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> Russians understand how the Western societies work and how they can be broken Do you not also think the West understands how Russian society works and how it can be broken? I fin…

> without having to shed a single drop of american blood And 10's of thousands of Ukrainian dead and wounded, lives and families destroyed, is a small price to pay for American heg…

Both sides use propaganda.

> the U.K. government could use existing powers to require that the company meet surveillance capability demands as a condition of making a product or feature available. > If the g…

> Don't degrade your product. If it gets worse, chances are I won't buy it, no matter for what price you sell it. Completely agree: recently I wanted some peppermints, and I notice…

I'm in the UK. Looking at my bill, per kWh electricity is 3x more expensive than gas: electricity: 30.823p gas: 9.756p It's much cheaper to heat my house with gas.

> The Tories are obsessed with weakening privacy and data protection laws. Labour pledged to "toughen" the "weakened and gutted" online safety bill (now the act) [1]. [1] https://w…

> Child safety is what is pushed in the press For example, in yesterday's Guardian [1]. Meta introducing encryption "will let child abusers ‘hide in the dark’". [1] https://www.the…

This should get more coverage, as it's a worrying development. The tone of the letter is disturbing. Surprisingly enough, the mainstream media haven't covered it at all ...

> If UK citizens don't want such laws, they can always protest, at the voting booth or in the streets. Protest has been restricted [1], and neither the Conservatives or Labour offe…

Interestingly (?) earlier this year Kit Klarenberg was also held at Luton after getting of a plane from Belgrade ... https://thegrayzone.com/2023/05/30/journalist-kit-klarenberg...…

... and here's the Fairlight in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0mF9soHA8M

Similar story (no pun intended) in The Guardian [1]: > UK ministers seek to allay WhatsApp and Signal concerns in encryption row Nothing to see here folks, just a minor dispute bet…

> For a political party that likes the cliché "tough on crime" Labour also likes that cliché too [1]. They're all the same. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/sep/27/lab…

> Criticising the current PM doesn't automatically make it a partisan issue IMHO. In hindsight I was wrong to say that; it was a bad choice of words. I agree with you. Thanks.

Returning back to the OT of surveillance and oversight, and as you're making this into a partisan issue, what would Labour do differently? "Authoritarian" concerns were expressed l…

> And when was the last time you saw a high-top soccer cleat? Interestingly (?) early football boots were very much ankle-length [1], and this style continued well into the 1950's …

> Not on major media either… Guardian have something: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/18/surrey-and-s...

Also (possibly only amongst bankers in London): - "Yard" - £billion (derived from the french "milliard")

> What I'm hoping comes out of this is some backstop for the ~4 million Brits with no bank account in our increasingly cashless society. Izabella Kaminska (ex FT-journalist) had a …

> we don't need everything in a plastic wrapper I bought a celeriac the other day, it was in a vacuum wrapped plastic cover. What a waste of resources.

> the Green Party (which was founded as direct result of the Chernobyl disaster) Chernobyl was 1986 and the West German green party existed before that: > Alliance 90/The Greens ..…