'An “unprecedented” coalition of more than 220 organisations has attacked proposed changes to the Human Rights Act and judicial review as a threat to freedom and justice.'
Did you know that judges who were more ideologically committed to the Nazi Party were more likely to impose the death sentence on those who belonged to the most organised political opposition groups to the Nazi state, & those with characteristics to which Nazism was intolerant?
'Concerns about democracy in the digital age.'
"My guess is that only a deep & destabilizing crisis (perhaps growing out of the rise of authoritarian, ethnic or cultural nationalism) will prompt a serious response.”
Don't let everything our ancestors fought for be taken away from us by a handful of Libertarian billionaires, press barons, hedge-funders, & damaged privately educated right-wing ideologues.
The Pegasus spyware turns us into informants against ourselves. No one subject to this spying can now plan, however peacefully and democratically, to replace a government without those plans being known in advance and in all likelihood thwarted.
The new surveillance tools complement a formidable array of modern weapons: Dark ads on social media; thinktanks using dark money to turn outrageous ideas that favour the ruling class into apparent common sense; voter suppression; the stuffing of the courts;
"Healthcare regulators in the UK and US have approved the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine as safe for use in children between 12 and 15. Already 25% of 12- to 15-year-olds across the US are fully vaccinated, while a third of them have received one dose.
'Israel, Italy & France are vaccinating children in the age group 12 - 16, while Germany gives parents the ability to “opt-in” for the vaccine based on informed consent. The approach in England seems to be to let teenagers get it & see what happens once they’re infected.'
"The result will be an uncontrolled epidemic among younger age groups. Some British scientists aren’t alarmed by this, pointing to other diseases such as seasonal flu, which cause more hospitalisations among children than Covid-19."
Far-right shit-stirrer & GB "News" presenter Nigel Farage & the Daily Mail have turned viewers & readers against the @RNLI by accusing them of facilitating illegal immigration.
Heroic RNLI volunteers will continue their humanitarian work saving lives.
Mark Dowie, CEO of the @RNLI, said: “These islands have the reputation for doing the right thing & being decent societies, & we should be very proud of the work we’re doing to bring these people home safe.”
ALL decent people support the RNLI's humanitarian work. 🙏
Dowie’s comments came as the Government prepares to enact its controversial borders & nationality bill, which aims to criminalise migrants who attempt illegal routes into the UK.
Dowie stressed that the RNLI’s role was solely to save lives, not to act as a border control force.
A timely reflection on the contemporary problem of obedience, utilising the concept of voluntary servitude as a way of thinking through the paradoxical relationship between power, freedom and subjectivity.
Although Weber defined the state in terms of a monopoly on violence, he was more interested in why people came to recognize its legitimacy.
Studies of fascism and totalitarianism in the 20th century drew attention to an ‘authoritarian personality’ –
characterized by conservative attitudes and patriarchal beliefs – where the desire to dominate was only the flip-side of the desire to be dominated. However, the problem of obedience has become more ambiguous in late modern post-industrial societies:
The world’s most sophisticated commercially available spyware may be being abused, according to a journalistic investigation: Pegasus, has been used to target & spy on human rights activists, investigative journalists, politicians & academics.
Pegasus is the most advanced spyware on the market. It can infiltrate victims’ devices without their even having to click a malicious link – a so-called “zero-click attack”.
Once inside, the power Pegasus possesses to transform a phone into a surveillance beacon is astounding.
It immediately copies messages, pictures, videos & downloaded content to send to the attacker. It also records calls, tracks a target’s location while independently & secretly activating a phone’s camera and microphone: an infected phone acts like a permanent fly on the wall.
My best bet as to why people actually believe this unhinged bollocks is a mix of individual psychological trauma, combined with absence of critical thinking skills & pernicious propagation of conspiracy theories on multiple platforms, given credence by professional shit-stirrers.
Jesus wept.
Hundreds of thousands of British people are being radicalised by widespread misinformation & disinformation about #COVID19. It's getting scary. The reasons are complex, & absence of concern suggests our Govt welcomes it. We urgently need to find solutions.