Posts by Whoops
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Awesome. Good man.
_________________________________one minor comment "...the Boxing Day tsunami, looking for the best shots. And I can honestly tell you, sensationalist and gratuitous we might sometimes be, but I saw horrors on those tapes I would never want to inflict on the general public."
I landed in Sri Lanka at 3am in the morning on boxing day. I saw those images - the tv there was broadcasting the images non stop. No commentary or stupid anchor crap. No CNN style ticker. Just the plain raw footage. Unedited.
The most powerful thing I have ever seen on TV. (Later, in person was another thing all together, as was hearing 1st hand stories).
Got back home (UK at the time), and because of the 'non-infliction' approach (as I'm sure it was here) it was immediately apparent that no-one had a clue of the impact.
SHOW THE IMAGES. Make people appreciate the severity and suffering. It's not gratuitous or sensationalist if it's done with compassion and care.
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re: Affordable housing in the UK
IIRC, there was some prioritising of assistance to 'essential service workers' - firemen, police, nurses, teachers etc.
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(RN = RB, my bad)
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RN - are you able to expand on this;
"...highlighting of Iti's family in a speech, might turn out to be problematic for Key. I am willing to lay odds that Iti's public reputation will be rather poorer than it is now by year's end."
or this;
"Tame Iti will present himself as a hero while he still can" from your previous post?
Something substantial, or just conjecture?
Cheers
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46 seconds in there's *something* that the jet has just bombed... Looks like a big grey Emu to me.
And then there's the Clover field trailer....