The wonderful 19th-century British prime minister, William Gladstone, once observed that “the first thing a prime minister must do is to be a clever butcher. “When a longtime British prime minister, Harold Macmillan, sacked a third of his cabinet in July 1962, in what is known as the Night of the Long Knives.
Another sign of a typhoon that opposes the free sharing of data on tech platforms is the rise of Australia’s national spy agency, ASIO. Joining Kershaw at the National Press Club, the agency’s director, Mike Burgess, praises the damaging empire of coded chatter.
Worry. Shane Jones and some of his cabinet colleagues are about to be forced to forget all objections to projects like dams, mines, roads, etc. Even if: such projects damage biodiversity and increase global warming.
A bureaucracy like Meta and X interact in their own bureaucracy of censorship and data retention, with their calendar algorithmically geared toward noise, shock, and outrage. They continue to indulge in surveillance capitalism all the time.
The cuts to the public are being implemented without the coalition government having any concept (or visual concern) about their impact. The previous promise to overlook those things “line after line” is past.
It is time for NATO to re-examine its 75-year legacy and have the courage to change direction altogether, rather than opting for a state of no peace and seeking genuine peace.