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https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/499003/boos-and-strong-language-mark-forum-on-housing
Cam Jenkins from the Manawatu Tenants Union shared stories of the people he saw every day.
“They’ve been [silenced] by landlords. Haven’t been able to have anywhere to live. Haven’t been able to afford their groceries because their rent is more than 50 percent of the income they get. Without a tenant advocate these voices would never be heard, yet it is an ever-growing demand on services for us.”
He said the advocacy group had been stripped of $18,600 in government funding.
“Are we there yet?”
“2 October! Let’s Do This!”
https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/the-detail/story/2018908722/helping-or-harming-our-modern-mental-health-conversations
Try kindness and practicality and the right amount of commonuality.
Barbara Sher is/was a good sort RIP She say “It is only too late if you don’t start now”.
Why can’t you change and start doing: Barbara Sher: A Word to Coaches About “Tough Love”–Don’t Do https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2bF64QZIqk
Resistance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5TMgnUPEVU
Barbara Sher: Criticism, Rejection and Perfectionism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoFghhct-gk&t=32s
An extra to finish – a little colourful music and fun – from Russia?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDG0AcVVWGg
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/499042/massive-pothole-causing-havoc-on-napier-taupo-road
Kiwirail for heavy haulage? And drive on carriage floors to carry cars, plus people separately with nice snack car and facilities. Easy peasy travel while taking the car for short trips from main holiday/visit hub? Then tolls on roads with tollgates every 150 kms which collects basic toll from every vehicle from bike to bigger, and for behemoths, plus they would have hubodometers for tax puposes paid later.
Choose your favourite:
https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/harry-browne-quotes
.Government is force, pure and simple. There’s no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society – people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily.
Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There’s a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.
Harry Browne
Does this have anything useful? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matching_funds
We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
Ronald Reagan (acting at being a wise President of USA, a role that has lost its best lines over centuries.)
Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
Earl Nightingale
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Marie Curie
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/499039/completely-unacceptable-labour-candidate-angela-roberts-slapped-following-political-debate
Let the media uncover who this slapper is. It is unsatisfactory. Worse than wokeness.
Do we need different ferries, stronger with less sway and height; ferries built to our needs not just picked up secondhand from overseas and not having their innards properly sorted like cars’ wofs??
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/499055/more-ferry-cancellation-as-storms-continue
Sanitarium playing silly buggers? We should charge them some high anti-trading fee for not supplying The Warehouse to make up for all the tax they don’t pay through being owned by a church, 7th Day Adventist I think, while at the same time charging full market prices. Of course all their profits go into Doing Good. But by paying tax they could spread that good around to all denoms, though not demons! When a political party with some oomph gets in this sort of antediluvian thinking will be swept away to a more practical poilcy of tax paying.
This dog has had more of its share of sadness and grieving. Move on and stop being so trivial.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/499038/owners-of-euthanised-gisborne-dog-sarge-want-bolt-guns-banned
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/498771/car-makers-spend-millions-more-advertising-big-gas-guzzlers-than-small-cars-or-evs
‘Industry hype’ about electric vehicles isn’t matched by the money car makers are spending promoting them. Instead, the biggest gas guzzlers still get the biggest advertising dollars.
Car companies are spending almost four times more advertising large, gas-guzzling vehicles than small cars, despite publicly pledging to combat climate change.
Catchy Number that’s Very Now! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_kjctTbMHA
Fun Boy Three – It Ain’t What You Do It’s The Way That You Do It (Official Music
(That’s what gets results.)
We’re under attack from bugs which will eat a crop overnight when they have suitable conditions. This is a ‘growing’ problem – the weather being warmer etc.
https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/march-of-the-armyworm/
March of the armyworm
Armyworms are ravenous. They decimate crops and will take a thriving vege garden down to stalks overnight. Then they’ll come inside and eat your houseplants. They’ve been in New Zealand a long time but this summer, they boomed—and an even hungrier cousin blew in from over the ditch. ..
The caterpillars, dark green with pale markings and about two centimetres long, were heading northwards. “They looked like an army on the move, but moving at a snail’s pace.” Lambert watched as they crossed the playing field then onto his property, where some attempted to climb his weatherboard house and others headed straight into the chicken run, meeting hens lined up behind the wire netting, ready to gobble them up. The majority, though, headed into the maize paddock next door, “like a plague”.
By the next day, the caterpillars had all passed….
…There are three types of armyworm in Aotearoa. Cosmopolitan armyworms, which Doug Lambert saw and which are eaten by the introduced wasp; tropical armyworms, which the Northland gardeners and farmers have been battling over the summer; and fall armyworms, which only just got here. Despite the name, they’re actually all caterpillars—and hungry ones at that. They’re notorious crop pests around the world, especially the new arrival.
The fall armyworm’s favourite foods are corn and maize, but it has a taste for a multitude of other plants, depending on what’s available. We don’t yet know what it might eat here, and DOC is worried native plants could be on the menu. Hundreds have been earmarked as potential hosts for the fall armyworm, including kawakawa, tarata, kiekie and kūmara, as well as the endangered ngutukākā. So far, no infestations have been spotted on native plants, but it seems no one has been specifically tasked with looking out for them, either…
[Entomologist] MacDonald’s specialty, biocontrol, provides an avenue of real hope. Already, parasitic wasps, the same species that keep the cosmopolitan armyworm in check, have been attacking the fall armyworm. These wasps, Cotesia ruficrus, lay dozens of eggs inside each caterpillar. “As those eggs hatch, the [larvae] munch through the stomach of the caterpillar, then make an exit hole out of the cocoon. New wasps emerge, and then they go off and do the same thing.” Growers here have reported seeing cocoons torn open from the inside by hatching wasps.
These are people who are doing essential things for NZ/AP. How can we remove theose who aren’t; who are suckers who are siphoning essential parts of out polity into their maws?
Just thinking about this battalion of armyworms – describing their advance in the article; they were said to have a line of waiting hens behind wire. If they could be fodder that could be some use, good. Quick test them for toxins now and be ready with suitable businesses to deal with them when there is an outbreak. Let’s make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear – a very old saying that you young ones haven’t come across no doubt.