23 May
http://youtube.com/watch?v=TEBpC0GLr6Y
At the above Youtube page there is a video from MSNBC where Keith Olbermann discusses Bush’s record. Before I watched that I thought that it was impossible for me to have a lower opinion of Bush, however Keith’s presentation achieved the seemingly impossible task of making me despise the cretin even more.
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13 Mar
I won’t be visiting the US in the forseeable future.
For some time I have been concerned about the malfunctioning legal process and other related issues that arose from the so-called “War On Terror“. But the most recent news is that the TSA may just copy all the contents of your laptop or even steal [...]
Posted in Terrorism by: etbe
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04 Jan
Military.com reports that the UK government will no longer use the term War On Terror [1]. Sir Ken Macdonald (the UK’s chief prosecutor) said that “terrorists” are criminals and need to be responded to in that way. This of course is the only logical and sensible thing to do. Soldiers who are [...]
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05 Oct
There is ongoing debate about the issue of security cameras, how many should there be, where should they be located, and who should be able to access the data.
I spent about a year living in London which probably has more security cameras and a greater ratio of cameras to people than any other city. [...]
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24 Jul
This article in The Age about Mohamed Haneef shows the terrorist threat that we face.
The chance that I will be injured by Al Quaeda in any way is quite remote. The chance of being attacked by ASIO is a lot greater.
The main benefit of being in a democracy is having a legal system where [...]
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18 Jul
Bruce Schneier writes about Correspondent Inference Theory which deals with situations when the motives of an individual or group are inferred by the results of their actions. Both his article and the MIT article on which it is based only consider the results of terrorist actions against the US and allied countries.
I believe that [...]
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07 Jul
The Age has published a remarkably stupid article about terrorism titled “It’s hard to prevent the hard to imagine” which contains some amusing statements such as “a plan to use liquid explosives hidden in soft-drink bottles and destroy commercial jets crossing the Atlantic. The scale of this plot, combined with the innovative bomb design, threatened [...]
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05 Jul
They admit the truth at last: “We need to ensure, notwithstanding the significant natural resources that our country has been blessed with, that we are able to access the energy requirements in our region and throughout the world” said Brendan Nelson (Australian defence minister).
John Howard isn’t admitting it yet, he’s sticking to his lie from [...]
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12 May
The current trend in government seems to be to do whatever they want because to do otherwise invites (or fails to prevent) terrorism.
Here are some things that might be done by terrorists which governments should consider banning:
Graffiti - could be used by terrorists to mark locations for attacks or send messages to sleeper cells. [...]
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19 Sep
TerrorBullGames has just released the board game War On Terror. The first I heard of this was a short article in a local news paper about how much the game has offended some people (quoting someone who was injured in the London bombings). A co-creator of the game Andy Thompkins said “We accept that [...]
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