Tag: censorship
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selection ’08: disillusion, reality, excuses & transitions
the obamessiah is going to produce profound disillusion from telegraph: There is a video clip running on YouTube at the moment which shows a black woman moved nearly to tears at an Obama rally, telling a television interviewer that all her problems will be at an end when he is elected president. She won’t have…
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free nationwide wi-fi network to censor political websites
as usual being done under the anti-porn pretext…’won’t somebody please think of the children!’from paul joseph watson: Both individual proposals to roll out free nationwide wi-fi Internet access across the United States contain language indicating that political websites deemed “offensive” will be filtered out and blocked. The implementation of a universal wi-fi network covering the…
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9/11: debates, project censored, tribunals & truth videos
video: excerpt from ‘zero’ follow-up debate in russia part1 (part2) 9/11 makes the top 25 censored stories for 2009from 9/11 blogger: #24-Japan Questions 9/11 and the Global War on Terror: Testimony in the Japanese parliament, broadcast live on Japanese television in January 2008, challenged the premise and validity of the Global War on Terror. Parliament…
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xenu watch: french trial & anti-scientology video takedown
scientology ‘faces french trial’from bbc: The Church of Scientology in France will be tried in court for “organised fraud”, according to legal sources. The lawyer for one of the plaintiffs behind the case told the BBC that if convicted the controversial Church could be banned. The Church has faced stiff opposition in France as well…
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mythbusters gagged: credit card companies kill episode exposing rfid security flaws
from consumerist: Credit card companies successfully nixed a Mythbusters segment exposing RFID’s security flaws, according to Arbiter of Truth and Mythbusters co-host, Adam Savage. Texas Instruments comes on along with chief legal counsel for American Express, Visa, Discover, and everybody else… They were way, way outgunned and they absolutely made it really clear to Discovery…
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the totalitarian olympics to begin in beijing
china grateful bush crime family is coming to olympicsfrom mcclatchy: When Chinese leaders gaze into stadium stands Friday and see President Bush and his extended family watching the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, they’ll feel strong gratitude for his presence. Gone will be any ill feeling about his lashing of China’s human rights record…
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1000s in southwestern china riot over alleged coverup
from washington post: Thousands of people thronged a police station in southwestern China to protest the alleged coverup of a teenage girl’s rape and murder, witnesses and officials reported Sunday. The crowd set fire to a government building complex and several police vehicles. The violence, which began Saturday, was brought under control by authorities around…
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the internet is dead! long live internet2!
charging by the byte to curb internet trafficfrom nytimes: Some people use the Internet simply to check e-mail and look up phone numbers. Others are online all day, downloading big video and music files. For years, both kinds of Web surfers have paid the same price for access. But now three of the country’s largest…
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Feds Withdraw Illegal NSL Against Archive.org
from raw story: The FBI has withdrawn an illegal National Security Letter seeking information from an online library and has lifted a gag order that until Wednesday prevented any discussion of the information request. Lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union and Electronic Frontier Foundation helped the Internet Archive push back against what they say…
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randi’s whores, cannibal ted, swastika john & kill aaron
randi rhodes suspended for calling hillary a ‘whore’from raw story: Air America has allegedly suspended talk radio host Randi Rhodes after she made scathing statements off-air about Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and former Democratic vice presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro. ted turner: overpopulation will lead to cannibalismfrom ajc: Failure to address global warming will have us…
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60 minutes heat ray, wikileaks again & the jfk materials
military heat ray gun zaps 60 minutes reporterfrom raw story: “You have to feel the ray gun to believe it,” says 60 Minutes correspondent David Martin, speaking about a non-lethal weapon the Pentagon has developed, “and there’s only one way to do that.” Martin was reportedly “zapped” 17 times for this piece, demonstrating the effects,…
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mpaa rejects torture ‘taxi’ documentary poster
from thinkprogess: Alex Gibney’s new critically-acclaimed documentary Taxi to the Dark Side follows the path of Afghan taxi driver Dilawar, who was innocent of any terrorist ties but still “tortured to death by interrogators in the U.S. prison at Bagram Air Base.” It also examines the Bush administration’s torture practices at Guantanamo Bay and Abu…
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yahoo settles with jailed chinese dissidents
from market watch: Yahoo Inc. on Tuesday settled a lawsuit filed against the Internet company by Chinese dissidents who accused it of complicity in their jailing, according to a court filing. Yahoo had been sued earlier this year in California by Wang Xiaoning, Shi Tao and Yu Ling for allegedly providing Chinese authorities with personal…
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tasers and censors and god, oh my!
56yr old wheelchair-bound woman dies after being tasered 10 times from local6: A Clay County woman’s family said it’s seeking justice after their loved one died shortly after being shocked 10 times with Taser guns during a confrontation with police. The family of 56-year-old Emily Delafield said it would take the Green Cove Springs Police…