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Hard News 20/08/03 - Darkness
Wednesday, 20 August 2003, 11:15 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
It seems that most mornings now, you can count on getting up and turning on the radio and hearing about another atrocity in Iraq. So the bombing of the United Nations compound in Baghdad was both business as usual and something much worse... More >>
Hard News 19/08/03 - On The Beaches
Tuesday, 19 August 2003, 12:12 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
HARD NEWS 19/08/03 - On the beaches Full Hard News blog entry includes comment on Corngate, The East Coast Blackout, Rugby and Music. For Full HTML Marked up version of this page see… http://publicaddress.net/default,hardnews.sm#post618 More >>
Hard News 18/08/03 - Strange Days
Monday, 18 August 2003, 4:32 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
The floors finished, we ventured bravely back into number 15. I needn't have worried about the cats getting stuck; the smell of polyurethane still hangs acridly some days on and would surely have repelled all but the most delinquent of juveniles ... More >>
Hard News 15/08/03 - Power and People
Friday, 15 August 2003, 3:01 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Is there an equivalent to karma in Islam? The literally powerless people of Baghdad and Basra might be seeing some grim justice in today's massive power outage in Northeast America. But why Canada? And for that matter, why poor old New York? http://publicaddress.net/default,hardnews.sm#post615 More >>
HARD NEWS 08/08/03 - Mo' Friday
Friday, 8 August 2003, 2:46 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Risk |Aug 08, 2003 11:54 Russell Brown's Hard News I knew I shouldn't have had that kebab. King's Cross, 1987, I think it was. Or possibly Elephant and Castle. I really don't mean to be flippant, but the news that a Waikato man has suspected CJD reminds ... More >>
HARD NEWS 06/08/03 - Of Worms and Winters
Wednesday, 6 August 2003, 10:46 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Russell Brown's Hard News: Buy this week's Listener. Read it. The wry feature by Bruce Ansley and a diligent analysis by Steven Price represent your best chance of grasping just how difficult and complex the seabed and foreshore issue actually is. More >>
HARD NEWS 05/08/03 - Home and Away
Tuesday, 5 August 2003, 11:13 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
An absolute fiesta of new posts from the entire crew, except me, so I can have a rest. Great stuff in all of them - and note particularly Marianne Elliot's guest post on the New Zealand Action Plan for Human Rights, which is part of our Amnesty ... More >>
HARD NEWS 04/08/03 - Most Appealing
Monday, 4 August 2003, 2:27 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Taking care of business - Russell Brown's Hard News You will notice that at the top right of this page there is an advertisement; our first. It's a freebie for Amnesty International's Freedom Week, and if you click on it you can donate to the appeal ... More >>
Hard News 27/07/03 - Expert analyses etc
Monday, 28 July 2003, 5:21 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Hi folks. It's a day for key information from informed third parties. That is, more on the issues around Scoop's developing story on the flaws in electronic voting machines, and what actually happened in the rugby on Saturday... http://publicaddress.net/default,hardnews.sm#post565 More >>
Hard News 25/07/03 - Friends For The Weekend
Friday, 25 July 2003, 1:11 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Another blog-tastic bundle of news and opinion to fill up those awkward hours between lunch and knock-off time on a Friday, or to illuminate your weekend. More >>
Hard News 24/07/03 - Joys And Frustrations
Thursday, 24 July 2003, 11:47 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
So, a week of departures: some mourned, some emphatically not. The death under fire of Uday and Qusay Hussein comes, ironically, as the ogre of another age, Idi Amin , slips away in a Saudi hospital... More >>
Hard News 22/07/03 - The Triple
Tuesday, 22 July 2003, 9:17 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Would you be surprised if I told you that the phrase "s*xed up" does not appear in Andrew Gilligan's now infamous broadcast about Downing Street's handling of Iraqi weapons intelligence? Tony Blair's press secretary, Alastair Campbell, who apparently ... More >>
Hard News 18/07/03 - Having It Large
Friday, 18 July 2003, 1:07 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I haven't yet discovered how many hundred per cent my Auckland Regional Council rate will rise by this year, by I'm already amazed at the way the ARC has been able to foster the myth that the rise is the result of unprecedented largesse on transport ... More >>
Hard News 17/07/03 - Big Ups
Thursday, 17 July 2003, 12:02 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Big ups to everyone who e-mailed me in response to the post about my mother's death. There have been too many for me to respond to individually but the flurry of correspondence was a reminder of the web's reach and the simple pleasure of being contacted by people ... More >>
Hard News 16/07/03 - The Fundamentals
Wednesday, 16 July 2003, 10:24 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Thank goodness for the resumption of international rugby this weekend: the absence of actual play was creating a vacuum for doubt, recrimination and the messianic Cult of Mehrtens ... http://publicaddress.net/default,hardnews.sm#post539 More >>
Hard News 15/07/03 - Abroad, Away, Departed
Tuesday, 15 July 2003, 10:01 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I should manage a rant on my own behalf tomorrow, but today you should read these three fine works - including Jolisa's very prompt report from the New Zealand Sounds show in Central Park, New York. More >>
Hard News 11/07/03 - Just Me
Friday, 11 July 2003, 2:42 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Well, that's that sorted: the sweetcorn on pizza thing, I mean. Apparently it's a cultural thing. Two Hard News readers, Renee Leckey and Ian Johnston, have been in touch to advise that sweetcorn on pizza is all but unavoidable in Japan and Korea... More >>
Hard News 10/07/03 - Scoop's Scoop
Thursday, 10 July 2003, 1:24 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
If you had trouble reaching Scoop.co.nz yesterday, it because Scoop got Slashdotted. The Wellington site's big story - bigger than Watergate, it was claimed - made the forums of the ultimate geek site, and people came to look ... More >>
Hard News 07/07/03 - Full Slate
Monday, 7 July 2003, 2:16 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
On Friday afternoon, in the hours after the Broadcasting Standards Authority released its decision on complaints over TV3's so-called "Corngate" special, the news angle you heard depended greatly on what radio station you were listening to... ... More >>
Hard News 03/07/03 - Turns, Trajectories, Ends
Thursday, 3 July 2003, 12:45 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Is anyone else wondering if perhaps we overlooked the real story in the midst of last year's Corngate wrangling? While the central contention in Seeds of Distrust - malign corporate influence at the highest levels of government - looks unprovable, ... More >>
