The Daily Blog Open Mic – 17th February 2025
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
The Editor doesn’t moderate this blog, 3 volunteers do, they are very lenient to provide you a free speech space but if it’s just deranged abuse or putting words in bloggers mouths to have a pointless argument, we don’t bother publishing.
All in all, TDB gives punters a very, very, very wide space to comment in but we won’t bother with out right lies or gleeful malice. We leave that to the Herald comment section.
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https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/542150/over-fuelled-plane-leaves-uni-bound-passengers-behind
Now is this an algorithmic fault or AI or a temp from an agency replacing down-sized work force of airnz?
Our politicians and advisors would have us believe that they know how to run this wee country. It may be wee but has the myriad of modern problems and see-sawing effects of business booms and busts to deal with. Needs brains and knowing what is most important to Kiwis’ business returns and employment requirements.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/542164/glenbrook-steel-mill-owner-s-earnings-plunge
So how about this? Stop playing with our business machine, pushing and pulling knobs like a demented organist.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/thedetail/542059/the-beehive-doors-are-shut-to-the-ctu
It can not be much of a surprise that a relatively inexperienced ACT MP, [Brooke van Velden] handed the workplace relations portfolio, does not want to entertain the country’s biggest union in her office.
But it still astonishes the head of that union, CTU president Richard Wagstaff.
After all, he has met regularly with ministers of all political persuasions to enable them to get a deeper understanding of what was going on with the country’s workers.
After just one initial meeting, in November 2023, not only has he become persona non grata at the Beehive, but the “unions” Brooke van Velden has seen are fringe organisations, with few members….
Get to work you lazy, autocratic pollies – not just at what your favourite interest or skill is about. The rest of us don’t get to choose what we will do.