The parliamentary motion to impeach Tony Blair for gross misconduct
over the war against Iraq will be published next Wednesday, the day after the Queen’s speech. It will be the first to be tabled in 198 years, since Lord Melville, a close friend of the then prime minister, William Pitt the younger, faced impeachment for misusing public money in running the Admiralty. Senior parliamentary officials, including legal advisers to the Commons Speaker, Michael Martin, on Wednesday night approved the wording of the text as meeting parliamentary rules, allowing the motion to be tabled on the first day of the new session
That is called ‘sensitive security information’. She’s not allowed to see it, nor is anyone else,
he said. Thus, in a qualitatively new development in US governance, Americans can now be obligated to comply with legally-binding regulations that are unknown to them, and that indeed they are forbidden to know. This is not some dismal Eastern European allegory — via meta-roj blog
California’s budget problem has led the state to consider desperate measures: taxing you based on how much you drive. The only problem is the way they propose to do it. California is now proposing to put GPS devices on all new cars to track how far people drive and tax them accordingly
In a response to EFF’s motion to unseal, the US government claims that Indymedia hard drives were seized as part of an international criminal terrorism investigation
, and thus the US District Court’s gag order should be upheld
The very citizen journalists who very nearly pushed John Kerry into the White House have continued with their stellar work, uncovering an interesting photo naming policy on a shared Netscape/CNN site. The photo showed a lovable Laura Bush holding her ape-faced hubby. Until late last night, the photo was appropriately called asshole.jpg. It has now been changed to the more innocuous, but less amusing, georgelaura135.jpg
The retarded monkey boy has caused uproar in Greece with his decision to recognise the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia as Macedonia
The retarded monkey boy‘s web site [via anonymous IP] now blocks all non-US traffic. I’m sure the US citizens who live or work abroad are thrilled — via BoingBoing
Proposals by the Security Service to place CCTV cameras in Westminster’s corridors of power have outraged MPs who fear that the proposals for protecting the Commons will enable MI5 to pry into their affairs
In a decision aimed to response to the retarded monkey boy‘s tighter sanctions, Cuba’s President Fidel Castro announced the end of the circulation of the US dollar within the territory of the island acting from 8 November
The UK government has broken its silence on the Indymedia server raid and is claiming that there no UK law enforcement agencies were involved
. It seems that servers nobody seized the servers
All you need to do to get off a do-not-fly-list is modify your name in some way by adding a middle initial or a suffix. In other words, the folks responsible for the list are too stupid to figure out how to prevent false positives, but a true terrorist can get off the list by adding a middle initial
Plans to fully privatise Telstra could be jeopardised by a Coalition revolt after the Queensland National Party president declared that MPs would not rubber-stamp the sale
As if I needed any more proof that the vast number of my countrymen are deeply stupid people, John Howard was re-elected as moron in chief. Not that Latham‘s any better, but it seems Australians are far too apathetic to kick the arses of two of the country’s biggest idiots. At least there is some satire on the matter around: You have betrayed the lord our Gough and his only begotten political son, Latho. Fie, FIE! I predict there will be seven plagues of regret: the sale of Telstra, the destruction of Medicare, more damaging Americanisations, higher interest rates, further embarrassing human rights abuses against immigrants and indigenous people, Christian fundamentalists, and Tony Abbott
Two Presidential candidates — for the Green and Libertarian parties — attempted to serve papers on the Commission on Presidential Debates, demanding the right to participate. As they attempted to approach the CPD officials, they were arrested. Makes the behaviour of the Australian pollies look tame by comparison — via BoingBoing
Voting is under way across the country, as 13 million Australians choose their next leader. Oh joy, the time has come around again where we get to choose to keep the lying mongrel we have or swap him for an almost indistinguishable lying mongrel. I don’t see why we can’t have them both taken out the back and beaten with a stick
The House of Representatives passed a bill aimed at making spyware illegal, and the bill could be made law as soon as this week
The Liberal Party today defended its use of pre-recorded phone messages from John Howard, with which it is bombarding households across Australia in the lead-up to polling day. Labor has lodged an official complaint saying the spam contravenes the electoral act
US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has cast doubt on whether there was ever a relationship between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda. The alleged link was used as a reason by President Bush for invading Iraq
Bruce Sterling is guest-posting on the global-eco-tech blog Worldchanging and thinks we ought to marry the Internet and the United Nations. The UN has cumbersome rules, no popular participation, and can’t get anything useful done about the darkly rising tide of stateless terror and military adventurism. The UN was invented to unite nations rather than people. The Internet unites people, but it’s politically illegitimate. Vigilante lawfare outfits like RIAA and MPAA can torment users and ISPs at will. The dominant OS is a hole-riddled monopoly. Its business models collapsed in a welter of stock-kiting corruption. The Net is a lawless mess of cross-border spam and fraud. Logically, there ought to be some inventive way to cross-breed the grass-rootsy cheapness, energy and immediacy of the Net with the magisterial though cumbersome, crotchety, crooked and opaque United Nations.
It’s obviously part tongue in cheek, but it does make you think
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