Posts by Sacha
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Muse: That Book, The Ban That Isn't,…, in reply to Rich Lock,
Not having it on display was more or less an open invitation for the gestapo to start sniffing around for other signs of un-germanic activity.
Sure they both have a book in them, but that power element is a big difference between this storm in a teacup and the Holocaust.
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Muse: That Book, The Ban That Isn't,…, in reply to Crunchy Weta,
raise awareness of the issue
Surely everyone knows by now. Let's see some smart action that works (and it won't come from Wishart, McCoskrie or their chums).
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Up Front: Life on Mars, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
at least a nice new volcano in Auckland would give us some variety
and is likely to improve Takapuna
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Up Front: Life on Mars, in reply to Emma Hart,
outside for "the six"
Cheryl Bernstein describes being in her local park playground with her daughter, as part of another eloquent exploration of the impact of #eqnz on Chch's architectural history. h/t Giovanni
She had just got off the slide when the big earthquake struck. There was a deep, terrible low boom, first, I think, though it's hard to remember the exact sequence in which things happened. The park tipped from side to side and I couldn't stand. I caught my daughter up in my arms, and sat down hard on the damp bark chips of the playground. The trees and the lamp standards beat back and forth furiously. I saw waves run across the big green field, as if it were liquid, as if it were an ocean, as if it were a tablecloth picked up and shaken out at a Victorian garden party. Across the stream the back wall of a house, seriously damaged in the earlier quakes, collapsed in a cloud of red brick dust. A huge pile of slates slipped off scaffolding around a partially-repaired roof and crashed to the ground. A jet of water shot skyward from the drinking fountain.
There was silence, and then the sirens started.
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Hard News: That's Entertainment!, in reply to Danielle,
Scary
And sad
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Legal Beagle: Referendum Fact Check #1, in reply to Rob S,
Quite. Democracy is not mob rule.
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Ok then
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Legal Beagle: Referendum Fact Check #1, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
That sort of sophistication truly empowers the party membership and has turned the Labour party into the smooth, united, election-winning machine we know and love.
It burns :)
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Christchurch City Council announces an extra 1.76% eqnz rates levy for the next 5 years (with a 5.34% rise on top for this year).
Meanwhile, Budget background docs reveal Treasury's calculations on a national levy as the Greens had proposed.
Treasury reported to the Government that in Australia a levy was imposed after the Queensland foods at a rate of 0.5 per cent on all taxable income between A$50,000 ($64,600) and A$100,000, and 1 per cent on income over A$100,000, which raised A$1.8b in a year.
It said if that was applied in New Zealand it would raise only $250 million, and to raise significant revenue through a levy it would have to be imposed at a higher rate or at a lower starting income threshold, or both.
A flat one per cent levy on all taxable income would raise roughly $1.2b, it said.
The Greens, who haven't given up, said today Christchurch City Council was imposing an earthquake levy on those who could least afford it - the city's ratepayers.
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Andrew Geddis examines the Vote For Change campaign's key claims.