Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: What the kids do, in reply to Clint Fern,
welcome. crowdsourcing, innit
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Hard News: What the kids do, in reply to Clint Fern,
he would sell (knowingly)
Are you missing a :"not" in there?
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Hard News: A Century Since, in reply to Lilith __,
not a chaise longue
psychiatrist's couch :)
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Brownlee talking to Duncan Garner on The Nation yesterday (7 min clip).
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at least he got the year right
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Hard News: A Century Since, in reply to recordari,
wasamaster
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the way he placed words across
lines had a big impact on medidn't use capitals for a couple o
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Hard News: A Century Since, in reply to recordari,
This, from 'Time', would be interesting without commas.
OK
I Time am all these yet these exist
Among my mountainous fabrics like a mist
So do they the measurable world resist.I Time call down condense confer
On the willing memory the shapes these were:
I more than your conscious carrierAm island am sea am father farm and friend
Though I am here all things my coming attend;
I am you have heard it the Beginning and the End. -
Blogger and mobile tech expert Luigi Cappel despairs at the ineffective response to a tide of real damage - to Christchurch's people.
I look back to the first news coverage where Christchurch Mayor Bob Parker and Christchurch Cathedral Dean Peter Beck were saying the bricks and mortar can be replaced, but its the people that matter. Well herein lies my problem. We aren’t even dealing effectively with the buildings. We are hardly touching the broken people! They can only be staunch for so long and if we don’t help them very soon, we are going to have a generation of traumatized people.
So I say to the Government, to EQNZ, to the city councillors, to my fellow Kiwis: This isn’t good enough. No more excuses. We have paid our taxes for years, in good faith expecting that the money would provide for resources and expertise when they were needed. We were told the big one would come and we would be ready. If you can’t deal with it, bring in people and resources who can. We aren’t the only country to have disasters, they happen all over the world, many much worse than Christchurch. Have the grace to accept you don’t know how to deal with the situation and find people who can.
If you can’t do that, its election year and you will have to fall on your swords and we will find others who can. The current situation may not be man made, but our response to it is a disgrace.
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Govt now saying how many homes are done for, but not saying where.
Mr Brownlee confirmed to RadioLIVE this morning that around 12,000 Christchurch homes will never be lived in again.
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Mr Brownlee, who has been criticised in the past week for what some see as the slow rate of recovery in Christchurch, denied that the government is set to make a significant announcement on Wednesday.
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Some photos of where Japanese cleanup efforts are up to.