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What I'm Doing...

  • "Why John Key should be careful what he wishes for when questioning foreign ownership of NZ land | interest.co.nz" http://j.mp/cfpVHo 1 hr ago
  • RT @LATimesbooks: Amazon introduces $139 Kindle. Cheap -- but is it fun?: Amazon.com has introduced a Kindle for $139. <think I want one! 1 hr ago
  • Have 16GB microSD card for HTC sense - busy copying files over 1 hr ago
  • "Second Round of iPhone 4 Launches Begins in Australia - Mac Rumors" http://j.mp/9uUuaI (But not NZ yet ...'shipping error' blamed) 1 hr ago
  • At Parliament last night. A pleasant eve aside from clearing press lines http://twitgoo.com/1ev32a 9 hrs ago
  • Taking a break in cafe in Portcullis House. Much vaunted flat white is decidedly average 10 hrs ago
  • iPhone4 no longer on VodafoneNZ website? 13 hrs ago
  • iPhone4 delayed in NZ? No longer sold exclusively through Vodafone NZ? 14 hrs ago
  • 8 days til we leave for holiday/work trip in NZ. Can't come quick enough #fb 14 hrs ago
  • BBC News - Time to 'move beyond' Asbos, says home secretary May http://bit.ly/cibLJ3 23 hrs ago
  • BBC News - Pakistan crash raises questions about air safety http://bit.ly/chjeOU 23 hrs ago
  • RT @nzherald Today's OCR hike is an endorsement of market sentiment, writes Brian Fallow: http://nzh.tw/10662058 < NOT so thrilled 1 day ago
  • RT @freezingkiwis Do you know how hard it is to find a cafe in Wellington that has WiFi? Bloody nuts. Settled in Joes Garage. Good people. 1 day ago
  • "It's India's poor who need British aid, not its military and business elites | Pankaj Mishra | The Guardian" http://j.mp/azyJpe 1 day ago
  • "MacRumors iPhone Blog: iOS 4 Adoption on iPhones Hits 50%" http://j.mp/9FMrCe 1 day ago
  • Pleasant evening by the Thames in Parliament even if I was clearing press lines half the time. Some on use of pandemic flu vaccines in Oz 1 day ago
  • Crikey, it might be recess but the work is unrelenting 1 day ago
  • RT @BR3NDA so, tonight i somehow got on to Council for New Zealand Open Source Society....< congrats 1 day ago
  • Gasping for a cup uf tea 2 days ago
  • I meant, I have noticed very little activity concerning #nhswhitepaper on twitter over last 3 days. Which I suppose is interesting in itself 2 days ago
  • More updates...

Posting tweet...

Credit crunch fall-out – The Shock Doctrine in action?

One of the concepts that Naomi Klein talks about in her book, ‘The ShockDoctrine’, is how corporations and states have acted in concert to take advantage of disasters and act to either privatise national public wealth or to offload private debt into the public domain in the chaotic aftermath of emergencies. When people are paralysed by [...]

September 25th, 2008 | Tags: , | Category: General NZ Blog | Leave a comment