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Anna Mae Bollocks

Scantily-Clad Inspector of Gigantic and Unnecessary Cashews, Texas Division

The Good Reverend Roger

You are aware that's a parody site, right?

And it's DELICIOUS.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Anna Mae Bollocks

Scantily-Clad Inspector of Gigantic and Unnecessary Cashews, Texas Division

Cain

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/21/mclibel-leaflet-police-bob-lambert-mcdonalds

QuoteAn undercover police officer posing for years as an environmental activist co-wrote a libellous leaflet that was highly critical of McDonald's, and which led to the longest civil trial in English history, costing the fast-food chain millions of pounds in fees.

The true identity of one of the authors of the "McLibel leaflet" is Bob Lambert, a police officer who used the alias Bob Robinson in his five years infiltrating the London Greenpeace group, is revealed in a new book about undercover policing of protest, published next week.

McDonald's famously sued green campaigners over the roughly typed leaflet, in a landmark three-year high court case, that was widely believed to have been a public relations disaster for the corporation. Ultimately the company won a libel battle in which it spent millions on lawyers.

Lambert was deployed by the special demonstration squad (SDS) – a top-secret Metropolitan police unit that targeted political activists between 1968 until 2008, when it was disbanded. He co-wrote the defamatory six-page leaflet in 1986 – and his role in its production has been the subject of an internal Scotland Yard investigation for several months.

Eventually, it's going to turn out there are in fact no anarchists anywhere, and all anarchists are undercover police officers.  In fact, that the police have a laser-like focus on infiltrating anarchist and environmental groups almost exclusively may be revealing about their motives (ie; involving hippie chicks and pot).

Wolfgang Absolutus

The police wish they were anarchists. It's their secret desire to destroy the society they have sworn to protect.
Thinking and Breathing are my main occupations.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

Quote from: Cain on June 21, 2013, 08:56:31 PM
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/21/mclibel-leaflet-police-bob-lambert-mcdonalds

QuoteAn undercover police officer posing for years as an environmental activist co-wrote a libellous leaflet that was highly critical of McDonald's, and which led to the longest civil trial in English history, costing the fast-food chain millions of pounds in fees.

The true identity of one of the authors of the "McLibel leaflet" is Bob Lambert, a police officer who used the alias Bob Robinson in his five years infiltrating the London Greenpeace group, is revealed in a new book about undercover policing of protest, published next week.

McDonald's famously sued green campaigners over the roughly typed leaflet, in a landmark three-year high court case, that was widely believed to have been a public relations disaster for the corporation. Ultimately the company won a libel battle in which it spent millions on lawyers.

Lambert was deployed by the special demonstration squad (SDS) – a top-secret Metropolitan police unit that targeted political activists between 1968 until 2008, when it was disbanded. He co-wrote the defamatory six-page leaflet in 1986 – and his role in its production has been the subject of an internal Scotland Yard investigation for several months.

Eventually, it's going to turn out there are in fact no anarchists anywhere, and all anarchists are undercover police officers.  In fact, that the police have a laser-like focus on infiltrating anarchist and environmental groups almost exclusively may be revealing about their motives (ie; involving hippie chicks and pot).

:lulz: :lulz: :lulz: That is fucking BEAUTIFUL. I hope McDonald's sues the Metro police for damages. That would be AMAZING.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


Junkenstein

Nine naked Men just walking down the road will cause a heap of trouble for all concerned.

Cain

The blog I got this from commented:

QuoteThe plot of my eventual prize-winning novel will feature a man who starts up an anarchist counterintelligence service because of all the cops floating around the movement. Except that it turns out that he, too is a police plant: the cops are worried about a previous group of infiltrators who have gone rogue, assimilated the doctrine and are now seeking to establish multigenerational clan based autonomous communes through various liasions with female activists. Not only does it turn out that all the anarchists are cops: all the cops have been converted to anarchism. As civil power now rests entirely on people now passionately committed to propaganda of the deed and the gratuitous act, lively times ensue.

LMNO


Cain

http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2013/06/28/do_republicans_really_need_hispanic_votes_nope.html

Commentary another site:

QuoteTrende proposes that even if Dems get 90% black, Hispanic and Asian, this is likely to depress the Dem share of the white vote to the point where Reps remain competitive for decades. He suggests that, electorally, the 'Arizona model' – i.e. apparently go out of your way to piss off Hispanics (he doesn't put it that way) – is about as likely to work as the 'Full Rubio'.

I have no opinion about Sean Trende and I don't usually rely on "Real Clear Politics" for my wonky analysis, to say the least. But, whatever the merits or demerits of his specific deployments of data, this does strike me as noteworthy. It's the first time I've seen a 'wonky' Republican suggest maybe extreme racial polarization should be on the table as a strategic option.

Assuming the data supports that model, this will not be a good thing for American politics.

Cainad (dec.)

Quote from: Cain on June 30, 2013, 09:49:17 AM
http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2013/06/28/do_republicans_really_need_hispanic_votes_nope.html

Commentary another site:

QuoteTrende proposes that even if Dems get 90% black, Hispanic and Asian, this is likely to depress the Dem share of the white vote to the point where Reps remain competitive for decades. He suggests that, electorally, the 'Arizona model' – i.e. apparently go out of your way to piss off Hispanics (he doesn't put it that way) – is about as likely to work as the 'Full Rubio'.

I have no opinion about Sean Trende and I don't usually rely on "Real Clear Politics" for my wonky analysis, to say the least. But, whatever the merits or demerits of his specific deployments of data, this does strike me as noteworthy. It's the first time I've seen a 'wonky' Republican suggest maybe extreme racial polarization should be on the table as a strategic option.

Assuming the data supports that model, this will not be a good thing for American politics.

Shit. Shit.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

Quote from: Cain on June 30, 2013, 09:49:17 AM
http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2013/06/28/do_republicans_really_need_hispanic_votes_nope.html

Commentary another site:

QuoteTrende proposes that even if Dems get 90% black, Hispanic and Asian, this is likely to depress the Dem share of the white vote to the point where Reps remain competitive for decades. He suggests that, electorally, the 'Arizona model' – i.e. apparently go out of your way to piss off Hispanics (he doesn't put it that way) – is about as likely to work as the 'Full Rubio'.

I have no opinion about Sean Trende and I don't usually rely on "Real Clear Politics" for my wonky analysis, to say the least. But, whatever the merits or demerits of his specific deployments of data, this does strike me as noteworthy. It's the first time I've seen a 'wonky' Republican suggest maybe extreme racial polarization should be on the table as a strategic option.

Assuming the data supports that model, this will not be a good thing for American politics.

I very doubt that data from 2012 and beyond will support that, as non-Hispanic White Americans are increasingly identifying with Hispanic White and White/indian Americans.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


Junkenstein

I kind of want them to run with it for a while, and suspect the GOP might just do that. With the control exerted by the tea party and such, they might just feel that that base is what needs pandering to. If they do, the results will be awful and glorious.
Nine naked Men just walking down the road will cause a heap of trouble for all concerned.

Cain

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23512840

QuoteLaw firms, insurance companies and celebrities are among 94 clients that used private investigators convicted of illegally obtaining information, MPs have said.

The Home Affairs Select Committee published a breakdown of the clients but did not name them individually.

The four rogue investigators concerned were given jail sentences last year.

Committee chairman Keith Vaz said he wanted to name the clients when the committee published its final report.
Private data

The private investigators specialised in illegally obtaining private information from organisations such as banks, utility companies and HM Revenue and Customs.

Because the companies involved could be investigated by the police and the information commissioner, the committee says it has not named them. Instead it lists them by business sector.

The list suggested that private investigators often subcontract work to each other - 16 clients were other private investigation agencies.

Labour MP Mr Vaz said: "When we publish our report into private investigators, we would like to be in a position where we publish the entire list.

"But we don't want to compromise any investigation that the Metropolitan Police may or may not be involved in."

Meanwhile, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said he had "a lot of sympathy" with those who wanted big companies who use private detectives to be open about it.

He added he was "very concerned about the role of rogue private investigators" and that the government would be announcing plans to regulate the industry later on Wednesday.

Presented without comment.  I think if you read between the lines, you can see what is going on here.

Cain

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-30/al-qaeda-backers-found-with-u-s-contracts-in-afghanistan.html

QuoteSupporters of the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan have been getting U.S. military contracts, and American officials are citing "due process rights" as a reason not to cancel the agreements, according to an independent agency monitoring spending.

The U.S. Army Suspension and Debarment Office has declined to act in 43 such cases, John Sopko, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, said today in a letter accompanying a quarterly report to Congress.

"I am deeply troubled that the U.S. military can pursue, attack, and even kill terrorists and their supporters, but that some in the U.S. government believe we cannot prevent these same people from receiving a government contract," Sopko said.

Hahaha.  So the US can assassinate or indefinitely imprison suspected terrorists, but it cannot break off contracts with them because it might violate their right to due process.  Come on now.