2014 November | PirateTimes
PPSE GA: New board, Changes and Plans for 2015
The General Assembly of the Pirate Party of Sweden recently ended with some changes. The meeting decided to make the future GA’s a bit more flexible, in lead up time, from the previous mandatory six weeks to the Presidium deciding the…
Why Pirates should be concerned about TTIP
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) bothers us on the methodological plane and on the content plane. On 11 October 2014, a large number of organizations cooperated with European Pirates in actions across many countries against the TTIP TTIP Methodology…
Dutch Pirate Party attacked in hacking incident
During the General Assembly of the Dutch ‘Piratenpartij’ (PPNL), hackers penetrated the security of the party’s infrastructure. Some of the databases that were affected were the member administration system and the webmail. It is still not clear whether the intruders copied any data,…
Winning Discussions: argumentum ad ignorantiam (Effective Pirating)
Logical fallacies are techniques that people use to make an argument appear convincing even when it is wrong. Learning how to identify and refute logical fallacies is one of the best ways to win in a discussion. Catching an opponent…
Czech Pirates Celebrate their First Pirate Mayor
If we look at Pirate history we see that the Czech pirates already have a Senator but now history is being made again. The first Pirate mayor in the history of the Czech Republic has been elected in the spa town of Mariánské…
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Pirates Elected to Office [Pirate History]
When asked why he started a political party Rick Falkvinge answered “Because activism is not enough”. Since the formation of the first Pirate Party in Sweden in 2006 millions of votes have been cast and hundreds of Pirates have been…
Winning Discussions: post hoc, ergo propter hoc (Effective Pirating)
Logical fallacies are techniques that people use to make an argument appear convincing even when it is wrong. Learning how to identify and refute logical fallacies is one of the best ways to win in a discussion. Catching an opponent…
American Pirate Candidates Reach up to 18%
In a country where the concept of proportional representation is all but unknown, Pirates have done very well. In most other countries the share of the votes gained would have meant seats in government. Obviously the issues raised by the…
US Pirates are Running for Political Office
Although the barriers, put up by the ruling elite, make running in national elections next to impossible for Pirates in the US, the situation in some states is different. Pirates in Massachusetts and Wisconsin are putting up candidates in Tuesday’s…
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