Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Meanwhile over the ditch:
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The times they are a changing: I note some searing honesty in the Transdev / Veolia wikipedia page.
I do hope our Government has those ISDS clauses in TPP2 turned off properly.
We wouldn’t want to see the next 14 years of Transdev ‘servicing wellington rail’ dotted with legal action against the Government – as Veolia has done to Egypt for 82 million Euro, for raising the minimum wage – Veolia Propreté v Arab Republic of Egypt (ICSID Case No. ARB/12/15) – possibly still pending.<edit> just thought I’d add one of those ‘Black Power Salutes’ – from 1917!
Transdev manager of people and culture, David Gould, went on the offensive, criticising the RMTU’s actions a month before bargaining was initiated.
“This began a month before bargaining was initiated when the bargaining team for RMTU took a photo, a team photo, with a pledge and a Black Power salute saying they would not change a single term and condition of their employment agreement,” Gould told RNZ’s Morning Report.Gould kept digging though, what a grafter!
Instead, he was referring to an iconic image taken during 1968 Mexico City Olympics when American athletes, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, raised their fists and bowed their heads during the medal ceremony for the 200m sprint.
"It was a graphic depiction. What I meant to say was that they had raised fists. It was a photo symbolising solidarity. I didn't mean to infer anything else. It certainly wasn't a reference to Black Power gangs in New Zealand," he said.
"But what [union members] effectively did was put the handcuffs on themselves at that point in time. By saying 'no change' they really painted themselves into a corner. They weren't able to effectively, and in good faith, negotiate with us."He probably had to go have a shower after uttering that blasphemous word 'solidarity'...
Venceremos!
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Folks you only have one night left to catch Jay Clarkson and the original Breathing Cage at the Wine Bar in Auckland
25 years on Breathing Cage are lined-up to do two gigs at Aucklands Wine Cellar in November with all four original members.
Following up a performance earlier this year at Christchurch's Blue Smoke, the band will perform material from Misericord (the result of winning the somewhat controversial Rheineck Rock Award) along with other Jay Clarkson-penned songs filling out the rest of the set, such classics as The Man With No Desire, Memory Lane and The Boy With the Sad Hands.
Jay Clarkson will also perform a short set of songs solo and singer-songwriter Rex Vizible will open the evening.
Breathing Cage is: Jay Clarkson (The Expendables, Playthings, The Containers) vocals and guitar, Gary Sullivan (Jean Paul Sartre Experience, Solid Gold Hell, Dimmer) on drums, Michael Kime (Expendables, and many Jazz ensembles) on bass, Greg Malcolm (Surfing USSR, The Ivor Cultler Band), guitar, etc.
Jay Clarkson's Breathing Cage
17th and 18th November, Wine Cellar, Aucklandhttp://www.undertheradar.co.nz/gig/57192/Jay-Clarksons-Breathing-Cage.utr
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drug |drəg| - noun
a medicine or other substance which has a physiological effect when ingested or otherwise introduced into the body:
• a substance taken for its narcotic or stimulant effects, often illegally:
figurative : mass adoration is a highly addictive drug.interestingly its root is in Middle English: from Old French drogue, possibly from Middle Dutch droge vate, literally ‘dry vats,’ referring to the contents (i.e., dry goods). - Spices, herbs etc
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I do like this photo of our PM Jacinda Ardern explaining the function of the fulcrum in rotational mechanics to the aptly named Australian PM Turnbull.
(or in layman's terms: 'Malc, ya just sit on it and rotate...")
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Speaker: The Government lost the election, in reply to simon g,
imaginative fiction posing as analysis in an international forum.
This is starting to look like it should be an award category - and this ex-National Party Adviser is a worthy contender.
Who knew there was a 'Diplomat' magazine dedicated to cheap guitars...It never fails to amuse me (bordering on irritation) - the arrogance of American publications that respell the proper name of the NZ Labour Party as Labor (as the sycophantic and kowtowing Australians do from the outset). - some diplomats!
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I heard it through the grapevine...
https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/music/98885652/the-winery-tour-2018-cancelled-due-to-unforseen-circumstances-refunds-offered
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Hard News: Lorde, the council and the…, in reply to Moz,
“eat up your yummy Jesus bits, children. Tasty, tasty Jesus!”.
Is the market finally ready for my salted 'Corpus Crispies' then?
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To think that Sydney used to have a pub on every corner (well almost) - I see that the old Windsor Castle in Paddington (that the Toy Love flat was next to) has now been turned into some millionaire's house after languishing as an empty shell for some time.
I also understood that at the upper echelons of government and police in Sydney there was the problem of a large 'Christian Wowser' influence. Is this still the case?
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"Auckland is now an international music capital of the world."
Does this just mean ATEED or the Council will erect blue plaques on the sites of closed venues like The Kings Arms? ...and maybe a statue of Graham Brazier outside the Globe.?
To be honest I can't really see that Auckland has done much more than any other NZ city to deserve it - or is it an aspirational title?
I was in Paris for the international music day a coupla years back (coincidentally, not because of) and it was 'going off' as the kids say - with all musical genres getting an airing in halls and squares all across the city - one can but hope for a similar approach for Auckland.
