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private information from beneficiaries without any consequence consistency with key s previously loose code of conduct means basically anything goes it is difficult to dismiss anyone with those precedents established the dynamics of being 32 days out from a general election means key will be reluctant to throw any of his crew to the dogs no matter what the level of transgression key is now looking like the lame duck as he takes a hit for the collective failings of his wayward team key still has personal headroom as none of the dots so far join directly to him they end down a corridor wherever mr ede and his masked isp is located but key s own handling of the scandal is now what the focus is on espiner interviewing john key on rnz yesterday was a moment key s answer to whether or not he saw the official information act request to the sis that slater had reverse ordered via ede and which was released immediately was convoluted to the point he laughed at how he didn t know what was going on this was nonsense how could he not know key s defence of a national staff member digital dumpster diving into the labour party computer server is a poorly considered position that paints him like nixon if the text of hager s book does not contain evidence of an offence the reactions to it from john key could prove just as damaging all the same hager has let us all see under the rock and what crawls out update we expect a slater to scuttle out it is the rest of the critters that are of real interest it s probably obvious that i haven t read the book yet i look forward to reading it and realise my reactions would be a lot stronger had i done so at the moment however loathsome slater et al have merely met my expectations rather than exceeded them posted by tim selwyn 1 19 am 0 comments thursday august 07 2014 china s nz land policy it must be a full on barn burner for john key to have to call talk back radio hosts to try to put out the land sales fire the pm does not ring up to have a chat about education policy or welfare initiatives or the situation in gaza the pm rings up only in reaction to a crisis that can only be put out by the pm have a word sort it out everyone back on script that was yesterday on radio live when sean plunket had evidently gone off the blue script due to the callers overwhelming rejection of the foreign purchase of land key s relaxed routine was pushed into pantomime and ended with his rising tone pitching higher and higher trying to allay the fears it was rather queer like the kid who thinks he s clever and duped the adults when everyone knows what he s done and the suspension of belief is because his punishment is being formulated the best he could do was that if the amount of land sales was too much in the future he might limit it somehow but in doing so he had conceded the point something had to be done key asked people to trust him on his judgement on what was too much and what was not enough but what answer would you expect from an international finance man who owns houses in hawaii and so on peeling productive farmland off to chinese front companies at 10 000 hectares a time so they can build their own various primary industry and extractive empires and cut nz out of the equation is far beyond most people s tolerance threshold the pm is in a cleft stick key is caught between where national s neo liberal free trade ideology and national s conservative bigoted provincial base and public opinion sit on the one prong and the chinese people companies and government on the other it is the china nz free trade agreement that is casting the shadow over land sales not the treaty of waitangi the maori view that the land be vested back to the actual original owners the tangata whenua is not a question a pakeha would usually entertain no matter how large it looms it is the concern that china will interpret nz as having broken the fta if land sales are prohibited it is a potential trade risk across all trade partners but it is china that holds a fta and high expectations of future investment and return from buying the land key can t move with populist reaction against foreign buyers without provoking diplomatic and commercial pressure from china there would be huge pressure internally from within the national caucus and auckland membership to keep foreign buyers because there would be huge pressure from their chinese cash cows that they will close their wallets if their fellow chinese were kept out of the property game the fta was negotiated with the understanding these conditions would continue to prevail it is the state policy of china for their companies to buy land here lots of it and they have access to cheap chinese state credit to do it the chinese can afford to pay a premium to be the highest bidders more than any nz bidder could or any other foreign buyer the chinese are buying strategically and for the long term they will start sending their people over to staff these facilities too the chinese insisted on labour and visa rights for their workers in the fta most people are aware of this general scenario that is unfolding and are opposed to it there is only so long a political leader can dismiss the concern it is clearly not in nz interests to be run by absentee chinese landlords you can hear the percentages falling off the tories every day it is in the news it is directly related to how high pitched john key s voice gets pretty soon only dogs will be able to hear him posted by tim selwyn 2 12 pm 0 comments tuesday august 05 2014 ww1 a century later nz none the wiser the nzdf commemorate the outbreak of the first world war with 100 gun salute in wellington how inappropriate for that imperialist mass slaughter a hundred crosses or a hundred candles or a hundred doves a hundred seconds of sirens 99 1 luftballoons or a hundred anything other than weaponry explosions would have been fine but no the creative genius of government and military demand one hundred shots from the artillery regiment ghastly i remember my great uncle snow but he never told us any tales and his medals can t speak i remember interviewing old norm around the corner for a school project paschendale battles as stunts death madness quivering flesh in the gas filled crater the worst scenes imaginable i scribbled away hiding my mortification i stuck to the questions i asked about bayonets guns tanks gas combat and so the horror proceeded a no man s land of crater upon crater the ocean of mud duckboards the big push over the top the barbed wire gas masks on all the time gas in every shell mates torn to pieces wholesale carnage bombardments the most awful conditions wounded a hospital of jabbering shell shocked cripples and then shipped back home to nz with the compliments of the empire i will never forget that encounter and the impression he left me with when the war ended it had been so traumatic that they truly believed that it was the last war and that peace would be permanent that the expectation not just hope would be that a rational system of sorting out disputes between powers would prevail there would be no more war it was the war to end all wars they believed that then the day the war ended was the happiest day ever a war more awful than this had never occurred or could be allowed to happen gain this is what i learnt from norm today nz has its military at the disposal of the americans not the british but the roll call of imperialist occupation is the same as it was a century or more ago iraq afghanistan palestine the chief of army was on rnz this weekend talking about evil people in afghanistan needing a military treatment and how teaching the occupied peoples english and spreading western values was part of the nzdf mission army engineers would help build things he said and described what was some sort of armed development agency letting his troops be used as an act of colonisation in a nato drama was apparently in our interests afghanistan was apparently in our neighbourhood there were lots of good reasons for nz forces to be in there he said but i never heard any from him that made any sense he was proud to come from a long line of soldiers which may account for what a prize fool that man was in a constitutional sense only is nz better suited to avoid a general conflagration than it was when the premiere and the governor rubber stamped the declaration of war from britain a hundred years ago today but the nz entity of this era seems just as embroiled and beholden to the same forces of imperialism as a century ago which led to such a calamitous folly i think of all the thousands of names down the halls of the auckland war memorial museum and how they were sacrificed for greater european interests i think how conned they were to have enlisted their grotesque moronic enthusiasm how wrong they were to be conscripted how right it was for those waikato and others who resisted that conscription how right the seditionists were to preach peace and neutrality despite the hostility from the warmongers posted by tim selwyn 11 27 pm 0 comments saturday august 02 2014 un us cease fire deal designed to fail of all the appalling things caused by the jewish state s latest gaza incursion it is easy to overlook the compromised role of the un and how they have been used by us israel to promote a cease fire agreement that was impossible to maintain thus giving israel an excuse to wage another round of attacks from yesterday in the washington post gaza city israel and hamas began observing an unconditional 72 hour humanitarian truce friday morning in a joint statement secretary of state john f kerry and u n secretary general ban ki moon said both sides in the conflict are sending delegations to cairo for negotiations aimed at reaching a lasting cease fire during the 72 hour respite israel will not withdraw its forces from the gaza strip a demand hamas had previously made as a prerequisite to peace talks as a response to the united nations request and in consideration of our people s situation the palestinian resistance factions have agreed to a humanitarian and mutual calm for 72 hours starting from 8 a m tomorrow as long as the other party is committed to it sami abu zuhri said all the palestinian factions have a unified attitude toward the issue in this regard earlier thursday abu zuhri had said that palestinian factions including hamas would head to cairo as early as friday for peace talks if the israelis agreed to a cease fire jeffrey feltman the u n undersecretary general for political affairs said that although israel had made no initial public statement on the cease fire we have received assurances from all parties that they will respect the pause it was his understanding feltman told cnn that israeli forces will stay where they are what we want to see happen is for all fighting between the two sides to stop to allow humanitarian aid deliveries the gathering and burying of bodies and a cessation of palestinian shelling in israel kerry said both sides had agreed that during the pause neither side will advance beyond its current locations kerry stressed thursday that israel may continue what he called defensive destruction of tunnels over the next three days underscoring the obstacles to ending the war israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu on thursday vowed before the truce announcement to destroy the tunnel networks with or without a cease fire as the israeli military called up 16 000 more reservists to bolster its offensive in gaza i won t agree to any proposal that will not enable the israeli military to complete this important task for the sake of israel s security netanyahu said at a cabinet meeting in tel aviv do you see the inherent problem with this ceasefire agreement and why it cannot possibly work while both sides are not to advance beyond their positions the fact is palestinians have forces in tunnels underneath and behind israeli lines and the israelis say they will not stop destroying the tunnels israel going into tunnels or destroying tunnels is advancing from their present positions and is a violation of the cease fire except that john kerry according to the washington post above reckons that is ok it s not ok it is a contradiction what happens when the idf attacks a tunnel during this so called cease fire as bibi has vowed to do the hamas forces would have every right to defend themselves wouldn t they under john kerry s logic the israelis are free to attack the tunnels during the cease fire but if the hamas forces in the tunnels fight back they are breaking the cease fire you see what a sick joke this agreement is and why it is impossible to observe it is an american deal an israeli american deal the un is sanctioning a faulty agreement which demonstrates how faulty and compromised the un is so i was not really surprised to wake up to this news ny times two israeli soldiers were killed and the militants apparently escaped with a third israel said the attack from under a house near the southern border town of rafah took place at 9 20 a m soon after the 8 a m onset of the temporary truce secured by the obama administration and the united nations whose leaders squarely blamed the breakdown on hamas hamas s account was confused one leader was quoted claiming credit for the abduction then backtracked others contended that the clash unfolded at 7 a m before the cease fire although palestinian reports of fighting near rafah came three hours later and one said that in any case the hamas gunmen acted only to counter zionist incursions lt col peter lerner an israeli military spokesman said the givati force had been working to decommission a tunnel under a home inside gaza more than an hour into the cease fire when at least two palestinians emerged from another shaft one came out shooting after the other one blew himself up colonel lerner said israel sent text messages to area residents to remain in their homes as forces rushed farther into rafah bombarding it from the ground and air to block the captors escape safa a gaza based news agency that has run a live blog during the war first reported artillery fire in rafah at 9 55 a m the health ministry spokesman announced new fatalities there at 10 10 a m the qassam brigades hamas s military wing issued a statement hours later denying that the clash occurred after the cease fire the escalation was strong and sustained with reports in rafah of airstrikes and heavy artillery shelling past midnight as israel s top ministers met for hours to consider next steps colonel lerner said the operation now has three components not two it s rockets tunnels and an abduction now the ny times report is just so virrulently pro zionist i had to take chunks of propaganda out of those quotes but what the idf is saying is that they were in an operation against tunnelling at the time and not surprisingly the group in the tunnel which could have become cut off were only left with two options given 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