Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: The Politics of Absence, in reply to DexterX,
Actually, the abortive mining in National Parks proposal seems to tap the same widespread visceral connection with the environment.
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Hard News: The Politics of Absence, in reply to DexterX,
I would link in the tax reforms that sank the recovery.
And I'd say you're stretching to explain the broader public mindset around this event. :)
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The Onion is on the money (no surprise).
... Americans are eagerly awaiting a list of demands from the group so they can then systematically disregard them and continue going about their business, polls showed this week. "The protesters need to unify around a shared agenda with precise policy goals so I can begin paying no attention to them whatsoever," said Tulsa, OK poll respondent Kaye Petrachonis ...
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Joseph Stiglitz and Lawrence Lessig speak at Occupy Wall Street. Lessig is very concise about root causes.
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Hard News: The Politics of Absence, in reply to DexterX,
The scorn being heaped on the govt is a trifling matter in the wider impact of the issue, and it would not have been so invited if they had not behaved so churlishly in the house in response to the “jumper” last week.
Wouldn't you say it's more about people making those links with the government's performance around Pike River and Christchurch?
Faith in the market is a poor substitute for decisive and inclusive leadership at times like these. This government has shown more than enough authoritarianism at other times - just not when it counts, it seems.
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Hard News: The Politics of Absence, in reply to Steve Barnes,
whether you can believe it or not
Discussed extensively in previous threads.
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Heh. Smart activism takes many forms.
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Hard News: Dropping the Bomber, in reply to hamishm,
local MP, led by nose
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Hard News: Where are the foreigners?!, in reply to Martin Lindberg,
said the actress to the bishop
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Hard News: Where are the foreigners?!, in reply to Bart Janssen,
insurers
becoming the usual suspects