Posts by CJM
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He also intimated that I'd been trippin' on 'shrooms, but, you know I just let that kinda shit just, er………… wash….hmmmm………wait on……OOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHWEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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David Slack’s righteous indignation about Farrar, Williams and Franks appearing on The Panel was quite breathtaking. Amazing shit and I would wager he will not be invited back for such clarity and unashamed critique.
*Izogi, just finished posting.
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Wow, Tim Watkins and David Slack actually allowed to discuss, with some authority, the real issues of trust, responsibility and ethical implications of the Snowden documents on todays ’The Panel’. Terrific breakdown of Keys statements from sunday to present, from outright denial to admission.
Excellent stuff!!
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Hard News: Vision and dumbassery, in reply to ,
Certainly did.
Ryan sounded angry with Harre, almost like she thought IMP had 'ruined' things by letting the foxes into the chicken run.
She bickered, harangued and constantly talked over Harre. All this after a shambolic and incoherent 'interview' with Bruce Ferguson in which she swallowed hook, line etc the 'Cortex' red herring docs planted by Key and the intelligence services.
Today was patsy time with Key, letting him stir up all the issues into an even darker shit-brown hue of confusion and misinformation.
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OnPoint: "Project SPEARGUN underway", in reply to Paul Campbell,
I was just thinking, this piece of equipment Key says they test fitted “like a muffler” where is it now? Still at the bottom of the a sea? In the GCSB basement in Wellington? I can’t imagine there’s much of a market for “only got wet once” cable taps
They attached it to Judith Collins’ mag-wheeled, lowered-axled, flame-painted ’89 Nissan Skyline. That farting sound you can probably hear is her hooning around Papakura delivering pamphlets.
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Hard News: Vision and dumbassery, in reply to Jake Starrow,
Good one. Have you been providing joking Jonkey with his ‘quips’?
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Hard News: Vision and dumbassery, in reply to Bart Janssen,
What with Armstrong’s hysterical tango in the same paper this morning I can only ascribe it to a major wine-spo-dee-o-dee shebang of doubt the night before and now, like sore-headed penitents scoured by the harsh, judgemental light on the church steps of a sunday morning, they are washed clean and praising the GodKey.
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Hard News: Vision and dumbassery, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Voting? Don't bother, Key has won.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11325841 -
Hard News: Interview: Glenn Greenwald, in reply to Tim Michie,
But the ‘Speargun’ slides shown at the Town Hall had already been released on the monday afternoon, online at many sources? What, 90 seconds to print off and put in the file with the ‘Cortex’ docs?
You may well be right though, just pure incompetence. Why would we expect any kind of coherence, technical ability or basic journalistic principles of research, preparation and presentation from a prominent New Zealand journalist on a prime spot of the state broadcasters schedule?
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What did you make of the documents that John Key released yesterday to pre-empt your report? Was he deliberately confusing Cortex with Speargun?
Yes. This is clearly the strategy of the Prime Minister at this point, which is to take what is always a complicated issue – electronic surveillance – and make it so difficult and so confusing to the public that they just throw up their hands and dismiss it all as bickering that they can’t resolve, and move on to other issues.
And it’s really the media’s job to point out exactly what is being done and not being done. He made definitive commitments since the weekend that he would release documents, declassify material, showing that he looked at this proposal and then intervened and stopped it before it was implemented, in order to negate the claims that I was making. These documents do nothing of the kind.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/20140916
Katherine Ryan talking to Sir Ferguson yesterday morning very specifically only discussed ‘Cortex’ despite the fact that it was ‘Speargun’, the device capable of collating mass surveilled material, that was the real news coming from the Auckland Town Hall on monday night and the subsequent news carriers the following day.
Now, she was either confused herself about the difference between ‘Cortex’ and ‘Speargun’ as was her producer and any researchers at RNZ which have access to all the papers, TV stations, blogs that were all broadcasting and discussing the ‘Cortex’ papers released by Key on monday which, if this was the case, doesn’t say much about the professional competence of the people putting together the 9 to Noon show
Or…..
She was deliberately obfuscating the subject to achieve the public’s ‘too confusing, I give up’ response so beloved of governments with dirty shit to deliver.