Archive | Parapolitical RSS feed for this section
Wikileaks Afghan Diary
The infamous anonymous information leaking site is at it again. Stop by any mainstream news blog and you will see differing opinions on the 90,000+ papers leaked so far. The usual information coming out to dismiss the leaked documents of course. Along with those believing this revelation of information could be enough for people around [...]
Continue reading...A Digital Prison
20. July 2010
I was going to title this post “A Digital Prison – Excuses for Not Posting and Disappearing from the World”, but I thought that was overkill. Anyone of you reading this who has dabbled just a little in the esoteric and parapolitcal or you are just conspiratorially paranoid should know about privacy and information awareness. [...]
Continue reading...Oil: Interesting Times
20. July 2010
China has this week become the biggest user of oil on the planet , overtaking the USA according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). Whereas once China exported the stuff , now they are a major importer and guzzler , putting pressure on supplies and raising the market price. And of course threatening the west [...]
Continue reading...UK – US Relationships At Breakpoint
19. July 2010
As if US ( and world) opinion of BP isn’t bad enough, further details of the release of Abdel Basset al-Megrahi have implicated both the UK Goverment and the Oil Giant in a deal with former – current dictator Colonel Muammar Ghadaffi of Libya to get the Lockerbie Bomber released. 270 people , many American [...]
Continue reading...EU: A Very Diplomatic Coup
19. July 2010
The European Union is pressing ahead with a £700m upgrading of it’s Foreign Service just as the UK and other nations within the superstate begin to slash their’s (The UK are reporting 40% cuts with closures of embassies across the planet). 700 new EU diplomats are being spread across the globe on the back of [...]
Continue reading...Laser Wars : Technology Nightmare
19. July 2010
First there was conventional war. Then there were the Drones Wars. Now we see a new ‘sexy’ weapon enter the scene – a weapon which will be no stranger to readers of Asimov , Clarke and Roddenberry. No sooner has the spectre of drones above the streets of the Western ( and Eastern) World been [...]
Continue reading...Internet Censorship tightens Global Free Speech
17. July 2010
In my last two posts I mentioned free-speech in the USA and UK… Now it’s the turn of global free speech – ie the internet. It never ceases to amaze me how people can take for granted what they have. The internet is unlike anything before it – in the way is has allowed people [...]
Continue reading...Free Speech – UK ahead of the curve…
15. July 2010
My last post talked about Free Speech in America and how people under the Obama Administration could lose their jobs by speaking ‘out of place’. Of course we shouldn’t forget the UK’s pioneering use of censorship within its democracy… Although I am no fan of radio presenter John Gaunt it shakes me to hear of [...]
Continue reading...
© Mind Set Central.com
.
26. July 2010
3 Comments