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Submission + - Goverment Wants Your Personal Details

Submitted by FREEDOM IS SLAVERY on Sunday January 14, 2007 @04:35PM

FREEDOM IS SLAVERY writes: It has been revealed that, in a positively authoritarian move, Britain's Tony Blair and left wing Labour party is plotting to create a massive centralised database of every citizen's personal details. Workers under orders from The Party have already started actively cataloging the details of 12 million children and recording personally identifiable details of everything from vaccinations and family details to whether a child is eating sufficient fruit and vegetables. Opposition parties and civil rights groups are outraged.

Submission + - Woman Dies for Nintendo

Submitted by

Rhett

on Sunday January 14, 2007 @10:57AM

Rhett writes: ""Hold Your Wee for a Wii" contest causes water intoxication resulting in the death of a woman. SACRAMENTO — A 28-year-old woman found dead hours after taking part in a radio station's water drinking contest died of water intoxication, the coroner's office said Saturday."

Submission + - The Pirate Bay wants to buy Sealand

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 14, 2007 @08:38AM

An anonymous reader writes: On the website buysealand.com TBP.org announced it wants to buy Sealand — world's smalles country. From the article:

With the help of all the kopimists on Internets, we want to buy Sealand. Donate money and you will become a citizien. We've set up a forum to discuss how the country is supposed to function. — It should be a great place for everybody. With high-speed Internets access, no copyright laws and vip accounts to The Pirate Bay, press officer of ACFI says.
The owner of the micronation Sealand offered his island for sale:

"We have owned the island for 40 years now and my father is 85,'' Prince Michael of Sealand was quoted as saying. ''Perhaps it is time for some rejuvenation."

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