Posts by Stephen Judd
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Andrew C: I thought the flippancy was not directed at people who pay the lions' share per se, but at the ones who threaten to leave if they are asked to any more.
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Steve: the big stories that have been obliterated to my mind are the Pike River Mine enquiry and the Treasury Debt Office troughing. From a partisan Labour POV, of course there was the announcement of the new local procurement policy.
I too have my suspicions on this. Nice to see we’re on the same side of a conspiracy theory for once :D
Edit: and Idiot/Savant's scoop about the appointment of Shipley et al to the CERA board could have blown up too.
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And more:
Last updated 05:00 24/02/2011
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Shattered locals and tourists yesterday began boarding civilian and air force planes in their hundreds to leave Christchurch, while locals who had been away from the city headed home on flights carrying emergency personnel and equipment. -
Rich: Yes. See entry for 5:28 AM. They may have been ordinary kids, but they were also tourists with no friends and family to stay with.
Simply googling "Christchurch refugee air force plane" yields a number of reports that suggest there is nothing odd here.
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True. I actually know someone who drove to Dunedin immediately afterwards, to catch a flight from there. Hmmm, ok I retract that.
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Just to prove that I'm not close minded about the SIS business, this is what tickles my radar.
See this timeline? Chch airport was closed to all non-emergency flights until 8AM the day after the quake. I would have thought you needed some serious juice to get three civilians out of Chch via air within 12 hours of the quake, as was claimed by Tulett. This is an aspect of the story that could do with some light shone on it.
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Hard News: The scandal that keeps on giving, in reply to FletcherB,
Absolutely. But unless I've missed something, there is a very frustrating lack of detail on this point.
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I don’t dismiss the article – like I said, sounds plausible – I just don’t want Irving’s site to get PAS’ link juice. His site seems to be basically collecting negative stories about Jews and Israel, including that copy/paste article from Moment.
Also, Irving being Irving, it wouldn't surprise me in the least if there were textual changes from the original.
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Hard News: The scandal that keeps on giving, in reply to Paul Campbell,
we don’t want the Mossad and their like to dilute the safety that being kiwis gives us
Neither do I. I was very angry when that happened in 2004 and I hope this wasn't a repeat. And thus far, there's no evidence that it was.