Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Covid and Councils

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Well, we're not gonna need Conference Centres for a while either. And as several Councils have declared themselves to be in a Climate E...
Tuesday, March 24, 2020

Define 'essential'

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The Gubmint's definition of 'essential services' (tucked inside the  Covid19 Levels blurb here ) includes the airy statement ...
Monday, March 16, 2020

The Reverse-Bill-of-Materials conundrum

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This is a reverse-bill-of-materials moment for the economy. A BOM is usually intended to show what one needs to Build something, and often ...
Tuesday, June 18, 2019

Those Canterbury Plains - many centuries of change

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All environments are local, and the Canterbury Plains have been through many centuries of vast change - affecting climate, sedimentation, r...
Wednesday, June 05, 2019

A Tale of Two Gabbys

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Gabby Hakoops, esteemed slack-key guitarist to the King of Diamonds, stood before the Witchsmeller Pursuivant, accused of playing Gabby Fau...
Sunday, May 26, 2019

A Baseline for Wellbeing Accounting

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In a scoop, Interest has been made privy to an important advancement in the Wellbeing Accounting space. All wellbeing measures, to be cred...

Millenarial Movements

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The Historian Norman Cohn, in his 1957 book,  The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Midd...
Friday, March 29, 2019

The bitter fruit of the 'Personal is Political'

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Jeffrey Tucker writes that " The attempt to turn every subjectively felt personal issue into a collective cause with a collective a...
Wednesday, March 27, 2019

The mathematical futility of long-term climate projections

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The entire climate-prediction edifice as currently promoted, is founded on quicksand, as time-series research at LSE demonstrates - the  Ha...
Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Zoning Causes Commutes

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 "We must strive to provide employment close to where people live” Parfitt (of Auckland Council) says. “Long commutes place a huge, unp...

Christianity and Islam - the differences

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The difference between the Christian and Islamic systems is that the former has had a Reformation, and the latter hasn't. During the co...
Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Angelo M Codevilla on the new American Revolution

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Two articles, both by Angelo M. Codevilla, both in a distinctly elegiac tone regarding the fate of the USA. His core theory is that a revol...
Wednesday, September 19, 2018

Tertiary Funding

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In answer to a question about why SIT needs an Auckland branch... The zero fees model (I was there at the inception) depended on the orig...
Thursday, August 16, 2018

A Fly on the Wall of the 9th floor...

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An imagined Fly-on-the-wall conversation:  The PM and the FM. PM:  Granters, I've just come back from talking to those Teachers.  Can...
Sunday, June 17, 2018

Gubmint tax-funded balm tor spiritual cancer

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Contra to Jason's article wherein a weary acceptance of MMP is argued for,  it needs to be recalled that Godzone has no Constitution (un...
Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Coos, Culls, and the effect on NZ Inc

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Michael Reddell has a good point to make, although the phrase 'gifting' could also be applied to beneficiaries, pensioners, Waiheke ...
Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Government cluelessness about the Time Value of Money

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The issue with Gubmint large-scale anything which has to be built physically (as opposed to redistributed with a hefty ticket-clip) is that...
Friday, January 05, 2018

Christchurch CBD - lack of development therein

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.. a lot of people financially lost businesses as business interruptions claims often are not successful. Therein lies a tale. Folks who ...
Thursday, December 14, 2017

Budget Exclusions = Holes....

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Unfunded or uncertain or pure Exclusions - listed without comment.....Page numbers are from the HYEFU . New TV station P71  Conservation...
Tuesday, December 05, 2017

Free Tertiary Education

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As a former CFO (although we had no such lofty titles in them days) of a major Polytech, I saw the effects of dragging entire cohorts of unp...