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April 22, 2014 8:00am by Kokila Patel

General Debate 22 April 2014

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Sofia

Penny, CONGRATULATIONS on your “Open Letter” to Judith Collins.

Bloody Winston, with his vast political experience and wisdom, has been slogging away week after week trying to to frame a question that will pin down Judith, but I think your well worded epistle has done it in only eight questions.
Penny, with keen expectation we wait to see if you have really nailed her this time.

That little fat Labour guy has tried weak in and weak out too, but gets absolutely nowhere. So good on you!

You are certainly on the right track and we are sustained and encouraged by you fight against transparency, rates and accountability and all that stuff.

Have a great evening 🙂
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April 22, 2014 8:30pm
Johnboy

Wonderful to see a couple of intelligent, on to it Ladies supporting each other on fighting against “all that stuff” ! 🙂
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April 22, 2014 8:35pm
Grendel

What ia it abiut crazy people lile penny that they take any and all criticism as justification for their craziness and that they are somehow getting to you and their points ‘scare us’.

When the crazy homeless person is flinging poo around, asking them to stop does not justify the poo flinging.

The only way to really get through to nutters like penny is to deprive them of oxygen by if ignoring them. Facts, logic, and reasoned argument do nothing but give them fuel for the crazy fire.

No amount of logic and reason will make penny accept that she is a thief with no leg to stand on.

I do hope aucklanders take pity when the last screw pops loose and she is roaming the streets homeless raving at ghosts. Or at least hide their cats from her.
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April 22, 2014 8:37pm
stigie

I reckon Johnboy should put her up at his place….im sure she will pay her way !!~
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April 22, 2014 8:40pm
nasska

Johnboy

Since you’re not all that fussy….. 🙂

Ref: https://www.dropbox.com/sc/u6ibmyqbee3iwr2/wLhP0iAZzL
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April 22, 2014 8:43pm
publicwatchdog

22 April 2014

NZ Minister for Foreign Affairs
Murray McCully

‘Open Letter’ /OIA request to NZ Minister for Foreign Affairs Murray McCully – what was the involvement of the NZ Ambassador to China (Carl Worker) in Judith Collins’ ‘private’ Oravida dinner?

Dear Minister,

Please provide the following information which confirms;

1) Who invited Carl Worker, the NZ Ambassador to China, to this Oravida ‘private’ dinner?

2) Why the NZ Ambassador to China, Carl Worker, declined to attend this Oravida ‘private’ dinner.

3) In what capacity did Minister of Justice Judith Collins speak “.. to the ambassador about the dinner the following day and told him “nothing had occurred that was untoward and it was just a very private friendly dinner that was short”.

ie: As a private citizen, or as the Minister for Justice?

4) Did Judith Collins speak to Carl Worker in his capacity as NZ Ambassador to China, regarding this Oravida ‘private’ dinner?

5) Please provide copies of ALL information, ‘briefing notes’ / emails / notes of telephone messages/ memos / minutes /reports (and the like)
between Judith Collins (Minister for Justice) and Carl Worker (NZ Ambassador to China) relating to this matter.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=11240640

“Justice Minister Judith Collins has recovered her memory after telling Parliament she could not recall whether she had briefed New Zealand’s ambassador to Beijing about her Oravida dinner.
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In Parliament’s last session before a two-week recess, she again refused to identify the official she dined with, said she did not know of Oravida’s difficulties in the Chinese market before the dinner, and said she could not remember whether she had briefed ambassador to Beijing Carl Worker about the dinner.

She told the Weekend Herald she didn’t believe she had spoken about the dinner to Mr Worker beyond an initial discussion beforehand when he said he would not attend.

But on Thursday evening, she said she had checked her notes and believed she had spoken to the ambassador about the dinner the following day and told him “nothing had occurred that was untoward and it was just a very private friendly dinner that was short”.

She said Mr Worker had asked her on the day of the dinner to just let him know if there was anything that he needed to know about.
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_________________________________________________________

Yours sincerely,

Penny Bright

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‘Anti-corruption / anti-privatisation Public Watchdog’

Attendee: 2009 Australian Public Sector Anti-Corruption Conference
Attendee: 2010 Transparency International Anti-Corruption Conference
Attendee: 2013 Australian Public Sector Anti-Corruption Conference

2013 Auckland Mayoral candidate, polling 4th with 11,723 votes campaigning against corrupt corporate control of the Auckland region

http://www.pennybrightformayor.org.nz
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April 22, 2014 8:44pm
Johnboy

Be quiet Grendel. Don’t deprive the rest of us of a great comedic talent! 🙂
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April 22, 2014 8:44pm
Steve (North Shore)

“Attendee: 2013 Australian Public Sector Anti-Corruption Conference”
So they let people who OWE money in and out of NZ?
Amazing that the rusty squeaky wheel that makes noise gets oiled.
Oh fuck, that is just disgusting – mind bleach please
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April 22, 2014 8:45pm
Johnboy

I’ve trained all my ewe’s to stop, kneel and stay on command nasska! 🙂
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April 22, 2014 8:47pm
Grendel

I agree its funny johnboy, I just don’t like picking on the mentally ill. One day when penny is in her padded room the nurses can tell her its working and corruption has ended. Of course by then her house will be sold and she will have been found on the streets eating cats and yelling at children about who they have dinner with 🙂
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April 22, 2014 8:54pm
stigie

Fucking minus is roaming the streets tonight !
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April 22, 2014 8:59pm
Johnboy

She may invite Gareth around to have dinner Grendel and get the last laugh on us as one of the great, made in heaven, love affairs begins! 🙂
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April 22, 2014 9:00pm
Johnboy

Just pretend he/she’s not there stigie. 🙂
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April 22, 2014 9:01pm
publicwatchdog

Actually – some of you ill-informed Kiwibloggers seem to have overlooked, that Occupy Auckland actually won the Appeal in the Auckland High Court?

Here – read it for yourselves:

http://www.occupyaucklandvsaucklandcouncilappeal.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/APPEAL-decison-6-March-2013.pdf

(As a Named Respondent – I was one of the (successful) Appellants).

You may also care to check out the following 10 new Items of Evidence that I was allowed to adduce, a number of which show how Auckland Council works in the interests of the corporate 1%:

http://www.occupyaucklandvsaucklandcouncilappeal.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/OCCUPY-AUCKLAND-APPEAL-APPLICATION-BY-APPELLANT-BRIGHT-TO-ADDUCE-NEW-EVIDENCE-pdf.pdf

Kind regards,

Penny Bright

http://www.occupyaucklandvsaucklandcouncilappeal.org.nz
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April 22, 2014 9:23pm
RightNow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1WcxRaMmIM
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April 22, 2014 9:24pm
Nostradamus

Penny Not-So:

I believe these scenes are from the Occupy Auckland protest that you mentioned. The Police are locking you up!

Can we look forward to similarly hysterical scenes from you when your house is sold?

My favourite quotes:

“What am I being arrested for?”
“I sat in a tent!”
“What am I being charged with?”
“I never breached the peace. They did, not me!”.
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April 22, 2014 9:25pm
Tictactoe

Penny Not-so:

STFU and pay your rates. Meant of course in a caring way (so you don’t end up homeless)

Kind regards,
TackyToeRag

Attendee: 2009 How to take a shit properly Medical Conference
Attendee: 2010 How to keep my arse out of my head Medical Conference
Attendee: 2013 How not to make up bullshit Political Conference

2014 Bumfuck, Nowhere Presidential Candidate, polling 2.31 billion votes campaigning against idiots who don’t fucking pay their rates. (So there.)
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April 22, 2014 9:26pm
publicwatchdog

Keep going GUTLESS ‘Grizzle’ ………………….. (yawn) ………………

Kind regards

Penny 🙂
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April 22, 2014 9:30pm
publicwatchdog

Is THAT the best you can do Tacky?

Pathetic.

(Meant of course in a caring way ……..)

Kind regards

Penny

Penny Bright

‘Anti-corruption / anti-privatisation Public Watchdog’

Attendee: 2009 Australian Public Sector Anti-Corruption Conference
Attendee: 2010 Transparency International Anti-Corruption Conference
Attendee: 2013 Australian Public Sector Anti-Corruption Conference

2013 Auckland Mayoral candidate, polling 4th with 11,723 votes campaigning against corrupt corporate control of the Auckland region

http://www.pennybrightformayor.org.nz
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April 22, 2014 9:35pm
Tictactoe

Oh my god, Not-so. You do actually care about me.

Words cannot express how totally overjoyed I am to learn of this.
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April 22, 2014 9:37pm
Sofia

Bloody Shane Jones
Reminded Penny that Murray McCully is alive and a target too
But you’ve fucked up again, Penny

Your diatribe to Judith was OK announced here
But Winston would have advised you to send you OIA to McCully unannounced, then compare the two, IF YOU WERE SERIOUS.

See – it is fuck-ups like this that reveal your need for attention/ narcissist complex and [for Johnboy’s benefit] “all that fucking stuff”, that you are just a magpie [eh? Johnboy] shitting in any nest available then passing on to the next.

But this will of course still make your day, because this is all that it is about , meant in a casually sort of observant way 🙂

Watch out for the barbed wire, Johnboy, it could snag you real nasty like.
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April 22, 2014 10:12pm
Scott Chris

I’ve trained all my ewe’s to stop, kneel and stay on command nasska!

On the butcher’s block no doubt.
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April 22, 2014 11:22pm
publicwatchdog

MY OIA requests to both Judith Collins and Murray McCully are ‘OPEN letters’ Sofia.

That means – I send them far and wide so that as many folks as possible can see the questions being asked.

It’s all good – I know exactly what I’m doing – even if you don’t.

Meant of course in a caring way 🙂

Kind regards,

Penny

PS: Oh – I’m serious.
There is a LOT more to come on this, and related issues …….
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April 22, 2014 11:46pm
Left Right and Centre

11 723 votes in Auckland. Never a better use of the phrase ‘quality, not quantity’.
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April 23, 2014 4:08am
lilman

lol,4 am and I just read your post Penny,guess you paid your power bill.
Need to sleep,will read one of your earlier posts ,that should do it.
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April 23, 2014 4:10am
Nookin

Penny. You seem to be reading a different decision. The court found that an injunction was justified and lawful in the sense that it did not offend BORA. It simply went too far and tried to restrain future breaches in an indefinite manner. You were not permitted to adduce evidence. You were permitted to refer to it In case it was useful ( de bene esse – ie conditionally or provisionally). You tried to show that the council was politically motivated. The court rejected to proposition of hand and said that there was not a shred of evidence to support that view. In fact, the court chided you for failing to put the issue to the council witness. Your evidence was ignored as irrelevant.
I guess you have to claim points when you can but very few lawyers I know would ever say that you won that case.
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April 23, 2014 7:04am
ShawnLH

When Penny’s open letters regularly make the 6 oclock news I might take them seriously. Until them they are meaningless, powerless and useless.

The Judith Collins silliness is old news. The public has moved on. The polls still show National soaring and Labour, which was already in trouble, now has to deal with their one and only effective MP resigning for a government job.
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April 23, 2014 7:10am
Viking2

Broadcasters battle internet TV threat
Thirty years after failing to convince the Supreme Court of the threat posed by home video recordings, big US media companies are now trying to rein in another technological innovation they say threatens their financial well-being.

The battle has moved out of viewers’ living rooms, where Americans once marvelled at their ability to pop a cassette into a recorder and capture their favourite programmes or the sporting event they wouldn’t be home to see.

Now the entertainment conglomerates that own US television networks are waging a legal fight, culminating in today’s Supreme Court argument against a startup business that uses internet-based technology to give subscribers the ability to watch programmes anywhere they can take portable devices.

The source of the companies’ worry is Aereo, which takes free television signals from the airwaves and sends them over the internet to paying subscribers in 11 cities. Aereo, backed by billionaire Barry Diller, has plans to more than double that total.

Broadcasters including ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC and PBS have sued Aereo for copyright infringement, saying Aereo should pay for redistributing the programming the same way cable and satellite systems do.

The US networks increasingly are reliant on these retransmission fees, estimated at US$3.3 billion last year and going up to more than US$7 billion by 2018. They fear that they will lose some of that money if the Supreme Court rules for Aereo.

Aereo’s service starts at US$8 ($9.30) a month and is available in New York, Boston, Houston and Atlanta, among others. Subscribers get about two dozen local over-the-air stations, plus the Bloomberg TV financial channel.

In the New York market, Aereo has a data centre in Brooklyn with thousands of coin-size antennae. When a subscriber wants to watch a show live or record it, the company temporarily assigns him an antenna and transmits the programme over the internet to the subscriber’s laptop, tablet, smartphone or other device.

The antenna is only used by one subscriber at a time, and Aereo says that’s much like the situation at home, where a viewer uses a personal antenna to watch over-the-air broadcasts for free.

Broadcasters and their backers argue that Aereo’s competitive advantage lies not in its product, but in avoiding paying for it. The broadcasters told the court that Aereo’s “competitors pay for the rights to retransmit ‘live TV’ to the public as they must to avoid liability for copyright infringement while Aereo does not”.

The federal appeals court in New York ruled that Aereo did not violate the copyrights of broadcasters but a similar service has been blocked by judges in Los Angeles and Washington.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11242413
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April 23, 2014 7:19am
UglyTruth

UglyTruth, we have simple legislation in NZ that do not have complicated wording and shit for you to figure out an escape clause using common law which don’t even apply when legislation has been specifically enacted anyways.

Wrong. Try Baron Parke’s maxim, the golden rule of statutory interpretation.
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