Archive for the ‘Stupid Politics’ Category
World Wide Web of Censorship
The Australian reports:
The Obama administration has questioned the Rudd government’s plan to introduce an internet filter, saying it runs contrary to the US’s foreign policy of encouraging an open internet to spread economic growth and global security.
Officials from the State Department have raised the issue with Australian counterparts as the US mounts a diplomatic assault [...]
In: ACTA, Censorship, Internet Filtering, New World Order, Stupid Politics, copyright · Tagged with: 3-strikes, ACTA, copyright-theft, internet censorship
Urging violence
The Krudd Government has introduced a range of amendments to Australia’s counter-terrorism laws which it says aims to “deliver a better balance between protecting people’s rights and protecting the nation from attack”.
The new balance includes giving police the powers to enter and search property without warrants. To “protect people’s rights” Federal Attorney-General Robert McClelland proposes [...]
In: Sedition, Stupid Politics · Tagged with: anti-terrorism, criminalised speech, Sedition
No Death Penalty: A National Tragedy
Democrat Scott Murphy, who is running in an election for Downstate New York, has been branded a “terrorist supporter” by Republican opponents for not supporting the death penalty.
Republican Paul Lindsay says:
“By opposing the death penalty for the terrorists who carried out the 9/11 attacks, it is abundantly clear that Murphy is unable or unwilling to [...]
In: Stupid Politics, Terrorism
Genius Gov outlaws criminals
NSW Premier Nathan Rees has met with ministers to discuss new laws designed to outlaw bikie gangs.
The laws will make it illegal for gang members to associate with one another and could also prevent them from working as security guards or tow-truck drivers.
Criminal defence lawyers have questioned whether the New South Wales Government’s new crackdown [...]
In: Enslavemnet, Stupid Politics
Mexican Drug Lord Thanks American Lawmakers for War On Drugs
“I couldn’t have gotten so stinking rich without George Bush, George Bush Jr., Ronald Reagan, even El Presidente Obama, none of them have the cajones to stand up to all the big money that wants to keep this stuff illegal. From the bottom of my heart, I want to say, Gracias amigos, I owe my [...]
Anti-terror posters promote suspicion & fear
The London police have bested their own impressive record for insane and stupid anti-terrorism posters with a new range of signs advising Londoners to go through each others trash-bins looking for “suspicious” chemical bottles, and to report on one another for “studying CCTV cameras.”
Essentially, this redefines “suspicious” as anything outside of the direct experience of [...]
In: New World Order, Stupid Politics, Surveilence, Terrorism
Mexican Blackhawks
The US secretary of state has acknowledged that the “insatiable” demand for drugs in the US is driving a surge in gang violence near the border of Mexico. Clinton also admitted some US responsibility for the smuggling of arms by the cartels from the US into Mexico.
Let’s not forget Hillary, the insatiable demand for election [...]
In: New World Order, Stupid Politics
There go our liberties again
Sydney man Anthony Zervas, 29, was bludgeoned to death with a metal pole as at least 15 rival bikies brawled in front of horrified passengers at the domestic terminal’s check-in area on Sunday afternoon.
Police say tensions had escalated between at least six known senior members of the Commancheros and Hell’s Angels gangs on board a [...]
In: Enslavemnet, Stupid Politics
Australian Abortion aid ban lifted
The Australian Federal Government has overturned rules that ban overseas aid funding being used for abortions.
In 1996 the Howard government banned Australia’s overseas development funding from being used in health programs involving terminations.
Prime Minister Rudd said he was personally not in support of the change. Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young says the move was long overdue.
“Australia, [...]
US to boycott UN racism conference
The United States has decided to boycott an upcoming UN conference on racism unless its final document is changed to drop all references to Israel.
The Conference Against Racism, to be held in Geneva in April, is a follow-up to the conference held in the South African town of Durban in 2001.
The US and Israeli delegations [...]
In: Middle East, New World Order, Stupid Politics
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