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Step up to the mike …
Dead mall bounce.
Once known as the cathedrals to consumerism, malls all around the world are in a terminal decline.
Decades of despair for ‘desolate’ Wellington mall where ‘half the shops are now empty’
Laura Frykberg
Aug 03, 2024 • 10:00am
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/350360535/decades-despair-desolate-wellington-mall-where-half-shops-are-now-empty
Raising the dead:
Why there is no accredited body running Olympic boxing since Rio in 2020.
https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/08/04/banned-governing-body-fuelling-boxing-outcry-has-troubled-history/
To that, I would add
On the Olympics opening day, early morning – an attack on fast rail.
After the opening ceremony, people comparing a Greek scene to the Last Supper to take offence at transgender people being present – so kulturekampf (Putin head of the restored Russian Orthodox Church state proferring criticism of the liberal Weimar Republic West) .
No Russian team travelling to the games, but … the IOC inclusion policy allows IBA banned athletes.
While the word waits for omicron to become a cold virus, an iceberg A23a that separated from Antarctica in 1986 is still with us. First it attached itself to the sea-floor to create a vortex and now spins like a top, all to avoid being moved by the usually dominant ACC (Antarctic Circumpolar Current) to places where it would melt.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd168081wxvo