Posts by JLM
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Hard News: Together Alone, in reply to Alfie,
Hmmm - beach walks, small forest - wonder if it's the same as my local. Blackberries perchance? We could wave at a safe distance. Our local tai chi matriarch is threatening to lead respectfully distanced sessions on the beach but I don't think that will pass the regulations somehow.
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Same as last year. Rangitahi. Because it is the youth who have to deal with the shit we have created and they are stepping up.
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Wicked. In all its senses
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Rangatahi. I wanted a te reo word and this is an appropriate one I learned this year.
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400. The worst event of the year really.
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Trumped, because his election topped all the other disasters piling up over the year. What a year, a harbinger of things to come...
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We live 300 metres from a beach north of Dunedin but 13 metres up. Geomorphologist husband checked it out carefully before we moved. A neighbour rang and woke us about 3:30 when the sirens sounded but we thought it was safe to stay put. As it happened we were right. The street across the lagoon and Waitati were both evacuated.
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Speaker: A Disorderly Brexit, in reply to Alfie,
Sachs is an interesting person. He’s one of the only economists to switch sides from being an avowed Freidmanite who helped to destroy democracies in Latin America, Poland and Russia by advising them on making the transition to market-led economies, to developing a humanist perspective which actually considers the poor.
That’s a major leap in ideology.
I remember listening to his Reith lectures when you could hear that switch beginning as he struggled to understand why his audience were asking such hostile questions.
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Hard News: The flagging referendum, in reply to Russell Brown,
Thanks, that's pretty conclusive evidence.
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Hard News: The flagging referendum, in reply to Russell Brown,
He was closely associated not only with a Yes vote, but with the Lockwood designs, before the process even began. It was really improper.
What is the evidence for the second assertion? I mean the Key involvement with Lockwood, not its impropriety.