February 2012
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#PayPal Strong-Arms #Indie #Ebook #Publishers Over... →
By Violet Blue | February 27, 2012, via @TyphonMind
Summary: PayPal has forced its merchants that publish and distribute e-books to censor erotic literature.
PayPal’s new aggressive campaign wants to stop independent e-book publishers that use its service from including certain kinds of erotic content in their catalogs.
On Saturday February 18, PayPal began threatening indie book publishers ...
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Blue ghosts →
Following the 9/11 tragedy, the US began bombing Afghanistan on October 7, 2001 and the liberation of Afghan women was used as justification for overthrowing the Taliban Regime. Five weeks later, America’s First Lady Laura Bush stated triumphantly: “Because of our recent military gains in much of Afghanistan, women are no longer imprisoned in their homes…” But in 2012, we...
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The #WikiLeaks #GiFiles: #Stratfor Predicts Huge... →
By Anissa Haddadi, February 27, 2012
WikiLeaks has started publishing more than five million emails hacked by Anonymous from the servers of Stratfor, a US intelligence gathering company.
An email sent by Chris Farnham, senior officer for Stratfor, to an internal unnamed source inside the company titled “Israel/Iran Barak Hails Munitions Blast in Iran” provides details about who...
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#Stratfor emails hacked by #Anonymous leaked by... →
By just looking at the information found in the accounts receivable files one can see Stratfor is more than a small player in the intelligence community. Reading the emails, mining the data, and looking at the money trail is no small task because it is tied to a worldwide network. Just localizing it to our area we find in the forwarded file from kuykendall@stratfor.com to...
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Settler Opens Fire on Farmers near #Hebron →
February 27, 2012 by occupiedpalestine
WAFA FEB 27 2012
HEBRON, February 27, 2012 (WAFA) – A Jewish settler Monday opened fire at Palestinian farmers and their livestock in Khirbet Janba, south of the West Bank city of Hebron, after failed attempts to steal their sheep, according to a local resident.
Khader al-Amour, a school principal in Janba, told WAFA the settler tried to...
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#Stratfor vs. #Anonymous →
ajwatchdc:
When I first heard that Anonymous had infiltrated the servers of a private intelligence-gathering firm, I thought it happened because it was easy to obtain. Low-hanging fruit if you will.
Anonymous’ anonymous Twitter spokesperson @YourAnonNews tweeted after obtaining the data, “Happy LulzXmas @STRATFOR | Thanks for storing your customers’ CC/CCV #s in cleartext, w/corresponding...
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WatchRecording of #WikiLeaks press conference on #GIFiles - Frontline Club February 27, 2012 1:22 PM on USTREAM. World News
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#Wikileaks press conference livestreaming *** NOW... →
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#Stratforgate: #WikiLeaks releases ‘shadow CIA’... →
Whistleblower website WikiLeaks has exposed more than 5 million emails apparently obtained by the hacking of Stratfor, the private intelligence company dubbed the “shadow CIA”. The leak may be as high-profile as that of the State Department cables.
The emails, dated between July 2004 and late December 2011, give a glimpse on the inner workings of the company. They show how Stratfor gathers...
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#WikiLeaks: The #GlobalIntelligenceFiles →
LONDON—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...
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#Robocall election controversy spreading #canada →
Feb 26, 2012, via @newfiemedia
The robocall controversy appears to be broadening, with opposition parties claiming the number of ridings affected by voter-suppression calls in the last federal election is greater than first thought.
New Democrat MP Pat Martin says he is aware of at least 34 ridings that received automated phone calls , although his party lists only 29.
Interim Liberal...
beckcat asked: For the record Stephan Harper really dislikes Newfoundland. He blantly said he didn't care if nobody here voted for him because he'd still win, and he's trying to take away our emergency rescue at sea when we are low on numbers anyway. I don't like him one bit but its true if nobody voted for him in Newfoundland he'd still get elected :(
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#Communism and #anarchism | false dichotomy by... →
One of the key differences between anarchist and state communist thinkers is the dogma: the former, like [Peter] Kropotkin, though willing to lay out a general outline of what they think must be done, aren’t willing to dictate a One True Way to anarcho-topia, whereas your Lenins and Trotskys would argue that there must be a revolutionary party that must seize the existing institutions of state...
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#ENISA: Study on #datacollection and #storage in... →
“The overall objective of the Study on data collection and storage in the EU is to serve as a starting point for a pan-European view on the rules relating to the collection and storage of personal data in the European Union and on their implementation in Member States legislation. This is realised via the examination of the principle of minimal disclosure (which is also known as the...
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#Censorship & Reality – If It Doesn’t Get... →
Censorship –on ALL levels– is directly connected with why this blog posts extraordinary claims, which, in turn, are practically impossible to prove using “normal” methods. Censorship is used by the government and NWO (New World Order)/PTW (Powers That Were) to hide what would divert our attention from what they want us to watch, believe and react to. Censorship keeps us from keeping us from ...
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The #PayPal Fiasco Continues ... #epicfail →
Posted on 2012.02.21 by Adelaide
Yesterday saw what seemed like the second wave of PayPal’s censorship and attempt at policing what they find “morally objectionable”. All Romance eBooks has sent out an official notice for the take-down of all books containing pseudo-incest themes, non-con, etc. It’s not hard to connect the dots and see that they’re doing this as per PayPal’s “orders”. They do,...
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Pragmatic Compromises & The Moral Hazard of... →
By Remittance Girl, February 26, 2012
As you can see, my last post generated a huge number of comments from both readers and writers. I gave Mark Coker a very rough ride and, to his credit, he responded eloquently and in a very gentlemanly fashion. I want to reiterate that I think Smashwords is a vital, valuable and outstanding site for indie authors. And I am glad it will continue with or...
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#Iran's "Second Internet" Rivals #Censorship Of... →
By Neal Ungerleider, Feb 23, 2012
Iran is unveiling a nationwide “Halal Intranet” this spring that will try to seal the nation off from the corrupting influences of Google, Facebook, and Twitter. But can it work?
Iran’s long-awaited “Halal Internet”—a nationwide intranet that will be heavily monitored and cut off from the rest of the world—finally has a ...
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#Google #Workaround Found By #Chinese Critical of... →
By Christina DesMarais, Feb 26, 2012
Internet censorship is infamous in China, but average citizens have apparently found a workaround and posted hundreds of comments on President Barack Obama’s Google+ 2012 election campaign page.
The message: Governments can put up all the roadblocks they want to keep their people from communicating freely, but crafty technology buffs often find a way...
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Three more such #letters regarding #TPP #IP...
Just posted:
Letter from 10 #US Representatives asking for a meeting to discuss #TPP IP policies that could “undermine public health and access to medicines” (pdf), August 2, 2011, infojustice.org
Here are three more:
Letter from Reps. Lewis, Stark, Rangel, Blumenauer, and Doggett asking that the May 10th agreement serve as a “non-negotiable starting point” for ...
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Letter from 10 #US Representatives asking for a... →
August 2, 2011
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We are concerned about reports that the balance is once again shifting away from the progress achieved in those past efforts away from access to affordable medicines and towards the protection of intellectual property rights for brand-name pharmaceutical companies in the developing world, a move that would jeopardize treatment goals and millions of lives.
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#PublicInterest #Analysis of the #US #TPP Proposal... →
Sean Flynn, American University Washington College of Law Margot E. Kaminski, Yale Law School Brook K. Baker, Northeastern University Jimmy H. Koo
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-6-2011
Abstract
This briefing paper provides preliminary analysis of two leaked U.S. proposals for an intellectual property chapter in the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement. The U.S. proposal, if...
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Willie Nelson Says We Must #OccupyOurFoodSupply →
Posted by majestic on February 25, 2012, via @AdamfromNorway
Willie and co-author Anna Lappe write at Huffington Post:
Our food is under threat. It is felt by every family farmer who has lost their land and livelihood, every parent who can’t find affordable or healthy ingredients in their neighborhood, every person worried about foodborne illnesses thanks to lobbyist-weakened food safety...
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Watch2/25 Upd #NPR T. #Gross :How Companies Are ‘Defining Your Worth’ Online #privacy
In Firefox you are being tracked (approximately unless you opt-out) … from there FAQ …
Location-Aware Browsing is always opt-in in Firefox. No location information is ever sent without your permission. If you wish to disable the feature completely, please follow this set of steps: In the...
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Slippery Slope Part 2: Why Frogs Boil →
February 24, 2012
“The difference between pornography and erotica is time…” -author unknown
When Amazon started banning erotic incest fiction in 2010, one of the things I heard again and again was, “So what? It’s not censorship. Amazon is a private corporation and they have a right to sell whatever they want. They’re not saying these books aren’t allowed to exist – just...
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Slippery Slope: #Erotica #Censorship →
February 19, 2012
NOTE: Check out a PODCAST with me and Terry Mixon and Justin Macumber about this topic. (Interview starts at 9:00, if you want skip ahead ;) )
Well, the morality police are at it again. And this time, it’s scarier.
First, Amazon started banning books from their site. They backed down on their anti-censorship stance and removed the Ped0phile Guide. Then they went...
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#TPP Update →
February 23, 2012, via @AnonyOps
While ACTA gets all the attention in Europe, the governments involved in negotiating the Trans Pacific Partnership trade agreement are still charging ahead. There have been 10 major negotiating rounds as well as many inter-session meetings, with the countries involved aiming to get it finished before the end of 2012.
You can read more about the TPP treaty, or...
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Duke a royal pain for #Spain's King →
A JUDGE has questioned Spanish King Juan Carlos’s son-in-law Inaki Urdangarin in an embarrassing corruption case.
More on The Courier-Mail
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#Fracking chemicals found in water near drilling... →
By Kevin Begos, Associated Press
A western Pennsylvania woman says state environmental officials refused to do follow-up tests after their lab reported her drinking water contained chemicals that could be from nearby gas drilling.
At least 10 households in the rural Woodlands community, about 30 miles north of Pittsburgh, have complained that recent drilling impacted their water in...
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Bill Gates: We Need Genetically Modified Seeds |... →
Gates’ yield-increasing claims widely refuted by studies
At a forum of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) in Rome today, Microsoft founder Bill Gates pressed the need for genetically modified seeds in the developing world, and the need for a “digital revolution” to meet the needs of the world’s farmers. Gates’ claims that genetically...
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