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Apple Growers Want Out of ENZA - Angry apple growers in Hawkes Bay have called for an end to ENZA’s export monopoly. 200 orchardists met in Havelock North last night to discuss the disastrous slump in Braeburn apple prices due to competition for countries in South America and South Africa. The growers incomes have been slashed in half due to the price slump. Many say they will go to the wall. The meeting heard ENZA is heading down the wrong track in selecting the type of apples for the British market. Britain wants small juicy crispy apples. While ENZA is only concerned with colour.

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>