Out of interest, if they were paying the KCDC water meter charges, that amount of water would come to $448,350.

From teaomaorinews A South Island iwi hope their freshwater spring will gain environmental protection after a local council granted a water bottling company consent to take 208 million litres a year for $470. Already in the Tasman district, four water bottling companies have consent to take water from the area – at more than 427 […]

via Selling our water – 427 million litres at $943 (Māori Television) — Rangitikei Environmental Health Watch

While the world’s attention if directed elsewhere, Julian Assange is dying at the hands of the British and US governments. From Mac Slavo at shtfplan.com: A very “sedated” Julian Assange told a friend that he’s dying on Christmas Eve. Because of Assange’s condition during the phone call, concerns about his health have mounted. His suffering […]

via Julian Assange Is Being Tortured To Death, by Mac Slavo — STRAIGHT LINE LOGIC

Governments want money to be all electric, so that they can keep track of it and what people do with it, and so they can keep it in banks should the banking system run into trouble (they call it a bail-in). From Jeff Thomas at internationalman.com: A decade or more ago, I began to discuss […]

via Farewell to Paper Money? by Jeff Thomas — STRAIGHT LINE LOGIC

Strictly speaking it’s all plastic money in NZ in one form or another. But according to one current commercial promoting money on mobile phones, if you use cash you’re ‘a caveman’.  However, if interest rates go negative, there’ll be a huge incentive for a cash comeback.

Part-time, or hybrid, electric cars make a lot more sense than full-time electric cars. That’s probably why all the right people are pushing for full-time electric cars. From Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com: Hybrids are really part-time electric cars. They have battery packs and electric motors, like full-time electric cars – but they don’t rely on […]

via Part-Time vs. Full Time Electric Cars, by Eric Peters — STRAIGHT LINE LOGIC

An American article, but the same general situation applies in NZ.

The rising costs that never seem to register in the CPI are for the biggest items in many Americans’ budgets, and their incomes keep falling further behind. From Charles Hugh Smith at oftwominds.com: The reckoning is coming, and everyone who counted on “eternal growth of borrowing” to stave off the reckoning is in for a […]

via Skyrocketing Costs Will Pop All the Bubbles, by Charles Hugh Smith — STRAIGHT LINE LOGIC

From uncensored.co.nz : Dubbed a “paranormal parody,” A Children’s Book of Demons aims to teach small children how to summon demons by telling them the names and sigils of demonic entities – sigils being the symbols used in magic, or the pictorial signatures of actual demons. Published by Koyama Press, based out of Canada, A Children’s […]

via Walmart, Target, and Amazon all sell books that teach children as young as five how to summon demons — Rangitikei Environmental Health Watch

Thanks to reader Jo Blogs for this link… “Those nearby, and back on the mainland, reacted instantly and humanely. They ran, flew, and sped by boat toward the danger. Politicians and officials have praised these as “first responders”. Their use of the phrase was a dishonest attempt to hide that these people were not official […]

via It’s been revealed that when White Island emergency calls began Police & rescue services decided not to go – the first responders were NZ citizens — Rangitikei Environmental Health Watch

U.S.—A new study found that most people would rather be annihilated by a giant tidal wave caused by climate change than continue to be lectured by climate change activists. Study participants were given the option of having the earth flooded by massive tidal waves or listening to virtue-signaling, smarmy lectures by environmentalists for the next decade. […]

via Poll Finds Most People Would Rather Be Annihilated By Giant Tidal Wave Than Continue To Be Lectured By Climate Change Activists, from The Babylon Bee — STRAIGHT LINE LOGIC

From Radio NZ : An investigation in an aerial drop of 1080 that killed eight cattle in the King Country in September 2018 has found that the Department of Conservation breached one of its operating procedures. The DOC pest control operation was conducted over the 1400 ha Mapara Wildlife Reserve, 35 km southeast of Te Kuiti. The livestock got […]

via Probe into eight 1080 Waikato cattle deaths in 2018 points to DOC breach — Rangitikei Environmental Health Watch

A truthful commentary from Horowhenua’s ex Mayor Michael Feyen on the pollution issues regarding Lake Horowhenua & more importantly why they are not being properly addressed. Not an uncommon story in this era of neo lib economics. Michael is able to share from the unique standpoint of a former insider. While mayor & prior to […]

via Horowhenua’s former Mayor speaks on pollution in the region & why little is being done about it — Rangitikei Environmental Health Watch