Scoop | 8 April 2016 No consultation needed for stopping or starting Fluoridation, decides Auckland Council Chair of Auckland Council’s Policy and Strategy committee decided unilaterally yesterday that a petition from Fluoride Free New Zealand could be received but not debated on. This left councillors no option other than to vote to accept the petition…
NZ Herald | 7 April 2016 Our spies have been rapped for loose controls around the largest collection of sensitive information held by any government department which includes details of people’s alcohol and drug use — and their sexual behaviour. The systems were so loose the Inspector General of Intelligence and Security said there was…
NZ Herald | 31 March 2016 Concern over an imminent terrorist act led our internal intelligence agency to carry out urgent surveillance without a legal warrant under special new powers. It is unclear whether the suspected terrorist activity was aimed inside New Zealand or offshore. The fact was revealed in a sparse report from Security…
RNZ | 18 March 2016 The government has been accused of politicising New Zealand’s intelligence and security agencies, in the wake of the debate over “jihadi brides”. Last year head of the SIS Rebecca Kitteridge and Prime Minister John Key spoke of New Zealand jihadi brides travelling to Syria and Iraq, and the threat that…
NZ Herald | 15 March 2016 Cullen-Reddy report finds little to offset concerns raised by our links with global intelligence network The intelligence services report by Sir Michael Cullen and Dame Patsy Reddy sheds more light on the GCSB’s work with the Five Eyes network, but it also leaves several questions unanswered. Since the Snowden…
The Daily Blog | 10 March 2016 The Anti-Bases Campaign is appalled by the recommendations made in the newly-released Intelligence Agencies review. The authors have proposed overthrowing a basic tenet of spy operations in this country and paved the way for a massive expansion in surveillance of NZ citizens. This is just another retrograde step…
NZ Herald | 15 March 2016 Labour leader Andrew Little met United States’ intelligence chief James Clapper yesterday – on the initiative of the Prime Minister’s office. Mr Little told the Herald he probed Mr Clapper about Congress oversight of US intelligence agencies. “We talked about the Senate and the House committees on intelligence and…
Newstalk ZB | 12 March 2016 A group of dentists want the associate minister of health to make fluoride testing free because of concerns many people are over-dosing on the additive. Dentist group FIND raised their concerns with Peter Dunne in a meeting in Wellington late yesterday. The FIND dentists are concerned that the total…
NZ Herald | 12 March 2016 If foreign spies are posing as international students at New Zealand universities it is of marginal concern from a national security perspective — and doesn’t justify an extension of intelligence agency powers, investigative journalist Nicky Hager says. Hager, who has written extensively on intelligence services, including on documents obtained…
Stuff | 23 Feb 2016 [AM editor’s note: this trial involves using a flu vaccine which is demonstrably flawed. The proposition that ZIka can be treated with a flawed flu vaccine raises some serious questions. Of course the ‘official’ denial that the flu vaccine is flawed, despite the evidence, solves that problem]. A Christchurch drug…