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I saw The Yes Men Are Revolting at DocEdge last week. We need something like them here. We need to see something outrageous enough to be lawsuit-grade.
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Envirologue: Choose Wisely, Grasshopper:…, in reply to Bart Janssen,
PEOPLE ARE FUCKING DYING BEN!
And sadly there are people out there who aren't merely content with letting people die. If anything they'd be all too happy to pull the trigger. Not quite Anders Breivik's level, but not far from it either.
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Hard News: Campbell interviewed, in reply to Hilary Stace,
The boycott of TV3 is obviously hurting. This was just posted on Facebook – I think originally by David Farrier (from the new late show Newsworthy)
What chance of the boycott keeping Paddy Gower honest?
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Envirologue: Choose Wisely, Grasshopper:…, in reply to Brent Jackson,
It shouldn’t require a martyr to make the government consider good policy.
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Speaker: SIBs: The reality of…, in reply to linger,
Obvious answer: A bloody depressed former Labour voter.
Good guess, but not what I had in mind. What I had in mind was more a 1-word term for a wolf in sheep’s clothing, or a so-called ‘compassionate conservative’, who pretends to be centre-ground but is still a Ruthenasian at heart. I would have used ‘Ruthenasia with a human face’, but that term is an inherently contradictory mouthful. ‘Chickenhawk’ has the sort of vibe I’m after but it’s too narrowly focused.
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Envirologue: Choose Wisely, Grasshopper:…, in reply to Joe Wylie,
Without his long-vanished yellow jacket I don’t believe that anyone much outside of his tiny fanbase knows or cares who Hide is. When he appeared dripping wet on Wellington bus billboards plugging his swimming endeavours for a get fit campaign, a quick vox pop revealed that some thought that the Rodney of “If Rodney can do it” was a randomly chosen “special person”. And that was when he was still an MP.
How many people, besides hardline fanboys, still take the self-appointed Perk Buster seriously after he himself got perk-busted?
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Speaker: SIBs: The reality of…, in reply to Sacha,
Gallery journo finally writes about what govt has been quietly engineering in social services for years, and why Paula Bennett may be politically crucial.
If a watermelon is green on the outside and red on the inside, then what’s red on the outside and blue on the inside? Whatever the answer is, it's not New Labour Blairism.
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If you strip back the racial elements of white privilege, and imagine everyone is wearing masks and gloves so that no one can tell skin colours apart, you'd have to tell them apart by the power structures and cliques they form.
In this context, white privilege is a subset of bad old Social Darwinist dogma, with the worst of both worlds of old money and new money: the 'born to rule' aspect of old money, and the 'taking away the ladder after climbing it' aspect of new money. All the above can be combined into one simple term: neo-feudalism.
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Hard News: Campbell interviewed, in reply to Alfie,
Our airwaves are becoming more Fifa-like by the day.
Chomsky's Propaganda Model is officially established in NZ. I'm tempted to think the media sector in NZ is no longer a free speech issue, but rather more like a matter for the Commerce Commission, because no one else has the dosh to put up a counter-weight media outlet.
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Whatever happens, I hope it doesn’t take a David Malcolm Gray or James Eagan Holmes to force a rethink if the SIB model goes pear-shaped.
AP: Gunman says he tried calling crisis line before shootings
James Holmes lingered outside a suburban Denver movie theater for a moment or two, thinking someone at a mental health hotline might talk him out of killing people he didn’t know, or that the FBI might swoop in and stop him, he told a psychiatrist last year.
But his phone call to the crisis line was disconnected after 9 seconds, before anyone answered, he says in the videotaped conversation with the psychiatrist, which was shown to jurors in his murder trial Tuesday. The FBI never showed up, despite Holmes’ suspicions that agents were watching him.