SIS have no place on campus
SIS seeks varsity help in weapon watch
A suggestion that New Zealand's universities might become involved in the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction is far-fetched and paranoid, peace campaigners say. New Zealand's spy agency, the Security Intelligence Service (SIS), wants universities to alert the SIS to any illicit science relating to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. SIS director Dr Warren Tucker met the New Zealand Vice-Chancellors' Committee (NZVCC) and sent university managers a letter and a brochure called A Guide to Weapons of Mass Destruction: Your Role in Preventing Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction. The move has outraged the Tertiary Education Union (TEU), the Green Party and a peace group which described the request as unethical.
Not content with the vast surveillance powers that the State are about to pass that will allow any State department to break into your home, plant spy cameras and film you for a while before they need to get any judicial oversight, the SIS wants big brother to go to University and has asked them to spy on students.
It’s the sort of paranoid nonsense I remember when I was at Uni. In 1995 I published how to make a nuclear bomb in Craccum, it earned me a visit from the Cops who promptly took me in for questioning. It was a such a farce, there was the old cop and the young cop who interviewed me and I delighted in answering their questions with as much sarcasm as humanly possible, they even did the good cop, bad cop routine for me, I ended up laughing at them during most of the interview. They demanded to know what would happen if a terrorist picked up the issue and used the information in it to make a bomb. My response (between giggling) was a counter question, “Why would a terrorist travel all the way to NZ, come onto Auckland University to pick up a copy of the magazine to build a nuclear bomb? The information is readily available on the internet and most of it can be seen in any science book in any school throughout the country”. They didn’t really have much of an answer for that, and it seems the State’s paranoia of people with an education is still as ridiculous now as it was then.
Let’s make sure the dirty filthy SIS are not allowed on any campus and let’s make sure National do not pass these new surveillance powers.
posted by Bomber @ 8:10 am
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travellerev; Illicit science is easy to find, its right there next to "Jewish Science". Ask any fascist.
The title of this entry makes little sense to me.
As does most of the article.
The SIS has just as much right to be "on campus" as the police, security guards, the faculty, student associations, you or even I do.
I would love to live in this wonderland you appear to speak about; where people attend centers of learning to only advance their own interlect. Unfortunately this is not the case and unfortunately it does happen here in NZ.
This post makes you appear incredibly naive.
Then again, what did I expect really? Keep up the good work...and watch out for big brother, he's gonna getcha!
The move has outraged the Tertiary Education Union (TEU), THEY ARE THE S.I.S SILLY!
security guards,THAT'S FLETCHER'S PRIVATE ARMY AND THEY CAN FUCK OFF
Why are they being stored outside instead of in a hangar?
For $8 million dollars is that the best they can manage.I say its negligence, wrapping them in white plastic/teflon whatever.Leaving them outside is stupid in the rain and cold so why not rent a few bloody garages for gods sake.I only counted 11 as well not 14 so 3 are missing.
As for the L.A.V'S buying around a 100 and using 2 with indicators at Napier and 3 in Afghanistan, instead of the 20-30 they are going to swap or lend out is also dumb.Over $600 million from Phil Goff why did he buy them.Wouldn't a defence white paper before this purchase make more sense?
Project protector with 7 ships only cost half a billion.Why so much for the lav's?
And why scrap the strike wing but beef up the army and navy.We haven't been given adequate reasons for any of these decisions, and we must assume that there is some foreseeable threat, even from asylum seekers.
Mike Moore: Does Apec stand for Avoid Practical Economic Change?
By Mike Moore View as one page 4:00 AM Tuesday Nov 17, 2009 Facebook
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Leaders from Asia and the Pacific assembled again, this time in Singapore, to address great issues of common concern. That they meet is a good thing and a logistical nightmare for the host nation.
However, it is time to audit progress. The first Apec meeting wrestled with the seating arrangements because, at this time, there had to be an elegant solution to seating Hong Kong and Taiwan at the same table as China.
Times have changed, and mostly for the better. Those who feared China's rise are now relieved that its growth has done more to drag the world out of the recession than the economies of Japan, the US or Europe.
Those who fear China or India, to be logical, would have had to argue that it would be better if, in 1945, Germany and Japan had been left to lie in ruins. Few now fear the reintegration of India and China into the world economy. Most welcome it.
Except for the past 18 months, this has been the most successful decade in economic history. More wealth has been generated in the past 60 years than the rest of history put together.
Hundreds of millions of people have been lifted out of extreme poverty. This is a remarkable story of markets and success.
However, the great moral, economic, social and environmental challenge is how to bring another billion people who are trapped outside the system into the global economy.
We have the capacity to bring them into the global system as citizens, producers and consumers. What stands in the way? Politics.
Apec decided some time ago to have free trade in the region by 2010 for developed countries, and 2020 for developing countries. Many barriers have gone down, hence the growth we have enjoyed, but we are far from achieving these agreed targets.
Apec is not a negotiating body but it can set the tone and tighten the agenda. It does allow leaders to meet informally and hopefully make progress.
Unfortunately, much of the time in the corridors and at bilateral meetings are about doing side deals. This is understandable - there are costs to being left out of new groupings and bilateral trade deals.
But they are not, in the main, free trade arrangements, they are preferential trade deals. They create new privileges but few address very sensitive issues such as agriculture, none has a binding disputes mechanism, and new levers are put into the hands of politicians who will one day be tempted to use them.
Every time we get a new leader somewhere we have a new initiative. I understand this. Politicians like to sign things and all want to make their names and make history.
WHO IS PAYIN MIKEY MOORE?
More left wing crap from Bomber which ignore reality.
Given the increasing number of foreign students especially from the Middle East it is only right that the SIS monitor them. The terrorist attacks in the UK were planned by muslim university students so there has precedent for this kind of activity.
It's a pity that the SIS actually has to ask permission.
Mike Moore: Does Apec stand for Avoid Practical Economic Change?
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Whenever this happens, the longer the unsatisfactory status quo remains, because bureaucratic and political energy is again diverted from the main game.
It's easy for politicians to have bold plans 10 years out, after the next two elections. Communiques from such meetings are famous for their ambiguity. Leaders from Japan and Australia with opposite views on the need to liberalise agriculture can go home and claim victory. This keeps the negotiations going, and leaders are not exposed to angry domestic interests who mobilise to keep their handouts.
However, we have had a decade of avoiding the tough issues. The future of multilateralism is now on the line. Protectionist pressures are building. All the G20 nations, after deploring protectionism, have deployed protectionist programmes to appease privileged domestic interests.
Protectionism is the crack cocaine of economics. It is a short-term addictive stimulant which becomes harder and harder to give up. Ninety-nine out of 100 advisers to leaders will be saying this. It's not the economy, stupid, as President Bill Clinton once said, it's politics.
It's time now for leaders, in the famous words of a great US trade negotiator, "to cut the bait and fish".
We need freedom from fresh initiatives and more than the usual high-flying rhetoric about the need to conclude the Doha round at the World Trade Organisation.
It just won't do to tell negotiators to work harder, and for the other guy to show more flexibility. Unless capitals change their instructions to ambassadors at the WTO, nothing will change, or can.
Good negotiators know that success comes when you cut up the cake and everyone thinks they have got the better slice. The Doha deal will add a trillion dollars to global growth, bring good environmental outcomes, and stop the subsidised rape of our fishing stocks. The Doha deal is ripe, the global economy needs the growth and confidence it will bring.
We can only live in hope that the big news is not just another photo opportunity of leaders wearing unusual shirts.
Mike Moore is a former Prime Minister of New Zealand and Director-General of the World Trade Organisation.
By Mike Moore HE'LL BE PLEASED THEY GOT RID OF SEDITION FOR COLLABORATORS.
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"SIS have no place on campus"
Not even recruiting? Back at uni, you could always tell the SIS recruiters. They were dressed like everyone else, and if they wanted you to find them, then you'd find them...
Leading 21st Century Schools: Engage with Asia project
Leading principals around Australia have taken up the challenge of building their schools’ capacities to ensure their students are Asia-literate. The Leading 21st Century Schools: Engage with Asia (L21CS) project is a national initiative of the AEF working with the peak principal associations of Australia and all state and territory education jurisdictions.
About the L21CS project: Making a difference in schools
“Until recently our studies of Asia and Indonesian language learning programs were provided by a specialist teacher. Through participation in the L21CS, I recognised that much more could be achieved so we adopted a new approach. We developed a three-year plan designed to integrate studies of Asia into SOSE, English and the Arts through carefully designed and resourced units of work and a K-6 Indonesian language program with close connections to the studies of Asia.” Michael Nuttall, Principal, St Francis of Assisi Primary School, ACT
The L21CS project provides strategic professional development for school leaders accompanied by a comprehensive Tool Kit of resources that supports significant school-based change.
The L21CS project was developed by the AEF in collaboration with Principals Australia, APPA, ASPA, CaSPA and AHISA. It is a project designed to bring together a cohort of forward thinking Asia-literate schools and students.
Join
Applications for Round 2 of the Leading 21st Century Schools: Engage with Asia (L21CS) program are now open to principals, deputy/vice principals and heads of schools.
Applications close on Friday 20 November 2009
View Round 2 Program Brief for Applicants (PDF: 906kb)
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Purpose: The Program will support leaders to develop Asia literate curriculum that will prepare students for a future life and career that is increasingly dominated by economic growth and Australia’s involvement in the Asian region.
Where: This Program is being conducted in all states (except Victoria) and territories. For information about Victoria’s L21CS program, contact Lindy Stirling, DEECD, on 03 9637 3620, email stirling.lindy.j@edumail.vic.gov.au or click on the Victorian Studies of Asia Wikispaces site.
When: Based on the successful 2008–09 L21CS, Principals Australia in partnership with the Asia Education Foundation, is conducting the L21CS professional learning program from February to June 2010.
Stages: The Program is comprised of 3 stages:
an initial professional learning workshop
a school-based implementation phase
a final sharing of practice session.
Principals Australia is conducting Round 2 of the L21CS project in partnership with the AEF. For more information contact Kerry Scappatura at kerry.scappatura@pa.edu.au.
Success StoriesLearn from schools that have been involved in the Leading 21st Century Schools project.
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