Posts by Jeremy Eade
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The climate change issue election 2008?
The question about this issue is this,
Is climate change non belief as heavy as evolution non belief?
Are these people (lockwood and maurice) rational or are they nuts?
When do we stop listening to scientists? -
A lot to think about. Still thinking, takes me a sleep , but thanks for opening up some new ideas.
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"a wiki-styled website which fact-checked politicians and promoted transparency by hosting source data."
I'll have one of those.
Great reporting Keith.
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"Do they have freedoms you don't have? ..yes"
Give some examples Mark?
Look I'm interested in your view but on any measurement of freedoms internationally New Zealand aces China be it economic, cultural or social. ..but yeh they may be biased measurements but that's a hell of a lot of bias....but show me the freedoms I'm missing in China.
and hey, please don't use our media as a defence for The Chinese media.We know our media is shit; but more and more citizens are confronting that issue and we probably wont be arrested for a while .Questioning is being encouraged and the new media here looks exciting.
Free Speech is a prerequisite for a Free Mind.
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Empowered in what way? By Jesus? To use the internet?
To have a say in the way they are governed?
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"Another reason for the Clinton campaign to call it a day: it's millions of dollars in debt and stiffing small service providers."
Well that's plain bad politics and ethics, the clintons...ya wanna love them more and then they do things like this.
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"vote Jim"
from taxi?
"When will the New Zealand population be empowered? "Well some people are trying and it seems to be a growing movement but chinese progression is difficult to measure from here.
Who would you say has been empowered in China in the last decade and how?
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Are you a Beijing native Mark? Your angle is well reasoned but to new for me to digest in one take.
it needs more detail.
So how long will it take for China to stop being a superpower? When
will this system empower the people? in their lifetime? -
“Unless there's some sort of argument that supporting Clinton is some sort of betrayal of the party and nation. There's still quite a few voters yet to have their say in this.”
I can’t help but agree with Neil on this. I think the Democratic party wants whoever meets McCain (Obama that is ) to be heavily campaign tested .
Clinton is fighting hard with some incredibly passionate supporters that numberswise would have usually sown up the candidacy months ago ; but Obama has played a great simple strategy of asking the electorate “What do you want the U.S to be ?”
It's a game plan that should be played every every time we (they) have elections.It feels kinda right for a democracy.
To go all punditlike for a second, it’s been a tough road trying to establish brand . If you remember at the start of the (Democratic) primaries they looked like they were all going to run together on a combined ticket.
P.S , I can’t really see McCain winning, put a pencil in his hand and he looks like a 2008 version of Bob Dole. I just can’t see a 2008 future with McCain. He was a 2000 man.
P.S …If Clinton was happy to have Obama in the tent isn’t it possible that she’ll get a return invitation? Probably not V.P but not significantly sidelined. The re - coming together of the Democratic party will almost certainly happen and will be pretty formidable.
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"I guess because I'm a dyed-in-the-wool cynical New Zealander I wasn't able to be persuaded by the unity and hope messaged that framed his speech..."
It's hard not to have empathy for cynics when it comes to politics.
So what would persuade you?and Craig, why don't you krugman the candidates for us. What's noticeable policy wise?