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And if anything needs a WikiLeak right now, it's the BRT and the RTF.
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Hard News: Popular Paranoiac Politics, in reply to Matthew Poole,
I wish, oh how I do wish, that Darren Hughes had the same handle on this issue as does Josh Arbury. If that were so, he'd eviscerate Joyce in the House and probably slap English with the bloody corpse in the process. Might even get the message out that National aren't here to steward your money carefully, they're here to spend it on their mates.
Mind you, Prostetnic Vogon Joyce is pretty media savvy in a Karl Rove kind of way.
And fuck the prolles.
And how do the usual suspects get away with it? White bread and media circuses, that's what.
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Hard News: Popular Paranoiac Politics, in reply to tussock,
Though we do have a party in office that refuses to take bids from local carriage makers, on the grounds they couldn't possibly be competitive, and then the foreign company they do give the contracts to promptly subcontracts it back to those same locals after taking a margin for doing so.
Any WikiLeak on the above?
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IIRC, Heather Simpson helped discredit Think Big back in the early 1980s. Is there anyone who can step up to the mantle this time round?
If the usual suspects claim that NZ is bankrupt, how did they suddenly manage to play Santa with the holiday highway and mismanaged finance companies? Oh that's right, there's a term for it.
And who else is thinking right now of Japan's infamous roads to nowhere?
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Has any nation in the world imprisoned so many people, that the IMF pays a visit and wags a few fingers?
Seriously though, we're probably not far off a Special Patrol Group/sus law, NZ-style.
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Hard News: Popular Paranoiac Politics, in reply to Sam F,
In the words of Dan Sloan, commenting on this story via Facebook:
I look forward to living in a world with interest on student loans, 20% GST, means-tested retirement and where house prices escalate to preserve current returns after a CGT has been deducted. Oh wait, no I don't. Too bad anyone born after 1980, we're baby-boomer collateral damage.
And I equally look forward to bodyguards and barbed wire contractors becoming the new plumbers.
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@ Craig Y: unfortunately, although movements like the ones you've mentioned have dissolved, a lot of them seem to regroup under different umbrellas with slicker PR machines, like FF, FtSoOC, et al. The SPCS still exists even after Patty Bartlett left the scene.
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OnPoint: Pay Attention, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
Furthermore, being practical, if the Americans think that imprisoning Assange is going to stop Wikileaks, they're mad. Things like PayPal and Amazon doing their dirty work for them are far more likely to succeed.
"You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea" - Civil Rights activist Medgar Evers, shot dead by the KKK in 1963.
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A libertarian viewpoint on Muriel points out she has consorted with a disgraced academic who is a known sympathiser of the Bloody Nasty People and the authors of The Bell Curve... (part 2 here)
Ellis has worked closed with these very groups. His book on political correctness, published by Maxim, is meant to attack political correctness because these groups see politically correctness as an obstacle to their promotion of racism. That certainly is the view of "Occidental Quarterly". And Ellis made it clear that is his view as well. When he used a white nationalist organisation as the premier example of a group being attacked only because it was politically incorrect he made clear what it is he is trying to defend. He, in that statement, equated political incorrectness with racism.
I am not saying that Newman is doing this. I doubt she is. I don't think she's a white nationalist. She has her own favoured groups to attack-particularly the gay community.
But too often the antiPC campaign is being used as a cloak for justifying bigoted remarks and hateful attitudes. I've long been a critic of political correctness myself. But these days I feel uncomfortable criticising it. Not because being PC is a wonderful thing but because the antiPC advocates are using their campaign to cloak some very hateful views. I do not think that those who advocate freedom should even mention political correctness anymore lest they be identified with some very bigoted people.
I do support defending the right of association, property rights, and freedom of speech. But I think we should drop the term "political correctness" from our vocabulary to clearly avoid any association with hate groups.
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I had exactly the same experience about 13-14 years ago. The very determined surveyer (who was writing their survey on blank bits of recycled newsprint) thought it was odd that my response to her question "What do you need to make you happy?" was "Well, nothing."
And no less creepy was this guy in Dixon St one Sunday evening, who simply reached out to shake my hand and say hello out of the blue, then proceeding to pontificate about a certain deity. I fobbed him off in a very polite way, but not without him handing me one of those tacitly patronising pamphlets.
On closer inspection, the pamphlet had Web addresses for a global Pentecostal denomination, which is basically self-explanatory. (And no, it wasn't the Destiny Church.)