The Daily Blog Open Mic – Thursday 24th March 2016
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The Herald finally useful for something:
http://insights.nzherald.co.nz/article/flag-referendum-results
Click through the “How contested was your electorate?” button. Look at the Maori electorates — mostly 50 points ahead in no change! So much for being a butcher’s apron of colonialism! More likely a complete lack of faith in the proposed design and process.
This is brilliant! ….first posted on the Standard by Draco T Bastard
Professor Guy Standing on ‘Why the Precariat requires a basic Income’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WaA8zqjBSk
… compulsory viewing especially for young people , women in unpaid caring work, the unemployed, artists…and what is left of the working class
…in fact everyone who is not part of the 0.01 % crooks who own the wealth and control the people and the planet
Professor Guy Standing ( Professor for Economic Security , University of Bath) is an articulate advocate for why the precariat absolutely requires a basic income …and for a redistribution of wealth
He is really the equivalent of the old trade unionist and socialist…calling passionately for a return to an egalitarian, compassionate, just and humanitarian society…dignity and freedom for ALL
Soooo…. the FBI needs the Israelis to crack an iphone but NSA can do it anyways…does this mean the FBI and the NSA are not talking to each other ….and does it mean the Israelis control NSA?
‘FBI using Israeli firm to crack San Bernardino iPhone without Apple’
https://www.rt.com/usa/336948-fbi-israel-crack-iphone/
…but Snowden who worked for NSA argues they can do it already:
‘That’s horse sh*t!’: FBI can already unlock iPhone without Apple’s help – Snowden
https://www.rt.com/usa/335054-snowden-apple-fbi-fight/
… “what’s all this fuss about unlocking the terrorist’s iPhone?”
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/201794523/new-technology-commentator-robbie-allan
Bernie Sanders just about to go live on The Young Turks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uVpG3frhJ8