The Daily Blog Open Mic – 24th September 2023

Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.

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Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.

The Editor doesn’t moderate this blog,  3 volunteers do, they are very lenient to provide you a free speech space but if it’s just deranged abuse or putting words in bloggers mouths to have a pointless argument, we don’t bother publishing.

EDITORS NOTE: – By the way, here’s a list of shit that will get your comment dumped. Sexist language, homophobic language, racist language, anti-muslim hate, transphobic language, Chemtrails, 9/11 truthers, Qanon lunacy, climate deniers, anti-fluoride fanatics, anti-vaxxer lunatics, 5G conspiracy theories, the virus is a bioweapon, some weird bullshit about the UN taking over the world  and ANYONE that links to fucking infowar.

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  1. UK human right amended rules on schools and transgender issues.

    Schools must provide changing rooms for pupils based on sex at birth
    The equalities watchdog also said schools will not break the law by refusing to call children by chosen name or gender
    https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/schools-must-provide-changing-rooms-for-pupils-based-on-sex-at-birth-p6sfmd3mz

    “It makes clear for the first time that schools are not necessarily required to follow the wishes of a pupil who wants to be treated as a member of the opposite sex. It has also clarified that “sex” is binary and “determined by what is recorded on their birth certificate”.”

  4. My attention got caught by this heading. Can Wellington go bankrupt?
    https://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=155355 Sept.22/23

    …But let’s go back in time a way and travel to California, to a city called Stockton. Because there are some interesting parallels between that city and Wellington, including its size, at around 300,000 people. Stockton declared bankruptcy in 2012 and became a case study for what some said was “extreme financial mismanagement.”

    In the climate of a rising housing market, Stockton went on a shopping spree. They spent money on large projects to try and increase their profile and “transform” the city. …
    (Sounds familiar so far.)
    A sports and concert arena was constructed to “revitalise” the city. They built it, but it ended up losing money. A high-rise was purchased for the new City Hall, significant money was spent on sprucing up the riverfront, again, mostly via increased borrowing.
    When the housing crash occurred, it hammered the city. People were walking away from houses, homelessness and crime increased, health care dropped, and the rates fell away consequently. Eventually, the city declared bankruptcy.

    When we look at Wellington, we see a Council addicted to spending. And not necessarily on the priorities. Worse, all the projects seem to go over budget, sometimes significantly. A new convention centre, bailing out Council-owned organisations, funding the WREDA machine, the town hall, the library rebuild, and other significant projects. Skate parks, playgrounds, swimming pools, and more.

    Unconnected to Wellington, our Mayor Nick Smith, ex National MP for Nelson, in a column to the citizens on 7 June 2023 on the Waimea Dam recently finished in the Top of the South, reported this:
    It is disappointing but not surprising this project has cost $200 million, double the estimate. Every major infrastructure project..as Transmission Gully in Wellington, Central Rail Link in Auckland. and the Christchurch Stadium has similarly gone over budget.’

    He helped to secure $43 million from Central government as Environment Minister. Nelson CC also contributed $5 million, not much I think), the major amount being provided by Tasman District Council. He also said ‘Our region does not have a shortage of water, we just need to have the good sense to store the huge winter flows to use in summer.’ He points out that horticulture earns over $300 million per year in the region.

    Water being sold overseas by politicians in NZ/AO is a way of stripping the country of its resources. Jenny Shipley is said to have had connections with extraction of water by business for sale. So a dam costing more than the area could afford, plus its construction hit supposedly unexpected problems with soft? rock that required extra work, may have made a bigger development than was required for the stated purpose.

    Lastly a warning video about Mexico and the relationship that CocaCola has with it.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr4ll48MU_k
    Their consumption is amongst the highest, and some places don’t have access to good, unpolluted drinking water at all. Diabetes is rising. Don’t we in NZ/AO have some similar difficulty with drinks going to children and rotting their teeth? Have you, or your acquaintances said why should we fluoridate the water – it’s not healthy and those who need it should take fluoride tablets or just drink plain water? It sounds reasonable until the scale of the problems facing poor families is considered, and also that people become accustomed even addicted to the drinks. Remember, coffee and tea are also very popular and could be said to be addictive. Anyone can develop a taste for something, so those wanting soft drinks should not be scorned.

  5. Modern technology – if it works for you that will be on,ly for a limited time till the PTB make changes they will try to tell you are for your benefit!
    Going onto TradeMe site
    Search for John Christopher in books – choose young adult fiction – fairly clear I think.
    Get
    1st listing John Flanagan
    2nd Christopher Paolini

    Out of 20 listings only one at 6th in order is John Christopher’s The Tripods – the rest
    mostly John Flanagan.
    Disappointing when it used to be better.

    Yet if I search for M C Beaton, where I put the full stops can make a difference between a 0 return when there is 60 when I adjust my presentation of the name.

  6. Can we get people excited about the election and the sad condition that we are in with not having had a plague, which has left us distraught and hating the government that has prevented the country from having to put crosses on our front gates to communicate with the healthy? world??

    What is the story behind Oberammergau?
    In 1633, Oberammergau was struck with the bubonic plague, and many people died. The townspeople vowed that if the deaths would stop, they would perform a Passion play every ten years to show their appreciation for God. The plague ended, and the townspeople fulfilled their vow.
    Oberammergau Passion Play: A Brief History | AJC ajc.org https://www.ajc.org › OberammergauPassionPlay › History

    Let’s do a sort of Oberagammau – call for the populace to meet in the streets before the election on next Sundays with buskers and singing and generate community brouhaha and geniality and solidarity. And if we get through this election with some hope of not being thrown to dragons, we will organise regular ones and celebrate that we can still come together and we will make it fashionable to live plain and simply and as happily as we can, without drugs, and being fair to all. Oh great, come off Cloud 9; but couldn’t we actually try to make this happen instead of being sad-sack Kiwis. Kiwis ought to sue the country for giving those birds such a bad press!

  7. We can only keep excitement and interest going for a short time these days – the 10 second attention span? Now RNZ has to drop its coverage of Covid19 as a service to the public. Interest has dropped off, we are not excited any more; even with 3500 cases in a week and double figure deaths from it. Now if you want to keep track you are told to bookmark it.
    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/450874/covid-19-data-visualisations-nz-in-numbers
    *From 1 September this page will not be accessible from RNZ’s homepage but will continue to be updated daily – please bookmark it

    The informed medical people are keeping an eye on Covid thank goodness. There is in addition, a new variant. How modern to keep producing a new model. Can we be sure it hasn’t been released by the big pharma houses! Conspiracy!!
    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/498646/new-covid-vaccines-may-arrive-too-late-for-latest-variant

    For full information try https://www.tewhatuora.govt.nz/our-health-system/data-and-statistics/covid-19-data/covid-19-current-cases/
    In Case details – Number of active cases: for past week of the report there were 2478-3091 which includes some probable cases of 613.

  10. Our situation here in NZ as well put by Paul. There are many individual things, so good to get the overall picture in our minds.
    https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2023/09/01/so-little-to-defend-so-much-to-punish/
    Paul September 3, 2023 at 10:35 am
    Labour’s failings with 50.1 shine a light on the obstacles to real change in NZ.
    They are just elected as laypeople project managers. They are reliant on “experts” and bureaucrats to formulate and deliver results.

    However this establishment is traditionalist and captured by its own self-interest, which it sees in following the lead of its global influencers of corporates funders, thinktanks and their peers – other Western governments captured in this mesh.

    When the risk/choice is between doing nothing or doing something that their PMC and “experts” tell them will fail, or will make fail – there is not difference. Safer to go with tiny wins the permanent state lets them have, that satisfy the optics, and keep the architecture of systematic owner-class exploitation intact.

  11. Such an interesting lucid interview with this dedicated and fit scientist keeping – along with others – the Fiordland area’s udaria? seaweed infestation under control. Hand weeding underwater – what a feat.

    And they are thinking cleverly and positively, apparently it is very hard to get rid of, very fertile. But it is an edible one also called wasame or something and properly dealt with it could be onsold to restaurants. But they are also thinking of the human factor; if they get a market going to produce funds to keep it under control, they don’t want smart alicks coming in and setting up ‘gardens’ to sell and so spreading it. Lots to think about, one admires this dedicated smart thinking. And of course must be kept under NZ control and in a trust so sods not dedicated to NZ but profit don’t get involved.
    https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018908083/the-scientific-diver-removing-undaria-by-hand

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