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https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/528665/the-israeli-military-has-repeatedly-used-fighter-jets-to-create-sonic-booms-over-beirut-some-say-it-s-psychological-warfare
That is devilish for a pure religious outfit to adopt. Is the Jewish religion to be actually found in Israel or is it just an out-of-control real estate boom?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/the-house/audio/2018952318/how-not-to-answer-a-question-and-other-lessons-from-parliament
Some of the fine points to be aware of. …Questioning a speaker’s ruling is considered very naughty in the House. You can get kicked out for the day for that. Speakers don’t usually seem to mind a bit of respectful tussle, however.
Having failed, McAnulty decided the question he had prepared was now redundant, and chose to forgo the opportunity to ask it, at which point Chris Bishop got to his feet to do some cheeky grandstanding, seeking leave to ask himself the question, and answer it. The Speaker was unimpressed. Bishop’s kibitzing led to further points of order, and McAnulty was given a chance to make a fuller argument. The whole discussion took eight minutes…
For the benefit of those unknowing how to cope wth the cut and thrust of people wanting answers from politicians (or you) to questions that it may be best to step aside from. I’ve put it up before but it may have slipped by unnoticed – that is a mistake as it’s priceless.
The Incoming Member of Parliament’s Guide to Ducking …
https://www.ngataonga.org.nz › search
This is an aural instruction manual for incoming politicians giving guidance on how to answer those tricky questions from the media when you’d rather not.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/528666/are-airfares-really-getting-cheaper
Better read this and see if there is something going on such as bidding up prices momentarily as demand and supply are constantly adjusted by algorithm and our dear government-run airline tries to be like the veriest bloodsucker from overseas. Or maybe I am entirely wrong – but I have heard murmurs from fretful would-be passengers.
And if the ferries break down and we have to go by air, it will help the AirNZ make a greater profit and cast clumps of mud on Kiwirail who are failing to achieve for some reason, I think a tripwire has been set up for them myself. It may be that someone willing to use last century’s tech that can be relied on and be able to stand up to the stresses of our not pacific waters.
**Warning sad thinking from here. Go no further unless you don’t care, are feeling mentally strong at present, have nothing better to do, or have unburnt fingers and are taking care.**
Let us not have hastily installed equipment similar to that of the tech company and the British Post Office in UK; the grand and respected government service of their Post Office. Eager beaver uncivil servants, administrators and politicians in the UK foisted the Post Office system on unwary citizens who bought small post office outlets and then many were shat on from a great height.
The methods were a sort of torture; confiscating their savings and earnings, destroying their lives, their personal standing, locked them up as criminals for fraud or theft, spreading misery and death. The real guilty have possibly never been punished’ they belonged to the new entity the corporation devoted to profit, efficiency and growth. It was the final nail of the coffin of the meretricious neoliberal sort.
Those in power will do the same to Kiwis – a lot of the people running things here have been overseas and learned how its done, or who have originated from overseas, UK, South Africa etc and brought their methods with them. The gummint has got themselves into an unassailable position here it seems. I don’t know the end but was reading something about the last days of Sparta which were not good for their polity and people.
But we know better all these centuries later?! I should coco. I hope so as regular disasters from land, sea and sky are happening at short intervals. Perhaps the Old Testament applies again. Jesus will have died twice, and sacrificed himself for nothing as so many good people have done after hoping to benefit others; maybe but for a short term and then the cycle begins again. Can we rethink our regular transgressions or does the communist escapee, Ayn Rand rule, or Puritanism of some sort drive like Daleks, TINA? Is there room for us, can we push our way in, with practicality coupled with a layer of kindness; a marriage of two dissimilar bending to each other and coming up with a thought by Aristotle.
?The phrase the whole is greater than the sum of its parts was first coined by the philosopher Aristotle.
This on agriculture in Netherlands. The Dutch are very good and so much that they limit themselves by law trying to manage emissions and pollution. We could not do better. We now have to look at the Dutch before we have ruined our country. Watch it is interesting, then think. We are not good – won’t be ashamed though, because our standards are low, undisciplined, irresponsible.
7:21 / 17:09
How the Dutch are Destroying their Agricultural Sector
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swMHQeKtZG0
The Netherlands is the second largest agricultural exporter in the world after the United States, but they’re using just 0.5% of the farmland. But this industry is under pressure from as Dutch farmers are forced to downside to curb nitrogen emissions.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/528379/wealthy-people-pay-lower-tax-in-nz-than-in-similar-states-study-shows
(When we are taxed with real figures we are evasive. I am wondering if we are rather slimy wrigglers.)
…2019, the Tax Working Group concluded there was a “clear weakness” in Aotearoa’s tax system due to the “inconsistent treatment of capital gains”.
But executive director of the Taxpayers’ Union Jordan Williams said there were other areas in the tax system that needed addressing before a capital gains tax was introduced.
“The problem is that we’ve got an economy that’s under-capitalised, with too much money going into housing.
“Any capital gains tax that’s been proposed to date, of course, rightly excludes the family home. A CGT would likely make the housing problem worse and starve our economy of what it actually needs for growth and, frankly, more productivity and higher wages.”
“The tax on company profits, for example, the ability to get capital in and out of the New Zealand economy, that is where we do pretty poorly.
“We’ve got one of the highest company taxes in the world. That means for the rest of the world, investing in New Zealand at a 28% company tax rate is pretty unattractive.”
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