NZ: ‘Another horror weekend on the water has seen this year’s drowning toll hit 30 after two people died and three were taken to hospital.’   source

‘In news that should shock and anger Americans, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday that not only has she discussed internally the possibility of pursuing civil actions against so-called “climate change deniers,” but she has “referred it to the FBI to consider whether or not it meets the criteria for which we could take action.”…’
Pascal has much more on this.

Is that an orange jumpsuit I see in her future?
and
‘Christian judge sacked for claiming children are better off with male and female parents’

 ‘Bird swims 5,000 MILES every year to visit Brazilian man who nursed it back to life after he found it covered in oil and dying on a beach ‘  Here

via the latest Woodpile Report
Locomotive details HERE

‘Mailbox thieves stealing flag voting papers’
All indications are that Kiwis overwhelmingly reject Key’s pet project to re-brand NZ Inc change the flag.
This will give him the perfect opportunity to save face by claiming that the voting process has been corrupted.

‘New Zealand’s foreign intelligence agency should be able to spy on Kiwis’ private communications, a wide-ranging intelligence and security review has recommended.
At the same time, a new single piece of legislation to govern both the activities of the Security Intelligence Service and Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) would contain a beefed-up authorisation process, designed to safeguard privacy…’
So..they’re going to spy on the private communications of Kiwis, but at the same time are claiming that they’ll “safeguard privacy”

“The loss of freedom is like cancer; it will spread slowly but surely across all parts of society until our liberty has been utterly eaten away and we are left with nothing but a half-forgotten idea of what freedom was.”

‘SCHOOLS and canteens in Germany have BANNED pork from their menus over fears of offending Muslim migrants, a top politician has revealed.
An increasing number of public canteens, child daycare centres and schools have stopped serving sausages, bacon and ham over religious considerations…’
‘public canteens, child daycare centres and schools’….spot the common denominator.

”With the recent rollout of Twitter’s Orwellian “Trust & Safety Council”, some have started to question whether Twitter’s main goal at this point is to maximize profit.
Looking at the reactions of the userbase and media critics to recent changes, and then juxtaposing them with the company’s stock price, it’s clear that Twitter hasn’t been making good business decisions lately. My view is that the company is now more interested in political than commercial goals, and is gearing up to sway the elections….’
and
‘Facebook Suspends FrackNation Page For Telling The Truth About Fracking’
also
‘YouTube Closes Account of NGO Exposing Palestinian Incitement’