http://politics.phreadz.com latest posts to PHREADZ » POLITICS » phreadz.com http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html en phreadz.com Tue, 26 May 2009 12:14:25 +0100 phreadz.com latest posts to PHREADZ » POLITICS » latest posts to PHREADZ » POLITICS » phreadz.com no http://politics.phreadz.com/images/phreadzfeed.jpg http://politics.phreadz.com 120 120 An AudioBoo by Documentally
visit: http://audioboo.fm/boos/24393/ by : kosso]]> http://politics.phreadz.com/x/1HB737FV6QAJ/ Tue, 26 May 2009 12:14:25 +0100 1HB737FV6QAJ kosso documentally, politics, david Cameron kosso kosso 0 1243336465 a Qik.com post by documentally
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view: http://qik.com/video/1746665 by : kosso]]> http://politics.phreadz.com/x/QFF7EVGO34G/ Tue, 26 May 2009 11:52:06 +0100 QFF7EVGO34G kosso conservative, OU, Cameron kosso kosso 0 1243335126 An AudioBoo by Documentally
visit: http://audioboo.fm/boos/24383/ by : kosso]]> http://politics.phreadz.com/x/IQ0UA9NV166/ Tue, 26 May 2009 11:40:14 +0100 IQ0UA9NV166 kosso documentally, politics, open university, david Cameron, conservatives kosso kosso 0 1243334414 a Qik.com post by documentally
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view: http://qik.com/video/1746526 by : kosso]]> http://politics.phreadz.com/x/FH7BCTS4RM0/ Tue, 26 May 2009 11:37:19 +0100 FH7BCTS4RM0 kosso conservative, OU, Cameron kosso kosso 3 1243334239 a YouTube post by greenpartyew at 17:32 11 May 2009
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view: http://youtube.com/watch?v=CIaqH84Yvzc


Vote for the Green Party in the upcoming European Election on 4th June.

[The guy in the video, getting younger is an old friend of mine :) He used to be in the The Bill! ;) heh] by : kosso]]> http://politics.phreadz.com/x/TT20TTATAAO0/ Tue, 12 May 2009 20:59:45 +0100 TT20TTATAAO0 kosso green kosso kosso 0 1242158385 BBC News:
Actor Stephen Fry has criticised the interest in MPs' expenses and said that: "It's not that important, it really isn't."

Gordon Brown has said "mistakes" were made by MPs in their use of House of Commons expenses. But Fry told the BBC's Newsnight that he had "cheated things and fiddled things" and that the expenses revelations should not put people off voting.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/8045040.stm by : kosso]]> http://politics.phreadz.com/x/IAC98UEOTJ80/ Tue, 12 May 2009 14:17:53 +0100 IAC98UEOTJ80 kosso UKMP, expenses kosso kosso 0 1242134273 a YouTube post by dontpanicmedia at 12:50 14 Apr 2009
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http://www.dontpaniconline.com/magazine/democracy/jacqui-smith-awarded-blue-plaque

To highlight the grotesque nature of MP's expenses claims, at a time when most taxpayers are finding it hard to get by, we unveiled a blue plaque on Home Secretary Jacqui Smiths South London residence to honour her services to the people.

Last July MPs (surprisingly) voted to keep their second home allowances (along with a 2.25 percent pay rise). The rules enabled the Home Secretary to claim £116,000 to furnish her second constituency home in Redditch, which she shares with her husband (paid as his wifes Parliamentary adviser at £40,000-a-year) and children, with barbeques and porn films. She could only do this by claiming her sisters house in South London, where she occupies a second room, to be her first home.

Other MPs who deserve blue plaques are:

Alistair Darling who has a choice of four homes; he is provided with two grace and favour homes at the publics expense, rents out his former private home (originally taxpayer funded) for his private profit and then he claims for his other home.

Houseing minister Margaret Beckett who was given a grace-and-favour home in 18th-century Admiralty House in late 1997 and claimed £106,000 in expenses for a second home in the six years from 2001/02 to 2006/07.

Tony McNulty, the Employment Minister, who claimed £60,000 as a second home allowance for the house in which his parents live.

It is also funny (and worrying) that the woman who reassures us how safe and secure the personal information to be stored on ID cards will be, couldnt even stop the sordid details of her own private life from being leaked to the press.

It is also funny (and worrying) that the woman who is supposed to be responsible for the security of our country couldnt stop a couple of reporters from fixing a blue plaque to her house at eight in the morning on Easter Monday. We found the house on Street View (there were two coppers sitting outside her door) and no one stopped us as we fiddled around outside suspiciously for about 20 minutes. We are being asked in Stasi-esque police adverts to trust our instincts and report possible terrorist activity (i.e. call the fuzz if the towel-heads move in next door). But surely if the millions of terrorist cells here in the UK were really poised to attack then they would be doing it right now. I wonder if theyre sitting at home reading about our stunt in The Sun saying, A thousand curses! If only we had thought to use the internet to find Jacqui Smiths house, could have blown that filthy porn-guzzling infidel limb from limb by now!

http://www.dontpaniconline.com/magazine/democracy/jacqui-smith-awarded-blue-plaque by : kosso]]> http://politics.phreadz.com/x/PCJ62EED08/ Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:50:21 +0100 PCJ62EED08 kosso kosso kosso 0 1240836621 BBC News:
Chancellor Alistair Darling has set out the depth of Britain's economic downturn in his Budget speech to the House of Commons.

He said the Budget would help to get people back into work and help business, while getting Britain through the recession.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8012367.stm by : kosso]]> http://politics.phreadz.com/x/7815S351MLRJ/ Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:17:30 +0100 7815S351MLRJ kosso kosso kosso 0 1240438650 I was contacted by some journalists who wanted to interview me about the stop and search thing.
Now, go buy the magazine http://www.colorsmagazine.com/cease-fear/
See also http://politics.phreadz.com/v/1A5G7TMK2DSF/ by : vodaclone]]> http://politics.phreadz.com/x/3E0I2GQFAU2N/ Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:34:48 +0000 3E0I2GQFAU2N vodaclone interview, terrorism, stop and search, s44 vodaclone vodaclone 0 1237898088 It's late and I'm really tired. Recorded on my 'berry in a hotel room in Vienna. Hence crappy lighting!

Anyhoo - a few months ago, I was contacted by some journalists who wanted to interview me about this whole episode. So, here's the video interview - no idea how to embed it here. Now, go buy the magazine :-)

URL is http://www.colorsmagazine.com/cease-fear/
Flash only site, so click Video / Backstage. I'm the middle video on the middle row.
The rest are very worthwhile as well.

Night all. by : vodaclone]]> http://politics.phreadz.com/x/1A5G7TMK2DSF/ Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:39:27 +0000 1A5G7TMK2DSF vodaclone iterview, colors magazine, s44 vodaclone vodaclone 0 1237847967 a YouTube post by ChangeDaChannel at 06:24 13 Mar 2009
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view: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAaQNACwaLw


http://www.infowars.com http://www.prisonplanet.tv by : fiz]]> http://politics.phreadz.com/x/C7DTQHLS4IA0/ Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:12:17 +0000 C7DTQHLS4IA0 fiz UK, USA, nwo, economy, barackobama, economic crisis, president, global economy fiz fiz 0 1237378337 a Qik.com post by documentally
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view: http://qik.com/video/1217943 by : documentally]]> http://politics.phreadz.com/x/3RO2OI2PC6QN/ Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:56:10 +0000 3RO2OI2PC6QN documentally reuters, FSA, documentally sizemore documentally documentally 4 1236848170 a Vimeo post by White House
link: http://vimeo.com/whitehousevideos
view: http://www.vimeo.com/3402933

Read he White House blog at : http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/09/02/28/Keeping-Promises/

Notice the video is now using Vimeo and not YouTube.
More news about this change here : http://news.cnet.com/8301-13739_3-10184578-46.html

The main video player on the White House blog is using Akamai to host the video.

The White House denies that it is shunning YouTube through pressure from privacy activists.

NYT has the story: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/02/white-house-denies-it-is-shunning-youtube/
by : kosso]]> http://politics.phreadz.com/x/VB7NLOOCNB/ Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:51:43 +0000 VB7NLOOCNB kosso video, obama, White House kosso kosso 0 1236045103 a YouTube post by PierreElliottTrudeau at 00:38 28 Nov 2008
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view: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Fz7D00DiQM


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy_(bureaucratic)
http://www.thevenusproject.com/

I advocate a Liberal Technocracy. Meaning one with elections. The leaders of each respective department are chosen on their knowledge rather than their charisma or $$$$.

"Thorstein Veblen, a member of the Technical Alliance, wrote his book The Engineers and the Price System during this time.[8]. It was later used as reference material by the Technocracy movement. The various schools of thought amongst engineers and other interested parties eventually produced social institutions arguing for purely technical government of society in the 1930s. Technocracy Incorporated formulated a plan for the land mass of North America, to employ a non monetary system "Energy Accounting" [9], which uses a post scarcity type of economy as its basis.[10]The system proposed, based on energy accounting instead of money, uses thermodynamics as its basis.[11]The Technate scientific social design as projected in the Technocracy Study Course, would include such post scarcity aspects as free housing (Urbanates), transportation, recreation, and education. In other words free everything, including all consumer products, as a right of citizenship.[12]Everyone would receive an equal amount of consuming power via this Non-market economics, post scarcity method, in theory.

In Wealth, Virtual Wealth and Debt, Frederick Soddy turned his attention to the role of energy in economic systems. He criticized the focus on monetary flows in economics, arguing that real wealth was derived from the use of energy to transform materials into physical goods and services. Soddys economic writings were largely ignored in his time, but would later be applied to the development of biophysical economics and ecological economics and also bioeconomics in the late 20th century.[13]

Governmental form
A technocratic government is a government of experts designed to ensure administrative functions are carried out efficiently. Technocracy can, in theory, take many forms and incorporate many systems of government. Technocracy may come about as a provisional form of noocracy, in which the economy is regulated by economists, social policy is decided by political scientists, the health care system is run by medical professionals, with the branches of the government working together and sharing knowledge to maximize the performance of each in as equal a way as is feasible. Technocracy is often thought of as 'administration of scientists and engineers'." by : silverton]]> http://politics.phreadz.com/x/HKTO3S36RBG0/ Sat, 07 Feb 2009 06:55:09 +0000 HKTO3S36RBG0 silverton capitalism++, postscarcity, technocracy silverton silverton 0 1233989709 a YouTube post by PierreElliottTrudeau at 00:07 28 Nov 2008
user: http://youtube.com/user/PierreElliottTrudeau
view: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySkQHc8sADQ


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy_(bureaucratic)
http://www.thevenusproject.com/

I advocate a Liberal Technocracy. Meaning one with elections. The leaders of each respective department are chosen on their knowledge rather than their charisma or $$$$.

"Thorstein Veblen, a member of the Technical Alliance, wrote his book The Engineers and the Price System during this time.[8]. It was later used as reference material by the Technocracy movement. The various schools of thought amongst engineers and other interested parties eventually produced social institutions arguing for purely technical government of society in the 1930s. Technocracy Incorporated formulated a plan for the land mass of North America, to employ a non monetary system "Energy Accounting" [9], which uses a post scarcity type of economy as its basis.[10]The system proposed, based on energy accounting instead of money, uses thermodynamics as its basis.[11]The Technate scientific social design as projected in the Technocracy Study Course, would include such post scarcity aspects as free housing (Urbanates), transportation, recreation, and education. In other words free everything, including all consumer products, as a right of citizenship.[12]Everyone would receive an equal amount of consuming power via this Non-market economics, post scarcity method, in theory.

In Wealth, Virtual Wealth and Debt, Frederick Soddy turned his attention to the role of energy in economic systems. He criticized the focus on monetary flows in economics, arguing that real wealth was derived from the use of energy to transform materials into physical goods and services. Soddys economic writings were largely ignored in his time, but would later be applied to the development of biophysical economics and ecological economics and also bioeconomics in the late 20th century.[13]

Governmental form
A technocratic government is a government of experts designed to ensure administrative functions are carried out efficiently. Technocracy can, in theory, take many forms and incorporate many systems of government. Technocracy may come about as a provisional form of noocracy, in which the economy is regulated by economists, social policy is decided by political scientists, the health care system is run by medical professionals, with the branches of the government working together and sharing knowledge to maximize the performance of each in as equal a way as is feasible. Technocracy is often thought of as 'administration of scientists and engineers'." by : silverton]]> http://politics.phreadz.com/x/174QHFH38IDB/ Sat, 07 Feb 2009 06:53:12 +0000 174QHFH38IDB silverton capitalism++, mixed economy, postscarcity silverton silverton 1 1233989592 a YouTube post by webcameronuk at 17:44 19 Dec 2008
user: http://youtube.com/user/webcameronuk
view: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=VCa24cIhCWI


David Cameron, who took questions via Twitter at a live Reuters Newsmaker event on Monday, answers more questions from users.

You can watch the original event at http://uk.reuters.com/news/globalcoverage/cameronNewsmaker

Documentally: All i wanted to ask was (for the Open University) What are his thoughts on the future of education..? #askDC by : documentally]]> http://politics.phreadz.com/x/CAP0HJ9K9QE/ Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:29:19 +0000 CAP0HJ9K9QE documentally documentally, david Cameron documentally documentally 0 1229725759 by : carl]]> http://politics.phreadz.com/x/52KGMLTKCPE0/ Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:59:09 +0000 52KGMLTKCPE0 carl carl carl 0 1229342349 by : documentally]]> http://politics.phreadz.com/x/QH090PEEC6K0/ Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:45:34 +0000 QH090PEEC6K0 documentally documentally documentally 1 1229341534