Bruce Bisset | Hawkes Bay Today | 20 Dec 2014 [AM editor’s note: the probably fake and certainly staged beheadings by ISIS serves the Western elite’s imperial agenda in much the same way that the CIA used torture to extract false intelligence in an attempt to link Saddam Hussein to 9/11 and justify in the…
Muriel Newman | NZCPR | 11 Dec 2014 2014 has been a turbulent year – with the rise of ISIS, the outbreak of Ebola, the shooting down of a fully laden passenger jet … and closer to home, a general election that was hijacked by dirty politics and scandalmongers. While opposition parties have tried to…
Matt Nippert | NZ Herald | 9 Dec 2014 A New Zealander appointed as an electronic bodyguard for journalists working with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden says governments are an increasing online threat to activists and media. Six years ago Morgan Marquis-Boire, also known online as “Morgan Mayhem”, left Auckland for Zurich and later San Francisco…
Vincent Eastwood | Dec 5, 2014 This unprecedented town hall meeting highlights the fact that resisting state surveillance and the GCSB is one of the major battlegrounds of freedom in our time. Will we elect to preserve our rights and privacy or choose to become subservient to the will of a corrupt state and the wall…
David Rankin | NZCPR | 30 Nov 2014 There is an old Chinese proverb: “When is the best time to plant a tree? Twenty years ago. When is the second best time to plant a tree? Now.” It’s the same with the Waitangi Tribunal. The best time to have shut it down was in the…
Scoop | 1 Dec 2014 PRESS RELEASE Fluoride Information Network for Dentists 1/12/2014 NZ FLUORIDATION REPORT MISLEADING, INTERNATIONAL REVIEW CLAIMS A NZ report on the science of fluoridation conducted this year by the NZ Royal Society at the request of concerned city councils was of poor quality and misleading, according to an international critical review…
Harrison Christian | Hawkes Bay Today | 1 Dec 2014 [AM editor’s note: “bravo sierra” alert; just as the NZ governmentt is about to impose the most invasive terrorism laws in NZ history a convenient and no doubt politically expedient story about ISIS in NZ trots out perfectly on cue. Does anyone really believe this…
Andrea Vance | Sunday Star Times | 30 Nov 2014 OPINION: I can’t recall. Translation: prove it. The limits of our politicians’ memories are stretched often. Either that or their credibility. This week the brain fade continued to trump truth as the go-to arse-covering response to troublesome questions. During the height of the row over…
NZ Listener | 27 Nov 2014 The day after National won its third term, John Key warned his Government against displays of arrogance. It’s hard to reconcile that good advice with National’s determination to bulldoze new security laws through Parliament before it rises for the Christmas break. The Countering Terrorist Fighters Legislation Bill is being…
John Armstrong | NZ Herald | 29 Nov 2014 Popularity counts for a lot but the worm can quickly turn. This past week has surely been the most difficult and ultimately demeaning one in the otherwise stellar political career of one John Phillip Key. As yet, there is nothing tangible to suggest the Prime Minister’s…