[kj] not enough Water...it's a Total Invasion

[Brendan Quinn]

In NZ dollars (currently around .81 USD)

 

1 bedroom apt. = $I pay $320 a week for a 1 bedroom basic apartment (1300 /
month)

gasoline/petrol  = [$1.75/litre],

groceries for 1  = > $125+, I pay more like $150 plus but I weigh 95kgs so I
eat a fair bit and I eat well

fast-food combo for  =  $8.00 

brkfst. @ basic diner = $10 for 1, 

Decent non-club concert tickets = we don’t get too much worth seeing at that
level. Last gig I saw was Missing Teeth with Bongo for $10.00 cover charge.
Before that festival for $120 for a day. Other gigs = Steely Dan, The Cure,
$80 - 120 generally. 

Heineken/FostersBeer at a club = $7.00

parking - = $10-35,

ADSL internet access = I pay $60/mo.[TWCable], etc.etc.

 

And average earnings in Auckland are around $60K, with a lot on far less.
Hospo and retail staff are frequently on $15 – 20  / hr. Which is around $30
– 40K. So obviously most of them share flats or live with a partner or
parents. Tax brackets are 19% for all income to $38k, 33% between 38K and
60K, and 39% for any earnings over 60K. Fixed interest rates for home loans
are around 10%. Credit card interest is around 20 -22%. Chance of a blowjob
on a first date is pretty much below average. Practically no one has heard
of Killing Joke except for hippies like Bongo and I.

 

Anyways, I’ll take care of all outgoings when you’re all working on the
temple. Oatmeal and burlap sacking is still cheap over here.

 

 

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From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On
Behalf Of sade1
Sent: Monday, 24 March 2008 9:41 p.m.
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
Subject: Re: [kj] not enough Water...it's a Total Invasion

 


> ...we earn five eighth’s of fuck all compared to you rich cunts

overseas.....

 

 ~~ "5/8 of a law that stinks...." ~~ 

 

Buying power is where it's at. What's your cost of living in NZ/Aotearoa?

Over here [u.s./los angeles] it's:

1 bedroom apt. = $800/mo., 

gasoline/petrol  = $3.75/gal. [$1.00/liter],

groceries for 1  = > $100, 

fast-food combo for  =  $5, 

brkfst. @ basic diner = $10 for 1, 

Decent non-club concert tickets = $30-55ea., 

Heineken/FostersBeer at a club = $5, 

parking - hollywood club          = $10-35,

cable internet access = $35/mo.[TWCable], etc.etc.

 

What are some others' local cost of living? 

 


Brendan Quinn <bq at soundgardener.co.nz> wrote:

I reckon even though we earn five eighth’s of fuck all compared to you rich
cunts overseas, over time New Zealand is gonna get more and more attractive
as everywhere else runs out of food, water, energy, and pacifists. So HURRY
UP, BUY A SHOVEL AND GET DOWN HERE! We’ve got a temple to build slackers.

 


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From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On
Behalf Of woody2shooz
Sent: Sunday, 23 March 2008 11:59 a.m.
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
Subject: Re: [kj] not enough Water...it's a Total Invasion

 

hehe, last time I was in Whistler the resort was sponsored by Evian...water
water everywhee

sade1 wrote: 

 ~~ "WATER is our business..." ~~

 

  US CORPORATIONS ARE PRESENTLY TRYING TO PRIVATISE THE WATER 

IN CANADIA IN ORDER TO BUY IT AND SHIP IT SOUTH.  

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Subject: [grunder] Water will be source of war unless world acts now, warns
minister
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Water will be source of war unless world acts now, warns minister


By Ben Russell, Political Correspondent
Saturday, 22 March 2008 

The world faces a future of 'water wars', unless action is taken to prevent
international water shortages and sanitation issues escalating into
conflicts, according to Gareth Thomas, the International Development
minister.

The minister's warning came as a coalition of 27 international charities
marked World Water Day, by writing to Gordon Brown demanding action to give
fresh water to 1.1 billion people with poor supplies. 'If we do not act, the
reality is that water supplies may become the subject of international
conflict in the years ahead,' said Mr Thomas. 'We need to invest now to
prevent us having to pay that price in the future.'
His department warned that two-thirds of the world's population will live in
water-stressed countries by 2025. The stark prediction comes after the Prime
Minister said in his national security strategy that pressure on water was
one of the factors that could help countries 'tip into instability, state
failure or conflict'.
The coalition of charities has appealed for a global effort to bring running
water to the developing world and supply sanitation to a further 2.6 billion
people. It said international action was needed to prevent competition for
water destabilising communities and escalating into conflicts.
In their letter, the campaigners say: 'Tackling the water and sanitation
crisis is essential if the 'Millennium Development Goal Call to Action' is
to be a success, otherwise progress on health, education and environmental
sustainability will be undermined. Each year 443 million school days are
lost globally to diarrhoea and 1.8 million children die unnecessarily from
these diseases.
'Investing in sanitation and water brings the greatest public health gains
of any single development intervention and delivers huge economic returns.
The G8 would do well to heed the development history of east Asian countries
that put tackling these issues at the forefront of their national
development efforts.'
Ministers agree the world needs to take urgent action to avoid missing
Millennium Development Goals to halve the proportion of people without
access to safe drinking water by 2015. That target should be met, although
progress has been limited in sub-Saharan Africa.
Mr Brown's security strategy said 'rising temperatures together with extreme
weather will increase pressures on water supplies'. It went on: 'A growing
and increasingly urbanised global population will increase demand for food
and water, at the same time as climate change and other trends put greater
pressure on their supply. 
'Already well over 1 billion people suffer from water shortages and 30
countries get more than a third of their water from outside their borders.
With climate change, those figures are likely to grow, increasing the
possibility of disputes.'
Charlie Kronick, senior climate adviser at Greenpeace, said the whole of
sub-Saharan Africa, most of south Asia and western South America were at
risk of water shortages if global warming continues. 
'There is no doubt that climate change is going to be potentially the
biggest source of water stress,' he said. 'If average global temperatures go
more than two degrees above pre-industrial levels you are looking at 2 to 3
billion people potentially suffering water shortages. It's a pretty serious
business.'



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