Posts by Alfie
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Hard News: Word of the Year 2014: The Vote, in reply to Russell Brown,
... you might want to bring a change of clothes.
In my experience, a full latex onesie is advisable.
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Hard News: Word of the Year 2014: The Vote, in reply to Soon Lee,
Selfie /ˈselfē/ (n) A state of mind experienced by those who find themselves in the unfortunate position of being the sole commenter on their own blogs.
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Here's a weird but topical take on name suppression. A Palmerston North man accused of possessing objectionable material was granted name suppression on the grounds that he might be targeted by Cameron Slater. Others will no doubt use these grounds in the future.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Uncle John knows what's best for us ...
In fact, the TPPA is so damn good that he won't even tell us what we're being signed up to. Good old uncle Johnny... keeping all of the best surprises until later.
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This is not really the right place for this subject, but there's a TPPA poll on the Harold showing an overwhelming majority of kiwis do not want this agreement.
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There. I fixed it.
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Beltway - ridiculously inappropriate in a NZ context
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Bradley Ambrose, the cameraman at the heart of the teapot tape fiasco, is suing John Key for $1.25 million for defamatory comments Key made about him on three occasions.
It's unclear from the story which iteration -- Key the PM, Key the Head Nat, or Key the sad clown -- is being sued.
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whaleshit (with a small w) received 'Best Blog' in the 2014 NetGuide web awards last night. These awards are the result of 'public' votes.
I'm reminded of the stats for that site (see graphic) that were posted by Kim Dotcom in the lead up to the election which show some distinctly dodgy figures. I wonder how many of the votes came from offshore or from "unknown" IPs and used the Safari browser?
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As is happening far too often, our impartial and totally non-political Police Force are doing the right thing. Not!
The police have decided not to investigate the Green Party's complaint of alleged criminal activity by Prime Minister John Key's former communications adviser Jason Ede, former Justice Minister Judith Collins and blogger Cameron Slater which was detailed in Nicky Hager's Dirty Politics.
They were quick to take Cameron Slater's complaint seriously and raid Nicky Hager's house, but sat on our complaint for months and still haven't made a decision to look at the clear as day allegations of hacking of the Labour Party database by staff in the Prime Minister's office.
Apparently the Police have had a look over the complaints but "...each appears to fall short of criminal offending", Detective Inspector Paul Berry told Ms Turei. Metiria is not impressed.
We would be very concerned if the police are applying different thresholds for launching criminal investigations depending on what side of politics you come from.
It doesn't take too much corruption by the upper echelons to pervert the system all the way through. Our poor little country!
