Posts by Sacha
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Speaker: TPP: This is a fight worth joining, in reply to Russell Brown,
You have to ask who is running this thing.
Powerful US industry lobbies who as Hadyn notes have had privileged access to the negotiations all along (unlike our own parliament).
Groser and chums are utterly deluded if they think our farmers will get better access to the US, but they're stupid enough to negotiate away our future IP-based industries on that prospect. Milk powder for everyone. Huzzah.
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Hard News: Who Guards the Guardian?, in reply to Phil Wallington,
Something like a media analysis TV show to propel the story
Gee, who could run such a thing?
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Capture: Spring Breaks, in reply to JacksonP,
I have a spot in mind for that last one.. :)
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Hard News: On Telly, Telly Off, in reply to Richard Grevers,
no medals
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Hard News: Who Guards the Guardian?, in reply to Barnaby Nicholls,
a bizarre misplacement of journalistic priorities, surely.
easier to report the game than the substance
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Hard News: Thursday Music: Doing the Business, in reply to Lyndon Hood,
pretty obvious
Highlights how smart the original lyrics are.
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Hard News: Thursday Music: Doing the Business, in reply to Tim Michie,
If you're entitled to vite but unsure which candidate, why not ask someone presently unable to vote? It would mean some living in New Zealand whose opinions aren't counted are somewhat accounted.
Great idea
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Hard News: The Crazy Gang Nation, in reply to anth,
Doesn't the Electoral Commission determine ward boundaries?
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I'm impressed by how forthright and impolite the coverage has become - seems like a tipping point for at least some US journos. Let's add Esquire to the mix:
We have elected an ungovernable collection of snake-handlers, Bible-bangers, ignorami, bagmen and outright frauds, a collection so ungovernable that it insists the nation be ungovernable, too. We have elected people to govern us who do not believe in government.
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We did this. We looked at our great legacy of self-government and we handed ourselves over to the reign of morons.
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The only real consequences will be felt by the millions of people affected by what this Congress has forced upon the nation, which was the whole point all along.
Among other things, the Library Of Congress is closed as a result of what the vandals have done. Padlock study and intellect. Wander aimlessly down the mall among the shuttered monuments to self-government. Find yourself a food truck that serves monkey brains. Eat your fking fill.
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Hard News: The Crazy Gang Nation, in reply to Ken Double,
conservatives claim government doesn't work, then they get elected
the ultimate bad faith move.