NZDF Press Conference – not so much double speak as triple speak
Ok, so the NZDF have come out with their 5th version of events,
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Latest developments in Hager & Stephenson NZ war crime allegations
…the simple truth is that John Key signed off on an SAS revenge attack that was woefully wrong in its intelligence and we have ended up killing and maiming 21 civilians, purposely destroying a dozen homes and we have handed over prisoners to known torture units and received back intelligence using that torture.
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16 questions NZDF must answer over war crime allegations
The Hit and Run authors say the defence force leadership is trying to confuse the public and government to reduce pressure for an independent inquiry into the revelations in the book.
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In defence of Gareth Morgan’s TOP – a response to Chris Trotter
I think TOP is worth paying attention to and here are my main reasons:
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New Zealand SAS directly implicated in unjustified cowardly killings
We should all feel a profound sense of shame.
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GUEST BLOG: Paul (the bloke The Standard banned for 3 years) – Terror attacks and war crimes
Last week, two serious news events dominated our airwaves. The way these stories were disseminated tells us plenty about the way we, the New Zealand public, are fed propaganda.
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Hager/Stephenson reaction to Defence Force statement
The NZDF press release is simply incorrect and implausible. To be true, it would require an identical raid by identical forces, using identical helicopters, on identical targets at the same time.
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The two reasons NZ desperately need to be put on trial for war crimes
The lack of outcry from the people of NZ to a war crime signed off by their precious John Key that killed and maimed 21 is one thing but the feral scream of Hager and Stephenson hate speaks to something far more damaged in the NZ psyche that can only be cauterised by global shaming.
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Those NZers attacking Nicky Hager & Jon Stephenson would have cheered the Nazis on in the 1930s
What people are really saying when they attack Nicky and Jon is ‘shut up about our murder and maiming of innocents, we not only prefer to be ignorant, we prefer to not even have to be confronted by our abuses of power’.
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OIA request reveals naked truth about NZs Unemployment rate
We are a country with hollow jobs propped up by part time work.
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