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Wednesday November 4th, 2009
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Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad.
posted 11/04/2009, 4:54 PM (Boingboing)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
The internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret copyright treaty whose text Obama’s administration refused to disclose due to “national security” concerns, has leaked. It’s bad. It says:
* That ISPs have to proactively police copyright on user-contributed material. This means that it will be impossible to run a service like Flickr or YouTube or Blogger, since hiring enough lawyers to ensure that the mountain of material uploaded every second isn’t infringing will exceed any hope of profitability.
* That ISPs have to cut off the Internet access of accused copyright infringers or face liability. This means that your entire family could be denied to the internet — and hence to civic participation, health information, education, communications, and their means of earning a living — if one member is accused of copyright infringement, without access to a trial or counsel.
* That the whole world must adopt US-style “notice-and-takedown” rules that require ISPs to remove any material that is accused — again, without evidence or trial — of infringing copyright. This has proved a disaster in the US and other countries, where it provides an easy means of censoring material, just by accusing it of infringing copyright.
* Mandatory prohibitions on breaking DRM, even if doing so for a lawful purpose (e.g., to make a work available to disabled people; for archival preservation; because you own the copyrighted work that is locked up with DRM) The ACTA Internet Chapter: Putting the Pieces Together |
ACTA -- A Patriot Act For the Internet
posted 11/04/2009, 4:52 PM (Huffington Post)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
This week 40 or so countries are meeting in South Korea to consider text for a new international agreement on the enforcement of intellectual property rights. It is called the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). The term "counterfeiting" is designed to demonize the agreement critics as friends of organized crime, much like the name of the Patriot Act seemed better than the "Elimination of Civil Liberties Act." It is really an agreement that addresses a wide range of intellectual pro... (more) |
Elites Launch "Global Impact Investing Network"
posted 11/04/2009, 4:52 PM (Old-Thinker News)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
Tax exempt foundations, banks and philanthropic organizations have been hard at work in the United States for decades molding the country to their liking. The schooling system, media, medical institutions, and foreign policy of the United States have all been influenced by them. Today, these foundations are partnering with global banking powerhouses in order to create the “Global Impact Investing Network” (GIIN) which aims to spearhead a new form of investment.... (more) |
How Goldman secretly bet on the U.S. housing crash
posted 11/04/2009, 4:52 PM (McClatchy Newspapers)
[Category: Economy]
WASHINGTON — In 2006 and 2007, Goldman Sachs Group peddled more than $40 billion in securities backed by at least 200,000 risky home mortgages, but never told the buyers it was secretly betting that a sharp drop in U.S. housing prices would send the value of those securities plummeting.
Goldman's sales and its clandestine wagers, completed at the brink of the housing market meltdown, enabled the nation's premier investment bank to pass most of its potential losses to others ... (more) |
Three More Children Injected Against Parents' Wishes
posted 11/04/2009, 4:52 PM (Prison Planet)
[Category: Brave New World]
When does yet another “mistake” become a flagrant official disregard for parental rights? Another three children have been injected with the swine flu vaccine against their parents’ wishes as schools institute mass inoculation programs with little concern about consent.
A girl in Brooklyn suffered an allergic reaction to the H1N1 shot after nurses injected her with the vaccine without the consent of her mother, Naomi Troy.
6-year-old Nikiyah Torres-Pierre takes... (more) |
Government Appoints Task Force To Handle H1N1 Vaccine Propaganda
posted 11/04/2009, 4:52 PM (Prison Planet)
[Category: Cover-Up/Deceptions]
 The U.S. government has appointed what the media is ludicrously billing as an “independent” group of health advisors whose job it will be to whitewash adverse reactions to the swine flu vaccine and “explain” them to the public as mere coincidence.
Authorities have been busier honing their propaganda about the H1N1 inoculation program than they have dealing with the actual rollout of the vaccine. A $16 million dollar campaign to coerce Americans into taking the shot is falling flat... (more) |
Mercury Rising: Autism Spikes, Toxins Suspected
posted 11/04/2009, 4:51 PM (CounterPunch)
[Category: Brave New World]
As the national focus on the H1N1 pandemic rages, additional evidence of a more insidious epidemic has emerged, with an all-too-expected shrug from the mainstream media. Results from two federal studies announced in October say parents have a 1-in-100-or-greater chance of having a child with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Since boys are four times more likely to have an ASD, their odds are as high as 1 in 60.
On Oct. 2, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen ... (more) |
Occupiers involved in drug trade: Afghan minister
posted 11/04/2009, 4:51 PM (Press TV)
[Category: Geopolitics]
 A foreign soldier walks through a poppy field in Afghanistan. The Afghan minister of counter narcotics says foreign troops are earning money from drug production in Afghanistan.
General Khodaidad Khodaidad said the majority of drugs are stockpiled in two provinces controlled by troops from the US, the UK, and Canada, IRNA reported on Saturday.
He went on to say that NATO forces are taxing the production of opium in the regions under their control.
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IBM Knew About Pandemic in 2006
posted 11/04/2009, 4:50 PM (Infowars)
[Category: Cover-Up/Deceptions]
A document has surfaced revealing IBM was aware of the current H1N1 “pandemic” in 2006. Excerpts from “Services & Global Procurement pan IOT Europe, Pandemic Plan Overview,” an official inter-departmental document distributed to upper-level management of IBM in France during 2006 are posted on the Prevent Disease website. The document predicts a 100% chance of a “pl... (more) |
Buffett buying Burlington Northern railroad
posted 11/04/2009, 4:50 PM (MSNBC)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
 NEW YORK - Warren Buffett has made bets on railroads before, but now he's all in. The billionaire investor's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. on Tuesday agreed to buy Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp., making a $34 billion bet on the future of the U.S. economy.
Burlington Northern, the nation's second-largest railroad, is the biggest hauler of food products like corn, and coal for electricity, making it an indicator of the country's economic health. The railroad also ships a large amount ... (more)Globalists buying up critical infrastructure... |
1,600 are suggested daily for FBI's list
posted 11/04/2009, 4:50 PM (Washington Post)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
Newly released FBI data offer evidence of the broad scope and complexity of the nation's terrorist watch list, documenting a daily flood of names nominated for inclusion to the controversial list.
During a 12-month period ended in March this year, for example, the U.S. intelligence community suggested on a daily basis that 1,600 people qualified for the list because they presented a "reasonable suspicion," according to data provided to the Senate Judiciary Committee by the FBI in ... (more) |
Bill Clinton unveils golden statue of himself in Kosovo
posted 11/04/2009, 4:49 PM (Aftermath News)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
 The 11-foot statue, dedicated to the US president to thank him for launching a Nato bombing campaign to halt the killing of ethnic Albanians by Serbian troops in 1999, sits on a boulevard also named for Mr Clinton.
“I am profoundly grateful that I had a chance to be a part of ending the horrible things that were happening to you 10 years ago, giving you a chance to build a better future for yourself,” Mr Clinton told the crowd.
“I never expected … a... (more) |
Many young Swedes doubt al-Qaida 9/11 guilt
posted 11/04/2009, 4:49 PM (The Local)
[Category: Resistance]
Almost one in five Swedes aged under 30 think that George W Bush's US government lay behind the attacks on September 11th 2001, according to a new survey by Novus Opinion.
The TV4 programme Kalla Fakta, which commissioned the survey, will on Sunday address the subject of the Truth Movement, an international group which espouses the conspiracy theory that the terror network al-Qaida was not behind the September 11th attacks.
The movement, also known as the "September... (more) |
Re-investigate 9/11: 2nd meeting in the House of Commons, London
posted 11/04/2009, 4:49 PM (9/11 Blogger)
[Category: Resistance]
 A few weeks ago I posted an entry about a meeting in the House of Commons in London. The second meeting will be monday 2nd November.
With great support from a fairtrade coffee business, a full page advert was placed in one of our national newspapers, the Independent, on Saturday 31st October.
There will be a public meeting afterwards because the private meeting is for MPs and aides only.
Go to www.reinvestigate911.org to see the advert and information |
Osama bin Laden Responsible for the 9/11 Attacks? Where is the Evidence?
posted 11/04/2009, 4:49 PM (David Ray Griffin)
[Category: Commentary]
The idea that Osama bin Laden was responsible for the 9/11 attacks has been an article of faith for public officials and the mainstream media. Calling it an “article of faith” points to two features of this idea. On the one hand, no one in these circles publicly challenges this idea.
On the other hand, as I pointed out at length in two of my books – 9/11 Contradictions1 and The New Pearl Harbor Revisited,2 no good evidence has ever been publicly presented to support it.
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Web could run out of addresses next year, warn web experts
posted 11/04/2009, 4:49 PM (The Telegraph)
[Category: Science/Technology]
A survey, conducted by the European Commission, found that few companies are prepared for the switch from the current naming protocol, IPv4, to the new regime, IPv6. Web experts have warned that we could run out of internet addresses within the next two years unless more companies migrate to the new platform.
The IPv4 and IPv6 protocols refer to the way in which web addresses are created and assigned. Each website has a unique IP address, represented by a string... (more)Just another excuse to regulate the internet. |
Chinese media claims Beijing snow "artificially induced"
posted 11/04/2009, 4:49 PM (AFP)
[Category: Science/Technology]
 Chinese meteorologists covered Beijing in snow Sunday after seeding clouds to bring winter weather to the capital in an effort to combat a lingering drought, state media reported.
The unusually early snow blanketed the capital from Sunday morning and kept falling for half the day, helped by temperatures as low as minus 2 Celsius (29 Fahrenheit) and strong winds from the north, Xinhua news agency reported.
Besides falling in the northeastern provinces of Liaoning and... (more) |
One year on, Obamamania gives way to luke warm support
posted 11/04/2009, 4:48 PM (AFP)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
A year on from a historic election, the spirit of popular goodwill that yielded America's first black president has retreated to tepid support for Barack Obama as he presses his change agenda.
Since the November 4 poll, Obama's visage has been everywhere, conspicuously on the streets of the nation's capital where millions of foreign and domestic tourists have visited over the past year, many of them snatching up poignant souvenirs.
A quick look around downtown Was... (more) |
Government booklet addresses Obamacare as if it is a done deal
posted 11/04/2009, 4:48 PM (Infowars)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
It does not matter that Congress has yet to pass the Obama health care at gunpoint bill — the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services is now sending out a booklet notifying employers and employees that family members will be forced to participate and money will be taken out of their paychecks for government healthcare.
“When medical insurance coverage is ordered through employment, the National Medical Support Notice (NMSN) is sent to the employer or union to enforc... (more) |
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