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.
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.
Have a read of this register story and try to stop yourself from foaming at the mouth in rage.
The UK government are flat out refusing to punish BT and Phorm for the total abuse of privacy on the grounds that “it’s too hard to explain to you simpletons” and so it’s best we let them continue shafting your privacy because it gives them comfortable pensions and kickbacks BT profits.
How difficult is it to say “BT are providing access to everything you do on the net to an outside company with a history of spyware production in exchange for money you will never see a share of, but it’s ok because they promise that they’ll make it anonymous and that they won’t look at anything sensitive”.
If you ever want to see how they’re not looking out for the best interests of the citizens they are meant to work for and instead wish to only line their own pockets and keep their friends and family rich at the cost of the the citizens taxes and privacy then this is a perfect example of corruption between a government and the corporations that operate in its jurisdiction.
Roll on the EC and stomp the fuck out of both the BT and the UK government.
I fully recommend that everyone writes a letter to Commisioner Vivian Reding and inform her about your fears and concerns as well as requesting thsi be investigated and criminal proceedings started against the members of government that refuse to uphold the law and the companies involved.
*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!
This is just plain bad timing. Can be found on the hotmail ad banner system right now.
For those who don’t get it, the UK had a minor blip of an earthquake by global standards, but pretty rare for us.
Regardless, the media is playing it up like it was something special (even tho about 2 people in total were hurt) and keep trotting out fools the public making comments such as “I heard a massive bang”, “I feared for my life” and the truly idiotic “I thought it was a terrorist strike”… the reporter should have landed a “strike” on the guys face for being such a dipshit!
250,000 requests for comms data in a 9 month period?? fucking hell..
On a side note, who here heard about the bill that bush is trying to get pushed thru that has, buried deep within it, exemption of any guilt for the current administration and thus no chance of being tried for any war crimes committed in their “war on terror” stretching back from sept 11th 2001 all the way to today!
The rate we’re going, we’ll be casting an envious eye on the freedoms enjoyed by the peoples of north korea and the chinese republic!
