The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The Copyright Cartel’s Enforcers: The FBI What happens when a government hollows out? Answer: Private interests take control of the machinery of state to enhance and protect their profitability. In some cases, this results in simple looting (like the US mortgage fiasco and EU meltdown). In others, Byzantine laws and rules are enacted that crush …
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Koko Sign: Transparency good. Scary science, national security, and open-source research Maggie Koerth-Baker BoingBoing, 13 January 2012 I’ve been following the story about the scientists who have been working to figure out how H5N1 bird flu might become transmissible from human to human, the controversial research they used to study that question, and the federal …
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Boing Boing will go dark on Jan 18 to fight SOPA By Cory Doctorow BooingBoing, 14 January 2012 On January 18, Boing Boing will join Reddit and other sites around the Internet in “going dark” to oppose SOPA and PIPA, the pending US legislation that creates a punishing Internet censorship regime and exports it to …
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Reddit Users to Target Supporters of SOPA in Congress After Successful Boycott of GoDaddy When GoDaddy.com revealed that it was a supporter of the internet censorship legislation bills SOPA/PIPA, Reddit users and a few big names in the internet business including Wikipedia decided to boycott the web-hosting company. They threatened to pull their domains, stop …
Click here to sign your name: “Google, stand up for democracy and your users—quit the U.S. Chamber of Commerce!” Dear MoveOn member, Right now we have a huge opportunity to deal what’s being called a “serious blow to one of Washington’s most powerful lobbies.”1 The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is an army of lobbyists for …
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Paul Krassner 5.0 out of 5 stars Less Funny, More Provocative–Price is a WOW,November 20, 2011 First, a confession. I am 59 years old and had no idea who Paul Krassner was/is. The more I read through the book the more I marveled at his pioneering endeavors and their continuing relevance as Occupy struggles to …
The Darknet Project: netroots activists dream of global mesh network By Ryan Paul A group of Internet activists gathered last week in an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channel to begin planning an ambitious project—they hope to overcome electronic surveillance and censorship by creating a whole new Internet. The group, which coordinates its efforts through the …
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