It begins (for the sake of brevity) with the English Bill of Rights in 1689 [see here]. This bill limited the power of the monarch, instituted elections and allowed people to arm themselves. Fast forward 100 years to 1789 and the philosophy of John Locke continues its lineage through to the US Bill of Rights, the…
Bill Whittle is not happy in this Trifecta episode. But can you really blame him? His pseudo-sarcastic analysis of Barack Obama’s upbringing is telling, unnerving and sends chills up the spine.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has what it describes as a: …bottom-up, consensus-driven, multi-stakeholder model… This is from its site [see here]: Bottom up. At ICANN, rather than the Board of Directors solely declaring what topics ICANN will address, members of sub-groups in ICANN can raise issues at the grassroots level.…
The World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT), in that beacon of freedom, Dubai, is looking at the future of the internet. And naturally the future of the internet should include opinions from dictatorships as well as freedom-loving countries as anything else would be unfair and unrepresentative. There appears to be three angles through which governments…
The cost? Well it isn’t mentioned but I suppose we can assume it costs approximately 1,000 times more than a real tree. The reason for the change? The usual: a tree is a religious symbol apparently, it might hurt some feelings perhaps, it is meant to appease the Muslim community, it’s more modern, it’s…
Why is it that when the United Nations is involved in anything it usually has some connection to redistributing the wealth of the West to poorer nations everywhere else. The UN’s other main mission in today’s world it seems is to keep chipping away at the messy legal systems in sovereign nations so that a…
It’s in the UK. You have to have the correct opinions. Because if you don’t you will find yourself as a second-class citizen in many social aspects. We’ll keep an eye on Joyce Thacker and her thought police. The UKIP actually have some fairly reasonable policies including independence from EU legislative control as well as…
Today, in 2012, in the west, we call them liberals. The word itself derives from the Latin word liberalis, “noble, gracious, munificent, generous.” From its roots we can imagine the word applying to a patrician Roman citizen, greeting his guests with a full table of fine food, a choice of wines and polite conversation. It…
When reading a news article from the very left-leaning British Broadcasting Corporation, the artful journalist will sometimes hide their bias against Israel and for the savage jihadis in Palestine in sophisticated word play. So one could read right through an article and only decipher the leftist narrative by reading between the lines. And then you…
Life, liberty & the non-pursuit of socialism 