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  1. @therealitynetwork GOOD POSTS...
    BUT a few flaws about Governments:

    - Governments exist to #war on their people (profit / over-power them) and sometimes to over-power others in other countries by providing them free #tech etc. #USPol

    - Never think Governments are going #save people or do things with the logic you assume towards #liberty / #sovereign tech etc (unless it's #money and #power in that #logic and sense).

    The next good revolution is not with Governments but individuals together.

  2. @FotoVorschlag #FotoVorschlag "USA"

    Im Musée d’Orsay steht das Modell für die Freiheitsstatue in New York, die 1886 von Frankreich an die USA als Geschenk zur Unabhängigkeit übergeben wurde. Das Modell wurde 1875 von Frederic Auguste Bartholdy entworfen.
    Edit: 2025 forderte ein französischer EU-Abgeordneter die Freiheitsstatue zurück.

    #photography #MuseeDorsay #liberte #liberty #paris

  3. "New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common." - John Locke (1632 AD to 1704 AD)

    Locke lived through the Glorious Revolution. He argued the mind is a blank slate (tabula rasa) and defined government as a contract protecting natural rights.

    Source: Essay Concerning Human Understanding (compiled via Google Gemini)

    #GreatThinkers #philosophy #locke #empirismus #enlightenment #liberty #politics

  4. The European Court of Human Rights ruled GCHQ's mass surveillance UNLAWFUL.

    14 judges dissented. Three quoted Orwell's 1984:

    "There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment."

    thomaster.substack.com/p/gchq-

    #GCHQ #Surveillance #ECHR #Privacy #BigBrotherWatch #Liberty #Orwell #InvestigatoryPowersAct #Snowden #HumanRights

  5. @ronago @veronica

    France Shows Windows the Door!
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    The Government of France has launched a sweeping initiative to switch from Windows to Linux. This move will save France, Billions of Euros each year, improve security, and move towards Sovereignty.

    newsgroup.site/france-governme
    India should follow this excellent example.

    Microsoft ( MSFT ) is expected to be a in a death spiral, as more and more countries decide to save money.

    my

    My article on Microsoft:
    rant.li/ashwin/castles-made-of

    #Earth #EqualRights #Justice #FreeSoftware #Linux #Windows #Software
    #MSFT #Microsoft
    #India #DigitalSovreignty #Freedom #Liberty #Security #Tech
    #Stocks #StockMarket #StockPicks
    #France #Europe #EuroStack
    #Government #GovernmentEfficiency #GovernmentSpending
    #Finance
    #bangalore #GovernmentOfIndia

  6. Hype for the Future 190G: City of Liberty, Missouri

    Overview The City of Liberty is a community located within and the county seat of Clay County, Missouri, home to William Jewell College on the east side of the community. The iconic downtown square, centered at the courthouse, is home to notable historical museums including the Jesse James Bank Museum as well as the local artisan market nearby.

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026

  7. A quotation from Phyllis Wheatley

    In every human Breast, God has implanted a Principle, which we call Love of Freedom; it is impatient of Oppression, and pants for Deliverance.

    Phyllis Wheatley (1753-1784) African-American poet, manumitted (1773) enslaved person [also "Phillis" and/or "Wheatly"]
    Letter (1774-02-11) to Samson Occom

    More about this quote: wist.info/wheatley-phyllis/837…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #philliswheatley #deliverance #freedom #humannature #imperative #instinct #liberty #oppression #slavery

  8. This is such a straw man and false dilemma fallacy. People don’t have to work for either private capitalists or the state/collective/society. There is another alternative where people work for themselves individually or jointly: #EconomicDemocracy. This position isn’t justified with appeals to collective authority, but rather liberal individual inalienable #HumanRights theory.

    youtube.com/shorts/x-lIb2MGQ2w

    #politics #individualism #individualist #socialism #capitalism #communism #liberty #mutualism

  9. “It is then easy to see how #Staël could stem from #Rousseau: both considered #literature as the most secure path to #liberty because it freed the #imagination from social conventions, and prevented #language from being worn down to a series of preset transactional phrases.” aeon.co/essays/the-r...

    The role of literature as the ...

  10. @diffractie

    Being a librarian is a sacred calling, not a paycheck. A librarian is a guardian of information, a champion of freedom, an embedded member of the community aiming to serve those in most need. The homeless people who need the information resources to get educated, to connect with resources for healthcare, housing, employment etc.

    I was once married to a woman who was studying to become a librarian, and libraries have always held a special place in my heart.

    Until 2023, when I turned whistleblower against the US government, and Accenture Federal Services. The persecution I faced, came from many sides, though the unkindest cut of all, was that some librarians turned out to be on the side of the establishment.

    Read my account here. ( The PDF version is probably easier to read. )

    whistleblower.lovestoblog.com/

    #Hawaii #library #librarian #libraries #librarians #LibraryScience #Liberty
    #Freedom #Whistleblower

  11. Hype for the Future 100Z: Town of Liberty, Indiana

    Overview Though located across the state line from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, the Town of Liberty—and Union County at large—often shares cultural traits and heritage with the area associated with the university and the historic College Township. Under earlier definitions of the line between Indiana and Ohio, such as the Kentucky River definition, the area in which the Town of Liberty is located now would have been part of the modern State of Ohio.

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026

  12. A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt

    The film industry is a great industry, with infinite possibilities for good and bad. Its primary purpose is to entertain people. On the side, it can do many other things. It can popularize certain ideals, it can make education palatable. But in the long run, the judge who decides whether what it does is good or bad is the man or woman who attends the movies. In a democratic country I do not think the public will tolerate a removal of its right to decide what it thinks of the ideas and performances of those who make the movie industry work.

    Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) First Lady of the US (1933-45), politician, diplomat, activist
    Column (1947-10-29), “My Day”

    More info about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/79…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #democracy #blacklist #censorship #filmindustry #freedom #Hollywood #liberty #marketplaceofideas #motionpictures

  13. Kölbi asegura que con pérdida de 3% del mercado está consolidando su “liderazgo” en pospago

    El operador estatal intenta que resultados de informe de Sutel parezcan positivos mientras cae en picada y competidores le pisan los talones en el mercado más lucrativo.
    La entrada Kölbi asegura que con pérdida de 3% del mer [...]

    #Claro #ICE #InstitutoCostarricenseDeElectricidad #Kölbi #LedaAcevedo #Liberty #País #Pospago #SUTEL #SuperintendenciaDeTelecomunicaciones #ÚltimaHora

    semanariouniversidad.com/pais/

  14. Why Christianity Checks Every Box of a Death Cult | You Were Raised in This

    youtu.be/NRZYlDFzGb8

    > What if the real cult in America isn’t in the woods… but in your church?

    #Christianity #DeathCult #SocialControl #Liberty #Liberation #BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #Project2025 #USPol

  15. LIBERTY'S PRACTICAL PROTEST GUIDE

    "In the last few weeks, unprecedented numbers of people have taken to the streets all around the #UK to stand up for what they believe in. You might be one of them.

    "Download #Liberty’s Practical #Protest Guide for useful protest tips like what to wear, how to stay safe and who to call if you find yourself in trouble.

    "Liberty challenges injustice, defends freedom and campaigns to make sure everyone in the UK is treated fairly."

    Web:
    action.libertyhumanrights.org.

    PDF link:
    libertyhumanrights.org.uk/wp-c

    #WaterProtectors #DirectAction #CriminalizingDissent #DefendTheForest #EnvironmentalActivists #ClimateActivists #ClimateJustice #ACAB #Fascism #SilencingDissent #CorporateColonialism #EcoActivists #Censorship #HumanRightsViolations #Article20 #AbolishTheMonarchy #RightToProtest #SlowMarch

  16. Another court challenge to #AntiProtest laws -- this one in the #UK

    High court challenge to ‘constitutionally unprecedented’ UK anti-protest law

    #NationalCouncilForCivilLiberties brings civil case to quash ‘back-door’ regulations making it easier for police to stop protests

    By Daniel Boffey, November 29, 2023

    "A new law making it easier for the police to put conditions on peaceful protests is 'constitutionally unprecedented' and unlawful, according to a claim filed at the high court in #London.

    "The legal challenge from the National Council for Civil Liberties, also known as #Liberty, is seeking to have the controversial regulations quashed, given what the advocacy group describes as the #draconian consequences for fundamental rights.

    "The former home secretary Suella Braverman used the government’s so-called #HenryVIII powers to lower the threshold for the police to impose restrictions on protests, allowing it where there is merely a 'more than minor' hindrance on people’s daily lives.

    "The change, through a statutory instrument in the Lords, came after the chamber rejected the same change, proposed months earlier in a heavily debated and scrutinised new public order act. Peers do not by convention normally vote down statutory instruments.

    "The manner in which the regulations are said to have been forced through parliament is said by lawyers acting for Liberty to 'represent a constitutionally unprecedented attempt on the part of the executive to achieve by the back door through delegated legislation what it was unable to achieve by the front'.

    "There had been 'no reasonable justification' provided for using a statutory instrument to change the law, it is claimed, and there was inadequate consultation of those who would be affected.

    "Katy Watts, a lawyer at Liberty, said: 'We all want to live in a society where our government respect the rules, but time and again this government has done the opposite. The previous home secretary’s actions to sneak in rejected laws through the back door are a particularly egregious example of this.

    “The wording of the government’s new law is so vague that anything deemed by police to cause ‘more than a minor’ disturbance could have restrictions imposed upon it. This has serious implications for everyone’s right to stand up for the things they believe in.

    “These laws had been thrown out by parliament just months before the then home secretary introduced them. It’s shocking to see the government so flagrantly disregard our vital democratic checks and balances, and we’re determined not to let this stand.

    “Our legal action is intended to stop this government’s flouting of the law in its tracks, and make sure that nobody – including our politicians – is above the law. It’s vital that they are not allowed to get away with it.'

    "In the protest regulations brought into force on 14 June, 'more than minor' hindrances or delays are included in the definition of 'serious disruption' that is the threshold at which the police may impose conditions on a protest under the public order act 1986.

    "The police are also allowed to take into account the cumulative effect of repeated protests when deciding whether the threshold had been met.

    "The government has said the regulations are an attempt to deal with the activities of #JustStopOil and #ExtinctionRebellion, and that the language around 'more than minor' hindrances mirrors that in other new offences of ‘locking-on’ and ‘tunnelling’.

    "The changes were nevertheless rejected by the House of Lords in February by 254 votes to 240 when they were put forward as amendments during the passage of the public order bill 2023, only for them to re-emerge in a statutory instrument.

    "Regulations brought in by such means, known a Henry VIII powers in reference to the monarch’s preference for legislating directly by proclamation, are subject to minimal parliamentary scrutiny and decided on an 'all or nothing' basis without amendments.

    "Between 1950 and 2017, only 0.01% of the total number of such instruments laid before parliament were rejected.

    "Liberty’s legal challenge refers to supporting comments by the Lords’ secondary legislation scrutiny committee, which had been sufficiently alarmed to warn peers of 'constitutional issues' and told them it was 'not aware of any examples of this approach being taken in the past'.

    "The legal challenge said it could not be right that parliament was 'treated as having provided [the] executive with a blank cheque to lower the applicable threshold by the back door and thereby sanction greater police interference with public assemblies and protests'.

    "The government’s consultation is also said to have been limited to a roundtable chaired by the prime minister with the National Police Chiefs’ Council, the Metropolitan police service and the police and crime commissioners of the police forces whose areas include the M25 and national highways.

    "A Home Office spokesperson said: 'The right to protest is a fundamental part of our democracy but we must also protect the law-abiding majority’s right to go about their daily lives.

    "'That is why legislation is in place to clarify the definition of serious disruption and give police the confidence they need to clear roads quickly.

    "'This legislation was voted on by both the House of Commons and House of Lords, following proper parliamentary procedure.'"

    theguardian.com/world/2023/nov

    #WaterProtectors #DirectAction #CriminalizingDissent
    #DefendTheForest #EnvironmentalActivists
    #ClimateActivists #ClimateJustice #ACAB #Fascism #SilencingDissent
    #CorporateColonialism
    #EcoActivists #Censorship #HumanRightsViolations #Article20 #AbolishTheMonarchy #RightToProtest #SlowMarch