Tag: censorship

  • china enjoys burst of net freedom as great firewall falls – briefly

    from latimes: For a couple of precious hours Monday, the Chinese government’s Web censoring system, popularly known as the Great Firewall, was lifted. Suddenly, Internet users had access to websites that had been banned for months, including YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. Cautious excitement spread on some social-networking platforms that authorities were expanding Internet freedoms. But…

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  • defcon 12/12: regimes, lists, biometrics & privacy promis

    how to shut down the ‘net: a guide for repressive regimes* will 2010 bring a wake-up call for cybersecurity?*fbi: 19,000 matches to terrorist screening list in ’09* bank firewalls cracked by cyberhackers*men charged with hijacking dod paychecks* apple loses $21.7m patent suit, appeal in progress*surgery fools japan’s fingerprint checks* radio nodes may succeed rfid tags*verichip’s…

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  • from climategate to carbonhagen: massive newspurge

    from climategate to carbonhagen: massive newspurge

    climategate: this is the worst scientific scandal of our generation* the day global warming stood still* obama, maurice strong, al gore key players cashing in on chicago climate exchange* climate change scientists threw away temperature data on warming* bombshell un documents outline plan to use climategate crooks in ‘end run’ around national sovereignty* dictatorial un…

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  • 9/11 updates: nyccan’t, mythbusted & more

    9/11 updates: nyccan’t, mythbusted & more

    nyccan verdict: 80,000 silenced by state supreme courtfrom world of 9/11 truth: Yesterday afternoon [oct8], Justice Edward Lehner of the State Supreme Court rubberstamped Referee Louis Crespo’s recommendation that the decision to establish a local commission to investigate the events of September 11th not be put before the voters on November 3rd. After showing interest…

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  • #NewWorldNextWeek: Pilot Episode – Oct. 11, 2009

    Originally posted to Media Monarchy along with that week’s latest work from the Corbett Report, here is the first episode of New World Next Week from October 11, 2009.

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  • project censored’s latest top 25 censored stories

    project censored’s latest top 25 censored stories

    from global research: For 33 years, Sonoma State University’s (SSU) Project Censored (PC) has engaged in pioneering research on, and advocacy for, First Amendment issues… Each year, it ranks the top 25 and publishes them in its yearbook, “Censored: Media Democracy in Action.” The latest “Censored 2010: The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2008 -…

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  • defcon 8/26: citizen soldiers, social networks & criminal skills

    dodbuzz originally called this piece ‘citizen soldiers wage cyberwar’,but then they changed it later to ‘russkie civvies waging cyberwar’…from dodbuzz: A new report by the U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit (USCCU) finds that citizens quickly became cyber warriors when the Russians started attacking Georgia. Our friends at AvWeek have a neat piece that includes an interview…

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  • uk kids could be barred from classic films w/ smoking

    uk kids could be barred from classic films w/ smoking

    from daily mail: Children under 18 will be banned from watching films that depict characters smoking under plans being considered by council ‘thought police’. An 18 certificate – usually reserved for movies with violent and sexual content – will be slapped on any film featuring smokers that fails to explain cigarettes are bad for you……

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  • 7/23 newspurge: mystery, media, mayhem, obama, police state +

    7/23 newspurge: mystery, media, mayhem, obama, police state +

    history/mystery: was twa 800 shot down by a military missile?*300 nazis still go free in america*cia’s past haunts us*watergate hotel to be auctioned next week*watergate sold for $25m to german-owned firm*ukranian former official admits to murdering journalist in 2000*audio: virgina tech gunman’s health records found* media/memes: billboards tell america to cheer up*mkultra guinea pig wrote…

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  • 7/2 newspurge

    drugwar: US gives up on eradicating afghanistan’s opium*man deposits coke, weed & $200 at bank*dod & dhs square off over border troops*5yrs later: portugal’s drug decriminalization policy shows positive results* media/memes: did drugs kill michael jackson?*jackson & fawcett the latest celebrity victims of big pharma*jackson dies, almost takes internet with him*news of michael jackson’s death…

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  • cyber/spacewar: lost tapes, underground labs & more moon memes

    cyber/spacewar: lost tapes, underground labs & more moon memes

    nasa conveniently finds missing moon landing tapesa few weeks before anniversary! what are the odds?from express.co.uk: Ecstatic space officials at NASA could be about to unveil one of their most stunning discoveries for 40 years – new and amazingly clear footage of the first moon landing. The release of the new images next month could…

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  • geopolitiks: coups & covert ops – trained & made in the USSA

    geopolitiks: coups & covert ops – trained & made in the USSA

    first the mainstream basics:honduran president ousted in military coupfrom nytimes: President Manuel Zelaya of Honduras was ousted by the army on Sunday, capping months of tensions over his efforts to lift presidential term limits. In the first military coup in Central America since the end of the cold war, soldiers stormed the presidential palace in…

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  • geopolitiks: lynch mobs, documents & independence day

    geopolitiks: lynch mobs, documents & independence day

    pentagon deploys experimental missile shield to hawaii*planned north korea launch unnerves hawaii residents*obama: US prepared for any north korean threat*pentagon dismisses as ‘silliness’ north korea threat to wipe out US*north korea threatens ‘shower of nuclear retaliation’*critics attack censorship as redactions black out uk documents*’lynch mob mentality’ scares uk politicians*mossad chief’s term to be extended by…

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  • cyber/spacewar: singularity, censorship, malware, mars & the moon

    cyber/spacewar: singularity, censorship, malware, mars & the moon

    1 in a million: german boy hit by meteorite*pentagon blinds astronomers to ‘armageddon’*military hush-up: incoming space rocks now classified*hathaway confirms she’s a candidate for cyber chief*future warbot powered by xbox controller*US ceases analog television broadcasts*the singularity is near – terminator: salvation & the future of humanity*cia adopting web 2.0 tools despite resistance*twitter quitter trent reznor…

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  • obamessiah & the apostles of war: change-allelujah!

    obamessiah & the apostles of war: change-allelujah!

    obama invokes jesus more often than bush*videos: obama is god & great teacher*obama in cairo: a bush in sheep’s clothing?*obama’s french food tested by ‘taster’*most arabs know obama’s big speech makes little difference*feds search for man allegedly on ‘mission to kill the president’*man with ‘eight registered firearms’ allegedly threatens obama*US military technology easily shipped abroad:…

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