Tag: Federal Bureau of Investigation
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Grenfell was no accident – middle classes and radicalism
Love this interview from Owen Jones with Frankie Boyle who speaks so much truth to power, about austerity, Theresa May’s failure-as-success, gentrification, and DUP. He’s right especially about Grenfell Tower, which was murder – corporate murder by neglect, although I’d argue the Tories just want the poor to die or go away and it’s more…
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Cassetteboy vs The Snoopers’ Charter
I’m hoping the genie is out of the bottle with encryption and even WhatsApp joining the end-to-end encryption battle, but there is no room for complacency. Certainly Teresa May and David Cameron want to spy on us, and already are. Like with Apple vs the FBI in the States it’s no longer something purely for…
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The Great Dictator Part 2
Great Dictator vs Hans Zimmer’s Time – this came around on shuffle. I posted a link to the original video years ago, even played this on the podcast – but seems even more relevant now, especially with some new imagery. This was originally Chaplin’s attack on Hitler, but you can hear his socialism leaking through…that…
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Ding Dong The Wicked ACTA is Dead!
I spend far too long complaining about this injustice or that, so it’s nice for once have good news – European Parliament yesterday threw out the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). The right decision – people will blather on about rights-holders and piracy, but a much bigger issue was how the US steamrollered this treaty (it…
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Here Come The Drones: Extradition & Copyright
I’ve been a bit lax in posting about copyleft issues – partly because, apart from the SOPA/PIPA win it’s been mostly a deluge of shit, nasty political fudging (eh, Dave?), endless cases like Megaupload (love that the NZ court finally got some balls and told FBI where to go on deleting all the data) and…
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Acid House will NEVER DIE!
Hacienda as pictured in ’24 Hour Party People’ – great film btw …and the Hacienda, and piano house in general. I’m sure at some point acid house devotees will become annoying as punk bores, but with piano house on the rebound a and late 80’s house references on the come back (see Hercules and Love…