Russell gives his view on the US election which has taken a sordid and vicious turn with racist taunts reportedly thrown at a black cameraman working at one of Sarah Palin’s campaign addresses. The Media 7 show tonight focuses on Fonterra farm dirty steams and Russell reports on the panel discussion. Finally its the Vodafone NZ Music Awards tonight, Russell is looking forward to a night out and I will be broadcasting live and twittering “behind the curtain”
Russell Brown is chief blogger at publicaddress.net
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David Slack offers some insight to what is really important when it comes to tactics in a political debate in relations to today’s matchup between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin. Also with a glass half full mindset David puts a positive spin on the looming recession and suggests that queuing up at the soup kitchen may not be so bad after all.
David Slack blogs at publicaddress.net keeps the recession at bay at speeches.com
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Russell Brown ponders Sarah Palin’s performance in recent prime time television interviews and assesses her potential in this weeks vice-presidential debate against Joe Biden. Can comparisons be drawn to the political debates between John Key and Helen Clark and does it matter if the other smaller parties are not there?
Russell Brown is chief blogger at publicaddress.net
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How are we to know whether politicians mean what they are saying? Software programs that can analyse a person’s speech, voice or facial expressions can now make it easier for us to distinguish straight talk from spin. One researcher has used his software to analyse speeches of John McCain, Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton – and found Obama’s speeches to contain higher spin than either McCain or Clinton. While another study which analysed the candidate’s voices, found that McCain’s voice profile “looked like that of someone who is clinically depressed”
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While bird flu may have faded from the headlines, governments and scientists are as concerned as ever about the dangers it poses. This week, scientists are flocking to a conference in Portugal to discuss the problem. But H5N1 isn’t the only threat. The H9 flu virus common in poultry across Eurasia now carries several of the same genes that make H5N1 so deadly. A few more mutations and H9 could become a killer too. Meanwhile, one strain of ordinary human flu has developed near-total resistance to the antiviral drug Tamiflu.
Bianca Nogrady is a freelance science and medical writer and also a broadcaster for New Scientist magazine.
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