“Because the horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things — they always do. It's that good people do horrible things thinking they are doing something great."
[Six Questions for Slavoj Žižek, Harper's Magazine, November 11, 2011]”
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"You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on -- into the dustbin of history!"
- Leon Trotsky
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
Australia, Canada and UK condemn China's move to 'clearly undermine' Hong Kong's autonomy
Australia's Foreign Minister Marise Payne joins her British and Canadian counterparts in issuing a statement critical of China's plan to expand its ability to monitor and oversee Hong Kong's security operations and target people seeking to undermine China's authority.
Ambassador intervenes after Mike Pompeo warns US could 'disconnect' from Australia over Victoria's Belt and Road deal
The US ambassador to Australia plays down a suggestion from his Secretary of State that his nation can "simply disconnect" from Australia if Victoria's trade deal with Beijing threatens its telecommunication security.
Boris Johnson has been forced to cave into to Conservative backbench rebels opposed to Huawei ...
The Prime Minister has ordered officials to draw up plans that would see China’s involvement in the UK’s infrastructure scrapped by 2023, The Telegraph reporte
Huawei ...
I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick.
on gbombs: how about ‘the next prime minister’
;o)
But if people want to swim in the Thames, if they want to take their lives into their own hands, then they should be able to do so with all the freedom and exhilaration of our woad-painted ancestors.
Boris Johnson a second PM who acquired a copy of Cold River
Like Hunter S Thompson, Boris is one of the trailblazing bloggers ;-)
Instapundit is a blog maintained by fearless Glenn Reynolds, a law professor at the University of Tennessee
Ouch … Must investigate why URLs to articles are censored by Boris (smile)
Microsoft’s new blogging tool, censors certain words you might try to include in a blog title or url. If you can’t speak freely on a blog, what’s the point of having one?
http://www.boingboing.net/2004/12/02/msn_spaces_seven_dir.html
http://www.boingboing.net/2004/12/02/msn_spaces_seven_dir.html
Forrester envisions a day when new MPs on their first day will be handed a sheet of paper with their phone number, email address
If you can convince people that freedom is injustice, they will then believe that slavery is freedom
Glenn is as concerned about left wing totalitarianism as he is concerned about fascism ...
Liu QINGFENG has a vision that voice computing will someday penetrate every sphere of society. He recently told an interviewer for an online state media video channel: “It will be everywhere, as common as water and electricity.” That's a dream that aligns neatly with the Chinese Communist Party's vision for a surveillance state.
Alexa can tell you the weather. Siri knows a few jokes. In China, voice-computing company iFlytek built similar smart assistants beloved by users. But its tech is also helping the government listen in.
In 1937, the year that George Orwell was shot in the neck while fighting fascists in Spain, Julian Chen was born in Shanghai. His parents, a music teacher and a chemist, enrolled him in a school run by Christian missionaries, and like Orwell he became fascinated by language. He studied English, Russian, and Mandarin while speaking Shanghainese at home. Later he took on French, German, and Japanese. In 1949, the year Mao Zedong came to power and Orwell published 1984, learning languages became dangerous in China. In the purges of the late 1950s, intellectuals were denounced, sent to labor camps, and even executed. Chen, who by then was a student at prestigious Peking University, was banished to a Beijing glass factory.
Chen's job was to cart wagons full of coal and ash to and from the factory's furnace. He kept his mind nimble by listening to his coworkers speak. At night, in the workers' dormitory, he compiled a sort of linguistic ethnography for the Beijing dialect. He finished the book around 1960. Soon after, Communist Party apparatchiks confiscated it.
A Liberal senator and Macquarie Telecom have hit back at Huawei, accusing it of trying to “intimidate” companies like Telstra and Google from supporting a think-tank critical of the Chinese telco equipment provider.
Huawei Technologies Australia director of corporate and public affairs Jeremy Mitchell emailed a letter to local representatives at Google, Telstra and defence contractor Thales on Wednesday as reported by this masthead. The three businesses have commercial relationships with the Chinese equipment provider and are sponsors of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.
ASPI had published reports and articles regarding trust and security in Australia when using China-based businesses. Huawei was banned from participating in Australia’s high-speed mobile network build 5G last year by the government.
Mr Mitchell criticised “negative comments about Huawei from an ASPI spokesperson” and said the company was “extremely disappointed in the way ASPI has conducted itself”.
He further accused ASPI of refusing to engage with Huawei and said the think-tank “has let both our companies down by their fixation on painting Huawei as the enemy without any evidence to back it up” and described the approach as “anti-China”.
Victorian Liberal senator James Paterson said in a statement that think tanks should be free to discuss and debate policy issues without fear its supporters would be targeted for retribution due to the outcome of their research.
“I am gravely concerned by this ham-fisted attempt to intimidate the supporters of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute,” he said.
“Companies who operate in Australia must accept that we are a country which cherishes the right to free speech, and views dimly any attempt to stifle it.”
Macquarie Telecom managing director Aidan Tudehope said he had “no issue with different companies having different views” but said the letter seemed to “undermine open debate”.
Macquarie Telecom has been a sponsor of ASPI for several years, he said, and considered the research from the institute to be fact-based and well-researched.
Macquarie has occasionally paid for the air fares and expenses for “thought leaders” to come to Australia to participate in ASPI events, he said.
He had not received a letter from Huawei about ASPI as the organisation did not have a relationship with the Chinese provider and said in an earlier statement that this made him suspicious “Huawei wrote to organisations with which it felt it had some commercial leverage”.
“Huawei has every right to disagree with ASPI’s views, but it should play ball and take the debate up in public and directly with ASPI,” he said.
A Huawei spokesman said the letter called “for an open, balanced, fact-based discussion on the important matter of cyber security”.
“Huawei serves over half the Australian population with their daily communications needs and has done so safely and securely for 15 years. We are happy to stand by our record in this area,” he said.
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What bully does not claim his violence is just?
What despicable coward does not heed the bully’s threat, “You are with me or you are against me” ?
What despicable coward does not heed the bully’s threat, “You are with me or you are against me” ?
CEO of HuaWei refuses to stop using expression 'It's my way or the HuaWei' - The Beaverton
My way or the Huawei
It is disappointing that the opinion article by Vicky Xiuzhong Xu of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute ("Why Australia must not bow to China but seek wider trade options", May 22) does not disclose – as it surely should – that ASPI is funded not only by the US State Department but has also received funding from the Japanese Government and the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office as well as a multitude of US-owned weapons manufacturers.
For our part at Huawei, we have never asked the Chinese government to lobby on our behalf but we note with much interest that – as reported in the Herald – the Turnbull government used taxpayers' money to send its officials around the world including the UK to urge other countries to ban Huawei from 5G – a mission that ended unsuccessfully. This use of Australian taxpayers' money is made even more outrageous by the fact that Malcolm Turnbull himself concedes in his recent book that there was no absolutely no evidence of any wrongdoing by Huawei.
Jeremy Mitchell, Director of Corporate & Public Affairs said:
“We are delighted to welcome Tony (Brown) and look forward to him helping to build a better understanding of Huawei in the Australian marketplace.
“We are totally committed to the Australian market for the long term and we have a great story to tell about the benefits we have already brought to Australia over the past 15 years and can continue to bring to the country and we look forward to Tony helping us to do that.
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