Hard News: A few (more) words on The Hobbit
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Conditions of the modern workplace are going to be a big deal in the next few years, especially once gen y find their political voice. Lifestyle versus glueing Gandalfs beard back on for 14 hours because it's special movie time.
The union movement always end up promoting these changes, out of the ideology of looking out for the sanity of the workforce,and of course no one else sees it in their political capital to give a damn.
and they have had very few victories, it's not a strong movement, it's underfunded, the media have hated it since I was a boy and it basically was decimated as a bargaining agent in the nineties.
Labour relations are very important yet one of the relatives has never really enjoyed a place at the table. The left doesn't need to be left to take on the heavy woes of all our vunerable workers. We all need to be concerned.
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The People's Wine is deepest red!
When drunk it goes straight to the head...A whiter wine is oh so fine
for weaker libs as they opine...But best of all is a rosé
for those who can't choose either way -
I really really really want a constitution.
Here you go - "Come and join the revolution . . ."
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Theory: the longer you attend university, the more you become convinced that you have no idea about anything. Or is that just me?
11.5 years of full time tertiary education and 3 degrees later, I know enough to know that this theory is entirely correct.
The best lesson, Shirley?
I'm a cop and knowledge is a donut bakery. Pile 'em higher and deeper!
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Drinking good piss is very difficult when you have no money and it's frowned upon by some ugly people who think that low levels of income should somehow manifest a somewhat saintly life.
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The People's Wine is deepest red!
When drunk it goes straight to the head...A whiter wine is oh so fine
for weaker libs as they opine...But best of all is a rosé
for those who can't choose either wayAnd if you're in the upper class
let French Champagne spill from your glass -
Jeremy, I actually think there'll be a revolution (not unlike the French Revolution, only totally different) in about 3 or 4 generations time. Hell, maybe even 2. I haven't formulated a coherent theory on this yet (can you tell?) - I just feel it in me water, so to speak.
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Of course lets' not forget the context of the times we live in, these films probably would have been canned if America hadn't had to buy their own banks out of collapse.
It's not the Union Movement that created these bad economic times.
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Drinking good piss is very difficult when you have no money and it's frowned upon by some ugly people who think that low levels of income should somehow manifest a somewhat saintly life.
Yup. Thank goodness for cheap crack*!
*just kidding! I hate crack. Much prefer huffing. :p
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Petra , the sixties are coming again,they'll be here in 2060.
I aint waiting that long. I'm having my fun now or trying. -
If I wanted to be institutionalised and have all those 'benefits' I wouldn't be working in the film industry.
Good on you, you hard bastard you. But with respect, that might well go for any area where worker protections are crap -- those who can cope well stay and among them some will positively love it. That is not incompatible with conditions being crap.
On another front, I'm sympathetic to Scott Hamilton, although I don't agree that we have a reflexive duty to support all union action. I think his analysis of things in terms of class and the interests of capital vs workers is sorely missing from virtually everywhere else. He's right: the state has entered to meddle in the relationship between workers and capital on the side of capital (as evidenced by the overly broad, vague legislation being rammed through under urgency as I write).
I'm not buying into arguments that don't acknowledge people's right to withdraw their labour in pursuit of better conditions. I understand that other people's jobs become threatened in turn, but by that logic, no one in our interdependent world can ever act. I'll own that industrial action here has been a strategic error, but it's not a moral one.
Where Scott goes astray, I think, is in the claim that we "ought to support their fight, even as [we] argue for the improvement of their strategy and their tactics." How are we to support them if we don't buy the strategy and the tactics? You help your friends by pulling them back from the cliff edge, not by telling them they have every right to jump if they want. Especially if you're roped to them.
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It's not the Union Movement that created these bad economic times.
Yup, and as the middle class finds life harder and harder, while the super rich get super richer and super richer, and underclass lives deeper and deeper in poverty...they'll start to wise up. It'll be harder to mollify the masses with trinkets and toothy grins.
The Rich Man & The Poor Man, by Bob MillerThere's just two kind of people, the sinner and the saint;
There's one that gets and always got while the other poor one ain't.
Oh, the rich man drives his Lincoln past the red light with a grin,
And the poor man follows right behind in his little hunk of tin.
There's a motorcycle copper following upon their trail;
Oh, the rich man tears his ticket, but the poor man goes to jail.Oh, the rich man takes the high road anywhere that he may go,
But when the poor man's travelin' he must always take the low.
So if you're rich you'll travel snug as peas are in the pod;
Oh, the rich man rides a cushion and the poor man rides the rods.Oh, the rich man when he's ailing stays at home and calls the doc,
But the poor man has to go to work, be in time to punch a clock.
The rich man takes his medicine, has his doctors and his nurse;
So the rich man he gets better but the poor man he gets worse!Oh, the rich man steals a million from the bank that he controls,
While the poor man steals a loaf of bread or a penny's worth of rolls.
They take them to the courthouse, one is laughing, one's in tears;
Oh, the rich man gets an apology while the poor man gets ten years!Oh, the rich man gets a lawyer and the lawyer pleads his case,
While the poor man asks for sympathy but of that there is now trace.
So if you're rich don't worry but the poor must give up hope;
Oh, the rich man gets acquitted while the poor man gets the rope!Oh, the rich man when he kicks off has a casket made of gold,
While the poor man has a wooden box and his grave looks mighty cold.
The rich man gets a sermon but here's one thing that's sure,
When the rich man takes that last long ride he's as much dead as the poor!You can listen to it here: http://radicaljournal.com/protest_songs/the_rich_man_and_the_poor_man.html
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From one of New Zealands biggest selling albums,
Some folks are born made to wave the flag,
ooh, they're red, white and blue.
And when the band plays "Hail To The Chief",
oh, they point the cannon at you, Lord,Some folks are born silver spoon in hand,
Lord, don't they help themselves? oh.
But when the taxman come to the door,
Lord, the house look a like a rummage sale, yes,Yeh, some folks inherit star spangled eyes,
ooh, they send you down to war, Lord,
And when you ask them, how much should we give,
oh, they only answer, more, more, more, yoh,
It ain't me, it ain't me,
I ain't no fortunate one, no no no,
It ain't me, it ain't me,
I ain't no fortunate son, son son son -
Nice one Joe, but revolution is second to last on the things I want, of a very long list of possibilities, especially in silver jump suits.
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Nice one Joe, but revolution is second to last on the things I want
I'm not saying I want it. I'm just thinking it's inevitable. Sometime this century.
Edit: Of course we'll never know if I'm right or wrong, 'cos we'll all have shuffled off our mortal coil by then.
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Hear hear for Stephen Judd. He's just written what I've been trying to phrase for days.
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Que Syrah Syrah...
...whatever Chablis, Chablis
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Que Syrah Syrah...
...whatever Chablis, ChablisThe future is Pinot Gris...
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put this on shuffle...
:- )
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Yeeeeess -siree!
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put this on shuffle...
Yes!
And add this one:
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Dylan, look further:
<quote>excludes work performed, or services provided, in respect of the production of any programme intended initially for broadcast on television</quote>
Oh, did miss that... WTF?! That make absolutely no sense. The same people work for same companies making film and TV, why one and not the other, and why include game production and not video TV?
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Yeeeaaahhhhh.... x2 x10 it's a beautiful, beautiful song.
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Que Syrah Syrah...
...whatever Chablis, Chablis
The future is Pinot Gris...... a case! hurrah, hurrah
watered beaujolais, chateau Brouilly<it can't Gewurzt... can it?>
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...then bounce around to this!
Marsupial won't come back...
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