The Daily Blog Open Mic – Saturday – 28th May 2016

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  1. Road freight cost is to rise, say’s Road Transport Association’s Ken Shirley in this article on RNZ today 27/5/16.

    http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/regional/305027/truck-crashes-blamed-on-fatigue-and-inexperience

    Quote; “Freight may go up – Road Transport Forum

    The Road Transport Forum says the cost of freight will have to rise if log truck drivers are to work shorter hours for better pay.

    The forum’s chief executive Ken Shirley said that’s a result of fierce competition and a race to the bottom as transport companies undercut each other for contracts.” (Un-quote,)

    Our waterways are already polluted and we have a long way to go to reduce the runoff from our roads currently with traffic pollution into our streams and rivers killing all our fish and ells.

    Mr Key/Smith/English/Joyce, – you as I and all farmers know how much we need to keep our waterways cleaned up again, for us all to survive in our regions, so using rail will reduce the trucks and keep our waterways cleaner so we need rail for when the log volumes treble.

    Consider; How much rubber dust is there, where does it go, and is it harmful?

    Tyres are made from oil as distillates producing chemicals that cause cancer.

    Just look up 1,3, Butadiene – styrene as the two principal chemicals in truck tyres and see for yourselves.

    Both are carcinogenic causing substances that are in tyre dust.

    Each time a tyre rotates, it loses a layer of rubber about a billionth of a metre thick. If you do some numbers, this works out to about four million million million carbon atoms lost with each rotation.

    A busy road with 25,000 vehicles travelling on it each day will generate around nine kilograms of tyre dust per kilometre. In the USA, about 600,000 tonnes of tyre dust comes off vehicles every year.

    In the Australian outback, traces of lead from car exhausts have been found up to 50 kilometres away from the nearest road. So some of the tyre dust can travel that far — but of course, most of it will settle around the road.

    Protect our waterways and health of our people and our future please.

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      1. We are headed for another Global financial crash more destructive than ever seen before, as we have changed our whole monetary system from real wealth to debt based “wealth, setting us up for a major disaster coming soon.

        We are in the twilight zone before the total crash and one day we will see the banks unable to open and signal the end of the Breton woods “Alice in Wonderland” Enclosed world” they then created by decoupling the real wealth generated system, by tying the monetary value to the goods created for a new “currency trader” (John Key type)system, so now we have a system that solely relies of borrowed money to keep the “currency trader” financial FIAT money system going.

        Disaster awaits us all folks so prepare.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZprvOrynJF8

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