This is what happens when a small economy is mismanaged by unfocused, uncaring incompetent governments in the new reality facing us:

https://buenosairesherald.com/economics/...evastation

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ck55l4rk8z1o

Now approaching close to goat island marine reserve.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zeala...-time.html

OpenAI Insider Estimates 70 Percent Chance That AI Will Destroy or Catastrophically Harm Humanity
"The world isnÔÇÖt ready, and we arenÔÇÖt ready."

https://futurism.com/the-byte/openai-ins...rcent-doom

Link to Reddit thread on this topic. Well worth a look, there are some clever well informed people on Reddit with interesting opinions.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comm...ance_that/

She doesn't pull any punches...

Quote:https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/06/09/anne-salmond-undermining-democracy/
Comment by Dame Anne Salmond :┬áCorruption has long been recognised as the enemy of democracy.┬á As the Greek playwright Aristophanes once said, ÔÇÿLook at the orators in our republic; once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.ÔÇØ
In New Zealand, some Cabinet ministers need to remember that they have been elected to serve the public interest, rather than those of industries involved in mining, quarrying or drilling for fossil fuels; fishing; selling tobacco or carbon farming; or former Cabinet colleagues, for that matter.
On the collusion between politicians and corporations, Adam Smith, ÔÇÿthe father of capitalism,ÔÇÖ wrote:
ÔÇ£The proposal of any new law or regulation which comes from this order ought never to be adopted till after having been examined with the most suspicious attention. It comes from an order of men whose interest is never exactly the same with that of the public, who have generally an interest to deceive and even to oppress the public, and who accordingly have, upon many occasions, both deceived and oppressed it.ÔÇØ
The ÔÇÿFast-trackÔÇÖ bill, with its history of wining and dining, campaign donations and letters of invitation, and its exclusion of community interests, is a case in point.
Although New Zealand has long enjoyed an enviable reputation for governance that is relatively free of corruption, this is in danger of being lost, as well as our ÔÇÿclean greenÔÇÖ reputation.┬á
Thomas JeffersonÔÇÖs advice is timely: ÔÇ£The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they have got hold on us.┬á It is better to keep the wolf out of the fold, than to trust to drawing his teeth and talons after he shall have entered.ÔÇØ
In New Zealand, itÔÇÖs the Prime MinisterÔÇÖs job to discipline errant colleagues, and to set high standards for integrity.┬á Instead, we are seeing in this Bill a concerted effort to roll back ministerial accountability to the electorate.

The reporter asked him about his personal fortune and this was his answer - One of Steve IrwinÔÇÖs last interviews before he died while Filming a documentary in 2006.

https://old.reddit.com/r/interestingasfu...l_fortune/

im surprised there hasnt been a thread on here about this (or i have missed it)

every move the current government makes is criticised and pulled apart by the resident left leaning posters but this party of racist grifters seems to have a free ride

just imagine if the cowboy hat got his own way and had a maori parliament what they could do for themselves.......not average maori just the elite few elbows deep in the trough

cowboy hats racist wife is a prime example of why a maori parliament should never happen

i will just sit back now and wait for the apologists to give their reasons like colonialism etc

How the hell did these destroyers get voted into power fgs.

Quote:https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/environment/5...l-auckland
"Thousands of people gathered in central Auckland have been told that they must say no to the Fast-track Approvals Bill.
The protesters - including former Green Party co-leader Russel Norman, Forest & Bird chief executive Nicola Toki and actress Robyn Malcolm - made their way down Queen Street as part of the March for Nature.
The bill will see three ministers in charge of deciding on whether major infrastructure or development projects should go ahead.
In a speech to the crowd gathered in Aotea Square, Toki addressed Prime Minister Christopher Luxon.

"This is your government, these are your ministers. Responsibility for this environmental nightmare rests with you."
The former Green Party co-leader and Greenpeace executive director Russel Norman believes the bill will be bad for the environment.
"We must stop those who would destroy nature for profit.

"The vast majority of New Zealanders - nine out of 10 people, when you survey them - say they do not want development that causes more destruction of nature."
"Expect resistance from the people of Aotearoa. There will be no seabed mining off the coast of Taranaki. There will be no new coal mines in pristine native forest.
"We will stop them - just like we stopped the oil exploration companies. We disrupted them until they gave up."
The government would be on the wrong side of history if it ignored protesters, Norman said.

Protesters interviewed by RNZ said the bill was a "dumb" decision and would take New Zealand backwards.
"It's putting ... the decision making into [the hands of] just a couple of people, " one said.
"It feels like this government's taking us back to the 1950s. It's just dumb on so many levels," said another.

Shane Jones makes it very clear that he  this govt are all about profit, with zero ceoncern for the environment.

Quote:https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/517...t-and-bird
Mining criticism is ill-conceived and the government will look at oil and gas exploration next, Resource Minister Shane Jones says.
Critics have called the government's newly released mining strategy a love letter to off-shore mining companies.
But Jones has argued it would create regional jobs, economic resilience, and meant the country was not relying on minerals extracted under poor conditions overseas.
"Sure there are a tiny group of green cultists who want to turn the entire stewardship land into sort of some tapu estate. It is already mined, it should be made available not only for additional carbon forestry purposes, but mining, and it will be."
Criticism about mining was ill-conceived, Jones told Morning Report.
"We've got a multi-source, revenue speaking, economy and mining will play a key part. Sure I've introduced the strategy, soon I'll be elaborating how we're going to reinvigorate oil and gas.
"And the fast-track legislation is going to be an opportunity to expeditiously allocate the necessary consents to expand the mining.

Former astronaut William Anders, who took iconic Earthrise photo, killed in Washington plane crash

https://apnews.com/article/plane-crash-s...b328f7c263

"Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds, --and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of --Wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung My eager craft through footless halls of air...

Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace Where never lark or even eagle flew -- And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod The high untrespassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand, and touched the face of God."

ÔÇ£High FlightÔÇØ by John Gillespie Magee Jr https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/1...d3cfb1e9b7

Not too far from what you imagine the song's based on