Posts by Tom Semmens
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Winston Peters is a cunning fellow, and what will happen is he will try to turn this into the nasty, bullying Australian owned N.Z. Herald, vs. Winston - heroic defender of New Zealand democracy issue. At the moment, the Herald is showing sufficient hubris over this to indicate they will fall into Winston's trap.
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Speaking of tedious Craig, I was actually counting down to a ill-mannered personal attack on me from yourself, and a false BUT BRIAN EDWARDS DID IT TO! Comparison from you, because you are nothing if not a one-trick pony around here when it comes to trying to shut any debate around the National Party.
Thanks Danyl, my point exactly. I suppose that makes you as tedious as Dixie Chicks album to, but there you have it.
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Me and the Standard boys? I kinda like that, makes me sound like the leader of a male version of the Dixie Chicks. Of course its a hagiography. I don't recall ten of thousands of uncritical words of sweetness and light about Helen Clark in the Herald's lead up to the 1999 election. Sixteen pages at 10k a page in the Herald = $160K of free P.R.
As someone has already said here, it is impossible to outspend the Herald.
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Here i s my media question for the day:
How can the Herald describe an fawning eight page (with more to come) hagiography of John Key as "unauthorised" when it's content clearly shows their reporters had full access to him, his family, family records, etc etc?
Just asking.
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"...And then Mrs Whaleoil wades in:
I question whether you on the other hand have any standards of decency at all.
You brag about the lesbian orgies..."
Truly, Cameron Slater is a man lucky in marriage.
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I have never listened to Lindsay Perrigo on the radio, but reading that press release I am wondering if he is entirely sane.
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Rickai: The level of current global economic integration is now at a level that was last seen in the decades immediately prior to the First World War.
So here is good pub debate: I wonder if we are not seeing the emergence of the same sort of undemocratic globalised ruling elites as marked that last era of free-trade & laissez-faire dogma? Would not John Key fit nicely into that category, in the same way the Vanderbilts, the Churchills, the Rockerfellers and a host of lesser mercantilists did in the period up to 1914?
The same sort of decadent, undemocratic, trans-national elites who presided over the catastrophe of the Great War?
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George W. Bush seemed to mainly want to be president because his daddy was and because he could be as well. The result? A weak & lazy president, out of his depth, with no fixed views and a huge policy vacuum at the top. That vacuum was filled by a batshit crazy Dick Cheney determined to re-litigate the Nixon administration and rampant corporate corruption. I really worry John Key could turn out to be a similar sort of stuffed shirt at the top of the National Party.
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DPF's mob have built the disbanding of the Serious Fraud Office into their standard paranoia model of political interpretation -
http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2008/07/dissenting_views.html -
So I am REALLY looking forward how they digest this...
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The real rugby is about to start, with my mighty Magpies soaring over the LOSERS from North Harbour 26-10 in a pre-season warm up the other week.