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				<title>Pocabprescon Debrief</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2006 16:35:00 +1200</pubDate>
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				<dc:creator>Keith Ng</dc:creator>
				<author>Keith Ng</author>

				
				<description><![CDATA[Helen went to some lengths to stonewall all the Cullen speculation at the Post-Cabinet Press Conference today, responding to every question with "ask him". She says that he's served her well and that she wants to keep him on for as long as possible - adding that she has every intention of fighting the next election - but Cullen stepping down would depend on Cullen, and she hasn't asked him about it. I guess between "how's your weekend" and "did you see the rugby", the topic just never came up... It did come up for everyone else in the Labour…]]></description>
				
				
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				<title>Teenage Rebel</title>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 25 Mar 2006 12:21:00 +1200</pubDate>
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				<dc:creator>Keith Ng</dc:creator>
				<author>Keith Ng</author>

				
				<description><![CDATA[I actually have a great personal fondness for schoolyard rebellion. The year, as they say, was 1999. It was the 10th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, and it was during this time that I discovered a passion for ideas and politics. As a 7th former at Wellington College, I was skipping school to volunteer for Amnesty International, organising candidate debates and trying to start a human rights group. This, I admit, was pretty damn geeky, but a very different form of geeky than programming in the computer room, which was what I did pre-1999. It just so happened that…]]></description>
				
				
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				<title>They don&#039;t need no thought control (update)</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 24 Mar 2006 14:10:00 +1200</pubDate>
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				<dc:creator>Keith Ng</dc:creator>
				<author>Keith Ng</author>

				
				<description><![CDATA[Just one thing that I should have made clear - Unite organisers and the Greens have repeatedly claimed that the strike was an action by Radical Youth, a group run by the students themselves. The Unite connection I made in this morning's post was to point out that Unite probably offered a bit more than "practical support". This from PA reader Ben:  I'm not sure it's a secret that Unite and the Greens funded the Radical Youth "strike". Radical Youth have all of about 20 members and couldn't organise their way to passing NCEA level 1. If it is a… ]]></description>
				
				
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				<title>They don&#039;t need no education</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 24 Mar 2006 08:45:00 +1200</pubDate>
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				<dc:creator>Keith Ng</dc:creator>
				<author>Keith Ng</author>

				
				<description><![CDATA[I'm all for a bit of schoolyard rebellion, but I think the Greens have been letting their high-minded ideas get to their heads in their support for the youth rates "strike". First, the simplest point: Shouldn't a strike aimed at raising youth rates be aimed at employers of youth? You know, demonstrate the power of labour by withholding it from the capitalists? Unless these kids normally work during school hours, none of them actually missed work during the strike. This would, by any assessment, make it a pretty goddamn lousy strike. And if the point was simply to yell (literally)…]]></description>
				
				
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				<title>Apocalypse Again</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 15 Mar 2006 17:00:00 +1300</pubDate>
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				<dc:creator>Keith Ng</dc:creator>
				<author>Keith Ng</author>

				
				<description><![CDATA[My flatmates think I'm nuts. I justify every purchasing decision with "this will/will not be useful in the Apocalypse". I tried to get out Mad Max, Night of the Living Dead, The Omega Man and Shaun of the Dead at the same time. (I already own 12 Monkeys.) I even wrote my own Apocalyptic fiction, entitled "Where to Loot in Post-Apocalyptic Thorndon". Much to my surprise, it's going in the DomPost's weekend supplement on Saturday. I don't really think the Apocalypse is coming. The article is satire, and "I can't use this in the Apocalypse" is really shorthand for: "A…]]></description>
				
				
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				<title>Foul.</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 02 Mar 2006 14:49:00 +1300</pubDate>
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				<dc:creator>Keith Ng</dc:creator>
				<author>Keith Ng</author>

				
				<description><![CDATA[If the DBP affair is about questioning the character of our politicians, it's done its job. The voraciousness, the ruthlessness, the utter indecency with which the character assassination - nay, character lynch-mobbing - campaign has been carried out is simply disgusting. It makes juicy soundbites ("schoolgirls!" "nighties!" "changing room!" - three down from "Petticoat Discipline Quarterly" on Google), it stops the Government from getting any real work done, but what is the purpose of all of this? What end, democratic or otherwise, does it actually serve for politicians to stamp on one another like this? Let's put the allegations against…]]></description>
				
				
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				<title>The Other God</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2006 12:00:00 +1300</pubDate>
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				<dc:creator>Keith Ng</dc:creator>
				<author>Keith Ng</author>

				
				<description><![CDATA[If there's a God, he's must be a satirist. I mean, how else could you explain such diabolically delicious parallels? I'm sorry - I know everyone's trying to ignore the glaringly obvious comparison because, well, it's so glaringly obvious and everyone's sick of hearing about cartoonists - but hey, I thought the thing about principles was that they had to be applied consistently? So, in the interest of consistency (and, you know, testing tolerance), here's the torrent. Just in case you miss it on TV. (I can't get C4.) And just to prove that yes, it really is offensive, here…]]></description>
				
				
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				<title>Die Dirty Telcos, Die Die Die</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2006 12:00:00 +1300</pubDate>
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				<dc:creator>Keith Ng</dc:creator>
				<author>Keith Ng</author>

				
				<description><![CDATA[I dream of the day when we can raze Telecom to the ground. The flurry of posts last week came because I had just managed to get internet connected. It took just under three weeks. Due to "a shortage of technicians", it took 10 days to get a phone - a plain old telephone, one of the things that those of us born in the 20th century just take for granted. It took another 10 days to connect us to the internet. It's not like they had to build pylons to get to us. We *were* connected. We just needed…]]></description>
				
				
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				<title>Bruckheimer to Produce &#039;Apocalypse&#039;</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2006 21:36:00 +1300</pubDate>
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				<dc:creator>Keith Ng</dc:creator>
				<author>Keith Ng</author>

				
				<description><![CDATA[In the biggest shake-up to hit Hollywood in recent decades, Omniscient Studios has announced that acclaimed producer Jerry Bruckheimer will take over from the Anti-Christ as the producer of the  big-budget action-comedy, The Apocalypse. The troubled project, with an original release date of 1000 A.D., has been plagued by mismanagement, budget problems of 'biblical' proportions as well as delays in primary shooting. Industry observers have been compared its troubles with Francis Ford Capola's own Apocalypse Now. The Anti-Christ, the actor-producer who has been on the project since its conception, expressed disappointment at the studio's decision and has told reporters that…]]></description>
				
				
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				<title>Blasphem-a-thon</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2006 10:00:00 +1300</pubDate>
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				<dc:creator>Keith Ng</dc:creator>
				<author>Keith Ng</author>

				
				<description><![CDATA[Exercising our god-given right to blaspheme today is my predecessor at Salient, fellow heathen scum Matt Nippert. These articles (including my previous posts) were published in Salient in 2003. Tomorrow: Apocalypse. -- McMecca provides Paradise close to home by Matt Nippert In an unprecedented move, the White House has endorsed Islam, declaring that "if Ariel Sharon is a man of peace, then Islam deserves the same acclaim". The announcement follows the completion of a massive mosque in central Indiana. President Bush declared that "Americans should not need to travel abroad to fulfil their religious duty, or Haj. Instead American Muslims…]]></description>
				
				
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