Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Polity: Global behemoths and tax, in reply to bob daktari,
Generalized Indignation and Outrage...
Could this be called GIO politics?
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Speaker: ‘Kiwimeter’ is a methodological…, in reply to Andrew Robertson,
pre-cogs unite!
I will often recommend and offer cognitive testing. You need to pick the right projects/clients though.
You'd think they'd be able to see the effects of cognitive dissonance, which is rife in modern society (and politics), and want to exclude its skew to get the clearest results...
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Drownings?
H2Oh Ohs?
Aquatic accident?I heard some terror suspect had been 'neutralised' on the radio the other morning - what'd they do turn him into an acid first?
Last time I looked the only opposing force to life was death - so why not say killed if they mean killed? -
I spy...
Today's Press had this snippet in their Political News round up - naming the 16th US President, Andrew Hamilton as the new head of the GCSB, but at the end of the piece we find him named as Andrew Hampton - which on checking further is the correct person - rigorous fact checking just doesn't really happen at Fairfax any more it seems...
Though they did get it right in a longer piece at Stuff main site, phew.So who will be the the new 'chief talent officer' at the State Services Commission?
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Soperific?
Barry Soper in the NZ Herald seems comfortable with not checking his deathless prose, nor anyone else...
he's also portrayed John Key as an arguably insane master criminal! spot on!But the outpouring of angst from Little was ammunition for the joker from the ninth floor. A smile as wide as Jack Nicholson's in Batman creased John Key's face as he contemplated the latest outpouring from Labour.
Key joyously professed to not knowing where he's coming up with this staff.and I'm not sure how much of this following last paragraph is a direct quote and how much comment?
One moment they come out against people with Chinese sounding names buying houses and now they don't want people with the same sounding names making chicken chop suey, he crowed and we all cringed.
source: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=11606723
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Speaker: The real problem with the ‘Kiwimeter’, in reply to Stephen Judd,
a simple esteem engine....
looking for a “like” button
agreed, yet isn't that another example of a self selecting survey...
;- )It always intrigued me that Stuff Comments has 'thumbs up' and 'thumbs down' options while the NZ Herald only has 'thumbs up' - and within Stuff's two options they are self cancelling - so you can never really know how many people took part if it goes evenly either way (if my feeble brain has grasped the process correctly...)
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Hard News: Media Take 2016: the new…, in reply to andin,
taking on all comers dum-dee-doo
ooops - looks like I'm a troll!
When I saw that headline I thought they must've door-stepped or named some of the senders of these emails, but no they just read them out... -
Polity: TPP, eh?, in reply to Alfie,
the Saudis...
...were granted immunity from prosecution it seems !
Sept. 29, 2015 10:56 p.m. ET
A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed Saudi Arabia as a defendant in lawsuits brought by families of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, saying the plaintiffs hadn’t presented sufficient evidence that Saudi Arabia was involved.
The decision by U.S. District Judge George Daniels marks a setback for the decade long legal effort to secure billions of dollars in damages for families of the nearly 3,000 people who died in the attacks.
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Saudi Arabia was initially dismissed from the case in 2005, on the basis of foreign countries’ immunity from prosecution, but a federal appeals court in 2013 reversed that decision. Saudi Arabia again moved to be excused from the case, claiming state immunity to prosecution and lack of evidence tying the kingdom to the attacks.http://www.wsj.com/articles/saudi-arabia-is-dismissed-as-defendant-in-9-11-lawsuits-1443581766
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This is what passes for 'Justice' in the USA these days:
Iran was ordered by a U.S. judge to pay more than $10.5 billion in damages to families of people killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and to a group of insurers.
U.S. District Judge George Daniels in New York issued a default judgment Wednesday against Iran for $7.5 billion to the estates and families of people who died at the World Trade Center and Pentagon. It includes $2 million to each estate for the victims’ pain and suffering plus $6.88 million in punitive damages.
Daniels also awarded $3 billion to insurers including Chubb Ltd. that paid property damage, business interruption and other claims.
Earlier in the case, Daniels found that Iran had failed to defend claims that it aided the Sept. 11 hijackers and was therefore liable for damages tied to the attacks. Daniels’s ruling Wednesday adopts damages findings by a U.S. magistrate judge in December. While it is difficult to collect damages from an unwilling foreign nation, the plaintiffs may try to collect part of the judgments using a law that permits parties to tap terrorists’ assets frozen by the government.http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-10/iran-told-to-pay-10-5-billion-to-sept-11-kin-insurers
No need for evidence and that sort of thing - just failure to contest!!
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Ankara management...
No solidarity with other newspapers either - Stuff don't seem to have registered that the Turkish Government has effectively taken over the Zaman newspaper.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/zaman-newspaper-protesters-rubber-bullets-and-tear-gas-as-government-takeover-erdogan-a6914156.htmlfollowing on from earlier attacks on journalists:
“The media should not have unlimited freedom. There is no absolute freedom anywhere in world media either.”
The journalists’ prosecution comes during a crackdown on press freedom by Erdoğan’s increasingly authoritarian government.
