Posts by Christopher Nimmo
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Is publishing that even legal?
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Not if he’d sent Paula Bennet, you know, the Welfare Minister. Would have shown “good delegation skills” but hey…
You would wish Paula Bennett on Christchurch?
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Not sure if this has been posted on this thread so far, but could be of some use.
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Hard News: Again: Is everyone okay?, in reply to giovanni tiso,
How are the hostels, do you happen to know?
I don't know about the hostels per se, I've heard from/about students in the general area whose flat have been undamaged. Hoping!
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Oh, come on. We all know the Illuminati and the Elders of Zion are behind WL, pulling the puppet strings of the establishment press to ensure their nefarious control of the NWO is not revealed.
I had a good laugh earlier today reading the rules of the New World Order party on Elections NZ. I would dearly love for somebody to "leak" those to, say, Glenn Beck.
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I'm somewhat suspicious that this is a move being made to forestall Labour's plans for the government to get a lower dividend from the power companies (stop Labour from snaffling up the elderly vote).
In any case, there's might be little point in talking about the virtues of a partial sell-off when National could well hand off the remaining 51% in short order.
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Ah. Right ho.
I don't take back Swindells being insane though. I don't understand how anyone could have managed to survive talking to him without screaming.
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Wow. Swindells was insane. Can someone point out when Marian Hobbs was ever nicknamed "Boo-boo" Hobbs? I've never even heard a New Zilder use that phrase!
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Hard News: Media 2011, in reply to Roger Lacey,
It’s a serious lot of money.
But does it make a difference over whether a a service is essential or not? If cost-cutting is the solution to all the government’s financial woes, then it should have been prepared for that when it was projected to lose $12.5b, which is desperate enough. And if the service was essential when they were losing $12.5b, then surely it is still essential $2.5b later?
I’m not OK that the government is losing $2.5b more than expected. I’m really pretty angry about it. But they aren’t doing so because of poor spending, they’re doing so because of lower revenue, and they have lower revenue because of regressive tax changes and not spending to jumpstart the economy.
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Hard News: Media 2011, in reply to Raymond A Francis,
There is a big difference between $12.5 and $15 Billion deficient
Yeah, it's essentially the same as the difference between $10b and $12.5b. If TVNZ 6 and 7 are non-essentials to be cut to reduce the deficit to $12.5b, surely they should also have been non-essentials to cut to reduce the deficit to $10b.