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Lost – another brick in the wall. Great organisation of modern NZAO country for the citizens under expensive democratic system.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/567539/sounds-air-cut-flying-routes-as-costs-surge
Sounds Air is cutting two regional services, saying it’s facing ‘out of control’ costs despite strong bookings.
The airline will no longer fly Blenheim to Christchurch or Christchurch to Wānaka from the end of September.
That was after cancelling its services from Wellington to Taupo and Wellington to Westport last December and selling an aircraft.
Sounds Air managing director Andrew Crawford told Nine to Noon aviation has been severely hit by escalating costs, supply chain challenges and a weak New Zealand dollar that was threatening the viability of all regional airlines.
“In the last three months, we’ve had another half a million dollars of annual costs imposed on the business and at some point, you’ve just got to say ‘no more. We just can’t do it’,” he said….
Pre Covid, one of the avionic parts needed cost $28,000, but now the business was paying $70,000 for the same part….
Another cost was the recent hike of the passenger service levy from the Civil Aviation Authority, which he said would cost the business close to $300,000 a year.
“Where are we supposed to get that from? We’ve just got to pull that on the travelling public…
He was confident about the future of the business with its renewed focus on the Cook Strait, saying it was much more sustainable.
“The numbers we’re seeing are just astronomical. We used to do four flights a day in and out of Nelson, I think on Friday, we did 12. The demand is there, people are flying and these are cheaper aircraft to maintain.””…
Arise Church this is in NZAO.
‘Prosperity?’ Church misbehaviour report prepared using AI. Very long and detailed that could be a sort of promotion for what appears to be a bad sect manipulating trusting people who are a bit too soft. Worse than Gloriavale. But in new Tarnished NZ they can flourish for a while then move on no doubt.
‘The Scandals of NZ infamous Megachurch – Arise 50.38 Recent. Looks like a rock concert really.
Deep in the heart of beautiful New Zealand lives something ugly… A megachurch culture that modeled itself after Hillsong, complete with bright lights, slick branding, and services that felt more like a rock concert than church. Arise Church, along with its pastors John and Gillian Cameron, would leave a trail of over 500 victims in its wake, causing a mass exodus, with the lead pastors and their henchmen stepping down.
You can look up the link yourself.
https://businessdesk.co.nz/article/law-regulation/arise-church-on-notice-after-charities-probe
Eighteen months after investigating scandal-ridden Arise Church, the Department of Internal Affairs Charities Services found insufficient evidence to support a finding of serious
(Note that this site wants payment for these two lines from 2024
Jan. 2023 https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300784757/investigator-who-conducted-review-for-arise-church-left-with-20k-in-legal-bills.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuiGbeNUbrE 3m
NZ mega church accused of mistreatment towards interns and volunteers
1News 2022 approx
2022 https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/470770/temporary-non-publication-order-placed-on-arise-church-review
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/567561/great-rides-need-double-the-money-to-keep-running-smoothly
This should come out of the tourist charge being adopted, plus some from John Key to keep his favourite areas open – it’s his baby.
Interesting and important.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/567371/new-zealand-first-s-cash-transactions-protection-bill-what-it-is-and-what-it-could-do
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2507/S00040/the-polycrisis-is-not-political-and-national-its-psychological-and-spiritual.htm
The human crisis isn’t political and national, but psychological and spiritual. Its remedy will never be found at the superficial level of “resistance,” protest and marches, but in a revolution in consciousness, beginning within the individual.
One starts with negating the feeling, “my country.” It’s not difficult to never think or say “my country” again….
Like the perpetual ground of death, creation and love, insight has no time. There’s no choice now but to bring about a creative explosion of insight in human consciousness, beginning within ourselves.
If insight does not ignite the dark matter of collective consciousness at this juncture and change the disastrous course of man, the alternative for the dwindling number of inwardly alive individuals is to remain alive by growing in insight, and work for the future of humanity…if we have one.
Martin LeFevre
I’m trying to be inwardly alive – how do you feel about it in your mind?
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