Posts by Idiot Savant
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Better yet, this piece:
Avi Shlaim: How Israel brought Gaza to the brink of humanitarian catastrophe
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And just to top it all off: police spies violated legal professional privilege.
Dodgy, dodgy, dodgy.
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You can't know that a group you are thinking of spying on is doing illegal stuff until you look into it deeply.
Presumably you'd have no objection to having a police webcam in your bedroom then.
After all, they don't know you're not doing anything illegal until they check...
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Even their schools have prisons in them...
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Oh joy. The police spied on unions too.
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Meanwhile, the Commerce Commission filing proceeding against thirteen airlines -- including Air New Zealand -- for allegedly engaging in price fixing worth hundreds of millions of dollars wasn't worth front page, above the fold coverage in the Herald this morning.
Well, they wouldn't want to upset the advertisers, would they?
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And if we're after another gros lapse of process to go with the bills not being released: neither have the BORA vets. So, MPs are debating legislation with a potentiall serious effect on fundamental rights, while the usual crown law assessment highlighting points of concern is not publicly available.
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If she had to take the Bill through a select committee and listen to submissions where those issues were raised, she might have learned something.
But why on earth would she want to do that?
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Kyle: One aim of the biofuels bill was really to promote a domestic biofuels industry. That aspect has worked, but now that industry is shutting down. So, National costs us jobs, and economic independence, to protect the profits of foreign oil companies.
The second aim was to ensure the infrastructure to support biofuels was all solidily in place before we were forced to make the switch. That's gone out the window too. So it's short-sighted as well as bad for the country. But again, the profits of those foreign oil companies have been protected. It really shows you what National cares about 9and itsnot us).
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BTW, if you want to see the rest of the bills National has been tryign to keep secret, the Greens have put them up here.