Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: About Occupy Wall Street, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
willing to gorge
student loans mostly, it seems.
hardly an impulsive splurge -
RNZ media release.
Radio New Zealand received many complaints from listeners regarding Mr. Bradbury’s comments on The Panel during Afternoons with Jim Mora last Thursday.
The decision to withdraw Mr. Bradbury’s invitation to take part in future editions of The Panel was made by the programme’s Executive Producer immediately after the programme. That decision was supported by the senior manager responsible for the programme and subsequently by the Chief Executive and Editor-in-Chief.Mr. Bradbury’s invitation to participate on The Panel was withdrawn because his personal comments about the Prime Minister were deemed to be in breach of Radio New Zealand’s editorial requirements for fairness and balance. One of his comments was regarded as being potentially defamatory.
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Mr Bradbury’s comments on The Panel on Afternoons last Thursday were inconsistent with information he had provided before going on air and Mr Bradbury later apologised to the programme’s Executive Producer.
It was made clear to him that while his invitation to appear as an occasional guest on The Panel was being withdrawn, it was not a ‘lifelong ban’.
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Hard News: Dropping the Bomber, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
being “unavailable for comment” when there was no possible advantage for her getting pummeled for five minutes on Morning Report.
so Key's perfect 0% attendance record says what?
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CBD building owner Ben Kepes tells of what seems like demolition rorting.
Subsequent to the September earthquake, but prior to the February event, we had made the difficult decision to demolish our building. We actually obtained a quote from a demolition company for effecting the works for the sum of $54000 and these works had been started the week before the February quake. The demolition company spent a week or so on site, before being forced to move off by the February 22 quake.
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After February 22nd, Civil Defence decided that our building was a signifciant risk (a fact that could readily be disputed) and ordered an emergency demolition. Once the emergency demolition had happened we understood that there was the possibility that we may be charged for this work. And we even expected that, given the changing situation, the price might rise a little. What we were wholly unprepared for was receiving the invoice shown below;
[scanned invoice]
Yes, we were being charged 400% more than the price quoted by the original demolition company. 400%! Highway robbery anyone?
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Hard News: About Occupy Wall Street, in reply to George Darroch,
But I do blame governments for failing to regulate them.
Worse, for explicitly removing the regulations put in place to prevent systemic oversight failures after the previous Depression. Along with the ideological malaise Taibbi and others write of, the corrupt influence of corporate lobbyists in US politics completes the picture.
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Hard News: Dropping the Bomber, in reply to DCBCauchi,
What I think matters
Is conveyed well enough at your own blog - and I quote your most recent post in full:
The common-sense nihilist political programme is that everyone in the world should become their own independent sovereign republic. And, while we're at it, we should all fuck off into space and let this place go back to being a garden. Somewhere to visit, not to live.
It's as simple as that. Let's all just fucking live forever. Why the hell not?
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Herald headline offers light relief: "Ex-president brings credibility to Act lineup"
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Hard News: Dropping the Bomber, in reply to James W,
because they know if they don't, the same media will rake them over the coals
fuelled by an effective opposition to help make the arguments, yes
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Hard News: Dropping the Bomber, in reply to HORansome,
and yes, I have a bit of a chapter about that, too
pimpin the book spin-off already :)
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Hard News: About Occupy Wall Street, in reply to Russell Brown,
I really like Gio's Occupy Wellington post.
Fascinating.