Ron Paul Introduces Repeal of Indefinite Detention in NDAA [video]
Youtube
January 18, 2012
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(hat tip: Activist Post)
Web blackout ends: SOPA bleeding, but not dead
By NewsBot
End the Lie
January 19, 2012
The Internet strike opposing the US anti-piracy bills SOPA/PIPA has ended. The webquake spearheaded by giants like Wikipedia, Reddid and Google led to key sponsors withdrawing their support for the acts. However, they are not dead, activists warn.
Massive opposition to the controversial legislation resulted in Congressmen and Senators swinging against the bills. Up to 18 Senators, of which seven were former co-sponsors, voiced their opposition to PIPA on Wednesday. On the SOPA side, at least two sponsors have dropped out, while Oregon’s Earl Blumenauer blacked out his website in support of the protest.
The protest was timed to coincide with a scheduled hearing in the House of Representatives on SOPA. However amid the online outrage, it was postponed, and the bill will now not be moved to the floor until legislators have reached a consensus.
The conflict, however, is far from being resolved. “SOPA and PIPA are not dead: they are waiting in the shadows,” Wikipedia warns. PIPA is scheduled be put to a vote in the Senate on January 24, while SOPA sponsors plan to push the bill forward in February.
SOPA co-sponsor Lamar Smith dismissed the protest, saying Internet giants are using false allegations to stir up panic in the online community.
“When the opposition is based upon misinformation, I have confidence in the facts and confidence that the facts will ultimately prevail,” Smith said.
Wikipedia reports that 162 million people saw its blackout message and 8 million used its search tool to find their legislative representatives.
“You said no. You shut down Congress’s switchboards. You melted their servers. Your voice was loud and strong. Millions of people have spoken in defense of a free and open Internet,” the website said in a statement, calling the protest extraordinary.
Google’s “Stop piracy, not liberty” petition scored 4.5 million supporters as of 4:30 pm ET, said Google spokesperson Christine Chen.
All in all at least 75,000 websites participated in the blackout, according to Fight for the Future foundation.
The protest action swept across the world wide web, with SOPA/PIPA-related topics trending throughout Wednesday on Twitter. Those were ranging from the dead-serious “SOPAstrike” to the humorous “factswithoutwikipedia” to the satirical “save porn.”
Source – http://rt.com/news/wikipedia-blackout-sopa-waiting-153/
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PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet [video]
Fight for the Future
October 25, 2011
Tell Congress not to censor the internet NOW! – fightforthefuture.org/pipa
PROTECT-IP is a bill that has been introduced in the Senate and the House and is moving quickly through Congress. It gives the government and corporations the ability to censor the net, in the name of protecting “creativity”. The law would let the government or corporations censor entire sites– they just have to convince a judge that the site is “dedicated to copyright infringement.”
The government has already wrongly shut down sites without any recourse to the site owner. Under this bill, sharing a video with anything copyrighted in it, or what sites like Youtube and Twitter do, would be considered illegal behavior according to this bill.
According to the Congressional Budget Office, this bill would cost us $47 million tax dollars a year — that’s for a fix that won’t work, disrupts the internet, stifles innovation, shuts out diverse voices, and censors the internet. This bill is bad for creativity and does not protect your rights.
Syrian social media crossfire kills users
By NewsBot
End the Lie
January 13, 2012
Syria is vowing to investigate the death of a French TV reporter. He was killed along with eight Syrians when a mortar shell hit a crowd gathered for a pro-government rally. But it is not only the media being caught between the conflicting sides.
Muhammed Mahmud’s son Tamman was an activist who used social networking sites, such as Facebook, to call for peace in Syria. He had phoned his family to tell them to watch him doing an interview on local TV.
“I saw him on TV, and he looked well,” his mother told journalists. But it was to be one of the last times the family saw him alive.
“Soon after that he was kidnapped. He left home and never returned,” his father explained. “We found his body in the morning, and his face was mutilated. It’s too painful for me to remember that moment.”
It remains unclear who killed Tamman. His family thinks it may have been militants who thought he was a working for the security forces after seeing him speak on television. But in reality he worked at a sugar mill and was training to become a computer specialist.
But, like so many other young educated people in Syria right now, he felt a need to be involved in the changing reality in his country. Syria, in fact, has one of the youngest populations in the Arab world.
In schools across Syria younger generations have become better educated than their grandparents’ or parents’ generations. It has meant they are not only more aware of their political rights, but more able to demand them too.
Many young opposition supporters have taken their campaign online, relying heavily on social media like Facebook and Twitter – tools which have helped topple regimes in Egypt and Libya.
“People’s literacy and also media literacy has been enormously enhanced in recent decades by both education and technological change,” says Mark Almond, a history lecturer at Oxford University. “But I think we should remember this can cut both ways. Opposition sides can try to get out their message and can mobilize people, but also even supporters of governments are much less dependent on a single news station or a single state newspaper.”
But between a regime under pressure and an increasingly militarized opposition, many Syrians have been left trapped in the middle.
“I have only one question: what did they kill my son for?” Muhammed Mahmud questions. “My son wasn’t a politician or a public figure. Let various movements, national and local, exist in this country. I don’t understand why my son was killed.”
Speaking before a crowd, many of whom were young supporters, President Assad once again repeated his promises of reforms and gave a precise timetable, but the move was met with skepticism from the opposition.
Meanwhile, on all sides of this conflict young, politically-motivated Syrians remain committed to fighting for the political future of their country, despite the fact that for many like Tamman that fight could end up costing them their lives.
Source – http://rt.com/news/educated-syria-youth-vulnerable-671/
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MLK, Occupy and End The Fed [article + videos]
By Kim M.
FreeSLO.com
January 15, 2012
The big difference I see between Martin Luther King Jr. (at the beginning of his career as an activist) and Occupy
Wall Street (at the beginning of their collective “career”) is that everyone knew what MLK wanted, but nobody seems to know what Occupy wants.
The people who drive by screaming, “Get a job!” are a testament to this.
The infamous “OccupySLO Pwns Hecklers” video is a testament to this.
Everyone seems to think Occupy wants a handout.
And maybe some do, but the ones I’ve talked to don’t. In fact, most of the ones I’ve talked to at Occupy SLO are more interested in getting America back on Constitutional track and don’t necessarily 100% endorse the 99% mandates handed down by Occupy Wall Street.
Quite frankly, we here in America now find ourselves in a situation so dire and with so many urgent issues that need to be addressed that it’s almost impossible to decide where to begin.
At the end of his life, MLK became more like Occupy is now in that he began to tackle the giant, amorphous issue of “poverty.” Admirable, but how do you tackle an abstract intangible? It’s like the hazy “war on drugs” and the fuzzy “war on terrorism,” where there is no real, defined enemy and no real, defined goal. How is it possible to win a “war” when nobody knows who they are fighting and when there is no tangible “territory” to take?
This is also a good place to stop and deal with the whole “positive” and “negative” nonsense. Apparently, if you point out a problem (“the emperor has no clothes”), then you’re being negative. But if you ignore the problem (“let’s have a concert and party!”), then you’re being positive and everybody knows it’s better to be positive (gack).
I defy anyone to drive a car without the positive and negative cables properly attached to the battery. Or try using any battery-operated device with all the positive ends facing the same direction. Or, hey, let’s think really big and try to stop planet earth from having positive and negative poles. Ridiculous, huh? Positive and negative are flip sides of the same coin. Night/day. Warm/cold. Problem/solution.
So can we finally knock off the “Let’s be positive” cr@p? Recognize the problem. Propose the solution. See how nicely that works? Positive and negative poles working together in harmony.
The real mandate is to identify real, tangible problems and then identify real, reachable goals.
Everyone (in their right mind) wants to end poverty. Unfortunately, few people want to make the effort to peek and see just exactly what creepy crawly things are under the poverty rock. Against the advice of the founders, we currently have a centrally-planned economy. We have hired a private entity (the Federal Reserve) to lend us our own money at interest.
How can you pay interest on a dollar when all you have is a dollar? Worse, how can you pay back the dollar plus interest when the value of the dollar in your hand keeps going down due to the fact that the dollar-issuer (the Federal Reserve) keeps printing more and more dollars that each have to be paid back with interest?
The tragedy is that very few people understand how our economy really works.
I asked one of the young men in the “Pwn” video what money is and he said, “I don’t know; I’m not an economist.” I asked him why we have inflation and he said, “I don’t know; I’m not an economist.” Wow. These are very basic questions and yet the average college grad can’t answer them.
Our economy is broken. Most people can agree on that.
If the car stops running, no doubt it’s broke. If the economy stops running, no doubt it’s broke. But not everyone knows how to fix a car, just as not everyone knows how to fix an economy.
Most of us would take a broken car to an expert to have it fixed, but where do you take a broken economy? And what do you do if you find out that the mechanic is the same person who broke the car in the first place? Likewise, what would you do if you discover that the same entity that we’ve given the economy over to is the self-same entity which broke the economy?
This is precisely the situation we find ourselves in now.
We’ve identified the problem: The car is broken. We’ve identified the cause: The mechanic did it. The solution is obviously to fire the mechanic and hire an honest one. A mechanic who respects humanity and the rule of law.
This is the same direction that Occupy needs to go:
1) Identify the problem.
2) Identify the culprit (i.e. get to the root of the problem).
3) Identify the solution.
Simple as 1-2-3.
1) The economy is broken.
2) The Fed did it.
3) Fire the Fed and get back to Constitutional basics.
“The dignity of the individual will flourish when the decisions concerning his life are in his own hands, when he has the assurance that his income is stable and certain, and when he knows that he has the means to seek self-improvement. Personal conflicts between husband, wife, and children will diminish when the unjust measurement of human worth on a scale of dollars is eliminated.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
And especially when that scale is constructed of fiat, inflated dollars, issued by banksters and backed by nothing.
[Potent News Editor’s note: Canadians should click HERE and HERE to watch a videos that will identify the similar Canadian situation.]
LINKS:
Who Owns The Federal Reserve?
http://www.globalrese…
Federal Reserve Analyst: Fed Banks Are Private
http://tv.globalresea…
The Federal Reserve Cartel: The Eight Families
http://globalresearch…
How the Federal Reserve Creates Money
http://www.mindcontag…
Federal Reserve Admits “We Have No Gold”
http://tv.globalresea…
First Federal Reserve Audit Reveals Trillions in Secret Bailouts
http://www.sott.net/a…
Grim Economic Prospects for 2012: How the Federal Reserve Overshadows the European Banking System
http://www.globalrese…
End the Fed: Occupy Wall Street Protestor Speaks Out
http://tv.globalresea…
End the Fed, not Capitalism
http://www.infowars.c…
Ron Paul: How To END THE FED
http://www.infowars.c…
JFK / Ron Paul / Martin Luther King Jr.
http://www.youtube.co…
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[hat tip: The Intel Hub]
Mysterious Sounds Continue to be Recorded Throughout the World [article + videos]
The Intel Hub
January 17, 2012
Mysterious sounds and booms continue to be heard throughout the world and the explanations as to what they might be continue to flock in.
The sounds can be described as industrial and mechanical at times and at others they seem to sound bizarre and creepy.
The Extinction Protocol, a blog specializing in covering possible doomsday events, recently released an article detailing the mysterious sounds and what they might be.
The sounds range in description from “bizarre and creepy” to “industrial and mechanical.”
The sounds appear to be omni-directional and seem to have no single traced source of origin or horizontal source of degree graduation- leaving one with the impression they are coming from directly overhead or directly underneath the earth.
Disinformation campaigns have already been launched with claims that ALL the sounds recorded are a large scale hoax through the use of putting the same audio in numerous videos taken throughout the world.
This is clearly NOT the case and this startling information gains even more importance when you consider a disinformation campaign was launched within one day of the story breaking worldwide.
[Potent News Editor’s note: I’ve personally heard these odd sounds here in Halifax, Canada lately (usually in the middle of the night). I’ve heard these as far back as mid-December although I did not get a chance to record them yet.]
An interactive internet map has been set up that traces the mysterious booms, explosions, and sounds. You can view the map here.
Although there are many more videos than the ones below, just listening to the videos provided paints an eerie picture as to what is happening throughout the world.
House Kills SOPA
By Josh Wretlind
Examiner.com
January 16, 2012
In a surprise move today, Representative Eric Cantor(R-VA) announced that he will stop all action on SOPA, effectively killing the bill. This move was most likely due to several things. One of those things is that SOPA and PIPA met huge online protest against the bills. Another reason would be that the White House threatened to veto the bill if it had passed. However, it isn’t quite time yet to celebrate, as PIPA(the Senate’s version of SOPA) is still up for consideration.
The online protests about the bill were surprising and large. They ranged anywhere from calling Representatives, companies, and senators to get them to change their mind, to actively moving domain’s away from and targeting the business model of the companies that supported/lobbied for the bill. GoDaddy lost well over 100,000 domains in the space of about 10 days due to their involvement with these bills, along with other various targets. Reddit in particular has been influential in turning the tide against SOPA and PIPA, and is a good demonstration of how the Internet enables Democracy.
PIPA is less well known than SOPA, but the provisions are basically the same. It still includes the same DNS blocking and censoring system that the original SOPA did, just without the SOPA name. There are around 40 co-sponsors of the bill in the Senate so far, with no word on how many senators support the bill in addition to that. There will most likely need to be 60 votes in the Senate in order to invoke cloture and end an almost guaranteed filibuster.
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[hat tip: Before It’s News]
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[Potent News Editor’s note: IN LESS THAN 13 HOURS, THE ENGLISH WIKIPEDIA WILL BE BLACKED OUT GLOBALLY TO PROTEST SOPA AND PIPA. Their own website says so. View the screenshots I took bellow.]
cropped website screenshot taken at 1PM January 17th, 2012
