The Daily Blog Open Mic – Monday 24th September 2018
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
Moderation rules are more lenient for this section, but try and play nicely.
EDITORS NOTE: – By the way, here’s a list of shit that will get your comment dumped. Sexist language, homophobic language, racist language, anti-muslim hate, transphobic language, Chemtrails, 9/11 truthers, climate deniers, anti-fluoride fanatics, anti-vaxxer lunatics and ANYONE that links to fucking infowar.
Like a rat trapped in a barrel Simon Bridges is now gleaning his turds by saying he now wants to work with jacinda on “climate change”!!!!!!!!!
Un-beliveable as Bridges has been part of the effort to shut down our rail system and push all freight onto our roads that will increase the climate emission gasses five times faster.
Rail accordinng to this report will save us $1.3 Billion a year and cut climate change emisions according to a rail study his Government poduced and kept under wraps when he found out the truth!!!!!!
“Reducing carbon emissions by 488,000 tonnes a year – the equivalent of taking 87,000 cars off the road – saves $8.5 million.”
http://www.kiwirail.co.nz/uploads/Publications/The%20Value%20of%20the%20Rail%20in%20New%20Zealand.pdf
Facts at a glance:
Rail contributes up to $1.5 billion in often unseen benefits to New Zealand each year.
The value of rail to New Zealand far outweighs its cost to the taxpayer.
Using rail reduces the number of deaths and injuries on our roads by a net 271 a year.
Rail saves taxpayers money on congestion, road maintenance costs, injuries and fatalities and reduced carbon emissions.
Reducing congestion saves $1.3 billion, the equivalent of 100,000 fewer daily car trips and taking 30,000 trucks off the road for an hour a day.
Reducing carbon emissions by 488,000 tonnes a year – the equivalent of taking 87,000 cars off the road – saves $8.5 million.
Improving safety outcomes saves $60 million.
Reducing road maintenance saves $63 million.
Rail is also an important and sustainable economic contributor to the regions and links New Zealand to export markets overseas.
Just got sent this video via Facebook of some kid being decapitated. It’s Monday and already I want a drink.
Our twin environmentally aware social blogsite “The standard” is down again as of 6am on 25th September sadly again.
Going onto “The Standard’ and you get is this;
Service Unavailable
The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.
Apache/2.4.29 (Ubuntu) Server at thestandard.org.nz Port 443