The Daily Blog Open Mic – 3rd December 2024
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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No one can say they didn’t know, but some still try.
David Lammy the British Foreign Secretary claims we can’t know what is going on in Gaza, because, wait for it, “There are no journalists in Gaza”
Antiwar protesters in the UK are asked to name their favourite journalist in Gaza.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DDAenUMARSd/?igsh=MWpma3J6eTdqdjJpNQ%3D%3D&fbclid=IwY2xjawG7RmhleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHcpsUhGk6djBQb503GuRY2yM82XYlIO57oESwSoSVi0DZhIoJ08SXIPNeg_aem_o9HhiyUvfiEEQQ4lMa81GQ
The problem is that there are no politicians in Gaza who can provide factual information that is published in mainstream news, apart from inconvenient ones who cannot hide their lack of impartiality because they are Palestinians or related.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/535565/bus-fares-in-canterbury-may-quadruple-to-meet-waka-kotahi-targets
Can we afford these hoity toity people who play us as if we are Sim City. They will get their comeuppance because a mechanical means will take over their human jobs. But that is not
what we want. Who can be happy about this scenario?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/535549/watch-regional-transport-policy-and-planning-returning-to-auckland-council
Pubic transport management (a big oops about this unattractive disrobing of people who confuse norty with a number). But weak jokes aside, I wish these people in admin would stop playing either with us or themselves. Go back to where you came from, even if it is next-door to one of us. (Brings to mind John Wyndham’s titles, Village of the Damned or Plan for Chaos.)
Little birds – we can’t be bothered to protect them those of us who aren’t already stretched.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/535576/these-things-can-just-disappear-in-silence-robins-near-dunedin-at-risk-of-extinction
No we must have our holidays on the Gold Coast or get the trees trimmed or plan new furnishings or help our son buy another home now he is in the wanting mood again. Or
we are shocked and talk about how shocked we are.
Predators – particularly rats – killed the birds and raided their nests, while deer and pigs destroyed their habitat and where they foraged.
There was no sustained predator control in Silver Stream, but she said a smaller scale intervention for a few years was making a difference before it ended.
It was a well-documented population dating back more than 100 years, and its decline was clear to see.
“To be able to see this population collapse in real time and to see records and the awareness of people knowing that this was coming and these warnings were made and yet it still happened,” Permain-Fenton said.
A lot of people were not aware of the taonga’s plight, she said.
Native species could not be saved without predator control and collaboration, she said.
“It’s just not possible unless we work together and if we don’t, we risk losing populations that we might not even realise that we have lost. These things can just disappear in silence, which is a real tragedy.