Postcards from the brighter future

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1. WILD KATIPO 1

   1 June 2017 at 11:25 am

   Thank goodness that embarrassment slunk off down the alleyway… but we still have to clear away the lies of Bullshit Double Dipper English ,… so… loads more work to do yet to put the boot into neo liberalism…

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2. greywarshark 2

   1 June 2017 at 6:10 pm

   Another one. One item you featured r0b earlier on was about the Defence Force downsizing and civilianising – from Otago Daily Times 8 March 2012.

   Admiral Steer said the NZDF was on target to save $355 million by the 2014/15 financial year, and had saved $127 million in this financial year so far – though he insisted that the NZDF’s military capacity was improving because the savings were in middle- and back-room functions.

   The NZDF had gone through a round of “civilianisation”, which saw about 300 uniformed staff made redundant because they were roles that could be filled by civilian staff.

   How does it work that in 2017 they now want to cut out all cigarette smoking. Is this going to win friends and influence people to join?

   And how does it work that the DF is so worried about such things when the whole object of training is to brutalise the personnel, so they do things that are injurious to other people’s health, and their own. They have to do things that are beyond anything controlled by petty rules like not smoking. Just think if a soldier said he/she couldn’t go into a certain area because there was nasty smoke hanging round after the last bomb explosion.

   People wouldn’t be enrolled if they weren’t hale and hearty and I wouldn’t deny them a cigarette if they wanted one, though cautioning against it. It’s just another target set by the great gods of whatever who want to control each aspect of our lives. I demand such and such by such a time they pronounce like Roman Emperors. Hypocritical. They don’t care about the people under their jurisdiction, it is the cause du jour that’s all. And showing they can flex their muscles and force people to obey their edicts.

   Denying people things that give pleasure is all part of the new authoritarianism. What will the National Party, their agencies and their economic dogs, think of next to harrass us with?
   • greywarshark 2.1

     2 June 2017 at 10:25 am

     From list above:
     Dairy worker fears he will be killed over smokes

     “I can be killed in 10 minutes.”
     A Whanganui dairy worker is calling for quicker police response times and other measures to staunch the violence and robbery of dairies in New Zealand.

     Mandeep Singh, who works at Springvale Dairy, said there should be “some kind of phone app which brings police on patrol” to disturbances at dairies much quicker.
     He also wants the Government to stop putting up the price of cigarettes, and for dairy owners and workers to have more rights to defend themselves.

     Sounds quite reasonable and could be set up easily. Will Gnashional government act, the government that encourages business, enterprise and consumerism? Well?

     And a strange situation this morning where the Health and Safety Manager for Z garages was being asked for suggestions on prevention that to me should have been asked of our police force.

     It appears that the police force and government agencies are being undermined by a private entity.

     http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/201846095/retailers-turn-shops-into-fortresses
     Listen duration 3′ :56″
     Z Energy’s manager of health and safety says removing posters from dairy windows would probably do just as much for the safety in dairies as getting smoke canons and tobacco dispensing machines. Julian Hughes says making shops more open plan and more visible from outside would help.

     http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/201846094/ak-youth-workers-warn-of-impending-crime-spree-as-prevention
     Listen duration 3′ :59
     Auckland youth workers are warning of a crime spree as three million dollars of spending on crime and gang prevention comes to an end this month. Up to eight programmes across the city will have to close because they no longer fit the criteria in a new government funding model.

     education
     29 May 2017
     Teachers isolated, can’t access research: study
     From Nine To Noon, 9:07 am on 29 May 2017
     http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/201845515/teachers-isolated-can-t-access-research-study

     Listen duration 22′ :23″
     Kathryn Ryan talks with Dr Nina Hood, founder of The Education Hub, a new non-profit organisation set up to promote cooperation with the education sector. She says teachers are isolated and find it hard to keep up to date with the latest research in their field, partly because of the way academics write and present their research.

     And here was a new non-profit agency set up to pass on training tips to teachers who are too busy apparently to get them from government. Another doubling up, with some middle class well spoken graduate being paid too much to talk about methods of pedagogy to those on the coalface, who will no doubt learn best principles or some other farcical term.

     Will they say, if you start off the class with a sandwich and get them to eat it without throwing it at someone, you will find the children are more receptive? Will they provide a grab bag of ideas that a teacher having trouble from an unsettling, unruly child can work through before they send the child to the principal’s office? This is common these days as education is passed on in the old idea that it will be useful and help the child know about the world and get a job. None of the above are likely. And the latest classroom design is open plan. If there is unruliness in one group, how can the others concentrate? It’s probably cheaper and who cares about ordinary kids anyway, there is nothing for them out there.

     Giving the children something to do that they can gain a skill from, and complete within a reasonable time period would be far better. Start, continue, stick to and finish your tasks is a valuable training in itself. Even better, see if you can get the children to settle on something they have thought up. I have seen the lack of ability to concentrate on anything in some of these kids. They could go through years of school and manage to not take in much.

     Just setting targets as in National Standards is stupid. Getting the kids to want to learn is the key. And teachers are under enormous pressure to get the kids through, and will resort to optimistic grading if necessary.

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