I would, but marmite is just too sickly sweet - so I stick with vegemite for my umami fix. It is the only thing I'm aware I support them with, but as Kraft is "the second largest food company in the world", I'm sure that there are others not written on the...
Today seems to have been the day chosen to dump many negative PR stories in the hope that the public will be distracted: This, Grady Cameron's resignation (head of lines companies during the crumbling power poles fiasco that is still dragging on), cyanide ...
Since you so obviously did not read the TDB link, the relevant passage is: The Daily Blog understands that there is a damning book coming out that will focus on John Key and this is the reason why he is standing down. More information as it comes to hand. ...
A "real estate agent, specialising in commercial and industrial sales", has legged it back to his natural home on the right. People are surprised by this?
I agree that; "information", needs to be informative. But when you are paying your budgeted Public Relations money to PR consultants every month, that just doesn't seem to happen. it was ''quite frankly, farcical'' that the company blamed problems it faced...
Unite should have included this info on their Youtube page: Tax the rich: An animated fairy tale, is narrated by Ed Asner, with animation by Mike Konopacki. Written and directed by Fred Glass for the California Federation of Teachers. An 8 minute video ...
The video clearly references the richest 1% who hoard wealth in tax havens and promulgate reduced tax rates because TINA as being the problem. If these people are also doctors, rather than the idle rich, then yes they are; "part of the problem". However, I...
Gosman Not if they did so openly and transparently with input from the electorates concerned. It would seem to be a sensible management of resources to stand only in those electorates where they had a reasonable chance of success. The important thing that ...
It is conceivable that Labour might get more electorate seats than party votes next year (though not if they lose the Māori electorates). They only got five list MPs last election; so if they got 5% less party vote, then they might have an overhang. I'm ...
Turei has been talking about going back to standing for the Te Tai Tonga electorate for a while now (it is where she votes after all), so this is not too much of a surprise. Even standing mainly for party vote; she is still going to take more electorate ...
Gosman I'd have to agree with Framu from the last time you asked the same question upthread: It is difficult to have an opinion when we don't know the details of any M/MP agreement, or even if it will occur. I don't expect facts to stop you having already ...
Only the good die young.
I've said before that I don't see the BBC as much different to RT or Al Jazeera in terms of propaganda. They are all superior to anything on our television stations anyway. The thing is that Western media is much easier to access because it is written in ...
I imagine the imminent auditing and investigation of the organization, despite assurances to the contrary, has something to do with the donor dry-up too. At least Clinton structured her (alleged/ probable) corruption so that it was legally plausible as a ...
Actually, I didn't mind the wikileaks emails; though I didn't manage to get through them all. I do wish there had been a leak from the Trump camp though (even Stein & Johnson's campaigns would have been interesting enough). I never really felt she had any ...
Carolyn_nth This (from August 28th) does partly explain why there is suddenly such a rush to iron out the problems between the two parties, when previously talks had gone nowhere. Plus it's only a year until the next election and tactically speaking if the...
CV Russia Today and Ivandjiiski are the source of your rebuttal to the claim that Russian propaganda had a role in the election of Trump? I'm sure that they are completely unbiased (I've only read your RT excerpt, but it seems weak that their main source ...
Did you even read the linked article, CV? It was more about the; search for, and; interview with, someone who had been running a fake news organization (and whose words should thus be taken with a large amount of salt). Trump is only really mentioned as ...
I never find BM ads anything to a discussion, just takes up space in which someone might say something interesting. I guess that's not precisely the same as trolling, more spamming.
Do you not consider yourself a troll, BM?
This is interesting - though more propaganda distribution, than trolling tactics. However, you do have to consider the motivations of the interviewee (who runs "Disinfomedia", at least until his identity was revealed): This is a right-wing issue. Sarah ...
That amount they need just keeps going up each time I look at the page (I should really be taking screen shots to show how the page has changed over the course of the day). They are currently at two and a quarter million (ie almost at the initial requested...
I'm figuring that the Democrats think they've painted themselves into a corner with the; "that's horrifying", debate position. Also, maybe they just had no Plan B for losing. Which seems short-sighted, but then Clinton didn't turn up to face the glass ...
Clump LPrent's OP link has a pic of Hone Harawira and Tuko Morgan together, which is a start. My concern is what happens with Flavell and Sykes both contesting Waiariki? My guess is that either he is standing down as leader of the MP for Fox to take over, ...
Whoops, that comment should have ended; "a parliamentary overhang in the process" (I was trying to get rid of an "in" from that sentence and typoed myself from clumsy to unintelligible).
This is US Politics related, so scroll past now if that doesn't interest you. Why is it Stein not Clinton who is asking for recounts? Stein launched an online fundraising page seeking donations toward a $2m fund she said was needed to request reviews of ...
With the likelihood of a MANA/ Māori Party merger, you have to recall this from back in August: In a speech at the tenth anniversary of his coronation, Maori King Tuheitia has called for the Mana Movement and the Maori Party to work together. He said, "If ...
Ah, I read up to about comment 14 yesterday morning, and didn't see it in any comments since then. It's probably in an earlier comment response thread that I haven't combed through. Can you recall which one?
NRT has a good point here that I haven't seen addressed in this thread: Borrows isn't a minor, there's no significant privacy interest, the events have been widely reported on. Instead, it simply looks like the judge is trying to spare someone powerful, a ...
The DCC has been milking its lines company cash cow for decades to pay for the stadium and other such cash-holes. It didn't start under the current mayor, but with the incentives to look the other way hasn't stopped either. As for the likelihood of ...
Quite apart from the risk of being electrocuted whenever you walk down the street in Dunedin, the Delta maintenance scandal has highlighted some failings of management culture. PR is seen as the solution to public perception problems, rather than actually ...
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