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NZ troops were busy throughout most of the 20th century: WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam. In a small way in Gulf Wars 1 and 2. I'd venture we're not especially at peace.
And the list of recent and ongoing wars is quite a long one. Many of them we hear nothing about.
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Hard News: About Occupy Wall Street, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
The whole idea of war being a thing where you go and fight people a long way away with whom you have little cultural contact would have baffled everyone right up to, oooh, Napoleon.
Gengis Khan? Ancient Romans? Alexander the Great? The Spanish Conquistadors? I disagree that colonisation doesn't count as war. "Colonisation" generally means a war against peoples who can't hope to win.
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Hard News: About Occupy Wall Street, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
“But what if?”
Down the other leg of the Trousers of Time, as Terry Pratchett so beautifully puts it.
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God always wins, in the end. Not sure which one, though ;-)
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Hard News: About Occupy Wall Street, in reply to Simon Grigg,
Careful, you’ll be tempting the arrival of James Bremner with some spurious link to illustrate just how ill informed we out-worlders are.
Got no idea what you're referring to. My point was just that there's more than one way to have a thriving population.
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Hard News: About Occupy Wall Street, in reply to Simon Grigg,
Cubans have the same life expectancy as Americans. Free and universal healthcare is provided by the communist state. Cubans may be disadvantaged in some ways, but longevity ain't one of them.
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Hard News: Dropping the Bomber, in reply to Yamis,
You were in the shower with John Key on Morning Report?
You listened to our leader while naked? That's all kinds of wrong.
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My impression of Clark’s time as PM is like Paul WIlliams’ – she seemed very ready to talk to journalists most of the time. In fact seemed to seek them out. I’ve heard that on some occasions if journos didn’t ring her she rang them.
I don’t think anyone here is saying Clark was always amenable to being interviewed. But my impression of Key is that he never fronts*.
If some media person can weigh in with actual data it would be welcome!
*except to the BBC!
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Hard News: Dropping the Bomber, in reply to 3410,
The more I think about it, I lean towards "Good Fucking Riddance".
His horrible approach has probably sent far more "swingers" right than left.
Actually, his blog post that Sue linked to is worth reading.
He says:
In the past I have enjoyed the fight with the right more than the actual point at times and have allowed myself to throw rhetoric around for the fun of it. This experience and the surprising show of support has made me appreciate the role that I have as a commentator in a media dominated by bland baby boomer pundits and hard right wing opinion masquerading as middle of the road NZ.
In the future, I will endeavour to take that media role on with the responsibility it demands. I'm not suggesting I will put away my stomping boots, but I will be a lot more focused about what I'm stomping.
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Hard News: Dropping the Bomber, in reply to Rich Lock,
Although there’s definitetely a niche for that sort of OTT…bombast. If you generally agree with the points he’s making, it’s amusing and gets the troops fired up and happy.
Good for preaching to the choir...but not persuasive to anyone else.