Posts by Joe Wylie
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Hard News: London's Burning, in reply to Tom Semmens,
The reaction of Cameron, aided and abetted by the deliberate obscuring of the truth by an almost hysterically right wing yellow press, says to me that the we may be heading into a dark valley every bit as frightening as that of the 1930s.
Each to their own chicken entrails : )
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Yesterday Mayor Bob declared himself to be proud of the draft plan for the rebuild of central Christchurch that Council has spent the past three months developing. "The most powerful thing about this piece of work is that it draws on that 106,000 ideas [from Share an Idea]."
Today the Press reveals that the Council's decision to withhold the plan in order to best suit its own communications efforts probably breaches the Local Government Act.
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Hard News: London's Burning, in reply to Sacha,
the poverty and wealth gap must be addressed now
or it will fix us
You're not wrong. While it'd be crass to indulge in armchair pontification about underlying causes, there's no dodging the bleeding obvious.
Thanks dcnbwz, great post.
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Hard News: London's Burning, in reply to George Darroch,
there aren’t many Aboriginal equivs of Taika Waititi, Tipene O’Regan or Paul Reeves.
There are a few. Off the top of my head, Warwick Thornton (Cannes Camera d'Or), Noel Pearson (national stage political figure), Gurrumul Yunupingu (voice of honey).
Plus Gurrumul's uncle, former Yothu Yindi frontman and 1992 Australian of the year Mandawuy Yunupingu. Then there's Mandawuy's older brother, land rights activist and musician Galarrwuy Yunupingu, whose being named as 1978 Australian of the year was somewhat tainted by his having to share the honour with Alan Bond (FFS).
Others who spring to mind are magistrate and former head of the NSW Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs Pat O'Shane, Kimberley land rights activist and 2009 Australian of the year Mick Dodson, and his brother Patrick, a former Commissioner into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and recipient of the 2008 Sydney Peace Prize.
Then there's the sadly missed activists Shirley Smith (Mum Shirl), and Bobbi (Dr.Roberta) Sykes. Also one of my favourite artists ever, suddenly lost a bit short of his 49th birthday, the delightful, multitalented and wonderfully funny Lin Onus.
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Hard News: London's Burning, in reply to Hilary Stace,
Penny Red suggests people help with #riotcleanup. Maybe that is how the community will win.
Hope.
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Hard News: London's Burning, in reply to Russell Brown,
it's Ken Livingstone who looks like the mayor at the moment.
I remember from about ten years ago Beatrix Campbell claiming that Tony Blair's minders had confirmed that he'd voted for Livingstone's tory mayoral rival.
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Hard News: London's Burning, in reply to Emma Hart,
Jean, my friend Heather is currently joking, about getting a bunch of friends together and heading to Knightsbridge to see if the looters make it as far as Harrod's.
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Hard News: London's Burning, in reply to Scott Gamble,
Do you have a citation for this? It's a horrifying stat if true.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/dec/03/deaths-police-custody-officers-convicted
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Hard News: An open thread while I'm down…, in reply to giovanni tiso,
"The police objective was to maintain law and order and ensure that no one died as a result of public beliefs."
So.Noble.
According to the blue squad member who lived over the back fence back then, "Those people should never have come here, but we've got a job to do."
I remember him shortly after the tour saying that a vote would be held on whether to accept a mounted trophy made from an unfortunately beheaded springbok. I'm not sure exactly who wished to present it, but it was clearly offered as a gesture of appreciation for what the police had done for the bladdy boks. To the best of my recollection the police membership turned it down, but Meurant was more than happy to grab it with both hands in a personal capacity.
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. . . the great Gorical before which agwers prostrate themselves in adoration . . .
Great impression of a 13-yr-old in a bad Rush Limbaugh halloween costume, James. When you parrot your talking points, it's not surprising that you'd assume everyone else has outsourced their thinking. Rather less stressful on the concentration span than reading what's actually been posted here.
It is always worth remembering the less remembered of the concerns Eisenhower stated in his valedictory speech
While selectively ignoring the rest of the speech which, if he'd delivered it today, would have been damned by Glen Beck as evidence of his being a secret commie muslamic.