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Fantastic news- the Nigerien people are kicking US military forces present there to support ISIS out- a good start to US Out Of Everywhere.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-68590531
Nigeria is interested in joining BRICS
Another broken promise?
Nicola Willis won’t guarantee promised tax cuts will arrive in July
Tried to view some stuff articles about nz listed on google and got blank page. Is this the latest great tech advance gone wrong? Making our country’s information available free and factual should be the direction.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/512016/residents-upset-as-much-loved-community-hall-put-up-for-sale
The local Chair Fulljames has a finger in a lot of pies including Wairoa subdivision.
It seems that local people cannot offer to work on the hall if they want to keep it, apart from the point of it being theirs by moral right if the gifted land and building are no longer required.
This on our struggle against diseases and our food supply. Also thinking of the potato disease and its effects. https://hgic.clemson.edu/factsheet/irish-sweet-potato-diseases/
The market rules = cheapness reigns.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/country/512043/low-prices-hurting-local-tomato-growers
While cheap tomatoes may be good news for shoppers at the checkout, low prices are hurting returns for the country’s growers.
It has been a bumper crop with good volumes and quality for the country’s roughly 120 commercial tomato growers this season.
But after a third season without being able to export to Australia due to a pepino mosaic virus, or PepMV, outbreak in 2021 – there has been an oversupply in the domestic market, depressing prices…
Are we going to be broken economically from viruses that we have exposed ourselves to from all this previously unknown travel and importing? Myrtle rust seems ubiquitous or is it just the drought.
HGWells had the alien Martians die from breathing our bug infested air in his story.
HG Wells on the Partnership Between Viruses and Humans
American Institute for Economic Research
https://www.aier.org › …Whakamāoritia tēnei whārangi
8 Hūr 2020 — The outbreak of the novel coronavirus pandemic has come so differently than most other collisions between human beings and the natural world …
My grandfather died early in the 1900s from flu or something being carried to the Pacific Islands on missionary ships taking supplies to help the poor Pacific people who didn’t have our advantages. Many of them died from a strong strain of disease, and he did too, as the engineer on the mission ship and was buried at sea. But learning about viruses and the spread of disease rarely gets through our heads and stays.
If we do learn something, or record it for deeper experienced knowledge a populist know-little says What we worry and can chuck it as happened in Canada. And gross populism can go deep down with less than elite people elected.
The Harper Government Has Trashed and Destroyed …
VICE https://www.vice.com › … Whakamāoritia tēnei whārangi
15 Hān 2014 — … Canadian scientists are saying today. “Federal fisheries officials routinely destroy memos, minutes and other records to hide politically …
and
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/as-fords-exit-mayor-s-office-conflict-probes-intensify-1.2844179 | 24 Noe 2014 — As Rob and Doug Ford pack up their Toronto … records found, Doug Ford himself … Toronto water department head Lou Di Gironimo says the
I guess that is a problem in a democratic country with constantly changing systems as the progressive businesses want. Ever served on a local community committee? You work at volunteering on a non-profit organisation to do good, bring in some systems, step down
or get voted out and the new people swan in with their individual, new ideas and trash half those that have been up and working and ignore the discussions on problems and decisions made, on which hours have been spent.