ShiftyBloke » Politics/Current Affairs http://www.shiftybloke.net/blog ¬.¬ Tue, 08 Nov 2011 23:20:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Something everyone should read http://www.shiftybloke.net/blog/something-everyone-should-read http://www.shiftybloke.net/blog/something-everyone-should-read#comments Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:26:37 +0000 Al http://www.zer0day.com/blog/?p=200 Read it now! http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=998565

]]> http://www.shiftybloke.net/blog/something-everyone-should-read/feed 0 The UK Police state http://www.shiftybloke.net/blog/the-uk-police-state http://www.shiftybloke.net/blog/the-uk-police-state#comments Fri, 01 Feb 2008 22:31:41 +0000 Al http://www.zer0day.com/blog/the-uk-police-state leaked_plans
Found an interesting article on Boing Boing about plans to “coerce” people to use ID cards, which basically sets the foundation for tracking people. A Government document has been leaked which shows these plans, you can find it here.

UK campaigners NO2ID this morning enlisted the help of bloggers across the world to spread a leaked government document describing how the British government intends to go about “coercing” its citizens onto a National Identity Register. The ‘ID card’ is revealed as little more than a cover to create a official dossier and trackable ID for every UK resident – creating what NO2ID calls ‘the database state’.

NO2ID’s national coordinator, Phil Booth, exhorted bloggers, freedom lovers and anyone who gives a damn about personal privacy to mirror the annotated document on their site.

“The charade is over. While ministers try to bamboozle the British public with fairytales about fingerprints, officials are plotting how to dupe and bully the population into surrendering control of their own identities.”

“Biometric ID cards are a sham; a magician’s flourish to cover the biggest identity fraud there has ever been.”

IMO, we are already in a police state and its gonna get worse with these ID cards. Read the doc and decide for yourself if you can trust the Government.

]]> http://www.shiftybloke.net/blog/the-uk-police-state/feed 0 So fucking stupid!! http://www.shiftybloke.net/blog/so-fucking-stupid http://www.shiftybloke.net/blog/so-fucking-stupid#comments Fri, 01 Jun 2007 14:14:17 +0000 Al http://www.mrkryptic.com/blog/?p=120 As much as I support the Palestinian cause, some of the things that some Palestinian groups do really fucking piss me off. Like that BBC Reporter they abducted in Gaza. What fucking good is it gonna do to their cause by kidnapping people, especially journalists. If anything, its gonna turn world opinion against them, even more then it already is.

The British Government don’t give the fuck about their demands, and if they don’t get what they ask for, they’ll probably kill him, and what fucking good does that do for them?

If that happens, even more people are gonna lost sympathy for Palestinians. In the end, it’ll be something like this: Support for Palestinian cause: -30000, and anti-Palestinian feelings: +300000.

Fucking idiots. angry

]]> http://www.shiftybloke.net/blog/so-fucking-stupid/feed 0 A Coup d’etat in the USA? http://www.shiftybloke.net/blog/a-coup-detat-in-the-usa http://www.shiftybloke.net/blog/a-coup-detat-in-the-usa#comments Sat, 09 Dec 2006 16:55:06 +0000 Al http://mrkryptic.com/blog/?p=46 I found a very good article about the slow erosion of civil and human rights in the United States, with the framework being laid for a Big Brother State, the suspension of all civil rights, and the installation of a Military Government, who overrides the basis of American Democracy.

The article talks about cancelling election, martial law, the Military and the Partiot Act.

Global Research Article

]]> http://www.shiftybloke.net/blog/a-coup-detat-in-the-usa/feed 0 The Danish Cartoons: Part II http://www.shiftybloke.net/blog/the-danish-cartoons-part-ii http://www.shiftybloke.net/blog/the-danish-cartoons-part-ii#comments Tue, 10 Oct 2006 22:25:19 +0000 Al http://mrkryptic.com/blog/?p=14 Again the cartoon controversy has started. This time, it wasn’t by a national newspaper, but by an anti-immigration party. I was pleased that this time the Danish PM condemned them instead of claiming it came under freedom of speech, a lame argument that has nothing to it. A lot of people feel that insulting others comes under freedom of speech, I wander if they’d feel the same if I took pictures of their dead parents or family members, and started mocking them.

It also seems that freedom of speech applies, but only when the West says so. If I was to say that I support Hizbullah and Hamas’ resistance to Israel, I would be turned into public enemy #1, and then put on the terrorist watch list, simply because the West considers them to be terrorists.

If I was to make fun out of the holocaust, something I have not done, and don’t intend to do, or criticized Israel, I would be attacked from all sides, and called an anti-semite. It seems in these cases, freedom of speech does not apply.

People don’t seem the understand that there is a boundary, after which freedom of speech becomes pure hatred, and an effort to raise tensions. It amazes me that people cannot express this right without insulting a billion+ people. If this continues, where people insult each other freely, you have to ask, what kind of society and “civilized” people are we, where we cannot express ourselves without insulting others??

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