There used to be a statue in Symonds St, Auckland, at the intersection of Wakefield St (I think). From memory, the plaque was dedicated to British troops and 'friendly Maoris' who fought the Land Wars. It was tarred and feathered, and painted red a few ...
In what sense was Hilary Clinton 'egregious'? She was a mainstream candidate who would have called on cross party relationships to get her agenda across the line. There was nothing 'egregious' about HRC, except of course that she was a woman.
The spooks are talking about sexual and financial kompromat. Trump has funny ideas about sex, but that didn't seem to bother his electorate when they voted him in. The finances might be different. In October, the NY Times told us that they received 3 pages...
Mike, it's an inteligence analysis, not an action plan. The Iraq and wmd's were an attempt to persuade us of something for which there was virtually no evidence. Not only that, but the people charged with finding that evidence were telling us that they ...
The other side of this is that Facebook now has a lot of information on users that they sell to advertisers. Trump's team used this to target a small group of voters in vital electorates. There is also a growing suspicion that Facebook radicalises by ...
how and why did it work? Don't think of it as 'news', think of it as the economics of clickbait. It's about search engine optimisation and advertising revenue. Facebook and Google make their money out of advertising. Their business model relies on clicks, ...
Turkey is recruiting. http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/12/turkey-syria-ankara-recruit-militants-from-aleppo.html Syria is extremely complicated. The best explanation I've heard so far comes from former Mossad chief Efraim Halevy. He thinks ...
I think the Macedonians were piggy-backing on an existing network of RW sites. They got lucky. Jonathan Albright has done the hard work mapping out the infrastructure of bullshit. His site is well worth a visit: https://medium.com/@d1gi These are sites ...
Too right, LPRENT, Take it as given that Putin hacked the DNC because he hated Clinton and maybe thought he liked Trump. Also interesting is the way that the RW used facebook to monetise bullshit. Bullshit went further on the pro-Trump sites because the RW...
Ah, struggling with a small device. For the Republicans, this should have been Clark 1999. Instead they ran Muldoon 1981. She's left the Democrats with a broad, united base; a gift to whoever succeeds her in 2020, but also in 2018. A boomer doing the right...
Clinton's campaign a debacle? Really? -After 8 years of Democrat political rule, the US was ready for a change. -The stakes were higher this election because of the Supreme Court nominations coming up. That's a big incentive to vote conservative. -Clinton ...
Hi, I've posted this twice but can't see it, so with luck it's gone into moderation. If so... 1/ it was directed at Anthony and not intended as a response to CV 2/ can you pass this on to LP & R, I think they may be interested in the tech. Cheers The Right...
Why no leftie fake news? It could be that the right is better at targeting it's base Here is an essential body of research on the topography of fake news, right wing propaganda, and Facebook: https://medium.com/@d1gi/whats-missing-from-the-trump-election-...
Interesting and a little bit sad that HRC's base has been overlooked. Turns out they really like her and they want her to win. 'Clinton has an overlooked but large base of devoted admirers. Her greatest strength is Democratic women 50 and older https://www...
What are you talking about? Russia's GDP is less than Spain's.
Well, speaking sort of which - has any light been cast on ACT's championship of the legislation that enabled Ukrainian and Russian organised criminals to sell dodgy carbon credits here in NZ?
That would have disqualified Peter Fraser, Harry Holland, Bob Semple and Paddy Webb who did time for sedition, which is a much more serious crime than setting up a fraudulent identity. It would also have disqualified John A Lee who did time for stealing ...
It's more complicated than that. 'Reductions in policy rates to extremely low or negative levels appear to be dysfunctional – perhaps even a tightening of monetary policy. I will not rehearse the straightforward arguments as to why, and the early evidence....
This is a bit shitty: The recommendation that sites of value to mana whenua should be disregarded until the 'evidential basis of their value has been assembled'
Good job TRP. Measles is highly contagious. It puts 3 out of 10 kids who get it in hospital. A few of these never recover their health & some die. The others get very, very sick. I can't understand how anyone can think that's OK. Chicken pox - also highly ...
Hi Chooky The electricity markets (and by 'markets' I mean that in the general sense ie not as privatised entities) are very, very complicated. Some say that they are the most complicated of all. For example, we need a network of lines and we also need ...
Wayne: Bracket creep happens when inflation pushes everyone into a higher tax bracket. We haven't got inflation; we may actually have deflation.
Is any of this money exchanged into $NZ? And if so, is there enough of it to distort the exchange rate?
Dan Carlin has made a terrific series of longform podcasts if you're interested in how the assassination of Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo leads to 60,000 gone before lunchtime on the Somme. http://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-series/
Gareth Morgan's pithy rebuttal of Taxpayers' Union: Taxpayers Union Critique of the UBI just bonkers – again Today the Taxpayers Union – a lobby group that advocates minimal tax and State-provided education, health and social services – has released a ...
The Amazon description of Stern's book: Advances in technology are creating the next economy and enabling us to make things/do things/connect with others in smarter, cheaper, faster, more effective ways. But the price of this progress has been a decoupling...
Sorry about the pay wall, which is also making it hard for me to select/copy&paste. First link is to a video - 3 talking heads discussing the UBI concept. Argument is that in contemporary industrial economy we need UBI to transition smoothly in and out of ...
Because they're out of touch. Here's how the grown-ups at the Financial Times are talking about UBI: Why we should pay everyone a basic income Mar 30, 2016 : Anthony Painter of think-tank the RSA and Lex writer Giles Wilkes debate the idea that governments...
Interesting how the scope has crept from meth labs to meth use. Has anyone produced any scientific support?
Testing for methamphetamine contamination - there's buckets of money being made and there's a ton of bullshit going down How toxic is 'toxic'? Cleaning up residences contaminated by meth is fraught with flaws | Deseret News http://desne.ws/OfbhZm
David: 'I don’t know, perhaps because women don’t find economics very interesting?' You're making stuff up, David. Look at the stats. Did you not notice that half your undergrad economics classes were women - or did you just not get through Econ 100. No ...
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