Posts by Alfie
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TV3 has not received the "more than $10 million" they requested from NZonAir for their proposed daily 5:30pm soap opera.
One has to wonder if the fact that they received over half million dollars from NZonAir for ten 3D Investigates shows, then promptly rescheduled the primetime programme to a late night backwater slot with no viewers, had any influence on the decision.
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Hard News: Public Address Word of the…, in reply to JacksonP,
I’d vote for CambellLive
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Damn. I left the post in draft form for an hour and look what happens.
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Slater the younger is still making enemies and influencing people. This time he's turned on one of his own advertisers, Rod Drury's Xero.
Most people will be aware of the IRD's favourite client, Dave "Hendo" Henderson and various stouches over unpaid tax. In September 2015 Hendo was convicted of another seven charges of not paying taxes to the tune of $163,000.
Hendo's partner Kristina Buxton is a director of several companies, most of which are in receivership or liquidation, or both. There's still one active company which lists Buxton as the sole director and Hendo the only shareholder, via a trust.
The Official Assignee requested financial information pertaining to Buxton from Xero. Hendo and Buxton protested, claiming the company had unfairly handed over "private information".
Then somebody called in either Team Slater or a favour, resulting in a series of attack posts targeting Xero and its CEO Victoria Crone for perceived ill-treatment of Buxton. Slater ran the old never made a profit, government handouts, corporate bludger line.
The Herald story doesn't make it clear whether these were paid attacks of the kind revealed in Dirty Politics, or just Cam helping out a mate. As a result, Drury has withdrawn all Xero advertising from the site.
The thing I find most surprising is that Rod Drury was advertising in the internet's sump pit in the first place.
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An Aside
I don't know if the Herald is suggesting schizophrenic behaviour or trying to call someone's dad, but this poorly constructed line could be read either way.Calls to both Slater were not immediately returned.
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Hard News: A cog in the Mediaworks machine, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
A show about Mark 'Useless' Weldon - watching 'pain' dry - could work....
Or "Dry Hard" -- Steve Braunias' Secret Diary of Mark Weldon
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An undercover Greenpeace sting has exposed two US academics prepared to support climate denial in return for generous payments. These guys have credentials from Princeton and Penn State Universities.
For payments of a few thousand up to $50k dollars, these credibility-for-hire frauds are prepared to add a thin veneer of dodgy science to denial arguements by promoting the benefits of coal and CO2.
What? You didn’t realise that the world actually needs more CO2? Just ask Professor William Happer who appeared as an expert witness in yesterday’s Senate hearings into “climate dogma”. For good measure he’s also an adviser to the Global Warming Policy Foundation in the UK.
Both men were comfortable with laundering supposed oil company money through trusts to hide the source of their ill-gotten gains.
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The death of current affairs continues. Maori TV has announced that Native Affairs is being cut back from 60 to 30 minutes from next year.
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The impossible has happened… Serco has been sacked.
Private prison operator Serco’s contract to run the troubled Mt Eden Corrections Facility will not be renewed.
The company’s contract is up for review, and Corrections chief executive Ray Smith has recommended that it should not be extended beyond next year.
The Herald understands that the Cabinet has now approved Mr Smith’s recommendation.
Serco executives were informed of the decision last night, and staff at the Mt Eden prison are being told this afternoon.
The British stock exchange, where Serco is listed, has also been notified. It shares had already slumped earlier this week because of news of other lost contracts.
Cheap, poor quality incarceration isn’t the business it once was.
However Serco will continue to run the Wiri prison because somebody in government gave them a 25 year contract. No heads are expected to roll.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to John Farrell,
Good result, but maybe not for the right reason. Judge Harrison states.
My order of 02.12.15 was made on the misapprehension that sections 18 & 19 of the Harmful Digital Communications Act 2015 are in force.
It has been drawn to my attention that is not so, and my order was made without jurisdiction.
The interim order is therefore discharged pursuant to clause 5 or the order, and is of no effect.
The order wasn't quashed because the judge realised that he'd been scammed by the Dirty Politics brigade, but rather because it relied on a law that effectively doesn't exist yet.
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Hard News: The GCSB and the consequences…, in reply to chris,
All excellent numbers, divisible by 5, and 10 and at their upper reaches all multiples of four – entirely by the by.
Exactly Chris. Yesterday Rebecca Kitteridge told Parliament that the number of jihadi brides leaving NZ was "less than twelve". On TV3 News that evening, John Key put the number at "one or two".
While "one" and "two" are both less than twelve, this feels mightily like a mathematically-challenged attempt to justify the government's increased surveillance of the rest of us and the $100m+ annual budget our spies have to play with.
