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If people have been bloody stupid enough to tick themselves up to the eyeballs by buying over inflated houses, they we prewarned about this but due to FOMO so isn’t that their own fault. Banks also need to take some blame if people can’t service their mortgage, they shouldn’t have lent the money in the first place. And there are still many companies creaming it to name a few banks and supermarkets so perhaps they could reduce their profit margins so the families who will get hurt the most from any recession will get some relief.
What a lovely prayer covid is pa. It certainly could be one for today. But might be a bit long and too different from the usual used in religious havens. It’s more like a sermon really and perhaps a nearby church would like to hold a people’s services where ordinary people get up to say a measured amount of words on what community and political practices they wish for themselves and others that would seem to be a Christian or kindly religious way of living and loving.
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And yes – large corporates (often dressing themselves up as “co-operatives” – (money fucking franchises sometimes) CAN suffer a reduction in their margins. Supermarket duopolies, Building duopolies, et al.
Maybe Grant can give us some examples where corporate welfare has led to employees being paid a liveable wage
Having said that tho’ @covid is pa, there are quite a number of people who’ve been ripped and who’re now in charge of debt they didn’t anticipate. E.g. people who had the means to buy and service a loan, only to be told by overpaid ticket clippers their property had asbestos, or that meth had been used to dangerous levels that weren’t, or that it didn’t meet EQC standards (sometimes even when it’d take a stick of gelignite to topple it).
https://www.rnz.co.nz/concert/programmes/bluesmoke/audio/2018867466/blue-smoke-jim-carter
Blue Smoke goes drifting by…
Jim Carter, the lap-steel guitarist on the original recording of ‘Blue Smoke’, and guitarist on several significant early New Zealand pop records, died in October 2022, aged 103. This episode of Blue Smoke pays tribute to his contribution to New Zealand’s music history.
Farewell to an early musical innovator in NZ. There has been plenty of innovation from feisty NZ/Aotearoa people so let’s recreate the vitality and perseverance. Listen to the audio in the link.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/sport/479390/top-athletes-want-change-to-the-nz-sporting-system
This is a good thing. There is a authoritarian attitude in too many sports administrators. I think also it is clear that there is a gladiatorial approach in sport, with the athletes being used for entertainment to the absence of proper care for their wellbeing presently and into the future.
Rowing great Mahe Drysdale is spearheading an employment case that could have major implications for the New Zealand sports system.
Drysdale is leading the newly formed athlete union – the Athletes Cooperative – which has lodged a case against High Performance Sport New Zealand with the Employment Relations Authority.
Athletes from two of the country’s most successful Olympic sports have launched landmark employment proceedings against High Performance Sport NZ.
The group includes more than 60 rowers and cyclists, who want better rights for athletes, improved well-being and financial stability.
I seem to remember that Peter Snell would have returned to NZ instead of settling in Texas? after his great run, but administrators at the time did not welcome him home with open arms and a suitable place in NZ sport. The little czar effect seems to settle into the heads of some retired sportspeople or those who have found a niche.
Poor old Alf Philipiana got booted off the Tupuna Maunga Authority(TMA) today by Auckland Council. His handler Paul Majurey will be piss’d!
That’s 3 down. Another 3 to go! Utu!
Kia kaha.
He kawhe māu? …ti…wai?
Noho ora mai.
https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/maori-hub/ako/te-reo-at-university/maori-greetings-and-phrases
I think it’s time for some Maori phrases to become part of the korerorero so here are a few links to start with.
And a fun Maori language phrase: Kī tōnu taku waka topaki i te tuna. What??
(Look at end of the phrase list here.) https://omniglot.com/language/phrases/maori.php
https://polyglotclub.com/wiki/Language/Maori