[BNM] [OT] Arthur C Clarke has died

[Nick Taylor]

Something that caught my eye recently was that there's been a recent 
surge of govt military spending here in NZ - the amount being roughly 
the same as the amount we spend on prozac every year.

Now that's got to mean something.



> I wish the government would be more honest in their naming of the
> defence budget, and call it something like:
> 
> Attack Budget
> Killing Foreigners Budget
> Offence Budget
> American Friendship Budget
> George Bush Allegiance Budget
> Starting Wars Budget
> 
> could go on...