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I’d wish you a happy new year, but I’m not a finagling financier or politician or big corpseboss.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/environment/537984/tasmania-s-southeast-coast-glows-with-bioluminescent-algae-pointing-to-imbalance-in-marine-ecosystem
Interesting, startlingly beautiful but ultimately deadly.
That sounds like a summary of human beings!
The biologist in this article is great, a lovely earth mother look. And by the way the organism ’emits’ not omits – there is a great difference from just one letter. Words are amazing like that.
Wellington citizens couldn’t afford Christmas dinner? Well there’s an opportunity to eat your heart out by reading the doings and evadings of Wellington City Council.
https://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=166740
Replacing them
December 22, 2024 23 comments
by Felicity Wong
I’ve got an idea. Instead of electing 16 councillors from across the political spectrum, let’s donate their $120k salaries to the City Mission. It’s low compo for their putting up with each other on the Wellington City Council. Probably doesn’t pay for their therapists or addiction services and better they use the Mission’s. Plus it is
too tough to be expected to read 4,200 WCC-produced pages within seven days of a critical vote on demolishing the City to Sea Bridge
(and adopting the “draft” plan already adopted by a fourth-tier WCC manager).
Read more »….
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/537783/bay-of-plenty-water-users-urged-to-know-the-rules
Whakatane authorities being thoughtful and assisting with people care and management when they are likely to be tired and OTT.
Really good I think.
U think this link. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/537945/fatigue-stops-in-fatal-spots-aim-to-help-festival-goers-get-home-safely
Just as well the local council is concerned about safe travel for road users, if the current government was organizing safety they would probably just have a hearse and ambulance on standby.
Gosh you are thinking positive Bonnie. The government wouldn’t be seen, they would shut off the road and contain all the peeps, and then go over the ground with micrometers (or something) to get evidence of whatever while babies wailed and people peed and fathers and mothers wept as they couldn’t get back to do their jobs and earn, and might get sacked. That’s life in Kiwiland – pillories outside the palisades of principal opulence (not principle!).
RIP Senior Sergeant Lyn Fleming of Nelson. Daughter, mother, and wife, tragically murdered in this New Year. Godspeed Senior Sergeant Adam Ramsay of Nelson, critically injured in the same terrible assault.
Time for the police haters here to reflect on their own integrity with their constantly vilifying and demonising the good New Zealand Police Force. No families deserve to lose their loved ones prematurely in this mindless violent way, at any time.
Your expression of sympathy is I am sure, echoed by everyone here whether they criticise the police or not. There are good people in the police force yes, but that doesn’t make the Force as a whole become above reproach.
You are following an habitual line that divides society into us and them. And part of that is the phrase saying that someone considered good suffering a tragedy, did not deserve it. Does that mean that other people do deserve suffering, and who then? I heartily dislike all the National Party – would they be deserving? Could you rephrase and just say that her death is a great loss to us all?
Greywarbler. No man is an island.
I don’t get what you refer to. We do depend on each other, and need a police force that is humane and good, but humans wander regularly from kind and practical measures. People live together taking life ways for granted; those in leadership may stray from those measures, and better people at lower levels can feel the brunt of adopted poor social systems.
As for islands you remind me of Leslie Thomas’ book on places and people in the British Isles ‘Some Lovely Islands’, one being sea-mountain Skellig Michael in Ireland where monks once lived.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skellig_Michael
This may be how you feel about things. Have a read and see if he expresses your thoughts?
Will Hutton born pre1950? so knows a bit and thinks!! Also wrote The State We’re In as below. (And The World We’re In. 2002)
and
How Good We Can Be – Ending the mercenary society and building a great country.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780349140087
Author(s): Will Hutton
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Year: 2015
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Pages: 304 Nile has.
Summary:
Britain is beset by a crisis of purpose. For a generation we have been told the route to universal well-being is to abandon the expense of justice and equity and so allow the judgments of the market to go unobstructed. What has been created is not an innovative, productive economy but instead a capitalism that extracts value rather than creates it, massive inequality, shrinking opportunity and a society organised to benefit the top 1%.
The capacity to create new jobs and start-ups should not disguise that in the main the new world is one of throw away people working in throw away companies. The British are at a loss. The warnings of The State We’re In have been amply justified. Will Hutton observes that the trends that so disturbed him twenty years ago have become more marked.
Rather than take refuge in nativism and virulent euro-scepticism, Britain must recognize that its problems are largely made at home – and act to change them. With technological possibilities multiplying, a wholesale makeover of the state, business and the financial system is needed to seize the opportunities by being both fairer and more innovative. The aim must be to create an economy, society and democracy in which the mass of citizens flourish. In this compelling and vital new book Hutton spells out how.
I pick out this sentence as our aim, rather than an ideal. It should be our slogan for 2025 and on. How do we get there?
The aim must be to create an economy, society and democracy in which the mass of citizens flourish.
The sentence before that in the previous summary refers to technological possibilities and a wholesale makeover of the state, business and financial system. I think of what grows up in the cracks of any system broken and needing change; there be dragons. People can end up with worse than before if they don’t watch out for ambitious, cunning, demagogues and determined, sly maniacs rising to the fore with pretty, bold. speeches and promises of bounty.
So those wanting better had better act to nurture and advance suitable people themselves to contest ones produced by others. This will happen, Maori have many times done this, so I understand. First we have to coalesce; the thinking and doing, practical people of goodwill and truly know each other’s characters, remembering we can be sly or reticent at times for what seems good reason, but discussing this sooner rather than later.
I like the lyrics: The Stranger Billy Joel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgE4qkaFZWs
World’s most expensive passport getting even more expensive
…A new passport for an adult will cost A$412 (NZ$463), up from A$398 (NZ$447).
A five-year children’s passport will cost A$208.
Replacement passports now cost A$259.
Today’s price hikes follow a 15 percent increase in July from A$346 to A$398.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers said the increase was expected to raise A$349 million over the next three years, with the additional revenue used to cover the rising costs of producing passports.
Australia’s Treasurer is a real doozy and will I am sure be able to stand tall with his fellows or? in the world. Apparently the government isn’t responsible for this and are protesting but possibly have gone hands-off and the vehicle is speeding out of control. But that’s the norm these days >>>