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Labour peer’s letters to care home boy

Graville Jenner letter in court

The Guardian: Questions over Labour peer’s letters to care home boy reports “Despite allegations about the peer, no action was taken and he was robustly defended by a number of politicians, including at least one prominent MP who has been openly critical of the government’s response to allegations of historical child abuse by MPs and peers.”

I find it strange that the Guardian was not willing to name Greville Janner. Hardly a secret is it?

No action was taken despite such a letter appearing in court. I wonder who that one prominent MP is.

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Coming soon … the New World Order I’d like to see

Well, c’mon what new world order would you like?

I’m keen on protecting nature …

ed: I regard it as for negotiation.

Isn’t everything negotiable?

ed: If everything is negotiable, then everything is negotiable. Preconceived notions need to be abandoned. Everything is negotiable. I would FTO (personally ..off)

later ed: I regard now as a time of negotiation (very serious negotiation … changing the balance )

ed: It is negotiable. Everything is negotiable. All previous associations are to be re-nogatiated. Everything is to be negotiated. I would prefer a totally different resolution i.e. don’t bully me.

 

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The simple way to install Tor for online anonymity

Image of Tor onion networkingThe bad news is that the National Security Agency (the US authority that spies on internet users) targets anyone searching for privacy tools.

NSA classifies Linux Journal readers, Tor and Tails Linux users as “extremists”

“Months of investigation by the German public television broadcasters NDR and WDR (ARD), drawing on exclusive access to top secret NSA source code, interviews with former NSA employees, and the review of secret documents of the German government reveal that not only is the server in Nuremberg under observation by the NSA, but so is virtually anyone who has taken an interest in several well-known privacy software systems,” said the ARD report.

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The program marks and tracks the IP addresses of those who search for ‘tails’ or ‘Amnesiac Incognito Live System’ along with ‘linux’, ‘ USB ‘,’ CD ‘, ‘secure desktop’, ‘ IRC ‘, ‘truecrypt’ or ‘ tor ‘. It also refers to the Tails Linux distribution as “a comsec mechanism advocated by extremists on extremist forums”.

The good news is that it’s never been easier to install tor anonymity software. Just head over to Torproject, grab the tor browser bundle and follow the instructions.

 

edit: I support the Tor project by running a Tor relay.

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