Posts by Kumara Republic
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Ladies & gents, welcome to Prolesec Inc.
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Hard News: Media 2011, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
In a couple of spats I had with him, he personalised everything mightily–so I was surprised by Vicky Hyde’s claim (in The Press) that he didn't.
I particularly remember one article he wrote, about the hostage drama in the Moscow theatre maybe 10 years ago - by & large he resorted to emotional spin on the matter:
For me, the most poignant image was not the most grisly: a soldier early in the episode carried over his shoulder the dead body of a svelte young woman. She had a dark leather jacket over her pleated black pants. Her arms and her blond hair hung limply down the back of the policemen. She had panicked, tried to run, and, according to the Russians, had been shot in the back.
Her spiked heels could not have helped her escape, but few of us plan on having to run for our lives when we go out to a schmaltzy, Saturday afternoon musical.
This 20-year-old doubtless resembled some of the Australian girls blown to bits in Bali, the students dismembered in a Tel Aviv university cafeteria, or the young secretaries who jumped to their deaths from the World Trade Centre.
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Speaker: It's called "planning" for a reason, in reply to Matthew Poole,
PwC won't get involved beyond commenting on their work with the CBDRL business case. It's the nature of the Big Four. Unfortunately, the "journalists" at Granny don't appear to be interested in reporting in depth and getting the informed opinions
Then who? Nicky Hager? WikiLeaks? The Sierra Club?
Please do - someone has to, given the feeble opposition on offer.
As a matter of fact, I pieced a poster together in InDesign in the space of maybe 45 minutes. Still a rough draft, but once I get some 2nd opinions on it...
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I think it indicates they're still sulky about Banksie's loss of the mayoralty.
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And it's utterly hypocritical when rail is written off as unaffordable, but a more costly holiday highway isn't. Such bullshit needs to be debunked, but it's up against a powerful spin machine.
Ideally the likes of PWC or the Economist would give it the Think Big/pork barrel stigma, but we can't just wait for them. It's only a start, but I've been brainstorming ideas to expose the real costs - and agenda - of the Holiday Highway.
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Speaker: It's called "planning" for a reason, in reply to Russell Brown,
That Herald editorial ... it's one thing for the paper to take an editorial position. Quite another for the actual argument offered to be as feeble and petulant as that.
I think we know who the author is, and he wasn't too fond of Len Brown to begin with. When Brown actually won the mayoralty, said author was conspicuously nowhere to be seen.
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Merry Xmas all...
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Field Theory: Japan Stories: Part One, in reply to Jim Cathcart,
New Japan sauna is a representation of a jaded era. For the reality, witness the right wing bozos rally every weekend while the Chinese tourists indulge two blocks over.
To a large degree, Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara is a kind of figurehead for these bozos. The ABC (the Aussie one) has referred to him as Japan's Le Pen. And to us, he's a Japanese Winston First on steroids and P.
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Assange seems to come across as a flawed genius. So too did Michael Jackson and Henry Ford, for different reasons.
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Matt P: Would Prostetnic Vogon Joyce go as far as doing a Greater London Council on Mayor Brown, if Brown refuses to budge?