The Daily Blog Open Mic – 16th October 2025

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Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.

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10 COMMENTS

    • To show respect to all the Gnats and hangers on, the ‘farmers’ should all wear swandris, and clean gumboots (dirty ones would not show respect for the dignity or the cleaners of the House); the businessmen should show their true colours and wear what? pirate outfits or robbers masks, – ACT could wear surgeons bloodstained aprons. Some Gnats should wear knee pads and stretch jeans which they’d use for crawling to orders as required, Winston should be a swinger and who knows how much clothing that would require, but he always favoured double-breasted, on his suits as well.

    • More on Sovereign Credit from Martyn but a few days back. I’ll put the link up here to bring it close for info if people want it.
      https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2025/10/12/time-for-the-political-left-to-look-at-sovereign-credit-to-fund-our-infrastructure/
      ….The greatest mistake Labour did over Covid, was that they borrowed the money from private banking rather than do what Mickey Savage did, create Sovereign Credit!
      In the 1930s–40s, the first Labour Government (Savage & Fraser) used the Reserve Bank to directly finance social housing, infrastructure, and employment schemes. This was sovereign credit creation — money issued into the economy for public purposes.

      New Zealand used sovereign credit creation in the 1930s for housing and recovery. Since the late 20th century, reforms locked us into a bond-based system to satisfy global financial orthodoxy and inflation fears. The difference is simple: bonds create debt to outsiders, sovereign credit creates money internally.
      Why borrow from private banks when we should be directly creating sovereign credit to build the vast infrastructure deficit and climate adaptation investment net we face..

  3. Seems good sense.
    William Martin
    “Do not ask your children
    to strive for extraordinary lives.
    Such striving may seem admirable,
    but it is the way of foolishness.
    Help them instead to find the wonder
    and the marvel of an ordinary life.
    Show them the joy of tasting
    tomatoes, apples and pears.
    Show them how to cry
    when pets and people die.
    Show them the infinite pleasure
    in the touch of a hand.
    And make the ordinary come alive for them.
    The extraordinary will take care of itself.”
    ― William Martin, The Parent’s Tao Te Ching: Ancient Advice for Modern Parents
    tags: admirable, advice, children, extraordinary, life, lives, ordinary
    https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/advice

    More!!: When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. Edmund Burke
    https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/edmund_burke_377528

  6. If I’m on edge, Maori must be more.https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/576112/marine-and-coastal-rights-law-change-worse-than-foreshore-and-seabed-says-maori-rights-activist
    17/10 – New Zealand Politics
    Marine and Coastal rights law change worse than Foreshore and Seabed, says Māori rights activist
    4:36 pm
    Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira, Māori news journalist
    tnatanahira@rnz.co.nz
    A veteran Māori rights activist has delivered a petition to Parliament demanding that legislation looking to make it harder for Māori to win customary marine title be immediately scrapped.
    The petition – which had nearly 20,000 signatures – was delivered by Rueben Taipari and a group of supporters.
    Taipari travelled the length of the North Island from his home in Ahipara in the Far North to Wellington over four days in an effort to gather more signatures and raise awareness of the proposed changes.
    The government wants to amend section 58 of the Marine and Coastal Area Act (MACA) to tighten up the test for Māori groups to win customary title and restore the legislation to its “original intent”….

    also about our? health system :
    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/575383/outsourcing-easy-cases-to-private-sector-risks-two-tier-health-system-doctors-warn
    and
    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/575383/outsourcing-easy-cases-to-private-sector-risks-two-tier-health-system-doctors-warn

    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/575964/what-you-need-to-know-about-travel-to-the-us-during-a-government-shutdown
    Just useful to have some warning about things in the greatest nation on earth – Don’t roll up to the Big Top to see the Dancing Elephants and the Hugely Big Lyins!

  7. All the women will be onto this. Stalking and pursuing and threatening and never stopping for years so there can be no freedom, happiness or security. Worse than rape when you actually get killed by a vicious man. Here is a cause celebre to take up.

    And perhaps we should start looking at a lobotomy if we can’t have the death sentence. Which should be administered rarely. But police are shooting people in the street remember.

    It makes no difference to the fact of actual death or desperately bad injury if someone is mentally twisted or insane. The fact cannot be avoided, the person is dead and the perpetrator cannot be trusted to behave and be in control of themself, respect others rights to their way of life.

    This is the story, very sad.
    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/576121/massey-murder-kanwarpal-singh-denied-appeal-against-sentence-for-murder-of-zana-yaqubi
    …while going to or from AUT, or possibly on Queen St, Auckland, where Singh worked as a security guard, she came to his attention. [Zana Yaqubi]
    He engaged her in conversation and she agreed to sit down with him for a coffee.
    From that point on, his social media onslaught of her began.
    Yaqubi blocked his Instagram messages but he responded during 2021 and 2022 by creating new accounts to contact her.
    He threatened to kidnap her and give her a year to fall in love with him, apparently mirroring the plot of a 2020 Netflix thriller, 365 Days.
    Singh also threatened to throw acid in her face.
    On December 5, 2022, Yaqubi noticed Singh following her at a shopping mall and sought help from a security officer.
    Singh responded by sending her a video he had taken outside her home.
    Yaqubi pleaded with Singh to stop, then went to the police, first filing a complaint online and then in person at the Henderson police station.
    She provided police with screenshots of his threatening messages…

    …On December 19, 2022, Yaqubi caught a bus home from working at an outlet store at the Westgate shops, then walked along an alleyway towards her home.
    Singh was waiting and approached her with a knife in hand.
    She tried to call police on her phone but he stabbed her 12 times in the stomach and chest.

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