Tag: www
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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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comcast caps, surveillence psychosis & microchip cheese
comcast to make monthly internet use cap officialfrom ap: Comcast Corp., the nation’s second-largest Internet service provider, Thursday said it would set an official limit on the amount of data subscribers can download and upload each month. On Oct. 1, the cable company will update its user agreement to say that users will be allowed…
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feds say comcast violates internet rules
from ap: The head of the Federal Communications Commission said Thursday he will recommend that the nation’s largest cable company be punished for violating agency principles that guarantee customers open access to the Internet. The potentially precedent-setting move stems from a complaint against Comcast Corp. that the company had blocked Internet traffic among users of…
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aclu launches terror watch list complaint website
from raw replay: Caroline Fredrickson, director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office spoke at the National Press Club about the need to reform the government’s terrorist watch list. The watch list now contains one million names based on the government’s own reported numbers. The ACLU says that the watch list could effect up to 5-10%…
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judge orders youtube give user histories to viacom
from threat level: Google will have to turn over every record of every video watched by YouTube users, including users’ names and IP addresses, to Viacom, which is suing Google for allowing clips of its copyright videos to appear on YouTube, a judge ruled Wednesday (44kb PDF). The judge also turned Google’s own defense of…
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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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may clearinghouse
policestate2008real life ministry of love is being built*26 yrs after gibson, pentagon defines ‘cyberspace’*comcast is hiring an internet snoop for the feds*US: possible gov’t laptop breach?*mega corp lawsuit against youtube threatens internet freedom*air force aims for ‘full control’ of ‘any and all’ computers*air force colonel wants to build a military botnet*dns trouble knocks nsa off…
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airways, pirate bay, texmex drugwar & assassinations
airliner hijacker found working for british airwaysfrom wikinews: A man who hijacked a domestic flight over Afghanistan has been found to be working for British Airways. 34-year-old Nazamuddin Mohammidy was one of nine men who forced the Ariana Airlines airliner to divert to the United Kingdom’s Stansted Airport in 2000… Mohammidy was jailed for 30…
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pnac, un, nra, ocp, at&t, apra & bg
pnac site goes downfrom thinkprogress: Eleven years ago, the neoconservative Project for a New American Century (PNAC) set out its statement of principles advocating the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, putting the country on the road to a preventative invasion of Iraq. Signatories included future Iraq war architects Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, and Elliott…
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news on the march
america’s chemically modified 21st century soldiers*air marshals mistaken for terrorists*judge orders all references to ‘taser’ stricken from medical examiner’s reports*iran: collapse of US empire, imminent*study: washington hospitals ill-equipped to handle terror attack*2 killed as troops fire into somali riot over food prices*bumps under the blanket & the suicide flu*merck plant dumps vaccine waste & chemicals…
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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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xenu tv, disneynature, mexican hitler & jimmy justice
youtube accounts of scientology critics suspendedfrom wikinews: Two well-known critics of Scientology have had their user accounts on the video sharing website YouTube suspended. The YouTube accounts of both Tory Christman and Mark Bunker were suspended this week. In a statement to Wikinews , YouTube explained why accounts are suspended, but did not specifically state…
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dcctv, red teams, red lights & washed-up drones
surveillance quietly expands in district of criminalsfrom washington times: Smile, Washington – the cameras are rolling whether you know it or not. Police and homeland security officials say they will not post signs around the more than 5,200 cameras being consolidated into one network under an initiative announced by Mayor Adrian M. Fenty… The first…
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zombie computers, pocket lie detectors & stolen laptops
zombie computers decried as imminent nat’l threatfrom threat level: Gangs of thousands of zombie home computers grinding out spam, committing fraud and overpowering websites are the most vexing net threat today, according to law enforcement and security professionals… at the RSA 2008 security conference entitled “Protecting the Homeland: Winning the Botnet Battle,” which was marked…
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extinquished torch, internet2, absolut raza & swatkids
olympic torch put out three timesfrom ap: Security officials extinguished the Olympic torch three times Monday as protests against China’s human rights record turned a relay through Paris into a chaotic series of stops and starts. Despite massive security, at least two activists got within almost an arm’s length of the flame before they were…