Posts by Tinakori
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Hard News: Drugs, testing and workplaces, in reply to Bart Janssen,
"But your unwavering defense of our PM is admirable."
As is your touching faith that officials or English's office know (or can know) the full story.
The rate of positive tests for beneficiaries is relevant only to the beneficiary population. What about the positives for non-beneficiary applicants and also those beneficiaries and non beneficiaries who avoid jobs where they know they will be tested?
There are plenty of occupations where you are not at risk of drug testing and people will take themselves out of the pool for some jobs simply because they do not want to be included in the tested population. For much of the first decade of my working life I would never have passed a recreational drug test but I was only driving a typewriter. Why NZ Rugby want to add to their burdens by assuming responsibility for their employees' recreational drug use - that is also largely irrelevant to their professional performance - beats me.
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Hard News: Drugs, testing and workplaces, in reply to Bart Janssen,
So you are conceding that English was told these things by employers. Therefore he wasn't lying when he said so. Thanks for that. The rest of your argument is more appropriate for a representative of the Society of Jesus than someone employed as a scientist.
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"He
LIED:"
Really? How do you know. Are you a mole in English's entourage who monitored his each and every encounter?
Politicians - left right and middle - circulate widely in our communities and get told stuff by people of every political persuasion, including the politically agnostic. When they get told stuff repeatedly they start to think there might be something to the claims.
It is also a common claim, especially in the regions.
The substance of the claim may be true, partly true or baseless but I very much doubt that English or any other politician would say that employers were telling him this if they were not.
David Shearer's clumsy claim about the honourable Rufus Painter is the exception that proves the rule.
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"thought"
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Speaker: David Shearer: The one that…, in reply to Bart Janssen,
You must have through it terrific when John Key appointed a Chief Scientific Advisor
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"There's a chance he could be out next leader with a supporting cast...."
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"The question for us, is when/if we see something similar here."
Meet Winston Peters our very own Trumpster for the last 20 or so years, but with much better hair. There's a chance he could be our next with a supporting cast of Labour and the Greens, in what would be a very interesting government to watch, but not necessarily to work in or be ruled by. Listen to the UK Labour Party economist Anne Pettifor on RNZ Nine to Noon yesterday praise Trump's causes but tut, tut about his style.
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Well done, Rob. That;s the first post of yours that has created debate and dissension among your target audience other than the Chinese names contribution, which was rather unproductive. And I mean that entirely unironically. I am however surprised that the representatives of the various teachers unions have not demanded a retraction and apology, Their demand for your resignation I assume will be dealt with internally.
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"They were later shocked - shocked! - when they found out other countries didn't follow suit.
"Head-desk."
Ah, exhumed from the graveyard of economic thought, the economic zombie fallacy that there has to be reciprocity for the benefits to be realised. And I bet MFAT did not think that reciprocity was required for trade liberalisation to be effective.
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Have you changed your calculations, Rob? I recall you on this blog using the number 45% for the proportion of income tax paid by the top 10% income earners.