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A witness described a car flying through the air at speed ahead of a fatal crash in east Tāmaki on March 15. It blew through an intersection on Te Irirangi Drive and ploughed into the side of another car stationed at a traffic light, killing nine-year-old Linda Tulumi and injuring four others. 

Though the crash is still under investigation, minds quickly turned to the road’s safety settings. Te Irirangi Drive’s speed limit was lowered from 80km/h to 60km/h in January 2023. That change was reversed in March 2025 at the behest of the National-led government, meaning a higher limit was in place when Tulumi died. But one person at the scene told the Herald the road had always been dangerous and lower speed settings hadn’t made a difference. “It’s just one of those things. It’s just people make mistakes in the rain, most of the time at night,” he said.

That wasn’t quite right. Dr Timothy Welch, an Auckland University lecturer specialising in transport, ran the numbers on Te Irirangi Drive before, during and after its limit change was instituted.

Though the road has always been dangerous, there were no fatal accidents on it when its speed limit was lower. There was one in the 60 months prior to that period and one after. After adjusting for Auckland-wide traffic trends, the crash rate on Te Irirangi Drive was 32% lower while speed limits were reduced. It went up 3% after they were raised again. A lower limit may or may not have saved Tulumi, but the stricter speed rules appear to have prevented a lot of pain. 

Doing that work spurred Welch on to a much wider effort. He has now carried out a similar assessment on the entirety of Auckland. After accounting for traffic flows, weather and contributing factors such as driver impairment, he has concluded that the lower speed limits put in place by Auckland Council between 2022 and 2025 likely averted 138 crashes. Though the numbers come with a statistical range, Welch’s best estimate is the changes were responsible for preventing 29 serious injuries and four deaths. “There’s a lot of cases where you really have to talk carefully about the data, because it’s so confusing. In this case, it’s very clear: more people died, and more people were seriously injured because we had higher speeds,” he says.

Auckland Council implemented speed limit reductions on 662 roads across 2022 and 2023 and kept those revised limits in place for 30 months. Welch compared that period with the 60 months prior to come up with his findings, while adjusting for Covid disruptions. The difference is stark. Crashes on the local streets with reduced limits were down 17% compared to the period prior to the changes. On corridors with higher traffic volumes, they were down 7%.

Full article: HERE

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cYPCKIL7oVw&pp=ygUNSmFtaWUgZm94IHVmbw%3D%3D&ra=m
Out of the Blue 2011

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tGMGOdKOPKk&pp=ygUNSmFtaWUgZm94IHVmbw%3D%3D&ra=m
I Know What I Saw 2014

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xM5f_C7zTCE&pp=ygUNSmFtaWUgZm94IHVmbw%3D%3D&ra=m
The Phenomenon 2020

https://www.youtube.com/live/mit1lk-hdsM?si=0P2MtO-EEpnLKbvO
Moment of Contact 2022

James Fox has been making documentaries on UAP for 30 years. ChatGPT calls him the most trustworthy documentarian.

Operation Mongoose memo
February 2, 1962
Brigadier General Edward Lansdale

The CIA’s go-to guy for “unconventional” warfare officially suggested exploiting Cuban religious belief by staging a sky spectacle.

Lansdale vehemently denied the existence of any such plan however documents from that time prove otherwise.

When the CIA Wanted to Fake the Second Coming

According to a CIA veteran’s testimony to the Senate’s Church Committee (which was set up to investigate intelligence abuses), the agency was involved in a plot to fake the Second Coming of Christ in Cuba. The idea was that the Cubans were deeply religious people and would revolt if there was a divine sign against Castro’s rule.

The CIA even planned on shooting star shells from a submarine to “divinely” light up the sky.

JFK rejected the idea as ludicrous.

TheAtlantic.com operation mongoose article (paywalled)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v3g7R735fLY&ra=m