The Daily Blog Open Mic – 8th April 2024

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

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    • And Daran is exactly right (as in correct). I’m not sure how long it’s going to take before people realise that ticket clippers and cost-accountant type managerialists serve no useful purpose. They’ve got away with it so far only because economies haven’t been that bad until now. Actually the GFC should’ve given us a hint.
      Now that times are getting tough for a growing number of people, the mathematics of it all that never really added up are only going to get worse. The natives are already beating the drums but the unimaginative neoliberal ideologues continue to poke the bull – masters and mistresses of the universe that they think they are. Whoar – wouldn’t wanna be in their shoes.
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      • High heels are in fashion – for women anyway. I believe that some glamour-puss broke her ankle when her shoe slipped sideways. Remember the comedian who had to give up because he couldn’t find anything funnier than the everyday happenings. It’ so Brave New World.
        Must see what he (A Huxley) thinks might happen.

        What is the difference between Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited?
        Brave New World is Huxley’s dystopian view of the future from 1932 and is fiction, whereas Revisited is a critique of how some of the themes from BNW (Overpopulation, cloning, propaganda for commercialism/consumerism, propoganda for government control, lack of free thought.7 Āku 2019
        Is ‘Brave New World / Brave New World Revisited’ by Aldous Huxley …
        quora.com https://www.quora.com › Is-Brave-New-World-Brave-Ne..

        and
        Is Island a sequel to Brave New World?
        Island (Huxley novel) – Wikipedia
        Island is Huxley’s utopian counterpart to his most famous work, the 1932 dystopian novel Brave New World. The ideas that would become Island can be seen in a foreword he wrote in 1946 to a new edition of Brave New World: If I were now to rewrite the book, I would offer the Savage a third alternative.
        Island (Huxley novel) – wikipedia.org
        https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Island_(Huxley_novel)

        Perhaps we could rename our country ‘New World Aotearoa’! Quick get the domain in hand. Never mind the supermarket – we’ll be a dupermarket.

  3. This is an example of what we can expect from people who follow the National Coalition line and if we want to keep a hgood little country going, we won’t let them get into a position of being able to set standards of behaviour, which will be dicey. Oh wait we already have. What a bummer!
    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/513732/woman-and-daughter-injured-after-car-crashes-into-barrier-at-northland-racing-event

    …It turned out Rossiter’s arm was broken and she had a concussion. She said her daughter was lucky to not have broken any bones and just had extensive bruising.
    Rossiter said she was surprised no organisers of the event had been in touch following the accident.

    “I used to work in adventure tourism and always followed up after incidents the next day, but there’s been nothing.

    “I’m pretty sore and my daughter’s bruises are horrendous, but if it had been a little kid standing where we were things could’ve been so much worse.”…

    But she’ll be right. No need to make a fuss about it; these things happen FTTT, and no-one was hospitalised and no-one killed and we are very sorry that this mishap occurred. When people come to see exciting fast racing they need to be aware that things can go wrong and take steps to ensure their own safety in case wheels come off and shoot into the crowd and so on. (The organisers of adventure sport can take that last sentence and keep it for when needed in future, no expense. Glad to be of help! Sarc/)

  4. This is the emperor’s new clothes moment in NZ polity (for this week, watch this space for further.)!! As we seem to be trotting along in the tail of events in the western society caravan then UK events may be repeated here. If they do it then we should follow on because they are so good and with-it not like us who are without-it. Wait, somehow that statement seems wrong as far as UK is concerned; though not appertaining to us.
    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/513690/new-auckland-surgical-building-cannot-open-due-to-lack-of-staff

    Reminds me of news in past like this from the UK:
    UK 2018 https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/apr/13/revealed-82-ghost-wards-1400-empty-beds-nhs-england
    UK 2022 https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/mar/03/staffing-crisis-deepens-in-nhs-england-with-110000-posts-unfilled

    Interesting info from BBC and approach?
    How much does a hospital cost UK?
    The Leave campaign put the cost of a new hospital at £350m, while Hannan put it at £600m (700 million euros). For its part, the Huffington Post writes: “Each new facility is estimated to cost £178 million” (though a 56th of £100bn is actually £1.78bn).17 Hep 2016
    Is a hospital a useful unit of spending? – BBC News
    bbc.co.uk
    https://www.bbc.co.uk › news › magazine-37383918

    Hansard – Is this straight from the horse’s mouth?
    Building an NHS Fit for the Future – Hansard – UK Parliament
    UK Parliament
    https://hansard.parliament.uk › Commons › debates › Bu…
    13 Noe 2023 — Hansard record of the item : ‘Building an NHS Fit for the Future’ on Monday 13 November 2023.

    (Seems as if some people in the know are in doubt about positivity about UK hospitals)
    New hospitals are useless ‘without the staff to operate them’
    NursingNotes
    https://nursingnotes.co.uk › … Whakamāoritia tēnei whārangi
    30 Hep 2019 — The Government claims the new investment will allow the NHS to build “world-class facilities for patients and staff for the long term”, however …

  5. Awkward again:
    https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/the-detail/story/2018933067/fuming-over-transport-policy
    But the Herald’s senior writer, Simon Wilson thinks it will do the opposite, especially once the City Rail Link is finished.

    “We’re going to have double the capacity of our train network, so many of those road crossings are going to become dangerous and will be stopping traffic a lot of the time. There’s one in Auckland where it’s going to stop the traffic for three quarters of every hour, which clearly is going to infuriate drivers,” he says.
    Wilson says it will also possibly encourage drivers to take risks.

    “Some of those crossings should close, others need to be grade separated, which means you put a bridge or underpass across the rail line,” he says.
    But this is not funded in the draft land transport GPS.

  6. Dstant, strutting MPs in tiny islands coonial enclave – unable to cope with sophissticated carry-on from great powers – News Headline – from my brain.
    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/513337/a-disgrace-families-doing-it-tough-after-government-cuts-funding-to-food-bank

    Big powers can’t cope with their own bullshit so what use is it for us to pay big attention to their advice? Oh we have signed up to trade agreements that cut off our freedoms. Is Jane Kelsey watching? What a waste of a good academic; I remember thinking the same about Marilyn Waring. Can we change our bad habits. I must stop picking my nose.

    But what about your bad habits all you who facilitate the present Roundhouse? ( I am considering the word with this meaning ‘ A circular prison, especially a small local lockup or station house.’Lock the MPs up and not let them out till they have come to some intelligent and useful agreement for the country’s real observable benefit ·’

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