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Given the amount of abuse in care that has happened, is happening, and will happen, and the propensity of our health authorities to cover it up, the Police need to have greater role, maybe by using “sting” operations to identify abusers. More must be done to increase the safety of our most vulnerable. If an animal shelter was abusing animals it would be shut down, but what about people? https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/533283/disabled-man-claims-he-was-abused-neglected-while-in-supported-living
Not police, they have lost their humanity – been watching too many police shows on tv or perhaps training with other countries on how to harden up. But should be under one of our Commissioners who are put in place to watch over and maintain good social conditions. Or turn us over to one UN rapporteur as we don’t seem to have capability to get through the kevlar curtain that surrounds the PTB whoever.
https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/news/2017/05/scientists-discover-extreme-geothermal-activity-in-south-island
How many places on the long alpine fault are suitable for geothermal power? Would developing more geothermal in the north and south island to cover peak demand, and forcing power companies to buy back power at the same rate that they sell it, ecouraging home solar – fix the lack of generating capacity in a way that’s sustainable and carbon neutral and futureproofed and negate the need for a cook strait cable? It would make NZ independent of importing fuel prices for thermal generation.
Piggy WinstonMuldoons MinWorks fast track thinkbig-2 perhaps? Project PWMFTT-2 may be good to go.
A posit worth discussion Simeon. Could it be presented in the Raw News Feed as one of practical items to draw in thoughtful discussion? Couldn’t go in the Liberal Agenda? as I think that term ‘Liberal’. has been besmirched with faeces to an unrecognisable state.
Don’t know how this works but if there is advice somewhere about this approach to bring in discussion and ideas from the informed and academics with the interested and intelligent about any matter that is basic for us and not surrounded by sensitive barriers of gender etc.etc. that would be good. Martyn? Compatriots?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/533310/tourists-car-carried-off-by-dart-river-council-ignored-risks-lodge-operator
Sorry people in tourism businesses – the country is suffering an attack of waves of people demanding views and services and amusement and comfort etc but then will be affected by climate change that comes uninvited and fiercely, which is putting the whole country at risk of fire, drought, or flood and shifting surfaces. And then there’s the big earthquake that works on a long schedule and will visit when certain conditions collide. The gummint is making hay while the sun shines, and are full of BS, and the councils closer to the real citizens, can’t afford to return us to 20th century conditions.
This quote applies. But many people cling on to past ways, ignore our present or deny it, and will leave us helpless and hapless to use our brains and skills, while we wait for our devices to let us in or out of the spaces we reside in. An electronic concentration camp in effect.
“The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there,” wrote L.P. Hartley in his 1953 novel “The Go-Between.”
Book that was 2017. What is it like now?
Yemen in crisis : autocracy, neo-liberalism and the disintegration of a state
Lackner, Helen author
Publication Date
2017 Books
Summary
“Yemen is in the grip of its most severe crisis in years. Fuelled by Arab and Western intervention, the civil war has quickly escalated, resulting in thousands killed and millions close to starvation.
YemenNew Zealandin crisis : autocracy, neo-liberalism and the disintegration of a state. (Try that for size.)https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/533361/auckland-council-criticised-over-million-dollar-christmas-tree-for-lower-queen-street
The workers in Councils are often little plutocrats in the making. We have lot control over these upstarts who seem to be competing against each other to come up with the most outrageous and expensive spending that causes rises in rates. In Auckland Penny Bright was exercised about this which helped to make her ill and die early. But nothing will shame them as they have been taught that this is the way to go at the present.
The titivating of the city in Auckland and other places creates debt for the future which will never be covered by financial returns as the world deteriorates in every way. Meanwhile politicians make sanctimonious sermons about not loading up future voters with debt from today (heard frequently from ACC), while at the same time they cut back on useful services to citizens. But window dressing for tourists and the leisured class (bringing spending money) who still have money, is done at ordinary ratepayers expense. And even the wealthier landlord class don’t want to utilise their capital returns to help pay for it.
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