Scott Ludlam was one of the few intelligent voices in the Australian Senate.

Scott Ludlam was one of the few intelligent voices in the Australian Senate.

He was also the first causality in the preposterously overliteral High Court reading of the Australian Constitution which rendered potentially 40% of Australians ineligible to sit in Parliament. It was an amusing spectacle when members starting getting expelled one after the other but it was also completely unnecessary and fundamentally antidemocratic as well.

Ludlam was the first one to go.

Originally shared by Teodor Poparescu

Very good article about WikiLeaks and Assange.

This is a leaked fragment on how they were planning to fight WL:

Feed the fuel between the feuding groups. Disinformation … Submit fake documents then call out the error … Media campaign to push the radical and reckless nature of WikiLeaks activities. Sustained pressure. Does nothing for the fanatics, but creates concern and doubt amongst moderates …

WikiLeaks has exposed: the “Spy Files” exposing the global surveillance industry, leaked chapters from the secret Trans Pacific Partnership negotiations, NSA spying operations against the United Nations Secretary General, and the latest publication revealing the CIA’s offensive cyberweapon stockpile

And yet, the propaganda arm of the oligarchy has convinced the population that somehow, WL are evil.

The guys exposing the oligarchy are malign, while the oligarchy is benign…

This is a pretty interesting article.

This is a pretty interesting article. Even if you are on Google’s side of this issue, you have to admit the tactics are pretty shonky. Impressive and undemocratic.

This has been my point about Russian election interference. The reality is that everyone is using technology to automate and magnify their political influence and reach.

Using observations spanning a period of four years, a team of researchers from Italy found evidence of a large lake…

Using observations spanning a period of four years, a team of researchers from Italy found evidence of a large lake of salty water, buried 1.5 kilometres beneath Mars’ southern polar cap. That lake is at least 20 kilometres across, and seems to be a permanent feature.