The Daily Blog Open Mic – Monday 1st February 2016

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  1. More evidence national are deliberately killing rail in NZ as they are deliberately starving other transport options for freight transport and the options to access cheaper cleaner options to move their products’ safety for saving the Export producing provinces, I pity what National are leaving for our children and grandchildren besides Auckland commuter rail improvements.

    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503462&objectid=11582181

      • Goldman Sachs are shown as the most dishonest company in the world and John Key has brought Paula Rebstock from USA to privatise our assets and Goldman Sachs oversees her work.
        John Key has worked and been trained by the biggest companies that have fingers in every pie and men in governments to enable the passage of all things to benefit the companies,
        John Key has brought Goldman Sachs in to assist in the TPPA.
        Note most of the people in the companies are Jewish,John Key is half Jewish,its a well known fact that Jews collude with Jews to get on the highest rungs of company ladders.
        John Key is assisting corporations to plunder NZ as they plundered Greece, Ireland, etc etc all these countries are in austerity and the corporations are making huge profits by making poor people pay huge interest payment and its ongoing ,these countries will probably never get out of corporation clutches, NZ is heading in the same direction ,and the silent mps are assisting by their silence and compliance.
        The Tppa is Keys entry into the big boys club,hes been a small bit player up to now, and made a fortune,the tppa is his to play with and make more and more money ,enough is never enough.
        March next Thursday and make every effort to stop tppa without violence,make your presence known but keep out of harms way.

    • I also pity what Natzis are leaving for the next generation.
      EKshully ….. I came across a map of various railways in NZ – how they developed over time.
      Some things struck me when I discovered what was, AND what could be a future rail network, and means of transport within regions.
      Given appropriate rolling stock (both for freight and passenger)…
      Firstly, there’s the bleeding obvious – links to airports and how close many rail links exist or could relatively easily be achieved.
      (Especially Auckland, Christchurch and Dunedin – ChCh either via a northern route, or via the West – or perhaps even a loop; Dunedin, how close to the airport existing infrastructure already exists)
      Secondly, I’d no idea our forefathers had gotten so close to Queenstown; or how close the Nelson route had gotten to Murchison,,,,then on to the West Coast – there are a number of such links where rail could FAR FAR FAR better any freight ( and probably passenger) options.
      Thirdly, the number of places where (with the appropriate rolling stock) links could better road options. New Plymouth/Stratford; Tauranga/Te Puke (and onwards); Auckland/Hamilton; Wellington/Masterton; Christchurch/Rolleston, and then Northward; Christchurch/Lyttleton with stops on the way; Auckland northward; Whangarei/southward – and aside from freight options.
      THe potential really is endless (and probably eventually inevitable)
      But then Short Termism really is a feature in NZ of the political elite.
      It’s SO fucking short term, there’s no protection given to protecting existing (mothballed, deleted, etc.) routes that have been deemed unprofitable, but which will (in some cases already) be either profitable or necessary in future.
      And here’s me, not even one of those nutty trainspotter types.

      Resurrecting that Gisborne link btw is A NO BRAINER ….. I’d even go further and look at the potential for pushing northward – they got half way to Tauranga in days gone by when things were a fucking sight harder to achieve than they are today

  2. ‘Goldman Sachs executive takes ‘personal leave’ amid Malaysian fund corruption probes’

    https://www.rt.com/business/330665-goldman-leissner-malaysia-corruption/

    “Tim Leissner, chairman of Goldman Sachs Southeast Asia’s operations, has taken a “personal leave” amidst corruption scandals associated with Malaysia’s state-owned 1MDB fund, with which Goldman worked closely.

    President of Goldman’s Singapore operations since 2006 and chairman of its Southeast Asia operations since 2014, Leissner oversaw the bank’s operations in Malaysia, where it became the top international bank with a 20.3 percent market share since 2010.

    Leissner was seen as a “key player” in cultivating the bank’s very profitable relationships with Kuala’ Lumpur’s banking and government elite, including Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, the Financial Times reports….

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