Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Circumstance and coincidence, in reply to william blake,
from that Herald story:
Mr Dotcom claimed in court Mr Key had heard about him because Mr Banks told him he had told the Prime Minister about a New Year's fireworks display being put on by Mr Dotcom.
Mr Key said he had "no idea what John Banks said to Kim Dotcom but all I know is he has never spoken to me about going to fireworks."
He would never go to such fireworks anyway because he always spent Christmas and New Year in Hawaii.
What a lovely example of slipperiness. Telling someone about an event is not the same as talking about "going to" it. Look over there, across the sea if need be. Palm tree, octopussy, puppy.
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Hard News: Circumstance and coincidence, in reply to Pete George,
one side of the equation
you really don't understand power much, do you, Pete.
Most of us hold governments and others with significant influence to higher standards than others. We expect more accountability and better oversight because history has taught us that power tends to be abused if it's unchecked. Nothing remotely radical or novel about that, unfortunately. Human nature at its most average.
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Hard News: Circumstance and coincidence, in reply to Paul G. Buchanan,
ask Dotcom directly if he or his minions were ever approached by the US government with regard to installing backdoors on his servers?
are you suggesting he said no, hence trouble thereafter?
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Hard News: Circumstance and coincidence, in reply to Alfie,
More credulous bollocks.
"... over claims that Fletcher, who was shoulder-tapped by Key to head the bureau, was hired to help facilitate the FBI raid on Kim Dotcom's mansion"
- but the programme never made any such "claim". You only have to actually watch it and be able to listen.
That's beyond sloppy writing. It deserves no legal protection from corrective action. I hope someone formally complains to the editor and employer of this 'journalist'.
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Hard News: Circumstance and coincidence, in reply to DexterX,
if he was actually in charge, that might be a problem.
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Hard News: Circumstance and coincidence, in reply to Russell Brown,
How on earth does he get away with this stuff?
Damn good question. When someone in a position of power is demonstrably lying, I expect the checks and balances in the system (in this case, opposition and media) to do their fricken jobs and call him on it.
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Hard News: Circumstance and coincidence, in reply to bob daktari,
His complete dismissiveness all but screams Campbell is onto something
that and conveniently leaving out parts of the timeline that don't suit Farrar's spin.
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Interesting how many of us have learned a lot informally rather than formally. Is that also how we picked up our broader notions of what disability is about, do you think?
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Access: Your Relationship With Disability, in reply to Angela Hart,
small actions/obstacles can make huge problems that there’s no need for.
yes
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Hard News: Circumstance and coincidence, in reply to Alfie,
Campbell proved convincingly that John Key lied about his prior knowledge of the Dotcom raid and about his relationship and meetings with Fletcher leading up to that appointment.
Proved the latter but only implied the former. Yet.
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