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		<title>It&#8217;s Time for Americans to &#8216;Stand Up!&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:43:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let your voice be heard.  Stand up now before all is lost.

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		<title>European Parliament Official In Charge Of ACTA Quits, And Denounces The ‘Masquerade’ Behind ACTA</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:17:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is interesting. Kader Arif, the “rapporteur” for ACTA, has quit that role in disgust over the process behind getting the EU to sign onto ACTA. A rapporteur is a person “appointed by a deliberative body to investigate an issue.” However, it appears his investigation of ACTA didn’t make him very pleased:

    I want to denounce in the strongest possible manner the entire process that led to the signature of this agreement: no inclusion of civil society organisations, a lack of transparency from the start of the negotiations, repeated postponing of the signature of the text without an explanation being ever given, exclusion of the EU Parliament’s demands that were expressed on several occasions in our assembly.

    As rapporteur of this text, I have faced never-before-seen manoeuvres from the right wing of this Parliament to impose a rushed calendar before public opinion could be alerted, thus depriving the Parliament of its right to expression and of the tools at its disposal to convey citizens’ legitimate demands.”

    Everyone knows the ACTA agreement is problematic, whether it is its impact on civil liberties, the way it makes Internet access providers liable, its consequences on generic drugs manufacturing, or how little protection it gives to our geographical indications.

    This agreement might have major consequences on citizens’ lives, and still, everything is being done to prevent the European Parliament from having its say in this matter. That is why today, as I release this report for which I was in charge, I want to send a strong signal and alert the public opinion about this unacceptable situation. I will not take part in this masquerade.

Pretty rare to find such direct honesty in political circles. That’s quite a direct and clear condemnation of the entire process. In terms of process, it will be interesting to see if this has an impact. While the EU did sign on to ACTA today, it still needs to be ratified by the European Parliament (more on that in a little while). Having Arif quit makes a pretty big statement, and hopefully makes it easier for Parliament Members to speak out loudly against ACTA… Still, this is an uphill battle. The supporters of ACTA have been working to get ACTA approved for years. To them, this is basically a done deal.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=destructionist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12000434&amp;post=6635&amp;subd=destructionist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>EU signs ACTA, global internet censorship treaty</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, the European Union and 22 member states signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced. They have now joined the US and seven other nations that signed the treaty last October.

This signing ceremony merely formalized the EU’s adoption of ACTA last month, during a completely unrelated meeting on agriculture and fisheries, reports TechDirt.

Though initiated by the US, Japan is the official depository of the treaty.

Removal of the Three Strikes clause, in which users accused of three counts of piracy would be barred from the internet, paved the way for the EU to adopt ACTA last month.

Related to ACTA, a chapter in the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) “would have state signatories adopt even more restrictive copyright measures than ACTA,” reports the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Both ACTA and TPP were developed without public input and outside international trade groups, like the World Trade Organization and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Leaked cables published by WikiLeaks in 2009 exposed early drafts of ACTA, resulting in a firestorm of controversy. Those cables, coupled with later releases, showed that ACTA negotiationsbegan in 2006 and were controversial even to participating states.  An historical summary of the treaty’s progress through December can be found here.

ACTA Violates Magna Carta and US Constitution

Like PIPA and SOPA, two domestic internet censorship bills that prompted major websites to blacken their name or website in a Jan. 18th protest, ACTA allows accusers of copyright infringement to bypass judicial review.  Lack of “due process” makes these bills and ACTA unconstitutional and violates the Magna Carta, a charter signed in 1215 on which most Western law is based, including the US Constitution.  It is often cited as the most important legal document in the history of democracy.

(The USA PATRIOT Acts, Obama’s assassination program, and the National Defense Authorization Act that allows indefinite detention are among many recent laws passed in the US which directly breach the Magna Carta.)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=destructionist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12000434&amp;post=6625&amp;subd=destructionist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Signs Global Internet Treaty Worse Than SOPA: White House bypasses Senate to ink agreement that could allow Chinese companies to demand ISPs remove web content in US with no legal oversight</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Months before the debate about Internet censorship raged as SOPA and PIPA dominated the concerns of web users, President Obama signed an international treaty that would allow companies in China or any other country in the world to demand ISPs remove web content in the US with no legal oversight whatsoever.

The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement was signed by Obama on October 1 2011, yet is currently the subject of a White House petition demanding Senators be forced to ratify the treaty. The White House has circumvented the necessity to have the treaty confirmed by lawmakers by presenting it an as “executive agreement,” although legal scholars have highlighted the dubious nature of this characterization.

The hacktivist group Anonymous attacked and took offline the Federal Trade Commission’s website yesterday in protest against the treaty, which was also the subject of demonstrations across major cities in Poland, a country set to sign the agreement today.

Under the provisions of ACTA, copyright holders will be granted sweeping direct powers to demand ISPs remove material from the Internet on a whim. Whereas ISPs normally are only forced to remove content after a court order, all legal oversight will be abolished, a precedent that will apply globally, rendering the treaty worse in its potential scope for abuse than SOPA or PIPA.

A country known for its enforcement of harsh Internet censorship policies like China could demand under the treaty that an ISP in the United States remove content or terminate a website on its server altogether. As we have seen from the enforcement of similar copyright policies in the US, websites are sometimes targeted for no justifiable reason.

The groups pushing the treaty also want to empower copyright holders with the ability to demand that users who violate intellectual property rights (with no legal process) have their Internet connections terminated, a punishment that could only ever be properly enforced by the creation of an individual Internet ID card for every web user, a system that is already in the works.

“The same industry rightsholder groups that support the creation of ACTA have also called for mandatory network-level filtering by Internet Service Providers and for Internet Service Providers to terminate citizens’ Internet connection on repeat allegation of copyright infringement (the “Three Strikes” /Graduated Response) so there is reason to believe that ACTA will seek to increase intermediary liability and require these things of Internet Service Providers,” reports the Electronic Frontier Foundation.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=destructionist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12000434&amp;post=6621&amp;subd=destructionist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Golden State &#8211; Bombs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:59:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Now or Never &#8211; Angry Yet?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:31:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Oliver Stone: I Would Vote For Ron Paul Over Obama &#8211; “He’s the only one who’s saying anything intelligent about the world”</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:56:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Acclaimed film director Oliver Stone, known for such masterpieces as Platoon, JFK and Born on the Fourth of July, has declared he would vote for Ron Paul over Barack Obama, if Paul could secure the 2012 GOP nomination.

Stone made the comments in an interview with Rock Cellar magazine, noting “I think in many ways the most interesting candidate — I’d even vote for him if he was running against Obama — is Ron Paul.”

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		<title>SOPA and PIPA Fully Alive — And a New Bill Joins Them</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:33:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of us breathed a sigh of relief when an overwhelming amount of Americans banned together and voiced their opposition to Congress over both the Stop Online Piracy Act, and Protect Intellectual Property Act.

Sites that dimmed the screen for a day or two have gone back to normal — Facebook users have swapped their anti-SOPA images for their previous profile pictures.

We may have even believed that the postponement of the vote originally scheduled for January 24th was some sort of white flag of capitulation. But that is certainly not the MO of most lawmakers.

While the outcry did get the attention of Congress, they are simply returning unflinchingly back to the drawing board to wait out our attention spans. Articles whirled that SOPA was dead and the bill was pulled when the bill’s sponsor Lamar Smith said in a statement that there would be no further action “until there is wider agreement on a solution.”<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=destructionist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12000434&amp;post=6577&amp;subd=destructionist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The End of The Mainstream Media And The Rebirth of Fact-Based Journalism: Al-Media, not Al-Qaeda, is the biggest threat to Western freedom and global security</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:13:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“The West is headed to dictatorship. It’s already happening. The merger of state and corporate power is by definition called fascism. I just mentioned the Defense Authorization Act. Before you had that you had the abrogation of the Constitution under Bush, with the Patriot Act, which Obama reinstated and made even tougher by signing this bill. When I say the merger of state and corporate powers, look at the $16.1 trillion that the Federal Reserve has funneled into businesses around the world. Whatever happened to that thing called capitalism? This is not capitalism; it’s fascism! The more societies break down and the bigger the screw-ups at the top, the harder they clamp down on the bottom. You see it going on around the world; they call it austerity measures. How about calling it enslavement?” – Gerald Celente, “Gerald Celente on Trend Forecasting and the Crisis of Western Civilization,” The Daily Bell, January 22, 2012.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=destructionist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12000434&amp;post=6570&amp;subd=destructionist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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