Waste of resources : Mongrel Mob claim police intimidation after raid of birthday function
14 Feb, 2021 11:46 PM
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Watch: Police executed a search warrant on a Waikato Mongrel Mob party in Frankton, Hamilton on Saturday night.
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Watch: Police executed a search warrant on a Waikato Mongrel Mob party in Frankton, Hamilton on Saturday night.
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Waikato Mongrel Mob say police blatantly tried to intimidate its members after they stormed a party to celebrate a trio of birthdays, including that of their leader Sonny Fatu.
Mob Kingdom spokeswoman Louise Hutchinson counted 14 police vehicles - including several vans, a paddy wagon and marked and unmarked police cars - and about 40 officers in and around the outside of the Irondog building on Bandon St, Frankton on Saturday night.
Black Power gang members and guns netted by Whangārei police
11 Feb, 2021 10:53 PM
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One of the two weapons retrieved by police during a search warrant in Whananaki and Whangārei yesterday. Photo / supplied
One of the two weapons retrieved by police during a search warrant in Whananaki and Whangārei yesterday. Photo / supplied
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A police operation in Whananaki and later in Whangārei netted a trio of Black Power gang members and two high calibre firearms yesterday.
Northland detective inspector Bridget Doell said police executed search warrants in Whananaki and Whangārei to locate the three men – Hiko Komene, 24, Israel Orani, 32, and Tawhia Hughes, 31 – wanted by police regarding outstanding matters.
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10 New Books We Recommend This Week
Feb. 4, 2021
It’s rare for a self-help book to crack our list of recommended titles. But Ron Lieber’s guide to the financial side of higher education, “The Price You Pay for College,” made the cut for a couple of reasons. First, on the face of it, it’s an impressively thorough and genuinely useful manual for people staring up the sheer cliff of college tuition payments. (I am one.) Second, and more relevant for an audience of general readers, it also contains an implicit analysis and critique of higher education as a system, by acknowledging the inequities that exist at every level from recruitment to admissions to financial aid. It’s a how-to book that will also make you think, “But why?”
Bitcoin: Forgotten password costs Auckland man $50K
14 Jan, 2021 03:24 AM
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Auckland man Adrian Clarke might be New Zealand s unluckiest cryptocurrency investor. A trio of cryptocurrency misfortunes have cost him somewhere north of $110,000. Earlier this week, the New York Times reported that around one in five Bitcoin wallets, holding some $240 billion in fiat currency, are now inaccessible, mostly due to lost passwords (unlike a traditional bank, a crypto exchange can t help you if you forget your logon).
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One hapless punter, San Francisco programmer Stefan Thomas - who won a stash of 7000 Bitcoins 10 years ago, when the virtual currency was worth around US$2 - has two guesses left to figure out a password that, as of this week, will unlock an account now worth around US$220 million. If he fails, his account will be encrypted and inaccessible forever.