Posts by Kumara Republic
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Hard News: Getting dressed for the party, in reply to Paul Campbell,
The whole RWC seems like impending cultural doom - we were looking last night into cashing in all our frequent flier miles to escape for the duration - but it seems that most of the dates a blacked out .... we're trapped
As in Montreal 1976 doom?
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Speaker: TPPA: It's Extreme, in reply to Sacha,
After announcing their work, Venter explained, his team received a cease and desist letter from Joyce’s estate, saying that he’d used the Irish writer’s work without permission. ”We thought it fell under fair use,” said Venter.
James Joyce died in 1941, so that means his works would theoretically come under public domain this year. At least according to EU copyright law.
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Hard News: Kittens and puppies for happiness, in reply to Richard Aston,
Poe's Law invokes itself again.
Draw your own conclusion as to whether this site is real or parody. (May be NSFW)
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Hard News: The Wall and the Paper, in reply to Russell Brown,
Combining forms of activism brought results with Henry, though that included prompt coordinated action (and some political and diplomatic complaint). I suspect we've already wasted too much time talking about it rather than doing it this time anyway.
Paul Henry was rightly held to account. Unfortunately, the damage has been done, if the number of gullibles who rushed to support him was anything to go by. If 1981 Part II erupts, Henry and Lhaws have laid the foundations for it.
He's found a target group that no one's going to feel sorry for this week, but the journalistically worthless nature of the writing is quite intact. And this drivel is key content for the SST.
Sounds like a Big Lie strategy on the part of Lhaws.
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Hard News: The Wall and the Paper, in reply to Rex Widerstrom,
I've had the experience of making some reasoned, unemotive statements about immigration and seeing them used by some bonehead as part of his justification for throwing bricks through the windows of Somalis in Porirua. If that can beget that, then it's well within the bounds of possibility that an overt call for violence will trigger something much worse.
And that is, without doubt, a police matter.
It's a long shot, but if we took Greg Stanton's 8 Stages of Genocide table...
Mr Lhaws would rate a Stage 3, having actually thrown around words like 'rats', 'parasites' and 'vermin' to dehumanise certain people.
The organised violence Rex refers to would be about Stage 3.5. I wouldn't rate it entirely Stage 4 because that implies state-sanctioned militias with rifles, whereas Rex was likely talking more about privately-organised loons with improvised weapons, like during the Cronulla riots in 2005.
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Hard News: The Wall and the Paper, in reply to 3410,
but instead to give him enough rope.
A YouTube with his face and selected quoted extracts of his recent material should do the trick (come on, someone!).
As with Stephen Franks' "I love my dog" moment?
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Hard News: The Wall and the Paper, in reply to Sacha,
Dispatching Mr Henry did not require the actual withdrawal of heavy wallets, only the promise of such. You could see it as taking advantage of perceptions of power entangled with wealth. And rich people are susceptible to moral persuasion and have consciences too.
And it helped that lot of the blowtorching came from overseas too.
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Welcome back once again, Ian.
Regarding the Prolefeed, sorry, TV awards... if you want a vision of Henry & Lhaws' idea of humour, imagine a clown shoe stamping on a human face - forever.
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Hard News: The Wall and the Paper, in reply to Danyl Mclauchlan,
Just as the public has the right to contact companies that advertise in Kemeys' newspaper and tell them they'll boycott their products so long as they advertise in a medium in which Laws is published - which is, I think, the next logical step to take.
And the next logical step after that, well, the Southern Poverty Law Centre has the answer.
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to John Greally,
In just one word: anti-intellectualism.