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Saudi govt warns of ‘suitable measures’ towards internet censorship against WhatsApp, Skype, Viber

April 1, 2013 in ANON NeWs, Headline, Occupy, Politics, World News

Saudi Arabia says it will take “suitable measures” if providers of internet messaging applications such as WhatsApp fail to comply with its rules. The move comes a week after the government warned providers to comply with censorship requirements.

Internet applications such as Skype and Viber are also at risk of being banned if they do not meet the government’s specific demands. “Some telecom applications over the Internet protocol currently do not meet the regulatory conditions” in the kingdom, the Communications and Information Technology Commission said in a Sunday statement carried by SPA state news agency.

Saudi Arabian Intenet Censorship Policy Limits the Free Flow of Information and Ideas, Limiting Free Speech

Saudi Arabian Intenet Censorship Policy Limits the Free Flow of Information and Ideas, Limiting Free Speech

The commission has told service providers in Saudi Arabia to work with developers of such applications to “quickly meet the regulatory conditions,” but did not explain how they violated the government’s rules.

“The commission will take suitable measures regarding these applications and services if those conditions are not met,” it said. Read the rest of this entry →

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The Gentleperson’s Guide To Forum Spies

July 22, 2012 in ANON NeWs, Editorial, Occupy, World News

The Gentleperson’s Guide To Forum Spies (spooks, feds, etc.)
http://pastebin.com/irj4Fyd5

1. COINTELPRO Techniques for dilution, misdirection and control of a internet forum
2. Twenty-Five Rules of Disinformation
3. Eight Traits of the Disinformationalist
4. How to Spot a Spy (Cointelpro Agent)
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MegaFail: Prosecutors fall short on evidence against Kim Dotcom

June 12, 2012 in ANON NeWs, Finance, Headline, Occupy, Politics, Update, World News

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Prosecutors in New Zealand have been unable to provide timely evidence to extradite Kim Dotcom, the founder of cloud-sharing website MegaUpload.com, to the US. The reason: there was simply too much to sift through.

­Crown attorney Fergus Sinclair said the New Zealand prosecution is unable to produce evidence by the set deadline because it is “too big a job.”

“They wouldn’t get a small way through it in that time,” Sinclair was quoted by Auckland Now as saying.

Prosecutors were tasked by New Zealand Judge David Harvey with rummaging through MegaUpload’s servers for evidence so that there could be a full accounting of Dotcom’s case before a decision is made on whether he is to be extradited to the US. Judge Harvey also told the FBI to collect evidence.

Dotcom’s case has been stirring controversy on both sides of the Pacific. His attorneys say the US illegally poached evidence from New Zealand, taking 18 copies of evidence despite an agreement with Kiwi prosecutors that it would remain in the country. That charge was deflected by prosecutors, who said that the clause only pertains to original data, and not copies of it, Radio New Zealand reported. Those prosecutors also said it would take another two and a half months to comb through the site’s archive before sufficient evidence is produced. Read the rest of this entry →

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Commander X: Anonymous infiltrated by the FBI

May 27, 2012 in ANON NeWs, Headline, Occupy, Politics, Video Perspective, World News

Published on May 16, 2012 by

As a preface to this post, we would like to point out that this man clearly says that “this is a war”, a civil war that the governments, corporations and banks that run them, and the media they control have declared on their own people.  In the United States, the right to bear arms does not make any distinction as to if that right to bear arms applies to the only effective weapon left available to the people of the world [computers and information tech.].  As it stands in the current world we live in,  we are sure that most people can recognize that your right to own a handgun or other firearm is null and void if you recognize that the armies of the world now use drones and satellites to target and kill people from afar, before you would ever have a chance…. like the constitution clearly allows,  to stand your ground and fight for a revolution.


Whether you love them or hate them, you’ve without a doubt heard of the hacktivist collective Anonymous. Government officials have claimed that the next major terrorist attack will be carried out over cyberspace, and the feds have all but called Anonymous the next al-Qaeda. Recently an alleged member of the group made claims that Anonymous is perhaps the most powerful organizations in the world. That person, a hacktivist using the handle Commander X, joins us to explain his allegations and discuss the future of Anonymous.

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June 9th 2012 – Europe-wide action against ACTA

May 26, 2012 in ANON NeWs, Headline, Occupy, Politics, Update, Video Perspective, World News

Published on Apr 5, 2012 by

June 9th 2012 – Europe-wide action against ACTA
More information: https://pad.lqdn.fr/ro/r.b5zUnGTuykwDUwEY

Map: http://g.co/maps/j4grc

This video is available in many languages.
Check http://youtube.com/user/stopactaeurope

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Swedish researchers uncover key to China ‘s Tor-blocking system

April 3, 2012 in ANON NeWs, Headline, World News

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Swedish researchers have discovered that Chinese officials have updated the country’s ‘Great Firewall’ to make it harder for citizens to use the Tor network that provides a means of surfing the web anonymously.
It has been long-known that the ‘Great Firewall Wall of China’ has attempted to block citizens from using the Tor network, by blocking access to some IP addresses or using HTTP header filters to weed out suspect traffic.

But Philipp Winter and Stefan Lindskog of Karlstad University in Sweden have discovered that Chinese authorities have recently increased the sophistication of their filtering tools, making it more difficult for citizens to browse the web freely, by blocking so-called Tor bridges.
Tor bridges serve as entry points to the Tor network – if these are unreachable, a user cannot access the Tor network. While many of these bridges were once published, making it relatively simple to block, users had started to use unpublished bridges. Read the rest of this entry →

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Arizona House Bill 2549: Bill to Censor Electronic Speech Makes Trolling Illegal

April 3, 2012 in Headline, Politics

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Arizona House Bill 2549 would update the state’s telephone harassment law to apply to the Internet and other electronic communications. It would make it a crime to communicate via electronic means speech that is intended to “annoy,” “offend,” “harass” or “terrify,” as well as certain sexual speech.  However, because the bill is not limited to one-to-one communications, H.B. 2549 would apply to the Internet as a whole, thus criminalizing all manner of writing, cartoons, and other protected material the state finds offensive or annoying.

Most Recent News: H.B. 2549 passed the legislature on March 29 and is on Governor Jan Brewer’s desk awaiting her decision on whether to veto or sign the bill. Media Coalition sent a letter explaining our concerns to Gov. Brewer, her chief of staff Eileen Klein, and Joe Scarriotta, general counsel, on the same day it passed.

After passing out of the Senate Rules Committee, the Democratic and Republican caucuses passed the bill onto the full Senate for consideration of whether or not to put H.B. 2549 to a vote. Media Coalition sent a memo to every member of the Arizona State Senate.

On March 14, Media Coalition sent a memo to the Senate Rules Committee regarding constitutional infirmities in H.B. 2549.

Media Coalition sent a memo in opposition to the bill to the Senate Judiciary Committee on March 8, ahead of a hearing on the bill on March 11.

updated 3/30/12  -  mediacoalition.org

see the full text of the bill here

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FBI: ‘We are losing to hackers’ Hacktivists Win

March 30, 2012 in Headline, Occupy, Politics, World News

rt.com

if you thought hacktivists only messed with the FBI on Fridays, think again.

On Wednesday the Federal Bureau of Investigation admitted they are fighting a losing battle in cyberspace.

Shawn Henry, the FBI executive assistant director said fighting on the future “battleground” has been harder than initially thought.

“I don’t see how we ever come out of this without changes in technology or changes in behavior, because with the status quo, it’s an unsustainable model,” Henry told The Wall Street Journal.

“Unsustainable in that you never get ahead, never become secure; never have a reasonable expectation of privacy or security,” he added

Henry has gone on record saying he believes “the cyber threat is an existential one, meaning that a major cyber-attack could potentially wipe out whole companies,” said Henry on the FBI news website. Read the rest of this entry →

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How to Fund an American Police State: Real Money for an Imaginary War

March 6, 2012 in Editorial, Headline, Occupy, Politics

by: Stephan Salisbury   –  truth-out.org

At the height of the Occupy Wall Street evictions, it seemed as though some diminutive version of “shock and awe” had stumbled from Baghdad, Iraq, to Oakland, California.  American police forces had been “militarized,” many commentators worried, as though the firepower and callous tactics on display were anomalies, surprises bursting upon us from nowhere.

There should have been no surprise. Those flash grenades exploding in Oakland and the sound cannons on New York’s streets simply opened small windows onto a national policing landscape long in the process of militarization — a bleak domestic no man’s land marked by tanks and drones, robot bomb detectors, grenade launchers, tasers, and most of all, interlinked video surveillance cameras and information databases growing quietly on unobtrusive server farms everywhere.

 

The ubiquitous fantasy of “homeland security,” pushed hard by the federal government in the wake of 9/11, has been widely embraced by the public.  It has also excited intense weapons- and techno-envy among police departments and municipalities vying for the latest in armor and spy equipment.

In such a world, deadly gadgetry is just a grant request away, so why shouldn’t the 14,000 at-risk souls in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, have a closed-circuit-digital-camera-and-monitor system (cost: $180,000, courtesy of the Homeland Security Department) identical to the one up and running in New York’s Times Square?

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Any .com a target? US takes down ‘illegal’ website outside America

March 4, 2012 in Headline, Politics, World News

The conviction of Canadian billionaire Calvin Ayre in the US on charges of online gambling and money laundering has sparked fears that anyone owning an Internet .com domain could fall under US jurisdiction.

The federal judge implicated Ayre and four colleagues in almost $10 billion of illicit winnings paid out to gamblers. Ayre’s four colleagues are currently outside the US, yet face a possible jail sentence of 25 years.

In connection with the charges, Calvin Ayre’s website Bogdan.com was seized and shut down on Monday by Homeland Security on a federal court order. However other Bogdan sites, namely Bogdan.eu and Bogdan.co.uk remain active. Read the rest of this entry →

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FBI : Cyber attacks – America’s top terror threat

March 4, 2012 in ANON NeWs, Headline, Politics

Organized cyber crime is replacing terrorism as the number one threat to the American nation, says the FBI chief. The bureau is preparing to battle internet-based aggressors with recently created cyber-squads policing the web.

­The Cyber Crime section of the FBI website pledges that the bureau is ready to defend America from the cyber space threat. This vow, however, did not help much when the bureau’s website went down after a massive attack by Anonymous hacktivists on January 20.

Over the last few months, the Anonymous hacker community attacked the websites of the White House, CIA, FBI, Department of Justice, US Department of Homeland Security, Universal Music Group, Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and Motion Picture Association of America.

Just as the internet is not a boys’ toy anymore, hackers are no longer boys, either. Nowadays, previously “isolated hackers have joined forces to form criminal syndicates,” FBI boss Robert Mueller said at the RSA security conference in San Francisco on Thursday. These syndicates are often international, so this poses additional difficulties because it takes close work with foreign security agencies to achieve a result in the material world, while the internet knows neither borders nor boundaries, Mueller explained. Read the rest of this entry →

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Taking Down the Tents – Occupy

March 4, 2012 in Headline, Occupy, Politics, World News

By Phil Edwards

All sides seem to agree that the Occupy London Stock Exchange protesters are leaving undefeated. The cathedral authorities stress that although ‘tents and camping equipment’ have been removed from the vicinity of St Paul’s, ‘ideas and protests’ are still welcome. One protester described the eviction as ‘an opportunity for us to move sideways and be innovative and creative’.

But in London, as elsewhere, as the campers have had to move sideways, Occupy will have to find another way forward. It isn’t the kind of protest in which an achievable goal is linked to a symbolic nuisance, so that when the authorities see reason everyone can go home. Its demands have been much bigger, and they’ve been backed by the continuing physical presence of people obstinately taking up space. In this respect it’s much more like the Greenham Common peace camps, or Brian Haw’s one-man encampment in Parliament Square, than a traditional demonstration or sit-in. Their current position recalls the experiences of the Situationist International, a group the Occupy movement has often been compared to, not least by Adbusters, which issued the original call to occupy Wall Street last July. Read the rest of this entry →

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Wikileaks: The global intelligence files

March 1, 2012 in ANON NeWs, Finance, Headline, Occupy, Politics, World News

Wikileaks: Today, Monday 27 February, WikiLeaks began publishing The Global Intelligence Files – more than five million emails from the Texas-headquartered “global intelligence” company Stratfor. The emails date from between July 2004 and late December 2011. They reveal the inner workings of a company that fronts as an intelligence publisher, but provides confidential intelligence services to large corporations, such as Bhopal’s Dow Chemical Co., Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and government agencies, including the US Department of Homeland Security, the US Marines and the US Defense Intelligence Agency. The emails show Stratfor’s web of informers, pay-off structure, payment-laundering techniques and psychological methods, for example : Read the rest of this entry →

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EXCLUSIVE: Cointelpro Gothic II: Midwestern Police State Paranoia Continues! Winona & Des Moines hubs of spurious “terrorism” & great FBI statistical accomplishments!

March 1, 2012 in ANON NeWs, Headline, Occupy, Politics

http://www.hongpong.com/archives/tags/breaking

EARLIER: October 13, 2010: Cointelpro Gothic: Docs prove Iowa FBI’s Wild Rose Rebellion a pretend RNC “Terrorism Enterprise” for great “statistical accomplishment”

BY DAN FEIDT — HongPong

Feds Invade Homes of Independentistas and Trade-Unionists, Steal Documents, Brutally Assault Journalists

Another level of the seemingly endless, unregulated Midwestern law enforcement campaign against political activists has been revealed in 525 pages obtained from the Department of Justice by Freedom of Information Act requests filed by David Goodner of Des Moines. (FULL PDF 62MB / Scribd.com)

Two related stories emerge: in 2004-2006, federal agents spurred to achieve career-advancing “statistical accomplishments” spied on people the G-Men linked with the CrimeThinc Anarchist publishing label — in Des Moines and Winona, MN anyone linked to anything CrimeThinc is deemed a great target for further snooping. Read the rest of this entry →

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How Internet Companies Would Be Forced to Spy On You – Under H.R. 1981

February 26, 2012 in ANON NeWs, Headline, Politics, Update

By Rainey Reitman

Rep. Lamar Smith, author of the Stop Online Piracy Act, the controversial Hollywood-backed bill. Now Smith, a conservative Texas Republican, is championing legislation that would require Internet service providers to keep track of their customers, in case police want to review those logs in the future. His bill is called H.R. 1981.

Online commentators are pointing to the Internet backlash against H.R. 1981 as the new anti-SOPA movement. While this bill is strikingly different from the Stop Online Piracy Act, it does have one thing in common: it’s a poorly-considered legislative attempt to regulate the Internet in a way experts in the field know will have serious civil liberties consequences. This bill specifically targets companies that provide commercial Internet access – like your ISP – and would force them to collect and maintain data on all of their customers, even if those customers have never been suspected of committing a crime.

Under H.R. 1981, which has the misleading title of Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act of 2011, Congress would force commercial Internet access providers to keep for one year a “log of the temporarily assigned network addresses the provider assigns to a subscriber to or customer of such service that enables the identification of the corresponding customer or subscriber information under subsection (c)(2) of this section.”  Let’s break that down into simple terms.

Temporarily Assigned Network Addresses: More than IP Addresses

Under this proposal, ISPs would have to maintain “temporarily assigned network addresses” to enable the identification of a subscriber. At a minimum, this refers to the IP addresses assigned by ISPs, including the Internet services associated with mobile phones.  It could also potentially include mobile phone numbers or other forms of cell phone identification, such as the three major mobile device identifiers: IMEI, IMSI, TMSI. These are the tracking IDs for your mobile devices, the unique identifiers that mobile phone companies use to track handsets and the accounts associated with them. Read the rest of this entry →

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Anonymous takes on prison industrial complex with latest hack

February 25, 2012 in ANON NeWs, Headline, Occupy, Politics, World News

The prison industrial complex is the latest victim of Anonymous’ #FuckFBIFriday campaign. Hacktivists have compromised data from a massive correctional facility management firm and have defaced their website.

The website for The GEO Group, Inc., a Florida-based management firm with clients worldwide, has been targeted by operatives with the online collective Anonymous. Friday’s hack from the group is the most recent release related to the #FFF campaign that has in past weeks targeted and successfully taken down the sites of the CIA, FBI and US Department of Justice. Read the rest of this entry →

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Occupy 2.0: the convergence of streets and networks

February 23, 2012 in ANON NeWs, Headline, Occupy, Politics, World News

Giorgio Griziotti, Dario Lovaglio, and Tiziana Terranova

To the extent to which we are not witnessing a clash between two capitalisms but a process of reconfiguration realized through the hegemony of finance, information and circulation, the only way to change the current situation is through the autonomous organization of the multitude’s living labour in the streets and on the net.

About one year ago, the world attention turned to the nascent powers of expression and action of networked multitudes first in the Wikileaks battle and, subsequently, in the Arab revolutions and the social movements 15M and Occupy. After this revelatory year, dense with threats and promises from a completely new global movement, global governance – painfully aware of the great threat that such autonomous horizontal communication poses to its control – is vigorously attacking digital freedoms.

It is in this context that the (possibly already foiled) attempts to pass the Stop Piracy Online Act (SOPA), the Protect IP Act (PIPA) and the effective shutdown of Megaupload are taking place. Read the rest of this entry →

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FBI moves into new Minnesota headquarters, protest outside slams repression

February 22, 2012 in Headline, Occupy, Politics

By Mick Kelly

Protest against repression of anti war activists at new MN/Dakotas FBI Field Office (Fight Back! News/Kim DeFranco)

Brooklyn Center, MN – Protesters gathered outside the new headquarters of the FBI here, Feb. 17, to protest the agency’s targeting of anti-war and international solidarity activists. The protest coincided with the FBI’s announced move-in day to their new fortress-like building.

Participants in the protest included peace activists whose homes were raided by the FBI Sept. 24, 2010.

“The FBI is waging a war on civil liberties,” said Jess Sundin of the MN Committee to Stop FBI Repression. “We are here today to send a message: ‘Opposing U.S. wars is not a crime.’ We will not be silenced or intimidated by the FBI.”

The FBI, along with U.S. Attorneys in Chicago and Minneapolis, are trying to make a case for indicting the activists on ‘material support for terrorism’ charges. To that end, a grand jury is meeting in Chicago. Barry Jonas, Assistant U.S. Attorney in Chicago, recently stated that the investigation will continue. Read the rest of this entry →

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FBI Provide Weapons for Attempted Terrorist Attack on US Capitol

February 20, 2012 in ANON NeWs, Headline, Politics

If the latest news from the Department of Justice is to be believed, a 29 year old terrorist conspired to develop and carry out an attempted terrorist attack on U.S. soil.

In fact – as the DOJ press release story goes – Amine El Khalifi, an illegal immigrant from Morocco, was arrested in Washington for allegedly attempting a suicide attack against the U.S. Capitol building.

The news reports all indicate that Amine El Khalifi planned this and other attacks over several months, and that he was only captured after a carefully planned investigation was carried out by the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force.

However, when you start digging more deeply into the story than most journalists appear willing to do, you will learn a few disturbing facts about the case that make it apparent this is more of a fabricated attack scenario than a nefarious Al-Qaeda sleeper-agent.

In fact, it is likely that the attempted terrorist attack against the U.S. Capitol Building would never have materialized if it weren’t for the careful efforts of the undercover FBI agents encouraging El Khalifi to act out his extremist beliefs.

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US court covering all bases: Charges spiraling for Megaupload

February 20, 2012 in ANON NeWs, Headline, Update, World News

File-sharing website Megaupload and its founder Kim Dotcom, along with several of the company’s other executives, are now facing new charges added by an American grand jury to those previously brought against them.

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Google admits tracking Safari users

February 19, 2012 in Headline

Internet giant says it circumvented security settings in browser to track users on desktops and iPhones.

Google has come under attack for violating users’ privacy and ignoring their wishes after admitting that it intentionally circumvented security settings in Apple‘s Safari browser to track users on both desktop computers and iPhones.

A number of other advertisers exploited the loophole it had created to track those users too.

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How the government reads your emails without a warrant

February 19, 2012 in Headline

AFP Photo / Nicholas Kamm

Worried that the US government might be able to read your emails? Don’t be — they already can! The American Civil Liberties Union is asking the feds to come clean on why — and what — they do with the personal correspondence of its citizens.

The ACLU has filed request under the US Freedom of Information Act in hopes of learning more about the powers the government has granted itself to snoop through the emails, texts and instant messages of Americans. Being able to browse through correspondence without a warrant is a power that the government has had for ages, but with the Internet making sending mail as easy as a click of a button, the ACLU says it is about time the feds fix their current policies.

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‘Lay down your arms!’ Anonymous attacks US tear-gas maker

February 16, 2012 in ANON NeWs, Headline, Occupy, Politics, World News

Hackers have sent a sweet Valentine to an American weapons manufacturer, knocking out its website. The group says it was an act of retaliation for the company’s arming of security forces against pro-democracy protests in Egypt, Bahrain, and the US.

The one-year anniversary of the Arab Spring uprising in Bahrain seems to have ignited pro-protest feelings in the hackers’ hearts. The Anonymous-aligned activists have accused Combined Systems, a tear-gas maker located in the US, of selling “mad chemical weapons to military and cop shops around the world.”

Putting out the company’s website, the hackers slammed the producer over alleged war profiteering on demonstrations in Egypt and elsewhere.

“You shot and gassed protesters, running them off public parks in the US. Several dozen died because of your tear gas used in Egypt. Did you think we forgot? Why did you not expect us?” read the statement.

It is unclear if the hackers accuse Combined Systems of selling tear gas to Mubarak’s government or the country’s current ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. However, they accuse the company of working for governments and armies, and as they see it, that is a good enough reason for an attack.

“Combined Systems, lay down your arms: you just lost the game. In the past we have marched on your offices in Jamestown, Pennsylvania: now it is time to march on your websites.”

The website for Combined Systems Inc. was down on Tuesday. Messages to the site’s administrative staff were not immediately returned ahead of business hours.

In addition to defacing the website, the hackers say they have stolen and published personal information belonging to clients and employees of the company.

The latest attack has been credited by the shady collective as part of both the HackVDay Valentine’s Day rampage and protests commemorating the Bahrain uprising’s first anniversary.

Bahraini activists have called for demonstrations on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday to commemorate the Shiite-dominated protest that erupted last year. At least 40 people have been killed during months of unprecedented political unrest in Bahrain, inspired by the Arab Spring uprisings.

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Anti – ACTA day: Angry crowds take action

February 12, 2012 in Headline, Occupy, Politics, World News


The world has witnessed an unprecedented day of protests against ACTA. Hundreds of thousands of people have gathered in dozens of cities around the globe to protect what is left of the freedom of expression on the internet.

­Protesters from over 200 European cities consolidated their efforts to hold rallies across Europe. The controversial ACTA treaty was signed by the majority of European countries and now there is a battle to dissuade parliaments from ratifying the agreement.

Massive strikes took place in Germany with organizers saying that a total of some 100,000 people have gathered in many cities across the country, including Berlin, Hanover, Hamburg, and Cologne. Just the previous day Germany put on hold its joining the ACTA treaty after its Justice Ministry decided to wait until the issue is discussed in the European Read the rest of this entry →

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Google offering money in exchange for users’ search history

February 10, 2012 in Headline, Politics, Update, World News

The Screenwise project offering money in exchange for users' search history.

GOOGLE is offering money in exchange for users’ search history in a bid to “learn more about how everyday people use the internet”.

The new Screenwise project is asking for volunteers to install a Chrome browser extension that allows data to be collected in exchange for “up to $25 in gift cards”.

The website says those who sign up will be given a $5 Amazon.com Gift Card code, and then an addition $5 gift card code every three months for staying with the project as a “thank you.”

Google is also reported to have a more extensive version of the program in which web surfers participate by installing a “high-end router”.

The Screenwise Data Collector project is offering $100 on signup, plus $20 per month up to one year’s involvement, technology website Ars Technica reports.
“What we learn from you, and others like you, will help us improve Google products and services and make a better online experience for everyone,” the Screenwise website says.

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Waging War in Secret vs. American Democracy

February 9, 2012 in Headline, Politics, Update, World News

By fighting terrorism with covert CIA actions, President Obama deprives us of the ability to meaningfully evaluate American foreign policy.

The War in Iraq is mostly over. We’re drawing down forces in Afghanistan. Barring an unexpected terrorist attack or another Libya-style troop deployment, Election 2012 will proceed in a world where the War on Terrorism is being waged by intelligence agencies making drone strikes in places like Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia, and one in which we may be taking covert action inside Iran too.

In others words, much of American foreign policy will be a state secret.

Think about what that means for democracy.

The Iraq War was a major campaign issue in 2004 and 2006. President Obama owes his victory in 2008 partly to the fact that he opposed it, persuaded voters he’d exercise better judgment if faced with a “3 a.m. phone call,” and vowed to double down on winning the War in Afghanistan.

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FBI Enlists Internet Café Owners to Spy on Customers

February 9, 2012 in ANON NeWs, Headline, Occupy, Politics

The US government has developed massive surveillance capabilities to monitor communications, travel and financial transactions in this country and abroad. But, even the government cannot monitor everything Americans do—not directly, anyway.  Thus, it created the Communities Against Terrorism (CAT) program to enlist your friendly local businesses as spies for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

The CAT program, funded by the State and Local Anti-Terrorism Training program (SLATT) is described as a “tool to engage members of the local community in the fight against terrorism.” The program interprets “local community” to mean businesses, and only registered businesses may access the program’s flyers listing “potential indicators” of terrorist activity.

Each flyer is designed for a particular kind of business. For example, this list was prepared for owners of internet cafes. Unquestionably, someone planning a terrorist attack has engaged in one or more of the “suspicious” activities on that list. But so, too, have most of the estimated 289 million computer users in this country.

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Government ‘may sanction nerve-agent use on rioters’, scientists fear

February 9, 2012 in ANON NeWs, Headline, Occupy, Politics, World News

by  Steve Connor     -   from independent.co.uk

Leading neuroscientists believe that the UK Government may be about to sanction the development of nerve agents for British police that would be banned in warfare under an international treaty on chemical weapons.

A high-level group of experts has asked the Government to clarify its position on whether it intends to develop “incapacitating chemical agents” for a range of domestic uses that go beyond the limited use of chemical irritants such as CS gas for riot control.

The experts were commissioned by the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of sciences, to investigate new developments in neuroscience that could be of use to the military. They concluded that the Government may be preparing to exploit a loophole in the Chemical Weapons Convention allowing the use of incapacitating chemical agents for domestic law enforcement.

The 1993 convention bans the development, stockpiling and use of nerve agents and other toxic chemicals by the military but there is an exemption for certain chemical agents that could be used for “peaceful” domestic purposes such as policing and riot control.

The British Government has traditionally taken the view that only a relatively mild class of irritant chemical agents that affect the eyes and respiratory tissues, such as CS gas, are exempt from the treaty, and then only strictly for use in riot control.

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States prepare brakes on citizen-detention option, NDAA

February 8, 2012 in Headline, Occupy, Politics, Update, Video Perspective

by Bob Unruh   –  from  wnd.com

State and local officials in surging numbers are telling Washington they simply won’t cooperate with any plans to detain Americans the federal government may choose to describe as “belligerents.”

The issue centers on provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012, signed by President Obama, for the indefinite and rights-free detention of those Washington cites as belligerents, whether American citizens or not.

WND reported when  Rep. Daniel P. Gordon Jr. immediately drafted a resolution in the Rhode Island legislature to express opposition to the sections of the NDAA “that suspend habeas corpus and civil liberties.”

Now the Tenth Amendment Center confirms that the resistance to the federal bureaucracy is catching on.

The instruction manual on how to restore America to what it once was: “Taking America Back.” This package also includes the “Tea Party at Sea.”

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Demonstration at MN Obama campaign headquarters, part of National Day of Protest Against NDAA

February 8, 2012 in Headline, Occupy, Politics, Update, Video Perspective

By Kelly O’Brien   –  from  fightbacknews.org

Protest against NDAA at Obama campaign headquarters, Feb. 3 (Fight Back! News/ Jess Sundin)

Minneapolis, MN – More than 75 people rallied here, Feb. 3, as a part of the National Day of Protest against the provision of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that allows for indefinite detention without trial. The protest occurred outside the Obama campaign headquarters. President Obama signed this unconstitutional bill into law Dec. 31. According to Anh Pham of the Committee to Stop FBI Repression (CSFR), “This law allows the government to continue to oppress anyone who doesn’t agree with them.”

Sam Richards of Occupy Minneapolis stated, “The NDAA of 2012 is the largest assault on our rights since the Patriot Act. Obama ran as a champion of civil liberties. We demand an end to the attack on our civil rights.”

This demand rang clear as activists joined in chants, speeches, guerrilla theater and an occupation of the Obama headquarter building as part of the direct action. The message of the protest was apparent, with signs such as “No war on our rights: No NDAA,” and chants like “Hey Obama, pay attention! We say no to indefinite detention!”

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