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12,000 observers, freedom installs in ukraine
Viktor Yushchenko at a victory rally. Image credit: Mosnews.com
“Ukraine’s liberal candidate Viktor Yushchenko declared victory
Monday morning, with 95 percent of the ballots counted in a fiercely contested
repeat election.
“ “There is news: It’s over. Now, today, the Ukrainian
people have won. I congratulate you,” he told the festive crowd in
Kiev’s central Independence Square, Associated Press reported.
“ “We have been independent for 14 years but we were not free,”
Yushchenko said. “Now we can say this is a thing of the past. Now
we are facing an independent and free Ukraine.” ”
I’ll be happier when I see him fully installed.
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uk
freedom of information: bliar orders emails be destroyed
“The Cabinet Office, effectively the Prime Minister’s department,
says messages more than three months old must be wiped by Monday, The Times
revealed.
“The deadline comes just 11 days before the Freedom of Information
(FoI) Act comes into force. Conservative leader Michael Howard has written
to Mr Blair demanding an explanation.
“ “There are reports that your Government is engaged on a massive
email destruction binge in order to get round the law which you yourself
passed,” he wrote.”
Meanwhile, for how long are ISPs to keep e-mails?
“The public are entitled to a clear and simple explanation as to
what is going on.”
Sorry, that’s classified.
“The Cabinet Office’s 2,000 staff have been told to print
and file emails that should be disclosed but there will be no supervision.
“A spokeswoman last night insisted the move was not about the new
laws or “the destruction of important records”.
So that’s OK then.
“She told PA: “Paying to store outdated records which are no
longer any use wastes taxpayers’ money.” ”
That is: the government only has small hard drives and
there is no room for a few hundred e-mails. Strange, I’ve never filled
up a hard drive yet, and then I also have duplicates and triplicates on sort
of shiny disc thingies.
“But Assistant Information Commissioner Phil Boyd, who is responsible
for enforcing FoI requests, fears important files could be lost.
“Alan Beith, Liberal Democrat leader of the Constitutional Affairs
Committee, said: “This has the appearance of trying to get round the
new Freedom of Information legislation.”
You know honest Tone would never do that. It’s just
to protect the careers of honourable ministers from the prying eyes of you
scumbags.
Meanwhile, this
is what can happen to you if you don’t tidy
up behind you.
“Adolf Hitler spent years dodging taxes, accumulating enormous debts
as he led his Nazi party to power, a German tax expert has revealed. He
owed the authorities 405,500 Reichsmarks (6m euros; £4m in today's
money) by 1934, when as German chancellor his debts were forgiven.
“A retired Bavarian notary, Klaus-Dieter Dubon, found Hitler's tax
secrets in papers from the Bavarian State Archive.”
“It certainly appears they are not observing the spirit of the Act.”
This is about freedom of information, it means information
should be free to be destroyed.
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of Adolph Hitler Schicklgruber
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library
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government
white elephants
It has been decided to build a 1000-metre tower on the top of Ben Nevis.
It will contain 50,000 living units and a vast shopping mall. It will cost
£10 billion, twice or three times the current estimated cost of the
UK ID scam. After all, all government ‘projects’ cost at least
two or three times what the government say they will.
I want the Ben Nevis tower ‘developed’ using taxes. I believe
this enterprise will bring work to the area, be a landmark an expression of
British achievement. Perhaps you’d like to put a deposit on one of the
flats. I can assure you it is a brilliant idea and I’m going to bid
for the contract. I’m also going to offer the Labour party £10
million and £1 million each to the election campaigns of 50 Labour and
50 Tory MPs.
Like to buy a dome? Or a bridge perhaps?
An ID card equates to being “under state surveillance”
because there is no other rational purpose for it.
Defeated in Australia, defeated in Canada, rescinded by Winston Churchill
in 1952, the UK government ploughs ahead – ID cards in the UK are a
solution to a problem that does not exist.
The general police view is that identifying people does not register high
on their problem lists. The only people who want these ID cards are those
who supply (dubiously effective) equipment, politicans (I’ll let you
guess why), and government jobsworths (again, I’ll let you guess why).
This proposal is about job creation and time wasting. It has no serious purpose.
And it is not merely the compulsory requirement for all UK citizens to sign
up for identity cards, there are also the data collection issues regarding
the information
to be stored on the associated National Registry.
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As, at long last, the British public are becoming aware of the frightening
inroads on civil liberties by recent governments, a variety of different campaigning
groups are starting to form - ten years later, but better late than never.
Some are listed below:
magnacartaplus.org
Various civil rights documents from around the world and through the centuries,
and summaries of some previous attacks on civil liberties in the UK
James
Hammerton’s blog
A contributor to the site above, and a long-term worker in this area.
He tends to dig in detail into the various sneak attacks on civil liberties
in the UK. His blog will keep you up to date on the latest attacks and provides
links to several other sources.
A comprehensive analysis of the UK ID card, its intended purposes and costs,
made by James
Hammerton.
Another
comprehensive guide and analysis of the UK ID proposal
the web address for the article above is
https://www.abelard.org/news/civil-liberties2004.php#idcard_opposition191204 |
the
british and their freedoms
“Because it is usually called Boxing Day, people forget that December
26 is the feast of St Stephen, the first martyr. Somewhere in the Muslim
world on that day, there will be more Christians martyred, as there are
every day of the year. Muslims are not martyred in Britain. For once, the
mote is in our own eye, and the beam in somebody else's - or will it soon
be illegal to say that?”
“The barbarians are at the gates.”
“Then open the gates.”
Flunkit (a.k.a. David Blunkett, the UK Home Secretary or Interior Minister)
is acting like considerable fool. It is as simple as that. Everyone who is
aware knows that.
This fool is pressing to continue to undermine civil liberties in the UK.
His latest neuroses revolve around introducing ID cards and an attempt to
stop criticism of ‘religious’ aficionados. This is hiding under
an act supposedly designed to stop incitement to religious hatred. Naturally,
Britain already has perfectly adequate laws against incitement to violence.
The real purpose of this act is clearly to stop discussion of growing problems
involving Islam in the UK.
This amounts to new blasphemy laws, a few decades after such anomalies have
now gone into abeyance. This also amounts to a continuing growth of special
‘laws’ applicable primarily and usually only to ‘special’
people. Step by step, any idea of all equal before
the law is being replaced by arbitrary law shaped to favour (or disfavour)
particular groups, preferably if it is also perceived to carry political advantage.
When is Bliar going to dump Flunkit, or is Bliar also a fool?
—
Shuffle for Madsam.
Shuffle for fuel prices.
But let in the barbarians without a peep.
Britain is in deep trouble.
The British no longer care about freedom.
This is part of a growing malaise in many western countries, stemming from
the notion that equality is synomous with no criticismn and unquestioning
acceptance of any ‘unusual’ behaviour.
related material
magnacartaplus.org
interesting campaigning at the auroran sunset site
the web address for the article above is
https://www.abelard.org/news/civil-liberties2004.php#british_apathy131204 |
interesting
campaigning at the auroran sunset site
Freedom in the United Kingdom is under very severe attack.
This looks very good and positive thinking to me:
“as a small start: get your million plus shufflers camped out in
london until they get action on the following:
- a freedom of information act
- a bill of rights
- repeal of the enabling act
- right to bear arms
- an active right to self-defense and defence of property,
including with such arms.
For further background, go to the
James Hammerton blog,
and also magnacartaplus.org
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britain's
new enabling act
“It is a common pattern of this Bill that any safeguard that is proposed
in one section can be subverted or undone in another, [...]
“[...] the Bill enables the government to rule by decree and cut
Parliament out of the process, with no practical limits on its power.”
The link above lists the government’s new powers and explains why the
European Convention for Human Rights is no safeguard in Britain.
related material
magncartaplus.org
website
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the
right to protest
An example:
image
credit: Dallas chapter of Protestwarriors
Assorted protesters outside Haliburton’s
H.Q. in Texas
“So what to do? Now that the "neo cons" have showed up,
your people have embarrassed themselves by attacking one of them, their
signs are bigger and nicer than yours, and your entire group is agitated
and demoralized? Call the cops and have the bastards with differing opinions
removed, of course!”
—
“The cops gave them a lesson in democracy and left without saying
a single word to a single Protestwarrior.”
Another example with this facinating fight
for freedom of speech in an American public school.
First
of many pages of example Protestwarrior posters.
The Protestwarriors rationale:
“We thought it [a ‘peace’ rally in San Francisco] would
be a great opportunity to see the left in its unalloyed perversity. The
left is very skillful when it comes to hiding their true beliefs. They know
they can't compete in the marketplace of ideas, so instead they like to
work in secret. The mainstream media does a great job of covering for them,
witness the plethora of stories about the NRA [National Rifle Association],
about pro-lifers, about the tobacco lobby, while never a word about [...]
the eco-terrorists, and the ideological McCarthyism at our universities
to give a few examples. So we thought this protest would be a rare opportunity
to see leftists out in the open, unabashedly hawking their true core beliefs.
[quoted from Protestwarriors’
FAQ page.]
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business
interests lobby for influence on children's education
" [British Music Rights] has signed up to the Government's Music
Manifesto by pledging to help deliver an awareness of copyright and a
value for creativity. Given the importance of the creative industries
to the UK economy, society and culture we believe that it is essential
to nurture both potential creators and innovators, as well as inform consumers
and audiences of the links between creativity and copyright. We believe
that building awareness of copyright and creativity should happen at the
very earliest stage in the education system, in primary schools, and that
throughout school this should be at the core of appropriate curriculum
subjects, e.g. the arts, design and technology, citizenship and enterprise,
rather than just as an optional extra."
“[...] BMR has been involved in the development of lesson plans which
have been piloted in a dozen schools in the UK, and a full-scale "awareness
initiative" is to be launched in Brussels with the help of the European
Music Copyright Alliance in September and rolled out across European schools
in October.”
This type of ‘lesson’ is now in place in some US schools, where
the Movie Producers Association of America is providing heavily biased text
and rote learning for ‘role-play' ‘classes' on copyright for films
and music.
This is not education, this is a means for business to train (brain-wash)
its next generation of customers. Education is about learning to make, and
being able to make, impartial and informed choices. It is not about cramming
the minds of impressionable youngsters.
If copyright is to be discussed in schools, it should be discussed in the
context of large corporations attempting to influence and control intellectual
property law via government lobbying for their own profit. The clear objective
of such corporations is to extend copyright control in perpetuity.
Already, of recent years, copyright has been extended to seventy years beyond
the author's death. If this game is allowed to continue, there will come a
time when major authors of the past can no longer be accessed without the
permission of multi-national corporations. Vast swathes of such material is
already being concentrated in the hands of a very few corporations.
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recommends open access to science research
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https://www.abelard.org/news/civil-liberties2004.php#music |
bliar's
belch-free britain
“Once the order has been made, the suspect can be jailed for up
to five years for any breach, however tiny. Thus, and I'm not making this
up, a man who had an anti-social behaviour order prohibiting from being
noisy had to appeal to Harringey magistrates to get him out of prison for
the 'crime' of belching on a communal fire escape.”
—
“Beyond the politics of positioning, the giddiness of the triangulation
mania may finally be taking a practical toll after all these years. Between
the 1997 and 2001 general elections 31 law-and-order bills were presented
to Parliament. Between 1997 and March 2003 New Labour created 661 new criminal
offences. Between the June 2001 election and June this year the government
launched 154 anti-crime initiatives - about one a week.”
Forget not that Michael H***** (current leader of the Tory Opposition) started
this process and that prisoner levels like this were the forecast outcome
of his blitz of freedom restrictions; and arbitrary rule disguised as ‘law
and order’.
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“no
one should fear correct identification”—flunkit!
Go look for glorious technicolour t-shirt.
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