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Rickard Falkvinge: European Pirate Party Promotions & Prospects

The Pirate Bay Running Promos For European Pirate Parties In Election Week Pirate Parties:  In a last-minute visibility boost, The Pirate Bay is providing front-page exposure to the European Pirate Parties in this European Election. Offline-borns would tend to scoff at this; however, the net generation understands that this is an enormous amount of exposure, …

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Rickard Falkvinge: Pirate Party Iceland & EU Nominate Manning & Snowden for Nobel Peace Prize

Pirate Party MPs, MEPs Jointly Nominate Snowden And Manning For Peace Prize Civil Liberties:  Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize 2014 in a joint nomination by the Pirate MPs of Iceland and the Pirate MEPs of the European Parliament. “Manning gave us an insight into the brutal reality …

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Rickard Falkvinge: Pirate Party Tripling Seats in Europe — USA Still Moribund

With European Elections One Year Out, Pirate Representation Expected To Triple Pirate Parties:  This week, the end of May 2013, the European Elections are exactly one year out, and as things stand today, Pirate representation in the European Parliament can be expected to triple. This would follow a Swedish re-election, a German entry, and a …

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Rickard Falkvinge: Icelandic Pirate Party WINS, Enters Parliament

Icelandic Pirate Party WINS, Enters Parliament Pirate Parties:  The Icelandic Pirate Party has entered Parliament. This is clear as all the votes have been counted, with the Pirate Party at 5.1% as final result, just above the five-percent barrier to entry. EXTRACT: The Icelanders are something of a phenomenon, even within the quickly-growing Pirate Party …

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Eagle: Italy Showcases Movement Getting 25% of the Vote — Pirate Party USA or a Reform Coalition — Could Break the Back of the Two-Party Tyranny

Maybe Italy’s Politicians Aren’t Crazier Than Ours Alexander Stille The New Yorker, March 5, 2013 The results of the last Italian election are baffling, if not incomprehensible, to most foreign observers: as one American friend put it, a majority of Italians voted either for a comedian (Beppe Grillo) or a clown (Silvio Berlusconi). A center-left …

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Yoda: Pirate Party Open Project to Reduce Terrorist Use of the Internet

Interesting, this is. Clean IT: Pirates publish counter-terrorism information After much controversy surrounding the european project “Clean IT”, the Pirate Party Switzerland (“PPS”) and the Pirate Party Luxembourg (“Piraten”) were able to make an exclusive arrangement with the involved parties and will publish the current draft of the project on the website www.openclean.it starting 18h00 on October …

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