April 2009

Cullen leaves Parliament for final time – Michael Cullen, an MP since 1981 and finance minister for the last nine years, left Parliament’s debating chamber for the last time tonight after a valedictory speech marked by the cleverness and wit for which he was so well-known. The… [NZ Herald Politics]

Thank the good Lord for that. Finally.

You won’t be reading any felching of the c**t on this blog, unlike some others I could mention but won’t because they aren’t in the VRWC any more.

Fiji likely to be expelled from Forum: Key – Fiji is likely to be suspended from the Pacific Islands Forum on Friday – the deadline for holding democratic elections, Prime Minister John Key said. Fijian Attorney-General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum said today the country would not… [NZ Herald Politics]

Bad move John, bad move.

All this move will do is push Fiji closer and closer to China. Someone other than the fools at Mfat needs to be advising you on Fiji.

I can help there and put you in touch with several folk who have the ear of Frank Bainimarama.

Don’t be captured by the bureaucrats, actually make a difference.

There is a difference between headlines for a newspaper and headlines that turn into links. On a newspaper the headline must grab attention for you to read it and likewise for a link to the article on a website.

However I think web savvy users are inoculated to the more sensational headlines and instead go for quirky. Which leads me onto the premise that there are some links that you just HAVE to click.

The Herald had one such link today.

Man admits goat attack

Now here was I thinking oh no! not another animal fucker giving the loving touch to a goat. For some strange reason goat sex also provides a huge number of visits as well. DPF has found out that Penguin sex does the same.

So I click through and to my utter disappointment it is a story about a truly sick individual who bloody tortured a goat by dragging it behind his car. Good grief that is so disgusting when he could have just given it a kiss and slipped the back legs into his gumboots.

Question 12 today looked innocuous and then all hell broke loose.

12. AMY ADAMS (National—Selwyn) to the Minister of Defence: What steps has he taken to review defence policy?

Hon Dr WAYNE MAPP (Minister of Defence) : Last Tuesday the Associate Minister of Defence and I launched the 2009 defence review. This review will result in a white paper early next year that will set out the Government’s defence policy. There has not been a defence review since 1997, and the world has changed a great deal since then.

Amy Adams: What reports has the Minister received on the various ways of running defence?

Hon Dr WAYNE MAPP: There are, in fact, a variety of ways in which defence forces can operate. For example, I have read a report entitled “Outsourcing War”, which discusses military companies like Blackwater Worldwide, and suggests that we “recognize them as multinational entrepreneurs eager to solidify their legitimacy.” Interestingly enough, this report came from Mr David Shearer, a man with considerable experience in Iraq and, I understand, Mr Goff’s preferred candidate for Mt Albert’s by-election.

Hon Phil Goff: Can the Minister confirm that the person he is seeking to undermine at this point has over the last 10 years constantly put his life at risk, has won gallantry awards for saving the lives of children in refugee camps, and, in fact, has done far more for humanity than John Key and the dirty-tricks brigade in the National Party who are seeking to undermine him?

Hon Dr WAYNE MAPP: I certainly have heard of Mr Shearer’s reputation. I have also heard that he has written, in fact, four articles and books: the first is entitled “Dial an Army”, from The World Today in 1997; the second is “Outsourcing War”, from Foreign Policy in 1998; the third is Private Armies and Military Intervention; and the fourth is “Privatising”—

Oh lookie there, the National Research Unit got off its collective arse and found a few more articles. My word, it looks like David Shearer really is the Trojan Horse from ACT, writing no less than 4 articles or books on the topic shows some seriousness about the topic.

Phil Goff then got monstered with more supplementaries showing that David Shearer is very much a Goff man with Goff’s penchant for selling off Defense Assets.

This is an advance view of a new mag to hit the streets in Mt Albert shortly.

The debacle that Labour faces over the S-Bomb is a good example of the differences between the right and the wrong…ooops…I mean the left.

Let’s look at the H-Fee Smear. I call it a smear because it was in fact a smear without any foundation in fact.

1. Labour’s lap-blog has a guest post from “Batman” alleging dodgy dealings from John Key
2. Labour raises questions in the media and house constantly about how and when John key traded shares as an MP.
3. Labour despatches their president,  Mike Williams, to Melbourne with several staffers at huge expense for airfares and accommodation to sift through mountains of documents searching for dirt.
4. Labour trucks huge quantities of documents back with them from Melbourne.
5. They then raise the H-fee smear
6. Get it spectaularly wrong, it isn’t even John Key’s signature on the documents
7. Lose the election

As Cactus Kate succinctly notes that plan went something like this;

I know it takes a pinko 10 days, and flights to Australia with a team of 4 to do that, but the VRWC are far more literate.

And we are. Here is how the S-Bomb was delivered on target.

1. DPF and Whaleoil were drinking at Waipapa Tavern near Kerikeri and thought it might be a good idea to look into the background of the Labour candidates
2. Phone calls made to various bloggers to assist
3. Potential goldmine location was suggested by one blogger to Whaleoil
4. DPF phones some student mates with access to University library repositories
5. Documents emailed to DPF
6. Documents emailed to Duncan Garner
7. Documents released on Whaleoil and DPF blogs
8. Documents featured same night on TV3
9. The haliburton Candidates campaign spiked before it began

It cost us nothing to investigate, cost us nothing to publish and the damage was massive. No political party was involved, the entire S-Bomb delivery was by bloggers, and was on target and truthful 100%.

Labour can call it a smear all they like but unlike the H-Fee Smear this was 100% truthful. David Shearer said what he said, published it no less in two seperate publications and also doesn’t resile from his beliefs.

That my dear readers the the difference between the left and the right. Smear versus Fact.

One thing for sure that can be said about the Labour candidates for selection in Mt Albert is that they sure are right-wing. Phil Goff is moving fast to stamp his authority on the party and this is a good thing really too see Labour moving rapidly to the right.

DPF has released the second document that we discovered about Privatising Protection. A document written while David Shearer was working for Phil Goff. In it he sggests that;

When people in the world’s conflict zones need protecting, it is the United Nations which is most frequently charged with ‘doing something’. Often short of soldiers, it should be given another option, to call on professional military companies to provide human security – for a fee.

The idea is not without merit and it is admirable that Phil Goff has personally selected a candidate of such high calibre and with clear right-wing credentials. The only thing that nags at the back of my mind is perhaps David Shearer is an ACT Party sleeper agent coming active for a reverse takeover of Labour.

Another candidate with apparent good right-wing credentials has been revealed by Dave at Big News who says;

the candidate who is named after a Christian radio station: Rhema Vaithianathan. She’s written a journal on the Economics of Female Genital Cutting which you can download here. In the article she argues that female genital cutting is a pre-marital investment associated with better marital outcomes. Which has got to be good for social and economic policy.

Outstanding. I don’t know what is more embarrassing for Phil Goff. Forgeting the name of your ally or having potential candidates that advocate for the privatisation of the army and the employment of mercenaries for peacekeeping and another than has studied the Ecomonics of Female Genital Mutilation.

Why the Police are even thinking about charging someone who is actually a hero for taking on an armed robber is beyond me.

Why don’t they actually go out and catch the real criminal instead of thinking of charging a man who was simply protecting his livelihood from a scum-sucking thief.

It beggars belief that the cops couldn’t follow a blood trail.

Police did not encourage victims being robbed at gunpoint to fight back as these victims did, he said.

“This situation could easily have resulted in a fatality and it could have easily been one of victims that had been shot or killed.

“Fighting back, when firearms are involved, dramatically increases the dangers to everyone present and should not be considered or attempted.”

Fuck that. Like they will do anything to help out. You may as well fight back.It is time we as citizens were returned the right to keep and bear arms. That way there will be a fatality in a robbery, that of the robber.

From the Dim-Post

Watching the Labour Party match wits with Farrar is like watching a band of drunks try and play tennis against Serena Williams without racquets. How did it ever come to this?

The ineptness of Labour and Phil Goff are being exposed daily.

Yesterday in the house Phil Goff attempted a very difficult feat indeed and I don’t mean remember Russel Norman’s name

The cherry on the top comes when Mr Goff seeks to officially table “the front page of every suburban newspaper in Auckland” in an effort to show how critical those papers were of the “bullying” approach the Government followed on the Super City.

Parliament’s rules for tabling insist that the documents in question have to be physically produced. Much to National’s delight, Mr Goff has forgotten to add that it will only be one copy of the papers in question.

Their heads full of happy visions of Labour staffers rounding up every single newspaper in the metropolis and a convoy of trucks rolling down the country to fulfil such a requirement, the National MPs let him table them.

Then he has massively stumbled in the defence of David “Haliburton” Shearer when he says mercenaries are in the business of “paid murder” yet the carpet-bagger from the UN reckons we should be outsourcing peace-keeping and the army to Private Military Companies.

I can’t wait for question time. Has the Prime Minister seen any reports on the benefits of outsourcing?