Posts by Rosemary McDonald
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If I say very, very loudly that I will boycott any and every product whose advertisement is forced upon me via that awful auto play videovader thing that both stuffed and the other one insert obnoxiously into any article that can charitably called readable....do you think they'll stop it?
Extremely unsettling when they invade a Radio New Zealand video piece...wtf?
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Access: How many agencies does it take…, in reply to Brent Jackson,
fit for purpose.
Of course, it’s cheaper still to just let people die.
Angela Hart is, sadly, correct.
I suspect that there is, actually, deep in the bowels of the Ministry of Health operating policy, a redacted section that does say "no heroic measures" for 'consumers' who need "x" level of intervention to keep them alive.
This secret section is revealed only to those who attain a certain level of seniority in the bureaucracy, and it dictates their every fiscal decision...and the exalted ones are sworn to secrecy on pain of death.
The only explanation for some of the shitty decisions they make.
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Up Front: Dear Dudebros, in reply to Emma Hart,
One guy, one guy got all “not all men!”
There is so much sensitivity out there.
A pity its mostly ( really? ) self centred.
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And....man-charged-over-powercut-that-led-to-taupo-womans-death
Follow up to this...
Taupo-woman-Fai-Deane-dies-after-crash-cuts-Unison-Networks-power-to-ventilatorA 21-year-old Rotorua man will appear in Taupo District Court on Wednesday charged with being a criminal nuisance in relation to the outage that stopped Fai Deane's ventilator working.
Had this lady's ventilator had a battery back-up....
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And what kind of a loser “has sex” with a woman whom they know “wasn’t that into it”?
The kind of loser who can afford a wriggly-arsed, slimy, bottom-feeding scumsucker of a legal team to try and make his behaviour seem oh-so-normal
And oh, the kind of loser who was originally charged with one charge of sexual violation by rape, and one charge of indecent assault.
The alleged offending involves two victims and took place in Hamilton in March and May this year.
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The Daily Blog has an interesting article about international story sharing...
http://thedailyblog.co.nz/2016/08/08/a-cough-cough-very-unique-view-of-the-saudi-sheep-bribe/
The publication said the officials at Waituhi Kuratau Trust (WKT), specializing in dairy and meat production, had some 20 years breeding large numbers of Friesian sheep which were designed to help them breed quickly, resulting in producing more than 600 heads, but the experience proved these sheep cannot live in the atmosphere of New Zealand.
I'm trying to picture a 600 headed sheep....
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John Oliver does Journalism...
#investifarted
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So yeah, take me to Rio...
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Hard News: On the Clark candidacy, in reply to Lilith __,
She’s headed the UNDP since 2009.
And most (including her Maori Party detractors...before...) say she's made a damn fine fist of the job.
Methinks Dennis actually believes that the next Boss of the UN will be chosen on merit.
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From across the Tasman...Life forever on duty.