Posts by Russell Brown
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Try the YouTube channel ...
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I'm a bit of a late convert to the Mighty Boosh. Watched it this week and it took me places.
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A chat with Europe-based but New Zealand-inspired Darryn Harkness about New Telepathics and his various other musical projects.
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__It just seems a bit rich.__
Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan aren't hosting the Olympic games. It might not bad to have China see European leaders come under pressure over this.
It still seems rich to me to be calling for a boycott of one ceremony while you're holding another one in a plutocratic state that is worse than China in many ways.
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In the same week that the European Parliament urges a boycott of the Olympic opening ceremony in Beijing, Brussels gets a show pavilion in Turkmenistan.
It's all part of the Strategy for a New Partnership with Central Asia, which takes in Uzbekistan, where forced child labour seems to be both endemic and a matter of government policy, along with religious persecution. (Lots of it Turkmenistan too.)
It just seems a bit rich. Oil rich, that is.
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I guess the Vatican already had dibs on 'love the sinner, but hate the sin'.
Burn!!
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Oh, and Bernard Hickey blogged the media-and-the-economy issue with reference to Media7 and the Reserve Bank governor. Interesting post.
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Climate change forecasts 'invalid' - researcher. The article is about two academics, what it doesn't mention is that one is in management, the other in marketing.
Green especially seems to be good in his field (forecasting theory), but it's hard to take seriously his wholesale denunciation of people working in fields where he clearly isn't expert.
DomPost charged over 'terror' story. Dom post plays the expected price for their story, though it's looking like the price won't be too high.
It's going to be really interesting for mediawatchers.
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Agreed that Key seemed to handover political points yesterday but at least the guy was being honest about the realities of an MMP political system where currently the 2 major parties seem destined to run close enough to one another that they will pretty evenly split the vote...
For sure. I just think it would have been more prudent to concede that National might have to talk with a range of parties, but simply decline to speculate on anything to do with the foreign affairs job. McCully won't have been impressed ...
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At a meeting of local residents at Pt Chevalier School this evening (Weds 9th April) staff from Telecom and Chorus provided an update of progress with the fast broadband deployment. Read about it at
http://voices.realestate.co.nz/ptchev/
Thanks Ross. I get the impression that the big difference for people isn't just the prodigious downstream speeds, but a decent rate upstream for the first time.
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