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"I was handed this by a young girl today who asked me to open it when I got home. This is who they are" Tweet By Former New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters After He Visited The Freedom Camp Protest In Wellington. On Wednesday morning the theme of mainstream media is of increased violence at the Freedom Camp protest that began as a Freedom Convoy protest to New Zealand's capital city of Wellington. Yesterday there were intense police movements around the protest including the the erection and or movement of concrete barriers as a means to cause distress to...

Good Morning. The developments regarding Robert Mueller's investigation will be noted later in this Newsdump summary. But first, the shakeup at a group hostile to supporters of President Trump and a broad range of conservative, religious and libertarian people and organizations continued Friday. The President of the Montgomery, Alabama based Southern Poverty Law Center, Richard Cohen, announced in an email that he's leaving taking responsibility for unspecified "problems"...... The French government's crackdown policies in force this Saturday for Week 19 of the Yellow Vests protests.... British Prime Minister Theresa May releasing a letter to MP's Friday evening specifying her plans...

Hollywood's attempt to re-write history has been condemned by New Zealand's Parliament. MPs have today voted unanimously to support a motion from New Zealand First Leader Winston Peters that condemned the way New Zealand is portrayed in Oscar-winning film Argo. The film showed New Zealand diplomats turning away a group of Americans trying to escape from Tehran during the Iranian revolution in 1979. In reality, a New Zealander drove the Americans to the airport in Tehran so they could fly to Switzerland. Peters called it a "grave misrepresentation" of the courageous and commendable role of New Zealand diplomats. . .

WINSTON Peters - an outspoken, anti-immigration protectionist who promotes racial profiling of Muslims - will become the public face of New Zealand on the world stage. New Zealand's wild election ride came to an extraordinary finish last night as Labour Prime Minister Helen Clark cobbled together a bizarre minority government with Mr Peters as Foreign Minister. Mr Peters, a Maori who is the leader of the New Zealand First party, is the country's most controversial politician. He has called for immigration to be radically slashed, said the country was being "colonised" by Asians, and proposed that Muslims be racially profiled...

The controversial appointment of New Zealand's new foreign minister has been criticised both at home and abroad. Winston Peters, head of the New Zealand First Party, has been appointed to the position despite making a series of outspoken comments against immigration. Opposition National Party leader Don Brash said the decision to give the job to Mr Peters would do "huge damage for our international reputation". The Australian newspaper described the appointment as a "bad joke". Sydney's Daily Telegraph described Mr Peters as a "diplomatic nightmare", and other commentators said that by choosing Mr Peters as the foreign affairs minister, New...