Posts by DeepRed
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Notes & Queries: In The Face of Global…, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
And I don’t think I’m the only person whose eyebrows went up in a Spock-ian manner at the sight of not one but two movies released in recent months where terrorists lay waste to the White House and environs. Ten years ago, that would have been considered unthinkably tasteless.
The White House did get trashed in the movies pre-9/11 - but by aliens rather than terrorists. And, years earlier, Air Force One was hijacked and depicted crashing into a New York skyscraper - but as a computerised wire-frame depiction in a post-Watergate dystopian setting.
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Hard News: SpinCity, in reply to BenWilson,
The costs no doubt will be borne by society. But the usual suspects, of course, will keep insisting that it won't be a problem because there’s no such thing as society.
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Listening to the NatRad replay on the affair, Prostetnic Vogon Joyce resorted to insisting black is white when he claimed future Govts are liable to compensate SkyCity if they tear up the deal. When Mary Wilson asked him for an actual real life example, he changed the subject.
Mai Chen subsequently called bullshit on the liability clause, saying compensation can only happen with 75% Parliamentary entrenchment.
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It’s yet another symptom of the nation being run from a golf cart on a country club green, instead of Parliament.
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Legal Beagle: $420,259.33, in reply to Tom Semmens,
One can't fault Labour for at least playing an open card hand, unlike certain other notable organisations have filtered their donors via blind trusts. Or worse still, outrightly astroturfed.
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Meanwhile, in the wake of the 'dying city' remarks, the hoary old AKL vs WLG thing has ramped up a notch, and a bit of a nasty one at that. The Dom is using the furore as an excuse to endorse a super city format for WLG at all costs - and to grind an axe with Mayor Celia.
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Hard News: Competing for Auckland, in reply to BenWilson,
I never thought Auckland would be nuts enough to vote in John Banks.
Was it the same local body election where the Left vote in Eden-Albert ended up getting cannibalised? Maybe it's not so much voters that are nuts, but rather the voting system that's nuts. Wellington moved to an STV system, and Auckland could do worse than to follow suit.
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Hard News: Competing for Auckland, in reply to Sacha,
Counter to worldwide trends. People like having the services, attractions – and others they relate to closely – that only major cities seem to offer. Auckland attracting most of NZ’s future growth is not some planner’s fantasy.
Or at the very least, the other major centres. In Wellington’s case, there’s been a bit of recent thinking out loud of a longer runway for Wellington Airport.
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And in light of Auckland bursting at the seams, has no one thought for a moment about dusting off regional development and a more even population spread around the country? Particularly in light of the PM's potential "47%" moment of thinking out loud about Wellington being a "dying city".
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Hard News: Competing for Auckland, in reply to Tom Semmens,
The centre-right mainly want is to get rid of Len Brown, whose mayoralty is seen as a daily insult to the Auckland born to rule establishment. So they’ll take any opportunity to put the boot in with confused attacks, half truths and hysterical nonsense via their house journal (AKA the NZ Herald).
With any luck they won't resort to a Greater London Council scorched-earthing.