Posts by Russell Brown
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John Key, as Prime Minister, must go to the fineral. People proposing otherwise aren't being real. It would be seen by the rest of the world as bizarre insult.
By the same token, I do believe Key's 1981 amnesia is fair game for comment and mockery. I have never believed that he genuinely couldn't remember his own views and his inability to simply say to Matt Lawrey what he thought then reflects on his character.
I have been a little nonplussed by the scramble to own Mandela's memory. Kids who weren't alive in 1981 delivering lessons, grown-ups who should know better intoning about how those kids couldn't just assume they'd have been anti-Tour if they'd been around at the time. Sheesh.
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Hard News: Mandela, in reply to Alec Morgan,
Really if a government figure has to go it should ideally be Hone Harawira leader of Auckland Patu squad in ’81 and nowTe Mana. He is the only actual government rep with any credibility beyond office holding for such a representative role.
Kevin Hague of the Greens has a strong claim too. He was prominent in the 1981 protest movement (he was arrested lots of times) and kept at it through to the cancelled All Black tour of South Africa in 1985.
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Hard News: The Public Address Word of…, in reply to Kebabette,
I should have said in the post, but the R-word will not be considered for the vote. We won't be giving those nasty young men any fame at all.
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Hard News: The Public Address Word of…, in reply to B Jones,
Metadata. It seems like the obvious one to me.
If I was allowed to enter, that would have been my pick.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Lorde's Mixtape, in reply to bob daktari,
Might be my eyes but they haven’t stated what time the Lorde event is… which is kinda important consideration for them that work or live somewhere other than the inner city – I assume early evening?
Yeah, surely.
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If you haven't caught it already, here's the deal on Lorde and Laneway.
She goes to the Grammys (duh!), gets on a plane home and plays a show on the Laneway site two days after the festival. Can't help but think how amazing it will be if she plays that show as a Grammy winner.
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New David Dallas video, with Ruby Frost, directed by Joel Kefali.
There’s stuff going on.
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Hard News: Mandela, in reply to Kracklite,
Oh great, Hooton sees an opportunity to tell us all about how he likes to think of himself. Get over yourself and show some respect Hoots, this isn’t about you.
Yeah, it is. It's a place where people share their experience. That's the heartbeat of it.
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Hard News: Mandela, in reply to Joe Wylie,
What that video shows is Mandela’s release from Victor Verster Prison in the Western Cape, where he spent the last 14 months of his imprisonment. Prior to that he’d been incarcerated for over 6 years in Pollsmoor Prison in Cape Town, after being transferred from Robben Island.
Thank you.
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Hard News: Mandela, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Hey, let’s hope the same vitriol is being poured on Robert Mugabe’s who only this May was attacking Mandela for “being too saintly” towards “non-black communities”. Just don’t have words that would be fit for the occasion or this thread.
Mugabe deserves contempt for so many things. But not, taken in sum, the comments in that story.