Speaker: Key: Concession Not Recession
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brilliant….
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Popper Art poster...
Hang on, while bearing all the hallmarks of verisimilitude, this feels like that dangerous satire stuff... -
Mr Key was also photographed on the Hollywood Walk of Fame next to the star for Mr Ed, the Talking Horse.
Hope he got photographed with the front of the star. Otherwise he'd be standing next to a horses arse.
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Sacha, in reply to
indistinguishable
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
He da mane man...
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JLM,
"I think we can get that engraved for her"
Just priceless.
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"Prime minister John Key has returned from a flying visit to Los Angeles...."
Strewth! He not only walks on water but can fly over thousands of miles? Wow.
(Note: The word for "on" is almost identical with "by" and was lost in the translation just as "virgin" just meant back then "a good woman.") -
Geoff Lealand, in reply to
Well , they do have similar diction problems.
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Well, this is a change for Public Address, isn’t it. Last time Hollywood studios extorted tax concessions from the pathetic New Zealand taxpayer (a cool $100m), plus parliamentary legislation removing legal redress from workers in the film industry, Public Address stood squarely behind the studios, in the process condemning a local union that was seeking a collective agreement, and then making extraordinary claims – untrue, unfounded and unchecked – that all the entertainment unions bar Equity were in support.
Dean Parker
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Geoff Lealand, in reply to
I don't recall any particular consensus or party line from that time--just the usual mish-mash and diversity of views on the matter.
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Looking forward to the next media conference with John Boy.
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Mr Key said ceding national sovereignty to the American film industry was a small price to pay for a new cycleway which can now be expanded to take donkey carts to become a crucial part of the country’s transport network in the next two decades
Brilliant.
Why hadn’t we thought about this before.
Perhaps the Wellintonian Elite were prescient in building that Welly Wood sign . -
Russell Brown, in reply to
Well, this is a change for Public Address, isn’t it.
You appear to have mistaken this website for The Borg, Dean.
A range of views on these issues have been debated here, generally quite civilly.
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Graham: I see you've got another similar piece in the Dom Post today.
Well done, but shouldn't the subs have labelled it as satire? Also, they've left your name off it?
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This is an outrageouse distortion of events that some might mistake as in someways accurate. Well done sir.
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Sacha, in reply to
Public Address stood squarely behind the studios
you could be overstating that a tad, sir
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"Although Mr Key was not allowed to make eye contact with the stars, his new press secretary Solomon Weintraub (R-Cali) said the meetings ..."
Hang on ... a REPUBLICAN congressman is acting for Hollywood interests? I thought satire was meant to maintain some connection with reality in order to be effective!
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" Well, this is a change for Public Address, isn’t it."
You appear to have mistaken this website for The Borg, Dean.
A range of views on these issues have been debated here, generally quite civilly.
I'd also suggest it's possible to be not in favour of a union (based in another country) derailing a huge (and hugely-employing) project at the 11 3/4th hour with a contradictory and muddled contract demand AND be not in favour of our PM handing huge employment (and copyright) concessions and subsidies to a handful of entertainment behemoths based in the USA.
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Public Address, can be relied on in breaking news & entertainment,
cool when there mixed , even when its for the edificant, or the writer ! -
Thank you for posting this. While the country burns, we court Hollywood as the magic bullet? Sorry, they want bottom line about business. Of course I want gains in this area - I am in the biz (though not likely to profit from it). But what about the rest of NZ, the unemployed, those in manufacturing? I would love it to work, but this feels like a razzle-dazzle distraction from our real woes.
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BenWilson, in reply to
I don't recall any particular consensus or party line from that time--just the usual mish-mash and diversity of views on the matter.
I'd go so far as to say it was a heated exchange with strongly opposed opinions, and some highly divisive and lasting fallout.
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Sacha, in reply to
Thanks for joining the discussion here, Rachel.
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Welcome, Rachel. Good to have new people along.
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Alec Morgan, in reply to
I’d say so too Ben. “It’s all in the grooves” or at least the thousands of PA “Hobbit” posts, that might make a fascinating copied volume (with the NZCTU’s post “Hobbit Enabling Act” revised timeline included) .
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Alec Morgan, in reply to
Link to Helen Kelly’s long response. The upshot is the government and Warners knew the dispute was settled and ‘boycott’ lifted prior to the Warner execs meeting in NZ. And I am happy to revisit this because it is a situation we will all be living with for a long time.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1104/S00081/helen-kelly-the-hobbit-dispute.htm
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