KnowingTest: 2012-01-08

Saturday, January 14, 2012

Slavery by Consent (Full Film)

Slavery by Consent (Full Film)

The Race to Control Your Mind

Over at Activist Post, Brandon Tuberville has written up a two part series on the cashless society being promoted in India and the IBM 5 in 5 research that is being planned. It's about the creepiest thing I've read in a while as there is nothing cashless about it, in fact, it is cash and resource melted together and may eventually remove all human elements of decision making.

We know that the current cash society is a horrible monster of deception built up to have no real value whatsoever. To take something so powerful and harmful and plug this into a credit debit illusion is only going to extend the industrial military complexity and remove all navigation capable of perceiving value other than the digital remake, which in reality will always be completely worthless. If these two concepts could be separated, and cash or credit did not exist at all, then there are obvious benefits to innovation, however, that is not the case. This is like giving a baby a bomb to play with and then handing them a match to light it.

Beyond the Cashless Society: IBM's Vision for the Future

Unfortunately, those who have long never had to suffer in any way financially do not perceive the world as most do, they only see 0's and 1's as a endless power source that can be plugged into their dreamland and abuse of life.

Nothing has changed and it all just get's worse all for the racist power of money and a way to get more benefit from it by others who must be without it; and an endless game of cat and mouse all for the service of those who abuse it the most.

Data Mining Your Soul (Or Digital Profile)

Data Mining Your Soul (Or Digital Profile)

Network from Michael Rigley on Vimeo.

Baptismo - How the Church Separated the State

Baptismo - How the Church Separated the State - R. Mark Sink

Getting underneath words is often a little scary for people and this is traditionally called a baptism of fire, where death and life conflict the basis of meaning. We assume that a word must comply with that which has been learned but this does not account for the time one has to think about it.

This bump in the road can be traced to mythology and she is called Jocasta, a queen of Thebes who unknowingly married her own son, Oedipus, but that is another story.

As a matter of meaning, all words are bound up to their etymological source and less than 8000 English words have been successfully rooted back to their stem sounds which may have been in lingua fashion, but have repeatedly been modified based on alphabetical parameters attuned to the vowels that guide them. Those words that possess more clout good or bad have been surrounded heavily in the lexicon to attain their power with new versions claimed as efficiency in communication, and forever clouding the rooted source.

Just about every possible concept of thinking has been explored and given a methodology to follow that particular way of thinking using the alphabet which has also been created from older Arabic and Hebrew languages which were also created from people having time to think and create them. As for the origins, they remain unattainable, we can only assume that what has been created before us is sufficient to proceed.

This hierarchy of faith may be best described as myth and the idea that inordinate redundance is not seen or felt. Teleology argues it is called sound but the artist knows better.

You can build a church, but underneath this idea is rock, plaster, metal, and the teleology that possesses the pain that was once compassion for life. In this sense, mythology and pain are not separated and carry a hidden agenda.

If the church and the state must be kept apart in the context of mother and child, then one can begin to see where some of our problems reside. It is to be born again that holds more weight than that of the life giving process of love. This is seemingly hidden by that which is labeled the spirit at this level.

So, if we go back to the basic compliance of the lex, that a church exists as a form of pain upon the ground that is separated from the ability to stand, and the primary meaning of state, one can only conclude that illusion is the basis of fact and a child who does not even have a clue as to the myths before them.

The child will walk into the mother's womb to reexperience the idea of birth but upon leaving the womb, the child is called a state. Here, faith is painted upon the child as expedience to the mythological hierachy that hold the keys of pain up high and out of reach.

And all this in order to fog out the life-giving process of creative love with vicious attacks seen as ligitmate in the tormented eyes of the sorcerers. And these attacks continue against the mother and the secret she carries that releases the apostasy where regulation is thought crude.

The idea that love can be set free is forbidden in the illusion of pain. You cannot walk into a church and be reborn. There is only one way to be free and this requires handing over the keys where the mother (also the womb) has full human rights for all life and no man can alter it without approval of its use. Basically, men and women who are not birthing, have no say.

If we return the ability and true aposteriori meaning to the psyche that resides in caring for each other and then is present within people not painted upon them, the true church will be reborn and will begin to reacquire harmony.

The essence of the church is now out of the rabbits hat and its pain sends forth signals that read of its existence, and bound to the life-giving force that states love is free to associate. In all, this is a great sign in the sky that love lives on even under extreme circumstances, and that this would provide the ultimate book of knowledge to allow perception.

More proof lies in studying what has been reanimated from etymological roots and this is overwhelmingly not in the favor of the few but a quantum jump overlaying the crest of the next wave. If we take the words and strip search them, and paint them on the wall, there is no denying the altered states.

As a reader, you probably don't like to have your ass whipped on navigation, so it is best you make this journey alone.

There are nearly a half a million words in the AHD, and now it is claimed as over a million versions. Over time, these versions are evaluated and eventually some will be attached to the ongoing teleology both as fear they will restrain efficiency and to proclaim they are nesting upon the core elaboration which has formed your English navigation of reality.

They are thought to make you proud, they are even thought to jab you in the side. They are thought to be old, they are even thought to represent the vague idea of the ancient city. They are sometimes strange or unearthly, they are even considered to be a vote or selection.

All this is complete illusion.

We can believe the myth, or we can dig into the mythological basement of the state and find the keys so that they may be given back to the mother of mankind and bound to the respect of life itself.

Why Is Everything A Filthy, Rotten lie?

Why Is Everything A Filthy, Rotten lie? by Tom Valentine

How do you teach impressionable youngsters anything of value when the whole bleeping world is a pile of deceit?

It can’t be done!

In the past when the knitted pattern got garbled, the one holding the needles and yarn, just looked it over and ripped it out, starting over. I would like that, but how much should be ripped off? Where do we restart?
Back with the founding fathers? Hell no. Back at the landing of the Mayflower? Double hell no! The Mayflower bunch were pure Oxymorons, Clutching new bibles and looking to Jerusalem.

Did you ever wonder why America had so many towns with Zionist names, even before Teddy Herzl let the cat out of the bag? This is verboten to say in the land of the free, and the home of the brave, why?

Who really asks such questions? Brave, thoughtful and informed people is who; where are they? How do we get them together as a force—Oh, wait a minute, getting such people together just makes them an easier target. Is that the infamous “catch 22?”

So, to clean the snarls out of the pattern we need to pull it apart further into history to start with a clean slate, don’t we?

How about going back to the beginnings of our civilization’s Golden Age, When Jesus Christ walked around Judea and told people the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help Him.

Could we do any better with truth, than those folks did 2000 years ago? I doubt it, because the same pack of evil liars were still running the show back then, and people are generally the same sniveling, selfish assholes they are now.

Yes, I admit I’m hard on ordinary folks, but hell it takes one to know one, and I be ordinary too.

Christ left quite an impression on people, and he demonstrated truth, in no uncertain terms, especially when it came to money, charity, respect and working together for common good.

What could be different if we unwound time back to that day, and witnessed the same solid lessons? I say, no big deal! Folks would still piss it away, and for the same reasons.

Look at what we dumb bleepers did with the wonderful lessons from Christ. Before good people established a framework to rely on (religion) they were bickering about points and issues tangential to the straightforward lessons—was Jesus the son of God, or a mere prophet? Or was he the fullness of God, or three entities in one?

Why was that esoteric fluff at issue? Who put such divisive ideas into the mix? Wasn’t the message clear regardless?

It was like making abortion or gay marriage into national issues today—strawman issues to help divide opinion and nothing else.

Things went downhill from there—not only did the heads of state get into the act while listening to the same dark whispers from behind the curtains telling everybody that Jesus was a bastard, and Mary was a whore; and he deserved the cruel death because he broke their exclusive, racist horse pucky laws.

People being what we are, is it any wonder the magnificent spiritual story and practical lessons were lost, and the strict rules against killing and warring for filthy lucre were abandoned? We also abandoned humility.
Ah, well; can we unravel the yarn further back to get a strip of unsoiled yarn?

How about finding the truth about the forming ideas prior to Christ and his advent? It can’t be easy, because the truths of God’s revelations to mankind were twisted at the outset by those who believed they knew all things better than the Creator—and still believe it—the Talmudists.

The unraveling yarn reaches a Gordion knot at this point. It will be useless to start knitting civilization again. I defer to a great journalist whose works I have reviewed: Controversy of Zion; Tragic History

To start over, it will be necessary to flush the racist, exclusive “laws” from Talmudic poisons out of our hair, thoroughly.

To illustrate the pervasive nature of creeping Talmudic evil. Read about Maimonides and his pursuit of the “Golem” and then take a look at a recent blurb from “scientific” literature: Scientists create test-tube sperm

Ho-Hum.

Friday, January 13, 2012

Rockefellers Psywar - Battle for the Mind Part 1 2011

Rockefellers Psywar - Battle for the Mind Part 1 2011

"The U.S. Department of Defense defines psychological warfare (PSYWAR) as: "The planned use of propaganda and other psychological actions having the primary purpose of influencing the opinions, emotions, attitudes, and behavior of hostile foreign groups in such a way as to support the achievement of national objectives."

During World War II the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff defined psychological warfare more broadly stating "Psychological warfare employs any weapon to influence the mind of the enemy. The weapons are psychological only in the effect they produce and not because of the weapons themselves.

This video explores the evolution of propaganda and public relations in the United States, with an emphasis on the rockefellers theory of democracy‚ and the relationship between war, propaganda and class.

Includes original interviews with a number of dissident scholars including Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Michael Parenti, Peter Phillips, John Stauber, Christopher Simpson and others."

Sibel Edmonds on why the Military Industrial complex supports oppressive regimes

Sibel Edmonds on why the Military Industrial complex supports oppressive regimes - RT

In November of last year, The Washington Times published an opinion piece entitled, "Bahrain, a vital US ally. Backing protesters would betray a friend and harm American security." The article was written by Vice-Admiral Charles Moore, who is now a regional president for Lockheed Martin. Lockheed Martin has done millions of dollars of business with Bahrain. Bahrain has been criticized for abusing its own citizens and Sibel Edmonds with the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition, joins us to discuss why Bahrain is interested in lobbying in America.

Trojan Horse: The National Endowment for Democracy

Trojan Horse: The National Endowment for Democracy

Excerpted from the book, Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower
by William Blum

How many Americans could identify the National Endowment for Democracy? An organization which often does exactly the opposite of what its name implies. The NED was set up in the early 1980s under President Reagan in the wake of all the negative revelations about the CIA in the second half of the 1970s. The latter was a remarkable period. Spurred by Watergate-the Church Committee of the Senate, the Pike Committee of the House and the Rockefeller Commission, created by the president, were all busy investigating the CIA. Seemingly every other day there was a new headline about the discovery of some awful thing, even criminal conduct, the CIA had been mixed up in for years. The Agency was getting an exceedingly bad name, and it was causing the powers-that-be much embarrassment.

Something had to be done. What was done was not to stop doing these awful things. Of course not. What was done was to shift many of these awful things to a new organization, with a nice sounding name-the National Endowment for Democracy. The idea was that the NED would do somewhat overtly what the CIA had been doing covertly for decades, and thus, hopefully, eliminate the stigma associated with CIA covert activities.

It was a masterpiece. Of politics, of public relations and of cynicism. Thus it was that in 1983, the National Endowment for Democracy was set up to "support democratic institutions throughout the world through private, nongovernmental efforts". Notice the "nongovernmental"-part of the image, part of the myth. In actuality, virtually every penny of its funding comes from the federal government, as is clearly indicated in the financial statement in each issue of its annual report. NED likes to refer to itself as an NGO (non-governmental organization) because this helps to maintain a certain credibility abroad that an official US government agency might not have. But NGO is the wrong category. NED is a GO.

Allen Weinstein, who helped draft the legislation establishing NED, was quite candid when he said in 1991: "A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA." In effect, the CIA has been laundering money through NED.

The Endowment has four principal initial recipients of funds: the International Republican Institute; the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs; an affiliate of the AFL-CIO (such as the American Center for International Labor Solidarity); and an affiliate of the Chamber of Commerce (such as the Center for International Private Enterprise). These institutions then disburse funds to other institutions in the US and all over the world, which then often disburse funds to yet other organizations.

In a multitude of ways, NED meddles in the internal affairs of foreign countries by supplying funds, technical know-how, training, educational materials, computers, fax machines, copiers, automobiles and so on, to selected political groups, civic organizations, labor unions, dissident movements, student groups, book publishers, newspapers, other media, etc. NED programs generally impart the basic philosophy that working people and other citizens are best served under a system of free enterprise, class cooperation, collective bargaining, minimal government intervention in the economy and opposition to socialism in any shape or form. A freemarket economy is equated with democracy, reform and growth, and the merits of foreign investment are emphasized.

From 1994 to 1996, NED awarded 15 grants, totaling more than $2,500,000, to the American Institute for Free Labor Development, an organization used by the CIA for decades to subvert progressive labor unions. AlFLD's work within Third World unions typically involved a considerable educational effort very similar to the basic NED philosophy described above. The description of one of the 1996 NED grants to AIFLD includes as one its objectives: "build union-management cooperation". Like many things that NED says, this sounds innocuous, if not positive, but these in fact are ideological code words meaning "keep the labor agitation down...don't rock the status quo boat". The relationship between NED and AIFLD very well captures the CIA origins of NED.

The Endowment has funded centrist and rightist labor organizations to help them oppose those unions which were too militantly proworker. This has taken place in France, Portugal and Spain amongst many other places. In France, during the 1983-4 period, NED supported a "trade union-like organization for professors and students" to counter "left-wing organizations of professors". To this end it funded a series of seminars and the publication of posters, books and pamphlets such as "Subversion and the Theology of Revolution" and "Neutralism or Liberty". ("Neutralism" here refers to being unaligned in the Cold War.)

NED describes one of its 1997-98 programs thusly: "To identify barriers to private sector development at the local and federal levels in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and to push for legislative change...[and] to develop strategies for private sector growth." Critics of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic have been supported by NED grants for years.

In short, NED's programs are in sync with the basic needs and objectives of the New World Order's economic globalization, just as the programs have for years been on the same wavelength as US foreign policy.

Because of a controversy in 1984-when NED funds were used to aid a Panamanian presidential candidate backed by Manuel Noriega and the CIA-Congress enacted a law prohibiting the use of NED funds "to finance the campaigns of candidates for public office." But the ways to circumvent the spirit of such a prohibition are not difficult to come up with; as with American elections, there's "hard money" and there's "soft money".

... NED successfully manipulated elections in Nicaragua in 1990 and Mongolia in 1996 and helped to overthrow democratically elected governments in Bulgaria in 1990 and Albania in 1991 and 1992. In Haiti in the late l990s, NED was busy working on behalf of right wing groups who were united in their opposition to former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide and his progressive ideology. NED has made its weight felt in the electoral-political process in numerous other countries.

NED would have the world believe that it's only teaching the ABCs of democracy and elections to people who don't know them, but in all five countries named above there had already been free and fair elections held. The problem, from NED's point of view, is that the elections had been won by political parties not on NED's favorites list.

The Endowment maintains that it's engaged in "opposition building" and "encouraging pluralism". "We support people who otherwise do not have a voice in their political system," said Louisa Coan, a NED program officer. But NED hasn't provided aid to foster progressive or leftist opposition in Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua or Eastern Europe-or, for that matter, in the United States even though these groups are hard pressed for funds and to make themselves heard. Cuban dissident groups and media are heavily supported however.

NED's reports carry on endlessly about "democracy", but at best it's a modest measure of mechanical political democracy they have in mind, not economic democracy; nothing that aims to threaten the powers-that-be or the way-things-are, unless of course it's in a place like Cuba.

The Endowment played an important role in the Iran-Contra affair of the 1980s, funding key components of Oliver North's shadowy "Project Democracy" network, which privatized US foreign policy, waged war, ran arms and drugs and engaged in other equally charming activities. At one point in 1987, a White House spokesman stated that those at NED "run Project Democracy". This was an exaggeration; it would have been more correct to say that NED was the public arm of Project Democracy, while North ran the covert end of things. In any event, the statement caused much less of a stir than if-as in an earlier period-it had been revealed that it was the CIA which was behind such an unscrupulous operation.

NED also mounted a multi-level campaign to fight the leftist insurgency in the Philippines in the mid-1980s, funding a host of private organizations, including unions and the media. This was a replica of a typical CIA operation of pre-NED days.

And between 1990 and 1992, the Endowment donated a quarter-million dollars of taxpayers' money to the Cuban-American National Fund, the ultra-fanatic anti-Castro Miami group. The CANF, in turn, financed Luis Posada Carriles, one of the most prolific and pitiless terrorists of modern times, who was involved in the blowing up of a Cuban airplane in 1976, which killed 73 people. In 1997, he was involved in a series of bomb explosions in Havana hotels.

The NED, like the CIA before it, calls what it does supporting democracy. The governments and movements whom the NED targets call it destabilization.

Related:

FAQ: Why are Globalist Think-Tank Documents Public?

Corporations Are Not Your Parents

Corporations Are Not Your Parents - R. Mark Sink

Corporate greed goes hand in hand with the ongoing terrorist theme on human rights, beget as apartheid in the making.

It has been conclusively confirmed that the wars after 9/11 had nothing to do with 9/11 itself as has been obviated over and over until it makes your head hurt.

All this corruption is part of the play, an opportunity to tell the world what you are really made of, and that is now apparent if you look in the right places. Along with the extremist right-wing Citizens United coup d'etat for the influx of greed directly into the vein and pumped directly to the heart of Americans, how on god's green earth could anyone understand the consequences through such aberrations of fact?

We see a subtle move to claim a land that is broke by it's debt which has no limit.

How is that even logical?

It is only logical by thief and as a methodology of corporate devil-hood; the right to take life and destroy it at will all for the intransitive addictions.

The linguistics of terrorism is beginning to have a bad smell and is starting to bare its ugly personhood. The ability to deceive is now just a claim of righteousness which is placed under the throne of lies as the big turd and that which is the consideration for living people who are not born with a suck-up attitude to the terrorist who is wearing no pants.

The game of fear is designed for you and has enhanced the overall ploy of psychopathic destruction of what America once had dreamed. Unfortunately, the cost is unproductive and uncivil. Even with billions paid in fines for the death of innocent children and adults, and trillions of dollars stolen from the working people for illegal warring and buddy bailouts, not a single devil has been held accountable.

Our president has been caught in so many lies, you would have to dissect him like some kind of chicken to figure it all out. And the rhetorical poll after poll repeating the same diatribe of political pedophilia upon the very nature of life rests as the excuse to terrorize the planet for profits.

The slipping and sliding of evil has literally become the art naive within the cloud of pathocracy. Corporations are not your parents, they are structured entities that should be owned by the people and run by them while executives are used sparingly as a form of reasonable consultation. In a free market, they are bound to fear forever, so their existence is in question as to the true value they offer to the actual people living around them.

Their seedy franchises are the most subsidized freak show imaginable which stem and interlace the governmental apparatus. One may begin to conclude that America's demise is tied directly to the incessant greed of corporatism's right to terrorize others which was created out of the midst of 9/11, although this transformation had long been in the process, its effectiveness was boosted through the false-flag media show of the new god of fear.

Israel rests as the nest for this obstruction where anti-life is born and there are no exceptions to racism as a basis of fact. Morality is removed from the picture just as that of promoting fear as a basis of fact when it is a complete horror show that is fabricated as denial of fact.

The talking heads puke the factotum de dum for the perpetuating of denial and the truth that what they truly offer humanity is a pile of shit offered up by their masters as nutritious food vaccinations and chemical concoctions that are slipped through the haze of the psychopaths.

We must also understand that most people do not have a way out of the web that entwines them as corporations provide sustenance as a means of survival that has never really been contractually sound, nor seen as anything other than a simple form of slavery to the new god. They themselves have only been that which is part of the lie bound to the fear of getting caught, that is to say, the fear that the new god would be responsible to the people who founded the land in which they occupy.

America as it stands today is run by the military for the military, headed by the Pentagon to maintain Wall Street, the corporations, and the banking arms, which all now have more power than any time in existence. Trillions of dollars can be thrown out the window on any day without the least bit of investigation or accountability, and all for the continuing hegemony that ties directly to the credit or debt concept called resource.

On earth, people are born as zero and are required to obtain credit for life otherwise be discarded. A hierarchy of evil resides before they are born to maintain the illusion of reality which obsesses entertainment. Humans quickly assume that entertainment is as food but their freedom has long been taken from them. They dream as a dream that never happened.

We cannot unglue the gordian knot of hell before us, but we can certainly point out the apparent rotting around the corners, and share the truth so that human beings can begin to heal and expunge the demons.

Thursday, January 12, 2012

American Slavery at a Glance

American Slavery at a Glance - R. Mark Sink

Most Americans don't have the foggiest idea about the actual world they live in or the unrelenting hegemony for imperial global power that is representative of the U.S. and Israel world-wide atrocity. It becomes more evident when we take a look at a few statistics associating the use of labor as compared to the world.

From Refreshing news

"American Work-Life Balance

According to the Center for American Progress , “in 1960, only 20 percent of mothers worked. Today, 70 percent of American children live in households where all adults are employed.” I don’t care who stays home and who works in terms of gender (work opportunity equality for all – it’s a family choice). Either way, when all adults are working (single or with a partner), that’s a huge hit to the American family and free-time in the American household.
The U.S. is the ONLY country in the Americas without a national paid parental leave benefit. The average is over 12 weeks of paid leave anywhere other than Europe and over 20 weeks in Europe.
Zero industrialized nations are without a mandatory option for new parents to take parental leave. That is, except for the United States.

American Average Work Hours:

At least 134 countries have laws setting the maximum length of the work week; the U.S. does not.
In the U.S., 85.8 percent of males and 66.5 percent of females work more than 40 hours per week.
According to the ILO, “Americans work 137 more hours per year than Japanese workers, 260 more hours per year than British workers, and 499 more hours per year than French workers.”
Using data by the U.S. BLS, the average productivity per American worker has increased 400% since 1950. One way to look at that is that it should only take one-quarter the work hours, or 11 hours per week, to afford the same standard of living as a worker in 1950 (or our standard of living should be 4 times higher). Is that the case? Obviously not. Someone is profiting, it’s just not the average American worker.

American Paid Vacation Time & Sick Time:

There is not a federal law requiring paid sick days in the United States.
The U.S. remains the only industrialized country in the world that has no legally mandated annual leave.
In every country included except Canada and Japan (and the U.S., which averages 13 days/per year), workers get at least 20 paid vacation days. In France and Finland, they get 30 – an entire month off, paid, every year.
Then there’s this depressing graph on average paid vacation time in industrialized countries:"

The chart is certainly revealing, but this is but a scratch upon the surface of extreme corruption. The author continues on to explain that Americans are seriously brainwashed into thinking money will bring them happiness. This is true, I've had a Twitter account for a couple of years and this is the main rub that is perpetuated endlessly by tweeters and their endless Facebook sites.

It's hard to imagine a world so deeply asleep and bent on a system that is now confirmed as anti-life as a means of production and sustainability. The resistance to the truth is startling, almost Orwellian in nature; a country lost in its own haze and thieving in malware upon itself.

If that is the American Dream, it is really a nightmare.

Keiser Report: Death by Thousand Revelations

Keiser Report: Death by Thousand Revelations (E235)

In this episode, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss death by a thousand revelations and destroying the City to save the City. In the second half of the show, Max talks to author, Nomi Prins, a former investment banker, about the role of JP Morgan in Jon Corzine's MF Global crime.

Related:

Sept. 3, 2011: Full-Blown Civil War Erupts on Wall Street: As Reality Finally Hits the Financial Elite, They Start Turning on Each Other

The Secret the 99% Need to Hear

The Secret the 99% Need to Hear

Comment: This video has some important truth in it but also is deceiving. It is true that psychopaths are a major problem in our world. If we had the power to remove them from their positions of power, this would be a good step in the right direction. Although this does not solve the problems with the horrible deteroriation of human life to have suitable means to survive with millions sitting in jails for crimes designed to create profits for others and that this capitalists system is a self=feeding nightmare that will never end. It seems an emphasis is being carefully placed as a means to accommodate the idea that capitalism is legit. In that sense, capitalism is only legit if you have it, and if you don't, then it is acceptable that you die or starve. If you take someone with these ideas and drop them off on a planet in the solar system, come back a million years later, you'll see the same problems all over again. I've also known people who had lots of money, in fact I spent most of my adult life working for these people, and have long come to the conclusion that the world in which we live is extremely unfair whether a psychopath is around the corner or not.

The idea of separating oneself out from the system of capitalists corruption is a worthy recommendation, to get rid of your television, move your money, buy local, and so on. If this is what the author truly is expressing, what he is saying is a complete change that will only be conceded after great hardship and likely civil war. When you have lost all your money as I, and face death directly on, you then begin to see how useless the monetary system really is, but if you happen to have an income and are surviving, you'll create your own reality as those little Lincolns alter your views and you will defend them as something of value that others must see and understand. Capitalism can never succeed because there will always be people who are not allowed to have it. A step in the right direction is only a step to finally realize that our monetary system was truly just a rigged game. You can clean the face of earth of the psychopaths and they will just keep coming back. In order to really rid ourselves of them, you will also have to remove their food.

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Occupy Tampa - RISE UP! THE SYSTEM IS BROKEN!

Occupy Tampa - RISE UP! THE SYSTEM IS BROKEN!

Occupy Miami - Stephanie Rae Garcia at UTD Labor Rally (Jan 9, 2012)

Occupy Miami - Stephanie Rae Garcia at UTD Labor Rally (Jan 9, 2012)

Stephanie Rae Garcia's speech at the United Teachers of Dade Labor Rally on what the Occupy Miami Movement is all about.

We're all in this together! Join the Occupy Movement! All as one!

Extraordinary Measures: Shredding the Curtain of an Enduring Atrocity

Jan. 5, 2012: Extraordinary Measures: Shredding the Curtain of an Enduring Atrocity by Chris Floyd

Wise man William Blum has spent decades shredding the tired pieties of empire to reveal the rotten reality of the American war-and-domination machine, as it churns its way back and forth across the world, chewing up individual lives and whole countries. And so, as you might imagine, he has a few choice words to say about the bogus "end" to the American war crime in Iraq, recently praised to the highest heavens by our presidential Peace Laureate as "an extraordinary achievement, nearly nine years in the making."

Here are few excerpts from Blum's take on this extraordinary achievement, from his latest "Anti-Empire Report." (Go here to sign up for the newsletter.)

"Most people don't understand what they have been part of here," said Command Sgt. Major Ron Kelley as he and other American troops prepared to leave Iraq in mid-December. "We have done a great thing as a nation. We freed a people and gave their country back to them."

"It is pretty exciting," said another young American soldier in Iraq. "We are going down in the history books, you might say." (Washington Post, December 18, 2011)

Ah yes, the history books, the multi-volume leather-bound set of "The Greatest Destructions of One Country by Another." The newest volume can relate, with numerous graphic photos, how the modern, educated, advanced nation of Iraq was reduced to a quasi failed state; how the Americans, beginning in 1991, bombed for 12 years, with one dubious excuse or another; then invaded, then occupied, overthrew the government, tortured without inhibition, killed wantonly, ... how the people of that unhappy land lost everything — their homes, their schools, their electricity, their clean water, their environment, their neighborhoods, their mosques, their archaeology, their jobs, their careers, their professionals, their state-run enterprises, their physical health, their mental health, their health care, their welfare state, their women's rights, their religious tolerance, their safety, their security, their children, their parents, their past, their present, their future, their lives ... More than half the population either dead, wounded, traumatized, in prison, internally displaced, or in foreign exile ... The air, soil, water, blood, and genes drenched with depleted uranium ... the most awful birth defects ... unexploded cluster bombs lying anywhere in wait for children to pick them up ... a river of blood running alongside the Euphrates and Tigris ... through a country that may never be put back together again …

Blum also quotes the Peace Laureate's final judgment of this vast swamp of carnage and corruption, in the Fort Bragg speech that Obama gave to some of the crime's factotums and cannon fodder on the occasion of the withdrawal of all the American armed forces (except of course for the ones, in uniform and out, who remain behind in their thousands):

"This is an extraordinary achievement, nearly nine years in the making. And today, we remember everything that you did to make it possible. ... Years from now, your legacy will endure. God bless you all, God bless your families, and God bless the United States of America."

Yes, God bless us for killing, wounding, traumatising, imprisoning, displacing or exiling millions of innocent people in a country that never attacked us and posed no threat to us. God bless us for killing hundreds of thousands of children through our years of sanctions, invasion and occupation. God bless us, God bless us, God bless us every one, every one of us a precious sunbeam for the Lord!

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And as we noted here last month, the American war crime in Iraq just keeps rolling on. This week saw yet another spate of mass slaughter in yet another series of bombings in the virulent sectarian warfare which was spawned, set loose, empowered and fomented by the invaders, who very deliberately -- with malice aforethought -- divided their new "Iraqi" government along strict sectarian lines, arming and paying death squads and militias on both sides of the Sunni-Shia divide to rip each other -- and Iraqi society -- to pieces. The mass murder this week is a direct result and a direct responsibility of the Americans who instigated, carried out, supported -- and praise -- the "extraordinary achievement" of this endless atrocity. "Nine years in the making," yes -- and still going strong!

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Whistle Blower Threatened with 35 Years in Prison, Warns of Developing Tyranny

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1. There is no electricity bill in Libya; electricity is free for all its citizens.
2. There is no interest on loans, banks in Libya are state-owned and loans given to all its citizens at zero percent interest by law.
3. Having a home considered a human right in Libya.
4. All newlyweds in Libya receive $60,000 dinar (U.S.$50,000) by the government to buy their first apartment so to help start up the family.
5. Education and medical treatments are free in Libya. Before Gaddafi only 25 percent of Libyans were literate. Today, the figure is 83 percent.
6. Should Libyans want to take up farming career, they would receive farming land, a farming house, equipments, seeds and livestock to kickstart their farms are all for free.
7. If Libyans cannot find the education or medical facilities they need, the government funds them to go abroad, for it is not only paid for, but they get a U.S.$2,300/month for accommodation and car allowance.
8. If a Libyan buys a car, the government subsidizes 50 percent of the price.
9. The price of petrol in Libya is $0.14 per liter.
10. Libya has no external debt and its reserves amounting to $150 billion are now frozen globally.
11. If a Libyan is unable to get employment after graduation the state would pay the average salary of the profession, as if he or she is employed, until employment is found.
12. A portion of every Libyan oil sale is credited directly to the bank accounts of all Libyan citizens.
13. A mother who gives birth to a child receive U.S.$5,000.
14. 40 loaves of bread in Libya costs $0.15.
15. 25 percent of Libyans have a university degree.
16. Gaddafi carried out the world’s largest irrigation project, known as the Great Manmade River project, to make water readily available throughout the desert country. Source

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Lieberman's Bill to Kick Off Internment Camps

Lieberman's Bill to Kick Off Internment Camps by Joe Quinn

For those readers who are part of the 40% of human beings who think Ignorance is Bliss, stop reading now. This article is about a truth so hard that it was actually depressing to write it. You might think that working on SOTT for many years, most of us are pretty tough and can deal with the hard stuff. But sometimes, you see something that rings a bell, and you know that you've had a glimpse behind the curtain, because somebody went before and left a map to show you the way. In this case, that person was Hannah Arendt.

The modern world can't be an easy place to live in for those who are born genetically predisposed to crave absolute power over others. I mean, these days, any would-be totalitarian has only a very small chance of being born into one of the world's few remaining overt dictatorships, and a much greater chance of being born into a large Western nation that is nominally democratic. While fulfillment of the megalomaniac's innate drive is a walk in the park in a dictatorship, it requires all sorts of protracted subterfuge in a democracy. Bummer.

The main problem with giving free reign to one's dictatorial leanings in a democracy is the whole 'citizen's rights' and 'Rights of Man' thing. How is any self-aggrandizing despot to lord it over the masses, and watch them squirm and suffer and beg, when everyone seems convinced that there are not only democratic and legal rights but also natural 'inalienable' rights that come with just being a human being? Ideas that everyone is 'created equal' and has the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness etc. can cause a lot of problems for the average authoritarian. Naturally then, in any democracy, all those rights would have be removed before any oligarchy could transform citizens into subjects, and they'd have to be removed under the cloak of 'protecting' the very rights that were slated for extinction. A tall order indeed, but there are ways to do it. One tried and tested way is to create a foreign or external threat from which the people of a democracy must be protected. All sorts of draconian laws that subvert civil rights can be passed to combat this 'threat', and If the 'threat' can then be made internal or domestic, and suspicion of 'siding with enemy' cast over the citizens, you're well on your way to banishing those pesky legal and natural rights.

Strangely enough, that seems to be what has been happening in Western democracies over the past 10 years. Take the USA for example. That there is a power-hungry elite in control of the USA should, by now, be obvious to anyone with a few firing neurons. George 'Dubya' Bush made no secret of his desire to be dictator, and over the past few years Obama has made several references to wanting to "bypass congress" and just "change the laws on my own". As for Congress and the Senate, their endorsement of legislation like the USA PATRIOT Act and the recent 'Indefinite Detention bill' within the NDAA, make it obvious that they are only too happy to go along with the transformation of America into a fully-fledged police state at home, and an ever expanding empire abroad. And needless to say, America's biggest multinational corporations (most of which are ~~war profiteers~~ 'military contractors') are reaping huge profits from providing the infrastructure necessary for just such a police state. That the Indefinite Detention bill is a savage attack on the few remaining civil rights in the USA is made obvious when we realise that even the New York Times, in an editorial on December 16th 2011, dared to spell it out when they said that the bill contains "terrible new measures that will make indefinite detention and military trials a permanent part of American law." On the other hand, they could just be sayin' stuff like that to convince people that the laws can't be changed back once the step is taken to remove human rights.

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Britten Interview About Los Angeles City Hall Raid Tree Footage

Britten Interview About Los Angeles City Hall Raid Tree Footage - OccupyLAMedia

Britten speaks about a night concerning the Los Angeles City Hall raid and an impromptu march that followed immediately after with other people from Occupy Los Angeles.

He also speaks about the treatment of the Occupiers by the police.

Recovering From Authoritarian Simpatico Syndrome (ASS): "Because the Cops Don't Need You and Man They Expect the Same"

Recovering From Authoritarian Simpatico Syndrome (ASS): "Because the Cops Don't Need You and Man They Expect the Same" by Phil Rockstroh

Witnessing the acts and utterances of Republican presidential candidates can be regarded as a helpful psychological exercise, a type of "exposure therapy" involving the development of methods used to bear the presence of unbearable people, who insist on evincing the history of human ignorance, duplicity and insanity.

"I can't go on; I go on." -Samuel Beckett

All alive are tasked with the challenge of not only proceeding through life despite these kinds of insults to common sense and common decency, but to make a stand, in one's own unique way, against prevailing forms of madness and oppression.

As a case in point, within the mainstream narratives of the corporate media and that of both major political parties, one bears constant witness to palaver involving the nebulous tyrannies of "big government"; although, incongruously, one scarcely receives from those sources focused complaints and critiques (much less probing investigative reports or Congressional hearings) directed at the excesses of the national security/police state and military/big media/prison industrial complex. The "big government" narrative is a misdirection campaign - a smoke screen serving to obscure corporate/military dominance of political life and its effects on the social criteria of everyday life in the nation. Accordingly, government is only as big as the 1 percent who own and operate it will allow it to be.

Therefore, due to the fact that elitist interests all but control the US political class, in order to change government policies, a radical rethinking and revamping of the economic order of the nation must occur. Although, at this late date in the life of empire, change will have to come from the streets, from uprisings - by occupations - by a restructuring of the entire system, from its cracked foundation to rotting support beams to corroding particle board to lousy paint job.

Yet, this will be an organic process ... unpredictable, fraught with peril, freighted with the expansiveness of the novel, tinged with apprehensions borne of grief. But upheaval is inevitable because the present system is deep into the process of entropic runaway. And because uncertainty will be our constant companion, one is advised to make it an ally.

The neoliberal capitalist order is on a path toward extinction. And it will, most likely, die ugly. But it has lived ugly as well. The system never worked as advertised ... was more sales pitch than substance in its promise to increase innovation and deliver prosperity worldwide. Conversely, the setup ensured enslavement to powerful interests by means of a 21st century version of company town despotism, e.g., workhouses, sweat shops, unhealthy mining towns and industrial wastelands where the laboring classes are shackled by debt slavery to company store-type coercion.

This global company town criteria has inflicted sub-living wages, no benefit, no future jobs, yet the corporate state's 24/7, commercial propaganda apparatus has the consumer multitudes of the US convinced that they are "living the dream." As a result, great numbers still believe their oligarchic oppressors actually believe their own lies about freedom, liberty and equal opportunity for all.

That's right: Scheming princes simply love the peasants of their kingdom ... They do, as long as those wretches continue to bow down in the presence of the powerful; do all they are commanded to do; and unthinkingly serve the interests of their vain, arrogant rulers. Absurdly, large numbers in the US still claim the burdensome economic yoke they bear is a glittering accessory of freedom gifted to them by their privileged betters.

Often, one hears the assertion: Although the US is an empire, it is, in fact, a benign sort of empire ... as far as empires go.

To the contrary, the nation's post-Second World War, empire-building enterprise, as is the case throughout history with exercises in imperium, has created deathscapes abroad, corrupted the society's elite and delivered anomie and alienation to the general population. From the soulless, dehumanizing nothingscapes of the US interstate highway system and its resultant suburban project, to the douchescapes of hyper-commercialized pop culture, empire's legacy is as pervasive as it is dismal.

And all delivered and maintained by trading in the bartered blood of the innocent abroad by mechanisms of imperial plunder while serving to create a gallery of heartless, authoritarian-minded, consumerism-addicted grotesques at home. One suspects this is the reason discussions involving the true nature of empire are not considered a subject fit for nice company.

Often, by attempting to adapt to the burdensome daily obligations and the spirit-crushing, hierarchical structure of neoliberal capitalism, individuals will begin to internalize its pathologies. In the age of corporate state-dominated media, to ensure the circular, self-reinforcing nature of the noxious narratives of empire remain in place, faux populist, conservative media talk show hosts, talking heads and rightist pundits - elitist bully boys and gals - i.e., the bigot whispers of the right - continually seed the dismal air with false narratives, contrived to misdirect anger and foment displaced resentments.

In turn, little bullies out in the US spleenland, rendered resentful and mean of spirit by the incessant humiliation engendered by a class-stratified, exploitive economic system, take up these self-defeating talking points that serve the 1 percent. Accordingly, when, for example, participants in the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement question the present social and economic structure, these downscale denizens of oligarchic rule personalize the critique; their identification with the system is so complete that they feel as though they have been attacked on a personal basis.

As a consequence, all too often, their defenses are raised and they return volleys of ad hominem attacks that serve to defend a status quo that demeans them. This psychological phenomenon could be termed Authoritarian Simpatico Syndrome (ASS) - a pathology suffered by personalities who have been traumatized by authority, but who endeavor to remedy the wounding and humiliation inflicted by a brutal, degrading order by identification with their oppressors.

To wit, the lack of outrage exhibited by the general public regarding the nation's trudge toward a police/national security state. For example, the lack of deference displayed by city officials and local police forces regarding the First Amendment rights of OWS participants.

First off, let's clear the pepper spray-fogged air on the matter: The vast majority of rank-and-file police officers do not now and, most likely, never will view themselves as part of the 99 percent. Simply stated, police officers identify with their fellow cops. The vocation, by its institutionalized, militaristic, tribal nature, creates a wall of separation between its insider members and outsiders, i.e., the civilian population at large.

It is an act of self-deception to insist that rank-and-file police officers, the so-called blue shirts, might even be tacit supporters of the 99 percent movement.

Good luck with that. But don't be surprised if your entreaties are answered in the form of concentrated mists of pepper spray. In fact, as of late, that is exactly the reply we have received from the police, many times over.

Most police officers do not identify much with civilians. They harbor fealty to their careers and are indoctrinated to evince unquestioning loyalty to the department. Or as Bob Dylan presents the case in verse:

"Because the cops don't need you and man they expect the same" -"Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues"

On a cultural basis, after years of hyper-authoritarian indoctrination by mass media sources and political influences, few, among the general public and in the political realm, seem willing to demand openness and accountability from law enforcement organizations. All too often, police (and US soldiers as well) are viewed by a large percent of the general public as selfless heroes, noble souls, protecting life and liberty. And no matter how much evidence accumulates to the contrary, this image holds.

How is it that so many can cling to the illusion that cops and soldiers - grownups, armed with deadly weaponry, and who have shown themselves willing to engage in acts of state sanctioned violence and oppression - are innocent victims of circumstance? Have we, in this nation, lost the concept of free will?

How did the perspective of a people become so upside down that heavily armed, body armor-enswathed men and women wearing uniforms of state power are viewed as blameless innocents while those they perpetrate brutality against are somehow regarded as the aggressors in the situation ... deserving of the violence inflicted upon them?

Let's have a reckoning with reality regarding the nature of the forces coalescing against OWS and other global movements aligned against despotism: Authoritarian personality types detest the sight of freedom; its inherent uncertainties make them damn nervous. By reflex, they have a compulsion to lower a jackboot on its neck.

Or, in the words of one officer tasked with the duty of stifling the public's right to free assembly at a recent OWS protest staged at the Winter Garden atrium of Brookfield Properties, within the World Financial Center located in lower Manhattan, "Don't get in my face. I have a gun on me, O.K.? I don't want any people coming that close to me."

In acts of social and civic resistance, regardless of whether one evinces a Gandhi-like position of nonviolence or adopts a Malcolm X-influenced stance of "by any means necessary," the enforcers of a corrupt authoritarian order regard any and all displays of dissent as an invitation to force dissenters face down on the pavement, zip-cuffed and bleeding, then be remanded into custody - or worse.

At this critical point, it is imperative we let die our illusions involving the present order. Yet, we must do so without becoming so disillusioned that we lack the resolve to remake the world. Often, we cling to fictions involving the benign nature of power because the act spares us angst. To the contrary, we must bear witness to the collisions of our illusions and the realities of the day, because it is from the debris created by these collisions that the world will be built anew.

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Big Government Legislation to Force Unemployed into Indentured Servitude

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Big Government Legislation to Force Unemployed into Indentured Servitude by Brandon Turbeville

After having elected Nikki Haley to the Governor’s office in 2010, South Carolina has served as a hotbed of reactionary politics aimed at cutting and privatizing services, union busting, and attacking the unemployed as lazy criminals and drug addicts. However, for all of the rhetoric spewed from people like Haley and her cohorts in the State House and Senate, it is obvious that their ultimate political goals are no different from that of President Barack Obama.

In 2008, the independent media was on fire reporting the comments by then Obama White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel regarding his mandatory civil service plan that would require every American between the ages of 18-25 to undergo three months of basic training complete with military-style exercises and indoctrination. Later, in 2009, the GIVE Act (also known as the Serve America Act) was passed by the House and Senate and signed into law by Obama. This bill contained much of language bounced back and forth between those such as Emmanuel who would require Americans to engage in some type of mandatory “civilian service.” (Read “mandatory civilian service” to mean slavery.)

In 2012, those Federal attempts at conscription and enslavement are also manifesting themselves at the State level.

Recently, it was announced that a bill is circulating in the South Carolina State House of Representatives that would require anyone receiving unemployment benefits for longer than six months to volunteer for 16 hours a week in order to continue receiving the benefits. Of course, using the term “benefits” should be used loosely, as one who is receiving an unemployment check is only receiving a return on the investment he/she made in taxes paid to the unemployment system. After all, one does not consider a car insurance payment made after an accident to be a benefit.

Nevertheless, the premise behind the bill is that the unemployed are unemployed by choice and by virtue of their own laziness, and that they should therefore be forced to “carry their own weight.” Although South Carolina is suffering under a real unemployment rate of about 18 to 20 percent, (and an official rate using flawed statistics of about 9.9%), the propaganda of characterizing those out of work due to decades of insane trade policy and domestic deindustrialization as “those people who don’t want to work” has been surprisingly successful within the ranks of the general public. That is why a bill such as this one is so dangerous.

In reference to the hare-brained “mandated volunteerism” scheme, the bill’s sponsor, Senator Paul Campbell stated, “I just think if someone’s busy working, they’ll be more industrious and more likely to get a job. Depending on the skill they’ve got, I think we can put that skill to work. I’m not talking about collecting garbage on the side of the highway.”

Of course, the type of work being required has not exactly been specified. Not only that, one must wonder – if out-of-work South Carolinians are not going to be doing traditional community service work, will they be forced to work for private companies? If so, who will these private companies be?

Obviously, the question of what kind of work citizens will be coerced into performing is a secondary issue. The real problem is that the government would be granted the authority to demand such a thing in the first place. Not only that, but while one may be tempted to argue that anyone who does not wish to volunteer would simply be able to refuse the unemployment money, the fact is that the money does not belong to the government – it belongs to those who have paid in contributions over their many years of working. It thus belongs to the people. The government, State or Federal, has absolutely no right to demand preconditions other than those specified in the original Unemployment Insurance agreement.

More importantly, Governments have no right under natural law to demand that its citizenry work for free under any circumstances. Indeed, a population that is forced or coerced to work with no compensation is not a free population at all – it is enslaved.

Nevertheless, Governor Nikki Haley has expressed support for the bill.

South Carolina is not the first state to attempt to implement such a fascist program, however. Florida tried to pass a bill last year that was similar to the one currently being discussed in South Carolina. Thankfully, the bill was killed when the Department of Labor informed lawmakers that their ridiculous plan would conflict with Federal law.

Unfortunately, reactionary politics have surrounded unemployment benefits in South Carolina for some time. Remember, only a matter of months ago, Governor Nikki Haley made headlines all across the state when she claimed that anyone receiving State unemployment benefits should be forced to undergo mandatory drug testing before receiving their money. In order to back up her case, Haley attempted to use the Savannah River Site as a microcosm of the unemployment situation in South Carolina.

According to Haley, over half to a local government facility had failed the drug test and this was emblematic of those who are unemployed all over the state.

The problem was that this never actually happened. In fact, the claims couldn’t have been further from the truth.

As I wrote on November 29, 2011 regarding this incident,

Once one can get past the implications for civil liberties and privacy as well as the irony of a reactionary politician who constantly screams about ‘cutting spending’ suggesting that drug testing be implemented on a statewide scale, one should also be concerned about a Governor that simply makes up statistics as the basis for the justification of such a policy. Or, as she herself suggested, one that simply believes whatever she is told as long as it sounds good.

Haley was quickly forced to retract her wild claims when they were proven false. In her defense, Haley stated, “I’ve never felt like I had to back up what people tell me. You assume you’re given good information. And now I’m learning through you guys that I have to be careful before I say something.”

Again, however, Florida is never to be outdone in the race toward tyranny. The state actually passed and enacted a law which required drug testing for welfare recipients, but the law was struck down by a Federal judge on Constitutional grounds. Texas also attempted to pass similar legislation but, due to concerns over cost, the bill was abandoned.

A U.S. House version of a bill dealing with payroll tax cuts and extensions to jobless benefits also contained provisions that would allow states to mandate drug testing. Those provisions, however, did not survive to the final version.

Brandon Turbeville is an author out of Mullins, South Carolina. He has a Bachelor’s Degree from Francis Marion University where he earned the Pee Dee Electric Scholar’s Award as an undergraduate. He has had numerous articles published dealing with a wide variety of subjects including health, economics, and civil liberties. He also the author of Codex Alimentarius - The End of Health Freedom, 7 Real Conspiracies and Five Sense Solutions. Brandon Turbeville is available for podcast, radio, and TV interviews. Please contact us at activistpost@gmail.com.

Comment: Racism is alive and well in America. Because the psychopath has brain damage, the psychopath is unable to see the corruption that has derived the chaos, and assumes the chaos is valid and provides food. Instead of realizing that the system is broken, they embrace the demon itself.

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Paul Craig Roberts: "The US is driving the world to a nuclear war"

Paul Craig Roberts: "The US is driving the world to a nuclear war" - RT

Propaganda Alert: Traditional Media to Bully Bloggers with NewsRight?

Traditional Media to Bully Bloggers with NewsRight? - RT

The Associated Press and 28 news organizations, including the New York Times and The Washington Post are all getting together to launch a new company called NewsRight. The idea is track the use of their original reporting online and eventually try to make blogs and other newsgathering services, try to pay for it. But what does this mean for blogs and aggregators and how does it apply to that little thing we like to call, Fair Use? Talk radio host David Sirota weighs in.

Keiser Report: Hollywood Cons Congress

Keiser Report: Hollywood Cons Congress (E234)

In this episode, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss copyright and how Hollywood cons Congress by using Wall Street accounting. In the second half of the show, Max talks to Amir Taaki about hackers, piracy, technology and bitcoin.

Copyright Lawyers Oppose SOPA … And Say It Won’t Even Work

Copyright Lawyers Oppose SOPA … And Say It Won’t Even Work - Washington Blog

SOPA Won’t Work

Many experts have said that the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) are not only draconian, but that they fail to address the root problem.

A former intellectual property law school professor points out:

[SOPA and PIPA] aim to curb online copyright piracy … but end up using a sledgehammer, when a fine scalpel is instead needed.
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As reported by Forbes, the Atlantic Monthly and others, coders are already developing work-arounds to SOPA and PIPA. For example, a developer using the alias “Tamer Rizk” launched DeSopa, an add-on for the popular Firefox browser that would allow users to visit sites blocked by the proposed copyright protection measures proposed under SOPA. So not only these bills are not only draconian, but they won’t work.

Jay McDaniel – a plaintiff’s attorney for content providers fighting torrent–based copyright infringement – agrees, and proposes a better alternative:

There is a simple solution to the dilemma of digital piracy, however, one that will cost the government nothing, that will protect free speech and that will ultimately bring an end to a practice that is undermining the viability of our cultural industries. More importantly, it will enable Congress to avoid polluting legitimate free speech issues with behavior that is neither protected by the Constitution nor lawful.

Simply let copyright holders exercise the right to efficiently discover the identity of infringers. Copyright law as it presently exists with its substantial civil remedies will take care of the rest of the problem.
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The answer is simple. Congress should overrule two decisions that held that copyright owners could not use the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) to subpoena the identities of infringers directly from cable internet service providers. These two decisions, Recording Indus. Ass’n of America v. Verizon Internet Servs., Inc., 351 F.3d 1299 (D.C. Cir. 2003) and In re Charter Communications, Inc., 393 F.3d 771 (8th Cir. 2005), have made it extremely difficult for copyright owners to find and prosecute civil claims against the wide-spread piracy that occurs on peer-to-peer networks.

Both cases involved attempts by copyright owners to use a provision in the DMCA that allows the owners to issue takedown notices to Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and to also obtain a subpoena to learn the identity of the infringer. The Verizon and Charter Communications courts held that the takedown notice-subpoena provisions did not apply to claims seeking to discover the identity of Internet account holders.

It was a strained reading of the statute to begin with, and it has led to a morass of litigation and discovery disputes in which there are conflicting jurisdictional and venue decisions on a nearly daily basis. More significantly these decisions closed the courthouse doors to any copyright holder that cannot demonstrate widespread copying sufficient to justify bringing a large “John Doe” action just to find out who the culprits are. Moreover, in a relatively small number of cases, hostile district judges are unwilling to let the cases go forward in any reasonably economic manner.
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Copyright holders know that their works are being pirated. They know where they are being pirated and how they are being pirated. But they simply cannot get to the pirates. If Congress were to overrule these decisions, the problem would disappear as the people who break the law would find themselves facing the serious consequences of a civil infringement suit. The infringers would pay for the remedy through statutory fee shifting.

Private enforcement litigation would replace the need for government oversight of our Internet habits, and those who break the law would fund the system. Digital piracy, in its present form, would quickly come to a halt for the same reason that we don’t shoplift copies of DVDs from Walmart. It’s too easy to get caught and the penalties are too severe.

As Harvard law school professor Lawrence Tribe correctly points out to Congress:

[SOPA] creates confusion and underscores the need to go back to the drawing board and craft a new measure that works as a scalpel rather than a sledgehammer to address the governmental interests that SOPA purports to advance.

Many Copyright Lawyers Oppose SOPA

Indeed, many of the nation’s top copyright lawyers oppose SOPA and PIPA, including:

For further background on the internet copyright bills, see:

The Tide Is Turning Against SOPA … And We Might Actually Succeed In Stopping It

SOPA Is “Unconstitutional”, Would “Criminalize” the Internet … Modeled On China

Job Creators, Internet Architects and Security Experts Hate SOPA

Sopa Would DESTROY Jobs and the Economy … So Why are Unions Supporting It?

Hypocrite Alert: SOPA Supporters Encouraged People to Use File-Sharing Software for Pirating Copyrighted Material

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