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Post by clone on Apr 23, 2012 12:46:31 GMT -8
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Post by NDAA on Apr 26, 2012 21:03:49 GMT -8
Why I'm suing the US government to protect internet freedom The NDAA means the US military can put anyone under suspicion of being a terror threat and detain them for ever Birgitta Jónsdóttir guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 18 April 2012 10.00 BS ... And that's just the tip of the iceberg. The US government legally hacks into other nations' parliamentary private social media data because it is stored on servers originating in the US, as in my Twitter case. The infamous EU data retention law is making us all into terrorist subjects by default, and now we have the newest addition in a dangerous cocktail of erosion of civil liberties online with the offline reality: meet the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), also known as the Homeland Battlefield Act. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) describes it thus: "For the first time in American history, we have a law authorising the worldwide and indefinite military detention of people captured far from any battlefield. The NDAA has no temporal or geographic limitations. It is completely at odds with our values, violates the constitution, and corrodes our nation's commitment to the rule of law." Since the US department of justice is ploughing my private data and WikiLeaks (whom I volunteered for in 2010 by co-producing Collateral Murder) are defined by the US vice-president as cyberterrorists, I felt under direct threat when NDAA was passed. I have not been able to travel to the US for more than a year under advice from the Icelandic state department. www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/apr/18/suing-us-government-protect-internet-freedom
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Post by clone on Apr 23, 2013 13:59:25 GMT -8
China and Iceland sign free trade agreement Posted on 22 April The world’s most populous country has signed a free trade agreement with Europe’s most sparsely populated nation. Iceland can now export more seafood to China, while China has moved one step closer to accessing Iceland’s abundant natural resources. The Chinese commerce minister, Gao Hucheng, and Icelandic foreign affairs minister Össur Skarphéðinsson signed the 15 April free trade agreement between their two nations at a Tiananmen Square reception. Premier of China Li Keqiang and Icelandic prime minister Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir also witnessed the agreement. more: www.icenews.is/2013/04/22/china-and-iceland-sign-free-trade-agreement/
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Post by guest on Jun 13, 2015 17:53:52 GMT -8
Iceland Jailed Bankers and Rejected Austerity—and It’s Been a Success Posted on Jun 11, 2015 By refusing to allow its currency, the krona, to suffer ultra-low inflation to protect the assets of the rich—as in the rest of the West—Iceland let the krona tumble. The resulting inflation and higher prices have helped its export industries, unlike what happened in many European Union countries, which are contending with ongoing deflation. Read more: www.truthdig.com/report/item/iceland_jailed_bankers_and_rejected_austerity_--_and_its_been_a_success_201
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