Posts by Blake Monkley

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  • Hard News: Mac Ouch,

    Inside the CPAC'S Exhibition hall. James Hutchens is the founder of the Christian Zionist lobbying group, Kentucky Republican Sen.Jim Bunning is on the advisory board of the Hutchens’ group. Crazy shit..

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-WcxVCp_jI

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  • OnPoint: Two wallops of wonk, with a…,

    NZ needs to invest in R & D green technologies, for a new economy, energy technology will be the next great thing for the world. Key should support NZ inventors and companies that are focusing this way.

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  • OnPoint: Two wallops of wonk, with a…,

    Keith, is there been any comments from the PM about the role of innovation, entrepreneurship and R&D at the job summit?

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  • Hard News: The strange story arc,

    Perhaps my pointy-headed elitist National Radio-listening perspective is distorted, but I don't recall ever hearing Andrew Little or Brenda Pilott getting a particularly hostile -- or even particularly probing -- reception on National Radio.

    Glad to hear it comrade!

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  • Hard News: The strange story arc,

    Most references in the popular media to trade unions and their activities are cast in a negative light and portrayed as harmful to investment prospects and economic growth. This is despite the positive contribution that the labour movement and workers have made to apprenticeship training , skill based bay and productivity incentive schemes which really helped companies get a more flexible workforce.

    but feel uncomfortable when they take on more generic political campaigns (when they tend to get more into the media).

    I think the public have a right to information and a different viewpoint expressed. Nothing wrong with that in a democracy.

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  • Speaker: Surviving Small,

    The first sound advice I got was not to bury my head in the sand, communicate with creditors if need be but don't make promises you can't keep. Otherwise all (your) good-will goes out the window.

    A great initiative for hosting such a topic.

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  • Legal Beagle: Three strikes (w/ updates),

    David, It is possible to exact justice without vengeance. Vengeance does not heal - not us, not them. It is common sense to help people to re-enter society in better shape than they were when they came to prison. Experiences of dignity and creativity can contribute to that goal. We want them to be wiser, calmer, humbly self-confident, with skills for practical survival within the law - and the inclination to make a positive contribution. Routinely degrading is a pathetic solution.


    “The degree of civilization of a society can be judged by entering its prisons.” Fyodor Dostoevsky

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  • Hard News: Blackout Bingo!,

    Spotted the cover of the current issue of Newsweek today: We Are All Socialists Now

    So, it now looks like Comrade Greenspan was a double agent appointed head of the Fed so that he could destroy the free market system and advance the cause of socialism in the United States.

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  • Hard News: Blackout Bingo!,

    Try again with the video.

    Rush Limbaugh

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  • Hard News: Blackout Bingo!,

    Rush Limbaugh moving to New Zealand if Obama stimulus means government control.

    Auckland • Since Jul 2008 • 215 posts Report

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