Posts by Ian Dalziel
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How many Russian-only speaking New Zealand citizens are there I wonder?
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So here’s some questions about the future to consider, I’d be fascinated to have your opinion on them;
Why do I get the feeling we are helping you do your homework?
Perhaps you could put up your thoughts in the same space, as well……and surely any exposition on future deals between party members and parties would risk being labelled, and dismissed, as ‘conspiracy theories’?
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Mob rule?
Trump blamed supporters of Democratic candidate Sanders for the incidents in Chicago, where scuffles broke out between protesters and backers of the real estate magnate. He called the US senator from Vermont "our communist friend".
On Sunday, he went a step further in an early morning post on Twitter: "Bernie Sanders is lying when he says his disruptors aren't told to go to my events. Be careful Bernie, or my supporters will go to yours!"http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/77838033/donald-trump-threatens-bernie-sanders-rallies-after-protests
McCarthyism is alive and well in Amerika!Trumps past ties to the other 'Mob' are examined here:
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/mar/02/ted-cruz/yes-donald-trump-has-been-linked-mob/ -
'Fantasy and schoolyard taunts' - Barack Obama's brutal assessment of the rise of Donald Trump
The Republican Party set the conditions long ago for Trump's success, Obama said. The billionaire just capitalized on the GOP's own tactics, the president argued:
"What is happening in this primary is just a distillation of what's been happening inside their party for more than a decade. I mean, the reason that many of their voters are responding is because this is what's been fed through the messages they've been sending for a long time - that you just make flat assertions that don't comport with the facts. That you just deny the evidence of science. That compromise is a betrayal. That the other side isn't simply wrong, or we just disagree, we want to take a different approach, but the other side is destroying the country, or treasonous. I mean, that's - look it up. That's what they've been saying."
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Despite his strong critique of the GOP, though, Obama added a caveat:
"There are thoughtful conservatives - good people in the Republican Party, good people who are Republican voters who care about poverty and they care about climate, and don't resort to insults, and are troubled by what's happening inside their own party. I know them. I've talked to them. But they've got to acknowledge why this happened - because some of them have been writing that, 'Well, the reason our party is going crazy is because of Obama.' Which is a pretty novel idea. The notion is Obama drove us crazy."
"Now, the truth is, what they really mean is their reaction to me was crazy and now it has gotten out of hand. But that's different. I didn't cause the reaction. The reaction is something that they have to take responsibility for and then figure out how do we make an adjustment."http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11604842
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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11604842
Despite his strong critique of the GOP, though, Obama added a caveat:
"There are thoughtful conservatives - good people in the Republican Party, good people who are Republican voters who care about poverty and they care about climate, and don't resort to insults, and are troubled by what's happening inside their own party. I know them. I've talked to them. But they've got to acknowledge why this happened - because some of them have been writing that, 'Well, the reason our party is going crazy is because of Obama.' Which is a pretty novel idea. The notion is Obama drove us crazy."
"Now, the truth is, what they really mean is their reaction to me was crazy and now it has gotten out of hand. But that's different. I didn't cause the reaction. The reaction is something that they have to take responsibility for and then figure out how do we make an adjustment." -
the Stuff ups continue...
Headline news :French teenage girls on terror charges for alledged concert hall attack plot
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Hard News: Friday Music: The Beatles'…, in reply to Rob Hosking,
the beat goes on…
I think the first ‘rock music as drone’ was the Kinks’ ‘See My Friends’ – inspired by a visit to India in ’65, apparently, and released as a single the same year.
…and apparently the Yardbirds recorded the song below Heart full of Soul 6 days after The Kinks See My Friends – but it wasn’t released until much later – then both bands went on tour together.
…according to: sourcewhich also mentions in the ‘close enough for Jazz’ department India by John Coltrane Quartet with Eric Dolphy from 1961:
maybe more indian than droney
and boingboing has a great drone overview:
http://boingboing.net/2012/10/19/music-appreciation-drone.html
which ends with the ultimate droneIn musical terms, the pitch of the sound generated by the black hole translates into the note of B flat. But, a human would have no chance of hearing this cosmic performance because the note is 57 octaves lower than middle-C … At a frequency over a million billion times deeper than the limits of human hearing, this is the deepest note ever detected from an object in the Universe.
…. It is thought that this sound wave has “remained roughly constant for about 2.5 billion years." -
Speaker: Are we seeing the end of MSM,…, in reply to Alfie,
It’s like nobody at the Herald cares any more.
It’s like they read PAS instead of working (or someone noticed) – they’ve fixed it now….
<edit> Though I do note this new lead story intro:
Two people are dead and one left fighting for his life after three separate water-related incidences over the weekend.
'incidents' surely?
my understanding agrees with this:usage: Incidence and incidents sound the same, but incidence is more often used in technical contexts, referring to the frequency with which something occurs: increased ultraviolet light is likely to cause increased incidence of skin cancer.
Incidents is simply the plural of incident, an event: the police are supposed to investigate any incidents of domestic violence.
The form incidences should be avoided. -
Speaker: Are we seeing the end of MSM,…, in reply to linger,
the entropy tango…
But of course, that works both ways: lack of paying subscribers –> subediting cut.
…increasing mistakes > fewer subscribers happy to pay for shoddy product > even fewer subs and cheaper reporters > subscribers and casual consumers abandon hope and product > advertisers bail > death of product!
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Capture: Headland Sculpture on the Gulf 2015, in reply to Soon Lee,
“Reduce Reuse Recycle”
Chchch folk who want to make their own need go no further than Creative Junk in Disraeli street - they have the 'gears'...
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