Posts by Sacha
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Trollshevism
Genius +1
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We will proceed as usual, in our parliamentary democracy. If that is unacceptable to you, I'm sorry. But that's how laws are passed.
But excessive use of urgency *is* how this government operates.
Some time ago, Idiot/Savant had a thorough comparison of not only the numbers but the types of laws passed under urgency by this lot and the ones before. Hopefully someone can link to it while I go back to the mines..
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James Dann offers a pictorial response to the settlement.
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NY Times has an admirably concise report.
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(and defended)
and now I feel a bit bad for being so vehement about it.
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Sometimes synchronous posting is just beautiful.
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marching to destory the union movement
Brendon, you really haven't listened well, have you? It's politically illiterate fucktards like your good self who "de-story" a proud movement of folk who were far smarter and big of heart than you'll ever be. Now fuck off back to the abbatoir you see as our glorious future.
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You bastard - I jumped forward a few pages just to read that :)
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Tim Watkins blogs that no one comes out of this well.
So who can you trust? A look at the cast of characters and you'd be forgiven for thinking there ain't a goodie amongst them.
We've got Warner Bros putting out a statement insisting that they didn't know about the actors' "don't work" order being lifted until late last week, and yet emails - which I've sighted - showing Warner executives negotiating the wording of a press statement announcing the end to the boycott from as early as Monday.
Those emails also show that Sir Peter's "camp" was aware the settlement was imminent, yet the director backed protest marches against the "don't work" order and issued public statements full of hyperbole, adding fuel to a fiery dispute that seemed finally to be settling down. He laid into "Australian unions" when he knows that the MEAA and New Zealand Actors' Equity joined up four years ago and are representing the will of local actors.
And most disturbing of all, he has used his unparalleled political capital - the Hillary-like reverence in which he is held in this country - against some of his own people.
We've got unions resorting to name calling and claiming the studios just want better tax breaks without producing any evidence to support their claim. At the same time, the actors they represent over-reach by opting for a worldwide boycott that paints the studio into a corner where it has to concede or leave.
To round things off, there's the government talking up the level of uncertainty for political purposes - so they can either blame the unions for the loss or claim hero status if the films remain.
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They specifically do NOT say "re-negotiate the pink book" but that is what the words they do say actually mean.
I recall Helen Kelly saying SPADA had agreed to consider the way the conditions were implemented, not just what they were. She said something like 'the content and form' of the conditions (too busy to go back and look it up).
That seems more like what the actors say they were seeking for the previous couple of years - more certainty, just like the big producers are asking for now.