GreenplanetFM Podcast

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".

* The upcoming 2018 international Freedom Flotilla to Gaza which will again include a prominent human rights advocate from NZ.

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:

• Examining our attitudes and fears about aging and our culture's stereotypes and claiming our rights to promoting and practicing a new paradigm
• Connecting to our inner wisdom through growth techniques of psychology and spirituality including meditation, contemplation, journaling and spiritual intimacy (sharing)
• Learning to nourish ourselves physically, emotionally, mentally, socially and spiritually
• Drawing on the wisdom of what we know now, examining our past through a 'life review' process and'life repair' exercises
• Gaining an understanding that forgiveness is a gift we give ourselves, we learn to forgive those who have offended us, ask forgiveness of those we have offended and practice self-forgiveness above all else
• We face our own mortality with courage and serenity
• We identify ways in our own lives toserve as mentors and healers

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. If you have questions about Friends of the Earth you can contact our Auckland co-director, Bob Tait at the office by phone, Auckland 360 9149 or email, [email protected]. You can contact, [email protected], or on the Auckland landline, 308 9940. If you want to underwrite what we do you could send a small monthly payment to our bank account: ANZ 06-0158-0081074-03, Friends of the Earth New Zealand Limited. If you prefer, you can make a one-off payment to the same. Our present subscribers pay us on average $20.00 each a month. Even $10.00 a month will help pay the bills. We do not have charitable status and these payments are not tax-deductible. Like GreenplanetFM.com - Friends of the Earth are a volunteer labour of Love that continues by gifting of the self, as there are basically no other avenues for financing ourselves.

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.