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Bollywood numbers have been glorifying relationships for long and friendship is one of them. From "Yeh dosti hum nahin todenge" to "Imli ka boota", the songs from Hindi movies are still loved by many and played over and over again by friends of different age groups.
On Friendship Day Sunday, here's a list of popular friendship songs:
1. "Yeh dosti hum nahin todenge": The filmy anthem for friendship is from "Sholay" and has been sung by Kishore Kumar and Manna Dey. The iconic friendship song was picturised on megastar Amitabh Bachchan and Dharmendra.
2. "Tere jaisa yaar kahan, kahan aisa yaaraana": Another iconic friendship song filmed on Big B and Amjad Khan in the film "Yaraana". The fact that the two of them were close friends in real life really helped make this Rajesh Roshan composition come alive.
3. "Diye jalte hain": The entire song was lip-synced by Rajesh Khanna in Hrishikesh Mukherjee's "Namak Haraam".
4. "Bane chahe dushman zamana hamara": Kishore Kumar and Mohammad Rafi in one of their last collaborative songs in Raj Khosla's "Dostana". Rafi passed away soon after the recording of this song. The two were barely cordial to one another and yet able to imbue so much warmth and camaraderie in this Laxmikant-Pyarelal composition.
5. "Yaari hai imaan mera yaar meri zindagi": Yet one more ode to friendship, the song was picturised on Pran. In "Zanjeer", Big B's stern no-nonsense character allowed no musical expression of love (to Jaya Bachchan) or friendship (to Pran).
6. "Meri dosti mera pyar": Filmed on the then-unknown Sudhir Kumar in the 1964 film "Dosti", the song written by Majrooh Sultanpuri has become an anthem for friendship that lingers in the jukebox of the mind to this day.
7. "Saat ajoobe is duniya mein": It is picturised on Dharmendra and Jeetendra. Sung by Mohammad Rafi and Mukesh for the film "Dharam Veer", the lyrics of the song are like - "Tode se bhi toote na yeh dharam-veer ki jodi".
8. "Imli ka boota": A nursery-rhyme like friendship song in Subhash Ghai's "Saudagar" filmed on the two veteran actors Raj Kumar and Dilip Kumar. The number has a certain childlike innocence and unspoilt charm about it.
9. "Ek rasta do rahi, ek chor ek sipahi": When Amitabh and Dharmendra reprised their buddy talks from "Sholay" in "Ram Balram", the result was this zingy friendship song sung by Mohammad Rafi and Kishore Kumar.
10. "Doston mein koi baat chal jaati": A rare song that "dares" to explore the dark side of male bonding. When a deep friendship is torn apart what happens to the buddy-buddy feelings? Shashi Kapoor oozes cynicism as he hurls accusations at Rajesh Khanna in this song from Raj Khosla's "Prem Kahani".
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I'm heading over to socal in a few weeks time for the Park Tool conference (Ontario), been looking forward to it for a while now and hoping to get out for a pedal on the off days (got a thread on this in the socal section - if you can help me out please post up )
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Soldier Killed In Training Exercise Remembered As Loving Father
Updated: 10/02/2015 - A Fort Carson soldier was killed during a training exercise in California.
Updated: 10/02/2015 - A Fort Carson soldier was killed during a training exercise in California.
Posted: 09/18/2015 - Fort Carson soldiers who crash-landed a drone in a Colorado Springs neighborhood last May will get remedial training after an investigation found they didn't have proper clearance to fly the small aircraft.
Posted: 09/18/2015 - Fort Carson is seizing the opportunity to rid itself of overgrowth after three accidental fires started on post over a five-day period.
Posted: 09/11/2015 - The number are out: suicides of veterans in our community are down. Thursday was also World Suicide Prevention Day.
Posted: 09/03/2015 - Hundreds of thousands of veterans listed in the Department of Veterans Affairs enrollment system may have died before their applications for care were processed, according to a report issued Wednesday.
Posted: 09/03/2015 - One Marine has been killed and 9 others were hurt when a helicopter made a hard landing at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina.
Updated: 09/13/2015 - The Air Force Academy will help Fort Carson recover a UH- 60 Black Hawk that made a "hard landing" in a remote area of Douglas County earlier this month.
Updated: 09/02/2015 - Six firefighters from Fort Carson are in Washington state right now to support the wildfire fighting efforts there.
Updated: 09/02/2015 - Some very important training will continue on Fort Carson Wednesday. Soldiers are practicing how to handle an active shooter and hostage situation.
Updated: 09/01/2015 - Two men making a 4,600 mile bicycle trip from Washington State to Florida to raise awareness and funds for post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) made a stop in Colorado Springs.
Updated: 08/21/2015 - A Fort Carson soldier made history as one of the two first women to graduate Ranger School.
Posted: 08/20/2015 - A new reports shows that 70 percent of teens in the Pikes Peak region don't meet military recruitment standards, with the majority missing the mark for weight.
Posted: 08/18/2015 - Two female soldiers are making history as the first women to graduate from the Army's Ranger School, reports CBS News national security correspondent David Martin.
Posted: 08/17/2015 - A lost bracelet memorializing a soldier killed in action has been reunited with it's rightful owner thanks to 11 News viewers and Facebook friends.
Posted: 08/14/2015 - Officials at the Grand Junction Veterans Affairs Medical Center have called for the removal of the Confederate flag from a mural inside the facility's cafeteria.
Updated: 08/14/2015 - The soldier killed in a motorcycle crash on Fort Carson was identified Friday, as the investigation into the cause continues.
Posted: 08/14/2015 - Nine Army Ranger students and two instructors were injured and remain hospitalized after lightning struck near them while they were doing military exercises in Florida.
Posted: 08/13/2015 - A Fort Carson colonel is accused of surfing through child pornography while deployed to Afghanistan.
Posted: 08/08/2015 - One American service member and eight Afghan contractors were killed in an attack on a military base in the Afghan capital, officials said Saturday.
Posted: 08/07/2015 - The Denver FBI Division released a statement Thursday saying they found no credible threats to military personnel or families after reports of strangers approaching people in Colorado and Wyoming.
Posted: 08/06/2015 - The FBI has issued a warning to military families following multiple reports of men going to homes trying to get personal information.
Updated: 08/05/2015 - Shots were fired for a second consecutive day near a military facility in southern Mississippi, but there are no reports of anyone being wounded, National Guard officials said Wednesday.
Posted: 08/04/2015 - Department of Veterans Affairs officials say they have significantly reduced the number of veterans still waiting for benefit decisions.
Posted: 08/02/2015 - Two C-130 Hercules equipped to fight wildfires, their crews and support personnel are being sent to California to help fight the wildfires burning in the state.
Posted: 07/23/2015 - The Army's top general will promote a Fort Carson commander to the rank of one-star general.


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SKILL LEVEL: Intermediate (Level 3)
SIZE: One Size Napkin ring 2 inches x 5 inches [5 x 12.5 cm] around
Placemat 11½" x 16 inches [29 x 40.5 cm]
Coaster 4 inches x 4 inches (10 x 10 cm]
CORRECTIONS: None
16 sts + 16 rows = 4 inches (10 cm) in single crochet.
When you match the gauge in a pattern, your project will be the size
specified in the pattern and the materials specified in the pattern will be
sufficient. The needle or hook size called for in the pattern is based on what
the designer used, but it is not unusual for gauge to vary from person to person.
If it takes you fewer stitches and rows to make your swatch, try using a smaller
size hook or needles; if more stitches and rows, try a larger size hook or needles.
Making a Gauge Swatch
With A, ch 22 loosely.Row 1 Sc in second ch from hook and in each ch across 21 sc. Row 2 (RS) Ch 3, turn; work starter star as follows: insert hook in second ch from hook and pull up a loop, insert hook in next ch pull up a loop, insert hook in first sc pull up a loop, (insert hook in next sc pull up a loop) twice you now have 6 loops on hook; yo and draw through all 6 loops, ch 1 to make eyelet all first stars will be made this way. Work center stars as follows: *ch 1, insert hook into eyelet of last star, pull up a loop, insert hook through front of last two loops on left side of last star from right to left, pull up a loop, insert hook into same sc as last st of last star, pull up a loop, (insert hook into next sc, pull up a loop) twice you now have 6 loops on hook; yo and draw through all loops on hook, ch 1 to form eyelet, repeat from * to end. Last Star work as center stars until you have 4 loops on hook, insert hook into t-ch from row below, pull up a loop, yo and draw through 5 loops. Row 3 Ch 1, turn. Sc in first st, *sc into eyelet, sc into next st, repeat from * across 21 sc.
Row 1
Row 2 (RS)
Row 3
Repeat Rows 2 and 3 once more, fasten off.Finishing With RS facing, sew ends together. PLCEMAT
With A, ch 60 and work Rows 1-3 as for napkin ring 59 sts. Change to B and repeat Rows 2 and 3 a total of 13 times, then change to A and work Rows 1 and 2 once more. Fasten off.Finishing With WS facing and A, work 42 sc along side edge of mat. Ch 3, turn. Work Rows 2 and 3 of pattern once. Fasten off. Repeat along opposite side. COASTERS
With B, ch 14 and work Row 1. Change to A and repeat Rows 2 and 3 a total of 3 times, work Row 2 once more, change to B and work Row 3 once more. Fasten off.Finishing With WS facing and B, work 12 sc along side edge. Fasten off. Repeat along opposite side.
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Tuesday, 17 May 2011
In Year 10 and confused about your subject selections?
ECU is here to help, with Year 10 pizza nights, held at the Joondalup, Mount Lawley and South West Campuses, which will point you in the right direction as the choose your subjects for your Year 11 and 12 studies.
With information from the ECU Admissions team, these sessions provide you with details on different entry pathways and other relevant information prior to choosing your subjects.
This is also a great opportunity for your parents, family and friends to find out all they need to know as they help guide you through the decision-making process.
For those who want to get there a bit earlier, there will also be a short campus tour.
Mount Lawley
Date: Monday, 23 May 2011
Time: 6.00pm to 7.30pm
Venue: ECU Mount Lawley Campus
RSVP: Via the ECU website
Date: Tuesday, 24 May 2011
Time: 6.00pm to 7.30pm
Venue: ECU Joondalup Campus
RSVP: Via the ECU website
South West
Date: Tuesday, 7 June 2011
Time: 6.00pm to 7.30pm
Venue: ECU South West (Bunbury) Campus
RSVP: Via the ECU website


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In the cleverest volte-face of the year, Rian Johnson made everyone think they were going in for a smart, original piece of science-fiction reminiscent of "The Terminator" and "Twelve Monkeys," among other things. Audiences got that, but in the film's intimate, powerful second half, they also got a movie that turned out to be about parenting, about the problems of raising a troubled child, and about the consequences of trauma. And it was still a global hit. That's a pretty great smuggling act, if you ask me. This isn't to put down the film's first half, which sets up a genuinely distinctive near-future world (where Johnson's retro trappings make narrative sense, rather than feeling tacked-on), introduces two tremendous sides of the same coin in the performances from Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, plenty of intriguing philosophical dilemmas, and a grisly hall-of-fame demise for Paul Dano's character. But the real meat can be found in the second half, when Joe hides out on a farm with Sara (Emily Blunt) and her son Cid (Pierce Gagnon), who may or may not grow up to be a fearsome crime lord known as the Rainmaker. Suddenly, what was an enjoyably twisty chase thriller becomes an equally-gripping, but far more effective look at the old would-you-kill-Hitler-as-a-child dilemma. Johnson movingly argues that even a child as destructive and volatile as Cid shouldn't be written off. Anyone who's ever worked with or known children with... particular needs will surely identify, and I can't be the only person who thought of the film when reading this blog post a few weeks back. And all of that wrapped up in a beautifully made, fiercely original sci-fi picture that confirmed that Rian Johnson is one of our most exciting young filmmakers.
I liked Sarah Polley's "Take This Waltz" an awful lot, but there were enough dodgy directorial decisions (that passage-of-time sex scene, for instance) in place to keep it off this list. But I had no such issues with her follow-up, "Stories We Tell," which played the festival circuit, and was released in her native Canada, in 2013. A documentary (at least on the surface...) that serves as something of a companion piece to both "Take This Waltz" and her debut "Away From Her," it sees the director turn her lens on her own family, and specifically her parents, Michael and Diana (who passed away when Sarah was only eleven), who were both themselves actors when they met. Initially, it seems to be a sweet, lovingly-constructed home movie, but soon, Polley reveals there's a much stronger narrative throughline. I won't give it away here, but I did discuss it in my original review if you want to know more. What unfolds, through archive footage, interviews and reconstruction, is a story as absorbing as anything in any fictional film this year. The documentary form is perfect for a subject like this, where much of what the filmmaker is discussing is about the nature of memory, and truth, and Polley is upfront about the ethical dilemmas and difficulties of delving into her own past, and the means with which she does so. But for all its meta qualities, it's also a deeply humanistic story, in which Polley tries to get to the heart of the mother she never really knew, pay tribute to her repressed, but incredibly warm father, and work through her own identity crisis. That she does so in a film as warm, technically impressive and smart as this suggests that Polley's career as a director is only just getting started.
Given that it was made by a female director in an environment as hostile to both women and film as Saudi Arabia (where women can't drive, and cinemas have been closed for decades), it's genuinely staggering that "Wadjda" turned out as brilliantly as it did. Owing equal debt to Italian neo-realism and more contemporary Iranian cinema, Haifaa Al-Mansour's feature debut follows the title character, a rebellious 12-year-old girl who enters a Koran-recitation competition at school in order to win enough money to ride a bike, while her mother (Reem Abdullah) fights to hold on to her husband, whose wealthy mother is encouraging him to get a second wife. In many ways, Wadjda and Hushpuppy from "Beasts of the Southern Wild" feel like sisters; independent, spirited, mischievious and played without manner or precociousness (in this case, by the young Waad Mohammed). To a western audience, Riyadh might feel almost as alien as the Bathtub, and Al-Mansour shoots the city, and the world, with both the back-of-the-hand expertise of an insider, and the careful eye of an outsider (she went to film school in the U.S, and had to direct mostly from the back of a van, lest she be seen doing the job in public). Again, it's an unashamedly political picture, but relaying its message -- about the rotten lot of women in the country -- through the personal and the specific, with a humanism that refuses to demonize anyone, from Wadjda's father (Sultan Al Assaf), who loves his daughter and wife, but faces external pressures to marry again, to the stern headmistress Ms. Hussa (Ahd). It might tip into sentimentality in places, but it's the kind of sentiment that's entirely earned, and few would begrudge it in a film as warm, sweet and beautifully made as this.
Popular conception of much of European 'arthouse' cinema is that it's a form of eating your cultural vegetables; you'll go, and have your brain stretched, and feel better for it, but may not necessarily enjoy it very much. That can be true -- something like Cristian Mungiu's excellent, but punishing "Beyond The Hills," which just missed my list, probably does reaffirm those stereotypes. But I don't see how anyone could sit down to Miguel Gomes' "Tabu" and find it anything but one of the most enjoyable, romantic and beguiling experiences of the last year. Shot in hauntingly beautiful black-and-white, the first half, set in modern-day Lisbon, is a little more in step with some of the Portugese helmer's contemporaries, austere and slow-paced, but with plenty of wit and emotion there too. And it pays off extraordinarily well in the second-half, which heads back to colonial Africa for an homage to F.W. Murnau's film of the same name, silent beyond narration, and the occasional blast of Wall of Sound pop. And it's those Phil Spector records that feel particularly appropriate; this second half has the immediate swooning romantic qualities of a great three-minute pop song; vivid and sad and sexy as all get out. And yet there's much more going on besides, Gomes bringing a sharp but never overcooked flavor of post-colonialism, a lovely examination of memory and regret, as well as a formal playfulness. I have to confess that I wasn't really aware of the filmmaker before seeing "Tabu," but I'm going to be watching him like a hawk from now on.
From Terrence Malick's "To The Wonder" to the aforementioned "Tabu," the spirit of Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina" ran through a lot of film this year, so it's appropriate that 2012 saw a cinematic version of the original story that, while bold and cinematically inventive, manages to come close to being a definitive take on the classic, as well as being my favorite film of the year. In Tom Stoppard's spectacularly good script (I suspect the quality of which has been overlooked because so few film critics have actually read the book), it has a jumping off point that more than any previous take, digs into the themes of the novel -- the many forms that love takes, artificial metropolitan life vs. simple pastoral life -- and allows the peripheral characters their moment in the sun, while still keeping the running time at around a brisk two hours. And in Joe Wright's directorial decision to set the film almost entirely in a theater, it has a brilliant conceit, somewhere between Baz Luhrmann and Powell & Pressburger, both intimately theatrical and dazzlyingly, inventively cinematic. But it's also a case of the content dictating the style, rather than the other way around, creating a world that's beautifully created and absolutely true to the spirit of the novel. On first viewing, I mostly loved the film, but had some reservations, but a second viewing recently saw them fall away, even when it came to the biggest of them, Aaron Taylor-Johnson's turn (first-time round, he felt out of his depth, the second, that seemed to be the exact right approach to the part. Although his haircut's still silly). He's only one part of a fine ensemble that includes career-best work from Keira Knightley, a fierce turn from Jude Law that virtually reinvents the character, and lovely supporting performances from both older hands like Matthew Macfayden and Kelly Macdonald, and newer hands like Domhnall Gleeson and Alicia Vikander. I can understand why the take on the material threw some, but even those who are skeptics, or who aren't interested in the source material, should give "Anna Karenina" a try, because it was, for me, the single richest and most rewarding film of 2012.
Honorable Mentions: Other festival favorites include "A Hijacking," the gripping docu-drama from "The Hunt" co-writer Tobias Lindholm, which I stumbled upon semi-accidentally in Venice and proved to be one of the Lido highlights. I also (unexpectedly, given that I wasn't a big "Tree Of LIfe" fan) fell for Terrence Malick's "To The Wonder," a gorgeous and sincere look at people with great voids in their lives. And, while I didn't find that it held together in the way that its greatest fans did, some of the scenes and performances in Paul Thomas Anderson's "The Master" were among the best things I saw this year, while I also found Olivier Assayas' "Something In The Air" growing on me over time, while Harmony Korine's "Spring Breakers" is kind of a blast.
Otherwise, aside from the aforementioned "21 Jump Street" and "Beyond The Hills," I also loved Steven Soderbergh's "Magic Mike," his best film, in my eyes, since "Solaris," while Peter Strickland's "Berberian Sound Studio" was a hugely impressive sophomore film from the British director, with Toby Jones giving one of the best performances of the year. "Cabin In The Woods" was Joss Whedon's second triumph of 2012, while "Jeff Who Lives At Home" was an understated treat, while I also really liked the similarly Mark Duplass-related "Safety Not Guaranteed," and, until its hasty conclusion, "Your Sister's Sister," and "The Perks Of Being A Wallflower" turned out to be the best surprise I had all year. Plus, as a huge LCD Soundsystem fan, "Shut Up And Play The Hits" was like manna from heaven, and only just missed the top 15. And of the 2011 films that only hit the UK in 2012, "Rampart" and "Young Adult" were the best of them, even if neither quite cracked my final list.
Worst Of 2012: "Battleship" came close, but I really, really loathed "Ted." It might have a typically game performance from Mark Wahlberg at the center, and a few fitful laughs, but the rest of it seemed aimless, lazy and offensive without being transgressive (say what you like about the mostly weak "The Dictator," but it sets out to hit more taboo subjects than 'Chinese people speak funny.') That it was such a huge worldwide hit upset me more than almost anything else.


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Someone is manipulating ATV. Because it has low volume, one or a few traders are causing the stock to move wildly. This morning it started down quite a bit. Then, it jumped way up. I wonder who is playing games with this stock? It is undervalued, in my opinion, but their recent quarterly report showed modest increases in overall revenue. It certainly should rise over time, but not to the extent that is shown in these swings.
I think you may be right, look at the action today, bouncing back and forth between 3.7 and 4 with no stops in between.


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Intercultural Competence
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This book explores the idea of 'intercultural competence', which, despite its current popularity across various discourses, has remained a vague and oscillating concept. Interculture lacks a universal definition and 'competence' is not only a cognitive construct but also includes psychological traits such as attitudes, affective aspects and constructions of identity. The essays in this volume approach the complexity of the concept from a number of different angles. These include theoretical models for defining the concept of 'intercultural competence', outlining paths for future research; application of the concept in the teaching and learning of foreign languages, cultures and literatures; exploration of institutional and sociocultural influences on mediating intercultural competence; and analysis of the concept's impact on such diverse contexts as international business, religious constructs and notions of selfhood and identity. The volume develops a broad range of perspectives on intercultural competence, providing stimulating new ideas, reflections and models around this important concept.
Contents: Arnd Witte/Theo Harden: Introduction – Michael Byram: A Research Agenda for 'Intercultural Competence' – Darla K. Deardorff: Intercultural Competence in Foreign Language Classrooms: A Framework and Implications for Educators – Werner Müller-Pelzer: Intercultural Competence: A Phenomenological Approach – Theo Harden: The Perception of Competence: A History of a Peculiar Development of Concepts – Arnd Witte: On the Teachability and Learnability of Intercultural Competence: Developing Facets of the 'Inter' – Gillian Peiser: Does the Revised English MFL Curriculum Give Us Reasons to be Optimistic about Fostering Intercultural Understanding Amongst Key Stage 3 Language Learners? – Clarisse Costa Afonso: Intercultural Competence: A Major Issue in Foreign Language Teacher Training? – Claudia Borghetti: How to Teach It? Proposal for a Methodological Model of Intercultural Competence – Mary Georgiou: Can One Swallow Make the Summer? Teaching Intercultural Competence in an English Writing Course – Undine S. Weber/Rebecca Domingo: Adding Another Colour to the Rainbow: An Attempt at Imparting German Cultural Competence in a South African University Context – Heidi Zojer: Teaching 'Intercultural Competence' to 'Generation X' – Annelies Roskvist/Deborah Corder/Sharon Harvey/Karen Stacey: Developing Language Teacher Capability Through Immersion Programmes and the Impact on Student Language Learning, Cultural Knowledge and Intercultural Competence – Joke Simons/Yunsy Krols: Measuring Intercultural Competence – Heather Richards/Clare Conway/Annelies Roskvist/Sharon Harvey: A Framework for Analysing Observation Data: Language Teacher Provision of Opportunities for Learners to Develop Intercultural Competence – Kristin Brogan/Muiris Ó Laoire: Intercultural Learning in the Study Abroad Context – Sabrina Mallon-Gerland: An ILP Investigation of Disagreement Politeness Strategies Performed by German Working Professionals (GWP) – Lisa Stiefel: Learner Identity Construction, Intercultural Competence and Study Abroad – Théophile Ambadiang/Isabel García Parejo: Interculturality, Linguistic Culture and Alterity: A Further Look into Intercultural Competence – Áine Furlong/Fionnuala Kennedy: Towards the Development of Awareness in Intercultural Communicative Competence: A Tandem Exchange Experience – Thomas Johnen: What Can Cross-Cultural Conversation Transcript Analysis Contribute to the Development of Intercultural Competence? – Margit Krause-Ono/Sylvia Wächter: Culture? Communication? The Intercultural? A Comparative Study of Basic Concepts in ICC Education in Germany, Japan and the US – Marie Gervais: 'Eat ye, O people': The Role of Food, Religion and Hospitality in Intercultural Relations – Helen O'Sullivan/Gillian S. Martin/Breffni O'Rourke: The Irish are Too Polite: Analysing Stereotype and Identity Dynamics in Student WebChat – Rob Philburn: Aspects of English and German Sociable Selfhood – Marketa Goetz-Stankiewicz: Intercultural Competence: A Mirror for Literature? Some Thoughts on Václav Havel's Play Unveiling/Vernissage in Two Guises – Sieglinde Grimm: Empathy and Recognition: Two Concepts of Intercultural Learning in Literature Teaching with Rafik Schami's Fable The Sheep in Wolf's Clothing – Ana Gonçalves Matos: Current Readers and Intercultural Learning.
About the author(s)/editor(s)
Arnd Witte is Senior Lecturer in German and Head of Department at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland. He has published widely in the area of foreign language acquisition, particularly German as a Foreign Language. His specific research area is the acquisition of intercultural competence.
Theo Harden is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Second Language Studies at University College, Dublin, Ireland and Professor Adjunto at Universidade de Brasília, Brazil. He has published widely in the area of second language acquisition, particularly German as a Second Language. His research area is the acquisition of conceptual metaphors in a second language.
«This book is of obvious interest to scholars of language study, but there are also articles that could raise points of reflection for professionals in international business. As a teacher and teacher educator, I found several articles to be particularly useful.» (Katie B. Angus, The Linguist List 09/2012)
Intercultural Studies and Foreign Language Learning. Vol. 10
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Media Link: Political Risk and Sustainable Enterprise.
Posted on 15:25, March 8th, 2016 by Pablo
I was invited by the nice folk at sustainnews.co.nz to contribute a short essay related to sustainable economics from my perspective as a geopolitical and strategic analysis consultant. The essay wound up making the connection between political risk and sustainable enterprise, and more importantly, the relationship between sustainable enterprise and democracy. You are welcome to view it here.
Confronting executive branch excess.
Posted on 12:16, October 14th, 2015 by Pablo
Recent court victories by Jane Kelsey and Jon Stephenson have vindicated those who have long complained about the culture of excess that permeates the National government's cabinet. Excess and abuse of authority preceded the current government but this one has taken the practice to art form. It has resulted in allegations of corruption and behaviour such as that outlined in Nicky Hager's Dirty Politics, and it has compromised the integrity of the DPMC, GCSB, NZDF, Ombudsman and SIS in doing so. If it did not openly encourage, at a minimum it facilitated managerial excess in agencies "overseen" by a variety of ministerial portfolios. The combination of ministerial and managerial excess–executive excess, to re-coin the phrase–is malignant in a liberal democracy.
Apparently the courts, or perhaps better said, two High Court judges, have caught on to the problem. Although the reasoning of the judge that forced the Stephenson settlement has not been made public, the judge in the Kelsey versus Groser case made abundantly clear that the "unlawful" behaviour exhibited by Groser and his staff included the Office of the Ombudsman as well as abuse of process. Likewise, the settlement of the Stephenson case involved not only a payment but a retraction and statement of regret by the NZDF as an institution, rather than by the command officer who was the subject of the defamation lawsuit. That suggests that more than one individual and branch of government may have had a hand in slandering Mr. Stephenson. Yet no independent review of their actions has been done.
There are other instances where the independence and integrity of reviewing agencies have come into question. Think of the Police Complaints Authority and the skepticism with which its findings are held. Think of past findings (such as during the Zaoui case) by the Inspector General of Intelligence and Security. Think of the way Crown Law has behaved in several high profile politically charged cases. Although adjustments have been made to some oversight agencies like the IGSI and not all oversight agencies are uniformly compromised, there appears to be a necrosis spreading across the system of institutional checks and balances in Aotearoa.
Those who regularly submit Official Information Act (OIA) requests will already know that the process is routinely abused, especially but not exclusively by security services. Delays beyond the mandated time frame for response are common. Censoring of material prior to release is common. So is the Ombudsman's practice of upholding decisions to withhold or censor material on broadly defined national security grounds. Cynics might say that is a case of one hand washing the other. Others might go further and say that the problem is systemic rather than random and occasional. However skepticism is voiced, there is a sense that when it comes to the Ombudsman and other oversight agencies, they are more about whitewashing than honest scrutiny.
This again raises the issue of politically neutral, independent and transparent oversight. I have written a fair bit on the need for independent oversight of intelligence agencies above and beyond the Inspector General of Intelligence and Security, Commissioner of Warrants and current Select Committee on Intelligence and Security. I have not written about the problems with the Office of the Ombudsman and treatment of OIAs. But it should be clear by now that when it comes to democratic oversight of executive departments and those that lead them, New Zealand is hollow at its core.
Readers may recall that I have written about horizontal and vertical accountability in the democratic state. This academic concept finds real meaning in this case. Beyond the problem of vertical accountability in a country where electoral preferences are the subject of poll-driven media manipulation by government PR agents, elite cronyism is the norm and where civil society organisations are weak in the face of that, there is a serious lack of horizontal accountability in New Zealand. Agencies such as the Ombudsman that are entrusted with overseeing the behaviour of politicians and senior state managers are seemingly subordinate (or at least submissive) to them. With some notable exceptions, when it comes to executive excess even the courts appear to have become as much instruments as they are arbiters of government policy and behaviour.
The first question that has to be asked is when does ministerial skirting or manipulation of the rules rise to the level of criminal offence? Is the complicity of more than one government entity (say, MFAT and the Ombudsman) in circumventing or obstructing OIA requests a trigger for a criminal investigation? If not, what is? If so, who prosecutes the offence given current institutional arrangements?
There are a number of reviews and investigations of government agencies already underway. There are Royal Commissions on matters of policy. Private prosecutions are possible. Constitutional experts may know the answer, but I wonder if there also is an overarching investigatory body or process with legal authority that can look into the system of institutional (horizontal) accountability and oversight mechanisms currently operative in the country. I ask because from where I sit the system looks broken.
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So much for intelligence community reform.
Posted on 18:36, February 17th, 2015 by Pablo
It turns out that nearly 5 months after getting re-elected, the government has decided on the composition of the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC). Besides himself as Chair of the ISC, the Prime Minister gets to select two members from the government parties and the Opposition Leader gets to select one member from opposition parties. In both cases the respective Leaders are expected under Section 7 (1) (c,d) of the 1996 Intelligence and Security Committee Act to consult with the other parties on their side of the aisle before selecting the remaining members of the committee. The language of the Act is quite specific: "c) 2 members of the House of Representatives nominated for the purpose by the Prime Minister following consultation with the leader of each party in Government: (d) 1 member of the House of Representatives nominated for the purpose by the Leader of the Opposition, with the agreement of the Prime Minister, following consultation with the leader of each party that is not in Government or in coalition with a Government party." (1996 ISCA, pp. 6-7).
Not surprisingly the government has nominated two National MPs, Attorney General Chris Finlayson and Justice Minister Amy Adams, for membership on the ISC. It is not clear if ACT, the Maori Party and United Future were consulted before their selection. What is more surprising is that Andrew Little nominated David Shearer and did not consult with opposition parties before making his selection. While Shearer is a person with considerable international experience and has been a consumer of intelligence (as opposed to a practitioner) during his career, Mr. Little has been neither. In fact, it can be argued that Mr. Little has the least experience of all the proposed members when it comes to issues of intelligence and security, which means that he will have to lean very heavily on Mr. Shearer if he is not not be overmatched within the ISC.
Moreover, in past years Russell Norman, Peter Dunne and Winston Peters have been on the ISC, so the move to re-centralise parliamentary oversight in the two major parties represents a regression away from the democratisation of representation in that oversight role. Since these two parties have been in government during some of the more egregious acts of recent intelligence agency misbehaviour (for example, the Zaoui case, where intelligence was manipulated by the SIS to build a case against him at the behest of or in collusion with the 5th Labour government, and the case of the illegal surveillance of Kim Dotcom and his associates by the GCSB in collusion or at the behest of the US government under National, to say nothing of the ongoing data mining obtained via mass electronic trawling under both governments), this does not portend well for the upcoming review of the New Zealand intelligence community that this ISC is charged with undertaking.
The Greens have expressed their disgust at being excluded and have, righty in my opinion, pointed out that they are the only past members of the ISC that have taken a critical look at the way intelligence is obtained, analysed and used in New Zealand. But that appears to be exactly why they were excluded. According to John Key, Labour's decision was "the right call" and he "totally supports it." More tellingly, Mr. Key said the following: "A range of opposition voices from the minor parties could railroad the process. I don't think the committee was terribly constructive over the last few years, I think it was used less as a way of constructing the right outcomes for legislation, and more as a sort of political battleground" (my emphasis added).
In other words, Russell Norman took his membership on the ISC seriously and did not just follow along and play ball when it came to expanding state powers of search and surveillance under the Search and Surveillance Act of 2012 and GCSB Act of 2014.
That is a very big concern. Mr. Key believes that the "right" outcomes (which have had the effect of expanding state espionage powers while limiting its accountability or the institutional checks imposed on it) need to be produced by the ISC when it comes to the legal framework governing the intelligence community. Those who would oppose such outcomes are not suitable for membership, a view with which Andrew Little seems to agree.
This is so profoundly an undemocratic view on how intelligence oversight should work that I am at a loss for words to explain how it could come from the mouth of a Prime Minister in a liberal democracy and be tacitly seconded by the Leader of the Opposition–unless they have genuine contempt for democracy. That is a trait that W. Bush, Tony Blair and John Howard shared as well, but what does that say about the state of New Zealand democracy?
Mr. Little has given his reason to exclude Metiria Turei of the Greens from ISC membership as being due to the fact the Mr. Norman is stepping down in May and Mr. Little wanted "skills, understanding and experience" in that ISC position. Besides insulting Ms. Turei (who has been in parliament for a fair while and co-Leader of the Greens for 5 years), he also gave the flick to Mr. Peters, presumably because that old dog does not heel too well. As for Mr. Dunne, well, loose lips have sunk his ship when it comes to such matters.
The bottom line is that Mr. Little supports Mr. Key's undemocratic approach to intelligence oversight. Worse yet, it is these two men who will lead the review of the NZ intelligence community and propose reform to it, presumably in light of the debacles of the last few years and the eventual revelations about NZ espionage derived from the Snowden files.
As I said last year in the built-up to the vote on the GCSB Amendment Act, I doubted very much that for all its rhetorical calls for an honest and thorough review process that led to significant reform, Labour would in fact do very little to change the system as given because when it is in government it pretty much acts very similar to National when it comes to intelligence and security. If anything, the differences between the two parties in this field are more stylistic than substantive.
What I could not have foreseen was that Labour would drop all pretence of bringing a critical mindset to the review and instead join National in a move to limit the amount of internal debate allowable within the ISC at a time when it finally had an important task to undertake (in the form of the intelligence community review).
As a result, no matter how many public submissions are made, or how many experts, interest groups and laypeople appear before the ISC hearings, and how much media coverage is given to them, I fear that the end result will be more of the same: some cosmetic changes along the margins, some organisational shuffles and regroupings in the name of streamlining information flows, reducing waste and eliminating duplication of functions in order to promote bureaucratic efficiency, and very little in the way of real change in the NZ intelligence community, especially in the areas of oversight and accountability.
From now on it is all about going through the motions and giving the appearance of undertaking a serious review within the ISC. For lack of a better word, let's call this the PRISM approach to intelligence community reform.
Blog Link: Slater/Key/OIA/SIS–irrefutable proof of the PM's lies.
Posted on 08:56, August 27th, 2014 by Pablo
Not that readers of KP will need much convincing, but Selwyn Manning has written a decisive essay on why the PM is lying about his involvement in the Slater/SIS/OIA fiasco. To do so he uses the State Services Commission's guidelines for the release of sensitive information. The question now is twofold: 1) should NZ trust an individual as PM who overtly involves himself in political dirty tricks such as those uncovered by Nicky Hager? 2) should NZ trust a PM who repeatedly bald faced lies to the public on matters of considerable import?
As the saying goes, we may be stupid but we are not idiots.
Anyway, read the proof for yourself.
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Why Throw in the Towel?
Posted on 16:23, August 20th, 2014 by Pablo
In the wake of Nicky Hager's latest revelations, Chris Trotter has penned a cynical defense of dirty politics as being the norm. For Chris, when it comes to politics "(t)he options are not fair means or foul: they are foul means or fouler."
Idiot Savant at No Right Turn categorically rejects this view. I agree with him and can only add that either Chris has lost his ideological bearings or has consciously decided to join the Dark Side.
The Standard reprinted the NRT post and I commented on it there. Here is what I wrote:
"The stability of democracy is based on mutual contingent consent, not only between capitalists and workers but between opposing political factions. Mutual contingent consent requires that all actors accept mutual second best outcomes (that is, no one gets their preferred outcome all of the time), something that is evident, for example, in compromises over wages and employment conditions at the bargaining table or in the lobbying of political parties over legislation. "Winning" is therefore temporary and tempered by the pursuit of self-limiting strategies in pursuit of the mutual second best. Otherwise the political game descends into zero-sum self-interested maximisation of collective opportunities. That is not democracy, even if there are those within the democratic system who adhere to such views.
This is why Chris is wrong. He mistakes the venal pursuits of a political few for the general substance of democracy as a political form. The pursuit of dirty politics represents a fundamental corrosion of democratic principle and practice. It reflects a fundamental contempt for the foundational tenets of this type of governance. That this contempt is channeled into underhanded tactics by some does not undermine the core values upon which democracy rests and in fact serves to underscore what democracy is not. That the resort to dirty politics in NZ has at its core a group of people with pathological tendencies and profoundly disagreeable personalities is further proof that their style of play is not politics as usual.
Chris may be a bit jaded by years of fighting the good fight in losing wars. He seems to given up all hope that politics can be played cleanly. But he and many others (including some on the Right) would not have fought, and continue to fight, if they did not think that there was a better way to do things in pursuit of a just society. Mr. Slater, Mr. Ede, Mr. Bhatnagar, Ms. Odgers, Judith Collins and John Key clearly do not, but that does not mean that democracy as a whole is reducible to their contemptible view of politics."
Let us be crystal clear. There is no moral equivalence between what the Left does or may wish to do versus what the organised dirty tricks cell centred around Cameron Slater does. Moreover, what Slater and company do centrally underpins not just how National engages politics, but how ACT has done as well. In contrast, Left activist groups may sputter about "direct action," hold demonstrations and on occasion undertake animal liberations or environmental defense by climbing into trees or blocking trains, but they do not systematically attempt to uncover dirty laundry in order to smear, blackmail or undermine opponents within and outside their partisan ranks. They do not take covert money in order to cut and paste ghost written attack columns supplied by others. They do not get favoured backdoor access to sensitive government documents based upon their partisan, when not ministerial, connections. Perhaps that is why they are less effectual than those on the Dark Side.
The institutional Left centred in the Labour Party may gossip about their rivals across the aisle and backstab each other in factional disputes, but even then there are limits to where they will go in the pursuit of "winning." The Slater-led dirty tricksters have no such limits.
Whatever his motivations, Chris needs to reconsider his position. There still is room for the good fight to be fought fairly even if the opponent does not. Contrary to what John Key believes, that applies as much to politics as it does to sports.
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Another National double standard.
Posted on 15:16, May 1st, 2014 by Pablo
Maurice Williamson is forced to resign as Minister because he made a phone call to the police asking them to be undertake a thorough review and be "on solid ground" when investigating a domestic violence incident involving a wealthy Chinese friend of his who invested a lot of money in New Zealand (the same Chinese fellow granted citizenship over the objections of immigration authorities, and who donated more than NZ$ 20 thousand to National in 2012).
Judith Collins retains her ministerial portfolios in spite of revelations that she interceded with Chinese officials on behalf of her husband's export company while on an official visit to China that had nothing to do with exports or trade.
What is similar and what is different about the two cases? They are similar in that they both involve Chinese nationals with economic ties to the National party or entities linked to it. They are similar in that the ministerial interventions were in violation of the cabinet manual regarding conflicts of interest. They also represent obvious forms of political influence peddling.
How are they different? Collins is a a key player on National's front bench, whereas Williamson is on the outers with National's heavy hitters. Thus he is expendable while she is not.
Comparatively speaking, Williamson's crime was arguably less than that of Collins. He made a call on behalf of a constituent urging Police diligence when investigating the charges against his friend, then left the matter at that. The fact that rather than tell the minister to buzz off the cops bent over backwards to satisfy him that they were on "solid ground" before prosecuting is a police issue, not a Williamson issue (the Police decided to prosecute in any event, with Mr. Liu eventually pleading guilty to two charges of domestic violence).
Collins used taxpayer funded official travel to take time out of her official schedule to divert and meet with Chinese business associates of her husband over dinner in the presence of an unnamed Chinese government official at a time when her husband's business interests in China were being hindered by official reviews of New Zealand based export contracts. Although she had no real business being there, she brought an aide with her, adding to the impression that her presence at that dinner had the stamp of official approval.
Of the two, which is more obviously a conflict of interest and which has the clear stench of corruption wafting over it? Of the two, which one would be viewed more dimly by the likes of Transparency International (the anti-corruption agency that habitually lists NZ amongst the least corrupt countries to do business in)?
Hypocrisy much in the handling of the two cases by the Prime Minister? You be the judge, by I think that there is.
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Posted on 13:54, May 15th, 2013 by Pablo
Although I always knew that "hope and change" was a rhetorical chimera rather than a realizable objective, and understand full well that the US presidency is a strait jacket on the ambitions of those who occupy its office, I am one of those who have been disappointed by the Obama administration on several counts.
I fully understand that he inherited a mess and has done well to dig out from under it, particularly with regard to revitalizing the economy and disengaging from two unpopular wars. With some caveats, I support the drone campaign against al-Qaeda. I support his health care reforms, his support for gay marriage and his efforts to promote renewable energy. I support his measured endorsement of the Arab Spring coupled with his cautious approach to intervention in Libya and Syria, where he has used multilateral mechanisms to justify and undertake armed intervention against despotic regimes (US intervention being mostly covert, with the difference that in Libya there was a no-fly zone enforced by NATO whereas in Syria there is not thanks to Russian opposition).
But I am disappointed in other ways. The failure to close the detention facility at the Guantanamo Bay Marine and Naval base, and the failure to put those detained there on trial in US federal courts because of local political opposition, are foremost amongst them. Now, more egregious problems have surfaced.
It turns out that after the attacks on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11, 2012, the administration removed from its "talking points" for press briefings and interviews the facts that the attack was conducted by al-Qaeda affiliates (and were not a spontaneous response to an anti-Islamic on-line video, as was claimed), that repeated requests for security reinforcement at the consulate before the attacks were denied in spite of warnings about imminent threats, and then military assets were withheld during the incident (which lasted eight hours).
The public deception was out of proportion to the overall impact of the attack. Whether or not al-Qaeda affiliates conducted it, serious questions about the lack of security were bound to be raised. The White House appears to have panicked under campaign pressure about the significance of the date of the attack and who was attacking (a purely symbolic matter), compounding the real issue of State Department responsibility for the security failures involved.
While not as bad as the W. Bush administration fabricating evidence to justify its rush to war in Iraq, it certainly merits condemnation.
There is more. It turns out the IRS (the federal tax department, for those unfamiliar with it), undertook audits of right-wing political organizations seeking tax-exempt status as non-profit entities. IRS auditors were instructed to use key words and phrases such as "Patriot," "Tea Party" and other common conservative catch-phrases as the basis for deeper audits of organizations using them. That is against the law, albeit not unusual: the W. Bush administration engaged in the same type of thing.
Most recently it has been revealed that the Department of Justice, led by Attorney General Eric Holder (a recent visitor to NZ), secretly obtained two months of phone records from over 100 Associated Press reporters and staff, to include their home land lines, office and cell phones (in April-May 2012). The purpose was to uncover leaks of classified information about counter-terrorism operations to reporters after AP managers refused to cooperate with government requests to divulge the sources of leaks. That made the phone tapping legal. But there was an option: the government could have subpoenaed those suspected of receiving leaks and forced them to testify under oath as to their sources.
The main reason I am disappointed is that the Obama administration should have been better than this. I never expected the W. Bush (or the Bush 41, Reagan or Nixon administrations) to do anything but lie, cover up, fabricate, intimidate and manipulate in pursuit of their political agendas. They did not disappoint in that regard. But I do expect Democrats in general, and Obama in particular, to behave better in office. They are supposedly the defenders of the common folk, upholders of human rights and civil liberties, purportedly staunch opponents of corporate excess and abuses of privilege.
Republicans inevitably use public office to target domestic opponents and bend the law in favor of the rich and powerful. Democratic administrations are supposed to be better because, among other things, they know the consequences of such manipulation. Yet apparently they are not, even if these events pale in comparison to the crimes and misdemeanors of Republican administrations.
I am not being naive. I spent time working in federal agencies under both Republican and Democratic administrations in the 1980s and 1990s, and the difference in approach to the public trust, at least in the fields that I worked in, were great and palpable. It would seem that the things have changed since then.
Democratic governance often involves the compromise of principles in the pursuit of efficiency or cooperation in policy-making. There are always grey areas in the conduct of national affairs, and there are events and actions where reasons of necessity make secrecy more important than transparency in governance. The actions outlined above are neither.
I still prefer Obama to any of the GOP chumps that rail against him. But as John Stewart makes clear in this funny but scathing (and profane) critique, he and his administration have just stooped closer to their level.
Hence my disappointment.
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They Never Learn.
Posted on 12:27, May 23rd, 2012 by Pablo
There is an old rule in politics that states that it is not the original sin that gets politicians in trouble. It is the cover-up or lying about it that does them in. The examples that prove the rule are too numerous to mention and span the globe. This week we have another classic case in point: Shane Jones and his explanation as to why, as Associate Minister of Immigration (the Minister of Immigration at the time, David Cunliffe, had earlier refused to revoke Liu/Yan's residence visa and for some reason unknown to me was not involved in the granting of citizenship), he ignored expert legal advice and granted a Chinese fraudster expedited citizenship.
According to Jones he did so on humanitarian grounds because he was told by an unnamed Internal Affairs official that the applicant–he of at least three different names and an Interpol warrant out for his arrest–would be executed and his organs harvested if he were sent back to China. Forgive me if I cough. That is up there with Annette King's claims that no one in the Labour government knew about Operation 8 until the weekend before it began.
Others have already torn Mr. Jone's supposed rationale to shreds. Beyond the fact that not even the Chinese execute people for common fraud, even if they are members of Falun Gong (a claim supposedly made by but never proven by Mr. Liu/Yan), a legitimate fear of a politically-motivated death sentence would result in an asylum request, not a citizenship application based upon a business visa. Nor would Mr. Liu/Yan speak of traveling back to China with a delegation of Kiwis in order to explore business opportunities in the PRC (as it is claimed he did in his conversations with immigration officials now testifying at his trial on false declaration charges). But according to Shane Jones, not only was he facing certain death but also certain organ harvesting (which raises the question as to how the unnamed Internal Affairs official could know this in advance given that the Chinese do not harvest organs from all executed prisoners because the health of the condemned varies). Put bluntly, Mr. Jones is simply not credible, and unless that unnamed official comes forward to take responsibility for the bogus claims (which Mr. Jones could have ignored), his justification simply does not wash. Add in the fact that Mr. Liu/Yan had donated considerable sums of money to Labour coffers in the lead-in to his citizenship application, and the smell of something fishy permeates the affair.
What is amazing is that when confronted with the evidence presented in court, David Shearer continued to back Mr. Jones and even allowed him to go public with is ridiculous justification. That violates a second rule of politics, which is that when smoke begins to surround a politician on ethical issues his or her party needs to move swiftly to prevent a full-fledged fire from erupting by distancing the tainted one from the party as a whole. By not doing so immediately and only leaving open the possibility of standing Jones down if an investigation proves him guilty of wrong-doing in the Liu/Yan affair, Mr. Shearer has failed the basic test of leadership that involves saving the party from further uncomfortable scrutiny on the issue of campaign financing and political donations.
Once again, let us remember the iron law of oligarchy that governs all political parties: the first duty of the party is to preserve itself. Individual political fortunes come second. Legalities aside, it is the appearance of unethical behavior on the part of Mr. Jones that is at play here.
What is even more amazing is that this comes on the heels of the John Banks-Kin Dotcom scandal and John Key's equally egregious mistake in not removing Banks from his ministerial post while the Police investigated whether Banks violated political finance laws in his dealing with Mr. Dotcom. Regardless of whether the press played this sequence of events on purpose, the scenario unfolded as follows: National was on the ropes in the weeks leading up to a dismal budget announcement, beleaguered by policy and personal conflicts and dogged by an increasingly assertive mainstream press. Rather than strike a contrast in approach that would give it the moral high ground that would allow it to score major political points against its weakened rival, Labour's response to revelations of the dubious ethics of one of its senior members in a past government–dubious ethics that are being aired in court for crikey's sake–is to bluster and blow more smoke on the matter. Do they never learn?
Just as Mr. Key should have removed Mr. Banks from his ministerial position as soon as his denials and lies about his relationship with Mr. Dotcom were exposed, so Mr. Shearer should have moved quickly to demote Mr. Jones until such a time as an independent investigation exonerated him. Given the passing of a few news cycles and the issue would have faded into the political "bygones be bygones" category. By not doing so Mr. Shearer has allowed the Jones-Liu/Yan relationship to become a distraction away from National's peccadillos and policy failures. He has, in fact, thrown National a life line in the days before the budget announcement and the decision to demote Banks (who could stay in government but not be a minister pending the resolution of the Police investigation), and I would imagine that the National caucus are high-fiving and back-slapping each other in delight.
Of course there are political calculations in all of this. By-elections are costly, list candidate replacements are unproven or unreliable, internal Party factional disputes run the risk of being aggravated or exposed. National is clearly waiting for the Budget to be announced before moving on Banks. Labour does not want to lose a senior figure who "ticks the boxes" of important internal constituencies. And yes, there is a difference between illegal and unethical activity.
But in putting these calculations ahead of ethical considerations given the appearance of impropriety, both parties have once again shown their contempt for the NZ public. And on this score, Labour's contempt is much worse. After all, Mr. Banks was just a greasy-palmed private citizen seeking to be mayor when he approached Mr. Dotcom for support. Mr. Jones, on the other hand, was a Minister of State who apparently used his office to bestow special considerations on an individual in exchange for, uh, party "favors." Both actions were slimy, but it is the official nature of Mr. Jones's intercession that makes his behavior worse. Which is why he should have been stood down straight away, because rightly or wrongly, it is the attempt to downplay or cover up past impropriety, rather than the potentially unethical or illegal behavior itself, that will cling to the Labour Party long after Mr. Liu/Yan's case is adjudicated.
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A Culture of Impunity?
Posted on 15:16, January 27th, 2012 by Pablo
During the dark years of dictatorship in South America in the 1970s and 1980s, there emerged a phrase to capture the attitude of the elites who benefitted from such rule: the culture of impunity. It referred not only to the attitude of the uniformed tyrants who ran the regimes, but more to that of the civilian elites who gave them social and economic support, and who benefitted lavishly thanks to the repression and restrictive laws on basic rights of association, dissent and movement. These civilian elites literally lived above the law, since they could, if not be directly protected by the regime's thugs, be immune from prosecution or liability for crimes and other transgressions they committed simply because of who they were. Murders, rapes, abuse of servants, violent attacks on members of the public–all of these type of behavior were excused, ignored or bought off rather than be held legally accountable (I do not mention justice simply because it is impossible to have real justice under dictatorial conditions). Although there was variation in the attitude of some elites and cross-country differences appeared as well, the bottom line is that during the authoritarian period in South America a culture of impunity developed that was one of the salient social characteristics of the regimes in question.
With that in mind I ask readers if such a culture of impunity exists in NZ. I ask because it strikes me that although diluted and less repressive in genesis, there appears to be an attitude of impunity in the political and economic elite. They can buy silence and name suppression when they misbehave; with a wink and a nod they accommodate employment for their friends and provide sinecures for each other (think of various Boards); they consider themselves better informed, in the know, more worldly and therefore unaccountable to the popular masses when it comes to making policy (think of the use of parliamentary urgency to ram through contentious legislation and the NZDF command lies about what the SAS is actually doing in Afghanistan); they award themselves extraordinary powers in some times of crisis (Christchurch) while absolving themselves of responsibility in others (Rena). They use the Police for their own purposes (Teapot Tapes and Occupy evictions, the latter happening not because of public consensus but done by summary executive fiat). More generally, think of the lack of transparency in how government decisions are made and the duplicity of elite statements about economic issues (say, the price of wage goods) and political matters (e.g., recent internal security legislation). Coupled with equally opaque decision-making in NZ's largest publicly-traded firms, or the cozy overlap between sectors of the judiciary and other elites, the list of traded favors and protections is long.
None of this would matter if NZ was run by Commodore Bainimarama. It would just be another Pacific island state ruled by a despot and his pals. But as a liberal parliamentary democracy NZ regularly scores highly on Freedom House and Transparency International indexes, to the point that it is often mentioned at the least corrupt country on earth (which is laughable on the face of things and which raises questions about the methodologies involved in such surveys). To be sure, in NZ traffic cops do not take cash bribes and judges do not have prostitutes procured for them by QCs representing defendants, but corruption does not have to be blatant and vulgar to be pervasive. And in the measure that elite sophistication in accommodating fellow elites outside of the universal standards applicable to everyone else is accepted as routine and commonplace, then a culture of impunity exists as well.
My experience in NZ academia, two respectable volunteer organizations and in dealing with national and local government officials suggests to me that such a culture of impunity does exist. It may not be that of Pinochet, Videla, Stroessner, Banzer or Geisel, but it seems pervasive. It appears to have gotten worse since I arrived in 1997, which may or may not be the fault of market-driven social logics and the "greed is good" mentality that has captured the imaginations of financiers, developers and other business magnates (or it could just be a product of a long-established tradition of bullying, which has now spilled over into elite attitudes towards the country as a whole).
Mind you, this does not make NZ a bad place. It simply means that there is an encroaching, subversive authoritarian sub-culture at play amongst the NZ political and economic elite that undermines the purported egalitarianism and equality on which the country is ostensibly founded (I am sure there are sectors of Maoridom who will take reasoned exception to that claim). And if so, has the corrosive culture seeped into the body politic at large so that almost anyone is a relative position of power vis a vis others thinks that s/he can get away with behavior otherwise contrary to normal standards of decency and responsibility?
Does NZ has a culture of impunity?
Question of the Day.
Posted on 12:45, October 18th, 2011 by Pablo
Is the global "Occupy" movement a genuine grassroots mobilisation with revolutionary potential or is it bound to fizzle out, be coopted, voluntarily moderate its demands or splinter into myriad fringe groups without promoting substantive change in the socio-economic status quo?
Interested readers are invited to share their views.
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Former Bethany quarterback Ryley Claborn has seen how expensive it can get for a young football player to make the rounds on the summer camp circuit.
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here's an excerpt from an article I found pretty interesting: one more thing listed below:DSL.net will aim highBuddy Pickle ready to market hard"Somebody in this room will be the next Microsoft. I'm convinced of it, because broadband is the key to the future," Buddy Pickle told a wireless meeting four years ago, as he rode Teligent to the top of the boom. After Teligent, he tried fiber at Velocita, and now is in wireline, replacing David Struwas at DSL.net. Their network is extraordinary, with facilities throughout most major east coast cities. SBC funded that network, built by NAS, when they were considering the national/local strategy. SBC intended to compete with Verizon, who was buying NorthPoint to get national facilities, and AT&T, intending in 2000 to aggressively market bundles. DSL.net picked up the assets for pennies on the dollar, and Pickle now needs to provide sales energy and create earnings. An extraordinary 10 million options are part of his hiring package. DSL.net, like New Edge, was created when Wall Street money thought small town DSL would be as profitable as the major cities NorthPoint, Rhythms, and Covad were wiring. A $3B investment in those companies was worth about $17B at the peak, and VC's and private equity funded a dozen other DLECs looking for similar returns. Nearly all have failed, but DSL.net and New Edge survived by changing business models. New Edge became primarily a systems house, and reports positive EBITDA. DSL.net resold Covad in the larger cities, and bought NAS for a major market presence. They've cut back several times as revenues have been hard to find, meaning a super-salesman as CEO may be highly effective. With luck, their recent 63 layoffs will be their last, and their NASDAQ problems get resolved happily. However "the company has experienced sustained operating losses that raise substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern.�proof that DSLN and verizon are in talks:http://www22.verizon.com/wholesale/attachments/calendar/03_2003_meeting_transcript.pdf
this is dated March, 2003...talks don't usually last over a year.


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