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Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)olegramps
(8,200 posts)What is happening is nothing more than the result of the oligarchs successful dominance of the press. Their sights are now set on control of the internet.
Turborama
(22,109 posts)The Conservatives are already planning to introduce the huge surveillance powers known as the Snoopers Charter, hoping that the removal from government of the Liberal Democrats that previously blocked the controversial law will allow it to go through.
The law, officially known as the Draft Communications Data Bill, is already back on the agenda according to Theresa May. It is expected to force British internet service providers to keep huge amounts of data on their customers, and to make that information available to the government and security services.
The snoopers charter received huge criticism from computing experts and civil liberties campaigners in the wake of introduction. It was set to come into law in 2014, but Nick Clegg withdrew his support for the bill and it was blocked by the Liberal Democrats.
Theresa May, who led the legislation as home secretary, said shortly after the Conservatives' election victory became clear that she will seek to re-introduce it to government. With the re-election of May and the likely majority of her party, the bill is likely to find success if the new government tries again.
David Cameron has suggested that his party could introduce even more wide-ranging powers if he was re-elected to government. Speaking in January, he said that there should be no form of communication that the government was unable to read likely causing chaos among the many internet services that rely on encryption to keep users data safe.
Full article: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/snoopers-charter-set-to-return-to-law-as-theresa-may-suggests-conservative-majority-could-lead-to-huge-increase-in-surveillance-powers-10235578.html
mtasselin
(666 posts)I think you are going to need some, because your torries is our tea party which is controlled by the ultra rich. Your torries don't realize that they are being used and by the time they do realize it, it will be to late. They control the media which now days means they are controlling the minds.
SamKnause
(13,101 posts)My condolences.
The same thing happens in the U.S.
I don't know why they vote against their best
interest in the U.S.
Conservatives, Tories, Republicans, Tea Party or whatever they
they are called around the globe are evil !!!!!!!!!
villager
(26,001 posts)And once again, the "Third Way" fails...
narnian60
(3,510 posts)Well said, sir, well said.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)The propaganda wins out, again.
madamvlb
(495 posts)zeemike
(18,998 posts)It is not that the conservatives have good ideas, it is that the liberals sell us out to big money.
The UK has their third way too.
certainot
(9,090 posts)ignores it over there too?
zeemike
(18,998 posts)But to borrow from Shakespeare...The fault dear Certainot is not in talk radio but in ourselves.
certainot
(9,090 posts)Margaret Thatcher's greatest victory was creating Tony Blair - that was when the Labor Party had a defacto split between the 'third wayers' - with Blair's pro austerity, pro-war (NATO led wars in the Balkans comes to mind which was the first use of NATo when one of its members wasn't coming under threat - a violation of the UN Charter; wars in the Balkans was also first time use of force outside of UN Security Council), neo-liberalism - and Tony Benn who was more of a social democrat than a 'third way' labor party.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Benn#Move_to_the_Left
Tony Benn on the failed policies of Tony Blair
http://www.bigissue.com/features/interviews/3202/tony-benn-interview-labour-suffered-greatly-through-tony-blair
It isn't that the British public chose the conservative Tories, it was that the Labor Party's base has been turned off...Starting with Blair (coinciding with the entre of Clinton into national US politics which is curious) they are not longer passionate about Labor and choose to stay home.
zeemike
(18,998 posts)Not too surprising though, since we were once a colony of the British.
And I am not at all sure it is just a coincidence.
panfluteman
(2,065 posts)It hit the fan over in the Sates last November, and it flew all the way over to bloody Westminster! Maybe the Koch brothers are standing, like the bloody Colossus of Rhodes, with one foot on one side of the pond, and the other foot on the other. It does seem kind of like an episode from some sci-fi or horror movie about zombies or pod people, the way people are getting brainwashed by the media to vote against their own best interests - or maybe even discouraged from voting at all. I'm sure that the limey one percent are keen students of what has been happening with Tea Party politics and demagoguery stateside, and have been assiduously applying what they have learned to their own particular situation and circumstances. Blimey!
jalan48
(13,863 posts)certainot
(9,090 posts)if you do you might want to do something about it.
certainot
(9,090 posts)keeps ignoring rw radio.
DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)where you watching this and seeing yourselves back in a bad Novermber of 2000? I was. I just hope this is not a preview of 2016.
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)What many may not WANT to see is the parallel between the Labor Party and those 3rd Way Democrats.
Same arguments
. DOOMED to failure if we do not depart from the HRC crowd who sold out long ago.
Same arguments
Those who insist doing the same thing over meet the definition of being nuts.
Do not sell out
. CHECK IN!
You think this portends what we will be seeing from our version of the Labor Party in 2016. You bet your ASS it does!
WATCH !