Posts by Steve Withers
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Hard News: You down with TPP?, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Craig: We can’t have any real visibility of any conflicts of interest given we don’t know what has been negotiated (or – really – by whom). I particularly do not trust the National Party. They were gungho to whore the lives of Kiwis in the invasion of Iraq in 2003 to get an FTA with the US. Simon Power and Wayne Mapp said so in no uncertain terms. They were hardly alone. People willing to kill for more trade and profit won’t give a rat’s about our sovereignty. It’s the ultimate expression of “conflict of interest" (business interests trumping the lives and well being of Kiwi soldiers)….and on the public record.
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I'm with Gareth Morgan on this one.
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Hard News: The Public Address 2012 Word…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
They are the "credible" journalists....or so they tell us.
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Hard News: The Public Address 2012 Word…, in reply to Ross Mason,
True. I was "there".
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For 2012, I’d nominate “dotcom”
It touches on SO many things….both directly and indirectly.
For the decade, I like “truthiness”.
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Even if the journalists know what they are talking about, the detail, subtleties and context will be almost wholely lost on the viewing audience....most of whom would know less about IT than our MPs.....or TV journalists.
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If TVNZ are going to for lighter content than Close Up (which I didn't watch because it too often too light)...then I'll probably have no idea what its replacement might be called as I would see it so very rarely. Like that other show I rarely watch they have on in the mornings... whatever it's called.
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It seems fairly clear they spy on whomever they want and make implausible excuses if caught...and then work hard to not get caught. This is the pattern of virtually every such incident in a Western nation over the past several decades. The secrecy around the work they do is used quite deliberately to enable and support illegal surveillance by minimizing any opportunities for genuine oversight and consequent accountability. This is the only explanation that fits all the facts whether it's the GCSB, the FBI, the CIA or the CSIS in Canada or the agents of any other "intelligence" agency caught spying illegally. It isn't the exception at all. It's the rule.
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Legal Beagle: Kim Dotcom: Questions and Answers, in reply to Thomas Beagle,
It's highly debatable a file sharing site: 1. with Ts & Cs prohibiting copyright violation 2: with take-down procedures and 3. giving rights holders direct access to perform takedowns - can be described accurately as committing "commercial copyright violation". There may well have been offending and the site was definitely commercial...but the offending that did occur wasn't committed by the site itself.
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Speaker: The Democracy-Free Zone, in reply to Sacha,
Great article. Thanks for posting the link.