Posts by Neil Morrison
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But it works better if I am better informed.
how are you better informed? This enormous amount of data is but a miniscule part of a far far greater amount of information. It's a very small snapshot of complex and on-going processes. There's a whole lot of remarks by officials - without any context.
How representative are these leaks really?
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It isn’t a level playing field between states when it comes to this sort of thing: will the authoritarian regime of China be as affected as the current administration of the USA (which Assange apparently places in the authoritarian basket too)? I doubt it.
Assange comes across more like Lenin than Martin Luther King. There's a level of incomprehensibility combined with zeal and enormous over-intellectualised self-justification in what he says that adds up to something quite the opposite to humanism.
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None of the media seem to have a definitive timeline so it is probably a bit futile to speculate at present. The Herald talks of *first reports* at 1545 but of what by who to whom is not said.
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didn’t one the two survivors raise the alarm from within the mine on a phone that worked and didn’t the above-ground staff know straight away that the monitoring links went down?
seems the 1 hr 60 min til they knew is a bit of a myth.
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where does the “1 hour 50 minutes” come from? Reports of the explosion start from 15 min after – not sure when the above-ground staff knew but it must have been within 15min at least.
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Hard News: Where nature may win, in reply to Matthew Poole,
I was a bit disturbed to learn that they know so little about the movement of men
Newmont are developing a new underground mine at Waihi using latest technology which will include optic fibre lines providing proximity information on everyone in the mine - shutting down moving machinery if anyone gets too close. That's in a gold mine though where there's not the same risks with electrics.
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I can see U2 doing Red Hill Mining Town tomorrow night. That would be moving.
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Hard News: Where nature may win, in reply to giovanni tiso,
yes, the rumour about the rescue team going in immediately after the second explosion could have caused lots of trouble.
Questions need to be asked but witch hunts need to be avoided. I hope some people reasess their negative opinion of the police.
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He had a dig right at the end in closing that the video should have been released earlier is that what you mean ?
yeah, of all the possible lines of questioning I thought that was unpleasant. Were the rescue team supposed to spend time considering how to combat possible scape-goating? Maybe they should have released it earlier but they probably had a lot of other things to do and now they have to defend themselves on top of it all.
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OTOH, the Campbell interview with the family group who wanted a team to go in was fair enough – right or wrong, they expressed a coherent view; they had a right to be heard. Richard Langston’s story on the Greymouth Star was very good.
yes, fair enough. I caught Campbell's accusatory questions right after the showing of the mine video and that soured my view. Trying to pin blame shouldn’t be excused by “just asking questions”.