The Daily Blog Open Mic – 25th January 2025
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https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/539896/under-new-management-nelson-s-parks-and-reserves
An Australasian landscaping business has taken over the management of Nelson’s parks and reserves – beating out a council-owned business that has held the contract for three decades.
The Nelson City Council announced that after an open tender process – an eight year contract was awarded to Australasian-wide company Green by Nature to manage the city’s parks, reserves and open space assets from 1 July.
And I am paying wildly rising rates so an overseas company can undercut local business keeping money in our local economy.
NZ is finished. Everything from now is a battle to retain ground from encroachment. If not Oz, from the sea, or loss of land from slips etc. And the slipping of human minds is something else! So nice for middle class people to choose our systems while they are on top of everything personally. But they are still small fry to the really big fish>>>>%..>
Why don’t we let our councils go and just contract out to Australia. They might help us to hold onto a primitive existence as we painfully recover from the various problems that result from climate change excesses. Why pay the middlemen/woem sitting in their ivory towers finding ways to put us into debt for ever-higher salaries, the programmed suits and theoretical planners/engineers.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/539980/mangawhai-tornado-a-photo-essay
Look at this. How much of this can we recover from to normal?
https://www.topomap.co.nz/NZTopoMap/nz7449/Mangawhai/
I did a report on the effect of volcanic operations on the Canaries a few days ago. It has meaning for us here as it affected buildings, towns, and was studied with Auckland in mind. Of notice was how slow the government was there with needed assistance after the immediate.
Hello fellow suckers. In case, like me, you haven”t caught up with the changeling’s latest.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/539854/watch-david-seymour-delivers-state-of-the-nation-speech
Politics
24 Jan 2025
Lillian Hanly, Political reporter
lillian.hanly@rnz.co.nz
New Zealand needs to get past the “squeamishness about privatisation”, David Seymour has argued in his first major speech of the year.
In his ‘State of the Nation’ address on Friday, the ACT leader also said the country was at a tipping point between “two invisible tribes” and what the country does in the next few years would decide “which way we go”.
Keep your waffles for your empty-calorie breakfast David.
Reading about Lord Hugh Dowding (Battle for Britain) I liked his succinct quote to authority too optimistic about possibilities:
…Dowding also brought modern aircraft into service during the pre-war period, including the eight gun Spitfire and Hurricane.[9] He is also credited with having fought the Air Ministry so that fighters were equipped with bullet-proof wind shields.[25] At a meeting with the Air Ministry when told that bullet-proof windows were too expensive, Dowding replied:
“If Chicago gangsters can have bulletproof glass in their cars I can’t see
any reason why my pilots cannot have the same”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Dowding#Personal_life
What words of wisdom can we supply to our PM and his tail?
The chances are that in Seymour, and Luxon’s, drive to advance through following expedient methods they will divert energies from the matters that need it as happened below.
With Lord Dowding was Sir Keith Park with one leader who opposed him because of a favoured approach which he was prepared to push for a gamble with results. (We know about that with the neoliberal push by economists and greedy Kiwi smarties in 1984.)
During the Battle of Britain, the Group was commanded by New Zealander Air vice-marshal Keith Park.[6] While supported by the commanders (AOCs) of No. 10 Group and No. 13 Group, he received insufficient support from the AOC of 12 Group, Air Vice Marshal Trafford Leigh-Mallory, who used the Big Wing controversy to criticise Park’s tactics.
Leigh-Mallory’s lack of support compromised Fighter Command at a critical time and the controversy caused problems for Park. When the Battle of Britain was over, Leigh-Mallory, acting with Air marshal Sholto Douglas, conspired to have Park removed from his position, (along with the Commander-in-Chief of Fighter Command, Air chief marshal Hugh Dowding). ..https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._11_Group_RAF