Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: The sphere of influence, in reply to Chris Waugh,
Are we ever going to find out the name of this mysterious Chinese official?
I'd say the Chinese govt knew a very long time ago.
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Hard News: The sphere of influence, in reply to BenWilson,
blue pills, red pills; they're all about to be illegal again..
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Access: Cause, care, cure and celebration, in reply to Moz,
But if we also take away people who can focus single-mindedly on things that fascinate them, people who get wildly exuberant (without drugs) and make mad, passionate art about how they feel,people who stare into the abyss and come back newly enthusiastic about what they want to do, what are we losing as a species or society?
Thank you.
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Hard News: The sphere of influence, in reply to ,
but only for the pictures
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It also has nothing to do with the rule Williamson breached - nice piece of water-muddying by the govt spinners.
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More lines. PM says social media is to blame for Collins' conduct. Bullies, I tells you. Sob.
Asked whether Ms Collins' often aggressive presence had led her into stoushes on Twitter that had contributed to her stress levels, Mr Key it had been "one of the big factors".
"She's engaged with people who have been engaging with her and just spending too much time focused on that and actually not enough time on the other issues."
"My view of that social media is there's a lot of trolls and bottom feeders on that. In the end they get in people's head. It's an anonymous sort of situation it's a form of cyber bullying, I don't engage in that."
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Judith is already trying out some lines for this arvo.
Asked this morning if she regretted the visit, Collins said: "Do you know I really do. I think, unfortunately, it has caused a lot of stress for a lot of people, particularly for the prime minister and my colleagues."
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Gordon Campbell reminds what Collins said in the House about her trip to Oravida HQ.
It also means, as [Rob] Salmond adds, that Collins was misleading both the Prime Minister and Parliament when she told Parliament that:
“I can only tell the Prime Minister what I know. I was being driven around and I was assured by the ambassador that we could pop into Oravida on the way to the airport, or else I could have gone to the airport and I could have sat in the lounge for an extra long time."
Given the evidence Salmond posted yesterday, it’s hard to see any other term for her conduct than lying. And why would you do that if there was nothing wrong?
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Danyl's latest post speculates about Collins' political persona.
Only . . . we haven’t seen much of Crusher in the last two and a half years. We’ve seen a faltering MP who used to be Crusher attempting to live up to her own legend and damaging herself even further in the process. I don’t know what happened, but in her first term Collins was advised by a very clever, very cunning press secretary – one easily capable of devising the ‘Crusher’ nickname and the persona that grew up around it – who left Parliament after the last election and went to work in the banking industry.
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Hard News: The sphere of influence, in reply to Bart Janssen,
But government is not a business, there is responsibility and restrictions on behaviour that go along with the power.
But the same applies in business too - these clowns are sadly just a reflection of our national incompetence at governance across all sectors.
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