GUEST BLOG: Carmel Sepuloni – wilful blindness
The lack of data collected and reported on crucial issues in the MSD space drives me crazy.
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The conflict between the Government’s mass surveillance legislation and their new cybersecurity unit
The announcement of the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) with its new $22million budget is being sold to NZ as some sort of big cuddly Government Department that protects NZ business from cyber attack.
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The Courage to Care – Amnesty International
When I asked NM* if I could interview her for a blog on World Press Freedom day, she looked up at me from the magazine she was proofing with almost vacant eyes.
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Matthew Hooton and the Panama Papers – why does he sound so frightened?
This week is looking very difficult for John Key and his right wing rich mates. Mass surveillance lies didn’t wake sleepy hobbits up. Dirty Politics didn’t wake sleepy hobbits up. Looks like Key building Tax Havens and getting caught might just wake them up.
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And the deluge of details showing NZ is a tax haven has begun – where’s your messiah John Key now National voters?
Who would want vengeance on the Prime Minister of NZ with the skills to hack?
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Four Limericks For A Friday Afternoon
1. A secretive lawyer named Whitney Looked after the interests of John Key. Till the sloppiest lob Nearly cost him…
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Andrew Little’s 61-60 win in Parliament a victory for all NZers
National’s spitefulness in voting against it highlights just how idealogical this Government really are and how focused their defence of the rich truly is.
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National Party MP’s pimp for dairy
National are the Party of Farmers. Bankers and Property Speculators – they merely pretend to be there for everyone else.
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Why Key will be shamed next week into beefing up his whitewash review of tax havens
When the next round of allegations become public watch Key scramble to look like he’s actually doing something about the tax haven he’s built.
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The Pieces Align: #BlackGreen2017 And The Green Party’s New Chief Of Staff
The significance of Morris-Travers appointment to the Greens’ Chief of Staff role, then, lies in the fact that she might well find herself one of those crucial inter-party linkages for the setting up of a prospective post-election governing arrangement in late 2017.