Posts by Alfie
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Not brown then I take it.
Nope. When I grew up in Dunedin in the 50s there was only a single brown person in my school. I unfriended him after he scribbled on my exercise books.
However the local beat cop used to walk past our house every day and he'd always stop for a friendly chat. Cops really were a lot nicer back then.
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Hard News: About Campbell Live, in reply to Steve Barnes,
...stuff we are seeing these days would be an insult to the intelligence of the most subhuman moron.
Or "target audience" in Herald and TV3 parlance.
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Surprise... the Herald now has a small apology from Pebbles Hooper, although you have to search on her name to find it. It sounds like the oddly named gossip columnist is just misunderstood.
I never aimed to target or isolate this issue to one family.
Of course you didn't Pebbles. Quite obviously it was aimed at the numerous other families killed by CO from car exhausts in recent memory. All zero of them.
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We all remember the Police raiding Nicky Hager's home within hours of receiving a complaint from the slug-like one. Now Hager's lawyer (Felix Geiringer) says police have broken their undertaking to seal the information taken from Hager's home, pending a High Court review of the validity of the search warrant. Hager quite rightly (IMHO) maintains that the items seized were covered by journalistic privilege.
In the leadup to a hearing of Hager's claim, his lawyers have continued to ask for copies of relevant police documents.
Some of the documents have been shown to Hager in an edited form. One that was first released in edited form was later shown in its entirety.
Hager's lawyer, Felix Geiringer, says the unedited version indicates police have broken the undertaking to seal Hager's information and not use any of it pending a decision in the case.
It is alleged an officer involved in the search read a document and instructed another officer to make inquiries about a person whose name appeared in the document.
As a result, Geiringer wanted police to hand over all documents produced as a result of seeing the name among Hager's information.
Police said they should not have to give copies of documents about the person that were made independent of the Hager search.
I'm old enough to remember a time when the Police could be trusted.
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Another Herald gossip columnist has demonstrated her suitability to fill Glucina's shoes. Commenting on the deaths of Ashburton mum Cindy George and her three children who were killed by car fumes, Pebbles Hooper described the tragic deaths as "natural selection".
The Herald certainly knows how to pick em.
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For what it's worth, the Press Council has censured the Herald for Glucina's attack on Amanda Bailey. The Herald summarises the Press Council decision but appears to make no apology to Bailey. I'm surprised that the Herald didn't resort to the obvious defence that Glucina isn't actually a journalist. We live in strange times.
Kudos to Giovanni Tiso and the others who made complaints.
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In what must rate as sticking up a political finger to climate change, KiwiRail is replacing more than a dozen electric trains with diesel-powered engines for the Wellington-Auckland route.
Naturally, KiwiRail is buying the locos "dirt cheap" out of China. I wonder if they come with free asbestos, fan blades which fly loose and faulty brakes this time?
Simon (Ten) Bridges is the Transport Minister with special responsiblity for 19th century thinking. Why does that not surprise me?
Thanks to Anthony Robbins for the headsup.
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Recently Judith Collins defended the illegal actions of Police in the Red Devils case. Jarrod Gilbert challenges her view and quotes a tweet from Graham Edgeler.
Judith Collins said: "It is simply outrageous that serious criminal offending by a dangerous gang be allowed to go unanswered." Edgeler's Tweet simply mocked her obvious hypocrisy: "But it is not simply outrageous that serious offending by police will go unanswered."
Gilbert reiterates Collins unsuitability in her former role as Justice Minister.
Judith Collins's view on this is frightful. A former justice minister should not need reminding that the integrity of the justice system is paramount. And that the police are not above the law.
[Posted in this thread lest we forget Judith Collins' deep involvement in Dirty Politics.]
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Here's a great little infographic from Bloomberg... What's really warming the world.
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I see that Katherine Rich is standing down from the taxpayer-funded Health Promotion Agency where she was tasked with promoting health, wellbeing and healthy lifestyles. However she will keep her conflicting role of promoting unhealthy food and lifestyles as head of the Food and Grocery Council. A spokesman for the HPA offered the following explaination for her resignation.
It's a range of reasons, but none of them include the ongoing and ridiculous attacks on her by public health activists.
Of course it's not. It's pure coincidence that those evil health professionals should dare to criticise such a saintly person. Last year Green MP Kevin Hague called on the Auditor general to investigate Rich's conflicting roles.
Mr Hague said last year the agency ran campaigns to limit the consumption of unhealthy food, tobacco and alcohol, yet the businesses Ms Rich promoted, as head of the food and grocery council, profited from the sale of those products.
The Office of the Auditor general had a wee think about the obvious conflict and concluded that there was nothing to investigate.
Moving right along folks... nothing to see here.