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PayPal cancels UKs Free Speech Union:
https://www.gbnews.uk/gb-views/paypal-shuts-down-accounts-of-free-speech-union/369374
Once the gummint give an agency a Maori name, do they then wash their hands of any responsibility for serving the public?
Waka Kotahi and others (Oranga Tamariki) become a f’orce of nature’ apparently rather than of modern effective structure doing their task of looking after roads. It’s all Hitler autobahn stuff with them is it?
Now large potholes big enough to disable cars on much used main roads.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/130049920/mum-toddler-stranded-in-dark-as-pothole-
carnage-returns
A mother and toddler waited two hours in the dark amid heavy rain with two flat tyres after hitting a pothole on a stretch of highway that sparked traffic chaos two days earlier.
Fortunately, Eduarda Massa was driving over the Kaimai Ranges at 5am and stopped to help out the stranded duo.
Massa herself hit a pothole on the way, but it did not damage her car.
Another Maori name to an institution that hasn’t performed well.
A statement from Te Whatu Ora MidCentral interim district director Dr Jeff Brown said “the passing of a mother and her baby” were tragic events, and officials were in contact with the woman’s whānau.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/475936/pregnant-woman-died-at-hospital-after-admission-to-icu-delayed
A heavily pregnant woman in her 20s and her unborn child died at Palmerston North Hospital after the woman’s admission to intensive care with sepsis was delayed…
She arrived at hospital in the early hours of the morning one day in February of this year with signs of severe sepsis, but wasn’t admitted to the unit until the early evening despite it being clear to staff she was likely critically ill.
She died later that night.
Coroner Meenal Duggal is investigating, and the death comes amid concerns about the workplace culture at the intensive care unit…
Meanwhile, RNZ has been told there are concerns about a culture of bullying and intimidation at the Palmerston North intensive care unit.
Earlier this year one staff member launched a survey about this, but management put a stop to it.
Brown said the survey was not authorised by the chief medical officer.
“Many staff were upset by its content and what they felt were leading, unfair questions, and passed on their concerns to the district director and the chief medical officer.
How can things be improved when concerns are not followed up; when no-one in power wants to know?
I don’t trust NZ government of either stripe in their moves to change structure to bring Maori to the fore; the co-governance will not work with appropriate co-operation and responsibility being taken. Maori wil be loaded with the perception that they are in co-governance with ascendance because of the Maori name of the entity. If anything goes wrong Maori will not want to assume fault, pakeha government or agencies will have devolved power to some cardboard agency, and we will be stuck not being able to hold anyone or anything to account.
The whole matter is a disaster to contemplate and there are signs at this early stage of the track we will travel along. Our positive expectations of goodwill of Maori guiding the present system in a better direction and Maori goodwill expectations of that being so, will be destroyed beyond repair. I do not consider I am exaggerating. The pakeha neoliberal take-up is based on hypocrisy and theories and computer modelling with limitations on inputs into the data used. And ideas have permeated the good practical sense of Maori advisors and those who profess to be sensitive to the concerns that arise in our particular epoch.
We were warned that hospitals would come under stress from covid and so they have. Problems were inevitable but it was hoped vaccinated people and limit the medical needs. On top of covid the RSV thing hit children and some oldies, along with some influenza cases. And the government is reluctant to spend much on people rather than infrastructure such as roads etc. but hours are up, stress is up, and salaries are steady, but inflation is up. The money from taxes is being funnelled into vanity projects and more roading. What about roading having to pay for itself from tolls? Could that be done, giving a cost signal but giving back to schemes that limited vehicle use somehow, maybe? That trained young drivers, helped them get a licence, and that be a first step to jobs, a path to follow for adrenaline-rich, pocket-poor and skills, and job-pathway poor.
Back to hospitals etc.
This was happening in 2018.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/475975/whanganui-man-had-to-have-leg-amputated-after-lack-of-coordinated-healthcare
A man who went to hospital eight times with an ingrown toenail ended up having his leg amputated.
The man, in his 60s, visited Whanganui Hospital eight times in three months for an ingrown toenail between June and August 2018.
An investigation by the Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner Dr Vanessa Caldwell found Whanganui District Health Board, now Te Whatu Ora Whanganui, failed to co-ordinate over his care….
Now in Auckland
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/475974/wait-to-see-gp-taking-up-to-six-weeks-college-of-gps-says
Emergency Departments July and on –
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/473012/patients-waiting-up-to-seven-hours-at-christchurch-hospital-ed-clinical-director
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2018846554/unprecedented-stress-chaotic-emergency-depts-overcrowded
Radiology
Sep.28/22 https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/475641/radiologist-warns-unreliable-it-systems-interfering-with-ability-to-diagnose
Sept 22 https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/475278/radiology-chief-takes-tougher-stance-on-ownership-changes
Radiologists say their sector is in “turmoil” amid profound ownership changes and a fight with surgeons buying up stakes in private scanning practices.
The sector’s president has emailed colleagues to apologise for appearing to go easy on the surgeons in an earlier interview with RNZ.
“I made comments that could have been better expressed and when selected comments were quoted, this proved most unhelpful.
“I apologise for any and all offence this has caused members,” the head of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists, Sanjay Jeganathan, wrote in an email seen by RNZ.
He, the college and the sector are showing the strain from a fight triggered by what Jeganathan called investor “frenzy”
August 22 https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/473734/bullish-investors-pour-1b-into-new-radiology-services-in-a-year
Now this was a special three-for one ideas (I think) comment available to all keen, innovative, and community concerned people. Because everything is connected. Enjoy!
Judging by media reports, potholes are a terrorist plot, cunningly planned by the tyre czars to bring in obscene profits as never before have so many tyres been shredded by so few potholes. As someone once said We live in a pluvial country, it rains and combined with the fact we have poor substrates and 50 tonne trucks potholes will form.
There’s a nice little earner going the rounds at the moment with members of the team of 5 mill claiming damages for tyres and mags ostensibly caused by potholes.Drive to the conditions.
You trying to make a joke about a problem that you decline to consider seriously? What else is a terrorist plot that is being inflated with hot air?
Hovercraft? These would be useful in NZ in many ways, Where? Why?
Today, they are found primarily in military use for amphibious operations, search-and-rescue vehicles in shallow water, and sporting vehicles.
Hovercraft – Wikipedia
Alan Gibbs’ amphibians? He is the founder of Gibbs Amphibians, based in Detroit, Michigan, Nuneaton, UK, and Auckland, New Zealand, which pioneers high-speed amphibious vehicle technologies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Gibbs
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/alan-gibbs-driven-to-enjoy-life/6KIR35VNAT2XDL6T5O7EN2ZMJM/ Date? Think 2012.
A self-styled “bush engineer”, Gibbs has always had a penchant for fast cars and other big boys’ toys. Having completed three quarters of an engineering degree at Victoria University before switching to Economics, he prematurely attempted to build New Zealand’s first car, the Anziel Nova, in the late 60s.
“I’ve built various boats and cars over the years and over the last 20 years I’ve been trying to make a combination of both,” he notes.
Boasting glowing reviews from Top Gear magazine and the subject of a record-breaking English Channel crossing, the Aquada was launched with considerable fanfare in 2004.
However, Gibbs has never sold a single vehicle, withdrawing them from sale after a fellow entrepreneur’s had to be rescued after attempting to travel from Land’s End to the Scilly Isles only to be caught in a rip and dragged halfway to France. “I basically decided that it wasn’t the right product for the average person. It was frankly too vulnerable,” says Gibbs…
Not dissuaded by those setbacks, Gibbs and Neil Jenkins, his partner in Gibbs Technologies, have since turned their attention to creating a new range of more practical sports vehicles…
…There’s also military-style SUV the Humdinga, which is apparently “great off-road, fantastic in the water and can go 85 miles an hour (136km/h) down the motorway,” and the Phibian, a 30-foot-long (9m) amphibious truck, which is intended mostly for rescue purposes.
“The world today is a very dangerous place to be a manufacturer, especially in America with product liability,” he says. “Fortunately, it doesn’t apply in New Zealand because we’ve got Accident Compensation so you can’t sue somebody for hurting or killing you.
“But it’s a colossal industry in America and the risks are huge when you’re making any new product and that’ll still be true for the Humdinga, Quadski and the Phibian but they’re more readily understood. They’re basically a cross between a personal water craft and an all-terrain vehicle and people have used both of those things in the past.”
Could he as a proud New Zealander, sell a NZ state-owned company the rights and specs to one of his amphibious vehicles and they could be made here and used for rescue etc getting plenty of use as we try to recover from regular inundations, slips and you name it sure to hit big every five years in different places – which means small once a year somewhere in NZ?
More on Gibbs the consummate wealth collector.
A founding member of the Act Party, living in London has allowed Gibbs to distance himself from New Zealand’s current political landscape. “When things aren’t what you would like them to be, it’s quite good to not be there,” he says with a wry laugh.
“When you live in someone else’s country, you don’t have to feel responsible for what they do and it doesn’t get to me as much as it does when I’m in New Zealand.”…
A proud Kiwi whose descendants were reportedly the 11th European family to settle in colonial New Zealand, Gibbs left New Zealand in 1997 in order to further the development of his ambitious amphibians. However, he returns home every Christmas to spend the summer at his expansive Kaipara Harbour farm,…
A strong advocate of Rogernomics even three decades on, he is unrepentant about his role in the restructuring and selling off of Telecom New Zealand and the Forestry Commission in the late 80s. “The performance of Telecom in the 90s was stunning by world standards,” says Gibbs, who believes that the figures speak for themselves.
“Everybody should know that in their guts because communism just fell over out of its own rottenness, it wasn’t beaten at war,” he says, citing the drastically reduced workforces at both the Forestry Commission and Telecom…
He points to the example of his adopted homeland, [UK] which in just over a century has been reduced from a leading industrial power to a glorified tourist destination. “Everything here is owned by foreigners,” he says.
What a twisty thinker. He’s in Alex’s rank – cartoonist Beattie and Taylor’s financial cartoon character – finding a personally pleasing outcome and justification for all that goes. Every second thing here is now owned by foreigners, which he comments unfavourably on about the UK. A proud Kiwi who comes back to his fabulous farm once a year for a holiday, but prefers to live abroad after dabbling in our economy and society for outcomes that suit himself and his friends with similar outlooks. Outcomes and outlooks; can we now have some concentrated input into linked reflection and innovation for NZ-wide betterment, please!
The dark side of engineering standards and authorities checks and controls and protections in NZ.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/475958/family-in-six-year-battle-to-save-home-it-s-unsellable
Have a look at the image of what they did in its stark newly bulldozed state!
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/475974/wait-to-see-gp-taking-up-to-six-weeks-college-of-gps-says
This article says that we haven’t been training enough GPs for some time and now need for them is acute. This isn’t new news – so why wasn’t a wide governance system doing something about it. And offering bonded systems. There is some argument that this system is unethical I think. So why wasn’t this fairy floss argument cut to ribbons and practical measures taken?
We appear to be run with many business systems and ideas foremost. I hope that the PTB have not been running people systems on one business system called ‘just-in-time’, This has everything so well co-ordinated that out-sourced producers in touch with their suppliers have the components delivered to the factory within say 2 hours of need to go into the planned process.
I hope it is noted that people aren’t inanimate things and that proper planning and useful stuff needed is regarded as requiring advance obtainment necessitating storage or even oversupply on some occasions.
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