http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/blog/2011/jul/22/phone-hacking-scandal-live-coverage
We do indeed, live in interesting times.
And if we look very funny ones too.
We are after all a nation that likes to pull one another's leg.
What other country could produce a drinking/Social group that requires its members to carry a card declaring their mums and dads never wed.
Well just maybe we are no longer that country, like the fellowship of old Bs we are fading away.
This hugely interesting debate, evidence that claims made about this,and one other Australian Medea family for nearly a century may, just maybe, be true.
You just can not say that I am told.
Links from the world,views from both sides of politics, are? leftist loony stuff from people like me.
Who I am told, think only what the Australian Labor Part let me think.
Well they are the only party worth voting for, warts and all.
WHY have we lost the ability to laugh at our selves, to debate honestly politics, news.
WHY have we fixed our views to totally support our side, to ignore truth .
If we care, if we do not let this scandal slip away and be forgotten we can come out a better world.
The only side that matters is truth.
To say less is to bar forever improvement.
No party should forget being better is the only target,

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/jul/21/fox-news-phone-hacking
If only we could see more of this type of reporting.
Fear hides it from us, with over 70% of our news owned by the controllers of public opinion we are unlikely to soon have anything near a free press.
Story however is fun interesting and frightening too.

http://www.smh.com.au/business/let-not-murdoch-be-misled-on-his-defence-20110722-1hsr1.html

Clearly to any open mind we have problems.
Much bigger than some will admit to.
In the end, some, far too many, we not read a word about this story.
Not for a second under stand.
This is not just about getting a story at any cost/any way.
Not just about money, but a story so awful if we truly look, it tells of us voters, whole country's, being fodder for an Empire.
Power and greed for more power our very ideas of Democracy are a victim.

What everyone seems to be missing is that a considerable amount of
blame should be loaded onto the telephone companies.
What happened should not have been possible. The software routines in
the system should not have allowed two mobile phones with the same
number to be on the networks at the same time.

They have the information available to be able to know that a mobile
phone has had its number changed. They could then enquire if the
owner of the new phone is the true owner of that number.

In all this chatter in and out of parliament no one has asked those questions.