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And more amusingly still, our old friend Redbaiter thinks the death threats against Sue Bradford are a false flag plot by the Far Left.
Use your imagination to complete the following sentence: Old --------s never die, they just deny.
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Stop Press: Man denies sending Sue Bradford death threat
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ChrisW:
I'd emphasise too that the cost of taking action to reduce net emissions must in all cases be assessed relative to a baseline not of business as usual, but one of increasing climatic adversity and difficulty in marketing our products in a hostile world if we were perceived as not pulling our weight.
So far the usual denialists are taking a see/hear/speak-no-evil stance on the American Clean Energy & Security Act. Only Fran O'Sullivan has name-checked it, even if I don't agree with her views on the matter:
The American Clean Energy and Security Act, or Aces for short, is Congress' first go at tackling the growing problem of climate change. The problem in the legislation - which President Barack Obama acknowledges - is a provision that would enable the US to impose tariffs on goods produced in nations that do not commit to greenhouse gas reductions. Obama says at a time when the economy worldwide is still deep in recession and there has been a significant drop in global trade, the US has to be "very careful about sending any protectionist signals out".
Unfortunately that genie is already out of the bottle.
China and India have signalled they will take World Trade Organisation cases if the US proceeds with Aces.
In fact, ACES may actually be within WTO rules. And even business figures are starting to understand the ramifications.
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I want to go to the library and read Richard Dawkins now.
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teh interhosen
The internet is pants.
roflnui
And the interhosen always gets its interpanties in a twist.
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as Rodney Hide seems to be suggesting with his comment about muliculturalism.
When Hide uses the term 'multiculturalism', I think he really means 'model minority'.
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The Deafener has infected by a socio-cultural epidemic - an epidemic that Germaine Greer took to pieces, and landed her in a shitstorm with her native Australia.
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Is the Deafener attempting to exhume the Mazengarb Report? Somehow it brings to mind Sheik Hilaly's "uncovered meat" brain-fart.
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Carol S:
Hide seems to see Maori as being just another minority group like, say, Italians or Chinese. From today's DomPost:
He [Hide] was concerned local government was dominated by 'old white males' and it should be more representative of all groups, not just Maori.
Biculturalism seems to have passed him by. And he is kind of like the anti-Key in that he has no hesitation in appealing to people's baser instincts.
At heart Hide is really a Model Minoritarian-ist - at the end of the day it's just a smokescreen for assimilationism and marginalisation. In the States, political reactionaries have invoked it as a handy excuse to undermine affirmative action programmes.
On the other hand, the opposite end of the political spectrum is just as guilty of pursuing third-worldism for the same reasons.
Personally, I think that where there's a vacuum of multiculturalism, Model Minoritarianism and Third-Worldism jostle over the scraps.
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DexterX:
If “government” is capable of leadership it could harness the issue and lead it in the direction to create something right.
The problem could easily be solved in a matter of weeks with a good supply of railcars, and helicopters with long enough range to drop them in the middle of the Tasman Sea. Were it not for one not-so-small problem - such a policy would likely have its initiators on the next plane to the Hague for all the wrong reasons. With a high-security stay in the Milosevic Suite.