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Dutch Pirate Party Joins Election Race
2009 was a breakthrough year for the Pirate Party movement. With more than 7 percent of the vote, the Swedish Pirate Party secured two seats in the European Parliament. A few weeks later, the Pirates in Germany entered the local Parliament after a member of another party switched sides.
Continue reading »Net Neutrality: Now cures all wickedness – and Loompa scurvy, too
The lynch mob and the FCC Delicious news from the United States, where ‘Net Neutrality’ is again being recast for a new political purpose.…
Continue reading »Pirate Party Gets Second Seat in European Parliament
With more than 7 percent of the vote, the Swedish Pirate Party secured a seat in the European Parliament in June, and the possibility of gaining another if the Lisbon Treaty was signed by all member states. The Lisbon Treaty was ratified yesterday by Vaclav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic, who was the last to sign the document. Ironically, The Pirate Party was against the Lisbon Treaty, which has now doubled the number of seats the party has in the European Parliament.
Continue reading »Canadian Pirate Party needs 250 sign-ups!
|| Politics:- Around the world, our political representatives are no longer representing us bowing, instead, to the self-serving demands of the corporate entertainment industry. If it seems to you this doesn’t matter much — it’s only movies and music — remember Hollywood and the Big 4 record labels own or control, directly or indirectly, the bulk of the mainstream print and electronic media, with all that implies. But for the first time in the history of the world, the net has given ordinary people everywhere a voice the powers that used to be are forced to listen to.
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