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The US spy base in Blenheim, New Zealand has been the target of protesters and pranksters before.

This morning, 30 April 2008, a group of Ploughshares activists entered the base an actually managed to deflate one of the domes.

Here’s their press release: Continue reading ‘Ploughshares penetrate Waihopai spy base and deflate dome’

Today’s revelations by Nick Hager that State Owned Enterprises Solid Energy and Mighty River Power are paying for spies is deeply disturbing. Groups like Save happy Valley have every right to put forward their case in the way that they do and should not be subjected to state sponsored espionage.

Hopefully outing Gavin Clark and his sordid cronies at Thompson & Clark will make it more difficult for them to exploit young students like this in future. It seems they’ve been doing it for some time. As the article below from stuff.co.nz (which has since been take down) shows.

Interesting to find out a little more about Thompson & Clark - whios data for tcil.co.nz reveals nick.thompson@tcil.co.nz as a contact .

I’ll be sending them a message with some suggestions on how they may like to crawl back under their fetid little rock and not come out again until they promise to be decent citizens.

But really. The Government needs to reign in these big old SOEs. Only last week we heard that Genesis energy are going to pick up where Might River Power dropped the ball and take Greenpeace to court over climate change. What a joke! On the one hand we hear Helen Clark and Labour getting all green and sustainable telling us about how we need to be carbon neutral, while their SOEs show the real story behind the rhetoric.

Continue reading ‘Nicky Hager catches Government companies spying on environment groups again’