Pirate Party gets one (or maybe two) MEP
Haven't found any mention of this:Tonight the Swedish Pirate Party gained at least on seat in the European Parlaiment.
View ArticlePirates win election in Sweden
The Pirate Party of Sweden has been a big winner in the election of a new European parliament. Defending online privacy rights, taking a stand against software patents and opposing too strickt...
View ArticleYarr.. Pirate Party - coming soon to a country near you?
The results are in. In yesterday's European Parliament electons, the Swedish Pirate Party succeded in winning a seat, out of Sweden's 18 seats in the Parliament, with about 7% of the vote. A great...
View ArticleDefection in the Bundestag gives Pirate Party a seat - but do they want it?
German media is reporting that German MP Jörg Tauss is now defecting to the German Pirate Party (Piratenpartei), after leaving his party (the Social Democrats) in protest over Germany's new Internet...
View ArticleWould You Support a "Pirate Party"? (POLL)
Today’s Der Spiegel contains a fascinating story on the rise of Sweden’s Pirate Party, a fast-growing political party founded foursquare on Internet freedom:http://www.spiegel.de/...And it got me...
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This diary is NOT about Wikileaks
In an ironic twist, the latest batch of leaked embassy documents concerns the owners of the domain name wikileaks.ch. No, they didn't leak information about themselves. Wikileaks.ch is owned by an...
View ArticleAmbassador from The Present
It's too soon to say about Tunisia, of course: will its revolution succeed? Will a democratic coalition endure, establishing a new order of government by consent? Will that spirit spread through the...
View ArticleBlowback: Hacktivists versus Dictators
The Egyptian government shut down most of the internet on Thursday, on the eve of what should be a massive protest march. A group of internet activists collective, Anonymous, warned the Egyptian...
View ArticleElection Time in Iceland: A Zombie Constitution To The Left, Pirates Sailing...
On April 27th, Icelanders will go to the polls to vote for a new parliament, which will in turn likely lead to the formation of different coalition government further to the right. Based on past...
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Icelandic MP Birgitta Jonsdottir on Snowden's asylum chances
Birgitta Jonsdottir is a member of Iceland's parliament, representing the Pirate Party. She's also a well known and longtime activist and supporter of information freedom, Wikileaks and human rights,...
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432 Million Internet Pirates Transfer 9,567 Petabytes of Data a Month
432 Million Internet Pirates Transfer 9,567 Petabytes of Data a MonthA new study commissioned by NBC Universal shows that piracy worldwide is on the rise. The report estimates that in January of this...
View ArticlePirate Party Crashes Spy Drone in Front of German Chancellor Angela Merkel
Pirate Party Crashes Spy Drone in Front of German Chancellor Angela MerkelWith the German elections less than a week away, the Pirate Party has pulled off a quite extraordinary stunt. At a campaign...
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No joke: Iceland's Pirate Party surges into first place in the polls
The Icelandic Pirate PartyIceland has long been one of the more right-leaning Nordic countries. In contrast to Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, which all have a long tradition of electing Social...
View ArticlePanama Papers could topple Iceland's government and elect the...
The Panama Papers, an enormous trove of leaked documents from a private law firm, have implicated political figures across the world in alleged schemes to avoid taxes and hide assets in tax havens such...
View ArticleDaily Kos Radio's KITM podcast (AUDIO): Kagro in the Morning, Thursday, April...
xEmbedded Content On iTunes | On Stitcher | Support the show: Patreon; PayPal; PayPal SubscriptionDavid Waldman is fully qualified to be President, let’s see any of the others try a daily...
View ArticleAmerican artist proposes Berlin monument to the "African-immigrant park drug...
Talk about tone-deafness!Ben Knight at Deutsche Welle:A US artist in Berlin has found a provocative way to invigorate the drug decriminalization debate. He has submitted an official application to...
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Saturday election thread, Iceland style: Pirates sailing, Greens rising,...
Sæl og blessuð og avast me hearties! While you in America are eagerly awaiting election day to decide whether your country will be governed by Hillary Clinton or A Glowing Orange-Hot Ball Of Rage,...
View ArticleInternational Elections Digest: Iceland's Pirate Party limps ashore with a...
Leading Off●Iceland –parliament (Oct. 29)Avast, scallywags! The tiny island nation of Iceland recently held early elections, after the Panama Papers corruption scandal brought down its center-right...
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