The Daily Blog Open Mic – 13th September 2024
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/527860/weather-live-snow-for-parts-of-south-island-power-outages-road-and-school-closures
Are we ready for predictable emergencies? Now we begin – The Big Hurt.
Knowledgable Kiwis should take note of this. (We have been used to hearing of migration as a panegyric!
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/527859/falling-migration-could-further-subdue-economy-analysts-warn
But it is a mixed blessing which we have been using as a crutch, and crutches are not needed permanently by healthy people; but we have continued with the use and faking it instead of ‘making it’. Now we have to face up to our true condition and face reality. Ouch and ouch again as we see who is going to bear the brunt! Cuts, slices …
gash slash
lacerate slit pierce
penetrate wound injure
scratch graze nick snick
notch incise score lance>>>>>
It’s good to hear from Professor Jane Kelsey on the Treaty.
Where are other strong thinking experts and academics from the past. We should look to get their ideas and opinions for the width of our thinking.
Here is something on Marilyn Waring who was a trend-setter and more.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350373495/damien-grant-mp-who-provoked-drunk-pm-call-early-election
Wonderful news, albeit it’s taken at least 8 years that I know of.
JO COTRELL (immigration lawyer and whatever else it justifies its being as a lumbering great oxen who had mates in INZ – even worse when trying to fit a uniform representing the NuZull Gummint).
I GUESS, greed and time just ran out.
Just so you know – you fucking very ergly bitch, the likes of Whetu Tangere AND others will be pissing on your grabe
The situation is rather wet at the moment. Certainly nothing to dream about.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/527908/kiwis-property-dream-scrolling-habits-revealed
About one in eight Kiwi adults would rather go online and look at houses they cannot afford than have sex, a new survey has found.
Trade Me Property said more than a third would rather browse unaffordable property listings than watch rugby and more than half preferred it to looking for a partner on a dating site.
With New Zealand having some of the least affordable housing in the developed world and fewer people living in their own houses in almost a century, Trade Me’s survey found more than half – 59 percent – of adults admitted scrolling through listings of homes they cannot afford…
There was a book called How Green was my Valley. It could have been about NZ but it was Wales. But we’re greener than them in every way I think. They are stalwart, and we are just warts. We used to be able to buy our first house with a small deposit and a State Advances Loan; families could get a pre-payment of child allowance to go towards the house deposit. But that was too good an idea for Nacts to continue. They want to leave their own stamp on the country – one with spikes in the sole. Not the ‘soul’ of course, they haven’t one.
Keep the NZ Geographic in mind as subs for Christmas. It is an embodiment of all that is good in Kiwiland.
This story poses an important question that diligent, enquiring minds should pay attention to using powers of imagination, flexibility and in discussion with all the locals and able to be paid out of the reductions in services to needy NZs. They wouldn’t mind so much if it was going to be spent on helping fellow NZs but not business corpses.
Change the tax cuts, – we are used to politicals not going through with promises and we know that effective fibs can be summoned up from the genies who will pop up when you rub some suitable part of them at Bellamys bar.
https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/new-zealands-most-endangered-town/ ?????
Read and find out. There are a few contenders I think.