Posts by Kumara Republic
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If the killing of Dr Tiller isn't serious enough to be terrorism, but is still more serious than a plain vanilla homicide, then the nearest matching description would have to be political murder or assassination.
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By the sounds of things, the world's getting closer to the Running Man than we think.
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Make NZ a prison island.
John Carpenter's Escape From Otara - coming to cinemas soon!
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I simply don't believe we can make any reliable statement about where on the political spectrum NZers sit as a group. Other than somewhere between John Minto and Garth George.
I/S & ScottY: the 8 Tribes is a reminder of the unwritten class divide.
Speaking of Minto, what would in this day and age trigger a sequel to the 1981 Tour? It would likely follow some kind of diplomatic incident; in the case of 1981, it was the African boycott of Montreal '76 in response to Muldoon allowing the All Blacks to tour what was then-apartheid South Africa.
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Setting aside the superannuation debacle, I think the strangest thing we have in this budget is how it seriously goes against what pretty much every other developed-world economy is doing to get itself out of the recession. That is, having a half-decent stimulus package for more than just the rich, and really focusing on keeping people in work. Kind of like the Green New Deal really.
Are we right and the rest of the world wrong, or vice versa? Personally I’m going to go with the majority.
The insulation fund is a positive move, but it took some prodding by the Opposition. Still, the big picture looks like an ecological Herbert Hoover/Forbes-Coates.
I sure as fuck hope that our trading partners won't perceive us to be an environmental rogue state, and forcing sustainability on us kicking and screaming. What if, after RWC 2011, tourists complained about there being not enough public transit? Or worse still, a Seymour Hersh type doing a Nicky Hager on 'the great NZ greenwash'?
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He did try, but even the mention of it got shouted down by all in sundry.
My inner Machiavellian thinks that the solution would be to actively encourage subprime lenders to set up shop here, then sit back and watch McMansionville collapse under its own weight.
Seriously though, removing tax benefits on suburban plots above a certain area (~250-300 sq m) would be a good start, as the US Democrats are proposing.
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You mean we would be able to get French (8.8%) or British (7.1%) or American (8.9%) levels of unemployment, as opposed to our current 5%.
Paradoxically, the bolshie nature of French trade unions has led to high productivity through machines replacing humans. Here in NZ, companies are still content to use people to dig with shovels and rotate road signs.
Am I not the only one to feel that only a major sub-priming of the mortgage and credit card sectors will jolt NZers into genuinely productive investment?
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I learned about the evils of retrenchment and Gordon Coates in 5th form history -- did English skip class during that module?
Forbes-Coates v2.0 alpha release.
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Couldn't we lock the clowns in..?
Syn·o·vate [sin-uh-vayt, sin-oh-vayt] - verb intransitive
1. See also bossnapping.