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• Weekly Audio - Final Shots Traded as Parliament Rises - 2014 Adjournment Debate Highlights - PODCAST: The Week in Review

Greens: CAA Airport Door Report Conflicts With Brownlee’s Claims

The heavily redacted report into the incident shows conflicting versions of events as told by Gerry Brownlee and the Christchurch airport security staff. The report disputes Brownlee’s claim that he was allowed through, and states that he instead pushed his way through. More>>

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• Labour - Gerry Brownlee’s revolving airport door story
Earlier:
• Civil Aviation Authority - CAA fines Minister for security breach
• NZ Govt - Gerry Brownlee: Statement on CAA findings

TAIC: Final Report On Grounding Of MV Rena

Factors that directly contributed to the grounding included the crew:
- not following standard good practice for planning and executing the voyage
- not following standard good practice for navigation watchkeeping
- not following standard good practice when taking over control of the ship. More>>

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• Image 2012 Maritime NZ - Newsflash: The MV Rena has sunk
• 2011 Scoop Coverage - Rena Oil Spill Worsens
• TV3 Video - Final Rena report released

Gordon Campbell:
On The Pakistan Schoolchildren Killings

The slaughter of the children in Pakistan is incomprehensibly awful. On the side, it has thrown a spotlight onto something that’s become a pop cultural meme. Fans of the Homeland TV series will be well aware of the collusion between sections of the Pakistan military/security establishment on one hand and sections of the Taliban of the other… More>>

ALSO:

• NZ Govt - NZ welcomes US, Cuba announcement
• Amnesty International - Pakistan: Taliban school attack shows civilian vulnerability
• Tanveer Jafri - Pakistan on the verge of collapse
• TV3 Video - Pakistan to bring back death penalty after school massacre - Black Caps, Pakistan ODI to go ahead - Pakistan mourns after Taliban attack - Children shot in Taliban school massacre

Werewolf Satire:
The Politician’s Song

am a perfect picture of the modern politic-i-an:
I don’t precisely have a plan so much as an ambition;
‘Say what will sound most pleasant to the public’ is my main dictum:
And when in doubt attack someone who already is a victim More>>

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• Werewolf - Tough, But Tinder
• Werewolf Issue 52