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Please, note that these are not police officers! They are employees of a private company.

From their website: "The National Eviction Team (formerly known as UK Evict) are protestor and traveller removal experts. Our people are fully trained and have specialist equipment, meaning that we go into any situation to get the job done."

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A private security company, National Eviction Team (NET), has been hired by HS2 Ltd to patrol the public byways bordering the HS2 construction sites and evict protesters from public lands in UK.

NET employees have frequently used violence and intimidation tactics against the peaceful protesters, and local police have turned a blind eye.

One protester was placed in a choke hold until he blacked out. Another bled profusely after being repeatedly hit across the head. Another had their life endangered when a NET employee tried to evict them from a tree without the use of a safety harness.

In addition to the violence, both NET and HS2 Ltd employees have repeatedly ignored the Covid-19 safety guidelines on social distancing and protective masks.

privacy is your local scope where you perform your local reasoning

maybe people who don't think privacy is important are okay with programming by only mutating global variables

In USA, are using facial recognition to target protesters and stingrays to track cell phones, and the administration is trying to get the power to collect web browser information on any without a warrant, including protesters.

In his statement, Trump said he would use the to "dominate the streets," and he encouraged state governors to do the same.

The land of the what?

As critics of this theory have pointed out, people may do things because they are addicted, or coralled, or coerced.

But I think there's value in applying revealed preferences to a society.

When officials decide to spend 5,500% of the cost of outfitting pandemic workers on outfitting militarized police, they are telling you who they think you are, and what you value.

More importantly, they're telling you who THEY are, and what THEY value.

eof/

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More of the wisdom we need right now from the late great Martin Luther King Jr.

privacytools.io/ has a nice list of privacy oriented services and apps and a detailed comparison for each category.

"Ultimately, saying that you don't care about because you have nothing to hide is no different from saying you don't care about freedom of speech because you have nothing to say. Or that you don't care about freedom of the press because you don't like to read. Or that you don't care about freedom of religion because you don't believe in God. Or that you don't care about the freedom to peacably assemble because you're a lazy, antisocial agoraphobe. "
- Edward

@freemo I did not vet the list instances, but liked the idea of having ANOTHER place for people to find interesting ones.

This is in addition to Eugen's nice and well known joinmastodon.org/

...and another less functional, similar site : instances.social/

Freely reporting here, sir, the visitors are welcome to choose or reject whichever they like.

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
- Isaac Asimov

Intelligence agencies cooperation is good. These worked together like Five Eyes.
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RT @TheEconomist
Maximator is a reminder that the Five Eyes—an intelligence pact between America, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand—is not the only game in town econ.trib.al/fm1HIYJ
twitter.com/TheEconomist/statu

Respect to for their satire. You know you have achieved something when your government tries to pass a law to specifically silence you and when your comedy is being quoted inside the parliament.

youtube.com/watch?v=aWl7kQZHZE

, the world’s largest fund manager, voted against the re-election of leadership over their approach to climate change, and - even more significant because it actually succeeded - shareholders in US driller demanded it disclose its lobbying on climate issues and how their actions are compatible with the Paris climate agreement.

reuters.com/article/us-exxon-m

Juukan Gorge cave, the sacred site in Australia, one which showed 46,000 years of continual occupation and provided a 4,000-year-old genetic link to present-day traditional owners, has been destroyed in the expansion of an iron ore mine. The giant Rio Tinto received ministerial consent to destroy or damage the site in 2013 under outdated heritage laws, which were drafted in 1972 to favour mining proponents.

It was the only inland site in to show signs of continual human occupation through the last Ice Age.

theguardian.com/australia-news

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