GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – Audrey Egg Foo Young
You may have been forgiven for thinking Audrey had nothing at all to say about the terrible events recently, because she seems to have skipped over these matters.
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GUEST BLOG: Ross Meurant – Who Guards the Guardians
Based on my experience as a former detective, AOS cop and former inspector in charge of Auckland Criminal Intelligence Section & VIP Security, it is my opinion that the GCSB in particular and to a lesser extent, police CIS in NZ and police in Australia, have much to explain.
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – Don’t mention us
As fingers point at our intelligence and security services ahead of an inquiry it’s also worth looking at the fingers pointing back at the accusers.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – I used to have a car like that.
A lot of jokes don’t make sense until you get to the end.
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GUEST BLOG: Ross Meurant – Who to blame for Christchurch?
The aspect of these killings which, in my view is rapidly being swept under the carpet, is the failure of New Zealand GCSB (spies) and police intelligence units on both sides of the Tasman.
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – Jacinda versus Simon
Now is the hour for us all to briefly look at the facts before us concerning our choices as a democracy when it comes to leadership and even the intentions behind policy.
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – Nobody is to blame – cries Leighton Smith
NZME had barely finished their frantic efforts to find and hide their own racist, Islamaphobic, or nasty race based content, before they were busy sounding alarms about the dangers of the Blame Game!!!
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – “We are broken-hearted, but we are not broken. We are alive, we are together, we are determined to not let anyone divide us.”
50 people murdered and 42 injured in a few short minutes in our peaceful country…. just awful.
But today, as I watched on TV the thousands upon thousands of Kiwis who gathered to observe a 2 minutes silence in remembrance of the victims ( with so many women wearing headscarves in a display of solidarity with their Moslem sisters) I felt incredibly proud of our little nation.
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – Begrudging Jacinda
This world leading mother, brilliant, inspirational woman has taken the world by storm and there’s nothing to do but eat those words about lacking substance, about being out of her depth, about Winston running the show.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Exceptional Leadership Prime Minister!
Some of the weapons that will still be allowed I have to say are a real concern and I will be making a representation to the select committee to toughen the laws up even further.