Posts by chris

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  • Hard News: Moving targets,

    I had assumed Chris had done that deliberately.

    Yes. Sorry Sam, I was going for the symbolic full stop. Ultimately just another exhibition of my own twatcockery.

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  • Hard News: Moving targets,

    .

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  • Hard News: The Wellington Cables,

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  • Hard News: The Wellington Cables,

    i get that USA does a lot of good things.

    The USA. It’s no Luxembourg.

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  • 180 Seconds with Craig Ranapia - 12 December,

    Nice post Craig. Well covered.

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  • Hard News: The Wellington Cables,

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  • Hard News: The Wellington Cables,

    maybe in Foggy Bottom Wellington isn’t exactly considered the most effective allocation of the A-list talent? :)

    You Warner Brothers stooge you.

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  • Hard News: The Wellington Cables,

    If U.S. officials wanted to hear the “"bleeding hearts"” view of “"peace and love"” with respect to North Korea, Downer joked, they only had to visit his colleagues in New Zealand.

    That puts a smile on my face. Frankly I'm quite impressed with some of the writing in these cables.

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  • Hard News: We are all twatcocks now…,

    It will be interesting to see if/when it starts to get used automatically, in spoken language (not just online) and by people with no connection to PA System.

    Yeah, I'm excited by the prospect of twatcock as a measuring stick to gauge the respective influence of individuals and the group/ site as a whole.

    I think at this stage most of us are using twatcock self-consciously, with a silent “see what I did there?” after it.

    I was pretty nonplussed by the word at inception, now I'm quite keen on dropping it at the right moment, to see how it flies.

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  • Hard News: The Wellington Cables,

    When the U.S. Administration decided in March of 2009 to seek a seat on the UN Human Rights Council, NewZealand, which was also on the ballot, withdrew its name so the United States could run uncontested

    When on January 12 Duty Minister Jim Anderton issued a blistering critique of the President's plan to send more troops to Iraq, Clark quickly disavowed the comments and removed Anderton from duty within the day.

    If there was any residual doubt. The content of these cables confirm that New Zealand is little more than a US lackey. Wellywood no longer seems inappropriate, slap it on top of the Beehive.

    The metamphetamine problem in the region can be traced to China,

    not Millie Elder...

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