Posts by Stephen Judd
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AHAHAHAHAHAH
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Hard News: The GCSB and the consequences…, in reply to Alfie,
Remind me again why the rest of us need intensive surveillance of all our communications?
To provide evidence when you are charged after committing a crime, and to make it harder for bad people to conspire. The price of making it trickier to organise violence is having all your private shit hostage to the authorities, but one we're all happy to pay, I'm sure.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
anything seems possible if someone wants things to happen, is connected and willing...
Indeed, in a world where the US president has a kill list and enemies are bumped off by unmanned drones, our ideas of what is and is not plausible are getting sorely tested.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
see:
http://www.wakeupkiwi.com/the-opal-file.shtml
can't wait for the movie...Reading around that site, I'm not encouraged. Basically, as always, it's the Jews who are to blame.
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Apropos Brazil: was talking to a Brazilian yesterday about the RWC and football world cup. Do they feel about Argentina (or Germany) the way we feel about Australia, etc. Anyway, apparently you can still get a shame-faced changing of subject in Brazil, just by saying "seven". You don't even need to say "7-1". The mere humiliation of allowing 7 goals to be scored, when you're supposedly best in the world, is enough.
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It was very naughty of the Herald to suggest that Westpac did what they did because of some financial tie to government. The sad truth is that the police often ask all sorts of companies for information, invoking the exception in the Act "to avoid prejudice to the maintenance of the law by any public sector agency, including the prevention, detection, investigation, prosecution, and punishment of offences". And those companies generally just roll over. This isn't some especially wicked thing Westpac did because it was Hager. It's standard operating procedure. Good that it's becoming widely known though.
Especially odd since the Herald ran a story on exactly this in March:
The only angle I can think of, since David Fisher wrote both stories, is that he tried to get some noise made and failed, and is now using Hager's case as a hook.
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There are some insightful comments from lefty Canadians here (link is to point in thread when the election was called for the Liberals).
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I for one am glad to see that Crosby Textor can't fix every Anglosphere campaign. It is good that the myth of their mystical powers has been countered by events.
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All of us who read seriously know the feeling of being soiled and shaken after reading real life accounts of awfulness. How much worse to be the person who compiles that account, going over and over the same disturbing sources.
I hope you, and Anke, are doing ok, and that the work has results for people who need it.
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Polity: TPP, eh?, in reply to Alfie,
Matthew Hooton just stirring things up
Now that Slater is toxic, Hooton is the last working channel for injecting noise. See, here we have a Stuff story about a claim by Hooton that a claim was made by unnamed insiders. There is no news value and no evidence. Ask yourself, how much trust you would like to place in Hooton.