Category: terrorism
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Thought Crime
Bare days after the largely unpredicted and hugely unsatisfactory election outcome, this quote: “For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens ‘as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone’.” I’m sure it has a specific context, but it is a soundbite and soundbites are always […]
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Kill the Cull, not the Badger.
Picture donated to the cause by the most wonderful Tom Brown. See his other stuff at http://copperage.deviantart.com More and more information now stands in the face of this nonsensical cull. www.teambadger.org http://www.tbfreeengland.uk.com http://news.sky.com/ http://www.lancashirebadgergroup.org.uk http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/ http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/
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A Free Media
I can barely believe I’m kind of defending The Sun and the UK media, but as I type I’m reading about an apparently disproportionate police response to allegations of corruption, brown envelopes and bribes. If it is true that more than 170 police were used in investigating the issue… if thirty or so journalists were […]
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I’m not a Tory but
<applause!> <APPLAUSE!> Ok, I’m far too cynical to accept everything I hear without question, but the words, the words… reflect absolutely how I feel about the way ‘our’ government has gone over the last decade or two – back even into the last Tory stint. Perhaps, on planet bish somewhere in fantasy land, there are honourable MP’s and […]
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Zeitgeist, the movie
How’s your paranoia gland? Needs exercising? Put a couple of hours aside to watch this documentary then. Zeitgeist – the spirit of the times… and let’s face it, we live in interesting times. It’s only fair we should seek out someone to blame, otherwise it’s our fault, right? There’s a lot of stuff in here […]
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Losing your keys…
Hurrah for George Orwell! How he would … smile? (isn’t is funny that his real name was Blair…?) As of Monday 1st October the previously non-functional part of the ‘Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) that dealy with decryption keys was activated. This means should you hold any encrypted information you may be required by […]
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DNA database, a paranoid wibble
It all sounds so logical, doesn’t it? A national DNA database, into which the DNA record of every person living in, visiting or passing through the UK is stored. A foolproof means of detecting the identity of anyone at any time at any scene, and a perfect way of catching criminals. How could that be […]
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We’ve got you now…
my new passport dropped through the door today – with a particularly heavy and horribly electrickeral thud. It’s loaded with antennas and chips and ‘oh, please don’t worry folks, it’s all fine’ leaflets… grrr. I thought I’d renewed just in time to miss the blasted biometrics for a good ten more years. I’m tempted to […]
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Applauding Roy.
I know there are people out there, strange people, for whom folk music is a foreign land. But for those of us who hear the Awen in the songs of the people Roy Bailey is a god, a bard of dissent, who sings the songs of protest, of the working folk and of the land. […]
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Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill
Go read. http://schnews.org.uk/archive/news534.htm http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1072-2049791,00.html http://bill111.wordpress.com/ http://www.saveparliament.org.uk/
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