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Welcome to George Orwell’s New Zealand, circa 1984
. . ” Winston dialled ‘back numbers’ on the telescreen and called for the appropriate issues of The Times, which slid out of the pneumatic tube after only a few minutes’ delay. The messages he had...
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Sentencing the ‘Urewera four’ – an affront to our sense of justice? (Part Wha)
. . Continued from: Sentencing the ‘Urewera four’ – an affront to our sense of justice? (Part Toru) . Police Commissioner, Peter Marshall appeared on TVNZ’s Q+A on 27 May, to front on the issue of the...
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Teachers first – now the Police?
. . . Watch a few minutes of Police Ten-7 and one is left with two, over-whelming, depressing conclusions; There are idiots in society whom evolution has over-looked when natural selection was...
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Little Dear Leader on Police Pay & State Asset Sales…
. . There are often little ‘nuggets’ of insights to be gleaned from interviews of our elected representatives on TV1′s “Q+A” and TV3′s “The Nation” . It’s usually not the carefully ‘spun’ rhetoric...
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Guest Author: This Is What Democracy Looks Like: Occupy NZ Media #BTB...
- Occupy Savvy 21 July 2012 . . (This post is now complete. Please share far and wide. Thank you so much for supporting citizen journalism. All credit to Occupy New Zealand Media team. Redstar’s...
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John Banks – escaping justice
. . Once upon a time, the people of a tiny little nation at the bottom of the world believed that their country lived by laws that applied to everyone. The system was simple; irrespective of who you...
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John Banks – escaping justice (Part Rua)
. . Continued from: John Banks – escaping justice Following on from the police decision on 26 July not to prosecute John Banks for submitting an allegedly fraudulent Electoral Return, containing...
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John Banks – escaping justice (Part Toru)
Continued from: John Banks – escaping justice (Part Rua) . A link to the blogpost, John Banks – escaping justice (Part Rua) was emailed to John Banks earlier today (14 September). Unexpectedly, this...
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Why arming our Police is not such a flash idea
. . When the National Rifle Association’s Wayne LaPierre suggested that the “solution” to mass shootings in US schools was to arm teachers, the response of trhose with more common sense was one of...
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National Party president complains of covert filming – oh the rich irony!
. Source . Oh dear, oh dear me. Karma is working overtime this year – and has National politicians and Party apparatchiks firmly in it’s sights. National Party president Peter Goodfellow complains of...
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It is 1984. It is ALWAYS 1984…
. . First, the Labour government introduced the Terrorism Suppression Act 2002. This law could outlaw an organisation and declare them a “terrorist groups”. . Source . Some see Greenpeace as a...
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Random Thoughts on Random Things #3…
Why is it… That drug testing the unemployed is seen by National Ministers as a good thing… . Fail a drugs test and lose your benefit, job seekers warned By Isaac Davison @Isaac_Davison 5:30 AM Monday...
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Kamikaze Kiwis and a deathwish on wheels *Update*
. . Source . This is a laudable plan from our Boys and Girls in Blue, and I’ve no problem with it. Holiday periods are generally a bad time on the roads where every manner of bad driving habits are...
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Letter to the editor – hitting charities where it hurts, courtesy of the Nats
. . A cash-strapped government – having frittered billions away in two tax cuts for the rich – now seeks to penny-pinch voluntary organisations and charities to make up for the gaping deficits they...
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Citizens face Police armed with tasers at Wellington TPPA protest march
. . NZ, Wellington, 15 August – Anti-TPPA protesters, many of them young people in their teens and early 20s, faced off against police armed with tasers on the steps of Parliament. Believed to be the...
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Letter to the editor – hitting charities where it hurts, courtesy of the Nats
. . A cash-strapped government – having frittered billions away in two tax cuts for the rich – now seeks to penny-pinch voluntary organisations and charities to make up for the gaping deficits they...
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Citizens face Police armed with tasers at Wellington TPPA protest march
. . NZ, Wellington, 15 August – Anti-TPPA protesters, many of them young people in their teens and early 20s, faced off against police armed with tasers on the steps of Parliament. Believed to be the...
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Letter to the editor – hitting charities where it hurts, courtesy of the Nats
. . A cash-strapped government – having frittered billions away in two tax cuts for the rich – now seeks to penny-pinch voluntary organisations and charities to make up for the gaping deficits they...
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Citizens face Police armed with tasers at Wellington TPPA protest march
. . NZ, Wellington, 15 August – Anti-TPPA protesters, many of them young people in their teens and early 20s, faced off against police armed with tasers on the steps of Parliament. Believed to be the...
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Weekend Revelations #2 – Michelle Boag has a whinge
. . From TVNZ’s Q+A, on 25 October 2015, . . The Q+A panel were ostensibly discussing out-going Police Association President, Greg O’Connor’s persistent calls to arm the New Zealand police. At one...
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