Posts by Rich of Observationz
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I saw the article and thought "who the fuck is Willy Moon" or indeed "Natilia Kills".
I'm kind of glad to be sufficiently disengaged from the dumbgeist not to know.
Anyway, will he? And does she?
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They need to keep the area tidy. I'm assuming that Gerry Brownlee is already working with his developer mates to designate the liquefaction issues as "solved" and start subdivision sometime after the next election.
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Also, if the former MP is prevented from foreign travel by virtue of their enforced residence in one of Her Majesties Prisons, do they get to roll up the free flights for their eventual release? I think this should be clarified in the light of recent events?
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What happens if Air NZ goes bust or is taken over in the future? Will parliament need to pass fresh legislation again.
Why not just give MPs a bigger super payment or departure gratuity that they can spend on foreign travel (or their retirement permaculture farm projects, or hookers 'n' blow, depending on their predilections).
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Also, I should make my usual and unheard plea for correct usage of words: a toxin is a poisonous substance produced within living cells or organisms.
It is not a general synonym for "toxic substance", into which category 1080 (apart from that produced in plants as a defence mechanism) falls.
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Envirologue: 1080, "eco-terrorism" and agendas, in reply to Lilith __,
Well it does, but the important, unavoidable pollution is because it allows more oil and gas to be extracted, producing more CO2 and causing climate change. Localised pollution is largely avoidable or (like fracking-induced earthquakes) likely to be imaginary.
However, people are a bit thick, so it’s easier to scare them with “toxic shit in the water supply that gives you spots and makes the crockery fall over” than with the steady and deleterious modification of the climate.
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Good summary.
The trouble is, self-entitled rednecks are one species of introduced mammal that's protected in NZ, at least by a lot of the cops who are meant to keep them under control. It's questionable how effectively they'll pursue any leads they come across.
(See also the Atiamuri stop-go man murder, unsolved after two years. Not to mention Allan Titford).
And the spooks aren't interested - helping on this won't get them any brownie points in Washington or Cheltenham, right?
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OnPoint: Leviathan, in reply to BenWilson,
In a place where there was an actual terrorist/insurgency campaign going on, like 80's Northern Ireland or Iraq today, you could reasonably feed such a system with (historical) collected intelligence and use actual incidents as "training data".
When the number of incidents tends to zero, that process becomes a lot less useful.
(Mind you, all intelligence is often less than useful in predicting one's opponents actions. See John Keegan, Intelligence in War - even the level of knowledge available through Ultra didn't help most WW2 generals, with the exception of the Atlantic anti-submarine campaign, where the Germans were following repeated similar tactics using central C3, which the Allies had of course substantial visibility into).
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Hard News: Talking to the United Nations…, in reply to Russell Brown,
Well poisoning is a crime which requires an intent to cause harm, but maybe a reckless disregard for evidence that a quack remedy is harmful could amount to intent?
Assault?
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OnPoint: Leviathan, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Also, consider this:
- we have a situation where there has been no organised islamic terrorist actions in NZ, and very few anywhere in the West for over ten years.
- human intelligence activity, or just old fashioned community policing is likely to verify that there are no organised terrorist groups operating here.
- signals intelligence analysed through data mining can provide a different story, largely because a data analysis system can produce any result its owner wants (provided one doesn't care to check it for correlation with reality). It's possible to regard access to jihadi websites, money transfers to muslim states, foreign travel, facebook chatter and the like as being quantative indications of terrorist conspiracy.
- thus the use of signals "intelligence" is an ideal way to promote the concept that there is a real and organised terrorist threat