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If you’re willing to believe Defence Minister Ron Mark, our defence forces will be operating in future like a high-tech version of Oxfam. Yes, we’re going to be spending $20 billion on Defence in the years out until 2030, but allegedly… “Much of the spend has been driven by climate change,” Mark claimed with a straight face this week.
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Read more: Gordon Campbell on the war-fighting purposes of our massive spend-up on Defence
- Article: http://werewolf.co.nz/2019/06/gordon-campbell-on-the-war-fighting-purposes-of-our-massive-spend-up-on-defence/
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Look, the NZDF are excellent at shooting civilians, burning their homes, handing them over to known torture units, gaining intelligence from torture and then hiding and lying about all those abuses of power, but should we be cutting the NZDF budget to ‘help lift New Zealander’s well being’ because as the apocalypse in Australia has proven, you need a military to help in the immediacy of a civil defence emergency.
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Read more: Should we be cutting the NZDF budget right now?
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New Zealand has been internationally lauded for its latest milestone - 100 days without evidence of community transmission - in the ongoing, global battle against COVID-19.
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Read more: World reacts to New Zealand's 100-day milestone of no detected community transmission
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/08/coronavirus-world-reacts-to-new-zealand-s-100-day-milestone-of-no-detected-community-transmission.html
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New Zealand has joined its Five Eyes partners in slamming the "unjust" barring 12 of opposition candidates from running in Hong Kong's upcoming elections.
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- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/08/new-zealand-joins-five-eyes-partners-in-slamming-unjust-barring-of-opposition-candidates-in-hong-kong.html
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Can we trust New Zealand’s military? There must now be serious doubt, given the landmark report released on Friday concluding the investigation into allegations made in the book Hit and Run by Nicky Hager and Jon Stephenson about a 2010 SAS killing raid in Afghanistan.
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Read more: The Burnham Report Shows Why We Can’t Trust NZ’s Military
- Article: https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2008/S00028/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-the-burnham-report-shows-why-we-cant-trust-nzs-military.htm
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New Zealand and its Five Eyes security partners say they’re “gravely concerned” by the Hong Kong government’s disqualification of 12 pro-democracy candidates from upcoming parliamentary elections.
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Read more: 'Gravely concerned' New Zealand and security partners call for fair Hong Kong elections
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NASA is being ridiculed for its decision to stop using the nicknames for two of its celestial phenomena, the Siamese Twins Galaxy and the Eskimo Nebula, because they are "insensitive" and "hurtful".
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Read more: NASA ridiculed for dropping 'Eskimo Nebula', 'Siamese Twins' cosmic objects names
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Join our crew onboard HMNZS Wellington and go behind the scenes during gunnery training...
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