Posts by Alfie
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Speaker: Confessions of an Uber Driver…, in reply to goforit,
...NZ Herald became a share holder of Uber...
Hmmm. That might explain this blatant Uber promo in today's Herald.
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The UK's new, unelected PM has appointed Boris the Clown as her new foreign secretary. Talk about distain for the electorate.
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Speaker: A Disorderly Brexit, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
…and it does remind of Private Eye’s regular ‘Solutions’ section
Nicely put, Ian. I had thought about asking for an English translation but wrote off the idea as possibly being too sarcastic.
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I understand your frustration Ian. It’s easy to get the impression that the Stuff moderation is subbed out to a group of primary school children.
The ODT also runs some extremely slack moderation. Even when you write a considered and polite comment with no hint of defamation, you’re lucky if it appears online hours later. Sometimes it takes days. Even then there’s a 50% chance that the moderator will decide to remove a couple of lines, making nonsense of the comment. I’ve pretty much given up posting on the ODT for this reason.
Meanwhile, here’s a clanger from today’s Herald. They’ve published a reasonable public service piece about the avalanche risk in the South Island. Right at the bottom they’ve included a handy link to the Mountain Safety Council’s avalanche site which would be very helpful, if the link wasn’t coded directly to a Herald 404 page. Hover over the link and you'll see the coding.
Doh!
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Ben Jennings in the Guardian -- Eagle serves to Corbyn
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Speaker: A Disorderly Brexit, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
I wouldn’t be surprised if, in the absence of another non-Blairite, he wins again.
I wonder what the Blairites will do then – a flounce would almost certainly be terminal, but they might do it anyway.
The Labour MPs involved with the coup have all stated that they couldn't work with Corbyn. Assuming the situation arises where Corbyn is re-elected (probably with an increased majority of the membership vote), then surely it behoves the Blairite MPs to stand down.
As for the Blarite Angela Eagle who is standing against Corbyn, her own constituency (Wallasey in Merseyside) Labour party last week passed a motion of support for Corbyn. The people have spoken and where does that leave her?
There was an excellent Ben Jennings cartoon in the Guardian the other day. I'll post that below as in-line images aren't an option.
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RNZ have announced that they're shutting down comments on their online stories. They explain their reasoning and ironically, the very first comment on that story proves their point precisely.
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Speaker: A Disorderly Brexit, in reply to Marc C,
...nobody commenting here has the answers...
I guess not. Time for Russell to close down PAS then?
Or maybe not, while there's still the possibilty that some of us derive value from the free and frank exchange of information and opinions in a relatively troll-free environment.
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The New Labour faction is desperately trying to pull off their coup against Corbyn. At the moment their best hope is enforcing a ruling that he'll require the support of 51 sitting MPs to even appear on the ballot paper. This is a bizarre coup, not least because Corbyn’s main policies align perfectly with core Labour party policy.
Opposing Corbyn is Angela Eagle. She backed the Iraq War, voted to bomb Syria, is pro-Trident and abstained on the vote proposing cruel Tory welfare cuts. She's about as far right as you can get whilst masquerading under a Labour banner.
Here's an excellent piece from the Huff Post -- Corbyn Coup Misjudges Public Mood
The truth is that the coup wasn’t staged because Blairites don’t think Jeremy Corbyn could win the next election. It was because they fear he could. A Corbyn win would be an unequivocal endorsement of his progressive Labour and yet another outright rejection of Blair’s right wing New Labour/Thatcherite agenda.
The story finishes with a great end line.
If ever there was a time for principled leaders, like Jeremy Corbyn, it’s now.
Amen to that!
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Hard News: The war is still with us, in reply to AndrewH,
Alfie, that is just plain bollocks. ... the primary motivation was pure neocon ideology, which had bugger-all to do with profit.
That's a rather strong line Andrew and I'm surprised that you can't see any link between pure neocon ideology and profit. Because to me, the two are inextricably linked.
The link you provided is broken -- I've fixed that. I'm not familiar with Kwiatkowski but note that she stood for the Republican Party in 2012 which might not make her the most strident critic of that party's policies.
While she backs up my comments on the entirely constructed WMD scenario and "Feith-Wolfowitz-Rumsfeld-Cheney's insanely grandiose vision of some future Middle East, with peace, love and democracy brought on through preemptive war and military occupation", nowhere on that page can I find Kwiatkowski claiming that Rumsfeld, Cheney and their mates didn't make obscene profits from the Iraq war. Perhaps you could assist by providing a quote?
