Nobody expects the devastatingly accurate Monty Python reference Spanish Inquisition.
National had a comprehensive economic plan that will resonate and people will relate to it and they will support risk taking and entrepreneurship. Decoded means something like: Economic plan =tax cuts for rich & business. That will resonate =cut cut cut ...
they will be drawn from those who never expect to be unemployed. Thus they are likely to have financial obligations that hitherto fitted within the income from what they thought to be secure employment (think Air NZ staff). You think a meatworker with ...
I don't see the point TBH. If electing a single candidate, unless there is a massive swing STV is just FPP with warm fuzzies. You can feel happy voting for your preferred candidate but that vote shifts to the other guy when your preferred candidate didn't ...
transport flow modeling shows that if priced, too many would simply use the alternative state highway route. I look forward to the same logic being applied to Public Transport charging Currently NZTa requires 50% of PT operating cost to be 'recovered' by ...
The deployment of land based Aegis/SM-3 ABM systems to Romania and Poland is not illegal – the US has after all formally withdrawn from the INF treaty. And it is a nonsense to suggest the SM-3 missile can carry a nuclear warhead. The complaint isn't SM-3 ...
I believe the point is AEGIS Ashore uses Mk41 launchers, the same as on ships and in this new launch. Mk41 on ships are 'universal', can launch ESSM, SM-2, SM-3, SM-6 and Tomahawk. US says the AEGIS Ashore launchers are modified to not be able to launch ...
US was already in breach from armed drones. US says armed drones don't fit the INF definition of Cruise Missile despite the obvious fact they do fit the definition (definition in the INF treaty) 2. The term "cruise missile" means an unmanned, self-...
"There's nothing pragmatic about an incremental solution to a catastrophic problem" -Ron Placone
I wonder what punishment the Board & Senior Management will suffer? Do the Crime, Do the Time as a bunch round here have been saying a lot lately.
Remember when Chorus outsourced its installer tech jobs to smaller contractors and it was supposed to be awesome (according to neo-liberal economics at least)? https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/111922886/chorus-promises-improvement-after-failing-to-prevent-...
So shameful. As a kid 'the bad guys' were the East who held people hostage in embassies, built walls, ran massive state propaganda through media & mass spy programs on their citizens. Now who is doing that?
And compulsary webcam pics when you post! Compulsary name-tags when we walk around in public...
And the well resourced will have the ability to create loads more. This happens already: not just Russia has spam/troll/influence accounts, at least NATO, US, UK, Israel, Saudi & probably most countries have them as well as loads of Corporates & 'NGO's/...
It would be easy to implement a system that takes a source off-line as soon as a hundred people hit a delete button within a five-minute time-frame, say. This is incredibly stupid. You immediately create an internet where the only views you see are those ...
I will never forget Max Bradford on the day he announced the splitting of ECNZ: "NZ electricity prices will never be as low as today" It was a Bushism but has been proven absolutely literally true, prices nearly immediately rose significantly and continued...
Nonetheless its an active nuclear platform and we have a law requiring adequate guarantees be given and which for decades the US refused to submit to and a current US administration that happily breaks treaties, openly makes statements that they will not ...
But will the US President provide the legally required assurances to the NZ PM that it won't have nukes aboard? Or do we not give a shit about the Nuclear Free act anymore?
B-52 coming to NZ https://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/news/article.cfm?c_id=7&objectid=12203889 Has Trump provided relevant 'no nukes' guarantees to Jacinda?
Yes it sounds kinda good on the surface. But this is the Nats you're talking about, they think the US Health Market is the ideal model to follow & they have a history of trying to Privatise ACC. So you have to understand that what at first sounds good is ...
Surprised this hasn't been mentioned: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12173192 Nats planning policy to ACC-ise the rest of the Social Welfare system. ...given they twice attempted to privatise ACC they would presumably be ...
I find it fascinating how in all these interviews Bridges primary message is I: I dealt with, I handled, I got it right, working My way, I've accepted, I learned my lesson, I I I... (at least he hasn't slipped into talking about himself in 3rd person I ...
Yes, its only 50.8% if you include wasted votes, healthy 52.8% without waste. Wasted votes included the 2014 Key Govt is 49.27%.
Happy days!
'Putin did it' in 3, 2, 1...
Fark yeah!
You know, I was thinking a name like KiwiM@il & running it via NZPost... I can understand NZPost being reticent mid '90s but maybe they'd be more interested now post KiwiBank & with dedicated Govt funding? But NZPost on its own would need to operate it as ...
Just finished watching, definitely very good :) Reminded me that I'd been meaning to try to find the full audio having caught bits of Palmer & I think Bolger. They're here http://www.radionz.co.nz/programmes/the-9th-floor
Haven't watched it yet but apparently the AM Show Bennett vs Davis one got pretty feisty http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/election/2017/09/steven-joyce-s-big-fat-lie-has-backfired-kelvin-davis.html
It was just a little crackle like one of the mikes was acting up. Otherwise +1 Apparently it was supposed to be an 'All Parties, all Leaders' debate & Winston pulled out because Labour & Nats didn't even accept the invitation which is a big shame really. ...
Probably fewer people knew he exists than have read Seymour's book :p And he's not gonna be in Parliament so he really shouldn't have been there.
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