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Mornin’ all
Nu Zilnd is still here and so is luxflakes, but despite that, you’ve still got open dem eyes and get up,
Have a great day, wherever you are and whatever you intend to do.
Keep safe, keep warm and DLTBGYD
Moenie dit toelaat dat die bliksems jou onderkry nie!
Bit rusty after thirty years.
Doesn’t JT call it a front bum already , he must be ahead of the times , or maybe wherever he stands next to his wife he is behind her.
Just butt crack gazing?
All front holes are beautiful but not all of them can do that ping pong ball trick.
JUST IN: Lawmakers aren’t just calling for Cheatle to resign, they want her fired.
https://vt.co/news/us/youre-full-of-s-secret-service-director-kimberly-cheatle-is-eviscerated-by-lawmakers-over-trump-assassination-attempt?utm_source=vt&utm_
Viking@0649
When you had one job…
I got schooled at Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Court – Jarrod Gilbert
By Jarrod Gilbert
I went to court. I got schooled.
Few days have blown my mind like the day I spent at the Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Court (AODT). So unusual was it that I wondered if I was, in fact, on drugs.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/i-got-schooled-at-alcohol-and-other-drug-treatment-court-jarrod-gilbert/JASDSUKGDBF7TGMIGDNAG4276A/
Another paywalled link.
No, I don’t want a subscription to the Herald. Made any sales yet?
It was in yesterdays hard copy. The company buys it everyday mainly to see who’s gone bust. The only reason I read it. The perfect place for an imbecile like Jarrod to hang out where no one will see him.
Viking@0712
Unfortunately the article is paywalled.
Can you do a ‘copy and paste’ for our benefit please?
Thank you.
THREE KEY FACTS
The Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Court was established in 2012.
The court is formatted like a roundtable, with a judge, prosecutor, social workers, peer support and workers, probation officer, and lawyers presiding.
Instead of punishment, offenders must volunteer to get well.
Dr Jarrod Gilbert is the Director of Independent Research Solutions and a sociologist at the University of Canterbury.
OPINION
I went to court. I got schooled.
Few days have blown my mind like the day I spent at the Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Court (AODT). So unusual was it that I wondered if I was, in fact, on drugs.
I have long complained that the efforts of justice are exclusively focused on punishment and not reform, and where reform is attempted, it’s piecemeal and ineffective. Ticking away quietly in New Zealand’s small number of AODT courts, however, was something I thought I’d never see – a cohesive approach to justice concerned with preventing future crime.
Two AODT courts were established in Auckland in 2012, with funding provided by National’s then-Minister of Justice, Simon Power. Power was one of the smartest people to hold the Justice portfolio, and the smarts of the AODT courts were recognised by the Labour-led Government that followed. They embraced the courts and in 2021 established one in Hamilton.
Despite this rare bipartisan support, I knew scant little about them when I appeared at the doors of the Waitākere courthouse earlier this month. The morning session was closed to the public, but around a table sat the judge, the police prosecutor (who everybody called Sarge), social workers employed to work with those appearing, peer support and role modelling workers, a probation officer, and lawyers.
Files of those appearing were picked up and examined, and updates on progress – or concerns – were raised and discussed. The offenders represented by those files had to meet specific criteria to get the chance to appear before the court, and they also had to be committed to changing their behaviour.
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Courts are places where punishment is compulsory, but at this one, people must volunteer to get well.
And many people are terribly unwell. At one point, a new file is produced, the court considering taking a woman who has recently been arrested. Again.
The judge believes the court can help her, even though – actually, because – she has such high needs. Her story is awful but common.
She has multiple pages of criminal history, including scores of charges for breaching community conditions. She is of no fixed abode and devoid of prosocial support. Euphemistically, the judge says: “She has been used and abused since childhood and experienced things no person ever should.” She uses drugs and alcohol to numb her existence, but also for frighteningly practical reasons. She uses methamphetamine to stay awake when she is dossing to keep her safe from sexual predators. She suffers from audial hallucinations when drug-affected and she undertakes acts of physical self-harm.
Ordinarily, this woman serves a short stint in prison after which she is released back to the street and to her chaotic life and, of course, to offend again. Rinse and repeat, as they say.
If she comes under the jurisdiction of the AODT court, however, she will be given a residential placement to tackle her alcohol and drug addictions, as well as a range of wrap-around services to address her physical and psychological needs. But it’s no sure thing she’ll agree to it. The programme that the drug court will insist on will have a longer duration than her prison sentence. And given prison is familiar, and is without the demands to change, she may choose – as many do – the easier option.
Transformative changes for those who commit
For those who commit and persevere, the changes are transformative. In the afternoon, the court opens, and one of its first pieces of business is a graduation. Up walks an older man, a recidivist drink driver, dressed in a kōrowai (cloak) provided by the court. He has whānau and a support worker in tow.
The judge lists off his achievements, including nearly 500 days clean and sober, over 200 hours of community service work, and scores of different programmes attended. His niece steps forward and says “the uncle standing in court today is not the uncle we have known all of these years”. She had no idea a court like this existed and she thanked the judge. Sarge stood up and said: “I’ve looked at your file, and your life was a mess for year and years, and now you have proven yourself to such an extent to your community that you have been accepted as a Māori Warden. I’m proud of you.”
The judge congratulated him on graduating and then called the court to order. Having completed the programme, the man is still to be formally held accountable. A sentence of 18 months’ intensive supervision is handed down, a sentence that will be judicially monitored to check ongoing progress, including drug testing. The court, I kid you not, applauded.
“I would like to thank every single person here,” the man said.
The rest of the afternoon is filled with offenders speaking about what they’ve done since their last appearance (which is fortnightly, then every three weeks, then monthly). If people aren’t complying, they are given warnings or sanctions and asked what they require to help them comply. If they really stuff up, they are exited from the programme.
At one point the judge turns to Sarge and says: “You will be requesting a warrant for arrest?”
“Yes ma’am.”
In a world dealing with terribly complex problems, such failures are common. But each success represents something far greater than a win. It is one less offender, a safer community and one more positive community role model. Somebody who can demonstrate to those around them that change, while hard, is possible.
In a similar way, the AODT court is demonstrating that changing the way we do justice is possible, too.
This bloke goes to great lengths to prove he’s a wannabe and screaming try hard who just wants to look cool in front of his gang mates.
Good morning. Sun shining until the rain comes again.
You couldn’t make this moronic shit show up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PqkDoRfeYU
The Bizarre Way It All Ended
Paul Joseph Watson
Story time with Seymour //
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KtDFW-10k8
Something that everyone hates… until it happens.
ACT New Zealand
Bloody hell what s this wanker on?
Generally he overdoses on self importance.
https://rumble.com/v57g5dt-live-at-rnc-exclusive-rudy-giuliani-and-jack-posobiec-interview-sf-410.html?e9s=rel_v1_a
EXCLUSIVE Rudy Giuliani & Jack Posobiec Interview – SF 410
Russell Brand
On Flightlessbirdblog’s GD, commenter Tom Hunter quotes https://www.armas.co/p/the-missing-man & draws on parallels with the coup against Mikhail Gorbachev to make a very astute observation:
…….” Let us reflect for a moment on the exceeding strangeness, the un-normalcy, of all this. It is extremely strange for a President of the United States to end his reelection candidacy — and therefore to de facto end his Presidency — with a mere memorandum posted on social media. It is extremely strange for that President to issue a followup social-media post designating a successor, who immediately sets in motion the process of amassing the funds and power previously accrued to her predecessor. It is extremely strange for the President’s calendar to be concurrently cleared, including the cancellation of meetings with foreign leaders who are traveling to the United States specifically to meet with the President.
It is extremely strange for all this to happen without a single personal appearance, without even a video, without even a recording of his voice, without even a photograph, in an era where producing and sharing those things has never been easier.”…….
Habeas Corpus !
Maybe more akin to Andropov
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wiki
In February 1983, Andropov suffered total kidney failure. In August 1983, he entered Moscow’s Central Clinical Hospital, where he would spend the rest of his life.
In late January 1984, Andropov’s health deteriorated rapidly. Due to growing toxicity in his blood, he had periods of falling into unconsciousness. He died on 9 February 1984 at 16:50, aged 69.[63] Few of the top Soviet leaders learned of his death on that day.
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rinse and repeat
wiki still…
Andropov was succeeded by Konstantin Chernenko, who seemed to mirror Andropov’s tenure. Chernenko had already been afflicted with severe health problems when he ascended to the USSR’s top spot, and served even less time in office (13 months). Like Andropov, Chernenko spent much of his time hospitalized, and also died in office, in March 1985.
…..Chernenko was succeeded by Mikhail Gorbachev,
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Sick old men at the end of their life > in charge.
What could go wrong ?
And the place (USSR) fell apart 5 years later.
And now….USA
at the top….
Piglosi
Chuck Schumer
Mitch McConnell -82
Killary a year younger than Trump at 76
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A local pharmacist on Capitol Hill made headlines a few years ago when he revealed that he was filling Alzheimer’s medication prescriptions for members of Congress. Every one of the 20 oldest members of Congress is at least 80,
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Ya cant even tell them to ease up and just go fishing
They might shot someone like Dickhead Cheney did.
It’s actually quite a common phenomenon around these parts. When was the last time you saw a Green or tea party M.P pop up and say something? Even if they did they would say something so stupid that it would make Cindy sound intelligent. They may not be dead but they’re definitely brain dead.
Communist queen anointed by party.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQVBA9wqjUI
The Five
There is talk on the Net that Michelle Obama is the real plan (despite her/him saying she/he is not interested). They will go through the first round of the Open Convention process to make it look like it is all democratic but in the second round the selection by the power brokers in the Dem. Party will be made.
Who knows, the whole outfit is so corrupt anything could be in play.
The Hildebeast is waiting in her lair.
on an illegal mail server !!
Stalin would be proud of the demorats leadership plan.
To think that the leader of the free world is a senile old man who has trouble stringing a sentence together, has trouble finding his way on and of stage, stumbles up stairs.
I hope the man with the nuclear football is armed and prepared to protect it, from all comers!
They are going to allow the senile old fool to stay in the oval office untill january!
Should have been gone yesterday at the latest!
The democrats have a lot of questions to answer about him!
Power at all cost. Even though they had a backup. Says how much they wanted her!
…the leader of the free world….
ha ha
So look at he last 4+ years
lock downs and lock outs
compulsory this and that
(then the denial)
restricted travel
unable to assemble in groups
pulling or restricting of some food types in order to push others
killing of free speech
forcing sexual perversion on kids and attacking the parents if they question it
a paid up MSM to spread the lies
….Freedoms just another word for nothing left to lose.
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“Power at all cost.”
yep yep that is exactly what it is
Full immersion corruption
Saturation through the US goobermint
same in NZ, AU, UK, France etc
what does smoking cigarettes and eating pussy have in common?
the flavour changes when you get to the butt.
to all the men out there struggling with masturbation addiction…. i hope you beat it.
gråtrunka…. a real tear jerker.
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/gr%C3%A5trunka
It’s amazing what you learn on YSB from those in the know.
My day is complete
You mean you did a gratrunka?
In scamdemic news:
https://waikanaewatch.org/2024/07/23/the-german-government-admits-there-was-no-pandemic/
Great headline
but very little of substance to be fair
not earth shattering or game changing
Congress
https://x.com/TheUnitedSpot__/status/1815509566077190534
The attempted rub-out at Butler, PA, (Mr. Barnes theorizes) was a NeverTrumper / blob / neo-con joint operation that was supposed to work as follows: Nikki Haley and Mike Pompeo, Deep Staters both, are on the outs with a GOP solidifying around Mr. Trump. Before the Milwaukee GOP Convention opens, they are chatting-up delegates in preparation for a kind of coup. The Butler, PA, op is timed before any nomination can occur. It’s (obviously) intended to eliminate the former president for once and for all and make sure there’s no veep candidate to step into his shoes. The blob then blames the Trump assassination on Iran, instantly conjuring up a fresh new war to distract the nation. The GOP Convention nominates war goddess Nikki for president and Pompeo for veep. The DC war party carries on in triumph. Fait accompli.
Notice, Mr. Barnes says, that CNN and other news networks that usually avoid broadcasting Trump rallies, are actually covering the Butler, PA, event live. They want all of America to see Donald Trump’s head explode like a Crenshaw melon on TV — sending the message: this is what happens to anyone who challenges the blob. Many other observers and investigators unconnected with the government are busy looking into the site forensics, lines of fire, shot acoustics, the strange facts around the alleged “shooter” (possibly patsy) Thomas Matthew Crooks, the stupendous failures of the Secret Service. A picture is resolving.
The old Sicilian adage goes, revenge is a dish best served cold. Surely, Mr. Trump knows a thing or two about what really went down July 17. His adversaries know he knows, and he knows they know he knows.
Notice Mr. Trump is not jumping up and down going woo-woo-woo over all this. Rather, he’s sitting tight and calmly and holding his cards close to his chest. He will eventually be coming to settle accounts. So, you must suppose they’ll try again. Or figure out a way to postpone the election indefinitely. Nothing is beneath these fiends. Strangely — a lot of people have noticed — it seems that God is on our side. Stand by and keep your hats on.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/only-half-gone
…… the strange facts around the alleged “shooter” (possibly patsy) Thomas Matthew Crooks,….
He was not the kill shot guy
that was a professional
all orchestrated = Lee Harvey MkII
Sirhan Sirhan did not do the kill shot on RFK Jr
That was from behind.
Sirhan was only ever in front
Creating a distraction .
look, over there !!
I read a breakdown by James Corbett of assassination attempts over time. In many ways it is very similar to the Reagan attempt. SS changed protocols, parked down the street so Reagan had to walk. Left a gap in as they walked allowing Hinkley to get through. Apparently Hinkley had close connections to the Bush family and he is actually a free man today.
Yes and Bush 41 was VP
Would have stepped into the shoes much sooner than January 1989.
And the first term where you take over – as we saw with Johnson [who possibly had knowledge of the Nov 63 event; certainly despised both Kennedy brothers; and had a lot to gain ]
on paper Bush 41 could have stood in 1984 and 1988
Bush 41 ex CIA [are you ever EX with them ] had his contacts
Good thing for the world Bush 41 was delayed and to one term.
In that time he managed to launch off Middle east wars starting with Iraq.
When it comes to kids having accidents I’ll take Occam’s razor
When it comes to the dirt of US politics I wont accept Occam’s razor
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When you mention the Bush Family it is interesting if the Clintons wonder they should have had more kids to create a dynasty!!
Chelsea aint going to do much but she has 3 kids and lots of money from mom and pops
……”it seems that God is on our side”…….
Leave us hope they’re talking about a different God from the one in vogue about the time of WW2. Then hundreds of thousands of young Germans & British faced each other in the killing fields, both with the blessings of their church leaders willing them victory ringing in their ears.
From what I’ve read of the outcome the sponsorship deals were disasters & both lots of combatants died like flies without supernatural intervention.
yes have to agree
once you invoke the supernatural you are in Steven Spielberg territory
ET, Close encounters, Poltergeist
obviates all above
Get the popcorn out. It will be fun to watch how the Democrats get around this pesky issue.
https://t.me/thewhiterosenz/197705/276765
NZ 2023 ACT’s candidate for the Port Waikato electorate, Neil Christensen, died.
and they reran the whole election even though he would not have won or come close
Joe has to expire NOW
State funeral
A boost for the Demonrats
More of the dead will vote for the Dems….out of sympathy and goodwill you understand!
Lots of discussion on Telegram… Is he alive, did he sign the letter? Probably crap but who actually knows these days….
There is some doubt about the letter,
No Whitehouse letterhead, etc.
Did jill type it?
Gretchen will try in Michigan. evil bitch.
Favourite town of our PM as well.
Say no more.
Is that information correct Ross? Does it change if Joe turns his toes up?
I think it is correct but I presume it becomes null and void if he dies.
Run for the hills, Joe.
Hide under the covers!
That could prove to be a bit bothersome for Kamala. Even with those states she wouldn’t look flash.
Biden is dying as we speak. On his death bed at the beach house. By this time tomorrow, Kamala will have been sworn in as president.
Happy days.
Weekend at Bidens
Not weekend at Bernies, even
Poor old Bernie Sanders just cant get an honest break
so why did he join the Dems?
Now if Bernie had stopped and listened to pizza face Gower those years ago he could have got some solid inside tips to get the nomination?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMZYVwmGcsg
Exclusive: Patrick Gower meets Bernie Sanders on Super Tuesday
“From kiwis who actually like you quite a lot”
and they say gower doesnt get it ////
492 downticks; 48 upticks for paddy
Could well be put on ice,
“A weekend or even more at Bernie’s” 🙂
Just a bit more time, not so much as the final decision for Kamala, will also who gains the other half of the ticket, for Vice Presidency.
Then when all that circus, of the new blood, more fundraising dollars too, then what is better than a nations state funeral, as another circus, & again Kamala & vice also being media ‘positively” amplified.
Particularly when other supposed dignitaries and etc., then turn up at the circus, and all that being played all the way to the election.
Money can not buy that form of coverage, which will be well amplified & focused to the supposed voters, dead or alive.
Timing is everything,
If it happens Ed. there would be reasonable case that people like his wife should had up for manslaughter. Obviously it would never happen, but she and others pushed him on when he should have retired to the beach several years ago.
It is pretty small beer -one dried up old leftie at end of life-
versus the millions murdered from just 2001 to 2016 by Bush/Cheney/PNAC and obama/killary
That is the real crime
oh and lets blame China for Fentanyl’s 100,000 Americans each year when the CIA has been drug running at least 70 years
Interesting fact from Republican convention speeches: USA has lost more people to drug overdose in Biden’s presidency that troops killed in WW2.
Opps I miss spoke. His death will be announced. He died days ago but the Dems are only now announcing it
Are they withholding the adrenochrome?
Give him double icecream.
We hear a lot about how farmers do not get a fair deal, when compared to what their product sells for in the supermarket. This case from an Aussie dried fruit grower/supplier seems to be a good example. NB. I’m assuming the farmer dries the fruit.
“Mr Vale said the prices he received for his dried fruits — between $2 and $2.40 per kilogram for sultanas and currants — barely covered the cost of production, and were well below the sale price the products received in supermarkets, where a kilogram of currants could sell for up to $16 per kilo. ‘
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2024-07-23/small-scale-farmers-sell-water-buyback-big-irrigators-unlikely/104108514
You’d think the dried fruit farmers would offer mail-order online sales to the public and bypass the greedy supermarkets, but perhaps it’s illegal for them to do so. So many laws to stifle free enterprise and keep oligarchies in the style that they have grown accustomed to.
You can take the trough to the wahine but you’ll never get the wahine out of the trough. Darleen Tana has tasted the free money & she’s holding on like grim death. Meanwhile Chloe is sidestepping responsibility pinning her hopes on next weekend’s AGM for a mandate to sever Tana from swill:
……”Asked if she thought the issue would dominate at the Green Party’s AGM, Swarbrick said there was “a pretty clear consensus” in frustration.”……….”Asked about previous suggestions that the party banned the use of the waka jumping law, Swarbrick said it would only be used if the wider party approved it. “……
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/parliament-resumes-after-recess-will-we-see-darleen-tana/S5ON2HFS3JDIHLZZGGDY47P24U/
The fucking fat slug has some cheek, that’s for sure.
The greenies are pissed they are one MP down and they can’t bring in the next wanker.
Tarna is needing money to survive with husband overseas.
Besides she’s one up on the greenies. They are crying bigly.
Sounds like the white fulla husband was not bringing home the bacon
Or whatever alleged gween party critters bring home.
So he has not been helping with her survival
She is grossing 3500 per week so doing Ok
plus accom costs
I thought Gweens could bring in a new unwashed dreamer after expelling her.
Not following in detail.
She can be an independent like Jami lee ross was.
I don’t understand. I thought List feral scum were there at the will of the party. Ross may have been elected by the people.
She can stay unless they invoke the ‘waka jumping’ legislation:
“Otago University law professor Andrew Geddis said she was entitled to stay in Parliament, unless her former party invoked the waka-jumping rule. The Greens voted for the law when it was reintroduced in 2018, but only did so to appease their coalition partners.
“So if the Green Party no longer want her to be there, her sort of moral authority to remain is questionable. But from a legal point of view the only way she could be forced out would be for the Green Party to use a piece of law that the Green Party doesn’t like,” he said.
“The Greens have been very opposed to the party-hopping law in principle. They voted ‘for’ but they didn’t want to, they think it’s bad law. So if they were to use it, it would be going against what they say the law ought to be. So they could use it, but they run the risk of being called hypocrites.”…….
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/workers-caught-darleen-tana-saga-just-want-their-wages
This is what you call really, really thinking big .
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1924347/massive-new-tunnel-london-new-york
Interesting what population growth can do to excess deaths from kidney failure in 3 US states. Oh wait could it be something else?
For the entire article-
https://coquindechien.substack.com/p/aki-epidemic-of-the-century?r=8t5o1&triedRedirect=true
Biden in bed and the CIA poking the Bear.
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Two Russian fighter jets conducted a high stakes attempt to force the US bombers to change course in a tense confrontation.
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WW3 fears explode as two US bombers ‘intercepted by Russian aircraft’
Two Russian fighter jets conducted a high stakes attempt to force the US bombers to change course in a tense confrontation.
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22:23, Mon, Jul 22, 2024 | UPDATED: 22:28, Mon, Jul 22, 2024
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A B-52 drops bombs over Taliban positions in Afghanistan (Image: Getty)
Vladimir Putin’s airforce has tried to intercept two US nuclear bombers as they carried out exercises over the border of Finland and Russia.
The US planes later landed in Romania at an airbase close to the border with Ukraine, as tensions between the US and Russia continue to soar to worrying levels.
US European Command said a pair of American B-52H Stratofortress strategic bombers flew out of Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana on Monday.
The planes belong to the US Air Force’s 2nd Bomb Wing, which is assigned to the Global Strike command.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1926628/ww3-us-bombers-intercepted-russian-aircraft-nato
When my father was in his early 90’s he had moderate dementia. At one point he got a severe flu and developed a condition called delirium. Basically he lost all sense of reality and was unable to look after himself. He did recover to a large extent to close to baseline but it took a couple of weeks. I am wondering if this could explain the absence of Joe as the condition is quite common in the elderly especially in those that already have dementia.
Yes, my old parents both had old age dementia (both jabbed) and both at times suffered from delirium during bouts with an infection such as pneumonia. Dad would tell us stories about his long road trips he thought he was on. As you say it’s a common problem.
Go on a trip and not leave the farm,
As the song goes.
Worked with a guy who did astro traveling.
My father died in 2016 so his wasn’t related to the covid jab. Annual flu vax and several other presciption drugs probably didn’t help though.
Transport Minister announces four-lane highway from Auckland to Whangārei
Transport Minister announces four-lane highway from Auckland to Whangārei
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Transport Minister Simeon Brown has announced the Government will accelerate work on the new four-lane expressway between Auckland and Whangārei, including over the Brynderwyns.
Transport Minister Simeon Brown has announced the Government will accelerate work on the new four-lane expressway between Auckland and Whangārei, including over the Brynderwyns.
The Government’s announcement that it will accelerate work on the new four-lane expressway between Auckland and Whangārei as part of its Roads of National Significance programme will be “a game-changer” for Northland.
Transport Minister Simeon Brown said on Tuesday that plans were under way to accelerate an alternative route over the notoriously fragile Brynderwyn Hills, which are closed increasingly frequently due to bad weather.
“For too long, the lack of resilient transport connections between Northland and the rest of the country has been a handbrake on the region’s economic development,” Brown said.
“The last Government’s decision to stop planning for a replacement to the Brynderwyns has left Northland more vulnerable and requires a significant amount of work to get this project back on track.”
AA Northland District Council chairwoman Tracey Rissetto said the news was “fantastic”.
“It’s a game-changer for Northland.
“You look at what a game-changer it’s been for Hamilton.
“It’ll release the capacity we have up here to get people and goods to the rest of New Zealand.
“People will have more certainty about investing up here as well.”
Brown said the Government has agreed “in principle” to an accelerated delivery strategy that will enable NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA) to move at pace and deliver the Northland Roads of National Significance as a single expressway between Auckland and Whangārei.
“Delivering a programme as large and complex as this at pace requires a significant shift in delivery approach.”
Brown said this would be done by treating the three Roads of National Significance as three stages of the same project, and incentivising the development partner to deliver excellence in design, construction, financing, maintenance and operation for each phase of the expressway.
The Northland Expressway’s three phases are:
Phase One: Warkworth to Te Hana (just north of Wellsford)
Phase Two: Te Hana to Port Marsden (alternative to the Brynderwyn Hills)
Phase Three: Port Marsden to Whangārei.
The Government will also consider legislation changes that could accelerate delivery and provide increased certainty for delivery partners, Brown said.
This could also mean changes to the Public Works Act to speed up delivery.
The road over the Brynderwyns has been repeatedly closed during the last 18 months due to bad weather and slips.
The road over the Brynderwyns has been repeatedly closed during the last 18 months due to bad weather and slips.
“The Northland Expressway is one of the largest infrastructure projects in New Zealand’s history.
“We are considering a wide range of funding, financing, and delivery tools to get this project completed as soon as possible.”
Northland Chamber of Commerce chief executive Darryn Fisher said the announcement “is a good start”.
“Obviously what Northlanders want to hear is when.
“What we’ve seen on bridge projects, the delivery timeframes are huge so a start time is really important.”
Last year, a report commissioned by the Northland Corporate Group found the Warkworth to Wellsford section of the expressway alone would increase New Zealand’s annual GDP by $497 million.
Northland Corporate Group spokesman Lindsay Faithful said though they’ll be “looking for timelines and processes, overall the message seems to be excellent”.
“We’re very pleased with it. It looks very promising.”
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/transport-minister-announces-four-lane-highway-from-auckland-to-whangarei/DR75K223N5CDVPNJ3V7DMKCTOQ/
so Komata, you will need to get ya natives outta the sack and off to work
Viking@1747
Moi? Surely sir you jest muchly! On the presumption that you are referring to my family (Although an explanation as to why exactly you refer to them as ‘Natives’ instead of ‘Kiwi’s’ or indeed ‘family’ would be appreciated – especially as, AFAIK I’ve never met you), they are all early risers and are out and about and at work when most of this site’s membership (perhaps even you) are still snoring.
‘Taint my family mate, ‘taint mine. Perhaps you should look to your own…
Notional announced the road to Wellsford years ago
Johnny Ki’s first term
Not even started
One would have to be under 50 years of age to have a possibility of seeing this opening
Announcements are not product
They are words .
Also announced in the past
The Levin bypass
The Petone to Tawa road
Labour lite wont be there in 6 years…. so canned again
……”Brown said the Government has agreed “in principle” to an accelerated delivery strategy that will enable NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA) to move at pace”…….
The project is doomed as the canoe people don’t do “pace”. Waka Kotahi is fit for one purpose & that purpose is slowing road transport to a crawl via bogus “safety” crap. Anything else is beyond them.
So it will open in about 2050 or so….
Imagine the koha and the opening pissup!
That “for-ever” job.
Where the requirement, is that work will be right through to your retirement.
Will there be a requirement to employ so much maori and have same for contractors?
That’s called racism!
NZDSOS – NZ Doctors Speaking Out with Science
@nzdsos
#breaking The NZ Government have recently prepared a ‘framework for action’ for another pandemic.
What do you think of this specific piece of legislation on page 122?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GTItwesbkAIdtTN?format=jpg&name=4096×4096
If they are saying this needs to be legislated to make it legal doesn’t this imply what Ardern and co. did was illegal? Or was that covered by that emergency legislation?
Either way they can go to hell. They did not get far with the WHO BS, at this stage, so they are trying to bring it in at a national level , it seems.
And who the hell is Te Kawantanga o Aotearoa?
They can fuck right off too.
if cindy got away with it then any future govt will do so too.
mandates of all types for an array of issues will happen, wait till climate retardism reaches the same level of insanity covid did.
They can fuck off with their mandates! 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Are film stars and pretty people still allowed in!
Here’s a reminder about the survey on the introduction of CBDC’s in NZ that closes on the 26th.
https://consultations.rbnz.govt.nz/money-and-cash/digital-cash-in-new-zealand/consultation/subpage.2024-02-13.7485788203/
Unfortunately I did that weeks ago. If I were to do it again I would be bringing up CrowdStrike at every opportunity.
Done
Needs translating.
Disclose.tv
@disclosetv
NEW – The unredacted coronavirus protocols of the German RKI Institute have been leaked by a whistleblower today. They contain explosive details, including that the “pandemic of the unvaccinated” was a hoax.
https://rki-transparenzbericht.de/
https://x.com/disclosetv/status/1815632502565794260
The twitter 𝕏 would not do the translation so I used google translate.
Then posted English translation here in full
https://ysb.co.nz/excess-deaths-during-pandemic-caused-by-public-health-response-not-virus/#comment-405830
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What the F, is a digital vaccine?
Jun 1, 2020
What the COVID-19 pandemic teaches us about cybersecurity – and how to prepare for the inevitable global cyberattack
The only way to stop the exponential propagation of cyber-COVID would be to fully disconnect all vulnerable devices from one another and the internet to avoid infection. The whole world could experience cyber lockdown until a digital vaccine was developed. All business communication and data transfers would be blocked. Social contact would be reduced to people contactable by in-person visits, copper landline, snail-mail or short-wave radio.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/06/covid-19-pandemic-teaches-us-about-cybersecurity-cyberattack-cyber-pandemic-risk-virus/
It means we are planning a world wide cyber attack so it would be a good idea to allow us to take control of your internet activity.
Joey Mate™️ 🇦🇺 🇳🇱 SSS
@Joey1800callme
I waved to a woman because I thought she waved at me.
Apparently she waved to another man.
So to get out of that awkward situation, I kept my hand up and a taxi pulled over and drove me to the airport.
I am now in Poland starting a new life.
Tucker on Joes dissapearance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XmbjFX2u4I
I want to know more about Aladdin and his magic rug.
https://x.com/AMAZlNGNATURE/status/1815444299040899221
BBN@1923
On viewing that a certain Steppenwolf song DID come to mind – then they ruined everything by deploying two parachutes…
Tpp 25 shareholders in Crowd Strike.
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=939728784832375&set=a.332137015591558
What’s your point? Most large US corporates share registers would look pretty much like that.
UK.
Government-backed ‘digital IDs’ to let people open bank accounts
The verification technology will let people use one method for everything from paying tax and buying alcohol to opening a bank account
The government has ruled out ID cards and insists that it will never make digital ID mandatory for people after Sir Tony Blair called for everyone to be given a unique online identifier.
The former prime minister argued that digital IDs would help to deal with illegal immigration by giving people an easy way to prove they have the right to work in Britain, as well as making it easier for citizens to manage everything from their passport to medical appointments and qualifications.
https://www.thetimes.com/article/e5df0f1a-da77-418a-b504-e8aa49eac6ae?shareToken=ce552f4b3645cd1a8b3bd86a31869088
Digital IDs whether they be compulsory or voluntary (to be made compulsory later on) are a totalitarian’s wet dream.
Resist at all cost.
Kamalalala is a stooge.
https://x.com/TaraBull808/status/1815378765490671715
Excellent name for her.
Adopting that
Thanks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKMPv8mn_9U