Open mike 23/04/2024

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7 comments on “Open mike 23/04/2024 ”

  1. Tiger Mountain 1

    Private Prison expansion seems one likely goal of Act re Three Strikes. Bump up the numbers, increase profits for capital–baked beans on paper plates with a side of brutality.

    Kelvin Davis and Labour actually got the numbers down by several thousand with simple measures such as supplying assistance to illiterate inmates to fill out forms!–which previously had kept people in for months because paper trails had not been completed. Of course various people (Natzos) said that numbers should not be reduced! and Labour planned to reduce their initial 30% reduction target–but–the point I am making is the difference between a punitive and rehabilitative approach.

    Bar Capital Punishment, incarceration is the strongest penalty the state and society can apply to an individual, and for profit parasites are the last lot that should be running jails.

    Where I live in Tai Tokerau one of the common reasons for getting stopped by cops is “driving while Māori”, cops photograph and take DNA from young Māori with no lawful cause–they do it because they generally get away with it and Three Strikes is just going to add to the profiling and racism.

    • gsays 1.1

      The prisons have been on my mind lately. After hearing the chief wallah from the prison inspectorate give a very grim view of the state of the prisons.

      Too many inmates kept in solitary (more than 22 hours a day) with the main reason being short staffed.

      How can a private provider do better while making a return for their shareholders?

      Efficiency and other lies only go so far.

  2. For anyone interested in getting some answers about what the Government is (not) trying to achieve, New Zealand First are having public meetings this week.

    Public Meetings

  3. joe90 3

    What it says on the box.

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  4. joe90 4

    Israel smeared UNRWA. And the world fell for it.

    //

    Israel has yet to provide supporting evidence of its claims that employees of the UN relief agency Unrwa are members of terrorist organisations, an independent review led by the former French foreign minister Catherine Colonna has said.

    The Colonna report, which was commissioned by the UN in the wake of Israeli allegations, found that Unrwa had regularly supplied Israel with lists of its employees for vetting, and that “the Israeli government has not informed Unrwa of any concerns relating to any Unrwa staff based on these staff lists since 2011”.

    […]

    The Colonna review, an assessment of Unrwa’s neutrality drafted with the help of three Nordic research institutes and due to be published later on Monday, makes clear that Israel has yet to substantiate any of its broader claims about the involvement of Unrwa staff in Hamas or Islamic Jihad.

    It notes that in March “Israel made public claims that a significant number of Unrwa employees are members of terrorist organisations”. “However, Israel has yet to provide supporting evidence of this,” the report says.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/22/israel-unrwa-staff-terrorist-links-yet-to-provide-evidence-colonna-report

  5. tWig 5

    Big Hairy News deconstruct the recent Q+A interview with the Israeli ambassador. Chewie chews out the ambassador's arguments. BHN Facebook 23 April 2024 13:30.

  6. newsense 6

    The National Party and Chris Bishop have a little list

    and none of them’ll be missed

    I’m sure they won’t be missed

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