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Something to watch – be aware of as we try and manage our way as a country out of the morass the pollies and their masters have got us into.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/country/527935/country-life-health-the-new-wealth-the-skinny-on-the-china-market
Are the images we see on our media real ones representing our lives in the context of the article they appear? This one looks as if drawn from a movie still or some agency image. Let’s not have the first floating shot from a group of possibles taken somewhere used to illustrate our own stories!! This looks to me like an escort waiting for her client in some big city. And not appropriate to the storyline about adults eating alone.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/528045/is-solo-dining-rising-in-popularity
What’s wrong with the Auckland spirit of reaction and spunkiness?
There must be many asses up there to choose from. It shows that Luxon is one in deciding that counting assaults is the most important thing on which to concentrate!
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/528044/pm-luxon-police-minister-mark-mitchell-say-auckland-assaults-are-dropping
The background to the story of Haitians eating pets in Springfield, Ohio – seems to have lots of history background that would be interesting for Kiwis to know. A subject to concentrate on is the way that Springfield has had immigration from numbers of poor Haitians, a country that has been devastated by being colonised by big powers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/14/us/haitian-migrants-springfield-ohio.html
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/527741/haitian-immigrants-fueled-springfield-s-growth-and-now-a-us-presidential-debate
Are we going the same way as Haiti? Centuries later – having learned nothing. Query – Are Haitians the new Jews; wandering from country to country, looking for a permanent home where they can feel safe and make an honest living and be safe?
The Caribbean island became the first in the region to win its independence in 1804 after a revolt by enslaved people. But in a move that many Haitians blame for two centuries of turmoil, France later imposed harsh reparations for lost income and that debt was only fully repaid in 1947.18 Apr 2024
Haitian groups seek billions in reparations from France – Reuters
https://www.reuters.com › world › americas › haitian-gr…
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2021/10/05/1042518732/-the-greatest-heist-in-history-how-haiti-was-forced-to-pay-reparations-for-freed
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/haitian-immigrants-moving-springfield-ohio/
Election 2024: Ohio city reshaped by Haitian immigrants …
AP News
https://apnews.com › s… Whakamāoritia tēnei whārangi
-3 rā i mua — Many cities have been reshaped by immigrants in the last few years without attracting much notice. Not Springfield, Ohio….
https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2024/09/09/vance-yost-targeting-haitians-in-springfield-ohio-with-ignorant-fear-mongering-disturbs-me-deeply/
(Some background.)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/haitian-immigrants-fueled-springfields-growth-now-us-presidential-debate-2024-09-11/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/14/neo-nazis-springfield-ohio-haitian-immigrants
Song for today. Tell Me a Story. Worry worry – the person who put it up on youtube says his grandfather used to sing it but now has Alzheimers. Story of our lives eh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjBWApYXSTg
This is an example of why women ar ‘getting’ a bad name with men.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/528046/man-likely-to-lose-more-of-family-home-after-second-relationship-ends-despite-legal-protection
It is a greedy and entitled age to live in. And women’s lib should have watched over legislation to make sure it was equitable and not slanted to suit the unreasonable and greedy.
I want one like his!
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/527846/how-the-briscoes-bloke-rod-duke-is-making-millions-even-in-a-recession
When Rod Duke became the boss of the Briscoe Group in 1988, it was illegal to sell most things on Sundays.
Duke was willing to test the authorities’ mettle to enforce that law.
“We thought: ’What are the fines? How can I get prosecuted? What’s the likelihood? How do I tell people that I’m going to be open on Sundays? How do I convince my staff to work?'”
They went for it, and before long Briscoes was doing the equivalent of a month’s trading on each Sunday alone.
The Labour government of the time, which was in the midst of sweeping economic deregulation, was not interested in punishing Duke.
“We didn’t get prosecuted. We didn’t get shut down. No. The government of the day thought it might be best if they change the legislation, rather than prosecute me.”…
Duke was recruited from Australia in 1988 to turn around the struggling Briscoe Group for its Dutch owners and prepare it for sale. At the time, Briscoes had a good name but customers weren’t paying much attention to it, he says. The business had “gone to sleep”. After he came on board, the big step into Sunday trading followed.
In 1990, he took an even bigger step and bought the business himself, making him “one of the fellows in this country with the biggest overdraft in the world”. He reckoned there was no chance of failure….
We as a business have to expand. We have to. We have to grow, perhaps in an even larger market. So we’re looking at this country and Australia to grow,” Duke says.
“The game doesn’t end. … At the end of the day, I too want to leave a legacy. And this business is the legacy.”
It hasn’t always been about bold moves. A key feature of Briscoe Group’s success over the past 35 years under Duke is its slow and steady rate of growth and aversion to debt. Despite having expanded significantly with the establishment of the Rebel Sport chain in 1996, Briscoe Group is debt free with over $100 million in the bank.
Duke says being a bit thrifty by nature helps. “It’s a personality thing, right? I’m a bit thrifty, you know, I look for value. It’s a trait of being a son born in the post-depression years. It exists in me.”…
[Tax] …on a wealth tax or a capital gains tax or a tax of some description.”
Duke has serious reservations about such a tax, fearing it would cause money to leave New Zealand. “Look, money seems to navigate to the place that’s easiest to make extra money and so if New Zealand were to introduce an additional or a modified tax system that was prohibitive and made investment more difficult or less lucrative, then the money would disappear.”
This year, Duke was made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, recognised for his business acumen and philanthropic work. His charitable work, carried out through the R.A Family Trust and First Foundation, covers such things as tertiary scholarships, funeral cover for Briscoes employees, financial support for Cure Kids, the Westpac Helicopter Trust, and mental health programmes for young people….
Something to chew over. Could a group of knowledgable citizens who are committed to NZ/AO as a resilient country that can withstand discomfort with stocks, with resources, with expertise, basic self-sufficiency and not at the cheapest price either, with New ‘Zealous’ citizens with zest — meet this man perhaps in the main centres in large venues and conduct shortish video conferences with some interaction through written questions on paper?
It would be good to discuss our problems, considering our world position AND climate change effects, with someone who has succeeded at more than just following the trodden path, or learning the latest hip idea at uni, and how to press buttons and depress large numbers of people!
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