Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Hallelujah, at the 11th and three quarter hour (and a bit) a champion has arisen to take up the gauntlet of main stream media columnist for iwi…
The trouble this time is the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, or TPPA. People oppose it for the same reason people used to have mullets – fashion, not logic. Being of Ngāpuhi descent myself, it’s been a real struggle to understand why local Maori are protesting a trade agreement.
can you guess the author?
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Hard News: Friday Music: Festive and Unconflicted, in reply to andin,
Who did the music for this forgotten gem of a movie which uses Martin Luther Kings death as a leaping off point.
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Access: Zika and microcephaly: things to…, in reply to Martin,
Another fact readers might find interesting is that microcephalics were displayed as ‘pin-heads’ alongside other human curiosities during the freak show era.
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Access: Zika and microcephaly: things to…, in reply to Russell Brown,
...but also a massive recent rise in incidence, by the looks:
One might also wonder about the causes of that ...
- local temperature rise (El Nino)?
- clearing of forestry changing habitat for mosquitoes?
- did they have a 'mast' year too
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When do things come to a head...
Zika cases have been reported in the Pacific islands (Samoa, Cook Islands, Vanuatu) for 3 years with no one getting too alarmed it seems - is it only because the West might be attending the Olympics that has got the 'powers that be' on to doing something?Health authorities in French Polynesia recently established a link between congenital malformations and zika in newborn children during their 2013 and 2014 outbreak of zika. Health authorities throughout the Pacific Islands are currently checking for further evidence in their nations.
All zika cases reported in New Zealand in 2014 and 2015 came from the Pacific Islands. Nearly 40 cases came from the Cook Islands in 2014, and five cases came in last year from Samoa (four) and Vanuatu (one). -
Hard News: Friday Music: Festive and Unconflicted, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
Muphry's Law
means Samson of the Delilha fame!
ahem ... Delilah
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Monday on my mind…
I also see that Lizzie Marvelly’s column, like most other MSM coverage of Waitangi Day, does not note that for the first time since the passing of the ‘Mondayisation bill’ in 2013, that we get a holiday on Monday for Waitangi Day falling on a weekend.
Is it because it was a bill introduced by Labour? or what?
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Speaker: Blinded by the white, in reply to Russell Brown,
Note that Lizzie Marvelly said yesterday she has Te Arawa heritage and today writes in her Herald column about Waitangi Day in that context
I think this is the link you want:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=11585379but I will watch that Hendrix doco some time...
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Hard News: Fix up, young men, in reply to Danielle,
I don’t think “men not talking” is a particular problem in this thread.
just too make sure, as I can be pretty cloth-eared to tone at times, is the problem with 'this thread' then that men aren't listening?
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Tahu Potiki used to have a column in The Press, but I can't find any recent ones past mid-to-late last year - perhaps he disappeared with 'the improvements' that have been made...
...regular Māori columnists in the mainstream media
Surely Toi Iti on Media Take is in 'Joycean' terms 'pretty regular'?
