Voters in EU referendum did not know what they were voting for – Labour’s Oona King tells House of Lords that 2nd plebiscite on negotiated Brexit deal is ‘only fair & democratic’

trai_dep · 2016-07-07T23:04:08+00:00

Speaking during a short debate she had triggered in the House of Lords on the case for holding a second vote on UK membership of the EU, Lady King said the outcome of the referendum would lead to negotiations on the terms of Brexit.

“Once they conclude, and once the shape and meaning of Brexit becomes clear, at that point it is only fair and democratic that the British people accept or reject the final deal,” she said.

“They voted by a narrow margin to leave the EU, but many British people, possibility the majority, were unaware of the far-reaching consequences of the EU referendum. After all, they were asked ‘Do you want to leave the EU?’, not ‘Do you want to break up the UK?’

“This likely outcome wasn’t articulated by either side during the referendum campaign. After the dust has settled in the immediate aftermath of the referendum vote, we don’t actually know what we voted for.”

trai_dep · 2016-07-07T22:59:26+00:00

Evangelical Right-Wing Christian Cunha’s resignation speech was typically abrasive: “It is well known that the house is brainless,” he said of the institution he helped to shape.

The question now is whether Cunha will also be stripped of his seat in the lower house, which would expose him to a possible trial in the lower courts. Police involved in the Lava Jato (Car Wash) investigation say privately this is only a matter of time because there is so much evidence against him. While many in Brazil would like to see him go to jail, the prospect is likely to alarm many of his former allies. Like Frank Underwood in House of Cards, Cunha is thought to have built a political power base on his knowledge of other politician’s dirty secrets. According to the domestic media, he has warned Temer that if he goes to prison, he will not go alone.

Cunha initiated the impeachment process against Rousseff last December as a form of retribution after her Workers party refused to back him in the ethics committee.

But if he hoped the battle against the president would also divert attention from his case, or win rewards from those he put in power, he has been proved wrong.

trai_dep · 2016-07-07T19:22:20+00:00

TIL! Thanks!

And here's the missing cite, from the amazing Snopes.com

Bonus Twainism:

However, he did say “If you don't like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes.”

trai_dep · 2016-07-07T18:32:28+00:00

trai_dep · 2016-07-07T18:30:50+00:00

Does self-pleasuring not count as "anything"?

Speaking of which, what's the over/under for that frequency, compared to the three groups. I'd like to think in our democracies, it is shared equally as the practice embraces all in its open ~~arms~~ palms.

trai_dep · 2016-07-07T18:18:28+00:00

You? 12 different kinds of awesomeness! 😆

trai_dep · 2016-07-07T18:12:21+00:00

VPNs are an area of expertise that I don't have the bandwidth to learn, and as a Mod, I try not to remove articles unless very justified. However, I do rely on experts I trust, like /u/ThatOnePrivacyGuy. Who's also a Mod here, but might not think of keeping/culling the same way that I do. Teamwork!

We (and the other Subs I Mod) aren't shoot-from-the-hip banners/deleters, else I would have done that. So, don't take offense, plz. Many other Sub Mods would have deleted it if they had any doubts… I'm doing due diligence. :)

trai_dep · 2016-07-07T05:47:10+00:00

If the Body Text has a link to a less-than-optimal URL, let me know and I'll delete the post.

~~This smells very spammy. Ain't no one got time enough for that. :)~~

Edit: nope, it's fine! :D

trai_dep · 2016-07-06T23:53:30+00:00

In court on Wednesday, Patrick Toomey, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, told the judges surveillance under the FISA Amendment Act, or FAA, “involves the collection of hundreds of millions of communications each year”. The full scope of surveillance under the act was revealed by Snowden, who passed a trove of NSA documents to the Guardian in 2013.

In cases such as Mohamud’s, Toomey said, the government vacuums up that electronic evidence from foreigners without a search warrant and then goes back and picks through it looking for information on specific Americans in so-called secondary or backdoor searches.

That, he said, is a violation of Mohamud’s and other Americans’ constitutional rights.

trai_dep · 2016-07-06T23:52:09+00:00

Attorneys clashed over whether the use of warrantless surveillance is constitutional on Wednesday, during the first review by a federal appeals court of a criminal conviction based on the law underpinning secret spy programs revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden.

Patrick Toomey, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, told a court in Oregon that the federal government is bypassing “the fourth amendment rights of Americans like the defendant, while amassing a huge database of their private communications”…

trai_dep · 2016-07-06T20:52:37+00:00

The Observer article seriously suggests lining your walls with tin foil to hinder leaky Wi-Fi signals.

Finally, somewhere we can point when anyone suggests the average /r/Privacy subscriber takes things a bit too far!

trai_dep · 2016-07-06T18:56:38+00:00

Note, you have to visit a site, download it, then install it, giving your Admin password. Then launch it. Quite a few steps.

I'd go further and say, dodgy sites that, unless you're technical enough to know better, you should avoid. I say this as a person who friends always call after screwing up then expecting me to fix whatever gawd-awful mess they did out of sheer ignorance and/or bad practices.

Most importantly,

The good news is that the malicious app is not signed by an Apple Developer ID, so as long as you have your Mac set only to open apps from the Mac App Store or known developers, it won’t open. It does, though, emphasize the importance of exercising caution even when downloading apps from reputable sites.

trai_dep · 2016-07-06T18:50:18+00:00

All eleven of them.

trai_dep · 2016-07-06T17:08:09+00:00

Err, kind of the point of a historical designation, no?

trai_dep · 2016-07-06T17:04:17+00:00

Ah. So rather than blame poor /u/FuriousFap42, you're doubling down to suggest all of /r/ASOIAF is randomly typing words to see if it works out? Bold move.

While shamelessly mangling metaphors as well, it should be noted.

You can be bold. And still be wrong. ;)

trai_dep · 2016-07-06T01:00:52+00:00

That's the thing. It's unsettled, with enough on either side of the argument to not know. So, from a business perspective, you can see why they wouldn't want to risk it. Yet it'd be better for everyone if it was settled (for the best, ideally).

trai_dep · 2016-07-05T21:55:48+00:00

iDevices have a number of baked-in protections securing your communications. This blog is a great way to take it up an additional notch, either if you are heading to a particularly interesting area or might be doing particularly interesting work.

Even if you're not, it can't hurt to know how to strengthen your privacy up a notch.

trai_dep · 2016-07-05T21:53:57+00:00

Well, simply because you're unconcerned if people can access your iPhone while traveling doesn't mean everyone else isn't. (shrug)

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