Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Ron Mark ain't helping... promising new spending on the fly.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/98435480/ron-mark-goes-offscript-to-promise-more-money-to-rsa -
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gamma gamma hey…
I at first thought they had arrested the elusive Mr Papagopolous from ’60s/’70s Coronation Street, or Mr Papadopolous from Eastenders….On Rosamund Street back in the 1960s, there was a haberdashery shop called Gamma Garments that was part of a shop chain. Owned by the never seen Mr Papagopolous, who was of Greek descent, the shop was managed by Leonard Swindley and Emily Nugent.
Papagopolous was a precursor to EastEnders launderette owner Mr Papadopolous who was also never seen (although he did make sporadic appearances).https://coronationstreetupdates.blogspot.co.nz/2013/06/corrie-z-g-is-for-gamma-garments.html
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Hard News: Communications breakdown, in reply to nzlemming,
It’s entirely possible that this is the first time they’ve tallied the numbers and looked at the comparison.
I wonder how much perfectly good potable water was 'wasted'...
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Capture: Very Vintage, in reply to Russell Brown,
A slightly enhanced pic of the rainbow path at Waterview.
Bike-frost - a subtle 'Thor Ragnarok' promotion?
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Hard News: And so it begins ..., in reply to Russell Brown,
Steve Bannon is exploring ways to kneecap Mueller.
If I was Mueller I wouldn't be using anything but FBI-owned planes and transport for the near future... just in case.
One can but hope someone is also planning to kneecap Bannon.
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Hard News: And so it begins ..., in reply to Hugh Wilson,
the Washington Post also has some good coverage:
If, like me, you've used up your month's free access to The Washington Post the story also runs here - http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/politics/ct-trump-twitter-manafort-indictment-20171030-story.html - (and probably can't be far away from appearing on Stuff )
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Coincidence?
Trump's plaintive 'Whataboutism' sounds a lot like 'Wahhabism'
- live by the Saud, die by the Saud...The thing that worries me about his shrill 'DO SOMETHING" tweet, is how his 'base' will interpret that, and what they might do in response...
(and in an aside, doesn't al qaeda translate as 'the base')
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Let's talk Turkey...
It will be interesting to see what the Michael Flynn / Turkish / Russian connections and contracts reveal as well...It is hard to keep track of all the Michael Flynn scandals. The former national security adviser for President Donald Trump—who lasted only 22 days in the job—is at the center of various investigations. He has drawn scrutiny for his contacts with the Russian government (and for lying about those contacts), for his pocketing of $45,000 from Kremlin-backed RT (and his failure to disclose the payment), for his lobbying for Turkish interests (and his failure to disclose that as well), and for attending a meeting with Turkish officials during which a plan reportedly was discussed for abducting a US-based foe of that country’s president. But one Flynn mystery has received little attention: What was the original source of the $530,000 he was paid last summer and fall—when he was Trump’s top national security aide—to be an agent for Turkish interests?
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Capture: Very Vintage, in reply to Chris Waugh,
(dunno what happened to my phone when I took it, but I like how it turned out)
Very excited photons!
Some children can move faster than light!! Hence the two image samples of a particle in a wave?
A captured disturbance in the Force?
...or more prosaically a tiny jolt while aperture was open.
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