Posts by Kumara Republic
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Funnily enough, this is the same DomPost that got manhandled away from the Japanese Embassy in Wellington for daring to bring up the issue of whale hunting.
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Re: Chris Trotter's latest piece of alarmism, I'd be more concerned about the creeping infiltration of theo-cons into the political system and the civil service.
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I do agree the 'cannibalism' thing was a media beat up. Still, two words immediately came to mind: Prince Philip.
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I won't be at all surprised if Rodney Hide tries to do a Greater London Council on Len Brown if he wins.
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All we need its a PM who is "Ambisshuss" to do something other than fossick for presshusss stuff.
And for that matter, trying to be a "bland plastic replica of suburban America".
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Fourth Estate, or Fifth Column?
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Nitro Media's entry for the 48Hours contest.
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Sacha:
Agreed. More significantly, why should a small group of unaccountable people (commercial broadcasting programmers) get to decide what will be popular before it's even made? Bollocks to that.
Sounds a bit like the Top of the Pops mentality of 1977:
When you see the kind of bands that were doing the rounds on 'Top Of The Pops' at the time, it really puts the Pistols into perspective. They really were like something from another planet. And as Julien Temple pointed out himself, the weird thing is 25 years later the Sex Pistols still look contemporary, it's everybody else in the film that look like freaks.
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Another extreme example is the 1993 Canadian federal election, where the ProgCons got reduced to an embarrasing 2 seats out of 295 - yes, two seats - in spite of getting 16% of the overall vote.
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I got spammed by, of all people, the US Republican Party a few years back.