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Legal Beagle: MMP Review #1: The Party…, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
aging joker Labour manage to dredge up (I guess it’s possible, and would be nice, if Labour find a bright, progressive young Maori with links to the far north. I kinda doubt it though).
Labour, in Te Tai Toka, found Rino- the Tirikatene name still resonates with the southern Maori electorate. Dunno how things stand north...
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Hard News: The Watching World, in reply to George Darroch,
I’m well behind on this one, but parody account FiveThirtyNate is killing it handsome
O! Quirky fun! Love it-
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Hard News: The Watching World, in reply to Sacha,
Sacha - that is not strictly correct. As a legally blind person, I can make my vote (all the overseer has to do is make sure no-one else interferes with my visual aids.) For fully blind people, if they read braille or have a trusted companion, they can also vote (all details are taken down by the registrar.)
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Hard News: The Watching World, in reply to Hilary Stace,
o why haven’t we heard more about the voting machines and electronic system in the endless commentary about the election?
THAT is a very good question.
That format of voting is actually the death of democracy.
I am not being paranoid.
It is a fact.
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Hard News: Media3: Whistleblower Season, in reply to mark taslov,
The smackers yes. The tacit enablers not at all
Hmmmm...food for thought.
It is like sexists/racists/supporters of slavery...why kick against the norm?
Until evidence of just *what* the norm enables - and the damage it does to those corrupted- and the rest of humanity- that a positive societal reaction happens-I believe in hope, & humans learning from past mistakes.
We're clever apes.
BUT - I dont believe H.s.s is intrinsically *good.*
We are hierarchical & dominance-driven animals and our whole histories prove that those who percieve they have power will use it to their advantages over the powerless. -
Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Hebe,
Yes- it is a true gesture of sharing & welcome. Kia ora Miles!
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Hard News: Media3: Whistleblower Season, in reply to mark taslov,
<q>The same parents who smacked their children, who sent them off to schools knowing they’d endure brutal initiations, bullying and God knows what other suffering, having endured it themselves. The countless parents who have refused to rock the apple cart for millenia.
Whom I trust have *always* been in the minority, even when children were reguarded as either minature adults (and responsible for their actions) or as evilly-inclined subhumans who had to be whacked into rationality-
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Hard News: Media3: Whistleblower Season, in reply to Lilith __,
If people want to be truly informed on the Chchch Creche case – read Lynley Hood’s book “A City Possessed.”
Nothing in it has been officially refuted – and it did assist in Peter Ellis’s early release.
I have the additional advantage of knowing Ellis’s lawyer…Rob still comes to Big O,
and some of his stories are alarming-
while I partly trained in law, I think something like the ‘continental’ system of examining magistrates could be a useful addition to our legal system. Aside from anything else, some of the totally ridiculous statements from put-upon children would’ve been been heard for what they were – adult-generated fantasies put into the mouths of small children-edit: I was a public supporter of Peter Ellis from the time of his conviction.
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Hard News: Media3: Whistleblower Season, in reply to Joe Wylie,
O struth! Never knew it existed!
But – this a person who had never heard of acid rock or indeed much
anything else from the 1960s – because I fell in love with Spanish & other guitar music, ‘black’ jazz and (hangs head in shame) film music…srsly- I found a lot of soundtracks to films I knew very well absolutely compelling…I can still sing (badly)
the Zulu dawn chorus & "Men of Harlech" from "Zulu".... -
A kind of general spring joy: Miles Warren has gifted Ohinetahi to the nation via a trust - hooray! (This, after repairing the earthquake damage.) May his name live on as long as the house & gardens do....