If you couldn’t be there on February 28th, you’ll be happy to learn that the entire proceedings of The Convention Of Modern Liberty, the mass assertion of our liberties, rights and freedoms, are now online.
The Convention’s libertarian energy is now being channeled into a forum called Magna Carta 2.0.
Magna Carta 2.0 is a [...]
75 years ago, during the Great Depression, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s administration created the Public Works of Art Project.
Artists from across the United States who participated in the programme, which lasted only six months from mid-December 1933 to June 1934, were encouraged (and paid) to depict “the American Scene”.
There’s an exhibition currently showing [...]
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The video above is an illustration of the central argument contained in Naomi Klein’s book, “The Shock Doctrine“, in which she asserts that governments exploit the state of shock suffered by populations after traumatic disasters, to force through measures that would be unpalatable or strongly resisted in calmer times.
Now, eighteen months after publication, The Shock [...]
Dissatisfaction with the slow and steady erosion of civil liberty by the increasingly intrusive UK government has reached a point where people are now coming together to say: “Enough”.
There’s an interesting interplay of various brands of fear at work in this video. Would it work better without the sinister background drone? Will life be better for women with vindictive ex-partners?
Link to NO2ID
Link to Women’s Aid
(Via The Daily Irrelevant)
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When the Government introduced its ID card legislation several years ago, it made one thing clear. Even though it would be obligatory to register on the ID database when obtaining a new passport, it would not be compulsory to carry a card. ….
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Try as I might, I cannot find the name of the illustrator of this piece. Illustration by Patrick Moberg. 1 It was found on The Daily Irrelevant.
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I knew it was bad, but I never imagined the sheer scale of the data leaks that have occurred in the last year or so.
Parliamentary answers from three Government Departments reveal that up to 260 officials were disciplined or dismissed “for alleged breaches of data protection requirements and inappropriate use of personal or sensitive [...]
At least, that’s what Sam, Al, Aaron, Otis, Seal and Aretha say. And who are we to argue?
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This brilliant cartoon by P.J.Polyp was originally published in The Ethical Consumer and is one of nearly 1000 postcards published by Leeds Postcards.
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The New Internationalist regularly features his work.
Update. Polyp has kindly added a link to an animated version of the Rat Race on Friends of the Earth’s website, [...]
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