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Britons fund own Orwellian future?


Russia Today
Thu, 08 Mar 2012 03:37 UTC

The British government is pushing through an anti-terror law that will enable it to monitor all private electronic communication, including social media. Ironically, people to be watched are set to pay for the privilege.

­Britain is already one of the most-watched societies in the world. With an estimated 2 million surveillance cameras, it has more CCTV per person than almost any other nation on Earth. Being in the UK means being watched non-stop.

And now the government is planning to cast its intrusive eye over online activity, phone calls and text messages, all under the guise of an anti-terror law. They will not only know which websites a person visits, they will even snoop on private Facebook messages.
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Best of the Web: Obama Signs Anti-Protest Trespass Bill, H.R. 347 - Fascism in Force


RT.com
Sat, 10 Mar 2012 00:52 UTC
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© RT.comUS President Barack Obama
Only days after clearing Congress, US President Barack Obama signed his name to H.R. 347 on Thursday, officially making it a federal offense to cause a disturbance at certain political events - essentially criminalizing protest in the States.

RT broke the news last month that H.R. 347, the Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011, had overwhelmingly passed the US House of Representatives after only three lawmakers voted against it. On Thursday this week, President Obama inked his name to the legislation and authorized the government to start enforcing a law that has many Americans concerned over how the bill could bury the rights to assemble and protest as guaranteed in the US Constitution.

Under H.R. 347, which has more commonly been labeled the Trespass Bill by Congress, knowingly entering a restricted area that is under the jurisdiction of Secret Service protection can garner an arrest. The law is actually only a slight change to earlier legislation that made it an offense to knowingly and willfully commit such a crime. Under the Trespass Bill's latest language chance, however, someone could end up in law enforcement custody for entering an area that they don't realize is Secret Service protected and "engages in disorderly or disruptive conduct" or "impede[s] or disrupt[s] the orderly conduct of Government business or official functions."
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Monsanto-FDA's Michael Taylor to Keynote Food Safety Town Hall

Rady Ananda
Activist Post
Fri, 09 Mar 2012 16:50 UTC
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For a mere grand, you can attend the entire 3-day Food Safety Summit set for April 17-19 in Washington, D.C. There you'll get to hear Monsanto-lobbyist-now-Obama's-Food-Safety-Czar, Michael R. Taylor, wax tyrannical about how federal and state regulators will manage the inspection requirements of the boondoggle Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA).

As Deputy Commissioner for Foods of the US Food and Drug Admin, Taylor also promises to whine about the lack of funding for his FSMA vision of stopping natural food production in the US during his April 18 workshop.

He's seeking a $3 billion budget to "modernize" our food system. By modernize, he means to hyper-regulate the small producer out of existence, while criminalizing natural food production and trade.

After his workshop, chemical company and GMO giant DuPont will announce this year's winner of the Food Quality Award. Can't wait to see who they select. You can be sure a completely organic, unprocessed, unadulterated, natural food won't take the prize.

Comment: Michael Taylor truly is a Monsanto Minion his 'concern' about food safety is laughable, he represents Big Ag and Biotechnology interests, for Taylor the words 'food safety' really mean 'food fascism':

Monsanto and the Big Fat Lie of Food Safety
Vandana Shiva doesn't mince words. Food safety is food fascism:
"Risk Assessment in the hands of centralized corruptible agencies is no protection for consumers as the disease and health epidemic in the U.S. linked to over processed, industrial foods show. Even while the U.S. is at the epicenter of the food related public health crises, the U.S. government is trying to export its Food laws which deregulate the industry and over regulate ordinary citizens and small enterprise. This deregulation of the big and toxic and over regulation of the small and ecological is at the core of Food Fascism ..."
"Food safety" under Monsanto is Orwellian regulations enlarged to the specter of a Howitzer, easy to swing around and aim at small farms and food co-ops providing incontrovertibly safe, nutritious food, in order to shut them down. But somehow the big gun is permanently jammed when it comes pointing at giant corporate facilities sending out contaminated food to millions, sickening and even killing people. Those facilities, despite deaths, have not been closed for a single day.


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Fall of the GOP: Fear and Loathing in Conservative America

Sarah Wood
AddictingInfo
Sat, 10 Mar 2012 15:54 UTC
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"But the zeal of fanaticism prevailed over the cold and feeble efforts of policy."
-Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire vol 1 (1897)

It's an age-old story of power, and who wants it. Throughout history, it has been repeated time and time again. It has been proven without fail that the best way to control a populace is through fear and faith. Scare people into believing that the enemy is evil, that your solutions are the only way, and then set those ideas into stone by pushing them through religion. All over the world this method of gaining power is being practiced. You can see it in the power structure of the Middle East, and you can see it in the power struggle here in the United States.

The Republican party is no longer the party of freedom and liberty as they claim to be. They are no longer the pragmatic thinkers at the table, offering solution-based methods of compromise and action. They are no longer the party that thinks with their head and their pocketbook. That party disappeared a long time ago. The Republican party that we see today, and have seen for the past several decades is one of fear and faith, then finding ways to gather votes to gain power based upon those two principles.
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Joseph Kony 2012: growing outrage in Uganda over film


UK Telegraph
Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:57 UTC
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The 30-minute video, Kony2012, was produced by three American videographers campaigning for greater efforts to capture Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).

But Kony and his diminishing troops, many of them kidnapped child soldiers, fled northern Uganda six years ago and are now spread across the jungles of neighbouring countries.

"What that video says is totally wrong, and it can cause us more problems than help us," said Dr Beatrice Mpora, director of Kairos, a community health organisation in Gulu, a town that was once the centre of the rebels' activities.

"There has not been a single soul from the LRA here since 2006. Now we have peace, people are back in their homes, they are planting their fields, they are starting their businesses. That is what people should help us with."

Joseph Kony, a former church altarboy, has spread terror through eastern and central Africa for almost three decades, as he has pursued an aimless war that has killed thousands of people and at one point forced hundreds of thousands from their homes.
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Anonymous Hacks Panda Security- Whose Head Was Cut Off?

Dan Raywood
SC Magazine UK
Wed, 07 Mar 2012 00:00 UTC
Anonymous has responded to arrests and the revelation that 'Sabu' was working with the FBI as an informant; it has said it will continue its work and began by defacing the website of Panda Security.


In a statement posted at its AnonOps website, it said that after the events, its communication team decided that it will continue reporting news about Anonymous's activities. It said: "Anonymous will continue fighting for freedom in the world, but we also understand that people around the world should stand up and claimed by what is right" [sic].
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Pakistan Picks New Director for Spy Agency

Decan Walsh and Salman Masood
The New York Times
Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:00 UTC
Zahir ul-Islam
© ReutersLt. Gen. Zahir ul-Islam
Islamabad - The prime minister of Pakistan appointed a new general to run the country's most powerful intelligence agency on Friday, signaling an important change in the military leadership at a pivotal moment in relations with the United States.

Lt. Gen. Zahir ul-Islam will take over as the director general of the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate, or ISI, on March 18, replacing Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha, who has held the post since 2008, a spokesman for Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said.

The ISI chief is the second most powerful figure in the military - some would argue in the country - and General Islam is likely to play a significant role in peace talks with the Afghan Taliban, a movement the ISI has long been accused of supporting.

Although the ISI officially reports to the prime minister, in reality it is controlled by the army chief, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, with whom General Pasha had a close relationship during the agency's turbulent relationship with the United States in recent years.
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Best of the Web: Censorship attempt by Berkeley police chief

Kristin J. Bender and Thomas Peele
Oakland Tribune
Sat, 10 Mar 2012 13:17 UTC
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© Frances DinkelspielA reporter interviews Chief Michael Meehan before Thursday's community meeting on the murder of Peter Cukor.
Minutes after reading a late-night news story online about him that he perceived to be inaccurate, Berkeley Police Chief Michael Meehan ordered a sergeant to a reporter's home insisting on changes, a move First Amendment experts said reeked of intimidation and attempted censorship.

Meehans's actions were "despicable, totally despicable," said Jim Ewert, general counsel of the California Newspaper Publisher's Association. "It's the most intimidating type of (censorship) possible because the person trying to exercise it carries a gun."

Bay Area News Group reporter Doug Oakley said he was shaken by the 12:45 a.m. Friday knock on the door of his Berkeley home. He said at first he and his wife thought something was drastically wrong or perhaps that a relative had died.

Meehan apologized Friday.

"I would say it was an overzealous attempt to make sure that accurate information is put out," Meehan said. "I could have done better." Meehan said he didn't think Oakley would be upset or intimidated because the police sergeant, Mary Kusmiss, regularly deals with the media.

"I did not mean to upset (Oakley) or his family last night; it was late, (I was) tired, too. I don't dispute that it could be perceived badly," he said.
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Israel Kills Five More Gaza Gunmen, Rockets Hit Israel

Nidal al-Mughrabi
Reuters
Sat, 10 Mar 2012 00:00 UTC
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© Reuters/Mohamad TorokmanPalestinian demonstrators run away from tear gas fired by Israeli security officers during clashes at a weekly protest against a nearby Jewish settlement, in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, near Ramallah, March 9, 2012.
  • EU, Egypt demand halt to the escalating violence
  • Sound of explosions echo across Gaza, southern Israel
Gaza - Israeli warplanes killed five militants in Gaza in a second day of cross-border violence in which gunmen have fired dozens of rockets against Israel and an Israeli missile strike killed a prominent militant, both sides said on Saturday.

Fifteen militants in the Gaza Strip have now been killed since Friday, Hamas medics said. In the most recent attack, a gunman was killed in a vehicle near Gaza's border with Egypt. Earlier in the day Israeli jets killed two gunmen on a motorcycle and two others in a pre-dawn attack, officials in Gaza said.

The sounds of explosions and rocket fire reverberated across coastal Gaza and southern Israel early on Saturday and Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said its air strikes would continue.

"This round in the Strip is still far from over," he told reporters on a visit to the south of the country where around half a million Israelis have been told to stay indoors and keep bomb shelters open.

Six people in southern Israel have been injured by rockets fired from Gaza. One man, a Thai, was reported to be in a serious condition.

The flare-up in Gaza is the worst since October, and a further escalation could threaten a wider conflict that may complicate Western efforts to halt bloodshed in the region, including Syria.

Comment: Reuters lying on behalf of Israel once again.

No 'militants' have been killed. However, a funeral procession of some of the first victims has been hit by a US-made missile from an Israeli drone, killing 3 and injuring dozens. Are old ladies and young children grieving for their loved ones 'militants'?

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Report: How Corporations Undermine Science with Fake Bloggers and Bribes

Annalee Newlitz
io9.com
Fri, 09 Mar 2012 08:54 UTC
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You've probably heard about how the tobacco industry tried to suppress scientific evidence that smoking causes cancer by publishing shady research, bribing politicians, and pressuring researchers. But you may not have realized that tabacco's dirty tricks are just the tip of the iceberg. In a disturbing new report published by the Union of Concerned Scientists about corporate corruption of the sciences, you'll learn about how Monsanto hired a public relations team to invent fake people who harassed a scientific journal online, how Coca Cola offers bribes to suppress evidence that soft drinks harm kids' teeth, and more. Here are some of the most egregious recent examples of corruption from this must-read report.


Comment: It's actually the reverse. The information regarding tobacco that's being suppressed is that smoking can be healthy. Why would information regarding the "dangers of smoking" be allowed to enter the mainstream when all other information is being suppressed so successfully?


The report is a meaty assessment of corporate corruption in science that stretches back to incidents with Big Tobacco in the 1960s, up through contemporary examples. Here are just a few of those.
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