Posts by Marcus Turner
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Hard News: Everybody's News, in reply to Rich Lock,
One wonders then why you posted. If indeed there are people who
would happily lump 300 million people into the same basket and use the deaths of thousands to make a point
we can only hope that they'll change their point of view before ever achieving a position of influence or power. I'd certainly like to help people to stop thinking in such dichotomous - and damaging - ways. Telling people how bad they are - particularly using violent language - isn't a productive way to begin, and it may not do much to enhance one's own self-image, either.
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Hard News: Everybody's News, in reply to Rich Lock,
If you want to round up all the Rumsfelds, Kissingers, Roves, Blairs, et al and stick a gun in my hand, then I’ll gladly face the moral dilemma of handing out a bit of extra judicial justice, but seriously? Stop fighting a proxy war and wind your fucking necks in, morons.
Rich: I doubt this line of argument will encourage anyone toward your way of thinking.
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Hard News: London's Burning, in reply to Russell Brown,
Plus ça change. It used to be long hair.
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Hard News: London's Burning, in reply to Russell Brown,
the anarchist groups, who have always been fairly organised
?????
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I'm hoping I can get away with some self-promotion: I've seen others doing it here. Dunedin people who aren't migrating for the Great Blend might be diverted by the Chaps' CD launch at the Crown Mill Function Centre. Saturday 8.00 pm. I don't think there'll be any folk dancing ...
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Has anyone posted this?
(Sorry if they have.) (Even sorrier if it was me.)
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Hard News: How much speech does it take?, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Thanks Sofie. The link to “White Paper” from that page was useful, too.
These seem to be essentially jargon words, that are used in news reports as though they had common currency.
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Can someone who knows about the workings of NZ politics and bureaucracy please tell me what a “white paper” and a “green paper” are? Are there any other colours?
These terms seem to be used on RNZ News as though everyone already understands their significance.
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Hard News: How much speech does it take?, in reply to Kracklite,
I think Triops (tadpole shrimps) might be related to trilobites, too.
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I apologise for the threadjack, but I keep forgetting to post this on a Friday. It's irrelevant, of course (to pretty much everything).