Posts by Andre
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Oil disaster response
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Rena
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Thanks for your reasoned response...
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The fact is that our parents had an interest free government loan to buy a house costing $10,000 in 1970 while facing no loan to the government from their education. That generation is now treating ours differently even though it is not our fault.
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I have three analogue televisions that keep my two baby/toddlers, two 7&9 year-old boys and my wife and I able to watch TV separately. I bought one of them brand new in 1991 and gifted it to my Mum in 1996 when I upgraded and she returned it last year still kicking. I object to paying $450 for "Freeview" let alone the exorbitant telco fees charged by uncontrolled ravaging US investors who own Telecom and control the pricing of the industry to be streamed 4G material. Like (insert swear word here" and join the real world. Two-thirds of all working people earn $17 or less an hour. I don't, but would still find the changeover costly. It is not just that they are cancelling TVNZ7... it is that they are making a billion dollars of working equipment obsolescent on behalf of TV and Freeview machine manufacturers... I find Sky very boring - I have seen everything the History or Documentary Channel run after three months and then it is wall-to-wall repeats. The Labour and National governments have left us with nothing unless we are willing to pay extra for it. TVNZ7 is awesome so I bought a Freeview machine to view it but it broke down after 2 months. Shall I blame the Asian deregulated manufacturer or the government that demanded I deal with them?
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I especially revere the term bogan and the pressure Kylie Mole exerted on the red neck township.
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I'm saddened by the refereeing decisions that have ruined this world cup and sent the fans and teams from Samoa, South Africa and Wales (among others) home feeling ripped off. They are literally going home knowing they are better teams than some of the other quarter finalists. The refs should be carrying iphones on them and they should be allowed to check video replays themselves if they want to. The teams could be given a number of opportunities in each half to request a video review - as the now do in tennis.
Kaino's game was amazing. No missed tackles with 22 successful ones... including one where he picked a huge Aussie up on his own tryline and carried him back into play even though the guy looked unstoppable. I'd call it a tackle but he literally just scooped him up a metre off the ground and walked him 5 metres backwards. And he didn't lose the ball at all even though his 4 runs gained 16 metres. Go the big guy! 100%! -
The best thing about the tournament so far is that all kiwis have got to watch the major games live for free. I haven’t spent an extra cent because of the RWC, other than on petrol as a result of traffic jams, and don’t intend to (other than my share of the over $1 billion we’ve spent hosting it). It was fun watching the AB fans walk to the game yesterday while I was riding past the fan trail but they were a quiet bunch. Like a group of shabbily uniformed students heading off to the last assembly of the term or something. Muted jubilation. I advised the 30 or 40 of them on the corner of K Rd and Ponsonby Rd that they still had time to perform a group haka and was met with amazed stares and a stony silence. It felt like they were all farmers visiting from Te Kuiti and the Hawkes Bay or something. Based on the price of milk and the tab for a ticket, perhaps they were.
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When Pulitzer prize-winning journos have this type of worldview, the fight for a free press becomes more of a fight for freedom in general. http://www.countercurrents.org/hedges190310.htm
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Things are however getting scary when the Fairfax-owned Dom Post decides to tell us that it is normal that they show a huge editorial bias in favour of John Key and National. Say goodbye to the free press etc... http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/comment/editorials/5681893/Editorial-Swinging-pendulum-is-easily-forgotten
Their argument that they used to say nice things about Helen Clarke is specious. They coined the terms Helengrad and Nanny State for example.
Fox News would be proud.