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Fark!!!!
Watching the Little/McAnukty press conference in the beehive around midday.
McAnulty had just given a tribute to the volunteer fireman killed.
Next “Journalist’s” (using the word loosely): “Did your heart sink when you learned of the death …..”
McAnulty’s response SHOULD have been: “What a bloody stupid question”
Fark we have some egg rolls claiming 4th Estate membership
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/484243/completely-isolated-wairoa-only-has-one-day-s-food-civil-defence-says
Vox pop: I’ve never seen it so bad.
We never had water up to here.
I never thought that we could lose our house like this.
How am I going to feed my kids – all our food is spoiled?
All our medicines for chronic … are under water.
The phones are down.
I could row to the GPs but can’t make an appointment.
I rang the GP but can’t get in for a week.
I rang the 0800 healthline but can’t get through and my cellphone needs more money and charging.
The electricity is off so I can’t charge anything.
My firefighter neighbour’s wife is due to give birth but he can’t get to her and he’s flat out helping.
etc –
NZ has taken the worst possible path for managing itself and readiness for coping with diminishing living conditions but hey nonny noh, those not immediately affected are planning their holidays for the rest of the year.
We should have lain down in the road in front of the free market bulldozers like Arthur Dent in The Hitchhiker..and the Universe did, he would have been a Guide to future approaches! We did protest ineffectually obviously as the authorities and leaders found massive monetary reasons not to listen to Professor Jane Kelsey. She obviously needed more overseas holidays and to lighten up!
Now more money is spent on adverts showing insanely happy old tarts and bozos at retirement villages than is spent on providing solid, planned, appropriately designed and built by direct government hands, basic housing infrastructure for the people. For the people both good and self and otherwise destructive impoverished by our government’s choices of buttering up business and wining and dining the intoxicating smooth, financial phalanx with big ideas and things of all sorts. But they are buoying up the economy and the media while people with boats are looking for a place to put a buoy to anchor them to.
Could we start planning on houseboat villages on streams that have been cleaned up by swingeing fines and personal imprisonment of owners and farm managers at present overstocking and overfertilising farms????????????
Great music Cory Wong and friends and compatriots. Bright, clever, good words.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eadlsXIVf1w
Who are the musos in NZ with this vivacious stuff? We need to support them and listen to them as they pour out their obsessive creative spirits ro each other and us all respondiing to life.
Yep, they’re not bad. You should explore internet radio @Grey. And probably NPR tiny desk and various others.
Not only, but also ………
I have some alternative lyrics for Elvin Bishop’s “I fooled around and fell in love” after Idiot/Savant’s latest:
https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2023/02/climate-change-lost-decades.html
The chorus is “I fooled around and fucked around”
We’ve become a pathetic little corner of the world’s human species in many ways (I mean many living in this lil ole nayshun that punches above its weight)
Quite funny really. I’ve decided to identify as an ant
I rather like NZ praying mantis – unfortunately they are being displaced by the most robust and aggressive South African mob. Differentiated by the blue/purple patch on the inside of the upper leg.
https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/on-a-wing-and-a-prayer/
This Norwegian man Nansen did about five times as much in his lifetime as other notable people have done. Helping and admiring Russians at one time when starvation threatened 30 million, and on many bodies, writing much, and also suffering the privations of exploration in cold regions. A look at his biography amazes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fridtjof_Nansen
In 1926 Nansen was elected Rector of the University of St Andrews in Scotland, the first foreigner to hold this largely honorary position. He used the occasion of his inaugural address to review his life and philosophy, and to deliver a call to the youth of the next generation. He ended:
We all have a Land of Beyond to seek in our life—what more can we ask? Our part is to find the trail that leads to it. A long trail, a hard trail, maybe; but the call comes to us, and we have to go. Rooted deep in the nature of every one of us is the spirit of adventure, the call of the wild—vibrating under all our actions, making life deeper and higher and nobler.
There are people now, like him; are we listening to them and prepared to follow their practical steps to a secure place with values of respect?
50,000 chooks burned – horrific.
Trapped in a barn from which there was no escape, these birds were burnt alive.
The farm at Orini is owned by New Zealand’s largest egg producer Zeagold. On their website Zeagold says that ‘our modern laying farms have been designed around the best practice and technology from Europe and the UK which are at the forefront on laying hen operations’.
It begs the question as to why sprinklers and fire alarms not built into this technological masterpiece? I am a member of the public (not an egg eating one) but a member of the public nonetheless. I believe that the public needs to raise questions (and get genuine answers) around how animal-based food gets on their plates and what suffering has occurred as a result. It is a matter of public interest as many people care about animals.
Industries that make their profits from the lives of animals know that their reputation needs to be carefully managed. The term ‘welfare washing’ refers to the mechanisms industries use to obscure the realities behind production of animal products including meat, milk and eggs.
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2302/S00017/liar-liar-your-barn-is-on-fire-the-50000-hens-who-burnt-to-death.htm
There are different concerns here. Hens get eaten, and we want their eggs, and they should be cared for properly while they are alive, and be protected against fire or gassing from say ammonia. And they must have sprinklers placed and in numbers appropriate. So why wasn’t this the case for these birds. The firm is obviously incompetent and should have its licence ‘cancelled’ or doesn’t our easy-peasy, no regs, no name, no pack drill lot bothered?
MODERATOR PLEASE TAKE NOTE – Power Imbalance!
NZ politicians are naive and foolish. And the advisors and senior administrators are dangerously close to corruption. When we fell into the free market without much of a safety net we were up against greed and callousness beyond anything imagined.
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2302/S00016/corrupt-and-fraudulent-laying-bare-the-adani-group.htm
…There is nothing Gautam Adani will not do for money. In this sense, he is admirably dedicated to greed, so much so he has become its foremost caricature worthy of permanent enthronement. Mark this man’s name in the scriptures of eternity: There was nothing he did not do for the filthy lucre.
For the unfamiliar reader, the $218 billion Adani imperium, one specialising in transport, infrastructure, and mining, is vast, with far reaching feelers, prongs and tentacles that have made their mark in a number of countries. Along the way, Adani’s companies have made quite a name for themselves. Employment laws have been breached and treated with disdain. Broader human rights abuses have featured. Governments and regulators have been lied to. No environment is ecologically safe from the company’s activities, despite their assertions to the contrary...