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https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/509273/australia-pressuring-new-zealand-to-upgrade-defence-force-nzdf-chief
Do as we say or? After all most of your stuff is owned by us or US, or World Investors in the Consortium (a group of octopuses). Will we become serfs like the Marshall Islands, a handy target for testing the efficacy of nuclear explosions – 67 within 1946-58.
https://www.mei.ngo/nuclear
https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/the-detail/story/2018926006/the-investment-fund-aiming-to-fix-the-housing-crisis
The latest housing recipe. Tasty?
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU2402/S00137/the-great-lapse-new-zealanders-are-being-squeezed-out-of-house-and-contents-insurance-due-to-rising-premiums.htm
I’ve got a leaky place in my roof and my AA Contents Insurance can’t be renewed! I didn’t want that much but something. I have been with AA for decades for car and so on and didn’t think they would go like that. The risk is not great and I am disappointed. I’m thinking of alternatives. The overseas companies that have taken over so much – surely there must be others who aren’t sharky finance mongers?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/509260/record-number-of-citizens-left-new-zealand-in-2023
We are wrecked by politicians and nitbrained businesspeople and gold rush merchants. It’s like pyramid selling. All these extra people and we are not managing the country well so we can best utilise them and their dollars etc.
We have idle people who have been done out of jobs by dropping tariffs at the border. and price competition from huge factory runs undercutting normal production runs suitable for this country. At one time we couldn’t buy shower curtain material on a basis of one importer supplying most of the country, too small an amount to be bothered with.
What a bunch of lies we have been fed throughout the years by accountants and so on who can add up and handle money but don’t know how to build and maintain a country. Pathetic. Someone says something confidently that relates to economics and marginal profits, sells the idea like a Christian tv evangelist. My favourite theme is the multiplier effect.
What Is the Multiplier Effect? Formula and Example
Investopedia https://www.investopedia.com › … › Macroeconomics
19 Dec 2023 — The multiplier effect measures the impact that a change in investment will have on final economic output.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday/audio/2018925582/are-humans-allergic-to-the-modern-world
Could be relevant. Some quick links to more info about our exponential-growth-chemical era.
intergenerational equity in action–a civil society perspective
National Institutes of Health (.gov)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › …
by M Lloyd-Smith · 2008 · Cited by 25 — Since World War II, approximately 80,000 new commercial synthetic chemicals have been released into the…
The Bombing and the Breakthrough
Smithsonian Magazine
https://www.smithsonianmag.com › history › bombing-a…
The Bombing and the Breakthrough. How a chemical weapons disaster in World War II led to a U.S. cover-up—and a new cancer treatment.
Weapons of War Litter the Ocean Floor
Hakai Magazine
https://hakaimagazine.com › features › weapons-war-litte…
10 Nov 2016 — At least one million tonnes of chemical weapons were dumped in the oceans between 1919 and 1980. Now what?
More than 80,000 chemicals have been developed, distributed and discarded into the environment over the past 50 years.
About the Toxicant and Disease Database
healthandenvironment.org
https://www.healthandenvironment.org › our-work › abo
Further, about 2,000 new chemicals are introduced into commerce annually in the U.S., at a rate of about seven new chemicals a day. Many in the US assume that the government carefully reviewed the safety of every chemical before it is allowed on the market.
Chemicals of Emerging Concern
ca.gov https://dtsc.ca.gov › emerging-chemicals-of-concern
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-51664-6_13
Chemical Weapons Research on Soldiers and Concentration Camps Inmates in Nazi Germany