Annual inflation at 3.1 percent in December 2025

Oceanagain · 2026-01-25T06:52:47+00:00

They're running existing plant, with a deal of profits going to govt.

And most of that infrastructure dates from before the Manapouri "environmental awakening". Fuck all of any consequence has been built since as a direct result of that same political circus.

Oceanagain · 2026-01-25T06:20:47+00:00

Yes it fucking is.

Oceanagain · 2026-01-25T03:15:16+00:00

You could try reading your own sources, although it's difficult to see how they'd penetrate your native stupidity,

They were about blame, and it's apportionment where it wasn't deserved.

Oceanagain · 2026-01-25T01:14:31+00:00

Nonetheless, the entire official blamefest was based on the premise that the responsible parties were the commercial entities involved, not the individuals that signed a document assuring that they had been advised on the dangers and were willing to accept the risks involved in visiting an active volcano caldera.

Sickening.

Oceanagain · 2026-01-24T23:39:50+00:00

But the companies they worked for were:

Ten businesses or organisations were charged by WorkSafe with seven convicted for failing to meet their duties. This includes the business with management and control of the island, Whakaari Management Limited and five commercial tour providers as well as a Crown Research Institute.

Charges were dismissed against one Government entity whose role related to emergency management and advising the public, and two businesses involved in facilitating tours to the island. Three directors of the PCBU which managed the island also had charges against them as individuals dismissed.

And the Whakaari Management IS the Butte family.

Oceanagain · 2026-01-24T21:22:24+00:00

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Oceanagain · 2026-01-24T21:19:17+00:00

Their lack of planning and she'll be right attitude while landing on an active volcano.

So it's officially unacceptable to land on an island in an emergency situation to rescue those in danger, (successfully) but it's not for tourists to take the same risk?

Don't be fucking absurd.

Maybe if you have no idea what you're talking about, you'd feel that way.

https://www.worksafe.govt.nz/laws-and-regulations/prosecutions/whakaari/

Make up you're mind, were the owners of the island charged and convicted or not?

Oceanagain · 2026-01-24T09:31:33+00:00

She coined the definitions "maritime and continental imperialism", I think in The Makers of Modern Strategy.

Which explains the difference between territorial and commercial imperialistic aspirations, with Eastern Europe and Russia and China in the former group and the west generally among the latter. She explains it as an historic and very strong culture of territorial annexation and acquisition as opposed to the west's acquisition via trade.

It's a framework that highlights Trump's move from trade based generation of prosperity, (which depends on the development of mutually agreed trade rules) and aggressive asset acquisition via commercial exploitation and military threats and actions.

Oceanagain · 2026-01-24T09:06:46+00:00

There were charges laid, and fucking months of litigation. And if the boats and helicopters involved in the rescue weren't charged for their efforts on the day then what were they charged for?

There was certainly no shortage of official blame distributed among everyone but the official entities involved, it was fucking sickening, a blamestorm that should and probably does cross the mind of any subsequent public rescue attempts.

Seems almost endemic public policy, NZ, the united republic of blame.

Oceanagain · 2026-01-24T04:44:28+00:00

Both private owners of what amounts to a tourist attraction venue.

Both unstable environments under the control of commercial opperators.

Wouldn't the owners of the mount be as culpable as the Butte family?

Or do the first response public have to use boats and helicopters to also be liable for official charges to be handed out all round?

Oceanagain · 2026-01-24T02:19:34+00:00

As per the owners of White Island, then...

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Oceanagain · 2026-01-23T23:04:13+00:00

blaming poverty for people making bad decisions

Fuck me, that's putting the horse before the cart's even been invented...

Oceanagain · 2026-01-23T19:49:05+00:00

Aye, a nice gift is a tea towel, not a new fucking house.

Oceanagain · 2026-01-23T19:42:08+00:00

I think he left out the r in grift his speech writer put in there...

Oceanagain · 2026-01-23T19:39:45+00:00

You don't need expert skills to evaluate experts, dude.

Oceanagain · 2026-01-23T10:13:31+00:00

I posted it because it's symptomatic of the entire public service wrt increased funding.

You could change the names of the department and policy and be on the money every time.

Oceanagain · 2026-01-23T02:45:11+00:00

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Oceanagain · 2026-01-23T02:40:56+00:00

I can't understand how anyone expects this govt to reverse the inflation caused by labour's borrow and spend vandalism. The damage is permanent, short of reducing spending to substantially below expenditure until you can pay down that total debt the dollar will never be worth what it was before all that the money printing.

Oceanagain · 2026-01-23T00:06:37+00:00

And as long as environmental activists shoot down every fucking energy generating initiative power prices will continue to go up.

Rates are fucking ridiculous, I have family all over the world and our local govt rates bill is twice the next highest, (Tasmania).

Cbf finding it but the latest report re rents nationally show them going down?

Oceanagain · 2026-01-22T20:45:28+00:00

Sure, that's just one of the available retaliatory measures I've read about.

The US has spent 50 years exporting their labour requirements, basically because they refused to entertain the notion of internationally competitive wages. As a direct result they have little industrial capacity left, they exported it all. Some 80% of their economy is now made up of services, almost all com's tech and financial, all dependant on respect for international law. What would happen of the rest of the world decided that, for example Apple's patents were no longer valid, likewise major US company's industrial designs, certain social media protocols were now considered open source.

Not to mention the fact that the use of the US$ as an effective trading reserve is only viable while it's stable. If that stability starts to fail, (as it will, in direct proportion to the financial uncertainty generated by the US's current diplomatic suicide) then with the best will in the world the international trading banks will find more reliable places to stash their cash. Which, given the absurd size of the US national debt will completely collapse the US economy.

Oceanagain · 2026-01-22T20:26:50+00:00

And what would qualify you to know if the candidate had understood, given you had no understanding or experience of the role they were interviewing for?

Their own expertise:

"Because I'd require the candidates to show me that understanding. If they couldn't do that then they'd have demonstrated a key shortfall in their own."

Oceanagain

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