Posts by Russell Brown
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The Hotere wall in progress.
And Askew with Olivia, who seemed to be there attending to business a lot of the time.
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And, before the game at Eden Park today.
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Scenes from Avondale Markets today. The books are part of an amazing deceased-estate collection of sci-fi and occult books (I picked up a couple of vintage militant secularist pamphlets as part of it). Clearly, the family didn’t value what Uncle Ernie was into.
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Scenes from Pasifika on Saturday.
The Tongan brass band (they sing too!) beginning the morning.
A survey being taken.
The Love Your Condom stall. I love the contrast betwen the enormlous drag queens and the tiny woman with them.
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Scenes from the Greek fair and market day, Saturday, at the local Coptic church, just by Western Springs.
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The show is here on demand.
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Annnnnnd ... the backlash:
A group of ex-US drug enforcement chiefs say Washington must crack down on marijuana use in two states that recently voted to legalise the drug.
Eight former Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) leaders urged the Obama administration to sue the states
Sanho Tree is quoted:
Sanho Tree, a drug policy analyst who supports legalisation, said the DEA chiefs' warnings were "scare tactics".
Their letter is an attempt to goad the Obama administration into a show-down with the states in the Supreme Court, said Mr Tree, director of the drug policy project at the Institute for Policy Studies.
"Most of these drug policy statements are about turf, which is really about budgets," said Mr Tree. He said drug enforcement agencies were attempting to "maintain a monopoly on doctrine".
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Oh, great.
Might I suggest you chaps take this out to the carpark now?
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Hard News: Photoshocks, in reply to Richard Aston,
Yeah what the hell is happening when the (alleged) murderer gets all the media space including glossy , sexy even, pics .
Not quite all ... the New York tabloids followed the Sun's lead pretty closely too.
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Hard News: Photoshocks, in reply to Joe Wylie,
Bag News on the Pistorius cover.
It's interesting to speculate how much of the killer-cyborg vibe is context. The pic, by Peiter Hugo, originally appeared in the New York Times last year to, it seems, no controversy at all.
