Ho ho ho Belly, you are a wit and a joker!

"Those who are in any way concerned at greens actions and intentions should read this thread".

When Senator Brown's comments to the US demanding that we invade China, or we read how he has filled the 'listening ear' of Uncle Sam with petty details of the life habits and thoughts of the halfarsed parliamentary colleagues he opposes, and we hear him asking for a uranium mine to go in in the middle of some sanctuary somewhere, then we will know he is on the same level as Senator Judas Arbib (and the rest of them) and might start to agree with your anal-ysis of the politics.

Until then Belly, you might want to seriously re-think your blind faith in this machineman android.

I listened with horror to Stephen Loosley bragging about how all the ALP parliamentarians like to 'get close' to Uncle Sam and whisper sweet nothings into his listening ear, like the school milk monitors who would suck up to 'teacher' and get their hair ruffled by her/him with a re assuring 'good boy/girl' comment.

Lapdogs, poodles, Judas's, or just dickwits?

No, just ALP politicians, always with an eye for their self importance and self promotion, eager to please 'Sir', and without any whiff of self awareness, decency, or ideology.

Empty vessels... with a full superannuation account, and sinecures galore thrown at them afterwards, along with lifelong gold passes to keep their snouts in the trough at our expense.

Sure Belly, the Coalition do that too, but they have never pretended to look after anyone but themselves.

I think Judas Arbib's comments on how easily he accepted Gillard's 'new' politics says everything about how little the ALP is interested in 'social good' anymore.

Easy to see why New Matilda is broke with 'journalism' like this on offer!

Small thing I have come across from people watching the mastercard take down etc by hackers. I’m getting the odd worried comment about money over Christmas and how far this could go. Starting to hear that this payday it might be safer to take all money out in cash soon as it arrives.

I was wondering what affect, if any, that could have if people all over the world decide their cash isn’t safe or may become inaccessible to them at this time of year so they start removing it on mass.

Umm…?

Jewely,

I saw some media coverage where it was pointed out that the hackers are not shutting down the whole show, just some services of these companies such as new card applications and such like. This coverage also made it clear that there was no problem in accessing money or using the cards to make payments

Assange's lawyers spent an hour with him and he said he's generally in good spirits but frustrated that he is being accused of instructing the hackers to strike - something which he denies.

Yeah but Poirot – people panic.

People especially panic about money and if their money is safe and whether or not they can get to it. Other people are merely cautious and will remove it “just in case”.

Did it used to be called a Run on the Banks?

What would happen if millions of people thought “just in case”?

Last thing I read was:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/09/anna-ardin-julian-assange_n_794285.html
The rape accusations against Julian Assange may be falling apart as one of his accusers leaves Sweden. Anna Ardin, one of two women behind the rape charges against the WIkiLeaks founder, may no longer be cooperating with prosecutors, the Australian website Crikey reports.

Yes, Jewely I read that too - that one of the women was no longer cooperating...the plot thickens.

And I agree that people panic...we'll have to see if the attacks keep happening. If they settle down, people have very short memories and will revert to business as usual. It's a bit like the relatively rapid gain in confidence in the wake of a stock market correction.

This is interesting...it's a piece on the "insurance" file that is supposedly an encrypted file that is waiting in the wings should anything untoward occur to Assange or Wikileaks.

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/12/08/wikileaks.poison.pill/index.html?hpt=Mid