And now National come for the Homeless and the Environment
TDB warned you that this hard-right-racist-climate-denying-beneficiary-bashing Government was not moderate and that because Luxon is the weakest Prime Minister we’ve ever had, Winston and Seymour will dominate and manipulate him into implementing culture war revenge fantasies as social policy and donor requests for deregulation and tax cuts as economic policy.
This assault on the environment by handing Dr Pork Shane Jones fast tracking powers will open conservation land up for trans national mining interests while the Treaty Principles Bill will kill off any requirement for those Trans National Mining Interests to listen to Māori who will be leading the environmental push back against them.
The reason Luxon wants so many Dams is because you need Dams to mine!
TDB told you these Trans National Mining interests aided and abetted by think tanks like The Atlas Network were part of a far wider orgy of Crony Capitalism with privatisation and deregulation around the corner, and lo and behold we get Fast Track Powers while muting any avenues for resistance to these Trans National Mining interests.
At the same time, National launch their Homelessness policy aimed at creating more homelessness. By narrowing who can be put on emergency housing, they magically get to wipe thousands of people off the list because those Bottom Feeders not longer ‘qualify’ for emergency housing…
Government confirms emergency housing plan shake-up
She said verification, eligibility, and limits to the ability for officials to use discretion for applicants for emergency housing would be done before August.
“MSD staff assessing anyone applying for emergency housing will increase their scrutiny of whether they have unreasonably contributed to their immediate emergency housing need, whether they have taken reasonable efforts to access other housing options and whether they have previously paid their emergency housing contribution.
“This will include escalating for further consideration by a manager on a case-by-case basis, and making a grant for one to four days – as opposed to the current options of seven to 21 days – to enable further scrutiny before a grant is approved for a longer period.”
…this isn’t Emergency Housing, it’s punishment.
No Carrot and all stick!
Homeless people can’t live in a stick!
Constant reassessment, people being kicked off the list, shorter periods of time, these are all means of spiking the point of Emergency Housing.
These people have complex needs, throwing them out on the street is not the fucking solution!
Emergency Housing existed after Key was embarrassed by Kiwis living in cars. What had happened was that the State under Key had become so mean spirited and abusive towards those they were tasked with aiding, that people were frightened of having any contact with Government services so the Government services under represented the true enormity of real poverty.
Jacinda continued her kindness mantra and State Agencies became actual tools for aiding better outcomes. People saw them as far kinder in treating them, but of course that’s all changed and now the State is mutating from carrot into stick with which to bash the vulnerable with.
Fast tracking Trans National Mining Interests to raze our Environment.
Throwing the homeless off emergency waiting lists to make the emergency waiting lists look better.
More meth precursor drug access.
More sub machine guns.
8000 tobacco deaths for tax cuts.
13000 more children in poverty for tax cuts.
Disability benefit cut by $2300 per year for tax cuts.
Getting us involved in a new American war.
Ramming through laws misusing urgency.
Gang Patch bans that are against the Bill of Rights.
Attacking worker right, renter rights and environmental rights.
Taking free lunches away from poor children.
This is what we have become in just 100 days – if you voted for this you must own this malice and spite.
Aotearoa New Zealand is better than this Government is making us.
Comrades.
As much as we are collectively shocked and horrified at the brutal right wing draconian madness that is being rammed through Parliament with bugger all over sight, can I assure you all, it’s about to get waaaaaaaaay worse once the lobbyists have fleshed their election talking points into actual policy.
I do not think we are ready for this jelly.
There needs to be an urgent political summit of the Left to work out how we are going to collectively resist this.
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We need mines and oil to give us the money to be a functional state able to care for all with education medical and other general needs.
We cannot have another covid story where the cure was nearly as bad as the pain for many.
Maori schemes have been catch up in red tape just like the rest.
You oil shills are unbelievably short sighted.
Blind you mean, Richard.
Don’t blame Maori Trevor brown tongue we haven’t been in charge of this country
Perhaps.
But they aren’t owned by the people, for the people, are they? Dodgy Douglas and Lange colluded to sell off the Marsden Point refinery to foreign oil companies. Spurred on by ‘donations’ from the likes of BP and Mobil, they even gave tens of millions of dollars to the foreigners to inflate the purchase price. The supposedly left-wing Ardern regime did nothing to take back our refining capacity- instead they let them destroy the refinery in 2022, just so they could bring lower-quality oil products in from overseas (ever wonder why pothole repairs don’t last even a week anymore?) at inflated prices and circumvent our maritime unions.
To hell with the overseas interests. Seize everything that these aliens ‘own’. BP can have $1 for their stake in ‘Channel Infrastructure’, if they give us back the expensive platinum catalysts they sold off for scrap to restore the Marsden Point refinery.
Nothing to stop mines on privately owned land, Trevor.
Yes there is .RMA is a very blunt instrument and stops many projects due to cost .
RMA preserves the enviroment. Something that you depsise. You must really hate trees, clean air and clean water.
JiggeryPokery Jones isn’t dribbling about just oil or coal. It’s the REEs.
Extraction of REEs and REOs is not mining UNDER conservation land. They are in the soils of the top layers of the Earth. So from the outset it’s predominantly stripping and excavating the habitats ON TOP of conservation land.
Not only are vast tracts of landscapes, flora and fauna destroyed but around the globe the pollutants after the processes of extraction are left behind in soils and waterways; or if material is taken away to specialised refining sites, the disposal of the residue reagent ‘solvents’ are still someone’s problem.
Look at these excerpt examples of mumbo jumbo WHITEWASHING research, written by Chinese interests to lull the stupid… NB. REEs are never found as free metals in the soil.
” …. including chemical separation (fractional… ) and solvent extraction are used to obtain pure HREEs.
“Leaching of HREEs
The conventional physical beneficiation methods cannot enrich the rare earths to form the corresponding rare earths ore concentrate and, therefore, the chemical leaching technology is key technology for extracting such mineral. ”
” ….resulting in the waste of heavy rare earth resources, and large amount of ammonia nitrogen or saline-alkali wastewater is produced by saponification technology, as well as high consumption of reagents and energy for processing low-concentration REEs solution, the extractant has high solubility and serious loss …”
” Obviously, the heavy rare earth resources not only face smaller and smaller reserves and huge gaps, but also suffer from nonrenewable situations.”
NZs Mapping and its Mineral Commodity Reports ( eg. # 17 on REEs ) have existed for over 40 years and despite knowing REEs and REOs are non- renewable,
little has been done too about secondary recovery through recycling. Keep on dumping is the policy, the must have products are not ‘ green ‘ when viewed through the whole process cycle of extraction to end of life. REEs are not an infinite resource. In the main ‘ mining ‘ REEs is a one time, finite, irreparable, fuck you all endeavour to line the pockets of a few. TESLAs anyone ?
We all know they despise the working poor and bottom feeders but this is all starting to look very pathological .
Reti said his government wants to be ambitious in health delivery, but we are not allowed to be ambitious in purchasing decent ferries and we must accept cheaper built classrooms. What a bunch of cheapskates no class luxon and co
I’m right, stop talking utter crap how many houses have been built under Labour bloody thousands and how many did National build, fuck all, they are the sell party, and they make shit up. National started the hotel policy they did this for 9 years while denying there was problem. National made the criteria harder to get on the state housing lists.
Its gona! out out out out out out out out out out out out out out out out out out out
QUESTION, P.M. Own, this building, or have shares, outside your apartment.
For fuck sake where is all this oil that dumb fucks keep going on about ?.If it existed the greedy fuckers would have pumped it out of the ground long ago .I would think that all the money that has been spent over the last 100 years looking for the shit would far out weigh the amount earned from the small amounts found .Yep it employees a thousand or so people but what is the return on investment ,fuck all I would suggest