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Big Brother
Published on 2010-01-23 06:55:00
CCTV In The Sky"There is potential for these [maritime] uses to be projected as a 'good news' story to the public rather than more 'big brother'," a minute from the one of the earliest meetings, in July 2007, states."If you're having secret meetings discussing how to "project" your spying as "good news", that is from Big Brother. They can surveille my arse because I will be doing everything I can to stop this happening.
Democracies like Israel
Published on 2009-10-22 12:36:00
BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Rights group denies Israel biasRobert Bernstein said Human Rights Watch had strayed from its original mandate to scrutinise closed societies, not democracies like Israel. "democracies like Israel"....Just run that over in your head a few times, "DEMOCRACIES like Israel". There is no other democracy like Israel, there is no other democracy which is so unashamedly and intrinsically racist and oppresive as Israels.
Fascism Sucks
Published on 2009-10-22 12:06:00
BBC NEWS | Politics | Protests ahead of BNP appearanceAnti-fascist protesters broke into BBC Television centre ahead of British National Party leader Nick Griffin's appearance on Question Time.Fascism sucks because Fascists would seek to impose their will on the public, without consultation, without representation, without democracy. They would use force and violence to subdue anyone that disagrees with them. They would, for example, do something like sending a mob to a TV station where a contro
Torture is bad, except when it isn't
Published on 2009-10-16 12:17:00
MI5 chief defends links with foreign agencies accused of torture | UK news | guardian.co.uk"Given the pressing need to understand and uncover al-Qaida's plans, were we to deal, however circumspectly, with those security services who had experience of working against al-Qaida on their own territory? Or were we to refuse to deal with them, accepting that in so doing we would be cutting off a potentially vital source of information that would prevent attacks in the west?"Fuck me, you were to refuse
Bruce Forsyth thinks it's 1950
Published on 2009-10-08 10:29:00
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Forsyth says 'Du Beke was wrong'"You go back 25, 30, 40 years and there has always been a bit of humour about the whole thing."This whole thing is a fucking embarrasment to the media. I guess it's hypocritical for me to talk about it, but anyway. It's pathetic the amount of fuss they make over things friends say to each other in private. That comment was between those two and they got over it and moved on, why on earth to the BBC have to issue statements saying "we sta
Fuck Off Tracey Emin
Published on 2009-10-04 05:34:00
BBC NEWS | UK | Artist Emin may quit UK over taxArtist Tracey Emin has said she is thinking of leaving the UK in protest about being overtaxed.In a Sunday Times interview she said she was "very seriously considering leaving Britain," adding: "I'm simply not willing to pay tax at 50%." Oh please please do! Please fuck off anywhere else! I guess it won't stop her writing her crass and immature newspaper columns and infecting our media everyday, but at least she'll be further away physically.
Still Commited To Disarmament
Published on 2009-09-27 07:22:00
BBC iPlayer - The Andrew Marr Show: 27/09/2009an exclusive interview with Prime Minister Gordon BrownHere's what Brown said regarding nuclear weapons:Every country round that table is now commited to a new non proliferation treaty. Those nuclear weapon states are all now, included britain, commited to reductions of their nuclear arsenals, where that can be done...we are on the verge of a very exciting breakthrough in non proliferation agreementsWow, if only someone had thought of that before? Yo
Doctors Make People Better
Published on 2009-09-26 13:34:00
BBC NEWS | UK | Doctors 'must report knife crime'Doctors should tell police every time they treat a victim of gun and knife crime, new guidelines from the General Medical Council will state.No no no no no. This isn't what doctors are for. Doctors are for making people better. The Police are the ones who are supposed to find out whodunnit. This will only lead to a situation where victims of gang violence will be to scared to hospital, and will have to setup gang doctors like they have on the Wire
Worst.Trial.Evar.
Published on 2009-09-26 08:04:00
LRB · Gareth Peirce: The Framing of al-MegrahiEven if the science that convicted al-Megrahi had not offended against every minimum standard, then the second pillar of the prosecution case, his identification by Tony Gauci, the Maltese shopkeeper, would remain spectacular in its noncompliance with any safeguard. He described al-Megrahi as ‘6’0’’’ (he was 5’8’’), ‘50 years old’ (he was 37), and ‘hefty’; said that he ‘had been to the shop before and after’, ‘had been
Chris Evans Owns A Golfer
Published on 2009-09-13 05:25:00
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Evans 'messed up' Radio 1 stintHis professional golfer and model Natasha Shishmanian gave birth to their son, Noah, earlier this year.Interesting, is there anywhere one of us Joe Public's can purchase a brand new Professional Golfer and Model? Do we get to choose the name?
Selling Guns To Murderers
Published on 2009-09-07 13:17:00
So...here's what the government tells us is a logical situation. They are going to help victims of the IRA get compensation from Libya, because Libya supplied the IRA with explosives which were used to kill innocent people. Thus Libya is bad people. Any thing wrong so far? I don't think so. Let's continue.What with Libya being "bad people",the government body that supports arms companies told a meeting there had been "high-level political intervention" to boost Britain's arms trade with LibyaSo
Don't Text And Drive, Or Something...
Published on 2009-09-05 07:15:00
Well that was some horrific shit. I couldn't even bear to watch it after about 20 seconds. Don't text and drive I guess!
Drug Prohibition
Published on 2009-09-05 06:54:00
The war on drugs is immoral idiocy. We need the courage of Argentina | Simon Jenkins | Comment is free | The GuardianThis concept marries intellectual idiocy – that supply leads demand – with practical impossibility. But it is golden politics. For 30 years it has allowed western politicians to shift blame for not regulating drug abuse at home on to the shoulders of poor countries abroad.Yes, it's not "our" fault, it's "theirs". If only there wasn't a constant supply of drugs from overseas, B
I'm The Mayor Of Baltimore
Published on 2009-08-28 11:34:00
Iain Dale's DiaryAlex Hilton has finally got a hoax right. A couple of years ago he tried to convince the world that Margaret Thatcher had died. Yesterday he launched a website pretending to be the Mayor of Baltimore, who was "outraged", I say "outraged" by Chris Grayling's comments likening some British city centres to the Baltimore based series The Wire. Despite there being plenty of clues on the website (copyright R Monkee, British spelling etc) some pretty big media institutions fell for it
Free For £10!
Published on 2009-08-27 16:22:00
BBC NEWS | Technology | Spotify app approved for iPhoneThe application will be free, but will require the user to have a premium Spotify subscription, which costs £10. Does not compute. "Hey, give us £10 for no reason, and we'll give you an application ABSOLUTELY FREE!"Anyway though, doesn't this kind of break music forever. Everyones crying about Pirate Bay and BitTorrent and whatever, but now look, for £10 a month you can listen to any song ever, wherever you are. Why would you pay for musi
Pokemon Is Exercise
Published on 2009-08-27 16:01:00
Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaIn Japan, the games will be bundled with a peripheral called the Poké Walker, a pedometer that resembles a Poké Ball which can connect to the Nintendo DS game card via infrared signals (in a fashion similar to another Nintendo DS game Personal Trainer: Walking) and can "hold" a Pokémon. Walking with a Poké Walker holding a Pokémon will increase both its experience and closeness, as well as the player's "watts", an in-game c
People Think They Deserve Everything
Published on 2009-08-27 06:10:00
BBC NEWS | Northern Ireland | Foyle and West | Pensioner's £67,000 power bill"In this day and age, it's just not acceptable."Of course I should be able to live in the middle of fucking nowhere and expect the electricity companies to pay £67,000 to lay cables just for one person who's probably going to die soon. It's like setting up a caravan in the middle of the forest and being like "HEY THERE'S NO INTERNET HERE, OR WATER! WHAT A FUCKING DISGRACE!"Idiot.
Charlie Brooker Is Old And Tired!
Published on 2009-08-22 06:40:00
Charlie Brooker's screen burn: 22 August 2009 | Culture | The GuardianBrand-new gameshow The Cube (Sat, 8.30pm, ITV1) is nice. And it's good.Wow, he's nice about a TV program. I literally don't remember the last time that happened, he must be losing his youthful anger and cynicism!
"Opinion" Does Not Equal "Unpatriotic"
Published on 2009-08-14 08:59:00
BBC NEWS | Politics | NHS attack by MEP 'unpatriotic'Health Secretary Andy Burnham has accused a Tory MEP who attacked the NHS on American TV of being "unpatriotic".What bullshit. The whole notion and concept of the word "Patriotic" pisses me off anyway. This current furore suggests that the patriotic thing to do is to support whatevers happening in your country and never EVER question whether it could be done better. All this guy has done is said that he doesn't think the NHS is the most effici
No Nails, No Problem
Published on 2009-08-09 05:11:00
BBC NEWS | UK | Ministers deny torture collusion"Operations have been halted where the risk of mistreatment was too high. But it is not possible to eradicate all risk," they wrote.Yeah, apart from like, the time when British Intelligence Officers went out and visited Binyam Mohamed after he'd had three fingernails ripped off his left hand. That wasn't judged to be too high risk apparently.
Is It A Bird?
Published on 2009-08-05 12:28:00
BBC NEWS | England | Possible UFO seen on BBC webcamIs it a bird? Is it a plane?Yeah, it's probably a fucking bird. Not everything you don't understand is magic or from outer space.
Windows 7: Won't Punch You In The Face
Published on 2009-07-30 12:15:00
Top Reasons for a PC Gamer to Get Windows 7The top third-party games, services, and international versions of games have been tested in Windows 7, so you should not worry about Windows 7 breaking your games. Feel free to move to Windows 7 because whatever you're playing now should work fabulously in Windows 7.I literally lold at this. Microsoft have 7 reasons why gamers need to give them more money.One: If you give us more money, we won't break all your games!Two: A new feature which helps you f
Batphilisophy
Published on 2009-07-30 11:50:00
Batman QuotesRobin: "Self-control is sure tough sometimes, Batman!"Batman: "All virtues are, old chum. Indeed, that's why they're virtues."
ID Card Lolz
Published on 2009-07-30 11:45:00
BBC NEWS | Politics | UK's national ID card unveiledShadow home secretary Chris Grayling said the government had signed contracts worth £1bn before last month's U-turn on the cards, which are no longer compulsory. I was kinda looking forward to being a martyr and not getting one. Pity the government realised that about half the country was thinking the same and they would have had a riot on their hands. What a collosal fucking waste. I would probably be more in favour of doing it properly than
Companies Blamed For Social Ills
Published on 2009-07-28 11:57:00
BBC NEWS | Scotland | North East/N Isles | UK's 'strongest beer' condemned"This company is completely deluded if they think that an 18.2% abv, (alcohol by volume), beer will help solve Scotland's alcohol problems,"Fuck me, do you want capitalism or not? It can't be both ways. Either companies are socially responsible or they're not and under our current economic system it would actually be irresponsible to NOT exploit peoples weaknesses (fondness for alcohol) in order to make a profit. Imagine w