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This is the effect of efficient government aiming at regular daily tallies of Zero Calls.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/463390/callers-face-long-waits-to-get-through-work-and-income-helpline
What an example for the scenario of our future if we proceed as at present.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/463401/transmission-tangle-leaves-coromandel-region-without-power
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2203/S00038/rotten-rulings-julian-assange-and-the-uk-supreme-court.htm
How ya doin’ Julian? Are we all watching this torment by the west to a truth teller landed in it by the Guardian I think?
Apparently humans can change bad ways. Wikipedia says so. Wouldn’t it be good if we could follow some of the primitive ways today! Of course you need a strong leader with definite ideas of good and bad.
Beyond the immortal legends, the berserkers’ glory days were short-lived. Jarl Eiríkr Hákonarson of Norway outlawed berserkers in the 11th century. By the 12th century, these Norse warriors and their drug-induced fighting practices had disappeared completely, never to be seen again.10/08/2021
Viking Berserkers, The Norse Warriors Who Fought Wearing Only Bear …
https://allthatsinteresting.com
https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2022/03/15/disturbing-conflict-of-interest-in-reserve-bank-appointments-positive-money-nz/
It is important to keep an eye on this. It’s your money at stake, or still is your money I think.
“In simple terms, we now have a revolving door at the highest levels between the Reserve Bank and the big Aussie banks it regulates,” he says.
The problem is that Mr Conway will be fresh from the BNZ—he still works there. He will join both the Reserve Bank’s top Executive Leadership Team and the elite Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), the group that drives monetary policy and sets interest rates for the economy.
“And he will join yet another recent ex-banker appointee on the MPC, Karen Silk. Ms Silk will also join the Reserve Bank’s Executive Leadership Team, fresh from the Westpac bank where she still works,” says Mr Richards.
“So, two of the Reserve Bank’s top managers and two of the four internal positions on the powerful, seven-member MPC will be held by bankers with fresh ties at the highest levels of the banking industry.”