The Daily Blog Open Mic – 23rd October 2025
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Thinking about the thinking that goes on around the world and in NZAO but doesn’t seem to take while other organic things like Myrtle Rust that are bad for living things float and settle everywhere. This has to stop[. We need the thought to settle everywhere and stay on significant numbers of hosts and be absorbed. I keep hearing from men that they don’t read much. Pikers! Education is not just for reading road map instructions, mechanical specifications and sports and stock exchange results.
So I suggest a group called The Late Group. The letters would stand for something too unlike some vacuous conglomerations that have started to be seen. There’s WAA in Nelson and could I find what that stood for? Took me ages.
The LATE Group would stand for Literate and Thinking Exponents.
It would read the same book and discuss the points made, disagree, explain, change, and learn to think from a kaleidoscope, arranging known things in different order to go better; perhaps. Otherwise we will dance off the stage to the Exponents:
Even though I’m Blue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x_uRhxq0T0
Some interesting economic and political history with coloured pictures to lift the mood from the bad taste of reality of the past and who knows of the future.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nXb6LWEjZE
New Zealand’s Strategy for the East Asia Summit and APEC.
Christopher Luxon is heading to Asia for a diplomatic double-header. What are his main goals?
https://thediplomat.com/2025/10/new-zealands-strategy-for-the-east-asia-summit-and-apec/
No Kings!
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree….
Samuel Coleridge
As Samuel Coleridge noted; Kings rule by decree
Donald Trump is no exception
Donald Trump has decreed that a ‘Ball Room’ be built in his honour at the White House Paid for by donars seeking his favour, a place where assembled minions can be ordered to obediently stand in ranks, as fauning loyal retainers come to pay homage and seek influence.
Why not? After all, every King needs a throne room.
As well as a throne room, an Arc de Trump, a marble floor for the White House and a recently unveiled presdiential walk of fame with gold framed protraits of himself and 44 other presidents.
Critics, including a guest essayist for the New York Times, have called his Oval Office remodel a “Gilded Rococo Nightmare”.
The White House did not immediately respond on Wednesday to the BBC’s request for further comment.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy7e8lv176go
…..And all who heard should see them there,
And all should cry, Beware! Beware!
His flashing eyes, his floating hair!
Samuel Coleridge