Posts by giovanni tiso
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I posed the question to highlight the equally absurd suggestion that Key is not fit to lead because he worked in 'High Finance' five years ago. I did not sneer at 'educational institutions like universities' having been to one myself (and not business or economics either!) but I do raise an eyebrow at those that come out of Uni and launch straight into a political carreer - be it on the Left or the Right.
I'd take issue with that too. Universities are part of the real world, and how many students do you know who've never had to work while they were studying? Besides, postgraduate work is a complex and demanding job. And finally entering politics doesn't mean becoming an MP straight away - there's a great deal of organising and activism involved, which again occurs in the real world and seems to me to be pretty formative.
The thing is that you can be a narcissistic idealogue with tunnel vision regardless of how long you spent in academia of how many jobs you've held.
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And despite Agenda's baseless accusation, James has no affiliation with the Labour Party, he's a Green Party Member.
What we learnt in this election cycle is that you cannot record a politician in a public forum, and that (hat tip: Jane Clifton) only accredited journalists should be allowed to report on politics, lest the poor voter should be confused via exposure to the difference between what a politician says and what a a politician actually thinks.
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Seriously? Really? Are you serious that teaching and working in the union movement isn't 'real work' and doesn't prepare a person for working pollitics?
Of course they aren't, because 'real work' is an activity that enriches the nation via the production of material goods and the creation of jobs. Like, you know, currency trading.
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<quote>Just as well, my cat used to go crazy whenever Meryl Streep was on the telly, trying to claw her face off.<quote>
Even felines are infuriated by her fake accents, it seems.
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the Federal Reserve is privately owned
Seriously? Who owns it then?
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Hey, I didn't know TV week was available for all to read on the Listener website! I'm new to this Internet thing, but it seems more and more worthwhile all the time.
And congrats on the new blog, although TV News sounds like a blog about the News on TV. Maybe just to my untrained foreign ears. It has been duly bookmarked, anyhow.
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Best of luck, David. Hoping the crowd will be beautiful and the weather numerous. Or possibly vice versa.
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A FAQ on the events of the last few days via a guest post on Freakonomics.
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Well, the Fed is about to start raising its own debt ...
Guys, I think the time has come to buy chooks.
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I was going to upload that "How the Subprime Crisis Really Works' Powerpoint file that's been viralling around, but someone's done the helpful thing and stuck it up on Google Docs so it can be viewed in a browser.
It's the best explanation I've seen of this whole mess, and I've read quite a few in the MSM. Thanks Russ. Oh, and for the coffee too. It had been already a couple of weeks since I received that book from David S., and then before that it was the free beer and before then the subscription to Rip It Up (which fast-forwarded my musical taste by a good couple of centuries)... I think I'll give up my day job and rely entirely to bartering and PA freebies from now on.