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The regime that rules over Ammurrica is still blocking any disclosures under FOIA about the plot by the ‘israelis’ to sink an American ship and murder hundreds of American sailors.
https://x.com/PhilPhiltourney/status/1861410460458738036#m
America isn’t wagging the ‘israeli’ dog’s tail.
I’ve been thinking of Jews lately and have started reading Thomas Cahill’s book which Penguin summarises.
The Gifts of the Jews by Thomas Cahill
Penguin Random House
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com › Books
The Gifts of the Jews reveals the critical change that made western civilization possible. Within the matrix of ancient religions and philosophies, life was …<
Full title: The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels (The Hinges of History)
In between sorrowing at present happenings we need to get more info and some more understanding which might show how to make a vital difference. Hate and disgust haven’t worked so far…..!
Confused about it all – we aren’t the first to feel so but ‘If’…
I have respect for this from Rudyard Kipling despite colonial mutterings etc.
… If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same; ,,,
The head of the Covid-19 Royal Commission of Inquiry has criticised the scale of lockdowns and vaccine mandates, suggesting they were too broad and too harsh.
Saying they should not be used as much or as stringently in the next pandemic.
Highlighting, people lost trust in public institutions due to the policy.
“The characterisation of the Government as the ‘single source of truth’ also came to be seen by some as unhelpful,” the commission noted.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/535008/covid-19-inquiry-head-asks-if-vaccine-mandates-were-too-harsh
https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360502626/live-nzs-covid-19-response-be-scrutinised-report-released-today#tickaroo_event_id=enWxm52W4xe42hwH37Tu
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/535103/omexom-picks-up-wellington-electricity-despite-northland-pylon-debacle
Was this because they are desperate and quoted low? Or was it a sense of fair play to give the losers a chance in a place where over a 70% effective system would be a win? Or do free holidays in sunny Northland away from the Beehave and Wailing Windies form part of a mutual scratch-my-back agreement?
I now know why in print departments of authorities of various sorts no longer start with capitals, but are in lower case – because they don’t count for anything with who or whatever are their superiors! The class system deja vu, all over again. And they are filling the shoes of someone while they look around for a job that pays more, in a smarter, more upmarket country? Does happen!
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/535108/inhumane-flood-victims-ineligible-for-council-buy-out-but-neighbours-are
…In a statement, Auckland council’s natural and built environments lead Craig Hobbs said it was applying its categorisation approach fairly and consistently across all homes which have opted in for a buy-out….
An Auckland family who have been hit by flash flooding say it feels inhumane that their family home is not eligible for a council buy-out when all of their neighbours will be getting one.
Brendon Deacon and his young family have twice had extreme flooding at their property, first in 2021 when they had to escape on a kayak in the middle of the night, and again in January 2023.
All of their nearby neighbours were labelled category three under the council’s buy-out scheme, meaning there was an intolerable risk to life at their properties, and they would be bought out.
But the Deacons’ home was labelled category one, meaning it was still safe to live in…
But flash flooding in 2021 took them by surprise. Water rose quickly to nearly two metres high under their house, and they had to escape in the middle of the night.
“It scares me every time I think about it.”
“We took our 1-year-old out on a kayak at 3 o’clock in the morning, in waters that you couldn’t see through and it was flash flooding. It went from knee to chest height by the time we’d got out.”…
They’re expecting us to sit in a home, without power, without water without sewerage and two metres of water rushing under your house that’s moved cars. Four-wheel-drives have landed metres away from our house … and they think it’s safe for us to sit here and wait.”..
I have to stop finding out interesting things, but time is of the essence presently I think and I must pass them on in case it is the moment for that bit of reality, or ideology to rise!
About class. I’ll add this from a page on Roman history and their culture. Social classes – have we changed much since way back when? I’m obviously lower-class. Heuh-de-heuh.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_class_in_ancient_Rome
The status of freeborn Romans during the Republic was established by:
Ancestry (patrician or plebeian).
Census rank (ordo) based on wealth and political privilege, with the senatorial and equestrian ranks elevated above the ordinary citizen.
Gender.
Citizenship, of which there were grades with varying rights and privileges.
The different Roman classes allowed for different rights and privileges, including voting rights, marriage rights, and more.
Patricians and plebeians
Further information: Nobiles and Novus homo
Traditionally, patrician refers to members of the upper class, while plebeian refers to lower class. Economic differentiation saw a small number of families accumulate most of the wealth in Rome, thus giving way to the creation of the patrician and plebeian classes. After this initial distinction, however, the divide between patrician and plebeian families was strictly hereditary, based on social status.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_class_in_ancient_Rome
Also note:
A common type of social relation in ancient Rome was the clientela system that involved a patron and client(s) that performed services for one another and who were engaged in strong business-like relationships. Patricians were most often the patrons, and they would often have multiple plebeian clients. [I think that Japanese business use this system, getting necessary work done by attached small tradespeople who are integral to the larger business. Or they did at one time.]
Patrons provided many services to their clients in exchange for a promise of support if the patron went to war. This patronage system was one of the class relations that most tightly bound Roman society together, while also protecting patrician social privileges.
[Would this be feudal?]
Increasing numbers of people coming to our country of increasing poverty – that creates problems for we citizens on the ground. That they can afford to travel, to fly, which we can’t shows the contrast. But we might get some advantage – the trickle-down authorities are forced to keep some services operative which they might like to cut out for us, in one of their budget-purse whims. We are withholding……….because you don’t deserve it, you worms! Two happenings this year have been in the news.
28/11 https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/535067/tirau-fatal-crash-vehicle-may-have-crossed-centreline-police-say (Korean group on bus in fatal crash near Tīrau – Emergency services were called to the horrific scene at Piarere on State Highway 1 at 2pm on Wednesday after a bus load of foreign tourists and two other vehicles collided on a northbound passing lane.) Note: straight road, wide and good viz seemingly.
and
19/11 https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/534242/light-plane-crashes-off-tasman-coast
and
https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/11/19/pilot-rescued-after-light-plane-crashes-off-tasman-coast/
Time: The pilot was the only person on-board when the plane crashed in Tasman Bay, 42km north of Nelson, around 7.30pm, Maritime NZ’s Rescue Coordination Centre told 1News in a statement.
Rescuers/involved 1 & 2: They were “safely winched from the water by the GCH Nelson Rescue Helicopter” before being flown to Nelson Hospital.
3 Police say they were called to the scene following a report of a light plane crash landing off the coast of Tasman around 7.30pm.
4.5.6: Rescue helicopters from Nelson and Wellington, as well as a New Zealand Defence Force P-8A Poseidon that was en route from Christchurch to Ohakea, were called to the scene. [Who pays for these turnouts or alerts? With GST? I have to pay GST to help fund gummint with everything I do.]