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Paws for Compassion
https://www.pawsforcompassion.org › donate_now
Our donors and volunteers have helped us to rescue and re-home hundreds of animals.
‘Pause for Compassion’. Vote for Labour coalition. We are in a sterile atmosphere with National, no messy compassion there and ACT has sharp teeth, ‘All the better to bite you with my dear’.
And shock, neither of main parties is minded to make a good job to help upstanding NZ/AO citizens. So what about moving after election to a Pause for Compassion to Parents and Children assistance units in the North and South to help the strugglers of any race but particularly those who have alwayus lived here and thought that citizenship meant something. Help them rise over the demeaning attitudes and uncaring by the haves in this country, that make barriers for them, set them on paths of wish fulfilment not life fulfilment.
Now I do feel sick for those receiving this medical inattention. Does it happen in Auckland or do they have to be kept on side?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/498502/wellington-doctors-told-to-stop-referring-women-to-specialists-unless-their-condition-is-urgent
https://www.monbiot.com/2023/09/20/shining-a-light/
George Monbiot’s latest column deserves a plug, along with the cause/website he provides a link to
Yes good. Am reading – thought this para good.
It didn’t happen by accident. It was the result of a concerted ideological programme, backed by some of the richest people on Earth, and implemented by the many clever people they hired. Its purpose was to roll back the rising tide of distribution and equality, privatise the public realm and defend the plutocrats against attempts to regulate and tax their antisocial practices. And, largely because we didn’t see it coming and we didn’t understand it when it arrived, the programme succeeded magnificently.
Was one of the perpetrators or venues this?
The Mont Pelerin Society: Home
The Mont Pelerin Society
https://www.montpelerin.org › event
October 29-November 1, 2023 | Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, USA. 2024 Biennial Congress and General Meeting. Freedom & Prosperity for the Next 6 Billion.
More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont_Pelerin_Society
I don’t know much about it myself but remember this name. Sounds appropriate to Monbiot’s item.
Kiwis with verve, principle and practicality are rising. A launch of this previous party but unregistered this time. It could be the right thing at this juncture.
Invitation from Bruce Dyer, Nelson (who used to have a small agency that lent start-up money to people attempting to be self-employed. It had good positive stats I understand.
He has adopted a second name which is Harideva.)
I’d like to invite you to the launch of the Progressive Party’s campaign for Nelson.
Learn about the visionary and holistic policies offered by the Progressive Party.
I will be speaking as the Party’s candidate for the Nelson electorate along with
insights from two other speakers on the ideology underpinning our policies.
Where: East St Café, Church St, Nelson (Nelson CBD)
When: 7pm Monday, 25th September 2023
RSVP: bruce@progressiveparty.co.nz
Our society is distressed in so many ways –
Kids doing ram raids and the high prison population
28% of kids living in poverty and 300k families living in unacceptable housing
7.5k endangered native plants and animals
One of the highest youth suicide rates in the OECD
It needs to be transformed. I am confident the ethical and holistic perspective we bring
will help bring about that transformation.
http://www.progressiveparty.co.nz
Previous – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Anderton%27s_Progressive_Party
https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/498517/cook-islands-cursed-hotel-to-start-receiving-guests-soon
Vaima’anga’s abandoned hotel in the south of Rarotonga in the Cook Islands is being renovated and its first guests are expected in a couple of months.
The old deserted Sheraton Hotel is on a 10-year course to be fully refurbished, but the first section – planned to be finished by the end of November – includes 41 rooms and a new swimming pool.
The original hotel almost bankrupted the Cook Islands. It has a past of failed renovation attempts, rumours of Italian Mafia involvement and is supposedly cursed.
…The developer Christopher Vaile said “in a fit of madness” he decided to take on the job at the request of the landowner and paramount chief Pā Ariki’s lawyer.
“He probably played on my ego because he didn’t think that anyone else would be silly enough to do it,” Vaile said, a prominent New Zealand born businessman who has lived in Rarotonga for over five decades…
“We will sell off apartments and as well as having accommodation [for guests], we will have some restaurants here, but we won’t run those ourselves.
“I have the machinery, we’re doing this with our own capital, we haven’t gone to the banks so I’m not beholden to anyone.”
Vaile said the apartments would be available to both locals and foreigners.
The property will be self-sufficient with power going to be generated on site using a mixture of hydro, solar and diesel.
Vaile is trying to keep a low profile, which is difficult considering the building is huge and sits just off the main road. It was also a popular tourist attraction for some time.
Vaile has 24/7 security to ward visitors off and to discourage people from stealing. In the first week, eight toilets disappeared from the site…
Vaile has past experience restoring old buildings.
Thirty-years ago he renovated a castle built in the 13th century in Poland and turned it into a hotel.
Before he took it on the castle had been deteriorating for over half a century.
Vaile said the project was a source of entertainment for the locals, especially when it came to clear the land mines out of the ponds.
The Cook Islands are just a microcosm of us in having a problem like this around their neck. (Someone has pinned down the importance of fractals in forming our physical society – don’t know about our psychologies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal)
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