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What’s that stench?
The river of filth man is back
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/michael-wood-among-familiar-faces-to-win-labour-election-as-party-mulls-tax-discussion/MB3XPAEYIBFULNDNCMEP7RD6YQ/
Forsyth Barr’s second corporate Artificial Intelligence (AI) survey, covering about 85 percent of NZ’s listed businesses, shows little change from the position two years ago, with the top third moving ahead, while the rest continue to stand still.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/507800/nz-companies-lagging-behind-in-use-of-ai-survey
Oh dear the march of the behemoth world management companies with replacement of humanity is not fast enough. When firms get in line and move forward, what is their prognosis as to their destination, and what NZ/AO people will be experiencing then?
What is the history of Forsyth Barr?
About Forsyth Barr
Forsyth Barr was established in Dunedin in 1936 by Robert (Peter) Forsyth Barr. Murray Sidey and Keith Skinner joined him after World War II. Together they built the award-winning business you know today.
We need love for this planet and a bit for each other even when other people are sooo
annoying. So if music be the food of love play on. Understanding music comes from the higher brain I think.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/concert/programmes/three-to-seven/audio/2018923250/choose-life-choose-an-instrument
Guyon does well to draw our attention to this. We can’t allow the degenerate ghosts of yesteryear’s bad practices to come back and haunt us now. Support the holders of values, animal care, and practicality in the functions of farming and handling animals.
Stay in the informed, being engaged part of humanity, not turn into self-centred hedonists who think washing daily, dressing well, with tidy gardens at home, count to get you through the Gates of Ethical Behaviour which can be expected from such intelligent minds as ours.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/507389/the-1m-pr-and-lobbying-campaign-to-overturn-livestock-export-ban
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU2401/S00207/nz-backtracks-on-south-pacific-ocean-protection-lobbies-for-more-bottom-trawling.htm
The New Zealand government appears to be turning its back on South Pacific ocean conservation measures and UN resolutions it has signed, falling out of step with the rest of the world on its commitments to protect deep sea life, instead siding with the destructive bottom trawling industry, environment groups said today.
BBC Jan28/24 – https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/environment/507733/is-seabed-mining-an-economic-necessity-or-a-hazard
…t present such commercial extraction is not allowed by the International Seabed Authority (ISA), the UN body that regulates the seafloor in international waters. However, the ISA and its 169 member states, are due to meet later this year to try to finalise rules that may potentially allow it to start, with a final vote expected within 24 months.
Some 30 countries including the UK, Brazil, Canada, France and Germany want the ban to continue because of concerns about the environmental impact. However, other nations, including China, are keen for large-scale deep-sea mining in international waters to get the go-ahead….
“If the industry proceeds, the intensity and methods of deep seabed mining could destroy entire habitats and species,” says Kaja Loenne Fjaertoft, a marine biologist and senior advisor for sustainable oceans at the WWF.
“Many species living in the deep sea are found nowhere else. Disturbances in just one mining site could wipe out entire species.”
She adds: “As well as the direct destruction of ecosystems when minerals are mined, major damage and disturbance would likely arise from light noise and sediment pollution.”
Norway Jan10/24 BBC https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/506365/deep-sea-mining-norway-approves-controversial-practice
A Martin Niemoller remembrance; animals and birds, then a concerted action on most of us.:
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me
“Establishing a youth military academy to get the worst young offenders off the streets is a priority for the government, says the minister of police.”
Most of Hitler’s Brownshirts enjoyed training from and were set up along military lines courtesy prior army and military service.
Any future wannabe fascist in NZ will love a pool of malcontents already trained in organised murder.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2018923857/police-minister-responds-to-weekend-of-violent-incidents
What is Seymour in the background of images relating to social problems. Normally no pollie is within cooee.
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https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2018923862/oranga-tamariki-report-shows-more-children-harmed-in-its-care
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/507758/act-leader-david-seymour-laments-lost-decades-as-coalition-gets-to-work
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/507787/act-leader-david-seymour-says-simpler-tax-system-would-encourage-a-culture-of-success