Posts by Steve Barnes

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  • Island Life: Let’s learn English, with…,

    I posted this Link yesterday about the New Zealand Council of Infrastructure Development. In light of John Key's mention of borrowing for infrastructure and the subsequent recordings what do you guys think about the connection?

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  • Hard News: All your Trade are belong to us,

    Look and Learn magazine still refers to the kiwi as
    " Wonders of Nature: The Worlds Strangest Bird"

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  • Island Life: Let’s learn English, with…,

    Rodney Hide is holding a meeting here in Devonport next week.

    Will you resist the urge to yell "Hi Di Hi Campers"

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  • Hard News: John Key(nesian),

    go get grab rape and pillage for temporary immediate indivuualistic gain - and to hell with tomorrow-

    Is that National's new campaign motto?

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  • Cracker: Mr Transparent,

    Sometimes I think people would rather plead ignorance than be wrong... especially in public

    Hmmmm. Tautological thought? Have you considered becoming a National party speech writer? ;-)

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  • Hard News: All your Trade are belong to us,

    so being in possession of it they had to hand it over during discovery.

    Correct me if I'm wrong but if documents or WHY are deemed not relevant to evidence they do not have to be revealed for discovery and are therefore deemed inadmissible?
    Had this route been followed irrelevant information could have been rightfully withheld.

    I suspect that the police had never done record gathering on that scale before, so had no idea that it was going to result in such a volume of information.

    This I find hard to believe. It is not uncommon for the prosecution to bury relevant information in piles of irrelevant material.

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  • Hard News: All your Trade are belong to us,

    So, farewell then The Listener
    You used to be a guide
    to what was on the radio
    which explains your name
    but when television came along
    you could have changed your
    name to the looker but you didn't
    then you stopped listening and
    started to try and tell us stuff
    that was crap so we went away
    and read womans day instead
    cos it was cheaper and more
    informative.

    e.j.Thibb 17 1/2

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  • Hard News: All your Trade are belong to us,

    There is no suggestion that you were in any way related to these events last year, apart from being one of 3000 who traded with someone that was a suspect in this investigation.

    I wonder what they think constitutes a trade? is it a completed trade or a bid? or just a page view? The number seems awfully high for completed trades so I'm guessing it would be bids and if that is so then how is it evidence of anything that the accused are accused of?
    This looks like a case of the prosecution trying to "bury" relevant evidence in a large pile of non information and at the same time compromising the privacy and, indeed, the security of members of the general public. I doubt you would have to look far to see that a law has been breached here and if not why not?
    Do we need to revisit the privacy laws?

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  • Hard News: John Key(nesian),

    what would you like money spent on? Where do you think a spare billion could be well spent?

    Efficient/alternative energy systems. Solar, Wind, Geothermal, Hydro. Waste heat recovery systems, Co-Generation and a switch to an electric vehicle fleet. This will lead to a country not dependant on Oil, decrease pollution, increase the value of our Exports, increase our National Security, Increase the overall health of our People, Reduce debt, increase productivity by reducing overheads......and............and.....and

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  • Hard News: John Key(nesian),

    Tell you what you can sell. People. How about doing what Ireland did - invest massively in education.

    We are doing that already but could do better. When our bright young things go off in search of fortune and experience by getting snapped up by overseas firms we are told, by Key and his ilk, that it's a brain drain but even he came back with $50 mil. Think what people with brains could do. ;-)

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