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Month July 2005

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Labour wins the election

Jul 26, ’05 1:02 PM

For­get the fact that Brash is an incom­pet­ent war­mon­ger who des­per­ately wants to be another one of Bush’s poodles. Now you’ve got a bona fide middle-class reason to vote Green or Labour.

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We bear responsibility

Jul 14, ’05 12:11 AM

“The cent­ral fact is that over­whelm­ingly suicide-terrorist attacks are not driven by reli­gion as much as they are by a clear stra­tegic object­ive: to com­pel mod­ern demo­cra­cies to with­draw mil­it­ary forces from the ter­rit­ory that the ter­ror­ists view as their home­land. From Lebanon to Sri Lanka to Chechnya to Kash­mir to the West Bank, every major suicide-terrorist cam­paign — over 95 per­cent of all the incid­ents — has had as its cent­ral object­ive to com­pel a demo­cratic state to withdraw.”

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So what came before September 11?

Jul 8, ’05 8:45 PM

Accord­ing to Jack Straw, in response to George Galloway’s quite reas­on­able point that the cow­ardly attacks on Afgh­anistan and Iraq increased the threat of ter­ror­ist attack in Bri­tain, “People have to remem­ber that 11 Septem­ber was in 2001 before the mil­it­ary action.” This cheap little chunk of self-deluded spin is an attempt to weave the story that the Septem­ber 11 attacks came out of the blue.

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The chickens come home to roost

Jul 7, ’05 9:16 PM

Lucky for that “War on Ter­ror” thing ay?

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Review of Great New Zealand Argument

Jul 5, ’05 10:53 PM

Today I received a copy of Great New Zea­l­and Argu­ment: Ideas about ourselves, edited by Rus­sell Brown, which was sur­pris­ingly quick. Pre­sum­ably it was dis­trib­uted from within the UK some­where. It’s a good look­ing book; the cover appears as if it might be a pic­ture of Rus­sell and his kid walk­ing down a coun­try road (I’ll have to ask him). Well chosen fonts, a good lay­out and obvi­ously metic­u­lous edit­ing make it easy on the eye too. I only wish I’d been able to get a hard­back ver­sion as this is a book I’d like to last.

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Indulge in life, undermine those who seek to stamp it out

Jul 5, ’05 12:53 AM

Rus­sell Brown reflects on a great win by the All Blacks over the week­end and notes that he doesn’t hold much hope for Live8.

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Great New Zealand Argument

Jul 2, ’05 12:08 PM

Rus­sell Brown launches his first book, Great New Zea­l­and Argu­ment: Ideas about ourselves.

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