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Saturday, December 31, 2005 |
The past year was one in which civil rights got a severe blow. We can only expect worse next year. And for what? For increased insecurity, what politicans call 'war on terror'. More lies, corruption, torture and insecurity are awaiting us; in short it's the present state of 'the mockracy'. Bastards!
ICH: "Britain's former ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray, has defied the Foreign Office by publishing on the internet documents providing evidence that the British Government knowingly received information extracted by torture in the 'war on terror'."
Criminals are running this world.
AfterDowningStreet: "U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has admitted that he 'ghosted' a detainee, meaning that he made the decision to hold a prisoner without keeping any records of the fact."
And those criminals were not even democratically elected. Diebold had a hand in this. It's not who votes that counts. It's who counts the votes.
TheRegister: "2005 will be forever seen as the year in which the US government managed to keep unilateral control of the internet, despite widespread opposition by the rest of the world.
However, while this very public spat went on, everyone failed to notice a related change that will have far greater implications for everyday internet users and for the internet itself. That change will see greater state-controlled censorship on the internet, reduce people's ability to use the internet to communicate freely, and leave expansion of the internet in the hands of the people least capable of doing the job."
Guardian: "The intelligence service at the centre of the row over eavesdropping tracked visitors to its website, despite US government regulations. Monitoring files, known as 'cookies', were discovered by a privacy activist at a time when the White House is on the defensive about its use of the National Security Agency to monitor the communications of US citizens."
Telegraph: "Police are to be given sweeping powers to arrest people for every offence, including dropping litter, failure to wear a seat belt and other minor misdemeanours."
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© Copyright 2005 Hetty Litjens.
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