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https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU2508/S00137/hillside-passes-500th-rail-wagon-milestone.htm
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/569531/teen-boy-housed-in-tauranga-motel-by-oranga-tamariki-for-more-than-a-year
And we have heard that Oranga Tamariki doesn’t care!?
When a Youth Court judge asked a 15-year-old boy how long he had been living in a motel, with round-the-clock minders, he was taken aback by the answer.
“Nearly a year,” the teen replied.
“A year?” the judge exclaimed.
During that year, Oranga Tamariki sent *Cody on a state-funded trip to a Pacific island, with his now-estranged mother, to see if he could connect with family.
The boy told the court this had “not gone well”, and after the trip last August, it was back to the motel.
Cody was in Youth Court in Tauranga, facing relatively low-level charges, and Judge Paul Geoghegan asked him how he spent his days, and what education he was receiving while living in the Tauranga motel.
“None,” he replied, describing waking up late, eating, gaming, and seeing his girlfriend. He also had an Oranga Tamariki-appointed mentor he would meet with on occasion.
Cody was supervised by Oranga Tamariki-contracted APEX minders, who, in pairs, were on 48-hour shifts at the motel.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/569547/japan-used-to-be-tech-giant-why-is-it-stuck-with-fax-machines-ink-stamps
This is interesting. In a fast-moving world that needs to relearn what restraint is, Japan may have time to gaze and ponder at what methods they need now and what our overwhelming tech system has thrust us into. Also how the balance of power has shifted to such an unequal level from countries and people to cabals and an arrogant few.
It only takes a minute of thought to see that it is not what we would expect in a well-educated world. Everyone should be well informed and capable of a reasoned answer to any question about normal life, but no. So Japan will want to keep up but might be able to create a society that keeps its head.
Compare Japan, post dreadful nuclear tragedy 1945 and soon after with Minimata syndrome, genetic damage from heavy metals, 1956.
https://www.env.go.jp/en/chemi/hs/minamata2002/summary.html
They proceeded thoughtfully, and have taken steps to clear the toxic material. But then nuclear power has been a consideration, and a problem. Then look at Israel – what a difference, intemperate and destructive to their needed healing unable to cohese in supportive peace and gather themselves.yet Both have had devastating blows as a nation and culture, perhaps we can learn from Japan, setting aside the terrible events of wars, on each side, and struggle for peaceful minds qand intelligent actions and reactions.
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