Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Polity: Why did the TPP fail?, in reply to Bill Eaton,
a mere fettered anger...*
Free trade with SIngapore and some others would have been worth something to NZ but that advantage was squandered in pursuit of the delusion that great trade powers would play nice.
Yes, it would have been interesting to see how the small Trade Agreement the Labour Government originally started -
The TPP began as an expansion of the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement (TPSEP or P4) signed by Brunei, Chile, New Zealand, and Singapore in 2005.* *
- would have panned out if left to just those four - before the big cuckoos got in the nest and laid their eggs for everyone else to hatch and feed...
Heck, it would probably already have been in place and showing benefits by now...So now the other exercise is 'How much did this damp squib of failed diplomacy' cost us?
How many wasted millions were spent pushing a doomed rock repeatedly up hill in this Sisyphean*** orgy of hubris?*anagram of Free Trade Agreement
* *source
*** source
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I note the Sunday Star Times headline writers have not yet mastered the simple 'copy and paste' technique!
It is Eva Prowse not Prouse!
How hard can it be for Sunday Star Times (Escape Section) sub-editors and headline writers to copy and paste?
Rather than insultingly misspell the surname of someone you have gone out of your way to spend 15 minutes with and ask their opinion.
It's not as if the headline writer couldn't see two other correct spellings right there in front of them.I guess they have more important things to do....
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Speaker: Are we seeing the end of MSM,…, in reply to Alfie,
Possessive
Possession = a 'pos' ess is on is my aide–mémoire ....
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Another pointilist exercise for art adherents!
;- )But seriously, how great to see the group mind at work creating a consensus reality.
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Legal Beagle: The law to make it easier…, in reply to linger,
Vernon Small ( Dominion Post Thu 18 Aug)
Round-up of comment from The Herald here...
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=11697313
including Toby Manhire's excellent take on it...
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11696744 -
William why do get the feeling that you wouldn't pass a Turing Test?
Both your NZ namesakes would make good movies too..
http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/1966/jackson-captain-william
and
http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/1966/barry-captain-william-jackson...and why the UK postcode finder for a link?
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...and something for Saturday afternoon - do come along!
1pm at The WEA, 59 Gloucester street (just opposite Ronnie's hand on the Art Gallery) -
Something for the weekend...
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Hard News: Friday Music: Reduction…, in reply to Mike O'Connell,
an excellent little booklet
fixed that link for you - https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/942830037_un_stuck
where can you get the actual book from?
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The Hole truth…
…and these previously unseen Fall photos (bar one) surfaced in The Press today, by way of publicising Roger, Russell and Jay and co’s little soiree at Blue Smoke next saturday (not this saturday) night as part of the wider Word festival
