Saturday 3 March 2012
Meet Bob Carr, Australian Foreign Minister Presumptive
Given how much former NSW Premier Bob Carr likes the sound of his own voice, I wager conservative meeja types will be scouring his old lectures, talks, speeches and off-the-cuff remarks for months to come on the off chance that he will become an embarrassment for the Australian Prime Minister.
Here are the man’s views on a variety of subjects at his own blog Thoughtlines with Bob Carr:
Labor Leadership February 27, 2012The public reaction against Labor if leadership speculation is resumed will be catastrophic. It will be branded the “New South Wales disease”.Uranium Mining in NSW February 15, 2012
Of course the O’Farrell Government is right to attempt legislation to permit uranium exploration in NSW. I said this two months ago.
The Federal Government has expanded uranium mining and opened exports to India. South Australia boasts what will become the world’s largest uranium mine. The ban for NSW reflected the anti-nuclear sentiment of the 1980s and it is irrelevant today when to beat global warming we urgently need every available source of carbon-free energy.
Shooters Party MPs and the Christian Democratic Party would be well-advised to vote for this legislation on common-sense grounds.
The Primary in Florida February 1, 2012The victory for Romney confirms that dominance in money and organization still counts. So much for the Gingrich insurgency. They confirm the Republican establishment is not in fact on the run from whooping and hollering members of the Tea Party.
The Dumb Demo Looks Dumber: The Nostalgic Left at Work January 29, 2012
UPDATE. Oh my God, so Unions ACT was the tip-off party. No revelation could make my point below more apt. The myth of the demo. The bankruptcy of old Left culture – paint the placards, stoke the anger and abuse, confront the police, produce scuffles. Create a lovely day out for the local anarchists and Trots. For them, a picnic excursion. This is the point I have been making: this outdated, campus-days, Teachers Federation amateur politics helps the Right. It makes Abbott look good.
Tent Embassy Demo January 27, 2012
I agree with Tony Abbott and think his remarks entirely sensible. The tent embassy in Canberra says nothing to anyone and should have been quietly packed up years ago.
Guns and Bibles January 23, 2012
That Rick Santorum is polling double figures in Republican contests confirms this is a B Team contest. But I warmed to the line from his election night speech in support of Americans who live for their guns and Bibles.
It does inspire this thought, however.
Imagine if a senior Iranian politician – a candidate for leadership – said his people should rally around the Koran and their guns.
And imagine the huffing and puffing on Fox, the op eds from the neo cons, the grim faced commentary from the Washington elite that this confirms the threat from Teheran and that war was all the more likely as a result.
There is little sense in the great republic, the US, of how its domestic antics get projected in the wider world.
Friday 2 March 2012
Why super injunctions are as leaky as a sieve
The Telegraph U.K. 29 February 2011:
A parliamentary committee published a document revealing the details of one of Britain's last remaining super–injunctions.
In the submission to the 26–member committee, Mark Burby, a businessman based in the Channel Islands, claimed that he had been gagged by the "ex–spouse of an Asian head of state" in 2009.
He said the "Asian head of state" – whom he does not identify – was a "substantial" backer of al–Qaeda, and had advance warning of the suicide bombings on London's transport system in 2005.
The ex–wife "and her solicitors have boasted to me and others that she 'owns' the courts in England and Wales and the Government", he said.
Mr Burby alleged the unnamed ex–spouse, whom he described as one of the wealthiest women in the world, had a sexual relationship "with one of her two solicitors"…..
Evidence presented under parliamentary privilege to the U.K. Parliament Joint Committee on Privacy and Injunctions here.
Neither the media article nor the written submission disclosed much more than what is quoted above. However, I’m of the opinion that a quick Google search based on the name of former air flight attendant Mariam Abdul Aziz would indicate that the silly court-imposed super injunction is not worth the paper it is printed on. This is supported by previously published legal judgments freely available on the Internet which allude to some of the pertinent facts.
If my supposition is in fact correct, then it might make one wonder why Archerfield Partners LLP and the British Courts continue to pursue the fiction that in today’s digital world a legal injunction can or will stop the flow of publicly available information.
Notice to Google Inc. 1 March 2012
As of midnight 1 March 2012 North Coast Voices has suspended displaying Google advertising due to the intrusive nature of the corporation's New Privacy & Terms Policy coming into effect on that day.
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