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Saturday, November 18
by
The Trained Monkey
on Sat 18 Nov 2006 13:51 GMT
Student to file suit against UCPD
Mostafa Tabatabainejad, who was stunned several times with a Taser in Powell Library Tuesday, plans to file a lawsuit against university police alleging "brutal excessive force" and false arrest, his lawyer said Friday. more »
by
The Trained Monkey
on Sat 18 Nov 2006 12:35 GMT
House of Commons Defence, Foreign Affairs, International Development and Trade and Industry Committees Strategic Export Controls: Annual Report for 2004, Quarterly Reports for 2005, Licensing Policy and Parliamentary Scrutiny
First Joint Report of Session 2005–06 Twelfth Report from the Defence Committee of Session 2005--06 Fifth Report from the Foreign Affairs Committee of Session 2005--06 Fifth Report from the International Development Committee of Session 2005--06 Seventh Report from the Trade and Industry Committee of Session 2005--06 What a bloody title.....the goverment just love it don't they? http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmselect/cmquad/873/873.pdf This is the report from the committee that Mark Thomas gave evidence to regard the arms industry the experiences he turned into the book As Used on the Famous Nelson Mandela: Underground Adventures in the Arms and Torture Trade His evidence starts at EV105 but I'd recommend reading the whole report if you've got the stomach for it. Thursday, November 16
by
The Trained Monkey
on Thu 16 Nov 2006 17:00 GMT
Sunday, November 5
by
The Trained Monkey
on Sun 05 Nov 2006 21:30 GMT
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6118298.stm
"I welcome that Saddam Hussein and the other defendants have faced justice and have been held to account for their crimes. Appalling crimes were committed by Saddam Hussein's regime. It is right that those accused of such crimes against the Iraqi people should face Iraqi justice. Today's verdicts and sentences by the Iraqi Higher Tribunal comes at the end of a trail during which evidence has been offered and challenged in the full glare of media scrutiny. " These are the words of Margaret Beckett British Foreign Secretary, it fills me with discust that anyone in the 21th Century never mind a British Goverment Minister the same Goverment that will not deport people to regiums that have the death penalty as a punishment .Can speak out and back the death penalty. There is no crime that taking a life can be called just, instead he should be inprision at the hague Never being given the easy way out and every day having to atone for his crimes. As one whose husband and mother-in-law have died the victims of murder assassination, I stand firmly and unequivocally opposed to the death penalty for those convicted of capital offenses. An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed of retaliation. Justice is never advanced in the taking of a human life. Morality is never upheld by a legalized murder. --Corretta Scott King Update: Mr Roy has posted some example of what other goverments are saying to give you some perspexive Lets see how the Finnish Presidency of the EU puts it: "The EU opposes capital punishment in all cases and under all circumstances and it should not be carried out in this case either." or the Spanish PM: "Saddam Hussein, like any other citizen or political leader, has to answer for his actions, for what he has done in his government task.It is well known that for a long time the EU has not been in favour of the death penalty. Obviously it is a penalty which is not provided for in any legal system in the EU or, of course, in our country. " or the Irish: "The minister welcomes the end of this long legal process.Ireland and its EU partners have made it clear in the past to Iraqi authorities that we are opposed to courts applying the death sentence.Ireland is also opposed to it being applied as a penalty in this case. " Thursday, October 26
by
The Trained Monkey
on Thu 26 Oct 2006 11:35 BST
Global Big Brother, we get closer to 1984 every day, Stop the ID fraud - stop
the government stealing your identity
--- US, EU sketch plans for global immigration database by By Mark Ballard http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/25/global_immigration_db/ The US is to corral "like-minded" nations behind a global immigration database after proving with a trial link to British computers that such an ambitious, global plan is technically feasible. Allies of the US have joined it in talks to formulate an international policy framework that would allow the sharing of immigration databases, effectively creating a global border control. Their aim is to stop criminals and other undesirable migrants at a vast, biometric border that is likely to include, at the very least, the EU countries, Australia, and Canada. Troy Potter, biometrics programme manager for the US Department of Homeland Security's biometric border control programme, told The Register only those countries "of like mind" would be allowed to join the scheme: "People with similar goals, aspirations, laws and ability to implement such a scheme. "It's about keeping out folks from countries, to have more of a global border per se," he said. "Shouldn't like-minded countries be told when someone's been kept out of the US? That's a necessary next step [because] immigration has become a worldwide issue. Frank Paul, head of large scale IT systems at the European Commission, hinted to an audience at the Biometrics 2006 conference last week about EU support for such a scheme. "We trust everyone enrolled in the US and they trust everyone in the EU system. Then I don't see why the systems shouldn't be linked in the future," he said. Terrorists would be the prime target of the system. Terrorism had been the reason the US government gave for setting up US-VISIT, the immigration database for which Potter is biometric manager. The US database had yet to snare a terrorist, and the Department of Homeland Security has since been advertising it as a means of keeping foreign murderers out of the country. An international agreement for sharing immigration data would also target criminals and "habitual immigration violators", Potter said. "If there's a murderer in another country we would rather not have that murderer in the US, especially if they are on the run," he said. But he stressed the system would not finger normal people, or "Joe Public". People's privacy would have to be respected, he said. "We would violate the privacy laws of individual countries if we shared data as we wanted to," said Potter, but added: "The last thing we want is for someone who has changed their ways and then we keep harassing them." It could take years for the US and its allies to form an agreement that deals with all the emerging privacy and legal concerns about sharing immigration data. Other developments at the Department for Homeland Security could complicate matters further. It is developing a permanent link between immigration and criminal databases, while US law enforcers also want links to civil databases so they can get a full biographical history of people who catch their interest. "There are fine lines and that's where these agreements are not going to be easy. But this is not routine data sharing on everyone. This is not big brother," said Potter. Similar concerns have slowed the progress of the European Visa Immigration System (VIS). A continent-wide version of the US plan, legislation to allow the VIS is stuck between the European Parliament and member states in the Council of Ministers. The concern is that European efforts to share information for immigration are being subsumed into a broader security effort that has no legal obligation to Europe's proud data protection authorities. This has created tension between member states and the European Parliament over other controversial data sharing arrangements - the US trawling of passenger name records and secret snooping on banking data handled by SWIFT being two recent examples. In neither case is the EU's authority to impose data protection laws that would protect citizens from being caught up in the zealous hunt for terrorists being conducted by the security agencies. The European VIS is being built by European Commission civil servants anyway, and will be completed in 2007. There will simply not be any legal basis for the system to be switched on. The US faces the same problem, said Potter: " The policy and legal framework is not in place to do routine data sharing between countries. but that's something we were discussing." The UK's Home Office and US Department of Homeland Security have already trialled a link between their immigration databases, which Potter said was successful. "It was a technical trial. It showed we could share data between countries if agreements were there so we could do it," he said. "Our biometrics were compatible...when the legal and policy framework catches up, we can do it." ® Saturday, October 14
by
The Trained Monkey
on Sat 14 Oct 2006 00:08 BST
There is a great article in the Guardian about Mark Thomas and SOCPA today it even has a special apperance of Fisheye, link below
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/commons/comment/0,,1920277,00.html#article_continue past articles on the subject http://blog.kking.co.uk/blog/_archives/2006/9/3/2291786.html http://blog.kking.co.uk/blog/_archives/2006/7/17/2132097.html http://blog.kking.co.uk/blog/_archives/2006/8/25/2263061.html Wednesday, October 4
by
The Trained Monkey
on Wed 04 Oct 2006 17:47 BST
From: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/04/guns_for_sale_online/
Two men have been arrested after more than 40 police officers raided two addresses in Kent early this morning. Police were supported by officials from the Ministry of Defence. Both are suspected of having weapons prohibited under the Firearms Act. The officers were investigating the alleged sale of weapons over the internet. Both addresses are still being searched. Detective Eddie Fox of Kent's organised crime unit said: "Today's action was part of an ongoing enquiry. A number of items are being ceased and removed from the two locations for analysis and examination but we can't specify what they are at this stage." Earlier this summer the government was criticised by the splendidly-named Quadripartite Committee which oversees government export strategy. The Times reports MPs were influenced by comedian Mark Thomas who helped a group of school children set themselves up as arms dealers. But it appears this investigation involves historic weapons and the MOD officials were on hand to advise on safety. UK arms exports average about £5bn a year, according to the Campaign Against the Arms Trade researchers using government figures. The UK government publishes some information on licenses granted for arms exports, but not enough to work out the value of the trade. There's government information on exports available here (pdf) Monday, September 18
by
The Trained Monkey
on Mon 18 Sep 2006 17:25 BST
Sunday, September 3
by
The Trained Monkey
on Sun 03 Sep 2006 17:23 BST
Well last thursday the was a Mass Lone Protest The police presence was
minimal (three coppers stood in the shade of a tree about a hundred
yards away). The highlight was a live
TV broadcast by BBC London allowed the 120 people there to reach a
much larger audience than just the tourists gawping from the open-top
buses. (Watch the broadcast here.I take great relish in pointing out the undemocratic idiocy of SOCPA.
The video's also worth watching to see Mark Thomas take Tory London Assembly
member Brian Coleman to pieces. Coleman protested against the protests.
Without police permission.) Arrest that man, officer.
Previous SOCPA posts: http://blog.kking.co.uk/blog/_archives/2006/7/17/2132097.html http://blog.kking.co.uk/blog/_archives/2006/8/25/2263061.html Friday, August 25
by
The Trained Monkey
on Fri 25 Aug 2006 09:34 BST
Tuesday, August 22
by
The Trained Monkey
on Tue 22 Aug 2006 01:34 BST
http://www.netcu.org.uk/ The National Extremism Tactical Coordination Unit, everyone's friend from the Clowns to the Animal rights Anti Monday, August 7
by
The Trained Monkey
on Mon 07 Aug 2006 15:51 BST
Every wanted to have a bit of fun at the political parties expense, well here is you chance. check out ... more »
Saturday, July 22
by
The Trained Monkey
on Sat 22 Jul 2006 11:19 BST
Yesterday and this morning I have mostly been fending off a spam attack to my domain offmybox,com, i've been recieving ... more »
Monday, July 17
by
The Trained Monkey
on Mon 17 Jul 2006 13:43 BST
Thursday, July 6
by
The Trained Monkey
on Thu 06 Jul 2006 13:59 BST
Metal detectors have feelings too, apparently.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/06/accursed_metal_detector/ more » Tuesday, June 27
by
The Trained Monkey
on Tue 27 Jun 2006 13:58 BST
http://www.stopwar.org.uk/StoptheWar-Kendall-Smith.htm
WEDNESDAY 28 JUNE 7.30PM: A Night of Conscience Intoduced by Tony Benn St. James Church, 197 Piccadilly, London, W1J ... more » |