The Daily Blog Open Mic – 5th 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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https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/535796/bootcamp-participant-dies-after-waikato-road-accident-as-police-search-for-another-after-absconding
Bad news on bad news. Can this government and political administration start delivering effective systems that work for all of us in a positive and caring way? Any fool can blunder on with trainwrecks following buswrecks and cyclewrecks. Can we have better fools please.?
The thinking amongst us know that we all have foolish pretensions and concerns, but knowing that we can learn and think around them. Can we have better learners and thinkers please?
How to stop a coup.
1/ Inspiring heroism of citizens prepared to risk it all for their democracy, before the coup can become normalised.
2/ Immediate mass protest and strikes confounding the armed forces,
South Korea:
洋辉叔 Uncle Hui
@alexcmhwee
23h
Ms. Ahn Kwok-sak, 35, was a TV host and later a spokesperson for the Democratic Party of South Korea.
Ahn snatched gun from special forces during the defense struggle at the National Assembly last night. She loudly rebuked the soldiers for pointing guns at citizens.
Snatching gun is a very dangerous act. She must know the seriousness of the matter, but she has risked her life to defend democracy.
Turkey:
Jul 13, 2017
On the night of the failed coup Metin Dogan, a mathematics teacher, became a national hero. He faced down soldiers at Istanbul’s Ataturk airport, going as far as to stand in front of tanks to prevent them from moving.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABRIwG1ZUp4
Venezuela:
The astonishing story of how an American sponsored coup d’état almost led to the collapse of democracy in Venezuela….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee_W-9tdGR8
I note when looking at RNZ In Depth items – of the 4 featured on the page, 3 of them are about Olivia Podmore, the other about whether stopbanks are passe’.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/534965/health-practitioner-who-treated-olivia-podmore-kept-no-notes-inquest-hears
When someone from the middle class, aiming for excellence and obsessed to achieve and win, is driven to death, virtually, that is bad. But there are important tragedies everyday which occur and are ignored or quickly forgotten, and nothing done to rectify the situation, the cause. I say FTT that we are being farmed in Kiwiland. There is not a camaraderie amongst us, a respect for the individual and his/her gifts and talents in general,
I feel sorry about somebody’s problems every day, about people who deserve to have a life to live and be fulfilled in doing so, and are appreciated just for being good people working in the community. Can we spread our concern, kindness and encouragement to all including people who are under the purview of a coach, or say a herd manager? And stop putting winning in sport as the height of human achievement; there seems a clique of sports devotees with a hard-man/woman drive that overrides intellectual power that need to be looked at askance. We should look to see if we have any kindness and interest in others left in our national larder, or are the cupboards bare?