CHRISTIAN PERVERT BUSTED:
Capill guilty of molesting girls

1st April 2005

The former boss of the Christian Heritage Party, Rev. Graham Capill (shown at right) has pleaded guilty to charges of indecent assault on a girl aged under 12, in the Christchurch Court.

Pervert Capill.

The child-molesting reverend, who led the CHP for 13 years, constantly harangued Kiwis about the "immoral lives" they led, and was vocal in attacking exactly the sort of crime he has now been found guilty of!   Hypocrisy? – but it's OK, God approves of this charmer, it would seem. Just don't ask him to babysit your children! As the pervert left the courtroom, he was attacked by an angry citizen. The conviction is widely expected to doom attempts by Christian zealots to get seats in parliament.
    Meanwhile, the child molester has been stood down from his day job as a police prosecutor, in the very court that convicted him! God is expected to offer the pervert alternative employment, and he is thought to be under consideration for the papacy.

HELEN CLARK'S ANTICS:
Kiwi atrocities brought to light.

30th June 2005
The Post Office of the Republic of Tarajara has issued a set of four full-colour stamps to call attention to atrocities committed by New Zealand over the years. The stamps are valued at 70 francs; 140 francs; 165 francs; and 270 francs.

The 70 franc stamp shows David Benson-Pope, a notorious Kiwi bully. As a schoolmaster,

he terrorised his students, and traumatised many, with some students terrified at the thought of having to attend school. One particularly bizarre case was where he wedged a tennis ball into a child's mouth, and then tied his hands down to a desk so he was unable to remove it. He is currently a member of the New Zealand parliament.

The 140 franc stamp shows Helen Elizabeth Davies, more commonly known as Helen Clark, a New Zealand politician. The worst atrocity for which she was responsible was to drop poison spray over large areas of civilian residences in the cities of Hamilton and West Auckland. more

Police use
underhand tactics
15th May 2005
A young anarchist from Whakatane High School and his pensioner parents got the fright of their lives on April 29 when six police turned up at their door to confiscate the 18 year old's computer. Jono Eastwood was told by the police that he was facing a seven year stretch in jail, though he was unsure of what crime he had committed.
    Things became clearer when the school got in touch with him and told him he was suspended indefinitely. Jono had set up a website on the internet, pointing out all the things about the school that were against his political beliefs, along with a small joke about the principal, who once wanted to put up video cameras to keep an eye on all the students.
    The charges were false accusations and slander. Jono had light-heartedly suggested that the principal had set up cameras in the boys toilets!
Pupil indefinitely suspended
Mark, an anarcho punk from the same school, was also suspended indefinitely as he had written one of the articles for the website.
    Both students were told not to get the media involved, as the offence was apparently one of the first of its kind in New Zealand involving the internet.
    However, the local radio station found out, and released the name of Jono over the air. The local paper also wrote a small article about the incident.
    Jono got his computer back a few days later, but found that the website files had been deleted, along with all the information on anarchism he had obtained off the internet over the previous few years, some of which was irreplaceable.
Community support
As a result of the publicity about the incident, many in the community rallied in support of the boys. A hearing was held on 6 May in front of the school board. Several lawyers were present, and letters from the boys' supporters were read out. Faced with overwhelming community opposition to their handling of the incident, the school board decided to drop the charges and the students were allowed to return to school.

Michael B.r

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DOCTOR WHO:
Yet another Lost Episode discovered
17th January 2004
Lost without trace for over thirty years, an episode of the famous TV science-fiction series Doctor Who has come to light in England.

The film is 'Day of Armageddon', the second episode of The Daleks' Master Plan! This is a 12-episode story, originally broadcast in 1965, but up to now, only episodes 5 and 10 had been extant.

William Hartnell as Doctor Who with his tardis.

With the third film now having turned up, life looks much brighter on the science-fiction front. In 1999, also in January, a lost episode from The Crusade, an early Doctor Who adventure, was located by Aucklander Bruce Grenville. more

Richer, Stouter, & no happier
11th January 2004
More people are adopting a lifestyle that leaves them dissatisfied and the Earth impoverished, US researchers say.
The Worldwatch Institute says more than 25% of the world's people now enjoy the style which used to belong to the rich.

But it says rising obesity and debt, and increasing pressures on time, are reducing many people's quality of life. In its annual report,

More than 1.7 billion people have entered the "consumer class".

Worldwatch says consumers' demands are devouring the natural world unsustainably, leaving the poor less able to meet their needs. more

MAF Condemned for Resumption of Chemical Warfare

8th October 2003
Helen Wiseman-Dare, Chairperson, West Aucklanders Against Aerial Spraying today condemned MAF's decision to resume blanket spraying over Auckland for the Painted Apple Moth.

MAF continues to wage chemical warfare over innocent civilians although no moths or caterpillars have been found for over six months, she said. The Meola Reef area has not had a find since last December.

MAF has increased its aerial spray zone which now covers even larger parts of three Auckland cities - North Shore, Waitakere and Auckland.

The numbers of those needing to be evacuated are once again expected to rise into the hundreds. The misery and disruption suffered by those whose lives have already been devasted by nearly two years of aerial spraying will once again escalate. Even during the winter hot spot spraying, new cases of those suffering adverse health effects continued to be reported. Some streets in the hot spot areas have many families regularly evacuated by MAF to motels.

Last night around 30 anti spray protestors picketed at the Kelston Community Centre where MAF was holding a public consultation meeting on walking access in the NZ outdoors. The protestors were demanding access to a Sprayfree Outdoors. They were supported by a contingent from the Hamilton aerial spray zone dressed in long black veils, black clothes and hats, carrying crosses inscribed with "RIP" referring to the death of our clean, green environment now being poisoned by aerial spraying.

West Aucklanders Against Aerial Spraying supports those in Hamilton in their fight against the Asian Gypsy Moth aerial spraying.

Mad Cow
outbreak in NZ.
Bureaucrats attempt cover-up.

11th August 2003
The human form of Mad Cow Disease, vCJD, has been found in a young man in Hamilton, confirmed Dr Colin Tukuitonga, Director of Public Health.

The outbreak has been known about for several months, but Kiwi bureaucrats have been covering up the story. Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease variant, or vCJD, is commonly known as "the meat-eaters' disease", and is caused by eating beef or animal by-products from mad-cow infected animals. There is no known cure.

"This outbreak comes as no surprise, as there are direct links between feeding herbivorous animals with animal by-products and the disease," said the Director of Save Animals from Exploitation, Mr Anthony Terry. "Many animal by-products such as gelatine are still imported from Britain, despite a supposed ban on meat products from there since 1996."

Mr Terry said it comes as no surprise to see Kiwi bureaucrats falling over themselves to try to hide this story. "This is not the first time they have prevented such information from becoming public," he said.

"It's a frightful disease, and it's so rapidly progressive," said Professor Martin Pollock of the CJD Registry at Otago University. He confirmed he was told of the outbreak two months ago. On Sunday 10th August, TV2 screened the movie "Outbreak", about a government attempt to cover up the breakout of an epidemic in the USA, starring Dustin Hoffmann. Seeing this movie on home screens must surely have had many Kiwi bureaucrats squirming uncomfortably.

Best solution to avoid the disease: become fully vegetarian, and avoid all milk and gelatine products. Read more about CJD.

1st September 2003
A public meeting called by the Auckland City Council's Western Bays Community Board was well attended tonight, with many local folks obviously relishing the chance to question the bureaucrats on important local issues, and their handling or mishandling of them.

Parking, the poison spraying, and corruption of Council bureaucrats were the main issues on people's minds, judging by questions and discussion. The City Vision dominated Community Board were clearly aware that locals are not impressed with their antics.

Car parking was seen as a big issue, with many expressing concern that restaurants are exempted from the need to provide carparks for patrons if they "do a deal" with Council bureaucrats. Concern was also raised about a new complex under construction in Surrey Crescent, and how the developer had circumvented the provisions of environmental impact reports by either bribing neighbours or Council bureaucrats, or buying up nearby properties and then re-selling again with a proviso that the new owner may not object to the out-of-character development. City Vision chief Bruce Hucker spent some time deriding a resident who questioned the integrity of Council staff, while the resident kept interrupting "But I have evidence!" – a plea that this man of the cloth was deaf to.

Another local resident made an impassioned plea for the Community Board to take a stand about the poison spray campaign being waged by "the Mad Woman of Mount Albert and her flunkies in MAF" as he picturesquely described it. "Of course we realise that you and the City Council are not ordering this spraying, but surely you could take a stand and act as community advocate with MAF to urge its cessation?", he asked. City Visionist Graeme Easte jumped up as defender of the poisoning to claim that all was well, and that the alternatives were not yet tested. He was reminded that MAF has refused to fund testing, and that the moth pheromone is now being tested in Australia, due to MAF's intransigence.

At the end of the meeting, folks were able to indulge in a rich spread featuring expensive imported cheeses, avocado, dips, gherkins, and sundry other snacks in great profusion that is identical with that which the Community Board treats itself at each of its monthly meetings, using it's "slush fund". The eyes of Aucklanders were surely widened by the experience, and their opinion of the Labour establishment falling over itself to defend the status quo and the poison spraying saddened many who hoped for some understanding and sympathy. Clearly City Vision are pushing their own agenda to the exclusion of the public, and just went through the motions without having any intentions of taking anything on board. At the wrap-up, a resident admonished Bruce Hucker for electioneering in his responses, while others condemned Easte for his defending the atrocities of Clark and MAF. More about the evils of City Vision

Dolphin slaughter
in Japan filmed

12th October 2003
Three members of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society were arrested and are

being held by police in Taiji, Japan, for documenting a dolphin roundup in the area with video and still cameras. Taiji is located on the south part of mainland Japan, near Osaka.

Brooke MacDonald (Canadian), Morgan Whorwood (British), and Nicholas Hensey (American) recently traveled to Japan to document the dolphin round-up and slaughter by local fisherman near Taiji. Wild dolphin slaughter occurs in several areas of Japan – it's estimated that 1-2 thousand dolphins are killed each year via round-ups, and additional thousands killed by other means.
A reason for the arrest is unclear. The three Sea Shepherd members reportedly called the local Japanese police themselves and were arrested for unknown cause. While it is not illegal to document a dolphin round-up, the video documentation of the slaughter is very graphic and is effective in raising awareness of the issue world-wide.
Similar slaughters are frequent and increasing in other coastal fishing villages such as Futo. Although dolphin meat is highly toxic with industrial pollution, it can be passed as prized whale meat and sold on the open market. Other products include pet food and fertilizer. The Japanese government promotes a whaling program that kills over 1000 Minke whales each year, despite the 1986 international moratorium on whaling.

Captain Paul Watson

Sea Shepherd was instrumental in stopping dolphin slaughter on Iki Island, Japan, in the early 1980's when the local fishermen signed an agreement with Captain Paul Watson to permanently end the practice.

Sea Shepherd is a non-profit, non governmental marine wildlife conservation organization which has protected the lives of hundreds of thousands marine animals around the world since being founded in 1977. For more information, please contact Captain Paul Watson, founder and president of Sea Shepherd. Email: [email protected].

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Now Corporations Claim the "Right To Lie"
by Thom Hartmann

While Nike was conducting a huge and expensive PR blitz to tell people that it had cleaned up its subcontractors' sweatshop labor practices, an alert consumer advocate and activist in California named Marc Kasky caught them in what he alleges are a number of specific deceptions. Citing a California law that forbids corporations from intentionally deceiving people in their commercial statements, Kasky sued the multi-billion-dollar corporation. Read the story

Campaign to fix
dangerous steps

1st December 2001

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Supermarket "discount" warning

3rd April 2004
Many locals visiting Woolworths supermarket in Grey Lynn are finding that the alleged "discounts" offered on presenting a one-card are not being given, according to a local resident.

"When I pointed out the lack of discounts to the operator, she fixed it, and remarked, 'this is the second time today this has happened'. This probably translates as the second time someone has noticed and called attention to it. Many folks probably trot off home assuming that the computerised system has given them the discounts automatically."

So the warning is: always check your docket, and if you haven't been given the discount offered, ask for it!

Cactus perform at the Grey Lynn Community Centre. Click this photo to see a larger picture.

Concert at
Centre's Open Day

17th August 2002
The Grey Lynn Community Centre held a successful Open Day, with stalls and entertainment. Many folks enjoyed the entertainment from bands MARY and CACTUS.

Cactus in serious action.

Valerie Longworth
gets gold medal.

15th September 2001
Point Chevalier resident Valerie Longworth has been honoured by the award of the Auckland City Millennium Medal.

Valerie was given the medal in recognition of her active community work over the years. She is a member of the committees of Point Chevalier and Grey Lynn Community Centres, and has helped run the Green Dollar Exchange, WAGES, for some years.

Valerie with the gold medal and certificate, outside the Grey Lynn Community Centre. To zoom in on the medal, click the photo.

Valerie, a former Librarian, keeps her finger on the pulse of the area, and is an enthusiast for co-operation and peace.

To zoom in for a close-up view of the medal, please click her photo above.

New Co-ordinator

June 2001
The Community Centre has appointed Kate Millington as its new Co-ordinator, replacing Faith King. Kate lives in Grey Lynn, and took up her post on 25th June 2001. When not handling public relations and booking inquiries for the Centre, Kate works as a Mosaic Artist, and the wonderful mural on the corner of the Centre is her work.

Kate Millington, the
Centre Co-ordinator.

To view the left portion of the mosaic, click here. To see the central panels, click here. To see the right end, click here. To see the whole building with the mosaic in the foreground, click here.

Photo Gallery
of Plunket Babies
Many local families who use the Grey Lynn - Westmere Plunket have provided photos of their babies for inclusion on Plunket's new Photo Gallery. Click here to view the Gallery.

Hannah (left) and Maggie – young Greylynners.

New Art
at the Community Centre

23rd March 2001
New works by two Grey Lynn artists, Phill Rooke and Kate Millington, now grace the Grey Lynn Community Centre. A launch function was held at the Centre on Friday 23rd March 2001, at 4 p.m.

Kate Millington

Phill Rooke

Kate's work is a 9-metre mosaic on the curved wall facing the corner of Edwards Street and Richmond Road, the brown wall on the right of our photo on the masthead. Phill's work is a three-dimensional sculpture adorning a wall in the spacious foyer.

To view the left portion of the mosaic, click here. To see the central panels, click here. To see the right end, click here. To see the whole building with the mosaic in the foreground, click here.

Click here to learn more about Kate Millington and view some of her other mosaic works. Click here to learn more about Phill Rooke and view some of his other sculptures.

BOOKS: The truth is out there . . . somewhere

"UFOs and the National Security State" by Richard Dolan, is the first comprehensive study of the U.S. Government's response to the intrusion of UFO phenomena in American skies over the last 50 years. Regardless of one's views on aliens, UFO's etc. the introduction by Jacques Vallée is very instructive on anti-democratic practices routinely practiced by democratic institutions. Read the introduction.
He touches on the governmental practice of "compartmentalising information." This makes it inacessable to all but those key people within the government who are not accountable to the public since the public does not know about the information to begin with. In my view this has been a hindrance by political parties as well with their ruling cliques. – Wesley Lawrimore.

PEACE OR WAR?
What would happen . . .
If George W. Bush, the first unelected President of the United States appointed by the Supreme Court, succeeds in driving the United States government to attack a nation that offers no threat to the United States...

If George W. Bush continues to ignore the cries for peace from millions of people in the United States and throughout the world...

If George W. Bush continues to preside over the destruction of human rights and the shredding of the Constitution of the United States, which he has solemnly sworn to uphold and defend...

If George W. Bush continues to ignore the jurisdiction of the United Nations and the World Court in matters of international law and order...

If George W. Bush continues to boldly attempt to spread United States economic, political and military hegemony throughout the world through force of arms, in the name of the people of the United States...

If George W. Bush continues to answer to corporate and military interests at the expense of the freedom and Constitutionally guaranteed civil rights of the people of the United States...

What would happen if a million citizens of the United States converged on Washington, DC, marched to the White house and physically removed George W. Bush from the Oval Office?

What would happen if two million people from all over the world converged on Washington, DC, marched to the White House and physically removed George W. Bush from the Oval Office and took him to the United Nations to answer for International Crimes Against Humanity?

What would happen if 10 million people in the United States and the world took it upon themselves to rid the world of this greatest threat to peace and to remove the United States government, and all governments, from the grip of corporate and military domination? Michael A. Lewis
Democracy is beautiful – view cartoon.

7 Astronauts Die as Shuttle Breaks Apart

2nd February 2003
Space shuttle Columbia broke apart in flames 200,000 feet over Texas on Saturday, killing all seven astronauts just minutes before they were to glide to a landing in Florida. More / photos

Captain Paul Watson's
Auckland lecture

8th December 2002
Five whaling ships departed Japan this month for the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary near Antarctica to hunt and kill hundreds of endangered whales, despite the International Whaling Commission moratorium. The Japanese whaling fleet is in blatant violation of several international laws and treaties.

Captain Paul Watson

Captain Paul Watson, founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (and one of the original founders of Greenpeace) and an international volunteer crew

of 45 departed Auckland in early December to the frigid waters to stop the Japanese fleet's illegal exploitation. Captain Watson gave a public lecture, on 28th November 2002 at the Seafarers Centre, which was well attended, with the auditorium packed and many folks standing around the walls. Read more

OBITUARY: Giovanni P. Intra, 1968 – 2002 It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Giovanni Intra, who died in New York on 17th December 2002.   A former local lad, Intra studied criticism and art theory at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. He exhibited his own work in several shows in New Zealand and co-founded Test Strip Gallery in Karangahape Road before focusing his energies on China Art Objects, which he launched in Los Angeles’ Chinatown district in 1999 with Steve Hanson and others. The funeral was held on 20th January 2003 at Meadowbank.

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OBITUARY: Larry Duggan It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Larry Duggan, who died at his home in Featherston on 17th November 2002, his birthday.   Larry was a film buff for many years, and accumulated a wonderful collection of movie films (not video but the real depth and quality of actual film!) which he regularly screened for friends and locals at his home. So alas, now the famous "Larry's Movies" are no more. About one hundred folks attended his funeral. Larry was a member of the Film Buffs Association, and during the May 2001 convention of the FBA, he hosted the attendees to lunch at his home. Larry is also famous as "the man who located the lost Doctor Who film" ("The Lion") which he later sold to Bruce Grenville. See story. Cancer took him, but he put on a brave face and a happy one till the end. Perhaps he has met John Wayne by now. – Toija French.