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YouTube - Rare U2 The Electric Co 1984 »
Posted by: Ciera-Marie 9 months, 3 weeks ago in Arts & Entertainment
Live version of a song by U2 I've never heard of. Enjoy! They're playing in Dortmond.
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Obama Every Bit as Bad as Bush/Cheney on Patriot Act »
Posted by: berkeley 2 weeks, 2 days ago in Political Opinion
Feingold, Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and new Democrat Arlen Specter (Pa.) had the constitutional courage to oppose the Judiciary Committee bill eventually going to the floor ...
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Spying on 60 million people doesn't add up »
Posted by: berkeley 8 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
This week Sir David Omand, the former Whitehall security and intelligence co-ordinator, described how the state should analyse data about individuals in order to find ...
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YouTube - Wang Chung - Dance Hall Days: UK Version »
Posted by: y_soitenly 6 months, 2 weeks ago in Arts & Entertainment
Dance Hall Days was the only UK hit single for Wang Chung.. It peaked at #21 in January 1984.
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“Newspeak” by Bush »
Posted by: jovial 7 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
The "newspeak" from Nineteen Eighty-Four, where lies became the truth and vice versa, was after all characteristic of the Soviet Union....Ex-President Bush appears to ...
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Bush: "I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market system" »
Posted by: Shana4Liberty 10 months, 3 weeks ago in News
It was quite simple. All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory. “Reality control,” they called it: in Newspeak ...
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US censors silenced me over the Gitmo gulag -- Clive Stafford Smith: »
Posted by: berkeley 7 months, 1 week ago in Political News
I recently became the first British lawyer admitted to "Gitmo". The Gitmo gulag may be an American naval base, but the evidence that Britain has ...
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YouTube - Depeche Mode-Everything Counts (Live In Hamburg 1984) »
Posted by: Sageparadox 2 weeks, 6 days ago in Arts & Entertainment
Depeche Mode-Everything Counts (Live In Hamburg 1984)
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High schooler sues Amazon: The Kindle ate my homework »
Posted by: MisterX 3 months, 1 week ago in News
Amazon forcibly (and ironically) recalled copies of George Orwell's "1984" and "Animal Farm" earlier this month after it was revealed that they were unauthorized.
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Obama's State Secrets Overreach »
Posted by: berkeley 7 months ago in Political News
The first is that the government lied in the 1953 Supreme Court case that established the government's right not to disclose to the judicial ...
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Regulate armed robots before it's too late »
Posted by: berkeley 8 months ago in Science & Technology
In the next decades, completely autonomous robots might be involved in many military, policing, transport and even caring roles. What if they malfunction? What if ...
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British civil servants attacked for using anti-terror laws to spy on public »
Posted by: berkeley 8 months, 2 weeks ago in News
Controversial surveillance powers employed to fight terrorism and combat crime have been misused by civil servants in undercover "spying" operations that breach official guidelines.
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Odd looking photographer? Must be a terrorist »
Posted by: berkeley 5 months, 4 weeks ago in Arts & Entertainment
The London Metropolitan police have just issued new measures in the fight against terrorism. During a five week campaign police officers are expected to stop ...
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Britain -- police databank on thousands of protesters »
Posted by: berkeley 8 months, 1 week ago in News
Police are targeting thousands of political campaigners in surveillance operations and storing their details on a database for at least seven years.
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The Cover-Up Continues »
Posted by: berkeley 2 weeks ago in Political Opinion
The Obama administration has clung for so long to the Bush administration’s expansive claims of national security and executive power that it is in ...
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