Another reason not to visit the US?
The Department of Homeland Security have now given themselves the right to nick your laptop when you go to the states.
Someone tell them about the Bill of Rights? I pity the state of the states these days.
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This dodgy git is Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia, head of security, son of the Crown Prince and puppet master to hungry arms manufacturers, such as the UK’s very own BAE Systems. He’s the guy responsible for threatening poor old Tony Blair with ‘another 7/7′ if he didn’t halt the Serious Fraud Office’s investigation into his alleged corrupt dealings with BAE - involving a $1bn bribe. Small fry like Blair and Bush listen to Prince Bandar, he is a man not to be messed with. I also heard he said things about Bush’s mum and nicked Tony’s dinner money - c’mon Brown, get him in a headlock and nick is hat!
I found a very interesting old video that was only recently posted to Google Video. It’s a 1996 public access cable broadcast, featuring James Collier, an investigative reporter. He and his brother had been following voting fraud in the states since the 1970’s (yep, that long). They were both shot just before the controversial 2000 US elections. This video produces enough evidence to suggest that the US just isn’t run by the people anymore - scary stuff:
I popped down to the Burmese Embassy at the weekend, expecting to join protesters harassing officials about the worsening political situation in Burma. But, to my surprise and disappointment, there was no one there! Have the police been cracking the whip over here too? Or do people just not give a crap?
The situation in Burma is deteriorating rapidly, with several protesters already killed by government troops. Governments are reluctant to step in, not least of all because China (whose demand for oil and steel is propping up the US economy right now) rely on gas from Burma and arm the nation in return. Worse still, I bet the American government is watching closely and taking notes on how to crush a civil uprising - just in case people realise how their votes were stolen.
Please go and sign the petition for action in Burma.
It’s a shame this aired years ago on British TV, but was pulled from TV in the US. It may have stopped so many people voting for Bush - twice! Or at least made it harder for Diebold to hack the election.
It’s good to see cultural ignorance is alive and well in the UK. Several years after running into the same problem with a game I built for Ladbrokes, it seems people still believe the swastik symbol must be Nazi iconography and thus offensive. Clearly this handbag designer is a Nazi witch, according the general public.
Remember kids, causing offense is one of the worst crimes against humanity we have in the UK - we’re all just so hip, polite and multicultural, but don’t know an ancient prosperity symbol when we see it. Now maybe we’re causing offense to Hindus by implying the swastik is objectionable… we’re in a right pickle.
It turns out that Echelon, the secret eavesdropping spy network, does exist after all. Billions of pounds spent on listening to people chat about their day at work and what they’ll have for dinner - not a waste of money at all! It strikes me that the global elite are just a bunch of old gossips at heart, like a sewing circle, but with nuclear weapons instead of cups of tea. Of course, like any good gossip, the US and UK governments denied the existence of the whacking great golf ball like radio towers that comprise Echelon - but the loud-mouthed Aussies came out and admitted everything… good on ya!
I saw the Falun Gong guys brass banding it up in town the other day. I can’t decide are they just a harmless religious startup, or a scary Chinese cult. It was certainly bizarre to see them marching around Leicester Square.
Finally acknowledging how easily voting machines used in US elections can be hacked (they run Windows), it seems Senate will hold a hearing on voting machine security. What’s that? Vote fixing in the states? Surely not 