Posts by reece palmer
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Hi folks, long time since I've been round these ways but a friend's son has been selected as a finalist in the George fm young producer comp. Alls you need do is follow the wee linky
Not only will you be helping an up and coming producer but he has kindly made his work a free download. The track is called whiuwhiua step and you vote by clicking 'like'.
Chur NZ you rock.
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Hey granny is getting lazy, there is a story about the green party office posted as 'new' updates at 12.03 and 1.45 under differing headlines, but with verbatim text content. Lift your game granny!
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You don't need a state to run schools. They can be collectively run by the community.
A well run school is run in connection with its community. I agree that you don't need the state to run schools but at present I think they are probably a better option.
A school run by an anarchist collective would provide better education than one run by the state.
Umm, no. Unless you want to teach kids to reject any kind of responsibility or structure or society. Regardless of who is in charge of the school they will always have an agenda to push and unless that agenda is what is best for the kids, well.
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Just heard on the news Les Patterson (wasn't he the Australian cultural attache in another life?) say that the police exercised restraint in not arresting Richards at the time. I can see where he was coming from I suppose, Richards now having 'remembered' that he 'may' have hit someone, but didn't recall at the time. I feel a Tui ad coming on. Just for the record I'm not trying to paint you as any sort of apologist for anyone Mr B, not at all. It just seems that there seemed to be a double standard in the way different groups were dealt with at the time. Although again the demeanour of the crowd must have been a contributing factor. Rent-a-crowd aren't doing their various causes any favours at all.
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The fact that the police agreed to investigate once they'd seen the TV3 pictures suggests that they didn't fully grasp what had happened at the time.
Now let me preface what I am about to say with the fact that I have always found you to be level headed and even handed in your commentary but,
If at least one of those police personel less than 5m away didn't see that then I'm the next All Black Coach, a New Zealander will land on the moon before the decade is out and Global warming is a hippy conspiracy.
I wonder if we would have seen the same discussions here on Public Address System if this had happened outside the National conference...
I think you will find that most posters here are fair minded and usually have a reasonable interpretation of events but hmmm...
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The way they looked to be on the news I doubt that crowd would have listened to Ghandi, but more importantly why did the police not react to his violent act as they did to the 17 year old that spat on one of their number. This guy will no doubt deny deny deny the undeniable until it goes away. The labour party should definitely expel him but I doubt they will. The police should prosecute but I doubt they will. Certainly can't cite lack of evidence or witnesses.
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Not to mention that the three arrested were later released without charge. As well, the north shore police commander stating that they were "protecting the right to freedom of speech" by arresting protestors.
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Yep saw it too, bald faced liar he was. Provided the trigger point for the ensuing violence.
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Hey Dorothy, We should get on to Ewan McIntosh and Tony Ryan etc to embed the movie in their sites, I reckon. Helen Baxter would be keen too surely, we need to mobilise.
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And to top it all off after spamming many threads I notice the spelling error, how embarrassment.