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Internet CCTV Spies

06-10-2009 10:37

UK PLC corporate police state cont.- as video game

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Radio station refuses to sack openly racist DJ

30-09-2009 18:39

Self-confessed BNP supporter and promoter is still in place despite protest from anti-racists.

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25 years of GNU software.

30-09-2009 08:11

IMC loves GNU : Keep it libre, keep it free !

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Metropolitan Police Service apologises for unlawful arrest

25-09-2009 01:04

Apology letter @ Southwark tube station
Four years after having unlawfully arrested an innocent attempting to take the tube, the Metropolitan Police Service eventually apologises, offers some compensation and promises that the officers involved will be made aware that the police had to agree to such an outcome.

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Support community radio, sign the petition - four days to go!

21-09-2009 14:16

I write with regard to community radio funding and to call on your urgent support to help achieve a better settlement for the sector from Government.

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Critique of Climate Camp action 17/18 October

16-09-2009 11:09

“It’s time to start imagining a future without coal” says the call-out. Oh no! Not that crap again! If anything was going to put thoughtful people off this action, silly rhetoric like that does the trick. It’s like trying to build opposition to Donald Trump’s plans to turn acres of sand dunes near Aberdeen into a golf course for the rich, or golf courses in general, by urging people to imagine a future without grass.

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Indymedia Server Seizure news

07-09-2009 00:14

Police have dropped their controversial six-month investigation of a Sheffield IT worker who had a minor role administering the activist website Indymedia UK.

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Devon housing association installs spy cameras in flats

29-08-2009 08:42

The Riviera Housing Trust in Torquay is fitting over 100 cameras in corridors and staircases at its flats in Pendennis Rd. They claim it is to improve security, but residents have accused them of Big Brother tactics. The cameras will cost £375,000 and rents may be increased to pay for them.

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Climate Camp: New Met Police online propaganda war and '6 consulting'

24-08-2009 20:00

The Metropolitan Police has hired a firm of consultants (6 consulting) to help it monitor social networking sites, especially around social protest and police public image..
A few different articles cut n pasted and discussed below, plus some publicity info on Radian 6 monitoring software.


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'The Shape of Things to Come' - The EU Stockholm Programme

24-08-2009 10:16

A recent report released by Statewatch has highlighted the direction in which EU-wide policymaking is likely to heading until the middle of the next decade. The full article here contains a press release from the European Civil Liberties Network which breaks down the 60-page report into something less lengthy. The major themes are massively increased surveillance, tighter social control, and a harsher border regime. It is stated within the report, 'The Shape of Things To Come' by Tony Bunyan, that funding for 'security' in the EU's 2007-2012 financial plan is set to increase by 968%.

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Two convicted in U.K. for refusal to decrypt data

23-08-2009 22:08

Two people have been successfully prosecuted for refusing to provide U.K. authorities with their encryption keys, resulting in landmark convictions that may have carried jail sentences of up to five years.

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AirRobots Drone deployed at Demo against the BNP Event in Derbyshire

21-08-2009 01:26

'AirRobot' were showing off their AR100B surveillance drone at the anti-BNP protests in Codnor, Derbyshire.

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Interference via Twitter, Dreyfuss and NED

20-08-2009 07:40

Recent coordination between the Department of State and the Twitter
Corporation during the electoral unrest in Iran was a solid proof of the
close cooperation between media, the electronic industry (internet, etc.)
and the State Department.

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Blocked websites

18-08-2009 16:33

Hampshire County Council has of this week blocked access to bit.ly on the grounds that the website is malicious!

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The internet is under attack!

18-08-2009 09:33

The powers that be still do not understand the internets, make sure you do before they consolidate their control.

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Cowley Road CCTV - BBC breach charter with one sided debate

14-08-2009 08:24

Radio 4's Reality Check didn't check reality when it came to surveillance cameras along the Cowley Road, East Oxford

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RIPA :: Two convicted for refusal to decrypt data

12-08-2009 13:34

Two people have been successfully prosecuted for refusing to provide authorities with their encryption keys, resulting in landmark convictions that may have carried jail sentences of up to five years.

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One day early: With classical music against nuclear power: “Musical inspection“ on the site of the fine storage site in Gorleben

08-08-2009 09:54

Lebenslaute on the site of the final storage site in Gorleben
Today at 10:30am 60 musicians from the action group "Lebenslaute", packed with instruments and music stands, climbed the four meter high wall around the site of the planned final storage site in Gorleben (Germany) and began a protest concert with mainly classical music.

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Wanted: computer games expert to help develop nuclear weapons

30-07-2009 15:18

This is an excellent job opening for anyone who likes violent computer games and wishes to contribute to defending the realm from North Koreans and aliens. The British nuclear deterrent is certainly safe in AWE's hands.