Posts by nzlemming
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Hard News: UNGASS and the "Drug Free…, in reply to Ross Bell,
Check out that good looking and wise guy at 2.19 and again at 7.13 :)
I did note that, yes. ;-)
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I had a wee look for you ;-) There's A Drug-free World: Reloaded from the 2009 meeting with a screenshot of the poster at 4:24
(Peter Dunne appears at about 2mins in)
Some interesting stuff at https://www.facebook.com/drugreporter as wellWeb Archive is your friend for the UNDCP http://web.archive.org/web/19970216142659/http://undcp.org/ but it's slim pickings. Patchy coverage and a hint of sanitisation after Arlacchi had to resign in 2001 for cooking the World Drug Report to make it more positive (He was only appointed in 1997). Also because he promoted the use of herbicides to destroy crops without considering their affect on people, and thus contravening the UN declaration on biological weapons.
But I can't see the video anywhere.
Arlacchi's Wikipedia entry reads like it was written by his press officer.
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Hard News: Friday Music: The great full eight, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
I've just 'discovered', and have been enjoying, Warren Ellis's* excellently curated ambient music podcasts, not to mention his and Paul Duffield's FreakAngels web comic
The thing that was really crap about FreakAngels was that it finished. Loved it and loved waiting for the next edition (A whole week?? Gods dammit !). Might be time to reread (again)
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Russell, have you sent your request to the Ombudsman? I got to the point, with NZTA, of simply copying the Ombudsman on every communication, NZTA were so obstructive.
Geoff Noller (and others) - always record your phone calls (it's legal and you don't have to tell them - s216 of the Crimes Act) and follow up a phone call with an email reiterating what was said. I've had officials tell bald-faced lies about phone calls. I rarely ring anymore, always using email or a physical letter.
I weep for what our Public Service has been reduced to, in serving the Key government. Bolger/Shipley may have cut budgets to the bone and below but at least they didn't tell us what we had to say in the same way, and respected policy advice they didn't like. Sometimes they ignored it and did what they wanted anyway. But Key's ministers are dictating the policy and demanding that the advice be structured to support it.
I have reliable information that Tony Ryall instructed the agencies under his purview not to put anything in writing to him, accepting only verbal briefings, just so there was no OIA paper trail. NZTA never logged Joyce visiting their building, even though they posted a press release about one such occasion. I'm pretty sure these practices are commonplace among Key ministers.
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Hard News: Helen Kelly's letter, in reply to JC Carter,
Except if your drinking your drug.
Or your son is selling a substitute for drugs.
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Hard News: Sunday People, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Thinking along these lines we have come up with some exiting ways forward in brand recognition,
Freudian slip?
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Hard News: Sunday People, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Good grief... those comments say a lot about New Zealand eh?.
NEVER read Stuff comments.
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Hard News: Fix up, young men, in reply to Russell Brown,
But maybe you could ease up a bit too. You've been a little bit in danger of telling everyone else how the topic should be discussed, i.e. your way. I know very well that's not your intention, but it can feel that way.
Fair point, and acknowledged.
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Hard News: Fix up, young men, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
This was about music events. Russell wrote about that. The conversation may have broadened but now it feels like bullying the one person who has raised our awareness of Jeans abuse. I fail to see the point of making him leave by suggesting all the women have left.
You know how we talked upthread (contender for WOTY) about intervention, about speaking up when we saw something wrong happening. That's what I was doing. I made Russell do nothing - he makes his own decisions. And I made the comment about women leaving after he made that decision.
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Hard News: Fix up, young men, in reply to Steve Barnes,
This, from someone you could dislike for quite a few reasons...
Well, he can't be wrong all the time ;-)