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Learning from the rest of the world No. 1 –
Transport idea from Ontario, Ottawa, Canada::
Para Transpo is a shared-ride, book-in-advance, door-to-door transit service. We provide this service to eligible registered customers who cannot take conventional transit—some or all of the time—because of a disability.
Transit accessibility – OC Transpo
OC Transpo
https://www.octranspo.com › accessibility-1
This would be a sensible system to replace expensive large ev buses that in Nelson are largely empty, cruising embodiments of wasted money spent ideology-unwise. Have a part of the private taxi system working in this way for private/public transport at affordable prices.
Serious idea. Then switch off and watch The Channel 9 Fast Show in their diversity presentation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIbDoAvtuuc
A police dog handler set a dog on Sam Matue long after he had been forced to the ground?
A family member having their head split by a steel cap boot?
This is what captured grainy video phone footage shot at some distance from Sam Matue’s arrest and death in police custody appears to show.
From the NZ Herald:
Ōrere Point death: Petition for police bodycams, independent inquiry
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/orere-point-death-petition-for-police-bodycams-independent-inquiry/J2BVXBNVHBHEBCG5NUEVNWHR4E/
Community leader David Letele has launched a petition calling for an independent investigation into the death of the man who died after being pepper-sprayed at rural Auckland’s Ōrere Point, and for mandatory police bodycams…..
…..Family members are alleging police violently assaulted Matue during the confrontation……
From the NZ Herald: (Deleted)
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/orere-point-death-after-police-tasering-sam-matues-family-allege-officers-assaulted-destroyed-him/YXU7OB453VCXNOPAV4A3OFOSV4/
http://www.nzherald.co.nz
……Family members are alleging police violently assaulted Matue during the confrontation.
They also claimed to the Herald they have seen Matue’s body and described bruises, bite marks and a split head….
….In a social media post, Niece Tenay Matue claimed police “played God” and “viciously took his life away” instead of de-escalating the situation.
She alleged police “unjustly” tasered Matue five times, kicked him in the head and punched, laid on and let a dog maul him during a period of at least 10 minutes…..
…….When questioned about these claims, police told the Herald there were several investigations underway and they would let “due process” be carried out.
Meanwhile, a family member claimed they had seen Matue’s body and described multiple bruises and bite marks to the Herald.
“They’ve destroyed him. He’s covered in bruises, he’s got bite marks from the dog, his head’s been split open.”
Earlier, police confirmed Matue as the victim and extended their condolences to the family.
“A post-mortem was completed on Wednesday, however Mr Matue’s cause of death has not been determined as yet,” said Counties Manukau District Commander Superintendent Shanan Gray.
Police on Monday clarified Matue was wielding a pole and not threatening officers with a samurai sword as they initially claimed……
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED2503/S00008/announcing-the-2025-fulbright-us-cohort.htm
Fulbright New Zealand Executive Director, Penelope Borland, says the latest group of US grantees travelling to Aotearoa is testament to a deeply held, shared commitment to the betterment of our world.
Hasn’t worked. My judgment is to try harder, differently, better in different disciplines such as active daily philosophy and mass education, teaching thinking and decision making to all not just to the ones good at remembering things or working out arcane algebra.
Why not start in the USA itself, stop so many of the male toffs going to military academies, and in UK return the Unis to studies of things relating to what Alexander Pope put forth. ‘”The proper study of mankind, is man.” Alexander Pope (1688–1744). Then sport being very secondary, cricket, rowing etc. being post graduate activities. More wisdom and kindness and less scheming, just enough to know whatever dark thoughts were arising.
And have regular debt jubilees, and devaluations of the national monetary unit. We have become mad with the false god of money. So think on that you smart types’ if you are so smart how come we haven’t learned how to be civilised at this late stage of our careering around the world and into space now??????????? Our police kicking people in the head because they don’t obey immediate orders – that’s ordinary old brutality probably worse than used by early man and woman. We should be better. See the earlier comment.
What do you think of this? The mind becomes deep in sludge if one listens to mass radio and watches Tv for long and then there are the devices. And how important is FOMO and how much is it for orders on what to do and when to do it? An idea – can anyone pick it up and run with it before someone stands on it and dirties its new freshness?
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2503/S00005/california-psychologically-secedes-from-the-union.htm
…As the League of Nations gave way to the United Nations (which has succeeded to the degree that it has prevented another world war, but has failed since the genocide in Rwanda to act effectively), so too humankind now needs a new, genuinely global body of great moral suasion to declare the sovereignty of humanity, supersede petty national interests, and promote the shared interests of humankind.
Underwritten by a sufficient minority of world citizens that have ended man’s atavistic identification with particular groups, the keystone for an effective and feasible global architecture is the creation of an independent, non-power-holding, non-bureaucratic global body….
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