The Daily Blog Open Mic – Thursday 15th December 2016

1. On the fake mainstream media( with special interview with Alex Jones!)….For the dumb PC bunnies who slavishly follow crooked Hillary:

   (quelle horreur ! …the Russians are coming!..its RT !…what Hillary wants banned from the internet! …You wont hear this on the pompous RNZ!…)

   https://www.rt.com/shows/keiser-report/370114-episode-max-keiser-1005/

   “In this episode of the Keiser Report from Austin, Texas, Max and Stacy discuss the mainstream media pushing their hashtag fake news blacklists, as alt-media rejects fake narrative values to eat mainstream media’s naked lunch with acid memes and information liberation.

   In the second half, Max interviews Alex Jones of Infowars.com about Hillary Clinton singling him out as a media disinfo agent and the post-election media now jumping on the bandwagon.”

   • 100% Chooky

     Crooked Hillary is dubbed the queen of Bilderberg we hear.
     https://jhaines6.wordpress.com/2013/02/04/ben-fulford-queen-beatrix-quits-the-rockefellers-flee-the-bushes-are-rats-in-a-trap-queen-elizabeth-the-pope-and-the-rothschilds-are-still-standing-february-5-2013/
     She may replace the ailing Queen Beatrix – Daughter of the Nazi founder of The Bilderberg Group the late Nazi Prince Bernhard.

     I wouldn’t be surprised.

2. A plan to save our Gisborne rail service using the overseas “shortline” rail system as there are now over 400 such restored small “shortline ” rail systems in USA today and all are making money for the national economy so we should convert Kiwirail into a “shortline” rail system as the current model is closing down everywhere today.

   http://archive.freightrailworks.org/network/class-ii-and-class-iii/

   December 15, 2016

   gisborneherald.co.nz

   Short-line rail an attractive plan
   by Phil Hunt Published: December 10, 2016 10:20AM

   Re: ‘Pie in the sky’ stuff, December 3 letter.

   Stuart Dow of NSW kindly came to a meeting in Gisborne a few weeks ago to show how the short-line proposal w ill work in practice and how it would actually be operated from Gisborne to Wairoa.

   At that meeting we had speakers from all the main parties but our MP Anne Tolley was not present. I have written directly to the Prime Minister John Key, the Minister of Transport Simon Bridges and our member Anne Tolley on this subject.

   I left them in no doubt that the railway would be one of the main topics at the general election. At the previous election (against the trend of voting) Stuart Nash took the seat of Napier from national and at the next we hope to change the East Coast seat with regional development, regional roading subsidies and the rail issue to the forefront.

   The short-line proposal is far from “pie-in-the-sky” stuff. It is a means for local people to support the proposal with their input, be it monetary ideas or freight.

   This is a tried-and-true method of providing rail transport (particularly freight) in areas where the main railway companies will not.

   Apart from freight, of which at least ten different traffics have been identified, passengers would, at the outset, be mainly on tourist-type special trains. These trains pay the full allocated cost of running on the short-line’s tracks, adding to the freight revenue. As time goes by, word of mouth (the best advertising, and free) plus media releases would see more specials run. A wine trail service (say monthly) could run from Wellington to Gisborne via the Wairarapa to take in Martinborough (bus connection), Hawke’s Bay and Gisborne wine-growing areas.

   In the past (1990s to early 2000s) Gisborne has been the destination of trains from Hawke’s Bay and Wellington when visitors stayed for one or two nights, mainly over four-day weekends.

   An anchor for the short-line proposal could be a log consolidation yard at Matawhero where log trucks from the south and west of the city could transfer their loads. This is no more than is already done at the port but has the advantage of taking hundreds of truck movements off suburban streets and a big saving for trucking companies in road user charges. Don’t forget our rates pay for the upkeep of suburban streets and with the reduction of roading subsidies in the regions recently, we are set to pay more of the cost of roading in that way.

   At every angle, Stuart’s short-line proposal is attractive as no council or government money may be needed as investors will put their money forward if they think the idea has financial merit. One thousand ordinary investors with $1000 is one million dollars, and some would want to put more in.

   Only a small proportion of those who signed the rail petition putting in $1000, $3000, $5000 or whatever they felt they could risk would be ample to get this proposal off the ground. Also I doubt, at the outset, GDC would want to be an investor, but later on may like to be part of the action once it was seen the proposal was working and giving a return on investment.

   This is never going to be a get-rich-quick thing. The idea is to move freight out of and into the area (exchanging with KiwiRail at Wairoa) so that there will be four freight options south of the city.

   The advantage as well is that RVCs may be able to be held with fewer trucks pounding SH2, and all containers could be carried by rail where they should be.

   Stuart Dow – 1 minute ago

   Phil, thanks for the vote of confidence in my plan. Whilst I came over from NSW where I currently live and work, I am a born and bred New Zealander who is VERY concerned with the lack of vision re rail’s future not only in Tairawhiti but New Zealand as a whole.

   Let us hope that those at all levels of governance take this opportunity to progress the short-line proposal to fruition to assist in securing Tairawhiti’s economic future.

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