Posts by Ian Dalziel
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...Clinton suggested extending a nuclear umbrella over the Gulf States guaranteeing them security if Iran went nuclear to deter the Gulf states from developing their own nuclear weapons.
While not on the Gulf per se, Israel's large nuclear arsenal, and sense of entitlement, already provides a destabilising influence on the middle East.
At least Iran is a signatory to international agreements on Nuclear energy, Israel just ignores these while insisting that Iran should toe lines it refuses to. -
going bush and razing a smile...
handy hints for the waning waxer
and other Madam Tush aids...
offering some delightful razor light
on the gathering merkin...may you get happily half cut over the holidays
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the Don is gone…
so long Don van Vliet aka Captain Beefheart
died December 17 – thanks for all the great music!now maybe he’ll get some acknowledgement for his contributions to modern music…
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Except as pointed out by Sacha the debunking has been debunked.
so corrections have gone to double debunking...
Yes. At a quick glance at the figures, it seems like they do that by virtue of the kind of public health strategising that’s hard to do in a fully private system.
Cuba has lotsa outside help too, my nephew volunteered in a hospital clinic there while doing his medical training along with many others from outside. I think he enjoyed Cuba alot...
Maybe John Bolton is a lefty plant
well he's definitely a sinister creeper...
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The Chinese ship was here
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Bumfight at the Okarito Corral…
…to get them to take our infected waters seriously.
perhaps you have to put a real “motion’ before them?
a grassroots movement to stop grass top movements?
but seriously it would a tragedy if Okarito was to become known as “the great heron after’ – it would in fact be an Heronymous Botch-up….
[apropos] …I have just bought a fabulous tea towel, by Anita Peters and Murray Hedwig, of a local Heron – Heronymous – and others of Pohutakawa, Kahikatea and whitebait at the market on saturday, these two also produced a great book on whitebaiters in New Zealand*, with a foreword by a leading Okarito luminary… get them where you can, I can’t find a web presence for buying the tea towels as yet. *(see below)
; – )*this was also mounted as a street exhibition, during the last Chch Arts Festival, all along Worcester Boulevard
*[edit and add a bit] I just found the tea towels here and larger pictures (but dearer) here also
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it's nice to be kneaded...
One point (and the only one I have seen in my few brief visits) of difference in St Lukes would be massage. It has brought the world of chinese massage out in the open, where one isn't afraid to explore.
the massage areas have arrived in chch malls as well, well at least at the Palms anyway... maybe in time the foodcourts will have healthier options, and a large space for mass tai chi and yoga will be available as malls take over the function of town squares and community centres...
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what's wrong with a buslane metropolis
oh sorry, bustling...They are now thinking about taking the bus lanes out of Sydenham, in Chch, as they are killing what few businesses that the earthquake didn't ruin - gee, just like everyone said, when they first put them in....
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new mainline locos haven’t been built here for decades.
I got to help photograph the Addington Rail workshops when they were decommissioned and then demolished – sadly they destroyed the workers hall as well – I have never been in a lovelier hall, all wood and warm feelings… I also got the stencil sets and a great collection of Health and safety posters from the 1930s thru to the 70s. Man, photo-offset and modern typograhy has a lot to answer for, all the posters from the mid ’60s on looked like they’d been done by a committee and had zero impact – all the great 2 or 3 colour silkscreens and rotogravure posters from earlier were brilliant – one look and the idea is bedded in your brain effortlessly… sigh
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training wheels
re rail and road - same kind of foresight...
Remember when Joyce allowed those big new Road Train Trucks to be introduced to NZ, and then it transpires many bridges and other infrastructure might not cope with their weight.
Today I read , that the new Train engines, to be bought from China, may be too heavy for the rail network and have driver visibility issues - way to go planners!