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These latest revelations about a whole raft of Government agencies contracting Thompson & Clark to spy on New Zealanders on their behalf are just the latest in a long, sordid history of the State spying on the people. Go back a decade and you’ll find:
Most of us take it for granted that when we go to sleep at night it will be in a bed, but for a number of our children – not just one or two but several thousand- a mattress on the floor, sleeping on the couch or sharing a bed is the norm. I see, for example, there is a Beds for Christmas campaign running in Whangarei to get some beds for kids who don’t have one.
GDP – Gross Domestic Product- is a figure politicians like to quote to tell you how wonderfully they are managing the economy, but it’s next to useless in that regard. A thief adds to GDP when he steals your car or your bike and you have to buy a new one.
For 6 years I have been publicly naming Thompson & Clark Investigations Limited for having been involved in the political targeting of me for my activism and journalism.
I looked at the stuff recently produced about Cold Cases and by among others, two for whom I have respect as journalists: Carol Hirschfeld and Paula Penfeld. But when it got to the Crewe homicide, I tossed the article aside.
Almost 2 years ago the people of Britain were given what seemed a simple choice. Did they want to stay in the EU or leave? They voted (narrowly) to leave.
Note they wanted the whole page removed ; not just 1 post.
The central idea of free market capitalism is that governments should not interfere in the marketplace – that businesses should…
Our unit phone is out of action today after a lightening bolt actually came down the wire and out of the handset . I’ve never seen anything like it .
…One law for the white man, another for the black man.