This twaddle about UA getting squillions got me looking at what things MAY well have happened for real. So I find this 2017 Job description for a role at the US Embassy on WikiLeaks for a "Cultural Affairs Assistant", yea, so they were having a good old fiddle with us here. 🤔

@Cu_Iseenow Thats a hell of a trip on AutoPilot, I've let @reefnotifications know so they can get out of the way.

@ScorpioGirlNz @2ETEKA Exactly this! And it would save watercare etc money surely in not having to maintain what ever the mechanism is that doses our water. I

@2ETEKA Hmmm enforcing a 'medication' on the general population when a 'per person by choice' option exists, why does this seem familiar? What shit do all these goons get their brains washed in at University? They all think they are best equipped to engineer the lives of others.

@SimonRAnderson Well he took some serious lessons in doing just that from his predecessor. Its in their nature - they truly believe that they are the best equipped to decide the fate of others. This is why you can't reason with them - they are true believers, devout followers of their cult.

@StuMorrisonNZ 100% yes to this. More doing and less tweeting!

@HopeRising19 @RWMaloneMD Remember how long some of our dumb-arse coalition talks have taken over the years, sheeesh!. At least this time around in the states it looks like once they have their skates on they are off on their missions at warp speed!

@Pete20221 @elonmusk Its not money that motivates them. Being tech-focussed , DOGE just likes fixing shit and being patted on the head afterwards. Next biggest broken thing on the list is the UK. We just aren't broken enough in their eyes to see it as a challenge.

@2ETEKA Following the farmers seems like an easy call. We need something or someone to galvanise us. Back when NZ had one of the highest GDPS per person it was based around farming. The UK won't be able to rub two sticks together soon and will need us again.

@TanyaUnkovichMP So exclude the BNZ from the Depositor Compensation Scheme. Then let the market decide if they feel their money is safe with them.

@UnitedKiwi My guess is Y2K triggered the rot. On this gig a few were flogging it for all it was worth. As long as arbitrary targets were reached. It was odd that no one wanted to understand the outcomes, if grants were creating jobs or if investors from overseas were actually investing.

@UnitedKiwi Years ago, I was privy to how ATEED managed local business grants and oversaw high-income investor passports - they refused to track outcomes or compliance, the whole process 'completed' at the point the grants or passports had been 'gifted'.

So yea - generally I feel comfortable that NZ provides support in our region for the poor bastards who weren't colonialised by the British. And then I find this on the Mfat site and I go - Oh I just have to keep looking now. @UnitedKiwi

@UnitedKiwi Looking at the 'usual suspects' now linked to questionable spending via USAID, the 2018 MFAT financials for Overseas Aid shows $170M allocated for categories that are impossible to validate any ‘successful outcome'. Now to drill in further...

@UnitedKiwi For a read of how Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade spends our money on assistance to developing countries - this was the guise that USAID runs under also (not saying NZ is being bad). I wonder if the HMNZS Manawanui will make this balance sheet?

Digging about on and looking for links to NZ organisations & I keep seeing climate blah blah. Now no one thinks pollution is a good thing, but I'm pretty sure this Climate Tax nonsense is one of the ways of paying the foot-soldiers

@FairiMairi @JordNZ Jordan, these sites are easily searched, nothing too 'suspicious' in the site, payments to a USAID contractor here is interesting. Many usual commercial contracts (Not USAID). From W-leaks an internal doc from the US Embassy in 2017 that is telling

@FTGBSX @HopeRising19 By that rationale every time a jet starts up anywhere in the world we would expect to see this?

@guyralls @HopeRising19 Got you the phone number - they supply out at Ardmore

@guyralls @HopeRising19 Go to AirNZ maintenance and ask for litre for $100. They probably use it to wash parts in.