acknowledge that global oil production has hit a plateau and that estimates of oil deposits are shrinking and that oil companies have even declined to prospect in NZ waters due to increasing costs.
NZ will be hit harder than the USA when it comes to dependence on oil, due to our intensive use of fuels in agriculture, forestry and tourism.
85 to 89 million barrels production per day is a gigantic number that has been basically pumped at the same level for the last 4 years.
We have used up this endowment of cheap easy oil and the bubble is about to burst.
It takes a 10 to 15 year run up time before production of oil or coal can be deployed, with no huge breakthroughs in finding new oil fields, plus the problem of releasing more pollution into the atmosphere and very few hybrids and electric cars, earth citizens are running out of time and ideas.
How do we look ahead at what may happen and what do we put in place to invoke 'the precautionary principle' - do we have to stand at petrol pumps for a number of hours some time in the future to actually ... get it?
This is not fear mongering, this is envisioning where we go as a supposedly intelligent species.
Denis Tegg; Previously interviewed as the Coromandel Watch Dog, in Stopping Mining in
our National Parks.
http://oilshockhorrorprobe.blogspot.com
http://www.energybulletin.net
We the human race are grounded in the possibility of potential, and that within the subatomic realms - that we are composed of and totally surrounded by ... everything in reality is actually consciousness.
We are an energy field inside a universal energy field - many will say a 'divine' energy field.
So what does this make us?
Join the revolution of the self as we journey deeper into a more expansive level of science and of being, as we realise the possibilities of our inner potential and the transformation of ourselves and ... the human race?
We are now at a crossroads on our planet to take a conscious leap with this new knowing ... what are our possibilities?
www.amitgoswami.org
Edited today 31 January 2014 - Green Fire Horse of the Chinese Calendar
Amit has been to NZ a number of times, and the imperative is that we realise that as 'energy bundles of exponential potential' the only thing that is truly stopping us - is ourselves and our own process!
We will find that there is as much to know on the inner as there is in the outer world. Become balanced and do both ... Tim
A conversation around key strategies and healthy choices to take care of ones being, during stressful times.
How do we relate to the present and deepening our understanding of our place in the ecology, that surrounds us?
A wide ranging discussion from organic food, to Koanga Gardens now Kaiwaka Organics, to broths, and seeds - about Chinese and Indian foods, many greens eaten in China and many seeds in curries in India.
No frying of foods is encouraged - due to the fact that the heat and the oils/fats produce free radicals, that are detrimental to bodily health.
What can we grow at our own back door?
Can we and should we catch rainwater off our roof, once the first 10 minutes of rain flushes the roof and guttering, to then put through a filter for house use?
What quality of water are we pumping into our city from the Waikato River and drinking?
Dr Masaru Emoto, the Japanese researcher of thought and intention using frozen water crystals programed with Love and Gratitude that show an exquisitely, elegant and refined geometry compared to hate, and a dark convoluted unsightly structure.
Stress free living, is paramount for us as a humanity, and the need to simplify our life during these times.
The act of giving to others feeds us 'warm' hormones that makes us feel good inside and more connected. That we innately respond when reciprocity is engaged in.
And much more …
John Coombs and Fi Rutland
http://www.globalhealthclinics.co.nz
We as a human, still struggle with understanding existence and Tom as a researcher of natural phenomena has focussed on the arcane, or what we call esoteric science and knowledge, that has led him to experience existence from another quadrant of being.
In many ways he says we are enlightened, yet we have been programed by genetic and our localised environment to not realize this.
Subjects covered:
From New Zealander Trevor Constable, author of The Cosmic Pulse of Life and his cloud busting /weather making - to sylphs - and Wilhelm Reich's experiments on orgone energy and psychological insights around character armoring, to Rudolph Steiners, philosophical understandings, bio-dynamic farming and our connection to existence.
Ranging across the colour spectra and colours of the rainbow to light and electrical phenomena, and Nikola Tesla's wireless electricity 'that could have' if his finance was not withdrawn, revolutionized electricity generation and supply - planet round.
Asking the question, did Albert Einstein, deliberately disown the ether, to lock Tesla out of the scientific community by stripping ether out, to leave space as a void?
Discussing the intense electrification of our planet since the 1950's, especially pulsing power lines encompassing the landscape to huge amounts of space junk, in low earth orbit.
He encourages us to question our beliefs and programs that we take on.
www.free-energy.ws is one such web site.
Finishing with the statement that when aligned with a profound new knowing we humans are living mandala ourselves.
www.thomasbrown.org
Imagine hundreds of earth conscious communities networked across our nation by goodwill (and fiber optics) being embedded in both the rural sector and urban environments, that have their own currency, of both Green Dollars and Time Banks.
These all linked by localised computer networks (but also without computers) that if you are short of NZ hard currency you can still earn, trade and be innovative business people and entrepreneurs. Where volunteers actually get paid, and there is no lack or want.
Starting from a background in organic gardens, permaculture, and community projects over the past 25 years, Laurence has sought key levers for change.
In the early to mid 90’s he founded the Environmental Business Network drawing more than 500 companies into its membership under his leadership, (the network later became the Sustainable Business Network). In this time he worked with people like Anita Roddick of The Body Shop and Dr Karl Hendrik Robert founder of The Natural Step.
Advocating community solutions led to Transition Towns and Living Economies -as movements. In conjunction with AnewNZ he runs 'The Bank of Real Solutions' a clearing house of community success stories which runs the by-line, ‘Out-thinking the problems because we can.’
He believes our barriers to a sustainable future are not from a lack of ability but from systemic corruption and cowardice, but most of all – a lack of imagination.
He lives in Golden Bay with his wife and 3 daughters and is enthusiastically involved with several community projects
In the age of globalisation, community is the anecdote ... and 'possibility is the new currency'. Want to belong and feel part of a greater, more coherent organism - where the synergy of people is based on working and playing towards the benefit of the whole? Then in the worlds of Bruce Lipton "work towards shaping and creating community".
Transition Towns: www.tt.org.nz
Living Economies: www..le.org.nz
AnewNZ: www.anewnz.org.nz
The Bank of Real Solutions: www.realsolutions.org.nz
Rod Oram, Business Journalist covers the spectrum of business and how it relates to everything.
Stating that New Zealand in many ways is only a reflection of what's happening around the world.
Covering: Our current economic model that has hit the wall - environmentally, socially and economically which he says sounds pretty dire ... both Government and business get very low marks for lack of vision and innovation.
Clean green image - we are pushing our luck ... We are too casual as to how we treat the environment.
Organic food growing is definitely the best process as it mimics natural process but ... how easy is it for NZ to convert, and would we obtain the volume of produce required?
We are the only developed country with no emmission standards for cars and trucks and having the oldest fleet in the world too. Why?
Plus forestry, huge challenges - how much carbon is stored in a tree? How is this calculated? Could we plant gigantic forests that all New Zealanders have shares in, for a nationwide superannuation scheme?
The role of communities and leadership is where we are heading, local leadership can impel Governments to follow, as they will not really lead, but if they do their pattern is to force things onto people. We need to learn the nature of how organisations work and how the nature of leadership works within this context.
Grass roots change is becoming very important, where we the people can instigate change via the Government because they have been given a mandate to legislate the changes needed - but it has to come from us.
Then get countries overseas to do the same - then global change becomes possible.
We also need to trust each other more in our relationships with each other.
Covering New Zealand's current debt and the TPPA The Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement, and that we need a country wide debate on it.
:- An important overview by a very keen voice of balance and reason.
This new magazine recently launched to fill the void left by the Healthy Options publication being forced off the market by vested interests here in NZ.
The New Zealand Journal of Natural Medicine explores a wide range of topics that are relevant to maintaining or regaining good health.
These include nutritional healing, herbal medicine, New Zealand native Rongoa, exercise, homeopathy, Traditional Chinese Medicine, massage and many other modalities that can contribute to improving people’s health.
This in depth interview covers:
• Radiation protection as a response to the Japanese nuclear reactors leaking radiation into the Pacific ocean and atmosphere and the benefits of using tumeric as one method, which incidentally is used in curries being a very good antioxidant. Iodine is another radiation protector.
• Also discussed is, thermography, a benign non invasive test for breasts, that is far better for woman to have as apposed to having a mammogram, which is essentially an X-ray of the breast, where women are exposed to a small amount of radiation. But this method is not being supported by the Health Dept here in NZ, where both methods could supplement each other.
• Raising a Vaccine-Free Child which leads to the NZ Health Select Committee report on how to increase immunisation completion rates that have a number of coercive recommendations. And that the Department of Health here do not always tell the truth and censor vital information that parents and Doctors NEED TO KNOW. See also: www.noforcedvaccines.org for information on this issue.
• EECP therapy. A procedure that grows new blood vessels. Recent data in 2005 documenting the effectiveness of Enhanced External Counterpulsation (EECP) for the treatment of angina has failed to bring this apparently effective procedure into the mainstream of cardiology practice. Why are cardiologists avoiding this safe, noninvasive treatment like the plague?
A well balanced assessment by a healer, who appreciates the good work of doctors and nurses who want to serve the sick and unwell.
www.naturalmedicine.net.nz
There are many methods to treat cancer today that cover the full spectrum, from surgery, radiation, chemotherapy and drugs, to a vast array of holistic modalities and natural therapies, to visualisation and spiritual healing.
By bridging all medical methods, Grace collaborates with oncologists in an endeavour to find the best outcomes for patients.
With a marked increase in cancer across the human race, we inherently know that the pollution of both mind, body and planet, is totally related. However, we also know that cancer can attack anyone at any age, for no known reason and with no warning.
Listen to an exceptionally dedicated and connected healer who has worked with over 13,000 patients sharing her gifts and goodwill to empower them and their loved ones on this journey to deliver and cure us from this debilitating syndrome.
Covering the need for love, supportive family, de-stressing, clearing toxic relationships, to practical steps such as diet, exercise, meditation, prayer, yoga, and positive thinking.
Also mentioned is the impact of cosmetics, air quality, agriculture, food chain issues such as hormones, pesticides, electromagnetic influences etc.
Grace also teaches patients how to spin gold from straw and turn cancer into a transformative process and experience?
This very clear and inspiring interview, is a must for any dear family member, friend or associate who at this moment may be struggling to heal and recover and I wish to encourage you to pass this information to those whom you feel could benefit from Graces goodwill.
www.gracegawler.com/institute
Is famine coming our way, as food prices continue climbing at the same time as fuel prices? Are we entering a increasingly insecure world?
Realising that a billion people, a very large part of the global family here on earth are going to bed hungry, Oxfam in around 40 countries, has initiated a giant global campaign called GROW which is an intelligent response to the hunger that people are suffering from at this very moment.
Where recently hunger has been declining, it has since 2008 risen dramatically, where in 23 countries there have been food riots and major protests in 61.
This is coming at a time of Peak oil, but Peak Agricultural Land Use was reached in around 1999 to 2001 and has been in actual decline ever since.
This is a critical issue that deserves serious attention, attention in the world already in the grip of multiple, economic, environmental and societal challenges.
Note that the average NZ family spends 16% of its income on food, whilst in the developing world 50% of a families income is spent on food. If our food price doubles we spend 1/3 of our income on food, if theirs doubles there will be nothing left - only hunger. Yet, we in the West suffer from the strange predicament of obesity and diabetes, whilst the developing world, actually starve.
Good safe food, like good clean water needs to be a human right, yet global food growth has been flat lining for the last 30 years and is of increasing concern.
At the same time woman's emancipation, education, and her need for control over her destiny and reproductive system, have to be supported, particularly in patriarchal and developing world societies.
With the GROW campaign, food has to be good, G E Free, preferably organic, fairly grown, harvested and paid for, and all people in the supply chain have to know where it comes from and how it was produced.
The aim of Oxfam in this worthy initiative is to enable all peoples as well as the developing world to start growing food more easily and every day and healthy food at that, resulting in healthy bodies, that empowers the family and bringing them closer together, saving money across the board, especially in the health systems, prisons, and the work force.
Statistics show that the more access to education and the more woman are empowered and have the ability to feed oneself, the smaller families can become.
Oxfam in taking this initiative is acting both ethically and strategically to avert a new age of crisis.
Learn from a very coherent and articulate communicator of how Oxfam a Non Governmental Organisation is mobilising globally to meet the challenge of encouraging the localisation of growing food, even here and in so called developed countries.
Starting off this global GROW campaign first, here in NZ on the 1st of June.
http://www.Oxfam.org.nz
Listen to a very lucid and eye opening critique on the state of Auckland, our new Supercity
Mels Barton is the editor of the Glen Eden Guardian, Secretary of the Titirangi Ratepayers Assoc, Trustee of the Ecomatters Environment Trust, and the Weed Free Trust, the Secretary of the Friends of Regional Parks, the National Coordinator of Sea Week, plus President of GAG (the Grassroots Action Group), Mels has her finger on many pulses.
Find out how the elected council representatives are being totally overloaded with information and data, then expected to vote on issues that they do not have the necessary time to research. For example, having to attend a council meeting in two days time, but given a 500 page dossier to read and fully understand.
Note, that where once our democratic process was to vote in a full council who managed the ongoing affairs of the city, today Auckland appears to have a two tier system that operates with a corporate model embedded in all aspects of council, and that elected council members are often dependent on council staff for information, who may have mixed loyalties with how the business of council is run.
The message being heard is the urgent need for transparency in all aspects of the democratic process, ‘if we the people are to have our elected servants serve our express wishes for self governance, these servant have to be seen to be acting on behalf of the wishes of the people.’ Be it at local or at a national level.
An insightful interview, that ends with very good news that trees and stands of trees in the Auckland regional council areas, plus Waitakere and the Northshore have been saved from the axe.
From 1 January 2012, following the National government’s 2009 changes to the Resource Management Act, the only way to protect trees on private land was to have them scheduled (listed in the District Plan), a very prolonged and labour intensive practice.
Fortunately, the above changes have been overturned by our Judicial system who have recognized the short sightedness of this hurried 2009 legislation.
www.gag.net.nz
One of the greater challenges for both the individual and groups of human beings today, is to find a way to organize ourselves to plan and build a successful business, or community initiative and (if viable) actually make it happen - every time, with easy to use templates.
Dana Darwin, originally from Canada, now domiciled in NZ is a Founder of Platform One Foundation Charitable Trust, which is the umbrella organisation that supports the platform network of villages. He is also a Core member of a NZ based global Person-to-Person network actively developing and implementing a bottom up system model of organisation for businesses and communities. Bottom up, means from the grass roots up.
Dana is actively engaged with many organisations including Solar Industries Association, Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority, Auckland City Council, and closely aligned and working with a large NZ based group of companies and business professionals delivering positive results in the sustainability arena.
With a very broad work experience from commercial fisherman, logger, machinery operator, boat captain, builder, establishment of and living completely off grid, saw milling, extensive blue water sailing, commercial diving, farming including animal husbandry, organics, market gardening, food processing, tree planting, subdivisions, consent processes, consulting and project management services, facilitation, IT systems architecture, and business development, he understands the pitfalls and challenges when shaping a system that has to be robust and reliant as we look towards an unsure future in the world of today.
Listen to a strong and enthusiastic committed person devoted to our natural environment, supporting Youth (and of all ages) sustainable Energy conversations of all kinds, personal and community spiritual evolution, creating engagement tools, that provide value to the individual while supporting our global community. Providing Clarity, Consistency and Being, his is the voice of Leadership amidst the clamor of global awakening.
dana(at)organicdesign.co.nz Web site launching late June.
The Good, the bad and the ugly, in reverse order.
Why is it that the NZ Govt and a number of Departments plus some businesses here have no interest at all in GE Free NZ, Nuclear Free NZ and Clean Green NZ?
Why do they seem to want the swamp of sameness for our unique situation, by not positioning us to possibly be the only organic country on earth with a massive marketing (and moral) advantage? An Ark no less.
And why is it that the NATIONAL government has done away and cancelled the - 100% Pure NZ - campaign and white washed it to now be - The New Zealand 100% Pure You - campaign, which does away with our country and landscape being 100% PURE and is just a play on words.
Meanwhile, the 100% pure visitor, can unknowingly breathe in more uncontrolled exhaust fumes, drink more chemically treated and sanitised water and presumedly consume in the fast coming future, locally grown non organic GE food! Becoming instead a 100% laboratory experimental tourist.
Why are we selling our pristine landscape out, our principles and our ethical ideals?
And our children and grandchildren!
Hear a very coherent and passionate statement of the deplorable situation in this country of insider connivance to want to sully our food chain, and extend it into the animal kingdom as well as forestry.
However we have allies!
Note that the Vatican in January 2011 stated that:
There was no truth in claims the Holy See approved of biotech crops. Cardinal Peter Appiah Turkson, a Ghanian who heads the Vatican's key office for Justice and Peace, likenend the economic dependence on big corporations that GM crops bring, to a new form of slavery.
www.gmwatch.org
And listen to how the people of Northland and the Whangarei City council are resisting and that Whangarei District Councilors have voted to unanimously reject the outdoor use of genetically engineered (GE) crops and animals in the District.
The historic vote rejecting the outdoor planting of GE crops and trees reflects the concerns of communities about the lack of protection afforded by central government in relation to GE and land use.
The Communities, ratepayers and consumers have realised their basic right to protect the food system and environment, and that is what the decision supports.
This is where all New Zealanders need to rally behind the people of Northland and extend this GE free notion all the way down the country.
http://www.gefree.org.nz
http://www.giantexperiment.co.nz
This weeks interview is very disturbing and it will alarm you. Little do we know the extent of what is happening as rapacious big business, with industry insiders, compliant and or silent media and gagged politicians see off New Zealands assets and sovereignty in what is a shocking expose of corporate takeover in this country. It’s unprecedented!
Huge areas of land are being sold off to overseas interests, businesses too, and the NZ public is completely unaware.
Representatives of Government are secretly negotiating agreements and treaties, that do not have to be ratified by Parliament, (unlike America, where they have to go before Congress) that when signed, locks NZ into contracts that will be impossible to withdraw from.
As for our military relationship with the USA, listen for some very secretive info that we know nothing about. And what wiki links says about insiders in NZ, who are working against our sovereignty and security and not in the interests of our people as a whole.
Why the secrecy?
Listen to Murray’s passionate overview of what is happening right at this very moment on:
Note that the TPPA - is called TAKING PEOPLES POWER AWAY! IT’S NOT A TRADE AGREEMENT
OF INTEREST: Since the devastating Christchurch Earthquake, community groups from the grass roots up are making a very significant impact by working with locals to support them with repairs, food, health, energy and general goodwill. It is grass roots organizations that are the essential key to community coming together.
http://www.cafca.org.nz
http://www.tppwatch.org
http://www.nznotforsale.org
Listen to a heart felt story of connection with water and its sacredness.
Hear his greetings of goodwill and tears, how indigenous peoples respond to water that nourishes – our living planet PapaTuanuku our sustainer.
Though the Earth is in trouble, it is we humans who need healing. Our planet, though continually abused, sings us awake every morning by birdsong, and flowers opening.
We are the water carriers, water vessels shaped as clay, and as man and woman, we need to come back together to coalesce in aroha.
Mike has a local river called Tara ariki, passing by his house, this is his connection. Where once gold and silver miners polluted these arteries, Mike has been the river's advocate -- one man's journey to stand for the creeks, rivers and streams for 25 years, to clean up what are sacred waters.
As an avid clay worker, he uses this medium to express his connection with Mother Earth and the beings that share this world.
A passionate man calls to reconnect with the water and the song in our being -- and the water outside our being -- and become one with the great cycle of existence with family and community.
What makes a young New Zealander want to have his own radio show that after less than a year is on 24 radio stations, 23 of them outside of New Zealand?
How is it that other non mainstream media is making inroads towards the populace who are fed up with mainstream media, because of the lack of real news, depth and background information and that there are fewer and fewer NZ journalists and actual news services in this country?
To have a revolution in ‘consciousness’ within society, you first have to have a revolution in media to facilitate the revolution in the mind that translates to the revolution on the street – that is the goal of Vinny Eastwood of the Vinny Eastwood show.com - NZ’s leader at the forefront of Guerilla media – leading people with insightful news and comedy at the cutting edge of what’s happening here in NZ and exploring the underbelly of NZ politics, media, justice, corporate fraud and take over and anything else that links into the shadow and helps us to see the lighter side of genocide!
Why is it that a growing number of global citizens are wanting to know more about grass root situations, localized community and self sufficiency and in particular at the other and of the spectrum, what the New World Order really means? And that as things get better and better, things actually get worse and worse!
Why are solutions not being actively sought from the community, or supported by mainstream media, with more positive feedback, yet bills are now being rushed and rammed through Parliament under urgency? Why the urgency?
With talk of Corporate takeover from the forced amalgamation of Auckland as a super city, to the mining of giant deposits of a massive lignite coal field in Southland, to oil and gas exploration off the East Coast of NZ, the continued sneaking in of genetic engineered organisms into NZ, and the recently passed Copyright Bill, with a Security and Intelligence Bill hovering over us, the ordinary NZer feels that we as a small country are under assault from the machinations of big business and offshore manipulation of our Sovereignty.
Hence the rise of guerilla media and alternative news to say that there is another way at perceiving what is maybe … or actually - really going on.
http://www.thevinnyeastwoodshow.com
http://www.guerillamedia.co.nz
Imagine New Zealanders being able to have easy access to a huge nationwide network of every health and healing modality available.
From Acupuncture, Homeopathy, Osteopathy, and Naturopathy, plus Massage, Aromatherapy, Iridology and Chiropractic. Today we have Alexander Technique, Bowen Therapy, Hellerwork and Rolfing plus Feldenkrais as well as the tried and true herbal elixirs, potions and tonics and many methods to detox us and eliminate poisons from our body.
Going further, we also have vibrational healing, like Bach flowers, and plant and crystal essences, and even colour therapy, plus medical intuitives and many variations of hands-on spiritual healing.
Why have so many methods of healing? Because the current allopathic medical model is failing us due to it’s near total emphasis on selling us drugs and pharmaceuticals and treating our body as a machine with no soul.
With 9,000 certified holistic health practitioners and healers in NZ, listen to how they are organising themselves into a vast community network to be able to efficiently and effectively play a critical if not a pivotal role in keeping us healthy and focusing on preventative methods and thus being at the ‘top of the cliff' and not the 'ambulance at the bottom of the cliff’.
This is where personal responsibility for ‘one’s health of one’s temple’ is taking us during these times of awakening to our body, mind and spirit.
GreenplanetFM 104.6 Thurs 8-9am 14th April
Jonathan Callinan The Wellness Directory
Expert Practitioners @ Your Fingertips
http://www.thewellnessdirectory.co.nz
Do you receive signals from the Earth to be aware of future events?
Is the food you eat abundantly nutritious?
Our planetary biosphere is in greater peril than ever. While climate change is the greatest challenge of our time, it also presents the greatest possibility - an unprecedented opportunity to build a healthy, prosperous, clean energy economy, now and for the future.
The desire to generate a balance of living has motivated Tim to change his life and speak out about the lack of balance on Earth today. Covering the Earth's cycles, natural farming to restoring the acoustical vibration of nature.
What would it take for farmers to be in communion with the rhythms of the earth and nature?
From 3am to 3pm the earth is exhaling (outward energy). This energy has an effect on every thing on this planet. From 3pm to 3am the earth is inhaling (inward energy).
For example; have you ever noticed a stream or a creek running in the morning when it is pouring down rain, will run extra fast and higher and it can still be pouring down rain in the afternoon but the creek has gone down and is not as high. This is because the earth has an outward energy in the morning, so the water runs off the earth quicker and in the afternoon the earth has an inward energy so it is pulling the water down soaking it into the earth.
What is the significance of these two forces?
WE HAVE CHOICE. We can maintain the consumption of life or we can be the Celebration of Living! Which one will you choose?
Event
Australian Access Consciousness Facilitator & Sustainable Farming expert ~ Tim Bothams will facilitate an evening of gifting you tools and questions that can be applied immediately to have you access a greater sense of peace amongst the chaos that is currently occurring.
When: One night only! Saturday 9th April 7 pm -545 Parnell Rd Auckland
Location / Venue: Parnell Community Centre, 545 Parnell Road
Cost: Adults $75, youth 16-19 $38, 15 & under no fee to attend.
Call Sharon to register: 0212 442811 - sharon.fgibson@gmail.com
This morning we continue last weeks forthright discussion with Dr Bruce Lipton, Norma Tarango and myself weaving a raft of subject matter that looks at emergent humanity within the cultural creative movement - that includes the holistic, green, social justice, metaphysical, potentials, spirituality, peace movement and more.
Covering Gaia, sacred connection, planetary restoration, indigenous understanding, humanity, quantum consciousness, conscious parenting, personal responsibility and community empowerment.
The urgency being - we need to do this daily by thinking it, talking to our family, engaging our neighbours and connecting with our community.
The new evolution is that each human being, individually is an entity unto themselves – and now science is recognizing some thing called a super organism - where each human is a cell in the body of a much larger organism called Humanity – and now humanity is set to evolve to a different level and this is in regard to relationship and family and each other - to unity and community. From the local to the global - it is Conscious Evolution and an Awakening Earth!
This delightful conversational riff spontaneously occurred between Bruce Lipton, Norma Tarango and myself as part of Green Planet FM’s ongoing relationship with what concerns our planet.
We found ourselves impassioned about systems of governance and the corporate take over model, and how it impedes the development of community and its needs for energy, health and food independence.
Food, money, wellbeing, and indigenous values are also reflected in this interview as part of how we can live on Gaia - in greater harmony.
What is poignantly addressed by these two Americans is how and why New Zealand should resist corporate power and control and avoid emulating the collapsing systems of the United States.
Dr. Lipton describes this dominance as a serious ailment that is leading us into systemic patterns of total breakdown. Both Norma and Bruce speak to what comprises a healthy, cohesive and sane society as grassroots community endeavors - beating as one heart. Being thoughtful witnesses to what is happening in America they make a compelling argument for New Zealand’s capacity to act in greater community fashion.
This powerful insightful interview shows how friends and family too can spontaneously evolve by having these types of conversation to mobilize their commitment to creating a world that we all want to live in and is sustainable.
As mentioned:
TONY BENN British Labour Cabinet Minister, a vegetarian since the 1970s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Benn
“A GOVERNMENT DOES NOT WANT A HEALTHY, INTELLIGENT POPULATION BECAUSE THEY ARE FAR TOO DIFFICULT TO MANAGE.
http://www.Spontaneousevolutionbook.com
http:/www.BruceLipton.com
http:/www.BeliefBook.com
What if 98% of Health Care could recede and go away, and knowledgeable self-care could replace it. What would we do with US$1.6 trillion in savings? - Mother Nature's strongest medicines are waiting for you (in exactly the right doses and without any side effects) - in whole foods.
Don Tolman has had privileged access to private museums, rare books collections, and ancient manuscripts, and has rediscovered the secrets of health & vitality lost to humanity for millennia.
Listen to Don Tolman and learn of the whole food wisdom of the Ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Hebrews, Chinese, Native Americans, Incas and others who through time treated themselves to high vitality and longevity using plant whole foods.
As an emergent species, the human race has slowly evolved to where we are today - to a point of crises and opportunity.
Little do we know of the seed that carries our physicality forward, the encoded DNA that over eons has impeccably replicated itself in a continuous re-generational sequence - and it has only been in the last few generations we in the Western world have come to a greater understanding of our connection to bloodlines and whakapapa.
What we have found is that we in many differing ways have been programmed by our immediate ancestors and survival situations, to belief systems that are now seen in many ways as outmoded - ways of thinking, that do not serve the spirit of unity, of family, iwi and community all the way to a globalised family of humanity.
Old patterns, of control, patriarchy, victimhood, want, 'sin' and fear are on one hand, falling away yet on the other hand the old virtues that have been around for millennia, but have been subsumed or forgotten are re-emerging to remind us of Love, aroha, goodwill, co-operation, courage and community to embrace latter day vernacular of innovation, solution, personal empowerment, higher consciousness, and connection.
These are the spring board of our next evolutionary step into a global spirituality.
And there are many differing ways to access this new way of knowing.
Ojasvin Kingi Davis is Maori from the people of Ngaitupoto, Ngatihine, Ngapuhi of Aotearoa, New Zealand. His bloodline and family traditions reaches back to the stream of Waitaha and Waiomu. In his upbringing and studies he was uniquely immersed in his living culture. Since 1998 he studies the Yoga of Integral Learning. Ojasvin became a fully certified teacher for Yoga of this system of the school Min-I.L.I.T.
With his partner Iris Häusermann Davis who was born and raised in Switzerland and whose parents presented her with an artistic upbringing that connected her to nature through the Waldorf School of Zug. Continuing on she became a public teacher before she studied theater and dance in Zürich.
For six years she is co-working with Ojasvin around the world and has co-created with him the integral learning programme of Grandmothers Healing Haka. Since 2003 Iris has studied the Yoga of Integral Learning and is a certified teacher of the basic Elements from the school Min-I.L.I.T.
The key to it all is the realisation that we are all part of a greater whole, we are one human race awakening to our connection to a larger human organism coming together to see that we individually and collectively are immense and potent beings. That our similarities and virtues are far more compelling than our differences and that in the spirit of Aroha and kaitiakitanga (guardianship of the biosphere) we can individually and collectively shape our future on this living planet papa-tuanuku - Mother Earth that science is slowly awakening to realize is - sentient.
www.grandmothershealinghaka.com
This agreement if signed will affect virtually every New Zealander for the rest of this century. It basically takes away our sovereignty and we become pawns in a globalist corporate agenda.
What are its affects?
The TPPA would be an agreement that guarantees special rights to foreign investors. If these negotiations succeed they will create a mega-treaty across 9 countries that will put a straight jacket around what policies and laws [NZ] governments can adopt for the next century – think no GM labelling, overriding our Laws on foreign investment, shackling PHARMAC, increasing price of medicines, no regulating info on cigarette packs, and not regulating dodgy finance firms, less NZ content on TV, private prisons, privatising education, land acquisitions, mining, fishing, high rise hotels at NZ beaches? …
As the secret Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations have been completed in Auckland, an alliance of civil society groups in participating countries have announced a “release the text” campaign ahead of the next round of talks in February 2011 in Chile.
The co-ordinated campaign aims to mobilise central and local government lawmakers, civil society organisations and ordinary citizens to demand an end to the shroud of secrecy around the negotiations.
“The negotiators themselves say this is not an ordinary free trade agreement. It would reach deep behind the border into the realm of domestic policy and regulation, super-imposing enforceable constraints over decisions for which our elected parliaments and local councils are currently responsible.”
If this TPPA really is so good for us, why are they scared to release the draft text and open it to scrutiny?There are now draft texts on the table on financial services and investment, and possibly more. Negotiators have flatly refused to release them at any stage in the negotiations, claiming there is no precedent in a free trade negotiation.
It is nonsense to claim that releasing draft texts is unprecedented. All nine countries are Members of the WTO, which now routinely posts country position papers and draft texts in progress on its website.
The New Zealand government itself recognised in its paper on IP, leaked earlier in the negotiations, that “groups are acutely aware of what they see as ‘secret’ negotiations to strengthen IP rights under FTAs and other international instruments.” After repeated leaks of the draft texts, the parties to the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) negotiations eventually released them for public scrutiny.
“We are repeatedly told this is a 21st century agreement; yet the secrecy that surrounds it is redolent of the Star Chamber. We would never tolerate such a blatant rejection of transparency and accountability in our domestic legislation, so why here?”
“If this TPPA really is so good for us, why are they scared to release the draft text and open it to scrutiny?”, asked Professor Kelsey.
“The challenge then is for Parliament to convene an inquiry before the process has reached the stage where irreversible commitments have been made where we can test out the arguments for and against a TPPA and New Zealanders, including MPs, can know what we are signing up to for the next century”.
http://tppwatch.org
http://www.nznotforsale.org
And digest site for researchers http://www.tppdigest.org
Originally from Stanford Research Institute and University of California, San Francisco in the USA with a considerable knowledge in chemistry and an expertise in statistical inference in complex systems they have focused recently on the aerial poison drops of 1080 to kill possums.
1080 is called Sodium mono-fluoro-acetate and as a poison like cyanide, is toxic to all air-breathing organisms, but it is not an evil in itself. The problem is with the way DoC the Department of Conservation is using it by blanketing the forest with food laced with 1080 that is attractive to most native and feral animals, everything from worms, beetles, and wetas to wekas and horses.
Clean green New Zealand is unique in the world in its use of aerial 1080. No other country is doing anything remotely similar to this. New Zealand uses over 85% of the world’s supply of 1080, a poison that is toxic to all animals, that is banned or severely restricted in most countries, and that is classified “1A, extremely hazardous” by the World Health Organization.
In response to this, DoC the Department of Conservation asserts that New Zealand is in a unique ecological position, but this is simply not true.
For example, the State of Hawaii has an almost identical problem with feral mammals threatening native birds, and we learned from Miles Nakahara, Forest & Wildlife branch manager that Hawaii would not even consider such a practice. “You are pretty cavalier using a poison like that … you will destroy the forest … you will lose the very thing you are trying to save.” Similar circumstances exist on many of the Pacific islands, and similar comments have been made by every non-Kiwi scientist that has been consulted.
The perception here is that ecologists and ecological considerations are being overturned, by marketing and accountancy factors, and that a true understanding of what blanket covering of the ecology by 1080, does not qualify as ‘right practice’ or the ‘precautionary approach.’ Especially when the science is not robust. With 70 million possums nation wide being unacknowledged as a resource they are instead being poisoned and left to decompose on the forest floor.
There are other ways to resolve this troublesome problem and a robust public debate needs to be convened to bring clarity as soon as possible.
www.stop1080poison.com
www.thegrafboys.org
www.kaka1080.co.nz
IUCN is the world’s oldest and largest global environmental network - a democratic membership union with more than 1,000 government and NGO member organisations, and almost 11,000 volunteer scientists in more than 160 countries.
Listen as to why with such a huge membership, we hear virtually nothing about the IUCN and how that is now changing?
That the imperative for our global population is to realize that we are still putting huge amounts of pressure on our planet’s ecosystems, everywhere - yet we are not educating ourselves about the challenges that immediately need addressing.
There is a reluctance of governments to lead, as they appear to only follow polls of where the citizen’s consciousness or lack of consciousness currently is. That the media in clean green NZ are not at the forefront of ecology and environment and looking at our collective footprint, plus they are not championing innovative green technologies and know how. Why?
That there are so many critical challenges facing us as a human species, there needs to be urgent action on multiple fronts, if we are to protect our children’s future. The sad realisation that in NZ there are no 'stand out leaders' in the environmental movement. That had Sir Peter Blake been alive today, he would have been 'head and shoulders' above everyone in this region and out in front of parliament, leading NZ to a world summit on ecological and environmental action yesterday! But Alas … there is only a vacuum.
Diana mentions Prosperity Without Growth by Tim Jackson as a new book that sets out another way to work on sustainable solutions for a planet with a burgeoning population.
Diana Shand IUCN Regional Councillor – Oceania Chair – N.Z Committee of IUCN
http://www.iucn.org
OceansWatch is an international not-for-profit organisation that works with sailors, divers and scientists worldwide to help coastal communities conserve their marine environments, develop sustainable livelihoods and ensure access to primary schools.
OceansWatch offers resources, in the form of ocean-going research vessels and expertise, such as marine biologists, members training, project management and support crew.
Education
Humanitarian Aid
Marine Conservation
Coral reefs are some of the most ancient and biologically diverse ecosystems that exist on earth. They serve an important role to coastal communities as a source of seafood, to generate income from tourism and to provide a buffer against storms. Many reefs have already been destroyed and understanding the state of health for the rest is in its infancy.
Our vision is for there to be long term sustainable fisheries for coastal communities in developing countries and wider scale megafauna protection.
International Head Office is in New Zealand with an Office in North America.
Focus up until now has been in Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and the Niue Islands.
www.oceanswatch.org
Genevieve is a Certified Aware Parenting Instructor.
The Peaceful Parent Institute, founded by Genevieve and Dan Simperingham here in NZ offer peaceful solutions to parenting problems and run seminars and workshops plus, provide one on one parent coaching.
Their core message is a parent child relationship that is based on communication, care, trust and love that eliminates the need for rewards and punishments.
Genevieve Simperingham is an Irish woman, living in New Zealand since 2000. Dan is from Auckland, New Zealand. They have been working together since they first met in Dublin in 1995.
"We are passionate about supporting parents and helping them learn how to stay emotionally connected with their children through the inevitable conflicts and differences of opinion that are normal in close relationships. We share with parents that conflicts offer an opportunity for growth, learning and deeper understanding of each other and ourselves as parents. The skills that we teach allow the bond to ever deepen between the parent and their child."
Among Genevieve and Dan's areas of expertise are recovery from childhood conditioning (including abuse and trauma) and the healing of pre-natal and birth traumas. In their parenting courses, they bring to parents great wisdom and experience from their years of facilitating inner child work with adults. Their work has taught them that it's never too late to have a happy childhood, but the earlier it happens the better!
Listen to a very lucid and inspiring interview of an exceptionally compelling way to parent children and teenagers into being.
www.peaceful-parent.com
Kay Urlich is a pioneer in the field of balancing the mind and engaging the heart through energy fields.
While searching for answers to her own health crisis Kay discovered four new energy fields. Kay found that the alignment and structure of these fields was vital to activating life-force to promote healing from within.
Kay explains how most of the problems we have can be directly related to trauma held in the energy fields and this is the main cause of destruction to our life force.
Through these fields we are able to bring about transformation of the heart and mind, opening us to the gifts of consciousness and awakening us to our evolutionary process.
The conflict within ourselves affects not only our personal health but is directly related to the healing and evolution of the whole planet.
Evolution is not about chasing answers outside of ourselves, it’s about the search for harmony with our own energy fields.
www.kayurlich.com
Liese Groot-Alberts is a grief therapist, lecturer, public speaker, clinical supervisor and team-trainer.
“Liese is a gifted presenter and therapist, whose work reflects a profound understanding of loss, grief, bereavement and the significance of hope”.
Having worked alongside Elisabeth Kubler-Ross she has a deep understanding and assisting around what we as a human species must all experience.
How can we connect with someone transitioning from this life? How do we show we care for a loved one and how does one grieve and heal from the trauma of loss?
How can family and community respond to support you in the situation of death and grief?
Now we are in a different era where we see the body, heart and soul as one whole being and on a multi-dimensional level.
The probability that our life goes beyond death is basically a certainty.
Bringing the subject of Death, Dying and Transisition into our daily life allows us to be better equipped with loss, grief and bereavement as well as palliative care.
Listen to someone who's care and warmth can soothe and show us a way through challenging times
www.liesegrootalberts.com
Imagine a country where there is balance between the rich and poor, and no one goes without the basic necessities of life; where the environment and nature support life without harsh pesticides and chemicals.
Imagine a place where crime and violence are progressively diminished as people move to understand the consequences of their actions and take full responsibility for themselves. Unconditional love would be the foundation for all we do and we would not afraid to express that.
This is the vision of The Awareness Party.
The Awareness Party is a brand new ethical political movement - not a party - formed to vision a better future, and to work with issues of the day, initially in New Zealand, but ultimately as a model for the world. It is based on the conscious awareness of the truth of life on this planet and intended to harness people power to create change. It acknowledges that we are one people on one planet and what affects one affects all - therefore we need to care for our home, Earth, and for each other.
To achieve this vision will not be easy, and the founder, Lisa Er, advocates the model stated by American engineer, author, designer, inventor, and futurist, Buckminster Fuller:
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
This political movement describes the current political systems as operating with no understanding of the relationship between consciousness and matter. However there is now a shift involving humanity’s deepest knowing and understanding of ourselves and our universe.
So The Awareness Party is committed to operating within the context and understanding of the inter-relationship of all things.
Therefore all future policies or responses will be based on the following 7 Founding Principles:
The Awareness Party describes itself as environmentally deep green but also strongly values and support science and business when working from integrity. They are highly suspicious of big business and the banking system and are looking at financial alternatives and community currencies.
It’s time to take notice! In the past, people suffered in order to give us a say in how our lives and our countries are run. If we turn our backs on that right we will be in serious trouble. As Edmund Burke said, “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
The Awareness Party has developed a set of Awareness’ with the intention that they become a discussion forum at Awareness Parties and in small community groups. The purpose of these awareness’ that they have developed, is not to give the answers, but to raise the questions.
The 7 Awareness’ are:
An informal celebration of the launch of this movement is 11 am, Saturday November 13th, in The Garden Room, Grey Lynn Community Centre. All welcome. (Koha for expenses.)
www.theawarenessparty.com
FRESH, coming to you - a food revolution - through your door to the back yard.
Ooooby.org a NZ initiative out of Waiheke Island, is revitalising localized community, connection with neighbors and in particular a revolution around food.
Using today’s web technology, Ooooby connects people together in a supportive collaboration. This resulting synergy is bringing innovation to food production, distribution and eating - resulting in goodwill and camaraderie by working towards a more healthy, coherent lifestyle and community.
Using their website www.ooooby.org with over 3,000 members this interface of sharing and social networking offers ways in which to participate and serve community life across local areas.
With:
And now distributing across town a box, 'The Box' of fresh grown vital food that ultimately is showing the way to community sufficiency.
Out Of Our Own Back Yard, is a food focused network that also interfaces with Transition Towns. This grass roots way builds community that establishes more sustainable options, for our collective future.
Wayne Cartwright, an ex-professor of Strategic Management, University of Auckland, now a business consultant, is very much part of main stream society.
In this full blown analysis of the immediate environmental challenges facing us, he offers a number of solutions plus strategic concepts.
Imagine a large circle, this is the Earths environment, then visualize another smaller circle within that - this circle is seen as Society, and within this circle a much smaller circle again - this is the Economy.
This is the concept of Strong Sustainability.
The environment takes precedence having been around us for eons, society for millennia and economics and industry very recently.
Listen to a very coherent environmental statement on the ‘critical factors’ of what is happening on planet earth today, and what is at stake.
If you are a deep ecologist, a committed permaculture adherent, or a staunch environmental activist, you already understand the enormity of what is happening. However, for mainstream society, this crucial interview fills in the vital gaps.
Our ‘global commons’ is under assault from our industrial and farming practices. The ‘global commons’ is that which is not owned by people, corporations or governments. For example the atmospheric envelope that surrounds our planet and the global seas and oceans are free for the human species to use.
Subjects covered:
Magnitude and speed of change, and that politicians don't understand what the environment is. That most of our corporate leaders don't get it either. Plus what is the steady-state economy?
That a new paradigm of ethics needs to be entered into and that shifting values away from accumulated material things (to a lesser degree) would be a very prudent action.
The priority for learning institutions is to teach new skills of what is happening, in particular leadership skills being an imperative.
Also, how do people become AWARE of what is happening and what is then required?
This insightful interview is a call for unity of peoples and purpose from the local to the global. And the important question, do we have reverence for nature as well as reverence for ourselves?
In a commercial world that sells us distractions at a discount, how long can we avoid the obvious and deny the inevitable when so much is at stake?
Will Crew Members of Spaceship Earth awaken to this mission in time to bring our Ship and Crew safely through?
This is an interview for those who are courageous and bold.
http://www.phase2.org
http://www.anewnz.org.nz/vision.asp?id=630
Search the web for keywords: 2012, solar, sun activity and you will find streaming at you significant data that our solar system will become very active then, translating to huge influxes of neutrinos and photons from the sun coming our way, very possibly overriding electronics on our planet, with all silicon chips being affected.
Why are governments and media so quiet about this?
With all information doubling exponentially we now find ourselves in information overload, with over 8,000 scientific and technical papers being published daily how can we grasp what is significant and apply this to our lives?
Fortunately, here in Auckland at the public event 2012, three New Zealanders in leadership roles have committed to stand above the parapet.
Francis Evans who specializes in NLP, Neuro-Semantics and consciousness technologies will present us with practical tools for change. He will take you beyond the edge out of your comfort zone and show you how to be ‘comfortable’ with where you are!
Delaine Jones shares on intimacy and relationships. As everything in existence is in relationship with everything else she works with couples with relationship difficulties and assisting with their inner resources. She then builds this outward towards the greater community and about changing tides of relationships or what she sees as the "relationship revolution".
David Holden provides inside information on natural and preventative health. Talking on vaccinations, high dosages of vitamin C, mercury amalgam fillings, root canal work, super foods, genetic engineering, including empowering cultural change, physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, ecological, electrical, nutritional, longevity and anti aging.
(Speaking on the 16th of October also: David Slinger - Energy Healer and co-founder of Life Energy Designs. Talking on insomnia, headaches, dizziness, stress ... and particularly EMFs - electromagnetic pollution i.e. mobile phone, microwaves and subtle radio and satellite interference, etc. And learn ways to combat and alleviate them.)
http://www.equilibriumcentre.co.nz/events
Want to get up to speed with the emerging paradigm and be secure within yourself, and have the tools to negotiate whatever variables may come into your life. This is a major download of high energy, accumulated information that will energise you for whatever may happen in our fast coming future.
When: Saturday 16 October 2010, 9:00am - 5:00pm
Where: THE EDGE - The Concert Chamber , Auckland Town Hall
Cost: General Admission $79.00
Tickets: Book now at www.buytickets.co.nz or call 0800 BUY TICKETS (service fees will apply)
http://www.equilibriumcentre.co.nz/events
Russell Targ is a physicist who has spent much of his life through the 1970s and 1980s working at the Stanford Research Institute which is an extension of Stanford University in California. This is where he and his colleague Harold E. Puthoff co-founded a 23-year, $25-million program of research into psychic abilities and their operational use for the U.S. intelligence community, including the CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency and Army Intelligence.
Since retiring Russell has continued his exploration into the realms of parapsychology and ESP and relates that 5000 years ago, Hinduism and 2,500 years ago Buddhism understood through meditative practices what we are just learning about today.
He emphasizes that we need to cherish the body that we inhabit, and that there is a transcendent knowing, a transcendent doing, and a transcendent being that we as a humanity have very little to no understanding.
Where Leading Edge Science is taking us today is that:
We can heal both locally and at a distance, and we can shift our awareness to travel, (called "remote viewing') in consciousness to distant places and be fully cognizant of what we experience.
He also confirmed of the possibility to access the luminous 'akashic' records, where all information about our past both individually and as a race is 'stored' in a non material library outside of time.
And that the science is firming up that we have having lived lives before on this planet - is now becoming more certain.
Listen to Russell tell of the hidden capabilities of a humanity who have been very enmeshed in the 'outside' world and yet when we still ourselves, a whole realm of profound possibilities can make themselves known.
Russell will be in Auckland on the 15th & 16th October.
http://www.espresearch.com
Also: Listen to Adonia Wylie of the Ashton Wylie Charitable Trust.
She explains what the forthcoming Science, Consciousness and Spirituality Conference is endeavouring to impart, here in Auckland on the 15th, 16th and 17th of October.
Imagine this idyllic island close to Auckland... with pristine sandy beaches, green rolling hills, native trees and birdlife, and a dynamic creative community that is near totally sustainable, aligned with nature and in harmony with themselves.
Well, this could be the island of tomorrow, here in the Hauraki Gulf, in our fast coming future.
Question? Have you the audacity to envision Waiheke Island as a Biosphere Reserve?
When we realise what is possible and recognise that it can happen, the synergy of a dynamic community can empower the island neighborhood to be a part of something that will make us proud as a society as well as a nation.
There are 109 countries that have ‘Biosphere Reserves’, yet ‘clean green New Zealand’ does not.
Note that many differing groups of individuals throughout the Island already support this notion.
What is evolving out of this is more people becoming involved as a community of leaders, strong, cohesive and resilient.
Waiheke already is a global leader with 198 volunteer organizations from a population of 8000 people. It is a ‘wayshower’ to what a caring, creative and dynamic neighborhood can aspire to, to envision what is needed and take action.
So what is the glue that makes Waiheke people what they are?
http://waihekebr.info
http://colinbeardon.org
Subjects that we don't want to know about, we either avoid or deny.
Because certain environmental matters are not 'glamorous' or have 'celebrity status' we as a group consciousness tend to ignore them (including sewage!).
Notice that the Super City Mayoral Candidates are not championing ecological consciousness, when Auckland sits astride a magnificent picturesque environment which is our best asset.
Why in 2010, in these elections is there is no leadership with Auckland becoming the most environmentally sustainable super city in the Southern hemisphere?
Unbeknown to most NZers, one of the corner stones of NZ's Resource Management Act, is 'to avoid, remedy or mitigate' environmental concerns, which as a noble act that in so many ways is not being enforced by our governmental agencies. Why?
Also, where is today's altruism? The 60's Generation in their day were very focussed on core issues, such as peace, environment and social justice, why is there a lack of interest in that which sustains us and why are we not involving ourselves 'in best practice'?
Do we as a society populated by successful baby boomers really want to leave our planet in a better state than what we enjoyed as children? Can we instead of accepting minimal environmental standards, incorporate best practice into our everyday life? e.g start raising the bar as to require higher quality water? (and air).
It is the cumulative affect of our actions that we are not observing, as we are still looking at isolated actions by themselves. Now is a time to see our planet from a holistic perspective and act accordingly. The need for 'kiwi's' in general to elevate our perspective and look at the broader picture and not from a very limited ground level perspective is imperative!
Where and who are our NZ visionaries? Can you name some? Are they being acknowledged?
Listen to an impassioned and coherent appeal, by someone in the know, that urgent action on so many environmental fronts is required if NZ is going to safeguard its environmental integrity and its so called 'Clean Green' image, and in particular - care for our children and grandchildren's future.
www.aquaterra.co.nz
A new NZ initiative, Global Health Clinics is an integrative health clinic, specialising in Natural Health and bringing together a collective of highly trained practitioners to cover all areas of health and wellbeing, including Naturopathy, Acupuncture, Iridology, Massage Therapy, Psychotherapy, NLP, Hypnotherapy, Art Therapy, Dietitians and Nutritionists.
With these therapies moving more into mainstream consciousness along with a healthy diet and regular exercise we are witnessing extremely beneficial effects with the human race in health and wellbeing.
Listen to Adrian Hartigan who has spent 20 years as a natural health practitioner and who introduced Jin Shin Jitsu to NZ, explain some of the deeper levels of working together. She is also the founder of the Holistic Business Network NZ and which is now the World Business Network NZ.
www.wbnnz.com
John Coombs, long term advocate and business activist for sustainable development - in natural health, organic food distribution and manufacturing, practical waste utilisation and environmental welfare.
John gives an energetic overview of the potential and possibilities around the synergies relating to the dynamics of pulling various modalities together and empowering us to take charge of both our health and collective future.
We are now at a time when the practitioners of the numerous holistic health remedies including vibrational medicine are coming together in teams to give us a 'one stop shop' to initiate well being and maximise self expression.
New co-operative ventures that pull together powerful modalities under one roof, are bringing to the community a higher level of service to those needing professional alternative, traditional and complimentary medicine.
This is the way of the future and it is happening today in Takapuna NZ.
www.globalhealthclinics.co.nz
Phone: (09) 488 0208
Robbyne is a sensitive, being able to see and communicate with the subtle worlds unseen by most people.
Since early childhood she can articulate ways in which to open people up to the possibility that we are surrounded by a world of frequency and that each and everyone of us are an important player in the continuous unfolding of the tapestry of life.
From the cycles of the seasons, the moons gravitational pull, to communications with animals, we are never separate from the web of life.
Having broken away from mainstream society, she studied with Shaman, Indian Elders, Medicine Men, Grandmother Wisdom keepers, and holy men of all nations that has led her to discover the message and universal desire for ‘connection’ is the same on every continent.
Time and time again she was greeted only to have the ancient wisdom and traditions passed on to her through rituals and ceremonies.
These experiences come about not only from the intention to travel and open herself to broader experience, but also from predestined encounters with guardians of sacred sites, often via dreams.
She says when we keep an open mind and are centered within our heart, we can break free of the dreamspell that to all sense and purposes has locked us down to be consumers in a society that is consuming ourselves and of course nature.
And the rewards of seeing through the veil is such a profound awakening, we realize that life now offers so much meaning as well as a spiritual unfoldment into how we can realise our destiny, working towards a peaceful global community.
So the question to be asked is, what is our relationship with the natural world?
And how can we focus this knowing to bring about positive change to our planet today?
http://www.whitewolfjourneys.com
As a human, what are our latent capabilities? Sonia Choquette is a world-renowned intuitive and spiritual teacher who specializes in helping others recognize that we are all endowed with a sixth sense that we can count on. A masterful teacher committed to strengthening intuition in our daily lives, she is the best-selling author of ten books and numerous audio editions.
A highly trained intuitive, with extensive background in the mysticism of East and West, Sonia was educated at the University of Denver and at the Sorbonne in Paris, and holds a Ph.D. in metaphysics. Sonia says, “I am intuitive because I was encouraged at all times to be awake, aware, and guided by my sixth sense. I grew up in an environment that treated intuition not only as natural, but actually essential to successful navigation in life. Intuition is a gift that we all have, that we can all experience, that we can all trust and that we all need!"
Listen to a unique light hearted 50 minutes discussion of how Sonia, a catalyst for conscious connection, reconnects us to our breath and the spiritual dimension of who we are as an individual human as well as an extension of the vast super organism called humanity. When we realise we are all sacred and that we are all connected to source, we can intuitively understand that we are spiritual beings having an earth experience. That we are far more than we ever thought possible and that a great shift in consciousness for goodwill and love is upon us as an emergent planetary civilisation.
Sonia Choquette http://www.trustyourvibes.com
Jonathan Cole's mission and passion is the transition to solar energy (in all its forms). He’s been researching, developing and using solar energy for his household needs for 28 years and now has made it his mission to provide the knowledge about how to utilize solar energy in an affordable, durable, low maintenance and user-friendly way.
With hot water costing around 30% of NZ's household electricity costs, we note that Germany, the leader in solar technology and use, is closer to the North pole than NZ is to the South pole, so why are New Zealanders not using this long lasting technology?
By deploying this technology throughout NZ, this would give us breathing space from the need to dam rivers and scramble to find more ways to produce electricity.
Also, how do we mobilise the community to clean up rivers, recycle and reduce consumer products, by making them last longer. Houses built in Europe can be hundreds of years old, but be refurbished to be modern inside.
Why build temporary houses and apartments and waste valuable resources when we can build more durable structures? What incentives do we need to realise that we as a humanity have huge ecological challenges to surmount if we are to leave a healthy planet for our children?
Also, finding Durable Prosperity and actualising it.
And what is an Eco-Industrial revolution?
Can we be Socially Responsible?
Jonathan Cole - www.lightontheearth.org
Renowned for her ability to ‘cut through the crap’, Kathy is a parenting author with a unique writing genre, that blows the cobwebs off antiquated ideologies, while engaging the reader with entertaining realism – including comprehensive explanations of each age stage of childhood development; getting to the bottom of the good, bad & ugly with pharmaceutical medications; effective natural health remedies and healing therapies; nutrition as you've probably never seen it explained before; and phenomenal enlightenment into fully grasping our children's innate individual personalities.
Kathy describes OH GROW UP as being about “parenting with spirit” – strength, guts, soul – whatever “spirit” means to you.
The result is a truly remarkable eclectic fusion of ordinary old-school middle-of-the-road methodologies, combined with extraordinary old-age-new-age philosophies … including Parenting’s 21 Golden Insights, 21 Magical Secrets, and 21 Universal Principles.
Listen to a warm-hearted interview, where an experienced mother laughingly shares important information on connecting with your children and feeding them the healthiest food and drink available, especially enabling men to participate in hands on upbringing of children.
Kathy Fray - Mother, Author and Midwife
www.KathyFray.com
From Brisbane Australia, New Zealander Graeme Sait is an Author/Educator.
Graeme Sait, is the co-founder of Qld Company, Nutri-Tech Solutions (NTS), a recognised world leader in sustainable agriculture/horticulture.
He is a sought after, global keynote speaker, plus the founder of Radiance, a 6 day Wellness Festival that attracts crowds in excess of 12,000.
He has many years of researching health and wellbeing and the benefits of all the correct foods especially fats and oils to teas, herbal remedies plus soil health agricultural systems and biological farming etc.
Learn of the profound interdependence of soil microflora of bacteria and fungi that is crucial to plant growth, healthy soil (and sequesting Co2 from the atmosphere). Just like the micro flora in our gut and digestive system, when we are free of chemical additives, everything flourishes and comes back into balance.
www.nutri-tech.com.au
2012 - Mayan Calendar - What is it about?
We in the Western world have been influenced by the historical events of what came out of Greece and Rome, however, when London had only a few thousand people in 800 AD, Tikal which is now in Guatemala was an advanced civilisation of 80,000 Mayan people, with a fully written language and living in elegant, architecturally built buildings with a pyramid as their center piece.
Intrinsically integrated into their cosmology was an advanced calendar that has its culmination point in 2012.
So why did the Maya have as a focal point of their civilisation a calendar that they "built on" that has a prophetic date, when their civilisation basically collapses around a 1000 years ago, yet only in the last 30 years researchers uncovers a profound understanding that humanity is at a point of cosmic timing that states that we are at the culmination of our evolutionary cycle?
And when we look around our planet today, with the synchronistic convergence of ecological, economic, societal and warlike disorder, what are we to make of this timing?
Carl Calleman, is a serious scholar and researcher from Sweden, whose insights show that there is intelligence embedded in not only the Mayan pyramids as 'time keepers' but also in the universe itself, and that we as a humanity are on the threshold of a great awakening that if we are astute and open to possibility will open the door to opportunity, growth and "unity consciousness" never before envisaged by humanity up until this very moment!
This is an exceptionally positive and optimistic analysis and interview by a world leading scholar!
Listen to a clear and lucid understanding of what the many grass roots and volunteer groups are doing to make New Zealand sustainable and the excellent work they do, what charitable trusts support them, and how local government needs more consciousness to see that an ecological approach to environment, health and community are critical to where we are going as a nation.
That at a national level, the Government still sees the environment as 'something' to exploit, when for example, in England, Marks and Spencer (the huge super store) has gone sustainable and is producing larger profits, because of going more into organics and a healthier lifestyle.
On top of this the NZ Resource Management Act is perceived as woolly, in that there are no numbers in it, no targets, or standards, and that we are 20 years behind Europe in writing and complying with policy, when in fact we could be the planetary leader!
Finally, an exceptionally clear summary about the Supercity, Governance and Loss of Democracy. Plus, what is the Search and Surveillance Bill that is being foisted upon us, a peaceful nation of only 4 million kiwis? Why such draconian measures and who in their right mind would conjure up such a hideous concept?
http://www.ourauckland.org.nz
http://www.pavingparadise.net
http://www.gag.net.nz
Steve Hart worked as a DJ on radio in Britain and in 1976 there were few radio stations in the UK.
He worked for 8 years as a volunteer music presenter and newsreader on hospital radio in Britain that led to work for radio stations in his home county of Essex – including with the BBC. But by then his second choice career as a journalist was taking off.
He moved to New Zealand in 2000 to take up a senior editorial role with the New Zealand Herald where he stayed for seven years. In 2007 he opted to work freelance as a journalist, photographer, video maker and publisher.
Today he publishes the Viewfinder magazine for budding moviemakers to post on Utube and the web, as well as writing about careers, business and finance for various newspapers and magazines.
As an Independent journalist who looks behind the scenes of world events, he notes that it is imperative to look far more deeply at what is happening, and asks very relevant questions as to many of the circumstances surrounding what happened back in September the 11th in 2001 in New York. Questions that the media have skirted and ignored. Questions that need to be debated in the public arena today.
www.viewfinder.co.nz | www.stevehart.co.nz
Jon Winder of the Sephira institute here in Auckland NZ is involved in change manage around human dimensions of how people interact, translating the organisational and personal vision into action and understanding of how to create a culture of consciousness.
So what is consciousness and how do we remain conscious and linked to the universal field?
In a world of huge corporations, powers and possibilities, how do we as a humanity come into an understanding of what is real and authentic, when we have to survive sustainably and thrive as a species?
And how do we learn and how do we facilitate learning that inspires us to lead and why is it that we are so short off outstanding leaders here in NZ as well as globally?
Listen to an experienced practitioner and facilitator share how we in NZ can grow leadership, especially with our young, our children, our gifts for today and tomorrow.
jon [at] sephiraexperience.com
www.sephiraexperience.com
“The Palestinian/Israeli conflict.”
Who are Hamas? And what about Fatah (and who are the Hezbollah?) Have Jews and the Palestinians become victims of Zionism?
Born and educated in Jerusalem. Joined BBC Arabic Services in London. Radio TV Journalist, Filmmaker in Jordan, contributing to the BBC, UPI, ABC, and Special advisor to Prince Hassan, then Crown Prince of Jordan.
Plus, UNICEF’s regional Office for the Middle East and North Africa in Amman, as Chief of Information and External Relations.
As the victors always write the historical record, it has only been very recently that the global public realise that there has been broken agreements in what was Palestine. That to the fair minded, it is obvious in the extreme, that where once the Palestinians owned 94% of what is now seen as Israel, and the Jewish People 6%, this has been virtually reversed as a result of political manipulation.
Today, Palestinians are ignored, poor and desperate for justice and the basics of life, and yet the global media has not been prepared to give a balanced viewpoint of their plight, nor Britain or the USA to act accordingly.
Listen to Tuma Hazou give a very erudite and coherent explanation of what happened, what is continuing to happen and what the possibilities for tomorrow are.
http://www.exeterpsc.org.uk/images/palestine_maps.JPG ~ Map of Palestine 1946 to 2000
http://www.gisha.org ~ Palestinian and Israeli Human Rights Group
http://www.nkuk.org Neturei Karta is an international organization of Orthodox Jews dedicated to the propagation and clarification of Torah Judaism and not Zionism.
The Auckland Super City is almost here! Are you excited?
Well, guess what? It’s not a done deal yet and there is still time to stop it. What the main stream media won’t tell you is that the Auckland Super City is a multi-national corporate “grab” of over 28 Billion Dollars’ of New Zealand Assets.
Here is the scurrilous little secret that you are not being told:
A possible, 112 council services will all end up being privatised. What does this mean? Major multi-national corporations will be running Auckland. In fact, Auckland will expand all the way up to the Rodney District there will be no accountability nor will there be any one local in charge. Profits? All going offshore.
Let’s look behind the curtain shall we? Two years ago 850 million dollars was spent with private contractors and the ratepayers cannot find out where exactly the money was spent.
Where is the transparency in local government? Where is the Accountability in Local Government? Why is New Zealand doing this?
Who is Penny Bright? Courageous ‘Penny Bright’ – Is an Anti Corruption Campaigner and Whistle Blower.
Penny Bright has been arrested 22 times after being (unlawfully) denied speaking rights at Auckland City Council, mainly on matters relating to water, it is 21-1 to her (defended herself - no legal training), and 4 District Court Judges have acknowledged the 'Public Watchdog' role - so that is why she describes herself as a 'judicially recognised Public Watchdog' on Metrowater, water and Auckland regional governance matters.
Penny has also been described in the NZ Herald as an 'anti-corruption campaigner' in the fight for more transparency and accountability particularly at local government. Penny Bright helped to set up the 'Stop the Supercity' group - which is totally opposed to the attempted corporate takeover of the Auckland region to run it 'like a business, by business - for business'.
Pivotal to this perceived corrupt supercity corporate coup are Auckland Regional Water Services - which are being set up for privatization.
The Corporate Agenda has been for years to set up one 'Big Auckland Water Company,' the contract out (Privatise) the management and operation of Auckland Regional Water services to United Water, 100% owned by the biggest water multinational in the world, Veolia!
Like a giant octopus, United Water (Veolia), who established a base in Papakura in 1997, has been slowly extending its covetous corporate tentacles - and now have 7 contracts in New Zealand.
United Waters?
To encircle, and privatise water services of the entire Auckland region, so that the income stream flowing from the pipes that citizens have already paid for, can flow into the bank accounts of Veolia's shareholders. Situated, we don't know where!
Proposed changes to Local Government Act 2002 (Amendment) Bill, currently before Parliament, would make it easier for such privatized water contracts, by extending the maximum contracting term from 15 to 35 years, and giving more power and control to private companies over our New Zealand Services.
Today we are in need of a massive and rapid local and global mind change that redefines the contours of a new worldview based around a deep integration of the material and spiritual worlds.
Across all disciplines, cultures, businesses in every aspect of our being we are being confronted by the urgency and necessity to instigate positive enlightened change... And things are now beginning to shift.
The need to unite and embrace new systems of thinking and doing is now paramount, that within the web of life that we are embedded in, there is no separation as we work towards oneness.
We are noticing that: "Things are getting better and better ... worse and worse and faster and faster...”
And we also know that it's our children and grand children's life that hangs in balance on what we individually and collectively do.
Hear about the new '100 critical shifts' in the coming 'Blue Economy' from metabolic materials in living buildings, such a painting buildings to absorb Co2, to mushrooms to eat and absorb nuclear waste. The increase of Wellness centers in the USA in the form of body, mind, emotions and spirit to promote full spectrum wellness
Innovative healing methods being used by heating the body to high temperatures prior to cancer treatment, break through's in power and a quantum leap in energy generation based on Zero Point Energy.
To artistic expression of 100s of participants from many countries individually singing in together in choir over the web, to tapping into our intuitive capabilities and the gift of going beyond time, and why 'equal societies' almost always do better.
Finally to how Paul Hawken sums it up with the millions of non governmental organisations and people like you, unifying as if under one banner to shift the paradigm from the old to the new ... and this is happening now.
Listen as Jeff Hutner explains that far beyond 'dysfunctional mainstream news', a new worldview is becoming manifest.
http://newparadigmdigest.com
As the pace of life gets faster and faster and days appear to rapidly recede behind us, NZers appear to be like possums at night time staggering in the middle of the road mesmerized and caught in the glare of headlights of a fast coming vehicle, not knowing what is happening and therefore not appearing to take any action.
Will the possums wake up in time and do the correct thing by taking action to control their own future, ... or ...?
Plus, what is the table talk at cafes, restaurants, bars and lunch times around NZ? Is the populace happy and even ecstatic with how we the people are governing ourselves? (Yes or No?) That in fact the talk of both town and country people is that there is nothing at all to be concerned about, with our Democracy, Governance and Sovereignty? That we can safely leave everything in the hands of the Act Party who in this escalating drama of tension, play the bad cop in the National Party scenario of being the good cop?
Listen to young independent voices talk about the need to be exceptionally alert to what is happening and the necessity to NOT get our news from mainstream media that is intent on jamming sensationalistic insular drivel into our homes 24/7.
But instead, be adroit and astute by accessing our own news via the web, uTUBE, videos, DVDs, network parties and spontaneously showing up at events and friends places.
Starring Vincent Eastwood ... who is Mr News and part of the NZ’s very independent alternative media. His web site: http://www.guerillamedia.co.nz/
On You Tube at: http://www.youtube.com/MRNEWSguerillamedia
Dana Louise Stewart ... Researcher of Raw food, our polluted food system, planting fruit trees and the future of New Zealand. She is very up on what is really happening in this country and is not afraid to speak the truth in an eloquent way.
Dana is the Producer of the independent film Real N' Raw and is also the founder of a charitable trust called Fruit for Our Children. Web: http://fruitforourchildren.com
Martin Adlington ... is an environmental artist and fast becoming an expert on "consumerism" and on the massive waste of consumption.
Web: http://martinadlington.webs.com
Martin has developed his media presence and now has Auckland University supporting him to make an independent film about recycled art and dumpster diving.
How come little Nuclear Free NZ, safely situated in the South West Pacific has become the focal point of Government agendas that were in most cases, not signalled at the last general election? Is this the way to ACT?
From out of right field NZers find themselves on the back foot as the Government maneuvers to place restrictions on the electorate and their freedoms, or on the other hand loosens them for exploitation.
Some see these actions as a blitzkrieg when most people are struggling to hold jobs, pay bills and give their children a good loving quality of life.
We are being asked to make submissions if we disagree with the agenda however, most find they are too tired at the end of the day to attend meetings, research their submissions and attend rallies to show solidarity.
Thus, the perception is that the Government is deliberately wearing the constituents down, but worse are only allowing 'we the people' a very short time span to respond back to the government.
Is this not strange? NZ has in most cases carried the moral high ground in local and world affairs, we have been seen as a fair country, an honest player, but where and who are the politicians who will stand in integrity and carry the flame of honest virtue working for the betterment of the community and the whole?
There are 120 elected servants in Parliament, who will stand up to be countered? Watch this space!
And where are the Civic Elders, the Pillars of Society?
"Full Spectrum Dominance!" These below are some concerns that NZ is under pressure from:
DEMOCRACY: With the disbanding of 7 local Councils in Auckland by central Government as well as Environment Canterbury ... where is this heading?
Inclusive of this are 'we' going to experience:
1) More Genetic experimentation and possibly food grown throughout Aotearoa?
2) The Australian TGA and CODEX Alimentarius being enacted to stop natural health practitioners producing products and selling them here. Note: originally many National MPs supported health freedom, but the NZ bureaucracy is still forcing this agenda, compromising some genuine National MPs word.
3) Caving in and allowing whales to be killed globally because we are fearful of the Japanese yen?
4) The Security and Intelligence Bill being foisted upon a basically peaceful country which already has very secure borders?
5) Having overseas mining corporations extract minerals from conservation land, with minute royalties going to the NZ people?
6) Foreign Investment and countries overseas buying land into NZ, when NZers are not allowed to buy land in certain countries that are allowed to buy here.
7) Community owned assets like the airport and Auckland water being readied for sale to overseas ownership or 'contracted' to them for up to 35 years at a stretch.
8) Privatization of Prisons.
And more...
The list is growing, why is the National government steam rolling us with this agenda, when it has always been their stated aim to have as little government interference as possible?
These issues have to openly debated 'point for point' via local town meetings as well as TV but with a neutral host over the next 1 to 2 years, why the hurry and why give the electorate so little time to respond.
Are MP's not "our elected servants?"
With the recent announcement that the National Government of New Zealand will impose super city status on seven local councils over the greater Auckland area, this has caused concern to many people about the methods involved to bring this about.
One of the unique qualities of localised self governance is the closeness of community, cultural identity and many collaborative ventures between council, small business and neighborhood engagement plus area employment. And yes, we need more integrated transport, and other infrastructural systems, but not without community involvement with powers to act.
With the enforcement to super city status with $28 billion of community assets, such as the Auckland airport stake, (that was recently sold off by the smaller Auckland council) what does the future hold for keeping our community resources in public hands?
With participative democracy needed like never before, you are being asked as an Aucklander to break the spell of inaction and communicate with "our paid servants in Wellington" and demand more transparency and community liaison, participation plus feed back.
For those who missed the Aucklander 4-page extravaganza 29th April, here is the online resource (without pictures)
http://www.theaucklander.co.nz/local/news/our-auckland/3913141/
http://www.theaucklander.co.nz/local/news/just-for-once-let-auckland-have-a-say/3913140/
AND:
http://www.ourauckland.org.nz
www.stopthesupercity.org.nz
http://ihiaotearoa.wordpress.com
Lewis Williams of the Ngai Te Rangi lineage or whakapapa, (whose iwi or tribe is in the Central Bay of Plenty here in Aotearoa NZ), is chairing the development of the Koru International Network; a movement for indigenous and intercultural development, whose mission is human cultural diversity in support of bio-diversity … through the revitalization of indigenous worldviews within all cultures.
Lewis is currently based in Toronto Canada whilst this network is being established. Previous to that she was based at the University of Saskatchewan as an Associate Professor, of Native Studies.
In many ways indigenous people are the ones who have by far the closest intimate relationship with nature and the earth.
They did not go down the path of manufacturing, empire building, mass production, consumerism or private property but maintained an open relationship to the elements of the earth, and with all living things within the biosphere … often today keeping to themselves where possible but in most cases they have been overrun by Western man in his desire for either resources or markets as well as power. They see life as sacred and Mother earth as their sustainer.
Never before has so much pressure been put on these people globally, especially now as Western man and technology bear down on them.
You are invited to participate at a talking circle at the Hoani Waititi Marae, Glen Eden Auckland May 7th
WORKSHOP 9.30am – 4.30 pm, Saturday 8th May 2010, Boardroom, CCS Disability Action, 14 Erson Ave, Royal Oak, Auckland. Cost $50.00.
Lewis Williams - web: http://www.korunetwork.com
Imagine all children graduating from school with a diploma as an adjunct to their other credentials.
What an empowering tool to embrace and carry, that like a torch of benevolence, can in the spirit of goodwill, eventually have NZ sending overseas thousands of emissaries of peace and conflict resolution to all countries on our diverse planet, to go and live alongside other peoples, get to know them, working alongside them … to … gradually … and skillfully with the adeptness of warm-hearted ambassadors … draw peoples and communities closer together to see that we have more in common with each other, than differences.
And that by sharing the method of "conflict resolution" through their mediation skills would draw us closer together towards a planet of peace.
And more so here at home in our communities across NZ, we would build more deeper friendships, there would be less violence across the nation and the country would have fewer divorces and broken homes and we would be more understanding as a country of all peoples and cultures both locally and globally.
Listen to how this innovative and ground breaking "Cool Schools" program sprang into being here on the North Shore and how via the support of the Peace Foundation it is enthusiastically being nurtured and carried forward by three passionate women of conscience and determination.
Conflict Resolution, the Reconciliation of Opposing Points of View, the building blocks of negotiating Relationships.
http://www.peace.net.nz/index.php?pageID=24
2012 - Mayan Calendar - What is it about?
We in the Western world have been influenced by the historical events of what came out of Greece and Rome, however, when London had only a few thousand people in 800 AD, Tikal which is now in Guatemala was an advanced civilisation of 80,000 Mayan people, with a fully written language and living in elegant, architecturally built buildings with a pyramid as their center piece.
Intrinsically integrated into their cosmology was an advanced calendar that has its culmination point in 2012.
So why did the Maya have as a focal point of their civilisation a calendar that they "built on" that has a prophetic date, when their civilisation basically collapses around a 1000 years ago, yet only in the last 30 years researchers uncovers a profound understanding that humanity is at a point of cosmic timing that states that we are at the culmination of our evolutionary cycle?
And when we look around our planet today, with the synchronistic convergence of ecological, economic, societal and warlike disorder, what are we to make of this timing?
Carl Calleman, is a serious scholar and researcher from Sweden, whose insights show that there is intelligence embedded in not only the Mayan pyramids as 'time keepers' but also in the universe itself, and that we as a humanity are on the threshold of a great awakening that if we are astute and open to possibility will open the door to opportunity, growth and "unity consciousness" never before envisaged by humanity up until this very moment!
This is an exceptionally positive and optimistic analysis and interview by a world leading scholar!
From the archives.
Sue Kedgley, is currently the Chairperson of the New Zealand Parliament Health Committee, a Green Member of Parliament for 10 years and her most recent book, is titled Eating Safely in a Toxic World.
Hear of how National and Labour collude to allow no country of origin food labels allowing 'junk' food to flourish which could eventually collapse the national health system with too many over weight and diabetic patients taking up hospital beds etc and the frightening fact that the government and health department know that this is what's going to happen and instead do nothing.
The interview also covers, food labeling, irradiated food coming into NZ, poor quality food in hospitals, retirement villages and prisons, diet and sugar drinks, deteriorating teeth, education to what is a good diet and political party politics.
Also, Codex and TGA effects from Australia where we get an insight to the state of affairs of Health across NZ and the way out, by growing our own vegetables in our own back yard.
Sue tells us as it is, in the way food is processed and consumed in NZ and the huge challenge around changing food and eating habits. Particularly, ways that empower the individual and family to once again take charge of our choices on what we can do, to get closer to our food source and become a strong healthy nation once again.
http://www.greens.org.nz/people/suekedgley
Elisabeth von Madarasz has trained as a Shaman since 1989 with the Foundation for Shamanic Studies (FSS, USA). She studied for over 2 years with Robert Morningsky and during a Vision Quest in Arizona her passion to master survival skills was aroused. Elisabeth is a Graduate of the Tom Brown Jnr. Survival and Philosophy systems and teaches workshops internationally.
Shamanism is possibly the oldest known system relating to the human endeavour to know and heal oneself, going back thousands of years we find the term emerged our of Siberia and is allied to witch doctors and medicine men / women. Shaman's conversed with nature and the forces both within and without, as everything is animated by spirit.
Very unorthodox to present day medicine and our Western cosmology, shamanism has a very unique understanding of our relationship to the web of life and to the oneness of being, from honouring of birth to the sacredness of death.
In 1998 Elisabeth founded the Academy of Shamanic Studies (NZ). She aims to teach Shamanism in a way that honours the cultural heritage of each person as well as the spirit and vibrations of the land. Elisabeth's vision is to share the ancient Shamanic principles of oneness and our interconnectedness, so we can live in harmony, love, honour and respect for each other and for all life forms.
www.shamanic.ac.nz
Sometimes we just want to relax take a break, learn something different, go on a safari, go bush, to a retreat or ... possibly even a non typical experience of depriving our self of the usual.
This being the case, then try spending over a fortnight a mile deep down a canyon of rock walls of red, brown, yellow to white colours and a clear blue sky above, on a tribal adventure by river raft, with people you have never met.
Experiencing an adventure deep through the grand Canyon in the US allows thoughts and feelings to be caught up with, plus encounter and interact in a close intimate clan-like setting that over a very short time period, becomes more and more natural, allowing ourselves to shuck off city life and all the attachments of Western civilisation.
Understanding of how a river runs through aeons of time, the politics of water, the pros and cons of dams, of invasive species and native aquatic fish, and know that for many thousands of years the Indians lived in sacred ceremony throughout the area, and now today struggle with the western indulgences that induces diabetes, alcoholism, cigarette smoking and a loss of connection.
Listen to an experienced and well grounded river canyon guide articulate what it is like to support people in doing what they think is impossible and push the boundaries of their being as well as know that you have to do it yourself, but not necessarily alone.
http://www.charlyheavenrich.com
Formerly of Stanford University USA, He enthuses us - that by changing our belief system, and letting go of fear we can cro-create and change evolution - and that knowledge is power and at a cellular level a minimum age of 140 years of age is within our scope.
The interview ranges over: working in groups in community, collectively with shared aspirations and creativity - we shape a positive future. Including, science and spirit, matter and energy fields, what is visible and what is not, everything being connected ... we are in relationship ... even if we don''t realise it!
Also, native indigenous peoples and a sense of connection with the hidden. Avatar is the telling of the myth that in so many ways is the reality of today, as we have become disconnected from the living earth and the subtle energies beneath our feet. Many essences one being?
Today, Gaia is is living scientific reality.
Listen to a spontaneous full-on expression of passion and joy as Bruce tells it ... as it is!
www.BruceLipton.com
www.BeliefBook.com
www.SpontaneousEvolutionBook.com
Project Lyttelton is a grass-roots organisation in Lyttelton, in the South Island of New Zealand, that is attracting wide attention both nationally and internationally.
Its numerous successful community-led projects mean it is both an inspiration and a model for other communities wishing to build community resilience and sustainability through innovative projects and collective creativity.
The organisation has embraced cutting-edge thinking to meet the challenges of a changing world. It is showing the way forward with community sustainability, using innovative methods to capture community imagination and help create a shared vision for the future.
Through projects as varied as Time Banking, a monthly newspaper, waste minimisation, energy initiatives, three seasonal festivals, community gardening and local food production, the Farmer‘s Market, educational courses, and collective visioning workshops, Project Lyttleton has made a significant contribution to the social, economic, recreational and environmental wellbeing of the Lyttelton community.
www.lyttelton.net.nz
Imagine a whole country where the population has a dynamic relationship with their environment - that locally, directly feeds them with the most vital of sustenance - fresh healthy, organic produce – that they grow themselves.
Now visualize the largest NZ city with close on 20 co-operative urban gardens doing just that already, with the probability of an extra 100 plus clusters spread across the Auckland landscape in the next 18 months.
Community garden oases of verdant health that become the focal point for family, friends and neighbours to grow, meet and share in the spirit of goodwill.
What initially started with the Counties Manukau District Health Board to curtail the spiraling increase in diabetes has led to a pioneering approach to food growing and bettering ones health. This has been to enable local citizens to work in groups or singularly to learn and grow their own healthy food and exercise in a stress free setting to once again live more in tune with community and nature.
Listen to this exciting initiative and the profound possibilities of re-greening and gardening of suburbia and across the nation that in maximizing ones health, is also pulling many differing ethnic and cultural groups together to reestablish contact with the earth, community, share information and beat diabetes.
GreenplanetFM104.6 Thurs 4th March 8-9am
http://www.dpt.org.nz
http://www.dpt.org.nz/CommGarden.html
Around the curve in New Zealand (Part One)Listen to Bruce Lipton talking about the ‘new edge of science’, his experiences in that realm and of the necessity for a massive shift in our belief systems to realize our connectivity to the invisible world, of energy fields, consciousness, quantum physics, the journey of our soul … of spirit, Avatar and specifically, that it is essential for humanity to come into alignment at a very deep level within nature - as community.
Following the current Darwinian line of survival of the fittest, winner takes all, is taking us all (if we remain a semi conscious species) to the abyss. Particularly when the current leadership and business model that is running the present reality has no relationship to the sacredness of being, let alone nature, the source from which we spring.
With the “new knowing” that we individually and collectively can actively shape a totally new paradigm and transform human endevour on this, our home planet - is the imperative of the moment! So let’s take an impassioned in-breath, let go of old thought forms and actively be this change.
www.BruceLipton.com
www.BeliefBook.com
www.SpontaneousEvolutionBook.com
“Is mining undermining the community in NZ and our global standing?”
Denis Tegg, the spokesperson for Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki. A member of the group since the early 1980s, involved in all components of the campaign - bringing communities together, raising awareness, media, peaceful and non-violent direct action, political lobbying, etc. A lawyer, he lives in Thames.
Question: How is it that it only needs the Prime Minister and the Minister for Conservation to say yes to mining? No one else and no Act of Parliament is required!
Gold mining generates huge volumes of hazardous waste (tailings), which is dumped in a tailings dam. The gold is only a tiny proportion of the material extracted, less than 10 parts in one million.
The gold is extracted using cyanide, so safe storage of the mine waste poses a serious problem. Waste rock (overburden) that is not processed, as well as the highly toxic processed waste, is hazardous. Processed rock takes up several times more volume once extracted. The tailings stay toxic for thousands of years. The Newmont, Waihi Gold Tailings dam is on a massive scale of the hazardous waste that is generated – 40 million cubic meters.
However, it is more complex and serious than this.
Coromandel with its high rainfall, sensitive shellfish beds plus its Clean Green overseas tourist image if it starts mining, puts NZ's stature at risk, while the government’s supposed take of less than 5 million dollars per annum in royalties defies logic.
What can we as an aware, cohesive community do?
Listen to a clear and coherent 50 minute understanding of the issues regarding why we must never desecrate this land, and instead honour it for its natural beauty and diversity. PLUS learn some simple methods of how to take action.
www.watchdog.org.nz
Wade Doak is NZ’s equivalent to Jacques Cousteau having spent over 50 years as a aquanaut around New Zealand's coastline, interacting underwater with all species, researching the local ocean ecosystems, especially where the land meets the sea and the diverse interactions take place in these environments.
Author of a large number of books, films and documentaries, Wade is better known overseas than he is here in NZ.
Wade is also a world authority on dolphins having studied and swum with them in the wild and he has traveled extensively overseas sharing his knowledge on these most intelligent of creatures.
Yet, his knowingness on so many levels as to how the ocean systems work and the biota that inhabit them and the urgent need to lock away more areas as reserves and sanctuaries is now an important issue that Wade speaks passionately for.
As we gain a greater knowing that our planet is a gigantic living super system that connects all biota into a complex web of life, what are we going to leave future generations is foremost on his mind, as it is becoming for more and more people on this planet today. Listen to an engrossing story of contact with inhabitants of the undersea world.
www.wadedoak.com
Wade Doak on Facebook
http://wadedoak.blogspot.com
http://twitter.com/wadedoak
Here in NZ we are in need of more electricity, we have around 40 dams on some of our largest rivers. These dams are up to 40 to 50 years old, with generators that are based on old technologies.
For some unknown reason, the NZ government and the engineers over the last 20 years have not talked about recalibrating the turbines to use higher gearing ratios and more refined hydrodynamic blades and rotational systems to extract another 30% to 40% plus power out of these numerous dams that let the water go after only partially extracting what energy it carries.
It is a scandal that we are not being innovative and reinventing ways to use this water that we have harnessed. Where are the visionaries, our brilliant ones, our clever engineers?
However, behind the scenes are gathering groups of people experimenting with high technologies going back as far as Nikola Tesla, Victor Shauberger to John Bedini & others, and what is happening is that experimenters all over the world are now sharing information needed to “open source” the technology of free energy.
Paul Larkin is part of a group, who wish to introduce breakthrough technologies that have the power to radically transform our planet & way of life.
Free energy motors devices & systems, use a small amount of input power to draw a larger amount from the surrounding environment ... impossible?
No ...
So long as the energy comes from somewhere this does not violate the laws of physics ... in fact several devices in common use already do this, including fridges, heat pumps & air-conditioning. We can also do this electrically….
By redesigning our technology we can create electrical devices such as motors & generators that collect “radiant electricity ”from the “Active Vacuum” or Ether.
There is no energy crisis ... there is a crises in consciousness!
All we need is the will & consciousness to create a new reality ... which eagerly awaits us.
These below are relevant web resources:
www.Johnbedini.net
www.Peswiki.com
www.Free-energy-info.co.uk
www.Panaceauniversity.org
www.Energeticforum.com/renewableenergy
The new sciences quantum physics and epigenetics are revolutionising our understanding of the link between mind and matter, challenging established scientific theories and prompting a complete re-evaluation of life as we have known it.
The significance of this shift in belief is vast in that the original view led to the notion that we are victims of our biology. Whereas the ‘new’ sciences show that we are actually masters of our biology.
Bruce has taken his award-winning medical school lectures to the public and is currently a sought after keynote speaker and workshop presenter.
He lectures to conventional and complementary medical professionals and lay audiences about leading-edge science and how it dovetails with mind-body medicine and spiritual principles.
He has been heartened by anecdotal reports from hundreds of former audience members who have improved their spiritual, physical and mental well being by applying the principles he discusses in his lectures. He is regarded as one of the leading voices of the new biology.
Dr Bruce Lipton, author of the popular book; Biology of Belief, Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles, was awarded 2006’s Best Science Book of the Year.
A mighty shift in how people-power can wrest control away from unconscious central government and place it back in the hands of localised community and conscious consumers is taking place here in Northland, New Zealand.
Not since the heady days of the mid 1980’s when localised groups and councils ‘made’ Nuclear Free Zones across this country, have we seen such a resurgence as ordinary and extraordinary NZer’s through dedication and vision, mobilise to make Northland, NZ a GMO Free Zone.
Listen to an impassioned Zelka Grammer on how GE Free Northland with the help of Maori Iwi, localised growers and supporters plus District Councillors are investigating local options for regulating or prohibiting GMO land use in the Northland Peninsular.
The recent High Court ruling that has overturned ERMA's (Environmental Risk Management Authority) decision to accept applications from AgResearch to release GM animals throughout New Zealand is another step towards sanity and keeping NZ’s prized ‘Clean Green’ image from being tarnished by unethical procedures.
http://www.gefreenorthland.org.nz or http://www.gefree.org.nz
Over the last 25 years you may have you witnessed Michael Fleck at many events in NZ be it peace, justice, democracy, environment, complimentary health, the arts and education.
If you have, you would have noticed Michael moving easily from person to person and group to group, introducing and reconnecting key players to each other over a very broad spectrum, all within the emerging metaphysical and spiritual paradigm as he weaves us into wholeness within our planet's biosphere.
He has also managed touring artist programmes for the Arts Council of New Zealand, produced major conferences on peace and the environment, and organised national and overseas tours for visiting authors and artists, including Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Rupert Sheldrake, Paul Horn, Elisabet Sahtouris, Hank Wesselman, Barry Brailsford, and Neale Donald Walsch.
Tune in to an interview of what inspires him to continue to bring people together in our quest for solutions to our planet's many increasing challenges and at the same time find wholeness and peace within.
www.GoodcompanyPacific.com
This Thursday 10th December 8-9am GreenplanetFM 104.6 Michael Fleck Holistic Global Networker. (However, 1 hour was not enough.)
Pryesh Tavari is a medical doctor and physician born in India and has been in NZ less than a year. He works at the university of Auckland doing a PhD in health informatics.
Listen to an inspiring way of using technology to take medicine into the villages and rural areas of India where up to 700 million people are for the first time able to access health and healing information never before foreseen.
With both Western allopathic medicine and traditional ayurvedic and alternative and complimentary medicines available, the key is to have women lead by becoming trained and thus empowered to lead their families into both preventative health and community health.
We also learn what it means "to be of service to our fellow man" and the profound understanding of the metaphysical and spiritual that has been embedded for thousand of years across India is now emerging to re energise the core of our being.
Pryesh Tavari's, understanding of "service" is so compelling that it will motivate and invigorate you to continue your work for the greater good of both the community both locally and globally.
Jim Salinger formerly of NIWA (National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research). Lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.
In 2006, he was elected to the position of President of the Commission for Agricultural Meteorology at the World Meteorological Organization.
Jim is a world authority on climate change for NZ, specialising in glaciers and ice. Speaking of the differences between earth and climate scientists in comparison to commercial, industrial, military scientists, who are not specialists in climate issues.
He covers the skeptics and denialists and the email hacking of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia being more smoke than fire, some of these emails hacked being his.
And as NZ, is the 5th highest greenhouse polluter, per head of population globally, could overseas markets not buy our “non Green, clean products, if we do not act by leading?
Listen to 30 years of climate experience and Jim's understanding of what the possibilities are.
NOTE: This interview was arranged a month ago, this is not a conspiracy to have Jim instantly react to the email hacking flap presently happening in England. And we have the emails to prove it! (You can hack in to see that I am telling the truth!).
With Westpac and BNZ owing New Zealand hundreds of millions of dollars in unpaid tax, is it helpful for them to be promoting beach clean ups and their save the kiwi efforts - no matter how well intentioned those campaigns? When is green marketing, green wash?
With over a third of New Zealanders taking social and environmental ethics into account when they shop, the businesses competing for their spending money are waking up to their needs.
Some of the best achievers will be celebrated in the Sustainable Business Awardshttp://www.sustainableawards.org.nz/event on the 12th Nov.
But alongside the many quiet achievers are companies whose promotions run ahead of their reality.
In this interview Kath and Tim chat about the challenges and opportunities for businesses wanting to promote their social and environmental credentials - and the legal protection New Zealanders have against Greenwash. Kath will identify some of the risks and problems and sharelocal examples of companies getting it right.
Kath Dewar, Managing Director of KD Consulting, is a marketing professional with twenty years experience at the forefront of the industry here and in the UK and the tutor of a short course in How To Market Sustainability at the University of Auckland on Wed 5th May 2010. Yes! book now!
Kath Dewar www.KDConsulting.co.nz
Clive Monds spokesman for www.eco.org.nz has been active in the environmental movement for over 30 years and represents ECO on various fisheries management issues in NZ.
With NZ privileged to have the 7th largest oceanic exclusive economic zone on earth, how do we govern these marine resources?
Listen to some fascinating information with regard to NZ's fisheries, around sustainability and with world fishing stocks falling what is the state of our waters and the fish in our nurseries?
Should we also lock up a good percentage of NZ fisheries for a number of years by instigating hui to replenish stocks?
Clive Monds of www.eco.org.nz
For many, the macro scale of our planetary challenges are too immense, yet when we chunk things down to a micro level, and work locally we can feel very empowered, especially when functioning together growing our own sustenance out of our own back yard. Eg. ooooby.ning.com
We benefit by eating far more healthily, gain knowledge of nature and about growing things, learn new recipes, become physically fit, share with our neighbors and kin and in particular, cooperate together.
Listen to how, a good keen couple have teamed up with others to negotiate a way of obtaining urban land, pioneering and gardening it in such a way that as a working model, it can be easily replicated.
When we have the will to communicate our needs, it is quite possible that across the city and urban environment, community gardens can spring up like mushrooms.
Darren Millington of Urban Abundance & Megan Beard of Whole Health Hinemoa; growing localised gardens.
"All hands on deck, it's action stations yet again" as pirates and whalers invade Australian and Antarctic territorial waters to kill more whales!
Every year now we learn of the dreaded Summer Season hunt by Japanese whalers of the innocent whales of the Antarctic waters. When will this nightmare end for us and the whales of the world?
Listen to the alarm bells ringing through out the Sea Shepherd fleet, as they race to the aid of all whales - to head off the whalers who have no apparent conscience and consciousness of sentience.
With the Rudd Government and musician now Environmental Cabinet Minister,Peter Garrett prevaricating around promises they made on sending a naval ship down South to support the whales, we need statesmanship, courage and action now!
Fortunately, NZ is sending its Earth Race boat to head off the whalers and assist the "Steve Irwin."www.earthrace.net
So let's be supportive and rally around our kin the whales and send a unanimous message that a conscious civilisation has to honour the sentience of such magnificent beings as cetaceans.
Also: Learn about The Cove, the DVD which documents the slaughter of dolphins in Taiji, Japan.
www.seashepherd.org
And send a strong message to Foreign Minister Murry McCully to take action too.m.mccully@ministers.govt.nz
Lynda Wharton is a registered Traditional Chinese Acupuncturist and Naturopath, with her own holistic woman's health clinic, on Auckland's Northshore.
Lynda is well known as a health researcher, columnist and author. She is a regular columnist for Mindfood magazine, Fitness Life and Australian Nature and health.
Lynda's most recent book, “Wellbeing”, published by Harper Collins, is an essential addition to every woman's library. It’s 400 pages cover many aspects of female health and wellbeing from a holistic perspective. 100 pages are devoted to the subject of breast cancer prevention … a subject that Lynda is passionate about.
The imperative for all of us, is to rapidly come into an understanding that there are other ways to combat the pharmaceutical barrage of drugs to medicate us when suffering from dis-ease and illness. That prevention via natural modalities is available and that when we consciously make choices as to how we treat our bodily temple, we empower ourselves to see ourselves in a renewed radiant self-reflective light.
www.lyndawharton.com
This is the 1st comprehensive web based directory for ‘alternative health’ across Auckland. Assisting people seeking a specific health modality as well as for qualified health practitioners to come under one umbrella, where all concerned can obtain the benefits of an easy to access web directory. This is the index that we have been waiting for.
Just choose what modality or need that you require, then select your suburb, click search and up will come the closest practitioner to where you reside.
Then click on that practitioners name and it will instantly direct you to their home page where you may either read, (hear and or watch a video) of what the practitioner does, their specific methods, case histories, recommendations etc.
There are also articles on health, news, updates as well as a calendar of events.
The need for a web based directory to alternative, holistic, preventative and natural medicines can propel Aucklanders and New Zealanders into a realm of really honouring their body, by making sure it is sustained in the most comprehensive way possible.
Remember, … “You are all you have got.” And the requirement to cherish this 3 dimensional vehicle of 50 trillion + cells is an imperative if we wish to negotiate the road to health and success. And this includes a healthy, freed up non-toxic mind as well as a pure and vibrant spirit.
www.thewellnessdirectory.co.nz
Matty was diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis at age 5 after being ill for two years.
At age 12 he was told if he did not have his bowel removed and replaced with a colostomy bag he would have cancer by age 19 and not live to see 30. Today he is 35 and is a picture of health. This is his story.
By eating raw foods which includes grass and virtually every thing like weeds that we find growing in our back lawn, such as clover, kikuyu, puha, plantains, dock, dandelion etc he was able to cure his disability.
What Matt also found is that the wider the spectrum of leafy greens we eat, the greater the protection from being burnt by the sun. And that humanity maybe being affected by sunburn, because of excessive intake of mass produced, heated, powdered, packaged and tinned foods etc when nature outside gives us phyto-foods to sustain us and enable us to remain protected from the suns ultra violet light among 'many other things.'
Matt who is also a top NZ animation artist, working with Warner Brothers and trained by one of Disney's top animators is a co-founder of Animator Inc, his own animation company, and has recently completed and directed an independent film called " Real N Raw" about reclaiming your health using simple and easy to access solutions.
Listen to how other peoples globally have actively lived to very old ages, by eating raw foods, close to the land, on their own doorstep.
www.realnraw.com. www.realnraw.co.nz
Do we in NZ take the environmental crises that is rapidly unfolding seriously?
The answer has to be NO. And do the major governing political parties in this country see it as a grave situation, and the answer has to be a definite NO! Particularly when elected members refuse to want to educate themselves and learn from scientists as to what is actually happening.
There is a difference between pale green and dark green political consciousness. Pale green methods mean to just slow things down, and Dark Green systems mean, take a different course and strategy.
What is needed is the will of the people to “Tick the Box” every three years on our voting paper, to tell the Government that we want a nationwide stand, an in-depth dialogue, that continuous economic growth is without doubt going to take our future away, and that our children are going to be left with the legacy of our refusal to face reality.
"This has now become a moral issue!"
Listen to a 40 year Values campaigner, who asks the hard questions and requests us to self reflect today, and also look at the option of Dark Green Options and also what the ancient Chinese Taoists offer. Being a way we can look at nature and follow a philosophical system that brings us to a more open and honest way of working with natural systems and each other.
Nick who worked along side Jonathan Porritt, noted his leadership qualities as leader of the Ecology Party, before it changed to the Green Party. (Porritt is the son of NZer Sir Arthur Porritt).
Nick also managed a very switched on electoral organizing team to obtain 24.5% of the vote, almost 50,000 votes, in the English election for the European Parliament, heading off Labour and the Social Democrats, but as England did not have proportional representation, missed out! Noting that Britain is not really a democracy, but an oligarchy!
He was also involved in working towards keeping water boards in local communities hands when privatization was buying up water boards throughout Britain and that we need to be aware that water privatization could come to NZ very soon.
A Quaker who meditates and is a vegetarian, and sees the Quaker values of Equality, Peace, Simplicity, Truth and Integrity as being of vital importance in the near future, for humanity's survival.
Nick Bagnal UK Ecology & Green Party.
GreenplanetFM104.6 Thurs 17th Sept 8-9am
The Antara Free Natural Health Clinic here in Auckland is celebrating its 20th year of operation offering assistance to low wage earners and beneficiaries and those who are unable to afford natural health care.
Using holistic modalities they assist with counseling, to problems with pain, back & shoulders, allergies, asthma, stress & anxiety, arthritis, repetitive strain injuries, behavioral problems and conflict resolution.
Plus, a rural retreat for development and support for young adults set in a beautiful earth brick homestay, inland from Pakari beach and set among organic gardens, orchard, stream and native bush. Founded on the principle of People helping People.
This unique non religious, organization has come together to give to the community with out asking for anything in return.
Listen to how they came together and built up these two places of health, healing and goodwill.
Clinic: 66 Taikata Rd Te Atatu Nth Auckland
Phone: 09 834 7987
Web: www.antara.org.nz
Check their web site for the coming celebration-fund raising auction.
Working with school children, hear of the Waste project at Western Springs College in Auckland as a precursor to larger initiatives regarding Recycling, Landfill and Food scraps.
Co author and compiler of the book ‘Carbon Neutral’ by 2020 with Quentin Atkinson; this has had superb reviews in this country, we hear how quickly it came together with a large number of expert contributors laying out most of the possibilities for NZ to become truly a sustainable green country by 2020.
As a psychologist she notes that humans need to belong and have warm human relationships, and be effective by doing something successfully that validates us and have the integrity to feel that we can be who we are, (or who I am).
Working in groups of people such as Transition Towns can really validate oneself and give feelings of belonging.
Niki as a tireless worker for social justice with loads of enthusiasm, lays out possibilities to engage in social, political and especially ecological change and inspires us all to never give up!
Dr Niki Harre: http://www.psych.auckland.ac.nz/people/Harre/Harre.htm
Galina, originally from Minsk in Belorussia of the old Soviet Union, has had a lifetime working with children, their learning, with family and extended family.
From non-cesarean birth which is best, to parenting via the "Sunday Club" of specific quiet times with ones child, brings about a profound healing and bonding.
After being caught in the Chernobyl nuclear disaster that affected the Ukraine, Belorussia and many parts of Europe, Galina a young mother, found herself involved in taking news crews through the area and becoming involved in health and healing of those affected by radiation. Particularly using alternative methods including herbal remedies.
By working and playing with children she found that when adults play and become more child like, profound changes happen for all involved.
Being in the now, and in particular singing with your children, and in singing words builds a wonderful rapport that validates a deepening relationship with ones child establishing trust, which enables good, warm hearted and successful parenting.
In 1980 Jakob von Uexküll founded with his own resources the Right Livelihood Award, also known as the Alternative Nobel Prize, which is awarded each year in the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm.
Since 1980, 133 people and organisations from 57 countries have been recognised in this way for their great commitment and selfless service to a better world.
In 2007, after many years’ preliminary work, Jakob von Uexküll also founded The World Future Council. The Council comprises 50 internationally known figures, including several winners of the Alternative Nobel Prize.
They work as the “voice of future generations” to ensure that we pass on a healthy world worth living in, to our descendants.
Listen to a very connected person describe how the privileged elite are grimly holding on to the old paradigm, when we urgently need to be working towards a more sustainable and just world view.
New Zealand's current stance regarding Co2 emissions is being seen as outrageous for a country with such a clean green image and that the old ways of activism, including civil disobedience and communicating personally with our elected representatives are as valid today as they were in the past.
http://www.rightlivelihood.org
http://www.worldfuturecouncil.org
As an environmental artist and activist he works mainly with recycled materials to raise awareness of the importance of waste minimization, recycling, & the conservation of the natural world.
“My aim is to inspire people to take personal responsibility for their own environmental footprint, & to encourage them to “make a difference”.
Martin has spent time at street level picking up household trash and is now one of NZs up and coming garbage artists, but much more, he is using his art awareness of industrial and household waste to make us more conscious of our propensity as the 5th largest producer per capita of garbage and trash, to change our ways.
From his home in Browns Bay he trash-trawls, dumpster-dives & beachcombs to collect detritus from the global scrapheap to make into recycled art - mainly sculptural pieces & contemporary fashion accessories.
Listen to an entertaining and often very funny discussion on how rubbish has been the off-handedly got rid of since we in NZ lost the plot after being potty trained.
www.martinadlington.webs.com
www.martinadlington.wordpress.com
www.martin-adlington.blogspot.com
www.youtube.com/user/MartinAdlington
Logan Muller is one of Unitec's Senior Academic researchers. His expertise is the use of IT in the development of sustainability.
His PhD is in socially and environmentally sustainable business. He has implemented the model in New Zealand and in the remote areas of the Andean mountains in Peru.
The model has been adopted by the Peruvian Government and endorsed by the Latin American Telecommunications Council as a successful poverty alleviation method.
However as one of NZs most active academics in IT for Sustainability, Logan is making changes at the grass roots and hands on level and policy making areas.
Listen to a passionate story of insight and experience on how we can solve so many of our challenges here on Spaceship Earth, and empower people particularly those who have never had a say, through IT, especially utilising the world wide web.
As an emergent species the possibility to instigate positive change starting from oneself, families, and community, to cluster of communities is now in the ascendant.
The tools are here, and are available to lift the aspirations of the many into a more heart centred and conscious relationship with society and the land both locally and globally.
Warren Snow of Envision New Zealand is one of the countries foremost authorities on industrial and household waste and packaging. He runs an environmental and local economic development consultancy providing advice and support services for communities and businesses working towards sustainability.
In our Western society, when it comes to waste management there is a general silent adage of: "out of sight out of mind" and we don't want to know anything about it. Also, being un-glamorous, and lacking any sex appeal, both government and business, see it as something that has to be dealt with swiftly and efficiently, with a quick fix being the optimal result.
Hear how innovative, conscious waste recovery centers are endeavouring to get community business's up and running to recycle and find ways for waste minimisation at the same time, give local employment and become successful enterprises.
Also, hear that NZ was one of the leaders in waste management 30 years ago and find out how we have decided on colossal land fills that have no guarantees as to their longevity as the quick solution. Yet as a country we are one of the top 5 countries in waste per capita on earth.
www.envision-nz.com
Adrian Butler is chairman of the World Fire Safety Foundation. The Foundation is a non profit global organisation, dedicated to saving lives by exposing the defective nature of the type of smoke alarms installed in homes around the world and promoting the safe and affordable alternatives.
Overwhelming evidence proves that ionization smoke alarms that use radio active components are not safe because they do not detect smouldering fires, the type of fire that commonly kills.
The Foundation's website provides evidence of fire-fighter and scientific testing that exposes the existing flawed standards testing, that has allowed ionization smoke alarms to be certified as safe and sold to the public for over forty years.
It is estimated that tens of thousands of people have been injured or killed globally as a direct result of ionization alarms failing to sound a timely warning.
Since April 2004 new legislation requires that certain Australian commercial buildings must install photoelectric smoke alarms in all sleeping areas and exit paths. Despite Standards Australia having now acknowledged that the testing of ionization smoke alarms is flawed, the change to the standard affecting homes continues to be blocked, without justification, putting Australian and New Zealand lives at needless risk.
What you as listeners can do.
Contact:
Zelka Grammer on GE Free Northland and working towards becoming GMO Free.
A mighty shift in how people-power can wrest control away from unconscious central government and place it back in the hands of localised community and conscious consumers is taking place here in Northland, New Zealand.
Not since the heady days of the mid 1980’s when localised groups and councils ‘made’ Nuclear Free Zones across this country, have we seen such a resurgence as ordinary and extraordinary NZer’s through dedication and vision, mobilise to make Northland, NZ a GMO Free Zone.
Listen to an impassioned Zelka Grammer on how GE Free Northland with the help of Maori Iwi, localised growers and supporters plus District Councillors are investigating local options for regulating or prohibiting GMO land use in the Northland Peninsular.
The recent High Court ruling that has overturned ERMA's (Environmental Risk Management Authority) decision to accept applications from AgResearch to release GM animals throughout New Zealand is another step towards sanity and keeping NZ’s prized ‘Clean Green’ image from being tarnished by unethical procedures.
GreenplanetFM 104.6 Thursday 8-9am 16th July
http://www.gefreenorthland.org.nz or http://www.gefree.org.nz/
To listen to the above program via ipod or stream:
www.holisticliving.co.nz/greenplanetfm.html
www.planetaudio.org.nz - search - green -
What society would buy toxic waste that is banned in Europe and especially from the country of origin, Belgium and then drip feed it into 60% of another countries public water supply? If that was done to you in your country would you be outraged?
Well, you may have to experience this feeling, because the FANNZ spokes people state that this is happening to the people of NZ. That we are paying Belgium for their toxic waste and we are basically sabotaging the health of the local population here.
Meanwhile, the two main supporters of fluoridation in the USA, the American Dental Association and the Centers for Disease Control warn not to use fluoridated water for infant milk formula. This message is not been communicated to parents here in NZ.
Listen to a very revealing interview about the state of our drinking water in 60% of NZ homes. With the Department of Health aiming to have more fluoridation be piped into more kiwi dwellings.
Mary Byrne & Mark Atkin Fluoride Action Network @ www.fannz.org.nz
On October 2, 2009 to January 2, 2010 The World March will encircle islands, continents and our planet, beginning in Aotearoa New Zealand on October 2, 2009, the anniversary of Gandhi’s birth, declared the “International Day of Nonviolence” by the United Nations.
It will conclude in the Andes Mountains (Punta de Vacas, Aconcagua, Argentina) on January 2, 2010. The March will last 90 days, three long months of travel.
Why?
Because we can end world hunger with 10% of what is spent on arms. Imagine how life would be if 30-50% of the arms budget went toward improving people’s lives instead of being used for destruction.
Because eliminating wars and violence means leaving human pre-history behind and taking a giant step forward in the evolution of our species.
Because in this aspiration we are accompanied by the strength of the voices of hundreds of prior generations who suffered the consequences of war, and whose echo continues to be heard today in all those places where it continues to leave its sinister trail of dead, disappeared, disabled, refugees and displaced.
Because a “world without wars” is an image that opens the future and seeks to become reality in every corner of the planet, as violence gives way to dialogue.
Globally humanity is mobilising, for at heart we are realising that if we do not consciously take the power of the people into our own hands and set and shape ours and our childrens future, then it quite possibly will be forced upon us by outside forces. (e.g the Super City).
To be honoured as the only Nuclear Free country on earth, this is a celebration that all NZers can rejoice and support whole heartedly.
www.worldmarch.co.nz & www.theworldmarch.org
Wende Jowsey Auckland Coordinator the World March
Auckland Benefit concert at St Matthew-in-the-City 187 Federal St Auckland. Sat 4 July 2009 7.30-10pm. Tickets www.ticketek.com
Listen to how a young entrepreneur Qiujing Wong uses film to bring to our awareness the many survival challenges of peoples in developing countries.
From the steppes of Mongolia, where displaced farmers and others struggling to come to grips with the rapidly changing localised economy are taught commercial skills and then are assisted to take control of their own business. Then to African grandmothers in Kenya who have found themselves caring for children who have lost both their parents to HIV and Aids, and how money and consciousness was raised to assist them. Plus how Indian women are forming their own banking systems based on low cost loans in Calcutta and for the first time can chart their own course in life.
This dynamic little NZ filming group shows us how to survive and thrive by assisting other cultures and races that brings us into connection that we are all one global family. That the conscious use of media and innovation can facilitate much needed change in countries and peoples that are less fortunate than we, here in NZ. Yet they do good works in this country too, aiding in bringing attention to people suffering from ailing kidneys.
www.borderlessproductions.com
Gavin is the sales & social marketing manager at Good Magazine, the Ecological and Sustainability Magazine.
Listen to how a high quality magazine using social networking, the web and various other innovative alliances, operates to find win/win situations to inspire readers and those who wish to come into an environmental understanding to take action and be part of a positive movement for sustainability.
With the need for all of society and the middle class to “come on board” the truth is, we are already on board Spaceship Earth, the imperative now is, can we aspire to initiate the much needed social, cultural, ethical and commercial changes to make sure that our destination as a sustainable planet is accomplished?
http://good.net.nz and www.gomad.co.nz = Go make a difference.
Listen to a powerful proclamation for positivity and optimism towards the challenges we face on earth today.
Frank strongly advocates humanity working towards cooperative participation across all levels of society especially within business. Success comes from taking an active interest in all staff. Warmth, fun and enthusiasm are prerequisites for a dynamic organisation.
A believer that good character and ethics needs to be increasingly emphasized he contends that character is at least important as skills. "You have to have an honest and strong intention to add value to whatever you are dealing with."
The first NZ manager for the Natural Step out of Sweden, Frank gives an insightful understanding of what can and needs to be accomplished to initiate the much-needed local and global changes towards sustainability and peace.
Frank Olsson - Originally from Sweden
www.olsson.co.nz
In 1787 a group of 12 men, met in a Quaker bookstore in London. Nine were members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) and three were Anglicans. These men were determined to abolish the slave trade and through their diligence and dedication the British Parliament passed a law in 1792 banning the slave trade.
In 2003, 39 Quakers met in Wallingford Pennsylvania to consider the moral challenge posed by the global economic system and the heedless destruction of the Earth's ecosystems and failing to serve the well being of hundreds of millions of people.
Listen to a compelling story of a New Vision of the Earth, looking at a Global Federation that will emerge from the grass roots up, and will draw on the aspirations of all of humanity. Based on "Right Relationship" the "Commonwealth" that is life, on "Fairness" and why Ecology needs to in many ways, set the boundaries for the Economy.
Hear of many interesting and staggering insights to what has gone on and what inspiring things are been put into motion.
Dr Robert Howell, CEO of the Council of Socially Responsible Investment in NZ. On Right Relationship, Building A Whole Earth Economy.
A bold Quaker initiative for a Just and Flourishing Earth.
www.moraleconomy.org
You can purchase the book Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy from Fishpond in New Zealand.
Adrian Butler is chairman of the World Fire Safety Foundation. The Foundation is a non profit global organisation, dedicated to saving lives by exposing the defective nature of the type of smoke alarms installed in homes around the world and promoting the safe and affordable alternatives.
Overwhelming evidence proves that ionization smoke alarms that use radio active components are not safe because they do not detect smouldering fires, the type of fire that commonly kills.
The Foundation's website provides evidence of fire-fighter and scientific testing that exposes the existing flawed standards testing, that has allowed ionization smoke alarms to be certified as safe and sold to the public for over forty years.
It is estimated that tens of thousands of people have been injured or killed globally as a direct result of ionization alarms failing to sound a timely warning.
Since April 2004 new legislation requires that certain Australian commercial buildings must install photoelectric smoke alarms in all sleeping areas and exit paths. Despite Standards Australia having now acknowledged that the testing of ionization smoke alarms is flawed, the change to the standard affecting homes continues to be blocked, without justification, putting Australian and New Zealand lives at needless risk.
World Fire Safety Foundation; www.TheWFSF.org
What you as listeners can do.
Contact:
New Zealand Fire Service; www.fire.org.nz
New Zealand Professional Firefighters Union; www.nzpfu.org.nz
Fire Services are the responsibility of Hon. Richard Worth, Minister of Internal Affairs;http://www.dia.govt.nz
Gary Williams permaculture specialist, who is the author of 'Out of the Helix' as well as farming a small block of land put into forestry using organic and bio-dynamic principles.
He is also a consulting engineer in water and soil resources, as well as being involved in music, theatre and woodworking plus being a Tai chi practitioner.
Listen to how land can be restored, soil stabilized and how trees and birds bring life back into natural surroundings and, that from a place of consciousness there is an urgent need for a commitment to total transformation as to how we as a humanity chart our course towards sustainability.
http://waterscape.co.nz
Thomas Greco is a community and monetary economist, writer and consultant and a leading Global researcher on the subject of free market alternative currency and monetary systems.
He is founder and director of the non-profit Community Information Resource Center, which supports community improvement and sustainability efforts. British author David Boyle has called Thomas Greco a "pioneer" in the field of local currencies. Greco’s insightful writings are regularly mentioned by alternative currency advocates.
He is a keynote speaker at alternative currency forums around the globe and definitely is a world authority, on both financial issues and for humanity to awaken to the need to become proactive in this field. He has recently toured NZ on speaking engagements.
The key to sustainability in the changing global dynamics is for communities to come together and build networks with business, faith groups, voluntary organisations, schools and the full spectrum of localised community, so as to build a robust system of energy exchange if and when national/global currencies loose value and or credence.
The imperative being, is to have a strategy in place so that localised community can exist as a viable, stable entity, if a sudden downturn was to occur.
His latest book, “The End of Money and the Future of Civilization” from Chelsea Green Publishers is now in print.
Web pages: www.Beyondmoney.net and www.Reinventingmoney.com
With the recent announcement that the National Government of New Zealand will impose super city status on seven local councils over the greater Auckland area, this has caused concern to many people about the methods involved to bring this about.
One of the unique qualities of localised self governance is the closeness of community, cultural identity and many collaborative ventures between council, small business and neighborhood engagement plus area employment. And yes, we need more integrated transport, and other infrastructural systems, but not without community involvement with powers to act.
With the enforcement to super city status with $28 billion of community assets, such as the Auckland airport stake, (that was recently sold off by the smaller Auckland council) what does the future hold for keeping our community resources in public hands?
With participative democracy needed like never before, you are being asked as an Aucklander to break the spell of inaction and communicate with "our paid servants in Wellington" and demand more transparency and community liaison, participation plus feed back.
This is a call to action
For involvement at a localised level;
www.cc4a.net.nz
www.stopthesupercity.org.nz
http://ihiaotearoa.wordpress.com
On May 25 there will be a Hikoi where New Zealanders from all persuasions can join us to say out loud that this proposal is flawed and will become flawed law if passed. This is the anniversary of the Bastion Point evictions.
We will gather in the four corners of Auckland and hikoi, convening at the bottom of Queen Street by 9.30am. From there we will walk to the Town Hall, the symbolic heart of the proposed new Council. Here we will hold a free public concert showing the beauty and talent of our people.
Lisa Er was the founder of Lisa's Hummus and prior to that a primary school teacher. She stood as a Green Party candidate in Mt Roskill for the last election.
Since selling her business, Lisa has been steadily building a group who attend a Friday event here in Auckland, called the Forum. In creating and maintaining this Forum for speakers Lisa feels that she is doing a service which assists in the raising of consciousness of the planet. The group has now expanded to Christchurch and will shortly begin in Hawkes Bay.
"If humanity is going to survive as a race, then we clearly need to change our way of living. Underlying our daily activities are our attitudes and beliefs that, as Dr Bruce Lipton confirms, affects our cells and the way we create our collective life. We are not separate, we are one."
Lisa has five principles that she believes would change the way any institution would operate, and if applied everywhere would give us a totally new 'operating manual' for the future."At the moment society operates on survival of the fittest mode. The economy is based on growth and not sustainability, yet, we underestimate the power of nature, and we can feel very helpless in the face of the world's challenges."
Operating from a different belief system while also being active politically are Lisa's answers to the way forward for humanity and in caring for the planet.
Recently from Hawaii, Charlottemarie is an enigmatic performer grounded in ancient knowledge of chant, harmonics and energy that heals.
Through her mesmerizing, multidimensional voice, Charlottemarie presents a field of vibration in song and chant that transforms and elevates, opening hearts and souls to the experience of the unseen world of love and union.
As a humanity we are rapidly learning that we are a sub atomic field of energy that is oscillating at a frequency that aligns us with this reality/dimension. We are coming into the realisation that as a field of energy we can consciously heal our body of pain and many other ailments. Vibrational healing which is more than a modality, is moving towards its ascendancy.
From the healing temples and higher knowledge of the past, we are now able to utilise this knowing and integrate sound therapy by the voice and the harmonics of love into a method of healing that could quite possibly restore to health a large segment of today's global society.
www.charlottemarie.com
Dr Bruce Lipton, (currently in New Zealand), is author of the popular book;Biology of Belief, Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles, was awarded 2006’s Best Science Book of the Year.
The new sciences quantum physics and epigenetics are revolutionising our understanding of the link between mind and matter, challenging established scientific theories and prompting a complete re-evaluation of life as we have known it.
The significance of this shift in belief is vast in that the original view led to the notion that we are victims of our biology. Whereas the ‘new’ sciences show that we are actually masters of our biology.
Bruce has taken his award-winning medical school lectures to the public and is currently a sought after keynote speaker and workshop presenter. He lectures to conventional and complementary medical professionals and lay audiences about leading-edge science and how it dovetails with mind-body medicine and spiritual principles.
He has been heartened by anecdotal reports from hundreds of former audience members who have improved their spiritual, physical and mental well being by applying the principles he discusses in his lectures. He is regarded as one of the leading voices of the new biology.
Mantak Chia is an author, teacher and self-described healer. He is best known for his books and teachings on Taoism and qigong.
Mantak Chia is a controversial figure in Taoism, alternately praised for public disclosure of long-held secrets and criticised for such a heavy focus on Taoist sexual practices. Mantak Chia claims to make esoteric Taoist practices more accessible to a modern Western audience.
What is taught is a variety of qigong and neigong practices. Fusion of the Five Elements is a central neidan practice that are intended to balance qi or chi, a universal energy that all humans can access. The microcosmic orbit, or "waterwheel" exercise, is a central technique used to channel and circulate qi in many other exercises. The principal aim of most practices Chia advocates is the balancing of energy and the creation of spiritual alchemical "inner elixirs.
In a world that is increasingly challenged by ecological, financial and intensifying social forces, the imperative is to function at our highest level of health and wellbeing, both in our inner world and our outer world. By being acutely aware of our energy levels, as well as being present in the now, certain Taost practices as taught by Mantak Chia, can assist us as we both navigate life and instigate positive change in our community and our daily life.
“A perfect blend of Western and Eastern fitness to jump-start your day and help you relax at night.”-Deepak Chopra
Pete Russell is the "initiator of www.ooooby.org here on Waiheke Island, Auckland, that is rapidly spreading from the grass roots up, as a process of producing goods and products from your own back yard, especially gardens and then finding ways to share, barter or sell to other neighbours in the community.
This is a New Zealand first, that pulls the strands of community together around your physical and virtual backyard using the internet as the medium of social networking.
See how this grass roots system is rapidly spreading here and that it’s a direct interface with Transition Towns, www.transitiontowns.org.nz which is another level up where people across the land and in other countries are mobilizing themselves and resources. They are finding new and innovative ways to survive and thrive healthily in these rapidly changing times of climate change, financial fallout, energy costs and fluctuations, and the resulting social dilemma and confusion.
Ooooby.org will inspire you to find new neighbours who care, want to share and bring family and community together from out of your own back door and back yard. A win win win for all involved.
As an independent Officer of New Zealand’s Parliament, the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment has wide-ranging powers to investigate environmental concerns. 'Independent' means independent of the government of the day, so the PCE reports not to a Government Minister but to Parliament through:
As an Officer of Parliament, the Commissioner's job is to hold the Government to account for its environmental policies and actions. The PCE is a policy reviewer standing outside the system of environmental management and reporting on it.
The Commissioner has wide powers to investigate and report on any matter where, in her opinion, the environment may be, or has been, adversely affected. Parliament or any parliamentary select committee may also ask her to report on environmental matters.
Dave arrived in New Zealand in 1981, became a naturalized citizen and married a New Zealander. In the United States he worked for 17 years in aerospace electronics for TRW Systems, acquired seven US patents and won awards from the United States government two years in a row for contributing to the most significant electronic achievement in the USA. Both of these had to do with designing and creating integrated micro-electronic circuits that could withstand atomic bomb blasts.
In New Zealand he directed the 'Design For The Sun' passive solar energy programme for the NZ government for seven years and taught for five years at the University of Auckland. He developed and promoted 29 solar houses across the country and wrote the solar energy building design manual now used by architects and university students. He then became an organisational development consultant with a number of large NZ companies, providing a focus on leadership and organisational change.
As Founding Director of Anew NZ, he is leading a collaborative initiative, "What Matters Most to New Zealanders" which is a long term citizen-based initiative, to stimulate national renewal and help shape the future of New Zealand - by redefining progress from simple economic terms (like GDP) to a broad set of goals for all people - through a network of networks from civil society, business and government, and robust community engagement that creates three functions: a think tank, public shared visions and the development of a set of progress indicators and two means of delivery, to inform policy makers and empower civil society to take direct action.
Outputs include:
Public shared future visions for New Zealand.
Measures of Genuine Progress (and "genuine economic success") as a challenge to the misuse of GDP, via the measurements of social, cultural, economic, environmental and governance wellbeing - with the public shared visions determining the goals of wellbeing.
Think Tank Research that informs the visioning process and identifies and measures "horizontal linkages" between the indicators (e.g. health and economic) and "vertical linkages" between "what matters most to New Zealanders" and the government policies that enhance or inhibit
achieving these goals (which includes developing a strategy for a sustainable economic future).
A policy tool, guiding evidence-based planning and action to address the issues identified as important to the people of New Zealand.
A reporting tool, tracking and communicating progress toward agreed goals and outcomes in the economic, social, cultural and environmental sectors.
A democratic tool for engaging citizens and communities to act on the goals set by them.
Outcomes include:
Catalyzes positive change towards greater wellbeing and sustainability.
Strengthens representative and participative democracy.
Shifts the policy and public focus from economic to overall system performance.
See www.anewnz.org.nz
Jon Eisen publisher and editor of “Uncensored,” New Zealand’s only magazine that does not censor its readers. So what compels someone to go so far out on a limb to publish their version of reality and sets up a debate on what is real, what is the truth, and who are we to believe?
With huge question marks around 911, what your Doctor will never tell you, media manipulation, the dumbing down of the populace, UFO’s, Obama, Israel, World Government, GE, suppressed everything, global warming and more. Why does "Uncensored" the magazine with attitude, shake people to their core and cause people to react?
With the Western world now feeding from less and less independent news and media outlets, where and how is the populous going to obtain the information that will assist in finding one's moral compass to delve into the swamp of sameness to drag out what could be the truth?
We are a humanity that have freewill, are we going to become responsible and grapple with the hard issues and as community, shape our own future from the grass roots up, or are we going to slide into sloth and give our power away?
Do you love your children and grand children? The choice is always ours.
Noeline Levinson is a Sound therapist recently from South Africa, who uses a technique called the Tomatis method and uses the music of Mozart at various frequencies to stimulate different parts of the ear and thereby stimulating different parts of the brain.
Noeline has worked mostly with children who have learning and behavioural challenges and feels it is important to work with a team of practitioners. Depending on what is causing the child stress, different modalities are chosen to assist in the process.
The focus looks at emotional and physical trauma, chemical toxicity (pollution), nutrition, immunization and dehydration. This sound therapy addresses any maturational delays and prepares the brain for learning. We all know that we respond to music, and through the ages music has been there to soothe us, invigorate us, motivate us and generally to enhance our emotional state.
This method of sound therapy is very profound, it not only stimulates the brain, but every organ and cell in the body receives the music. It has an affect on our emotional, physical and spiritual self.
www.family-focus.co.nz
Caitlin & Sika are international musicians from the South Island of New Zealand. Their music is an electrifying blend of indigenous and western music. They are truly unique performers and their spirit & energy appeals to audiences with a variety of musical tastes from world to folk to dance.
Their music spans many cultures by using a wide range of instruments that reflect their travels around the world. Powerful chants sung in the ancient language of Sanskrit …..East meets West with a spark of spirit and dance.
Caitlin & Sika live in the mountains above Golden Bay with their children on their horse ranch and are living a self-sufficient, eco-friendly lifestyle with organic gardens, passive solar, warming their house, sheeps wool to insulate the walls and a mini hydro system to power up the satellite dish to get broadband.
Listen to how conscious entertainers use their skills to both educate and uplift the human spirit to initiate us into becoming aware of our inherent capabilities of being truly human.
www.caitlinsika.com
With 26 years in sustainable systems, design, leadership and philosophy Brendan has also explored traditional food production spending much time in Asia learning this process.
The urgency is to convert NZ to a new era in farming to horticulture, and the Asian model that supports large populations has many sustainable possibilities.
In essence, a new Gaian (whole Geo systems) thinking needs to be enacted where we can turn crises into opportunity.
Brendan has degrees in agricultural systems and horticulture … plus regional and urban landscaping and rural development.
Executive Chair and founder of econation2020 Trust, he has just completed lecturing in Sustainable Horticulture and Resource Management Degree program at Unitec NZ.
www.organic-systems.org
Sue Kedgley, is currently the Chairperson of the New Zealand Parliament Health Committee, a Green Member of Parliament for 9 years and her most recent book, is titled Eating Safely in a Toxic World.
The interview covers, food labeling, irradiated food, poor quality food in hospitals, retirement villages and prisons, diet and sugar drinks, deteriorating teeth, education to what is a good diet and political party politics. Also, Codex and TGA effects from Australia where we get an insight to the state of affairs of Health across NZ and the way out, by growing our own vegetables in our own back yard.
Sue tells us as it is, in the way food is processed and consumed in NZ and the huge challenge around changing food and eating habits. Particularly, ways that empower the individual and family to once again take charge of our choices on what we can do, to get closer to our food source and become a strong healthy nation once again.
http://www.greens.org.nz/people/suekedgley
Can it be said that if we have an inner landscape that is muddled and contaminated with dysfunctional and fragmented thoughts, that the outcome will be mirrored in the outside world that we experience on our planet today?
If so, can we transform this state of mind - of being, and turn it all completely around into becoming a quintessential, peaceful, joyful soul at one with the world as family?
Valli Waugh is Certified in the United States in “The Work” of Byron Katie. He is currently mentoring candidates from around the world in the Byron Katie International Certification program, and supporting new mentors in their mentoring of candidates.
Our suffering comes from believing the stressful thoughts in our minds. That is how we pollute and poison our world. The Work of Byron Katie is a simple and very powerful way of identifying those thoughts and questioning them.
When we question them with an open mind we find a world that isn't polluted by our stressful stories. We discover a life that is kinder and more loving and peaceful. That's who we already are, when we are not believing the painful stories in our minds.
Jeffrey Masson is an American author, known for his revisionist conclusions about Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis. As Director of the Sigmund Freud Archives after his death and with full access to Freud's correspondence and other unpublished papers, his insights could be seen to be compelling.
However, he is best known for his books on animals and animal rights.
Listen to a staunch advocate for animals, especially farm animals, cows, pigs and poultry and the problems with factory farming, particularly overseas.
With human separation from nature and the many unconscious practices that are predominant today, can we mitigate this by more animal rights and migrating to eating less meat to becoming a vegan?
His books:
He is currently an Honorary Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Auckland in New Zealand.
New Zealander Nicky Hager is an author and investigative journalist, who writes about issues involving intelligence networks, environmental issues and politics. He has degrees in physics and philosophy and has been described as "New Zealand's leading investigative journalist.
Author of Secret Power: New Zealand's Role in the International Spy Network, Secrets and Lies : The Anatomy of an Anti-Environmental PR Campaign, Seeds of Distrust: The Story of a GE Cover-up and The Hollow Men: A Study in the Politics of Deception, we find that all is not well in little clean green New Zealand.
Listen to Nicky explain how he came into this realm, and how he sees what the challenges are, especially in relation to truth, goodwill and integrity. Particularly as to how people can be influenced by vested interests and unethical motivations.
Green entrepreneur and Councilor since 2001, Wayne has 30 years of ecological and environmental experience, as well as a university commerce degree in management, organisation and project management. His commercial background is in retail, manufacturing, product development and project management.
Listen to one of the most coherent exponents of visionary sustainability in NZ local body politics today. As climate change awakens us from our lethargy, we find that there are people in the community who are making conscious decisions to bring about a future that will give the younger generation a sense of purpose and focus.
Wayne's practical and sensible understanding of the current relationship of humanity to life in the biosphere is common sense and needs to be applauded. His ability to out-picture the limited understanding of the status quo, by applying far reaching blue prints towards our common future needs the support of a conscious electorate - both locally and globally.
Warwick, a New Zealander, has spent 20 years developing a world leading technology that under one umbrella eliminates industrial and household waste, turning it into a valuable resource for manufacturing many different products, but most important it recovers the energy from waste.
This system is a global first and is so necessary for today, as one of the greatest attributes of this system is that it reduces CO2 and methane going into the atmosphere from landfills. By doing this he is able to eliminate all landfills.
Warwick worked with scientists on floating Arctic ice ‘islands’ for two years, which have subsequently melted. He has first hand experience on declining polar ice due to warming of the world’s oceans, which are reaching a critical threshold. He sees the elimination of methane gas, a super potent greenhouse gas from landfills and atmosphere as a major step to remediation and sustainability.
Watch the Global Olivine video
What if 98% of Health Care could recede and go away, and knowledgeable self-care could replace it. What would we do with US$1.6 trillion in savings? - Mother Nature's strongest medicines are waiting for you (in exactly the right doses and without any side effects) - in whole foods.
Don Tolman has had privileged access to private museums, rare books collections, and ancient manuscripts, and has rediscovered the secrets of health & vitality lost to humanity for millennia.
Listen to Don Tolman and learn of the whole food wisdom of the Ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Hebrews, Chinese, Native Americans, Incas and others who through time treated themselves to high vitality and longevity using plant whole foods.
Dr Shaun Holt, Author of Natural Remedies That Really Work
As seen on TV1 Breakfast every fortnight.
A New Zealand Guide, is about what medical research actually says about natural health products and therapies that other sources recommend. In a world that's besieged by extravagant claims for an avalanche of natural remedies, who should we believe, and how can we get the information we need to make the right choices?
Shaun draws on a data base of 200,000 patients. The answers to these and many more questions are in this book. A surprising number of natural remedies are the subject of high-quality clinical research, Natural Remedies that Really Work summarises and evaluates the most important and interesting research in a concise and user friendly format. A must for all New Zealand families looking for complementary natural health remedies.
www.NaturalHealthReview.co.nz
www.clinicanz.com
John Stansfield of Waiheke Island - Materialising the dream of an organic farm in community, to pioneering waste management and recycling.
How do we build intentional community, what are the dynamics, the rules, if any? What are the common threads that bind people to each other, and how do we do co-operation and fun, that enables us as participators to both love and cry to evolve a successful venture?
Listen to a delightful understanding of how an organic dream grew into an oasis of fulfillment as well as extending into a waste stream management and recycling system that in many ways is a world leader.
With current global events pointing us towards community and cooperation, see how gardens, organics and neighbourhood support overlap with Transition Towns as Waiheke Islanders pioneer the shaping of an experiment of sustainability, goodwill and families.
www.wrt.org.nz
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/410965/1208708
In the current ambiguous and dangerous financial climate the term Transition Towns is seen as a sensible, intelligent alternative to the status quo, which in many ways is observed as keeping ones head down, doing nothing, and hoping that things will somehow get better.
The main cooperative pillars of the Transition Town movement include Permaculture organic gardens and Living Economies which are new community currencies such as green dollars and time banking.
Intrinsic to this is sustainability, the key theme, bringing out local resilience and initiatives to create community gardens, and cooperative ways to educate and do business.
With its introduction to NZ in 2007 it has rapidly grown to over 43 groups, being either small towns, boroughs, suburbs or neighbourhoods. Whilst around the globe, they are now established in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia, the United States to Italy and Chile.
From Waiheke Island I have James Samuel of www.yesterdaysfuture.net, who has been at the forefront of bringing Transition Towns to NZ and in Auckland, Finn Mackesy who is an educator, change agent atwww.TransitionAotearoa.org.nz
For those who want to involve yourself in transition towns, please see www.transitiontowns.org.nz; orwww.TransitionAotearoa.org.nz & www.le.org.nz
This is where you can obtain a template to work with.
I encourage you to send these links to all your friends wherever they may be, as well as listen to this particular broadcast on www.planetaudio.org.nz or www.holisticliving.co.nz
Udo Erasmus, Ph.D. Nutrition, MA Psychology, is one of North America's foremost authorities on the roles that fats and oils play in human health. He is often referred to as The Father of Organic, Unrefined Flax Oil.
His work with essential fatty acids spans three decades and provided the groundwork for all the current public and industry awareness focused on the importance of Essential Fatty Acids or Omega- fats. Lack of essential fatty acids (EFAs) constitutes the most neglected aspect of a nutritional program for healthy, radiant skin.
As always, avoid "white foods" and foods rendered toxic by processing or overheating!
This is incorrect says North America's leading expert on fats and oils.
According to Udo Erasmus, author of "Fats that Heal Fats that Kill", these so-called "sensible dietary maxims" come not from the science of nutrition, but from the high-paid advertising executives in New York’s Madison Avenue in Madison Avenue's "war on fat" that is being waged to improve corporate profits, not health.
"The giant food makers know that low-fat foods have much longer shelf-lives than fatty foods", says Erasmus. "So they've hired high-powered advertisers to create "fat-phobia" in the minds of consumers - and they've succeeded."
According to Udo Erasmus, studies have proven that low-fat diets do not improve health. One recent study proved that people who switched from butter to margarine had twice as many heart attacks. "Fresh fats and oils are essential parts of a healthy diet," he says. "They should never be damaged or removed."
What has happened is that the "War on Fat" has stripped America's food supply of vital nutrients called "essential fatty acids -- triggering a variety of degenerative diseases including heart attacks, strokes, cancer, and diabetes .... Children's health is another casualty in the "war on fat". Children raised on diets without essential fatty acids are more likely to be sick - and they frequently manifest behavioural problems and learning disabilities."
www.rightfatdiet.com
www.udoerasmus.com
How does the human species deal with all the psychological stresses of life and the emotional challenges that seem to be so predominant in our increasingly frenzied, financially dominated world?
The need to be healthy, whole and well resourced, with cohesive family and community ties, having inner balance at the core of our being, is an imperative.
Delaine’s training in re-evaluation counselling has prepared her for identifying patterns of behaviour which people often mistake for personality, and which are the culprits behind most depressions, addictions and even ways of coping with anger, grief and other emotional reactions that people can't control.
With increasing depression, anxiety disorders and suicide the need for compassion, conflict resolution, anger management and intelligent communication skills are essential to pull the strands of our family, society and ultimately our civilization into a more coherent whole.
Delaine Jones
Phone: Auckland 09 372 9082
Email: delaine (at) prophet.co.nz
Web: www.prophet.co.nz
Mitch Santell formerly of California USA is International Marketing Director Corelli Academic School of the Arts Browns Bay Auckland.
Mitch is also a media and branding expert and has been responsible for launching over 31 radio shows in the USA. Over one third of his clients end up with their own nationally syndicated show.
He is a big supporter of "collaborative business." Compassionate Capitalism as opposed to "Vulture Capitalism."
When not running his entertainment company he’s working with Diane Gatward to build a Transition Town in Torbay on the North Shore.
www.transitiontowns.org.nz
Listen to where the web is taking media, how children are learning and how we can make opportunity shape a positive future especially when listening do your deeper self.
www.transparentpicturesnz.com mitch.transparentpictures@gmail.com
From the archives: Jeanette Fitzsimons is one of New Zealand's most high-profile environmentalists and has been Co-leader of the Green Party since 1995.
For the last 12 years Jeanette has seen the Greens raise issues and points of view never before heard in parliamentary debate in this country. In many ways they have changed the law, and are starting to change hearts and minds. Eventually the paradigm will change.
"Being Green is certainly not about forcing your lifestyle onto others," says Jeanette. "It's showing how it is possible to live a rich, fulfilling lifestyle with less impact on nature."
www.greens.org.nz
From the archives: Jon Carapiet is national spokesperson for GE Free NZ (in food and environment); a market researcher and leading advocate for 'Brand New Zealand'; a writer, commentator and artist-photographer.
Jon has been a leader in the GE debate since 1998 and was inspired to get involved in the issue because of the wide-ranging implications of genetic engineering becoming commercialised around the world.
“My commercial experience helps give me a perspective on many of the Green issues that the business world is only now waking up to.” says Jon. “The potential for business to do harm or alternatively, be part of the solution is a key issue facing us all.”
Jon has drawn on his expertise in Branding to argue for an ‘ethical biotechnology and science strategy’ for New Zealand that respects community values, and the country’s international reputation.
“The Buy-Kiwi made campaign and keeping New Zealand’s food and environment GE-free are just two elements among many that can contribute to sustainable social and economic development for ‘brand New Zealand’. The Green Party is a voice for a middle-path that those who are purely money-driven and short-sighted must heed.”
Jon Carapiet is a member of the Green Party Aotearoa
From the archives: Dan Millman is the author of 13 books, including the International Bestseller, Way of the Peaceful Warrior, which was recently adapted into a major motion picture starring Nick Nolte. Dan's books have inspired millions of readers of all ages and from all walks of life in more than 29 languages worldwide.
As a former world champion gymnast, Stanford University coach, martial arts instructor and college professor, Dan now speaks globally redefining the meaning of success, speaking in areas such as life education, enhanced wellness, stress release, higher awareness and perspective.
Dan brings a practical, light-hearted approach to the challenges of everyday life at work and at home. By presenting practical ways to live with a peaceful heart and Warrior spirit.
Dan's keynotes, seminars and trainings have influenced leaders in the fields of business, finance, health, psychology, education, politics, entertainment, sports and the arts.
Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
From the archives: Franchelle Ofsoské-Wyber is a New Zealander of Native American Cherokee descent. She was born with highly developed clairvoyant and healing gifts and comes from a lineage of medicine men and woman.
A shaman and a seer, she is described in Maoridom by various highly respected kaumatua and traditional guardians or keepers of the old wisdom as being a ‘matatuhi - one who can read what is written in the wind’ and a ‘matakite, one who sees with the healing or the third eye.’
She has been specially chosen to carry the spirit connections and healing mantle for various ancient shamanic lineages. She was subsequently formally trained by indigenous elders from various countries including New Zealand in advanced shamanic healing practices.
www.nzfloweressences.co.nz
From the archives: James Samuel of Waiheke island, is assisting in the coordination of a country wide movement called Transition Towns. James has been looking at the issue of localised sustainability within a small community.
What is a Transition Town?
Transition Town initiatives are bringing people together out of a desire to explore how we - and our communities - can respond to the twin challenges of climate change and peak oil. He states he doesn't have all the answers but believes the growing groups are very innovative and can create the required solutions.
Each transition group networks with people engaging in a coordinated range of projects designed to transition from high energy to low energy lifestyles in the most creative manner. Their aim is to re-localise our communities making them vibrant, resilient and truly sustainable.
Though not envisioned, this could also be key in emergencies, as in earthquakes volcanoes etc.
www.transitiontowns.org.nz
You can read James Samuel blog here; http://yesterdaysfuture.net
From the archives: Barbara Marx Hubbard is a visionary and the author of several books, including; Conscious Evolution, Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential.
Barbara issues a call to action for the current generation to fulfill its creative potential. Hubbard asserts that we must quickly become capable of wise and ethical guidance of evolution itself, if life on Earth is to survive.
You can get your copy of Conscious Evolution, Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential
Stunning new scientific discoveries about the biochemical effects of the brain’s functioning show that all the cells of your body are affected by your thoughts. Dr Bruce Lipton, a renowned cell biologist, describes the precise molecular pathways through which this occurs.
His research at Stanford University’s School of Medicine, revealed that the environment, operating though the membrane, controlled the behavior and physiology of the cell, turning genes on and off. His discoveries, which run counter to the established scientific view that life is controlled by the genes, presaged one of today’s most important fields of study, the science of epigenetics.
With recommendations from Joseph Chilten Pearce the Author of Crack in the Cosmic Egg and the Magical Child, Karl Pribram Professor Emeritus, at Stanford, with his theory that memory may be stored in our brain as if in a hologram, and Ralph Abrahams, Ph.D professor of Mathematics, University of California, Santa Cruz, Author of Foundations of Mechanics: Dynamics, the Geometry of Behavior and Chaos, Gaia, Eros. Who states...
“In this paradigm-busting book, Bruce Lipton delivers a TKO to Old Biology. With a left to Darwinian dogma and a right to allopathic medicine, he breaks out of the physicalist box into enlightenment on the mind/body (belief/biology) system. Must read, much fun.”
From Brisbane Australia, New Zealander Graeme Sait is an Author/Educator.
Graeme Sait, is the co-founder of Qld Company, Nutri-Tech Solutions (NTS), a recognised world leader in sustainable agriculture/horticulture. He is a sought after, global keynote speaker, plus the founder of Radiance, a 6 day Wellness Festival that attracts crowds in excess of 12,000. He has many years of researching health and wellbeing and the benefits of all the correct foods especially fats and oils to teas, herbal remedies plus soil health agricultural systems and biological farming etc.
Learn of the profound interdependence of soil microflora of bacteria and fungi that is crucial to plant growth, healthy soil (and sequesting Co2 from the atmosphere). Just like the micro flora in our gut and digestive system, when we are free of chemical additives, everything flourishes and comes back into balance.
Graeme will be in Auckland on Friday the 27th at Earthsong in Waitakere and on Waiheke Island, Saturday the 28th sharing with us his extensive knowledge on the link between soil, health and nutrition.
This week we interview Susie Newborn, a founding member of Greenpeace when activism was pioneering ecological action. She signed the cheque that bought the boat which became the Rainbow Warrior and was the person who gave the boat this name.
Involved in saving whales and harp seals she was on the Rainbow Warrior that was captured by the Spaniards but stealthily escaped causing the admiral of the Spanish fleet to resign.
Susie is a human ecologist of green, social and artistic action and also a mother. Originally from the UK,Susie Newborn now resides on Waiheke Island.
Involved today in films, social justice and eco housing, listen to someone who has lived her life to the full and is still very much involved in community and life.