Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: On joining the international…, in reply to simon g,
The absence of fear is what they fear.
Boom. Exactly.
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Meanwhile, some third-degree burns in Dan Satherly's story for Newshub about the sad grifting video Molyneux posted this morning:
He said the funding is necessary for him to keep speaking out against the "encroaching mob and horde of mindless violence the left seems to want to unleash on the failing remnants of civilisation".
Without more money, Mr Molyneux fears "self-contempt, self-hatred and possibly incarceration or death itself", because "that's what happens when the left gains power".
He then took a shot at Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who at the weekend said Kiwis were "hostile" to Mr Molyneux's views.
"The Prime Minister was the head of a youth socialist organisation not a decade ago, so that's what you get."
Ms Ardern was indeed elected president of the International Union of Socialist Youth in 2008, but since becoming Prime Minister in 2017 is yet to sentence anyone to "incarceration or death" based on their political views.
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Hard News: On joining the international…, in reply to Andrew Geddis,
Human Rights Act. NZ BoRA only applies to public actors.
Damn, you read it before I corrected it on Eddie Clark's advice :-)
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Hard News: Reassure Me: cannabis,…, in reply to BenWilson,
ETA: It’s quite likely, IMHO, that smoking it at all would end up being far less common, at which point the whole thing of drying it out would fall by the wayside. For pain it would probably be eaten, and for recreation, vaporized. Both are much healthier than inhaling hot smoke.
I think so, especially as vaporisers get better and cheaper. I'm not sure about the way some jurisdictions aren't allowing concentrates for that reason.
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Hard News: Friday Music: The spaceman…, in reply to Simon Grigg,
That Tom Scott is truly something special, and I love the played backing, ironically not a million miles away from what his Dad was doing circa 94.
The (amazing) video for the track drops tomorrow – and I'm pretty sure that's his Dad in it.
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And on another (but related) front: the Science Media Centre has gathered some good expert opinion on policy responses to the synthetics crisis.
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Hi Paul. I normally don't mind people linking to their own sites, but that looks a bit wild and defamatory sorry.
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Hard News: Friday Music: The spaceman…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Grant Smithies gave a big Thumbs up to Blair Parkes’ latest album on Nine to Noon this morning:
That certainly was a warm recommendation!
I see he's already turned up on this French compilation.
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Hard News: Friday Music: The spaceman…, in reply to Hugh Wilson,
so the reason I’ve posted the newly framed print above is because its availability was referenced here a year or so ago – thanks Russell
Nice!
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Here's my hot take for The Spinoff yesterday afternoon on the difference between the government bill and Shane Reti's.
I do think National's is the better bill, not least because it makes for more meaningful change sooner. On the other hand, parts of it – the fit-and-proper-person stuff – are really odious.
Was National playing politics here? Yes, sure, to some extent – and the chance to own Labour was probably a key reason Reti and Chris Bishop got it through the National caucus. But I'd feel more strongly about that if the government members hadn't blithely ignored all the patient and advocate submissions. Here's the committee report – the only changes to the bill are minor technical amendments at the behest of Ministry of Health officials.