Posts by Stephen Judd
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to George Darroch,
The Minister of Police, explicitly soliciting violence, possibly rape.
George, I wrote to her, and she replied saying she was appalled that anyone would think that. I replied asking what she did mean. I have not heard back.
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Hard News: The digital switch-off, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Why the fuck can’t we operate in the middle and make sensible case by case assessments?
Ideology. Next!
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Hard News: The digital switch-off, in reply to Paul Campbell,
there would be more channels available on Freeview
Yeah, why did we buy that Freeview kit again?
(ok, it was a cheap USB stick, but still...)
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Hard News: Nothing important, just some tunes, in reply to George Darroch,
How democratic do you feel the Labour Party is?
Seriously, ask me in a week. I will have acquired a lot more first-hand wotsit after a conference on Saturday.
In principle, though, it's easy to capture democratic structures when participation is low. So the challenge is to encourage participation.
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
But do keep the rhetorical needle off the red line, shall we?
I just had a small stroke as the part of my brain that processes irony received too much blood and died.
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Hard News: Nothing important, just some tunes, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
wish we also had a more viable opposition (even though I am a LP member!)
Turn up to branch meetings. Donate modestly. Deliver pamphlets. Recruit new members. Agitate. None of us can do much on our own, but if we lose our cynicism we can do a lot together. There will never be better people in politics than we have now if we don't try to put them there (or keep them, as the case may be).
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Hard News: The First Draft, in reply to ScottY,
lets just hope Icke doesn't end up talking at Te Papa like the last prominent paranoid conspiracist to visit these shores did
I dunno. Te Papa's entire excuse was hey, we rent rooms to anyone who has the cash*. If they rented a room to an obvious loon like Icke, that would retrospectively dent the credibility of that 9/11 Truther guy. If they refused, it would kind of imply that Truther guy had some legitimate claim.
* it is tempting to speculate on what kind of planned event would force them to refuse the money.
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If we're lucky, he'll have his tits out.
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Just watched the first segment. I love this programme.
Damian, since I’ve been so rude about television on PAS over the years, particularly when it’s come up in Cracker, be careful. If I like it this much, you may well be doing something horribly wrong.
Please keep doing it.
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to giovanni tiso,
Can't believe I missed that. Oh well.
Judging by the 7pm bulletin I just heard, someone at RadioNZ is on the ball though. Lots of Eastern suburbs stories.
One thing that occurred to me: suppose you have no power and no wheels. Once your radio batteries have died, how exactly do you hear where to go and who to call? After a week there must be a lot of people who are isolated from official news and unable to report problems.