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Written By: mikesh - Date published: 9:33 am, February 6th, 2025
There seems to have been nothing on the TV1 news, or the stuff website about this. Has there been any coroboration.Written By: mikesh - Date published: 8:01 am, January 29th, 2025
Perhaps. If he wasn't singing in a foreign language. If it's not a foreign language, it might as well be.Written By: mikesh - Date published: 1:10 pm, January 27th, 2025
The other tribe, he said, was people building a "majority for mediocrity". As the song says: mediocrity is not a mortal sin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdEF8QqHXNAWritten By: mikesh - Date published: 11:16 pm, January 21st, 2025
I bet the American armaments industry is rubbing their hands with glee at the thought of all the military hardware they will be selling to those poor saps in Europe; so when will the latter wake up and realise that Russia is no threat to Europe. Russia ...Written By: mikesh - Date published: 12:55 pm, January 21st, 2025
And stand by as wanna be Trumpians throughout the world think the techniques and tactics should be copied. This is going to get rough. Do you think Putin might change the name of the Gulf of Finland to the Gulf of Russia.Written By: mikesh - Date published: 8:53 am, January 20th, 2025
Bernie Sanders, with the backing of many small donations, had a good chance of being elected but the two party system put paid to his chances: he had to belong to one of the two major parties, and the party he chose to belong to blocked his candidacy. It ...Written By: mikesh - Date published: 9:16 am, January 9th, 2025
what the new regime brought in was self-sufficiency because they wanted a war economy (and it involved selling off state assets to oligarchs). Which would not have had much effect on GNP without adding infrastructure spending and budget deficits.Written By: mikesh - Date published: 8:53 am, January 9th, 2025
Could it not be repealed by a future regime?Written By: mikesh - Date published: 8:33 pm, January 8th, 2025
Within oligarchy nationalism (a war economy development base). The policies he inherited [and continued with] included large public works programs supported by deficit spending—such as the construction of the Autobahn network—to stimulate the economy and ...Written By: mikesh - Date published: 4:50 pm, January 8th, 2025
From your link: The policies he inherited [and continued with] included large public works programs supported by deficit spending—such as the construction of the Autobahn network—to stimulate the economy and reduce unemployment That sounds like ...Written By: mikesh - Date published: 12:13 pm, January 8th, 2025
As I understtand matters Tsipras went beind his back. Varufakis did not find out about the deal until it was done. I'm not surprised he resigned. I think I got all that info from Varoufakis' book Adults in the Room.Written By: mikesh - Date published: 10:20 am, January 8th, 2025
Democracy only lasted 5 minutes after the revolution. Debatable that it was any more "communist" than National Socialists were "socialist". I have generally believed, though I could be wrong, that Hitler got the German economy working again after the ...Written By: mikesh - Date published: 9:47 am, January 8th, 2025
and was fired in months. He actually resigned when prime minister Tsipras accepted the EU's demands, against his recommendations.Written By: mikesh - Date published: 4:59 pm, January 2nd, 2025
I was reading a book over the Christmas/New Year, Revenge of the Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell, which, though not specifically about global warming, mentioned that investigations have shown that 80% of the ICE contribution to CO2 emissions comes from ...Written By: mikesh - Date published: 9:37 pm, December 28th, 2024
They would have to find him not guilty by dint of extreme provocaztion or something. The jury saying they were OK with murder wouldn't really work. I'm pretty sure the judge will want to impose the maximum penalty to deter other similar crimes; and to ...Written By: mikesh - Date published: 10:33 pm, December 25th, 2024
Poldark is running on tvnz+ at present. It's still one of the best series ever.Written By: mikesh - Date published: 8:57 am, December 9th, 2024
Since CG is a component of wealth CGT's are wealth taxes in disguise. However with a regular wealth tax there would usually be a threshhold below which the tax would not apply. This does not seem to be the case with CGT's.Written By: mikesh - Date published: 10:53 pm, December 8th, 2024
Interest is not subject to GST, which means that lending money is not considered a service. But if it's not a service why should interest be deductible. Labour made it non deductible in the case of landlords (they didn't go far enough of course: they ...Written By: mikesh - Date published: 10:34 pm, December 8th, 2024
Kiwisaver shows everyone how the state can structure tax for the good of all – and the long term good for New Zealand is that it addresses our woeful lack of savings. That was good Labour policy and it wasn't a Wealth Tax. It wasn't any sort of tax.Written By: mikesh - Date published: 10:23 pm, December 8th, 2024
They delivered what they said they would on tax and Labour didn't. What was it that Labour promised but failed to deliver?Written By: mikesh - Date published: 4:30 pm, December 8th, 2024
Why would a wealth tax raise incomes of our lowest 80% of people? I don't suppose it would, but then that's not its purpose.Written By: mikesh - Date published: 4:25 pm, December 8th, 2024
The upside for Labour is that either alternative will be genuinely progressive – a wealth tax would be more so, Yes. The problem with CGTs is that many recipients may not be particularly wealthy. It seems rediculous that the not-so-wealthy would be taxed ...Written By: mikesh - Date published: 9:47 pm, December 2nd, 2024
So, instead of taxing the excessively wealthy, they would prefer to tax a capital gainer who may not even be be particularly wealthy. Any capital gainer who is wealthy would be caught by a wealth tax anyway.Written By: mikesh - Date published: 10:49 am, November 30th, 2024
Is this a widget? You know, those things economists keep talking about.Written By: mikesh - Date published: 4:19 pm, November 26th, 2024
But Ukraine is not in Asia. Not one authority (international organisation, scholar, reference book, anybody at all) has Ukraine in Asia. Literally nobody. Therefore it is in Europe. Your syllogism is invalid. It doesn't follow that if Ukraine is not in ...Written By: mikesh - Date published: 5:29 pm, November 25th, 2024
And no part of Ukraine is to the east of the Black Sea. The dividing line between East and West seems to run through both Ukraine and the Black Sea: at least as far as ethnic and political groups are concerned.Written By: mikesh - Date published: 5:21 pm, November 25th, 2024
It was only Crimea, at one time part of the Khan empire, that was a victim of Tsarist imperialism (about 300 years ago). Russian Ukraine, which I think did not always include the whole of Ukraine, came about through a treaty between the Cossacks and ...Written By: mikesh - Date published: 5:09 pm, November 25th, 2024
Yeah , sounds like a good reason to go on killing each other for another few thousand years!! Your words, not mine. I rather it's time the two sides got together and made up their minds to share peacefully the continent that both inhabit. Russia seems to ...Written By: mikesh - Date published: 6:14 pm, November 24th, 2024
Russia is separated from Europe by the Black Sea, as are other countries East of it, including Ukraine . It is also separate ethnically, Slavic as opposed to Germanic; liguistically, the Slavic group of languages as opposed to the Romance or Germanic ...Written By: mikesh - Date published: 3:18 pm, November 24th, 2024
Apart from Ukraine, which is not part of Europe anyway (though it would like to be), how is Russia attacking Europe?
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