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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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Weekend social is for non political chat. What's on for the weekend, gigs, film or book reviews, sports, or whatever. No politics, no aggro, why can't we all just get along?
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John Key is currently under pressure as the result of issues related to NZ's intelligence services. And this all stems from the Kim Dotcom case, with John Key at its centre. It has been alleged that Key bowed to pressures from the Hollywood movie industry…
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Yesterday, on More FM of all places, John Key casually mentioned that there are Al Qaeda-linked Kiwis in the country and in Yemen. If that's true, it raises several questions: 1) why haven't they been arrested? Being a member of or providing aid to a…
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While the GCSB story exploded yesterday another, just as important, story was playing out as select committee hearings began for the the Health and Safety (Pike River Implementation) Bill. In their submission, the second largest miner operating in New Zealand, Oceana Gold, was busy explaining…
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So according to John Key New Zealand citizens have taken part in Al Qaeda training camps and this justifies increased powers for the GCSB. It is interesting that this claim was made on the day that Parliament debated the second reading of the GCSB Bill.…
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Yesterday Key played the reds under the beds terrifying terrorists card to try and justify his spying Bill: Key terror claims under fire The Government intensified its sales job on the GCSB Bill yesterday, with the Prime Minister claiming some New Zealand citizens have had…
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In a desperate move to stop the spygate political scandal from reaching into National's political machine, Key has thrown Parliamentary Services head, Geoff Thorn, to the wolves (if you think he jumped I've got a bridge you may be interested in buying). The question is,…
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Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here. Dear Mum, I thought I’d write, as the internet coverage where I am is rubbish, and the guys I’m with are a bit funny about…
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From Generation Zero - It's hard to get around Auckland (even at the best of times) - due to its underfunded public transport network. As our biggest city, Auckland should be a liveable low carbon city we can be proud of. The good news is, its…
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http://youtu.be/yWiDai74n9M So the email has been tabled and it appears that on May 31, 2013 an unnamed contractor at Parliamentary Services sent Andrea Vance's and apparently Peter Dunne's telephone records to investigation head David Henry. But Winston Peters already knew that Peter Dunne was the…
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Here's today's required reading (so far) in the ongoing spy scandals that are swirling around John Key and his fiasco of a government. Andrea Vance speaks out: Spy scandal journalist speaks out In other circumstances, I could probably find something to laugh about in revelations…
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Good work from the opposition in Parliament yesterday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5UJQ-OP8us https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOQ9mRkqzuQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdNHta87kXo
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Is this what it takes to wake up the fourth estate so they truly fulfill their role to speak truth to power. Andrea Vance is mad as hell that revelations that her phone calls where passed to the Henry inquiry. In other circumstances, I could…
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It has been obvious that some people live in a different world than the rest of us. One where Chicago school economics, work! One where you save the village by blowing it up! One where global warming can be stopped, Canute like, by legislation. One…
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