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Too much hypocrisy on climate emissions, why be holier than thou at COP26 but still helping the coal companies keep polluting with 25 year jail terms for protestors.
Aussie coal protesters face 25-year jail sentence
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/australia/aussie-coal-protesters-face-25-year-jail-sentence
No wonder the world is turning bonkers and democracy dying, the governments are leading it!
Top 30 wage subsidy claimants, corporate welfare at it finest, especially when many of them seem to be polluting, paying high CEO salaries while making workers redundant constantly, and making record profits.
Air NZ $125,364,852
Fletcher Building $67,683,718
The Warehouse $51,988,574
Silver Fern Farms $43,252,774
Downer NZ $38,232,218
Alliance Group $34,386,456
Fulton Hogan $34,254,797
The Farmers Trading Company $32,033,140
SkyCity Management $31,206,090
NZ Post $29,714,222
Spotless Facility Services (NZ) $28,718,341
Bunnings $27,202,044
AWF $26,595,044
KiwiRail Holdings $26,387,304
Restaurant Brands $25,781,238
Best Start Educare $25,640,354
OCS $24,426,929
Bidfood $16,803,220
Compass Group NZ $15,965,950
Beca Consolidated $15,866,556
Adecco Personnel $13,795,140
Antares Restaurant Group $13,367,802
Harvey Norman Stores (NZ) Pty $12,707,652
Flight Centre (NZ) $12,131,959
Noel Leeming Group $12,092,969
Kmart NZ Holdings $11,977,440
Southern Cross Hospital $11,847,277
Regional Facilities Auckland Trust $11,448,872
Waste Management NZ $10,975,680
City Care $10,727,819
Total $842,576,431
These companies have already been asked to give back money after claiming the wage subsidy when they didn’t need to.
Porirua City Council $68,837 $2,564,916 $2,633,753
ContainerCo (NZL) Ltd $758 $1,677,156 $1,677,914
Orchestral Developments Ltd $0 $1,135,966 $1,135,966
EmployNZ Ltd $0 $386,827 $386,827
Orion Systems International Ltd $0 $264,295 $264,295
Orion Health Ltd $0 $217,918 $217,918
Orion Hospitals (NZ) Ltd $0 $161,681 $161,681
Advanced Personnel Services Ltd $0 $161,198 $161,198
Symphony Research Ltd $582,214 $136,714 $718,928
China Travel Service (N.Z.) Ltd $0 $126,533 $126,533
Total $651,809 $6,833,204 $7,485,013
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/top-10-requested-wage-subsidy-repayments
What sort of lowlife appears to want to do a terror attack at a woman’s hospital, but due to the quick thinking of a taxi driver who locked him in the cab, was stopped.
Liverpool taxi blast a terror incident, threat level raised
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/world/liverpool-taxi-blast-terror-incident-threat-level-raised
Other countries seem to be more interested and successful at affordably solving housing. These don’t have the mod cons that the woke expect in NZ, but are better than the streets!
Last year, Tabassum and her team used the pandemic lull to develop a low-cost modular house kit for the landless char dwellers. They had previously researched the region’s popular flat-pack homes, which are designed to be dismantled and moved when needed, but the cost of £1,500, along with their requirement for carpenters, puts them out of reach of many. MTA designed a simple space-frame system using lengths of readily available bamboo, connected with steel joints, that could house a family of four for £300, and be built by residents themselves. The Khudi Bari (Tiny House) comprises a pitched-roof upper level sleeping platform above a ground floor of compacted earth, with the structure clad in panels of woven grass, or whatever local materials are to hand. Four families have been rehoused so far in Char Hijla, southern-central Bangladesh, to test how the design works, with 100 more homes on the way.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/nov/16/marina-tabassum-architecture-soane-medal-bangladesh-housing
Also not sure if true, (who knows) but this article says the construction industry is not taking up 50% of the world’s emissions.
No doubt NZ is leading the way with global emissions and contributing to landfill, we love to demolish existing housing, for the next grot boxes or McMansion. They they need more construction workers to rebuild the perfectly good houses they just demolished or meters of concrete with millions of carbon emissions from both the concrete and truck movements, to raise flood land levels that flood the neighbours instead?
For those concerned about covid handling this unrolls events as they happen. It’s hard to keep up with all the information. (Thinks Monty Python ‘Look I’m bring oppressed’ by government factual information.) Protesters please note:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/455883/covid-19-live-updates-for-17-november-all-you-need-to-know-about-cases-vaccinations-and-travel
Personally I am not travelling to be with family at Christmas – my Rights are being oppressed by anti- Vaxxers and Deniers and anti-Authority types! There is a time and place for things. The Traffic light system is a good choice by government. Keep using traffic laws people, with them we get democracy on the roads. Why not introduce that thinking into everyday movements anywhere?
Can you imagine the chaos as all of NZ start driving all around on the 15 Dec? It will be hell. I’m staying home and waiting until after the madness that will ensue.
NZ already have gang members axing people in petrol stations with road rage. It is going to be a disaster.
Maybe NZTA and can start all their road works too (sarcasm), and have hundreds of heat strokes and heart attacks from all the blockades, with Covid spreading in rural areas like Northland and iwi up in arms. s
I get why the government wants to do it as it’s the was thing to do to try and stem the angry venters out there, (won’t work though as nothing makes them happy). but seriously think of the practical reality of what is going to happen.
Even worse if they open the airports without MIQ, Covid before lunchtime and even more chaos on the roads and hospitals and can’t even say we are beating the world on Covid anymore.
Oh, I hate technology. Just got here ‘you are posting things too fast’ ! What the shit. How about you nerdic tech-nicks leave us alone a little. My phone says don’t touch the face of the phone when I try to answer a call. Leave us alone! You computer geeks (geniuses in your own minds) are all so much beneath our world of ideas.
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