Posted on February 20, 2008 by robertkyriakides
Porsche are a very successful company that make expensive high performance cars. Its last published figures show that it sold 7.4 billion euro worth of new cars, (over 97,000 of them) made up of 39,000 911s, 26,000 Boxters and 33,000 Cayennes. It employs over 11,500 people and makes excellent profits.
Its well designed cars high on [...]
Filed under: carbon emissions, cars, climate change, energy, justice, ken livingstone, parliament, pollution | Tagged: 911, Boxter, Cayenne, cONGESTION CHARGE, congestion zone exemptions, Dr Wiederking, G-wiz, porsche, porsche carbon emissions, Porsche profits, the Green Party, transport for lONDON | 3 Comments »
Posted on February 9, 2008 by robertkyriakides
People have compared the present state surveillance powers to those in the old communist eastern bloc countries. The comparison is unfortunately true. We are spied upon by the state (whose only justification for existence is to serve and protect us), as rigorously and with as little control and with as little respect for our fundamental [...]
Filed under: justice, law, parliament | Tagged: authorities allowed to spy, bugging, Czechoslovakia, eavesdropping, judical control of surveillance, spying, StB, surveillance, velvet revolution | 1 Comment »
Posted on January 25, 2008 by robertkyriakides
On the 28th October 1940 Italy invaded Greece. The invasion inspired my father Nicolas Kyriakides to join the Cyprus Regiment of the British Army in Alexandria; he, along with other Cypriots, was promised that if Cypriots joined the Army after the defeat of the Axis forces Britain would grant Cyrus independence. A higher proportion of Cypriots [...]
Filed under: Jacqui Smith, justice, law | Tagged: an unust society, Cypriot forces in world war 2, definition of a terror suspect, detention without trial, internment, Italy invading Greece, Jacqui Smith, Kalamata, Most Czechoslovakia, stalag 4B, terror suspects, the greeks | 2 Comments »
Posted on December 21, 2007 by robertkyriakides
Mr Jamil El-Banna is supposed to live in London. He came from Jordan and the Home Office granted him refugee status in 2000. In 2002 he planned to set up a peanut oil processing plant in the Gambia. In November 2002 he was first arrested in the United Kingdom under anti terrorist legislation when he [...]
Filed under: justice | Tagged: , Fugutive Slave Act, Gambia, Guantanamo Bay, jamil El-Banna, justice, outlaws, rendition, rules of the game, slavery, terrorism, Thoreau, tyranny, United States, unjust laws | 4 Comments »
