Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Hard News: Friday Music: Bright pastel…, in reply to
There are a few pictures from The Trip...
I like the sign in the background
- a world where there is a PYMCA...
that'd be the by Village Provos, right? -
A premier production...
I guess we have to be grateful that PM Key can't just unilaterally magic legislation into existence, as the POTUS can - why only the other day he completely restructured the Ammonium based industries in the US* with a detailed Executive Order.*NB: the above link is to the White House Press Office
so you will be surveilled! (I'm sure) ....
here's a non .gov source -
Dr Strangelove redux...
Even with oversight processes in place,
decision processes can (will) be prey to partisan actions...
... as seems to be playing out in the US at the moment:The leadership of the House intelligence committee is under growing pressure to explain whether it withheld surveillance information from members of Congress before a key vote to renew the Patriot Act.
A Republican congressman and government ethics watchdogs are demanding that the powerful panel's chairman, Mike Rogers of Michigan, responds to charges that the panel's leadership failed to share a document prepared by the justice department and intelligence community.
The document was explicitly created to inform non-committee members about bulk collection of Americans' phone records ahead of the vote in 2011. Michigan Republican Justin Amash alleged that the committee kept it from non-committee members – the majority of the House.
The panel's chairman, Mike Rogers, is a former FBI agent. Its ranking Democrat, Dutch Ruppersberger of Maryland, received over $220,000 in campaign contributions during his past term from the defense and intelligence industries, according to David Kravets of Wired. Both are staunch advocates of the NSA bulk surveillance programs.
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The appearance trap...
It's an interesting consequence, which Key's handlers must be loving, that his Campbell Live appearance is reigniting leadership worries for supporters of the Labour party...
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Hard News: Fluency, ease of manner - and…, in reply to
A not-quite-complete-yet transcript of the interview.
It really was a bunfight in the OK chorale...
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Maybe we need a snapper election!
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Hard News: The Real Threat, in reply to
Main St façade looks a little sinister
Looks like an old IBM punch card...
Maybe it's a DOS house! -
Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to
Cunning movements are underfoot
More buc(h)olic scenes from the bile belt...
nice work Porcupine Farm
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