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Hard News: Friday Music: Radio With…, in reply to Alfie,
The show seemed to exist in spite of TVNZ as opposed to having any blessing from the powers that be. When a group of us decided to make the first videos for The Enemy we couldn't persuade TVNZ management to loan us the gear, so we (ahem) just borrowed it one Sunday afternoon... a couple of film cameras plus the sound and lighting gear. And we made some damn fine videos which we gave to RWP free of charge.
No permission, no budget, just a love of music and a healthy dose of anarchy. Those were the daze.
And in spite of the budgetary constraints, these music videos could even approach the production standards of British ones.
But, especially after the show got a face – radio DJ Barry "Dr Rock" Jenkin – those clips weren't just advertisements for records, they were communiques from the outside world
In some ways RWP was probably the closest thing to a YouTube of its day. And especially back when NZ was still a metropolis trying to break out of a farm shed.
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1. Wellington nightclubs in the 1980s
There was a glimpse of such nightlife in the early 1980s intro to Radio With Pictures (the one with the Nina Hagen theme). Nga Taonga Sound & Vision recently showed archives of the show as part of NZ Music Month, and Karyn Hay was back down in Welly last week to host a panel about her old stomping ground.
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Is there any legal recourse, such as a class-action lawsuit, against the former Ministers and meth test companies involved?
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Hard News: We are, at last, navigating…, in reply to izogi,
Paula Bennet's just repeated to John Campbell (about 5.10pm'ish) that she was following official advice.
Also (Russell), John's just name-dropped you in his response.
It's obvious from that Checkpoint interview that Bennett had the denial dial cranked up to 11.
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Hard News: Protecting privilege in Epsom, in reply to Kumara Republic,
On the other hand, controversy over high-rise apartments in Auckland isn't new. These 2 Ponsonby apartments from the mid-late 1980s are still standing today.
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What David Seymour and his blindly loyal constituents want is exclusionary zoning that's tantamount to redlining, as it's known in the States. It amuses me no end that those who keep slapping us on the head about the virtues of free markets, suddenly become big-government statists at the very mention of scrapping residential zoning rules. What would be more fun still, is if someone applied for a resource consent for a temple, mosque or synagogue in his electorate.
And I'm still waiting for Seymour to take the wrecking ball to these properties in his electorate...
* 427 Remuera Rd
* 456 Remuera Rd
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Up Front: The Real Victims, Here, in reply to Pete,
Who the fuck do Incels think they are that they have a right to trash someone so qualified to do her job?
What a pack of spankcarrots - fortunately they are incapable of breedingGoing by the points observed by the venerable Umberto Eco in his essay on proto-Fascism, incels fit all 14 criteria:
1. Cult of tradition (the belief that women should be property)
2. Rejection of modernism ("giving women the vote has ruined the West!")
3. Action for action's sake (spree shootings etc)
4. Disagreement is treason (obvious)
5. Fear of the other ("you will not replace us!","all Muslims are terrorists!")
6. Appeal to a frustrated middle class (sense of entitlement among incels)
7. Ultranationalism/obsession with a plot ("Judaeo-Marxist feminism is to blame for the Muslim flood!")
8. The enemy is both too strong & too weak ("feminism threatens to make us irrelevant!")
9. Perpetual warfare (obvious)
10. Social Darwinism ("beta cucks")
11. The Ur-Fascist hero is impatient to die. In his impatience, he more frequently sends other people to death. (Marc Lepine, Elliot Rodger, Nickolas Cruz, Alek Minassian)
12. Machismo (obvious)
13. Selective populism (getting their views justified by PrisonPlanet, InfoWars etc)
14. Newspeak (the term "incel" is itself Newspeak-ish) -
Fun fact: Kurt Vonnegut wrote about these topics in the novel "Player Piano" in 1952. Yes, the same year Helsinki held the Summer Olympics.
It's long overdue for a movie adaptation, although player pianos are a bit obsolete these days. They've been replaced with autoplay streaming media, so when someone does get round to making the movie, here's what the promo poster might look like.
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Ann Pettifor, one of the few who correctly predicted the Great Recession, further reinforces what I wrote to begin with.
RNZ Sunday Morning - Economist Ann Pettifor: 'The public are not stupid'
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Hard News: Paying for the storms to come, in reply to Tom Semmens,
It's not just physical tidalwaves that need guarding against, but political ones too. Especially the ones caused by Cyclone Donald, Cyclone Nigel, Cyclone Marine, Cyclone Hugo, and Cyclone Vladimir.
