Posts by Kumara Republic
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to Matthew Poole,
Prostetnic Vogons Joyce and English have their heads buried in the tar sand. They think that the best Plan B is no Plan B.
Does peak oil change the logic of my thought experiment? Or does it make it worse? If oil prices increase, the sprawly cities become less and less attractive, and choke out to the cities with mass transit already in place even more so. So runaway could accelerate.
It helped lead to a justified meltdown in the American McMansion market.
When I was a lad, Auckland wasn't so much larger than the other cities. Some of that is down to Auckland being a major Polynesian center.
Auckland gets most of the country's international flights - one of the few things it's actually planned ahead for.
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OnPoint: Everything has changed until 2014, in reply to Sacha,
Not safe from dismantling by the current bozos after a quick short-term buck, despite rhetoric about saving. Sure looks like a difference I'd expect to see emphasised during election campaigning.
Dancing Cossacks 2.0, methinks?
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Razor wire: $9000
Concrete barriers: $17000
Armed bodyguards: $130000
Bulletproof truck: $190000
Security from the jealous masses: pricelessThere are some things tax cuts can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCuts.
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Which is one of Goff's biggest problems. He doesn't know. He's closer-aligned to National than to traditional Labour, and isn't capable of truly changing his spots.
Like Moore in 1993?
Nothing like a little media deviation.
To be fair, Hughes has all his cards on the table - lots of pollies facing criminal allegations stereotypically don't, to their own detriment.
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Hard News: Libya, in reply to Russell Brown,
There was certainly a good argument for some sort of rapprochement, but McCain's political amnesia -- he lately described Gaddafi as "insane" -- is fairly amazing.
Isn't it reminiscent of Don Rumsfeld's 1983 handshake moment with Saddam Hussein?
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Hard News: Really good, actually, in reply to Richard Matthews,
it has now been confirmed it has now affected TVNZ's income to the point where bad decisions like the TVNZ7 one will be easy to make.
And of course, Henrygate and Darkiegate. If TVNZ hasn't learnt its lesson from those, then I'm afraid to say Orwell was right.
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Hard News: Libya, in reply to Gareth Ward,
It's interesting that it's still being called a NFZ
A very strongly enforced NFZ at that...
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Hard News: Kittens and puppies for happiness, in reply to nzlemming,
Oh noes! The trolls have eated the kittehs!1!!
Not to worry, our newest Level 85'er has arrived to save the day.
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Hard News: Getting dressed for the party, in reply to Cecelia,
The Holiday Highway isn't about kicking Northland in the balls. It's about the power of the trucking lobby, its governmental connections and how it astroturfs its way out of meeting its fair share of the bill. Rod Oram had some thorough analysis of the issue last year.
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Crime pays if you have money, connections and authority. >:(
Just like Inside Job.