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There were strong signals earlier this week from Associate Health Minister David Seymour that he plans to push for more privatisation in the health system.
Health Minister Shane Reti has told senior doctors and dentists he wants to work more closely with the private sector to cut waiting lists – but insists that is not a step towards privatisation.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/535238/privatising-health-care-not-my-overt-policy-shane-reti
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/535273/dame-kerry-prendergast-wins-stoush-against-her-former-council-over-parking-ticket
Interesting and is a signpost to the problems that present councils seem to proliferate not diminish – and yet they press on regardless. Who or what teaches these people about their roles and duties in handling (or AI-ng) People and Property and Polity? Hey that comes out as PPP!
More P’s, perhaps they are more private than public in their perceptions. I’m on a P roll here it seems, and I haven’t been near any drug other than dilute coffee. Maybe I’m going potty! (Stream of unconsciousness!)
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/535258/remembering-the-lives-lost-to-illegal-abortion-in-nz
All shoule read this, the drag of unreason and manufactured respectability, ‘correctness’ and
permitted baseness of sexuality by the po-faced and warped religous can come again, along wtih all the back-dliding we are seeing as an excuse to control people’s humanity and natural dynamism.
Heavens-to-Betsy, will we revert to covering table legs as a reaction to modesty? Apparently no, it never happened, but people enjoyed the story* But let’s not revert to those old days and just control ourselves without too much let and hindrance today.
* It is said that the Victorians prudishly covered table legs to avoid causing offence.
https://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,,-1324,00.html
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/535267/notre-dame-rises-from-the-ashes
‘Project of the Century’??? No, peace and restoration of the Palestinian nation on a piece of land with fresh water access and sea access, which are rational and practical requirements for adequacy, would I think be heralded as the great achievement f religious significance, not beautiful soaring stonemasonry and decoration which objectively are vainglorious religious edifices.
Further what the French Christian religious did to other Christians, the Cathars, for thinking ‘outside the square’ about religious concepts and belief, their notion of spirituality, is frightening. The history of the treatment of the Cathars* is shocking. The Revolution’s call for Liberty, Equality and Fraternity (1787-1799) had a background of serious violations against decent human practices behind it. Not beautiful buildings are most important, but beautiful thoughts and kind, practical actions to helpless people and animals would show true human collaboration and religious devotion to a good soul.
Just a thought, let’s not go back, halt the downward slide, and empty our minds of destructive perturbation in quiet meditation, then open and fill them with practical and useful ideas to bring about balance and manage the future better.
*…Followers were known as Cathars or Albigensians, after the French city Albi where the movement first took hold, but referred to themselves as Good Christians. They famously believed that there were not one, but two Gods—the good God of Heaven and the evil god of this age (2 Corinthians 4:4). According to tradition, Cathars believed that the good God was the God of the New Testament faith and creator of the spiritual realm…
Denounced as a heretical sect by the Catholic Church, its followers were attacked first by the Albigensian Crusade and later by the Medieval Inquisition, which eradicated the sect by 1350. Many thousands were slaughtered, hanged, or burnt at the stake, sometimes without regard for age or sex… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catharism
Scooters as an economic loss – just like neo-liberalism I think. So watch, listen and learn with a receptive mind. You may have to take up farming who knows if you don’t think,
absorb and contemplate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91Oyd7zK1bk
The Baffling Economics of Scooters
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Emboldened by the low interest rates and mainstream tech hype in 2010s, VCs crowed that dockless scooter sharing would disrupt walking. Scooter startups like Bird and Lime took a page right out of Uber and Airbnb’s playbook – move fast, break things, and ask for forgiveness, not permission.
Overnight, scooters were dumped onto the streets of every major city. They piled up on sidewalks, blocked traffic, and caused deaths around the world as people flew down bike lanes, walkways, and roads without helmets. There was no real moat in the software or hardware. Yet while municipalities all around the world were still trying to figure out regulation, VCs had already come up with a grand name for this new market.
Micro-mobility would reshape cities where people would use these affordable, convenient, environmental, dockless scooters for trips under a mile – thus solving urban congestion. Silicon Valley heavyweights like Andressen Horowitz, Sequoia, and Accel plowed millions into scooter startups and made sure the world knew of this brilliant future.
Now fast forward just 4 years and this micro-mobility future has been completely forgotten. Most scooters have ended up in landfill and the few companies still operating remain under intense regulation. Scooters have been disappearing not just in the U.S., but across Europe and Asia where cities are cracking down. In this episode, we’ll dive into the ridiculous business of micro mobility through the finances of the now-bankrupt market leader Bird, the now defunct JUMP and SPIN.
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Scare tactics on sex again. It seems that modern humans want to keep our natural bodies and procreation as the monster indefinitely. We have been battling this evil sex thing for decades/centuries!
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https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/535292/breaking-the-spell-book-gifted-to-schools-urges-children-to-speak-up-on-abuse
A book aiming to break the culture of silence surrounding abuse will be gifted to every primary school.
The Wolf and the Hocus Pocus by New Zealand author Avril McDonald teaches children to trust their instincts and speak out if something is wrong.
With funding from the Wright Family Foundation, the book will be sent out with a guide to help teachers.
The book was launched in April by Governor-General Dame Cindy Kiro as part of a broader campaign – supported by Life Education Trust, Women’s Refuge and Save the Children – to break the culture of silence around sexual and other forms of abuse in New Zealand.
There are other ways to handle problems about sexuality but we are too mentally impoverished and programmed to consider them and think things out; we cannot do this because it is wrong … or we haven’t done it before. It makes it hard to move on into an intelligent society responsive to our human gifts and proclivities.