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, videoThe Home Office must stop deporting Iranian gays and lesbians
The Home Office claims a gay person can return to Iran and avoid persecution by being ‘discreet’. Old queens in positions of power within the civil service are obviously harking back to the good old pre-1967 days here in the UK, when the only chance of getting a gay date was via a public toilet pick-up. With the exception of Quentin Crisp and Joe Orton, homosexuals were, for the most part, very discreet in those times. They lived secret lives, looking for love under cover of darkness, often suffering from depression, self-hate and other nasties as a consequence of our then-society’s persecution and stereotyping of same-sex relationships and behaviours.
tags: asylum seekers, bisexuals, death, freedom, gays, Home Office, human rights, immigration, Labour, lesbians, persecution, torture
RIPA NOTICE: NO CONSENT IS GIVEN FOR INTERCEPTION OF PAGE TRANSMISSION