And Now: The Rogue Websites Bill Introduced in U.S. House October 27th, 2011 The “Stop Online Piracy Act” would target foreign websites for take down. I wondered what this actually meant, from a technical perspective, so I gave the proposed legislation a very quick look. It turns out that the government wants to force [...]
Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Occupy Wall Street protesters: City will now require permits October 22, 2011 Print Version Source: NY Daily News Mayor Bloomberg said Friday that he’s going to start turning the screws on the Occupy Wall Streeters. The city is planning to take a harder line on demonstrators camping out in Zuccotti Park [...]
Financial Giants Put New York City Cops On Their Payroll October 12th, 2011 Via: CounterPunch: If you’re a Wall Street behemoth, there are endless opportunities to privatize profits and socialize losses beyond collecting trillions of dollars in bailouts from taxpayers. One of the ingenious methods that has remained below the public’s radar was started by [...]
Boston police impose curfew for protesters October 11, 2011 Print Version Source: Boston.com Boston police moved in and began arresting scores of Occupy Boston protesters who refused to leave a large part of the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway early this morning. At 1:20 a.m., the first riot police officers lined up on Atlantic Avenue. Minutes [...]
Source: The Register VeriSign, which manages the database of all .com internet addresses, wants powers to shut down “non-legitimate” domain names when asked to by law enforcement. The company said today it wants to be able to enforce the “denial, cancellation or transfer of any registration” in any of a laundry list of scenarios [...]
TechDirt By Mike Masnick October 9, 2011 We’ve been pointing out a variety of attempts to push back on the First Amendment lately. One fertile ground for such attacks are local politicians carrying the “cyberbullying” banner, in various attempts to magically outlaw being a “jerk” online, usually by making it illegal to offend someone online. [...]
Why Are Rick Perry And Mitt Romney Getting About Twice As Much Talking Time During The Republican Debates As The Other Candidates? Considering the fact that no real votes will be cast until next year and considering the fact that the polls are constantly changing, shouldn’t all of the candidates participating in the Republican debates [...]
October 3, 2011 Print Version Source: USA Today ESPN has dropped Hank Williams Jr. from opening Monday Night Footballtonight after Williams’ controversial comments Monday about President Obama. Says ESPN, in a statement: “While Hank Williams Jr. is not an ESPN employee, we recognize he is closely linked to our company through the opening to Monday [...]
Fox News Deletes ‘Who Won the Debate?’ Poll Page After Ron Paul Wins September 25th, 2011 Update: You Can Actually Embed the Poll On Your Own Site—If You Want HAHAHA. Fox News. What a bunch of idiots. Code Someone will eventually sober up and take it down, but for now, it works. —End Update— [...]
Fear of Repression Spurs Scholars and Activists to Build Alternate Internets September 25th, 2011 This is great, but don’t forget the context: U.S. Has Secret Tools to Force Internet on Dictators U.S. Underwrites Internet Detour Around Censors The Sock Puppet Industrial Complex: U.S. Trains ‘Activists’ to Evade Security Forces Think outside the box, by [...]
by Zen Gardner At mid-day on Friday, September 23, 2011, the popular alternative news blog, ActivistPost.com, was taken offline. Activist Post receives over one million views per month and has been hosted by Google’s Blogger since its founding in June 2010. “We remain puzzled as to why Activist Post was erased completely by Google,” said [...]
Blackberry would close UK service in unrest if ordered September 15, 2011 Print Version Source: Reuters (London) – BlackBerry said on Thursday it would close down its hugely popular messenger service in Britain if ordered to at times of civil unrest, after police singled out the system as a key tool used in last month’s riots. [...]
September 8, 2011 Source: Reuters Ten years after al Qaeda’s attack on the United States, the vast majority of the 9/11 Commission’s investigative records remain sealed at the National Archives in Washington, even though the commission had directed the archives to make most of the material public in 2009, Reuters has learned. The National Archives’ [...]
Indy Journalist Franklin Lamb Shot; Others Shot at and Threatened by CNN « on: August 28, 2011, 01:56:37 PM » .Independent Journalist Mahdi Nazemroaya threatened by CNN staff (producer) and fired on at Tripoli hotel by NATO backed terrorists and snipers. NATO has provided direct armed cover to these armed gangs, who have no [...]
UK spy files reveal details of 1950s Guyana coup [Translate] S ource: AP LONDON (AP) — It was a very British coup. The warship slipped into the harbor, the soldiers landed in darkness — and the diplomatic wives made sandwiches for the hungry troops. Secret documents declassified Friday by Britain’s MI5 security service reveal in [...]
