Posts by Angus Robertson
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How long is a lifetime ban in NZ media cirlces? Is it Tony Veitch long or more Paul Henry in duration?
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OnPoint: Set it on fire, then, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Rich,
What you are talking about is targeted killing, which is perfectly legitimate exercise of democratic force and is practiced openly by many states. This cannot be confused with torture which is cruel and barbaric.
For instance after NZ has upgraded the survellaince laws we will be able to use Hellfire strikes from Predator drones in real time suppression of rebel scum, without the need for messy court proceedings.
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VSM is irrelevent to almost everyone. Probably 90% of students don't care one way or the other. The only people who seem to care are Actoids and Labourites.
Act and Labour have spent most of the past year pointlessly fighting over an irrelevency. This in hindsight might have been a mistake, both of them are polling way lower than they should typically expect to be.
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OnPoint: Transcription of new Rick Perry…, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
I thought this was an ingenious way to illustrate relative purchasing power and income disparity, having misheard that the Campus Democrats were running it, until I found out a) it was the Republicans and b) they were actually trying to say that the world was mean to white men. Oh well.
It demonstrates the message being more important the action. Democrats care about fairness and equality, Republicans care about freedom and responsibility.
Differences in sentiment explain why Libya/Iraq wars are so different. Just like TARP/TARP amd Patriot/Patriot and Gitmo/Gitmo and Solyndra/Solyndra and targetted assasination/targetted assasination and war on drugs/war on drugs are so different. The message portrayed varies, the actions remain the same.
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OnPoint: Transcription of new Rick Perry…, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
...but while you're entitled to your own opinion you're not entitled to your own facts. And I really don't think Republicans get to pretend their own voting records didn't happen when they become politically inconvenient,...
Ahem, no pretty sure they do. American politics is based on expressing opposing sentiment to the other party.
In 2012 Obama will promise to shutdown Gitmo and Mitt Romney will oppose government run health exchanges.
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...but it seems more likely that there was some official panic at the sight of people dancing. Public Address reader Jen Lander reported on the night that 15 police officers unexpectedly lined up, "high vis vests, very staunch" and shut it down:
Maybe, buried in a council report, is an advisory about structural integrity and resonance frequencies of old piers.
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Very large majorities of Americans support raising taxes on the rich (along with The Economist, Fortune, and other well-known bastions of left-wing thinking.)
Problem is even larger majorities of Americans define the rich as earning 50% more than themselves.
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In a room full of elephants would
anyone bother to mention the human?Everybody mentions the Israel/Palestine conflict. All the time. Its the most popular war. Doesn't make it relevent.
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Hard News: Everybody's News, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
+1
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OnPoint: Other People's Wars, in reply to George Darroch,
In this context, the knowledge that the NZDF is acting in an aggressive capacity, well outside its stated mandate is open insider knowledge, but nobody feels like challenging the government on misleading the public. Except Nicky Hager.
Except Hager doesn't challenge the government, he's apparently written a book (I haven't read it) blaming the Defence Force.