A little off-topic…

…if the NZ Greens were more like the German Greens, I’d consider voting for them.

tinyurl.com/2ngf3v

“Germany’s Green Party recently agreed to a new economic programme, published under the title “The Green free-market economy.â€? The programme paper was developed by prominent party figures under the auspices of the party’s parliamentary faction leader Fritz Kuhn, heralding the free market as the guardian angel of the environment—and their own wallets.
“If the state effects social justice all too bureaucratically, then we end up with an expensive and incapacitating welfare state,â€? the Greens write. “Green politics require an encouraging and enabling state, which does not curb social life but opens it up.â€?”

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Hmmm i thought all the media giants in the states ran the country through the donation vehicle and lobbyists

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what this “antagonism”amongst yous fwwog people,
yous should be organising as a group for a major political victory,

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and if you want really really funny..

here ‘family guy’ do the new homo-erotic classic…

‘the 300′..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nSkgzbxNcY

phil(whoar.co.nz)

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ahem..!..post before last should have read..

“..first live appearance on cnn in over three years..’

phil(whoar.co.nz)

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but um..!..i just ‘don’t get’ the onion..

i can see how they are trying..but the humour seems irredemably sophmoric/simplistic..

and not particularly nuanced/sophisticated/intelligent..nor particularly funny..

(if someone wants to point me at a funny onion link..i stand rready to be corrected..but…)

phil(whoar.co.nz)

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those who find they quite like colbert would find i have been linking to him for some time..so delights await..!

for a good rip-snorting dump on another american media entity..wolf blitzer..from c.n.n

at my place..or moores’ place..you will find the footage of michael moores’ first live appearance on c.n.n.

poor blitzer..!..he trys to ask his questions about ‘sicko’..

but moore won’t have a bar of it..

he rips blitzer a new one over the abject failures of the american media..to show up the war-mongering lies of bush/cheney..

moore gets on a roll with this one..dosen’t hold back..

and you can actually see moores’ face growing redder and redder…

as he (obviously) gets to say what he has been wanting to say for ages..

it’s choice..!..eh..?

(brian..of course he translates here..

we get cnn…and that pox-bucket fox..

plus..good journalism/commentary..is ‘good journalism/commentary’..

eh..?

no matter where it comes from..)

television ‘crime’..(local division)..?..

c4..for some reason..have stopped showing ‘the daily show’,,(aarrgghh!!)

i reckon they should do it as in america..

give us the two-fer..of dsily show followed by colbert..

but no..instead of that..they have taken it off air..

(feckin’ idjits..!..eh..?..)

phil(whoar.co.nz)

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I’m suprised Colbert’s humor would translate well to New Zealand. Colbert essentially makes fun of American “impartial” newscasters who are shills for the Republican party here; specifically, Bill O’Reilly at Fox News.

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[here's another]
In the 1940s, Americans simultaneously battled fascism overseas and waste at home. My parents, their neighbors, and millions of others left cars at home to ride bikes to work, tore up their front yards to plant cabbage, recycled toothpaste tubes and cooking grease, volunteered at daycare centers and USOs, shared their houses and dinners with strangers, and conscientiously attempted to reduce unnecessary consumption and waste.

http://www.energybulletin.net/31880.html

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[here's one to file away]
Americans are not just visiting the country in numbers unimaginable only ï¬?ve years ago—they’re immigrating, drawn by an arcadian ideal (never underestimate the pacifying effect of several billion sheep), breathtakingly cheap waterfront real estate, see-through fish-tank architecture, and an investment climate that, as one Las Vegas resort owner–cum–South Island winemaker puts it, makes New Zealand “the Switzerland of the South Seas.”

http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/kiwi-country

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