Posts by Sacha
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Cracker: Fa la la la laaa, la la la la., in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Totally small town NZ
Bleedin main street, innit
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Hard News: The Wellington Cables, in reply to nzlemming,
Prime Minister John Key - who has Jewish roots
Does Bronagh know?
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Speaker: It's called "planning" for a reason, in reply to Matthew Poole,
the Council will be obliged to release urban fringe land for development
Not that there are any wealthy land-bankers rubbing their hands together with glee or anything..
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Hard News: A very roundabout review of…, in reply to Kracklite,
Useful bureaucratese... "issues" are static, requiring no immediate action
Fits perfectly, then
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Nothing remotely punky about Tron
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Hard News: A very roundabout review of…, in reply to TracyMac,
I reckon it would have. Possibly not without BladeRunner though.
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to Simon Grigg,
Dyer is consistent with what I've read. After the last Israeli aerial bombing, Iran has located its potential targets far underground and/or in heavily-populated civilian areas.
...there is no way for the United States to win a non-nuclear war with Iran.
The US could “win” by dropping hundreds of nuclear weapons on Iran’s military bases, nuclear facilities and industrial centres (i.e. cities) and killing five to ten million people, but short of that, nothing works.
On this we have the word of Richard Clarke, counter-terrorism adviser in the White House under three administrations.
In the early 1990s, Clarke revealed in an interview with the New York Times four years ago, the Clinton administration had seriously considered a bombing campaign against Iran, but the military professionals told them not to do it.
“After a long debate, the highest levels of the military could not forecast a way in which things would end favourably for the United States,” he said. The Pentagon’s planners have war-gamed an attack on Iran several times in the past fifteen years, and they just can’t make it come out as a US victory.
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Hard News: A very roundabout review of…, in reply to Kracklite,
I think I hate the term “issues” as much as I hate “going forward.”
For some reason in official circles we get disability 'issues' rather than the more exciting 'affairs' enjoyed by women or Pacific populations for instance. Doesn't help the sales pitch, I tells you.
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Speaker: It's called "planning" for a reason, in reply to Matthew Poole,
I thoroughly recommend this post by (who else) Joshua Arbury outlining the history and showing what could have been. Worth it just for the grainy Ministry of Works 1946 network map.
While there are some rather dubious aspects to the above plan, like the eastern motorway, there is also a lot in this plan that makes huge amounts of sense. The city’s development is skewed south-east to north-west, to take more advantage of the railway line’s alignment. There is the Morningside Deviation (today’s CBD Rail Tunnel), there’s the Avondale-Southdown line (to reinforce the south-east to north-west alignment), plus there is actually good transport access to the East Tamaki area.
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Where's ye olde threadde?
For tidiness - and to avoid distracting from this one's topic..