Obama is distancing himself from Cheney's doctrine of the 'unitary executive' when he says that Anwar al-Awlaki and al-Awlaki's 16 year old son, both U.S. citizens, we're killed under cover of law. There is considerable push back against even this in the ...
Danner's New York Review article is also worth a look because he shows how Cheney's doctrine of a 'unitary executive' stands behind and connects the mass surveillance program with the extrajudicial execution of citizens by the Executive.
karol Here's an article about Dick Cheney - Vice President to George W Bush, which looks at events that occurred in 2004 when the justice Department refused to sign off on the Terrorist Surveillance Program, aka Stellar Wind, a highly secret National ...
I dunno, Grumpy Was Rick Barker's spouse a director of Mr Liu's company?
A Freudian slip, then ;-)
John Off topic. You are seriously misrepresenting the issues here.
Phillip It's a feature, not a bug. Prestigious universities are offering excellent online education programs, often for free. But online education is hard because sometimes you need someone to talk to and to keep you on track. Adult and Community Education...
And there was that deplorable business about campaign expenses in September 2004, when Banks's campaign manager, Brian Nicolle, took the rap and resigned.
srylands Yeah, I agree - a Libertarian Party like Act has important contributions to make to the political conversation. I just can't understand why they think that contribution has to be a boring reworking of the Uncle Fucker Song http://m.youtube.com/...
phillip ure free as a pelican I'll neva' do jail again Free As A Bird ft. Arme, Louie Knuxx from Absolute Epoch by Red Eye Society http://beedub.bandcamp.com/track/free-as-a-bird-ft-arme-louie-knuxx
bad12 Good times not forgotten Free As A Bird ft. Arme, Louie Knuxx from Absolute Epoch by Red Eye Society http://beedub.bandcamp.com/track/free-as-a-bird-ft-arme-louie-knuxx
Here's an interesting article by Brent Sheather in today's Herald which explores the consequences of getting the 'neutral interest rate' too high. www.nzherald.co.nz/brent-sheather/news/article.cfm?a_id=34&objectid=11266904
Class Awareness? What are you talking about? Kim Dotcom is poor white trash who made money out of the internet. The Megaupload takedown was very much about putting him in his place - look at the language of the police press briefings that followed the raid...
Kenny Smith You are lying Kim Dotcom has always had zero tolerance for child porn. The MPAA complained from the start that Mega took down child porn but allowed copyrighted material to go up. You can read that in the indictment. Mega's argument was that ...
So true. So true. Antoine's menu is dated - it's like he's missed the point of the great things that have been happening with NZ cuisine over the last twenty years - he probably has a very good understanding of his clientele. There are some great ...
Gosman extra-judicial killings are, by definition outside of the law - and therefore criminal
Marius, Anne Now that the truth is dribbling out quite fast, he must be feeling . . . JUST FINE!!!!!! Maybe even like he dodged a bullet.
No Marty, pooing in the open air is definitely not better for everyone. Women and girls are massively disadvantaged. The lack of secure toilet facilities means that girls don't go to school after a certain age; women can't find work, and women and girls in...
Lanthanide Banks would still have been required to turn up at court, in person
weasel words, karol
karol: It's not ok to force people to run a gauntlet where they get shit thrown at them on their way to court. It's barbaric. Brash, Prebble, and even Key, had stuff thrown at them while they were on political business; they had choices. Banks had no ...
Draco T Bastard: 'Legalised theft' is an oxymoron. If it's 'theft' then it isn't legal. If it's inside the law, then it isn't theft.
+1 here, Weka
Sorry about misspelling your name, McGrath
Disagree with you on this, Mcgraw. This is very important to a small group of voters who may not be very interested in politics. The sort of person who rarely reads a newspaper or watches the news on tv - maybe doesn't watch TV at all any tv at all - but ...
Trawling for smut. It is so fucking disappointing. Here's a series of articles outlining a massive international global fraud network that's been using NZ shell companies to launder money looted by Ukrainian kleptocrats. The ". . . looting mechanisms that ...
Key replaced Ferguson with Ian Fletcher, who has a background in Intellectual Property. I wasn't convinced by Ferguson on a Morning Report. Fletcher's beginning to make the right sorts of noises when he talks about moving 'the debate to start thinking ...
Yes, public and therefore, transparent
Onan the Vegetarian
Sad, tragic and completely unnecessary. All power to you all for the work you're doing to improve the culture of workplace safety. Is there a link for contributions? I would prefer PayPal, and specified projects - it wouldn't be much, but every little ...
Braunias is a great satirist. His Secret Diary series is often very good. Braunias the journalist is not very special. He has had to backtrack on Collins, just as he had to backtrack on Louis Nicholas, because he was somehow not able to question the ...
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