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US government requests for Internet communications soar By Don Knowland
A Google report released Monday shows a marked increase in government requests for private communications of Internet users. The report indicates that between 2010 and 2012, US government requests for data of separate users increased by 85 percent, from 8,888 in 2010 to 16,407 in 2012. This is a global phenomenon, with user data requests… Continue reading
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Cloud surfing: US surveilance act ‘grave threat’ to EU sovereignty
An intelligence bill has put the frighteners on EU citizens as it allows the US access to their personal data stored in internet clouds like those used on Facebook and Google. The law is a ‘grave risk’ to the rights of EU citizens, says an EU report. Continue reading
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Re VTJP Palestine Israel Newslinks
1 November 2011 Re VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks Unfortunately, I can no longer convert the emails as the format has been altered (Microsoft strikes again!). If you want to still get hold of it, I recommend that you sign up for an email subscription. To subscribe, please write to OccupationNews-subscribe@yahoogroups.com or visit http://www.vtjp.org/ Continue reading
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An update on InI and other ramblings By William Bowles
Somewhere, on some now obsolete media, thus irrecoverable, and maybe even in print, there exists the very first thing I ever wrote specifically for my first online endeavour, New York On-Line. If I can be bothered (you’ll know soon enough) I’ll try and dig out the hard copy as I’m sure I have it in… Continue reading
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An Ailing e-Empire: Microsoft Blitzes Cuba and Latin America to Preserve Diminishing Financial Dominance
Microsoft terminates Cuban access to its instant messaging service, which, at first glance, suggests an act of compliance at the behest of the U.S. government. The software behemoth chides Latin American leaders for undemocratic principles in an online smear campaign which might be better aimed at itself. Continue reading
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The Macintosh Computer – Archetypal Capitalist Machine? By William Bowles
October 1987 — InvestigatingImperialism Pre-amble: This essay was written in 1987 before the domination of Microsoft, at a time when I thought that the people running Apple computer had their act together. How wrong can you be! In other respects however, many of the ideas and concepts advanced in this essay have come to pass Continue reading
The New Dark Age 