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One strange thing that happened was an article on a news website I linked to way back on Oct8 on 'irish central' which had the headline
"Peter Jackson's the Hobbit will Film in Ireland"
I went back to look at it again, about 2 days later, and it had been taken down off the site. Never a report mentioning the same thing since. Odd.
And Dewey defeated Truman.
Seriously though, as posted on the Pundit.co.nz column, it illustrates a wider race-to-the-bottom malaise with seemingly no end in sight. Short of an Icelandic solution.
Who the hell exactly are we competing with for wages anyway? Australia or Indonesia? Somehow NZ Inc in its current form wants it both ways. And if workers get uppity? State-imposed wage freezes have been successfully outsourced to Fear, Uncertainty & Doubt Inc.
As it stands, NZ Inc is in real danger of becoming like the Cooks & Stewards et al it purportedly despised.
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The prevailing doctrine that has re-emerged could be summed up very succinctly: barefoot and pregnant. Or should that be Goodsex and Sexcrime? D:<
How much worse can the National Standards dispute get? Somehow it isn't yet DEFCON1, but it's close at the very least.
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At the end of the day, weakening the welfare state, regardless of its merits or not, is false economy. What anti-welfarists might save in taxes, they'd probably lose in increased spending on personal security - Somalia, anyone? Unless they're provided with the tools and know-how to climb the social ladder, the likely outcomes are either starvation, or survival at any cost.
And from personal experience, unemployment, even under-employment, can cause tensions within families. Especially when materialism and cheapskate-ism collide head on.
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Sorry for the thread-jack, but has Darth McVicar and the Insensible Sentencing Trust gotten round to denouncing the politically-correct-crim-coddling Supreme Court letting a violent criminal walk on a technicality?
Yes, Jimmy Mason -- the child beater's poster boy -- has had his conviction quashed and another little piece of my heart just died.
I suspect it's the hoary old chestnut, "he may be an arsehole, but he's our arsehole" at play there. A bit like the deadbeat dad Newt Gingrich pontificating about "family values".
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Managed to dig up more on the Economist ''star wars' article from 1997:
And that was even before the rise of mass broadband and the Rings trilogy.
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The diversion of focus onto culture rather than economics has been core Republican/neocon strategy for decades hasn't it?
In a way it's a modern-day form of hiring ½ the working class to kill the other ½. Can't sell Reaganomics to them? Then scare their pants off with sombreroed hordes, towel-headed hordes, welfare queen hordes, and Toyotas.
And further on the John Birch Society, it has counted among its ranks neo-Nazis, fraudulent speculators, and a survivalist who reputedly inspired our most infamous gun crazy.
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@Craig R: And speaking of nastiness in Oz, the Lindsay pamphlet incident takes the cake.
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"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face, forever." - George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty Four
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The Tea Party-backed Republican candidate for Senate in Kentucky, Rand Paul, believes in the "Nafta Superhighway", a mythical 10-lane road supposedly being secretly built to help erase national borders and create a single North American state under a collective currency called the Amero. Did I mention he's fucking crazy? Crazier than his dad? And that he's going to enter the US Senate this week?
Sounds just like the 1st World equivalent of the Tin-Pot Dictator's Palace (TM). An expensive monument to ego, built while the proles starve.
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Business correspondent Roger Kerr
'scuse me while I throw things at the Herald.
Not the same Roger Kerr who heads the BRT, but even then, not that much better.