Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Hard News: Time to Vote, in reply to WH,
a 1970s’ vintage left wing text
sounds like Saul Alinsky’s ’Rules for Radicals’
a community organisers handbookthe job of the organizer is to maneuver and bait the establishment so that it will publicly attack him as a ‘dangerous enemy.’” According to Alinsky, “the hysterical instant reaction of the establishment [will] not only validate [the organizer’s] credentials of competency but also ensure automatic popular invitation."
He threatened to organise a ‘Piss-in’ at O’Hare airport one time:
According to Alinsky, once again the threat alone was sufficient to produce results. In 'Rules for Radicals', he notes that this tactic fell under two of his rules: Rule #3: Wherever possible, go outside the experience of the enemy; and Rule #4: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.
Allegedly Drone-Lord Obama was an adherent to these methods in his earlier incarnation as a community organiser in Chicago, and his 2008 campaign was influenced by Alinsky’s teachings…
source: wikipedia[edit] unfortunately I think Key & Joyce may have read it too...
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Hard News: Friday Music: Lovable Munter, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
There must be.
True!
Plus I forgot about earlier proof - Ten Years After! -
Reasons to be cheerful... pt III
A new Saturations EP was released this week - Inside
Get your good groove on...also somehow The Press left Mr Parkes, in all his manifold & wonderful permutations, out of their 10 bands/musicians to watch in Chchch...
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for the 'ticking' soundtrack...
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Hard News: Friday Music: Lovable Munter, in reply to Ken Double,
The after life is after this one after all...
...after all is said and done,
beyond the setting sun,
lies an occident
waiting to happen...Go West! (Jung, man)
The Pep Shot Buoys remixup their metaphors
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Hard News: Vision and dumbassery, in reply to Greg Dawson,
PARTY VOTE Bad water!
Because profit is more important than the clean water that a nation depends on. Sounds familiar.
Subliminal truth in the placement of a sticker...
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Cartoons by Sharon Murdoch, like this one.
That was great, funny though, it was slightly different in The Press
(see above)and Michele A'Court has been on fire!
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Hard News: Friday Music: Lovable Munter, in reply to Ken Double,
is this then,
the afterlife?:- )
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Busytown: Good as gold, in reply to Bart Janssen,
halo, halo, halo...
And no I don’t know the answer
don't worry something will gel...
what gooeys a round
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I see that the Shirley Library no longer carries New Scientist, let's throw the whole suburb to the luddites... grrr
But seriously, small cuts like that impact on the reinforcing of ideas or enthusiasms.
