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@donsteppa said in NZ Politics:
Roading contractors are laughing all the way to the bank. And they're certainly laughing at taxpayers/ratepayers and motorists. Shares in windscreen repair companies seem like a great idea from my travels this week.
Maybe at a small scale, but for the big jobs the margins are thin. A good way to lose money.
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@nzzp said in NZ Politics:
@donsteppa said in NZ Politics:
Roading contractors are laughing all the way to the bank. And they're certainly laughing at taxpayers/ratepayers and motorists. Shares in windscreen repair companies seem like a great idea from my travels this week.
Maybe at a small scale, but for the big jobs the margins are thin. A good way to lose money.
If they keep having to repair their repairs, someone is paying extra for it (or losing a lot of money through being careless) I guess
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@donsteppa Windscreen repairs were one of NZ's largest insurers single largest cost annually...
I know one insurer is looking at introducing excess for w/s replacements, this is usually a pre-cursor to most others following, one doesnt often move without knowing others are looking at or planning on doing something (although I havent heard of any others yet)
@dogmeat roads? Where we are going, we dont need roads!
Maybe its the repair jobs they put big margins?
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Nicky Hagar and Deborah Manning have been appointed to a committee overseeing the behaviour of the GCSB and the SIS .
What could possibly go wrong ? http://www.igis.govt.nz/media-releases/announcements/establishment-of-igis-reference-group/
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@jegga said in NZ Politics:
Nicky Hagar and Deborah Manning have been appointed to a committee overseeing the behaviour of the GCSB and the SIS .
What could possibly go wrong ? http://www.igis.govt.nz/media-releases/announcements/establishment-of-igis-reference-group/
Just what we want, that smug monkey-faced prick overseeing our national security. Is anybody telling him he can’t publish what he hears?
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@jc said in NZ Politics:
@jegga said in NZ Politics:
Nicky Hagar and Deborah Manning have been appointed to a committee overseeing the behaviour of the GCSB and the SIS .
What could possibly go wrong ? http://www.igis.govt.nz/media-releases/announcements/establishment-of-igis-reference-group/
Just what we want, that smug monkey-faced prick overseen ng our national security. Is anybody telling him he can’t publish what he hears?
I hope not , i want him to publish a book . He will probably end up in jail.
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@jegga said in NZ Politics:
@jc said in NZ Politics:
@jegga said in NZ Politics:
Nicky Hagar and Deborah Manning have been appointed to a committee overseeing the behaviour of the GCSB and the SIS .
What could possibly go wrong ? http://www.igis.govt.nz/media-releases/announcements/establishment-of-igis-reference-group/
Just what we want, that smug monkey-faced prick overseen ng our national security. Is anybody telling him he can’t publish what he hears?
I hope not , i want him to publish a book . He will probably end up in jail.
Send him to Afghanistan for a first hand look
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@taniwharugby said in NZ Politics:
@jegga nah he will hide behind his source...
I dont know anything about her (aside form what Uncle Google told me) but will she be the more level headed sane person to his conspiracy laden shrieks?
Yeah nah . She’s basically Hagar but shorter, female ( I assume) and without a face like a half sucked barley sugar.
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@chris-b said in NZ Politics:
@jegga said in NZ Politics:
Your hard-earned taxes are going to Nicky's honorarium....
Yeah, GFYs.
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Deborah Manning is a raging fucking SJW. Definitely not level headed in any sense of the word, have heard tales of her attacking white males over their "privilege" etc. And Nicky Hagar? Sweet jesus this government is a joke.
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One of the other members:
Professor Rouben Azizian joined CDSS in December 2015 after spending close to 14 years at the US Defense Department's Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS) in Honolulu where he lectured and conducted research on the Asia-Pacific Regional Security Architecture, Diplomacy and Confidence Building, Security Sector Development, as well as US, Russian, Central Asian and Oceania security issues.
Before joining APCSS, Professor Azizian taught at the Department of Political Studies at the University of Auckland in 1994 – 2001. From 1998 – 2001 he was the President of the Auckland Branch of the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs.
Prior to becoming a full-time academic he had an extensive career in the Soviet and later Russian Foreign Service, which included assignments in Nepal (1972-1978) as Attaché and Third Secretary; Sri Lanka (1980-1985) as Second and First Secretary; and New Zealand (1991-1994) as Counsellor and Deputy Chief of Mission.
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Ferdinandus said attitudes in New Zealand to trafficking were "miles apart" from other western countries, such as Canada and the United States. "There's almost like a sense of denial that it is happening, or even that it can happen in New Zealand," he said.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12019683
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