Eeny meeny miny mo, catch an iPod user, don’t let him go…
The G8 is, for those who don’t know, an international undemocratic gestalt made up of the governments of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Together, they cook up new ways to manipulate and control people, trade, and money markets.
The G8 famously tell lies about how they’re going to tackle world poverty but then—after near enough promising on their mother’s graves—don’t do much at all other than make excuses. Now the G8 is cooking up draconian new copyright protection laws. The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) between the US, EU, and Canada, will give border guards the right to seize our iPods and mobile phones whenever they suspect they contain illegal downloads.
tags: choons, civil liberties, crime, Digital Rights Management, downloads, file-sharing, freedom, G8, games, Internet Service Providers, mp3, piracy, videoSo who do we vote for when the good times are over and won’t ever come back?
Most of us don’t have party political allegiances. The shadows cast by the worst decisions of previous and current Prime Ministers tend to inform our decisions at the ballot box, and because some pretty appalling policies have been inflicted on us down the years by both Labour and the Conservatives, we spend a lot of our time at a crossroads of opinion subject to movement caused by the vagaries of the media as much as by our own experiences and anything the latest leaders do or say.
tags: Big Brother, civil liberties, Conservatives, database state, David Cameron, elections, environment, food crisis, free market, global warming, Gordon Brown, ID cards, Labour, Liberal Democrats, politics, sustainability, Tony Blair
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