Pasta News Network - New Zealand

Donations to charities are being hit by the rising cost of living, KidsCan says, and it is worried its ability to help children will be affected.

In 2022 the Aotearoa charity fed 49,000 children a day and had an increase of 10,000 more tamariki that received assistance, as well as recording its biggest drop in donors in the past 17 years.

KidsCan founder Julie Chapman said the charity was struggling to fill the gap and there had been less new donors signing up.

Inflation was also affecting the organisation's ability to provide help.

Your tax dollars hard at work: We cannot feed our own kids, but we can prioritise sending millions to Ukraine

Tourism New Zealand is shifting its sights to the long-term recovery of international tourism here, after a focus on domestic marketing due to disruption from the pandemic.

The organisation branched into domestic marketing in 2020 when international tourists were cut off. And while its staff expected to continue to market domestically, they would widen their scope this year.

Tourism NZ chief executive René de Monchy said international tourism was bouncing back quicker than expected.

Optimistic news atleast. Still no one discussing what New Zealand would do without ongoing tourism. If things keep up, it is not going to be cheap to fly to Middle-earth in the near future.

An Ecuadorian man has legally changed his gender in a bid to win custody of his children from a legal system that he says “punishes” fathers. Transgender activists responded with outrage.

Rene Salinas Ramos officially became a woman on December 30, he told La Voz del Tomebamba, an Ecuadorian newspaper. Salinas Ramos, who hasn’t seen his two daughters in five months and claims that they live in an abusive environment with their mother, said that the decision to become a woman was born out of frustration with the court system.

“Being a father in this country, Ecuador, is punished and seen only as a provider,” he said. “Now that I am a woman, I can be a mother and I am on an equal footing to fight for the parental authority of my daughters.”

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Victorian activists are insisting that Christians should be banned from renting public spaces for worship services because their views on homosexuality are at odds with local council diversity and inclusion commitments.

The argument goes like this:

The City of Stonnington in Melbourne’s south east has signed up to an LGBTQ+ inclusion plan.

Their decision to sign the Local Government Rainbow Pledge a couple of years ago was promoted with great fanfare all over social media.

The councillors – elected to ensure bins are emptied and potholes are fixed – promised to fly the rainbow flag, create an LGBTQ+ advisory committee, create an LGBTQ+ action plan, and participate in the annual LBGTQ+ Midsumma festival.

So far, so wonderfully inclusive.

Two things:

• You cannot reason with an ideology.
• Melbourne.

Like all false prophets shaking their fist at the sky, his gimmick is a type of fear that only has to last long enough for a coin to leave a passerby’s hand – or in this case, a book to fly into someone’s online shopping cart.

Far from admitting defeat when humanity stubbornly failed to collapse, Ehrlich is back ranting that the next few decades of history ‘will be the end of the kind of civilisation we’re used to’. His proclamations were eagerly repeated by media organisations addicted to calamitous clickbait.

‘For the entire planet you’d need five more Earths, [it’s] not clear where they’re going to come from’ because humanity is ‘feasting on resources’.

A fine collection of red pills again proving that fear is a powerful weapon.

Worth reading in full.

The New World Order nobility may be receiving more roadblocks for their plans than they had anticipated. The entire scam is based on the ignorance and complacence of the great mass of people in the western based economies. Control of the West is essential for world domination. We are the source of wealth and innovation which makes it imperative. The new platform has begun to get rickety with energy problems, war and civil strife bubbling to the surface.

The money shot:

All international schemes have revolved around the US for 100 years because of our ability to fund any type of debauchery.

Not much of a New World Order when everything is in chaos, unable to be paid for, low on human resources and broken.