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Intriguing. Juliet Moses’s ‘New Zealand Jewish Council’ group’s ‘One Community Chronicle’ is now coming right out and calling Palestinian refugees fleeing genocide ‘Islamic terror immigrants’.
https://1.org.nz/silence-in-the-face-of-evil-is-complicity/
It’s a good thing someone invented that word, ‘chutzpah’, isn’t it.
Turn it on its back and what happens – haphazard? Hapless – could mean less happy!
Or dictionary meaning extreme self-confidence or audacity.
Israelis and Jewish have plenty of that, first to front up and stand tall while looking at the extremes of badness and the impacts they have felt, from the past. And second, to turn round as a religious people with pride and values, to repeat it again in a different form, always excusing themselves as being exceptional.
Unfortunately it just brings Jewish people and Israelis particularly, down to the same level as the rest of us, but from a higher eminence of worth. Then expecting we lesser beings to still feel the pain of being allied to the perpetrators by our connections, race or religion; Jewish can now feel comfortably low with the rest of us in the Looking-Glass Land. He [Lewis Carroll] wrote of an alternative universe… where things were contrary to the real world… so it means “where things are not as they should be”.
What does the phrase ‘through the looking glass’ mean? – Quora
Heavens to Betsy – an out of date phrase! Now any good thing we found useful is b….ed up and ‘so it goes’. I will end up longing to join Kurt Vonnegut who said those magic words that say so little and mean so much.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/520183/is-there-such-a-thing-as-a-thrifty-thrift-shop-anymore
What does “So it goes” mean? The narrator…
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A belief that one ultimately lacks free will in life, death, events, and everything that happens in one’s life. One must simply accept it and roll with it. One …
What Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five” Tells Us Now
The New Yorker
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13 Hun 2019 — But that is not its purpose in “Slaughterhouse-Five.” “So it goes” is not a way of accepting life but, rather, of facing death. It occurs in the …
(By Salman Rushdie June 13, 2019)
Excerpt: … the writer Philip José Farmer took a Trout story written by Vonnegut and expanded it to novel length. “Venus on the Half-Shell” is about the accidental destruction of the earth by incompetent universal bureaucrats, and the attempt by the sole surviving human being to seek answers to the so-called Ultimate Question.
In this way, Kilgore Trout inspired Douglas Adams’s celebrated book “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” in which, you may recall, the earth was demolished by Vogons to make room for an interstellar bypass, and the sole surviving man, Arthur Dent, went in search of answers. Finally, the supercomputer Deep Thought revealed that the answer to life, the universe, and everything was, and is, “42.” The problem remains: What is the question?
An honourable life; thank you Keith Locke for doing your and often our, bit for keeping true nobility and fairness to the fore in our society.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/520204/former-green-mp-keith-locke-dies-age-80
Hey I like this story. Fronting up and relying on your own spirit and goodness keeping you alert and able to carry you through with as best an approach as can be – it can take you a long way i reckon.
We could buy this guy’s book. Just reading the Radionz interview is a positive.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/520207/how-jono-lancaster-became-the-biggest-hero-in-his-own-life
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/520234/no-petrol-on-chatham-islands-barge-turned-around-due-to-bad-weather
The Chatham Islands have run out of petrol and its diesel supplies are running low after bad weather forced a barge to turn around.
Chatham Islands mayor Monique Croon said the island had been out of petrol for about a month and out of LPG cooking gas for the last three weeks or so.
“All these things are sitting on the barge currently in Auckland, unfortunately.”
While there was still some diesel available, Chatham Islanders were in urgent need of more fuel.
A barge organised to bring fuel from Auckland was originally scheduled to leave in early June but it was delayed. It set off on Tuesday night for the five-day journey to the Chathams…
Just over 600 people live on the Chatham Islands, according to the 2023 Census.
The Chatham Islands shipping company’s vessel Southern Tiare has also been in Auckland since March for its annual survey and repair work, which was taking longer than expected.
“The other problem is that many farmers haven’t had an income since March because of the delay of the Tiare so things are pretty grim for many in the community…
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Transport is chairing a working group to develop options for a shipping service that meets the long-term needs of the Chatham Islands community, the council says.
The group is made up of members from the Ministry of Transport, Department of Internal Affairs, Ministry for Primary Industries, Chatham Islands Council, Chatham Islands Enterprise Trust, and Chatham Islands Shipping
As we can’t even set up a reliable shipping service to cross the Cook Strait I think this could be a buskers festival; it would be so entertaining as the lords of organisation and practice show off their juggling.
Graeme Moore wrote in stuff in May 2023 – ‘Picton doesn’t stack up for ferries’. I can’t give you a link to google as stuff is blank page at present. They can’t make an agreement satisfactory to both and I think both are missing out. He says that the very large new ferries will have to back into their berths in Picton from a fair distance out; difficult in the difficult cross-winds that the Sounds can produce at times. He suggests that the large ferries may be better for Wellington to Christchurch with anything that isn’t going by rail. And smaller ferries will continue handling rail and other things I guess (The government promised an ‘iron bridge’ over the Strait many decades ago when they were fiddling with the transport system.)
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