Greens want more info on Waihopai spybase

There is quite a bit known really, this base is working in with the US. But the Greens and particularly Keith Locke are doing something by giving a voicing some opposition in parliament and the media. Labour can never do that as they are complient in nearly all the stuff that National perpetuates and makes worse.

http://tvnz.co.nz/politics-news/greens-chasing-info-waihopai-spybase-3454062 Dead link

Walter (From my phone)

12 September 2021

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waihopai_Stationhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waihopai_Station

https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/31862/waihopai-deflated-dome

Drone attacks

Shocking. When are the next Nuremberg trials? What is NZ doing supporting this war? Stop this madness. New Zealand taxes, by supporting the US in this region is complicit in this illegal war. I hate being implicated in this way! National and Labour support this.

The Wisdom Council

This was very good to see. 2003, already a bit dated, a bit “American”, but it brings out some of the potential inherent in the Dynamic Facilitation process. Worth downloading the crappy Real player to watch if you are interested in Wisdom Councils.

The importance of this process does not shine through as strongly as I envisage it. It important to notice that a group that meets for a weekend is a microcosm of a larger community, and they bring back their “breakthrough” to the community, and notice how well it goes down. They were able to mirror the community concerns accurately.

Where else can you see this?

Society’s Breakthrough! – Audio & Video:

1) Democracy in America — VIDEO (22 min)—In November 2003 three people from the Rogue Valley in Oregon heard Jim give a radio interview on their local NPR radio show, The Jefferson Exchange. After contacting Jim, they decided to meet one another and to try an experiment with the Wisdom Council. Joseph McCormick, a former conservative Republican politician, filmed the event and created this 22 minute documentary, Democracy in America, which is available as a streaming video.

Obama: brilliant, charismatic, smiling, friendly face of the American Empire.

I just listened to:

Democracy Now

Highlight:

As Obama Visits Afghanistan, Tavis Smiley on Rev. Martin Luther King and His Opposition to the Vietnam War:

AMY GOODMAN: Tavis, let’s go, in your special, your PBS special that’s airing on Wednesday night, to your colleague, our colleague, Cornel West, the professor of religion and African American studies at Princeton University.

CORNEL WEST: Here he was shouting, a voice, prophetic voice in the wilderness, and he knew the sleepwalking was increasing. What he didn’t know was that the sleepwalking would get thicker and thicker during the age of Reagan. And what he didn’t know, that there was a black man on the way to the White House in 2009, and was hoping that there would be some awakening connected to his legacy of focusing on poor people and working people and jobs and homes and studying war, no more, not because a president would be pacifist, because it upset me when I heard my dear brother Barack Obama criticize Martin on the global stage, saying that Martin Luther King, Jr.‘s insights were not useful for a commander-in-chief, because evil exists, as if Martin Luther King, Jr. didn’t know about evil.

Martin Luther King, Jr. was fighting terrorism. He was an anti-terrorist who was fighting Jim Crow and James Crow. Martin Luther King, Jr. knew something about evil, more so than many of us, including our beloved president. But he also knew that if you don’t break the cycle of domination and bigotry and hatred and try to exemplify some alternative, then that cycle would be reinforced in such a way that you would be a pro-war president, pro-war citizen, and not giving peace a chance.

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CORNEL WEST: Well, I think that they’re in very different lanes, and they have very different callings. Barack Obama presently is the brilliant, charismatic, smiling, friendly face of the American Empire. Martin Luther King, Jr. was the courageous, sacrificial, smiling, friendly face that was crushed by the American Empire. The latter is a prophet. The former is politician.

Art on the couch: when Sigmund Freud examined Leonardo da Vinci

Art on the couch: when Sigmund Freud examined Leonardo da Vinci | Jonathan Jones via The Guardian.

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Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images and Bettmann/Corbis

Renaissance meets reason … Leonardo da Vinci and Sigmund Freud. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images and Bettmann/Corbis

From Jonathan Jones

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