The Daily Blog Open Mic – 31st July 2025

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8 COMMENTS

  1. https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2507/S00065/the-paranoia-of-officialdom-age-verification-and-using-the-internet-in-australia.htm
    Australia, in keeping with its penal history, has a long record of paranoid officialdom and paternalistic wowsers. Be it perceived threats to morality, the tendency of the populace to be corrupted, and a general, gnawing fear about what knowledge might do, Australia’s governing authorities have prized censorship.

    Sounds interesting thought, how much does it refer to us also?

  3. Looks like Kash Patel is here to establish an FBI office. Eeyore Seymore has a job in the future, and the flighty Brookie Wookie could very well be able to have his baby – even IF it;s by artificial insemination.ts
    You couldn’t make this shit up, and it’s a shame I’m not a fan of popcorn.
    All those missed opportunities I missed to make me ‘sorted’. Such as teeth bleaching, or Ear NuZull Koru lounge fitouts, or App Development.
    If it wasn’t so serious it’d be as funny as a fart – which is probably what it will be (eventually, in the fullness of time, in this space, going forward).
    [ E-itfotitsgf

  4. These points have been brought up before but as Aristotle said: ‘The whole is more than the sum of its parts.’ And when the pieces are joined a structure becomes visible!

    Medical people needed in NZ not buildings and training to be profit-making business!
    RNZ https://www.rnz.co.nz › news › national › 545762 › we-need-these-young-doctors-top-medical-graduate-struggles-to-find-job
    ‘We need these young doctors’ – top medical graduate struggles to … – RNZ
    Mar 24, 2025A top medical graduate struggling to find a job in a hospital says Health NZ needs to do more to ensure locally-trained doctors are not being “lost” to the system.’…”We need these young doctors, yet our system continues to treat them with disregard.”…
    I think there is a noticeable inclination in our present political and administration regime in NZAO, to set unreasonable and rigid rules (zero targets etc.), based on theoretical, mechanical approaches, when dealing with human needs. ‘Humans for humans’ needs to be a catchphrase in the medical sphere, as the numbskulls who have jumped above us, will follow their own fleeting fanciful, monetarised ideas arising from theorists in ‘human mechanics’, more suited to designing insensate systems.

    https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2507/S00059/political-cosyism-behind-3rd-medical-school-decision-making.htm
    Sunday, 27 July 2025, 6:28 pm
    Opinion: Ian Powell
    …He was referring to the work of Auckland University Professor of Economics Robert MacCulloch who was calling out “soft corruption” by political and business elites in Aotearoa New Zealand.
    His focus included government, banks, big business and the rightwing ‘thinktank’ New Zealand Initiative.
    Such was the strength and persistence of the hostile response from these elites that he felt sufficiently pressured to close his website.
    The core of MacCulloch’s argument is that New Zealand is run by a “chumocracy” of elites who are connected by what he calls “cosyism”..

    …the announcement by Health Minister Simeon Brown and Universities Minister Shane Reti early in the afternoon of 21 July [2025] that it was proceeding with the proposed third medical school at Waikato University: Official announcement. …

    In a memo to then Health Minister Shane Reti in September last year,
    Treasury recommended that Auckland and Otago Medical Schools be asked to present a counter-factual argument to the Waikato proposal.
    However, it appears that no such invitation was made.

    Analysis by the Integrity Institute
    The best commentary I have seen on this decision has come from Bryce Edwards in another Integrity Briefing published the same day as the Government’s announcement and after my [Ian Powell] The Panel interview (21 July [2025]):
    ‘Costly case study in policy capture.’

    Edwards also drew upon the excellent investigative work of Radio New Zealand’s Guyan Espinar.
    Consistent with his above-mentioned piece on ‘chumocracy’ and ‘cosyism’ he describes the decision as:
    … not, at its core, a decision about health policy. It is a decision about political power, influence, and the erosion of good process. This project serves as a textbook case study of policy capture, where the interests of a well-connected institution, amplified by high-powered lobbyists, have overridden expert advice, fiscal prudence, and superior alternatives.

    Later in his piece he adds:
    This lack of transparency and due process is antithetical to good governance. The entire Waikato med school saga has unfolded via secret contracts, private lobbying meetings, and politically wired relationships – all largely hidden from the public until journalists and watchdogs pried it into the light.
    Some background:
    University of Waikato https://www.waikato.ac.nz › news-events › news ›
    university-of-waikato-welcomes-third-medical-school-announcement
    2023 – Jul 5, 2023The University of Waikato welcomes the announcement by the National Party that if the Party is successful in this year’s General Election it will establish New Zealand’s third medical school.University of Waikato
    ***
    https://www.waikato.ac.nz › news-events › news › waikato-medical-school-moves-a-step-closer Waikato Medical School moves a step closer
    2024 – Feb 13, 2024The University of Waikato has today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop a third New Zealand medical school in the Waikato region.
    Mmm. Time for thinking.

    And Serendipity brought this in front of my eyes.
    https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2025/07/26/the-malice-of-trumps-attack-on-powell/
    …Trump threatened to accuse the Federal Reserve Chair on trumped up charges of corruption just so he could fire him???
    What the actual fuck?…
    …He [it] will only get worse.

  7. Interesting wider and philosophical thinking. Something we rarely come across in Kiwiland in the average course of a day or decades.
    https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2507/S00055/representation-versus-reality-reaching-a-low-point.htm\
    Friday, 25 July 2025, 3:24 pm
    Myself, I think that these events may be even more than a genocide; such as philosopher historian AC Grayling’s term culturicide (from Among the Dead Cities) which expresses what – for example, the Morgenthau Plan – looked to impose on post-war Germany (seeking to reduce Germany, with a pre-war population of 80 million to an impoverished ‘pastoral’ nation of 30 million). Cultural erasure is more than genocide.
    [Considering the words we have thought up, the things that they espress, and the various nuances and meanings that we place on them:-]
    Genocide is an unfortunate reality, a human propensity which has occurred in the past, is occurring in the present, and will occur periodically (unless finished by the ‘final genocide’, or biocide) in the future. …
    Another such word is ‘terrorism’. Winston Churchill and his bomber commander Arthur Harris had no doubt about the meaning of that word. So did the victims of their fiery terror, in Hamburg and many other cities. Now the representation of ‘terror’ through this word is restricted to a selected subset of resistance organisations. Winston Churchill understood that meaning of ‘terrorism’, too. His friend – Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne – was assassinated in Cairo by fascist Lehi terrorists. (Re Lehi, see Stern: The Man, the Gang and the State, Al Jazeera 13 Aug 2024.)…

    Back to NZ:
    The government is undertaking structural retrenchment under the cover of a ‘cost-of-living crisis’ that means very different things to different people. Insinuating that New Zealand has a crisis of inflation – taken as a synonym for ‘overspending’ – when it has a very real crisis of structural recession and growing unemployment, is a particularly cynical misrepresentation of reality….

    PS. With escalating geopolitical wars, and plenty of undertested nuclear weapons in the hands of numerous political sociopaths, being at ‘the bottom of the world’ may not be such a great place to be. All of us of a certain age remember British, American, and French nuclear testing in Oceania. Some, a bit older, remember nuclear testing in Japan.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgenthau_Plan
    and is this true from –
    Splitz Enz – History never repeats
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO6XeSy87es

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