After comparing covid vaccine mandates to 'concentration camps.'
The ignorance is astounding.

https://www.odt.co.nz/star-news/star-nat...centration



"An Act Party candidate has resigned after her historical comments comparing Covid-19 vaccine mandates to Nazi concentration camps came to light.
Another candidate has apologised and renounced online comments which suggested drownings were connected to the effect of the vaccine, but he has been kept on as a candidate.
Act leader David Seymour said the partyÔÇÖs Rangitata candidate Elaine Naidu Franz, 29th on the list, had offered to stand down after┬á1News┬ábrought her previous comments to SeymourÔÇÖs attention today.
Seymour said he accepted her offer on the spot.


The party leader was still confident in ActÔÇÖs candidate vetting process. He said it was impossible to check a candidateÔÇÖs entire online history and noted how it was likely old online comments resurfacing would be a growing problem for New Zealand politics.
ÔÇ£At some point as a society, we have to deal with that,ÔÇØ he said.
Seymour said some people who had applied to be candidates were rejected due to historical comments theyÔÇÖd made. He couldnÔÇÖt say whether those comments had been primarily Covid-related."

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-66569311

Couldn't even face up to the sentencing.

I'd no idea this was happening & just assumed that these days,every school has a library. There's one in Merivale here which no longer has one & apparently, once gone they're virtually impossible to regain. Kids have access to books at school but can't take them home.

Surely the importance of a school library is blindingly obvious.



https://our.actionstation.org.nz/petitio...-EynG2oiGE

We really need govt to sort this problem once & for all rather than constantly tinkering around the edges. Removing Neo Liberalism would be an excellent start.
Just damn well fix it - NOW.

There is no good reason to leave things as they are, not when kids are going hungry.


https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/working-...BV3JAWUT4/

Susan St John
"For the last two decades critics have seen Working for Families as discriminatory, poorly-designed, far too complex and woefully ineffective at addressing the worst child poverty.
In 2004, the Child Poverty Action Group (of which I am a founding member) explained what was so wrong in a publication called Cut Price Kids and the group has been campaigning to fix Working For Families (WFF) ever since.




The main part of WFF is the per child, per week Family Tax Credit that goes to all caregivers in low-income families on the same basis. This is the best tool to ensure income adequacy. The second component, confusingly named the ÔÇ£In-Work Tax CreditÔÇØ, is added to the Family Tax Credit weekly payment, but only when parents are eligible on paid work criteria.



While fixed hours of work no longer have to be met, if there is any benefit or part-benefit paid, then the children of those parents cannot have any of the In-Work Tax Credit.

As a result, about 200,000 of the worst-off children in New Zealand miss out on a substantial part of WFF - at least $72.50 a week.
The reasoning has been that paid work is the only way out of poverty and therefore their parents need an incentive to work.




Parents are not on benefits for fun. Their children are four times more likely than other children to live in poverty - that means going without the basics, not enough money after rent to pay for school uniforms or the power bill, let alone nutritious food.
Many of these families are sole parents, many have disabled children or there is sickness in the family. They have few job opportunities and lack support of all kinds. Even if they manage a part-time job, their part-benefit makes their children ineligible for the In-Work Tax Credit.




When a payment to a caregiver is designed to be enough to address child poverty but it is withheld from the worst-off families who are on benefits to create a work incentive, the result is deeper child poverty, not more parents off-benefit."

This is good news, I wasnt expecting this. Seems to indicate to me they will be training with them over there which makes sense.
We might be seeing them in action sooner than we think.

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/08/19/7416283/

How the hell can anyone be either so very  ignorant or so very uncaring about the reaction from their costumes.





https://www.stuff.co.nz/bay-of-plenty/30...vent-spark

 a"A group of people dressing as the Ku Klux Klan for a quiz night community event has sparked outrage in Kaimai.

When a local heard what had happened he was shocked by ÔÇ£the abhorrent behaviourÔÇØ, and concerned that nobody had stopped the group from taking part.

Didn't think i would see myself in this situation, but I need to use it to access an hikvision security system for work.
Edge has an ie mode, but no video images appear, I'm wondering if my AV might have something to do with it, I had to unblock the software and add an exception in ESET when I installed it, but quite often I find that AV software tends to block stuff even with an exception although the logs don't indicate anything.
I wonder if there is any software that can access the system without the browser?

Queen's song "Fat bottomed Girls dropped from new release of their greatest hits. Daft bastards!!

'Woke gone mad': Fat Bottomed Girls dropped from Queen's new Greatest Hits collection (yahoo.com)

While the buildings are truly ugly, the idea is a good one & much of this makes excellent sense. Which is highly unusual for any govt dept.


There will be 24 hour support services for those who need it & various things for tenants with disabilities such as oven doors which open sideways

https://kaingaora.govt.nz/urban-developm...e-matawai/



https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/495...evelopment




, a"Te M─üt─üwai, a complex of 276 apartment units on Greys Avenue in the CBD, opened its doors this morning.
The $140 million development replaces a seven-storey building with 87 units that was demolished in 2019.
The latest was something of an experiment. Te M─üt─üwai will include a mix of social housing, temporary accommodation, and rental properties.
"There's various models around the world, but this is new in New Zealand," Minister of Housing Megan Woods said.
"Two hundred of those are public housing, 76 of them are market rentals."
The intention was to ensure a "diverse and mixed community," she said.
"We need to be building communities, we need to be bringing different people together."

Woods said she was persuaded by Auckland City Missioner Helen Robinson.
"Then I had to persuade my colleagues that this was the best case, because in some ways it goes against the grain," she said.
But renters would still be housed separately, in one of the three towers that made up the complex."

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/...67d28&ei=7



"mBard Billot on the Baron's warty toad