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https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/screens/movies/filmmaker-errol-morris-this-country-for-me-is-a-disaster
Described as a cinematic sleuth, Errol Morris’s 2024 documentary Separated explores the U.S. government’s family separation policy at the southern border during the first Trump administration.
It is based on investigative journalist Jacob Soboroff’s book, Separated: Inside an American Tragedy.
Morris’s film combines interviews with former government officials, legal experts, and whistleblowers,….
with dramatised scenes of one migrant family’s experience of being detained and split apart.
The last part of that sentence echoes the Jews feeling after being transported together to ‘ sorting’ places and seeing members being led off probably never to be seen again.
Do the Israelis and those who support them do or die, have any compassion for anyone else? All these years since the holocaust have they not recovered their humanity after the losses of WW2 etc?
We will have to do more to sop our country being raided by the brutes whio take no notice of peaceful, factual, responsible protests. We have been taken over either by Mafia or mafia-style politics and behaviours.
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK2506/S00276/protected-corals-destroyed-in-six-tonne-bycatch-disaster-from-a-single-bottom-trawl.htm
Protected Corals Destroyed In Six-Tonne Bycatch “Disaster” From A Single Bottom Trawl
Wednesday, 11 June 2025, 7:07 pm
Press Release: Joint Media Statement
Key points:
6 tonnes of bycatch, mostly stony coral, was dragged up in a single bottom trawl last year
Around the weight of a male African elephant, the heaviest land mammal on earth.
Stony corals (Scleractinia species) are reef-building corals of the deep sea around Aotearoa.
Stony corals are protected species under the New Zealand Wildlife Act.
Deep sea corals are particularly found on seamounts and similar features.
Reef-building corals provide critical habitat for many other deep sea species.
If it happened in international waters, the area would’ve been closed immediately.
BREAKING: It’s been revealed that a New Zealand bottom trawling vessel has pulled up six tonnes of protected stony coral in a single trawl – making it the worst reported case of coral destruction in New Zealand waters in over a decade.
Environmentalists are describing the incident as “a stark reminder of the horrors of bottom trawling” and are renewing calls for the destructive fishing method to be banned on seamounts and other vital deep sea habitats.
The stony coral, which is a critical reef building coral and protected in New Zealand, was pulled up by an unnamed trawler towards the end of the 2024 while it was fishing on the Chatham Rise, a large underwater plateau with seamounts and a diverse range of ocean life, off the South Island’s east coast.
The data was released by the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) only after an official information request by the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition (DSCC) and is the largest reported coral bycatch since a similar incident in 2008….
How much does it cost to buy our politicians and well-bent administrators and retired pollies and their progeny?
Is there a place you can go to get a price list? Perhaps a group could start a Give a Little and get the amount so we could buy one for ourselves!