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The arrest of 114 power station protesters is extremely worrying »
Posted by: berkeley 7 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
Let us be clear that the people arrested yesterday, who have all now been released on bail, have manifestly not committed any crime of trespass ...
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Fighting Nineteen Eighty-Four »
Posted by: berkeley 5 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
Sixty years ago today George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four was published, and this evening, as though to mark the anniversary of Orwell's last book ...
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Lose "1984" in Amazon.com's Big Brother Deletion? They Have $30 for You »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 2 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Amazon.com, which took the Orwellian step of remotely deleting copies of "1984" and "Animal Farm" from customers' Kindles, has apologized. On Thursday, they announced ...
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Every step you take: UK underground centre that is spy capital of the world »
Posted by: berkeley 8 months, 4 weeks ago in News
Millions of people walk beneath the unblinking gaze of central London's surveillance cameras. Most are oblivious that deep under the pavements along which they ...
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Obama Is Said to Consider Preventive Detention Plan »
Posted by: berkeley 6 months, 1 week ago in Political News
President Obama told human rights advocates at the White House on Wednesday that he was mulling the need for a “preventive detention” system that would ...
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England wasn't built on babysitting bans »
Posted by: berkeley 1 month, 4 weeks ago in Political Opinion
What would Orwell make of a nation in which mothers are investigated for looking after each other's children?
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The Makings of a Police State-Part III »
Posted by: berkeley 1 month, 1 week ago in Political Opinion
While the federal police and intelligence agencies snoop on ordinary Americans and slap them with gag orders (forced by fear to shut their mouths), the ...
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Orwellian: Amazon.com Remotely Deletes \ »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 4 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
This morning, amazed Amazon Kindle owners realized that someone had seemingly managed to "steal" some of their e-books from their Kindle. In reality, the books ...
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The NYT sums up Obama's civil liberties record in one paragraph - Glenn Greenwald »
Posted by: berkeley 6 months, 1 week ago in Political News
President Obama’s decisions this week to retain important elements of the Bush-era system for trying terrorism suspects and to block the release of pictures ...
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We have a very short time to save society from tyranny »
Posted by: berkeley 9 months ago in Political News
"Once an individual has been assigned a unique index number, it is possible to accurately retrieve data across numerous databases and build a picture of ...
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Elliot Madison Accused Of Using Twitter To Tweet Police Actions At G-20 Protests »
Posted by: berkeley 1 month, 3 weeks ago in Political News
A self-described New York City anarchist has been accused of tweeting the location of police officers to protesters trying to evade them during the Group ...
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Leaked ACTA Internet Provisions: Three Strikes and a Global DMCA | Electronic Frontier Foundation »
Posted by: berkeley 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Negotiations on the highly controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement start in a few hours in Seoul, South Korea. This week's closed negotiations will focus on ...
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Guardian gagged from reporting parliament »
Posted by: berkeley 1 month, 2 weeks ago in Political News
Today's published Commons order papers contain a question to be answered by a minister later this week. The Guardian is prevented from identifying the ...
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Obama DOJ Defies Federal Judge »
Posted by: berkeley 8 months, 4 weeks ago in Political News
So on Friday, in a move that Al-Haramain’s lawyer called “mind-boggling”, the Obama administration told the federal court, once again, that it did not ...
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Don't let the police intimidate you »
Posted by: berkeley 7 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
Today reports have begun to circulate that police have carried out what according to the Guardian "is thought to be the biggest pre-emptive raid on ...
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