June 12, 2019

Learn from History: The Surveillance State

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August 6, 2017

Snowden on May and Human Rights

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Want to see a politician clearly? Remove emotional words from their statements. "If human rights laws get in the way, we will change ...
June 20, 2017

Tyranny without a tyrant

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»The greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy the...

The individual and the state

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»The increasing dependence on the State is anything but a healthy symptom; it means that the whole nation is in a fair way to becoming ...
March 1, 2017

The Department of Silly Talk

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April 14, 2016

EU: More mass surveillance!

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European Parliament: Parliament backs EU directive on use of Passenger Name Records (PNR) » Youtube »
April 5, 2015

EU: What can possibly go wrong?

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February 16, 2015

Before and after anti-terror laws...

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February 13, 2015

A few words on Mass Survillance

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May 28, 2014

NSA Fourth Amendment Debate

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Glenn Greenwald, Alan Dershowitz, Michael Hayden & Alexis Ohani. [ Link» ]
May 6, 2014

US warns Germany: Stay away from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden!

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"We are of the opinion that if Snowden provides classified information or documents to the Bundestag or to German diplomats who int...
April 29, 2014

Is Journalist Barrett Brown a Political Prisoner?

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April 20, 2014

Mass surveillance simply does not work

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The clip above is from the European Parliaments hearings on mass surveillance. Swedish Pirate Party MEP Christian Engström asks US Represe...
December 16, 2012

The EU - less and less democratic

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In a rare moment of talking plainly, EU-Commission president José Manuel Barroso described the European Union as an Empire in the making....
December 2, 2012

Don´t fiddle around with fundamental rights!

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In politics in general and especially in EU politics you frequently run across the expression "striking a balance between fundamenta...
November 25, 2012

The EU could use some opposition

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A thing that is rather troublesome with the European Union is that there is no proper opposition. This is not only a democratic proble...
November 22, 2012

In Defense of Being Offensive

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November 10, 2012

Privacy - the Political Divider

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Privacy issues are political dividers. Either you take the classical liberal stand – that citizens are individuals , who should be jud...
November 3, 2012

In the Twighlight Zone of Compassion

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Having worked some years in the European Parliament, I will never be the same again. The way I view things around me has changed. I guess...
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October 27, 2012

Rowan Atkinson on Free Speech in the UK

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May 3, 2012

Intellectual Property - Breaking the Rules...

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If Intellectual Property is a fundamental  right (such as physical property), it strikes me as rather odd that it can be limited in time...
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April 24, 2012

Book: The Case for Copyright Reform

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Pirate MEP Christian Engström and Pirate Party founder Rick Falkvinge just presented their book The Case for Copyright Reform in the Euro...
March 28, 2012

Document Freedom Day 2012 - Sound files

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Part 1: Document Freedom Day 2012 - Open Standards in the eBook Market. Seminar i the European Parliament arranged by Greens/EFA. You wi...
February 29, 2012

Taking Google Bashing a bit too far

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We have just made the greatest sacrifice people in the Brussels-EU-machinery can imagine: We walked out on a free lunch. This is the stor...
February 17, 2012

Something about... some stuff

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On the agenda for the European Parliaments session in Strasbourg in March, I found this item... The Quisthoudt-Rowohl report on Amendment...