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On friday I noted to myself that in our long tradition of marking comment milestones that I should write a post about a milestone in comments by the end of the weekend. So belatedly, here it is... Eddie predicted back in December 2012 with that we'd…
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We're living a lie in New Zealand. We tell ourselves and we tell the world that we're this amazingly environmentally conscious and sustainable country when, in fact, we've turned most of it into a giant farm, most of the rivers are unsafe to swim due…
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A timely press release from the Law Society. Here it is in full: GCSB Bill remains flawed despite proposed changes Proposed changes to the GCSB Bill represent minor improvements but do not address the fundamental flaws in the bill and the legislation should not proceed,…
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The Government Communications and Security Amendment Bill or to use its real name the Increased Spying and Hand Our Metadata over to the Americans Bill is the first bill in line to be debated today in Parliament according to today's order paper. As at the…
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The world has become a very strange place when NZ is getting lectured by China. Problem is, they aren't wrong. 100% Pure 'festering sore' - China news sites China's state-run news agency has delivered a sharp critique of New Zealand in the wake of Fonterra's…
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The evidence on why John Key and his government cannot be trusted with their spying power just keeps adding up. That power is used indiscriminately and inappropriately. Journalists spied on so far include Andrea Vance, Jon Stephenson, and now, so we learned in the weekend,…
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Rupert's at it again. The Murdoch media, notably the Australian, but also Sky News, were vicious in their pursuit of Gillard but it wasn't personal. Now they're after Rudd. And with Rudd as well, it isn't personal or even political, it's business as usual. Content…
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They came for the unions/workers, and the journalists didn't care,. They came for the poor, the sick, and the old, and the journalists didn't care. They came for the young, and the unemployed, and the journalists still supported them. The sold out our country, and…
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Last Wednesday, Campbell Live began a promised series of programmes over the coming month, each based around one Big Issue that impact on all new Zealanders. On Wednesday night, CL's 3 segments focused on different angles of the issue of public versus private transport, and…
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The information on which products are at risk from the Fonterra botulism scare has taken far too long to come out. Thanks 3 News for this list (so far): Several products have been recalled in New Zealand, including two of Nutricia's Karicare formulas. ... "None…
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As widely reported, Australia is off to the polls on Sept 7th. Rudd sets poll date as Labor support peaks Australia will go to the polls on September 7, ending weeks of speculation and narrowing polls since Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's return to power in…
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Welcome to John Key's "Brighter Future". Here are some headlines: Violation speaks ill of our democracy ...It also speaks of something very sick and rotten at the heart of the country's democracy. ... Time to get a grip on politics for our own good ...Strip…
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Were David Henry and his staff the right people to pursue an inquiry? After all it appears that they were incapable of opening a Outlook .pst (personal storage table) file because it wasn't in a format that another email system - groupwise. And this appears…
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National's Friday afternoon document dump of emails between the Henry enquiry and Parliamentary Services is a trove of information. John Armstrong describes the whole mess as "Govt betrayal on a monumental scale". Anyone planning to sort through the email evidence trail will find that a…
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The Herald this morning reported on how the police obtained a search warrant to seize Teapot taper Bradley Ambrose's text messages. Law Professor Bill Hodge described the obtaining the warrant as mind boggling. As Hodge said: Why in hell would they have those, for what…
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My semi-regular Sunday piece of interesting, longer, deeper stories I found during the week. It’s also a chance for you to share what you found this week too. Those stimulating links you wanted to share, but just didn’t fit in anywhere (no linkwhoring). This week: Climate change,…
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A Sunday feature - each week a random section scanned from a copy of The Standard, September 15th, 1938. Find out more here. Click on the image for a bigger version.
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John Key's artwork is being auctioned. According to the NZ Herald, Key's artwork is an outline of his hand, and Key has signed it, giving it the title of: The hand of Government This indicates that John Key considers himself to be THE government, all…
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In a late Friday afternoon dump of information more emails relating to the handling of Peter Dunne's and Andrea Vance's personal information were released. Reading them and going through the events of the past few months really makes me feel like I am in either…
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The Child poverty action group this week released, in two parts, a report into the links between poverty and child abuse (Part 1 pdf, Part 2 pdf). These reports did not get the attention that they deserved, because of course the Key spying circus is…
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There is a fascinating article in today's Guardian re links between Britain's GCHQ (equivalent of our GCSB) and the US's NSA. All three are linked in the UKUSA network. Sir Iain Lobban, the head of the agency is reported as saying in an internal document:…
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The government has tried a good old fashioned Friday Document Dump (doesn't work so well these days!), releasing the email correspondence relating to Henry Inquiry. See the press release on Scoop, with links to pdfs of the emails between "Inquiry Administrator" and "Parliamentary Service". Oh…
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I/S at No Right Turn questions the legal status of Key's "warrants". Look! More terrorists! Yesterday, John Key tried to scare us into supporting his intrusive, over-reaching spy bill by invoking the spectre of terrorism. When this was greeted with widespread incredulity and scorn, he doubled…
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