Update: Gillard's attempt at benefiting from yet another poll-boosting celebrity photo-op, this time with Kylie Minogue at the ARIA's, partly backfires.

Julia Gillard has received a poll boost that very disturbingly appears to be the result of photo-ops with a series of foreign celebrities, including the Queen, United States President and uber-socialist Barack Obama, and now Princess Mary of Denmark.

While the Labor party itself remains well behind, Gillard's personal approval rating has risen significantly.

This is the woman who looked the Australian people in the eye and said "there will be no carbon tax under the government I lead", and then, post-election, immediately proceeded to introduce that very tax following Labor's narrow election victory against a Coalition that, quite frankly, isn't much better.

Shouldn't we be encircling parliament and demanding this tax be rescinded? Shouldn't we be defending ourselves against this sort of dictatorial rule? I suppose that is now impossible, since the so-called "conservative" Howard government disarmed us back in the 90s. Nevertheless, the lack of anger with Ms Gillard is very disturbing.

If a politician did this 100 years ago, I hesitate to state openly what might have happened to them, for fear that ASIO may begin tapping my phone and bugging my house (assuming they have not already done so).

Gamma International UK Ltd. touts its ability to send a “fake iTunes update” that can infect computers with surveillance software, according to one of the company’s marketing videos.

The Wall Street Journal unveiled on Saturday the “Surveillance Catalog” – an online database containing highlights from surveillance industry marketing documents. The documents show dozens of companies making and selling everything from “massive intercept” gear that can gather all Internet communications in a country to “hacking” tools that allow governments to break into people’s computers.

Gamma was one of three companies marketing their skill at the kind of techniques usually used in “black hat hacking,” the type of intrusion used by criminals trying to steal people’s financial details.

A 61 year old man from Halifax County, Virginia, was tasered by cops and died Tuesday after they were called to the scene by an onlooker who saw the man fall off his bike in a parking lot and feared he was drunk.

When the police arrived, Roger Anthony was riding away on the bike. Anthony did not respond to the officers’ requests for him to stop so Officer John Turner used a stun gun on him, causing Anthony to once again fall off his bike, reports wral news.

Family members told the press that when Anthony arrived at the local hospital shortly afterwards, he was declared brain dead.

Continued at infowars

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