Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: A welcome return - and pirates!, in reply to nzlemming,
Ha! Very good.
Makings of a meme there.
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This just in ...
PRESS RELEASE
Hone Harawira
Te Reo Motuhake o Te Tai Tokerau
Thursday 5 May 2011
On Tuesday when I was a guest on Te Karere I was asked to comment on the death of Osama Bin Laden.As Maori we do not speak ill of someone who has died even if such a person has done bad things.
My mihi to the Bin Laden’s family was seen by some as support for Bin Laden’s actions.
This was a mistake and was not intended. Using terror for political reasons is never acceptable.
I apologise for how I expressed myself.
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Stuff has the video of Hone Harawira praising Bin Laden.
Gordon Campbell has a few choice words for Harawira.
Phil Goff's rejection of Harawira and his party is starting to look quite wise now.
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Righto – time to pick winners: and I’m giving them both to Wellington.
RA Hurley and William Daymond, contact me asap to confirm you can still go to the Bodega show and I’ll make it happen. Your excellent posts and convincing pleas of poverty have won me over.
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Hard News: More Secrets and Lies, in reply to 3410,
Mapp comes clean.
Yes, they're acknowledging the key point of the story -- and still choosing to smear Stephenson? How very odd.
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Hard News: A welcome return - and pirates!, in reply to BlairMacca,
Directly related to the overpopulation of hipsters who weren’t around to realise why they became unpopular in the first place ;)
The Polaroid's compelling feature is the way you can mess with your pics while they're curing. You can't do that with pixels! Well, you can, but it's not as much tactile fun.
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Hard News: For the kids, if nothing else, in reply to webweaver,
Snigger. The mental image of a classic ’60s stereotypical secretary, hair in a bun, glasses on, short tight skirt, high heels, sitting on a chair in the cave next to Bin Laden as she replicates his pontifications in shorthand on a notepad was… odd, to say the least :)
I have an image of a New Yorker cartoon in my head. One of the caption-contest ones ...
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Hard News: For the kids, if nothing else, in reply to JackElder,
*cough* Steganography. Stenography is reasonably sophisticated, but I don’t think you’re just referring to taking notes in shorthand.
Giggle. Trivial typing error completely changes meaning of sentence …
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Hard News: For the kids, if nothing else, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
I know most of you can’t imagine doing anything without using the latest cool Apple(TM) applications to stylishly fluff everything up, but these people are both security conscious *and* consider 632 to be the peak year of mankind’s development. It’s highly likely that they would have done that stuff verbally and on chalkboards.
Oh, c'mon. There's plenty of evidence that al Qaeda has extensively used computers and the internet (and relatively sophisticated techniques such as stenography), some of which comes from the computers seized in Afghanistan in 2002.
If the reports are correct, the SEALs got hard drives, removable media, optical discs and physical documents. It's possible there's nothing in any of it, or nothing new or useful, but it makes no sense to simply declare that as fact.
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Hard News: For the kids, if nothing else, in reply to James Bremner,
Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is claiming the information that tipped the U.S. off to terrorist leader Osama bin Laden’s location was not collected through the controversial enhanced interrogation technique known as waterboarding.
“It is true that some information that came from normal interrogation approaches at Guantanamo did lead to information that was beneficial in this instance,” Rumsfeld said during an interview with the conservative magazine Newsmax. “But it was not harsh treatment and it was not waterboarding.”
You can assume all you like that KSM's earlier treatment set the conditions for his later information, but the evidence suggests that it was conventional interrogation rather than torture that actually did the job.