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Latest Articles: Resistance
Murdoch Confesses To Propaganda On Iraq
Post Date: 2007-02-05 18:01:05 by Eoghan
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Last Friday, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Rupert Murdoch sat on a panel where he lamented what he described as a “loss of power” due to the ascension of the Internet and other new media. The notion that this captain of one of the most dominant media conglomerates in the world is trembling in the shadow of bloggers is simply absurd. Especially when you consider the fact that his company is also a dominant player on the Internet with an aggressive acquisitiveness that includes MySpace, the world’s largest online social networking site. But there was a more shocking exchange that took place that ought to have caused more of a stir amongst professional ...
Internet: New Program Finds Way Around Censorship
Post Date: 2007-02-05 16:43:08 by Brian S
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February 5, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- At least 40 countries around the world, including China, Uzbekistan, and Iran, engage in some kind of Internet censorship. But Canadian researchers have devised new software to give people in these countries unfettered Internet access without getting them into trouble. Ronald Deibert, director of the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab, calls it a "censorship circumvention" program. Named Psiphon, it is downloaded by people in a country with uncensored Internet access such as the United States, Canada, or Germany. They then give a URL or Internet address to a few trusted friends, family members, or colleagues who live in a country where there ...
How the press can prevent another Iraq
Post Date: 2007-02-05 14:42:30 by Peetie Wheatstraw
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Lessons we thought had been learned from Vietnam were forgotten in the rush to invade Iraq. And now, as we cover President Bush’s ratcheting up of the rhetoric against Iran, it’s looking like the lessons we should have learned from Iraq may not have been learned at all. So at the risk of stating the obvious, here are some thoughts about what those lessons were. (Feel free to add more in comments.) You Can’t Be Too Skeptical of Authority Don’t assume anything administration officials tell you is true. In fact, you are probably better off assuming anything they tell you is a lie. Demand proof for their every assertion. Assume the proof is a lie. Demand that they prove ...
The Awakening of the UsuryFree Creatives
Post Date: 2007-02-05 14:42:01 by richard9151
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The Awakening of the UsuryFree Creatives By The Awakening of the UsuryFree Creatives By Tommy UsuryFree During the past twenty-five years, the thoughts and actions of the pioneering usuryfree creatives have spread from rural British Columbia to countries all over the world, making a profound impact not only in the movement of usuryfree living, but also in the overall achievement of consciousness- raising of the whole planet. While cultural creatives are said to be the leading edge creators of a new global culture, the usuryfree creatives are defined as a significant sub-group within the 50+ million cultural creatives who are described in the book 'The Cultural Creatives: How 50 ...
Letter to a Soldier's Baby
Post Date: 2007-02-05 11:44:09 by bluedogtxn
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by Mark G. Brennan DIGG THIS Congratulations on getting your picture on the front page of today’s New York Times. That is quite a remarkable feat for someone five months old. Anyway, I have to tell you that the photo moved me to tears as I ate my breakfast this morning. Seeing your father feed you while your mother and grandmother looked on reminded me about everything good about families. Your father’s care and love shine through brilliantly in the photo. You are lucky to have 2 parents who care about you so much. And it’s wonderful that your grandmother is still around to see both her son and grandson in such a tender moment. I know you are too young to appreciate ...
Remembering Sam Francis
Post Date: 2007-02-04 19:13:59 by Peetie Wheatstraw
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Now that Barack Obama has all but thrown his halo into the ring, we could use a little skepticism. He makes an awfully good first impression, like a champion high-school orator, but what has he done to excite such messianic hopes in so many people — especially journalists? His outstanding quality is his lack of experience. Other politicians have given experience a bad name, and here is a liberal without baggage — neither a Bush nor a Clinton. That’s all it takes to make journalists swoon like Iowa matrons having their hands kissed by Cary Grant. At the moment, he’s the Tiger Woods of American politics, a one-man diversity roster, of rather indeterminate race, religion, ...
McCain blasts 'vote of no confidence'
Post Date: 2007-02-04 14:33:04 by richard9151
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WASHINGTON - The top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee sought to weaken support for a resolution opposing President Bush's Iraq war strategy, saying Sunday that proponents are intellectually dishonest. On the eve before a possible congressional showdown on Iraq strategy, Arizona Sen. John McCain contended the bipartisan proposal amounted to a demoralizing "vote of no confidence" in the U.S. military. The measure, he said, criticizes Bush's plan to add 21,500 troops in Iraq yet offers no concrete alternatives. "I don't think it's appropriate to say that you disapprove of a mission and you don't want to fund it and you don't want it to ...
Bar Associations Are Cults
Post Date: 2007-02-03 19:07:01 by BTP Holdings
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Bar Associations Are Cults by Marc Stevens Tuesday, 21 November 2006 I read something this week so ironic I had to write an article about it. There is a web site ran by an attorney named Dan Evans. This is the post he wrote: "Good point. And didn't we once have a thread on tax protesting as a cult?" Given the overall condescending attitude Mr. Evans displays towards anyone who questions the legitimacy of government, especially taxes, it57;s clear he used the word 60;cult61; to ridicule. Let57;s look at the irony of a member of a 60;Bar Association61; referring to people who don57;t believe the taking of property by force (60;taxation61;) is legitimate as a cult. Like any ...
Philly 9/11 Truth confronts Jesse Jackson about CFR membership and 9/11 January 27, 2007
Post Date: 2007-02-01 19:32:39 by honway
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It is encouraging to see young people engaging the globalist elite. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-730759443785125408
Mahathir to form war crimes tribunal
Post Date: 2007-02-01 08:35:59 by Eoghan
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Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad says a war crimes tribunal will be created to investigate potential abuses in Iraq, Lebanon, and the occupied Palestinian territories. 'We think that it is time we set up a body, a tribunal, which will give an opportunity for these people to bring up their complaints to be heard,' he said Wednesday. Mahathir says a war crimes commission would be established in conjunction with the tribunal to investigate allegations. Five Malaysian legal experts would join him on the commission. The tribunal, he says, would be staffed by former judges and law professors from Malaysia and abroad, including a Malaysian former chief justice. 'The ...
"What do Libertarians do?" (Encouraging Story of Three Elected Libertarians Dominating City Board)
Post Date: 2007-02-01 00:17:47 by Neil McIver
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Dear Libertarian, There are still many Americans who don't know what the Libertarian Party is all about. Yes, we are a political party but what do elected Libertarians actually do when they take office? Here's a great story that should answer that question. This week, I learned of a recent meeting that took place among some of our newly elected Libertarians. Jack Tanner, Tom Clark and Kim Hawk serve on Florida's Lee County Soil and Water Conservation Board which is comprised of five members. Jack, Tom and Kim are Libertarians. They hold the majority on the board . . . a Libertarian majority. This month they held a board meeting, which is typically not a widely attended ...
Radical Citizenship in Wartime, from Vietnam to Iraq
Post Date: 2007-01-31 21:07:49 by Dakmar
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Struggles over civic status have been said to characterize youthful rebellion, especially that of the Sixties. Such battles over who counts as worthy of which human rights are, of course, all the more urgent in times of war. So it is worth interrogating the concepts of youth protest and radical citizenship as we plot our way out of the course set by the current power brokers. It is particularly appropriate to be having this conversation today, December 4, the thirty-seventh anniversary of the Chicago police murders of Black Panther leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark, two young, energetic, and brilliant organizers who gave life and meaning to what society is supposed to be about: empathic ...
Letter from Tessa (Larken's wife) Rose From "Inside" (What an attitude!)
Post Date: 2007-01-31 17:52:31 by christine
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Dear Subscriber, I'm interrupting the current series of messages to this list to send you the following message from my wife, Tessa. If you want to write to her while she's "inside," do it very soon, because their mail system there seems really slow, and she'll be out of there on Friday, 2/9/07. (In other words, if you don't send something now, she'll probably be out by the time she would have gotten it.) Larken - - - From Tessa Rose (1/27/07) Dear List Subscribers, Greetings from Danbury, Connecticut. I am now halfway through my 30- day vacation with the BOP (Bureau of Prisons). By the time the novelty of all this wears off, it will be time for me to go ...
Ed Brown on the phone with US Marshal Gary DeMartino
Post Date: 2007-01-30 10:54:08 by SmokinOPs
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Nine arrested in ant-war protests in congressional office buildings
Post Date: 2007-01-29 17:38:43 by Brian S
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Nine anti-war protesters were arrested Monday when they gathered in a House office building to read off the names of American and Iraqi war dead. U.S. Capitol Police spokeswoman Sgt. Kimberly Schneider said the nine were charged with unlawful assembly. Several dozen protesters congregated around a courtyard pool at the Rayburn House office building, throwing yellow roses onto the ice as they recited the names of Iraq War victims. The demonstration was a follow-up to Saturday's anti-war demonstration that drew tens of thousands to the Washington Mall. Also on Monday, about 100 people staged a short demonstration in the Hart Senate office building, waving children's shoes to ...
Helicopters Over Ed Brown's House
Post Date: 2007-01-28 16:08:44 by Critter
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As of 3:41PM on Sunday, January 28, there are helicopters flying over our house for the last fifteen minutes. We are wondering what is going on, and have contacted Gary DiMartino, US Marshall to determine. he professes ignorance and as of some seconds ago is “checking in on it.” William Miller, Freedom University
Bush's new anti-crowd ray gun
Post Date: 2007-01-27 20:41:41 by robin
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January 26, 2007 -- Save your aluminum foil "hats." According to a technology expert who is familiar with the Raytheon Active Denial System (ADS), tested January 24 at Moody Air Force base in Georgia, the millimeter microwave directed beam weapon can be defeated by a crowd of people using aluminum- or gold-coated Mylar to conduct the beam to ground or even direct it back to the Humvee housing the ADS system. Although the Humvee is shielded, any law enforcement or military personnel standing near the Humvee would get a burning taste of their own medicine if the directed beam were reflected back to its source or to a crowd of police. In addition to aluminum or gold coated Mylar, ...
Maine revolts against digital U.S. ID card
Post Date: 2007-01-26 15:37:24 by Eoghan
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Maine lawmakers on Thursday became the first in the nation to demand repeal of a federal law tightening identification requirements for drivers' licenses, a post-September 11 security measure that states say will cost them billions of dollars to administer. Maine lawmakers passed a resolution urging repeal of the Real ID Act, which would create a national digital identification system by 2008. The lawmakers said it would cost Maine about $185 million, fail to boost security and put people at greater risk of identity theft. Maine's resolution is the strongest stand yet by a state against the law, which Congress passed in May 2004 and gave states three years to implement. Similar ...
Video of handcuffed and leg shackled man being killed with Taser
Post Date: 2007-01-25 20:37:36 by SmokinOPs
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Ed Brown has "only just begun to fight!" The ongoing standoff
Post Date: 2007-01-25 19:18:31 by christine
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Dear friends: There is much yet to come in the Ed Brown "standoff". I have promised previously that when I had more time I would give you all an update, and so I am. Ed knows that Jackie and I have taken great risk to film him and get the word out, and that I'm doing so not because I want to self-promote, but co-promote. That is, his situation is giving my book and me more exposure, but the reverse is also true - I have numerous upcoming media events related to my book that were arranged before this situation started, in which I will tie in to Ed's situation, and also Aaron Russo's film. But there is a much deeper co-promotion going on. Ed was being portrayed in ...
No way in; no way out
Post Date: 2007-01-25 00:06:57 by robin
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No way in; no way outBy Sheila SamplesOnline Journal Contributing Writer Jan 24, 2007, 01:12 "We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force." -- Ayn Rand, The Nature of Government I have no desire to get embroiled in the current tangled debate on immigration, either legal or illegal. However, I have watched with interest the intense campaign for President Bush first to intervene in the trial of two border patrol agents accused of shooting a suspected ...
The Empire Turns Its Guns on the Citizenry
Post Date: 2007-01-24 05:56:11 by Ada
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In recent years American police forces have called out SWAT teams 40,000 or more times annually. Last year did you read in your newspaper or hear on TV news of 110 hostage or terrorist events each day? No. What then were the SWAT teams doing? They were serving routine warrants to people who posed no danger to the police or to the public. Occasionally Washington think tanks produce reports that are not special pleading for donors. One such report is Radley Balko's "Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America" (Cato Institute, 2006). This 100-page report is extremely important and should have been published as a book. SWAT teams ("special weapons and ...
A Taxing Issue, Ed Brown In His Own Words (Google Video)
Post Date: 2007-01-24 00:21:48 by christine
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Click here to watch. 29 mins 26 secs
Anti-War March On Washington This Saturday (1/27)
Post Date: 2007-01-23 17:04:06 by Brian S
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This Saturday should see the biggest antiwar demonstration in Washington since September 2005. Details here. I will be heading down to the big show. When I go to these events, I tend to saunter more than march, savoring the circus elements of these festivities and spending as much time on the periphery as in the throng. Stopping Bush from expanding the Iraq war and from attacking Iran are by far the most important short term issues in American politics. War unleashes presidents to do their worst, with scores of millions of Americans guaranteed to cheer any new oppression of their fellow citizens. Some people might avoid this march because of differences with the sponsoring organizations. ...
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