The Daily Blog Open Mic – 3rd June 2024
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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WHO Member States to update existing legally-binding health rules, known as the International Health Regulations (IHR).
The new amendments includes rapid, equitable and enhanced coordinated international action, with whole-of-government and whole-of-society approaches.
https://www.who.int/news/item/01-06-2024-world-health-assembly-agreement-reached-on-wide-ranging–decisive-package-of-amendments-to-improve-the-international-health-regulations–and-sets-date-for-finalizing-negotiations-on-a-proposed-pandemic-agreement
So what will happen when the “whole of society” won’t get vaccinated?
Philo – for today. Have you been wondering about this? 20th century – huge wars, atom bomb, attempt to wipe out Jewish people from Europe, Cambodian ruthlessness, USA acceptance of war criminals with ruinous skills and knowledge – 21st century back to enlightened enlightenment – nah! so what now?
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2406/S00004/the-continuity-from-ancient-extinctions-to-current-genocides.htm
Tuesday, 4 June 2024, 10:41 am
Opinion: Martin LeFevre – Meditations
…The refusal to face ourselves as we are as a species, and the need to attribute lesser causes to the disappearance of a number of primeval human species once fully modern humans began their global spread, and to indulge in denial even as genocide is occurring in real time before our very eyes, is itself an indictment of human nature….
Indeed, to refute the pollyannaish view of prehistoric humans, all one has to do is consider what happened when Europeans invaded North America. Yes, their diseases spread before them, and wiped a large percentage of indigenous peoples.
But “Manifest Destiny” is what destroyed Native American cultures, and Custer’s Last Stand was actually the last stand of the Great Plains Indians. Almost certainly the same process occurred when modern humans spread into Europe, the home of Neanderthals for a few hundred thousand years.
We are at a nadir of pessimism about the human prospect, and I don’t mean to add to it. Very few people still feel as I do that humans can radically change. And most Westerners, on the right or the left, subscribe to the self-fulfilling prophecy that there is no other possibility but “a range of developing, deplorable worldwide trends.”,,,
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO2406/S00009/have-your-say-on-local-government-water-services-preliminary-arrangements-bill-and-amendment-paper-41.htm
Tuesday, 4 June 2024, 1:55 pm
Press Release: The Finance and Expenditure Committee……
…About the bill:
The bill is the second of three bills related to waters services that the Government intends to pass. Its provisions largely fall into three broad categories:…(Read on link.)
…Tell the Finance and Expenditure Committee what you think:
Make a submission on the bill and the amendment paper by 11.59pm on Thursday, 13 June 2024 .
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/518567/police-commissioner-floats-tighter-alcohol-regulation-as-trade-off-to-reduce-estimated-7-point-8b-harm-from-booze
Interesting. Alcohol and meths compared, and the latter doesn’t match alcohol’s effect.