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A good reason to train up senior citizens in government requirements and let the people run their own areas at a quarter of the cost. Rates are shooting up all over and NZ/AO is a stamping ground for administrators from overseas all with expensive schemes that are what is being done in more advanced countries etc…
We have had 6 storey housing allowed to pop up in the town, now down to lower nos. Also nearly lost the right to be able to have sunshine fall on most of your house most of the day all year; nearly wiped off the regulatory rules by the mostly goddesses in planning and elsewhere. And so it goes. And so do our rates rise and life is made more unpleasant than from previous changes.
Now they want to spend money doing up the CBD to get people back into the centre and at the same time make life harder for businesses there?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/523319/sandwich-board-sign-ban-hard-to-swallow-for-businesses
What do we think?
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2407/S00052/the-pervasiveness-of-inward-deadness-is-not-the-result-of-the-deadening-effect-of-the-super-rich.htm
Of course the super-rich have added greatly to the hellishness of this world. But it’s facile to maintain they are the cause of the planetary ecological, economic and political crisis, and that constraining them is the remedy to it.
It’s no surprise that the same conventionally progressive writer also states: “We might also need, as the lessons of the past century are unlearnt and the far right rises again, to defend ourselves against each other.”
You know the left has lost its moral compass and intellectual mooring when a leading progressive voice reconstitutes a World War II mentality, and calls for much more military spending in Europe to fight fascism from Russia and America. It boggles the mind.
To be intellectually and morally facile is to be philosophically and spiritually superficial. Simply put, worldviews flowing from ‘us vs. them’ mentality, whether held by conservative extremists on the right or righteous progressives on the left, cannot resolve the destruction of the earth and injustice of man….
The ancient, darkness-accumulating consciousness is the source of the destruction of the earth and humanity. Its core aspects of greed, self-centeredness, fear and false security through group identification are what have given rise to the obscenely rich and the planet-fragmenting exploitation of global capitalism.
Moreover, the globalization of voracious capitalism, and the transnational rich that have benefited from it, are sustained by the assumed immutability of human nature.…
So the pervasiveness of inward deadness is not the result of “the deadening effect of the super-rich,” but of the wholesale acceptance of an utterly hollow, externally oriented, materialistic culture. America may be the epicenter that exemplifies it, but inner deadening has gone global.
Friday, 26 July 2024, 1:22 pm
Opinion: Martin LeFevre – Meditations
Does this enlighten us on a way forward?
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2407/S00050/peter-turchins-end-times-some-comments.htm
Friday, 26 July 2024, 10:42 am
Opinion: Keith Rankin
…The central drivers of the model are demographic and economic; changing levels of inequality, and a kind of Malthusian population struggle between elites, aspirant elites, and counter-elites The central dynamic of his model is what he calls the ‘wealth pump’; though it’s a dynamic which uses ‘wealth’ in its financial sense rather than its economic sense. (Economists would call economic growth a ‘wealth pump’, and see growth as an equalising rather than an unequalising process; for Turchin, the wealth pump represents a transfer of financial wealth from the poor to the rich.)…
A good step in Kiwiland for goat fibre processing here.
Having to send the fibre overseas for processing has been a problem in the past.
“After shearing, the coarse fibre needs to be separated from the fine cashmere and it takes a pretty special machine to be able to do that successfully.”
Fortunately, Woolyarns in Wellington has come to the party.
The renowned yarn engineers have invested in a fibre processing plant to make an all-New Zealand cashmere supply chain a reality.M
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/countrylife/audio/2018948526/cashmere-goat-farmer-wants-to-reboot-luxurious-fibre-industry
The situation for elections in Venezuela tommorow is looking good. All reliable polls show Maduro safely winning against the enemy agents and a complete rejection of US interference in Venezuela, possibly with a full majority rather than a plurality.
“The president went on to stress that Sunday’s electoral result would represent a choice between “peace or violence, fascism or popular democracy, savage capitalism or Christian socialism, a sovereign nation or a [US] colony.” ”
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuela-candidates-hold-final-campaign-rallies-ahead-of-presidential-vote/
RadioNZ
World history
26 Jul 2024
https://www.rnz.co.nz/audio/player?audio_id=2018948413
Why do the Dutch tower over their neighbours?
Tallness : early sexual maturity.
Do we need to change our introduction programs into adulthood to earlier ages for young people ? Do we think intelligently about such matters or just react like our grandparents did?
We’re (the Left) doing very well in disproving boot camps in the honeymoon of the new govt. Helped it was complete shit to begin with. Will the kids come to stay in tents in David Seymour’s backyard now?
What a goofball. Thanks, Dick Prebble, for him. Thanks for creating a country fit only for the upper middle class up.
I remember vowing to piss on Roger Douglas’s grave, but none of them are masterminds of malignance, just, fools mucking around, and, so, helping bring us back to rich-rule. Not worth my life-giving urine. Savage’s epitaph was ‘friend of the poor’, only Prebble on the rich-rule side could be embarrassed by that. ‘A Shit for the Rich’?
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