Feeding our kids

Feeding our kids:

Working together to achieve agreed goals that are based on actual facts, is without doubt the quickest way to reduce the real need that actually exists.

Feeding our kids is a real and acute problem being face by hundreds of thousands of our citizens who are living from day to day in these harsh times. You don’t have to be an atomic scientist to understand that if kids are hungry the cure is to feed them. The only question is how. Food in schools is one answer.

The days of simply blaming individuals for hungry kids have long since been taken over by the massive size of the problem. It’s gone beyond being simply individualistic in nature to a nationwide epidemic. Bombers blog site recommended this:

Sharing ideas and concepts that bridge our ideological differences for the betterment of all NZers should be the aim of political debate. We may disagree with the causes and how best to counter them, but agreeing to the immediacy of need and a means to dealing with that need is a bridge we can all feel better for building.

Smaller political parties, for example the Mana Party have pushed for a national programme to putting food into schools [decile 1-4] and Hone Harawira on their behalf have produced a members bill, which if drawn from the ballot will see some immediate action. This socially progressive move could see some real progress toward real measurable progress rather than more talk with little action. MANA using their 'Feed the Kids' policy has influenced Labour Party policy and now impacted on National Party policy  

It would seem that the National / Act / Maori Party / United Future parties have yet to realise that a problem really exists. National / Act / United Future all seem to feel that this problem can be solved by developing a negative response to parents via the social welfare benefit system. This from jonathan.carson@waikatotimes.co.nz

The Government is not prepared to commit to providing a food programme for hungry schoolchildren despite saying it is "open to ideas" around addressing the problem.

Deputy Prime Minister Bill English has confirmed he is open to a national food strategy for the country's poorest schools, but press secretary Joanne Black yesterday said "no new decisions have been made".

The Labour Party has or is designing some form of relief for desperate parents and struggling schools and has stated that it would be included in its 2014 election programme. Of Nationals turn around;

Labour leader David Shearer described it as a U-turn, saying Prime Minister John Key had been "pooh-poohing" the idea last month.

Hungry kids don’t do well at school, this is a well proven fact and the government promotes the concept via its public relations output that its major goal is to improve the standard of learning. One could be excused for thinking that they are more interested in its PR spin that actually solving the problem of poverty and kids hunger.

Waikato Principals' Association chair John Coulam said:

"Household income and poverty do in fact affect student performance, so, from an educational point of view, if that is one of the barriers to a child succeeding in learning then I would applaud it being addressed, I just hope that the Government's developing a social conscience. That would be wonderful, wouldn't it?"

National seem to be attempting to down grade the problem by using information based on out dated information, by looking backward rather than forward:

She cited a Health Sponsorship Council survey from 2007, which showed about 97 per cent of 5 to 12-year-olds have breakfast every day or most school days.

However, Ms Black could not be drawn on any details around any food provision plan.

However, a report released by Poverty Action Waikato suggested the problem of hungry schoolchildren was much more widespread.

Their research found that 25 per cent of children at the region's decile one and two schools that were enrolled with the ‘Kick-start’ breakfast programme had some degree of food need.

Mr Shearer also said Government statistics showed 80,000 children often went without breakfast. He accused Mr English of doing a U-turn on the issue and "picking up" Labour's idea of providing free food to 650 of the lowest decile primary and intermediate schools in the country.

I recommend that we all come together and give up our typical European attitude of blaming the victims along with our silly childlike phobia of being against the greedy Maori and other ethic groups, and revert to a more universal process of defining the problem and taking action to solve the problem. That has been the approach of the Mana Party which was certainly the first off the block in regard to feeding our children. And it worked for both the Labour and Green Parties have taken it on board. Even National and its hanger-on’s now have little choice but to move down the same track. Maybe if the PM spent more time in NZ dealing to NZ’s problems than dining in Hollywood or Hawaii and Bill English spent less time in London being wined and dined we could make some real progress on a real problem that needs urgent attention.

Charity will not solve the food problem for it is simply too big and is growing bigger every day. We need answers not PR clap-trap….

John Key’s short trip to Hollywood



Key get practice at multi handshakes. 



John Key’s short trip to Hollywood…what really went on: A special report for Eavesdropper from a Hollywood insider…

Not long after being picked up at the LA airport by a stretch limousine sent by Warner Brothers John Key and his four security agents disembarked at the Warner Brothers Hollywood studios.

“Nice to see you again, did you have a good flight? The tall one asked.

“Absolutely”, said John as he shook hands with all three of those welcoming him at once. Multi handshakes are a Key specialty.

“A glass of wine or a cocktail John asked the short one.

“Wine, thanks said John.

“Right then lets get down to business then” said the chubby one.

“Now John what are you doing to assist us to get that Dotcom Guy deported here to the good-old US of A”, said the short one.

“Who”, John asked.

“The fat German who lives on your block”, snapped the tall one.

“Oh, that Dotcom”, muttered Key as he observed the needle thin and long legged model who placed his wine on the table.

“Yes, God damn it John, we know you know him because we read how you had to apologise to him”, said the chubby one as he patted the model on her rump.

“Ah yes I remember now, I’m not good with names or dates, what do you want to know about our newly approved resident? He said.

“When are you going to hand him over to us so that our boys can interrogate, I mean interview, him and put him out of business”, demanded the tall one looking most irate.

“I thought you wanted to put him on trial” said John sounding a little nervous.  

“Come on John you can’t be that blank, who gives a crap about a trial, we just want him out of business”, said the chubby one as he winked at John.

“Actually, I came here to talk about you moving some of your operations to New Zealand, not about that fellow, what’s his name again, Dotcom”, said John trying to sound assertive.

Mr. Tall, Mr. Short and Mr. Chubby all looked at each other as if waiting for the other one to answer. The model left the room and John’s four security agents followed her.

“Let me give it to you straight John, if you want us to even consider your dream of a new Hollywood in Wellington you are going to have to do something for us Buddy. Think about it, we have thousands, no millions of workers here that are unemployed why should we give work to a bunch of your mates unless there was something in it for us”, said the short one in a tone that had a hint of threat built into it.

“But I’ve already changed our industrial law to give you a bigger profit margin, surly I’ve proved my trustworthiness”, said John feeling all alone now his security team had departed.

“John you must be a slow learner, I would have thought that after your stint on Wall Street that you would have realised that those changes were only one part of a bigger picture, if you will excuse the pun”, said the Chubby one.

“We’ve tried to help you out by sending the FBI to help your keystone cops out and now that, that move seems to have backfired, you need to move things along John baby, we want you to give us Dotcom”, said the tall one looking daggers at John.

“I’m sorry, said John meekly, “but we have laws in New Zealand that prevent me from granting your wish”, wishing he was someplace else.

 “But, for Gods sake you are the Prime Minister! Shouted the short one, “Just change the God damn law”, he added as an after thought.

John buzzed his security men and they re-entered the room.

“Yes Boss”, asked the leader.

“Call a cab; we are going back to the Airport.

“But Sir, the studio tour…said the leader [we are not allowed to name him]

“Oh grap”, said John “I forgot about that”…

“Don’t worry Boss, we’ll get that memory looked at later, so you’ll still do the tour then”, said squad leader.

“Yes”, said John.

Mr. Short, Tall and Chubby stood and with raised eyebrows whispered to each other…”New Zealand does have its problems”…

Top Spy’s meet in NZ…



Leon Panetta is he a war criminal? 



Top Spy’s meet in NZ…

My comments are in italics the rest is from the Dominion post:

Spy’s professional and otherwise like to meet to talk about their exploits, of course they always hold these meetings in secret, after all that’s what being a spy is all about.

The Dominion Post understands the agencies met on the weekend of September 15 and 16. Mr Key was in Auckland meeting US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta that weekend.

Note the dates, 15 / 16^th September 2012. And note that US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta is being looked at by the World Court for international war crimes because of his use of Drones in Afghanistan and Pakistan that have killed thousands of innocent bystanders. 

The US wants to extradite Dotcom on internet piracy charges and his north Auckland home was raided in a joint police and FBI raid in January. It has since emerged the foreign intelligence agency's spying on Dotcom and co-accused Bram van der Kolk was illegal because their New Zealand residency offers legal protection.

The now illegal raid on Kim Dotcom would have been on their agenda.

Mr Key announced on September 17 that he had ordered an investigation into the illegal spying by the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB), by which time the top-level spies had left the country.

The question is, was John Key ordered to announce that the spying by the GCSB was illegal and therefore the raid by the NZ Police and covert members of the FBI was also illegal and that evidence gained could not be admissible in any normal court of law.

It is understood Intelligence Co-ordination Group director Roy Ferguson, a former ambassador to the US, was at the meeting. The State Services Commission would not confirm this, referring an inquiry to Mr Key's office.

A woman at Mr Ferguson's Wellington home said he would not be returning a call. It is believed he was joined by representatives from the US Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency, Britain's Communications Headquarters, Canada's Communications Security Establishment and the Australian Secret Intelligence Service.

Of course at this point it would be fair to ask was this covert meeting a planned run of the mill event or was it a special meeting timed because of the visit of possible war criminal US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta to NZ.  

The Dotcom spy scandal has continued to dog Mr Key. Police yesterday launched an inquiry into the illegal surveillance of Dotcom and van der Kolk. They also appointed lawyer Kristy McDonald, QC, to review the case.

The investigation was sparked by a complaint from Green Party co-leader Russel Norman. He believes the agency breached section 216(B) of the Crimes Act. “If police find the law has been broken they should prosecute."

All those who believe in ‘One Law for all” must concede that Russel Norman’s claim has merit to do otherwise would be hypocritical and clearly display ‘Colour Blindness’…

However, Labour leader David Shearer wants a more wide-ranging probe. “The failings exposed in the Dotcom debacle go far wider and deeper than whether or not junior staff at the GCSB screwed up," he said.

An internal review of the bureau by Cabinet Secretary Rebecca Kitteridge, who has been seconded to the agency, began yesterday.

Inspector-General Paul Neazor's report into the GCSB's role in Operation Debut was widely panned as a whitewash.

“We don't need a piecemeal mish-mash of reviews and reports, we need a proper independent inquiry," Mr Shearer said.

Police Commissioner Peter Marshall said Ms McDonald's appointment would "provide an overview".

Mr Key has dismissed the Greens' complaint as a "political stunt" but said the police must take complaints seriously.

Now with John Keys quick flying visit to Hollywood with a stop over in Hawaii no doubt and Parliament being in recess for three weeks I imagine that the public relations boys and girls, will be in full swing to get this huge 'stuff up' out of the media. Unfortunately Mr. Kim Dotcom is not going to go away so I suppose the task now will be to highlight his background and attempt to move public opinion away from seeing him as a hero to one of being a villain…

Nicky Hagar came to town...



Nicky Hagar Investigative journalist.



The day Nicky Hagar came to town.

Last Friday evening at 7pm here in Palmerston North in our wonderful public library, a young investigative journalist stood and addressed a crowd of one hundred and sixty eager listeners. The audience was keen to hear what he had to say.

The subject wasn’t national standards in our schools, although there was a connection. The subject wasn’t which political party was best suited to run our country, but there was a connection and a powerful one.

The subject was ‘Other people’s Wars’ a book about New Zealand’s role in conflict events around the world. The connection to education was via our unique relationship with history. It was also connected to politics via the changing behaviour of inclusion of the public, to isolation of the public to both political and military matters.

Nicky Hagar wrote the book and he did so by over many years, and with a massive amount of gritty hard work, and using the tools of investigative journalism, he connected the dots that in the end revealed exactly what took place over a decade or so as we moved from a climate of openness and transparency, into the dark world of spin and manipulation of public awareness.

It is said, that who ever wins the war, writes the history of that war that may be true in total or in part. But today one could be forgiven for thinking that they write the history of a war before the war even takes place, such is the ability of the spin machine to corrupt and falsify reality.

During the Second World War the information lines between the political and the military were clear and concise. We knew what the war was about, the goals, the enemy, the desired outcome were for the most part understood and accepted. It was an event where it could be said, “It was our war”. The Government in most respects took the people with them, although we stii had the hangover of “Where Britain goes we go” a leftover from the First World War where we were simply a British colony that supplied gun fodder for others.

But really, as Nicky Hagar pointed out, we have throughout our history fought other people wars. The major difference now days is that we have replaced Britain with the USA…and are currently fighting their wars, supplying the gun fodder you could say.

Nicky Hagar suggests that’s not what the New Zealand people want, but it is what the government wants and herein lies the disconnect.

He suggested that there was no good reason for NZ to be involved in much of the conflict that is happening right now. For example when NZ offered reconstruction assistance in Afghanistan some ten years ago the public were told it was to help the local people, but that was a half truth, because the SAS were engaged in fighting a destructive war…and some of the NZ troops didn’t like what they were ordered to do. Killing farmers in their fields and civilians willy-nilly just seemed stupid to them and was most certainly not in line with the New Zealanders view of justice and fair play. It was more about assisting with the takeover of Afghanistan by the US.

What deeply concerned Nicky Hagar as both a journalist and a New Zealander was that the news coming out of the war zone of Afghanistan. While in Iraq, which we were assured by government that we didn’t have a combat role, but only to find that our Navy was deployed in that very role but kept secret from the general population.

His presentation was both stark and frightening as step by step he revealed just how little the public were told about the situation into which our troops had been ordered.

I thank the Friends of the Library for hosting Nicky Hagar to our city, for our city is situated in the centre of military activity with both Linton Camp and Ohakea on its edges. I thank the library staff and team for making available the sight and sound zone for this extremely valuable presentation.

PS: As an ex-soldier the presentation was of special meaning to me. I took part in operations in Malaya and in our full sized battalion which was just on a thousand troops our public relations team had about three members. I note now that the US forces number one public relation person for every 100 servicemen or women and that tells us all the value they now put on spin and misinformation…

America at war...2012 style...and we are part of that. 

Is truth bad for your health?

Is truth bad for your health?

Why do people at the top have to lie to maintain their PR image of being so-called tough leaders? Why is it necessary for leaders to appear as if they are always correct? Is it because we the public demand this so called ability of decisiveness from our leaders, why can’t they accept the fact; that they are human and mistakes are human?

Find me a person who has never made a mistake and I’ll suggest to you that you’ve found a liar. To err is human it is said and it is a truism proven beyond doubt.

Of course it is often very convenient to claim an error has been made by persons unknown. That way you can state with a small sense of reduced honesty…that it wasn’t my fault but the fault of someone else, usually unnamed.

ACC did it and have done it for years, when a doctor fails to give them the answer they want they find another doctor who will, and pay him accordingly. Why they thought they wouldn’t be caught out is beyond intelligent reasoning.

Leaking homes is another area where blame was allocated to cowboy builders where in fact the blame lay clearly and obviously with the removing and lowering of the standards permitted by law. And that was the work of the government, and it has cost, and is still costing billions to fix.  

The latest batch of half truths and straight out lies was the John Banks saga. Everyone knows that John Banks lied and if one doesn’t know that now one would have to be blind, ignorant or named Roger Douglas. The Prime Minister John Key, I don’t doubt has instructed his cabinet not to read the official police report so they can plead ignorance and thereby not be convicted of lying. This behaviour is of course typical of some one who sees himself and his appointed cabinet as above the law.

But the damage has been done. Bank’s is finished his political career over, his party ACT has all but disappeared from the political scene. Roger Douglas, Don Brash have been dispatched to the scrap heap, but the reality is that their insane and racist dream has been picked up by National. These failed concepts have been picked by Steven Joyce and Bill English and Paula Bennett who spin half truths about their value. Once again this is official lying on a massive scale. Banks rarely appears in Parliament but still picks up his two hundred thousand dollar salary.

The PM has received another kick in the butt over the handling of the Kim Dotcom saga, his natural inclination to please the country that made him rich [USA] has led him into a sea of half truths that are now showing what he really is best suited for, a salesman, and ex Wall Street hack who got out at the right time before Wall Street was shown to be a bunch of crap artists who grew fat by bankrupting people and even nations.

His statement that he never knew about Kim Dotcom until the day before the massive police, FBI, invasion of his mansion is beyond belief. Didn’t he read about the huge fireworks display that cost 500 thousands dollars celebrating Dotcoms NZ residency acceptance. Dotcom lives in his electorate. It’s simply crap of the highest order. Today he even tried to stop parliament from discussing the issue until he had got the main stream media and his pet bloggers on board. Fortunately he failed, if he had succeeded the issue couldn’t have discussed in Parliament for three weeks. He is a lazy Prime Minister who has failed to supervise the spies he is in charge of that work for the Government Communications Security Bureau [CSB]. The GCSB is answerable to absolutely no one other than the Prime Minister and according to the act, the prime minister represents the only democratic restraint on that organisation who job it is to spy on foreigners only and not on NZ citizens or residents.  

So it would seem that truth is bad for your health especially your political health. So it is correct to assume that lying is good for politicians health, based on the above it would appear that the evidence of the last three or four years that lying is better than honesty. We need to remember that our leadership only gets away with this self-centered behaviour because we allow them to.

These words from Albert Einstein say it all…

Gordon Campbell on spies etc.

This is the best blog on this issue...If only mainstream media wrote like this...


Gordon Campbell on Dotcom, spies and plausible deniabilitySeptember 25th, 2012

Well, John Key promised us a different style of government than what we’d had from Helen Clark. No more of that being on top of every detail in every portfolio. Do that, and people not only get sick to death of you (no one likes a know-all) but you can held responsible for knowing what’s going on in every dark corner of your administration, and that can take its toll on your popularity, too. For a number of reasons, Key is just not a detail kind of guy.
But does that make the job any easier? Not at all. Because every week the list of “need not to know” subjects seems to get longer. Last week, Key decided that he needed not to read what was in the Police report on John Banks and his mayoral campaign contributions, lest he should find something that would inconveniently require him to revisit the issue of Banks’ credibility, or lack thereof. Long before that, there was the need to be kept out of the loop about the imminent Police raid on Kim Dotcom’s moment until the very, very last moment. And now to cap it all off… there has been the need not to know that the very security organization that reports to him – the GCSB – was carrying out surveillance illegally on Dotcom, at the behest of the FBI. Who knew? Who knew that our biggest security service seems to have been working more closely with agents of a foreign power than with its own Minister? Not John Key, even though most of the time, he (as Minister of the Security Services) is the guy supposed to be signing off the GCSB’s surveillance warrants. Is it plausible to try and insulate yourself from knowledge of the actions of the very organisation for which you have oversight responsibility?
One can only imagine the relentless thirst for plausible deniability around the Cabinet table in this administration. The Christchurch rebuild? Don’t tell him about it. Literally, don’t tell him, Gerry. Bill, you and Treasury have finally got a plan for economic growth? I really don’t want to know – just tell me its cost neutral and spare me the details. In the Dotcom case, the fact of illegal surveillance only came to light in court papers to do with Dotcom’s extradition proceedings, and it seems to have been only at that point that the GCSB informed their Minister, and thereby triggered an investigation by the Inspector General of Intelligence and Security, Paul Neazor. It should be quite an exercise. What did the Prime Minister not know, and when did he not know it?
As yet, it is unclear whether the information provided to the Americans by the GCSB extended beyond locating the whereabouts of certain individuals. Probably more, but who knows? It is unclear whether Dotcom’s lawyers will be told its full extent – if they aren’t this would surely prejudice his right to a fair trial – or whether Paul Neazor’s full findings will eventually be made public.
The context for the actions against Dotcom are significantly different than what existed during the previous decade. What we saw in the 2000s under the Clark government was a covert effort by the NZ Defence Force to pursue a special relationship with the United States in its wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, regardless of the avowed independent foreign policy stance of the government of the day. That was the main thrust of the evidence collected by Nicky Hager in his book Other People’s Wars. Currently though, New Zealand has a conservative government actively engaged in seeking a special relationship with the Americans, and the task of collusion is therefore far easier to pursue. One can readily see why the GCSB might have had – or thought it might have had – a green light to do whatever would please the Americans, and enhance the wider relationship.
The formalities do have to be gone through, though. The need to restore even a smidgeon of public confidence in the neutrality of the security services makes it imperative that full disclosure of Neazor’s findings should occur. As things stand, there is an unsavoury looking trail here leading from corporate entertainment chiefs to US Vice-President Joseph Biden, and radiating back outwards to the FBI/NZ Police operation against Dotcom. To date, that hyperactive collusion in January between our Police and security services and those of a foreign power operating on our soil has resulted in search and seizure actions deemed by the courts to have been illegal – and those transgressions have now been compounded by an admission of illegal domestic spying. As yet there is no sign of anyone taking any Ministerial responsibility whatsoever for the series of screw-ups that has marked the Dotcom affair from the outset.
That lack of responsibility is partly due to the fact that everyone involved appears to have remembered not to forget not to tell Key beforehand what was going on. When it comes to some aspects of government, this Prime Minister appears to think it is smarter to be kept ignorant, thereby enabling him to stay inside a cone of plausible deniability. Given the level of (in)competence of those reporting to Key, one can readily see why.
ENDS

John Key supporters offer help.



Dear John Key and a anxious lead supporter. 



A letter to John Key…from his supporters.

  

As polls show a decline in national support. National party supporters and even members are deeply concerned and are seeking ways that it can help John Key achieve his wonderful and bright future he envisions. Here are just a few of those that can be published.  

Dear Kind Uncle John Key please tell us, how we can report all the beneficiary bludgers, would it be best to send you an email with their names and their crimes listed in alphabetical order. Are rich people who get given plumb state jobs or contracts beneficiaries? Should we include John Banks for example, for he never seems to go to work and he still gets paid?

Dear Dr. John Key, please tell us how we can stop all these thousands of young people from committing the crime of being born into the homes of the poor and needy. Should we introduce sterilisation for all those under 25 earning less than $50.000 per year, and how can we help in selecting those worthy for state sterilisation.

Dear Headmaster John Key how can we help you ensure that all those on benefits wear a yellow star that shows they are not fit to bring up children in this day and age. You may recall if you read, using your very selective reading skills, history that this was a very successful way of weeding out the unworthy in days gone bye in a really right-wing state.

Dear finance whiz-kid John Key can show us the path by which we all rip off the system and end up owning mansions in Hawaii or London. We know that you know the answer to the wealth gaining dilemma because you successfully achieved this very worthy goal.

Dear Salesman John Key, now that international criminal Panetta and you are buddies, how can, we as your loyal followers, help you decide where to station a few thousand US troops so as to help us fight an unknown war against an unknown enemy and for reasons as yet unknown.

Dear educationist expert John Key, can we contact you by phone, fax, email, letter or even pigeon to let you know about all the nasty teachers who by their poor work habits and shocking teacher skills force our children not to learn and should we burn down all the decile one to four schools so as to raise the national standards you have fallen in love with.

Dear Master Chief John key, please give us the wisdom and ability to live on twenty five dollars a day for a family of four, I’m sure that your massive experience of living in a state house and on a well deserved benefit back in the good old days will enable you to teach us middle class kiwi’s how to not only survive but save millions for our brighter future… 

There were hundreds of others but the language was such that they couldn't be published... 

US hit man pays us a visit...



NZ hosts ex CIA hit man Leon Panetta. 



USA top hit man visits NZ as guest of our Minister of Defence Jonathan Coleman.

“There are different types of courage”, says Jon, an US Lieutenant Colonel, “Ours requires moral courage. We take moral and legal risks. If I pull the trigger and I’m wrong I have to live with the consequences”, he said. [Guardian Weekly 10.08.12]

This Lt-Col is talking grap. He is a pilot who sits in a trailer up to a hundred miles away from this target, he pilots a drone unmanned aircraft and presses the button to release the rockets or bombs at civilian targets while he drinks his coffee. That takes stuff all courage. He has no worries at all, and needs to fear no moral condemnation, because the government and nation he works for doesn’t give a hoot about how many people die as he performs his legalised murder in the ironic name of freedom.

His direct boss is US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta, an ex boss of the CIA who are legally in the US allowed to kill who they wish, when they wish and where they wish. In fact they give them medals for doing just that.

Just yesterday this legalised murder machine was dining with our Minister of Defence Jonathan Coleman.

Earlier Panetta told us American forces will act on "any information that is credible" to hunt down and send a message to the insurgents in Afghanistan responsible for the deaths of three Kiwi soldiers. [US PR words for killing the families and innocent victims]

Our part time PM leapt aboard and Prime Minister John Key confirmed yesterday a small contingent of SAS had returned to Afghanistan to be involved in the hunt for the intelligence against the bombers responsible for the three latest New Zealand deaths.  

Beat that for stupidity…giving the so-called enemy advanced warning.

But if the US carry’s out any sort of attack the chances are they will murder farmers working in their fields, women taking their children to school or anyone they happen to spot. The US is well known for killing the wrong people, remember it was they who invented the phase ‘collateral damage’ legal US word for murder of innocents.

Using Panetta’s latest murder weapon ‘Drones’ thus far they have murdered around 2,500 to 3,500 innocent victims in Pakistan alone. [ Wajid Shamsul Hasan, Pakinstani High Commission in London]. And believe it or not Pakistan is a US Ally; if that’s how they treat their allies and we are one, what must they be doing to their enemies.

And this Mr. Leon Panetta is the guy NZ is sucking up to.

Would you invite a murderer in for Sunday dinner…there are those who would rightly suggest that we should actually arrest this rat-bag while he’s here and hand him over to the World Court for trial on well based murder charges.

But I doubt Key and his followers would show that kind of courage…their courage is not unlike the so-called brave US half Col who sits well out of danger protected by the Atomic Bomb and guides a death machine across international borders, bombs the life out of an innocent population and says what a good boy I am, and gets a purple heart for stubbing his toe while getting out of bed...

So much for justice, honour Coleman Key style.

Key - Brownlee - Dotcom - Banks saga



Gerry Brownlee, I know nothing. 



Known as Boss.



Key - Brownlee - Dotcom - Banks saga:

It is often thought that governments are made up of highly talented individuals who work their guts out for the benefit of the nation. Their work room, the parliamentary debating chamber is adorned with the banners of proud military units and each day the proceedings commence with a prayer where they swear that, ‘They will put aside all personal interests”, let me assure you that they don’t. What’s written below is but one example:

The characters in my tale are the Prime Minister John Key, Cabinet Minister and King of Christchurch Gerry Brownlee, Speaker Dr. Lockwood Smith and one person without a speaking role, Mr. Kim Dotcom.

John Banks also had a starring role but sadly he forgot his lines and failed to turn up. The rumour is that he was visiting Sky City Casino to thank them for their $15.000 donation which of course was anonymous…      

JK: “Oh there you are Gerry”…

GB: “Where did you think I’d be boss”,

JK: Just for one moment I thought that was you upstairs in the public gallery”,

GB: “You mean that big fellow sitting in the front row?

JK: “You’ve got it in one Gerry baby”

GB: “Oh come on boss, he’s fat and he is a Jerry as in German”

JK: “Well…”

GB: “That’s Kim Dotcom, and the good looking bird sitting next to him is his wife”

JK: “I was only joking Gerry baby”

GB: “Anyway Kim Dotcom is a good mate of your buddy John Banks isn’t he?

JK: “No way, according to John Banks they hardly even know each other”

GB: “Then why did Dotcom donate fifty thousand bucks to his mayoral campaign fund”

JK: “Where did you hear that Gerry?

GB: “It was in all the papers and on TV and it says so in the official police report”.

JK: “You’ve read the official report! I thought I instructed everyone in cabinet not to read that nasty politically motivated piece of crap”.

GB: “Oh you did, but you know when you then went off to your holiday home in Hawaii… you know the old saying, ‘While the cats away the mice will play”.

JK: “You want to stay in cabinet do you Gerry baby?

GB: “Oh yes please boss, Christchurch needs me to keep them in line”.

JK: “Your bloody lucky Gerry baby that since I can’t sack the whole mouse like cabinet for disobeying my clear instruction you’ve got a second chance, but one more stuff up and it’s back to teaching woodwork at an intermediate school, that’s if there are any left in Christchurch after Hekia Parata finishes her mauling down your way”.

“Mr. Speaker”, shouted the Sergeant at arms as he led Dr. Lockwood Smith into the debating chamber. JK stood and Gerry struggled to his feet as the speaker slow marched toward the speakers chair…as he neared JK Lockwood Smith paused and said to the PM, “Don’t worry boss, I’ll protect you during question time”.

GB: “What have you promised Lockwood Smith?

JK: “Nothing much, just a Knighthood and the top London diplomatic post, he really loves the Queen you know”.

GB: “What’s he going to do in London, read the Queen points of order about her wider family’s strange behaviour?

JK: “Now, now Gerry stay clam I was thinking of posting you to diplomatic post in Fiji so you can stuff up Suva in the same way as you’ve done in Christchurch.

At this point the chamber got down to business with questions for the day...and we all know what happened next, the news media was full of it...

Questions to Ministers should be answered honestly

The perfect crime...

The words below appear in an official police report. The PM John Key refuses to read this report, he stated on TV One, that he didn’t need to read the report because he has great trust in John Banks. Here is the vital paragraph in that criminal assessment report:

“The executive summary of Detective Inspector Mark Benefield’s criminal assessment report, which indicates in it, that the threshold had been reached for prosecution under section 134(2) of the Local Electoral Act for John Banks’ actions, but it did not occur because it was outside the 6-month time period”.

Now after reading that, any person of sound mind, would accept that John Banks broke the law, lied to both the PM and the media, but was not charged because the period of six months for laying the charge had expired. The PM stated that he has no intention of reading the report, why, because he is not paid to do so!  

Yet knowing this to be true Steven Joyce answering on behalf of the PM, stated the following over and over again in answer to questions in the house from Labour Party Deputy Leader Grant Robertson.

• that the police determined that there was insufficient evidence to consider a prosecution : Wrong there was sufficient evidence.

• I also note that the police obviously assessed the information and determined not to do a prosecution. Wrong because the six months had expired.

• I have not read those details, but I did note that the police determined that there was insufficient evidence to consider a prosecution. Wrong again.

• The police determined that there was not evidence to prosecute, and did not. Wrong yet again.

In a matter of five minutes Steven Joyce answering on behalf of our absent part time PM [it was Thursday and the PM rarely appears in parliament on Thursdays] gave answers he knew was wrong, no matter how ones views it these were lies.

They were not only incorrect in actual fact, but were lies.

Would you trust a person who can lie with such ease? They are obviously lies because the sworn police evidence proves that they are. And these guys Joyce and Key are running our country…and believe or not with the willing support of John Banks the man who told the lies and who is a minister in the ACT / National / Maori Party / United Future government, and note that the Speaker Lockwood Smith never once pulled Steven Joyce back into line…

2.

Another very interesting question was asked last Thursday about the ACC and its shonky and disgusting behaviour, some would say criminal…

KEVIN HAGUE (Green) to the Minister for ACC: Does she agree with Peter Trapski’s recommendation in his 1994 Report of the Inquiry into the Procedures of the Accident Compensation Corporation that “the Corporation must ensure that the opinions it obtains from medical practitioners are independent, not only of the claimant, but also of the Corporation, and that they are seen to be so”?

Hon JUDITH COLLINS (Minister for ACC): Yes.

KH: Is she concerned that just four of ACC’s favourite specialist medical advisers— Dr Martin C Robb, Dr Vic du Plessis, Dr Bill Turner, and Dr David Beaumont—are collectively paid up to $2 million a year from ACC for services rendered?

Judith Collins: Yes

KH: [Greens] asked, “Does she believe that an ordinary person would consider it possible that medical advisers like Dr du Plessis, Dr Turner, Dr Beaumont, and Dr Robb could remain independent of ACC, when it pays them between $300,000 and $500,000 each per year?

Judith Collins: Yes and Maybe and I don’t know

KH; Does she agree that an ordinary person would find it unbelievable that ACC would continue to fly these doctors around the country and pay them an average of almost $1,700 for each client they see if they were not acting as “hit men”, to use the phrase that Laurie Gluckman was described as according to Judge Trapski, in targeting the exit of long-term claimants, which ACC has referred to as low-hanging fruit?

Judith Collins; It could be perceived that way

KH: Does she accept that there is a risk that the assessments performed by a doctor who earns up to half a million dollars a year working part-time for ACC could be affected by that doctor’s desire to continue receiving such lucrative contracts from the corporation?

Judith Collins; as for above question

KH: Does she agree that contracting for specialist medical assessments with district health boards or professional colleges would help ensure that they are independent and are seen to be so, as Judge Trapski says they must be?

Judith Collins; Maybe and she is meeting with the board [her old mate and pet National board appointee Paula Rebstock] and will have a chat about it.

Barbara Stewart: New Zealand First] asked, “Will ACC cap the annual amount it spends on any individual medical assessor to avoid the risk of incentivising advisers to provide reports that ACC wants rather than independent advice?

Judith Collins: I am not sure that that would be a good idea, particularly if, for instance, there may be only two or three specialists with the level of expertise in the country. So I think that might be a bit of a blunt instrument, but I can undertake to look at all those considerations.

And so it looks as if ACC will walk away from its disgusting and revolting corporate ingrained and arrogant learned behaviour leaving its victims damaged and still in great need of rehabilitation paid for out of their own pockets. This is: justice honesty and fairness.

Nick Smith the dumped ACC minister should be totally ashamed of himself, as should Judith Collins who continues his corrupt régime, smiling as she does so.    

No doubt this matter will end up before the courts…