The Daily Blog Open Mic – 2nd November 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.

EDITORS NOTE: – By the way, here’s a list of shit that will get your comment dumped. Sexist abuse, homophobic abuse, racist abuse, anti-muslim abuse, transphobic abuse, 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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  2. China and other ancient countries of the East =- so interesting and we know so little of them. (Do we all know about *Rewi Alley who took the road less travelled? Hah!)
    I’ve been reading Robert van Gulik’s books based on ancient wise justice/politician called Judge Dee in English. He recalls the time of Empress Wu 6-7th century and refers to writer Lin Yutang, who sounds interesting for those who want to widen their intellectual spectrum.
    (Lady Wu a True Story by Lin Yutang – Heinemann 1957)

    Lin Yutang (born October 10, 1895, Longxi, Fujian province, China—died March 26, 1976, Hong Kong) was a prolific writer of a wide variety of works in Chinese and English; in the 1930s he founded several Chinese magazines specializing in social satire and Western-style journalism.6 Oke 2024
    Lin Yutang | Philosopher, Translator, Humorist – Britannica
    Britannica
    https://www.britannica.com › biography › Lin-Yutang

    * Rewi Alley
    New Zealand China Friendship Society Inc
    https://nzchinasociety.org.nz › … Whakamāoritia tēnei whārangi
    The most famous New Zealander in China – Rewi Alley contributed perhaps more than any other foreigner to the Chinese revolution.

    Another good European who was drawn to China and became greatly involved in loyalty to that country. (Gladys chose to become a Chinese citizen I think.)

    Gladys Aylward
    Wikipedia
    https://en.wikipedia.org › … Whakamāoritia tēnei whārangi
    … China, whose story was told in the book The Small Woman: The Heroic Story of Gladys Aylward, by Alan Burgess, published in 1957. The book served as the …

  4. Some of you weren’t born when the big switch from government to private enterprise began.
    But when the first electrical supplier came into my life I got a glossy pamphlet extolling the virtues of electricity.

    Later on I got an elaborately folded one on how social welfare worked. Something like this:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVmX-LFuv18

    Auckland promoting itself at great cost has the same ludicrous self-promoting fantasising behind it. When all else seems to be failing, think of something startling that costs money etc….
    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/532691/auckland-council-agency-spent-737k-on-campaign-to-boost-positivity-about-city

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