Posts by stephen clover
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Hard News: 2014: The Meth Election, in reply to Jake Starrow,
Unfair I accept, Irresponsible even? Maybe.
The insidious corruption of the media by the reality TV mindset, and the drive for page-views and click-thrus. So: unfair, irresponsible and unprofessional.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Mo' Nina, in reply to Russell Brown,
In a move which is weirding a number of people out, Sweetman seems to have originally written that PG "took his own life" but then changed it to the more innocuous "has died"---but unfortunately not before Facebook had captured the original sentence in it's 'preview'. Now it's being shared around. FFS.
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Speaker: 1600 beneficiaries moving into…, in reply to Michael Fletcher,
And, apparently, "work" includes 1 hour per week "jobs".
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Lucy Telfar Barnard,
Haha I was just letting that one sail by quietly in the night.
Meanwhile: Dirty politics and the minister’s office: How it works
In 2011, Anne Tolley moved to introduce legislation to take away the right of principals to speak out on education matters, but suddenly withdrew her action. Obviously, another plan had been hatched.
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Fascinating. Looks like Frank Macskasy has joined all the dots, in some parts using a stopwatch, in the Cunliffe-Donghua Liu bizzo:
**Was the Donghua Liu Affair another example of Dirty Politics? **
So how did Slater and Farrar manage to refer to a story in their blogposts that had yet to be written and uploaded onto the NZ Herald website?Dirty, dirty shit.
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Hard News: But seriously, drug policy, in reply to Russell Brown,
Fwiw, the evidence on marijuana smoking and lung cancer is more conflicted than it is for tobacco smoking.
And let's remember that there are numerous ways to consume cannabis -- medicinal or otherwise -- other than smoking it, and which consequently carry far less health risks from that perspective.
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Hard News: But seriously, drug policy, in reply to bob daktari,
Legalise... research... create a bunch of patented products in the medical field... market and export them to the world
Northland (& NZ) could be boom town... new jobs, money,
Not just cannabis, but hemp. No-brainer.
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Speaker: Telling Our Own Tales, in reply to jeremy botham,
Surprising then Jeremy...
Looks like Jeremy Botham forgot who he was talking to there, for a moment. Or, you know, he's not who he purports to be.
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Hard News: Privacy and the Public Interest, in reply to ChrisW,
Key’s Mr Lollipop Man T-shirt, mangles our cultures like he mangles words – mr sensitive…
Wow! That T-shirt is indeed a remarkable reflection of his judgement of style and message – multiple points of offensiveness to parade at Waitangi!
Don't know if this helps and can't find web resource to back this up but I'm pretty sure that is a Wayne Youle (Māori artist) tee.
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Hard News: Show some decency, in reply to Chris Waugh,
Hence my reaction: It doesn’t make any sense.
Or more precisely, it employs the sort of clumsy, generalist, quasi-offensive colonial Euro-centric perspective of an "Asian" "other" which you may well be conditioned to come to expect from a young, globe-trotting banker.