Posts by mark taslov
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Legal Beagle: Kim Dotcom: Questions and Answers, in reply to FletcherB,
Sad story that. The company was shut down by the US so... I'm interested as to a rough figure the New Zealand taxpayer would end up shouldering in case of settlement, (on top of legal, policing, spying, ministerial costs to date).
How much are *the people of New Zealand* likely to end up pissing away on this thing?
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Assuming the case against Dotcom eventually gets thrown out, would the government be liable for his legal expenses? (€2.6 million+)
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Legal Beagle: Kim Dotcom and the GCSB, in reply to Lucy Telfar Barnard,
*Mulder
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Great episode Russell, Julian Wilcox was a force of nature and I was pleasantly surprised (as always) with the more measured angle you took on the FOS segment. Now to mentally erase the scars wrought by close-ups of Jose reading porn aloud to himself.
"thanks new zealand on air if my love for you was people I'd be China"
Assumption:p without the forced abortions, one child policy etc, or.....
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Hard News: Media3: The Maori Media Man, in reply to Sacha,
Mark, can you perhaps use the PAS quote tags instead of making your whole extract into a link?
Now that would be a freedom of speech issue. ;)
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and sticking with paroxysm:
This paroxysm of protest – and violence – had begun in Cairo. But what, really, began there?
Much of the mainstream media has played it as a spontaneous reaction to a disgusting film clip which denigrated Muslims and happened to be made and promoted in the USA.
But New York Times editorialist Ross Douthat argued it had nothing to do with a “genuine popular backlash,” but everything to do with old-style power politics. For Jim Clifton, chairman of the pollster Gallup, it wasn’t about religion or politics, but rather the desperate expression of young Arab males, deeply humiliated because they couldn’t find jobs.
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Hard News: Media3: The Maori Media Man, in reply to Rob Stowell,
That was a barrel of laughs Rob, ties in snugly with the recent NZ release of 'Hysteria'.
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Hard News: Media3: The Maori Media Man, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
for what can most charitably be described as fraud.
Cultural Learnings of America meets Greyskull? Money should change hands, I’m kind of taken with the crawling:
“SUPPORT WEEKLY BLITZ – THE ONLY ANTI JIHADIST NEWSPAPER CONFRONTING RELIGIOUS EXTREMISM AND PROMOTING INTERFAITH HARMONY – BLITZ FEARS NONE BUT GOD – SUPPORT WEEKLY BLITZ”
random.
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Hard News: Media3: The Maori Media Man, in reply to Rob S,
Historian, R.M. Savory deserves any due credit there Rob (that is assuming he’s not you), I linked to ‘War against Islam’ as I didn’t want to go to too much of an effort seeing as Craig was probably taking the piss when stating in reference to western foreign policy and the locations of these protests that:
"It’s not going down in ‘The West’"
but yeah...
If you can find a geopolitical justification for that, you’re doing better than me.)
Thanks Russell, I hope the show's a blinder ;)
C-man
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Hard News: Media3: The Maori Media Man, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Fucking hell, Mark, just take a damn look at where that violence is taking place and who’s getting killed. Hint: It’s not going down in ‘The West’ and this isn’t about smug white liberals sticking it to The Man.
Language Craig ;)
"The existence of Islam has always made the West profoundly uneasy. Islam was the only major world religion to be revealed after the rise of Christianity, and consequently it was, from the moment of the revelation of Islam in the seventh century A.D., viewed by Christendom as a direct threat and challenge to itself.
On the theological and religious level, the reaction of the West was strong, sustained and, almost without exception, hostile. Hostility was based on fear, and fear had its roots in ignorance. Christendom feared Islam, and therefore misrepresented it. Christians were ignorant of Islam, at least in part, because Christendom, prompted by odium theologicum had no desire to understand or tolerate Islam