Posts by nzlemming
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Hard News: Vision and dumbassery, in reply to mark taslov,
Our membership of the 5eyes alliance has kept New Zealand free from serious conflict since inception.
I'd dispute that. We went to Korea, we went to Vietnam, we went to Afghanistan, we've had peacekeepers in all the major trouble spots. What we've had to our advantage is being in the arse-end of anywhere and small population which has largely kept actual terrorism out (Rainbow Warrior aside). And we're generally non-strategic - except in terms of signals intelligence. We're ideally placed to intercept quite a large proportion of satellite traffic and that's the only reason we're part of the 5Eyes programme. If anything 5Eyes makes us more of a target because of the access it provides to the network (think Isreali passport forgers).
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Hard News: A call from Curia, in reply to tussock,
If you were being an amoral marketing genius, like, say, David Farrar.
I object to the word "genius" in that sentence.
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OnPoint: "Project SPEARGUN underway", in reply to John Farrell,
Not banned, eh?
Is now.
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I kept wanting to discuss each question, which of course isn’t what the poll is there for.
Yeah, I had the same experience a couple of months ago. You realize, of course, that Farrar will now come after you for "stealing" his intellectual property :-D
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Hard News: Vision and dumbassery, in reply to BenWilson,
‘Hopster! Hopster! Help! Help! Stopster!’ they screamed
See, Russell? This is why we need a Like button ;-)
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If anyone's interested, I scraped Derek Cheng's liveblog from the Harald and formatted it nicely ;-)
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Doing the rounds on FB*
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Hard News: Vision and dumbassery, in reply to Trevor Nicholls,
Love your avatar, Joe. I only just realised :-)
Leaves me cold ;-)
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Hard News: Vision and dumbassery, in reply to ,
Which reminds me. Fiji election! They have there democracy back!
#yeahright
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Ana Simkiss,
So, do we know what security clearance Mr De Joux has?
I’d imagine that everyone in the PM’s office would hold Top Secret clearance. It’s the nature of the job, and at the discretion of the Minister responsible (Key). Just means the SIS couldn’t find a reason to deny him.
