Posts by Russell Brown

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  • Hard News: Because They Could,

    Flash 10.0.12.36 on Firefox 3.03 on OSX 10.5

    Now hold on Simon ... when did you come over from the dark side?

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  • Hard News: Because They Could,

    back on topic ...

    More thunderous poll news to ease your fears: WaPo and ABC polls basically replicating the CBS poll, and Gallup finishing its polling predicting an 11-point Obama win in the popular vote.

    It is starting to look large.

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  • Hard News: Granny for Sale,

    __Actually, a fuck of a lot taken. Obvs.__

    That's your choice. I'm going to leave this topic alone.

    That was soooooo passive-aggressive ...

    ;-)

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  • Hard News: Granny for Sale,

    Does it mean the Listener is being sold as well?

    Yes, and you know who's all cashed-up and looking for bargains -- and already prevented by Australian media ownership laws from buying much more than he already owns there?

    Rupert Murdoch.

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  • Hard News: Granny for Sale,

    The same story was just as wothy of an inquiry during 2006, 2007 or 2008.

    The present story -- with Meurant's helpful notes -- didn't emerge until last week.

    What form could the Labour Party possibly use to start demanding an inquiry in 2009 without looking like hypocrites?

    Hypocrisy is a lesser sin in Opposition, if that's where they end up: National being thoroughly in bed with the racing industry in 2005 hardly stopped it from pursuing Peters on it.

    And anyway; the Greens announced their desire for such an inquiry today -- along with their refusal to share a Cabinet with Peters, which is looking like a safe but tasty stand of principle.

    Any more revelations about Peter Dunne would be interesting.

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  • Hard News: Granny for Sale,

    It does not work for me using Flash 10.0.12.36 on Firefox 3.0.3 but movie works fine using Internet explorer....as you were.

    Cool. That's what I needed to know.

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  • Hard News: Granny for Sale,

    Last Saturday the Herald posted this online. It was an explanation by Eugene Bingham of the Key questions.

    In which he seems to strongly imply that "Batman" was Mike Williams. If so, my head spins at the blithering idiocy of Williams doing that.

    Also, just got a call from someone at the Herald: the Bingham byline on the editorial I linked to above was a mistake -- their system automatically populated the byline field with Bingham's name because it was in the copy.

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  • Hard News: Granny for Sale,

    The Hollow Men was published in 2006, too long ago to form the basis of any such demand by Labour.

    Really? Explain your logic.

    The Peters-Dunne shenanigans in the Dom-Post date back to the last National government -- it's still a story.

    And, of course, Nicky Hager reckons (without providing evidence, I must say) that the racing industry is donating to National again.

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  • Hard News: Granny for Sale,

    Not quite true Russell - it's just conspicuously different in length and tone to anything on Peters:

    Ah, thanks ...

    If Labour doesn't form a government, it can certainly spend the next three years demanding inquiries and quoting the racing chapter in the Hollow Men ...

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  • Hard News: Granny for Sale,

    Curiously, this is one Phil Kitchin lead story that David Farrar appears to have forgotten to accord full-noise exposure to. Or, actually, blog about at all ...

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