Posts by stephen walker
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Alfie,
i'm really struggling with the idea that the content of that Andrea Vance article is not satire.
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four days in Prague in the summer of 1990 was an amazing and unforgettable experience. the interregnum, except the new top (Havel) was in place while the old bureacracy and rules continued. it was still full of East German tourists, with very few westerners. and no McD, thank god.
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of the four major parties, only NZ First was up on their 2011 result, with National, Labour and the Greens all falling. Of the five minor parties, the two parties that increased their share of the vote (Internet MANA and Conservative) ended up with no seats while the three parties with seats all went backwards (ACT, Maori and UF).
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Paul Campbell,
Paul, i was told a few years ago that if my children (citizens by descent) lived in NZ for a certain length of time, they could apply for full citizenship. has this changed?
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Southerly: Sign this Petition, in reply to Lilith __,
i completely agree.
the fact that the major media outlets are not focusing on investigating the substance of the allegations in the book speaks volumes about how those media organization see their own role in a democratic society. accountability of both the politicians and the media seems to be about nil.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Rob Stowell,
i haven't lived in NZ for a long time, and i hardly ever watch videos with Key in them, but looking at that youtube clip, i just cannot figure something out. his smirk is arrogant and sickening, his demeanour is patronising. why is this guy so popular with "middle nz"? i cannot fathom it at all. not even slightly. everything about him seems evasive and un-leader-like. the act he puts on for the cameras seems so thin and transparent. the "nice bloke" thing, it's just an act, but people don't see that? i despised Muldoon back in the day too, but at least he had some leadership qualities so it was possible to see why a big chunk of the population liked him. but Key? cannot figure it at all. is this some sort of reflection of how people in NZ have lost their world-famous "bullshit detector" instinct? some pop-psych or even professional psychological analysis of how this works would be much appreciated. anyone? thanks.
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Lovely story. I wonder if the shot of the fully rigged Loxley was taken in Mansion House Bay on Kawau? We used to go there often in the early to mid-70s. I haven't been there for more than 30 years, but that scene just looked very familiar...
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Speaker: If political parties were beer ..., in reply to Rich of Observationz,
i hate to be pendant-ic, but Kirin Holdings is not owned by something called "Mitsubishi".
Kirin is a member of the Mitsubishi keiretu but its shareholders are spread all over, including 28% outside Japan.reference:
http://www.kirinholdings.co.jp/english/ir/stock/stock.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubiship.s. (off-topic)
please consider boycotting Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and Toshiba, since they are part of the Japanese nuclear mafia. thank you. -
Hard News: It's not funny because it's…, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Steve, after seeing that excerpt, there's no way i'd open the pdf.in the space of a couple of decades, nz society has been reduced to the level of half-cut pub banter that someone is paid to produce...
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