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She hit the nail on the head there.
Yep I saw it and I though it was really tough but it expressed things so well.
Got The Intercept on my home pages, and am currently reading “Sudden Justice – America’s Secret Drone Wars” by Chris Woods.
Got a wry smile from this Youtube video – which became broader when I realised it was advertising The Intercept’s very interesting cache of articles – The Drone Papers. I’m appreciating the work that Glenn Greenwald and the rest do on this site.
https://youtu.be/3YDmiCnuY5M
went to victoria park at lunchtime today.
stood around for 1 hour waiting for the all blacks to get on the stage (busy signing things for the lucky few at the front)
finally the ABs got on the stage
then some schoolkids did a haka
and some more kids did another haka
and then some opera singers sang some crap
and then len brown attempted to pay tribute but nobody was interested
and then it was time for me to leave
apparently richie and shag said something but i missed it
why the fsck didn’t they just do a parade
much better than making ten thousand people stand around in vic park for 2 hours listening to obnoxiously loud generic hip hop.
i wanted a parade and ticker tape and no speeches or “entertainment” whatsoever.
2011 was way better.
am i turning into an old grump???
Some good speeches in parliament today. Marama Davidson’s maiden speech made me smile …
Is this what an indigenous parliament looks like? Maybe one day.
and a sane, intelligent one.
another neoliberal plant in the GP I see.
A good explanation of the interconnectedness of injustice, inequality and the environment, which is also a good example of GP kaupapa.
Much of her speech is about family, and she uses the words aroha/love many times. Making parliament real.
Fantastic speech.
And David Cunliffe gave dirty politics a bit of a burst …
more of this please.
Wow talk about saying it as is Thankyou David Cunliffe and thankyou micky savage for posting this. Can this clip become a main post please.
Stil think he would have made a great PM.
Absolutely ankerawshark ++++++++
Best orator in Parliament
Yes he is, bar none. DC should be in a very prominent position. The finance portfolio should be his, Robertson does not have the experience in this field.
Well said David!
Wow – just Wow!
It was a great rousing speech Mickey Savage, he should still be leader – how different things would be in Parliament. David Cunliffe encapsulated all that is wrong in NZ today in that one speech. Very few pollies can do that.
+100
water
such a preciousssssssssssss little thing
https://www.revealnews.org/article/what-california-can-learn-from-saudi-arabias-water-mystery/#saudiarabia
A decade ago, reports began emerging of a strange occurrence in the Saudi Arabian desert. Ancient desert springs were drying up.
The springs fed the lush oases depicted in the Bible and Quran, and as the water disappeared, these verdant gardens of life were returning to sand.
“I remember flowing springs when I was a boy in the Eastern Province. Now all of these have dried up,” the head of the country’s Ministry of Water told The New York Times in 2003.
The springs had bubbled up for thousands of years from a massive aquifer system that lay underneath Saudi Arabia. Hydrologists calculated it was one of the world’s largest underground systems, holding as much groundwater as Lake Erie.
So farmers were puzzled as their wells dried, forcing them to drill ever deeper. They soon were drilling a mile down to continue tapping the water reserves that had transformed barren desert into rich irrigated fields, making Saudi Arabia the world’s sixth-largest exporter of wheat.
That’s a really good article and spells out the problem of excessive farming simply but forcefully. And it’s exactly what NZ farmers are doing to NZ.
Hit or Miss? The Effect of Assassinations on Institutions and War
Time to break out the sniper rifles? 😈
Looks like Stuart Nash has figured out the advantages of debating with his head pulled in (or someone’s pointed it out for him).
He had another go at the Daily Blog today, conveniently ignoring all the folks calling him out, only engaging with Frank Macskasy who had challenged his polling figures claim. References to “our research shows I would have won anyway” abound: http://thedailyblog.co.nz/2015/10/31/tdb-guest-blog-project-stuart-nash-the-most-pressing-issue-in-nz-right-now/
The arrogance.
Now we get this shit in the MSM about how the Labour Conference will be conducted in secret and focused solely on vegetable patches in primary schools rather than anything that would scare voters (can you see this absurd line becoming the MSM’s appraisal of the conference?): http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/73634969/labour-takes-policy-debate-behind-closed-doors-at-annual-conference
Hopefully something more interesting will happen. Blood on the floor (not literally of course) would probably be positive coverage for Labour at this stage.
yeah, I just saw that convo with Frank. I wish someone would explain the boundary change thing in the context of that.
Is that Stuff link an anonymous editorial, or have they just forgotten to put someone’s name on the opinion?
I think vege gardens in schools is excellent policy, but then I’m a greenie so I’m curious who’s putting that forward in Labour.
I think it’s excellent policy, too. I just think that the media (once handed their lines by Textor/Farrar) would prefer to run the line that it was the most thing important achieved at conference. They are expert at taking little soundbites of sensible policy, and turning it into something that sounds absurd, so it’ll be the “Veggie Patch Conference” to follow in the steps of the “Man Ban”, and “Michael Cullen’s Block o’ Cheese Tax Cut”.
Anonymous editorial, afaics. There is a slightly less outraged article also covering the “secret” conference story. Would be helpful in the interests of balance and actually being informative to point out how other parties run their conferences vis-a-vis media exposure/participation in policy workshops.
Too much to ask from NZ’s media, though.
There’s been a successful school trial running in the shadows of parliament, my guess is that it came from there. http://www.commonunityproject.org.nz
Feeling sorry for Labour too, why can’t the media just do an impartial story on what might be discussed at the conference. Freakin Fairfax.
Oh My God – what a load of utter crap – http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/73702210/kate-hawkesby-flying-high-with-david-beckham-and-prince-charles
What were you expecting from the entertainment section ?
It’s where they get to be overtly vacuous rather than try and mask the lack of objectivity and depth in the so called actual news sections.