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Open mike 12/10/09
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ACC: This seems a classic hidden in plain view heist. The msm has uncritically run Nick Smiths outrageous lines again in the last 24 hours. Levies to rise, unprecedented “blowout’how is projected expenditure a ‘blowout’?
The Insurance companies can barely contain themselves at their coming windfall. Are New Zealanders as uncomprehending of this matter as it appears?
There’s a post on ACC up now:
http://www.thestandard.org.nz/first-manufacture-a-crisis/
A provocative article here: “Why the Nobel Peace Prize Should Go to Nuclear Weapons”…
Whose hands and how much free-will will the rest of humanity have?
God, what a load of bollix that article is.
An ad for a free public talk Tues
Building the Public Sector for the 21st Century
Public policy and public management challenges facing New Zealand presented by Grant Robertson MP
5.30-6.30pm Tuesday 13 October – Lecture Theatre One, Old Government Buildings, Bunny St, Wellington
Grant Robertson is MP for Wellington Central. He is Labour Spokesperson for State Services and Associate Spokesperson for Foreign Affairs, and Arts, Culture and Heritage and is a member of the Government Administration select committee. He worked at the United Nations in New York, as a New Zealand diplomat, representing New Zealand views on environment, economic development, population, overseas aid and South Pacific issues.
this is strange from the WSJ
Free Trade Fumble
New Zealand tries to open trade by . . .keeping tariffs in place.
Just a bit of a laugh.
nice.
This guy translates US sunday talkshows into sense.
http://moonshinepatriot.blogspot.com/
Is anyone else worried about the massively political way in which John Judge is behaving over ACC?
How far is too far? and can anything be done?
Just watched a 60 Minute docu 7:30 TV 3, interviewing McCrystal re Afghanistan. He has made an incredible, fantastic, earth-shaking discovery about being a force in another country. Amazingly he has found that if you don’t win the hearts and minds of the people, gasp, then no matter what, you can’t win the war! He has even gone so far as to cease bombing civilian buildings because the civilian casualties do more damage to the war than the bombs! All those years in Iraq and Afghanistan, all those lives lost and the penny has dropped. Fancy that! He wants soldiers in the towns to stop driving aggressively or walking dressed to kill. Wonder if they will replace him?