Posts by mark taslov
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Nanaia Mahuta to contest Labour leadership!
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Hard News: The Hager saga continues, in reply to Paul Campbell,
That’s obviously going to be an issue as long as he has audience with the MSM Paul, it’s hard to imagine how he could control the press any more than he already does.
If for example Chopper Tasker from Waipawa were to set up a similar agency it probably wouldn’t get a look in, and that’s nothing to do with Chopper’s previous DUI conviction (113mg to 100ml); basically the media don’t know Chopper and won’t give Chopper the time of day. That revelation says more about the MSM than either Cam or Chopper, MSM pumping it out like Slim Dusty.
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Hard News: The Hager saga continues, in reply to Tom Semmens,
Because for a long time there he clearly had lofty contacts […] with nauseating self-pity.
But giving the benefit of the doubt, labouring under the assumption that Rosemary’s caught up with some of the news over the past two months, and bearing in mind the self-evident national interest in any allegations of wrongdoing by those other names mentioned in your first paragraph, why does Slater (still) warrant so much attention?
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Hard News: The Hager saga continues, in reply to linger,
just reminded me of the cadence of this little allegory:
thanks for the track, I need to listen to more of his work.
It took me a bit of scratching around in the old memory, and though not in this version of the track, it was a staple verse when we used to sing it at school;
Fatty passed to skinny, and skinny passed it back,
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Hard News: The Hager saga continues, in reply to Sacha,
doesn’t make you grow hair on your palms.
I think it's fair to say that it doesn’t make much of anything, I saw the best minds of my ge
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Hard News: The Hager saga continues, in reply to Sacha,
Yeah I was pleased to uncover Dr Watt’s report on scoop the other day. It's a great site and resource.
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Hard News: The Hager saga continues, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
Because I just don’t understand how Slater warrents so much attention.
The same goes for so much of this, allegations get made, they’re met with denials, though basic googling uncovers blatant lies and obfuscation from almost all the major players, denials suffice. Consuming the data, pontification has become the new national pastime. Everyone’s channels are honed to maximise disciples. 365,000 pontiffs, 365,000+ disciples, The one liner is displaced by the two liner. To be relevant one needs to familiarise oneself with the personalities. The personalities functional adolescence amply obscures the underlying machinations. Phil followed Richards but unfollowed Sabatha, Richards followed Jesamine but unfollowed Tarquin, all five are anti-National but National continues to work hard for all New Zealanders. David’s quit the race, David’s joined the race, the theft of some emails is investigated, the allegations in the emails aren’t, The IPCA maintains ’This is perjury” and “the authority is not in a position..”. Hager’s donations reach $50,000, Grant’s reach ?. Lusk researches methods to minimize the impact shotgun use will have on his golf swing, Key genially shares all purpose tips:
it’s personal choice, but what I do is have three fingers down the shaft like that, and one finger over, and one finger down there. You don’t want to break your wrist – it’s like a pendulum.”
Meanwhile Vegal friends Charlotte, and Pinko fires off a zinger, Geoffrey unfollows Palmer and no one gets mad as hell. Billhelm unfollows Marzipan, everyone gets along and only the unlucky ones get sick and die; their accounts lapse, forgotten but for the obligatory 2 line vicariously retweeted obituary (with video), and in time someone inherits their username and everyone still gets along, Rizzo follows Septis, Merkin joins a group, Seamus starts a second account and everyone just keeps on getting along, getting along as well as you’d expect in a classroom full of teenagers in the absence of a teacher. Oceania is at war with Cameron Slater, Oceania was never at war with Cameron Slater. But Milkfist follows Jughead and Archie Andrews is shot in Pop Tate’s restaurant while protecting his friend Kevin Keller, a newly-elected senator and a campaigner for gay rights and gun control. Feasibility studies suggest it’s all doable, but nothing gets done, in the best faith possible.
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Legal Beagle: Terrorism is already illegal, in reply to Sam F,
It popped up within my edit window, I thought a post like that deserved some fanfare, in the interests of continuity. but no, I could only dream of producing copy like Natman’s, so I appreciate the deliberation. =)
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Hard News: The Hager saga continues, in reply to Jack Harrison,
As an idealist I’m amazed that with all his contradictory “no comments” The Herald is still printing Hide’s money. These articles he writes are an affront to honest journalism. I thought in that article that simon g linked to over the page, Roughan was by inference remarkably transparent, if not almost bordering on apologetic:
News companies around the world have by no means given up the task of finding new ways to sustain an independent, credible supply of public information but it is worth pondering what will happen if they cannot. The demand for news and commentary will not disappear. Thanks to the internet that demand is more voracious than ever.
In the absence of independent news services the demand could be met by self-selected feeds of raw information from governments, corporate public relations, political parties, local bodies and any other organisation that can afford to distribute information they want the public to know.
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Hard News: The Hager saga continues, in reply to Jack Harrison,
They may have been still plotting if not for the release of this book. They were out to get R.H.
It’s my interpretation that the interest in Rodney Hide extended as far removing him from his role as Act leader:
Simon Lusk, 4/24, 10:11am
better not tell don, he will have kittens if he were involved in this
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Simon Lusk, 4/24, 10:16am
yes good move
i forgot to mention
nashy was rooting this sheila rodney
has been texting a while ago though
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Simon Lusk, 5/5, 4:51am
don told derek cheng i was not paid by him and i was not paid by ACT as far as he knew and he wasnt goign to comment any fruther on who was involved with his coup
From then one would assume it would have been onto new business:
Simon Lusk, 4/26, 12:22am
from now on we are deeply principled and supporting heather roy just in case she wants to pay us
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Cameron Slater, 4/26, 12:22amfrom teh bully rodney hide
ok i am at lunch until 2pm
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Simon Lusk, 5/6, 5:31am
yes you can probably post a good piece tomorrow about how don won the week