terrorism
Saturday, November 29th, 2008
by alphaxion
Flipping through the Metro newspaper on Friday and the most rediculous of page space allocations became immediately obvious.
On page 3 we have an almost full page spread about the storyline in the comic Batman R.I.P. - yes a fucking COMIC. A work of fiction.
Only the weather section stops it from taking up all of page three. Yet a glance at page 2 will make perfectly clear why our mainstream news is totally screwed up…
Encircled is the story of a Tory MP being busted by counter-terrorist police for allegedly handling leaked documents from the Home Office. (Times Online article, another Times Online article - I would use Daily Mail articles, since the Metro is their publication but they’re typical (hate) Mail items..)
Those documents contained no national secrets, nothing that could be determined to be a national security risk.. instead they were items that the UK government simply didn’t want publishing because they showed ineptitude of the UK politicians as well as just how bad they’re getting with regards our civil liberties.
They include a letter from the Home Secretary to Mr Brown over the economic downturn’s impact on crime. It is understood that the Home Office and Whitehall were alarmed at this disclosure because it was circulated among so few people. Other damaging stories include a list, prepared by Labour whips, of MPs’ likely voting intentions on legislation to extend to 42 days’ detention without charge.
A tiny item snuck away in the corner of a page designed to force the majority to pay attention to the bright yellow advert and not the abuse of terrorism laws and the attempts of the UK government to stifle any info it regards as damaging to its image.
You’re not a company attempting to use PR as damage limitation, you’re a government entrusted by us to ensure the country as a whole doesn’t descend into chaos and lawlessness.
ALL info regarding our government should be fully disclosed to we, the citizens, who placed you into your positions and pay for this machavalian nightmare.
It also doesn’t help when our population has been lulled into rejecting any talk of politics and instead spends it’s time obsessing over “celebs” and crap that just doesn’t matter.
I know that I shall be devoting as much time as possible to re-educating people around me and getting them to look at our government in a critical fashion once again. It’s no surprise that satire, once a great British staple, has been steadly declining across our media - replaced by shite such as the ceaseless tide of “reality” shows.
Wake the fuck up Britain, please.. we need to send a collective message to Downing Street that we know you are broken and require fixing.
Sunday, September 14th, 2008
by alphaxion
click for some London anti-terror media spin!
seriously, this just takes the piss.
*none* of this is any business of the general public and the slogans of “if you suspect it, report it” is giving me orwellian creeps, when the fuck are the british public gonna take a stand against this crap?
now I remember where I saw this type of advertising…
I’m truly lost for words about how pathetic all of this really is.
It certainly looks like the terrorists won if we’re being told to be panicy about someone taking photos or, heaven forbid, owning more than one mobile!
Sunday, September 14th, 2008
by alphaxion
As the news has spread across the net, the new american TSA guidelines on what you are allowed to have in your check in luggage and what is allowed to be carried onto a plane have been changed to affect batteries now.
The choice reading can be found here.
Now, you are limited by the amount of active component in your battery (thankfully there aren’t any devices that use batteries of this size in the consumer market) and also you are no longer allowed to have spare batteries in your check in luggage (these have to be placed into your carry on luggage now). However, the original battery is allowed to be left in the device they are for, and that device is allowed to be left in your check in luggage.
What is the difference? Why is it ok to have a battery in your device and then leave the whole thing in your luggage but not a spare one??
Surely the battery left in a device is more likely to actually burst into flames (provided it’s of a faulty batch that has this kinda reaction) than if it was just on its own?
I’ve heard some people talk about spare batteries being loose and somehow shorting themselves on the handy strips of metal that everyone ensures they pack into their luggage, but surely something like this would have happened already. Or are batteries being fabricated to become more lethal now adays?
Yet another stupidly thought out rule by these fools.. it’s almost like they are trying their hardest to dissuade people from using air travel!