Posts by Kyle Matthews
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Really, that doesn't address my question at all.
Clearly any threat to harm George Bush has little meaning now that he's not coming here.
Presumably they moved because of some other threat or danger. Exactly what that is, we'll no doubt find out at some stage.
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Like Grant, I have a horror fish and chips story which comes from driving the length of the south island. A common theme down here one suspects.
With a vanload of fellow activists, I was driving from Dunedin, leaving on Thursday evening, to get to a training workshop in Palmerston North. The training related to using political community theatre.
We left Otago Uni at about 6pm, and made it to Christchurch at something close to midnight. The last couple of hours we had driven through on the promise that in Christchurch there was a quality cafe (I forget the exact name... Caffeines maybe?) that was open 24 hours and which did decent coffee and food.
We arrived at the square to discover that said cafe was closed. We moped around for a while looking for an alternative (this was 1995, predating the times of 24 hour McDonalds and other such places, not that a bunch of hippy veggie lefties such as us would have gone there anyway).
Four or five of us braved a late night fish and chip shop stuck away in the corner of the square. It looked iffy, but it literally was the only option, and we had a ferry to catch early in the morning.
It was truly repulsive. I struggled through half a dozen of the chips, before giving them up as only cooked on the outside, and rubbery and dripping in oil. The fish tasted like it had been fed on rubber for most of its life, and consisted of about 25% fish, and 75% batter. The batter was greasy and tough, and about as grey as the fish.
All of us, in sequence, received our food, tasted it, struggled on for a few more bits, and then deposited it neatly in the convenient rubbish bin outside before heading north to try find an early breakfast in Blenheim.
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(or an extended reply in the comments if people really want answers now).
Er. Duh. Need you ask?
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A mayor with the votes of 0.019% of New Zealand's registered voters has thrown a spanner in the works
I don't know how many registered voters there are in NZ, but Banks got 45,387 votes.
That's over 1% of the total population of NZ.
I think you might have forgotten to multiply by 100?
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Back that up with a fraction of the meticulous research and dispassionately persuasive writing that Lynley Hood has displayed and you might have a case.
Having read Hood's book (and I haven't read any comprehensive arguments from the other side, I'm not sure if there are any), I have no doubt that the Christchurch Creche case was a shambles and Peter Ellis didn't deserve to be convicted. However, it's a tenuous link from that to Howard Broad being a bad Commissioner of Police, and an incredibly stretched one to say that the fuckups over the Peter Ellis case mean that no one's guilty up in Tuhoe country.
I don't have meticulous research. I worked for Howard Broad in the 1990s. I'm related to his ex-boss.
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And no I don't subscribe to the secret water powered engines that big car companies have withheld :).
I don't either.
But that movie 'Who killed the electric car?' was interesting viewing.
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I'd forgotten that Broad was the wingnut who saw demons at work in the Christchurch Creche.
A lot of people are happy to drag that old chestnut out now that he's the Commissioner. Broad's role in that case wasn't massive, and he was a senior officer. One of the things you'd expect senior officers to do in a case is support the work of their underlings.
It's very well to sit in 2007 and point out how that was a mistake, but fifteen years ago, as Lynley Hood herself points out, there was a sort of hysteria about these sorts of creches, and a lot of people who now believe Peter Ellis is innocent, probably believed a bunch of the mumbo jumbo that was coming out at the time.
Howard Broad is an intelligent, educated police officer. People who have worked with him will tell you that he's very progressive on issues of Maori sovereignty and police working with Maori in the community.
That vist was cancelled months ago. The threat can only be considered credible if it occured before that, so why are they acting on it only now?
The inside word I got over the weekend was that the Commissioner had decided to act because 'issues had come to a head'. I presume they believed that something was going to be done soon.
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I don't know about over-invested in rugby culture, but I'll bet if it had been rugby and not soccer that Fijian goalie wouldn't have been banned!
Yes. I was disappointed that the Fiji 7s team was allowed to play here last year. The distinction apparently, that the 7s was an 'international event'. Surely bans have more effect at international events, simply because they're bigger events. It feels like we have principles until it actually gets important...
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From that stuff article (Dom Post):
When police returned, there was just a scrawl across the page with no name, he said.
I'm betting even odds that the scrawl was a copper in the back of the car, and then a 15 minute wait around the corner to make it look like they'd seen a judge.
And forgetting to put the name on it (the copper or the judge). I dunno if it's legal, but it's embarrassing.
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Intersting interpretation, any other reference points for sources of slavery (energy) runs out and empire/entity contracts?
I'm trying to remember if one of the examples in Diamond's book focused on slavery. I'd need to look through it to check, having read it a whole year ago, it's been wiped from my mind.