Posts by Paul Robeson
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Rally around Clive!
I say. This man should be leading the Green party. Holding articles from Brian Fallow and Rod Oram in his hands. Or doing some serious campaigning with them.
as someone who has used public transport, and lived with people who have made a conscious choice to commute on public transport or live closer to work for 8-9 years I think the man has a point.
The 'good life' solution is a bit of a fraud.
I remember when I felt New Zealand had a strong environmental consciousness, with the successful action against cfcs and environmentalism's association with Greenpeace and the Rainbow Warrior.
The 'oh I stopped listening' approach is not good enough, (you rude woman). Use your car for recreation, and your legs or public transport to commute. Support real investment in practical mass transit (not knocking down houses to build wider roads like near the Mt Eden Foodtown).
Many Australians are actually quite good on both the mass transit and the green bags.
But as George Monbiot I think it was (paraphrasing) was saying without the top down approach it is a bit bollocks. We can't be going out and look to test market a proper train system. We need one ASAP with serious investment. With constant planning as to how to make it more comfortable, useful and hassle free.
Interest rates and inflation are complicated things. People listen when you talk about them because it directly impacts on their lives. This is no different.
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classic
you should do a book of these with just rambling yarns,
i don't know if its post-thingy, but just have them keep going and not really noticing where one story changes into the next one,
just one series of things, and then some other guy is talking and drinking something, and
well i'd buy the book, well I went into the book shop, and glancing at the jacket photo I noticed the the author was there reading his own book, possibly trying to drum up sales...
he started to tell me about his grandfather, or some special drink they make by mixing Friday with lime and vermouth, which was fortunate because my computer was on the fritz , and I had scrapped together all the money in Mum' s loose change jar but it was short...
then he looked at me, like a Roald Dahl father figure who has a deep dark secret, tapped the side of his nose, and told me to hold on to my change.
"There'll be an interest rate rise on Monday, son, just you wait and see."
I wondered idily if it was the author or if it was an American stock photo, and if the real author was sitting in a Christchurch pub, becoming an icon for the late lamented New Zealand drinking class.
Imitation in blog comments is the most insincerest form of parody, I think Churchill said, and turned on the Rutles just to remember the days when the Pythons slithered and I was the Elephant' Child.
burp.
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Claire Trevett for (gasp!) apparently doing some real, live reporting.
well I do kind of remember her for the real live haigography of John Ansell. It seemed in line with the Herald editorial policy that runs soft fuzzy about Bill English's family and John Key's sex appeal.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10498579Old news, discussed on an earlier topic I know but it was my first impression of her work and it stuck. here's a quote:
In 2005, Mr Ansell's ads attracted some vitriolic responses from the left. He said he was attacked for being "dishonest" with his billboards comparing Labour and National policies such as "iwi/ kiwi" and the education "excuses/exams." He is expecting more of the same this election.
"You do have to steel yourself when the people like the Russell Browns [Public Address blogger] attack you. You get used to it, but I didn't realise I'd get used to it quite so quickly. It really stung the first time."
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1. Acknowledge the momentum of "change for the sake of change" and find some pretty good international examples of where that turned ugly for the voting populace involved. Any good ones off the top of your head's readers? And then ask voters to judge both parties on their historical intentions - and outcomes (including questions on Key's political leadership capabilities).
I heard Sweden has had its celebrated social system shredded by a Cameron/Key type and a policy void.
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can’t seem to open the website to try to post this to Granny so might as well dump it here. Please feel free to plagiarise it and submit it as your own work if you want to, provided you are not a constant letter writer they screen. errr...though if a couple of people actually do it that could be odd...but anyway...will finish reading the thread now...
Dear Sir,
What does John Key remember?
He has trouble remembering what he said to journalists, what party he is leading and what he intends to do if he gets into government.
Now he is airbrushing not only his own slippery asset-selling, Iraq-invasion-supporting tendencies, but also our history. Without the Waikato war, men such as John Logan Campbell wouldn’t have made it quite as rich with their newly acquired farms. The families of Parnell and Auckland may not have been gifted the pleasant Cornwall Park, which Campbell bequeathed for their recreation.
Nor would we have the Great South road that was built by Governor Grey to march troops into the Waikato.
The nearly 30 years of the New Zealand Wars shaped the population of the North Island. It was a formative violent struggle. The wars sufficiently fascinated New Zealanders to rate a 5 part television series, fronted by James Belich, with his arms earnestly waving.
To deny it was like a civil war is to take the iwi out of kiwi. We have struggled in our history and in the last 30 years for our history. Let’s tell it like it is, not like they wish it was
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Steve- did you read my book too? There was a great article on me in the Listener going back a fair way as well...
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*blush* wishing could delete comments sorry i'm blind...discussion of advertising blahblah...buried treasure blahblah...resigns listener column...
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Umm...not meaning to be rude...but is it just me? I can not find the thread related to the final Wide Area News columns and the disscussion of the critic aritcle and the merits of the Listener.
Did it vanish or am I just completely blind or need to go back further?
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Joseph Romanos was sacked?
That would explain the drop in circulation. A lot of folk would only read his column. He cunningly wrote about several different sports in one column and always had a mix of anecdote and insight. Sorely missed.
plus he seemed on the money with his opinions.
Well, I can't say that any of the new crop of Listener writers are on their way to icon status, which is certainly the case with some who were let go.
Lamington?
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Auckland hasn't descended into an alternate reality: we're all going 'huh?' too. I do wonder where these 50% of the country that are Nats supporters are though, I certainly don't know of any.
In Auckland they would be the ones with the landline phones who are prepared to spend time doing political polling, and are at home to take the call. Would that be grannies in Howick and Pakuranga?
It seemed to me that the Herald swung National in tone before the 2004 election too.
It's hard to sell papers with the headline well business as usual seems pretty good. I have a recollection that they released a timely poll for Labour in the last few days of the campaign 2004.
I think the scandal story is the cut backs in the number of journalists, and the amount our media jobs are getting shipped overseas with the Australian owners going for economies of scale.
I suppose employment law is one of the few areas that the public care about, still trust Labour on
Bulk funding too? Alan Peachy's North Shore principal chums are complaining about their funding, and you can be sure 'direct resourcing' or principal CEOs will be back on the Nats agenda, however discretely. Do the public care about this one though do you think?