Posts by Kumara Republic
Last ←Newer Page 1 2 3 4 5 Older→ First
-
Matt P:
I'm quite disgusted at how little coverage the issue between the Greens and National is getting from the MSM. So far I see one, fairly light-weight article at Granny, and absolutely nothing at Stuff or either of the major TV news sites.
National currently has issues with 3/4 of its partners, and it's been a year since they got elected. H1 and H2 managed to keep things seemly until well into the second term, despite the media waiting beneath the tightrope with bared, dripping fangs. National can't make it 13 months but all we're being treated to is lots of coverage on issues of personalities and expenses and zero on issues of policy.
Again, I cite whitebread and media circuses. "Look at moi", anybody?
George D:
So why not? Because improving vehicle standards is the work of a "nanny state". We can't be like Europe or Japan or China or California. If efficient showerheads were too much, god forbid we dare have efficient cars.
I very much fear our decision-makers will keep their heads stuck in the tar sands, unless civil war breaks out in Iran or the Copenhagen talks turn to shit.
-
Seems the police believe whatever they like
And no sign of the AAG so far. I've said it before, but do they only come out of the woodwork with a brown paper bag testing kit?
-
How did you get up there on the roof Haydn? Ninja grip methinks? ;)
Videos of the roller bout are pending.
-
We're marooning Laws and Hone Harawira together? Excellent. Pretty sure there's a reality TV show in there somewhere, too.
I've never liked reality TV, but the Running Man is too good for those two.
-
And not long after came the most popular ever song in Germany...
-
Germans are really, really rich and they are the biggest exporter by value in the world, and to me that episode explained everything to me as to why. That episode gave meaning to me about what a high productivity workplace/work force actually looks like. Incredibly high standards, highly automated, highly trained, very well organised, very well equipped and very, very well thought out.
I suspect it has something to do with the fact that the class system is traditionally far less institutionalised in mainland Europe than in Britain. Case in point - compare the fortunes of the British car industry with that of the rest of Europe (and maybe Japan for that matter). Unions at mainland European car makers seem to have been no less militant than their British counterparts, yet Britain's car industry utterly self-destructed while in the rest of Europe it has soldiered on. Seemingly even without the guiding/coercive hand of the state.
The Dog & Lemon Guide has more on the whole affair.
-
"...having spent today being blown around Wellington in increasingly deteriorating conditions"
"...having spent today being stuck in Auckland in increasingly gridlocked conditions"
Seriously though, the situation in Fiji is the proverbial pimple on the arse - annoyingly irritating, but not a life & death issue.
-
We can all rest easy - our superiors are going to work it all out for us, without the need for anything as messy as democracy.
Just ask Pinochet or Suharto.
-
Speaking of the Sydney Opera House, Murphy's Law made its presence felt all the way. Its chief architect quit in disgust, and the entire project ended up 14 years behind schedule and 10 times over budget. Yet it still got built in the end.
I suspect even in Australia they could never get away with that sort of thing now. Even then, it underlines a perpetual problem in NZ that won't seem to go away - we have the know-how, but we're too cheap & nasty to utilise it. Blame Think Big on the government level, and the BRT on the private-sector level.
-
And there's got to be something wrong with our system when the NZ dollar is one of the top ten traded currencies and when our politicians just shrug their shoulders and says there's nothing they can do about it. I'm not one of them high-falutin' economicians, but isn't there something we can do?
How about a Tobin Tax?