Posts by mark taslov
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But people in many countries have taken the film’s continued availability as evidence that the US government wants it to be available.
I've observed many such individuals, subjected to a poor education fraught with nationalist/ religious indoctrination.
They’re from countries where their governments – new or old – wouldn’t tolerate such publication, and have, in some cases, been blocking it – along with Gmail and Google. It’s quite central to the whole thing.
In this VPN era any such efforts are largely cosmetic. I don't dispute this wave of protest is directly attributable to Innocence of Muslims. But I'm hard pressed to conflate protest with killing.
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Nonsense or not Russell, I'll stand by it. While the film is the catalyst of this year's protests, it's peripheral to the deeper motivations for the killings . Likewise the issue of free speech itself is peripheral to a film which hasn't contravened free speech laws in its country of origin.
When Breivik killed 77 in 2011, I felt the issue of freedom of speech and the multicultural and immigration policies of Europe were likewise peripheral to key point:
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I'm keen to check out the Maori Media story, looks great.
Based solely on the brief intro to the youtube segment:
or is our freedom to watch a bad, hateful movie the whole point?
From this angle; Google's corporate responsibility and autonomy vs US Government interference(s).
a film that’s getting people killed
Has the look of that old boilerplate. Underpinned by centuries of violent Western foreign policy, incited movements exploit western propaganda as justification for further violence. Western media shifts the viewers' gaze, exploiting the agitated violence to discuss peripherals such as freedom of speech, that elephant chilling safely in the bat cave. The only film getting anyone killed this year is 'The Dark Knight Rises'.
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Hard News: "Because we can", in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
it’s more likely to be someone like a 45-year-old women who suffers from depression and stress
True. It's also worth factoring in unemployment hotspots. Without significant incentives, key employers have defected to greener pastures, gutting regions.
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Hard News: "Because we can", in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
“I’m dreaming, of a Macdonalds burger”
That reminds of when I was 12, collecting baggage carts around LA airport (paying a quarter each). Lingering around the check-in counter in a scraggy T and jeans when one kind soul, looking me up and down, took pity and gave me a dollar.
"Buy yourself some new clothes".
I bought some lollies for the flight.
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Cracker: Bloggers: Pr*cks, Ars*holes,…, in reply to Paul Brislen,
+ Cr*cker :o
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Hard News: Tired and emotional, for reals, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Looks like a whole new ballpark Rich. Not in actual money Jdrinan. Check it out:
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It's notable that this teacup typhoon coincides quite neatly with introduction of stuff nation. Outsourcing specialized assignments to amateurs, pro journalists under threat?
"Become a writer, a photographer or video journalist and you could have your work featured on Stuff Nation."
You can become a vital part of our team of journalists and help them find, analyse and tell the news by signing up to Fairfax Media's Open Newsroom Network. Tell us your area of expertise so our team of journalists can contact you when a story they're investigating is relevant to your speciality. From time to time, we'll open our assignment diaries and share with you via email what we're working on.
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Hard News: Yes, there is a Media3, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
'Midnight in Paris' utterly charmless
Totally.
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I have more than 9000 Twitter followers,
Twitter, the highest pantheon for egregious self promotion.
we welcome the opportunity to cooperate with the U.S. in the next conflicts.
Off the rocking horse that sounds about as honest a (mis)quote as you're going to get from a politician these days - welcomed as warmly as all the others, if history be permitted to get a breath in edgeways.
These wars are superb fodder for state funded TV shows and blogs where reasons for said cooperation can be retrospectively amended, where bold comparative statements intimating lost eras when the question of Afghanistan was any less urgent, can be spuriously and gainfully employed.
When all is said and done, this shit sells copy.