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https://globalphilanthropyproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Manufacturing-Moral-Panic-Report.pdf?
So it exists. I have looked at it. What do you think about if? Does it make good points? Is it an overreaction in a whole climate of over-reaction? Is it a byproduct of other equally backward approaches that look past other things that are equally unsatisfactory?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/stories/2018884945/why-don-t-we-dress-up-anymore
Emma John and baseball cap; –
Paul Fussell from USA says pertinent things about the social standing of our clothes; whether we are standing or sitting!
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/03/class-dismissed/307274/
…That grimy baseball cap signifies Harvard Lampoon alum, which opens the door to Hollywood comedy riches, in a process that can seem, to the uninitiated, truly bewildering and mysterious. X people offer jobs to those they recognize, by certain nuanced clues, as members of their creative tribe,…
https://www.salon.com/2009/02/26/loh_class_notes/
… I’m not sure that anyone yet has coined an appropriate term to describe the class anxieties of those who proclaim to care nothing about money, until suddenly they discover they have none about which to proclaim their indifference.
But since the stock market tanked in the fall, good old class rage is the new Vuitton bag (an accessory that long ago ceased to indicate certain membership in the ruling class; one poster at WSJ snipes: “Louis Vuitton was ruined for me the day I saw a street thug wearing a LV leather baseball hat”)….
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/middayreport/audio/2018884595/draft-advertising-code-wants-to-ban-brands-from-kids-sports
ban and
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/487516/rules-on-food-ads-aimed-at-kids-should-be-tighter-researchers
and more…
Social democracy with informed citizens working their way through thought-out problems to a better future? Or class rule by fiat? A game of Whack the Citizen with rules and regulations that were announced as backward and to be removed for business. But not for citizens!! Their treatment – to be whacked by fines and slow, bad justice measures, and there is no correction to these parliamentary and regulatory carbuncles.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/487530/the-phones-that-detect-earthquakes
Oh good another way of causing us dismay. We must never be surprised by any natural or culturalappening. The earthquake app will just allow us to be terrified every second of the day and night. A new superstition will arise – that if you dare to smile or laugh, the sky will fall, or perhaps a bit of space junk will hit you.
Is this equal to the smoking lobby disinformation – where the anti climate change brigade is funding things that will not work, led up by college drop outs and fake videos, that they raise up as the best ‘standard’ and for people to watch?
Green washing in the climate change, – led by the finance industry championing these fraudsters.
“So does Trevor Milton, the founder of a hydrogen-powered truck company called Nikola, who was on a 2020 Forbes list called 12 under 40, listing the youngest billionaires on the Forbes 400. “Trevor Milton, the 38-year-old college dropout behind zero-emission truckmaker Nikola Motor, joins the ranks of America’s richest millennials after tripling his net worth in less than a year,” the piece gushed. You know how he got rich so quick? You guessed it: with just a little sprinkling of crime. Perhaps most notably, Nikola made a demo video showing its non-functional truck rolling downhill but tilted the camera to make it look like it was traveling under its own power on a flat road. Milton has been convicted of fraud and is awaiting sentencing in June. No doubt if he does go to jail he’ll get out after a few months and start a green energy podcast.”
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/apr/06/forbes-30-under-30-tech-finance-prison
Also notice a strong anti science agenda operating in NZ under the guise Mātauranga Māori led by woke. Maori and other voices are not allowed to speak out against this.
Since Mātauranga Māori NZ kids seem to be dropping like stones in education and youth crime up! Why bother going to school, if your identity is more important and if you need smokes and vapes – just steal and car and get some!
Our ability to recover from megalomania and big spending in this country – is it compromised or should we just Abandon Ship? The trend in Human Resources seems to be buying in predatory administration privateers apparently chosen because they know how to integrate us into the politico/economic matrix?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/487547/christchurchnz-head-defends-cost-of-city-rebranding-exercise
The head of Christchurch City Council’s economic development agency is defending the cost of a new branding campaign saying that the Garden City tag may be past its use by date….
The agency was expected to contribute at least $100,000 on the half-a-million dollar project, with the remaining sum through the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE).
…Christchurch mayor Phil Mauger said there was a real buzz about the city.
“We are realising the investment of the past decade and taking our place as New Zealand’s true second city where people can work, live, play and invest.
“There is so much right here for our residents, visitors and businesses – we’ve always had a strong connection to our environment and nature, now the town is buzzing and our new industries in tech, aerospace and manufacturing are really putting Christchurch on the map….
Between 4000-4500 resident surveys were completed with the agency engaging with thousands of visitors.
“This new city story gets that message out there to the country and the world.”..
The look of the brand has been completed by some international consultants alongside a group of local agencies including design studio McCarthy, Kaupapa Māori studio Ariki Creative and local creative Tahu Robinson.
(Why not ask the thousands of people being queried for their ideas for a thought-catching logo while their minds were exercised???)
However – a thought:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/445493/christchurch-economic-development-agency-focusing-on-wrong-things-ex-mayor-says
… Garry Moore, who served three terms as mayor, said there are enough tourism promoters already and the agency is focused on the wrong things.
He said that is down to the council.
ChristchurchNZ was founded in 2017 by the city council, after a merger between the region’s tourism and development bodies.
But Moore, who was mayor between 1998 and 2007, said the agency is not doing enough of the latter.
Instead of trying to attract or grow industry it is focused too much on bringing in sports events, shows and concerts, he said.
But Chch is paying out big bucks to display what it offers. (Note that in Amsterdam they are thinking of revitalising the red-light district – well known for its type of opportunities over a long time. The world is burning up but creating opportunities, look here!)
A City of Opportunity
Greater Christchurch Partnership
https://www.greaterchristchurch.org.nz › CEDS PDF
The Christchurch Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) brings together the views of business, government and other stakeholders. It outlines strategic …
Where is money available for projects in NZ?
https://nzentrepreneur.co.nz/startup-nz-ecosystem-guide/government-edas/
https://www.mbie.govt.nz/business-and-employment/economic-development/
https://www.mbie.govt.nz/business-and-employment/economic-development/regional-economic-development/
https://www.boprc.govt.nz/your-council/council-and-region/economic-development – Bay of Plenty
https://www.gw.govt.nz/your-region/economic-development/wellington-regional-economic-development-agency/
https://www.martinjenkins.co.nz/local-government/services/economic-development/ (Santa’s Helpers?)
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Canterbury Development Corporation
LinkedIn
https://nz.linkedin.com › company › canterbury-develop…
About us. Canterbury Development Corporation (CDC) is the economic development agency for Christchurch City Council. Website:
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Central Economic Development Agency
https://ceda.nz
The Central Economic Development Agency (CEDA) exists to drive and facilitate the creation and growth of economic wealth in Manawatū and beyond. Business- .
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Improving local government investment into Economic …
Local Government New Zealand
https://www.lgnz.co.nz › assets › Uploads › Im… PDF
The work of economic development agencies (EDA) plays an important role in New Zealand, bridging gaps in local economies and leveraging local advantage
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Toi EDA
https://www.toi-eda.co.nz
Toi EDA is the economic development agency for the Eastern Bay of Plenty. Our role in our community is to work alongside Mataatua waka descendants, our local …
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(Not enough left over for the people that these A G E N C I E S are working hard to bleed of funding for sustainable work through co-operatives of NZs, partnerships of NZs, small business of NZs.)
Abba has thought of our dilemmas and has composed a song called The Name of the Game which might enlighten us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF3-BZGoY4w
It’s not the right time to lighten up on cannabis just as the world goes haywife. In the USA they are going to put up a statue to all the unborn children that abortion has removed, and some states are looking at classifying miscarriages as bad arse behaviour.
Birth control ruling to see fresh scrutiny at Texas Capitol
Go.com https://abcnews.go.com › wireStory › birth-control-rul…
9/01/2023 — Texas’ abortion ban is one of the nation’s strictest, allowing no exceptions in cases of rape or incest, and Republican leaders have been …
Texas’s Trigger Law
This bill, HB 1280, contained language that would ban abortion 30 days after one of the following events occurred: The issuance of a judgment by the United States Supreme Court overturning Roe v.24/03/2023
Trigger Laws – Abortion Laws – Guides at Texas State Law Library
texas.gov https://guides.sll.texas.gov › abortion-laws › t
Would someone like to read this and report on it? I can’t bear to see all this backward law and stupidity coming round again. I’m too old for carousels and cant.
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