Here folks is a mild distraction....comments please..
Wed, 18 Jan 2006 14:46:47 GMT
For those of you who are interested in the technology of mass
surveillance, an interesting article
http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,70035-0.html?tw=wn_tophead_2
More information doesn't make us smarter. We need smarter information. ...
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Rare Censorship item...
Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:24:18 GMT
The following link will take you to a rare item from the censorship debates
in the late 1970s... a copy of an address by the General Secretary of the
Cinematograph Exhibitors' Association regarding the Williams Committee.
Low price...
Mike
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=8374695885&s ...
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About time
Mon, 16 Jan 2006 18:23:18 GMT
Excellent practice
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/staffordshire/4614228.stm
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Newspapers and C4 Suppress Defence of Galloway on Big Brother
Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:33:27 GMT
Newspapers and Channel 4 TV Suppress
Defence of Galloway on Big Brother
The following series of letters were an attempt to reply to vicious media
attacks on George Galloway during the first week of his appearance on the
Reality TV programme Celebrity Big Brother. None of the letters were
published by The Inde ...
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Galloway Outwits Big Brother
Sat, 14 Jan 2006 16:29:37 GMT
Galloway Outwits Big Brother. 14th Jan 2006.
Chris Edwards
This week's massive, unrelenting media/New Labour propaganda onslaught
against Galloway, part of the ongoing campaign of "character assassination
on grand scale", as his libel lawyer put it, fails to get him ousted from
the Big Brother House. ITV ...
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2 comments on the 'paedos in the classroom' fuss
Fri, 13 Jan 2006 19:49:14 +0000
TIME TO TEAR UP THE SEX OFFENDERS REGISTER?
The fears stoked by the register are a bigger problem than most of the
people on it.
By Rob Lyons
Spiked, UK: 13 January 2006
http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/0000000CAF1C.htm
British government ministers are under pressure following revelations
that a ...
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Ogrish and the parallel between child porn and images of violence
Fri, 13 Jan 2006 17:31:49 +0000
Shock and gore
By James Harkin
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/1373c930-8325-11da-ac1f-0000779e2340.html
Here's a choice quote from the article:
"But viewing Ogrish throws up some thorny moral dilemmas. In the past
few years, western governments have cracked down on child pornography
distributed via the internet. ...
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February 2006 issue of the journal of the Society for Individual Freedom
12 Jan 2006 00:21:10 -0800
The February 2006 issue of The Individual, the journal of the Society
for Individual Freedom, is now available as a free PDF download. Go to
http://www.individualist.org.uk/2006febindiv_em.pdf to download the
journal directly or to the homepage at http://www.individualist.org.uk
and then navigate to the journal ...
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Regarding the "Jane Longhurst" campaign...
Tue, 10 Jan 2006 22:11:50 +0000 (UTC)
According to the BBC news site, they have ammased some 32000 signatures
supporting the governments ban on what it terms as "extreme" or "violent
pornogrpahy" on the internet.
Be that as it may, having done some Googling, in every internet discussion I
have encountered the vast majority seem to be against an ...
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Is this teacher a 'sex offender' or not?
Sun, 08 Jan 2006 13:49:00 +0000
Has this teacher been convicted of anything or not? From the article
below, it looks as if he hasn't: it says the police "believed he had
accessed paedophile websites" - whatever they might be - whereas the
Education Secretary says that "the evidence against the man was
inconclusive." Don't we have law courts to ...
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