Posts by william blake
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I think the fragmentation occurring across media must be taken into account. Yes commercialisation of TV, radio and print also the sheer number of stations and channels, add to that ‘rolling news’ and the attention/ratings suck from electronic media. It may not just be dumbing down but also spreading too thin.
It’s good to see weblogs like pundit becoming journalistically accredited, and perhaps in the near future we will see intelligent indepth, accredited internet news reporting, but almost certainly, it will need to be be paywalled.
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Jaded Jonny v Angry Andy
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http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2015/05/the_global_failures_of_the_left_this_decade.html#comments
Personal best 18 negs :)
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Between Chris Trotters' exhorting the NZ Labour Party to take back the socialist rhetoric from the National who are using it as a smokescreen for the capitalists and Tony Blair urging the BLP, to reform as an aspirational party and to become capitalists, yes we are proper mad.
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Alfie,, it just seems easier to treat growing a plant as a seasonal activity, using hydro and grow lights seems a bit commercial, like forced tomatoes in greenhouses. I think taking the commerce out of ganja growing would take the criminality out of it as well.
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NORML has suggested that the New Zealand “weed drought” in the early part of the year could be a consequence of criminal operations moving from natural cannabis production to the faster, cheaper and less risky business of synthetics – much in the way that the supply of distilled spirits rocketed and beer consumption slumped during America’s liquor prohibition years.
Unpacking this a bit, the weed drought, isnt that just an indication of bad planning or effective policing or overuse of the drug? It may be a rational but it’s not a justification for a synthetic version. And ‘faster, cheaper, less risky’ really means more profitable, just like the bootleggers selling a pint of whisky for more profit than a pint of beer. Less risky for a pot grower/ dealer but more risk to the user by ingesting dubious and untested chemicals.
People wanting to get high should be allowed to grow their own crops and straighten up out of season, if they want to smoke balefulls at a time. A decriminalisation of cultivation (with a trading ban) would reduce harm from chemical highs.
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Stamper you never even read that report, you just reached for a discredited third party , I suppose that is the essence of denial.
Here is a report that is closer to home and a bit more hands on.
http://www.branz.co.nz/cms_show_download.php?id=af3b6b202e83011d176ec5e8f9b58de4ce2ac882
It may have been critiqued by Bob Jones but….
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Hey Stampy here is a link to the fifth IPPC report on the scientific consensus on climate change.
http://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg1/mindex.shtml
If you would like to review and critique the 2,500 scientists who worked on it, I would be interested in your analysis.
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Hard News: Will the grown-ups ever…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Bob, Bob, Bob...
A real floater.
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Hard News: Anzac Day II, in reply to Yamis,
Yes something along those lines, it's a concrete artefact exposing past, public thinking about the role of the military in New Zealand. It kind of fucks up some of the current reframing.
(Or it could just be linking things that go BANG!, exposing past public stupidity and insensitivity)