The Daily Blog Open Mic – 15th July 2024

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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.

All in all, TDB gives punters a very, very, very wide space to comment in but we won’t bother with out right lies or gleeful malice. We leave that to the Herald comment section.

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6 COMMENTS

  1. If someone on welfare misses a phonecall from an msd case manager, then they may face sanctions.
    But doing loud tasks like mowing or vacuuming, will stop someone hearing their phone. This is just commonsence.
    Advice to expect the msd phonecall should be sent by text message in advance, is only fair from a govt that’s currently increasing unemployment through its policies in the public and private sector, and have not stopped working visa holders immigrating into NZ to compete for work. This is also commonsence.
    Also relevant is whether govt targets being used in the public sector, will include targets for persons on welfare being santioned. If so then maybe a second or third Waikeria should soon be contemplated.

    • I’ve been reading Catherine Cookson who wrote numerous books about how people were ground down by the uncaring system of poverty bringing disease with poor housing and lack of food etc during the 1800s industrial revolution times. One with a fairy-tale ending is The Dwelling Place and in another The Girl struggles through and survives by luck, grit and hard work. Ones with a man as main character and wartime setting are The Cinder Path and The Man Who Cried. They are available on Trade Me quite cheaply sometimes, and one or two may cost less than the postage. But stories worth spending on. https://www.bookseriesinorder.com/catherine-cookson/

      I think NZ/AO is becoming similar to the late 1800s. It is sad to see and note how comfortably-off people are quite unconcerned about the harsh practices now prevalent in this country.
      All the following adjectives could be applied. More people should be determined for change to better conditions and opportunities.
      What a dire list – and all applicable to us:
      cruel severe savage barbarous
      despotic dictatorial tyrannical tyrannous
      ruthless merciless pitiless relentless unrelenting
      intolerant illiberal hard-hearted heartless
      unkind inhuman inhumane unfeeling
      unsympathetic unmerciful unpitying
      suppressive stringent austere
      punitive draconian
      brutal stern rigid grim
      uncompromising inflexible
      spartan rough comfortless stark bleak desolate…

  2. Deborah Hart, the head of the zionist lobby in New Zealand, is calling for an ‘envoy on antisemitism’ (opposition to genocide of Palestinians) to be appointed.
    https://1.org.nz/call-for-the-new-zealand-government-to-appoint-an-envoy-to-combat-antisemitism/
    Extremely disturbing, given that the ‘envoy’ that the Australian government was ordered to appoint is so extreme that she even openly supported the zionist bombing of hospitals.
    https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/07/10/rmon-j10.html
    Hart recently lost a cushy government appointment where she did nothing to defend electricity consumers from inevitable increases in electricity prices caused by foreign bankers owning our electrical lines companies and producers, so there’s doubtless a lot of self interest involved there.

  4. Carers are real hard workers as a rule. There can be exceptions to the rule however. Disabled people can be nice or a bit grumpy, as a rule. All those getting care whether able or disabled can, a small minority, be da..n unreasonable, mean or hard.
    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/522213/care-worker-s-comments-amount-to-verbal-abuse-commissioner

    The Disability Commissioner will have our full attention if she is offering balanced views and bearing in mind the reality of the world for both carers and disabled. Some of the carers may be physically or mentally disabled by the actions of the disabled! The Commissioner doesn’t need to go to so much trouble with flawless makeup, mascara and bright red lipstick which men don’t feel the need to apply. We will respect her au naturel. The image reminds me of Christine Rankin.
    2001 – https://teara.govt.nz/en/cartoon/33077/christine-rankin-inquiry

    2 Hūr (July) 2001 – https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/maharey-gives-evidence-in-rankin-case/H35YPLSZ2QPH5KCE2JEPGF7KBY/
    Ms Rankin, chief executive of the Department of Work and Income is suing State Services Commissioner Michael Wintringham for $818,000, alleging political interference in his decision not to reappoint her to her position.
    Mr Maharey told the court that while he made no personal comments about her dress code, he did say the public view of the department was coloured by her personal style.
    He said he told Ms Rankin she was running the department more like a business than a public agency.

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