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Ever thought of coming back as a flitting butterfly from flower to flower instead of the grind of humanity? I have a friend who nurtures monarchs – they aren’t around in such big numbers.
How can New Zealanders help?
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK2210/S00487/butterfly-extinction-on-the-cards-unravelling-the-mystery.htm
There is a mystery to be solved with NZ’s copper butterfly species and The Butterfly Discovery Project has been established to find and fund a PhD student to solve it, with the help of a Givealittle page.
We have exciting news! The Moths and Butterflies of NZ Trust (MBNZT) has just announced that it will match all donations, to a level of $5,000.
“By donating now, people can make a real difference with a donation of even $5, which will be matched to make it $10,” explains Angela. “These funds are being raised through the stunning MBNZT calendar for 2023, which is on sale now. This will be a great boost to our funding.”…
Dr George Gibbs has already pledged $50,000 as seed money in memory of his grandfather, renowned entomologist GV Hudson. Added to the almost $5,000 funds raised on the Givealittle page the project is well on its way to getting the $130,000 needed.
The Patterer:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/477400/us-firm-contracted-for-national-transport-ticketing-system-involved-in-weapons-manufacturing
Wat to go NA (or whatever pseudo) government.
Also give us a change of covid – If you want to kill off residents here – why not allow euthanasia so we can make up our own minds when we go.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/477415/passengers-from-covid-cruise-liner-walking-around-small-town-with-cold-symptoms
Cruise passengers who have disembarked from a liner carrying people infected with Covid-19 in Marlborough are arriving in the small town with coughs and cold symptoms, a pharmacist there has confirmed.
Picton, population 4790, effectively doubled in size on Wednesday as cruise ship Ovation of the Seas docked in the Marlborough Sounds town carrying 4500 crew and passengers, including 129 passengers and two crew members who have Covid-19.
The confirmed cases aboard are isolating and when the ship was in Wellington on Tuesday, Capital, Coast, Hutt Valley and Wairarapa Medical Officer of Health Dr Jill McKenzie was confident the situation was being well handled by the cruise company
Picton pharmacist Graeme Smith said there had been people from the ship coming in with cough and cold symptoms “and I know that Covid is on that ship”.
“As a health facility people are supposed to wear a mask coming in. We have free masks on the counter and a sign but people are ignoring it.
“There is so many people you can’t control it. It’s already mandatory according to government rules. I don’t know what the cruise industry is doing about it.”
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/477427/anti-drug-mongrel-mob-s-man-was-meth-kingpin
The second-in-charge of a high-profile Waikato gang which has burnished its public image with a proclaimed tough stance against meth has admitted importing and selling “commercial quantities” of the drug.
Mark Anthony Griffiths, 52, appeared in the High Court in Hamilton on Tuesday morning, where he pleaded guilty to charges of importing, possessing and supplying methamphetamine.
Griffiths also admitted possessing and supplying Gamma-Butyrolactone (GBL), commonly known as the “date rape” drug.
He’s just playing the same game as our legitimate government isn’t he? A talking head, and busy hands doing ‘something else.
Money, money, money it must be funny, In a rich man’s world. sang Abba.
The government have passed a sentence on so many of us – You will never have anything, unless you try harder, and even then we may fine you hard for misdemeanours. And that is ordinary people.
The gangs have decided they have got better business skills than the gummint has credited them with. But gummint has adopted a narrative of superiority to anyone struggling – write them off, take all they have, don’t encourage them – don’t want them to be happy on a benefit, but hey, they don’t care if you are unhappy when you are working and struggling and still needy. PO is the meaning behind the questions you are asked when calling them, if you can get through. But the slogan for them is – ‘Smile you’re on Candid Camera’.
That’s life under progressive Labour.