Posts by Kumara Republic

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  • Hard News: Friday Music: The Wizards of…,

    It seems appropriate to remind you of what was happening in fringe Brisbane at the same time. If AC/DC set a hard rock template that a million bands took up, in 1976, a bunch of snotty kids helped invent punk rock with this timeless debut single:

    Did The Saints risk arrest from the then-ruling Sir Joh administration, by chance?

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  • Legal Beagle: New Zealand's most racist law,

    How easily could it be repealed without encountering a chorus of "PC gone mad!" from the Brash-oids and Muriel-oids?

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  • Hard News: Music: The year the…,

    Right now I'm being amused by Bob Rivers and Spike O'Neill, who pulls off the perfect Bon Scott impersonation:

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  • Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Joe Wylie,

    Whatever his replacement's views might be on issues such as the perceived politicisation of the force, continuing O'Connor's reactionary attitude on cannabis law reform promises to be problematic, even for an opportunist like Collins.

    If it's not direct orders from the Beehive, then it's probably the kind of police culture deconstructed by Red Squad veteran Ross Meurant.

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  • Envirologue: 1080, "eco-terrorism" and agendas, in reply to izogi,

    It’ll be interesting to learn about where the raw 1080 was sourced.

    Stolen? Reverse-engineered? Fraudulently purchased?

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  • Hard News: PAWOTY: We are all quaxing now,

    "Paddy didn't invent 'Twitterati', but he certainly did more than anyone else to get it into the discourse, even if he was trolling everyone," said Brown. "It would be great if we could take the next step and actually agree on who the Twitterati are. I'm bloody sure it isn't me ... is it?"

    Last I checked, Gower hasn't made a Twitter post for several weeks; maybe he's had enough of it. Although Fairfax's Tracy Watkins could be a worthy successor.

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  • Hard News: Victoria Crone and what…, in reply to Sacha,

    The ones he mentioned by name? Mission Bay and St Heliers. Of course many of the houses there are 3 storey already – but they have one wealthy family living in them rather than multiple riff-raff who could afford to if there were terraced/apartment options. Some might even be brown!

    What if there was a resource consent application for a mosque? Pass the popcorn.

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  • Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Ian Dalziel,

    I’ll be interested to hear what the new Minister of Police has to say about this, or for that matter what the new Minister of Corrections thinks of John Key joking about prison rape… it’s not like the world is watching or anything…

    What do the 'harden up ya PC wankers' crowd hold sacred? We need something that'll hoist those backwater hicks on their own petard.

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  • Hard News: Victoria Crone and what…, in reply to Russell Brown,

    Speaking of the blubbery one ... it looks like it's not a happy ship over at Whaleoil Industries.

    The schadenfreude, it is unavoidable.

    Whaleoil Industries, it seems, is facing both a general strike and a shareholder revolt at once.

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  • Speaker: The Spirit Level, in reply to Che Tibby,

    so yes, empathy. but even those who have experienced poverty can express a total lack of empathy, because we live in a society that happily accords blame without consideration of cause.

    We're currently in an age of just-world dogma - an arm of the Prosperity Gospel - where we're drilled with the belief that anyone can start a business and become millionaires one day. In that respect, prostitution and running P labs count.

    As for myself, even though I'm in paid work, I've basically found the ladder of opportunity missing all of its rungs. Unless of course, you're born into affluence and have nothing resembling a disability or mental illness.

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