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Do we still have media in NZ why has no one asked the PM about his meeting with King Tuheitia fucken useless our media need to do their jobs ask the hard questions?
What’s this?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/506819/government-rejects-four-voting-changes-as-review-lands
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/506814/iwi-reject-shane-jones-claim-hui-will-be-a-moan-session
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/506545/govt-keen-to-see-more-activity-in-mining-sector-shane-jones
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/506798/seymour-pledges-better-monitoring-funding-of-new-charter-schools
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/506789/public-transport-advocates-question-auckland-transport-fare-hikes
and the Past-Present –
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/summer-days/audio/2018922347/70-years-on-from-aotearoa-s-deadliest-rail-tragedy
Pacific being destabilised by other cultures, particularly money-culture and resource-stripping which is replacing blackbirding as a disgrace to the perpetrators.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/506805/pacific-law-enforcement-struggling-to-keep-up-with-drug-syndicates-adviser
https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/506767/calls-for-confidence-vote-in-pm-marape-after-deadly-riots-in-papua-new-guinea
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC2401/S00004/global-dyson-study-reveals-that-indoor-pollution-levels-in-nz-exceeded-who-safe-exposure-guidelines-for-90-of-the-year.htm
Secondary from war being a major motivator of business, in development and replacement of weaponry, there is the business of repairing the defects and dangers introduced into the world from past business,
So * Repairing sickness in bodies.
* Repairing ills brought about from industrial air pollution.
It all makes work for the rest of us.
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK2401/S00199/new-report-shows-0800-whats-up-service-provides-2-of-social-value-per-1-spent.htm
Barnardos’ 0800 What’s Up phone and online chat service for children and young people has been shown by a new GoodMeasure report from ImpactLab to provide $2 of social value for every dollar spent on it, an excellent outcome for this unique service.
https://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=157612
“Rubbish results” from Wellington Water
[accompanying alliteration for Wellington is ‘woeful’]
https://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=157612#comments —
Proof that there are people who have recognised the problems caused by gummint action/inaction and are raising questions and points. But how can one dent the titanium or endlessly spongy facades set up between the production that is gummint and the spectators distant from the stage? Some are close enough to the front row to see the nature of the play and actors, but then where is the supposed strength of our democracy to enable them to correct?
Poor men got some great sounds from what were caused ‘penny whistles’ after they finished physical work. Time for measured dulcet words to replace music for better doings, better life and practical togetherness to face our menacing future that is so close, it nibbles our toes. We could make and play flutes thousands of years ago. We can’t manage to build and control infrastructure appropriate for our modern times. Let’s give up and replan for clever systems for our destroyed cities and hamlets, with time off for music and enjoying the life we have got.
Almost all early cultures had a type of fipple flute, and it is most likely the first pitched flute-type instrument in existence.[3] Examples found to date include a possible Neanderthal fipple flute from Slovenia, which according to some scientists may date from 81,000 to 53,000 BC;[4][5][6] a German flute from 35,000 years ago; and a flute, known as the Malham Pipe, made from sheep’s bone in West Yorkshire…