surveillance
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The Corporate Security State: RFID Chip in Passport and Driver’s License
Since the late 1990s, corporate grifters have touted the ‘benefits’ of the devilish transmitters as a ‘convenient’ and ‘cheap’ way to tag individual commodities, one that would ‘revolutionize’ inventory management and theft prevention. Indeed, everything from paper towels to shoes, pets to underwear have been ‘tagged’ with the chips. ‘Savings’ would be ‘passed on’ to… Continue reading
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The State under siege or is it the people? By William Bowles
Not since the 1920s has the capitalist state been so threatened but ironically not by revolution but by its own complete lack of creditability. On every front its actions are being questioned as never before, whether its actions in far-off lands or its domestic policies. Continue reading
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Why I’m still a lefty or the rake’s progress by William Bowles
I’ve come to the conclusion that the UK exists in some kind of parallel universe, outside of normal space and time. A medieval bubble of a place, where ‘tradition’ has replace reason, where animals engender more concern than people. A place where mediocrity rules and which appears to be hurtling back into the past at… Continue reading
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Big Brother is Watching/Acting By William Bowles
Rackspace is the US-owned corporation which hosts a number of Indymedia Websites that got closed down around the planet last week including a number here in London. In all, a total 140 Websites in around 17 countries have been shut down, and although some of the UK Indymedia servers are apparently up and running once… Continue reading
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“And when they came for me…” By William Bowles
Can people be so blinkered as to sign away their own rights? It seems so if one looks at the almost total lack of coverage of the “Civil Contingencies Bill” in the UK or “Patriot II” in the US, that although miles away, is intimately linked to the Blah policies simply because both governments are… Continue reading
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More, or rather, less on the ‘Civil Contingencies Bill’ By William Bowles
Amazing isn’t it, a bill which if passed, that along with the 2000 Terrorism Act, pretty well entrenches total state control over the citizen, barely gets a mention in the media. The BBC in its News at One programme yesterday (25/11/03) didn’t even mention it as being included in Queenie’s speech. Later, on PM News… Continue reading
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Big Brother? No, it’s Biometric Big Blunkett By William Bowles
So Blunkett has finally gotten his way and persuaded his cabinet cohorts that the good citizens of the ‘mother of democracy’ must have a ‘biometric’ ID card. The card, that by the way, loyal citizens will have to pay forty quid for the privilege of owning, will contain your photo, finger and thumbprint and for… Continue reading
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