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offsite link Why Is Labour Focusing on Saving the Planet When Birkenhead Is Rapidly Becoming a Third World Slum? Sun Jan 05, 2025 16:00 | Dr David McGrogan
Birkenhead is a town where past pride meets present decline, as lofty promises of progress clash with harsh reality. The contrast between the two couldn't be starker, says Dr David McGrogan.
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offsite link Forget About Climate Change. The Real Existential Threat to the Our Future is Babygeddon Sun Jan 05, 2025 14:00 | Sallust
In the Daily Sceptic, Sallust says the West's below replacement level birth rate is a far, far greater threat to our future than climate change. And this depressing Labour Government will only make things worse.
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offsite link Labour?s ?Anti-Corruption? Minister Spent Years Living in House Given to Her Family by Ally of Forme... Sun Jan 05, 2025 12:02 | Toby Young
Labour's anti-corruption minister used to live in a flat gifted to her sister by a political ally of her aunt, the ex-PM of Bangladesh. This is in addition to the flat she was gifted by another ally of her aunt's.
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offsite link Universities Have Been Made Racist by Courses Focused on ?Undertakings of White People? Sun Jan 05, 2025 09:00 | Will Jones
Degree courses focused on the?"undertakings of white people"?have made universities racist, according to a review by a?Russell Group?university that has pledged to make reparations in response.
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offsite link Trump Attacks Starmer?s Decision to Abandon North Sea Oil ? BBC Has Meltdown Sun Jan 05, 2025 07:00 | Paul Homewood
A 17-word tweet by Donald Trump, criticising Keir Starmer for abandoning North Sea Oil, sent the BBC into meltdown, writes Paul Homewood on the Daily Sceptic.
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offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?113 Fri Dec 20, 2024 10:42 | en

offsite link Pentagon could create a second Kurdish state Fri Dec 20, 2024 10:31 | en

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Judge Strikes Down Part of Patriot Act

category international | rights, freedoms and repression | other press author Friday September 07, 2007 15:56author by pat c Report this post to the editors

A small victory, part of the "Patriot" Act has been declared unconstitutional. Now the FBI etc will have to get a court order before they can secretly obtain records from ISPs.

A federal judge struck down parts of the revised USA Patriot Act on Thursday, saying investigators must have a court's approval before they can order Internet providers to turn over records without telling customers.

U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero said the government orders must be subject to meaningful judicial review and that the recently rewritten Patriot Act "offends the fundamental constitutional principles of checks and balances and separation of powers."

Jameel Jaffer, who argued the case for the ACLU, said the revised law had wrongly given the FBI sweeping authority to control speech because the agency was allowed to decide on its own - without court review - whether a company receiving an NSL had to remain silent or whether it could reveal to its customers that it was turning over records.

Related Link: http://www.physorg.com/news108297856.html
author by Seán Ryanpublication date Fri Sep 07, 2007 16:04author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Even though the judge has indeed struck down part of the Patriot Act, he has put a stay onto its coming into effect to allow the regime to appeal his decision.

author by pat cpublication date Fri Sep 07, 2007 17:15author address author phone Report this post to the editors

and the rest of ye. You can post comments on the article. Some of the bushites are getting to work. So post here at the end of the article:

http://www.physorg.com/news108297856.html

 
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