Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Friday Music: The Cool Dancer, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
Given the talents of all the players involved, it is a case where the whole is most definitely not greater than the sum of the parts.
Christ. That really is risibly derivative.
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Hard News: Privacy and the Public Interest, in reply to Luke Williamson,
I simply don’t believe those polls. I think they are as dubious as the MSM reporting of them. Post-election, I think we will have National sitting around 47% and still needing Winston to give them a third term.
Which is what the polls earlier this week said. Fairfax "calling" the election is some irresponsible bullshit.
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Fofmer High Court judge Lester Chisholm will conduct the inquiry into Judith Collins and the SFO, reporting by 28 November.
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Hard News: Privacy and the Public Interest, in reply to dcnbwz,
What concerns me most Russell, is that once again the major issues like the concerted attack on our democracy from the far right and corporate interests over the last 8 or so years, to the illegality of actions by ministers and the prime minister's office are being drowned out in a sea of attempted diversions.
That bugs me too. The "everyone does it" and the "left has its own attack bloggers" lines give me the shits.
No, this isn't how everyone does it. That's a myth. And the failure to acknowledge that what has been uncovered here is unprecedented and unacceptable is dishonest, delusional, or both.
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Hard News: Privacy and the Public Interest, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
Prediction: Slater will be successful in getting an injunction against “Rawshark”.
That is my prediction too.
If Rawshark is to be served, I so want it to be via Twitter.
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Hard News: Privacy and the Public Interest, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
So if it’s not what the story says, what is he being prosecuted for?
He is not being prosecuted. He is being sued.
Jolly good. I've already changed the reference to "an action" rather than a prosecution, so I think I'll stick with that.
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Hard News: Privacy and the Public Interest, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
Cameron Slater is now ... being prosecuted for breaching the privacy of businessman Matt Blomfield
You cannot be prosecuted for breaching privacy, and Cameron Slater isn't being prosecuted for it.
Oh, damn, I remember you commenting on the story at the time. So if it's not what the story says, what is he being prosecuted for?
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to stephen walker,
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It's worth noting that a few weeks ago, the indignation over the 'Fuck John Key' chant was not entirely feigned. Some people had a really hard time believing that other people might genuinely despise their guy. I'm surrounded socially by people who dislike Key, but I know that there are social communities who believe wholly different things about him.
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Okay, shit has officially broken loose with the Herald story just published.
Under-fire politician Judith Collins and blogger Cameron Slater appeared to have frequent contact over the entire time she served in John Key's Cabinet, according to electronic files obtained by the hacker Rawshark.
The Herald has seen email records which appear to cover 2009 through to 2014.
The records and the level of detail in the records are a stark contrast to earlier claims Ms Collins and Slater made about Facebook conversations being faked.
Ms Collins said the previously released information were "likely forgeries" and threatened a complaint to the police. Police have confirmed no complaint has yet been made -- and Ms Collins has not responded to subsequent inquiries from the Herald.
Requests to Slater resulted only in an obscenity.
The information supplied to the Herald by the hacker Rawshark show a range of contact, from personal messages to discussion about government information -- and appear to include incidences in which Ms Collins passed on information which Slater then used to attack political opponents.
The Bain case, set-up OIAs, the works. This is shocking.
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Yep. Whaledump2 is for real and the dumps are, er, flowing.
The most interesting one relates to pp92-95 of Dirty Politics, the campaign otchestrated by Carrick Graham against the cleaning trade body Building Services Contractors Association of New Zealand, who required new and better labour standards of members -- and government agencies were required to do their procurement from those members.
It was successful. Working, it appears, through Collins, they got the rule scrapped.
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