Daily review 25/10/2024

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    • tWig 1.1
      25 October 2024 at 8:00 pm

      Plenty of rugby players and administrators who can say "We told you so" with that big-money deal a year or two ago.

      Rugby is suffering specifically because parents are more careful of their kids brains. Sportsclubs in general suffer from reducing numbers of volunteers as families become stretched for time and money.

      • SPC 1.1.1
        25 October 2024 at 10:50 pm

        Plenty of rugby players and administrators who can say "We told you so" with that big-money deal a year or two ago.

        They said the money would be used to support the domestic game.

        Rugby is suffering specifically because parents are more careful of their kids brains.

        This is historic. The primary school age children can have non tackle/contact. Rippa rugby (combo of touch and sevens and league play the ball).

        At high school, called rip rugby.

        There is now this step development towards 15's, via 10's.

        https://www.world.rugby/news/885898/t1-rugby-release

        They can move to tackle rugby, via sevens. There is also full 15's in high school same weight grades and then to 80kg max at club level.

        Leaving the age grade and first 15's to larger players, to reduce risk.

        Sportsclubs in general suffer from reducing numbers of volunteers as families become stretched for time and money.

        This is long term and impacted playing numbers first.

        The current aspect – national sports administrations (and or local councils)(or Sport New Zealand) should be helping community (club level) sport with their regulatory issues – 2026 deadline. And the loss of a lot of older (retired) people since 2019 – keeping safe from COVID.

  2. Joe90 2
    25 October 2024 at 5:56 pm

    They have plans.

    The Agenda

    The institute’s policy book, titled “The America First Agenda,” is slimmer than the much-debated plans espoused in Project 2025’s 900-page “Mandate for Leadership.” Absent are attention-grabbing proposals such as banning pornography, prohibiting the mailing of abortion pills or ending the Justice Department’s status as an independent agency.

    But its vision is no less Trumpist: It calls for halting federal funding for Planned Parenthood and for mandatory ultrasounds before abortions, including those carried out with medication. It seeks to make concealed weapons permits reciprocal in all 50 states, increase petroleum production, remove the United States from the Paris Agreement, impose work requirements on Medicaid recipients and establish legally only two genders.

    It also goes significantly further than Project 2025 in one key area, calling for the elimination of nearly all civil service protections for federal workers by making them at-will employees — a strategy supporters believe will allow Mr. Trump and his aides to root out career staff members who they believe stood in his way in his first administration.

    “Agencies should be free to remove employees for any nondiscriminatory reason, with no external appeals,” the institute’s policy book states.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/24/us/politics/donald-trump-campaign-america-first-policy-institute.html

    https://archive.li/qXPpw

    As controversies go, it was easy to miss this one. It all took place within the conservative media ecosystem. But it could foreshadow what might happen to the U.S. service academies if Trump is elected next month.

    Deep within Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s 925-page roadmap for the next Republican president, its authors say they want the service academies scrubbed of anything and anyone deemed insufficiently pure of thought — exactly what they did to Ben-Ghiat.

    “Audit the course offerings at military academies to remove Marxist indoctrination,” they wrote in the section on the U.S. military, “eliminate tenure for academic professionals, and apply the same rules to instructors that are applied to other DOD contracting personnel.”

    That’s a threat: Teach what we want or there’s no place for you at Annapolis, the Military Academy at West Point and the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. The plan calls for moving the Coast Guard and Merchant Marine, along with their academies, back under the Department of Defense and within the sights of the conservative thought police.

    “The lecture had nothing to do with contemporary America and I was not going to mention Mr. Trump at all in this strictly nonpartisan event at an institution, the U.S. Naval Academy, which I greatly admire,” Ben-Ghiat wrote in an email.

    https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/opinion/column/project-2025-naval-academy-ruth-ben-ghiat-heritage-foundation-UQM4A4CHTRH3FGHRO464YY7TJA/

  4. SPC 4
    25 October 2024 at 11:17 pm

    Single issue politics impacting on the US election.

    Michigan – voting Trump because they do not like the Biden position on Gaza.

    Pennsylvania – voting Trump because prices were lower 4 years ago ( … worldwide inflation … ).

    Arizona – women voting for Trump/GOP, because they can vote to protect themselves in a state referendum.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce31w8dzepno

    • tWig 4.1
      26 October 2024 at 9:55 am

      Or voting for the Green candidate. Where you cannot in good conscience vote for the Democratic government because of its Gaza policy.

      If the Green vote swing is large enough, it may at least affect Democratic party policy in the future.

      • SPC 4.1.1
        26 October 2024 at 6:42 pm

        What future after Project 2025?

        And if it impacts on Democratic Party policy how many votes do they lose in the centre?

      • joe90 4.1.2
        26 October 2024 at 7:59 pm

        If the Green vote swing is large enough, it may at least affect Democratic party policy in the future.

        Under Stein the Us Green Party membership has declined from 319,000 to 234,000, the party holds holds no state or federal offices, and only 143 local body positions.

        But sure, vote for Stein.

        /

        “The path to victory here is clearly maximizing the reach of these left-wing alternatives,” said Stephen K. Bannon, the former White House chief strategist who also served as Mr. Trump’s campaign chairman in 2016.

        “No Republican knows that oil production under Biden is higher than ever. But Jill Stein’s people do,” added Mr. Bannon. “Stein is furious about the oil drilling. The college kids are furious about it. The more exposure these guys get, the better it is for us.”

        https://archive.li/x2SiE#selection-931.0-935.261 )(nyt)