KINGSLAND BRUVS AUCKLAND: February 2015

Friday 27 February 2015

RAVEN

Thursday 26 February 2015

25 FEBRUARY 2015 - NEW ZEALAND TO SEND TROOPS TO IRAQ

Friday 20 February 2015

ONCE WERE WARRIORS - THE 1863-64 WAIKATO WAR

The 1863-64 Waikato War was a pivotal moment in New Zealand's history. Maori united to protect their land and formed a Resistance movement known as the Maori King and Te Kingitanga. LINK: http://www.hamiltonwaikato.com/the-waikato-war

Thursday 19 February 2015

THE DARK SIDE OF THE MUSIC - BLACK SUN AEON

Wednesday 18 February 2015

NORSE ANCIENT WARRIORS

THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD 16 FEB 2015 - COPENHAGEN SHOOTING VICTIM FINN NORGAARD MADE 'BOOMERANG BOY' DOCU IN OZ

One of the victims of a shooting spree in the Danish capital Copenhagen, believed to be an act of terrorism by a lone Islamic gunman, is a filmmaker who once made a documentary in Australia about a junior boomerang throwing champion. Finn Norgaard, 55, died after being shot in the chest at a gathering in a cafe in Copenhagen to discuss Islam and free speech in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo shooting in January. Also present at the gathering on the weekend was the Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who received death threats after depicting the head of the Prophet Muhammad on a dog in a series of cartoons in 2007. Vilks was not harmed in the attack. The means of Norgaard's death was especially cruel, wrote a friend of many decades standing, as Norgaard had had surgery some years ago to correct a hole in his heart. Norgaard was a documentary filmmaker who worked for the Danish Broadcasting Corporation from 1989 to 2001, before becoming a partner in the independent production house Filmselskabet. In 2004, he came to Australia to make the documentary Boomerang-Drengen (aka Boomerang Boy), about 13-year-old Trent Carter, a Melbourne teen who had ambitions of becoming the world champion of boomerang throwing. Trent succeeded in that aim and later went on to win a junior world championship in table tennis. In 2009, Norgaard made the film En anden vej: Historien om fire nydanskere og en koncernchef – which roughly translates as "Another way: The story of four Danes and a CEO" – in which he put a Danish businessman and four criminals from immigrant backgrounds together to see if they could find a way past the stereotypes and assumptions that plague modern society. Norgaard's Facebook page illustrates his continued concern with defending free speech and combating the divisions threatening to tear apart the multiculturalism that has been the hallmark of many advanced Western societies in the past few decades. His most recent post, on February 6, was to an article in which an imam claimed there was no prohibition in the Koran against depictions of the Prophet Muhammad. Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/copenhagen-shooting-victim-finn-norgaard-made-boomerang-boy-documentary-in-australia-20150216-13fmic.html#ixzz3S9QAs4h0

14 FEBRUARY 2015 - THE DEATH OF FINN NORGAARD, DANISH FILMMAKER

Finn Nørgaard (1959 – 14 February 2015) was a Danish filmmaker who was involved in several documentary and feature films. Nørgaard received a cand.phil. degree in Film and Communication from the University of Copenhagen in 1991. Nørgaard was a photographer for the 1983 Danish detective film Adam Hart i Sahara and editor of the 1986 Danish documentary film Soul to soul. He served as producer for Kun for forrykte, a 1988 documentary film about Eik Skaløe and Steppeulvene. He worked behind the camera as clapper loader in Peter Eszterhás' 1989 film En afgrund af frihed. From 1989 until 2001 Nørgaard worked at DR (Danish Broadcasting Corporation). In 2001 he became co-owner of Filmselskabet (Film Company). During this period he is also credited as assistant camera in the 1992 German film Die Terroristen! and made an appearance as a bodyguard in Thomas Borch Nielsen's 1998 film Skyggen (Webmaster). In 2004 he directed the documentary film Boomerang Drengen(Boomerang Boy) and was responsible for production of documentary films about the Lê Lê restaurant chain: Lê Lê - De jyske vietnamesere from 2008. In 2009, for TV 2, Nørgaard directed and produced En anden vej: Historien om fire nydanskere og en koncernchef, which followed former Tryg-CEO Stine Bosse and four young immigrants to Denmark with a criminal background on a pilgrimage to El Camino. Nørgaard also directed and produced film for Mærsk, SAS and Microsoft, among others. Finn Nørgaard was killed on 14 February 2015 by a 22-year-old Danish-born Muslim of Palestinian descent during a discussion meeting titled "Art, Blasphemy, and Freedom of Expression" organized by the Lars Vilks Committee and held at the Krudttønden culture center in Østerbro. The perpetrator shot with an assault rifle from close range. In the same incident two PET bodyguards and a police officer were wounded.