Posts by Alfie
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to stephen walker,
i'm really struggling with the idea that the content of that Andrea Vance article is not satire.
In that case, check out another Stuff story from Beck Eleven proclaiming Key as the Pffft Minister.
... (Bryan) Gould probably nails exactly why the PM is an expert in everything. It is because media treat the Prime Minister as "virtually their sole determinant of what is news".
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A visual lesson for Stamper
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Agreed Hilary. If you're looking for something light-hearted, check out Andrea Vance on Key meets Saudi Arabia's Prince Alwaleed bin Talal. It seems that our laughing stock PM didn't do much research before the meeting.
When the royal stopped for breath, Key made his pitch but it strangled the conversation again.
"You own Fox News, wow," Key wrongly asserted. Prince Alwaleed ran through his considerable investments (13 industries in 40 countries).
Again, Key saw his opportunity: "They had a Four Seasons in New Zealand?"
"No, there was a discussion at one time..."
Key interrupted: "In Queenstown, I think..No? But we want one."
The prince seemed to hint New Zealand needed a higher GDP per capita before it could have one of his five star hotels. Awkward.
While most countries have national treasures, we're stuck with a National embarrassment.
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Moving this from the "Grown-ups" thread as it belongs firmly in Dirty Politics. nzlemming started it with...
Speaking of children in need parental supervision, is anyone tuned into this Ben Rachinger thing. Seems so very crazy.
I agree that it seems quite surreal.
Here's one blogger's summary of the story so far.
The extended version from the man himself.
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Hard News: Will the grown-ups ever…, in reply to nzlemming,
Speaking of children in need parental supervision, is anyone tuned into this Ben Rachinger thing. Seems so very crazy.
It seems quite surreal.
Here's one blogger's summary of the story so far.
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Envirologue: Too Big to Fail – Why…, in reply to Rob Stowell,
(I’m intrigued at the idea Stamper is paid to do this work. Earnest low-wage-petroleum-slave-writer, pocket crank, or PR maven?)
+1
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Andrea Vance is covering Key's Middle East trip.
No ruler was impolite enough to mention it. "Only you," Key tersely told reporters.
But they knew. "It is something [King Salman's] advisers have a pretty good handle on," Saudi expert and business consultant John Lockwood said ahead of the meeting.
"They will be smiling behind their hands when he, perhaps, raises other issues. In Saudi society that would be seen as quite an offensive activity, indeed it would be seen as an assault."
Perhaps this was why Key chose not to directly raise women's rights when he spoke to the monarch about human rights concerns. He was hardly speaking from the moral high ground.
Key and his spin doctors like to make much of his standing on the world stage. He gets a disproportionate amount of face-time with the world's most influential leaders - Barack Obama and Xi Jinping, Angela Merkel, and David Cameron. But international coverage of his behaviour towards Amanda Bailey made him a laughing stock.
Laughing stock. I like that.
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Envirologue: Too Big to Fail – Why…, in reply to Stamper Stamp,
Sorry to see you’re beginning to hyperventilate...
When you're bereft of facts, attack the man. Classy!
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Envirologue: Too Big to Fail – Why…, in reply to Stamper Stamp,
* this means "the science is settled" is not true
There you go again stomper. When 99% of scientists accept that man-made global warming is a fact, you'd have to be cranio-rectally inverted to continue quoting misinformation from climate change deniers.
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Envirologue: Too Big to Fail – Why…, in reply to Bart Janssen,
The power of marketing
First against the wall ...
I thought that was the bankers?
