The Daily Blog Open Mic – Tuesday 27th December 2016
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Episode 1011
https://www.rt.com/shows/keiser-report/371897-episode-max-keiser-1011/
“In this episode of the Keiser Report from a beach in Florida, Max and Stacy advise the audience to check to see whether their hedge fund manager has bought a Ferrari for Christmas. If they did, it may be time to find a new fund manager.
In the second half, Max interviews retired counterintelligence officer ‘Eddie Z’ about economic espionage and allegedly hacked elections.”
‘Fake news’
https://www.rt.com/shows/crosstalk/368122-mainstream-media-fake-news/
“It is called fake news and we are told it is dangerous. Maybe we can agree on this. But let there be no mistake – it is governments and mainstream media that have peddled fake news for decades. And this is being challenged.
CrossTalking with Patrick Henningsen, Vladimir Golstein, and Marcus Papadopoulos.”
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/321304/ppp-could-fund-damaged-gisborne-railway-lobby-group
New Zealand transport
27 Dec 2016
PPP could fund damaged Gisborne railway – lobby group
12:51 pm on 27 December 2016
A rail lobby group is pushing for a damaged section of line between Gisborne and Wairoa to be repaired.
Four metres of paddock each side of the railway line belongs to KiwiRail.
The Napier-Gisborne line has been unused since it was badly damaged in a 2012 storm, but KiwiRail and Napier Port have since agreed to fix the southern half of the line, between Napier and Wairoa.
However, the future of the northern section between Wairoa and Gisborne is still undecided.
Gisborne Rail Co-operative Steering Group chair Nikki Searancke said her group had submitted an expression of interest to KiwiRail in a bid to get the section reopened for freight and tourism.
The group had asked for an extension until June, to give it time to put together a business case for repairing the line.
“We have tourists who come here – they’d love to get on the train and go from Gisborne to Napier and back again.”
The group estimated that it would cost about $7m to repair the line and a public-private partnership might be able to finance that, Ms Searancke said.
Many business owners, such as logging companies, supported re-opening the line, she said.