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https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU2505/S00058/retail-crime-significantly-under-reported.htm
I think it suits Retail NZ to massage the stats to make it seem a major problem instead of an enhanced level of what has been known normal crime. In the midst of major rorts and stealing by those in power of the meagre resources of the lower income people who are presented with difficulties for making their way out of their problems it isn’t surprising.
Some essential points of discussion from philosopher Martin LeFevre. We had WW2, and then some others, ho hum! Now we need to look at less primitive ways of acting out. Perhaps go back to pre nuclear times and cut the system for electing leaders who don’t belch at ceremonial dinners. Perhaps skilled wise contenders get to have the opportunity to be leader for a week, putting forward ideas that could be voted for to a certain price level and then effects be monitored and reported.
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2505/S00009/regarding-popes-dopes-and-hopes.htm
…The darkness in human consciousness is playing for all the marbles. Never in human history has a non-theologized, non-psychologized philosophy of evil been more urgently needed.
People on the right project the darkness within them onto people on the left, whereas people on the left psychologize evil to the point of writing “evil” with quotes, as if it doesn’t exist except in each person’s interpretation.
The underlying question is: Can the inward, spiritual dimension [can] inform and be harmoniously combined with the outward political dimension of human life? ,,,
The world desperately needs a true moral conscience, one that is both authentically spiritual in that it eschews power in perpetuity, and effectively political in the sense that declares the sovereignty of humanity, upholds the wholeness and health of the Earth, and prioritizes the needs of the poor and marginalized.
Institutions of the past, whether supposedly spiritual or blatantly political, represent mindsets that are utterly irrelevant to the immense challenges of the present.
Reform, whether of the Catholic Church or the United Nations, is completely secondary to a psychological revolution and the creation of a living global body of dialogue and deliberation.
lefevremartin77@gmail
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/560163/anzac-day-organisers-faced-7000-bill-for-15-minute-road-closure
How droll. A march to commemorate men and women who died to save us and the world from vicious rule, has been affected by those very people who have crept in under our defences to take over this country. Threatened with $7000 fine to carry out costly bureaucratic planning before allowing an Anzac march – are any of these officiousals actually NZrs? WTF. This is a perfect example of how we have been beaten; despite winning the war we lost the battle.
Interesting news:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/560191/six-shipbuilders-shortlisted-to-deliver-new-cook-strait-ferries
Ferry Holdings has met with all shipyards virtually and shipyard visits are planned over the coming weeks, with Ferry Holdings represented by our Ship Programme Director.”
The company has also made advisor selections for the ship procurement process.
These are naval architects Knud E Hansen, OSK Design for ship interior design, maritime lawyers Holman Fenwick Willan and shipbrokers BRS Shipbrokers.
Mackenzie said that the company was recruiting for a chief executive.
I think that Winston himself should take this position. A very suitable one for him as he retires from his pollie career. He would be able to prove what a good manager he is in a practical way.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/560181/moving-towns-4-stories-of-communities-facing-relocation-show-the-complex-realities-of-managed-retreat
This is important for NZAO – we should be managing this in practical systematic ways – how are we doing?
Social problems – can the govt manage their task of running systems that enable people at various levels of society to improve their situation?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/560139/how-nz-s-bank-rules-make-life-for-ex-prisoners-even-harder
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/country/560244/renewed-calls-for-cat-bylaws-as-feral-numbers-surge
Good research. Points to a need for controls on cats. People who think are calling for sensible laws. Are the gummint ready to pass sensible law – maybe the one useful thing they have done in three years.
Apart from saving us and our economy by putting Winston on to the ferry measures that is. Clutch a Winston dolly to your bosom when you go to sleep – the new comfort Teddy.