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#NewWorldNextWeek: Wikileaks + MSM Hype = ?
Ladies & gentlemen, welcome to the 40th episode of New World Next Week – the video series from CorbettReport.com & MediaMonarchy.com. This week we look exclusively at the massive media hype surrounding Wikileaks, wider wars & the future of the web.
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Intel Agency Workers Downloaded Child Porn on Gov’t Networks
“The disastrous rise of misplaced power exists & will persist…” from boston globe: Federal investigators have identified several dozen Pentagon officials and contractors with high-level security clearances who allegedly purchased and downloaded child pornography, including an undisclosed number who used their government computers to obtain the illegal material, according to investigative reports. The investigations have…
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tsa to block ‘controversial opinion’ on the web
from cbsnews: The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is blocking certain websites from the federal agency’s computers, including halting access by staffers to any Internet pages that contain a “controversial opinion,” according to an internal email obtained by CBS News. The email was sent to all TSA employees from the Office of Information Technology on Friday…
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Defcon 7/1: Fight the Net, Biomet & Int’l Sex Station
The secret state’s mad scheme to control the net // Windows 8 features, like biometrics, revealed in leaked Microsoft documents // Obama space plan under continuous assault // NASA commander says sex banned aboard International Space Station
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Cybersecurity Measures Would Mandate Govt ‘ID Tokens’ To Use Net
The move to shut down and regulate the Internet under a new government-controlled system has accelerated into high gear with the announcement that the government’s cybersecurity strategy revolves around issuing Internet users with ID “tokens” without which they will not be able to visit websites…
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Internet Porn to Get Its Own Red Light District As .XXX Name Approved
The internet could soon have its own red light district after the “.xxx” suffix was approved – though pornography companies are not keen to use it.
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obama internet ‘kill switch’ plan approved by US senate
from techworld: A US Senate committee has approved a wide-ranging cybersecurity bill that some critics have suggested would give the US president the authority to shut down parts of the Internet during a cyberattack. Senator Joe Lieberman and other bill sponsors have refuted the charges that the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act gives…
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White House Prepping National Internet Identity Authentication Plan
The White House plans to reveal June 25 a strategy for verifying the online identity of Internet users, said cyber czar Howard Schmidt, speaking June 22 during a Washington, D.C. conference.
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Napolitano: US Must Balance Liberties & Cybersecurity
Fighting homegrown terrorism by monitoring Internet communications is a civil liberties trade-off the U.S. government must make to beef up national security, the nation’s homeland security chief said Friday.
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lieberman tells internet to ‘relax’ about ‘kill switch’
from raw replay: Sen. Joe Lieberman is telling his critics to “relax” over a bill that would allow the president to disable parts of the internet as he deems necessary. China has an internet “kill switch” and the U.S. should too, according to Lieberman. “We need this capacity in a time of war. We need…
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Defcon 6/17: Civilization, Sun & a Stunning Interface
NASA: Civilization will end in 2013 (possibly) // Electronic armageddon on National Geographic // Supreme Court: Police officer’s texting not private
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DHS Cyber Bill Would Codify Executive Emergency Powers
The Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010 (PC-NNA … PC Nana?) is “designed to bring together the disjointed efforts of multiple federal agencies and departments to prevent cyber theft, intrusions, and attacks across the federal government and the private sector,” its chief author, Sen. Joe Lieberman, will say in prepared remarks today.
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new world next week – may28
bp oil spill, korean standoff, cybercom* download mp3 version of ‘new world next week’* Welcome back to the New World Next Week – the video series from CorbettReport.com & MediaMonarchy.com that gives you the weekly rundown on the stories that matter. This week: Story #1: BP-owned Trans-Alaska Pipeline Shut After Spill Flashback: Gulf Oil, God’s…
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obama bemoans information age as a ‘diversion’
obama bemoans alternative media, rise of tea party* from afp: US President Barack Obama lamented Sunday that in the iPad and Xbox era, information had become a diversion that was imposing new strains on democracy, in his latest critique of modern media. Obama, who often chides journalists and cable news outlets for obsessing with political…