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New Zealand Citizens Receiving Home Visits from ‘Political Police’

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policeSean Adl-Tabatabai – New Zealanders are receiving creepy home visits from police to check on their political views, according to reports.

One person claims police asked him if he supports U.S. President Donald Trump.

The visits are taking place in response to the Christchurch mosque massacre.

In a disturbing clip posted to YouTube, armed police are seen arriving at a man’s home on Sunday morning to interrogate him in relation to his political beliefs.

“The reason we’re here, basically it’s down to the recent events in Christchurch, with the shooting there, a number of people have been identified who we’ve been asked to go and speak to, so you’re one of those people,” the officer can be heard saying. Continue reading →

New Zealand PM Funneled $13.7 In Taxpayer Money To Hillary Clinton

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Sean Adl-Tabatabai – New Zealand Prime Minister John Key was forced to resign after being caught giving $13.7 in taxpayer money to the Clinton Foundation.

According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT), John Key was forced to step down after he colluded with the National Party to funnel millions of taxpayer funds to the Clinton’s. He is now under investigation.clinton

Accmag.com reports: An MFAT spokesman confirmed to the NBR that between January 2010 and June 2016, $7.7 million of taxpayer funds had already been donated and another $6 million was to follow, keeping to a pledge to donate $13.7 million made by the government organisation in 2013.

ACT party member David Seymour commented “In a world where New Zealanders can crowd source to buy a beach, it’s not clear what role there is for the government to collect taxes and contribute it to a global charity which is more than capable of reaching out and raising its own money.”

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Will You Read This Article About Terms And Conditions? You Really Should Do

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TheGuardian  April 24 2014

Keanu Reeves as Neo in Matrix Reloaded. 'Each time you tick any website’s terms, you’re signing a set of invisible terms – code so deeply encrypted in the alphabet soup of GCHQ, NSA and Prism that Neo himself couldn’t crack it.' Photograph: AP
Keanu Reeves as Neo in Matrix Reloaded. ‘Each time you tick any website’s terms, you’re signing a set of invisible terms – code so deeply encrypted in the alphabet soup of GCHQ, NSA and Prism that Neo himself couldn’t crack it.’ Photograph: AP

We live in a time of terms and conditions. Never before have we signed or agreed so many. But one thing hasn’t changed: we still rarely read them.

According to a Fairer Finance survey, small print for some companies now runs to more than 30,000 words (the length of a short novel) and, unsurprisingly, 73% of people admit to not reading all the fine print. Of those who do, only 17% say they understand it.

For a few years I was one of the 27% ploughing through the turgid fine print. Researching a book about a lawyer, I became obsessed with contracts. Then one day, after reading reams of legal gobbledygook, I experienced something similar to the moment when Neo sees the cascading Matrix code: I saw that below our day-to-day lives runs a confluence of tiny rules shaping our reality. This underworld only bursts to the surface when things go wrong. Like when you crash your scooter in Bali and realise that your travel insurance doesn’t cover scooter accidents. Or in my case, when I misread (ignored) the fine print of my New Zealand residency and was almost deported.

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Intuition And Trust: A Journey Through Ancient Pathways

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Wake Up World September 6 2013

My journey into total trust and belief in our intuition really began in earnest 27 years ago when I knew the Universe, my guidance etc. conspired to bring my partner Paul and I together. If we both had not been listening to our inner voices, our intuition – and trusting it – then our lives would have turned down other roads that in hindsight we can see now as not being all that wonderful. We would have missed out on following our hearts and living our dreams.

I now know that when you listen to your intuition it will tell you everything you need to know.

What it also meant was that I had to step into being 100% responsible for everything that happened and happens in my life. For many people that is a too huge a leap of faith just yet… but my gosh! does it set you FREE! And each individual who takes responsibility for themselves helps to make the world a better place.

To set the scene…

It was 1985. Paul was single, a Kiwi (an affectionate name for those from Aotearoa/New Zealand) living in South Australia and had never been married. He was a demi-chef and a gym instructor, right into body building, and as fit as could be. He rode his push bike everywhere. It is a minor fact that he didn’t have a car or his driving license at that point; he got both eventually, and the fact that he wore a pair of shorts for his female driving test instructor had nothing to do with him getting his license.

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Sense Of Smell Determined By Genes, Study Says

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WebMD 

Ability to detect certain scents is highly individual, research suggests

DNAGenetic differences appear to explain why some people can smell certain odors and others can’t, researchers say.

Using 10 different odors, the researchers tested nearly 200 people for their smell sensitivity and then analyzed the participants’ DNA. For four of the odors tested, there was a link between smell sensitivity and certain genetic variants.

The four odors are malt, apple, blue cheese and violets, according to the findings, published online Aug. 1 in the journal Current Biology.

“We were surprised how many odors had genes associated with them. If this extends to other odors, then we might expect everyone to have their own unique set of smells that they are sensitive to,” research team co-leader Jeremy McRae, of Plant and Food Research in New Zealand, said in a journal news release.

“These smells are found in foods and drinks that people encounter every day, such as tomatoes and apples. This might mean that when people sit down to eat a meal, they each experience it in their own personalized way,” McRae said.

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