Posts by Sacha
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Capture: The Castle, in reply to BenWilson,
fly-zapper? :)
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to Carol Green,
cool, they've finally fixed those panels.
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Hard News: Merry Christmas, you all, in reply to Ross Mason,
It cuts out the clipper in the middle.
hence the Greens' eqnz levy was so vehemently opposed
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Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
if data server farms are here to stay, why aren't we building them here? Is it the seismic risk? I'd have thought our geographical 'isolation' would be a unique selling point.
you'd think.
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Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to Farmer Green,
I agree. That's the sort of value I want NZ companies to own at least a substantial stake in. Having Chinese business partners makes sense at the market end, but it seems our ambishus 'leaders' can only see us as someone else's sharemilkers and factory hands. Yesterday's boys.
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Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to Chris Waugh,
Actually, FG is right that higher raw milk prices would leave more in NZ farmers' pockets too. Still unimpressed with NZ kissing goodbye to the entire value chain beyond the farm.
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Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to Chris Waugh,
Fran said the site is a soft launch for now. Presumably she will be promoting it sometime in the new year.
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Fran O'Sullivan's new blog has an article about the Yili purchase proposal - the one the TVNZ story seems to be based on.
Lovely to see Don Brash furthering NZ's interests again.
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Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to Farmer Green,
Increased profitability
all of which will flow to Chinese rather than NZ interests. Not an economically sustainable future.
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Hard News: Merry Christmas, you all, in reply to Russell Brown,
#FF-ing :)