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Customer brand loyalty not needed as NZ companies are refusing full refunds for cancelled flights UNLIKE UK that has automatic full cash refunds for Covid related cancelled flying.
“Under the law, consumers are entitled to receive a refund for their cancelled flights, despite the challenges the industry is currently facing. We support airlines offering consumers vouchers and rebooking alternatives where it makes sense for the consumer. But it is important that consumers are given a clear option to request a cash refund without unnecessary barriers. We expect airlines to provide refunds for cancelled flights as soon as practically possible, whilst appreciating there are operational challenges for airlines in the current circumstances.”
https://www.caa.co.uk/News/UK-Civil-Aviation-Authority-reviewing-airline-refunds/
CEAC – “Kiwi Rail if you don’t restore Gisborne rail give it back”
Citizens Environmental Advocacy Centre. – Political press release.
4th June 2020
Kiwi Rail CEO Greg Miller said he will not re-open the Gisborne rail service for freight and passenger services for the region, after eight years of closure even now after a yearlong PGF $600.000 study confirmed to the Government that the rail service needs to be re-opened.
Kiwi Rail has shown crass dis-regard for this remote region to have a “safe secure land transport option” – other than a single laned road that is now gridlocked with freight trucks making road travel extremely dangerous, and causing road maintenance cost to escalate to an all-time high, while at the same time Kiwi Rail are blocking any public scrutiny of its operations as a public funded agency now operating without transparency.
CEAC is regarding Kiwi Rail as ‘acting cavalier’ towards the iwi’s of these regions of HB/Gisborne who were the Tangata whenua “Tribal Land Owners” of the land in the area that was agreed by them and the Government as others also were made to allow the rail to be built across their tribal land for a promise that the rail service “would be of great advantage to their people” in a letter signed by the Government minister for “Native affairs” John Bryce was given by Government surveyors to the Kaumatua at meetings at the time of the planning of rail services around all NZ.
History cannot be erased Kiwi Rail CEO Greg Miller, and now CEAC is in support the calls being made “that if you are not prepared to continue to “provide a rail service to the people that would be of great advantage to them” as promised in the Government letter from John Bryce then give it back to the owners of the agreement made then and pay reparations for lost services.
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Using Covid for profit, taking data and creating a monopoly.
How CIA-backed Palantir embedded itself in the NHS
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2020/05/16/inside-story-cia-backed-palantir-embedded-nhs-socialite-running/
Peter Thiel’s Creepy Tech Firm Is Helping The Government Track Coronavirus
Palantir, co-founded by the billionaire Trump supporter, is reportedly playing a key role collecting data as the president seeks to reopen the country.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/04/peter-thiels-creepy-tech-firm-is-helping-the-government-track-coronavirus
Funny enough getting private practise to do everything can eventually lead to massive costs, complexity and deaths.
How a decade of privatisation and cuts exposed England to coronavirus
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/31/how-a-decade-of-privatisation-and-cuts-exposed-england-to-coronavirus
Likewise getting the fox to guard the hen house or worse multiple hen houses around the world, based on shareholder profit might not be in societies interests… especially when the founder does not believe in democracy….
Peter Thiel Once Wrote That Women Getting The Vote Was Bad For Democracy
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/peter-thiel-women-democracy_n_5747079be4b03ede4413f6f5?
Great links savenz thanks.
Here is Yanis Varoufakis – Greek politician and big thinker and JK Galbraith called Jamie – son of famous James Kenneth Galbraith. (They’re economists and obviously found it more efficient to use the same names or at least initials. Perhaps it’s a tribal thing.)
https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2020/05/26/jamie-galbraith-on-diem-tvs-another-now-discussing-the-criminal-incapacity-of-the-elites/ May.26/20
https://lbj.utexas.edu/galbraith-james-k
National will not save NZ.
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO2006/S00039/ceac-says-national-party-position-on-climate-change-is-still-abysmal.htm
CEAC Says -National Party Position On Climate Change Is Still Abysmal
Thursday, 4 June 2020, 2:21 pm
Press Release: Citizens Environmental Advocacy Centre
CEAC annual review of National Party climate change policy, makes miserable reading, and supports Government for elevating clean ‘Rail Transport’ over truck transport, for moving more freight onto rail, thereby keeping our CO2 ‘climate emissions’ at a far lower levels.
Comparison between Government and opposition.
Labour coalition policy is importantly keeping all our public highways /local roads safer by reducing road surface destruction trucks are causing immense road damages.- while forcing taxpayer costs to increase sharply paying for every day around our country, while Labour/NZ First have produced the new updated “National Rail strategy” which shows climate change leadership https://www.budget.govt.nz/budget/2019/wellbeing/transforming-economy/investing-in-rail.htm
Contrast Labour/NZ First to National;
National has vowed to scrap the RMA . https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/118223167/national-promises-to-repeal-and-replace-rma
National Instead plan to build massive highways for more (dirty emissions of CO2 using truck freight. https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1912/S00153/national-to-deliver-on-housing-transport-and-infrastructure.htm
National also are deliberately refusing to plan for rail freight, thereby are encouraging no rail freight to and from all provincial ports.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/118223167/national-promises-to-repeal-and-replace-rma
National promises to repeal and replace RMA, while Winston Peters and Phil Twyford as Minister of transport have been outlining the rail potential benefits in this new rail policy here; https://www.budget.govt.nz/budget/2019/wellbeing/transforming-economy/investing-in-rail.htm
“Rail makes a vital contribution to urban public transport. Moving more freight by rail is economically efficient, and reduces carbon emissions as well as deaths and serious injuries on our roads.
“Previous Governments have taken a hands-off approach and left rail in a state of managed decline.
“That’s why we instigated the Future of Rail review to make sure we are taking a long-term, joined-up approach to rehabilitating rail.
“Our New Zealand Rail Plan will outline the Government’s strategic vision and give a 10-year programme of indicative investments and benefits,”
Phil Twyford says. KiwiRail will report on progress on implementing the Government’s vision for rail and further funding will be considered in Budget 2020.
CEAC adds our support to Government for elevating clean ‘Rail Transport’ over truck transport, for moving more freight onto rail when considering the benefits; thereby keeping our CO2 ‘climate emissions’ at a far lower levels, potentially stabilising climate changing weather events, saving taxpayer spending, keeping all our public highways /local roads safer, reducing road surface destruction from trucks causing immense road/bridge surface damages, and saving taxpayer costs from rising from paying for every day on roads all around our country.
The political Left talks about the politically possible. They are obsessed with it. By then too late. For the species. Well trained by the 36 years of the rule of the rich. The benefits, for one, re this govt. John Minto is righter than Chris Trotter. It shunts more into your life than me, Martyn. Can someone on the people’s side disagree with me about this decade being our 1939. But they can’t.
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