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In an unexpected twist, criticism of Rod Drury's fast-track Queenstown gondola proposal has come from QLDC.
While the project is being sold as "public transport", the proposed routes exclude Fernhill...
@nprofile1q... The whole gondola in Queenstown thing has come up every few years for a long time now. A couple proposals got to the planning stage, but they never had a business case without closing public roads to force people to use them, and then charging a fortune and not running often, because they're extremely expensive to run on the distances needed around Queenstown.
It did not surprise me to see National fast-track it, because the numbers attached if only someone would pay for it, are huge.
It did not surprise me to see National fast-track it, because the numbers attached if only someone would pay for it, are huge.
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Let's see if I've got this right:
0. In the beginning, the Strait of Hormuz was open and free to transit, and it was good.
1. Fascist superpower launches unprovoked and unlawful act on Iran.
2. Ira...
@nprofile1q... The US tying their dollar to everyone's oil trading means they can print infinite money without shifting their exchange rates, leaving them arbitrarily wealthy without having to produce anything of value.
Meanwhile, everyone else in the world has to be at least somewhat useful to someone.
So Iran trading oil in yuan is a huge no-no for the US. Long term, they can't survive without the petrodollar, so letting this continue is just something they can't do.
You can see this in the lead up to a lot of recent wars, and coups, national leaders announce trading oil in something other than US dollars, and then they're gone.
Meanwhile, everyone else in the world has to be at least somewhat useful to someone.
So Iran trading oil in yuan is a huge no-no for the US. Long term, they can't survive without the petrodollar, so letting this continue is just something they can't do.
You can see this in the lead up to a lot of recent wars, and coups, national leaders announce trading oil in something other than US dollars, and then they're gone.
@nprofile1q... I doubt he's stable enough to stick to that anyway. They can start things again any time by proxy.
Most likely he quit because they were currently out of munitions of some key type, like the anti-missile missiles (where you spend ten million bucks to shoot down fifty grand over and over), and too many multi-billion dollar planes lost won't be helping with the sale of those planes.
You gotta remember, war's a racket, the war starts because a bunch of very rich people think they're going to make bank on it, and it ends when that proves untrue even for them personally.
Most likely he quit because they were currently out of munitions of some key type, like the anti-missile missiles (where you spend ten million bucks to shoot down fifty grand over and over), and too many multi-billion dollar planes lost won't be helping with the sale of those planes.
You gotta remember, war's a racket, the war starts because a bunch of very rich people think they're going to make bank on it, and it ends when that proves untrue even for them personally.