Posts by Sacha
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Danyl has another, bigger batch of Welli cables.
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
disorder follows…
then nothing more certain than thurn und taxes
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Israel's large nuclear arsenal, and sense of entitlement, already provides a destabilising influence on the middle East.
snap, Ian
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to Neil Morrison,
I think the intial point was that Bush was not a comeplete war-monger, that in the face of pressure to bomb Iran from some Arab countries he didn't.
You're misreading who was actually in charge, but more importantly the little professional military advice that I've read about from credible analysts was clear that attacking Iran was not militarily achievable. Israel having a crack at them was the more plausible scenario, with equally worrying outcomes for the region and for their US sponsors.
But the raw material about that will be in other non-shared, more-secret messages. And I can't be bothered arguing with someone who doesn't know his arse from his elbow even when others helpfully convey the difference.
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to Neil Morrison,
Bush sent him off to the UN for a short stint to get rid of him.
References.
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Speaker: It's called "planning" for a reason, in reply to Matthew Poole,
If it worries [other councils], and Auckland has historically not been well-treated by [government], then that says that they're worried that about Auckland getting something that looks more like "fair" treatment.
Quite apart from redressing the historic unbalance we've talked about, a louder aggregated voice might also cause some unfair allocation of resources and opportunities (given the arbitrariness of politics especially under this bunch of evidence-free clowns).
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Speaker: It's called "planning" for a reason, in reply to Matthew Poole,
Cue the reaction from Mainland mayors to the arrival of Megatropolis, which looks as much as anything like terror at the prospect of Auckland getting back a larger chunk of the tax that is generated in Auckland.
I think it's fair for them to be worried about a unified Auckland having a louder voice now. But as I say, rugby..
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Speaker: It's called "planning" for a reason, in reply to Kyle Matthews,
Like I said, I don't object to Auckland getting it's fair share. Indeed, that's all the argument it should need, the "important for the economy" one annoys me because it implies that other parts of the country aren't.
I'd say the public case about threshold global scale has not been well made. People seem to be hearing either zero sum where it doesn't apply, or subsitution options for other cities where they do not actually exist.
Mostly, all regions are equally deserving of investment in their own way. But in some cases we only have one option. That's just a function of our country's size and population distribution. Nothing personal. Auckland will still lose at rugby, if that helps.
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Hard News: The Wellington Cables, in reply to ChrisW,
possible International Visitor Program participants
So which people from our health sector were invited into the programme, like the journos who were named last week?
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to James Bremner,
The lack of dirt on US/Israel revealed by the leaks is a major surprise to many.
Not anyone who bothered paying attention to the security classifications of released material. Most of the really sensitive stuff (and Israel would surely qualify) is still firmly hidden.