New Zealand

Rotten Apple tax, FriendFace fraud and a CGI Snowden + this day in history w/Ruby Ridge surrender and our song of the day by Guided By Voices on your Morning Monarchy for August 30, 2016.

Sputnik — 15.08.2016 New Zealand’s security agency, using US National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance programs, mistook pro-democracy activists for conspirators plotting a coup in Fiji, media reported. An investigation carried out by Television New Zealand together with The Intercept media outlet revealed on Sunday that New Zealand’s Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) used NSA-based surveillance […]

Learning outside is the gift that keeps on giving; suppose they gave a protest and no one came because they were barbecuing; and how to not give criminals what they want.

Learning outside is the gift that keeps on giving; suppose they gave a protest and no one came because they were barbecuing; and how to not give criminals what they want.

The Western Press keeps repeating the same message – by leaving the European Union, the British have isolated themselves from the rest of the world, and will have to deal with terrible economic consequences. And yet, the fall in the Pound could be an advantage within the Commonwealth, which is a far greater family than the Union, and present on all six continents. Famous for its pragmatism, the City could quickly become the international centre for the yuan and implant the Chinese currency in the very heart of the Union.

Brexit to Texit, Omar updates and reality sElections + this day in history w/West Virginia Day and our song of the day by Peter Bjorn and John on your Morning Monarchy for June 20, 2016.

Raise your hand if you think Hillary's "adoption" of Bernie's positions of anything is more than just soon-to-be-abandoned primary posturing with no significance regaring her adminisration's future policy agenda. Now go put on a dunce cap and sit in the corner. Sure, she no longer publicly insists that the TPP is the "gold standard" of trade agreements, but there are indications that she's never really changed her mind about the horrible treaty she helped negotiate. Ironically, Trump will hammer her if she backs away from the flip-flop Bernie's campaign forced her to make.

A hard-to-reach “stretch of paradise” in New Zealand’s Abel Tasman National Park is now in public hands after a successful crowdfunding campaignThe post Crowdfunding puts New Zealand beach in public hands appeared first on Positive News.

Wolf Creek water, medicinal foods and Inky escape + this day in history w/MKUltra and our song of the day by Margo Price on your Morning Monarchy for April 13, 2016.

The marijuana plant seems to have gained such popularity in New Zealand that the country is facing a pot shortage, but it isn’t just because stoners like to get high. Earlier this month, police seized 9000 plants in an annual aerial operation, which affected both outdoor and indoor growing of the highly-desired flowering herb.