Posts by chris
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On the point of revisionism- The day both these countries can make a concerted effort to remove revisionism of their own dark pasts from their history textbooks will be a win for knowledge.
Having Monday watched 1000 Chinese students participating in formative military training on the quad across from where I was teaching and in light of last years 60th anniversary celebration parade, in which the Pièce de resistance was the parading of nuclear missiles down the main street of the Chinese capital, I think you're going out on a bit of a limb arguing that the comparison with Kaiser Wilhelm II's Germany is that far off Keith.
100 million people with military training?
1.3 billion population?
resistance against whom? This is nonviolent expansion.She is, to a Chinese person, what a Holocaust denier is to a Jew.
Lest we forget, the Jews weren't engaged in a 10 year old civil war amongst themselves, refusing to allign with one another when the holocaust took place. It's easy to play the victim on that one. but If you're seriously making a call against revisionism of the circumstances surrounding the the Japanese invasion, as Confucius suggested in 200BC...
"Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean."
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"I'm not prepared to send people to a destination that I'm not prepared to come myself."
Next week Mr Key plans to spend a night behind bars at Paremoremo, at her Majesty's leisure.
Tune in the first week in June when Mr Key dines at Auckland's City Mission, before a fun filled night roughing it in Albert Park.
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I'd be more conced about the creeping infiltration of the clipinator into the wordosphere, forming neologisms made up entirely of prefixes.
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where would NZ have had a 10 story apartment building?
Levin was a megalopolis before the Taupo eruption.
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I think Hayden's right,
A nation turned its lonely eyes to him.
Those listed above aren't so much pop culture icons as legendary athletes. With the exception of Buck (almost). They certainly don't feature in the lyrics of many songs of note.
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it was less dodgy than it might sound.
Nessun problema. La Cina è beffardo il resto del mondo.
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had a laugh at this parting delivery
I got time and patience but it aint unlimited.
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...The thread in question was closed brownthenose. Probably for the best. Until next May... btn, a good way to keep track of threads is to click on Publicaddress system above.
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Focus the money into an industry where New Zealand shows more promise internationally, such as software development.
Put the music grant money exclusively into documentaries about New Zealannd music scenes
produce a New Zealand weekly multi act live gig show
More New Zealand break dancing shows
Make gear accessible to everyone
Less seminars, more music.
better music education in schools
randomly allocate singles/ video grants
stop $50,000 giveaways to groups who aren't really matching the figure but are profiting from the grant
regular hearing and eyesight tests for the NZOA committee, a benchmarked minimum standard for board members. IQ tests.
regular rotation of board members
Personally I don't think there's any shortage of ideas in this thread Russell, they just don't seem to suit the brief.
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It's a bit more stark than that. If they fund broadcast content that doesn't get broadcast, or is seen or heard by almost no one, they're eventually going to be asked to account for their use of taxpayers' money. And saying "but the Feelers are shit!" probably won't do it.
Well lets hope they archive of all that they fund, it can be guaranteed that at some point in the future, all of this stuff will be seen and heard if it is, just as the work of the Mobile Recording Unit provides a fascinating slice of NZ music/ history from the post war age.
Assuming everything is archived and would most likely get broadcast at some point in say the next 5000 years of New Zealand history, then why measure the work of the agency on whether things are an immediate hit or not?