Obfuscation, oblivescence, obnubilation, obscurantism...

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Call it what you will. But Remember Remember the 5th of November...no Ows input, just a bunch of great quotes from V for Vendetta: 

"Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We've seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse." 

"Where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission." 

"How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror. I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War, terror, disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense." 

"Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it." 

"Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining." 

"No. This is only the land of take-what-you-want. Anarchy means 'without leaders', not 'without order'. With anarchy comes an age or ordnung, of true order, which is to say voluntary order... this age of ordung will begin when the mad and incoherent cycle of verwirrung that these bulletins reveal has run its course... This is not anarchy, Eve. This is chaos."

Update: early hours (before 2 a.m. on 6th November in UK...but I'm not there, still 5th November here. not telling you where, but been in 4 LatAm countries in the past 3 weeks: age-old readers of Owsblog, [all 3 or 4 or you hahaha] will know that hasn't changed for 20 odd years). Anyhoo, by complete coincidence A MIDWESTERN DOCTOR, who writes the Substack 'The Forgotten Side of Medicine' posted today that [he] Would Like To Take This Day To Honor A Masterpiece, yes, the aforementioned megamovie V for Vendetta: "How my favorite movie foreshadowed the beginning and end of COVID-19" [sic: yank spelling not typos]. 

And this should be the first quote; just fill in the blank re 'this country'...

And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there?

Overtly open operators II...

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Following on from the previous post: 'Why May put Huawei before security', by Bruce Newsome writing at Conservative Woman:

"Here is where the Huawei scandal links back to a larger scandal of machinations to favour the EU over the US, to favour macro-economic vanity over national security, to favour authoritarianism over democracy.

Huawei is already embedded in Britain’s elite..." [...]

..."So there you have the full sordid web of anti-American interests, inter-personal backstabbing, civil service authoritarianism, weak premiership, and economic corruption that make this government put Huawei before security. May’s government is sacrificing national security, the special relationship, and Brexit in favour of Chinese money and EU integration."

A worrying trend in all this is that the UK's unaccountable civil servants - mainly rabid EUphiles are being given far too much power and can pretty much do as they please: Cabinet Secretary Mark Sedwill being the latest example leading to the sacking of Defence Secretary, Gavin Williamson over the leak of the National Security Council’s decision re Huawei. Sedwill actually sits on the same NSC so that decision stinks too! Treason May is enabling this abuse of power to the nth degree, we saw it re the Chequers debacle, the Withdrawal agreement itself, various other sackings (the Priti Patel ousting too) which entirely coincidentally see pro-Brexit ministers replaced with Remain stooges.



Update: Mark Wallace's take is well worth a read: "Risking our security. Risking our alliances. Opening our infrastructure up to China is a risk too far."

Overtly open operators II...

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Following on from the previous post: 'Why May put Huawei before security', by Bruce Newsome writing at Conservative Woman:

"Here is where the Huawei scandal links back to a larger scandal of machinations to favour the EU over the US, to favour macro-economic vanity over national security, to favour authoritarianism over democracy.

Huawei is already embedded in Britain’s elite..." [...]

..."So there you have the full sordid web of anti-American interests, inter-personal backstabbing, civil service authoritarianism, weak premiership, and economic corruption that make this government put Huawei before security. May’s government is sacrificing national security, the special relationship, and Brexit in favour of Chinese money and EU integration."

A worrying trend in all this is that the UK's unaccountable civil servants - mainly rabid EUphiles are being given far too much power and can pretty much do as they please: Cabinet Secretary Mark Sedwill being the latest example leading to the sacking of Defence Secretary, Gavin Williamson over the leak of the National Security Council’s decision re Huawei. Sedwill actually sits on the same NSC so that decision stinks too! Treason May is enabling this abuse of power to the nth degree, we saw it re the Chequers debacle, the Withdrawal agreement itself, various other sackings (the Priti Patel ousting too) which entirely coincidentally see pro-Brexit ministers replaced with Remain stooges.

Update: Mark Wallace's take is well worth a read: "Risking our security. Risking our alliances. Opening our infrastructure up to China is a risk too far."

Overtly open operators...

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Are you listening Mrs May? Away with you; Huawei with you. Don't take your treason over Brexit to even higher levels by selling our security down the river: I can't believe you (and the Coalition and Cameron before you) and your dumb-arse advisors knew nothing of this. "Vodafone Found Hidden Backdoors in Huawei Equipment". "Europe’s biggest phone company identified hidden backdoors in the software that could have given Huawei unauthorized access to the carrier’s fixed-line network in Italy..."[Bloomberg]

Although this was several years ago and was promised to be fixed, nothing was done.The UK further risks being alienated from our closest allies, 5 Eyes and the Angloshere by such debilitating actions; another reason to get free from the EU and the over-reliance on Huawei: "[it] is simply too important to Europe's telecoms infrastructure. Spurning Huawei would put Europe at risk of falling behind the US and China in the race to build out 5G infrastructure."

"Vodafone asked Huawei to remove backdoors in home internet routers in 2011 and received assurances from the supplier that the issues were fixed, but further testing revealed that the security vulnerabilities remained, the documents show. Vodafone also identified backdoors in parts of its fixed-access network known as optical service nodes, which are responsible for transporting internet traffic over optical fibers, and other parts called broadband network gateways, which handle subscriber authentication and access to the internet, the people said. The people asked not to be identified because the matter was confidential."

Hat-tip: ZeroHedge

Overtly open operators...

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Are you listening Mrs May? Away with you; Huawei with you. Don't take your treason over Brexit to even higher levels by selling our security down the river: I can't believe you (and the Coalition and Cameron before you) and your dumb-arse advisors knew nothing of this. "Vodafone Found Hidden Backdoors in Huawei Equipment". "Europe’s biggest phone company identified hidden backdoors in the software that could have given Huawei unauthorized access to the carrier’s fixed-line network in Italy..."[Bloomberg]

Although this was several years ago and was promised to be fixed, nothing was done.The UK further risks being alienated from our closest allies, 5 Eyes and the Angloshere by such debilitating actions; another reason to get free from the EU and the over-reliance on Huawei: "[it] is simply too important to Europe's telecoms infrastructure. Spurning Huawei would put Europe at risk of falling behind the US and China in the race to build out 5G infrastructure."

"Vodafone asked Huawei to remove backdoors in home internet routers in 2011 and received assurances from the supplier that the issues were fixed, but further testing revealed that the security vulnerabilities remained, the documents show. Vodafone also identified backdoors in parts of its fixed-access network known as optical service nodes, which are responsible for transporting internet traffic over optical fibers, and other parts called broadband network gateways, which handle subscriber authentication and access to the internet, the people said. The people asked not to be identified because the matter was confidential."

Hat-tip: ZeroHedge

Obvious omissions...

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Righting Miranda's* wrongs (did you see what I did there?). Glenn Greenwald lied**, David Miranda lied and the Guardian lied. Lard bucket Tom Watson jumped in early as did slimeball Vaz as did cute but deadly Mrs. Balls. It was hilarious baiting the shrieking harpies yesterday (in 'left' and 'right' forums) but all I was doing was telling them to wait for the facts: yesterday afternoon and today those seep though the lefty bullshit filter that is much of the MSM. Guardian lies and BBC being behind the curve [intentionally?] and still deflecting ("No. 10 'kept abreast of operation') doesn't help my opinion of them and does the British public a disservice. Louise Mensch told them so quite clearly, good girl.



* appropriate name, eh? :-)

** doesn't help that he then had a hissy fit and threatened 'England'.



Addendum: thanks to David P on BBBC for pointing out that the man 'debating' with Louise Mensch on last night's Newsnight ('quite clearly' link above), introduced as a 'computer hacker' is in fact the American face of Wikileaks and as such "directly involved in this issue. Not an innocent, independent voice at all."

Obvious omissions...

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Righting Miranda's* wrongs (did you see what I did there?). Glenn Greenwald lied**, David Miranda lied and the Guardian lied. Lard bucket Tom Watson jumped in early as did slimeball Vaz as did cute but deadly Mrs. Balls. It was hilarious baiting the shrieking harpies yesterday (in 'left' and 'right' forums) but all I was doing was telling them to wait for the facts: yesterday afternoon and today those seep though the lefty bullshit filter that is much of the MSM. Guardian lies and BBC being behind the curve [intentionally?] and still deflecting ("No. 10 'kept abreast of operation') doesn't help my opinion of them and does the British public a disservice. Louise Mensch told them so quite clearly, good girl.

* appropriate name, eh? :-)
** doesn't help that he then had a hissy fit and threatened 'England'.

Addendum: thanks to David P on BBBC for pointing out that the man 'debating' with Louise Mensch on last night's Newsnight ('quite clearly' link above), introduced as a 'computer hacker' is in fact the American face of Wikileaks and as such "directly involved in this issue. Not an innocent, independent voice at all."

Ominous Olympian oversight...

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The crazy situation with security firm GS4 (they are "very, very disappointed and embarrassed") now has the media spotlight firmly on safety issues: one employee for G4S says he believes "there is a 50-50 chance someone could carry a bomb into one of the Olympic venues." It is certainly worrying that during intensive training to operate X-ray machines - the primary purpose of which is to detect lethal weapons and explosives - "failed to spot decommissioned hand-grenades and firearms during a test"...oops.

Ominous Olympian oversight...

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The crazy situation with security firm GS4 (they are "very, very disappointed and embarrassed") now has the media spotlight firmly on safety issues: one employee for G4S says he believes "there is a 50-50 chance someone could carry a bomb into one of the Olympic venues." It is certainly worrying that during intensive training to operate X-ray machines - the primary purpose of which is to detect lethal weapons and explosives - "failed to spot decommissioned hand-grenades and firearms during a test"...oops.