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https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2301/S00032/end-stage-capitalism-collapsing-britain-and-the-climate-crisis.htm
Meanwhile, the BBC, that bastion of British values – not least, its supposed world-leading position as a reliable provider of news – has had its ‘sheen’ further tarnished by revelations that BBC chairman Richard Sharp has been linked with an £800,000 personal loan made to Boris Johnson, then prime minister.
A few weeks after Sharp allegedly helped Johnson to secure a loan guarantee agreement, he was announced as the government’s choice to head the BBC. Cue much recent fulmination that even if Sharp was not directly involved in arranging the loan, ‘perceptions matter’, as BBC stalwart David Dimbleby told BBC News (interview, News at Ten, 23 January 2023).
At one time, Sharp was Sunak’s boss at Goldman Sachs investment bank. While PM, Johnson met Sharp six times – more than any other non-editorial media executive; once more than even Rupert Murdoch. Also, before becoming BBC Chairman, Sharp had donated £400,000 to the Tory party.
This calls to mind part of a song from West Side Story. There is need for peace, commitment and co-operative community in a time of division, corruption and bitterness between factions. It spells out what is needed in a good democracy, and particularly so in the participatory democracy we need now. Going forward with the Westminster 2-party system is not satisfactory when the mother country shows clearly it is a hollow precept.
Make of our lives, one life
Day after day, one life
Now it begins, now it starts
One hand, one heart
Only death will part us now.
Sound boring? Let’s have a few years of calm, achievement in assisting citizens rather than business, and boringness, and then introduce the idea of having trials of new ideas if they have a good purpose and likely outcomes that provide options wished for by national, or local citizens.
I am sick of NZ government being a business agency for big and bigger business to grab and utilise citizens cherished lives and advantages, and charge us extra for everything at the same time that business is making excess profits out of our diminishing purses.
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2301/S00034/smart-homes-modernizing-your-daily-tasks.htm
Is this wise? Do we want to be so reliant, even helpless without these devices and services
controlled by distant entities – recreating a remote upper class as was in England for instance.
The implementation of multiple devices is creating homes of the future for many homeowners. 7 in 10 US households own a smart device, with 18% of homes owning more than 2. People use smart devices to replace traditional appliances, lighting, usage monitors, and security features. So what are these devices being used for specifically, and why are they so popular?…
…Another useful device that can be found in many homes today is a device hub screen. This allows access to all devices across the home including alarms, doorbells, and even appliances. Connecting all of these devices on one hub can help to complete multiple tasks at the same time without having to travel across the home..
Aren’t people even going to walk around their home, or estate?
Time for a song of warning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KItkt8niLY Ginette Reno
‘In the Year 2525, If man is still alive, If woman can survive, They may find…’
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/483269/emergency-declared-as-interislander-loses-power-in-cook-strait
Thank heaven or something that we have Bluebridge. It isn’t that I think that business is better for sure than government entities. But ‘our’ government is suffering from a malaise that could be called ‘frozen function’. Someone in a post here stated that the Interislander ferries we have bought are second-raters and they do seem to break down quite a lot. Some background for that assertion would be appreciated.
I’m a bit tired of imported junk that is spruced up to look good in clothing, jackets and purses with zips which are apparently made of putty; shoes that shed their covering like growing insects but unlike them the shoes die; some look fine from above but soles are brittle and crack across, later melting – too short lives.
Maybe the same outlook pervades the ferry market and all our busy business people are being hornswoggled; maybe too that is why there are so many foreigners running our country, finding us naive and pretentious. And now and then they rort us beautifully and get away quickly because we are too embarrassed to give them the justice they deserve. Bring back birching and the stocks I say, let’s have open justice. And perhaps too for inept or corrupt pollies, and for meretricious, overpaid administrators wherever they perch.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/483273/memorable-night-for-fan-as-bus-leaving-elton-john-concert-floods
Congratulations to the bus driver getting the passengers in Auckland carefully through the flood waters.
Demerit points to USA black police officers feeling they had to kill a black man to show who was boss. That lying down on the ground stuff is carried out too often, and very demeaning if no cause for alarm. I remember a story of black people in a car in Canada being scared about being stopped for throwing a tissue out of the car window. Small things have big consequences when there is no respect, automatic suspicion and an apparent blood lust arises.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/483275/tyre-nichols-not-seen-to-resist-memphis-police-in-video-footage
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/483278/archives-new-zealand-in-danger-of-running-out-of-space
The national archive will not have enough space to store vital records even after its new $290 million building is ready in Wellington.
The construction project is also making current storage pressures worse.
Archives NZ said it was “acutely aware” of the pressures.
These have been “compounded” because Wellington was not taking any more physical records until the new Heke Rua Archive opens, due in 2026.
Let’s face it the pollies don’t really want records of the past – there’s no money in it, or little, and no directors seats that will follow on. Anyway the records just invite comparisons, used as a measuring stick, the present is going to look blah.
Administrators and Treasury won’t care because their kaupapa is to limit spending on public entities so no good for their career advancement. And throwing out records is what pollies going forward do like Canadian Stephen Harper! You guessed it there is technology offering to solve such problems – World Wide Web etc. Records Management brings up numerous links so goggle on google.
or
DISPOSAL OF GOVERNMENT RECORDS
hawaii.gov · https://ags.hawaii.gov › 2012/09 › DI… PDF
The cost of shredding may be lessened if the shredded paper is sold as recycled paper. Page 9. 3. Incineration – Burning destroys the data. On Oahu, the H-Power …
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/canadian-scientists-open-about-how-their-government-silenced-science-180961942/
2017 It wasn’t just climate research. Rock snot, sharks and polar bears: All were off-limits during the Harper administration…
https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/4/29/15479888/harper-war-science-resistance-march-climate
https://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/vanishing-canada-why-were-all-losers-in-ottawas-war-on-data/
It’s OK @ Grey. They can send the “excess” to Trentham Racecourse and have a jumble sale. Could raise funds for an extension wing for what’s left. That is of course, AFTER they’ve paid for some “independent” policy advice from Deloittes, or EY.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/483278/archives-new-zealand-in-danger-of-running-out-of-space
Let’s face it the pollies don’t want records of the past – there’s no money in it, or little, and no directors seats that will follow on. Anyway the records just invite comparisons, used as a measuring stick, the present is going to look blah.
Administrators and Treasury won’t care because their kaupapa is to limit spending on public entities so no good for their career advancement. And throwing out records is what pollies going forward do like Canadian Stephen Harper! You guessed it there is technology offering to solve such problems – World Wide Web etc. Records Management brings up numerous links so goggle on google.
DISPOSAL OF GOVERNMENT RECORDS
hawaii.gov · https://ags.hawaii.gov › 2012/09 › DI… PDF
The cost of shredding may be lessened if the shredded paper is sold as recycled paper. Page 9. 3. Incineration – Burning destroys the data. On Oahu, the H-Power …
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/canadian-scientists-open-about-how-their-government-silenced-science-180961942/
2017 It wasn’t just climate research. Rock snot, sharks and polar bears: All were off-limits during the Harper administration…
https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/4/29/15479888/harper-war-science-resistance-march-climate
Canada fought the war on science. Here’s how scientists won.
By Chris Turner Apr 29, 2017, 9:20am EDT
https://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/vanishing-canada-why-were-all-losers-in-ottawas-war-on-data/
So watch these insidious rats educated to create new and greater havoc with our minds, chomping up our lives.
Sorry about the double-up. But then sometimes it takes repetition to penetrate our minds!
and thanks OwT, you have reassured me – Ey, Ey or is it Aye, Aye.
Happy Anniversary day Aucklanders, nonetheless. The rest of NZ is here for ya. Te Kuiti and Coromandel too. Good to have an extra day off to sort stuff eh. Hang in there everyone!
Shocking. Have we unused resources to cope with this weather and its aftermath?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300795203/slip-that-trapped-west-auckland-residents-sounded-like-an-earthquake
It’s time to arrange with Gibbs to access some of his water/land motor vehicles that must have become toys for the boys after a small production run. Then where are the hovercrafts that were around in the past? They could be of great use in the emergencies that we will continue to have. And bigger motorised scooters, quad bikes with protection for users.
If the Auckland Mayor isn’t prepared for emergencies it is likely that this sort of dereliction of duty by leaders will be repeated around the country. When Labour sold out and gained the happiness of the middle class, it opened the way to crushing discontents of the poorer class, getting poorer all the time. Those who still have a working brain and concern for fellow humans and a civilisation that lives up to its accepted meaning, and is civil had better gird their loins and press for decent, proper resources.
Times are now reaching tough and the top people will be ready to throw up their hands and say this is too hard and scoot off through their escape hatches the b…..s.
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2301/S00041/tempting-the-banksters-zelensky-courts-us-companies.htm
War is the ultimate business. Constant demand, so in the absence of trading activity, when there is depletion of assets and will, it is worth having agents stirring to keep simmering competitiveness turning into hostility. Combatants will find something to trade with to preserve themselves. No-one cares about the peeps as the followers of capitalism have turned into hypnotised material seekers, soulless, who will see a state of counterpoise as a loss or retreat.