TTG, NDA GROUP, AG-SCI & WHAT GREG MUIR’S TEAM COULD DEVELOP NEXT FOR NZ FARMERS BEST INDUSTRY INTERESTS & ENDEAVORS
Tru-Test Group, that fuses electronics for the agi-sci industry purchased Dairy Technology Services from NDA Group.
The agri-tech group finished 16th on the TIN100 survey of companies set up to improve technology and research. TTG splashed $73m for the acquisition.
What’s needed now is for a company like TTG, to develop the same thing with a banking software system invention, that can then track ‘white gold’ (aka dried dairy product with the water then extracted) around the world to see if NZ farmers are achieving the best brand leverage from dairy leaving the farm gate to distribution world wide. (more…)
JUDGE HARVEY THINKS USA’S MILITARY ACQUISTION OF DIGITAL DATA & IT MILITARY SPYING VERGES ON BEING FBI DISNEYLAND STATUS
In “Fair Deal” privacy protection news: ”District Court Judge David Harvey has heard parts of the case against the Megaupload founder, who was arrested with three colleagues in January after a request from the United States. The FBI has accused Dotcom and others working at Megaupload website of the world’s biggest case of criminal copyright violation.”
Interesting. Also check out Corin Dann‘s interview with Pamela Jones Harbour of how Google and the USA are totally getting all up in everyone’s business IP mix.
Also what goes up in “the cloud computing arena” will be shared with Google’s mates, so the culture of Insider Trading is totally being facilitated by the USA who are masters at creative IP fusion. “Skins are us,” is the mobile telephony and IT tablet culture of US ideas going into the machine quicker and being churned out as US ideas, quicker so than what most other nations (bar China) can churn out new ideas in new forms. Or more to the point, the fused IP ideas are made by Americans in China, then returned back to the US as China products, even denying American citizens jobs.
It’s not entirely the USA’s fault. Americans consome more than any other nation. They have to keep up with the demand of consumption is the theory of “incorporating” ideas quicker. The pace of consumption you only understand if you actually do a two-year or more period of time within the USA. That, and not being very good at being no.2, drive this compulsion in the USA’s culture. Not every American is like that though, of course. :)
The same can be said of Steven Joyce‘s new super ministry in New Zealand too. A business hub has the same ability to collect the best business templates. A future area of IP law could grow as if NZ author’s biz templates were to be hacked into (it does happen), there could be court cases ahead of inventors and patent protection of biz owners ideas etc. New ideas are more addictive than pharmaceutical drugs to American people. They respond openly to innovation as innovation is one of the redeeming qualities of America as a nation. When dong good, they create pictures of liberty on display for the world. The attention span of Americans is always all about ‘the next new thing.’ In addition telecommunications companies need to guarantee emailed documents are not going down the wire, or through the airwaves to a hub of data collection too, that could abuse creative peoples incentives to create useful products more.
So in such a culture, it’s about remembering manners where you can and giving credit to where the ideas came from – and co-partnering on IP whakapapa rather than just taking it from the authors without credit. So I guess this isn’t a privacy issue alone, it is a meanness of spirit issue and potentially an industry of blackmail too with facts gathering.
So much of foreign affairs trade deals, trades gossip as capital to acquire stuff. That’s why more negotiators at the table is healthy, as if dirt is found on a nation’s key negotiator through IT they will trade off more than they should, for personal reasons. That is not what they were elected to do, so such deals are illegal without the consent of the citizen’s who own the assets being traded (including all IP and data of citizen’s of one particular nation’s habits, thoughts, work too). Such invisible illegal trade set ups need to cease until democracy on issues of trade have occurred with the citizens who own them.
So, because leaders are a target, a team of honest people helps reduce that culture and leverage of greed in trade deals. At best a team seeks to serve the children in a nation’s potential now and down the track. IT gives the US an advantage to plan this path for American citizen children, and also the nations the USA trades this information to for certain things the USA wants. China has been planning like this down the track for years. Therefore, the authors of the ideas, who are not the property or cattle of any State, often get robbed in this process of fair reward. More needs to be said of this style of culture at corporate and political level.
The USA is very good at a style of negotiating that trades heavily on gossip leverage, as shown with the Wikileaks diversion that demolished foreign affairs trust among nations, while being the perfect diversion for the Global Financial Crises shake, rattle n’ roll corporate banking crimes too. This should not be surprising though, as the internet was first designed for military purposes and the military were using the technology, long before anyone else knew of IT’s existence or capabilities.
The nature of IT is military information acquisition. After that lifestyle. Then sharing information. Entertainment distraction and education also feature as drawcards of audiences to IT. Oh, and of course E-Commerce as well. The more time online, the more information is collected of you. If this is the case, there’s nothing to fear, just live life in the open. Or live a life offline. Be more honest is the gift of IT to us all.
One should never fear an IT company’s knowledge of the individual. Or the government trading this information. It’s like ‘get a life.’ Trading secrets about people can tend to cramp life, not add to it, so as individuals we have to choose to live free from any fear in an IT world. Just do it. Needless to say, laws need to change to protect IT data mined information about individuals and their civil and human rights. If we don’t do this, we are not being humane. Too corporate greedy.
One of the strange ironies in the world is that the Security Industries that tax payers pay for, actually is used against citizens too and can be relabelled The Insecurity Industries in such instances. The latter name being more honest about that exhorbitant tax spend. IT also stitches elections through data mining and manipulating IT too. Elections are ’won’ on the biggest budgets for IT and media spend these days. That’s why youth are reacting so weirdly, as they feel like democracy isn’t in the air any more. In many cases on key issues, they’re quite right. I mean, there’s only so many video games you can play to express your anger or distract yourself until you acquire grey hair to then be seen with an opinion, as a young person. So democracy needs to be restored to give youth a feeling of a true sense of home in nations that offer democratic process as an expression of freedom, liberty and hope to have a decent chance of achieving an attainable dream in country’s somehow by a miracle, fortunate enough to still have this reality achievable for its own citizens. That is the essence of human rights in operation. How do we get back to that center?
On the topic of spying for capital gain (a US artform generating billionaires in the game), watch the rather stunning PJH above.
Judge Harvey is not due to hear the internet mogul’s extradition case until next year but made his views on copyright known during the launch of the “Fair Deal” campaign last week.
The campaign is opposing any changes to New Zealand’s copyright laws that may form part of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement.
The TPP trade deal is currently being negotiated and the 13th round of talks are finishing up.
The negotiations are secret but it is known that the United States entertainment industry is pushing for stronger copyright provisions among the 11 countries in the Asia-Pacific region negotiating the deal. America is a melting pot of many cultures ideas. There are Maori and Polynesian characters all over Nickelodean’s children’s channel in the US for example – yet the same rule of thumb does not go back to New Zealand or Polynesia peoples of the South Pacific, for such cultural appropriation the US forgets they borrow heavily from all the time and disguise with costumes, diverse casting calls and of course, the American accent and a poker face too. The US is a shell, needing inspiration to reinvent new consumable products for its people. An American told me that and it is true. So the ball needs to go back to the center of the copyright issue. If the US is honest about that. Drop the poker face. Trade deals that are win-win are based on trust. This is only evident when honesty without pretense is present in trade deals processes and trading citizens peoples concerns are actually being listened to and upheld. How do we ensure such an environment of trading occurs. Otherwise all deals should be off. As a Kiwi, I know, the NZ people can wait until such an environment is present at the table. So, it’s America’s call to find a medium of negotiating culture that is in the center of what America thinks it knows and what others know to.
Judge Harvey also quoted media analyst, journalist and political debater Russell Brown‘s tweet on the topic from earlier on: “we have met the enemy and he is [the] U.S.” Judge Harvey’s remark is a play on the line “we have met the enemy and he is us” by American cartoonist Walt Kelly. Brown and Judge Harvey are referring to DVD codes copying that robs filmmakers of their next farm purchase, or shares acquistion as a virtual farmer in Fonterra in New Zealand, something shocking!
I don’t know how such Oscar winning filmmakers can sleep easily at night, as well as being such high profile activists for indigenous peoples rights too. They’re incredible!
Crown Law, which is representing the FBI in the extradition case, would not comment on the issue.
Journalistic facts verbage: Hamish Fletcher.
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GROUP ON IS GETTING A BAD RAP IN NEW ZEALAND – ALISON MAU’S FAIR GO TV SPECIAL ON WEBSITE E-COMMERCE SCAMMING
Invasion nation down phonelines, internet cables, into our PC.
In New Zealand Got’s Talent News for Consumers, star panellist judge Alison Mau, is looking quite sparkly in lacquered black vinyl and layers of gold chains, live on the telly as I write. Her tone is very Orson Welles War of The World, except she’s better looking than Orson ever was and her show is real.
Ali originally arrived from Australia and is now a New Zealand citizen. As a star Kiwi judge, Mau’s brand of sexy is “social justice” via “consumer justice awareness.”
Ali has brought a live show of Fair Go to air where she’s blowing the whistle on website companies that don’t deliver once customers pay.
The biggest culprits for IT scamming are coupon saving web companies. Worse, Indian IT companies calling into New Zealand are hitting Canterbury hard as well. The companies can take over your PC being remoted in if you buy their software products that don’t protect your PC once downloaded but take over it. Eg: they can use your PC remotely. Take whatever files off it they choose. Scary! (more…)
SIR DOUGLAS GRAHAM’S 60 MINUTES INTERVIEW
Sir Douglas Graham‘s 60 Minutes interview is a good watch today.
Sir Douglas, along with three other directors of Lombard (a property investment company) are in court over losing $150 million of investors monies. This occurred during a time where sixty companies similar (or the whole sector) collapsed. Sir Douglas believes that he did all that was humanly possible, in good faith, to stave off Lombard’s collapse during the Global Financial Crises years. Yet Lombard still folded.
For this reason and given his expertise (politically and economically), his interview perhaps remains as one of the best, into company collapses and what causes these in uncertain economic times. The property collapse was the alleged cause of the global financial crises, that kick-started Western nations’ nightmare of the past three years for majorities of people in Western nations. So given this fact – Sir Douglas’ case provides valubale insights into the realities of this collapse, worldwide.
His answers in the interview highlight a “blood lust” situation to take him down.
Also what he points out, is that in the age of the media sound bite, much of the reporting on his court case (and/ or cases of a similar or differing nature with property investment company cases), is totally irrational. Headlines are just made up, and journalists are not quoting from what the judge’s findings actually are. It’s as if the court and how a court divines justice through hearings are being totally bypassed by other hidden authorities painting their own pictures of people in court, via the media journalists acting as their mouth pieces. In other words, news agenda setting is in a poisoned state of manipulation and facts-bypassing when you see reporting of this nature from supposedly ‘respected or credible’ media outlets. (more…)
WIRE-TAPPING ETHICS REVISTED – ROBERT REDFORD’S WATERGATE DOCUMENTARY IS IN PRE-PRODUCTION
Once upon a time two Hollywood actors starred in a film about the Watergate scandal. The film was called All The Presidents Men. It won four Oscars.
Photo credit: Warner Bros via The Associated Press.
From history’s mistakes we learn about ourselves. Least we forget.
Watergate is about people in power intercepting the private communications of others, in forms of burglary. Then trying to cover it up.
Brian Stelter for The New York Times, writes of Robert Redford embarking on a journey in telling theWatergate saga in documentary form.
Here’s some facts of Brian’s interview conducted at Bob Woodward‘s (Robert Upsher’s) home :
Woodward’s investigative reporting with Carl Bernstein for the Washington Post in the early 70′s is described by observers as being “maybe the single greatest reporting effort of all time.” He was “a force that kept the government honest.”
Four decades have passed since Watergate.
Commissioned by the Discovery Channel, the project, All the President’s Men Revisited is set to be a two-hour television documentary about the scandal that doomed Richard M. Nixon’s presidency and will explore its effects on politics and the media in the 40 years since. It will have its premiere in 2013.
Stanley I. Kutler, a pre-eminent Watergate historian, believes this documentary should be made, because “of all the presidents in the last 50 years, it is Nixon that’s the most interesting.”
[Robert Redford (AF - Getty Images -File photo - Jemal Countess]. (more…)
