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As we get poorer in money, conditions, and larger in amoral and immoral behaviour of society all over the world, this is how it will be. Is now in some places. The police attitude to murdering people who are not prized – in the USA – is part of the scenario.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMAesK7UXhs
How Drug Trafficking destroyed this Popular Video Game
Care for our fellow human – man or woman is essential in this machine age. Knowing that humans are malleable, we can be bent to behave like machines, build machines along those lines, and then have the machines dispense our rules and controls and life-giving and supporting community needs to all according to their need.
But from NZ Politics Daily – Monasterio has told RNZ: “Increasingly, psychiatric care is being defaulted to prisons. Prisons in New Zealand have become the new psychiatric institutions”, and he regards this as not just unethical, but also unlawful. And he’s reported as believing that “conditions faced by mentally ill prisoners are comparable to the notorious Lake Alice Psychiatric Hospital”. ..https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGwJmHqHWQkkcWMlGCXcBJMgMJG
Remember – Martin Niemöller (1892–1984) was a prominent Lutheran pastor in Germany. In the 1920s and early 1930s, he sympathized with many Nazi ideas and supported radically right-wing political movements…He spent the last eight years of Nazi rule, from 1937 to 1945, in Nazi prisons and concentration camps. Niemöller is perhaps best remembered for his postwar statement,* …
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/martin-niemoeller-first-they-came-for-the-socialists
*FIRST THEY CAME By Martin Niemöller
First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews And I did not speak out Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me And there was no one left To speak out for me.
We aren’t incarcerated in prisons now but some are. And as the control of society tightens it casts its sticky net wider. Eventually ‘they’ will come for someone you know or even perhaps you. Start caring now and doing what can be done before the rot spreads.
What the amoral system that has swamped the responsible and moral government; about the post office in the UK, a sainted institution. What? How?
This could happen to you. ‘They’, the amoral businessmen, could come to your door, and they are enabled by the computer, technological system that is so powerful in its effects and its spread and its cost – so failure cannot be countenanced – it must be right.
9.32 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWY-KTGBemo
It’s Beyond Contempt! Jeremy Kyle and Nick Wallis talk Post Office Scandal Inquiry.
55.49 https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=gvi7VFCL7D4
Ep,18 – The Great British Post Office Scandal – with Nick Wallis
59.02 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1QXrj4Rtlo
Prime Time with Nick Wallis Post Office Scandal Special – 10 Jan 24
I understand our long love of Trotter’s rhetoric, but reality is the life and limb of realism and the people’s cause. You will have to address him as he is now at some point.
Our real Left PR is pretty fucked up. Brought to its knees by mere material power. Versus Corbyn and Sanders.
You seem rather negative sumsuch. With all your Labour background and expertise you only seem to have complaints when you should be shining a light on the steps that the left should be taking to fulfil their proper role in society.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-inside/506861/melbourne-shows-the-world-how-a-downtown-sports-venue-should-work
Should Auckland get one of these too? What about a rule of thumb – could a venue, system, be profitable from local users only? If it couldn’t earn enough to cover costs – don’t build it.
How a reasoned governmental and even PPP system could take on big costs with the world and climate in the shocking state it is, is outrageously profligate, Cut your cloth to what can be afforded and needed, and don’t make asses of yourself in Auckland and load us all down with heavy burdens of debt for the country’s profit and loss a/c and balance sheet Ware up sweeties the nasty man wants to play with you!
Tarras Airport – certain people really really want to set it up even though the prognosis is not good for a long life, and locals and wise people think there is a better approach. No wonder Maori are getting edgy – if they don’t make big strides all the white and other coloured weasels will have denuded the henhouse.
https://www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/350137512/bribery-bullshit-and-bullying-why-plans-international-airport-tarras-have-become – so controversial.
…However, Christchurch Airport’s CEO, Malcolm Johns, saw things differently.
He believed that as visitor numbers and Central Otago’s population grew, Queenstown Airport wouldn’t be able to cope, and CIAL could get a slice of this “unmet demand”.
Christchurch Airport (which is 75% owned by Christchurch City Council, and 25% by the Government) had already lost custom to Queenstown after Canterbury’s earthquakes, and Johns wanted some of that back.
(Image: Former Christchurch Airport boss Malcolm Johns. A new airport at Tarras was his vision, but he soon left the company, and is now CEO at Genesis Energy.) Note – there is a reliance on growth, while the world actually needs to cut back on most things. But don’t let sober considerations spoil a good idea that could make money and a name for certain people.
Hip hop has spread and caught on with all the goldrush incomers here welcomed by our debauched power augmenters here in NZ. What a pity that Mr Johns isn’t signed up to be a poster boy for some male health and fitness clinic. He could earn more big bucks in that role.