Man, I'd rather read that than Bomber's milquetoast whining.
The thing I like about the sermon on the mount is that it specifically rejects a lot of the old testament, "It is written that..., but I say unto you [pretty much the opposite]". I don't hold much with Jesus as a divine creature, but as a historical one he...
Having lived sometime in all of them, Christchurch (or Boganville as I like to think of it as) is the most conspicuously class-riddled and intolerant. Formal far-right organisations are flourishing here, like the weeds between the cracks in the East.
Or, maybe Parker was given the job of raising this issue by Caucus, directed by Little. Maybe it is great teamwork, using the respected Parker to raise this.
I haven't visited Auckland much, but I was there for a week recently. Two images have stuck in my mind: a yacht crew carrying their gear through the viaduct, emblazoned with brands and wearing sunglasses that cost more than I earn in a week, and the guys ...
Maybe, just maybe, the Dirty Politics effect is that we are realising that we want to be a nicer, kinder society, and things like this are hitting the headlines because they are becoming increasingly unacceptable. The nasty nats have had their day, and its...
It really does explain that when a Conservative says they are 'disgusted', they really are! My thoughts are that since Conservatives (the right) are so emotionally invested in politics, they assume that liberals are as well, if not more so. The fact that ...
http://research.vtc.vt.edu/news/2014/oct/29/liberal-or-conservative-brain-responses-disgusting/ (article in press: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2014.09.050) Your neurological reaction to a visual stimulus will predict your political leaning. That's the ...
I wonder if the flag discussion be reframed into, "We are better than a company, Mr Key, and we don't need a brand makeover".
Do we want to just create a slightly glossier echo-chamber? One of the problems of being on the left is that you generally take things a tad more seriously than the right. When empathy leaves the room, you can have all sorts of fun that those that take ...
Are there any sites that cover woeful use of statistics that might be interested in showcasing this?
Many a man has dated his ruin from some murder or other that perhaps he thought little of at the time. Thomas De Quincey
Farrar's deep links with the US far right need to be constantly exposed: they are one part of the Dirty Politics that seem to have been missed (so far) Has Farrar ever been funded to attend, or attended events that have been funded by far-right neo-con ...
"Mr Key said that was still in place and denied she was now on her "last last" chance." I snorted coffee all over my workstation. I would have paid good money to hear him say that.
There is a fascinating thing going on here. Repeated phases like "look at the left". It really reminds me of stuff that Derrin Brown does to influence people - check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1f_o7xgvl8 to see his tricks to make people comply.
But... can you name my dog? Huh? :) I've never really protected my ID because after 25 years working in IT I realise its all pretty public for anyone wanting to find out who I am. I've taken the line that if I write what I actually think then I'll stand by...
Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot to mention your little hypocrital tirade about IP, and then suggesting popping the work on Mega. Nice work there including dotcom. Maybe your Nat boss will throw in an extra fish into the whale pool for that.
Hi Nadis, Unfortunately your reply is technologically illiterate.
Why I am not putting "Dirty Politics" on the Pirate Bay. I acquired a copy of Dirty Politics today, through Amazon. I did did think of ripping the DRM off it, and popping a torrent up on pirate bay, but I'm not going to, for two reasons. 1) I'd have to to ...
I assume they are things that you can let out of a bag to distract everyone. You know: like a ... HOLD ON! SQUIRREL! < runs off into the bush >
Korea, apparently. Better broadband than we get here! But a nice distance to get responses filtered through 'advisors' without appearing slower: a good excuse for latency, one might say.
I cannot believe that the topic of this book will not have been known by senior government figures. Hager will be well and truly in the sights of the security services, and even with great countermeasures the general outline of what he was working on will ...
I certainly do. Now, i think I can see where you are going with this - remember: Harre didn't say "Fuck John Key". She said that she could understand the frustrations of those who did. The reason the national astroturfers are so haughty about the whole FJK...
I heard those, and I thought Harre and Norman handled it really well. in fact, I smacked the steering wheel and shouted "Pwned!" Interviews shouldn't have winners and losers: they should get to the heart of a story - and neither of these did. I don't know ...
I'm a little suprised at you Fisiani: normally you can at least paraphrase the talking points that are emailed to you from HQ. These sound exactly like the same things Amy Adams was reading from this morning. (Thank goodness for radio, you can keep the ...
Or... invite all the candidates for an actual debate at the venue, or another very close, directly after. As much as I have a sneaking regard for things 'kicking off' - od anarchist tendencies die hard - keeping it bland and stupid would probably have the ...
Oops, I didn't mean to imply you were mistaken, I was just soliloquising. I'm talking about the Internet part of Internet/Mana. I'm hoping Mana can exploit this opportunity to become a permanent part of the left, as I have more than a sneaking regard for ...
It's a mistake to think that people involved with technology are necessarily progressive. The liberal spectrum (which the internet party appeals to) ranges from libertarian gun nuts (Eric Raymond) to progressive lefties (Lawrence Lessig). The youth that ...
Completely tangentially, a few weeks back I was looking at material about NZ's first woman MP, Elizabeth McCombs (Lyttelton, 1933) and saw that hats played a large part of the media about her. Plus ca change, huh?
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Someone feel like doing an OIA request on directions given to the EC on voter enrolment now compared to the last few elections? Any lack of effort must be seen as direct disenfranchisement.
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