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Public Address 13/08/08 - Neocon catastrophe
Wednesday, 13 August 2008, 11:57 am | Public Address
Something you might not know about the short, sickening conflict in Georgia: John McCain, who yesterday declared "we are all Georgians", is being advised by Randy Scheunemann, a neocon who, until March was registered with the US Justice Department ... More >>
Public Address 12/08/08 - Out of the Blocks
Tuesday, 12 August 2008, 4:49 pm | Public Address
As David Farrar noted with an air of relief on The Panel yesterday, National's new social welfare policy is not simply an endorsement of the existing Labour policy. Indeed, I suspect that is the whole point: because it is difficult to justify the ... More >>
Public Address 11/08/08 - About Beijing
Monday, 11 August 2008, 11:53 am | Public Address
It took no more than an hour for our family to become disenchanted with the Olympics coverage last night. Despite your initial ambivalence, you discover that you're quite interested in the women's road race. You feel your own lungs grow cold as that brave ... More >>
Public Address 08/08/08 - Heard any good tunes?
Friday, 8 August 2008, 1:49 pm | Public Address
The APRA Silver Scrolls finalists have been announced. My record in guessing the feelings of the APRA members who vote for the overall best song of the year is dire, but I think Liam Finn must surely be a deserving candidate for 'Gather... More >>
Public Address 07/008/08 - Ignoring not an option
Thursday, 7 August 2008, 2:30 pm | Public Address
It's the 2011 Rugby World Cup: our nation's turn in the spotlight. And the week of the opening begins with two separatists murdering 16 cops with homemade grenades and a bus. Do you think things might be a little bit tense in Aotearoa? Consider, ... More >>
Public Address 06/08/08 - Let's learn English
Thursday, 7 August 2008, 1:55 pm | Public Address
What is a paraphrase? Well hello there. Hey, when you and I were at school, it's fair to say that a paraphrase meant something pretty unambitious. It meant you took someone's words and said them another way to make it clear what they meant. That ... More >>
Public Address 05/08/08 - All your Trade
Tuesday, 5 August 2008, 1:05 pm | Public Address
I understand the process by which Trade Me was obliged to provide information on the thousands of people who traded with eight suspects charged after last year's "terror raids", and that the police were obliged to provide that evidence to defence ... More >>
Public Address 04/08/08 - John Key(nesian)
Monday, 4 August 2008, 3:49 pm | Public Address
Between the philosophical light National actually chose to shed on its economic plans over the weekend and the insight offered by the clandestine recording of Bill English attempting to mollify an anxious delegate, I think we know a bit more about what's ... More >>
Public Address 01/08/08 - Food Show 08
Monday, 4 August 2008, 12:33 am | Public Address
There was no competition for the most unusual new product at The Food Show this year: it's the paua pickle. It had never occurred to me that such a condiment might exist, but the products launched by Taranaki-based Toku Foods are apparently based on Katu ... More >>
Public Address 31/07/08 - Yr Enemies R Stupid
Thursday, 31 July 2008, 4:51 pm | Public Address
Down in the comments for this justifiably angry response from Time magazine's Joe Klein to copping the "self-hating Jew" treatment from some Israeli-aligned neocons, a reader posts a link to Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources ... More >>
Public Address 30/07/08 - The Ultimate Flip-Flop
Thursday, 31 July 2008, 2:28 pm | Public Address
Audrey Young rounds out her latest blog post with a copy of a quite extraordinary text: the NZPA transcript of last Friday's press conference with Winston Peters. Had it been written by John Clarke for television, we would have hailed it as a work ... More >>
Public Address 29/07/08 - Part of our lives
Tuesday, 29 July 2008, 4:50 pm | Public Address
I don't have time this morning to go too deeply through The Internet in New Zealand 2007: Final Report, which is our section of the World Internet Project. The final report was largely foreshadowed by a draft published late last year, but it's a very ... More >>
Public Address 28/07/08 - Wild is the Weekend
Monday, 28 July 2008, 11:09 am | Public Address
We experienced no real storm damage around our way on Saturday, although there was always something intense and ominous in the roiling air outside. The forecasts had predicted a deepening of the weather from the north, through till midnight, but it ... More >>
Public Address 25/07/08 - Popular Parlour Games
Sunday, 27 July 2008, 6:59 pm | Public Address
Having readily conceded that there are others more skilled than me at the popular parlour game "how many slush funds does Winston Peters have?", I cast my eye further, and it lit upon Barack Obama in Berlin. I watched the highlights of his speech to ... More >>
Public Address 24/07/08 - Te Reo and the Resolutio
Thursday, 24 July 2008, 3:43 pm | Public Address
The Maori Language Week episode of Media7 is online now. Our panel is Paora Maxwell, the recently-appointed general manager of Maori programming at TVNZ; Maori Television's general manager of sales marketing and communications Sonya Haggie; and former Mai ... More >>
Public Address 23/07/08 - Couch life and low opini
Thursday, 24 July 2008, 2:17 pm | Public Address
Website of the Week: the site that fugitive war criminal Radovan Karadži kept for his alter-ego, Dr Dragan David Dabi, highly hirsute specialist in "bioenergy" and sundry other forms of new age claptrap. There's a certain brilliance about this cover, ... More >>
Public Address 22/07/08 - So long and thanks
Tuesday, 22 July 2008, 1:15 pm | Public Address
Something odd and unresolved | Jul 22, 2008 11:30 Russell Brown's Hard News According to an editorial note, the Herald's avowedly unflinching "unauthorised biography" of John Key was the paper's move to get in "to produce a reliable account before ... More >>
Public Address 21/07/08 - Who Was That Masked Man?
Monday, 21 July 2008, 1:28 pm | Public Address
I'd forgotten we didn't have a working landline -- it just seemed pleasantly quiet -- until Saturday afternoon, when my elderly neighbour, George, got himself across the road. He was a bit upset, because his medical alarm relies on the phone system, ... More >>
Public Address 17/07/08 - A Taxonomy of Poo
Thursday, 17 July 2008, 1:28 pm | Public Address
David Haywood has kindly directed my attention to Clark Vader and the Helengrad Labour L*sbi*ns, a paper submitted by Lewis Stoddart toward a graduate diploma in political science at Victoria University last year. The paper does not aim to comprehensively ... More >>
Public Address 16/07/08 - Relieving Ambiguity
Wednesday, 16 July 2008, 2:00 pm | Public Address
The Charter is dead, and it will be replaced by -- The Charter! Well, it's possible. As I noted last week, National's Broadcasting policy one-pager does not actually say a National government would do away with TVNZ's Charter. But once its Charter ... More >>
