I am on Camp­bell Live tonight, no it isn’t about the video release it is about The Mos­quito.

I have been men­tor­ing, along with a good friend of mine, a group of kids from Auck­land Sev­enth Day Adven­tist High School in the Young Enter­prise Scheme. Their team is called DICE and their busi­ness is mak­ing and sell­ing ring­tones that only teens can hear.

They have been doing really, really well. In the first stage they came third in the pre­sen­ta­tions behind St Kentigern Col­lege and McLeans Col­lege. Both of those schools are Decile 10; ASDAH is Decile 2 and is located in Mangere.

At the recent show day our team won Best Stand and Over­all prize for their prod­uct, pre­sen­ta­tion and busi­ness plans. They are really rocking.

Watch Camp­bell Live and check out how they have been doing.

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National has launched their cam­paign and pre­dictably it was with a billboard.

Mean­while WOBH has received the fol­low­ing two sug­ges­tions for billboards.

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When Helen Clark mounted her dis­gust­ing smear against the Seri­ous Fraud Office she surely didn’t think the alle­ga­tions would last the day did she?

First up John Key came out and denounced the alle­ga­tions and demanded Clark apoligise and now the NBR’s Ben Thomas has done what every other MSM journo should have done and asked the SFO if they did leak it like Clark says.

The SFO has cat­e­gor­i­cally denied the out­ra­geous and pre­sump­tuaous smear that Clark hurled about.

So I guess it is proven again, Helen Clark lies when it suits her. Don’t rush now to apol­o­gise Helen, take your time why don’t you.

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Most peo­ple are say­ing “Who?” when they hear the Sarah Palin has been cho­sen to be John McCain’s run­ning mate.

In order to help you out here some use­ful web­sites for you.

Lit­tle Known Facts About Sarah Palin which is very much like Helen-Clark.com and;

Sarah Palin Facts

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The Greens must surely be con­sid­er­ing their option regard­ing New Zealand First, but what about their options with Labour. Con­stantly shafted and taken advan­tage of because of their adher­ence to the more rad­i­cal com­mu­nist influ­ences rather than the Green influ­ences of the party.

Labour seems to wan­tonly attack them at every oppor­tu­nity despite them being sup­posed left­ist trav­el­ling mates. Wit­ness this video of Sonny Thomas, the most hideous gay man on earth and Labour func­tionary attack­ing and slur­ring Green MP Sue Ked­g­ley. He accuses her repeat­edly of dri­ving an SUV even after Kedgely denys it and then he accuses her of being a “Mars­den Green”. For those who don’t know what that ref­er­ence means it is because stu­dents at Samuel Mars­den Col­le­giate wear green blasers with the infer­ence being these peo­ple are green on the out­side, tories on the inside. Nice!, attacked by your own mates.

I won­der when the Greens will finally show some integrity and make a stand.

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Clark sus­pects SFO tipped off National Party – Prime Min­is­ter Helen Clark thinks the Seri­ous Fraud Office tipped off the National Party about its inten­tion to inves­ti­gate New Zealand First. National’s leader, John Key, said last week he would not work with Mr Peters after the… [NZ Her­ald Pol­i­tics]

Helen Clark is now smear­ing the Seri­ous Fraud Office in a dis­gust­ing dis­play of par­ti­san­ship. Just a few short days ago she was inton­ing that we should all wait for the SFO to con­duct their inves­ti­ga­tion and yet this morn­ing she wades in boots and all give her con­sid­ered opin­ion about the integrity of the SFO.

Bad news for Helen Clark though;

Nats deny SFO tipped them off to NZ First dona­tions probe – The National Party has denied it was tipped off by the Seri­ous Fraud Office about its deci­sion to inves­ti­gate dona­tions to New Zealand First [TVNZ News Pol­i­tics]

Now under the “Clark Prinic­ple” prece­dent she must accept the word of John Key just as she accepts the word of proven liar Win­ston Ray­mond Peters, 63, List MP of no fixed abode. She has cal­lously smeared the Seri­ous Fraud Office, she has lied.

Helen Clark must resign, she has dis­graced her office. Bet­ter still she should imme­di­ately call an elec­tion so that John Key and the Rod­ney Hide can set about clean­ing up New Zealand pol­i­tics from the stench and appear­ance of cor­rup­tion at the high­est lev­els of New Zealand governance.

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Last week in the par­lia­ment Labour along with Win­ston Ray­mond Peters, 63, List MP of no fixed abode col­luded to silence Rod­ney Hide. They used the asser­tion that the items that Rod­ney was try­ing to raise and table includ­ing the now pub­lished secret tape fron TVNZ were sub-judice.

Well that is com­plete bol­locks and Labour, WRP, 63, LMPONFA and the Speaker all know it.

Here is the judge­ment from that case that sup­pos­edly, accord­ing to WRP, 63, LMPONFA is still on-going and there­fore sub­ject to his ridicu­lous world view of what sub-judice is.

The judge­ment makes it plain as the nose on your face that there is no defama­tion, no issues and indeed, that being the case, then leads one to sug­gest that there are very real claims of cor­rup­tion, bribery and per­ver­sion of the course of justice.

This why it is shame­ful that Michael Cullen and Mar­garet Wil­son sup­ported WRP, 63, LMPONFA from bring­ing the dis­in­fec­tant of sun­light on these murky dealings.

We urgently need an Inde­pen­dent Com­mis­sion against Cor­rup­tion, we irgently need some sort of inquiry into how a par­lia­men­tary select com­mit­tee was nob­bled by dodgy evi­dence and why WRP, 63, LMPONFA changed his tune and did $300,000 help change his mind?

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Two bril­liant cartoons.

Guy Body in the Herald

Chi­cane

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New gen­er­a­tion to fly party flag at elec­tion – Labour has ensured it will have an injec­tion of new faces after the next elec­tion by aban­don­ing its prac­tice of rank­ing MPs ahead of other can­di­dates, instead putting great empha­sis on eth­nic diver­sity. Its top-ranking new face… [NZ Her­ald Pol­i­tics]

The Axis of Weasel did a stel­lar job of advanc­ing their list plac­ings. Jor­dan, espe­cially, must be regret­ting felch­ing his way round the Euro­pean Parliament.

Jor­dan Carter #70
Kate Sut­ton #63
Conor Roberts #64

Of course Bren­den Shee­han didn’t fig­ure at all after I destroyed his cred­i­bil­ity as a can­di­date. Other can­di­dates that need to dust off their extremely thin CV’s include Mr Pho­to­shop Brian Kelly, Judith Tizard, Darien “Smack­head” Fen­ton and Michael Wood.

If this is the result of “three years’ work – of recruit­ment, of can­di­dates, iden­ti­fi­ca­tion, and so on” then they should sack their recruiters, and as for “gen­er­a­tional change”, well, what a fuck­ing stu­pid thing to say when your top new­comer is 62 year old Rajen Prasad.

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PM may be grilled over Glenn dona­tion – Prime Min­is­ter Helen Clark could be called to appear before Parliament’s priv­i­leges com­mit­tee to dis­cuss what she knew about a $100,000 dona­tion to sus­pended For­eign Min­is­ter Win­ston Peters by expa­tri­ate bil­lion­aire Owen Glenn. In… [NZ Her­ald Pol­i­tics]

The like­li­hood of Simon Power grilling any­thing other than toasted sand­wiches before the com­mit­tee is high. He really needs to pull his fist out of his arse and apply the blow-torch to Clark.

Far­rar has some good points (see David, thats how you link to some­thing you are talk­ing about) that the com­mit­tee, if they grow some balls, could raise with the Prime Min­is­ter, who it appears has her slimy mitts all over the Win­ston Ray­mond Peters, 63, List MP of no fixed abode affair.

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More back­grounder so you can under­stand the Scampi Scan­dal and why the secret tape was suppressed.

This is the vale­dic­tory speech of Ian Ewen-Street.

Richard, in case you hadn’t noticed, Sue is young, beau­ti­ful and highly intel­li­gent, whereas I’m…. well, I’m not. Even my kind­est friends would describe me as middle-aged, over­weight and bald. Richard, that’s not a scan­dal, it’s a bloody miracle!

But I knew I’d cho­sen the right woman a few days later when we were walk­ing through the Bowen House tun­nel and came across Richard Preb­ble, so I stopped to intro­duce them. It’s not often you see him stumped for words, but he uttered not a syl­la­ble when Sue greeted him with the words “Hello Richard, thank you for mak­ing me famous!” and he was still recov­er­ing and back­ing off towards the travel­la­tor when Sue called out – “but watch out for my father, he still wants to kill you!” That’s my girl!!

Yes, the scampi scan­dal! I can joke about it now, but it was undoubt­edly a dif­fi­cult time for me. But a great les­son in life’s rich tapes­try. A great expe­ri­ence in find­ing out who one’s friends are – or even more per­ti­nently, who one’s friends aren’t!

My sin­cere thanks to all the mem­bers of the Pri­mary Pro­duc­tion Com­mit­tee – espe­cially David Carter, Doug Wool­er­ton, Clay­ton Cos­grove, Gerry Eck­hoff, Dover Samuels, Phil Heat­ley, Janet Mackey and Harry Duyn­hoven – I know I became the sub­ject of some won­der­ful jokes for you, but I am also aware that your friend­ship and sup­port kept me sane through that time. Thank you!

Work­ing in the PPSC was a real high­light for me. I enjoyed the work, I enjoyed your com­pany – includ­ing the sup­port staff of Bob Bunch, Mary Hay and Steven Mitchell – and I shall miss you all.

But I also have to say that I am con­vinced that you got parts of the scampi inquiry badly wrong. I believe you shot the mes­sen­ger and allowed the real cul­prits to get away with per­pe­trat­ing one of the biggest frauds and one of the gravest injus­tices in NZ history.

I strug­gle with the sug­ges­tion from some peo­ple that there was no evi­dence of any wrong-doing. There was. Affi­davits are sworn evi­dence. They have con­victed mur­der­ers in the past. I agree that some­one may argue that it may not be pos­si­ble to string together a long sequence of events and say that they prove a cer­tain out­come, but if you treat each piece of evi­dence as a piece of a jig­saw puz­zle, there are more than enough pieces to see the over­all pic­ture of pre­med­i­tated offend­ing. And please don’t for­get the evi­dence of the peo­ple who made sub­mis­sions to the PPSC, but had their evi­dence returned because they alleged crim­i­nal behav­iour and that was out­side the terms of ref­er­ence for the inquiry. How can you weigh up evi­dence if you send it back to the sub­mit­ter, espe­cially if you then claim there is no evidence?

If the next gov­ern­ment wants to fol­low up on the scampi issue and restore my faith in the polit­i­cal sys­tem, I sug­gest that a good place to start their enquiries would be Helen Cull QC, the lawyer who con­vened the State Ser­vices Com­mis­sion inquiry which ran in par­al­lel with the PPSC inquiry. She got it right. She knows pretty much what hap­pened, but her final report does not reflect this because her terms of ref­er­ence were lim­ited to inves­ti­gat­ing the role of the Min­istry of Fish­eries. I believe she should be asked to pub­lish her real find­ings and the peo­ple guilty of rap­ing and pil­lag­ing the scampi fish­ery brought to account.

I think the incom­ing gov­ern­ment should also heed the words of for­mer Prime Min­is­ter Sir Geof­frey Palmer when he described the crit­i­cism of the Min­istry of Fish­eries by both the PPSC and the State Ser­vices Com­mis­sion as the most scathing crit­i­cism of a gov­ern­ment depart­ment in NZ his­tory. But what has hap­pened as a con­se­quence? Did any­one get sacked? Pen­sioned off? Slapped on the wrist with a wet bus ticket? No, noth­ing. The then CEO of the Min­istry put out a press release say­ing that the Min­istry had been vin­di­cated. They had not. He should have been falling on his sword, but instead he con­tin­ued the fan­tasy within the Min­istry that some­how they are beyond the law, that they can ignore the rul­ings of the High Court and the Court of Appeal with impunity. And that they can ignore Parliament.

I believe the Min­istry should also be made aware of their respon­si­bil­i­ties under the Fish­eries Act (and inter­na­tional treaties) to address the social and eco­nomic well-being of coastal com­mu­ni­ties. It is sim­ply unac­cept­able that small fish­ers in such fish­eries as cock­les, whelks, geo­ducs, paddle-crabs, pilchards and oth­ers can be put out of busi­ness and their lives destroyed by the whim of min­istry offi­cials. The RMA is a tool in the tool­box of the man­age­ment of fish­eries, it is not an end in itself. And it most cer­tainly should not be there for the pur­pose of hugely enrich­ing a small num­ber of fish­ers at the expense of oth­ers and the eco­log­i­cal sus­tain­abil­ity of the fishery.

It is my opin­ion that this is a Min­istry which needs a thor­ough shake-up in the upper ech­e­lons of the bureau­cracy and imbued with the real­iza­tion that they are pub­lic ser­vants. They are paid to serve the pub­lic inter­est and they are there to man­age the eco­log­i­cal sus­tain­abil­ity of the fish­eries of this country.

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Well, my site has taken a ham­mer­ing since post­ing the infa­mous secret scampi video. Now by way of a back­rounder here is some filler infor­ma­tion that tells you why this video is so explo­sive. It is from Hansard and the debate on Scampi. When you read this you can see why Win­ston Ray­mond peters, 63, List MP of no fixed abode is going to be squirm­ingthat the video has now seen the light of day. You would also do well to read Ques­tion 5 from the other day as well.

Hon KEN SHIRLEY (ACT): On 16 Octo­ber 2001 Win­ston Peters, the leader of the New Zealand First Party, issued a press release. It was titled: “Gross incom­pe­tence in fish­eries. Heads need to roll.” He was call­ing for a dis­missal of the chief exec­u­tive of the Min­istry of Fish­eries, and he claimed that the min­istry was guilty of gross incom­pe­tence, faulty allo­ca­tion of scampi quota, wan­ton dis­re­gard for due process, and unlaw­ful treat­ment of fish­ers. He called on the Min­is­ter of Fish­eries to invoke an imme­di­ate inquiry. He said that the allo­ca­tion of scampi was to be taken away from the min­istry, as it could not be trusted. Those were very seri­ous alle­ga­tions, and some even called them reck­less. It was clas­sic Win­ston Peters innuendo.

Six months later, on 24 April 2002, in the gen­eral debate-this very debate we are hav­ing now-Winston Peters lam­basted the Min­is­ter of Fish­eries for not tak­ing action. He accused the Min­istry of Fish­eries of con­don­ing cor­rup­tion, aid­ing and abet­ting cor­rup­tion, and involv­ing itself in that cor­rup­tion. Win­ston Peters said: “I will pro­duce evi­dence that the min­istry know­ingly con­doned that cor­rup­tion.” He went on fur­ther to say: “In the next few weeks I intend to demon­strate with volu­mi­nous evi­dence and affi­davits why this min­istry should be removed from its job and the Seri­ous Fraud Office asked, belat­edly, to do its job.”

Even­tu­ally, a par­lia­men­tary inquiry into the scampi alle­ga­tions was insti­gated by the Pri­mary Pro­duc­tion Com­mit­tee, fol­low­ing a very high-profile Assign­ment pro­gramme that screened on tele­vi­sion. One would have expected Win­ston Peters, hav­ing made those alle­ga­tions, to rejoice at hav­ing got that inquiry but, oh no, he gave not a whis­per, not a mur­mur. He quickly replaced Doug Wool­er­ton, the per­ma­nent New Zealand First mem­ber on that select com­mit­tee, and then spent his time focus­ing on nar­row­ing and clos­ing the terms of ref­er­ence for the com­mit­tee. It was all, one would say, rather curious.

The Pri­mary Pro­duc­tion Com­mit­tee sat for sev­eral months, con­sumed an enor­mous amount of Parliament’s time, and reported on 2 Decem­ber 2003. Win­ston Peters pro­duced no evi­dence to sup­port the reck­less alle­ga­tions he had made, and he cer­tainly did not table the “volu­mi­nous evi­dence” he had promised. He was as quiet as a lamb, with barely a whisper.

Last night on tele­vi­sion fur­ther alle­ga­tions were made, and ref­er­ence was made to a sworn affi­davit. The func­tion­ing of this Par­lia­ment and its processes was raised, and the pro­gramme focused on a for­mer mem­ber of this House-perhaps one of the most unsavoury mem­bers who has passed through this House-a Mr Ross Meurant.

It seems that a for­mer mem­ber of Par­lia­ment, Ross Meu­rant, was engaged by Simunovich Fish­eries as an adviser and lob­by­ist. Con­cur­rent with that, of course-and a lot of peo­ple do not realise this-Mr Meu­rant was also hired by the New Zealand First Party and was on its pay­roll; actu­ally, on the tax­pay­ers’ pay­roll through the Par­lia­men­tary Service.

We were told that Mr Meu­rant attended sev­eral meet­ings, together with prin­ci­pals of Simunovich Fish­eries. Mr Meurant’s for­mer part­ner of some 9 years, Yvonne Theresa Dos­set­ter, swears that Ross Meu­rant met at the Simunovich’s olive farm fol­low­ing the infa­mous Ker­madec restau­rant meal, and the pro­posal was put that the pay­ment of $300,000 to Meu­rant would be a good invest­ment for the Simunovich busi­ness. It is alleged that the deed was done, and that the money would be avail­able from an Aus­tralian bank account. Sub­se­quently, it is alleged that Mr Meu­rant boasted to Yvonne Dos­seter, who has sworn an affi­davit, that the money was paid, and that Meu­rant indeed had it in a brown paper bag.
This is an extremely seri­ous alle­ga­tion, and it brings into ques­tion in the public’s mind the func­tion­ing of our rep­re­sen­ta­tive democ­racy. What we have to realise is that Win­ston Peters was in there with him.

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Watch this video. It is the whole secret video that has been sup­pressed by legal action since 2004. The alle­ga­tions con­tained in this video are explo­sive. It was sent to me on DVD in an unmarked brown enve­lope post­marked from Hen­der­son. I do not know who sent it, though I have ver­i­fied it is authen­tic and addi­tional footage sup­plied shows it to be authen­tic. This video was removed from the TVNZ news­room and was in an unknown loca­tion until Rod­ney Hide raised the details in par­lia­ment. Then TVNZ mirac­u­lously “found” the tapes sit­ting in a lawyers office.

If true then jus­tice in respect of the select com­mit­tee inquiry into the Scampi Quota allo­ca­tions has seri­ously been per­verted. Not only that you have to ask why the per­son who insisted on the inquiry in the first place then changed his tune dur­ing  the inquiry.

Peo­ple have been beaten up and in an attempt to stop you see­ing the video. I will prob­a­bly get a hid­ing now for pub­lish­ing it, but I have pub­lished it because it is very much in the pub­lic inter­est to do so. It appears that a par­lia­men­tary select com­mit­tee has been com­pro­mised through bribery, cor­rup­tion and per­jury. This goes to the heart of our democ­racy. I am going to need legal rep­re­sen­ta­tion after show­ing this  video to the world.

More impor­tant though is why has the gov­ern­ment remained so silent on this. Under the “no sur­prises” doc­trine, surely the Finance Min­is­ter and the Broad­cast­ing Min­is­ter at the time must have been alerted to the explo­sive con­tents of this video, and at the time it was filmed we know that the TVNZ board was leak­ing like the prover­bial col­lan­der to the Prime min­is­ter her­self. Fur­ther the ongo­ing ram­i­fi­ca­tions of wealthy busi­ness inter­ests and politi­cians main­tain­ing legal pro­ceed­ings with huge sums attached in order to sup­press this infor­ma­tion strikes the foun­da­tions of NZ politics.

Now the infor­ma­tion is in the pub­lic domain thanks to WOBH, where sun­light is the best dis­in­fec­tant, we need to urgently look at estab­lish­ing an Inde­pen­dent Com­mis­sion against Cor­rup­tion and a Royal Com­mis­sion of Inquiry into the Scampi Allo­ca­tion and sub­se­quent per­jury alle­ga­tions con­tained in this video. Remem­ber we are not talk­ing about a lowly back­bencher or asso­ciate min­is­ter get­ting some tiling done here, we are talk­ing about New Zealand’s face around the world, our gov­ern­ment rep­re­sen­ta­tive, the For­eign Min­is­ter and/or the Prime Minister.

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If Win­ston Ray­mond Peters, 63, List MP of no fixed abode thinks a pesky lit­tle Serios Fraud Office inves­ti­ga­tion isn’t any­thing to flip your wig over wait until he sees the video I’m going to post shortly.

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Eight new faces in Labour list – Labour announced its party list today, pro­mot­ing eight new faces over some sit­ting MPs. [3 News Pol­i­tics]

The Labour list is out and has been touted as hav­ing 8 new faces. Slight prob­lem though one is old, as at 62 Rajen Prasad is cer­tainly past it and Ray­mond Huo is hardly a spring chicken either.

So whilst they have a list they still don’t have any pol­icy as con­firmed in an email from Dinah Okeby a ninth floor apparatchik.

From: Tom S
Phone: None
Mes­sage:

Hi guys,

Am mak­ing my deci­sion for this year’s elec­tion, and am try­ing to look at all the poli­cies of the var­i­ous par­ties to work out where I stand.

I can only seem to access the 2005 elec­tion Labour pol­icy on your website.

Could you please send me the link to your 2008 policy?

Thanks a lot -

Tom Symonds

________________________________

Hi – thanks for your email.

Labour’s 2008 poli­cies will be released a bit closer to the election.

I have put you on our mail­ing list to receive them once they are available.

Thanks for your interest.

Dinah Okeby

Pri­vate Secretary

So there we have it, from the horses mouth so to speak, Labour has no pol­icy, none that they are will­ing to share at the least. What on earth is their secret agenda?

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