Posts by Kumara Republic
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A cheap holiday in other people's misery, as someone once said.
The same someone who said the Queen ain't no human being, of course.
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With a bit of IP sleight of hand, you might be able to circumvent it. Ideas, anyone?
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I don't believe the USSR had this level of Socialism in its heyday.
The new structure for Chrysler sounds remarkably like co-op syndicalism.
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1) It'll be a good idea all right - for investors planning to make a killing on shares in the barbed wire, bulletproof glass, and bodyguard industries.
2) Faith-based dogma. Ironically, the army is investigating binge-drinking culture within its own ranks.
3) John Campbell already has that covered. And he doesn't want to be a candidate for Vietnam or Watergate.
4) Be careful about speaking of the devil, it (sic) might actually turn up.
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Giovanni:
The WHO for one is not in the business of spreading panic in order to help newspaper sales.
Probably not, but the tin-foil hatters out there will probably suspect it's a false flag concocted by Viadoxin.
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Wasn't all that big on ABBA to start with, being a bit before my time. I did like Benny & Bjorn's efforts on the Chess soundtrack though.
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What did Prebble used to say, the smartest electorate in the country?
To which he was eventually proven right in 1999.
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Naming and labelling seems harmless on the surface... until it crosses the line into dehumanisation. And then used to justify state-sanctioned brutality or even genocide.
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Again, it's not so much the fault of the candidates, but rather the fault of the voting system. FPP is fundamentally designed to reinforce traditional 2-party systems, and, of all the available systems, is the most vulnerable to gerrymandering and spoiler effects. This old Hard News post on the 2001 AKL regional elections comes to mind...
I have seen an open letter from City Vision's Lindsay Rea that nails Maire Leadbetter, the Greens and the Water Pressure Group for breaking an accord in Eden-Albert, standing multiple candidates, and splitting what should have been a comfortable centre-left vote - giving Banks and the CitRats their majority.
I wouldn't know. But I do know that this kind of thing must never happen again. I want to see a really good mayoral candidate next time round - and no, not Matt McCarten looking for a job, and not, thanks for the vote of confidence to those people who've suggested it, me either.
Just what the red-greens don't want, and hoping against hope a mistake to learn from.
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That comparison is grossly unfair to all the unfortunate sufferers from phallocranial syndrome.
Kronfeld - verb 1. To turn the tables on an egotistic celebrity presenter.