Posts by Sacha
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OnPoint: PREFU 2011: "What credit downgrade?", in reply to Bart Janssen,
For the most part they genuinely believe in trickle down economics and the purity of the free market to provide growth and hence wealth for the country.
Personally I don't believe that things that have failed to work in other countries will somehow magically work in NZ.
Verily, no amount of evidence will shake their faith in them beans.
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Hard News: The Politics of Absence, in reply to 3410,
You're an idiot
Ae. Lack of coherence and discipline will not win elections.
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Hard News: The Politics of Absence, in reply to 3410,
quoting a candidate is now a "dirty tricks campaign".
Isn't the issue there more about misrepresenting the recency of his quotes? The man's opponents don't need to resort to that to see the back of him for one last time.
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Hard News: Occupy: Don't call it a protest, in reply to Kumara Republic,
The same critics who point out the private debt factor under Clark would likely have attacked attempts to control it as nanny statist.
The voting public seem more ready now than last term to consider a capital gains tax or other measures to make property gambling less attractive. English even slipped some through in the last Budget without much of a fuss.
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Hard News: Occupy: Don't call it a protest, in reply to BenWilson,
We are probably in one of the best situations in the world to take a path of sustainable growth, by taking all of the costs into account.
Yet we collectively elected a government determined to invest our children's future in highways to nowhere rather than public transport. "Occupy" is at least partly a response to the failure of traditionally-organised resistance to do much about that or anything else of consequence. Look, a panda.
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Hard News: Occupy: Don't call it a protest, in reply to BenWilson,
reading I, Robot (which is, incidentally, nothing at all like the movie)
True. Some awesome NZ software powered parts of the movie - including the scene amongst the shipping containers at the end (screencapped here), which the software's developer noted was actually populated by AI characters. Asimov would have been proud.
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Speaking of moments of national significance..
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Hard News: Occupy: Don't call it a protest, in reply to Russell Brown,
the "unconference" sector
sounds organised :)
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Hard News: Occupy: Don't call it a protest, in reply to Russell Brown,
the libertarian Paul-bots who’ve got involved in the US Occupy actions
That venn diagram post seems to fit well here. (h/t Lew)
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Hard News: Occupy: Don't call it a protest, in reply to Hilary Stace,
Camping in Wellington's spring weather is very challenging.
There are lots of chalk messages everywhere but no party political or union banners to be seen.
These two statements may be related.