[LINK] Telstra's NBN bid rejected

[Craig Sanders]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 12:08:41PM +1100, Karl Auer wrote:
> Note well, note very well, that the national interest, the interest of
> our society at a large, is not mentioned.
>
> That, more than anything else, is what we lost when a
>
>                   *** pack of fuckwits ***
>
> decided to privatise Telecom. And having made that decision, then
> failed to decouple the local link.

Karl, it wasn't a *failure* to de-couple the local loop from the
privatisation, it was *deliberate*.

i.e. it wasn't just stupidity, it was malice.

(stupid ideological malice, but malice all the same)

they can't even legitimately pretend that they didn't know what problems
it would cause - everyone else aside from Telstra & the Lib/Nat govt
were shouting it as loud as they possibly could.


doesn't stop them from pretending anyway, same as they did re: the
invasion of iraq. everyone except Bush and his intl. sycophants were
predicting *exactly* what is happening now (i.e. that it would be a
bonanza recruitment drive for loony islamic-fascist terrorists, and that
Iran would be the ultimate winner).

and same as the current govt is focusing on irrelevant trivial bullshit
like excessive executive salaries rather than the indisputable fact
that the current economic crisis is the direct and inevitable result of
entrenched, systematic fraud and greed throughout the entire financial
industry (the $50Bn pyramid scam being just the most obvious example to
emerge so far). this wasn't something that took everybody by surprise,
it was a hot potato that somebody(*) finally got stuck with.


(*) the tax paying public for the most part, with the multiple trillions
of dollars in bailouts being proposed and even implemented around the
world.

> Excuse the language, but there are just no other words powerful enough
> to describe the makers of those two decisions. In fact, even the above
> phrase doesn't really do justice to the need.

i dunno about that. i'd reckon that "corrupt" and "criminal" are
powerful enough words to describe what happened.


craig

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craig sanders <cas at taz.net.au>