The Daily Blog Open Mic – 25th January 2022

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    • Good news Kheala. I hope that his mind and constitution can stand up to this Kafka like battering. He lived a short life.
      This is my understanding of what the situation has been from your informative link:
      In January last year, a lower judge who deals with extradition requests ruled that while the US had a case to prosecute Mr Assange for alleged offences relating to the mass hacking of government systems, he could not be sent from the UK to stand trial – because there was no guarantee that American authorities could safely care for him.
      Amid fears that he would be subject to extremely harsh solitary confinement conditions, lawyers for Mr Assange argued his fragile mental health meant the US would find it impossible to stop him taking his own life.
      The High Court then reversed that decision last December, saying that the US had provided good enough assurances that proved Mr Assange could be safely cared for….
      (My bold.)

  4. Taliban leaders are in Norway, meeting with reps from several other countries:
    https://www.sbs.com.au/news/taliban-hail-oslo-meet-with-western-diplomats-as-success-in-itself/c23db781-7a01-49c7-91a7-05c768fc785e

    The Taliban held landmark talks with Western diplomats in Oslo over the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, a meeting the Islamist regime’s delegation called an “achievement in itself”.

    The international community has however insisted the Taliban must respect human rights before aid can resume as hunger threatens more than half of Afghanistan’s population.

    Having accepted a controversial invitation from Norway, the Taliban were holding talks on Monday with representatives of the United States, France, Britain, Germany, Italy, the European Union and Norway.

    The closed-door discussions were taking place at the Soria Moria Hotel, on a snowy hilltop outside Oslo, with the Taliban delegation led by Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, who hailed the fact that the meeting took place as a success in its own right.

    “Norway providing us this opportunity is an achievement in itself because we shared the stage with the world,” Mr Muttaqi told reporters on Monday.

    “From these meetings we are sure of getting support for Afghanistan’s humanitarian, health and education sectors,” he added.

    • What hypocrisy.
      The international community has however insisted the Taliban must respect human rights before aid can resume as hunger threatens more than half of Afghanistan’s population.

      Everyone in the international community will have a stain on their escutcheon, and are probably brazening out many defaults. The human right of kindness from others when in need should come first.

      A lot of nations pay lip service to religion which says that eg The Good Samaritan story from the Christian bible. Which I remember when I see someone cuddled up on street seating. It is heart breaking when you put a coin in the cup and a little voice says ‘Thank you’. How many hearts are needed for nations to feel the empathy of humanity and do something for the enemy, the bloody other, who is just a more distorted version of the supposed ‘good’ side. Sometimes you have to help in emergencies – give a little – though you don’t approve. And we must know history and bring it into the present – The Irish Famine could have been prevented, but rigid cultural behaviours prevented effective aid from the British Christian countries.

  5. https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/09/doctor-found-in-breach-after-woman-waits-7-months-for-ultrasound-which-finds-rare-cancer.html
    The secrecy is blanket. This woman had no-one but herself advocating for her, as GP didn’t. We are told that and that she couldn’t get hospital treatment because of ‘resource constraints’ but then wasn’t placed on other waiting list. We are given the facts but names are withheld. Privacy is maintained, we presume improvements will be made. But where in NZ did this happen, even the location is not supplied. WTF. Who can watch the watchdogs if we don’t get the info?

    And I fear that the move to dissolve the Childrens Commissioner will result in the same sort of obfuscation. It must not happen. I think Save the Children have set up a petition on behalf of keeping this useful advocate, this champion of the vulnerable. This is a hard job, not a doddle like some appointments that bring in $1000 an hour or such for making some decision on systems.

    The Children’s Commissioner is one that acts to draw our attention to what the World authorities are saying about our poor treatment of our vulnerable. We must stop reacting to the bad news, to preventing the bad news, and rising to good levels of human culture in the 21r century, almost a quarter over. Doesn’t time fly!

    • Greywarbler Thank you for drawing attention to the nefarious attempt to dump the Children’s Commissioner. The Office of the Children’s Commissioner has been a singular and effective advocate for our children, and i assume that this is why Sepuloni is keen to destroy it.

      Replacing it with yet another time-wasting government or quasi- government committee is little more than a sick joke, and I don’t believe that even Sepuloni believes her own bullshit, even if she is arrogant enough to think that we do. I suggest that this is part of another agenda – Sepuloni the willing tool, children once more more the victims. Shame on Aotearoa New Zealand.

      • Snow White – Glad you also are concerned. And I have a feeling that there is a ‘Christian’ hard-right line behind this which keeps coming to the fore. Doing things to children because the parents are not ideal, in the observers’ eyes. If there is a panel of complacent upright citizens, fault-finders who despise the parents for some reason or reasons, they will take the authoritarian, punitive line with them which I observe seems common nowadays in dealings with the populace from government and any authority.

  6. I have favourite eating places, cafes etc where I go regularly and support staff who know me and welcome me.
    Perhaps we need to form Friends of … groups and plan to go there at least once a week, daily or whatever, so they have a core group of people to rely on. Our adoption of neoliberal economics has hollowed out small local businesses and there are fewer opportunities and basic money flowing around, with the big spending going one way and the small guys putting up a brave front and trying hard to build a regular income.
    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/460190/red-light-setting-fewer-customers-stressing-business-owners

  7. Covid it seems we are now looking at two/thre sets of figures to be fully informed. Covid new/Covid new in managed isolation/ and omricon specific within the overall total.

    25 Jan/22 https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/460167/covid-19-update-25-new-community-cases-including-10-of-omicron
    At its update yesterday, the ministry announced that there were 25 new community cases, including eight Omicron cases.
    There were also 50 new cases identified in managed isolation.

  9. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/460203/ukrainians-in-new-zealand-call-for-government-to-put-political-pressure-on-russia
    I don’r like the idea of refugees coming here and then wanting us to interfere in their wars. Is San Marco in Italy being asked to do so? Another small country like us. Most of us think like the Ukrainians. They came here to get away from their tensions and we have our own. I feel sorry for Myanmar. The Brits and others used to be stationed there when it was Burma. What can we do now?

    We should not scare each other, I mean the countries, especially neighbouring countries, with aggression and with weapons and with political pressure. We have to live as neighbours.”

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