• Hard News: #JohnDotBanks and all, 19:23 Apr 30, 2012

  Actually, from that footage I saw on Friday(?) JB required all to stand and toast so it was JB who was big noting, otherwise it would have been the property developer owner, doing thanks etc in his own place, who as an aside I have no problem with.
  Banks was the host.

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• Hard News: #JohnDotBanks and all, in reply to Ian Dalziel, 18:42 Apr 30, 2012

  Or was he thanking him for the invite to the exclusive waterside party that he watched said fireworks from that he allegedly hugged the Dotcoms on leaving?

  Nah, I would wager it's JB who invited Kim and Mona. The party being held at a prominent Property Developers apartment. I'd wager JB knew property developer like others from the National Party did.

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• Hard News: #JohnDotBanks and all, in reply to BenWilson, 17:08 Apr 30, 2012

  Quite aside from the fact that they benefit more from having ACT in power than from one more Nat.

  Plus they thought they were all riding high for numbers giving them a vast majority. Until that fateful cuppa... hehehehehe { :)

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• Hard News: #JohnDotBanks and all, in reply to Tom Semmens, 16:13 Apr 30, 2012

  Assuming it was a mobile call, if John Bank’s keeps his itemised phone records going back to 2010 then I’d be burning them all around now.

  And how convenient that Banks now recalls a phone call but it's for the fireworks. (just in case eh?)

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• Hard News: #JohnDotBanks and all, in reply to Bart Janssen, 16:10 Apr 30, 2012

  So he’s betting that there is no phone record, interesting gamble.

  These guys, (Key, Banks et al) are not used to having anyone question their word, their behaviour, their friendships. They believe their standing in the community exempts them from that. Their arrogance is often what let's their guard down and we see evidence of that on Key's face when the media question him. I suspect Kim is starting to see who his real friends are as is often the case when banged up. I suspect he will be most helpful to the Police, just as Owen Glenn was. If not, it brings him into disrepute and he would be a fool to allow that now that his honesty is being questioned with Banks' denials.

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• Hard News: #JohnDotBanks and all, 15:53 Apr 30, 2012

  Helpful details from Kim Dotcom to assist the police inquiries, to be sure { ;)

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• Hard News: #JohnDotBanks and all, in reply to Hebe, 12:56 Apr 30, 2012

  That is not possible with a Key National govt but it could be possible with a different National. govt.

  And so it could be possible with a different Labour Govt?

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• Capture: A Foray into Portraiture, in reply to Jackie Clark, 12:45 Apr 30, 2012

  

  Always and forever, the beloved Stella.

  Ok { ;)

  " Self portrait with dog"

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• Hard News: #JohnDotBanks and all, in reply to Matthew Poole, 12:05 Apr 30, 2012

  especially if a sum of money previously discussed suddenly appears in your bank account in the particular configuration previously discussed.

  We'd like to expect so. However, the strategy employed with the last debacle over cupsatea did work in their favour and I suspect it is the same one going into overdrive now.

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• Hard News: #JohnDotBanks and all, in reply to Tom Semmens, 09:56 Apr 30, 2012

  that he doesn’t know which PARTICULAR 25k donation came from who.

  That is probably what the Police can let him off with. Reasonable doubt.

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