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Salami tactics – the end of Democracy
Last year, on a newspaper comment thread, someone called me a ‘nitwit’ because I said that civil liberties in the UK and USA are starting to resemble those found in places like China and North Korea. I’m not going to … Continue reading
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Tagged civil liberties in the UK, civil liberties in the USA, Edward Snowden, Five Eyes countries, Glenn Greenwaldl, Julian Assange, Laura Poitras, London O2 Arena, Monty Python, Naomi Wolf, National Defense Authorization Act, NDAA, New Hampshire Liberty Forum, NSA, police state America, police state Britain, Python final performance, ten steps to a police state, The End of America, The Terrorism Act, Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, TTIP
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Rule, Britannia
Yesterday, David Miranda, a Brazilian citizen, was detained for nine hours at Heathrow Airport while transiting from Berlin to Rio de Janeiro. Miranda is the partner of Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who’s breaking the Edward Snowden stories. It seems certain … Continue reading
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Tagged 38degrees.org, Anti-Social Crime and Policing Bill, civil liberties in the UK, civil liberties in the USA, D-Notice, David Miranda, Edward Snowden, GCHQ, Glenn Greenwald, HR 347 anti protest bill, Julian Assange, Laura Poitras, National Defense Authorization Act, NDAA, NSA, police state America, police state Britain, PSPO, Public Spaces Protection Order, The Terrorism Act
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A long, dark night of the soul
I have the greatest respect for Glenn Greenwald, but the story he broke this week was not really news (here). It’s been widely known for a long time now that just about all electronic communication is recorded by the US … Continue reading
The NDAA lawsuit – it’s not looking good
In September of last year, US District Judge Katherine Forrest made a final ruling that Section 1021 of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) – which allows for the indefinite detention of American citizens without trial – was unconstitutional and … Continue reading
Winston Churchill will be turning in his grave
Last month Julian Assange gave a speech to a gathering of diplomats at the UN general assembly, via a satellite videolink from the Ecuadorean embassy in London. It was quite a powerful speech. Assange looked nervous and ill during his … Continue reading
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Tagged 9/11, America police state, AUMF, Authorization for Use of Military Force, Citizens United, green party in America, Jill Stein, Julian Assange, Julian Assange speech to the UN, National Defense Authorization Act, NDAA 2007, NDAA 2012, Patriot Act, Posse Comitatus overturned, US green party, US Presidential election 2012
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The lunatics are taking over the asylum
The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is a United States federal law that is passed each year by Congress. Basically, the NDAA specifies the budget and expenditures of the US military in the coming year. President Obama signed the NDAA … Continue reading
One of the best speeches given by an American in recent years
The following speech was given by Adam Kokesh on 2nd September 2008, at a Rally for the Republic in Minnesota in support of the Republican Representative, Ron Paul. I’m going to keep my big mouth shut for a change, but … Continue reading
You couldn’t make this stuff up
Americans buy record numbers of guns for Christmas What I find rather disturbing about the above article (from the Daily Telegraph, a right wing paper) is that there is no context whatsoever – ie, the authoritarian laws that are being … Continue reading
The free world is going to need its own internet
Ok, so you probably think I’ve been banging on about the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) too much. After all, you may say, America has always been a bit of a crazy place and us lot in the rest of … Continue reading
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Tagged censorship in the USA, DNS, Domain Name System, IANA, ICANN, Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, is America a police state, National Defense Authorization Act, NDAA, PROTECT IP Act, Sergey Brin, SOPA, Steve Marshall, Stop Online Piracy Act, VeriSign, who controls the internet
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Hello citizens of the world, we are Anonyomous and can’t spell
On New Year’s Day 2012, American citizens awoke to find themselves living in a police state; trouble is, most of ’em haven’t realised it yet, or don’t want to realise it (see my post about it here). However, there’s still … Continue reading
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Tagged America police state, Anonymous, National Defense Authorization Act, NDAA protest
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The Muppets do dictatorship
So, Mitt Romney beats Rick Santorum in the Iowa caucus by just eight votes. So what? These people are a bunch of muppets and are a total disgrace to democracy. I’m still baffled just why the muppets have got so … Continue reading
The nightmare begins
They have a saying in Chicago, Mr Bond. Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it’s enemy action There’s been all kinds of rumours and misinformation flying around the internet about FEMA ‘detention camps’ (FEMA = Federal Emergency … Continue reading
For godsake, wake up America!
Shortly before Christmas I had a bet with my mother that there would be one more big news story before the clocks struck midnight on New Year’s Eve. I cheated, of course, because I knew President Obama would be signing … Continue reading