Why bother to read to 1984 or Animal Farm anymore. We see in every bloody story these days. This story is perfectly 1984 in a nutshell.
U.K. Government Thought Destroying Guardian Hard Drives Would Stop Stories
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#12Sounds quite similar to me. "As Gestapo chief of operations and later (after 1939) its chief, Müller played a leading role in the detection and suppression of all forms of resistance to the Nazi regime.[12] Under his leadership, the Gestapo succeeded in infiltrating and to a large extent destroying the underground networks of the Communist Party and the Social Democratic Party by the end of 1935." http://en.wikipedia…
oh yes absolutely. just like the Gestapo. and the NKWD. i mean this is like a photocopy. sending people to concentration camps/gulags, murdering families. it is so 1:1 it is downright scary. you're so brave. so brave.
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#13What goods or services could be boycotted, to protest these actions by the British Gestapo? Largest UK companies (that seemed recognizable): HSBC, Shell, BP, Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays, GlaxoSmithKline, Unilever, Vodafone, Anglo American (thought the name was funny for a huge British company), Prudential, Coldplay Edit: Added services Edit 2: Added list of largest UK companies Edit 3: Added Coldplay
Money. The less government money you use, the less they can tax. Cash or Bitcoin. Don't give them a cut. I wouldn't advocate tax evasion, although the truth is, if you pay taxes, you finance this bullshit.
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#14I don't think there's any indication that they actually thought destroying the hard drives would stop anything; seems more likely that: 1) They didn't want anyone else to get access to the material that the Guardian had but would not end up publishing; 2) The rules said that that's what they had to do, so they did it; 3) That's all they could do on "their patch", so CYA; 4) A little intimidation would never go amiss,…
5) Now if the Guardian is seen in possession of this material, would that constitute lying to the authorities?
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#15What goods or services could be boycotted, to protest these actions by the British Gestapo? Largest UK companies (that seemed recognizable): HSBC, Shell, BP, Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays, GlaxoSmithKline, Unilever, Vodafone, Anglo American (thought the name was funny for a huge British company), Prudential, Coldplay Edit: Added services Edit 2: Added list of largest UK companies Edit 3: Added Coldplay
Does the UK actually make anything anymore? I thought they were like the US and had become a "service-based" economy. I guess you could boycott visiting.
A shiite ton of military equipment - Britain is a big arms exporter.
Here is a story about exports to repressive regimes, this bit alone is troubling, and a believe it's just a fraction of exports. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/blood-money-uk...
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#16Why bother to read to 1984 or Animal Farm anymore. We see in every bloody story these days. This story is perfectly 1984 in a nutshell.
It seems to me that some people read those books and didn't understand them to be cautionary.
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#17What goods or services could be boycotted, to protest these actions by the British Gestapo? Largest UK companies (that seemed recognizable): HSBC, Shell, BP, Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays, GlaxoSmithKline, Unilever, Vodafone, Anglo American (thought the name was funny for a huge British company), Prudential, Coldplay Edit: Added services Edit 2: Added list of largest UK companies Edit 3: Added Coldplay
Why boycott companies? It's not companies who did this.
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#18What goods or services could be boycotted, to protest these actions by the British Gestapo? Largest UK companies (that seemed recognizable): HSBC, Shell, BP, Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays, GlaxoSmithKline, Unilever, Vodafone, Anglo American (thought the name was funny for a huge British company), Prudential, Coldplay Edit: Added services Edit 2: Added list of largest UK companies Edit 3: Added Coldplay
Money. The less government money you use, the less they can tax. Cash or Bitcoin. Don't give them a cut. I wouldn't advocate tax evasion, although the truth is, if you pay taxes, you finance this bullshit.
I'm actually an American. It looks like Unilever, Shell, BP, and HSBC are all based in Britain. Those brands are pretty popular in the USA, so that was an interesting find.
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#20What goods or services could be boycotted, to protest these actions by the British Gestapo? Largest UK companies (that seemed recognizable): HSBC, Shell, BP, Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays, GlaxoSmithKline, Unilever, Vodafone, Anglo American (thought the name was funny for a huge British company), Prudential, Coldplay Edit: Added services Edit 2: Added list of largest UK companies Edit 3: Added Coldplay
Why boycott companies? It's not companies who did this.
Companies based in Britain bring in tax revenue, which then funds the British authorities, who look to be rather corrupt.