Horton said New Zealand needed to break the remaining military and intelligence ties with the US. “We were kicked out of the ANZUS Treaty (the Australia, New Zealand and United States Security Treaty) in 1986, we now need to break the invisible ties to be fully independent,” Horton said. Green Party list MP Teanau Tuiono attended the protest for the first time on Saturday. Tuiono spoke at the gates to the Government Communications Security Bureau facility in rural Marlborough, with its famous white orbs, calling for it to be dismantled.
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Green Party list MP Teanau Tuiono wants to close the base and focus on fostering community tolerance and resilience.
Are you ready folks?
2021 is the year when the NZ Free Speech vs Hate Speech debate explodes, destroying friendships, cancelling half the country and abusing the remaining rest.
Alliances will be torn asunder, political debate will never be the same and a level of toxicity will seep into public discourse that will ensure a polarisation unseen in NZ.
When the insanity of what is about to be released is over and the wasted political landscape despoiled, not one New Zealander will be safer from white supremacy terrorism and the only winner will be ACT.
So how the hell did we get here, what the hell is going to happen and what possible solutions should we be looking for instead?
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Reserve Bank of New Zealand Gov. Adrian Orr says he personally owns responsibility for a serious data breach involving a file transfer system.
The governor of New Zealand’s Reserve Bank, the nation s central bank, says he “personally owns” responsibility for a data breach that exposed private and sensitive stakeholder information.
On Friday, Gov. Adrian Orr said that the bank’s actions “have fallen short of the public’s expectations. This is why I am unreservedly apologizing,” according to a video included as part of a statement.
The bank disclosed on Jan. 10 that hackers had compromised the bank’s File Transfer Appliance, which is part of the file-sharing service from Accellion, a company based in Palo Alto, California. The central bank used the service to share information with stakeholders (see:
Tuesday, 12 January 2021, 3:27 pm
Tom Peters
The report of the Royal Commission of
Inquiry into the Christchurch terror attack, made public
last month, asserts that there was no way any state agency
could have detected fascist gunman Brenton Tarrant and
prevented his massacre of 51 people on March 15,
2019.
This finding is not supported by evidence. All
the inquiry’s hearings were held in secret. Thousands of
pages of submissions, and hundreds of interviews, have been
permanently suppressed.
The commission’s
predetermined purpose was to whitewash the New Zealand and
Australian intelligence agencies and police, and to cover up
the role of governments in both countries in whipping up
New Zealand inquiry covers up police dismissal of anti-Muslim threats prior to 2019 terror attack
The report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Christchurch terror attack, made public last month, asserts that there was no way any state agency could have detected fascist gunman Brenton Tarrant and prevented his massacre of 51 people on March 15, 2019.
Al Noor mosque in Christchurch (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
This finding is not supported by evidence. All the inquiry’s hearings were held in secret. Thousands of pages of submissions, and hundreds of interviews, have been permanently suppressed.
The commission’s predetermined purpose was to whitewash the New Zealand and Australian intelligence agencies and police, and to cover up the role of governments in both countries in whipping up racism and Islamophobia, including through participation in US imperialist wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The final report was vetted and approved by the intelligence agencies themselves p