Theresa May on the detention of dissidents carrying state secrets:
I believe that schedule 7 of this act enables the police to do that. It gives them the framework for that.
Oops.
Asides
Guido on Miranda
David Miranda was detained under the Terrorism Act that Watson, Cooper and Vaz’s party voted in. If it turns out it is being used to go after journalists and their partners, it won’t take a whistleblower to work out where the blame lies…
Quote of the week
As our increasingly indistinguishable political class works to limit the freedom of the press, and the enforcement of politically correct speech codes makes bigger headlines than serious arguments about policy, our space to discuss the issues that matter is shrinking. So much is off limits that there is little sensible left to say.
First Uruguay
Uruguay’s proposal to create a government controlled legal marijuana industry has made it halfway through congress, giving President Jose Mujica a long-sought victory in his effort to explore alternatives to the global war on drugs.
On Fracking
Let’s be very clear about this: if you oppose fracking, you oppose cheaper energy. If you oppose cheaper energy, you oppose the poor being able to heat their houses. If you oppose the poor being able to heat their houses, you support the unnecessary deaths of thousands of people.
A Private Post on Facebook
I wrote about fracking, controversially, a while back. I was opposed, or was I?
Bono on Capitalism : “it’s real”
Addressing Georgetown university, Bono said:
Commerce is real. That’s what you’re about here and it’s real. Aid is just a stop-gap. Commerce, entrepreneurial capitalism, takes more people out of poverty than aid, of course we know that.
Now that is a surprise.
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Quote of the day
If this is TIA Black, we had better start challenging VISA, AMEX and all the others who process financial transactions. I predict that nearly every credit and debit card transaction in the US is being fed in along with the phone records and the google files and facebook pages and private email.
It is a virtual certainty. This isn’t 1984. It is much worse because as the techniques improve it becomes Skynet starring as Big Brother.
Dale Amon at Samizdata. “This” is presumably PRISM etc.
