Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Drugs, testing and workplaces, in reply to
So the employers lied to English, then?
It seems like the kind of anecdote that gains weight through repeated bitching.
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Hard News: Drugs, testing and workplaces, in reply to
And this response to an OIA shows a rate of just 0.017 for beneficiaries in 2015.
It came out to 0.17% of clients for me. What a crisis!
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Some useful commentary from Norml's Chris Fowlie, who notes that the forestry industry has enthusiastically embraced drug-testing for years without improving its record, suggesting that the key to the problem lies elsewhere.
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The Standard pitches in.
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Hard News: Drugs, testing and workplaces, in reply to
And, yes, that included “culture change” Kiwirail management having beer fridges & drinks cabinets removed from offices, on the sensible grounds that it really wasn’t a good look while elsewhere drinking on the job would be grounds for dismissal.
Nice one. A gesture, but a meaningful one.
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Hard News: If this was ever funny, it's…, in reply to
(OFF TOPIC) Bill English bleating about Kiwis failing ‘drug tests’ – what are these tests?
I have a blog post for you:
https://publicaddress.net/hardnews/drugs-testing-and-workplaces/
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Hard News: Mt Albert: Cooperating,…, in reply to
What I meant to say is that having a solid GOTV operation is probably not something the Greens really need to have, being a Party/List vote organisation. I’m sure they could build one here and there (Wellington Central?) but that might distract/divert resources from what already works for them.
But they do have a consistent problem with not matching their polling. Some practice at getting their vote out might be helpful.
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Hard News: If this was ever funny, it's…, in reply to
I have noticed that English appears to be clumsily but probably successfully using some Trump techniques – today he dropped in some baseless comment about drug testing…
It's interesting that Key offered the same bullshit anecdata last year, but I doubt it'll work for English.
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Hard News: If this was ever funny, it's…, in reply to
What’s eerie is that only – what – a matter of weeks ago, the term “fake news” was used by the MSM to describe what all the bad guys from Russian spies to Breitbart were doing to rack up support for Trump and throw shade on Clinton.
I'd love someone to do some forensics on how "fake news" got turned around. It was really slick and fast.
A phrase that had one clear meaning – consciously created and propagated false stories, distributed from bogus "news" sites to Facebook – was suddenly being used by Trumpers to describe any and all actual journalism that they didn't like. The phrase ceased to have any real meaning except to the dingbats who hurled it around, meaninglessly.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Nadia 2, in reply to
Last time I saw Mr Free perform live was as part of Mesh – pure serendipity of walking down High St as they did Hummingbird. Was that ever released? I have not been able to track it down.
Only as demos, I think. Drop me an email and we can work something out.
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