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Now displaying: December, 2016
Dec 22, 2016

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  …

Dec 15, 2016

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.

Dec 7, 2016

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.

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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/

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