Posts by giovanni tiso
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Hard News: Media 2011, in reply to FletcherB,
The US is already held in low enough regard by many, but the US must surely know trying that would align a whole world of animosity against them?
You mean more than doing this?
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to Che Tibby,
they likely didn't know about the fraud and corruption charges at that stage.
You'd expect somebody who has been tagged as a possible mole to have been researched first a little bit? It wouldn't have been hard for anybody to conclude that she didn't actually hold a PhD, for instance - it being public information and all. It's just that nobody bothered to check her credentials.
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Hard News: Media 2011, in reply to Raymond A Francis,
It is no fun but it has to be done
Ah, the old misleading analogy between the state's budget and a household budget...
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What is this, the Passive-Aggression Hour with Graeme Edgeler? I love that show.
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I'm amazed she was considered trustworthy to be honest.
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Whilst not a Defence official, we know that Mary Ann Thompson was considered invaluable.
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Hard News: The Wellington Cables, in reply to ChrisW,
with the goal of educating New Zealand's health practitioners, policymakers and consumers on pharmaceuticals' role in health care.
That's how you spell "Herceptin". [EDIT - ops, hadn't scrolled up as far as Danyl's post.]
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Hard News: The Wellington Cables, in reply to Islander,
Hmmm, no-one else is a SuperScrabble addict here, I take it?
Not sure how SuperScrabble works, but with my friends back home we had fashioned our own version, by merging two boards together and using the letters from both sets. Much fun.
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Few things I enjoy more than reading old Listeners and other magazines from before I came to New Zealand, and the Eighties in particular. I miss a lot of the subtleties but the writing was very good - didn't realise the magazine was still state owned at the time though.
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Hard News: The Wellington Cables, in reply to Joe Wylie,
After the jailing of the two straggler DGSE agents Alain Mafart and Dominique Prieur the Listener reported that Mafart had taken a subscription to the magazine, but only for six months, implying that he didn't expect to serve anything like his full ten-year sentence.
What a bizzarre conclusion to draw, unless you work for The Listener I suppose, and the idea of living in the country for nine and a half years without subscribing to the magazine seems inconceivable. Perhaps he thought "I'll give this a crack for six months and see if it's worth renewing. Just in the off chance they install an editor that is too right wing even for me, a French secret agent prone to murdering lefties."