Earl Mardle - Death Cult Govt - Squalour, poverty & Disease

Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

And this piece from Peter Coviello nails it
"I agreed to an interview. I did this because, in ways you might think I’d have outgrown by now, I’m a fucking idiot"
He brings MANY receipts and links

It's not unique to this site nor this age, this has been how truth emerged for millennia, how else did we come to believe arrant absurdities about the world?
I prefer Kevin Baker's take, "we're being forced to confront how others interpret information on a mass scale for first time in human history"

Locals fear 'truly devastating' Tongariro National Park fire Planes and helicopters dropping water on the flames at the National Park look like "midges on an elephant", local says as the out of control fire burns across more than 2500 hectares.

How it started
"Everybody's still pretty chill about it, you know, I think because it seems to be staying a lot closer to Tongariro and [Mount] Ngauruhoe that people aren't super concerned."

How it's going

I produce my own olive oil and we make plenty of lye-water out of wood ash, for pickling the olives in, but I have never been able to organise myself to make purely homemade soap with it
Can you recommend a safer recipe?
Also, how did it turn out?

Isn't that just so sweet
Bless his little cotton sooks

Saving the marriage of journalism and the people Survey after survey has shown our trust in the news seriously slipping. But the latest one asks Kiwis why - and what might win their trust back.

OK, I officially concede, the global champion of cognitive dissonance, this
"​The ​blatant, ​blatant ​bias ​of ​the ​New ​Zealand ​media ​makes ​you ​want ​to ​weep," an exasperated Mike Hosking told his Newstalk ZB listeners last Thursday"
Otherwise, not a bad assessment of the issue

New car park to relieve congestion at entrance to Te Papakura o Taranaki Construction of a new car park at the popular Egmont Road entrance to Te Papakura o Taranaki will begin next week.

Tongariro National Park is ablaze in what they are calling an "ecological disaster" and yet, here we are trying to cram ever more CO2 belching rubberneckers into Taranaki

Mother of god we cannot connect the damned dots

I've always thought it was also a cognitive problem, that when he looks in the mirror, he applies only to those parts he can see, for him, for whatever reason, anything he can't see, including parts of himself, doesn't exist
Doing it himself may also be some weird aversion to being touched

Receipts
Oh boy, the receipts

“And people did this, just like you, you and me... it was not Hitler who arrested me, not Goering, not Goebbels. The grocer, the janitor, the tailor, the shoemaker, the baker, they suddenly got a uniform, a swastika armband, and there they were, the master race...”
Karl Stojka, Auschwitz survivor

Make that another from me, competence, caring, in service to others, very possibly a petrol head

Thanks for the #satire tag, with this shower of clods, anything is possible

Everywhere they can., there is a concerted effort to extinguish the future of life on the planet

I'm always saying this. Signaling is inevitable, it's up to you what you signal

In today’s Weekend Herald #nzpolitics

English exam asks students to write about long-haired boy being bullied, forced to drop pants A student and teacher spoken to by RNZ said the text, which appeared in the NCEA level 2 exam, made them feel very uncomfortable.

No
Just no
Just really fucking NO

In case they didn't notice, offering up a first person account of a transphobic sexual assault as a fucking exam question is horrific

I want the people who chose this, and who signed off on this, gone
Stat
FML

Almost as if they would discard even their own prosperity for the pleasure of ensuring the maximum number of us have to live in grinding poverty, desperation and disease
Almost, indeed, as if they are in fact a death cult

It's as if Seymour wants not only to force this travesty upon us in the face of our rejection, but to do it in a way that clearly and blatantly contradicts its own strictures in a final flourish of "fuck you, I'll do what I want"
How do we not all see this evil excrescence for the fascist he is

This ⬇️
Any breach of trust undermines all trust relationships

Not just about EBA but about culture

Yet, when they had a report on racism in the cops, it was the Govt the buried first, what chance a better job is done of this one?

Back in April I was getting on my "house is on fire" horse
Looks like others are with more cred getting there too, though the triggers are more lkikely to be economic collapse and/or civil unrest/war in the US crashing the keystone economy
4 meds we use are on that list

#nzpol #jobcuts #Neoliberalism #austerity #homelessness #poverty #NZGovtFail

Interesting that the cognoscenti are starting to see this
Gerrymanders configure seats so the opponent wins their electorate in a landslide while the home team scrapes through in more contests
A year from now, as this gets much worse, GOP may not have a seat left
Or
Martial Law

The other completely reasonable possibility is, as with the health care replacement plan in 2 weeks, he has no plan because he is retreating now into a fantasy world where the numbers just come to him and they are real and anyone who disagrees is fired
The man is seriously mentally ill, start there

General Electric, who made some of the most cutting edge aviation engines ever, became a finance company
hey still make engines, just a sideline

Half the world's airports are huge shopping centres that do aircraft stuff as a sidebar

Bugger off, I don't need reminding that there is a wide variety of life forms that need the high-speed water treatment
Clean though, Karcher?

Not just the US
Demographic squeezes are already evident in China, Russia, Italy, Ireland
In the global South and Centre, the demographic effects of the end of USAID are going to be huge
The fresh hell being opened in El Fasher right now may not be the outlier we might wish

I was pretty clear that the difference between $1m and $1Bn was, essentially $1Bn

But even I was startled to learn that his $1Tn equals
$274M
Per day
Every Day
For 10 friggin years

Which is why renewables, especially PV and batteries is such a threat, wholly democratised energy access will destroy the model and the beneficiaries of it are ready to kill to stop that
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More broadly BTW, I'm working on a theory that the control of energy flows over centuries has helped usher in an economics that vastly benefited those who control those flows

That control was hugely disrupted by the oil boom & only began to be reasserted as we passed peak oil in the late 80's
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