Hard News: What Now?
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Steve Barnes, in reply to
not helpful – and you do want to help, right?
Do You?
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nzlemming, in reply to
I predict the first part of Campbell's article will be overshadowed by the second...
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Sacha - those pages of inflatable shelters (with other links to other kinds of emergency shelters) - are a good & helpful idea. Marae & hall/school emergency
Yes, the issue is that it's not at all what Steve meant in the original post - and he knows that full well.
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Steve, tone matters.
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Sacha, in reply to
I predict the first part of Campbell's article will be overshadowed by the second
Was trying to avoid mentioning the dreaded RWC :)
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Right now a hundred right-wing bloggers will be googling Peter Hyde to see if he's ever joined a union, or written a letter to the editor about climate change.
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TV3's Patrick Gower on Simon Power's exit.
But Power always loomed as a possible successor. He had the goods to be PM - or a deputy-come-Finance Minister.
Now the pecking order is shaken up. There's future leader and deputy leader roles up for grabs and the hopefuls will be jockeying even harder for position.
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Like Goff, Power came in young. Sure he may have been leader one day - but the timing may have been wrong.
Why wait all your life for something that may never happen.
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So Power's gone out on top: he's done what I call a "political Susan Devoy".
The corporate world awaits this machine. Any bets on Simon Power, Fonterra CEO?
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Steve Barnes, in reply to
Yes, the issue is that it’s not at all what Steve meant in the original post – and he knows that full well.
Mind reader now eh? A failed attempt at a little light heartedness is all it was.
Steve, tone matters.
That seems to be the most important here.
Attacking me helps no-one.
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Was trying to avoid mentioning the dreaded RWC :)
Yes, it's an event of such magnitude that while now might not be the time, it needs to be pretty bloody soon.
Just for a curveball idea, if the games do stay in Christchurch (I don't know how damaged the stadium is) the local residents could get a massive cash injection by letting/subletting out their houses to stay in. This could also accelerate the push to get the houses fixed. "Pay in advance, and I'll fix the house for you".
But I'm currently doubting that it can stay there. Fixing up rugby game infrastructure just isn't a priority.
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Sacha, in reply to
Dunedin seems a more likely answer as Campbell notes
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Something else completely off topic just occurred to me. Google could help transport in Christchurch by doing a streetview update. Then people could go looking at all the damage virtually. It might also provide outsiders with a much more comprehensive overview of what's really happened. The police could probably even let them do a city drive-through.
They're going to have to do it anyway, the current streetviews are out of date badly now.
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Christopher Dempsey, in reply to
Won’t stop the usual suspect cooking up knife fights in the Cabinet Room and drunken porn-watching marathons in ministerial hotel rooms though.. :)
Except when it turns out to be true. Granted, it is OIA, and granted, I wager one wouldn't find ahem, services of that kind in sweet Rangitikei (sweeping generalisation, and not that there is absolutely anything wrong with such services), but given that, I don't think Power's hiding anything of the sort other than a graceful exit.
His resignation is a loss to the National Party and us all, and I shudder to think what 'talent' will fill his shoes.
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Andre Alessi, in reply to
Right now a hundred right-wing bloggers will be googling Peter Hyde to see if he’s ever joined a union, or written a letter to the editor about climate change.
Is that before or after they start fantasizing about roaming bands of avaricious brown people, thus requiring the immediate arming of all good, god-fearing white homeowners? Because that seems to be where a significant part of the "discussion" is going in the nethers of NZ's internet.
Proposals to relax gun ownership laws in 5...4...3...
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Sacha, in reply to
Google could help transport in Christchurch by doing a streetview update
They released an aerial update pretty quickly. Would need roads to be passable before updating ground-level imagery though.
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Lucy Stewart, in reply to
If you really want to take that to the reductio ad absurdum, the billions of human beings living at the rim of the Pacific basin are "in the wrong place". Don't know about you, but I haven't got anywhere else to go.
What's the matter with the lovely volcanic field you're living in?
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John Key on paying for quake - seems well-crafted response, neutralising opposition points.
"Both Working for Families and student loans are arguably broad and generous schemes," he said.
"There may be opportunities to make alterations to the generosity of those schemes, particularly WFF where it reaches into very high income levels and where those people have enjoyed reasonably good tax cuts because we have lowered the top personal rates."
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"The Government will have to make sure it makes some savings. More outgoings and less revenue means you have to be more careful with your expenditure.”
The earthquake had also changed the dynamics of the May 19 Budget. It would still have a strong focus on savings and investment but the Christchurch earthquake would form a significant part of the Budget.
Mr Key also said he was looking at ways to involve other polticial parties in decisions about Christchurch as well as locals and the city council.
"I don’t think this is a political event I think it's actually a national event and we need to reflect that."
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Steve Barnes, in reply to
His resignation is a loss to the National Party and us all, and I shudder to think what ‘talent’ will fill his shoes.
Joyce? or, heaven forbid, McCully.
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Key: I want RWC in Christchurch
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BenWilson, in reply to
Would need roads to be passable before updating ground-level imagery though.
Mounted on a decent four-wheel-drive, it would only be roads that were actually cordoned off that they couldn't get to. Hell, the cameras could be walked along the worst parts.
It would probably be an expensive exercise, though.
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Key wants to put all the tourists in cruise boats. In early spring. What could go wrong?
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giovanni tiso, in reply to
Key wants to put all the tourists in cruise boats. In early spring. What could go wrong?
He wants to do no such thing. He's posturing.
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Right now a hundred right-wing bloggers will be googling Peter Hyde to see if he's ever joined a union, or written a letter to the editor about climate change.
They will find KAOS photos from the '80s, hopefully.
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Sacha, in reply to
Bound to reassure
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
Is that before or after they start fantasizing about roaming bands of avaricious brown people, thus requiring the immediate arming of all good, god-fearing white homeowners? Because that seems to be where a significant part of the "discussion" is going in the nethers of NZ's internet.
Hurricane Katrina response, anyone?
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nzlemming, in reply to
They will find KAOS photos from the ’80s, hopefully.
Ahahahahah! I'd forgotten Peter was involved in that. Oh, I do hope so, he was always a dashing assassin.
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