Chávez is a threat
Chávez is a threat because he offers the alternative of a decent society. Fact-deprived attacks on Chávez in the Times and the Financial Times this week, each with that peculiar malice reserved for...
View ArticleGuardian Warming
This article on the Guardian website is amusing. They tell the tale of Al Gore’s new Documentary about global warming, named An Inconvenient Truth. The Guardian, as most mainstream media, make the vast...
View ArticleSelf-defence. Israelly?
“Israel has been pursuing a campaign in Gaza for almost three weeks, since Cpl Gilad Shalit was captured by militants on 25 June.” -BBC News “Gaza, itself, the latest phase, began on June 24. It was...
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Rehumanize
At the end of these… …are scenes like this Why won’t the British and American governments support the end of this violence? Why is America rushing to continue it’s arms supply to Israel? Why is the...
View ArticleBBC Have Your Say
A while back I wrote a system to detect when the BBC censor comments on their Have Your Say website. It’s been running for a few months now and recently I wrote a fancy front end for it to allow easy...
View ArticleNews Sniffer: Revisionista
The latest News Sniffer project went live today: Revisionista. It tracks changes in corporate news articles and marks the differences. So you can choose a BBC news article and see how it’s changed...
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Labour Party Conference Protest, Manchester
Just back from the Labour Party conference protest in Manchester. I’ve uploaded a few of the best photos but not had time for any fancy post-production. Consider these released into the public domain.
View ArticleWhite Terrorists White Washed
So, a BNP election candidate has been accused of possessing the largest amount of chemical explosives of its type ever found in Britain. The government held a press conference. I read it on the BBC....
View ArticleAir passengers ‘could be tagged’
BBC News is running this press release from the University College London: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6044310.stm “Electronically tagging passengers at airports could help the fight against...
View ArticleOpt-out of centralised NHS records
The government are centralising our medical information onto something called the “NHS Spine”. So our entire NHS medical histories will be moved to this system opening it up to general access for...
View ArticleMr. Litvinenko’s body
Heard on the radio: “Pathologists will conduct an autopsy on Mr. Litvinenko’s body this week” If they are to examine his body, where is Mr. Litvinenko now? Is he in a waiting room? Has he gone back to...
View ArticleHD DVD cracked
The High Definition DVD encryption got cracked a couple of months back, but recently the AACS licensing authority have been threatening people who discuss it. At the core of this is the processing key,...
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CIA Freedom of Information – Publish Your Own
The CIA Freedom of Information website had the dumbest security hole in it. With all the recent hoo har about the “Family Jewels” documents, you’d expect they’d do a quick once over on this stuff....
View ArticleOur dominant system of economics is unstable
The dominant system of economics is unstable, inimical to social justice and lethally damaging to the environmental support systems on which we all depend. A major failure in professional journalism...
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Wikileaks Censored by US Judge
A controversial website that allows whistle-blowers to anonymously post government and corporate documents has been taken offline in the US. BBC News WikiLeaks and its domain registrar for the...
View ArticleBBC Racism
The public can see for themselves the ‘neutral’ media language used to describe Israeli actions: ‘incursion’, ‘retaliation’, ‘military operations’. By contrast, Israel endures ‘terrorist attacks’,...
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£5/month for your digitial civil liberties
The Open Rights Group are a UK based organisation fighting for our civil liberties in the digital age. DRM, e-voting, copyright term extensions, FOI, net neutrality, privacy, RIPA, creative commons...
View ArticleJames Reynolds of the BBC comes clean
Admitting it for all to see on his BBC blog. Very brave of him: Past horrors and mistakes do not seem to have weakened a servile belief in the ultimate benevolence of the state and a willingness to...
View ArticleApril Fool: A man in Jalawla walked into a bar…
Medialens spotted that the BBC attributed a bomb attack on Monday in Iraq to “al-Qaeda”, with apparently little evidence. They wrote to the BBC’s “man in Baghdad”, Hugh Sykes, and asked him “what is...
View ArticleInside Google Plus
Steven Levy interviewed Google’s Bradley Horowitz about Google+: Wired: Some users are chafing at Google’s insistence that they provide real names. Explain the policy against pseudonyms. Horowitz:...
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