Dear General R0BINS, The enemy has launched a sustained assault via the gambling dens in front of our lines, but the decisive engagement has yet to occur. We must withstand repeated attacks until our allies arrive in force and break through his right flank...
This might help - Romney inadvertently releases his proposed reforms http://www.thenation.com/blog/167416/romneys-bad-math “I’m going to take a lot of departments in Washington, and agencies, and combine them. Some eliminate, but I’m probably not going to ...
Mark Textor's Twitter trouble http://www.thepowerindex.com.au/follow-the-power/mark-textor-s-twitter-trouble-bobkat-to-get-the-cream http://www.thepowerindex.com.au/spinners/mark-textor
And then there is ... Graduating from high school soon? Looking for a job in a high-growth field? Like working outdoors and traveling to exotic locales? How does $103,269 a year strike you? At myfuture.com, high-schoolers are encouraged “to explore all ...
Hmm .. is this government so fragile that if Smith goes it no longer has a majority ? A byelection in the shadow of the looming 'reforms' should be interesting.
I don't know if anyone has referred to it, but this might have something to do with it .. http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1201/S00086/tom-frewen-nz-on-air-spooked-by-political-interference.htm Q
Did you ever meet Diana ? If not, how can you make such judgments ? Does your contempt extend to the manner of her death ? I do not understand your ambivalence about monarchy. My point is simple - the pretensions of the old world are increasingly ...
Re "that ticking fruitcake" .. Diana was the victim of a system which needed an heir. You have outed yourself as a monarchist. Empty symbols ? People have fought and died over these things in places as varied as Peterloo and Waterloo .. the latter won only...
Populuxe1: when I last enquired Shanghai, Mumbai, and San Francisco were prominent trading centers in republics forged through anti-colonial struggles against hereditary monarchies. Some people have long memories. By the 1850s, bunyip had .. become a "...
LOTR (in Tolkien's words) is a "fundamentally Catholic work." .. very much so. It's ironic that Sir Ian wanders around in white robes with a hit of an aura without anyone commenting on it. The Catholic church thought so, mobilising its formidable ...
I have not had the time to read all the pieces above, or the energy to get involved in partisan polemic. Having taken over from Xavier De Miello in Baghdad, David Shearer may wish to consider the piece below. He may not need to .. INVASI, ERADICAVI, ...
It gets worse .. http://www.economist.com/blogs/bagehot/2011/11/britain-and-eu
"Show me the money !" .. another thought-stopper trumping rational critique. Crosby-Textor has moved on from "actually", but it is the same script. Key calls it a "battle of ideas", but C-T's emphasis is too much on 'battle', not enough on 'ideas'.
They were using individualised case management a few years age with no significant change in unemployment data. Cost savings will be illusory, but good election fodder in some marginal seats.
"ACTUALLY, you are wrong ! The truth is ...." Key used that tactic so frequently it had to be scripted by whoever prepared him for it. Delivered - in what sounded like his version of a Chch working class accent - it had the effect of regaining the ...
All we have to do now is to elect the right government ..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_I_Nuclear_Power_Plant#2011_earthquake_events
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Saudi_Arabian_protests
I don't fully understand the context in which this image was taken, but it looks awfully like an exploitable election image. http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/4726330/Christchurch-earthquake-Lotto-jackpot-for-city Q.
Forgive me for sounding cynical, but it looks as though Key's minders have removed him as far as possible from the blowback of the SCF collapse. They don't wish to tarnish their prized electoral asset, and he gets to resurface after a discreet interval ...
Damn .. is that it ? Really ? Are you just going to roll over and let a bunch of Remuera millionaires and their property consultants tickle your belly .. or worse ? The men and women of Aotearoa / New Zealand deserve better. Where is the dedication to the ...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/7756879/Europes-deflation-torture-is-a-gift-to-the-Far-Left.html
"Europe's deflation torture is a gift to the Far Left" Ambrose Evans-Pritchard http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/7756879/Europes-deflation-torture-is-a-gift-to-the-Far-Left.html
Key taking a risk ? I read somewhere that he held shares in a gold miner in NZ before the election. Does he care about publicity ? He can always retire when he has turned NZ into a new Bolivia - or should that be Haiti .. ? Q
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/mar/06/tanya-gold-tried-non-dom
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/mar/07/lord-ashcroft-donations-marginal-s eats
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/mar/07/lord-ashcroft-non-dom-tax
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/mar/07/peter-mandelson-lord-ashcroft-row
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/mar/09/michael-ashcroft-online-media-empi re
See this on Ashcrofts plans for an online media empire http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/mar/09/michael-ashcroft-online-media-empi re
It is not just the media. I understand that a report is being prepared for rationalisation of publicly owned property. IrishBill: that's interesting. Can you email me about this? thestandardnz (at) gmail (dot) com
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