Posts by Don Christie
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The Viacom / Google story ought to give us pause for thought on what MED and associated ministries might be planning to give away on your behalf. This ACTA thing is looking worse than the Copyright Amendment Act. At least the latter was passed by Parliament.
ACTA negotiations are taking place in secrecy where our governments are working on behalf of overseas corporates against you tye consumer. No doubt robbery will be pleased until one of his budding artists is pulled aside and asked to explain a disk full of samples...
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Even more interesting is today's news that a Kiwisaver "rejig" involving "small changes" will release the squillions needed to fund tax cuts.
There is no safe retirement fund. My advice to look after yourself in your old age - buy property. Seriously, why the .... would anyone trust private or government savings schemes.
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They speak of a superhuman performance by McCaw.
Which is great but we need to be able to win without him also
Here's a thought, how about rotating players in key positions?
The stats on lineouts are also fantastic reading - could it be that we've finally got a reliable lineout?
Please tell me Dingo Deans was coaching the AB lineouts in a previous incarnation...
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No footy thread today, Mr. Brown? Allow me.
From the Gruaniad...
So that is what New Zealand used to play like. It has been too long. This was like being reunited with old friends,
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Capital gains tax, stamp duty, enforcement of the current tax code on people trading property for income, steps to make shares relatively more attractive
None of which would have stopped the huge influx if cheap finance, essentially created by the US Federal reserve and Japan. Australia has most of the above and still had (has) a crazy arse housing boom.
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From the English transcript:
ENGLISH: So later on we’re gonna have to have a bit of a sort out. Yeah, we’re gonna do something, but we can’t do it now.
/me wonders what "a bit of a sort out" will entail...
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That’s right the Neocons want/need another terrorist attack on US soil to bring Americans back to their senses!
Coincidentally I am re-reading Conrad's "The Secret Agent" by Conrad. All of the above, it's been covered...100 years ago.
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There's a superb BBC4 three-parter about the British radical left of the late 70s and early 80s, called Lefties. Lots of great what were they thinking? moments,
They were bullies and thugs. Not above handing out the odd beating our two in an SU bar I was familiar with. Typical also of many in the Union movements at the time who had had a run of power for far too long and had become used to holding a nation to ransom. Much as I dislike Thatcher I also have a long held distain those that allowed her to justify her actions.
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The recovery of her fortunes was a direct result of her handling of the Falklands War.
There was that.
But this:
Thus macroeconomic factors were at the root of the revival of Mrs Thatcher's political fortunes, and most of the boost to government popularity which occurred in the spring of 1982 derived from intelligent (or cynical) macroeconomic management.
Conveniently ingores the self destruction of the Labour party and its near takeover by what were seen as extremists - typified by Militant Tendency.
The context of 1983 had *nothing* to do with the popularity of economic reforms, they were very unpopular, but everything to do with the fact that at the time, compared to the opposition, Thatcher was the "centre". And we all know where elections are won from, right?
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Tom - some of us are on the same wave length.