- February 10, 2012
- Block ACTA! Stop ACTA!
- Posted by Strangely
- Art, Freedom, Internet
- Tagged with: Africa, Australia, Austria, Belarus, British, Canada, Chile, China, Christmas, Contact, Copyright, CUBA, cyprus, Czech, Democratic, Economic, Egypt, email, Federation, FIJI, France, Freedom, future, Georgia, Germany, Gibraltar, Guts, India, INDONESIA, Internet, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Malta, Nevis, Nigeria, ocean, Pakistan, Panama, PERU, Philippines, Poland, privacy, Protect, Protest, Russian, Somalia, SOPA, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Venezuela, walk, Western, Zimbabwe
Block ACTA and Stop ACTA! Truly, our freedoms are at stake. While notionally an idea to prevent copyright theft, it’s real purpose opens the floodgates for any undemocratic organisation to walk over our freedoms (such as they are) for which our forefathers slugged their guts out. Read this, then either; walk away (wondering in a [...]
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- February 24, 2009
- A Military Way out of The Credit Crunch
- Posted by Strangely
- Freedom, Life
- Tagged with: Africa, bank, BBC, business, citizen, climate, credit crunch, depression, Drug, economy, financial, forge, Fossil, fraud, future, Gordon Brown, Great, legal, military, mind, Minor, money, Mortgage, Nigeria, Obama, Pakistan, problem, sense, society, solution, Switzerland, Taliban, The West, trouble, USA, Website, Western, Wikipedia, World, Zimbabwe
Willie Sutton In a curious parallel with the Great Depression when many millions lost their homes and money, I’m reminded about the phrase reputedly said by a USA bank robber of the time, and how it could equally well be applied to our current predicament…. When asked “Mr Sutton, why do you rob banks?”, he [...]
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- July 18, 2008
- Roger Irrelevant, Data Security, Liam Byrne and Johnny Foreigner
- Posted by Strangely
- Buddhism, Crawling Chaos, Environment, Freedom, Technology
- Tagged with: address, anger, Archive, BBC, behaviour, big brother, Bizarre, Bollox, British, Brother, business, Campaign, Cartoon, computer, computing, Criminal, data, data loss, Democratic, domain, Education, election, evidence, expert, Flash, forge, fuck, good, Government, Head, headline, History, ID Card, ID Cards, immigrant, Labour, laugh, legal, Machine, mind, Minister, nation, parliament, Photo, Politics, public, Sale, Security, system, taxi, university, Viz, Website, Wikipedia, Zimbabwe
Two items this week have prompted this post which follows on from others like Laughable Big Brother. The Viz character, Roger Irrelevant is the link. (Viz flash version of a Roger Irrelevant cartoon.) Quoting from the Wikipedia description of Roger: “Roger Irrelevant is utterly detached from reality. The premise of the strip is that he [...]
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- June 26, 2008
- Zimbabwe c.f. United Kingdom & Justice
- Posted by Strangely
- Freedom
- Tagged with: Africa, America, BBC, computer, Court, Death, Democratic, election, experiment, Florida, Freedom, Google, house, immigrant, justice, man, Obama, Paranoid, Patriot, Police, population, power, president, price, public, race, release, Republican, scandal, Sport, state, The West, United Kingdom, USA, Wikipedia, World, Zimbabwe
Sorry to keep banging on about this, but the new laws in the UK which severely limit our freedoms and liberties gained over centuries should be compared to the current Zimbabwe situation and then taken forward in time as a thought experiment. The nearly current state of affairs in the UK I’ve summarised here in [...]
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