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Apparently Ted Cruz in usa is going on about Barbie film being part of a Chinese plot?
The Majority Report.
Yet the world is being taken over by mega wealthy usa people – how about that? All this talk and fulmination about Chinese just redirects the concern of evil genius from a country that has lost what ever of its soul it had left and is now a cardboard facade with leaders merely being puppets on the strings of those mega super wealthy humanoids. And we are all being turned into humanoids or button-pushing participants in a world scientific laboratory.
Skinner’s Pigeon Experiment revealed that even pigeons can be conditioned to develop superstitious behaviours in belief that they will be fed. But superstition is more obvious in everyday human behavior;…
Superstition – Psychologist World
psychologistworld.com
https://www.psychologistworld.com › superstition
Plus:
https://www.psychologistworld.com/memory/conditioning-intro
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/bf-skinner-the-man-who-taught-pigeons-to-play-ping-pong-and-rats-to-pull-levers-5363946/
https://hackeducation.com/2018/06/15/pigeons
Very interesting – read with a beer in hand for perfect conditioning!
Plus:
https://www.psychologistworld.com/memory/conditioning-intro
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/bf-skinner-the-man-who-taught-pigeons-to-play-ping-pong-and-rats-to-pull-levers-5363946/
https://hackeducation.com/2018/06/15/pigeons
Very interesting – read with a beer in hand for perfect conditioning!
Some very to the point talk from an immunologist on long Covid and the similar illnesses.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2018899512/prof-danny-altmann-the-burden-of-long-covid
…Different patients experience different symptoms from a diverse set of symptoms associated with long Covid, which could mean potential treatments might only relate to a particular sub-group and “one drug or antiviral treatment might be asking too much”.
“Some people may be helped by antivirals and some by anti-coagulation treatment, and some by specific auto-immune suppression.
“You can imagine if we take all of those different people and stick them in the same pot and try and treat them the same we might never disentangle the answers at all and might not help them very well, so we need to do it carefully and logically.”
People can develop long Covid after even the mildest of Covid infections, they can develop long Covid after being infected with any of the different strains of the Covid-19 virus, and long Covid can first develop in people after they experience a re-infection with Covid, Altmann says.
After ‘Freedom Day’ in the UK in 2021, when many measures to control the spread of Covid were relaxed, the number of people with long Covid still continued to climb significantly, Altmann says.
“We went almost straight into the Omicron wave and then the Omicron subvariants, and in a population with a so-called mild variant circulating and a population who was double or triple vaccinated we have acquired an extra 700,000 people into our long Covid burden just from that period … it’s added massively to our long Covid burden at a time when we weren’t even counting or caring, which sounds very cruel to me.”…
NZ is such a welcoming place for overseas business – easiest in world to start!
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/494213/failed-honey-company-fined-2-million-over-market-manipulations
The civil case was brought by the FMA after it investigated and alleged the pair and two others had colluded in trying to lift the company’s share price using other people’s identities and not disclosing their trading, between April 2016 and April 2017.
The penalties are the highest awarded in a case of this type.
The other two people – Zhongyang (Sean) Meng and Jiashun (Sam) Qian – had admitted the charges in 2022 and penalised a total of $310,000 for their roles.
Fifa Women’s World Cup 2023: Netherlands coach lashes organisers as ‘amateurish’ over training facilities at Bay Oval
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/fifa-womens-world-cup-netherlands-coach-lashes-organisers-as-amateurish-over-training-facilities-at-bay-oval/ZDXN6JUB2JFVFPVRQZTUQIRFBE/
Let’s hope they don’t see the potholes.
Pothole nation: ‘This is the worst the roads have ever been’ – AA members
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/pothole-nation-this-is-the-worst-the-roads-have-ever-been-aa-members/6ONBBHZJ3RD47N5JXL4Q5GAVCI/
It doesn’t seem to be a question of money, more a rort, as NZ now seems to be one of the most expensive place to build a road!
I suggest potholes on certain roads are not high on the criteria of the Czar Agency Waka Kotahi that is the lordly name for our simple Transport Department. Maori aren’t winning from this renaming of our rorted government departments.
In the United States, the term czar has been used by the media to refer to appointed executive branch officials since at least the 1930s and then the 1940s under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Czar (political term) – Wikipedia wikipedia.org
https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Czar_(political_term)
The secret life of J Edgar Hoover | Movies – The Guardian
theguardian.com
https://www.theguardian.com › …
Whakamāoritia tēnei whārangi
31 Tīhe 2011 — J Edgar Hoover was a phenomenon. The first Director of the FBI, he remained in office for 48 years, from his appointment after the First …
Scary stuff – this was in the UK, but noticed that NZ charities seem to be less interested in used clothes and gifts which is a good way to recycle, and thus more and more is being put into landfill and dumps. Personally totally against charities expecting new items to be donated (aka the rise in ‘new gifts’ for children at charities rather than recycled 2nd hand goods) as contributes to more plastics and clothing waste. Generations have been bought up with 2nd hand goods, there is nothing wrong with recycled clothes and toys.
Tracker hidden in a skirt uncovers what can happen to our recycled clothes
Some garments donated to major retailers travel 15,000 miles … before they are burnt or dumped, a new investigation reveals
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/how-a-tracker-hidden-in-a-skirt-uncovered-what-can-happen-to-our-recycled-clothes-83m867r0m
How wonderful – brave Israelis rising against bad leader.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/494312/tens-of-thousands-of-israelis-march-against-benjamin-netanyahu-s-judicial-reforms
Radionz has a small summary of a piece on racism and disinformation they have prepared. When one comes to look further it is in floating images and quotes on a black background.
It all seems ephemeral, more about style and what substance there is seems less, not easy to read and think about, but dramatic and destabilising.
This is what the summary and link says – I have typed this out as I couldn’t copy it.
Undercurrent: ‘A very angry country right now!’
A disinformation researcher says New Zealand has become a ‘more intolerant’
society, especially online, where racism is widely tolerated.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/countrylife/audio/2018899442/the-whanganui-forest-which-never-stopped-growing-opportunity
This sounds like a golden example that should be followed in multiple places, though I haven’t read it all. But good news even in headings is so welcome. But would it be too late. Bad fire in Greece, Canada recently. Have you noticed how the world is calling for help from our firefighters? There is only so much experience that our poor blokes and femmes need. I feel we are being used by the world locusts again.
Recently a certain type of tree that resists burning has been found. What work is going into this for use in this country. A lot with urgency; /have noticed and are applying for funding; /have heard something and may put it on the agenda for discussion next year..?
What tree is most resistant to fire?
The Best Fire-Resistant Trees to Plant to Create a Defensible …
Read on to learn about four fire-resistant trees you can plant around your home or business to help maintain a wildfire defensible space on your property:
Coast Live Oak Trees. The Coast Live Oak is an evergreen tree native to California. …
American Mountain Ash Tree. …
Beech Tree. …
Chinese Pistache Tree.
9 Tīhe 2020
The Best Fire-Resistant Trees to Plant to Create a Defensible Space
vintagetreecare.com
https://www.vintagetreecare.com › fire-resistant-trees-to-…
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/countrylife/audio/2018899442/the-whanganui-forest-which-never-stopped-growing-opportunity
“It is one of these chicken and egg things. Growers need confidence that there is a market for their logs and similarly, people supplying that timber need to know they can find that timber and its readily available.
We need to form a NZ group of ‘native’ NZrs who want to support the country and its produce and manufactures. We can’t leave it to foreigners who like the country and see things that need to be done.
We need to nurture the heartwood spirit and could do this by joining and paying a membership to advance NZ and those who stay here and work for a good country. Interaction would be necessary, in some way, and observers even well-wishers would be not included and have no say. And no group could take over and steer the enterprise away from its intended path! Because this happens. and awareness of this sliding impetus must keep fresh.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/494321/11-dead-after-man-kicked-out-of-mexico-bar-allegedly-burned-it-down
I don’t enjoy demonstrating poor news choice from Radionz or RNZ in its new slimmed down less-radio title. But the above in World info is deeply yawn-inspiring. Question – what was the feature that helped put it in the News presentation; Tequila, bar, unhappy patron. burnt down, 11 dead. exotic location – wilds of Mexico instead of NZ?
Is it number of dead? We ignore those in themselves, and might overlook a lesser number but must be the extras. Unfortunately you have to hit on right number of deaths in a novel situation, to get into our news i think. At present there might be a boatload of African refugees whether from war, or starvation, or other trauma, trying to get to Europe and/or drowning. But don’t try to go to Rhodes as there having a bon-fire there.
Tell me a story Remember what you said.
You promised me you said you would …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm4mh5DEwBo
New Zealand Geographic – Red alert on orange roughy
We’ve just realised we’ve been counting orange roughy wrong—and the population is in much worse shape than we thought. Submissions on a new fishing quota close on Monday. Officials say “the status quo is not an option”.
Scientists have discovered that the models we’ve been using to predict abundance were flawed—and overly optimistic.
Orange roughy are one of our most important deepwater fisheries. The mistake means the quotas are geared around a much healthier population—and we’ve been hammering one that’s struggling. Now, scientists are warning of “sustainability concerns”, and there are calls to cut the quota by 40 per cent.