Posts by Just thinking
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Giovanni - what happened over Garth George?
I also saw on the link the assertion that growing glaciers are a sign to disprove climate change.
Not so.
Current thought is that warming has increased melt so the glacier extends further down hill. -
In order for the Arts Foundation to award this prize required the suspense of reality, and the destruction of their own credibility.
We all know it was wrong & so too the Arts Foundation, prior to the award. They awarded Witi anyway.
When Hans Petrovic, the film critic for The Press cut & pasted from the Guardian. That was the end of his job there.
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Dr Ron Smith Waikato Uni, draws conclusions from Fort Hood on RNZ that any Muslim has the potential for evil. (I'm pretty sure he lost the plot rather than anything else).
Lincoln Uni has a relatively large number of Saudis & other Muslims. Many working with fertiliser, the WMD material used by Timothy McVeigh in his domestic terrorist bomb.
On the NZ continuum of clandestine operation designed to subvert the laws of the day. There is one clear group with a histroy of such action.
NZ Farmers speading the calicivirus to kill off Rabbits in the 1990s.
From SIS website:
Researcher and Educator Awareness
Researchers and tertiary institutions can assist the New Zealand Government’s counter-proliferation and counter-terrorism efforts by reporting entities’ attempts to obtain knowledge, training or research access that could be diverted to WMD programmes. Suspicious advances from nationals of countries suspected of WMD proliferation could include:enquiries about enrolling as students for, or seeking employment on, WMD-relevant research projects or study courses
[fertiliser]
applications for work or training in industry areas with potential WMD applications [about fertiliser]
requests to attend conferences and seminars on sensitive topics
[fertiliser]
requests from unknown individuals, institutions and companies for help and advice in a specific area of technology and/or technical process
[fertiliser]
requests relating to matters on which scientists, experts, research institutes and laboratory staff etc. would not normally seek advice or information and for which unconvincing reasons or evasive explanations are given
[ah shit - dumb questions are now illegal]
suspicions that the requesting party does not possess the necessary expertise or familiarity to complete a particular project or contract
[dumb arses are now illegal]
security arrangements which seem unusual, either too excessive or too lax, which demonstrate a lack of familiarity with normal practice
[situation normal]
http://www.nzsis.govt.nz/publications/NZSIS-WMD-pamphlet.pdf -
I sure wish I knew who Blogs Canterbury Heritage.
99% brilliant. -
I'm not one for Karma but it is interesting that of the 12 'Worthies' imortanlised in bronze in Christchurch.
Margaret Mahy has a recent drunk driving conviction.
Don Bevan was burnt to death in a home fire.
Miles Warren building caught fire, major damage was from the sprinklers (he was on the board to put this in place & paid for it too)
Robertson Stewarts son was convicted of a sex crime.Richard Hadlee, Tipene O'Regan, & Diana Isaac I wish you all a safe and happy life, but memorials are for the dead.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/christchurch/2271419/Local-worthies-in-the-bag
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I'm with Islander, on many of the nobels on the Arts Foundation Patron list. I run into a few of them from time to time but always diluted by larger numbers of interesting people.
I'm hesitant to be too harsh on Witi, his persona is so charming.
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Not quite civil rights, but the bar is high to get a conviction, rightly so.
I can't help thinking his position as a cop and hers as a prostitute played a part in the other two charges failing.http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10609818
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I've posted this elsewhere on pas but it is better here.
I respected Warren Tucker for his openess in dealings with the spying on 11yr old girls etc.
But this is a bit WTF?
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10609858
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I respected Warren Tucker for his openess in dealings with the spying on 11yr old girls etc.
But this is a bit WTF?
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10609858
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